skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like you to ponder over why you narrowed the issue to one of "God". For me, I tend to wonder why people even narrow down to "religion". When you start thinking of the level of "faith", then you see much more in common with what we normally think of religion and other spheres of life. At that level, you realize that the notion of religion is nothing all that different, and even wonder why it has a special name - because people who cling to any ideology based on faith often will act in ways similar to what you see amongst religious folks.

Examples of other faiths: Environmentalism, capitalism, communism, socialism, all manners of diets. Many beliefs people have about the body and health are rooted in faith type thinking.

Note: This is not to say that if you are an environmentalist, or a capitalist, then you are necessarily indulging in faith based thinking. Just that many (most?) who do are that way. If you have any belief in your brain that you are not willing to abandon, that is faith based thinking. When you look at how such people approach the subset of the world involving their faith (e.g. when confronted with contrarian evidence), you'll see behavior that differs little from religious folks.

Examples of faith based thinking:

"I firmly believe everyone is born with equal mental abilities."

"I believe anything humans have eaten for centuries is not bad for the body. And anything not tried and tested will cause problems to our health."

"I believe as long as one follows X diet they will not have Y health problems."

"I believe that as long as one follows X workout program, they will not have Y health problems."

"I believe if we don't interfere with the ecosystem, then the outcomes will be better for humans who live in this world."

"I believe that without societal pressure, the normal state of a human is good/evil" (substitute specifics for good and evil, like kind/greedy)

"I believe that the most efficient health care is through a free market economy." In fact, based on my observations, most non-experts' views on economics and its impact on society is heavily faith based. People have passionate arguments about it with very little to back what they believe.

I spent over a decade in academia. Trust me: Even though many academics are atheists, they are definitely religious in other arenas of life, and generally are not willing to confront their beliefs. This is true even if you limit to the natural science/engineering departments. From my experience, if many/most scientists are atheists, it is mostly because of their culture (i.e. indirect peer pressure) - similar to how my friends who move to heavily liberal cities tend to become more liberal. It is not because of their training and introspecting about life and the universe. They'll easily become atheists, yet not confront all their other non-fact based beliefs.

So with that all in mind: Smart, educated people can easily believe in God if they are not part of a community that has decided to shun God. They have many other beliefs, and a belief in God is merely one more unsubstantiated belief.
An even better comparison would be with, say, the NSF. I am sure that this or that technology has been developed by NSF-funded researchers, but it would be absurd to assume that NSF-funded researchers in MIT use and promote the same things as NSF-funded researchers in Caltech because they're both affiliated with the NSF.
I worked in the gaming industry in canada for a brief stint and there was a period where we had mandatory team overtime of 4-5 hours M/W/F for a few weeks.

The only saving grace of going through that was that team productivity tanked so badly that the company ended up losing progress toward the milestone and payed out of that contract. After that experience dev estimates carried more weight and the company was more cautious about tight deadlines.
Yeah, just use your personal!
Also, the live stream will be released on Youtube right after it's done.
> Among the physicists who do care about the different QM interpretations, it is my understanding that most would go with the Everett (AKA "Many Worlds) Interpretation these days.

In a small poll at a conference on the foundations of quantum mechanics in 2011, the Copenhagen interpretation was the most popular. This could differ from your definition of "these days" I suppose.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1301.1069.pdf

Update: a 2016 survey by different authors found similar popularity for the Copenhagen interpretation.
My 2013 rMBP still works very well but I’m nervous about what I’ll do once it breaks or I decide to upgrade. I want to stay with MacBooks but I don’t like their current lineup. I hope they’ll do better in 2019.
There's a difference between saying we should have speed limits and forcing cars to follow the limit. That's like having your computer checking the hash for every image it renders in case you're trying to view something illegal. It just opens itself up to a lot of abuse.
"We would never have had linux".

Ah, but we do have Linux. And it can survive without Linus, if needed. In fact, it must survive. He's 48 now. What do we do in 50 years? Do we assume something else is going to come along that's so awesome that Linux becomes obsolete and gets abandoned? I don't think that's a good assumption. A better assumption is that computers are now stable tech, like internal combustion engines, and that Linux is the best OS we have, and could be around for centuries. Which is an amazing legacy for him, but... it's going to be a legacy, sooner or later.

And what if he has a heart attack tomorrow? I just lost a friend to a heart attack this week. Not much older than Linus, and in great health. It happens. Do we just give up, or does Linux go on without him?
The more that I learn, the more I realize how much medicine as a field is in its infancy. It is far safer to assume that supposed conditions are real and science just hasn't caught up yet.

Anyway, it appears to be only a matter of time until there is a "provable" test for autism. See, for example: https://molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s...

There are also observable (via fMRI) differences in the brains of people on the spectrum: http://time.com/3614487/fmri-autism-diagnosis/
That's not the idea as much as moving parking away from IMMEDIATELY next to the station - and improving bus links to rail transit.
The borrow rates are the highest I've ever seen - 500% annualized. They'll likely be lending a significant portion of their stake, which will net them a good return even if they never are able to liquidate the stock themselves.
About the future of Highrise
There's a few reasonable reasons why FB should allow gender-specific job ad campaigns:

- Employers will likely see better ROI on their ad-spend by creating separate ad campaigns for every gender, with copy/creatives optimized for the target demo

- Employers may see that FB ads are ineffective for a specific gender, eg. fb ads are good for finding male candidates, while other marketing channels (radio, tv ads, etc) work better for female candidates.

Given these examples, I wouldn't blame Fb for allowing gender-specific ads. The onus should be on the employer to reach out to candidates of all genders throughout their recruiting campaigns, with gender balance when you aggregate efforts across different mediums.
First read about this a few days ago via Bloomberg.[1]
As your post adds some clarity, thanks for posting.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-17/why-is-th...
great point on control and disruption, the lawmaker is probably making these statements / suggestions with uber & airbnb in mind
Where in my comment do I suggest moving the suburbs? Nothing in your comment would be a result of anything in mine.
Really slick! Could you throw some insight about the techstack, architectural decisions etc.? Would love to understand more about those.
It's actually nice that it does not matter if it's a function or attribute that your calling in ruby. Check out the Uniform access principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_access_principle).

When used correctly you can write IMHO really clean and concise OOP code where (cascading) changes are easily made.
That's already the case you inbred hick.
Jordan Peterson isn't alt-right. But sadly, he is beloved by the alt-right, who don't understand him any more than the left does.
> There is no observable difference between a particle whose wave function has collapsed and one that isn't.

Don't you think that there is an observable difference between a particle that has been already observed (i.e the wave function has collapsed) and a particle that has not been observed yet (i.e. the wave function has not collapsed)?
(2014)

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7191642
Ask HN: What's the most satisfying hobby project you've worked on?
Next.js 7
That page doesn't mention that you are also collecting (and make no claim about storing) the globally-visible IP address (and any other data in the IP and TCP headers). This can be uniquely identifying; even when it isn't unique you usually only need a few bits of additional entropy to reconstruct[1] a unique tracking ID.

This is true. The legal department for the healthcare web sites I maintain doesn't let me store or track IP addresses, even for analytics.

I'm only allowed to tally most popular pages, display language chosen, and date/time. There might be one or two other things, but it's all super basic.
We've been using TakeShape as the CMS behind Massive (https://massivesci.com/) for the past year and a half and have had a great experience. It's allowed us to rapidly prototype new features without much technical overhead.

We knew from the start we wanted to serve static pages for simplicity and security, but so many existing SSGs rely exclusively on rendering folders of Markdown. While this makes sense to developers, we found most editors (the people) need WYSIWYG tools to do their jobs well.

But even on the dev side, it's lent us way more speed and flexibility for prototyping and iterating on data structures and features underlying our publication without any of the maintenance of a more traditional solution like Wordpress or Django.

Right now I'd totally recommend this to freelancers, design studios, or teams who want to deploy something static without sacrificing usability. The one downside is that it does require somebody with web dev experience to provide the templates to present the content.

It's a really unique product that stands in a sweet spot for product-minded teams between something like Jekyll/GH Pages on one end and Squarespace on the other end. I'm looking forward to seeing how it grows.
"Additionally, the calculator's attempt to handle cost of living fails to address hot markets outside the US (hello from Montreal), treats many countries as way more homogeneous in cost of living than they really are, and gives a seemingly quite inadequate 17% adjustment for contractors. That doesn't cover legal and accounting fees, paid time off of various types, the cost and limitations in health insurance coverage attainable by one-person companies, normally employer-side retirement contributions, etc."

I, personally, did not know about the way we treat intl comp on the calculator because I do not work in people ops. I found it useful new information.
I was interested in working at GitLab a couple years ago but the salary calculator changed my mind. It lumped all the cities in Oregon together which gave some weird results depending on which city you live in. I can't imagine how wonky the data gets internationally, and it seems like the fairness of your salary would depend on the accuracy and granularity of the data GitLab has for your particular region.
TimescaleDB is merely a PostgreSQL extension, not a complete DBMS all by itself.
I also purchased something right in the middle of that time frame, but with a regular credit card. I'm not concerned as I pretty much assume my credit-card is always compromised and I check my charges each month for discrepancies and contest anything bad. Though the credit-card catches the fraudulent transactions most of the time these days, so it usually doesn't come to that.
Hackers Steal Credit Cards from Newegg, Researchers Say
I work for a company that integrates very tightly with Esri (https://www.esri.com), which has the largest market share of any GIS company (over 40%). We use their JavaScript SDKs for our web-based maps, integrate with their online spatial analysis APIs...the works. This is all great, but many of their offerings get very expensive quickly. Most prices aren't even available to see on their site without an account.

I haven't used QGIS beyond downloading it and playing around, but I'm glad to see FOSS solutions in this space.
If I recall correctly, this is just Postgres with extra handling around time series data isn’t it?
Belief in a higher power provides a powerful emotional/psychological need. Being more educated will strengthen your critical thinking skills. But if you have a deep need to believe in God, you will.
And it opened at 233 and has traded between 150 and 300 today.
Hey, you might be interested in what my company does. https://www.podaris.com/ is a platform for designing transit systems -- not just creating maps, but calculating velocity profiles and travel times, fleet sizes, and (soon) making ridership projections etc.

We've developed a plug-in for QGIS, discussed here: https://blog.podaris.com/going-geospatial/

This plug-in doesn't work with the latest version of QGIS, however, and we haven't been able to allocate resources to update it. The aim is to do so and then make it open-source, as an example for how other 3rd-party software can talk to our API. If this is something you'd be interested in working on, perhaps we could open-source it sooner rather than later. Get in touch at info@podaris.com if you're interested.
WebPPL: Probabilistic Programming for the Web
Also, thanks to lobbying from me. If I buy tickets to something and later find out I can't attend, I want to be able to give or sell those tickets to a friend.
Ambisonic recording is cool, but audio technology in general is full of technobabble and pseudoscience, so I wonder how theoretically grounded these systems are.

Are these companies actually understanding the science and producing well-calibrated systems that can accurately record and reproduce pressure waves in 3D? Or are they just taking a bunch of microphones and gluing them in an aesthetically interesting arrangement, and then playing them back in an ad-hoc way?
Sure. Ticket master though?
I feel that way about any salad based around 'normal' lettuce.

I also do love the Caesar flavor and like getting that kind of salad with spinach and kale instead to try and have more nutrients in the leafy parts.
SF General Hospital has been seeing many scooter-related injuries.[1] The chief of emergency medicine reported three scooter related emergency room visits on one Friday - two concussions, no helmet use.

Such injuries used to be tallied as "other", because they were rare. SF General has started keeping statistics on small powered vehicle accidents.[2]

The emergency medicine people are saying "helmet". They can fix most other injuries, but not brain damage.

The high-tech solution to this comes from Hovding.[3] They make an automatic inflatable helmet that inflates like an air bag if you fall. It's available in Europe and Japan, but not the US. €299. It's impressive, but not as good as a hard helmet. It fails US helmet tests.[4] Good idea, needs more work. Startup potential.

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Injuries-are-the...
[2] https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/08/411406/scooter-safety-ucsf...
[3] https://hovding.com/
[4] https://www.helmets.org/hovdingcommenttocpsc.htm
I don't think anyone is expecting his "new behavior" to be worse. I think he pretty clearly gets that the way he was behaving before was wrong, and that he needs some help and guidance in order to deal with that. And the new CoC is part of that... it's there to help him as well as others, and he understands that.

Unfortunately, the very concept of codes of conduct sets off a lot of political anger, mostly among the very people who really, desperately need a code of conduct applied to them.
> The standard lib has no special privileges, it's written entirely using the same language features available to everyone.

Sort of -- it uses a lot of unstable features that are only available to outsiders with the nightly compiler.
Building a reflecting telescope including grinding the primary mirror by hand!
The correct response would be along the lines: 'Sorry, but you have to ask my boss if we can push it to the top of our task list as she has the overview over the priority queue'.

That is different than a 'No, I don't have time for that.', as it teaches how to do it right in the future, and your boss doesn't have to get furious because everything that happened was that the team informed the org about the regular process.

I have worked enough time in the midst of a QA team to know that planning is essential to their job. Nevertheless, a team lead which is going to be furious because you didn't use the correct process isn't someone you want to ask for help. So, in the long run, it might cause more problems than it solves.
Open-source firmware: https://coreboot.org

Purism/coreboot: https://puri.sm/posts/category/firmware/
Have you read Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens? His central claim is that the -isms are all just like religion, in that one needs faith to believe they exist. Indeed, he postulates that the way humans have come this far in civilization is by collectively believing in complex ideas.
I do ask myself this every time I use one. Often, for me, the reward (convenience of getting home quickly or making the bus on time) is worth the risk (minor chance of getting ticketed or having an incident on a short trip). Nonetheless, it will be interesting to see if the enforcement of these rules will force customers like myself to stop using electric scooters until cities design better roads for these vehicles.
>Same could be said from the other perspective I suppose.

Sorta. I used to be religious so I'm well aware of "the other perspective" & how persuasive it can be.

It's kinda difficult to contrast the two perspectives without it coming across as condescending so I'll just leave it at that.
Then why not enunciate your argument and have a productive conversation instead of relying on logical fallacies?
Are you trolling...?

It was discovered by two independent parties which otherwise would likely not have happened at all....?

Did you read about Bullrun?
Right, it's not conspicuous consumption to pay more vs less for the ticket, since almost no one observes the purchase. Now, attending the event is conspicuous consumption, but the specific amount you paid is irrelevant to that, except to the extent that people in general know you have to pay a lot for the tickets.
Planet Money did a story[0] on this a few years ago, which helps articulate why artists see value in the traditional way of selling tickets.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/06/25/195641030/epis...
Well, lack of parenthesis is just horrid (flashbacks to Visual Basic), but kinda very happy to see one of the most useful things in php (and Delphi I think?) finally arrive in a current language!

I've always thought I only wanted it in a high level language, but now... I think I want it in c++ too... (just for debug of course, any pro knows user facing strings stay outside for localisation)
Interesting, what region is it? Is it because of the banned books themselves, or does Humble just not operate in your area?
I meant you need to actually state what you’re planning to do and why; not that it actually needs to be useable before it can criticized.

Afaict, you’ve expressed almost nothing about what this program intends to be, other than “emacs”
But it is bigotry to use the combination of believing in two genders and authority in a given situation to cause harm to those who aren't easily categorized by said belief.
This file is the windows search service index file. Here is a parser you can use to see what it does index.

https://github.com/B2dfir/wlrip

There may be other files that read this, but it was found with a quick search.
Thanks for the feedback. I’m a Product Manager for Create (Git, merge requests etc) at GitLab. Why do you think the repository part of the project isn’t clear enough? What would make GitLab’s repo capabilities less diluted for you? I want to make sure using Git with GitLab is great.
Relation to Voronoi is discussed in the original paper: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/09/11/1721248115
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18024526
Rust 1.30 (now in beta) has already moved to a newer snapshot of trunk, LLVM 8ish.
Here's hoping saner among the electorate heads prevail and "life" winds up meaning 2 years (or hell... 47 more days)
I cite the original article, including Linus' acknowledgement of the problem.
It’s just a plugin to Postgres, you just convert the tables you want to it’s type and otherwise it’s all the same.

No need to learn new databases all the time, Postgres does it all, regular tables, “documents” (JSON), timeseries, spatial/GIS, you name it.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18024526
Where do I sign up for security+convenience at any cost?
If you are an American citizen you can not be bared from re-entry, no matter how much they might want to do so.
Your parent is talking about Zig, not Rust, I believe.
But as I understand, BitTorrent can express directory structure. So the IPFS features like mounting by FUSE or browsing through web browser via local server can be implemented as the frontend of BitTorrent too.

Currently, there are tons of independently developed BitTorrent protocol implementations while IPFS has very few implementations from the same body.

You can't beat the existing software by slightly better implementations. Apart from probably IPNS, most IPFS features can be achieved by BitTorrent frontend too.

As for the gateway. If somebody want a gateway for P2P network, that's because the same P2P network is inefficient or difficult to use. If the P2P network is difficult to use, not much people run their own node. Rather, they relies on somebody else's node.

We see the bad consequence of this number of times in the crypto-currency.

In order to trust the P2P crypto-currenncy, It's essential that you run your own node for your wallet from the computer you own and trust. But the reality is, it's pretty inconvenient or difficult to do for most of the users. So what happened was, very few big central node which manage the wallet for you, exchange between different currencies for you. At this point, this is not a P2P crypto-currency. The big central node become the single point of failure. If it goes down or breached, you're doomed.

For the healthy P2P network that can replace the existing central-authority network of today, all users must run their own node and it must be very very easy to do so. So there should no demand for the gateway.
RTX 2080 Ti memory: 352-bit 14GHz 616GB/s :-O

14GHz memory! :-O
Current market cap: over $20 billion. Current quarterly revenues: under $10 million. Float: a measly 17+ million shares. Borrow rates: over 500% right now.

Lots of momentum × tiny float = crazy market cap + crazy borrow rates.

Doesn't seem... sustainable.
Reading that legal doc made me wish there was a Genius for laws.
By reading Hacker News, of course!