skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually find this rather upsetting. I'd always assumed if you went to the right places out west, you'd be able to get at least 50 miles or so from anything if you wanted to. It seems the west isn't quite as wild as I wanted it to be.
> It's fine for currencies with responsible governance.

I'm not sure there are any. Certainly not if "responsible governance" means "not printing money whenever the central bank feels like it".
Interesting write up. I mistook Less Wrong for Suckless and the Cat-V crowd initially and it was kind of interesting to note that they, methinks, fall much closer to NNT on these points (and in overall grumpiness). Particularly:

>LW says “all models are wrong but some are useful”. NNT says “all models are wrong but some are harmful”

>LW wants you to expand your boundaries as far as you can. A lot of talk is about optimizing things, be smarter, be stronger and so on so forth. NNT asks you to keep it small and beautiful.

>LW wants you to do “the most good you can”, NNT wants you to prevent harm and call out frauds.

However I think both schools are complementary, and I've enjoyed reading material from all parties.
> And these costs aren’t incidental, something that can be innovated away. As Brunnermeier and Abadi point out, the high costs — making it expensive to create a new Bitcoin, or transfer an existing one — are essential to the project of creating confidence in a decentralized system.

No they aren't. See: Proof of stake, Lightning network.

> Bitcoin is real without knowing who issued it, so you need the digital equivalent of biting a gold coin to be sure it’s the real deal, and the costs of producing something that satisfies that test have to be high enough to discourage fraud.

This is a pretty wildly inaccurate analogy of why the Bitcoin network uses mining.

> Bear in mind that conventional money generally does its job quite well. Transaction costs are low.

To pay in cash, yes. To pay digitally? You're paying high credit card fees. So, no, not really.

> The purchasing power of a dollar a year from now is highly predictable – orders of magnitude more predictable than that of a Bitcoin.

Disingenuous argument. If the US dollar were invented 10 years ago, it'd be highly volatile today too. The fact that Bitcoin is volatile today is only relevant if you are going to argue that that volatility is inherent to cryptocurrencies. An argument which may be valid, but that Paul fails to make.

> Using a bank account means trusting a bank, but by and large banks justify that trust, far more so than the firms that hold cryptocurrency tokens.

Because using a cryptocurrency does not require trusting anyone.

> But gold does have real-world uses, both for jewelry and for things like filling teeth, that provide a weak but real tether to the real economy.

You mean the way darknet markets provide a weak but real tether to the real economy? You literally just enumerated Bitcoin's tether's to the real economy. Also, the idea that the gold market is in any way meaningfully tethered to its industrial usage is a complete joke.

There are really great arguments against Bitcoin and crypto-currencies. All of which Paul Krugman completely fails to make in this piece. The best of which he's positioned to make, too! Bitcoin is a deflationary asset - that's a real problem for anything trying to be a currency. That's a great case against it, and one close to Krugman's heart.

This article is seriously disappointing.
Apple is spending billions (maybe even tens of billions) every year on AR/VR.

Tim Cook has already said so and it's exemplified by some of their recent hires:

https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/apple-cyber-paint-app-...
Many planes have "fallen" thanks to stalls.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stall_(flight)
Not sure I understand. You seem to be saying that money (amongst other things) can be easily faked (a "free for all"?). But you're _not_ worried??
There is a huge incentive to plead guilty when you cannot make bail. After several weeks in jail they most likely let you walk after a guilty plea because you get time served.
Downvoted for going against the HN groupthink. So sad.

/Going down!
The IEEE recently revised their copyright assignment terms to explicitly permit authors to upload the POST-review publication to Arxiv, along with a few other outlets.[0]

[0]: https://ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/publish-with-ieee/author-e...
Apple doesn't need to improve iTunes. They need to take it out back and shoot it.

What Apple should do....

- When you attach an iOS device to a computer, expose a file system (not the file system) with "folders" that represent each apps local storage and let you copy files back and forth instead of forcing you to use iTunes to copy files into the app's local storage.

- Enable you to buy media on the web (app, books, etc.) that automatically gets downloaded to your device (like Google). They are so close to doing that now.

- Create a simple iOS backup and restore program for ios devices.

- iTunes should only play and manage music and movies.

- Enable the creation of smart playlists on devices.
Free speech is not the issue. No one is taking away free speech by banning you on Twitter.

Your free speech is taken away when something you say lands you in prison. Getting banned from a shitty private website doesn't violate your free speech rights in any way, full stop.
Fat bald girl wrestling with an athletic slim girl
Macaw felt close to Fireworks, but is now sadly discontinued (although one can play around with the last released version): http://macaw.co/
Don't feel too bad. As a decades-long user of IBM gear, on and off, the VARY terminology has always struck me as quite odd, too.
Hey, you are on HN. The opportunity to shine the `correlation isn't causation` was too strong. /s
The whole recent "what's a computer?" ad campaign kind of signaled that Apple believes we should be using more powerful iPads + keyboards instead of notebooks on a daily basis, right?
In Chrome, Task Manager shows PID along with CPU & memory usage.
What every startup founder should know about exits
That's neat! A popular online resource about these topics is http://www.askthepilot.com/questionanswers/turbulence/ (which also links to a number of other references).
Three months after that... $1,200 base model Samsung phone.

Three months after that... $1,200 base model LG phone.

Three months after that... $1,200 base model no-name Chinese phones.
> you are completely in control of your emotions

If that is true, then why do people (children) commit suicide over school bullying? Usually no physical abuse is involved, only verbal or online harassment.
I could be very wrong here, but I'm not so sure Apple's customers want the $1000 macbook.

Many mac users (and perhaps apple users in general) are the type of people willing to pay up for the top-of-the-line, latest-and-great, spare-no-expense tech gadget.

I've seen this with companies giving their developers the maxed out mac + mac accessories.

I've seen this with individuals who view their mac laptop as the biggest most important usage of their time.

Where have you seen apple struggle because they were being undercut by competitors?
Except it's not Excel, it explicitly says "Microsoft Word".
I said effectively.

> TRON's trail is static, Snakes body is dynamic.

And that difference only exists to support the single player vs multiplayer dynamic. If Snake left a Tron tail then it would be a very short, unfun experience. If Tron didn't leave a permanent trail then matches would last too long.
Show HN: Polyhedra Viewer
The upcoming release of Photoshop for ipad should help too, along with the recent release of Affinity Designer (Illustrator replacement).

Now if only they would add coding to the ipad....
I care a lot about the Mac, and I'm not sure what to think about the fact that Mac unit sales are down again.
The Mac has been growing for a long time, and they seem to have reached a plateau. I assume that's the reason why Macs have became absurdly expensive in the last few years -- when they can't grow unit sales, they need to grow revenue per unit.

Well, what do you expect? They keep redesigning the hardware in authoritarian ways: Thou shalt not upgrade the memory yourself (RIP old Mac Pro aluminum tower); Thou shalt not have F and ESC keys; Thou shalt heretofore use USB-C and dongles or will be sent to dongle Hell (I think one of them only has 2); Thou shalt not have feedback on keys. Etc.

And in each of the Commandments there are those who rush to defend: "but I love the new keyboard, I remapped the ESC to Caps, and anyway I love the new garbage can design of the workstation, I prefer soldered memory".

And that the sales numbers speak? Fantastic.
> Code used to produce published results absolutely should be accessible.

Although I agree with this sentiment, I think that if this was a requirement we would not get much more code but much less papers.
Yes. On my eyes Java was always the clear choice for enterprise code, because people come and go, and one bad apple does not destroy the entire code base on Java.

After I learned Haskell I had a "I knew nothing!" moment. Anybody writing enterprise code on anything that is not as safe as Haskell (that is, basically everybody) is letting a lot of money on the table.
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Solaris has event ports which are equivalent to Windows IOCP. So not all *NIX systems are deficient in that regard :)

I know, but IOCP badly fits into the "UNIX philosophy", i.e. in this case how input/output is "typically" organized under UNIX.
As long as the central bank is full of thoughtful economists, I trust them to print money when they "feel like it" will be good for the economy.
white noise youtube vid with my Beats (by Dr Dre) over ear hadphones...
Hundred times a day. The escape key is still there in the same position it's always been.

The rest of the TouchBar changes depending on context but the escape key remains fixed. So just like how I don't mind having soft-keys on my iPhone I don't mind it on my MacBook.
Yes but they both target horizontial scale out and OLTP is a target for both.

And yes, cockroach isn’t Postgres but it has SQL, versus something like Mongo or Cassandra.
Thanks for the recommendation, I will look it up.
"...it's interesting that so many people want to write a book"

Indeed,

The article's main conclusion, that not everyone can write a best selling novel or biography, is nearly truism in that there are a few bestsellers per months and millions of people in this country (or any country).

I think it the interest of many average people in being best selling writers, along with interest in making and staring in TV shows, comes from the way that all these forms tend to expose the unique, inner, human characteristics of their protagonists. The urge to have this experienced by an audience is strong. And moreover, it's reasonably plausible that just about everyone actually does have inner qualities, that, if cast in the right light, can be extraordinarily beautiful. "All" that is needed is to artfully allow a jump from exterior appearance to inner experience (a very difficult process but one which when done right, seems easy).

The problem is that such portrayal is hard and making that portrayal accessible is also hard and the competition for doing these things separates the few best sellers from the many literary attempts.
I hope it is interactive so you get to ‘kill spider’ while you watch.
I was kinda wondering about the performance of a streaming lib written in Python, but from the README it looks like they support high-performance dependencies like uvloop, RocksDB and C extensions. And it's used in production at Robinhood. This could have been written in Go, but it was written in Python. Very interesting.
The console market is minuscule compared to the phone market.

Sony has only sold 75 million PS4's since it was released (https://www.businessinsider.com/ps4-playstation-4-lifetime-s...). Apple sells almost that many iPhones in a good quarter.

TVs are big and bulky and have something like an 8 year replacement cycle.
What would be really awesome is if Electron somehow managed to use shared resources if the Chrome was already open and not be a giant memory hog.

That's the biggest downside to Electron I see. You can create some fast performant UIs in it, but just a blank view is a big memory hit.
No, you are wrong.

Using your own malformed analogy: The town square is the internet. Twitter is a private shop above subway station with a bunch of garbage that people like to buy. It's super busy. You can scream whatever you want in there, some people outside can hear you. You'll also probably get kicked out if you become obnoxious.
Precisely what was going through my head as I read the reply. Good luck with this one, I'm out.
On the other hand, I find white noise exhausting. Not sure if this is a neurological difference between people.
> I don't know how far into this you want to go, but no, I don't think it's possible to think that there are biologically determined on-average cognitive ability differences between "whites" and "black people" without being a white supremacist.

You either are wrong or are speaking a language in which the phrase “white supremacist” means something different than it does in normal English usage.

> I recognize that there is a trope suggesting you're not a white supremacist unless you want there to be a biologically determined difference.

There might be, but I've never encountered it. And I'm starting to think you are not merely posting from a place using alternate English, but from a complete alternate reality.

Aside from you, I've never encountered anyone who seemed to think that the core of white supremacy was a belief in on-average differences.

White supremacy has two defining features (this is an elaboration of the two-point dictionary definition posted upthread), both of which are required:

(1) The belief that members of the White race, as such, are inherently superior—and this is reslly specifically about moral/value superiority—to those of other races. Universal or on-average biological differences may be pointed to as evidence of this superiority of value, but they are not the central point.

(2) The belief that as well as (and usually because of) point 1, above, members of the White race, as such, should be in a dominant role, and those of others limited to a subordinate role, independent of individual traits aside from race, in society.

Believing that whites have an on-average advantage in one dimension like IQ and neither assigning greater moral value to Whites as a class because of that nor believing that Whites should be favored in society does not make you a white supremacist. It doesn't even make you a pro-White racist, which you can be without being a White supremacists (holding belief 1 without belief 2 would make you a racist, but not a White supremacist.)

> The term means what it means.

Yes, and what the term “white supremacist” means is not “person who believes that whites have a higher average IQ than blacks” or “White Americans have a higher average IQ than African Americans”.

It's true that each of those (quite different, though often conflated) beliefs probably has some correlation with white supremacy, and indeed I'd be surprised to find a white supremacist who disagreed with either. But neither belief, alone, makes you a white supremacists or even a racist.

Just like believing men are on average taller than women doesn't make you a patriarchist, or even a sexist.
Being a Linux kernel and OS developer for a defense company, vim has been my main editor for quite awhile, and I have no issues with the touch bar on my new 2018 MBP. For those that require the tactile feel, there's always remapping caps lock, as well as utilizing other key combos: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Avoid_the_escape_key

If muscle memory is that engrained within the user that he or she cannot utilize any of the aforementioned alternatives, nor adapt to the difference in feel of the touch bar, then your choices are either an older iteration of the hardware, or switch completely. Claiming that, "you don't use vim," if you enjoy the new MBPs is, however, off the mark, IMO.
FYI the show goes by a few different names depending on the region:

Mayday (Air Crash Investigation/Air Emergency/Air Disasters)

Very addictive show (if you like learning about how planes crash)!
The FISA warrant application in October 2016 identifies Steele/Fusion GPS as the source of the allegations against Page.

https://www.scribd.com/document/384413862/Carter-Page-Fisa
> I am talking about the concrete type of IO has and how using it, without the monads as abstraction would be so cumbersome that haskell "needed" monads.

It would be comparable to working with e.g. Lwt in OCaml, which is very much a practical way of programming.
There are good reasons to be skeptical of some things in the cryptocurrency world, but whenever I see people high in the existing financial system talking this way about it I can't help but think of RIAA executives in the late 1990s arguing that the Internet should be shut down.
The tlmc v19 post has a link to the Ogg Opus (rather than Vorbis) which is updated.
The most recent MBPs were being throttled after mere seconds of 100% CPU due to the poor heat management and poor fan profiles; Linus Tech Tips was able to go from sealed box to throttled CPU in under 20 minutes without even trying. A firmware update to address the fan profile issue improved this but it still has issues.

The MBPs were not really designed to handle the heat of an i9
The actual title of the article does not mention roads, probably because they "all motorized travel, including the legal use of motorboats on portions of Yellowstone Lake."

>So the remote Thorofare location and radius shown here will not match values calculated purely from the road network.
To be more complete "from roads, machines, and motors." I live in Idaho and know for a fact you can get further than 18.76 miles from a road. The addition of "machines and motors" brings motorized trails into scope and yeah, at that point I believe it.
Some of these roads are likely extremely remote logging or dirt roads though. Some of them might not see a car for weeks at a time I would imagine.
MIT Molecular clock could greatly improve smartphone navigation
Since when is doing something efficiently and non-wastefully not a good idea for its own sake?

I agree we should make things efficient for their own sake. But that's not what people are arguing about. They are arguing that the modern web is bad, and their reasons are weak. The modern web is terrific and we should not carelessly denigrate it, which is what I'm against.

Do not denigrate the modern web in the name of efficiency when your measure for evaluating websites is wrong and you incorrectly assume that the difference between a 1mb and 10mb payload matters to the actual operation of the site and visitor satisfaction.

Re: That comic you once saw.

Yeah, what if we shut down all coal power plants and make the earth better? Oh wait, now we have destroyed our critical infrastructure and our government/nation has absolutely no leverage to even make decisions regarding the environment. If people would stop dumbing down these complex problems, it would be a good thing.
I recently started learning more about git in order to use GitHub for work. I can confirm that "pull request" makes no sense whatsoever before you have a working mental model of git (even now, I don't think I could adequately explain it to someone else).
What the article doesn't really clarify: Cologne was a Roman colony. The full name was Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium. "Colonia" means "colony" but it's also the highest tier of recognition Roman cities could have. Cologne was the Eastern-most Roman city of its kind in "Germania".

A side-effect of all of this is that you can't really dig anywhere in Cologne without encountering some Roman artifact or ruins (unless they have already been recovered/destroyed previously).
Deep Reinforcement Learning: Playing CartPole with Tf.keras and Eager Execution
Nice, congrats on finishing your draft!

Yeah, I’m finding it very difficult to decide what to keep, what to rip out entirely, what to rewrite.

I blew way past my 75k word target to about 98k words now, and still feel like there’s a bunch more I need to add.

FYI, I’ve found Hugh Howey’s four-part Writing Insights columns on his blog from last year very useful, helped me get thru my draft.

But I’m finding it hard to take his preferred approach to editing of rewriting scenes from scratch instead of altering or spot-editing them. I took a stab at rewriting one of my earlier chapters, now that I know what happens later on, but don’t feel the new version was substantially improved to warrant all the effort.

I think the hardest part for me is killing my darlings, and ripping out the big chunks that I feel are essential.

But I know I need to slog through and get to some point where I can stop picking at it and send out to some alpha readers, then consider actual editors.

I’m still not sure yet if I’ll self-publish or go the traditional route.

Good luck!
My problem is with how new money is distributed. It's given to banks to lend at interest rates higher than they borrow it from the fed.

I'd love to borrow money at nearly 0% interest and then turn around and lend it at 5% or even 15% interest. That'd be awesome.

How people can not see this as an elitist plutocratic system is beyond me. Of course the systems it replaced were also elitist and plutocratic and so far cryptocurrency appears to be turning out that way as well, so this remains an unsolved problem.
John Gruber already made a remark about Mike Rockwell's title being "Head of AR/VR" when he interviewed him at WWDC. Even though Apple has no VR products.
This is so dumb, because on the one hand Apple refuses to do a touchscreen laptop because of gorilla arm, and then turns around and says you should replace your laptop with a device that you have to gorilla arm.
That's a brilliant idea. Have you been working with any mental health professionals to ensure your tools are in line with professional guidance for exposure therapy?
Fun times. Once upon a time I was working at a university in New Zealand. At that time Apple had created a way to legally stream your iTunes catalog to other LAN users—mostly as a way of enabling the college campus music sharing experience without the illegalities of OG Napster, Limewire, and the ilk.

I got a nastygram from the IT department for sharing my iTunes catalog. I replied that it was my understanding that the iTunes streaming was legal. They concurred, but said that format-shifting my albums had been illegal. I countered that I format shifted my CDs in the US, where it was legal.

In the end, the IT security people agreed that I was probably totally legal, but they asked me to please refrain from leaving the iTunes sharing turned on because it made their lives hard. That was a compelling argument, and so I turned off iTunes sharing. :-)

EDIT: I should note that format shifting was later made legal in NZ last I knew. Hopefully it still is.
> Tables are stored locally on each machine using a superfast embedded database written in C++, called RocksDB.

I haven't used RocksDB. Does being a LevelDB fork give it similar corruption issues?
Apple Music pulled ahead of Spotify in the US market as of this month, in terms of subscribers.
the high price of the new machines isn't worth the marginally improved performance

Comparing the base models of the 15-inch Macbook Pros on Geekbench:

Single core:
2012: 3216
2018: 4918 (+53%)

Multi core:
2012: 10558
2018: 21118 (+100%)
Miracle on the Hudson?
I think the biggest difference is that the disinformation was performed by state actors in Russia while the Steele Dossier was research on the actions and relationships that state actors had. Not to mention the fact that the details of the Dossier did not become public until after the election.
Why would they? Apple Music is already growing faster than Spotify....

https://www.forbes.com/sites/careypurcell/2018/05/15/with-50...