skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If this distribution of labor operates this way in your office, however, (the 30 percent may laugh knowingly now), there’s no real solace to be taken from the ant experiment, unless you are digging a tunnel perhaps. Assuming everyone has their own computer, phone and cubicle, they could all be working all the time.

I think this generalizes to knowledge work better than the author gives credit for. You don't have literal traffic jams (well, maybe you do with commuting) but you can have too many people in one meeting. Or too many coders touching the same file. Or too many designers on a product. And so on.
I was a life long pen and paper freak for all of my notes for personal and professional life.

My goto setup was the Pilot G2 0.38mm pen: https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/527870/Pilot-G-2-Retr...

And the Leuchterm 1917 dotted notebook: https://www.leuchtturm1917.us/notebook-medium-a5-hardcover-2...

The pens have perfect flow, and are thin in stroke for precision work. The paper has a nice texture to it, not rough but not slick.

For quick work, I'd grab sharpies and computer paper, for stuff like quick UI sketches/rapid note taking.

But as of April this year, I've switched to the 2018 iPad and an Apple Pencil and have completely dropped using paper. Being able to find all of my notes on both my ipad and my computer, sketch things up when I'm traveling and send it to my coworkers quickly, and also have all my books and media all in one simple device is just a dream. And in iOS 12, the Notes app is actually pretty great.

It's also a great setup for sketching up ideas to then toss on an Apple TV to share with my team before investing time into making a polished version of something. Idea to presentation in minutes is just awesome.

My only two complaints:

1) the body of the apple pencil is shitty. It's slick and round, I'd prefer a hexagonal body with a textured finger pad and a nice textured surface. This has annoyed me enough to the point that I've actually looked into how to make an alternative barrel for the pencils.

2) I take all of my notes in outline form. I would LOVE an app that captures handwritten notes in outline form, but then adds interactivity like collapsing/handwriting to text conversion/etc while preserving all the format. I realize that's a hard problem to solve, but I'm hoping in a few years machine learning will catch up.
I'm neither a typewriter nor font expert but I think it's a monospaced font and since IBM is mentioned maybe it was from an IBM Selectric typewriter?

I've seen font files based on that before, a Google for IBM selectric font looks not totally dissimilar.

Maybe that helps?
Like a basketball player with their lucky socks, perhaps Musk attributes too much of his earlier success to all nighters and 90hr weeks. All the science around sleep would suggest that any occasional benefit from those intense bursts of creativity will turn into a net loss if there’s never any time for rest. Real rest, not Ambien “rest”.
Glad we are finally seeing some gradual pushback on the ridiculous hype of the past few years. What is currently called “AI” can be useful in some very narrow scenarios but even then it’s dangerous when people put too much trust in it (same as any system—computerized, mechanical, or bureaucratic). Blindly trusting the algorithms that brought you the Facebook and Twitter timelines to make decisions about real things in human lives would be disastrous, and we already do far too much of it.
I signed up for Imperfect Produce about 6 months ago. I'm relatively happy with the service. Despite calling the produce "imperfect" often the freshness and taste is better than what I find at the store. Caveat, I have not liked the quality of the fruit so I stick to their vegetable offerings. The main driver for me sticking with the service so long is that a) we do not have to make grocery trips as frequently, b) my diet has improved. I feel a pressure to eat the veg we have on hand before the next delivery, which means eating veg for breakfast many days. And lunch. And twice for dinner.

I also don't own a car, and having services like this helps me continue the car-free lifestyle.

I am sympathetic to phatbeets' criticism. Despite leaning towards not changing my consumer habits, I will have to mull over their points and evaluate my priorities.

At some point though, I need to eat and if the service fits within my overall lifestyle but I care about community hunger, maybe I can donate a box of produce to a food shelter through IP?
> there isn't anyone living today that has any idea how to get to AGI

Not true.
One of the more important ideas here is that you have to simulate time within your Actors/Objects [1]. There is so much possibility here, but since the status quo more or less "works" in market terms, it's hard to push for anything better.

[1] https://oneofus.la/have-emacs-will-hack/files/2005_Teatime_F...
Thanks so much for implementing this idea. Very nice idea. Whenever i want to watch a movie its hard to find whats best with imdb or google search because its so generalized. But if a movie is liked by John Carmack, Michael Nielsen, Steve Yegee or Elon Musk then the chance of me liking is really great.
I would say the majority of tweets on my timeline (>95%) are single-post messages. Knowing that everything on twitter will be relatively short means I can check it when i only have 2-3 minutes to kill for example.
It is really great to see more studies regarding low carbs diets. They are widely used in the fitness industry based on ‘Broscience’ and many Instagram models are paid to promote this kind of lifestyle.
Can this work the other way, too, with individuals making the complaints?

Or are DMCA complaints reserved for companies only?
If investors feel that profit is not being maximized, they can sue or take other actions to punish those they see as not focusing on profit etc.

I mean, the point is that "you aren't prioritizing profit" has legal standing for investors. And "we don't prioritize profit in cases that involve harming the world" does not is not a legal stance for the company unless the harm itself is illegal or the entity is a Benefit Corp or similar.
"its best", not "it's best"
Also the citing the source might be a good place to use block chain, just a thought.
Putting things on satellites might mean very different things. There is close to zero chance of anything critical being in Rust. One company I worked on has not even move from (a subset of) C90 for critical components. No C99, no C11, no C++03 and no Rust. It is likely that a company may have software in Rust, even running in a satellite module (though unlikely), but that is different than actual satellite systems being certified on Rust.

As for the rest of your argument: in many companies people is still moving to C11 or C++11. For many, software is considered for production only if it has been 5 years in the wild. A library appearing on cargo does not mean it is “available”.
"I have essentially had the most important years in my career development taken away from me."

This guy certainly has a sense of drama.
The us constitution has not been a great model. Latin america was the main place it was copied, and that didn’t work out so well. And even america had a civil war.

The british and french systems are more likely to be copied nowadays.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution_a...
I still miss the IBM selectric typewriter :-)
Fault-tolerant OpenVPN in AWS
Argh. Buddhist philosophy is ususally horribly written (in the west). Much easier to come to grips with this idea if we start from the much more commonly agreed that our sense perceptions and memory are generally sufficient for survival, but very much inexact in comparison to the reality of what is perceived and remembered.

Add to this, a very strong insistence that everything is in a perpetual state of flux, that there is no perpetual "you" or "me" (or indeed anything). Trivial physical example - a molecule in your body is exhaled, and now inhaled by me... (cue "we are all one..."). A part of the earth turns into a banana plant, you eat the banana, and the banana turns into a human being. Now where are the boundaries of "you" and "the Earth"? See first paragraph reminding you about the very limited nature of your sense perceptions and memories.

The foregoing is stuff "we all know" but push into the background while we "get on with real life", but the yogic/Buddhist approach asks us to foreground it, and ask ourselves how we would conceive of and live life with those understandings in the foreground. Further, what if dynamics beyond those limited senses were at play? Psychology and ethics which takes the above as a starting point, rather than exisiting power relations, ends up looking different from what we have now.
Thanks, we are doing our best.
When the likes of Google, Uber, and Tesla hype “machine learning” as the solution to all problems, then the historical reality of the academics who named it doesn’t really matter anymore. If the press and the financiers believe it’s a silver bullet then the only way to fight that misconception is to use their own terms.
These are just a bunch of "what-ifs" from CNBC. Pretty "meh" overall.
Polls consistently show that Britain is one of the most tolerant countries in europe (debatable wether that is a good thing if it leads to intolerance in the long run ...) in any case I would suggest it is more likely the common language makes any alienation feel more raw. Alienated in a european country - can often be charitably put down to language differences (and learning the local language is a greater signal of integration when it's not english).
Most OSes are _still_ not properly optimized for HiDPI displays(and may never will be at this point with everything going mobile).

I could be a running a 4k display but chose to use a '24 inch 1900x1200 because the text scaling b/t apps and the windows is inconsistent. I haven't tried ubuntu on a HiDPI monitor but I would guess that it has the same issues.
I’m surprised FastMail hasn’t made it.
He is a great person. Please see the comment reply I make.
Of particular interest in this language is the "then" and "back" syntax [0]. It looks like a somewhat different take on iterators, which I can see being more "readable" in certain situations. I haven't had a chance to try it out, but it seems like it may allow for some interesting behaviors.

[0]: https://github.com/billhails/PyScheme/wiki/Then-and-Back
Usually the ones who were proponents of national self-determination and/or assassinated: Yitzhak Rabin (Israel), Yasser Arafat (Palestine), Mohammad Mosaddegh (Iran, who the US deposed), Anwar Sadat (Egypt), Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt), Mohammed Daoud Khan (Afghanistan), Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Saudi Arabia).
That’s a stretch.

You could be a fully functional democracy and strict immigration laws.
This may be a culture thing more than anything else, and more deeply how certain environments affect culture.

For example, in my career I’ve seen nonprofits, large and small, being very hawkish in competition for government contracts. So much so that I developed a saying - “Nonprofit is a tax status, not a business model.”

I think Wall Street is another business environment that creates these very hawkish business cultures, even in (relatively) smaller businesses (biomed for example).

Just thinking along with you here... not sure where I’m going with it. But I know I’ve worked with nonprofits that were very hawkish and sharked the competition all the time.
I think you mean writing it out on coding sheets before sending it to the "girls" to be punched onto card's
What's eye opening about this as well is low carb diets lose you 4 years of life, compared to 1 year of life in a high carb diet.

we estimated that a 50-year-old participant with intake of less than 30% of energy from carbohydrate would have a projected life expectancy of 29·1 years, compared with 33·1 years for a participant who consumed 50–55% of energy from carbohydrate (difference 4·0 years [95% CI 2·6, 5·3]). Similarly, we estimated that a 50-year-old participant with high carbohydrate intake (>65% of energy from carbohydrate) would have a projected life expectancy of 32·0 years, compared with 33·1 years
Mastodon has a very large and thriving gender-nonbinary / non-normative population. There's a very large East Asian population (mostly Japan, though with Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, and China represented). I've seen Indian, Indonesian, Arabic, and other voices. European representation is strongly weighted to France, though with numerous countries and languages represented.

North-American usage tends to tech-early adopters (male, white,some others), and tends to be light on traditional minorities that I've observed (note; personal observation on social networks tends to be exceedingly self-selective and nonrepresentitive).

Libertarian viewpoints don't seem particularly prevalent, or well-received.
That's great to hear. I'm almost wondering if I'm getting my history mixed up. Maybe it did work when I tried it (~ a year ago) but I just stumbled on old information and gave up.

Or maybe I'm thinking of a different hyperscript implementation.
This isn't "realist", it's the usual clichés and lies that are always propagated by people trying to justify anti-immigrant sentiment.

It perpetuates the falsehood that immigrants stress social programmes. In fact, social programmes in Western countries are stressed by the shifting demographics of their indigenous populations, and require immigrants to prop them up.

Social programmes like state pensions and healthcare were created in an age when Western countries had large working-age populations, and relatively small numbers of older, non-working people. However, the decrease in fertility and increase in life expectancy across the West has flipped this. There are too many older people, and not enough indigenous tax-paying citizens to support them.

Politicians in Western countries saw this problem coming in the 1990s. Since cutting social programmes that affect the elderly is politically impossible, they realised the only solution was to liberalise their immigration policies. Immigrants are statistically younger, healthier, harder-working, and pay more taxes than the average indigenous citizen. As a bonus, many of them return to their home country when they get older, so you don't need to pay for their pensions / healthcare.

Ironically, old people in these countries then decided, or were persuaded, that they disliked immigration. So they started supporting parties with anti-immigrant policies, even though this was totally against their economic self-interest. The result is a political paradox that no Western politician has been able to unravel, although populists have made hay exploiting it.
This is exactly the point of the article. If you can let go of your attachment to the academic meaning, the hype long ago was a done deal, and so the responsibility of the business press is to call BS on what the business world says about ML and AI.
Why Reim is not another Redux
There have been some efforts by immigrants interestingly enough in the UK harassing a minister from their home country[1]. There should be more of this.
[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lceJAw6iSck
>> No to amazon affiliates.

> Thanks you! This shows character and actual, proper altruistic intentions.

I hate ads and every other scheme to extort money from people, but I have no problem with affiliate links and do not understand why would someone have a problem with them. Could you, or someone else who thinks like this explain what problem you have with affiliate links?

Thanks.
> forcing them to do things they didn't want

Can you elaborate on this? As someone who just visited London, the opposite seems to be true at least in the service industry; most wait staff I encountered were non-British.
Doesn't that make it more impressive? The AMD build has a quarter of the RAM and still came out ahead!?
So summon her and ask her to be your guide and partner in your inspection? :)
You might not know but that term is used (slightly jokingly) by the porn industry
Well, California's been in the United States a lot longer than any of us.

Back when it was in Mexico an interesting thing about the land grants is that they could be thought of as deliverance from poverty or toward wealth depending on your point of view or actual outcomes.

As a certain amount of wealth or poverty has always been ordained by the ultimate taxing entity whose original claim to authority traces back to discovery of undocumented territory, often including a large component of violent conquest.

Then with the march of time you progress through subsequent entities and add layers of middlemen much more reliably by purchases and dealmaking rather than violence, but the iron fist is never completely off the table.

When taxpaying subjects are traded between jurisdictions the prevailing party can profit handsomely from that point onward with only a small margin added to the perpetual cost for the occupant to remain, or the newcomer to arrive.

Seems to me that's where the exponential growth in non-productive occupancy costs begins, which will always be devastating eventually. And the day of reckoning is accelerated or delayed based on the greed or benevolence of each successive regime. With accompanying incompetence or deception being deducted wholesale from any benevolence, and directly augmenting the damage resulting from the greed factor.

It would have been good if the quaint 20th century propositions had been crafted to excuse all California citizens from the risk of eventual property seizure. Shameful that the politicians were not of adequate caliber. At least they were able to protect their most valuable citizens, the ones who paid to persuade the voters.

My question is when exactly was California improved beyond a feudal society of inherited land wealth anyway?

Documentation please . . .
Of course what I am about to say is my opinion

I have nothing but great things to say about mithril. It has a wonderful and well documented API that maintains simplicity but manages to cover the entire project (no hidden APIs or undocumented features) to the credit of the mithril community the focus in simplicity is grained into the project from the bottom up.

I have to say that it’s been nothing short of amazing and is the reason I took JavaScript much more seriously.

The community is awesome and very welcoming. The gitter chat is always active and people are happy to chat and answer questions. I credit them with being able to move quickly with mithril.

At my job my entire team uses it and everyone so far has loved it. It’s been great!
If you like his stuff, I've been working through a book he wrote about implementing scheme, which has been very helpful in understanding the why's of lisp.

http://billhails.net/Book/front.html
AI in Westworld TV series is based on Bicameralism, which is a philosophical concept rather than mathematical. And from philosophical point of view there's no need to recreate human mind neuron-by-neuron. If a copy can't be told from the original then the implementation details do not matter.
> I think "Right problem, wrong solution". The reason people mock bad ideas on Twitter is probably because Twitter has a character limit. Refuting bad ideas often takes longer than 240 characters.

It's not even the right problem.

The problem is not mocking people, disagreeing with them or whatever (incidentally the twitter character limit doesn't preclude external links or tweet chains, which are extremely common at least in science twitter). It's that doing so through a retweet (or a boost) is a signal to followers, and that can send hordes harassing a single person, because it's very easy for followers to click on the RT/boost and reply, and they're not going to see that thousands of people already did exactly that.

And the person at the other end of the pipe has to deal with a flood of burning garbage.

And more generally that kind of crap is easily weaponisable, twitter provides few tools to deal with it, and they don't usually apply their own rules. I don't know that Mastodon is any better.

Fundamentally, social platforms are only good so long as they've not reached their eternal September yet, or are actively prevented from doing so through active and unforgiving moderation — which can have its own issues.
Show HN: Databasd – A search engine for datasets
Hi HN,

I want to share an MVP for a dataset search engine I recently released: https://databasd.com/

The site currently uses a Google Custom Search Engine configured to search approximately 700 dataset sources with a combination of keyterms. I worked a fair amount on tuning relevance for the vertical.

I have a few ideas for longer term features and monetization in mind, but I would love to get initial feedback from HN on its usefulness.

This is very much an MVP; total cost invested so far is $12 for anyone interested.

Happy to answer any questions.

https://databasd.com/
Nice catch! Fixed :)
> It should be emergent and home-grown, not exported.

It's amazing how bad government "democratic nation-building" is at realizing this.

Democracy is, at best, a generational project. This issues we're seeing in autocratic -> democratic states are almost inherent in an overly quick transition.

From a game theory perspective, why would any leaders act in the best interest of the country when there are no institutions and no expectation of democratic continuity?
Invalid states should only need exist in terms of virtual placeholders for elements required by the grammar, but not filled in by the user. I have a (unsupported) suspicion that directly editing a syntax tree when gaps in its structure ate allowed is no more cumbersome than editing the textual representation.

My understanding is that tools like Eclipse and Resharper work on pretty similar models internally to prevent complete failure to understand a code file while it is being mangled by the user.
Mine too (Oklahoma, 1998)
Keynote – Vitalik Buterin talks transaction fee economics
I don't think this should be voted down, the SSN was originally designed as a sort of username for tracking earnings, before anyone realized how important it would be to have a password.

An SSN was not designed to be a unique secret identifier held by every individual. But we have used it that way, and built a house of cards on it.

"In 1938, a leather factory in Lockport, New York attempted to capitalize on the excitement around the country’s newly-formed social insurance program by tucking duplicate Social Security cards into its wallets. Company vice president and treasurer Douglas Patterson thought it would be cute to use the actual Social Security number of his secretary, Hilda Schrader Whitcher.

Real Social Security cards had just begun circulating the year before, so many Americans were confused. Even though the display card was marked "specimen" and sold at Woolworth’s, more than 40,000 people adopted Hilda’s number as their own. According to the Social Security Administration, no fewer than 12 people were still using their Woolworth’s-issued SSN in 1977."

https://www.theverge.com/2012/9/26/3384416/social-security-n...