skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, many addictions have withdrawal effects that are serious or even life threatening. Nicotine withdrawal effects are mild discomforts that go away after a few days.
See John Stuart Mill on causation. There's no such thing as singular causation.
Restoring Apollo Guidance Computer
Let's say I created a suitable color palette. What would be the best way to make sure the colors are used consistently? – Giving it names like primary_700 or accent_1_700 seems a bit too technical.
I wish he had gone into more detail about the specific issues with anti-depressants.

Most anti-depressants target serotonin or norepinephrine because the medical industry is still more or less following the "monoamine hypothesis". The hypothesis goes like this: monoamine neurotransmitters are crucial in the human brain, depressed people have depleted levels of them, therefore we should give them a drug that prevents their reuptake.

But there are issues. SSRIs take roughly 5 hours to become bioavailable, but the positive effects of antidepressants take weeks. Why? If the core issue was depleted serotonin levels, shouldn't the person be happier same-day?

Perhaps I'm building a strawman (I doubt med professionals believe the mono-amine hypothesis either), but antidepressants are being prescribed at record rates, and they are being increasingly trusted by the public. Why? The science is trial and questionnaire, the drug efficacy is low, and the side effects are many.
PARC also had a huge amount of trouble commercializing any of its work - part of it was the intrenched bureaucracy at Xerox, and the way Xerox looked at products and sales. That said, the Laser Printer alone, paid for the money spent on PARC several times over.
It is not about if I've seen the symbol or not. { for example is read as "left brace". It takes the screen reader the time to pronounce two words with ambiguity left. What about ${variable}? You have 3 extra symbols totaling five words to surround a single variable. Redundant and abhorrent.
I only have FF installed on Android and don't have any issues.
reading this is like taking a time-machine back to the dark ages. It's like the "Bring out yer dead!" scene in Monty Python's "Holy Grail", only not funny.

For the love of God, use Neuro-linguistic Programming.

The "vicarious traumatization" wouldn't be a problem if you used techniques that don't require reliving the trauma! It would be healthier for both the therapist and the client.

There are repeatable algorithms for dealing with e.g. early life trauma. You can actually "go back in time" and relive a different life and have it massively and permanently affect your real-world present-day life.

One of the strangest and saddest things about psychology is the disconnect between practitioners and researchers on the one hand, and the cutting-edge state-of-the-art techniques and "schools" on the other. (The NLP wikipedia page is all about how it's a pseudo-science. Sheesh!)
And subsequent parts:

2: https://rescue1130.blogspot.com/2018/11/restoring-apollo-gui...

3: https://rescue1130.blogspot.com/2018/11/restoring-apollo-gui...
Which media houses are you talking about exactly? Even a cursory glance on the news channels at prime time will reveal the govt bias quite easily. People have been fired for criticising govt and even NDTV recently had, what some believe, to be a politically motivated takeover.
For people with blue-yellow color blindness that page is a nightmare.
As a man who has lost half his body weight, I don't think it is my place to suggest that the force of law be used to remove sugar from everything and force nutritional standards on other people. I feel like your call for a ban on nicotine is roughly equivalent. I enjoy about half a dozen cigars a year, and I don't see any reason I shouldn't have the right to do that.
Also former smoker here (15 years of smoking, 6 years smoke free).

> ban all of forms of nicotine for sale.

you can't do that as it would create a thriving black market. Look at the edges of the European Union, where EU taxes drove the prices of cigarettes sky high and people are illegally importing cigarettes from Ukraine, Moldova, Russia, etc..

You need to boil the frog. Slowly but surely, make consuming nicotine socially unacceptable (already is almost everywhere in the West wrt to smoking), expensive (but again, slowly, don't shock the market) and shitty (ban tobacco additives, flavors, make the product packaging look like a horror show). 1-3 generations tops and you'll not see anymore smokers.
Also, whilst I understand many/most people can't taste the difference, the swap to using sweeteners has had the same level of disgust to my taste as stirring in a teaspoon of salt into almost every soft drink.
Do you think the people driving trucks into people have no mental health issues?
You don't think confounding variables would accumulate as the area being considered greatly increases? Why not?
Firefox is going to win again, by the way.

We are the same intransigent nerds that originally moved to FF over IE6 on principle, only this time also with more disposable income (You know, the people you want to show ads to), on top of technical acumen and prescriptive influence.

Chrome is a couple more undeleteable tracking cookies or proprietary languages away from the tipping point.
Addiction in itself is not harmful at all. It just means you have to keep using the substance, not that it's harmful in itself, as long as you take it.
But does Light Table now without its original founders have any steam behind it? A glance at its GitHub tells me no.
My life has come a full circle. Moved to the facebook messenger, WhatsApp, Snapchat for texting and now only prefer iMessage or text messages. The number of groups you added to in WhatsApp and the meaningless forwards make me open those apps even lesser.

On the social sharing front, I only use Snapchat to share what I am up to some close friends. Limited FB, Instagram to once a week casual check-in and never been happier.
That's correct, however the GDPR contains some clauses allowing each state to pass national laws to supplement it, and I expect most states will.
You will love it for the first 30 minutes, after that it will become annoying and heavy on your eyes
Federated and decentralized social media platforms are already a thing. The ones I know of right off the top of my head are

https://joinmastodon.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18370208 (Aether)
It's not like they didn't deliver at all, though. They raised funding for Light Table via Kickstarter, and they then delivered Light Table. I don't think that the $316k raised should require perpetual commitment from Chris Granger. He put in a ton of work, and released it. LT is available, and it's open source, so anyone who wants to contribute to it can do so. But based on the amount of activity it has seen, it appears that for the most part, people either aren't willing or aren't able to contribute.

As for Eve - the people who invested in it are professionals. They knew going in that programming languages and tools are tough to monetize. I think that the level of commitment shown and the releases of Eve that were delivered are reasonable considering the amount of money that was invested.
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Another way to read this headline is “Unwanted Pregnancies Plummet Thanks to Science.”

We have plenty of babies! The 3rd world is pumping them out like an assembly line.

If you want more taxpayers, just import those people who want to move into your nation and give them citizenship.

Perfect storm for economic development by the numbers:

* Higher birth rate
* Overpopulation
* War

Nothing improves employment stats like a draft!

This is why people who govern based on economic metrics like this are dangerous fools and should be booted from any office with authority.
Some context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16227130
Another big influence is what problems can attract funding.
Is Excel dead?
I know you are getting down voted but I think there is a valid point to be taken into consideration here. It seems like the evaluation of how these groups of people are doing today is being see through the lens of our own biased ideals of what "better" is. Sometimes I wonder about some of the indigenousness peoples that have been effectively wiped out around the world what if we had a "prime directive" and let them develop on their own? Could they have founded a civilization that perhaps is "better" in other ways. Maybe one that lives more harmoniously with the environment rather than cooking the planet? Just something to think about.
I won't speak for the rest of the team, but walking away from Eve is unquestionably the hardest thing I have ever had to do. We were given a once in a lifetime chance to reinvent the way we build software, with the only constraints being our imagination and the clock imposed by our runway. I think by the end we were tantalizingly close to success too. Many of the tools we made were significantly more productive for certain domains of work. Unfortunately, close doesn't cut it in a startup, and despite many, many sleepless nights pushing we weren't able to tie a single cohesive product together that was both better enough and general enough.

You might argue that we should have settled on one of our iterations that was close rather than continuing the search for something better. I can't really disagree with that except to say that each of the latest prototypes was such a large improvement over the last that it felt irresponsible to stop short.

Unfortunately, we've had to find work that would keep a roof over our heads, but that doesn't mean we've buried the work we've done. We've open sourced Light Table and every iteration of Eve that was remotely useful, and we've worked hard to share the most important things we learned on the journey with those who might continue it through essays, speaking, and thorough commenting in the most interesting sections of our code. Nothing would make me happier than having someone take inspiration from our attempt and build the future of programming before I have the financial freedom to return to working on it.

Like everyone at Kodowa, I just want to live in the world where those tools exist. I am sad that we weren't able to complete them in the short time that we had, but I am not sad that we tried.
Great article, I especially liked:

> the ones that make you think of Facebook as "blue", even though it's really mostly grey.

which seems obvious in retrospect.

I'm colour-blind (mostly red-green, sometimes blue-green too, never pinned down exactly which type - or types - it is) so I have used those generators before, and I think they do have value for me or others that just think they don't have a good eye for colours that look good together.

The opening example shows a nauseous combination of colours, but actually what the article mainly addresses is the lightness of each - presumably one could get some good results with a 'palette generator', and then following the advice here with the generated palette as the 'base colours'.
Can someone clarify for me what is the use case of these key-value stores getting posted around HN recently?
Yes, there is such a thing as "foreign" on the Internet, a fact that has been dramatically demonstrated by China and North Korea, and also less dramatically by America (copyrights) and Europe (copyrights and privacy regulations). It is easy to forget that the Internet is only as international as governments are willing to allow, and that a government can (and some have) disconnect the domestic network in some country from the global Internet.
Can't say I've ever had an issue. Do you have an example?
> to show Romania the door out of EU

> I did not say EU

Really?

Also, you want to punish a whole country for some corrupt politicians?
Occam's razor would argue that truth should be rather easy.

I think you have a valid point, but that the correlation between B and C is still very likely, even if A is a factor in the existence of B.

For instance, if I have a particularly great lunch one day because a new guy is working the grill at a restaurant, I would claim that the new guy working the grill is the reason for my great lunch. There are, of course, many factors which go into him being there, such as the manager who chose to hire him, but it is nonetheless truthfully and directly because of him that I've had a great lunch.

Similarly, a mission is relevant and increases the likelihood of an education; it doesn't mean that education is not the most direct correlation, however. Additionally, somebody pointed out how similar effects were not found when missions focused on health and poverty, for instance.
Yeah, because the amphetamines we currently use to treat ADHD aren’t addictive at all.
That might be true but this article basically says you have to rely on your eyes. You might as well get the designer to do everything. We programmers should also publish articles like this: dont even bother with Excel formulas you need a programmer
There was a crater. Mayne not a giant, but one of some sort. If the soil was soft enough, deep enough, that crater could have eroded away long ago. The rock may also have moved from where it landed to where it is now. So it has, today, not "left" us a crater.
I've never personally had a problem with smoking, but I am a food addict so I know what addiction feels like. It seems easy to deal with in concept only because you've vastly oversimplified the mechanisms involved.

As with most things, saying is significantly easier than doing.
I can certainly believe that Texas, in practice, never had much public land -- I readily admit my ignorance on this point. I'm still not convinced of your original statement, that it has no public land because it was previously an independent country.
Basic Attention Token doesn't live up to its claims
"access to markets" is not "the" determining factors, it is "a" determining factor. Have all the access you want via physical proximity, you also need to be able to offer something to that market, and an education is one of the factors in that. And it wasn't just missions that were the factor cited in the article, but a Jesuit one in particular: Jesuits are known for their strong push for education over the centuries. When the researcher here looked at non Jesuit missions in the same area, and therefore likely to have very similar "access to market", their outcomes were lower. I take your point about market access, and I think it is a good point, but education is one of the factors that gives a person access to a market.
Whether you see it as having science behind it or not really depends on what problem you're considering.

There are some interesting in-depth articles about how people build those palettes and ramps that you might find interesting:

https://uxplanet.org/designing-systematic-colors-b5d2605b15c

https://design.lyft.com/re-approaching-color-9e604ba22c88
>> obligated to acknowledge opinion

lol thats a nice way of putting it. It's an interesting point about why we are all so attracted to opinion. It doesn't require much mental energy or something I suppose.

Plus in an info overloaded world where even the experts have doubts about a lot of things it allows us to butt into debates where we would never be allowed to enter in the real world.
They are isomorphic, but B-Trees are more cache friendly. B-Trees store more in each node, while red-black trees require pointer chasing for each element.
So, I’m trying it out now on my iPad, which is the primary place where I do HN.

Is the only difference between regular and compact modes the display of the user avatar?

In landscape mode, could you offer a two pane interface, where the stories are in the narrow pane to the left and the comments or article being viewed is displayed in the wider pane on the right?

For the interface where a user is writing their comment, why is the background light grey while the typeface is dark grey? This seems very low-contrast and not a good color choice.

Perhaps you could do the posting interface inline with the reading interface, and not pop up a completely separate page?

How do you display all new articles in a given category, as opposed to just the top most popular ones?

I’m happy to share marked up screenshots, if that would help.
Yea, this statistic is as bad of a representation of marketshare, as democracies without proportional representation.
Why the yellow background though? It'd look nicer with the light cyan background. Save the yellow and red for some kind of attention colors.

Even with the "right colors" one can go wrong if the colors are not used in a smart way: green over red or blue over yellow is seldom good for something people are expected to look at longer times.

(Yes, I fully understand the first example was a "don't do this", but it was not the best it could be with those colors)
I've been off social media for years now, entirely, and I'm back to a point where the rest of my friends and just society itself are so fully entrenched into some sort of social media that I'm getting very lonely and depressed. I've actually thought about making a Facebook or Instagram account again and just placing strict rules on it, but even that really creeps me out.

My friends are always telling me about cool events on Facebook, their Instagram stories at the really fun and cool places they work non-profit, all of these cool groups. I feel super detached from even my best friends, and feel like I don't get a full friend experience. While our relationships are strong and have been for years, they're kinda dull because they use social media so much. They understand why I don't use it and don't give me a hard time (anymore), but always bother me to come back.
Never heard of this before but will give it a try.
A Fifth of China’s Homes Are Empty
FWIW, humans have survived falls from aircraft without a parachute, due to the last two reasons. Recalling some of the accounts, it helps a lot if you happen to hit on the downslope of a forested hill with just the right slope.
Smartwatches know you’re getting a cold days before you feel ill
> No. And besides, on the logic that it might make people angry or convinced of their delusional views therefore we shouldn't do it is very poor reasoning.

Good thing that isn't what I suggested then.

> In the same way that naive tolerance does?

Define "naive" tolerance. Seems like you're either assuming the conclusion, or trying to persuade with loaded language.

> "Only one thing could have broken our movement – if the adversary had understood its principle and from the first day had smashed with extreme brutality the nucleus of our new movement." (A Hitler at the 1933 Nuremberg Nazi Party rally)
>
> "If our opponents had been clever, considering that political weapons were so unevenly distributed, they could have undoubtedly found ways and opportunities to make our success impossible." (J Goebbels, 1934)
>
> "If the enemy had known how weak we were, it would probably have reduced us to jelly. It would have crushed in blood the very beginning of our work" (J Goebbels, 1934)

Ah, so if they hadn't been sympathetic or they had been able to read minds so as to discern the intentions of Nazi party leaders. Well that's totally reasonable then.

Honestly, precisely what expressions of intolerance do you think would have prevented the rise of the Nazi party? Everything you've quoted is devoid of anything concrete.

> Not in democratic society; can you point me to which Kantian thinkers (including Kant himself!) whose thought formed the basis of any modern state?

Irrelevant. The question is whether Kantian principles entail the relevant conclusion. We are beholden not only to government law, but moral law as well. Or do you think it's ethical or virtuous to violate the spirit of a law while following the letter of the law?

Furthermore, my claim is not that all opinions are equally valid and deserving of equal attention. My claim is that changing opinions by non-coercive means is right. Doxxing, violence, and online mobs are not right way to change opinion.

> I disagree, and as I said earlier, it's no crime to disagree with liberal dogma like this.

Not a legal crime, but nowadays it's certainly a social crime enforced by mob rule.

> But if we must go this route, what does violence say of structural violence, for instance?

That it can and should be alleviated by non-violent means, taking into consideration social inertia, ie. that it takes time for a message to propagate and persuade enough of the public. As Per MLK, violence begets violence. All the most revered figures of effective social change advocated non-violent means.

There is considerable debate whether the terrorism perpetrated by the suffragettes actually helped their cause. They clearly turned much of the public against the cause, and at best, they gained publicity for the cause, which was clearly possible to do via other means.
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A defense lawyer would have a ton of fun poking holes in the accuracy of speech-to-text, especially on a small device. (You could easily determine if the device is doing this kind of processing by looking at power draw or thermals. This stuff takes a lot of crunch).

Amazon isn't stupid. They know that if a back-door is found in these devices, or if they have bugs that allow them to be compromised, that they are toast in the market. I'd be surprised if they didn't have internal briefs and a bunch of planning on many scenarios like this.

Amazon has almost certainly made the most secure device it can, knowing it will be under intense scrutiny, and will have prepped its legal teams appropriately.
There are no real improvements coming to Firefox Nightly on Android. All the real action is happening in Firefox Focus with GeckoView: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-android/wiki/Release... and in Fenix: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix

Fennec (Firefox for Android) is basically in maintenance mode.

FWIW: Firefox Focus Nightly is a much better implementation of Gecko on Android than Fennec ever was, with the caveat that Sync, sessions, or extensions are not available.
Even without that last sentence, the comment is not helpful. We’re not told what the user sees as the benefits of Alexa, and we don’t know what he sees as the privacy trade offs. It’s possible he uses Alexa for some lifesaving utility that far outweighs even if Amazon were illegally violating his privacy. Or maybe he’s ignorant tot he specifics of what Echo and Amazon do/don’t collect. And anyone who replies is forced to play the annoying game of read-my-mind/how-dare-you-assume-that’s-what-I-meant.
With just the right spin, you might get a skipping-stone effect (given the shape shown) on the atmosphere or ground or both.
You drop denormals and change the distribution but do you keep the 0,5 ULP (round to nearest) garantee from the IEEE standard ?
And are your rounding errors exact numbers in your representation (can you build Error Free Transforms) ?
I've often thought there needs to be a 'church' for Atheists, basically a carbon copy of the modern churches but with jesus and bible stripped out completely. The social grouping is therapeudic and I think the religion meme hitches to this for continuation and longevity.

The other possibility is to make dues-free fraternal organizations. Churches are payment-optional so why not payment-optional frats? Say dues payment halves bar prices (and no-dues prices are somewhat uncomfortably high).
As does the unarchived version.
What a crappy thing to do. Most people in the music industry barely get by, and that includes the people who depend on booked acts bringing paying patrons to live music venues.
AMP, certainly. It’s a horrible solution that really on has any traction because Google is the backs it heavily.
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