skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's treated as being just fine for video game servers, my assumption was that they meant for game engine development.
I think you are twisting the definitions pretty hard. Android isn't open for anyone who also wants access to the dominant app store. If you want that and sign that agreement you can no longer effectively enjoy the right you have under e.g. the GPL and distribute devices with modified versions of the code. As I understand this is legal under the GPL, but certainly very shady towards the developers who made the code available with the intention for it be used openly, rather than being leveraged by Google for their anti-competitive means. Also those practices is preventing other developers, who has as much right to the code under the license, from using those manufacturers. This is a clear attempt of trying to use their dominant position to control the market and shut out the competition from those manufacturers, not just controlling the manufacturers themselves which would be bad enough in the first place. And that is exactly why they are being and should be fined.
The one thing that bugs me on the surface about the Fermi Paradox is the assumption that it is possible or feasible to colonize the galaxy.

The Drake equation stops at simply releasing detectable signals into space.

The Fermi paradox assumes that interstellar travel will be cheap enough and fast enough to make traversing the galaxy a given. Yes, given a few million years, Von Neuman probes can span the galaxy.

Ok. And? We, as a species, have a hard time thinking beyond a handful of years. Now we're talking about projects that have a time scales orders of magnitude in duration than anything we've even thought about doing before.

I can't really get further than that on the Fermi paradox (or a couple of related ones) because I don't buy the premise to start with. Like the probability that we're in a simulation being likely. It assumes that we will have the power/understanding to simulate reality. I question that assumption. I don't think it's a given.
Are they unable? Of course not. Is desktop Safari in any way a priority to them? Not really, at this point.
> I realised a while ago that since I spend so much of my life interacting with a computer, I should really invest significant effort into improving, even marginally

In the world of guitars one can spend thousands of dollars having the perfect custom guitar built. I've often wondered why software developers don't invest as much in bespoke custom keyboards for exactly the same reason you have come to realize. I definitely think there's a market for it.
Zuckerberg defends right of Holocaust deniers to be heard on Facebook
I.E. nobody that can afford even the cheapest iPhone. The world has changed since J2ME mattered.
Is that you Hideo? Did they grow you some new eyes?!
Android has something like 85-90% marketshare - not different then Windows back in the day.

Google bundling their Search with it is just pushing their own agenda.
That’s not regrettable at all when the consumer excess from trade policy hasn’t been evenly distributed across all income cohorts. There is a difference between bureaucracy and labor cost arbitrage.

Efficiency without social safety nets and other opportunities to replace existing blue collar jobs is brutal capitalism, inappropriate for a developed nation.
Ok, Intel-compatible.

Apple has no monopoly on any hardware market where they are not the only one. They cannot dictate terms to any other OEM manufacturing A10-compatible computers.
What are you talking about?

He said "no one is driving"
Now, maybe he is full of shit, but those words are pretty definitive.
Software distribution was hard and expensive in 1994. They wanted it to be installed at the factory, to ensure maximum reach, which wouldn't have been possible with open source:

> "We were doing it to help kids learn math. Public schools are too poor to buy software, so the most effective way to deliver it is to install it at the factory."
I disagree. If you hang around The Mattress Underground, where lots of mattress aficionados and professional sellers post, you will quickly become aware that most beds are pretty mediocre and overpriced. There's lots of in-depth discussion on their internals, and it's pretty disappointing.

It's not surprising, as there's a lot of information asymmetry in the bed market. Customers don't have a good understanding of internals, and manufacturers deliberately augment confusion by producing under tons of sub-brands and models. Furthermore, at least in the US, sells are carried on a 1-by-1 basis where the salesman tries to extract buyer's reserve price.

I've spent a few years optimizing the core objects in my life, and my bed is for obvious reasons on the top of the list. To cut a long story short, I tested dozens of beds, bought a high end nordic bed (Hästens) and a natural latex one. Both were good. But, like the OP, I've eventually settled on a custom design. A very different one, though.

IMHO, the most healthy option is a thin soft core on top of a hard surface. I also prioritized natural and washable materials. I ended up with a pad made of felt wood panels on top of a modular wooden base. A huge unintended bonus of this design is how easy it is to pack and move around. I can disassemble and carry my bed effortlessly. It's also pretty cheap and durable. And I can disassemble it and put each pad in my washing machine!

A good heuristic is that most high quality items are custom made niche things. Either made by you or, usually, by specialized artisans or engineers. I've seen the internals of some beds costing a few grand. Not pretty. Laughable quality compared to the carefully felted panels I commissioned from a great mill. Same applies to industrial tees vs loopwheeled ones, or cheap plastic coats vs ventile. In the PC world, an equivalent would be some bad quality box with horrible thermal paste and mediocre cooling vs a custom Calyos build.
Curious, what is your WPM at currently?
>The people on HN and their social circles are waaay on the high end of conscientiousness. They have nary any risk from something like LSD for the most part.

As somebody who is pretty close to the bottom percentile of conscientious, I'd have to disagree :)

> But - wide open and fairly unregulated use? Available at the corner store?

The traditional psychedelics have the potential to become revolutionary tools in the hands of psychiatrists/psychologists, especially considering that when administered in a controled setting by a trained professional the risk of something going wrong is near zero. If you look into the literature involving the administration of LSD in the 50s, the concept of a "bad trip" was relatively unheard of.

When it comes to psychedelics "being sold at the corner store", I sincerely believe the government has no place in regulating consciousness, especially in adults. The entire idea of a bunch of monkeys locking another monkey in a cage for 20 years solely because he ate the forbidden fruit is absolutely absurd.

Let's consider the current legal framework surrounding alcohol. For the most part, It's completely legal to possess and consume, as long as you are not endangering anybody else in the process, and are an adult. This framework if applied to psychedelics, and any other drug for that matter, would still allow society to handle any problem users, while not criminalizing responsible use. The exploration of states of consciousness itself should NOT be criminalized, as long as said explorers are not causing problems for the people around them.

As a society we seem to handle alcohol pretty well, and alcohol itself has something close to the most severe health/behavioral consequences of any popular recreational drug. Alcohol use often leads to severe behavioral problems, especially violence, and can actually straight up kill you if you become addicted to it and try to stop cold turkey. If we can handle something as destructive as alcohol, we can certainly handle other comparatively benign drugs.

At the very minimum, the idea of a "schedule 1 drug" should be completely abolished. ESPECIALLY the clause which prevents research of any compound that is placed in schedule 1.

The United States has failed utterly in its "war on drugs". We've spent hundreds of billions in taxes, exploded our prison population to the largest in the world (rivaled only by russia), destabilized every country south of Texas, and yet have failed utterly in restricting the accessibility and usage of "illegal drugs". It's all absolutely ridiculous, especially considering that the stated purpose of mass criminalization in the first place was to silence political opposition.
Hey, you might want to look into CBD. I haven't done the research myself, but I've heard many anecdotal reports about its efficacy as a sleep aid. It's a cannabinoid which doesn't get you high at all, and also doesn't show up on drug tests.
Dropout and the deep complexity of neural networks
No, I get that humans can attach value to things for irrational reasons. But you don't seem to grasp the impact that replication technology would have. Look at the diamond market, which is collapsing because of the advent of artificial diamonds. DeBeers tried to rescue it by promulgating the myth that natural diamonds are somehow superior to artificial ones, but this failed because they are indistinguishable. The exact same thing will happen to art when replicas can be made that are indistinguishable from the originals.

The only reason humans care about old things is that at the moment they are still hard to replicate, and that makes them scarce. As soon as it's easy to make something that is equivalent to an old thing in every measurable way they will no longer be scarce and their value will plummet just like everything else that can be mass-produced.
John Michael Greer - The Next Ten Billion Years

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-09-05/the-next-ten-b...
Cross-Origin Read Blocking
Yes, exactly, Android's market share in and of itself is irrelevant to Google, it's only relevant when considering other products. If Google didn't have web search and ads, then Android's marketshare would be existential, but as it is, Android exists mostly to reduce TAC costs for other products. If they could eliminate TAC in some cheaper way than developing a whole OS they'd do it.
I imagine admitting drug use wouldn't do them any favours if they work at a job that drug tests.
Wilde about Paris: the sex, drink and liberation of Oscar Wilde’s “lost” years
That kind of behaviour is easy to understand when one works at any Fortune 500, specially those whose main business isn't software related.

It doesn't matter how much goodwill a specific department might have, power struggle and department differences always end up impacting it.
The tech is quite interesting.

The game, sadly, not so much.

I wish they had spent 1/10 the effort on the actual game for single players that they did on making it "Twitch/YouTube-friendly".
I had to chuckle at the part where you got a friend to help put the mattress cover on, because I've been exactly there - realizing I just built something I can't move myself.

Fun writeup about something I'd honestly never considered DIYing, though I'm familiar with (and heartily approve of) the materials.
I guess rather than having to deal with the agony to move away from a sufficiently large and complex Jenkins setup, people rather delude themselves in that its actually good software.

Just the amount of obtuse setup that thing requires is crazy and always ends in a mess. I have no idea why there seem to be so many people praising that thing in this thread. I don't fault Jenkins though, its just old obsolete software that should be replaced.
PFSense IPSec works really well.
This wasn’t some minor process inprovement though.

I tend to take my business away from vendors who pull this kind of crap.
Is happiness really the right metric to optimize? Most people take for granted that we should all try to be happy, but why? I think a little more introspection would be useful here. Perhaps there are more important things in life.
Yet still most people develop for iOS first and then later port to Android, if at all. It's really not a comparable situation at all.
He said "for the purposes of colonization".

That means sending people out.

We would be sending people on one-way trips, for better or worse. You'd likely never hear from them again.

As to just sending out Bracewells to say "Hi", why? Once again, the return on a response is very long and not guaranteed. And without a response, what's the point?
SwiftNIO Transport Services
That's a capital cost though, not a marginal cost. Amortize it over the essentially infinite savings on a long enough time horizon and it's basically free.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst
That and it's run by Jeff Bezos, who has the money to do this for the long haul.
Apache NiFi 1.7.1 release
I think, though, that they would find a way to clean this all up toute de suite, if only they were given a proper incentive to do so.

For example, if there were real competition in the marketplace (say, by moving to a system where most consumers go to actually shop around and choose their own health insurance company), I expect you'd find insurance companies start to streamline their own processes, both internal and external, more-or-less immediately.
I'm getting close. After 38 years on this earth, money isn't everything, and more of it isn't making me any happier.
This didn't even need the shameless plug disclaimer. The bulk of this is just good stuff to help you build a mental model for:

1. What therapy is

2. How therapy fits inside a broader context of other kinds of practice - counseling, psychiatry

3. Some common misconceptions

4. How to go about a search process

Bookmarked to send to friends who are hovering in the general vicinity of finding a therapist in the future.
Yes, for this round of Startup School we'll be adding an all-new forum that founders can use to communicate and share learnings!
The US system is a combination of heavily regulated private industry and government-run healthcare.

The US is ridiculously more expensive than other countries precisely because of regulations and government-run bureaucracy (and defensive medicine, and poorly run bidding for drugs and equipment, and fraud).

Government-run healthcare actually puts all the bargaining power in themselves, but they don't try to cut costs because that's not an incentive in government. Actually with government, the more you spend in one year, the more you get budgeted the next year. The worst way to run a government agency, in the eyes of bureaucrats is to run leaner than budget because your budget will be cut the next year.

Doctors have very close to no bargaining power.
Dejavu 1.7.0 release: Web UI for Elasticsearch
I live in Dublin, so not that far. GPs here are generally private, though kids, older people and lower income people are subsidized or free. Some other parts of the medical system are more like yours. It's an eclectic system.

Anyway, I don't have a problem with the way primary care works here. It works well. I didn't mean any of this as a slight on the job doctors do. But... I also think pharmacists and other trained people can prescribe medication, tests and such. There is value in accessibility. If they can (as I think some of these ideas take as premise) provide walk in service, there is good reason to do it.

I know people prescribed antidepressants from GPs, in the UK as well. 10 minute appointments several times per year.
Promethean is an AI startup that aims to revolutionize video game production
Here's a blog post about it: https://blog.emojipedia.org/google-updates-gun-emoji/
I love reading this story. Whenever it pops up on HN or Reddit it's such a motivational read. Sometimes people involved will jump in the comment section to add details which helps document the lore of one of the best early computing stories.
Movies famously follow a formula as well.
Nintendo uses their games to push their game console.
"In 1998, the International Electrotechnical Commission IEC introduced the binary prefixes kibi, mebi, gibi"

But that hasn't stopped anyone because when talking about computers and data storage, unless you got some wacky old russian terenary system running in some bunker, everything should always be expressed using a base 2 system.
What about a cylindrical bed, you could call it the Omega bed?
All it takes is one sufficiently early civilization that goes full Neumann-replicator and decides to colonize every system it can for them to have already arrived here long ago. The fact remains that it seems like they didn't, unless they were very careful boy scouts and left no trace.
> Insurance companies generally have atrocious IT (it's not their core competency) and consequently inflexible IT stacks.

I've been working at startups in the healthcare industry for a few years now, and agree. It's not just insurance companies, either - hospitals are just as bad if not worse. It's even worse for hospitals that are affiliated with a University.
> Android has something like 85-90% marketshare

http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-stat...

I was surprised by this figure, but it doesn't look true based on cursory google search?
Nicholas II, though I suspect you know that. Nicely done.

It seems to need stating each time, both the guys were terrible.
Just applied, I think as a part time husband and wife team with a child (and based in the UK) this is a more realistic opportunity than the physical YC (even though I think that would be an awesome adventure)
BunnyCDN is happy to introduce Edge Rules
Did you explain your thoughts about the ideal mattress some time ago maybe? I'd say I already read those same arguments before and found them extremely interesting.
Exactly, it was a major process overhaul. They thought an automated system could handle this and then realized that was overzealous.
Yes, but as the author of the article argues, the emoji icon of an eggplant has been culturally interpreted with a different semiotic meaning. The same could very well happen with the emoji icon of a watergun (despite the emoji’s semiotic shift), indicating a symbolic duplexity in the meaning of a handgun.

I.e., if you choose to mean a handgun when writing a watergun, the emoji’s meaning can change.
Isn't another benefit that this will foster greater entreupenurship and thus create 'job creators'?

Right now, if you are employed and have insurance, you are really just subsidizing these jobs - middle-class welfare.
There are a myriad of books that discuss the theory AND provide a critical view of how it failed/succeeded, essentially providing you with a historical reading. To the extend that you can corroborate these findings, you should be all set. I am not sure that your dichotomy is accurate.
Ansible Kernel calls ansible-playbook on a specially constructed playbook. Ansible Kernel constructs a playbook with a two tasks in it: 1. wait for the kernel and 2. include tasks from a file that does not exist yet. When you enter a #task cell we write that included file and then tell the wait task to proceed. The included file contains the #task cell contents, a wait task, and another include task. This continues until you stop the kernel, the playbook dies on an error, or you enter a #play cell. On a #play cell ansible kernel throws away the old playbook and make a new one with the new arguments. The exported playbook just contains the content on the page (without the wait/include tasks) and should work with ansible-playbook normally.
He is a Computer scientist by any reasonable metric.
> If it were easy, anybody with money would make a hit.

But anyone with money and the right relationship with the distribution gatekeepers pretty much does.
Ah , you have many a year on me good sir. Wise words though. i'm just starting on my journey, coming up to 5 years of professional dev work at 1 company. My wife and I definitely connected over our love of punk/alternative musics. There is definitely an 'energy' at these shows that is hard to describe. It is raw and hard to capture on CDs and tapes. backyard/house/underground shows are amazing. The passion, sweat, energy, insanely loud music are all very organic. At most concerts here in the US the crowd is too busy taking a video of the show instead of getting into the music and moving
I would argue that it simply isn't the responsibility of the state to ensure that there is a continuing market for a given set of skills.

Sure, it's a problem when industries and job classes disappear - but keeping them around doesn't solve the problem, it only defers it. In many (most? all?) cases it even makes it worse.
That mattress looks dodgy and screams backpain.

Nothing beats plain wooden planks + 3-4 woolen blankets on top.

Made the move to sleeping on harder surfaces about 15 years ago and never looked back - now occasional sleepovers at hotels leave me tired.
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They were also forced to offer choice with browsers, had a regression and paid a giant fine just a few years back.

Besides the fine maybe Google should also be forcing existing installs to provide a choice?
They would negotiate different licensing terms that require the licensee to risk their own capital on a bet that the consumer wants android devices with all of the associated Google services. That would be different from their current position of essentially paying for Google services with an in-kind payment of non-competition.
Which is also weird, because they seem like a smaller voting block, increasingly so?
I can't uninstall Chrome on my LG Android phone either.
I noticed that when I rush the waking up process I get more energy I have happier mood throughout the day. The more quick the transition from waking up to being caught up in an activity(and that could even be the commute) the more energy I have throughout the day. Any lingering in bed affects the whole day negatively. Does anybody else experience this?
She actually made a referral, then I found out that department wasn't accepting new patients... It's been a frustrating process.
All for Reliability: Reflections on the Erlang Thesis
If only you were manipulating second only. You would also be manipulating metre, candela, and ampere, assuming old definition of SI, or metre, kilogram and kelvin assuming new definition of SI.
Not so good if you aren't a back sleeper
Why wouldn't the party simply fire the "redundancies" and pocket the money?
> Tons of discussion to prop up coal, of all industries.

I believe the argument is that domestic energy production is a matter of national security.
Hey, something where my two cents might actually be valuable :)

I created the VS Code plugin for Optic: https://github.com/opticdev/optic-vscode-plugin. It was actually my first time writing a text editor plugin, but between the VS Code docs, Optic SDK, and Optic plugin spec, it was surprisingly easy. The information just gets sent through web sockets under the hood, but it was all just basic javascript callbacks and some VS Code specifics for finding ranges, etc.

Optic itself isn't particularly useful for me as a solo developer building small website frontends, but I must say I was a little jealous of those that this is geared towards because even developing the plugin gave me a couple of those "magic" moments. Getting to make a change to just some javascript object's property and then get to keep it in sync was pretty satisfying.
Clicked on the article hoping for something substantial about policy to clean up fecal matter on San Francisco streets. Instead got:

"
a distinct work-life balance has been replaced by free food, ping pong, and services that do your laundry or drive you to work. This puerility is internalized so profoundly that it extends to corporate hierarchies and the way essential tasks are discussed. Software engineers are often colloquially referred to as “rock stars” or “ninjas” in job postings, and childish jargon is pervasive.
"

Which is ridiculous considering the article is about poop and gun cartoon depictions.