skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s just amusing that if I had found something similar about the president 3 years ago instead of 1 year ago, it would’ve been front page news and would’ve likely resulted in impeachment hearings. Instead.. crickets and a couple lightly read articles.

I always regarded moral relativism as a lens to judge modern culture against historical cultures and norms. It turns out that it’s much, much worse to be a ‘good’ person committing a moderately bad act as compared to a ‘bad’ person who regularly commits much worse acts. That’s a bit depressing.

Edit to clarify my point:

It was a major scandal when Tim Geithner had to pay $20k in back taxes that he owed from his time at the IMF, similarly when one of Clinton’s nominees for the AJ position withdrew when it turned out that she owed taxes on the salary she was paying her housekeeper, similarly again Spiro Agnew resigned from the office of the Vice President of the US over something like $8k in taxes on income he didn’t report (as well as some other corruption involving bribes and kickbacks). But millions of dollars of illegally shielded income depriving the treasury of hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax revenue during the campaign merits a shrug because there are so many other scandals.
This would still be an interesting experiment of YC's ability to choose the best startups out of a much larger set of good ones.
> Please save yourself a lot of heartache and just use containerd.

Part of the appeal of Docker is the ease with which developers new to the concept of containers can pick it up. I cannot say the same for containerd. Try a search for containerd tutorials and compare what you find with docker tutorials.

> People don't realize just how easy all this stuff will be to replace.

Think carefully about why that is. If it were easy, it would have been understood. So, no - understanding the replaceability of the container components is not easy. That is why people have not realized it.

The issue with many docker's competitors is it appeals to docker experts. The abstraction and terminology itself is not straightforward.

A lot of hyperbole in your comment is unnecessary and/or undeserved. Of course I realize that this is HN where k8s, rkt and containerd are used largely by the visiting audience. But don't forget the dark matter developers.
I'm sorry to hear that. My experience in France and the Netherlands comes from being invited by people with a history in the colonies, they would obviously be better equipped to separate the wheat from the chaff.
You're deviating from the point. It's irrelevant to the discussion who are the crypto people and where or how they got the money.
The only point i'd like to make is that the only reason that you "can't do" 4k@60 is because devs decided to tune their effects scaling in such a way that this is the case.

This doesn't affect the argument that you're making. I just think it's actually incredibly absurd to complain as though it's the hardware's fault for not being able to keep up with 4k@60, when it's the devs who you should be looking at when you're disappointed with the performance on a given piece of hardware.
"the future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed yet" - william gibson
Man, when people get inured to out and out corruption in America, and not some third world country, you know its bad.

The most likely answer though is not a lack of creativity - because its very hard to imagine the harm caused by these, relatively, arcane legal instruments.

There is a harpers article linked in the story, it should be illustrative of the clear harm being done to normal people, and how corporations made a calamitous end run around legal procedure - the same issue which is happening today (the "two-fer" paragraph).

If you need faces, realize that people were foreclosed on when they should not have been, those deeds were NEVER legally owned by the banks because the banks and their intermediaries didn't follow up on the paper work.

Yet those people got evicted, and banks claimed ownership.

An economy is largely predicated on working systems of assessment and legal redressal, more so for First World economies.

And this happens because, as you said, its hard to imagine the harm being caused.
Ice Confirmed at the Moon's Poles
Whatup funnynoodles, there definitely are reasons this COULD end up bad, which are pretty much just that YC gets stretched too thin. But, honestly, it could also go super well for them. I mean, accelerators are entirely based on the idea of funding a lot of ideas to cherry pick the few good ones. Well, YC just accidentally created a batch of 15,000 ideas they are associated with, which could potentially provide some crazy successful startups. The downside is they lose money, and maybe some of the cohort are unhappy, though as they've told the later group they wouldn't have the same advisory resources, the program degradation feels fairly minimal.

Experiment - it could go bad, but it could also go good, we'll see.
“What is a cryptocurrency?”
There are all kinds of alternatives to plastic. Just look at the world before 1968:

Mr. McGuire: I want to say one word to you.
Just one word.
Benjamin: Yes, sir.
Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?
Benjamin: Yes, I am.
Mr. McGuire: Plastics.
Benjamin: Exactly how do you mean?
Mr. McGuire: There's a great future in plastics.
Think about it. Will you think about it?

For example, I just looked at my desk. There's a plastic package with 10 Dixon pencils in it. It could just as well be in a paper envelope.
re "That said, I wish OpenAI would be completely transparent as to what's emergent behavior and what's not. :)"

This is a pretty good summary - the main bit to know is reward shaping https://medium.com/@evanthebouncy/understanding-openai-five-...
Catch-22, i presume. Without eliminating first jobs, there wouldn't be more automation maybe.

I was reading jobs that became part of history recently, like the movie seat showing guy/gal, or elevator guy/gal. I only saw the format, but thinking latter was interesting.

Years from now, a lot of jobs will look "interesting" to next generations. Like the guy that carries construction material around - it'll be robots.

It will all be better eventually, but what will happen in the interim. Maybe that's how social nets form.
I've thought the same. But the soda stream co2 refills are way easier to pickup. And with the 20% off bed bath and beyond coupon it's not that much more expensive
a lot of things: ICO exit scams, pump and dump, etc.
Homebrew supplies can hook you up with a 5L tank and necessary gear.
While I like Minecraft a lot, unfortunately, in this game, it does no good. Minecraft is a game which completely ignores conservation of matter and energy, which is where you start with ecology.

I wish there was a game which would get the physical foundations right* so that the ecology could be put on as a topping. What I imagine is something like a Civilization, where each map cell would be like 1 km2 and you could define what industries would be in that cell (perhaps even design the content of each cell). Each cell would contain a little piece of civilization and/or nature. These cells would then exchange different materials with each other, according to conservation laws.

That could be used to educationally model ecology very nicely.

Most games of this type will focus on military and/or logistical challenges of civilization. But this game would focus on production chains, land/resource use and sustainability.

(*IMHO, the way to get the physical foundations right is to do proper accounting of materials. So in the game, you never really ever destroy anything, you just transform it. If you need to round a number for some reason, then it would become part of some global pool of "waste", from which it could be later retrieved by some industrial process.)
umedit with templating:

function umedit() {
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echo "% $(echo $1 | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]')(shell) Um Pages | Um Page" >> ~/.notes/$1.md
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That's not really true. There are restrictions, but it's real dota. The fact that people haven't had time to adapt to the rules is irrelevant; the bots' strategy is very similar to TI4, when deathball meta was in fashion and games would end in 13 minutes.

OpenAI are here to compete on equal footing. They aren't going to stick with the old patch, I would guess.
I think the originally accepted companies will have an advisor in addition to other resources, whereas other companies will have access to everything except an advisor. Src: Their latest email.
We are taking new steps against broadening threats to democracy
So are the teams that got the reject letter and then the accept letter the actual accepted teams? Did you end up on the advisor track after all?
Interesting question. Now that the forum is going to be open to all applicants, I guess you (and others like you) can post some information about yourself and how you can help what kind of startups and how many. And then startups can choose whether they'd like you and / or can get you to be their advisor.
A great many drugs are grossly unsafe if you even minorly exceed the clinical dosage threshold, but are still regularly used by people because we haven't found better replacements.

A much larger set of drugs fall into a gradient of "as far as we can tell you'll just excrete it if you take too much" to "it's probably not _good_ if you unnecessarily take it, but it won't really be detectable in 4 weeks" to "oh god why would you ever prescribe that".

So if we were purely grading on safety, we'd be out quite a lot of pharmacology.
Was wondering the same.
I thought in EU that was the case
Agree, GDP is a terrible metric. However it is useful if you combine it with other measures. Like when you look at GDP and visit a country, you see there is a strong correlation.

One thing I’ve found difficult is comparing the US to e.g. European countries. Houses are much bigger in the US but that is in large part due to much cheaper land and often entirely different build quality. Yet a bigger house and yard naturally translates to a higher quality of life. Yet it is not an entirely fair indicator of economic strength.

Sometimes it could be downright deceptive. There was some right wing economists who deemed Mississippi more wealthty/developed than Sweden by looking as such metrics as house size, car ownerships, microwaves and TVs. Yet it did not caputure well that a lot of these people lived in houses bigger than in Sweden but in terrible condition, poor interior and could not afford important basic stuff like health care.
>My only concern is that we are too far down to rabbit hole with cheap, ubiquitous, damaging materials that if the true cost was reflected in the price no one could afford anything.

The reality is even worse than that: since capitalism has produced an increasingly impoverished proletariat, the cheapest most disposable goods are all that's affordable to much of the general population. We have the capability to make clothing that will last years, but we don't because it's not profitable for large corporations and the labor aristocrscy are the only ones who can afford quality goods.

We need to abolish the consumerist mindset inherent to and required by capitalism in order to save the Earth.
try uncapping your framerate, the game will let you run at higher than your hardware limit.
Was this all just a PR stunt? /tinfoil
So you were hoping that Booz Allen Hamilton would have some kind of role in helping the gov't procure this important service? Have you ever met them?
>What objective limitation does a phone camera have that would prevent you from doing that?

Huge noise when you raise the shadows, even at ISO 100.
i'm still under ssri, mainly to avoid withdrawal effects, I don't really need them, and I do get the 'no crutches' thing, I'll be happy when I won't take them anymore.
Keep in mind: A great lens on a mediocre sensor will still produce much better results than a mediocre lens on a great sensor.

If they replace the whole iPhone lens assembly with a properly spaced Nikanon socket, they can attach some pretty nice glass to it.
Why the fuck does this link to the amp version of the site?

Change http://aiweirdness.com/post/177091486527/this-ai-is-bad-at-d... to http://aiweirdness.com/post/177091486527/this-ai-is-bad-at-d... and it actually loads and looks proper.
To me this seems to be a 'when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail' type of issue, in the sense that they try to apply PR and marketing tactics from mass marketed consumer products to a niche product for professionals.
The US has never had a carbon tax, what are you talking about?
The outrage is 90% from the fact that they call it "improve the user experience going forward".

If they had just said "we need some leads/emails to monetize this thing a little more, hope you understand. Use a throwaway email or the well-hidden direct download if this change makes you uncomfortable", nearly no one would have complained.
>I think it might become normal to throw a smartphone photo into Lightroom in the future, even if it's probably overkill today.

There's already Lightroom for mobile -- that can sync and have the same editing/presets as the desktop counterpart.

And tons of people throw smartphone photos into desktop Lightroom as well.
You can use a static site generator and drag-and-drop the build directory into Netlify (or deploy with Git). Hosting is free, including using a custom domain and SSL.

https://www.staticgen.com/

https://netlify.com/
China is a developing nation in need of international development assistance.
Has the World Bank considered the question of whether or not GDP per capita is a relevant measure of the need for protectionism?

The four-tier framework seems to address e.g. Bill Gates' comments about grouping China and the DRC, but it would still leave China in a tier below Western nations even though its ability to compete in global markets probably matches or surpasses many of them.
The link gives me this impression. The death rate alone suggests this.
somewhat unrelated but I've never heard the portmanteau maxclique for maximal clique before, and I'm going to steal it.
Which has nothing to do with the prices in Europe.
I'm tired of ads, tired of how they make me waste my time, attempt to manipulate me, tired of the billions we spend (read: waste) each year on the entire ad industry. Millions of hours of smart brains wasted on getting people to click more on their fucking useless ad.

I really wish it was easier to do micropayments (and wish these would't get abused cough gaming) instead of paying with ad-views.
Does your email say you're accepted to the advisor track? That's how you know if you will be a part of a group that gets an advisor.
I think the parent meant that "sabotage" is "deliberate destruction" by definition.
It's not about what world we're living in -- else we'd bend over and take any other kind of stuff that happens as well.

It's about what world we want to live in, and that (among more important things) doesn't include fake images passed as real.
A good alternative to Docker is podman the cli built on top of libpod (https://github.com/containers/libpod). It has the same api than docker but lets run build and run containers without the need to have root permission.
It’s worth reading up on what’s gone on in Doha in the lead up to the World Cup.
https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/sport/f...
"Ask HN: How to deal with GDPR / cookie notices in the context of a crawler?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17795750

Might give an idea.
Afrikan agriculture can gain from increased access to Big Data
Onsite Allowance/Bonus is very Common in Indian outsourcing firms. But its not exactly 'yacht and helicopter' money you think it is. Typically something like $1000 per year in Bonus. And they also need to keep the pay roll etc alive, because their dependents need health insurance in India.

Often the biggest Perk for Indians to work in the US is not even money, its to get exposure to the first world infrastructure and overall industry scene. Even if you don't make much money, you return to India with heavily scaled up ambitions.
How to overcome business challenges as an entrepreneur
Attacked from Within (2009)
You're shooting the messenger. GP describes what BDS is about, without taking a stance.

It's undeniable that there are people who boycott anything that comes from the Israel because they think that doing so helps the Palestinian cause. Nothing in GP's comment shows that they're one of those people.

Finally I'm not convinced that calling for boycotts of products from a country immediately implies contempt for the races or religions of the inhabitants of that country.
> ways to get telemetry out, the original one is syslog, where jobs can send messages that get collected over the network

The re-invention of this one is one of my pet peeves, especially since the vast majority of the (legitimate) complaints about early implementations have been addressed in modern (last.. 10ish years?) implementations.

Syslog is lightweight, flexible, and plain text.

Back when the ELK stack first started gaining popularity, I'd get asked in interviews if I had experience with provisioning "high volume" logging. I was reasonably convinced that none of those people had ever seen (or would ever see) a high enough volume to be remarkable.

In hindsight, it was probably the same as thinking one has "big data" if it doesn't fit RAM on ones laptop (or even, more charitably, a server, even a decently large one).
Yes, quite a number of officials say that it is certainly not a bad province to have a post in, for as long as one ready to endure the weather and boredom.
I really think Amazon should come out with a local disk option that uses local attached disks that can survive stopping an instance.

You would reserve parts of that local physical disk on the host for your instance.
I'm not sure what you're talking about with the Civil Rights Act because racism is very much alive today but you're very right that planet Earth is not a laboratory.

We don't have time to tinker with taxes in an attempt that we'll prevent total environmental collapse. We need radical solutions yesterday. We shouldn't restrict ourselves to thinking inside the economic system we currently have when it's the economic system we currently have that's gotten us here.
Pretty sure it wasn't because a lot of originally accepted startups received the rejection email and to be honest it's slightly embarrassing to make such a mistake.

However, saying that we're "accepting" all applicants does seem to be an attempt to turn this mistake into something positive, when all that's really changing is that all the applicants get forum access, whereas, only the originally accepted startups still get an advisor (as a part of a group).
Unicode was originally proposed as a universal character set to replace all existing character sets. For it to have any chance of acceptance it had to be possible to convert from JIS/whatever into Unicode then back again without any loss of information. So if there were any daft duplicates in legacy character sets those had to be duplicated in Unicode. I don't know if that explains those three physical units, but that's what I'd guess happened.
> she precisely knew how ad business works and brought huge network of big players in this space with her. In a way its backstabbing to your previous employer but well who cares.

How is this backstabbing? Nobody is owned by their employer for life. People change jobs and bring customers with them to their new employer in all types of industries.
Had to browse in landscape - the images went off the right side of the screen but the page won’t allow you to zoom out or scroll horizontally.
>changing consumer behavior (which is not easy, but it's happening right now, and achievable through further exposure and education)

Shifting the burden of plastic waste onto consumers is extremely naive and foolish. Consumers have very little power compared to multinationals that profit greatly off of plastic waste.
Light from Ancient Quasars Helps Confirm Quantum Entanglement
I woke up to check my email. I was accepted, then rejected and then again accepted. Nonetheless, will be looking forward to see you guys.
Show HN: TILGist – Create GitHub gists from command line
I made this a while back to learn how to build a command line tool using Nodejs
The article has a point, but I dislike the heavily condescending attitude of it.

At the same time, I do believe that social media is a mixed bag. It is great for interaction with the community (even I have gotten two responses from Musk himself on twitter about SpaceX), but as with most things in life it can be detrimental in too big doses. There is a lot (A LOT) of toxicity to be found, and limiting usage of social media might be a good idea for prominent leaders (Trump comes to mind)
>Is this really more horrid than having to hire a DBA to maintain, operate and upgrade the cron replacement?

Only you don't. I'm not sure why you seem afraid of Postgres, but millions of people use it, across tons of companies, and even for personal projects, and it's trivial to setup and run. Oh, and those lots of plugins and stuff you mention? You don't have to use them if you don't need them. They don't even enter the picture at all.
I'd love to play that! Where can I track the development progress of this game? ;)
A small decrease in plastic waste is insufficient. We need radical solutions yesterday, not lackluster solutions three months from now.
That is why he called it MACROdose and not MICROdose.
Absolutely none.
> what are the alternatives for people with chronic pain or chronic anxiety?

If you look around the world, what is the solution there? The US is unique in the prescription of these drugs, but also unique in its reluctance to look around and say "what's everyone else doing that's working"?

I think here the answer is that it's fundamentally a different view on chronic pain (Acute pain is a different story- you don't prescribe a ton of opiates to someone who needs to keep it for emergencies).
Buddy this is the first time i'm reading a post on Django in HN since i've landed here. I've started learning Django for some months and got stuck on creating and running my own project. Stackoverflow and quora couldn't help...

Great of you to share this here. Can i DM you for a mentorship's request on my learning journey?
63 Startups from YC S18 Demo Day 1
There are newer benzos (and analogs) that have less negative effects than Valium or Xanax, but they don't seem to be popular in the developed world for whatever reason.

Etizolam is one such drug. It's prescribed in Japan and India, but not really anywhere else as far as I can tell. It has a lower potential for dependance than classical benzodiazepines and tolerance builds up a lot slower. Anecdotally from people I know who've taken it, its acute effects feel much more mild than Xanax or Valium. In my limited experience, Valium feels like you've been lobotomised, and Etizolam feels like you've been given a big hug.
Critical Computational Empowerment
And the waste companies they empty them to end up dumping them in some other water way.
the esp8266 boards are like pretty cheap.

Won't argue about pyboard, because that's more of a gimmick. (Way too expensive for what it does)

I think the cost and time of developing on micropython vs a lower level language like C, would superseded the cost associated with wasted cpu cycles.

However, I agree with the fact that no real product would use mpy right now in production because of the infancy of the project.

It certainly looks promising.

It's definitely NOT a toy.

OTOH JS is just a bad choice for this kind of work IMO. ( I'm a firm believer that JS is just a bad choice for anything in general, but IOT is just madness)