skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MoviePass will raise prices to $15 a month and limit access to blockbuster films
Not sure if propagation delays but -- not fixed for me. (Cert is configured for *.github.com.)
I personally wouldn’t characterize it from bit that way, but it’s not as crazy as it seems.

We know that subjective reality exists because we directly experience it. But the evidence for an objective reality is shaky at best.

If it exists it isn’t anything like the classical world we inhabit - that has been proven multiple times over.
Not sure why you're shooting the messenger. I didn't applaud the hole in the road, or the lack of warning signs. I wasn't even commenting on those things, only that this is not exclusively Brazil. You can be as philosophical, logical, ideological as you like, in reality there is Africa time, etc, and you'll just have to get over it. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_time )
Source? I don't doubt your claim; just curious how you know this.
That's fairly interesting that the fear developed over time. The conventional wisdom is that repeated exposure makes things familiar and in turn would lessen any fear you would have of the thing.

I wonder if "developed fear" would be worth studying.
How can building design be older than humankind?
Foreign Economic Espionage in Cyberspace [pdf]
Not sure if this is of any help or not but I went through a short period of extreme fear of flying. I overcame it, I believe, because of what I would have to give up if I took the decision never to fly again. If this is an option for you and it would not negatively impact your life then, of course, you simply do not need to fly again.
For me that was not an option; it would have seriously negatively impacted my life and so once I had made that decision it became easier, actually fun, to fly again.
Ask HN: What's your opinion regarding Telegram Channel? Does it really help?
lol, are you seriously implying the kid got to where he got because of his background?
Some beliefs are based on facts, others on anecdotal experience, sometimes the difference matters and should not be left ambiguous (in case you were wondering where my determination comes from).

Thank you for the courtesy.
Yeah it's very rare to catch exception within processes, or to raise them explicitly. It's common to write something like

{ok, Result} = foo()

though, and that raises badmatch if it fails, and you handle it in a supervisor.
The common refrain that we will improve healthcare by keeping the government away and relying on the free market ignores the fact that most people are unable to shop for healthcare. Consolidation, price obscurity and immediate need makes that impossible. Even if it were possible, will there be uniform methods for describing the services and total price of services so that people can shop around?
Because fb is THE psyops battlefield, and multiple state actors on many sides are tangibly involved.

Why would mark zuckerberg find himself talking to captains and colonels at the naval warfare school?

Its like an influencing campaign in civ :)
I game, watch youtube, stream movies/shows. You don't really notice that you have gigabit until you need to download a game or something (if you torrent, I'm sure you'll notice it a lot).

With streaming, I honestly can't remember the last time it had to pause for buffering, even on WiFi; so that's nice
The Quietest Place in America Is Becoming a Warzone
It's worth noting that the title of the paper does emphasize this: A quantum-inspired classical algorithm for recommendation systems.

The abstract does too: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04271
It's not only the web anymore. What about the desktop Slack that can take up to 1Gb of RAM for a "simple" chat client.
Is there any public details on the twitter social network: who was following these accounts and retweeting their messages?
I like that idea a lot. We've actually done a tiny HelloWorld project along more kid friendly lines - I'll see about writing it up (after demo day).
Dell XPS 13 Kabylake Makes for a Great Linux Laptop
There is a big difference between blocking Broadcom from buying Qualcomm, and blocking Broadcom from doing business in the US. Which is what the equivalent would be.
Precisely.

And regardless of the magnitude, we would surely be hypocrites to keep finger-pointing. The US has been implicitly meddling heavily with international elections for decades.

It’s quite sad that Americans are not taught the basic lessons of the 19th century French Revolutions, because learning these lessons the hard way is yet again proving catastrophic.

The “liberals” (known to Americans as the ‘Democratic Party establishment’) forego moral action for moral identity. The “proletariat” (or, working class, Democratic Socialists) must overcome the denial of their self-identity which is, in American culture and media, a battle on all sides.

The average American’s head spins when they try to interpret polical nuances of foreign nations. They are limited to 2 dimensions; every opinion is either good, bad, or moderate; every piece of information is either fact, fake, or partially fact. I cannot tell if the left-leaning American pundits are being sincere when they act surprised at the newish factions in the American left. Are they truly so ignorant of history and political theory? Serious question. It’s one thing that’s American citizens are so simple-minded, but I find it hard to believe the media is not simply playing dumb. It’s truly agregious.

Whether approached through morality, love for one’s neighbor, mathematics, or otherwise, capital precarity has every reason to be the first place to look, and must therefore be proven not the culprit before it can be discounted.
Ban kitchens from the houses of San Francisco supervisors
> just to put it in the context of his actual career motivations.

Unless you have some deeper insights into his psychology, your guess is as good as mine: "Scott Aaronson is simply a decent human being."
> All these restrictions on mobile browsers make web development a pain.

Were web developers not causing so much pain for the users, we wouldn't have this topic in the first place.
That was sort of the underlying point of my response here - I think we can agree that a worst-case scenario (to the British government, anyway) would be the creation of a hard border in Ireland..

..the problem is that everything peripheral to that is a mess worthy of a drunken juggler. There's just too much conflicting to make any sense until 'something' is agreed.

My personal suspicions (read: hopes) these last few months are apparently shared by Lord Owen (who does not hope) - namely that the apparent levels of shambolic disorganisation are actually a ploy to create such a mess that as much of the fallout from Brexit can be mitigated.

I'd not be entirely surprised if the thing's drawn out another year or so and then somehow the entire enterprise is swep under the carpet and the UK tucks its tail between its legs and settles back where it should've never left in the first place.

Bear in mind, there's no actual precedence for any of this - I believe if there was any way of getting the UK to stay, somehow, without excess compromise for the EU, 'rules would be broken' because.. well, there aren't any.
There's a reason alcohol is so generously consumed in airplanes and airports. Obviously you don't want to show up at a rental car counter or business meeting stinking drunk, but it's amazing what just one drink can do for your nerves.

For dealing with turbulence, I gain an amazing amount of comfort by holding onto something rigid- the armrest, the tray table, or if all else fails the front of the seat between the legs. The higher brain functions know better, but this seems to soothe the beast within.
3D acceleration has its own issues aside from the security concerns. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1035410/ubuntu-18-04-gnome-h...
You'd like the Frankfurt kitchen which was inspired by Taylor's time and motion studies for industry. In 1926!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_kitchen
Some Myths I Learned in School that Reading History and Anthropology Corrected

1) The founders cast off autocratic tyranny and invented power checks, individual rights and the rule of law.

While monarchs in Russia, France and Spain frequently cited tradition, religion and even pagan mysticism to certify their absolute rule, things were a bit different in England. Republican government and rights of the ruled were part of the English system for a long time before 1776. They were mostly hard won by nobels (mostly for nobels) but none the less, proto constitutional law like Magna Carta, Parliament and the Civil Service preceded the founding by many years. American government may have been born of revolution but it was just an evolution of ideas and practices that had been developing for centuries.

2) America, and particularly Lincoln fought the Civil War in a nobel effort to end slavery.

While obviously the Civil War was triggered by the inability to resolve the issue of slavery the motivations of the primary participants aren't clear. From Robert E. Lee's initial opposition to secession to Lincoln's writing, "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that." it's clear that the war wasn't about "what was right" but what the individual actors wanted. What's really stunning about the narrative told in schools is just how close the government came to not abolishing slavery. The 13th amendment actually failed to pass the house once and that was with no Southern states holding seats at the time.

3) The Americas were largely empty when Europeans discovered them.

They weren't.

4) Neolithic people and hunter gatherers largely lived in peace with the planet and each other. For lack of a better term, they lived as "nobel savages".

To the contrary, the lives of these people are characterized by frequent skirmishes between bands, blood feuds and ritual killings. "Nobel savages" living all over the globe managed to drive extinct more than 50% of large mammal species well before recorded history. They also shaped the earth and warped plant life far from anything you could rightfully consider "natural".

I could go on about Martin Luther, the "Fall" of Rome and the Russian Revolution but I gotta get back to work.
Always be skeptical of "impossible" without proof.
In case the basic questions aren't obvious:

- What were your goals for the internship, and how do they compare to what you actually got out of it?

- What are the top 3 things you'd change about the way our internship program works?

- What are the top 3 things you think worked well?

- If you could repeat the internship knowing what you know now, what would you do differently?

- What advice would you give to company leadership (at any level)?
I think this is just another example of lack of common knowledge. Something isn't common knowledge unless everyone knows it and everyone also knows that everyone knows it.

"Have you tried X"? No shit, X is the first thing that I tried." is classic lack of common knowledge. You thought trying X being the first thing was common knowledge, but it wasn't, so your "advisor" suggested it. You both knew X is the first thing to try, but he didn't know for sure that you knew that, so he started there. And now you're imagining they think you're an idiot, and it's not in common knowledge that you're an idiot (probably because it's not true), so it rankles.

As an advisor I would start this exchange with: "Ok, so I assume you've tried all the normal things like X?"

Literally saying you're assuming something both puts the thing in common knowledge and acknowledges that it wasn't before, even though you probably both individually know the thing.

"Yes, of course." "Ok, what about..." -- much smoother!

"Actually, no! Of course X, now that you say it!" "Great!" -- also much smoother!
Maybe because inauthentic behaviour accurately describes all those different words in a single two work statement?
Anyone using pay-for-delisting spam lists is running a broken email system - this is essentially blackmail, even if it is att that is using it.

Reputable spam blacklists use proper metrics and monetize their service via other means (e.g. spam appliances, client use service fees etc)
Do Not Read: Restricted collections in remarkable libraries
That's called literate programming. Maybe the most famous example is the source code for TeX, a single ~25,000 line file (http://tug.org/texlive/devsrc/Build/source/texk/web2c/tex.we...) that can be used to make a TeX compiler, or produce a book explaining the implementation.
Everyone demands that the services of the internet have zero explicit cost. This means that all the cost is borne implicitly.
you might stop feeling hungry, but you'll then get mysterious headaches or a sense of confusion and frustration you can't identify.
I used TLA+ to design a locking strategy around memcached (well, it's a lot messier than that, I used TLA+ to debug a race condition we encountered in production which led eventually to a locking strategy). It's a fantastic tool for designing concurrent routines.
"profit 42 percent jump year-on-year"
now that's a number I can relate to
Rationality, in the economic sense, doesn't mean making objectively correct decisions as perceived from the outside. It means to make decisions in the furtherance of a particular subjective goal. Making decisions that later turn out to be counter to those ends does not mean that person was behaving irrationality, just that they were wrong.

In other words, economically irrational actors are individuals who act consistently against their own self interest, even as they perceive it. Almost no one is irrational in that sense.

It's a loose definition, but it's all that is needed to make markets functional.
A room full of people screaming incoherently is a room that most sane people quickly leave.
I've said this before, but it bears repeating:

Moby Dick is 1.2mb uncompressed in plain-text. That's lower than the "average" news website by quite a bit--I just loaded the New York Times front page. It was 6.6mb. that's more than 5 copies of Moby Dick, solely for a gateway to the actual content that I want. A secondary reload was only 5mb.

I then opened a random article. The article itself was about 1,400 words long, but the page was 5.9mb. That's about 4kb per word without including the gateway (which is required if you're not using social media). Including the gateway, that's about 8kb per word, which is actually about the size of the actual content of the article itself.

So all told, to read just one article from the New York Times, I had to download the equivalent of ten copies of Moby Dick. That's about 4,600 pages. That's approaching the entirety of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, without appendices.

If I check the NY Times just 4 times a day and read three articles each time, I'm downloading 100mb worth of stuff (83 Moby-Dicks) to read 72kb worth of plaintext.

Even ignoring first-principles ecological conservatism, that's just insanely inefficient and wasteful, regardless of how inexpensive bandwidth and computing power are in the west.

EDIT: I wrote a longer write-up on this a while ago on a personal blog, but don't want it to be hugged to death:

http://txti.es/theneedforplaintext
The Maps That Show That City vs. Country Is Not Our Political Fault Line
IIRC it used to be a fairly complete reimplementation of Clojure. I toyed with the idea of using it to cross-compile to Golang.
I don’t understand how Solopreneurs who don’t have the bargaining capability of big tech cos afford healthcare in this country.

I’m thinking of quitting my job and going solo but not having a safety net of healthcare makes me really worried. Especially with a toddler.
Instead of banning accounts, I would rather that they put more tools into the hands of the users. Let their users flag accounts in different ways, and give them tools to use that will let them filter out accounts from their feed based on those flags.
If it isn't possible to be a gentleman it is certainly possible to say nothing.
My news feed is mostly memes by choice lol, i wouldnt say it's gone to crap
Oddly enough, the three biggest cloud vendors by revenue are MS, Amazon, and _IBM_ (see links below).

IBM Cloud revenue is a head-scratcher. I've had to use them in the past, and while they have some unique features, it's hard to imagine anyone choosing them unless they had an explicit need for those features, or were forced into using IBM due to existing business relationships. I guess corporate inertia (possibly from the SoftLayer days) is a hard thing to overcome.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobevans1/2018/07/11/microsoft-...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobevans1/2018/05/21/top-cloud-...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobevans1/2018/04/27/microsoft-...
This really looks great!

What about firmware(both device drivers and above), do you see that starting to become automated in the next few years ? How ?
The preprint has no mention of Scott Aaronson as an author though.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04271
Hey, glad you like it!

Edit/delete capability is definitely the next thing I'll add, likely in the next day or two.

Reminders are something I've been thinking about... I wasn't sure how useful it would be to someone who already uses Siri / Alexa / Google Home, but it'd definitely be useful to me (someone who uses none of those things). I do like the simplicity of requesting a reminder and then just getting a text at a certain time. There are probably other kinds of "magic words" I could build into it to make it sort of an SMS-based command line.
major flashbacks to bush's white house shootout. i wonder if they still host all the old games?

honestly i wonder about the flash games sites in general. what happens when flash finally gets brought behind the barn?
OODA Loop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
Desktop Slack runs on Electron, no? Which essentially lets web developers develop a "native-ish" cross-platform app, without learning a whole new platform.

There is a long, long history of attempts to make good, cross-platform, native apps. In the late 1990s there was a company called Visix that had such a library that worked on Windows and Unix. There have been Windows implementations of Motif/XWindows. There was of course Java/JWT. These days there is Qt. None of these seem to have really caught fire.

edit: I wrote Mac but I meant Unix
I'm not sure if you are arguing that the language matters or not, but isn't one the exercises to implement a Lisp interpreter? Changing this to another language would make the task much harder if not practically impossible.
"Brazilians don't leave uncovered holes in the street because of something entirely logical within their own culture"

To be fair, there is some cultural relativism here: leaving a hole is probably 'logical' on some level because a) maybe it's not an operational requirement of the workers, b) maybe there are no signs available and they can't do anything about it ... but more likely c) these behaviours are common and it's hard to get anyone to 'act above and beyond' the local climate.

Those same workers might be totally different people with 3 months 'on the job' in Germany, with German standards, laws and behavioural norms.

I think cultural relativism (to which you are referring) is a real thing, but we can't use it as an excuse either.
In SF, it's unaffordable housing, terrible transportation, and needles everywhere. Pick your poison.
"Switch-Consoles" ??? just wondering... a few days ago, i saw a beautiful looking Mahjong-game by Nintendo sold for ~$190,- (should not be an add but...) it really rubbed my attention (-:

Hint: i was looking for a card-game done by Nintendo so it may be a by-catch to lower "shipping costs"... (-;
you only need to use a wifi connection on an airplane to see how painful things are - it's like a time warp
Researchers Ready Cell-Sized Robots for Inspection Tasks – Tech Briefs
But there's no telling what the opportunity cost was. Likely far more massive than whatever short-term benefits from being an industry leader.
The issue is that a big % of medical expenses come from a small % of people. It would only take a relatively small number of these people moving to make a big difference in expenses. And it's the people with the highest expenses who would have the most incentive to move.
Wage growth without accounting for inflation makes any wage growth insignificant. The lower 40% of Americans have seen NEGATIVE wage growth since the 1970's, and the 40%-60% of wage earners have seen a measly 0.5% increase since the 1970's when adjusted for inflation [1]

Stock market is entirely irrelevant for most of Americans [2]

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/record-median-household-inco...

[2] http://time.com/money/5054009/stock-ownership-10-percent-ric...
If we're talking Windows vs OSX, I would definitely say I'm more productive when programming on a Macbook.

If we're talking a two-year-old Macbook vs the latest Macbook, I don't think there's much of a noticeable difference in productivity
I don't know why the slack desktop client is so popular. It's almost no different from the web client, but eats more RAM if you already have Chrome open. Just pin Slack in a tab and save your memory
I am increasingly encountering news sites that detect ad blocking software and (understandably) refuse to show me their content as a result but the problem is that I enabled ad-blocking on those sites to begin with because they were loading nasty javascript ads on the fly which pegged my CPU!

As a web dev, I feel extremely conscious about what I'd call "javascript library hygiene", and I feel that whoever's in charge of many of the news sites out there, just does not give a shit.

Respect my computer's resources and you'll get your ads re-enabled.
Planes don't fall, they glide. Also, dropping a few feet when you're at 20,000' to 40,000' is a small change.
The Scar from Which the Construction Workforce Has yet to Recover
Republic Crowdfunding Platform Equalizes Fundraising Landscape
I'm not sure what I've got. I can read very well, I can express myself through speech and the typed word well also.

What I can't do, is write with my hands. I've never been able to (I'm in my 40's now). It's like I don't have fine motor control over my fingers to form letters, even though I can build and make tiny things with my hands and fingers. I have to grip the pen or pencil with a vice-like grip just to be able to move it in small movements.

Additionally, letters get written in the wrong order or back to front. The frequency of this happening is every other word or so. Even short words like 'and' or 'to' can get screwed up.

To combat the problem I switched to all-caps in my handwriting during secondary (high) school. To this day I avoid writing anything by hand if I can help it. I've never been able to actually pin down whats wrong with me, so the best I settle on, 'is some kind of dyslexia'.

I'm also left handed, but I'm not sure that's a factor.

EDIT: Thanks guys! It's definitely 'dyslexic dysgraphia' as per the Wikipedia article. Like RobertRoberts said in a comment below, this is why I frequent HN more than any other forum. You won't believe how much better I suddenly feel about this.
not necessarily. If you have kids in the car, a trash can will be handy. I could certainly use one.