skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well this is the game being played. If you run a business you don't want customers like me who seek value and privacy. You'll make a lot more money from those with plenty of disposable cash who don't mind adding yet another $10/m SaaS to their monthly expenses.

I thought about creating a budget SaaS but what puts me off is

(i) Your target money is in a budgeting mindframe and so yeah they are going to be looking for the cheapest option.

(ii) There are so many budget apps and they are good and fairly cheap.

YNAB4 is the best as far as I am concerned, unless you need full double-entry accounting. The user interface is superb. It is going to be hard to come close. My ideal budget app is YNAB4 but with some of the opinionated envelope-based budgeting calculations being more flexible for those who do have some cashflow buffer.

I'd literally keep a Windows 10 VM for the next 20 years to run it :-) unless something with a better UI comes out which I doubt.
One of the biggest reasons for that seems to be Span<T>, so it seems possible that ASP.NET Core can move toward .NET Standard 2.1, since it includes Span<T>. Certainly it isn't guaranteed, but it seems plausible. (Not that it would help much in the case that .NET Framework doesn't seem to be capable of .NET Standard 2.1.)
Sure, but that's like saying Yellowstone is going to erupt.
Adding to the Microsoft/FLOSS debate: I'm extremely cautious about their current efforts. I do not trust them. At all. I don't actually need to trust them, since I've left their ecosystem for Linux some 18 years ago and I don't have plans to go back. But there is also a user base of individuals and companies who are just more comfortable using Linux/FLOSS at the moment and this larger user group is exactly what Microsoft is after. Far too many times have I seen "Windows 10 with WSL and VSCode is a great development environment" on this very site, which from my point of view is exactly where Microsoft wants us to be, on the tipping point from Linux/Mac to Windows. They are pulling every uprising technology to their platform to make the decision to move back feasible for people and companies alike and thus stay relevant themselves. In times of IBM buying Red Hat this is something I've very anxious about.

And like many others have said: Microsoft is just beginning to act like "good guys", but these five or six years aren't nearly enough to forget and forgive. I remember an OSCON keynote by Steve Yegge called "How to Ignore Marketing and Become Irrelevent in Two Easy Steps" (which is great in itself and really difficult to get by since blip.tv went down), where, among other things, he's telling the story of Bell Atlantic, which later became Verizon. The reason for the rebranding has been a study about the time period needed for people to forget about the bad (bad service, bad technology) and associate the brand with something good (upgraded service, upgraded technology). This study's answer has been "a generation", which is roughly what I would have guessed, based on several brand names stuck in my mind. I don't think I would trust Microsoft more 20 years from now, but I might not take such a hard stance on them if they don't go beyond the "embrace" phase in that time. If they do, well, that's another generation from them to outlive.
Correct me if I'm off-base but it really feels like this article can be summarized with "self-improvement has its place just as recreation does, just don't overdo it." I suppose I'm just not sure what the author is arguing, just that the self-help obsession is just real super bad. For me, my attempts at self-improvement, which are admittedly many and varied and probably too frequent, aren't merely chasing solutions but venturing into others' experiences and picking and choosing which parts of their shoes I want after I've walked a mile in them.

>He cites surveys that show that adolescent girls are increasingly unhappy with their bodies, and that a growing number of men are suffering from muscle dysmorphia

I'm sure consumerism has a role in this but I'd guess that increasing childhood obesity and decreasing levels of testosterone in men are a more obvious reason for these.
But religion asks you to believe in something there’s no evidence for. To commit your life to it. Then when challenged, it asks that you disprove it.
In the Age of A.I., Is Seeing Still Believing?
> Texas last had a Blue governor in 1994. Texas hasn’t always been red — only for the past two decades — and it won’t stay red forever.

California last had a Republican governor in 2011, but people will look at you funny if you try to cite that as evidence that California wasn't dyed-in-the-wool Blue at the time.
The only point I was making is that Eli's comment was not, contrary to your claim, an argumentum ad consequentiam. That's an entirely separate question from (e.g.) whether it involves something you can call "faith".

But: If you define "faith" broadly enough then sure, everything with any element of belief to it involves "faith". Derive everything rigorously from axioms? That means having "faith" in your axioms! Do literally anything else at all? That means taking a step at some point that doesn't have a watertight logical justification, so it's "faith"! -- So, sure, Eli's argument (or at least my sketchy reconstruction of it) involves an element of "faith", just like literally every other argument anyone could ever possibly make.

I guess this is what you mean by denying "that truth is knowable". If by "knowable" you mean "... with literally no room for any sort of uncertainty" then I vigorously agree with you -- but I have the impression (perhaps wrongly) that you were offering this as some sort of correction or education for eli_gottlieb, and I see no reason to think he needs it. All he's said is that he believes in science because it works, and that is perfectly consistent with taking "believe" to mean "accept as our current best approximation, to the best of our knowledge, to the truth, with the understanding that later discoveries might change our opinions greatly" or something of the sort.
Sorry for the 43 seconds of your time, two bootstrappers are timing out and that slows down everything. Lesson learned, I will fix the app.

Regarding JavaScript: I don't think there's a good way of doing distributed web docs with HTML only. Very sorry about that.
Slow Learning: Four years of participation in the machine learning community
Disagree, it's just not an apples to apples comparison when you add in revenue from a largely unrelated SAAS offering.
Ironically I think Ms. Schwartz could stand to improve her writing, and be more productive with her audience's time. I gave up 7 long paragraphs in, after realizing that:

a) no real counterclaim had been made yet, and
b) I was only 1/4 of the way through this article

Her concluding paragraph is that you should do non-productive tasks sometimes, disconnect, and enjoy yourself. The great irony in this is that I recall being given the same advice in the last couple of self help books I read, Deep Work and The Shallows.

This article seems to be a mountain of words to broad brush a genre, but then I could be wrong, as I only read a quarter of it.
Great point about taxing the externalities. Also, I think that elected officials with the livestock facilities in their jurisdictions should be required to live (or spend a significant amount of time) downwind of the facilities.
We're currently riding the longest bull market in history. Surely you don't think it will last forever and that we are closer to to it's end than it's beginning?
I find this argument very unconvincing. The reason code has bugs is precisely because humans are NOT good halting oracles. We're not even good self-assessors of our own oracular capabilities because we not only write buggy code, but we're often surprised by the bugs in the code we write.
Some externalities are hard to tax. For example, consumption of red meat probably increases cancer risk [1]. We can't introduce a tax on cancer, but we still want to reduce the occurrence of cancer, so all that's left is taxing red meat.

[1]: http://www.who.int/features/qa/cancer-red-meat/en/
> ASCII digits are universal. Bytes are universal. Text is ... complicated.

All text should be UTF-8. It really shouldn't be complicated in $current_year.
With esentially no exceptions, people don't overwork themselves their whole lives for society, they do so for themselves or their kids.

When they don't get a commensurate benefit form extra work, they won't do it. If there are societies sliding downward it is because they are extracting too much wealth from the people who produce it. Among other things, just eliminating rent seeking would be a boon.
Really fascinating. g33kz.de has 25 stories on its front page, and none of them have any comment.
New York digital banking startup raises $1.7M
Yep, two bootstrappers were timing out, as explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18385587

Thanks for checking the site out!
The paper from Chrysler is also fascinating. It's the first time I've seen "Side of a submarine" as an element in a circuit diagram.
Milk is pasteurized differently in the US vs Europe. I’d bet that has the most impact on taste.
The Supreme Court is good at avoiding theoretical cases. Basically, the original net neutrality regulations were already rescinded by the Trump administration. Because of this, the Supreme Court has no reason to intervene as it is a moot point.
Not in my experience. You will however get the discussion shut down.
The URL for this submission should probably be https://www.isittoasted.com — it looks like shortened URLs get killed automatically
properly implemented, hw encryption is better because it does not expose key material in the RAM even for a brief moment.
Blatant manipulation of the findings of the study in order to further the aims of what looks like some kind of crypto-rag. From the abstract of the paper:

“indicating that (with the exception of aluminium) cryptomining consumed more energy than mineral mining to produce an equivalent market value.”

In reference to the other metals studied. This is neglecting the even more obvious point that it’s a completely irrelevant comparison, we should compare to equivalent alternatives!
Luckily it isn't any of the two!
Yes we are Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement in age of aspirational narcissism.
Courier 12 is my go to for cutting and pasting terminal output because so much depends on fixed width fonts lining up properly and Outlook doesn't offer an exact match of xterm's 9x15 font.
More like saying that a geyser at Yellowstone is going to erupt. If you believe that the timeframe for the next recession is on par with the timeframe for the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you.
I agree completely. Diet and low impact exercise/stretching are the big ones.

I was diagnosed with AS as a teenager and recall spending months at a time on crutches with swollen ankles and knees (having a fluid drained and replaced with cortisone injections), at times it affected my finger joints, and in my twenties and early thirties my lower back. Throughout most of these years, particularly early on, Naprosyn was my goto solution.

Up until about 2 years ago, I couldn't imagine getting a solid night sleep without some kind of lower back pain waking me, and putting my socks/shoes on of a morning generally involved sitting or laying on a bed and straining to pull my feet up to reach them.

I'm not big on swimming, but in the past couple of years have taken up regular Yoga and this has had huge benefits for my lower back (and state of mind).

Even more fundamental to this, I believe is my change of diet. Over the past couple of years I've (gradually) reduced my sugar, dairy and meat intake and adopted a more planted based diet. I didn't dive in at the deep end, but I'm now at the put where the only dairy I now indulge in is the occasional cheese, I eat virtually no red or processed meats, might eat chicken/fish once a week at most, and sooth my sweet tongue naturally with fruits, honey, etc.

My lower back hasn't bothered me for about 18 months, I can now put my socks on while standing and I rarely, if ever, suffer joint pain elsewhere. I feel more energetic, have taken up running (ran my first 5k recently) which is something I always thought would be something beyond my reach.

I don't like to preach or say any one particular thing (if anything) is going to change your particular situation. I can only say the improvement in my quality of life over the past couple of years has been significant since changing my diet and introducing some regular movement.
It's the expected outcome. Male dominated/inequitable societies will cater to male preferences.

It's insane to think that increasing gender equity would turn women into men. Instead it allows women to be women, which is a good outcome.

Unfortunately SJWs/affirmative action would have you believe that equality is sameness. Forcing women to be men is not equitable.
Think of it like rubbing two sticks together to start a fire -- You need to put enough energy into a system to maintain the subsequent high-energy reaction.

In a fusion reaction, we're supplying the fuel (Deuterium/Tritium/Helium instead of wood) and the spark (electromagnetic/laser instead of fire) to provide enough energy for the fuel to sustain an ongoing energetic reaction. The primary difference is instead of the fuel disassembling due to the reaction (carbon chains in the wood combining with oxygen to form heat, CO2, ash and H2O), in a fusion reaction the energy is used to combine two molecules (usually two isotopes of hydrogen combining to make a single helium atom with excess energy/heat).
Everyone's heard of Texas Instruments, but the products that make them famous aren't exactly an advertisement for attracting skilled staff. A TI calculator is less than $1 worth of functionality, $100 of "you can use this on standardized tests without being considered a cheater", and $50 of brand recognition. The whole selling point of the product is that it's just as bad now as it was 25 years ago.
listed above (just before 2015). Don't want to get too specific, but I bridge engineering, product development, and (usually director- or C-level) customers. I have pretty good depth in specific areas of applied security.
My understanding has always been that, while some Buddhists do in fact proclaim belief in various deities (Tibetan Buddhism in particular), there is always an acknowledgement that they only exist in the realm of the mind. That is, subjective experience is elevated and the idea that "objective reality" can be experienced is discarded. The common word for this is Nondualism. And this Tim Maudlin person does confess to being a non-dualist.

I agree that the tone of the Scientific American article was annoying and somewhat condescending. But overall I don't have any issue with the ideas presented. I don't see the conflict.
What about letting people make their own choices without trying to social engineer them, which is essentially forcing our values onto them?
Wow, you and I couldn't see things more differently. Sports teams are doing this to cities constantly. Build us a new sports stadium at your expense that will be used 8-10 times a year. We'll take the concession revenue, the parking revenue, etc. Maybe we'll let you have a tax on food.

Maybe we'll move away before the city is done paying for the stadium. See St. Louis and the Rams. It's rare that a city like San Diego refuses to buckle under.

In Portland, the City of Portland makes up the difference between the minimum wage and $15/hour for the employees who work the MLS Timbers games.

Nearby in Beaverton, Nike's property was guaranteed by the state not to be annexed by the city so they wouldn't be required to pay property taxes. There was muttering that maybe Nike would pack up and move if this didn't happen.

What I would love to see is that cities and states are not allowed to offer subsidies to companies. If you want to move here, great. How many stupid things like what Scott Walker is doing with Foxconn have to happen before something like that is prohibited?

In a show-down between corporate pros and local politicians, I know who's going to come out ahead.
Edit: The issue I had was temporary, it seems to be working now.
So, why would that be a negative outcome?
it's also hard to predict how deep the recession will be
Every company is a rating agency now
Recursion is great, IMHO, as a non-professor type. It allows for much clearer expressions of intent for my methods and functions than the iterative version often achieves.

There are some recursive structures that are just much more natural than their iterative counterparts. Parsing (as lysium suggests in the sibling post), for example.

But also things like graph and tree traversals, and many search algorithms related to those same structures. If you attempt a tree traversal iteratively, you have to maintain the return stack manually, rather than permitting the language to do it for you (assuming a full traversal and not a search, a search could be done iteratively without much trouble).
Intuitively it would make sense to me that they both provide advantages to the mind. Certainly, being able to parse dense technical literature is impressive, but the ability to use the imagination and think creatively would probably use different parts of the mind, and I'd think the "best" minds could do both.

Wasn't it said that Einstein kind of came up with the whole idea about relativity based on the imagined idea of "riding" a beam of light or something like that?
Hope it comes down here to Miami. Imagine the talent pool! Easy access to south american engineers
> This happens in many other areas of concern too.

Yes, elected officials should also be required to spend 24 consecutive hours each month in the inmate population of the local jail, prison, etc. to ensure that it offers safe and humane conditions.
I feel the same way about vegetables. Cutting down in the prime of their life, and shipping them to stores across the country packed in crates. It's unconscionable.
Two light things[+] are fused[++] into one heavy thing[+]

The total mass of the (new) heavy thing is a little bit less than the total mass of the (original) two light things. There is some missing mass!

That missing mass is converted into energy in the process. The oft-quoted formula is: E = m * c^2 ('E' is the energy, 'm' is that missing mass, 'c' is the speed of light[+++])

This happens naturally in the sun (and other stars). It happens artificially in hydrogen bombs. Making it happen artificially in ways that let people harness the energy (and aren't just explosions) is the hard part, which is why the article is interesting.

+atomic nuclei, typically isotopes of hydrogen and helium

++hence "fusion"

+++in a vacuum
Yeah, but just because this happens doesn't mean we shouldn't be upset about it. This is companies strongarming governments into giving them tax breaks. It's robbing society to enrich a few people at the top.

Amazon is following the Boeing example. I fully expect Washington state to give away massive amounts of money the same way they did before.
I've been following the project for over a year and it's been an incredible source of knowledge. Opened my mind in so many ways! The documentation is really well done, highly recommended even for non-Ruby devs, it's a great read about microservices and evented systems.
Not outraged, not mad, not kicking and screaming, I think your attitude is damaged.

"Completely and utterly stupid to fight for equality."

"I'm glad people need to fight for a better job."

Retrograde and sad, and a recipe for a continually miserable world.

Give everyone enough, give everyone what they need, and let's see what humanity is actually capable of. Any other attitudes, any other goals belong, rightly so, in the dustbin of history.
From the comments:

> ITER was designed before the newest generations of superconductors were available. ITER is now succumbing to the escalation of commitment that sunk-costs engender. SPARK [sic] has the advantage of an agile development model and new materials and technology that combined, dramatically shortens the path to breakeven and the reduction in costs to do so.

Just imagine where we'd be if fusion science were given equal footing with other investment endeavors.
So Amazon should only be allowed to have large offices in Blue states? What dangerous thinking.
Fishy? More like umami.
This is the kind of thing I'm expecting to see more of coming from the ML field. Orgs fighting malaria should take these efforts into consideration, back them, develop ever more robust tools. Which might already be happening, I don't know.
The whole article is just plagiarized from the book Sled Driver, by a Habu pilot. A fun read, but the whole site looks like click-bait titles and plagiarized content.
1. I didn't substantially change the content of my post, only expanded on it in an obvious way.

2. "Outside of the political block with control of 2/3 of your government and an unpredictable split on the remaining third" is an absurd restriction to place on me for this conversation. Of course I ignored it. It was a disingenuous attempt to exclude politics from a subthread I had started specifically about government policies.
NASA likens Mars InSight lander parking spot to kale salad
The more worried people are that there's a bubble, the less extreme the irrational exuberance. I love all the "shit, the bubble's about to pop" talk. If people weren't worried, it's just make the correction that much worse when it comes. And someday we'll have one, that's a given. It's just a question of when and how bad.
If I'm in government and I mess up then I would love if the people who are angry just packed up and left.

I'd be more upset if they stayed angry and showed up on election day.
Getting people into houses and then helping them clean up their acts, rather than setting a high moral bar (we won't house you until you clean up your alcohol/drug addiction and take treatment for your mental health issues) is just plain good sense.

I've always thought the "clean up then get help" seemed cruel and from a position of ignorance. I couldn't imagine being homeless and having to clean up to get a dry place to sleep or food to eat. Sobriety would just add another layer of misery: Withdrawal from any substance would add even more layers.
I've seen several articles over the years which suggest a programming career is shorter than the average career; let alone experiencing agism myself. I can't re-find the prior articles at the moment, but here's an interesting article about average programmer age:

https://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-age-programme...
The only HQ is where the CEO sits.
Yes that a pretty good example, even if it hasn't held up well with modern day morality.
That would indicate humans are partial halting oracles.
Awesome conference and meetup talks
There is an exhibition in Frye Art Museum in Seattle that somehow aligns with the article. Worth checking out if you are in the area.

https://fryemuseum.org/exhibition/6863/
Uhm, well, its just the basic way one would use uMatrix so nothing special. It's an add-on that works by whitelisting instead of blacklisting, similar to NoScript.

In this case I had it set up to allow all subdomains of google, so I opened the panel and clicked to blacklist the subdomain that I didn't want.

EDIT: The only downside of this is that if I want to use Google Hangouts in the same browser, it is now blocked, so I have to manually unblock it. But I use Firefox as my main browser, yet reserve hangouts to Chromium anyway.

https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/wiki