skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would you expect the common person to change their habits when government abs industry aren't changing theirs? It won't make a difference what I do personally. I could fly on a jet nonstop for the rest of my life and it will make little difference. Government could pass a law to reduce carbon output tomorrow and it would make a difference. Why should us regular people be uncomfortable when we're fucked anyway because of idiot climate change deniers in power, especially in the US? If we're all going to be fucked anyway, I'm going to enjoy my AC and vacations while it lasts. Maybe leaders should start fucking leading first and people should stop pretending like individuals can even make a worthwhile dent in carbon output without government and industry changing their ways.
I find that the harder I try to force myself to code, the worse it gets. I like to try some other creative task that can get the juices going and then come back to coding when I have a really great idea. Obviously in a working environment this doesn't always work.

What _else_ do you find really motivating? Could be writing or painting or making youtube videos. It doesn't really matter as long as you're starting to engage creative muscles that you haven't flexed in a while.
I'd be happy to move away from banks that buy in on this.

You'd think with all the privacy pledges it's made over the past few months, that FB would think twice about doing something like this.

Facebook, why don't you focus more on developer relations and the community that made FB a platform and worth what it is today. Go on forums and the developer Pages and you'll see how strained and alienated developers are. From instant API shutdowns (Instagram) to turning off access to apps that have paying clients that rely on FB API because the app review failed (thanks to reviewers who often don't read the testing notes) and sudden rate limits or access restriction without prior notice, developing on the FB platform has been frustrating.
I'm complaining that there isn't one uniform distribution. For example uniform in x on [1, 2] is different to uniform in 1/x on the same interval, and which one you draw from may matter. You have to be told. In fact every (one-variable) distribution is uniform in something!

"pick a random point inside a circle" comes with an implicit "uniformly according to the ordinary euclidean metric on the paper". I guess it's a judgement call that this is obvious enough, but "a random chord" is clearly not... otherwise we wouldn't be here!
Launch HN: JetLenses (YC S18) – Lowest Prices on Contact Lenses
Hi HN!

I'm Dhaivat and I've been working on JetLenses in the present YC batch. We offer the lowest prices on contact lenses online. On average, each of our customer saves $70 on each order in comparison to buying their contacts from a large online retailer.

It turns out that most of the cost of contacts is just advertising cost and fulfillment overhead.
We've built automation software for the fulfillment and prescription verification processes allowing us to cut overhead. We also use statistical models for ad optimization which allow us to cut our customer acquisition costs dramatically and deliver savings to our customers.

I have a technical background (I studied computer science and statistics, interned at Meteor (YC S11) and a quant hedge fund) and my Dad trained as an ophthalmologist. This was the perfect circumstance to realize that this is a large, fairly overlooked space within ecommerce where improved operations through software/data science can have a strong impact.

We're starting with contact lenses and we'll eventually apply our core tech to other prescription medical products with very similar cost structures. At the end of the day, we'd like to make these products cheaper and more easily accessible. Help us out by buying contacts from us or telling your contact-wearing friends about us!

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for most lenses but not all (yet!).

I would love to hear HN's thoughts about this! I'm particularly keen to learn about your experiences buying contact lenses (or even other medical products) and if what we're doing sounds exciting. You can also reach me at dhaivat AT jetlenses.com

Thanks!

Dhaivat

P.S. We currently only ship to addresses in the United States.
My view is that the images from Hiroshima and Nagasaki allowed people to see the destructive power of these weapons and the horrors of the wounds inflicted. It’s my strong belief that those images that prevented nuclear war between the US and the Soviet Union. I also strongly believe that without Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we’d have seen nuclear exchanges between nation states.
Oh, very cool!

My app is actually meant to be like a 'newsfeed for tweets' that shows the top 10 tweets of the day engaged by people you follow, so it vacuums up a bunch of tweets (from tweets engaged--liked, retweeted, etc--by friends of my users) so then it just internally counts which have the most retweets/likes. So what my app thinks is the most retweeted thing might just be reflective of my internal data set rather than what's the actual most-retweeted thing.
My electrib bike is AWD. Electric in the front and mechanical in the back. Very good for recovery on a patch of ice, impossible with just back wheel drive.
Ask HN: What are the practical benefits of AGI?
I think Modular Neural nets, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_neural_network, with some sort of dynamic topological intermediary will probably be a better approach to more complex, hierarchical problems, and might be a decent shot at AGI, what do you think? Does anyone have further reading about this?
Yep. I don't think it's coincidence that Twitter's slide started right around when they started giving you notifications for likes/retweets of retweets and replies when before it was only for your own posts. Then it got worse with quote tweeting.
The tool I built can be found here: https://russian-ira-facebook-ads.datasettes.com/

Here are the ads they spent the most money on: https://russian-ira-facebook-ads.datasettes.com/russian-ads-...
Once MoviePass goes fully defunct, why would AMC continue to offer A-List?
> But we shouldn't tell old people "you are useless therefore go somewhere and die".

No one is saying that or advocating for that. I think you're unfairly assuming malice or ambivalence on the part of commenters who are trying to clarify the practical reality of the situation.

Consider for a moment, regardless of how unrealistic you feel it may be, the utility of funding the care of a 20 year old with cancer versus a 90 year old with cancer. All things being equal, a system with finite resources should prioritize the 20 year old, because the younger person will likely be less expensive to save long term and can generate more productivity for society afterwards. We'll call this our Socratic baseline.

Now obviously in the real world two patients' ailments are never equal. But if you can agree to this baseline, we can proceed to haggle as conditions more closely approximate reality and things stop being so equal.

We should not leave the elderly out to die or abandon them. But we have to be honest and balance that moral imperative with the unfortunate, practical reality that we only have finite resources. That doesn't mean we kill anyone off. It means we make nuanced decisions about how much to invest in their care - and how to do so - given their prognosis. Age is a fundamental measure of prognosis.
Well, literally triage is "decide the order of treatment of (patients or casualties)" without much of the finance input.

The NHS stuff is done by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence based on quality-adjusted life years and they have a guideline of £20,000 per year. So if a cancer treatment lets you live ten more years in ok condition it's worth spending £200k to do it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_for_Health_...
WebAssembly may eventually get us closer to that vision.
> To me it sounds they're removing peak pricing and being more conscious about restricting movies.

Until they aren't. MoviePass changes the deal way too often to have any certainty except about one thing: the deal gets worse all the time. As a customer, you have to try and guess what the value prop is going to be later on after the next round of changes.
I can't remember where I read it first, but: "Startups are an inefficiency imposed on the transfer of wealth from VCs to landlords."
I bought a yearly 70ish dollar package from them and I feel like I've been robbed of the product that I paid upfront for. However I've seen 25ish movies with my movie pass so I guess I've made my money back but it's still very frustrating. Their CS is so poor too.
The property prices are largely driven by compensation increases. As long as there are more Apple/Google/Facebook engineers seeking houses than houses on the market, then there will be an incentive for housebuyers to bid up the price of available housing right up until it equals the extra money they earn from working at one of these Bay Area tech companies. Existing landowners will continue to capture basically all of these tech wage gains until the supply of housing exceeds the number of tech workers who want it.

The tech workers who are getting rich are the ones whose living situations resemble college students or service workers. They compete in the housing market for cheap apartment rentals with folks making maybe 1/5 as much, which holds down rents (well, sorta...rent is still insane, but only about 1/3 what a typical mortgage payment would be) and lets them bank the excess.
It may be of no concern to many, but 3D artists constantly express problems with filling DIMM slots when using Threadrippers. Supposedly, 128 GB RAM is only reliable on a couple of motherboards. I just constantly read these stories on forums. (And to be sure, these aren’t situations where users were mixing RAM sets)
On-Demand QA Environments with AWS Fargate
As a side question is there a guide to setup https for a static website hosted at AWS buckets?
From a narrative point of view, the spatial problem as stated is a quite decent post hoc argument for why time travel is usually fraught with danger, even after the science is known, as predicting the exact parameters needed would be nigh impossible.

One could easily argue that big whiteboards laden to the brim with integrals and capital sigma (summation) rich equations indicate a data rich problem rather than a theory heavy one, and that the inevitable squashed, disappeared, or exploded melon fits very well into this framework.

Shooting a water melon at several million miles per hour so it hits a small time travel device correctly in all N>3 dimensions is obviously going to make a royal mess quite a few times, as evidenced in many movies!
This seems to be more about the choices than about the trends. Don't older couples usually down-size and move some place cheap like Florida or Arizona?
Why not just cancel it when the terms become unfavourable? You're just losing out this way.
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Flat terrain is one of the biggest reasons why I never plan to move back to my home state of Michigan.

Skiing, hiking, and climbing are 3 important things to me that the midwest simply doesn't have in any meaningful way.
Your unsourced assertion does makes sense. WF isn't well positioned to survive any further SNAFUs — technical ones in particular. Plus I don't think of them as being primarily focused on their CC business in a way Chase, Citi or Amex are. More a complement of their retail banking and mortgage businesses.
We can't even do that.

We have done it in the UK: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/06/uk-carbo...
What's the plan for an Uber driver when they get old?

In the UK they will be covered by the NHS despite their employer practicing industrial-scale evasion of Employer’s NI. That’s a loophole that must be urgently closed tho’ the Government and the Inland Revenue are inexplicably dragging their heels about doing it (indeed the entire “gig economy”)
I feel the need to register justonegram.com.
Ah, yes, I was thinking of Alpha. But NT4 was still a full fledged product on PowerPC at least for a period of time, so my larger point stands.
Show HN: Live Data Organizer Apps
Yes, you will need to front the bucket with CloudFront and use the AWS Cert Manager to manage your own cert or to get one through AWS (free) and apply it to CloudFront.
>Simply censoring the content isn't healing anything

Yes, it does. it destroys his platform and importantly limits his ability to monetize what he's doing, which is probably a large reason for the continued existence of the whole endeavour, to begin with.

Censorship is a very effective tool to stop people like Jones from doing what they're doing. The point isn't to heal anyone, it's to contain it.
I’ve wondered whether this could be tried in a contained/containable area, like the Black Sea, to minimize potential unintended consequences.
Im thinking the same thing, however i am still young. My mom has been telling me your views on death change as you get older and closer to it.
Handling a new era in the Japanese calendar in .NET
Perhaps. But oil companies give millions to climate change-denying politicians, and to think tanks that falsely claim that there is no human-driven climate change.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/15/exxon-mo...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/jul/01/exxon-mo...
I don't think you need to be good at maths to use Julia. I'm glad I learned some basic trigonometry at school, though...
I see a lot of comments regarding freedom of speech. But this has nothing to do with freedom of speech. It has everything to do with hate. I would not eat at a restaurant that has hate propaganda on their walls. This is same thing.

He is free to publish his podcast on the internet, no one is stopping. If US government bans him, then we are in a big trouble.
The kindness, quality, and eagerness to help is a big part of what propelled Mastodon. You'd log in, make your first toot, and have a pile of people welcoming you from the federated or local timeline. Same with beginner questions.

I tried GNU Social a long time ago, but it was mostly technical people talking about technical stuff. Great if that's what you're into, but it's no basis for a general use social network. Niche networks are fine, but I don't get the impression that's what early federated social media proponents wanted.
One of the quieter features of Android 9 is that they are reducing the API surface of Android by explicitly black-listing and white-listing various APIs and fields that previously required reflection to access. None of these APIs were documented, but none of them were explicitly "off limits" before Android P.

That suggests that the life of Java as Android's primary language might be really coming to an end, even though Android is very much a platform built on Java/C++ at its core.
Fukushima was not supposed to have a failure mode. But it did. How are we to ever believe the "experts" that the new design won't fail in another way, after which we'll hear about an ever safer design.

Alternatively, if they knew that Fukushima wasn't safe, why didn't they shut it down? They kept on saying "yeah, the new design is much safer, but this design is also perfectly fine"

You know how they say, "fool me once, ..."
Do you seriously think that most Uber drivers are earning enough, net after expenses, to manage that?
Amazing Video from the Surface of a Comet
Surprised with the naming, did Google just miss a great opportunity for collaborating with candy manufacturers like they did with Nestle for Android 4.4 'KitKat'?
* It looks like they've taken away the "apps" homerow button and swapped it for "swipe up from anywhere". So that is one less gesture available to apps, unless you install an alternative desktop.

* Wi-Fi RTT sounds pretty neat, I had not heard of that before.

* Shutting mic, camera and sensor data off for idle/background apps is neat, though I'm shocked that wasn't an option before.
What if it is refueled in orbit?
The BFS presentations hinted at that ability.
Reminds me of Telegram's https://telegra.ph
I'm no longer surprised that Samsung doesn't feel the need to update to the latest version of Android! Grace UX (their skin) already had all of these features as of last year. I do not see anything worth upgrading for here.

Potentially huge for people buying the notched phones. The support for that did improve in this update.
Compare König's lemma [1] ("every infinite tree contains a vertex of infinite degree or an infinite simple path"), often considered the first example of infinite graph theory. It wasn't articulated until 1927, almost half a century after Darwin's death.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6nig%27s_lemma
So much for the Internet, eh?
And if someone were to create an air company that sells air to the average consumer, how successful do you think it would be?
Yes, but they aren't integrated with most theaters' systems, meaning you often show up and find out the movie you were planning to see is sold out.
If my grandfather's fight with liver cancer was any indication, I'll accept it when my time comes, too.
I'm saying convincing the people that war is bad doesn't stop wars. For example at the start of WWII the German people were not enthusiastic about starting another war. That was not enough to stop it.
"Amazon alternative"

To what? AWS? S3?
The Fermi Paradox slowly turns out to be the Fermi Taboo
You don't have to draw freehand. A t-square, a pair of compasses and a set of French curves are pretty much essential if you want to accurately draw precise geometric forms.
Isn't it anyway safe to assume that Internet providers worldwide have to give access to security services etc. (or are even happy to cooperate without any legal pressure)?
Decentralising the web: Maintaining the momentum
I'm going to say something terrifying, and it should cause you terror indeed: Most people don't shop banks.

Ask random coworkers why they use the bank they do - "Well, that's what my parents used" or "that's what was convenient" is the usual reply.

Anytime I ask people if they pay fees for regular banking, they look at me like I'm a crazy person - "of course I pay fees all the time, but I don't pay very much..." Most banks are terrible and treat you terribly unless you keep enough money with them to get the special treatment.
How does the latest "wide-market, in production" storage work now?
Energy Saved, Sleep Lost: The Unintended Consequences of LED Lighting
The VCs are acting rationally but it's still an inefficiency. Theoretically if a significant number of tech people chose to gather in a low-COL Midwest city you could stretch VC dollars much further while still undercutting SF/NYC.
Would you be interested in developing an agent for Hearthstone?
Well, when a company is looking at someone using their platform for a activities that look blatantly illegal, it's common for them to preemptively ban them. These platforms have no obligation to wait for a court ruling.

In case of Jones, He blatantly defamed the parents of Sandy Hook victims in a fashion that had considerable negative consequences for the parents due to constant harassment by Jones followers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/us/politics/alex-jones-de...
Does 16+ threads actually contribute to render times with Redshift?

I know

Unless you’re using Houdini, I think you’ll get the same result using Redshift with 16 threads. Houdini is the only DCC that uses more than one thread to prep the scen
I like how their priority is not removing the significant restrictions of couriers, items and heroes, rather playing a team of professionals on a "custom game" based on dota heroes
A good living will and instructions for trusted friends/family/SO to carry out goes a long way for that.
The war on poverty is arguably effective. The poverty rate is lower than it would be if we stopped all transfers.
To state the obvious, you really should not be using that console to do anything. Basically browsing the console is already technical debt.
The smallest unit of a society is the family. It is natural that the family's collective wealth stay in the family.
Each generation tries to add to the family's wealth.
Clearly that's no longer the view among many... but it was the assumption behind inheritance.
As a k12 teacher - this has not been my experience at all.

In fact, I would invite you to take a look at the common core standards for English/Language Arts. They are hardly a curriculum script. They offer significant flexibility and opportunity to individualize content for your teaching context. Despite all the problems and issues I face on an average day, being pressured to teach canned curriculum is not one of them.
I use AWS every day and got 17/20. Thanks to a couple of lucky guesses.

But, I believe that at least two of the questions have incorrect/incomplete answers:

One of the questions that requires a typed answer (instead of multiple choice) shows an icon that is used for both EC2 & Appstream. However, only EC2 is considered correct.

In the Route53 icon question - there are multiple versions of the Route53 icon used in different places (do a google image search and you'll see a dozen variant). The icon in the top left ("Pole with two offset rectangles") is used in the console - but this is considered an incorrect answer. The icon in the top right ("Pole with two slightly less offset rectangles") is sometimes used elsewhere and is the only answer considered correct.
Safari's Reader Mode.
Modern AI may "beat" humans at certain tasks, but I doubt they are as efficient as humans are at those tasks: it makes sense that throwing more compute at problem will yield better results. But is it possible to get better results while constraining training time?

Edit: I looked up how much time it takes to train: "OpenAI Five plays 180 years worth of games against itself every day, learning via self-play." [1]

[1] https://blog.openai.com/openai-five/
Correct. When I see developers using 'distinct' and complaining about some query performance, it's almost always the developer doing it incorrectly rather than an issue with the database.