skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My personal take:

We are physically and mentally bound by 4 dimensional spacetime. We have begun to discover further dimensional notions via computing. As our technological intelligence advances, we will have the opportunity to leave behind our current physical states and transcend into higher level dimensional existence. The reason we have not found any other life, or intelligence, is not because it doesnt exist, but because in our current state we are simply incapable of comprehending/experiencing it.

In Hadith (I was raised Muslim), Abu Huraira states: "Allah has said: I have prepared for My righteous servants what no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no heart has conceived."

Regardless of religious context, I believe this notion lends credibility to the idea that we exist in a dimensional bubble, and that there is indeed existence beyond this bubble (regardless if it's God/s, forces of nature, multi-dimensional aliens performing simulations, etc).

There have been several discussions on psychedelics on HN. If you discuss the notion of inter-dimensional beings with someone who has experienced a strong psychedelic journey (Ayahuasca, etc), they will almost always discuss the foreign beings they interact with during their trip, out of the realm of their physical body. Why is that?

I strongly believe that humanity's salvation will not be in the form of space travel, but inter-dimensional travel.

We gotta go full Tron in this b&!%$.
CVE-2018-5390: Vulnerability in Linux Kernel Allows for DoS Attacks
> Because blockchain reduces the costs of double entry accounting by 10,000x [...]

Wat.

There is no aspect of double entry bookkeeping that would lead to a cost reduction when combined with blockchains, even less a reduction of an order of magnitude (or four!).
Maybe they should stop allowing anonymity then? Like communities who disallowed hooded marchers to discourage the Klan.
Do you know if any of these guys were ham radio operators by chance? Sounded like ham ingenuity to me.
> The U.S. didn't occupy a functional country and then destroy it.

But they did disband the Iraqi army and the whole Iraqi state!

>"The fall of Baghdad saw the outbreak of regional, sectarian violence throughout the country, as Iraqi tribes and cities began to fight each other over old grudges."

These are things the Iraqi Army and Police could have kept under control, had they existed. Instead, unemployed soldiers made up much of the sectarian fighting forces.

A country without a state devolving into anarchy shouldn't be that surprising. But to the US, it apparently was!
Not on Windows unfortunately :/
When will it be possible to reverse, in humans, the inability to synthesize vitamin C (L-ascorbic acid), it's due to a mutations in the L-gulono-γ-lactone oxidase (GLO) gene which codes for the enzyme responsible for catalyzing the last step of vitamin C biosynthesis.
Had there been an actual switch, you would have seen numerous politicians changing party. Virtually none of them did.

The one senator: Strom Thurmond

The one representative: Albert Watson

The whole "party switch" idea is slander and an excuse. It's a rewrite of history intended to evade the ugly truth of an unbroken continuity to behavior that is now considered unacceptable.
The irony is that this article is using a psychological trick to get us to read basically a non-story about how a startup tried to acquire users using not really a psychological trick.

"Facebook's Teen App" really means "Third Party App Facebook Eventually Acquired"
I just found out that you can use SuperMemo without a computer.

https://www.supermemo.com/articles/paper.htm

I thought it would be interesting for me to do this method while I'm studying a scientific paper. Any thoughts?
I once worked on Upwork. Getting the 1st project is really hard. And seeing quotes of USD 500 for entire fully functional applications was depressing. There were people from India remote places like small city Chandigarh or small town in Kerala or people from Bangladesh who would actually bid for these. I finally asked Upwork for a feature where I could blacklist clients who I thought that the price offered was too low. I wanted a feature like - "dont show me any bids from this client" . But unfortunately Upwork didnt create such a feature
Why is that a bad idea? You can get rid of credit card debt by filing bankruptcy, you can't get rid of student loan debt.
Why not just link to the homepage itself, instead of wikipedia... ? Has much more information.

http://www.walterbright.com/
That's not entirely true (your first point). Both my wife & I have met all sorts of acquaintances and what became good friends through interests that started with coincident physical locality: gyms, clubs, church, children's sports & school, etc. I don't think the problem exists completely in the way you seem to think. One potential mental block could be that spontaneity is a key piece of the equation. I argue that the vast majority of humans are not spontaneous and that's a hugely overrated attribute, if so.

I 100% agree with your second statement, though, that the future of social networks will focus more on the social and less on the spam & social signaling.
Why should taxpayers get a say in an individual’s choice to pursue an education or fertility? That’s an incredibly personal decision.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17709799

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17709068
A new way to write code or edit text
Did scores actually get changed, or were they judging by different metrics?
Yes. In its simplest form, radio jamming is just tramsmitting junk on the same frequency as the target. If you want to jam a couple kids using channel 10 on their FRS radios, all you need to do is put your own radio on that channel, ducttape down the push to talk button, and stick it in front of a laptop playing a 10 hour rick-roll video. Jamming RC aircraft, or GPS, or any other radio service is more or less the same in practice. The only difference is the type of transmitter you need to emit the jamming signal.

Radio jamming can be as broadband or narrow band as you desire. The narrower the band you target, the less power you need. The catch is, 1) you need to know what frequency you are trying to jam, and 2) this is not at all legal, so it would probably only fly in the middle of a warzone.
Let me first say that I like the approach you took in this library, and it's surprisingly clean in terms of syntax.

As for your personal preference to be unique and non-conformist, I can't argue with that because it's a personal preference.

I will, however, push back a little bit on the idea that reinventing a wheel and being non-conformist results in good code. If you're fixing legitimate deficiencies in existing solutions, great! Otherwise you're just writing code that's harder to understand, harder to maintain, and likely buggier. And that's the best-case scenario.

In some cases, you'll be reinventing a wheel, but you'll be doing it worse because you're missing the cumulative hundreds of years of programming experience that go into a great FOSS alternative.

So for code that'll never be touched by another person and can tolerate bugs, great! Don't conform. But that's a very, very narrow category of code.
How does this differ from something like https://github.com/gcanti/tcomb ?
In counter-terrorism they call defensive measures "hardening the target" because they know it can never be completely secure as you mention.

Guerilla tactics are the evolutionary counter-balance to an overpowering force. If there's a day when a power becomes so great it can't be resisted we're all in trouble. We like it when we're resisting (Revolutionary War) but not when we're being resisted (Iraw and Vietnam). But the tactic exists because it's effective.
Same thing with home ownership.
Older Intel chips (pre-Skylake IIRC) don’t have Vulkan support on Windows, even though they do on Linux.
If a program cannot be described by a human language then the logic is flawed.
The grocery store typically won't carry The Weekly Bigot or Jihad Monthly; even the Enquirer has standards.
> If you think of people as a graph of nodes, these tools enable novel patterns of trust and collaboration between individuals that aren't possible today. What this means is that every institution will ultimately have to reimagine itself so as to be cost competitive in the new paradigm, HT Carlota Perez.

That is a logical fallacy. Every new dna mutation is 'novel' and some mutations are even solutions to real problems, but not every novel solution is the most competitive. Just because blockchain gives you new tools that solve problems doesn't mean it is the best way to solve that problem. (EDIT: To defend your statement you have the burden of proof to show that your paradigm is significantly more competitive than current paradigms. I suspect time will prove me correct.)

> when you can just run a simple Python script to analyze the contents of all that debt and get updates on payments in real time, suddenly those types of systematic market failures can no longer happen

There are many, many factors that went into The Great Rescission. Repackaging subprime mortgages was bad for investors. Maybe python could have helped that by giving investors better insight into what they were buying. The housing market declined, fundamentally, because many families were unable to pay their mortgages. Python wouldn't have helped people be able to pay their mortgage.
That's not at all an adequate comparison to what I said.
I think my elaboration would have been sufficient for you to realize there is no disagreement here.

My point is just that a free press, as commonly understood and as in the constitution, is not free. Americans are quick to get upset when legal regulations are placed on press freedoms but slow to recognize the less obvious.

I’m not interested in discussing any further. You appear to just be looking for a disagreement. Good luck.
Yes. And that's why Communists, like our own Steve Klabnik, should not be permitted to post here, on Twitter, and beyond, given the abysmal record of communists (e.g., in the USSR, North Korea, and China) tolerating dissent.
Elon Musk explains why he wants to take Tesla private
Killer app is the wrong phrase. Rather every new language needs a competitive upside over existing languages to be successful. At which point your proposed questions have easy answers.
The trick itself isn't very shitty, but some of the mentality is:

"Our team obsessed with finding ways to get individual high schools to adopt a product simultaneously."

Seriously? getting a bunch of kids to adopt a product is what you want to obsess about? How about helping companies make a product that's not shit so you don't have to trick kids into using it.
but can it defeat a dozen of them at once? a hundred?

the big shift that drones represent is replacing trained soldiers with direct industrial output. the future is swarms.
Duo Security Analyzes the Working of Twitter Bots
Wow. That account has over 180,000 unpaid followers.

That's quite literally a small army (for reference, it appears the number of active duty US marines is around 200k).

Without commenting on the causes this (or any other) army of followers believes in, it's staggering to imagine what kind of impact monetary incentives, dispersed, for example, by way of an autonomous smart contract that is funded by anonymous donors via 'x' cryptocurrency that relies on some simple proof of action for payout, could have on the frequency and magnitude of actions such groups carry out.

We really are at the beginning of a new chapter in the history of humanity.
What about Asians or other non-whites who post anti-white hate speech, like Sarah Jeong?
That's pretty pedantic. With "Russians" it's pretty clear in this context that it means the government. When somebody in another country complains about Americans it's most likely about the government and not all people.

If 9/11 had been planned by a government we would also say the "Iraqis" and not the "Iraqi government".
This is a ridiculous idea, that falls apart with even cursory scrutiny. For a trivial example, almost all of Shakespeare's plays were amalgamations of other people's plays or were based on other people's stories (Hamlet, for instance, was a retelling of a 16th century version of the 13th century Scandinavian legend of Amleth).

Would you argue that Shakespeare was not creative? Or is it possible that stories are based on the culture of a society, and the culture of a society is based on the stories told -- meaning that any story can be argued to be a copy of another person's idea.
Concur, this comment explained the shape quite simply. From what I see, this is a simply a special case octohedron.

Nevertheless, I've been working on an optimal 3D solid packing problem for a hydrodynamic application, and I'm totally going to try this cell shape out in my model to see if I can find any improvements.
This is what CDNs are designed for, the allow a few companies to get a monopoly on your browsing data. This is why I prefer uMatrix, it blocks all third party requests, a lot of stuff breaks but it breaks because their tracking you.
And now you can even get them on Twitter! https://2fb.me
what a time to plug my app to the unsuspecting HN crowd.
The industry is fucked because we've had 30 years of "X at any cost" mentality, which has permeated most product managers, developers, C-Suite, anyone technical.

X can be a few things. Growth. Data. Analytics. Usage. Engagement. Security. But the point is the "at any cost" part, because we rarely consider the costs of the engineering decisions we make across any of these.

Over 30 years, we've been able to sustain this because there's always been "more" around the corner. Facebook and Snapchat can sustain "growth at any cost" because there's always more people in some (moving target) country that the service hasn't hit yet. JS, Python, or Ruby is used to support "development speed at any cost" because we'll always have faster computers next year. Google wants "more data at any cost" because there will always be new applications of AI to find value in it, there will always be advancements in storage technology to store it, and users will never care that we're slurping up so much.

But... none of this is true over a long enough timeframe. And when this idea of "the cost doesn't matter because we'll figure that out later" permeates the core of our tech stacks and people, pivoting that is ridiculously difficult. Especially when the negative changes are beginning to happen so quickly.

Don't get me wrong; we need the people working on optimizing TLS, new media compression, leaner HTTP request formats, all that. But I'm saying that we need more; we need a mind-shift in the way we build software and our software companies.

I don't know what that should look like, but I think what we'll discover is: Keep it simple, Abstraction layers kill performance, Making it work exactly how you want is less important than it working, working fast, and working for everyone regardless of physical, technical, or geographical disabilities, and Backward compatibility might just have to be sacrificed every once in a while.
I don't. It's fraud. A hack is technical. The fact that you get access to a computer system isn't what makes a hack a hack.

In terms of democracy.

People can be mislead whether by internal or external sources.

Democracy works slowly. The important thing is that they have another chance to vote in a few years to vote in their interest.

Things that affect the effectiveness of a democracy include a limited franchise (e.g. a test to ensure only "educated" voters are allowed, restrictions on people who have previously been jailed, precinct voting[1] with voting on a working day); ballot stuffing; gerrymandered districts and excessive malapportionment; insufficient sensitivity to changes in public opinion (e.g. not enough legislators); supermajority requirements (on ordinary bills) and vetoes for small groups.

[1]: Since not everyone will be aware of what precinct voting is, it's a system where you are allocated to a certain voting centre. So you live in Ballotsville South: therefore, you're only allowed to vote at the Ballotsville South Primary School.

Other jurisdictions permit people the freedom to select the voting centre based on convenience. Every voting centre in some district will have a ballot and a record for you. In some broader district they may not have a record for you but they still allow you to vote by keeping your ballot inside a sealed envelope: then they can confirm your entitlement and open your ballot or destroy it as appropriate.
How old is the universe?
The reason crypto is down
KYC (know your customer) regulations have made it nearly impossible to buy crypto these days. Buying anything is a conversion problem, and when barriers are too high to convert (like they are today vs. a few years ago), it dampens volume and interest. Simple.
As someone who spent a number of years doing free tutoring for CS classes (i.e. the kind where you can't choose who is coming in to see you), I strongly disagree with this.

Yes, there were students who started and ended the quarter hopelessly overwhelmed. But there were also students who through determination and hard work and lots and lots of help managed to dig themselves out of that hole. Many of those students would not have "succeeded anyways", they succeeded specifically because of the help they got.

If you mean to say that they succeed because of their willingness to ask for (and make use of) help, then sure. But your original comment makes it sound like you're tossing them into the same bucket as the students who never need to show up for help in the first place, which is absolutely unwarranted.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/business/media/alex-jones...

https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/04/17/sandy-hook-parents-su...

http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2016/sep/01/hilla...

https://newtownpostexaminer.com/2014/09/25/sandy-hook-hoaxer...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School...
Because you can't get a decent one for less than 25 grand.
Some electricity utilities offer this as a sort of service to their customers, where they detect high grid utilization days and notify customers they can save $ by reducing consumption on those days. Here's PG&E's page about their version: https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/rate-plans/rate-plan-o...

It's not "smart" or automated, but it's a baby step.
A carbon tax combined with excess green energy could cause some unexpected results. Currently, most assume that EV cars are the future. However, there are companies working on processes that can convert CO2 from the air + energy + water into synthetic fuel. There are already working examples of this such as the Canadian company Carbon Engineering. If the energy is green (such as excess solar/wind) this fuel would be basically carbon neutral and exempt from any carbon tax. The process would be economically viable because the carbon tax would raise the price of oil from traditional fossil sources. But the increased price of oil would make a carbon neutral synthetic process like this viable at the same time.

If this happens, the EV car becomes much less competitive. From a pure efficiency view, EV is still much more efficient. But there is a lot of existing infrastructure supporting carbon fuel and billions of cars. This synthetic fuel would immediately fit into that. If there's a heavy carbon tax, can EV complete successfully against a carbon neutral synthetic fuel?
Very interesting. But can lifetime be measured on “corporate persons”? Like a company , or org
I’m not convinced Javascript boils down to anything worse than other dynamically-typed languages.

Except it has features other langs don’t like async/await and async-everything.

This is why many people including myself use Javascript even on the server. For example, I’d
consider Python a downgrade.

I point this out because it seems to be news to you that many people find Javascript pleasant and disdain for its “unsafe core”, whatever that means, extremely oversold.
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the US had crewless bombers piloted via television for suicide runs in germany:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aphrodite

they were ineffective, though

regarding your original comment: the topic at hand is weaponized commercial drones, things that can be assembled by semi-skilled enthusiasts. predators cost millions of dollars per and use satellite coms and guided munitions. isis uses off the shelf quadcopters with mortar shells. the latter is essentially the 3d printed gun of assassination tools -- there may have been forebears, but it's the accessibility and ease of deployment that is important and alarming.
Just a small nitpick, there is no such thing as "IP law". There are copyright laws, trademark laws, and patent laws. All of them have different rules and regulations, and the only thing some people think they have in common is that they (in some fashion) "regulate ideas" with small differences in their application. This is simply not an accurate view of such laws, and ends up muddying the waters by making the clear differences between such laws seem unclear (I'm not saying that you are guilty of doing this intentionally -- it is a very common misconception that is spread because the copyright lobby in the US intentionally tries to muddy the waters so that discussions of reform get squashed).

Always refer to copyright laws as "copyright laws", trademark laws as "trademark laws", and so on.
Other sites with similar content to hn I visit weekly:

https://lobste.rs/
https://dzone.com/
https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/
https://hackernoon.com/
https://www.oreilly.com/ideas
https://blog.usejournal.com/
It's a parody, right? The video looks more like one of Simone Giertz' intentionally hilarious robots than industrial devices.

Compare their video to any number of videos showing factories making pizza such as
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdWftLcvmGM
Have you ever worked in academia?

The humanities are a day care and delayed adulthood for those who would be better suited doing anything else with their time aside from one or two students in every classroom of ~40.

For context, I left to work in the private sector with people who give a damn.
Yes they can because they don't cause air pollution in cities. Air quality standards are only getting stricter.
I may have been exaggerating for effect about Venice ;) But it is a city built in a swamp, and is slowly sinking (still), and has been for hundreds of years. People adapt to the strangest conditions...

I meant that the "best-case" outcome is as likely as the "worst-case" outcome, which is usually the one reported in the papers. Obviously there's a bell-curve of probably outcomes, and the most likely is somewhere in the middle. But given the perverse incentives of reporting, both in the scientific and general press, you really need to read the papers themselves to get an idea of what the "middle" really is.
I like the story, but am even more curious as to their legal disclaimer at the bottom of the page.

Does anyone know whats up with "Note: by California state law, Title 17 U.S. Code § 1030, Rz. Pl. u.1994 nr 24 poz. 140, and binding international covenant it is forbidden to use the word "hack" in conjunction with this blog post."

Is this supposed to be in jest? Im not aware of any copyright laws that limit the manner in which I may refer to someone else's work.
this is probably true. Thanks for the motivation to go learn some more :)
I agree it's always left a bag taste in my mouth. I loved generators and yield/yield from, but I was stuck on 2.7 for a long time so I never quite understood the motivation for async/await over them.

One issue is that it "reifys" the "colored function" problem that green threads like goroutines don't have!

Side note: Java world is working on green threads/fibers for the JVM in Project Loom.

[0]: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpressler/loom/Loom-Proposal.htm...