skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, you just made the claim without any sort of support besides saying that BTC + Lightning alone will "truly function as money" and, absent any arguments, it's much easier to imagine the opposite.

I think it's reasonable to think that people that just say "bitcoin good altcoin bad" without really saying anything else aren't making good faith contributions to discussion and may have other motives.
It may inspire others, however; and even if it's not a different processor (I'd love to see a Z80 version) there's still plenty of room to shrink this one and yet remain discrete --- looking at https://cdn.evilmadscientist.com/sites/6502/images/A1_4.jpg you can see there are huge areas of empty space between the transistors and LEDs, and that package is not as small as SMD transistors come. Halving each dimension (1/4 the area) should be possible in a revised design, reducing PCB costs and making it more palm-sized. Alternatively, the same size of board can hold 4x the transistors, meaning a Z80 would fit comfortably.
Reading is good, but re-reading is sublime. If you think of reading a book as something "good for you", the amount you gain on the second time around (in what you commit to memory, and what you notice in detail, esp for works of fiction) cannot be overstated. If you've never re-read a book I highly suggest picking up your favorite work of literature and giving it a go.

Now many people don't want to re-read a book because they could be reading a new book with that time, and many people say the world (even driving) is too distracting for full concentration on an audiobook. Let me propose that you try "re-reading" your favorite books by listening to them on audiobook. I have been doing this on my commute and it is 95% as good as giving the book a textual re-read.

You are already familiar with all of the material, so spacing out for a minute here and there is no big deal. I don't want to descend into wacky hyperbole, but I really super strongly recommend listening to audiobooks that you have already read. Try it!
Nvidia Takes on the Inference Hordes with Just Announced Turing GPUs
> There was no database, but the best databases aren’t handed to reporters. They’re handmade. I opened a blank spreadsheet and started digging through years of old news clips and pageant websites. I tracked who was competing where, what titles they were winning, and how.

The more experienced I get in journalism and data work, the more convinced I am that the spreadsheet is the first and best tool for the kind of bespoke, flexible, and iterative data collection and modeling that journalists find themselves having to do -- i.e. building a dataset from scratch.
A lot of mainstream news source sites have heavily-policed comments or none at all. I'm sure there's plenty of spam comments, but it's almost like people with views that become disallowed in popular online platforms don't in fact change their views or stop existing as many seem to think, and instead find other outlets for their views. I hardly see any "right-wing" views from non-politicians in my Twitter follows, yet I know that millions of such people exist in the US alone.

Again, there's likely some spam in there, but to handwave such a quantity of comments away as "bots" would be to ignore reality.
Luckily, the value of gas vehicles will be driven down with EV sales to the point where everyone could have a spare gas vehicle if they wanted one.
There's also the fact that some studies have show papers pushed from China are outright stolen research or fictional. I don't mean to downplay the actual science that many in China do...but there is a lot that is actually nonsense and contributes nothing.
> Genuine question: In what way does Microsoft benefit from people using Edge? It's a web browser. It's a rather neutral piece of technology. How can they make money out of it?

Well for one thing, keeping people away from Google's browser keeps people away from their office suite, one of the biggest moneymakers outside the X-box division for Microsoft.
Not really. Shareholder primacy responded to management supremacy — management was soaking up profits, making almost fraudulent promises to employees about the future, and insulating themselves from shareholder votes.

The Warren proposal purports to give employees 40% of the shareholder’s votes, and then give management a duty to act for “the public.”

Neither was present in the ‘old’ system. I can’t see that either of these steps give management or employees better long term incentives.
Because nothing beats "volume of papers produced" for measuring scientific contributions. Time to call this what it is: utter shit journalism.
This makes me a little sick to my stomach. Glad I live here in Canada, where they treat transgender people, well, like people.

We even have coverage for surgeries and Hormone Therapy.

Trump's rule is really clearly just a reflection of the sickness of the USA itself, a mentality that allows prejudice to be law. What a sad country.
100 miles would not be sufficient to get out of the path of Hurricane Florence currently on the US eastern seaboard (although Tesla has done of the honors of lifting any restrictions on their software range limited models, as well as providing free SuperCharging to get folks to safety [1]).

[1] https://electrek.co/2018/09/12/tesla-releasing-more-battery-...
One option i didn't mention is applying for jobs in US locations, but that's hard, has too much demand and happens at specific time of the year.

Another one is coming here as a student, but that's expensive.

Option one is probably the one you'd have the most luck, besides marrying an american obviously.

If you don't mind me asking, how old are you? It is easier to take some decisions in life when you are younger. similarly and more importantly, it's easier to deal with your decisions' consequences.
I don't know if you know this but that it's a China only thing, most groups cough self cite because everyone does.
While I don't like this tactics, especially relating to Firefox, when Google tries to install Chrome from its websites, I can understand why Microsoft wants to fight back. I've used Edge a few monthes and those Chrome suggestions were really annoying. Now Firefox is other matter and I think, Microsoft shouldn't touch it.
Azure South Central US outage discussion [audio]
Apple uses chips produced by third parties for its radio and until recently graphics(?) but it doesn’t have that problem.
You think that product demand is only conducted by putting a product on the market and seeing how well it sells? And you're posting on HN?

Sorry for the snark but damn this trope was stale 4 years ago. Apple has more than enough money to throw at researching whether or not it's worth it to make a particular size phone without first producing said phone.
I think it is hilarious how copyright actively prevents content distribution companies from properly competing with piracy.
Yea, I mentioned in the essay that "In many cases, advertisers managed “remarketing” lists of “anonymous” visitors that was being tracked by cookies from a central console without thinking of the privacy problems, treating visitors almost as numbers. "
I've read several things talking about shitake and reishi (sp?) mushrooms being used for treating sickness, perhaps helping the body fight viruses or bacteria faster than it would without. I am leaning towards seeing this in TC< (traditional Chinese medicine) things, but could have been in the book 'prescription for nutritional healing' -

having solid references for western studies would take some digging. I think the effects are similar to garlic?

It's been a while since I've read that info.
> We do this by using local machine-learning to understand the user better, and making local decisions as to which ads should or should not be shown, and when (the user controls all of this)

You realise that's what every ad-revenue driven company says right?
There are people personally threatened in every presidential election, and most of those fears are overblown pretty much all the time. Lots of extremist views in this country and lots of people feeling threatened about pretty much everything.

Should google have held the same weeping festival in case Hillary won, and someone was personally threatened that she would start a new war in Syria or lead to war in Russia? Which could lead to a nuclear war? Of course not. That would be as ridiculous as what happened now. You don't cater to those kinds of views in the workplace.

The correct response is not to hold a company meeting about how threatened anyone feels in an election, but to talk about the new products being rolled out and what you expect from your employees in their business life. And there are lots of blogs and opportunities for Google employees to express their political views outside the company. No public weeping of executives is required.
Goverment officials can just ignore financial efforts of private companies, when their reelection campaign is not dependent on that money. If by fighting a private company, you make voters happy then those votes directly gotten can be worth more than any votes that added campaign funds would possibly give.
I don’t feel so hopeless. There are a lot of initiatives to reduce the influence of money in politics coming down the pipeline.
I'm not aware of any evidence that shows that directly. But there a good number of surveys that show that people don't want advertising to target them based on their interests.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1478214

"Contrary to what many marketers claim, most adult Americans (66%) do not want marketers to tailor advertisements to their interests. Moreover, when Americans are informed of three common ways that marketers gather data about people in order to tailor ads, even higher percentages - between 73% and 86% - say they would not want such advertising. Even among young adults, whom advertisers often portray as caring little about information privacy, more than half (55%) of 18-24 years-old do not want tailored advertising. And contrary to consistent assertions of marketers, young adults have as strong an aversion to being followed across websites and offline (for example, in stores) as do older adults."

Also see
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1989092 (64% find the idea of ad targeting to be invasive, most participants would prefer random ads to targeted ads)
https://news.gallup.com/poll/145337/internet-users-ready-lim... (67% of those polled said advertisers shouldn't be able to "match ads to your specific interests based on websites you have visited")

References all came from a paper by Jonathan Mayer. Third-Party Web Tracking: Policy and Technology which I'd heartily recommend to anyone who is interested enough to be this deep into the comments (https://jonathanmayer.org/publications/trackingsurvey12.pdf)
Eh. Maybe you could have used platitudes like "America has survived worse" and "most people in government will follow the law, even if he doesn't." But those aren't particularly comforting.
How remote work can affect mental health
Wait they just gave on GCC's because they could not get linker optimizations working... However, they are surprised Clang with linker optimizations was faster than GCC without...
Practically every one of my friends either smokes, vapes, or does both.

Of the ones who only vape, most of them will still smoke the occasional dart. They'll smoke them if they can't use their e-cigarette (e.g. out of fluid, left it at home), because they're still addicted to nicotine they'll take what they can get.

There's also the social aspect of smoking cigarettes. I don't know why, but standing in a circle puffing on e-cigarettes just isn't as social as smoking a real cigarette, so if everyone else is smoking cigarettes the vapers will usually have a smoke too.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=define+technically&oq=define+...
The whole point of Edge for me is Windows-tuned browser. The moment they make any attempt at cross-platform, I won't consider it at all. I value native software tightly integrated with system. They should use latest DirectX APIs, they should integrate with drivers, etc, providing fastest experience on Windows. That's why Safari is good, for example.
This isn't huge news IMO. Lots of the UI changes have appeared in Gmail already and unless they were going to keep changing Inbox it no longer has a raison d'être.

And while I know some people aren't a fan of Google shuttering products, I appreciate that they let you 'test' the bleeding edge if you want.
I remember hotdog! I preferred "netobjects fusion" more than any other similar though.

Still have not found anything that makes design as easy, and visual, like netobjects fusion.
How to Be Wrong (2016)
I have been using tables in Icon since 1986 (they were in Icon before that). Tables allow key/value pairs to be anything. You can set up a specific value to be returned if the key presented to the table doesn't exist. Lists, sets, tables, records are the mutable values, strings, csets, integers, reals are the immutable.

Failure is an option, so all expressions can succeed and return a value or fail with no result. So there is not an issue with the truthiness of values and the semantics of true/false.

Simple tests like

if a < b < c < d then { do something } else { do something }

are standard in the Unicon/Icon languages.

Icon was my goto language until about 2000 or so and thereafter I have been using Unicon (the Unified Extended Dialect of Icon).

1 based indexing is very useful when you have the dual of indexes < 1 starting at the right hand end of any string or list. Hence, you can work from either end if you need and there are good use cases for starting from the RHS of strings and lists.

I have looked at Lua in the past and nothing in it has given me any incentive to move away from Unicon/Icon. Lisp/Scheme/Kernel and FORTH/Factor have more notable (as far as I am concerned) facilities than Lua.

Though Unicon/Icon has flaws and certain kinds of missing facilities like lambda's, I find that I am more productive in Unicon/Icon than I have been in other languages. YMMV.
>The distinction between government and private groups is not a clean as you might think. At a large enough scale, private groups can start to take on a role in society that resembles that of a government, should we not then expect them to be held to a standard that resembles that we expect of governments?

I hope this view becomes more mainstream soon. Regardless of outcome, it's something that people need to consciously think about.
I think what he's saying is that they do the inferences from localhost, more or less (see e.g. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/serving...)

There are a number of proposed systems under the rubric of "privacy preserving advertising systems" and they are very different than what ad-revenue driven companies are doing today and similar to what he is proposing above.
no but drumfff is here!!!! Go to some better country. He drinks baby blood
E-cigarettes can contain any concentration of nicotine, and can have powerful enough heating elements to release huge quantities of it. E-cigarettes can deliver far more nicotine than cigarettes if you build them that way. But the user titrates the dose to the subjective effects, so dose per inhalation doesn't matter much.

However, in most cases e-cigarettes deliver only nicotine, while tobacco also also contains harmala alkaloid monoamine oxidase inhibitors. In animal studies[0][1] these have a synergistic effect in producing addiction when combined with nicotine, and anecdotally many humans report whole tobacco alkaloids having a subjectively different effect than pure nicotine.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16177026
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14592678
I was around when Bush won re-election. After he lied us into war. I couldn't believe it. I was absolutely stunned, depressed, and horrified that something like that could happen.

Yet not once did I expect my employer to "comfort" me. I mean, my God, that's not the job of an employer. Friends comfort you. Your employer is not your friend.
Agreed! I'd go so far as to say that book not worth re-reading isn't worth reading once. Audiobooks let me spend more time consuming books than I would otherwise, and thus more time rereading favorites.
Which reminds me, I went to the drugstore, a few weeks ago, to get a razor and blades; I took a look at Harry’s, I think, and, surprise-surprise, they are priced about the same as the incumbents...
dems probably "asked" them on behalf of cuomo not to fight it
Yep, I use TypeScript for the exact same reasons. Although I've been bitten a couple times by its unsoundness (specifically with mismatched function arity in an interface) and looked briefly at ReasonML as a possible alternative. But that's more of a long term hope. TypeScript is good enough for 99% of the things I need, and great for web dev. That said, semantically it's still JS, and it still has the same flaws, like hoisting (or something having to do with const and let not being what I think they are), which still bites me every once in a while.
Driving doesn't require higher order thinking?

I can't do anything else while I'm driving. I'm constantly looking at where people are; who's around me; and where I think other people are going.

Maybe it's just me but I couldn't possibly keep my concentration on a story being read to me while I drive.
It's an okay thought experiment but I don't think it's especially valuable when the reality is closer to "we take an additional 1-2% of your taxable income in return for people being confident that they can go to the hospital if they need to". Which is where we're at, not $100M hearts.

Of course there are issues with it. Government inefficiency, people taking up GP time when they don't need to, over-prescription pushed by drug reps as the government pays for it etc. But comparatively I think it's a small cost to pay for avoiding poor people dying because they can't afford to go to the hospital.
Wow, great pic. Thanks for sharing.
You know what accelerates death?

Tobacco addiction.
> Alexandria ocasio Cortes go from a bold new voice to being portrayed as a know-nothing (in a pretty sexist way) in about 6 hours

Are you kidding ? She said US military was given $700 billion increase that they didn't ask for. She said that US unemployment is low becuase everyone has two jobs. She said ICE has to detain 34,000 people every night by law. http://www.politifact.com/personalities/alexandria-ocasio-co...

This 'if you criticise Democrat female politicians you must be sexist' line is incredibly annoying
I can attest to this. I don't read that much (trying to change that), but I so badly wanted to re-read The Martian because it's just that good, and I must say I enjoyed it even more.
I agree, I mean accident in the sense that the extreme position of the EU Parlament is a breakdown of it's democratic function, caused by a negligent and uninformed majority which allows a strongly opinionated group to take over the legislative process via the rapporteur. If someone like Axel Voss is handed the keys to the castle, this is what you get.
Is there a way to set the processor's clock? It'd be nice if the user could slow it down make it easier to observe and understand the state changes. Maybe even support breaking execution in order to read the state.

A Z80 or 68k would be way cool!
I hope you're right. Do you have specific policy moves in mind?
Off-topic:

You're implying that you have an admin UI that lets you see all our other logins? (matched on IP or cookies I guess?) Or did you do a one-off query just for that guy?

Since YC applications are attached to HN accounts, do you guys check comments made on alt accounts too?

Tracking is useful for moderating but I want to confirm that I can treat my throwaways as throwaways.
Oh come on, you're doing a terrible job of understanding how your political opponents think.
It's even worse. There's API for adblock apps and there are good apps, but it works only with Safari itself. Any other iOS browser doesn't support this API (I'm not 100% sure, but I think that it's Apple's restriction, not their choice), so if you want fast browsing experience with iOS, you must use Safari.
I still have sites live that were built with NetObjects fusion. Still the best design / editor I've ever used, and I've tried so many.

I recently found this thing called 'pinegrove editor' (I think that's' what it's called. looks the closest to something like it and modern.

maybe blue griffon.

Sadly drop and drop widgets with wordpress themes is probably the most widely used that is similar.
I have to turn the speed up to not get lost in thought between words.
Tech Conferences – why bother?
I had a lovely time interning at a Swedish company in Sweden, but not having Swedish EU citizenship made the company want to hire me at their US facility. Maybe we could trade identities?
Old thread now, but the reason I said they can’t compete on price is states subsidize state universities to the tune of $7100/student/year (https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/funding-d...) (some of that goes to grants transferable to private institutions but I don’t think it is much)

If you instantly dropped that subsidy and increased per student tuition at state schools by $7000 (I don’t recommend this) there would quickly be private options strongly competing on price I bet.
writing tests?
I can't even listen to music (except for instrumental music) while coding without getting distracted, let alone listen to a book.
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If you knew the top part was snarky, and snarky enough to justify apologizing for, why didn't you just save you the time of writing it and me the time of reading it and thinking "gee thanks asshole"?

Nope, I don't work at Apple, I have no idea how they do market research. They sure do know how to make money, though.
Wow. China holding over 1mm Muslims in "re-education" camps, forcing them to eat pork and drink alcohol. China steals everyone's IP and knocks it off. China bullies the Philippines, a relatively poor country, out of some natural resources that might actually help it. Now China tries to steal the information of hundreds of millions of Americans.
And today, the US proposed trade talks with China, rolling over for its money. Economic pressure stopped the Soviet Union, and we should try it on China too. Money is the only safe method of pressuring China into ending it's atrocities. We should use it.
That's not much of an argument. Have a nice day.
It's just streaming data but more scalable and with total ordering which can be important for ML.
I know right? I find it difficult to focus on programming even if I listen to new music; I mostly just put on instrumental music or stuff I've listened to a lot so that it's subconsciously in the background. Audiobooks are completely unthinkable for me lol.
This is a fair point under some ways of looking at the problem. It could be that advertising is just nasty no matter how it is implemented, and thus any system that uses advertising will be tainted. I'm sympathetic to that analysis and am constantly trying to flesh it out.

With that said, what jonathansampson is proposing mitigates at least one harm of advertising: ubiquitous tracking which violates privacy.

They're trying to replace ads with ads that don't require tracking by third parties.

There's actually a whole area of research on this that's pretty fascinating called privacy preserving advertising.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/serving...
https://crypto.stanford.edu/adnostic/
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/privad-...
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6234417/