skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
here's my favorite quote from C.S. Lewis:

>“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”

- C.S. Lewis

edit: pedantry
At this point would even a rebrand matter? Github has such an unspoken strong hold on the developer community that I find it hard to believe that SF will be able to make any dent at all. Github has at least been a respectable stakeholder in the whole process. No shady downloads, ads or stepping over the users in any way. The worst they did was not developing features that would have helped simplify open source development and even that was largely addressed when "Dear Github" rolled around. Even Gitlab and Bitbucket, which are far better products than SF ever was, have not been able to shake GH. Lastly, every package manager developed in the last decade has millions of its packages with repos pointing to GH. If GH shuts down open repos, npm would probably fold up overnight.
No, melatonin is the actual thing your body produces to go to sleep.

However, having used it, if your brain chemistry is sufficiently screwed up, you may find it hard to wake up fully if you don't also take Co q 10 in the morning. That's the coenzyme for melatonin. It wakes you up.
Which time?
> that is a reason it has been avoided by VCs? Not many 'purely' software options?

This does strike me as reason enough, yes, not that it's necessarily rational. Although there are certainly VC dollars available for non-software startups, including consumer hardware (which strikes me as exceedingly risky) and biotech, when it comes to software, there seems to be a trend to keeping it pure, even avoiding buying computer hardware and staying on cloud, despite the tremendous cost premium (especially when scaling!).

I suspect the overall instinct is from the enterprise (or even consumer) software days, where the engineering cost to produce the software is completely decoupled from the revenue it can generate. Add a significant hardware component and the VC imagines they'll be permanently coupled, with profit forever limited by that hardware cost. Of course, this is also true for SaaS, perhaps more so when the hardware is rented at a markup from someone else. I remain mystified, but it's mostly speculation, anyway.
Maybe we'll both get to laugh when we're 90
Is This the Moment for RISC-V?
The advantage of "flick" keyboard is probably that the buttons are larger than buttons on a latin keyboard. Hitting and sliding the finger seems like a more complicated action than just hitting a letter, but maybe that is just because I don't use it often.
> These systems are forced to take a stance on the Ship of Theseus problem — they're tracking the identity of files/documents whose entire contents, name, and format may change over time.

But that's my point: when you choose to make a call on the definition os "the same", the problem no longer exists. SoT only exists while you refuse to provide a more precise definition for "the same".

> Different systems have chosen to take very different stances on this.

Yes, and any stance will solve the problem. You could say that it is the Schrodinger's Cat of philosophy: the moment you decide to go one level deeper (open the box and observe the cat), the problem ceases to exist.

> These are not just interesting riddles anymore

Agreed, and the point of the original commentary was that they were never interesting riddles to start with, they were only riddles at all because we purposefully forced them to be riddles. We avoided the fact simply to carry on the discussion.

Similarly, any judge won't care about the SoT, because at the end of the day, that judge will have to make a call if the ship in question is Theseus' or not.

And just like quantum mechanics, the moment you look at it, the "wave function collapses" and you have a solution.

SoT is only a problem for the same duration as Schrodinger's cat: while you refuse to open the box.
IT makes sense to mix AI and blockchain on very specific cases. But dropping names as hype is bad. Probably nothing obvious about AI and blockchain.
I think we retain knowledge when we put it to use it regularly. With Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, etc. you can quickly access information, but the retention part is still all on us.

Pre-Internet when I had a question, I'm wondering if the fact that we have accessed more information through Google but our total capacity for retention has stayed the same makes us feel like we're dumber. If we can retain 200 things a year, before we'd retain 10% of all information accessed because we weren't bombarded with as much, but now we retain about 1% or less because we're getting hot with so much info whenever we want. But the quantity of retained information is still constant (or maybe increasing), it just feels like more information is skipping through the cracks because of the volume.
> I think self driving cars have the potential to build on our car centric ecosystems.

But the problem is that car-centric systems are not scalable and sustainable.

Sure, self-driving cars would do well in the Bay Area, but they would only make traffic worse, as now people are willing to spend a longer time in traffic, since they are no longer driving.

Self-driving cars actually remove one of the negative feedback mechanisms of traffic.
Pancreatic cancer is scary as hell because there's no warning signs until it's too late. I wonder why we're not doing more to develop blood tests or other ways to detect this much earlier in the process when the results are so binary, and it's also increasing in terms of number of cases every year.
If the city is dense enough, the supermarket will be less than a block or two away.
But this protection is meaningless if "code protect" is a single bit flip that can be downgraded with a clever mask and UV light.
1Password for iOS is updated and includes notes with rich format
>"On a bike I wouldn't be able to bring my dog"

Your dog can run leashed next to your bike, it's a very common way to walk dogs.

Or you could even walk, half a mile is super close.

>"it would be weird using the drive-thru"

Yeah probably a bit. Go inside instead and sit down to eat, maybe?

>"it would be uncomfortable on all but the few days of the year that are a perfect temperature"

You get used to it extremely quickly, trust me :-)

>"I'd be much less safe in the case of an accident"

Even in a car, I would avoid a place like that, and find an alternate route. That just sounds like an accident waiting to happen, to be honest, no matter your mode of transport.

>>"And taking home the amount of groceries that I do on a bike would be impractical“

Yeah, if you only shop once every week or even two weeks. My girlfriend and I manage grocery shopping quite well on foot and bike, and I would think we buy an average amount for two people.

I know it's easiest to stick with what you know, but there's always an alternative.
> who even owns sourceforge now?

http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/bizx-subsidiary-sou...

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bizx
From the article:
Realsearchers compared enacted policies to “the expressed preferences of average Americans (50th percentile of income), affluent Americans (90th percentile), and large special interests groups.”

Researchers did not evaluate legislation on its merits. Indeed, they did not evaluate the legislation at all. They rely on work done by Gilens. Gilens assembled a dataset of survey results about support for legislation in which the income of the respondents is known. See Testing Theiretical Predictions section of the full reseach article: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/62327F513959D0A304D48...

Economic-elite is defined as individuals with income at or above the top 10%.

Assume less. Read more.
New drug for recurring malaria
How Healthcare Insurers Are Reverse Engineering Value Based Care with AI
I don't know Chinese but it seems like more difficult method because you have to remember how the character is written instead of just typing the spelling and choosing from a list.
This is really great advice. Being too stressed during an interview is not good for looking like a good job candidate. I’ll have to check out that book too, because I personally get a little too stressed public speaking, so thanks for the recommendation. That’s one of the great things about questions like these is they can be very relatable and you get such great advice from all walks of life.
Yes I was.
There are a lot of public sector jobs that require any degree. My mother had a long and fulfilling career in the food stamp program, starting out helping people sign up and moving into training, supervision, and eventually became a county director. This is with a degree in anthropology. You’d be surprised how many jobs there are whose qualifications are like “be able to type and spell and generally help make things get done” which are impossible to staff because nobody who can do the work would do it for the pay on offer. These jobs tend to be lower stress anyway, better confined to 8-5 too.

People will joke that you should go into management. Maybe, but I’ve never heard of anyone going from a CS degree to managing programmers directly.

If I were talking to someone who was one year into a degree and hating it, I would really push the idea of getting a technical vocational training in something like HVAC, plumbing, or electrical. Those careers require a lot more from you physically, but not as much mentally and the pay is really good. Better than you’re likely to get as some kind of administrative person. But there are other trade offs.

I think a lot of people here are calling your bluff, because if you really didn’t like it, why are you reading HN? But you should know that you can have a good and fulfilling life not programming. But understand that you will probably make less money, often a lot less. You are the only person who can decide if it will be a better life for you to do something else with less money or to do something you dislike for more.

There are lots of people who cannot program or dislike it who nevertheless manage to eek a career out of it. I can’t in good conscience tell you to do that, because they cause the rest of us a lot of stress and what kind of life is that, where you spend every night sleeping fitfully trying to convince yourself that you fooled us yesterday (you didn’t) and just need to fake it a little longer. So don’t. Find something that you enjoy and do that instead.

You 100% have time to do something else. Just stop and do something else. Don’t torture yourself. You are what, 23? Go get some more loans and get a degree or certificate in something you want to do, and live your life for yourself.
What about stacked heat vias ?
Lots of people seem to do just fine with cargo bikes, or with baby carriages on public transport.
What would it mean if objects didn't "contain historical properties"? What would it mean if they did? What would be different if you were "responsible" for your future actions versus if you weren't?

Let me give some examples of where the distinction could actually be meaningful:

Logistically, the museum can only put one of the ships up for display. Which one should it choose?

The museum hires you to compile a database of all its historical items that can be browsed online. Should you put the "Ships of Theseus" in a single row, or two rows, one for each ship?

A rich and extravagant museum visitor, after seeing the ship on display (whichever one that is), offers the museum a generous sum to purchase it. Later, when he learns of the second ship, he is outraged and demands his money back. Should the museum reverse the deal?

Prior to the second ship being reconstructed, the museum had taken out an insurance policy on the "Ship of Theseus". Later, when there are two ships in existence, the second ship burns down in an unfortunate fire. Should the insurance company compensate the museum? Would it matter if the other ship burned instead?

After finding and deciphering ancient journals from the Theseus crew, the museum learns that treasure may be hidden within the wood of the ship. Which ship should be searched?

The museum trades one of the ships to a neighboring museum in exchange for other historical items. Later, both museums begin advertising that they have the original Ship of Theseus on display. Should both be allowed to advertise this?

These examples give, I think, differing and nuanced notions of what the "Ship of Theseus", and even an "object" is. There is no reason why there should be a singular "right answer" that applies universally, without a sense of what question is being asked or what problem needs to be solved.
You want hardened enterprise features, you pay for it; or contribute it, it is open source.

I don't understand the attitude of people like you.
[citation needed] is one of the best things that happened to wikipedia and it could stand to show up in more places. I'm amazed internet journalism doesn't use citations. It's not like there's a lack of space like print papers.
This isn't actually a particularly new idea- Barbara Oakley's Coursera course ("Learning How to Learn") actually cites another researcher (name forgotten) in the same field working with similar sets of theoretical assumptions.
I thought I was "resilient". I was wrong.
Advanced Compressor Tree Synthesis for FPGAs
Dr Kate Kass' website
Touche :D
The answer might seriously be D) All of the above.
agreed completely, the point was to explain how to get the lowest price out of a car dealer, not necessarily to maximize value.

some folks prioritize the former or feel like they have time to burn
Performance is fairly concrete to measure, mostly as part of click responsiveness.

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/r...

They can also measure it live in the website, the median response time of API calls and so on.

Github has said this:
"We’re quite obsessed with performance. We want to make sure the site is always performant and continually fast. For a Rails app, github.com is a really, really quick site and we have a motto that “It’s not shipped until it’s fast.”"
https://medium.com/s-c-a-l-e/github-scaling-on-ruby-with-a-n...

They can create a performance measurement team, assign tickets based on what they find and prioritize them as part of ticket management. If something is too slow, then maybe it's time to refactor the underlying architecture or subsystem thats making things slow.
I wasn't suggesting that research can no longer exist, just that the OC's whole point was that this field is no longer about just research and attempting to open up the discussion to a broader interest group, of software engineers, based on that premise of mass scaling.

Since the GP was a direct reply to the comment with that premise, asking about the kinds of work and technology, it seemed to me like a borderline-disingenuous to respond with something related to research and not mass scaling, especially since that response was "all of it".
The study I linked is one of the largest studies ever made on dietary fat and low fat dieting, done on 50,000 women, spanning 8 years, an incredibly expensive endeavor and cannot be easily dismissed.

This isn't just some random study among dozens of others. Most studies on nutrition are far smaller than that and far more superficial.

So random weirdos on YouTube that want to explain how fat makes you sick have to account for this particular study without invoking conspiracy theories (e.g. the "milk and diary industry", oh noes).

Invoking conspiracy theories without substantial proof is not how science works. Also his medical knowledge is obsolete ever since the 90s ;-)
Are you suggesting Snapchat isn't making a meaningful, long-term contribution to society?

I agree, but there are some things that really only do make sense at scale. A friend is in SEA and used Uber Eats a lot. They took over then quickly pulled out, investing in Grab to hedge.

Anecdotally, Uber was much better than Grab is. Grab is more of local, pared down version of Uber and the service suffers for it. I've heard that Uber is a horrible company, but they really got food delivery right.

It's very hard to replicate that without massive scale. On one side of it it takes a lot of expertise and resources and on the other side it's not very profitable. I guess it didn't work for Uber in the end but their global, winner take all model worked from a consumer standpoint.

Anyway, not all of it is a throwaway fad. Some of things coming out of that monster make a meaningful contribution.
Rehashed Article from the same author was posted a few years later in 2015, https://secondnaturejournal.com/neil-postman-judeo-christian....

In my former life I was a graduate student in Historical Theology so this was my silo of "expertise" AKA I can be a critics easier then most.

Only one HUGE logical problem. C.S. Lewis wasn't a Evangelical Christian he was Anglican. Evangelicals at the time hated them with equal venom to Roman Catholics C.S. Lewis converted to Christianity by JR Tolkien (Yes the one who wrote Lord of the Rings) who was Roman Catholic.

SOOOOO What is written about Postman's lectures are also true of Lewis. They both came from outside of Evangelicaldom and were respected for their thoughts.

Also they stated that George Whitefield (1714-1770) was Anglican BUT he co-founded the Methodist Church with John and Charles Wesley which was the founding of Evangelical Christianity of today. They were the Martin Luther of the Anglican Church.

Also Postman was not an evangelical, but a Jewish humanist. For some unknown reason Modern Atheist have hijacked the term Humanist which was actually found by the Reformation Founders. I have read Postman and his book "Amusing Ourselves to Death" especially Chapter 8 "Shuffle Off to Bethlehem" show that Postman had some positive views of religion and was at best a Agnostic with positive feelings towards religion. I believe Postman would also share in my declaration Humanism historically and fundamentally doesn't mean Atheist. Atheist is a good term why leave it to take over another term and all its historical foundations? Humanism was founded by Christians and not some academia but the leaders of the Reformation Movement of Calvin and Luther.
Having kids is THE prime biological directive, not just for humans but for every form of life on earth. You would need to have potent cultural pressures to interfere with that process. Without culture, it happens almost automatically.
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Worse, because they took the extensions concept and took them a step further.

Every couple of weeks there is a new version, and each card supports a certain minor version.

https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org
> You appear different enough that people can tell, but your similar enough to other people

And that does wonders for you when trying to be diagnosed and, if you are lucky, treated.
I really need a better hn reader app to help me bookmark great post like these ones.... anyone have a good suggestion?
I think a large hidden factor when comparing pay is the length (and cost) of the education required as well as hours worked. I make 45% more than the median income here (Sweden) with zero education and averaging 35 or so hours per week, working as a septic tank truck driver.

It's not as much as I'd make as a software developer; but I never had any student loans to worry about and what software devs are working 35 hour weeks and still make bank?
If we reduced the world to only fundamental concepts and discarded everything else... Well basic physics would survive, and not much else. Nonetheless there is knowledge beyond fundamental physics, meaningful knowledge.
> Are they worried about the needless increased cost to consumers, or maybe they think it might actually work well enough?

Obviously the former. They are both focused on ethical issues related to computing, which DRM has many implications for despite it's complete inability to achieve its stated goals.

> If you are really against DRM, I don't get how saying DRM "will never work" will help avoid it.

The idea is that if the companies pushing DRM realize that they are spending a ton of money pushing something that is useless, they will stop. Personally I don't think this is a viable strategy simply because it requires a level of rational thought from large companies that they clearly are incapable of acting on.
Not classing aging as a disease is not a major problem
If the alternative is buying a new car instead, leasing is no different. If your situation changes and you'll go over the lease mileage, buy it out instead.

If the alternative is buying a used car, then leasing is definitely different, but that's orthogonal to the mileage issue.
It's not obvious to me that that's a glaring security issue. If the password were encrypted, then Gitlab would need to be able to decrypt it, so all you're gaining is a bit of security through obscurity. Which doesn't accomplish anything when it's a publicly documented feature of an open source project.
On Windows OpenGL is only supported on legacy Win32 apps.

Microsoft ported Angle to UWP and last time I bothered to check it wasn't part of desktop bridge.
That is exactly the question. When, in your daily life, or in law, or in your dealings, you talk about an "object", which do you mean?
Reminds me of Trigger’s broom https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LAh8HryVaeY
> I didn't realize there were laws against direct sales

Interesting. Not even Germany has such a law, I wonder whether that makes the US a car maker or rather a car seller country?
>Nature of consciousness is now philosophy, will sooner or later become neuroscience and artificial intelligence.

You speculate so.
Mitch will be at EMF, probably in a tent adjacent to mine. So I'll just ask him to bring the knowledge back to noisebridge.
The reason I often don't finish articles is because there's too much fluff and "story telling". Just go straight to the point and give me the facts with the context so I can understand the information. I don't need to be told a grand story.
Interoperable Hardware Diagram
Well the distributors stamp the top of the server with a sticker that says it's safely operable for 2 years, so no one is going to insure it for more, of course. Might be European thing, though; good think for enthusiasts is that it's common to contact a company and join their next 2 years buyout and acquire cheap hardware.
There is plenty of knowledge that is non-scientific. Not all knowledge is accessible through the scientific method. Ethics, metaphysics, etc.
> except the leaky power steering hose

Great QA right off the bat.
They do use some 3D techniques inside dies. Tri-gate transistors and 3DICs, for insurance
I agree. Our team test drove gitlab earlier this year (as in, moving all repos over and using it for a month). We were hoping to consolidate a suite of products into one unified dev hub. )sadly, we found the general clunkyness and slowness a deal breaker for us. Lots of clicks to perform actions, each click requiring a short wait. Many features that applies to single projects don't apply to groups. We felt the core features were still very unfinished, especially when working with multiple repos. We looked at the roadmap and decided to move on.