skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not aware of having any form of vestibular disorder, and it has generally taken fairly deliberate effort to cause any discomfort when looking at a screen—A Slower Speed of Light was able to make me feel mild discomfort after ten minutes, which I understand to be not uncommon, but it’s almost alone in that.

But this site is awful. I was feeling fine before, but within half a minute I was feeling mild pain in the back of my eyes and the beginnings of stomach churning. The animation was choppy and severely disorienting. Scrolling switching pages is not normal and is always, uniformly a bad idea. So after only half a minute I closed it. (That is, half a minute after the it finished loading—before that, there was a loading screen for perhaps fifteen or twenty seconds, which is never a good sign. In the normal way of things, I’d probably have closed it before it ever finished loading, but I had been expecting some sort of article on combining WebGL and GSAP, rather than a demonstration that would make me feel sick.)

My stomach is not feeling any better a few minutes later. I shall now go and have a drink and a walk around.

Just because you can do something, does not mean you should. As implemented, this is terrible.
To be clear here, you are saying nuclear generators could have replaced gas stoves and gas water heaters?

I don't follow, surely this is a magnitude more risky than nuclear power plants, and way riskier than gas heaters.

Electric water heaters do exist after all.
If you interview people about the type of problems they deal with day to day then you start to get tons of ideas. That’s how I started.
I somewhat agree. In Georgia the HOPE scholarship used to guarantee 100% of tuition if you had a 3.0 GPA. They moved to 80% for 3.2 and above because many students took 30 hours, didn't meet the requirements, and dropped out. Although I think the numbers would have been better if the students were actually prepared to be autonomous adults and college students.
Didn't Uber car did exactly that? Perfect robot would outperform average human. Sure. Average robot to average human? That's much more interesting...
Perhaps they are using macOS unique softwares. There are definitely plenty of them.

Even if the files can be opened elsewhere, often the formatting is not consistent.
This makes me miss Flash in a weird way. This is like what early Flash looked like. Flash performed better, usually looked more polished than this, and was WAY easier to author in than WebGL probably will ever be.
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli. Specially the edition annotated by Napoleon Bonaparte itself. It was enlightening for me in a moment when I discovered there was a dark side of human nature that I couldn't ignore.
At a competent level? None exist. Being better than random doesn't count as competency. As others have said in this thread, it wouldn't even pass as median performance.

> is only helping to advance the state of reinforcement learning

Zero new algorithms or ideas were introduced by OpenAI Five. We just learn that model-free RL doesn't scale and we already knew that from Atari and robotics benchmarks.
>> That is unsettling that they can remotely manipulate your phone without your permission.

> Did you even read the post? It was a bug... They do A/B testing and experiments all the time. What's up with hackernews and going full technopanic at the smallest most benign things. It's not like someone at Google hacked into your phone and turned battery saver off.

I'm sure he did read the post.

For Google to perform A/B experiments on a random person's phone, they'd have to remotely manipulate that person's phone, which means Google has control of it at all times. They shouldn't even have the capability to perform an A/B test. We're not talking about some webapp running on their servers.
UFO does not equal extraterrestrial. It's an acronym for an unidentified flying object. Also, for many years the air force promoted the UFO idea as a way to cover their aircraft research.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_conspiracy_theory
Mine did it too...kind of creepy they could do that to be honest.
> Your turn: Yes or no, is "communicating with the outside makers of the AI Elon Musk thinks created the universe" something we have zero evidence for? Is that not reasonably categorized as a "flight of fancy"?

absolutely

> If yes, why do you expect to be able to say anything sensible about it?

I said somehting I think was sensible, which is that we have no way of knowing such a thing.

> And why are we apparently obligated to discuss it despite explicitly setting up a premise of "let's discuss things using the physics we know?"

We are not. We are obligated to acknowledge we don't know everything, which you admitted to by stating that sure, something that's a flight of fancy today could someday prove to be true, hence, there are possibly things we don't know. We of course cannot do anything with that, because we have no way to know.

> This is failing on the most basic level of philosophical discussion here. We are allowed to discuss "If X, then Y" without being obligated to also discuss "if ~X", nor is it a reasonable philosophical objection to "If X, then Y" to say "Well, what if not X?" It is a reasonable objection to disprove X and prove the whole "If X, then Y" conversation is thereby vacuous, but if you can disprove science as it stands today, this is hardly the place to do it.

all I wanted to state was that there may be things that prove to be true which if we were to hear them today, we would only be able to conclude they are flights of fancy and nothing more. and we agreed. I'm not attempting to make the "how do you know X doesn't exist?" argument because there's no X that has been suggested except for an intentionally ridiculous example. I'm more making a comment on what seemed to be your absolute certainty that electromagnetic energy is definitely the only way any intelligent life form would ever communicate across distances, science has successfully and provably ruled out any other possibility.
This is far different than running an A/B test in an app though. This is an OS level feature where there’s an explicit expectation of user control.
Jerk is the derivative of acceleration. I haven't heard jank used in that context.
Or a cost of $1000 or so per flag, refundable upon the copyright infringement being valid.
Also, the lack of support for harder environment isn't because they're impossible, but rather because they are focusing on getting it perfect in normal environments before expanding.

I beg to differ.

I claim that adverse environments are very hard, even pathological problems and placid driving in well laid out suburban road with generally well behaved drivers are merely hard problems.

The thing is that an engineering team working on a problem like self-driving in adverse conditions is always going to be making some progress. The main question is whether they are going to make the kind of progress that justifies the hefty expenses involved.
I'll be damned: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/09/16/advocates-hold-...
@justicz: that's one clever hack, thanks for explaining in detail how it works!

In case somebody is wondering about Alpine Linux based postmarketOS, this is what I wrote on /r/linux regarding this issue:

postmarketOS is directly using Alpine's apk-tools package from their repositories, so a simple "apk upgrade" will install the latest apk version where this is fixed.

Regarding the pmbootstrap tool we are using for development to set up Alpine Linux chroots, just update to the latest git version with git pull as usually, and it will make sure that the apk version is installed where this is fixed before you can use any of the chroots. Pulling from git may seem strange, but we do not have a stable release yet for pmbootstrap, so this is the normal way to update the code anyway. We're getting closer to a stable release of pmbootstrap though.
As a user of some of those "legacy" addons, I sincerely don't care about the upstream friction. I care that Mozilla has tried to cut my user experience off at the ankles more than once. The burden of having a thriving community & ecosystem is the responsibility of stewardship over that ecosystem. Mozilla has abrogated that implicit stewardship responsibility toward their community.
Without numbers it is unclear which effect is stronger.
This doesn't address the OP's concerns at all, and how would it be any better? I get wanting to A/B test for apps, but doing so for OS-level features is a bit unsettling.
After my Samsung Galaxy S7 phone started having hardware issues, I looked to see if a phone running open source software was available, one that also could run the Android apps I currently use.

I've had sucess with LineageOS 15.1 on a Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro (codename "whyred"). Unfortunately the phone's LTE bands don't support every country, but it works fine here in India. The phone hardware costs USD 210 and buys a lot of hardware: https://www.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_redmi_note_5_pro-8893.php

The phone comes with Xiaomi's Android fork called MIUI. It comes with the bootloader locked, and Xiaomi makes you wait for about 2 weeks to 2 months to be able to unlock the bootloader to install a different phone OS (called a custom ROM). Until then, one has to either put up with MIUI or leave the phone sitting on a shelf.

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/whyred/install

Once you unlock the bootloader, you can install LineageOS on it which is fully open source stock Android with some minimal tweaks and extra privacy features. The current version for this phone is 15.1 which is based on Android Oreo. This reminds me of my old Google Nexus 5's phone OS, but it is far more tweakable.
You can build the LineageOS ROM for your phone from source code: https://download.lineageos.org/whyred

You can install a subset of Google Apps depending on what your preference is: https://wiki.lineageos.org/gapps.html
https://github.com/opengapps/opengapps/wiki/Package-Comparis...

Or you can avoid Google Apps altogether by using microG instead: https://microg.org/

After 2 weeks of using LineageOS, I am so impressed that I'm willing to shill for it^w^w^w describe about it here.

For your country, if the "whyred" phone's LTE bands are not compatible, you should be able to find a similar phone that is.
Yeah. Duh. Of course they do.

Ever heard of remote lock down features?

Don't use a Google phone if you don't want to be the product. That simple. Why would anybody trust Google and the Android ecosystem with security in general?

Sent from my galaxy s9
There are advantages and disadvantages to mainframe specialization. Because it's a stable thing for big companies, there is actually more job security than in other areas of IT. Big companies need to keep these systems running, somehow; they are more open to training people from the outside, and they are willing to pay for expertise. There is an evolutionary balance.

You also say that you would like the field you select to be growing. Selecting a growing field can be more risky, too. Things that are already widely adopted are probably proven to work really well, and therefore they are there to stay for a while.

As for the older people in the industry, I have always enjoyed it. Compared to young people, older people are generally more calm and less needy to prove themselves than young people. They actually understand (and demand from the company) the work-life balance better. And they have more interesting stories to tell. The truth is lot of smart people worked on the mainframe in the past, and often the most successful stayed in the business.

The fear that innovation gets ignored - well, that is partly unfounded. It's true that mainframe is supposed to be super stable platform (it's a philosophical difference), so you only change things in production when needed. But in tooling, you can innovate a lot.

I work for one of the mainframe companies mentioned in the article, but I am not American. In our office, there is plenty of young people and some of them do really good innovation, like for example writing some Python or JS tools. Usually, the older people are impressed by that, as long as it brings some practical value.
They push new software to your phone constantly. They could just permanently enable low-power mode for everybody tomorrow if they wanted to, or change all your icons to Pop-Tarts.
Yeah, Python will pretty much be deprecated over the next few years./s
This is heartwarming to hear, and not surprising from my experience. Although people are great at minding their own matters in the greater Boston metro and beyond in non-crisis situations, when folks need help, this is a great place to get that help.
Ask HN: Should HN allow domains that paywall articles?
It's always disappointing for me to click an HN link and see one paragraph and a request for money. Do you find such links valuable enough to push non-paywalled content off the front page?
> But a large chunk is assets of financial industries and the super wealthy, and in order for it to be net paid down they have to get poorer - or at least be forced to reallocate to equities.

Do you have better data on the super rich? My impression was that they typically own companies and stocks, not T-bills. So if the top 10% don’t own the debt, it’s the next 40% (middle class) that will have to get poorer to reduce debt.
No regulations, huh? Terrific, I love salmonella
Everything we ever write as programmers is trading one set of problems for another. The key thing is to identify which problems matter the most.
Geeze that's a lot of words to explain something so simple.

Lets say you use pure energy to create a particles with a non zero spin (substitute a charge if spin is confusing) that immediately separate from each other at high speed. The rules of the universe demand that the sum of the spins (or charges) equals 0: eg if one is an electron the other must be a positron. So now you have two particles flying towards you and me, but no one in the universe knows which is which except possibly the particles themselves, so we say they are entangled. If I look at the particle coming towards me I have no way of knowing if I will see a positron or a electron. When I do look, I know what you will see if you look. Which is nice, but no information has passed from me to you. Instead have both learnt something new. The definition of communication is you pass some knowledge you knew before the process started onto me. (In fact we learnt the same thing.)

The word entanglement seems to imply if one particle changes the other undergoes a corresponding change. Whether that's true or not is a bit of a mystery. In any case it doesn't matter how it happens. Even if there was a "global variable" and even if it suddenly changed value when one of us observed it, merely observing it destroys the entanglement. So yes we both learnt something new and maybe it was communicated faster than the speed of light, but we now know the first observation doesn't communicate any information we knew before. And because observing it destroyed the entanglement no new information can be transmitted.
or you can just use https://github.com/SteveLTN/https-portal for ssl termination
IMHO that is Apples secret to success. Ignore the geeks/nerds/fanboys, first try to reach the 'real' market. Then you can fix your product up for 'niche interests' later.
If governments paid off their debt, there would be no money. Money IS debt.
What a misleading, fake title. Honestly disappointing coming form HackerNews... The post quite literally says it's an experiment, accidentally enabled. A bug. Literally an A/B test, which they do all the time.

The title makes it sound like they hacked in your phone. With that logic, any time your apps update or you get a notification, you're getting hacked.
Germany is paying the Catholic (?) church nearly half a million every year because of a contract from 1803
Is "Market and Castro team" going to stay in existence indefinitely as the city of San Francisco modifies this intersection into the next century?

Will similar team exist for weird intersections in the middle of nowhere as well?

Will all these teams solve the problem of all the truck drivers rendered unemployed by "self-driving" vehicles?

Will all America's vehicles just wind-up instead being driven by tech support using joy sticks when the whole system goes south?
" from a mysteriously noisy galaxy 3 billion miles away"

That is good news, that galaxy is close enough to visit;) :

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&q=3+billion+miles+to...

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/
Before you read the article, keep one thing in mind, Money IS debt. If there is no debt, there is no money. Another way of looking at government debt is private sector savings.
A ring route from Bethesda to Largo is under construction and it's called the Purple Line. Metrorail could be better and has it's own shortcomings but it is one of the best in the US and far from nonexistent.
I’m pretty sure the poster is saying nuclear power would help provide the additional electricity needed at a plant, and not in individual’s homes, as you seem to suggest.
I agree. I've used GSAP since the AS3 Flash days so almost a decade. It's simply one of the best libraries I've ever used.
You might try looking up your gas company's agent for service of process (Secretary of State site search, probably).

Send a registered snail mail describing the leak in your neighborhood to the agent, copy corporate counsel and at least one local news organization. Major bonus points if you find and copy the gas company's insurance carrier. Emphasize the potential for destruction of property and death of innocents - and the gas company's potential liability. Raise the spectre of California's PG&E and San Bruno.

Management and its insurers care deeply about liability. Old-fashioned paper trails can be surprisingly effective.
I wrote the algorithm to solve it but it's taking forever. Is the following approach correct? I'm able to get result when I set difficulty to 1,2,3 but anything above it is taking a long time to compute.
#JavaScript
block{..}

function calculateHash(block){
return sha1(block.blockNumber+block.parentHash+block.difficulty+block.resumeHash+block.position+block.name+block.minedBy+block.nonce);
}

function mineBlock(block,difficulty) {
while (calculateHash(block).substring(0, difficulty) !== Array(difficulty + 1).join("0")) {
block.nonce++;
console.log(block.nonce)
}
console.log("BLOCK MINED: " + this.hash);
}

mineBlock(block,<custom_difficulty_level>) // try with 1,2,3 ..it works.
console.log(calculateHash(block))
They do some bloodletting to let off some pressure from time to time. This pushes the full blown crisis further down the road. However this time they are in an obvious bind over the real estate price boom and there is no easy way out.
> You want something that doesn't interact with matter until to reaches the detector,

Axions [1]!

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axion
Fully aware this might be a silly question, but why do they make you wait, and why does the time period vary so greatly?
Cool is one thing I feel like robots will never understand. It is so hard to capture beyond just the physical vocabulary or syntax or body movements, or even black or white. Because when you see or meet someone, cool, you just know. James Baldwin was a cool af mfer.

> For black people, to be cool was to be “calm, even unimpressed, by what horror the world might daily propose.” Cool was a quietly rebellious response to the history of slavery and post-Civil War injustices.

Cool is kind of the anti-reactionary, laissez-faire attitude, but it's also using that attitude to create. To use slang in creative, liberating ways. Or music, or art, or drugs, or whatever.

Now give an algorithm that's been trained with all of human history and society. Would it also disregard the past horrors, but use the memory to create? What would it create? Would it be cool, even if you didn't know that it came from a human or a robot?
Ah. Ok. Thank you. I see my reply was sloppy --- sorry. It seemed to me that you were suggesting that being open source plus being productized was required for project success, and my thought was:

1. wait, there are more axes than just license and productization, and

2. there are other values on those axes that can lead to success (not just open source + productized)

Here are some separate axes I see:

* open source (Apache2, BSD, MIT) vs free software (copyleft (GPL, LGPL))

* corp-backed vs not-corp-backed

* community-driven vs closed-style-development

* core devs have a very solid vision of project direction, vs being more open to change and/or direction taken from contributors

* amount of productization: are the main target users the core devs themselves or external users

* overall quality of the language

Some armchair comments:

+ you risk lock-in by going with corp-backed languages

+ you may see more community involvement with free software projects, whereas more corp involvement with open source

+ high productization often means a very low contributor to user ratio

+ although quality doesn't necessarily win, it sure is nice.
> flights of fancy

It seems presumptuous to dismiss the entirety of non-Standard Model physics thusly. Axions [1] are one of my personal favourites.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axion
The official policy is: "Paywalls with workarounds are OK; paywall complaints are off topic".

For more details:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
I used to make these things with AS3 some 10 years ago...

Is there a market for these types of websites?

Maybe I should create some kind of "interactive web experience" and see if I can get some clients.
People have been thinking about using EEG signals to control computers for decades. The problem with EEGs is that their bitrate is too low. The skull destroys a ton of high frequency information that prevents EEGs from relaying little more than an "up, down, left, right" level of complexity.
> the refusal of the US to trade

Venezuela is refusing international aid. There are sanctions on their government bonds, but the lack of private sector trade is basically caused by

- the lack of private sector industry,

- a lack of hard cash now, and

- trade barriers implemented by the Venezuelan government

not punitive American trade barriers or them somehow being turned into a "pairah".
How to Get Rich (1999)
Just think, the remains of the last self-driving car will help the next self-driving car avoid the trap. But only if Google carefully catalogs it and no one moves the wreckage.
One thing to keep in mind is that government debt is private sector savings. The money in your bank account originated as government spending or private sector borrowing. All money is debt. If the government pays back it's debt, it will make it impossible for you to be solvent. If there was no government debt, there would be no money.

The US government was in debt since this country started, and will remain in debt in the future. The government being in debt is no problem, it's not a household. Government debt is not a problem, private sector debt is.
People turn to drugs because they decide to. You might blame circumstances, but I will always blame people.
The developer of NPM.js recommended this book highly[1] on his blog, so I picked it up. Already on a first reading[2] I could see its potential to be life-changing. It has definitely changed how I interact with (or see) others (and myself), and I am trying to put more of it in practice; currently on a second reading.

I think it appeals to the programmer/mathematician in me, because to a large extent it is teaching me to be more precise, about distinguishing observations, evaluations, thoughts, feelings, etc. Of course the ultimate goal is to establish genuine and sincere connection with other people, but even if you can do that with one person (yourself?), the time is probably well spent.

[1]: http://blog.izs.me/post/112818868228/letter-to-marshall-rose...

[2]: https://plus.google.com/+ShreevatsaR/posts/2428KBRfYdb