skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're going to downvote, at least have the courage to voice your objection. I thought that was supposed to be a privilege here, not an opportunity to skulk behind a rock.

I'll reply with a similar but lengthier remark from another contributor. Possibly it won't go over your head.

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I've thought for some time that the slow down in "fundamental invention" that some have observed since roughly the late 1960s to early 1970s is the result of "scientific fundamentalism" and Skepticism. Look into the backgrounds and thoughts of people like Einstein, Tesla, Engelbart, Turing, Edison, or Schrodinger, and you generally will not find them to be fundamentalist-positivist Skeptics.

It seems like the general intellectual trend from roughly 1970 until maybe 2010 or so was the rise of fundamentalism of every kind, both religious and secular... - (api; 2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10288033)
As we know, OpenGL is good at predictions. With OpenGL we can predict physical look of an imaginary object with high precision. It's Ok to say that by applying of non-linear transformation to vertex array we can create visual effect of strong gravitational field, as in "Interstellar". It's not Ok to say that this non-linear transformation of vertex array is nature of gravity.

We can use math freely for predictions and to describe laws of nature. But we cannot use math to explain nature.
I really enjoyed your work and it'd be a crime if you didn't continue!
> I sent the recommendation that it be rejected and that they not even try to do revisions. The authors were not competent to write such a paper. At the same time, they were probably considered the experts in their corner of the scientific world.

This sounds depressing. I assume your recommendation was promptly ignored and the paper was published anyway?
Globally, yeah sure. But all that will die is just most of humanity and the world - our current way of life. People survived worse, and people are busy building island getaways hoping to be those last few people standing.

Humans don’t act like a hive. Instead, we have local alliances and local optimums.

You know, I bet, right now, there’s a plan somewhere in America for what to do in a doomsday scenario to ensure survival of the American way of life.

Our way of life will end, our beautiful planet will lose its fish and insects and great fauna. But we’re busy creating fantasy world and games and movies. Kids are excited about magical beasts, and where to find them.

I’m being stark here, because I’m not finding an actual path to what I want ( a healthy planet and responsible species ). Instead the highest probable path I see is a husk of a planet and us figuring out a way to reintroduce life after terraforming is complete.
One note since I see many people talking about "KDE": the term does not refer to the DE anymore since many years, and instead refers to the community behind it. In fact, the DE is just Plasma, while Applications (like dolphin, ark, etc.) and Frameworks (the underlying libraries) aren't tied to a specific DE.
No. The Wifi is on the SDIO bus, I believe.
I'd love to have more, but they're tricky in my climate (too hot and dry), and in Australia there's about 200-300 varieties only AFAIK.

If you're in / next time you are in the UK, be sure to get out to Brogdale - they have apple and cherry and cider festivals, with an astounding number of varieties (only two of each tree though).

It is profoundly sad that it's such a painful process to get varieties through quarantine and into Australia - I tried a Braddick's Nonpareil there one time - my instant favourite apple ever. May be similar to a Sturmer Pippin (which is available in AU).
In my experience, no.

A full-time software engineer job is usually 9+ hours per day. Add even a minimal commute, and you're getting maybe 4 hours sleep. That'll only work for a few weeks at most.

If you found jobs that were a genuine 7h or 8h a day, 5 days a week, with no need to ever do "over time" or whatever ... that's minimum 14h/day, an hour for commuting, an hour for eating and showering, and do all your life stuff on the weekend, and you've got 8 hours to sleep.

So I guess it could theoretically work, but why would you do that to yourself?
But gab isn't far right. As I understood it, it's just a Twitter alternative. It doesn't make it inherently left or right.

Many people pointed towards lgbt content being taken down and said: "Look, you guys brought this on yourselves." The implication being that some vocal lgbt people were pushing for censorship of other people, but it ended up being used against themselves.

I think the solution is to require platforms over a certain size to allow all of these things. Platforms are not held responsible for many things due to being platforms. The government could amend those rules and say that if they want to be protected under those rules and they are larger than X then they should allow freedom of expression/speech.

Platforms such as Twitter, reddit, and Facebook are already treated by many like public spaces. Perhaps this would fall in line with their.
Melatonin: the body's natural sleep-promoting hormone
And now the UK is starting to pass laws and regulations on kitchen knives because it turns out banning guns doesn’t actually fix underlying human nature.
Sure, that’s baked into my argument - it’s saying that should you actually account for externalities, that’s going to affect global GDP growth.

Sure in the long run we will have a better planet, but then famously in the long run we’re dead too.

I do not think there is a rational incentive for many firms to actually allow externalities to be priced in. Making investment in lobbying more valuable (and America is case in point; it’s been decades of FUD and denial).

This is just the rational business game plan. Delay the onset of regulation for as long as possible, maximize profits and then adapt to the new world of regulations (hopefully diversify by the time regulations hit)

I’m hoping someone has a way to argue that this is incorrect.
I would buy this. I don't listen to rap, but I would buy this.
Why3 – A platform for deductive program verification
How to resolve the most common issue of Norton Anti-Virus
True, there is some potential for confusion. But it would be totally cost-prohibitive for every device to support Thunderbolt 3 or for every cable to support 100W power delivery.

What is lacking, perhaps, is a standard way to visually identify these capabilities.
I've been trying to use KDE on and off, but it just randomly freezes on me for several seconds on anything other than an Intel GPU. I was excited to try it with the new open-source AMD drivers, but it still does that.

GNOME doesn't have this problem, so for all its problems, it works for me.
The Quran?
When I was shopping for a computer I was actually disturbed by all the LED-enabled boxes with pseudo-scifi-militaristic bulging edges with a "spaceship" look and especially that window on the side. Of course, some people like that kind of stuff, this is why they sell such things. And why not, it is a matter of aestethics, but it is just not for me.

Eventually I decided on Fractal Design's Define series, they have variants with and without the windows. Now I have a Define RS 5 Black (without the window!) and it is a great quiet case with many details, such as keeping dust out with meshes and vacuumable mesh filters.

The System76 case looks nice, my initial impression was that it looked almost like a quality speaker with a kind of walnut finish. On further examination, it did not look so great, unfortunately. I'd like to see that tree part replaced with a dark metal-bluegrayish matte metal or something.
but why would any corporation would want virtue signallng opportunity ? Nike has shows that its great for PR
Its just a brain fart really,

I think i will have 2 job offers soon, and they’re both 7hr jobs, i was thinking what could go wrong if I took both, 1 remote and 1 local with like 10min commute.

One or two years of this, could get me to 200k in savings... which i really like, but I have to see if it worth it
Your response is inapt, because the comment about Gab’s users “blowing up synagogues “ is a rhetorical argument, not a literal one.

Arguing that if Gab is punished collectively because the shooter posted there, then Twitter should be too, because he posted their as well, is fallacious in its structure.

The original comment you responded to was alluding to the fact that Gab was founded, in part, because twitter and the other big platforms are actively trying to purge “hate speech” from their platforms.’

Yes, the Synagogue shooter posted on both platforms. But Twitter has been trying to minimize and reduce such content, up to banning users, while Gab is actively choosing editorial policies that attract users that spread hate speech!

Gabs existence itself is proof that Twitter is working on this problem and trying to minimize hate speech, and is succeeding to some degree. Gab, on the other hand is trying to increase the amount of hate speech in the world! That is what makes them so deserving of being “De-Platformed.”
It’s fundamentally an anecdotal thing: Kafka, Joyce, Neruda, Eliot, etc. all wrote at night.

My working theory is something like “romanticism/emotionalism vs. abstract rationalism”; if you’re writing something that benefits from immediate experience and emotional input (e.g. Kafka writing about nightmarish bureaucracy after working all day in an insurance firm) then it is better to write at night, after the events of the day have happened and your mind has been operating for 12+ hours.

Alternatively, if you’re working on a large, broad project that requires long-term, sustained effort and a clear mind, a morning habitual routine is better for making step-by-step progress.
Holy guacamole. "easier to terraform mars or create a habitable satellite than saving earth"

this is the most ignorant thing I've ever seen written on the internet. Get back to me once you have 1/10000000th the bio-diversity of earth on your habitable satellite.

1) change our paradigms, economic system, and other social factors. I can assure you that this is far more maleable than Martian soil composition...

our social structures evolved in the context of low population densities and plentiful resources.

our economic system is what needs to give, it doesn't even function for humans, let alone the planet and the rest of life we share it with...

need I remind you that
1) we are only ONE species, and haven't the RIGHT to destroy our shared home, nor the other species. Some of us humans are upset about this, and we WILL take you other humans on over this issue!

2) our planet is STILL the only known place with LIFE in the entire universe. This is likely to change, at some point, but not if you get us all killed first.

3) our social systems are flexible, arbitrary, dare I say "PRETEND"... change em.
> "50% of species" rather than "50% of population", which is a very big difference

Loss of 50% of species is really bad. Population growth and climate change will only accelerate the loss.

While I would welcome a decrease of the population of farm animals by 50% or 75%.

https://xkcd.com/1338/

Besides, humans will never die out because of lack of "resources".

Instead:

- either the sun kills all intelligent life on Earth maybe in 600 million years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Earth

- or ET or AI kill us.

- or some huge object from outer space collides with Earth.

IMO transhumanism will end the biological evolution of humans. Maybe as soon as this century.
Steak knives are another story.
Science is quite opposite to "believing", but if you "believe" in a theory, then, if you are looking for a word to describe me, this word is "heretic".

However, I see no significant differences in position about QM between me and Mario Bunge, famous scientist. :-/
why is this downvoted? seems very good counterpoint to private companies can do whatever they want.

The reality of the free speech online is that US constitution comes stapled with a "Terms of Service" by tech oligopoly
I believe ace has more features ?
Putnam's Bowling Alone was so good it was listed twice.
The question is if there is alternative and if this thing applies consistently. If I want to create a club which only accept men or whites it will not be allowed and there was the famous case with the bakery that refused to make a cake for a gay wedding. The supreme court in the US actually sided with the bakery but then there is the question of alternative and whether it is a monopoly. The bakery was certainly not a monopoly but access to a payment system could be completely blocked for people with certain view and that's a bit worrying. We don't allow it with certain other critical utilities and we should ask ourself if some of those services are not critical utilities.
I feel also very worried that when it comes to people views the people who decide which voice will be heard and which not is some tech company manager. The idea of the first amendment was that the government will not suppress speech because the government was the one with the power to suppress it but these days it is few unelected people in power position in a very specific industry and location of the US with a very obvious point of view and set of believes. So although I don't like certain opinions I like less the precedence we have here and the power given to very few people that I can't even influence by voting. It is like the city square fell under the control of some private company, companies like facebook and twitter are the modern city square and the first amendment should apply to it the same way it applies to any other public place.
He said he's skeptical, not that he thinks it's wrong. I've got to say that this kind of rabid response from climate change proponents kinda prods my inner contrarian.

I think at this point the group think is so strong that if anyone came out with evidence against global warming they would commit career suicide by publishing it
I propose a voluntary mission where all those interested in perpetual crapitalism and archaic social values voluntarily move en-masse to Mars, and please try not to rob too many of Earths resources getting there...

Bring the right wingers and life-haters with you too please...
Indeed, people are dangerously ignorant regarding Earth and Mars.

If we can not rescue Earth, a biological paradise, we have no hope to make it on Mars, a biological hell.
Tho if im not able to do overtime for any of the two jobs, i will come off as not a “team player” for both companies.
Anything could, a soyuz rocket exploding would invalidate any launches for the next 5 to 10 years. Boom and shards all over the atmosphere.
He is using Reddit /r/upliftingnews as source so you subscribe to;
https://www.reddit.com/r/upliftingnews.rss
Withdrawing tax benefits and government backing for long term mortgages would both probably reduce the increases in housing prices.

As would higher price inflation. Because people decide on a monthly payment and more price inflation means higher interest rates. Those interest rates would reduce the size of mortgages that people would enter into.
c9's online editor hasn't been updated for years, c9 team decided it would no longer open source their platform like they used to, ultimately not benefiting from potential volunteer's work who could have made c9 editor better. The proof of it is their online editor is stuck with an old Go version and doesn't even support Typescript, while some other online IDE just use Monaco, which is open source and better than Ace.
He was asking if Reddit was fraudulent.

It wasn't.

Please learn the meaning of such serious words before you start throwing them around.
While reasonable skepticism is healthy, global warming is such a well sudied phenomenon by now that an unreasonable number of independent codebases must have identical bugs in order for it to be false.

There's also the fact that we have had a pretty solid grasp about the chemical reactions of greenhouse gases since long before computers, both theoretically and empirically, and we know roughly how much is put out in the atmosphere.

Where the models diverge is on far finer points than what is needed to make the basic policy changes that seems to be where we are stuck right now.
>What reason is there to assume those platform platforms will not get kicked off the platform platform platforms?

Why should we assume that until someone gets kicked off the platform pltaform platforms?

Platform platforms intended exclusively for uses commonly considered undesirable have been successful in the past, see namecentral.
You should tell both about that plan. Usually private arrangements outside work is non of the company's business. But I had many contracts that explicitly rules out further work or needed approval.
Seems like FUD to me.

Consider that 11,000 satellite-sized objects are spread over the surface of the earth-- given an entire lifetime to search, how many do you think you could find?

It helps a little to imagine it as people instead of objects. Imagine there are only 11,000 people on earth instead of 7 billion-- just the population of one small town, spread over all the oceans and all the continents. Do you think you would ever find even one of them?

Then consider that orbital height expands the "surface area" of this satellite spread by an enormous amount....the surface area of a sphere at LEO is substantially larger than the surface area of the earth. I don't know the exact numbers, but I know it's a huge difference.

So the odds of ever finding any would be substantially lower.

I don't think this is something we have to worry about, even if it was 100,000 satellites.

But...I'm not an expert on orbital mechanics. I could be wrong, for sure. Just seems suspect to me.
How do you "discourage someone from voting"? By telling him voting booths smell bad?

And why would something like that need to be censored?

(I am not American)
>So precisely who is going to pay for all this, and the reduction in growth it’s going to entail?

Who is going to pay for the billions of corpses of men, women, and children? (And the "reduction in growth" that that entails)

>It’s very rational for business firms to lobby against externalities being priced in. It’s rational for ranchers to cut forests for economic gains. And it’s rational for the many many people who are being propelled up out of poverty to want better food, clothing and power.

This confuses "profitable" with "rational".

Motives (e.g. the profit motive, or altruism, or thinking about the commons) are not "rational" or "irrational", they are personal and sentimental.

One can think rationally about what their actions will bring on. The decision depends on their intentions and feelings, which themselves have little to do with rationality.

Picking the most profitable of two courses of action, externalities be damned, doesn't require reasoned thinking (only as much as to figure out which is the most profitable).

But while calculation "this will bring me profit" involves rational thinking, so does the calculation "this will also eventually destroy this place, or hurt society".

People are perfectly able to reason about the general (e.g. societal) and future impact of their actions, and avoid doing stuff that will have negative consequences.

It doesn't take irrationality to do that -- just not being a selfish greedy prick, which is orthogonal to rational thinking.
To be clear (and to no one's surprise): No one is paying poor Kenyans to program self-driving cars.

They are being paid to label data.
I wake up before 4am (between 11pm the day before and 2am usually). While everyone else spends the last 6 tired hours of their day on their hobbies, I spend the first 6 best hours of my day on my hobbies (writing, coding, etc). I'm definitely nocturnal, I'd just rather not be sleepy, so night is the beginning of my day.
Only if the opinion of the people you ask is considered valuable.
great, but how is it Lisp Machine UI like?
> So precisely who is going to pay for all this, and the reduction in growth it’s going to entail?

Extinction is not about money. The choice is to 'pay' now or to 'pay' later in a much harsher way.
"the Apple “ecosystem” reeks of the kind of Windows autism that repels Macintosh supremacists". Damn. What did Apple users or autism ever do to you?
For a better article, definitely read https://mashable.com/2018/03/06/starlink-spacex-satellites-o...
I do both, and I also tend to find it easier to write prose early in the day and code later.

I think it’s because of the depth of focus that’s required and how fragile it is. I can have a productive 30-60 minute writing session all the time, but unless it’s very trivial work, it takes me so long to get fully in the zone of maximum productivity when coding that it’s really not worth doing unless I have a few hours. And my morning rarely offer that, so I use them to clear the decks so I can do deep work like coding or whatever later in the day.

I’m not a natural morning person, but i routinely get up at 430am. I’ve deliberately adjusted to this masochistic schedule over the course of 15 years because I find it so superior in terms of effects on my life. I’m not a natural daily exerciser, healthy eater, relationship builder, etc. either. Sometimes it’s good to push yourself to do things because they’re good for you.
The "blogspam" is from the KDE developer who started Kubuntu and now maintains KDE Neon.
It is not 'your way of life' that will end, it is 'our lives' that will end. All of them.

Your fixes are fantasy, not reality.
Really? Are you just counting the plasma process or are you including everything else that's part of KDE?
You can bribe those people. If any new building on your block gives you a tax abatement for 5 years (which is then absorbed into that building's construction costs), then you bring a serious economic incentive to YIMBY. You can tune up the amount of tax benefit until YINBY outvotes NIMBY, and then you're good.
I fully understand that a single experience doesn't equate to a full study, but I've been using melatonin (as an adult) for 4 years without issue. What is an issue is when I forget and am still awake at 1am.
The article says that the deleted accounts were telling Democratic men not to vote because they would “drown out the voice of women.”

The idea is to cast a large net so that maybe, just maybe, a small number of Democratic males would abstain. Especially in swing states, every single vote is extremely valuable to both parties.
Misleading title. This is an opinion of influential books "written by an academic". It is implicit as this an academics website, but in HN it is out of this context.

And to quote the article itself "Ideally, then, the candidates would be like On the Origin of Species or Das Kapital or The Interpretation of Dreams. But those books were written more than 100 years ago, and none by an academic.". So there is a case to be made that academics written books are not that influential.
I think you're pretty much right, with the proviso that most satellites orbit in roughly the same plane.
is there an opensource product to manage this kind of labeling ? features should include double entry, statistical error checking , etc
So the article isn’t exclusive? :(
The problem is that these 11000 objects are moving among the existing ones. Some are nearly stationary on a geostationary orbit, while the LEO objects tend to zip around on wildly different orbits. So they are not sitting there, waiting to be found, but each object has a certain chance each orbit to hit some other object. These probabilities go up the more we put in orbit.