skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the distinction people make with things done while drunk. Sexual arousal markedly reduces a persons inhibitions. Because people see that state of lowered inhibitions as "not themselves", once they're no longer aroused the various anxieties and pressures they function under normally are re-established they see retracting their decision as OK because it's what they would have done "if they were being themselves." It's morally unjustifiable IMO, and smacks of emotional immaturity, but that's where most people are. 'Just because I did it doesn't mean it's something I would do!'
True if you're being really fine-grained about it, like using the timestamp as the seed of a random number generator.

However, on the scale of a month, the miners aren't going to be able to mess with you. A block stamped with a significantly incorrect timestamp won't be accepted by other miners.
> you first have to create the understanding that we are not special and have no purpose.

What purpose do we have? What higher being put us on this planet, deciding that we are special in this universe? Who designed the world such that we are at the center?

There is simply no evidence that we have purpose. That someone made us for something special. Or that we are the center of anything.

Compared to the vastness of the universe, we are utterly insignificant. The tiniest of slivers of earth is hospitable to us, go up or down by more than a few kilometers and you need machines to survive. Even Earth itself, the rock we stand on, is not hospitable to life in majority.

That is not a grand conspiracy from the powers above, they are bound to the same insignificance. However bad a politician may be, how much evil they commit, does not objectively matter. The universe at large does not care.

However, as Nietzsche does lay out, this does not mean there is no meaning to life or joy. Rather, the universe will not provide you with a meaning to life. Or purpose. You have to create purpose and meaning yourself. Recognize that every human on this planet must create meaning, purpose, morals, ethics and so many other things for themselves and themselves only.

There is no grand truth that murder is evil, we decided murder is evil. Same for any other crime or injustice. Or immoral actions. We must decide these things are evil, in our intuitive understanding of evil.

As the character Death puts it in the Discworld novels; "[...] TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME... SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED."
I think it counts when it's a subsidiary of Mindgeek that owns the sites as well. Which is what you will find if you dig into the ownership of most porn sites and studios today.
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That was really interesting.
1) Being "policed" by a Big Inc. is quite a leap of faith.

2) Surveillance as a Service? That's not a good sign.
Could you share code and data for a minimal crashing example? This sounds like the developers would be glad to fix it. Both GDAL and QGIS have very active devs.
Google Voice does phone termination, but only in the US & canada. Like how you'd normally consider skype device-to-device, but you can pay extra to get a skype number and make & receive calls to/from other phone numbers? Just like that, but with a bunch of extra features (automatically transcribing voicemails is the one I heard the most about).

GV exists in Europe, but the call termination part (which doesn't) sounds like it'd be very central to the usage he describes replicating.
WolframAlpha does this.
Please share those for investigation!
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If alcohol and cigarettes had been invented today, they would most certainly not be legal.

Cars probably also wouldn't be legal.
> Also thankfully they are at least making use of modern C++ instead of C. While not as safe as Rust, definitely better than plain C.

I see you're pointing a shotgun against your feet. Here, have this AR-15 with a safety-switch instead.
Interesting! I’m not shocked to hear it, as an owner of a unit i wouldn’t want people banging up walls with these items every time they move.
Toronto, and agreed. Although I’m shocked to hear Whitehorse isn’t dull. Where were you in Australia?
I take what I blasphemously call my annual “Jesus Day” alone in the dunes at the end of Cape Cod

Fun story: I live and went to school in Provincetown which is the "end of Cape Cod" to which the author is referring. One of my good friends worked for the "rescue squad" (Fire/EMT). He told me that more than once they've had to "rescue" someone wondering the dunes, high on ...something who was having medical trouble. Probably not related as Ptown is sort of an artists/spiritual place for many put please remember this before taking those shrooms - bring a sober buddy.
I think that self-learning itself is an interesting field that I don't see talked about much here on HN.

Anyone have more good resources for autodidacts?
Yeah, the claim caught me too.

Just an example: CMGI, Inc. was calling themselves an Internet Incubator around 1995.

Probably better to make a claim based on success.
I really don't see what you're worried about. They're operating under the most pro-consumer conditions possible: honest competition to maximise consumer value.

If they out-compete Hulu, they can charge more than Hulu. Sure. What's the worry? In a functioning marketplace, an inferior service is priced lower.

I don't think there's much risk that they'll go the clickbait route and start acting against the viewer's interests for revenue. I don't see how they could. Subscription services are much more resistant to that kind of thing than free services.

The competition is tough. They're unlikely to feel free to charge significantly more... because they aren't.

I'm fairly confident Netflix aren't dumb enough to try anything like adverts. Millennials hate that kind of thing, and it would be a real mistake.
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I love Coke. I wonder if someone could quantify how bad it is for you. If drinking a Coke a day for a year reduces my life expectancy by one day, or maybe even a week, I'd accept that.
Seems you get similar protections to what we get in Ontario.
Free Gmail or paid? I use both, the paid for important things.
Is it that these results no longer show up or that we need to go to something like page 15 to see them?
I think there is no theoretical reason to assume a minimum hit rate of the charged particles. If the distance of the plates is a few meters/yards, you can have a mesh of very thin wire with holes of 1cm/.5inch. The wire can be very thin. The effect of the holes is a change in the electric field, but the deep of the region where the change is important is roughly equal to the size of the holes.

And you can build a bigger device, where the distance of the plates is 200m/200yard and the holes have 10cm/5inches and use the same wires. Or multiply the design by 100x. A much bigger device is not technologically practical, but it shows that there is a theoretical problem.

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In their description they clearly explain that the electrons are reflected, and the protons pass though, so their design will not work. I think that if they absorb the electrons, use the protons as in a gridded ion thruster and then use the absorbed electrons to neutralize the ions, then it may work. You must use some energy to move the absorbed electrons from the front to the back of the ship because there is an electric field. This is not the device they are describing, but at least with this modification it may work.
Wow, wild. On the plus side i bet IKEA is killing it on the kitchen sales.
I made page one to better discover fiction books, so you can judge for yourself if you like it. There are currently ~350 books, but I plan to add more soon. I am working with one publisher at the moment, but if you would like to get your book added you can send me an email (in my profile). Let me know if you have any questions.
Assuming that to be true, I would expect there to be localities within the US where laws differ so vastly that they resemble different countries when juxtaposed. Yet, I’ve traveled enough of the US that this would surprise me. (It would be very interesting to experience those two, though!)

I think the US shows itself to be pretty homogeneous, with some differences between the rural, suburban, and urban areas, but not much.
Very similar to how I read
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2013/07/how-i-read-research...
Probably because it's a case of Godwin's Law (without justification), and is an over-simplistic and emotive comment that is likely to trigger a flame-war.
I find that the powers that be are not as organized as you think. Rather a lot of the metastructure in society is pretty optimal and likely converent across cultures.

There is a lot of manipulation though but most of it is short term tactical towards candidates and products.

Some of it is longer term and more strategically ideological but it is still pretty focused and much of it funded by billionaires - Koch, Soros types, etc. The billionaires do fight and that is why so many people pick particular ideoligcal billionaires to see as masters behind the curtains, such as Koch (coal), Adelson (Israel), Mercer (Trump, brexit) or Soros ("open society").
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We're adapted as optimally as evolution can manage, for survival. You think change will necessarily be a good thing? If 50% of people are changed for the better, and 50% for the worse, is that good?

There used to be a saying that LSD made smart people smarter and stupid people jump out of windows. Is that a good thing?
The challenge this days with remembering anything is the fact that we no longer train our mind to remember or store anything. We are slowly learning how not to remember anything. The convenience tools such as Alexa or Google will one day make us even forget our own home address. Convenience is the Evil of Everything. (yep just made that up on the fly).
Nietzsche called industrial society the "meanest form of existence that has ever been" and claimed that socialism arose because of the vulgarity and ignobility of the capitalist elites. On several occasions he expresses a disdain for anything involving money and he considered work itself, and particularly the haste and business "capitalist elite" types have, as ugly. In general, he does not fit into modern categories of thought.

The Gay Science is a great and accessible read - I recommend the Kaufmann translation, personally. It contains Nietzsche's views on a lot of subjects.

I would also add that he makes clear his preferences are just that, preferences. A major point of his moral philosophy is that morality is not objective, but a social behavior, the "herd instinct in the individual."
For XMPP there is also https://jmp.chat
Yeah it’s nice but at his core non-euclidean geometry is just about the parallels axiom. The dimensional aspect is what makes this game interesting, not the euclidean aspect.
For a moment I thought it was a CLI parser for PURLs ⌘ https://purl.org/
If I would design a service I would rather trust my cloud provider with an SSL connection in between, than a heterogeneous mix of servers that may be physically compromised (there are very few places that could house an "edge" at datacenter security standards).
Interesting approach from Munich, my home town: district cooling, i.e. using cold water from inner city streams and distributing the cold to shops and offices, so they don't have to use air conditioning. "produces far fewer CO2 emissions and reduces primary energy costs by around half":

https://www.swm.de/english/m-fernwaerme/m-fernkaelte.html
It's very easy to reconcile the child/adult treatment:

If they wish to continue to follow traditional rules that lie outside what modern society accepts, they cannot be part of modern society.

If they want to trade, share ideas and generally meet with the rest of the world, they must reconcile their traditions with things like human rights.

You might argue that China is not following human rights and they are a major player internally,but these tribes do not wield power like China does, and would be powerless against Brazilian authorities.

A good question, however, is who gets to make that deciSoon to include or exclude these tribes from modern society.
> "Border collies Summer, Olivia and Das spend their days bounding through charred forests, unaware they're leaving a trail of seeds that could transform the landscape."

Border Collies are whip smart. They may not understand what the seeds are for, but they certainly understand that they are spreading those "little things". They also understand that they are Doing An Important Job, which is /raison d'etre/ for a Border Collie.

Looking through the pictures in the article, I see what in my opinion are happy relaxed dogs. Which if you've ever spent time around a bored or poorly trained Border Collie, you'll know is pretty much impossible. For those of you who haven't spent much time around these dogs, they get very anxious and neurotic if they don't have a job to do. Whether it's herding sheep or spreading tree seeds, Border Collies must have a complex demanding task to perform every day.
Right. I am extremely skeptical, generally, of studies that are too convenient for the people conducting or financing the studies. Studies that just so happen to ascribe substantial and mysteriously hitherto-undiscovered medical benefits to illegal substances that people want to use recreationally strike me as suspect, and I demand of them a much greater than ordinary level of rigor.
The pragmatic views of Trump are more in line with Nietzsche's philosophy. There is a very small elite group that create wealth. Taxing the successful and giving out free stuff for votes seems to be the default position of the intelligentsia of the age. Nice read though, well constructed
Elon Musk's troubled love of a magical unicorn
Because with that line you could justify anything as long as it's for money to pay the bills?

I really think it was obvious but given the down votes I am now assuming there is a misunderstanding somewhere.
I don't think Trump and elite-oriented capitalism as you call it, align well with Nietzsche. I don't think if Nietzsche was alive, he'd speak well of Trump either.

Though it would be easy to think, the last man, as Nietzsche describes them, are people who above all want everyone in society to be happy and without pain, being equal and without hardship. The Übermensch, the opposite, is someone or a society which constantly works to learn something new, to "can do", to enrich oneself and attempt to go beyond their own limitations.

I think my Ethics teacher put it "trying to interpret master/slave morality or the Übermensch as a political instrument is misguided at best, harmful at worst".

Nietzsche himself, to my knowledge, has hinted at his dislike for capitalism, communism or socialism, money or work. But part of his musings are that these are merely subjective standpoints and that there is no objectively right option here.

In summary, you could probably say that Nietzsche wasn't against elite-oriented capitalism in the sense that he did not reject it as viewpoint, it's subjective so it's a correct option.
Trump's reality-tv-and-casino business is almost a "last-man" factory. I doubt Nietzsche would be too thrilled about that.

It's probably just an academic brain-fart. They see Trump as some kind of aberration rather than business-as-usual, so he gets woven into almost everything these days.
Given how much effort you have to put into a local progress and how many ‘energy’ and knowledge is lost on progress that crosses the company/group/area/country boundary, it is a very small femtochance that any worldwide conspiracy exists. Obviously, the capital and power has to be accumulated in relatively few hands, but it seems too doubtful that at least one of our species is capable of managing and routing that in the way you describe. It may appear as such to some idiots with megatons of money and clear minds behind them, so they form their elite clubs, but no more than that.

Anyone who did something complex should have seen that clearly. We as a whole civilization are just an uncontrollable mess.
Nitpick: 3-1 and 6-2 have cloud areas and 4-2 has several pipe areas that aren't shown.
In my case, it's not wanting to avoid external dependencies - it's how hard those dependencies are. An external that you can swap out in an afternoon is a perfectly healthy vendor relationship. But if, eg, some machination flagged your account out of the blue, and your only recourse is to stare blankly at the screen in disbelief, this is not a healthy dependency.

So as long as other sms gateways/delivery services are available, his dependency isn't "Twilio", it's "an sms gateway/delivery service".
Besides the physical length, 8-1 also starts you with 300 ticks on the timer rather than the usual 400.
How many parents know enough about the computer industry to know whether a curriculum will give their children real world experience?

On the other hand, how many students go into CS because they look at the starting salaries and expect to get a job paying well?

they certainly should be able to become productive at any company in less than 6 months)

Most companies aren’t willing to do on the job training even for juniors who don’t at least know the language they are using or a similar language on a junior level.
From my reading of the article, Neitzsche is critical of the hedonistic life we have today.

This hedonistic life is exemplified by Trump and Twitter and how we don’t struggle. Instead, we tweet, voice opinions and continue with our happiness maximizing lives.

The author is suggesting that since we live in a culture that maximizes happiness, the nihilists were right. In this world, according to Neitzsche, humans can not achieve excellence.

I agree that it’s a rather abrupt point made at the very end. Probably something the author will expand upon in his book.
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I’ve met people on long distance hikes who could do 30km a day. 3km per day seems very little.
I think chargebacks for credit cards are needed, because their model is based on trust. You give your credit card number to the seller und you have to trust that he pulls only the amount he promised he would pull.

For Cryptocurrencies on the other hand, you never give you private key to somebody. You always decide yourself which amount to transfer. No chargeback is needed for this model.

I have an EC-card and chargeback is only available for pull-transactions, not for push-transactions.
That guy is just babbling incoherently.

Like, he thinks that summer happens at the same time across most of the planet and that the fake science explains seasons with the elliptical orbit of the earth (this is commonly noted as a misconception¹).

Please stop spouting this nonsense here.

1. https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/seasons-causes.html
C++ Just My Code Stepping in Visual Studio
Moving your household in 115°f with 90% humidity is just rediculous. I've already heard some stories this year about movers just not showing up. There is also a very common scam where individuals pose as movers and ask for a deposit since it's near impossible to get movers in the month leading up to moving day, only to never show up the day of and subsequently disappear.
Before ingesting Nietzsche, please first understand Plato.
While constructive mathematics is an interesting restriction to work within, it has precious little to do with the OP.
> people succumbing to the spell of psychedelics and similar substances

Which is even more pronounced when the brain hasn't finished to develop itself .

Advertising drugs as trivial is dangerous ,it could lead to youth experiment with drugs much younger at much larger scale.
Thanks for the recommendations. Devroye wrote several books, and I assume the one being mentioned is "A Probabilistic Theory of Pattern Recognition".
The original post was arguing against a practical project.

> So having the "let's build something" experience is useful in the real world afterwards.
It is, but it’s not the job of academia to teach it. You have side-projects, internships, and your whole life to learn practice.

Have you never encountered a junior Dev fresh out of college who could talk theory all day long but couldn’t write an implementation of FizzBuzz?
The author mentions writing down a summary after every chapter in the book itself. The final notes are prepared from each chapter's annotations and handwritten summaries. If anyone is interested in reading to retain more, try How to Read a Book [1] by Charles Van Doren and Mortimer J. Adler. Reviews and summaries of the boook [2, 3].

[1] : https://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-Classic-Intelligent/dp/...

[2] : https://fourminutebooks.com/how-to-read-a-book-summary/

[3] : http://oxfordtutorials.com/How%20to%20Read%20a%20Book%20Outl...
A good image compression algorithm could. PNG just isn't smart enough for this purpose. One could argue that the NES code and PPU data itself constitute a very efficient compression scheme for compliant images, albeit human-crafted rather than algorithmic. IOW, it's unlikely any automatic compression scheme will outperform simply running the SMB program.
How do I get a YouTube video thumbnail from the YouTube API?
Previously discussed in June here[0] and here[1], both the original article and another summary of it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17302924

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17389842
So is GP, which is ad-hominem-ish.
Previous related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17389842 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17302924.

Interview with Anders Sandberg (co-author in the cited paper) making clear that he thinks there's still almost certainly life out there even though the estimations are pessimistic: https://futurism.com/life-universe-scientist-drake-equation-...
The book "A Probabilistic Theory of Pattern Recognition"
by Devroye, Györfi and Lugosi is available from the site of Gyorfi at http://www.szit.bme.hu/~gyorfi/pbook.pdf .
Just as a quick followup: Avishay Tal has confirmed for me that, indeed, their proof still goes through if you replace the Fourier transform by any other unitary matrix with bounded entries.
Title could also be "Researchers find a better heuristic for a class of exponentially scaling problems."

There's no claim to have changed the complexity class, so"exponentially faster" just means the problem is still exponentially in problem size, but the exponent is smaller.

From the looks of it, though, it is a nice result because it has pretty wide applicability.
I thought graph databases were the canonical implemention for recommendation systems, one of the few use cases I'd not go straight to sql
This benchmark also includes time taken to print the output, but probably shouldn't.
To get my attention in a prepared lecture:

- Tell stories that touch on the facts in passing. It doesn't matter whether they're stories about the founders in a field, about your personal experiences, about a fictional startup building a database, etc... As long as it's wrapped in a story I will probably find it interesting.

- Start with why. Before explaining solutions, explain the problem those solutions solve.

- Gradual build-up of a system, instead of a serial description of its parts. The chapter in DDIA about LSM databases is one of the most engaging technical chapters I've ever read because it starts with a 2 line shell script and evolves it until it is Google's Bigtable.
And yet where is Linux most used? On the server. What hardware do cloud machines have? It's not even public, much of the time. It's all talking to hypervisors.

OSv is an example of going back to the drawing board for the majority of Linux's use cases and creating something radically smaller and with radically less 'bullshit' (it runs much faster as a consequence).