skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but if you're not interested in continuing in gaming, you can speak out and then quit.
I thought so, and I wish it were. But look at the threads here, and everyone who feels that they can just say "crack epidemic" and believe it is providing the same insight into the situation as scientific study.
It seems like you’re on a diet very similar to what Valter Longo recommends, which is based on his longevity studies

https://valterlongo.com/daily-longevity-diet/
People have been complaining about HN turning into Reddit for at least 10 years. In fact, the HN guidelines used to ask people not to complain about HN turning into Reddit ("it's a semi-noob illusion"). But when we augmented the guidelines a year or so ago, we took out that one to preserve brevity.
>"affordable luxury"

It always surprises me when Apple is described that way, this is an oxymoron.

It goes to show how great their PR is.
While the game is great, I find the random card dynamic of the card packs pretty troubling. There is no legitimate gameplay reason why you can't just buy the cards you want for a flat rate.
Great startup idea! Could be a fun weekend project.
This quiz really drives home how thoroughly Helvetica has permeated corporate typography. It's like Brooks Brothers or ThinkPads -- you couldn't have a serious business without it.
> Self driving cars will also be easily safer than meat bucket controlled ones.

This is a pretty generous assumption you're granting here.
Make US kids recite first ten amendments
Instead of (before) the pleadge of allegiance? Thoughts?
I'm not "faulting" it. I'm simply commenting on my own ignorance. Especially since other directions in this thread don't seem to offer a British perspective, or an explanation.

I understand that things are different over the pond. But that's about all I really understand.
In line with the spirit of the article, WotC needs acknowledge and amend this horrible mistake:

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiver...

"Invoke Prejudice"
Whenever an opponent casts a creature spell that doesn't share a color with a creature you control, counter that spell unless that player pays X, where X is its converted mana cost.

Also note that the multiverse ID is 1488!!!

This is no coincidence, not a dumb joke. These are hate symbols that can and should be removed from the game.
Eyes in the sky: the new way to identify human rights abuses
Can you elaborate on what would’ve been worse if the devs had unionized?
Yep. The game had a “Wall” effect which would bounce any spell you cast on them back on yourself.

But, what if both the players and the monsters both had Wall active? That situation would have an infinite recursion problem. The solution for the game was to say that a spell could only bounce once. That solution led naturally to monsters that always had Wall up and would cast a lot of spells so that you could defeat them by using Wall on yourself.
Try Quake Champions :) Very fast and responsive.
Is your plumber a child?
Thank you for the feedback!

According to this feedback data that I now have, I should add to the documentation that I plan to optimize the library in the future as the project progresses.
https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM/blob/master/linuxdoom-1....
> This is actually the tech kool-aid, thanks for continuing to drink it.

Please edit the uncivil and unsubstantive bits out of your comments here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"Don't let perfect be the enemy of good enough"
It's 2018. If fixed rail is the answer, we're asking the wrong questions.
How much are you all willing to bid? I'll do it for $10. That's cheaper than any AI on the market.
Comment deleted. I would have been happy to discuss the point in a calm and respectful manner. But I don't appreciate being accused of intellectual dishonesty and being told that what I said was "ridiculous".

And "buff neck", really? What did that have to do with anything I said, except as a way to shut down the conversation?
I tie the concepts back to stuff I've done in industry and try to assign homework and projects that teach skills relevant to new technologies or stuff they may do at work. I tend to use "interview questions" to the class and that tends to generate discussion. While I stick to the expected curriculum, I prioritize content to stuff that is likely to be used again. Students appreciate this.

On a more superficial level, I put memes in slides.

This was for a databases class. Very important nowadays, but known to be one of the more boring classes.
Am I the only one getting images that fail to load?
NASA, SpaceX Agree on Plans for Crew Launch Day Operations
>"affordable luxury"

> It always surprises me when Apple is described that way

I realized this was true when I noticed low wage workers (McDonalds/Dunkin Donuts drive thru staff) on their iPhones and with their Apple Watches on their wrists, folks making right around minimum wage. You might not be able to afford a starter home, or a nice vehicle, or your student loans, but by god all of us could afford an iPhone on a 24 month payment plan (~$20-30/month).

Apple's marketing and brand is invaluable.
That aspect of the linked article was simply weird. In the late 80s, sitting on a school bus and listening to your walkman was very common and popular. Listening to portable music was invented by Sony in the 70s/80s not Apple.
Another way to look at it is that the entire relationship to personal transportation is going to be reinvented over the coming decades. It's going to be very profitable. And who knows where it will take us. I understand why lots of companies are betting the farm on it.
He seems to be talking about Viaweb in the point you link to here?
From that page: “You do not have to say anything. But, it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence.”

IANAL, but my understanding is that if the question is "What's your Facebook password?" and you refuse to give it, then the prosecution can mention this fact in a trial. But this by itself is not a problem for you. However, if you claim in court that there's evidence in your Facebook feed that shows you did not commit the crime (e.g. photos of you elsewhere at the time), then the jury might hold it against you that you didn't allow the police to access your Facebook account at the time, and they might then question the strength of this evidence.

Better explanation here: https://www.quora.com/UK-police-constables-say-it-may-harm-y...
I'll chip in $1 for this.
My usual analogy is golf.

If you show up to play a round of golf, and your opponent has a nice set of professionally-made clubs while you're using some sticks you carved by hand, you're probably going to lose, badly. But that doesn't make golf "pay to win" -- at the competitive level of golf, everybody has made the investment in that baseline of good equipment, and you're back to practice and skill as the differentiator.

Magic is similar. If you show up to a constructed tournament with whatever you could cobble together from a few booster packs, yeah, you're going to get crushed by people with competitive decks. But at the competitive level, everybody has made the baseline investment to have access to the full card pool, at which point you're back to skill (of designing/choosing/playing decks) as the differentiator.

Anyway. Top-tier Standard decks are in the couple-hundreds-of-dollars range, and even if you just go out and get the cards for one of those decks and nothing else, there's enough value in the cards that you can trade/sell and get back not 100% of what you paid in, but enough to make switching to a different deck not all that bad.
Is the purpose not more for analysis than validation?
While I agree with what you’re saying, I think there’s more to it. It comes down to the person’s take on the “Worse is better” philosophy.

Those who value a creation against the vacuum that exists will push for output. Those who measure a creation against the perfection that could be, do not want to get stuck with the tyranny of “good enough” and will delay for perfection.

Both approaches are right in their own way, and owing to fundamental value differences, neither can convince the other about the “right” way.
I can't really tell, but it's my considered opinion that the intersection of 4chan and the alt-right is so recursively lulzing that nobody involved really knows who's serious. Or even what "serious" might actually mean. But maybe I'm just old, and set in my ways.
They don't have choice. They need new billion dollar businesses and as soon one new thing with potential they have to jump on it. And self driving cars is one that to "investors" promises a huge potential.

That's why Amazon Google and Apple did tablets, home automation, ...

I don't think they seriously think it's the next big thing, but they don't have alternatives to invest in that promise growth.
Of course. Their constraining the amount of available labour is classic union-behaviour. Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck.
Fake news? Fake city.
“The mistake you will most likely make as a startup founder is coming up with your own vision of what your product should be instead of getting feedback from actual users.”
FWIW pg is clear here that YC had 4 founders: http://www.paulgraham.com/jessica.html
RTM is a hunk, and read the essays.
ahh you are right. my mistake.
Indeed, at 1TB scale, cloud storage can sound "dirt cheap", and, of course, it is, since the fixed cost of hardware to store that reliably is the same as for 100TB.

10x that, or a petabyte, would cost $144k-$180k after 3 years, depending on region. Hardware [1] might be, generously, $60k. The hardware would also have operating costs of another $26k [2], but Glacier would have retrieval and data transfer costs if one ever wanted the data back.

Of course, tape, the subject of TFA, is even better. $17k [3] for the hardware and minimal operating cost in the labor required to change the tapes.

VC-funded startups have been tending to ignore this artithmetic (which applies to all cloud infrastructure, at only slightly larger scales), lately, so cost isn't always an issue any more.

[1] Let's say 100 12TB drives for 84 data, 12 (triple) parity, 4 warm spares. 3 enclosures, 6 SAS HBAs, plenty of CPU and RAM for ZFS.

[2] Generously, the above is 2.7kW. Adding 50% for cooling, at 12c/kWh. A commercial datacenter could double that (or triple or more, but, for backups, presumably one would find a geographically cheaper one).

[3] LTO-8 drives are $2700 and 12TB cartridge are $170.
I have some of the best noise cancelling headphones (Sony MDR-1000X) and the thing few people realize is that active noise cancellation actually increases perceived pressure on your ear. For me it's like being underwater. I'm only really using them while flying.
Just to make sure.. these don't provide GPG/PGP smartcard support, right?
> I don't trust other programmers

Then how are you commuting currently? Almost every part of the vehicle is electronically controlled nowadays. All the components are connected - one way or another. So, it's easy to traverse around and make your way to CAN. Once, you are there, you can control the car.

https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/blackhat-jeep-cherokee-hack-e...
Paul Graham has a great article about how high schoolers are basically stuck in a situation of no responsibility, no consequences. And, so naturally they fall back on cliques and highly elevated social consequences for inconsequential issues just to have something at all matter in their lives. The same thing happens in prisons, for example. He points out that a young (white male because of the times) would be responsible for a trade or even land by the time he was 20 in medieval times. But, today we expect “kids” to basically be babysat until they are 21. No wonder they rebel.
At Apple's scale the calculus becomes almost simple: which economic sectors are large enough to move the needle?

Answers: health care and pharma, finance and real estate, energy and petroleum, government and defense, and transportation.

Of these only transportation and perhaps health care make any sense for Apple, given their core competencies.
Fun read.

Been a longtime DOOM fan. I can bet that there are secrets like this hidden in the most recent DOOM game, and expect the same for DOOM Eternal.

The attention to detail that game developers have is unreal.
> That being said, I think there is merit to your second point, although I don’t believe we have enough evidence to know.

There was a nice research summary posted on LessWrong some long time ago:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZbgCx2ntD5eu8Cno9/how-to-be-...

It mentions various "factors that correlate with subjective well-being (individuals' own assessments of their happiness and life satisfaction)". Quoting from it: <<<

Factors that don't correlate much with happiness include: age[7], gender[8], parenthood[9], intelligence[10], physical attractiveness[11], and money[12] (as long as you're above the poverty line). Factors that correlate moderately with happiness include: health[13], social activity[14], and religiosity[15]. Factors that correlate strongly with happiness include: genetics[16], love and relationship satisfaction[17], and work satisfaction[18].

(...)

Genes account for about 50% of the variance in happiness[19]. Even lottery winners and newly-made quadriplegics do not see as much of a change in happiness as you would expect[20]. Presumably, genes shape your happiness by shaping your personality, which is known to be quite heritable[21].

So which personality traits tend to correlate most with happiness? Extroversion is among the best predictors of happiness[22], as are conscientiousness, agreeableness, self-esteem, and optimism[23].

>>>

Numbers I put in square brackets in the quote above are all references to papers. The article goes on to discuss how those correlates suggest effective ways of improving your own happiness.

I'm not in the field so I won't judge the quality of the referenced research, or how much results have changed since 2011, but still, it seems that we do know quite a lot about this.

(Also note that, despite it being very unpopular fact, genes seem to pop up as strong - even leading - predictor in very many personal traits, including intelligence.)
Some other driver, right now, could decide to pull out their phone and text and you could be dead instantly. Worrying about backdoors and hacking is like worrying about dying in terrorist attack. It's not like it won't happen to someone but there are more mundane ways to die. Ironically, getting into a car is a very common way to die.
I'll give you a freebie: They originally built a clunky Netscape-based website builder because they wanted to see if they could bypass Windows entirely and use Netscape to allow users to send commands over HTTP to a server.
ABS saved me once from a big accident. I have heard\read about this feature before, but man practically seeing it, operating in front of your eyes - was just like beaming a torch through the darkness
It's not that difficult, just a bit annoying, to get the full Ethereum and Bitcoin blockchains running locally and create a database-type access. You will probably spend more time waiting for the download to finish than actually writing code. Bitcoin is a little harder than Ethereum because of the format changes and that might require using an older version (at least that's what I did).
Secrets, lies and a child: On Chekhov’s marriage
Dolphin Progress Report: August 2018
I work for a large multinational.

I'm based in Australia, while i regularly work with teams from the US.

I've found my US counterparts are extremely bad at using their time efficiently and productively, even though, they are intelligent, knowledgeable and easy going (hands down, some of the best problem solvers i've ever worked with).

I was asked to work late once (due to time differences), and they were shocked when i said "i'm only available during working hours". They took it as a slight, or that i was being rude. I was even called "lazy".

It wasn't until i had an "offline" conversation with some of them that we both got the opportunity to discuss each others points of views.

My US counterparts admitted that one of their main reasons for not saying "no", was Health Care, or the risk of losing health care if you lost your job.

I think this (no fault to my US colleagues, i would probably feel/think the same way), results in bad work practices being perpetuated, resulting in unnecessary work hours, or, at least the perception that its required in order for you to be seen to be "doing a good job".

There's working longer when there's actual work that needs doing, but then there is working longer because your being held hostage to a job because your petrified of getting sick without one.

Case in point, one of my US colleagues was working 2 days after having heart bypass surgery. TWO DAYS!!!!
The crashes, not accidents talking point is heavily pushed by law enforcement, as well, because it aids in getting convictions. A jury that is primed to look for someone to blame in an accident is more likely to convict.

Reminder that the conviction rate in the US is over 90%.
The author ends his post by stating that the rise of crime from the 60s through the 80s is a major puzzle (to him, in 2010 when he wrote it). I don't see this as an argument against the lead hypothesis in any way.

Re: your second point, one of the three studies in the parent article looks at city level crime in the 1920s/30s using city piping infrastructure (lead vs. iron) for test/control groups. The leaded fuel was a substantial source of increased lead levels but not the only one.
You might consider looking into putting the matrix elements onto the heap with malloc -- that way you won't limit the matrices to MAX_ELEMENTS and you also won't waste lots of space for small matrices.

It'll complicate the usage a bit (you'll have to add allocate and free functions) but it's a good pattern to learn.
Crunch Time in NAFTA Negotiations: What's at Play for Canada on Digital Policy
If push comes to shove they can always buy the AI from a third party like Bosch.
Yeah, that's the only change I'm not thrilled with.
Autonomous vehicle mono-culture is just as bad as any other mono-culture. You have to have multiple efforts, each doing it a different way, for the best way to emerge.
The simple and traditional "introversion = evil extroversion = good" meme is tempting, but alternative explanations are possible.

For the majority, which are introverted, possibly "everything must be social on smartphones" combined with non-face-to-face interaction means phone-time means they never get that alone time to recharge and feel better, can never quite get away from the dreaded notification pull-down drawer.

Imagine a world where cultural pressure combined with advanced social media technology makes meditation and introspection and privacy and serenity impossible; for some people that would be heaven, others, hell, regardless which, its certainly what we have now.

Another interesting theory, possibly even accurate: kid-only interaction is inherently bad, in the "Lord of the Flies" sense. Adult interaction might be good, Cross-age tribal interaction might be good. Possibly all kid-only interaction is bad and has always been bad; its certainly very artificial and non-evolutionary and pre-social media there have been critiques of the culture produced by kids interacting solely with other kids. If that theory is correct, then a hand-held device that pumps more of something that can only be poisonous would likely make most kids more unhappy on average. If a culture of "Lord of the Flies" sucked, then "Lord of the Flies, now as a social phone app" is merely going to suck more.
In the Greater Metropolitan Area of Costa Rica (2.6M people) there's also a lot of options, we've got:

- UberEats (U.S.)

- Glovo (Spain)

- EatsOn (Costa Rica)

- GoPato (Costa Rica)

- Hugo (El Salvador; they haven't started yet though)

Other services have shutdown: QueComemos.com (Costa Rica) and Juanlotrae.com (Costa Rica).

Uber in Costa Rica has 783K active users y 22K drivers.
Sun, DEC and SGI made the same mistakes imho; they ignored PCs for far too long. Apple too by the way. They thought people wanted custom hardware and software to render movie, run 3d software, do scientific computing etc and for a while that was very true (as someone who has many Sun, DEC and SGI machines still at home and they all still work perfectly, which you cannot say for PCs from that age, for me it is still true but alas), but PC hardware, software and economies of scale passed them by and they responded far too late. It went the same way with mainframes to minis, minis to workstations, home computers to pcs, so it was not like they did not have examples of this in their past. It was printing money in the 90s for them though, things were just too good.
"into the family" ... what? Did you mean to say "family business"?

If so, please post more details, that sounds interesting.
What are 'the crown jewels', in your opinion? Surely (some) source code counts?
You mean having construction muffs over earphones? Professional gamers have been doing that for years in 1v1 matches.
Honestly, is empowering patients to have control over their testing really a mundane trial or incremental test? The magic I saw in Theranos was in their ability to move the power closer to the consumer. If they had pursued that in place of their fraudulent tests that could have been huge.
This is just one of the reasons why Limited (building a 40 card deck from only packs that you and your group open) is clearly the best way to play Magic. Another: even though it seems more variance-prone, it's arguable the most skill-testing format in the game.
What ElonMusk would sound like as an indie synth-pop song
I played the heck out of Magic in middle school and ended up with a perfect SAT Verbal.
There are a few electric ships out there powered by batteries. They have a really short range though and of course a lot smaller than what Maersk needs.

A few examples of electrical ships:

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-norway-self-sailing-electric-c...

https://electrek.co/2017/12/04/all-electric-cargo-ship-batte...

I'm guessing battery cost rather than weight is the main issue here. The Chinese ship is powered by the equivalent of about 24 teslas apparently for a whopping range of 50 miles. Compared to the overal weight of these ships, I could imagine extended range with more batteries would be feasible. I imagine the capital expense is the bottleneck here; not the weight. But it makes a lot of sense for shorter routes.

Having solar and wind to supplement energy might help extend their range by a meaningful percentage but probably not enough to make it worth bothering since you in any case have to recharge frequently; which is probably comparatively cheap (compared to buying fuel)

Wind powered sail drones already exist as well: https://www.saildrone.com/ These are tiny of course but they can be out there for months by themselves. You could imagine a scaled versions of these transporting cargo. With no fuel cost and no staffing cost, you can get economies of scale by simply having more of them rather than bigger ones.

The reason big ships are popular today is that they minimize staff and fuel cost. Big ships require a lot of power but they are overall more cost effective per ton of load than smaller ones. If you take people and fuel cost out of the equation, you can start thinking about different solutions.