skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anyone has a strong background in 3D graphics and is interested in Counterstrike please do send me a message -- I'm building 3D analysis utilities for games[1] rather than games themselves which cuts out much of the complexity while maintaining many of the same technical problems. Email in profile.

[1] https://rewind.site
> We also try to turn money into more money, it's pretty much the game of life whether you play it or not.

That is definitely not the "game of life". Most business works by creating value for others. It's generally positive sum. Indeed, the only way people in zero-sum industries (e.g., betting, a lot of advertising, many kinds of finance) or negative-sum ones (e.g., scams) have anything to siphon off is because of people doing productive work.

One of reasons I'm most glad to get out of finance is that I could stop trying to justify it to myself. As Upton Sinclair wrote, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
I guess that prevent-public-bucket feature they released last week can come in handy.
That's great for you! But it is a real phenomenon in the world that people have a lot of trouble with Bluetooth. And the Airpods don't have those problems. That's why they're "game-changing."

Edit: the comment I’m responding to here has been edited to make my response appear like a non sequitur. I’m sorry I responded again below before noticing such a blatant act of bad faith.
Ask HN: What is a good resource to get an understanding of Climate Change?
I'd like to understand the problems better and what the consequences may be.
English translation via Google Translate:

https://translate.google.com/translate?anno=2&depth=1&hl=en&...
> As we all know, stiffer tires (higher pressure) is faster.

We're living in interesting times for this "conventional" wisdom! One school of thought argues that while there might be a theoretical relationship between high pressure and low rolling resistance, but the real-world effect has been exaggerated by poor testing methodology, which usually involves a circular drum as a substitute for a flat road. And that the benefits of achieving low rolling resistance are offset by the losses due to increased vibration.

Of course, this school of thought is largely the product of one man, Jan Heine of Compass Bicycles, but it's interesting to read and consider. Personally, I made the jump from 23mm road tires at 120psi to 48mm slick tires at ~40psi this year, and I have to say, my average speed didn't take a hit at all on the road and am much happier and more comfortable.

https://janheine.wordpress.com/2018/05/02/testing-tires-isnt...

https://janheine.wordpress.com/2016/03/09/tire-pressure-take...
Editor that is not programmable? Like notepad? All editors I can think of now (emacs, vim, atom etc) have Turing complete extension languages.
Degrasse O'tyson Says Musk More Important Than Bezos or Jobs
I would say the mailing list has become much less hostile and more supportive then.

The data model has not changed much, so that criticism is still relevant.

The templating engine has been switched again (ClearSilver -> Genshi -> Jinja). I don't know if you refer to the first or the second switch. I also don't know if this was an improvement or just even more churn.

Lack of Milestone customization: I'm not sure I understand.

Poor performance: How many tickets do you have?
Chrome throttles background JavaScript by default (disables requestAnimationFrame entirely, reduces allowed runtime to around 1% of real time, etc) [1].

However disabling it entirely would break a lot of use cases.

Chat apps would stop working, push notifications would no longer come, web sockets would stop getting processed, feeds would not get refreshed. You'd break a lot of the web.

Doing so would force more companies to push out their own separate apps... Which would probably be electron (and I know how much HN hates electron).

[1] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/03/background...
>I dont see how nomadlist is a startup.

It's infinitely scalable and makes a profit.

I'm not sure your qualifications of a startup, but that's better than 90% of TechCrunch startups who are reliant on humans to scale and burning cash.
Facebook's Ads System Suffers Glitch Days Before Black Friday
Hey pcl,
So I discovered tmuxp relatively recently and am between jobs at the moment but I'll tell you that for my personal projects I can look at my yaml file and immediately see that there's a gulp dev command which is run in the front end directory, a sync bash script which is run, and a gmake run which runs the server.

It's nothing groundbreaking, but it's nice to have it all laid out and it's possible if I got to the point where someone else was working on the same project they'd find it useful to know these three commands without having to wonder why their static assets weren't updating on change, or why make didn't work.

I think wherever I end up I'll likely start creating tmuxp files and possibly docker files for any repos I work in, mainly so it's super easy for me to hop on a terminal, type one command, and have a whole environment to work in. It is pretty neat to have a server start, a watch, a sync, and two windows for vim for front and back end.
How Do Wishes Granted to Very Sick Kids Affect Their Health?
> I feel so much more pity towards the kind of people who gets pleasure criticizing the mentally disabled on the internet.

And the people who seem to try and twist everything anyone says into something they can be offended by.

It must be an exhausting way to live.
There is a documentary about a comparable situation called The Incredible Hulk
Put it this way, when the user presses the Fork button in the GitHub UI, is their intention to contribute to the project, or is it to create a competitor/alternative to the project.

I say the former situation is an obfuscated permission system and the latter is a fork.

[ I've gone rather off-topic from TFA so will stop commenting now! ]
No just “these days”, the ATOS contract was awarded in 2008. The need for UBI is greater than ever.
They would glow in infrared.
How UPS uses AI to outsmart bad weather
I agree, this article is basically a long list of unfortunate and terrible things.

If you can’t even keep the happy achievements of a guy with downs from descending into an angry internet mob, then there really isn’t much hope for a positive future for twitter, is there?
I think the "robber barons" of our generation are more ambitious than the previously known. Amazon could keep increasing its size for decades attacking the global market.
I would be really surprised that Apple has any intent to destroy Android as they would quickly fall into antitrust regulations. Those would hit Apple really hard.
They are much better off Google having most of the market share and having to deal with those issues
How to train your QGAN: the current state of quantum machine learning
Probably better in every respect to consider each product as its own mini-startup rather than having (slow) top-down control.

Like Alphabet but on a smaller scale.

Could be pretty great setup for a startup.
Yes.

Helped MannaTech swindle people out of money, by helping work on the donation site that enabled people to buy their useless sugar pills that promised to cure anything from cancer to Down syndrome. (The claims weren't so bold and outright - except by some of the in-person salesmen who eventually got into trouble with the Texas attorney general - but they heavily hinted, and the reviews from the poor parents desperate to latch onto any lifeline that claimed "marked improvements" in their children's various conditions.

Ended up donating the money I made while working on that project to St. Jude's hospital.

Fuck Manna Relief, fuck Manna Tech, and fuck everyone who's ever worked for them, myself included.
I've generally noticed that wider tires make a big difference. For instance, I bought a road bike with 23mm wide tires and it was just unusable, it would get flats every other ride.

Over the past 5-10 years there's been a trend towards wider rims, thankfully. Before that, a lot of road bike frames couldn't even FIT a wheel over 25mm wide!
> many independent packagers of various distro check out that code and package it

This doesn't scale any more and hasn't scaled for a long time. Most of the time the software I need isn't in the distro or is too old.
Raspberry Pi “Literature Dispenser”
> I think a $2bn endowment that hands out $200mm/yr to those who are most in need is pretty damned cool.

Tax is a superior way of doing this. Tax and where to spend it is in principle decided by all the people, democratically, whereas this method is decided at the whims of one man who got lucky.
ever use mailinator? It's excellent for stuff like this.
They were on Twitter for at least a year. Presumably they had a number of positive experiences too mundane to mention in a story focused on the unforeseen consequences. I think in general, Twitter can be a good experience up until the time your tweets reach a broad audience, at which point, you run into the two problems of not being able to please everyone, and, offended people being the loudest people (in reviews, and every other kind of online discussion).
Never say never
Facebook ads urge its staff to leak secrets
Yeah, that need to correct random people on the internet happens a lot: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35581577
Just read an article about it from June, what a tough problem! No amount of complaining from parents can make enough pension money appear. Thanks for writing about it.
Tribespeople believed to have killed missionary who trespassed on remote island
Only if you ship them to a very low cost area, and then you immediately run into political issues as I mentioned, like shipping away your poor and gentrifying the area for rich people. Beans and rice? That's a terrible, unhealthy meal! You need to give them a balanced diet! How could you kill these poor people? Communal bathrooms? That's for criminals and it spreads disease! A walk in closet? These are human beings we're talking about! They're not prisoners, don't treat them like that! They need space!

And that's how it becomes an unsolvable problem. Activists with agendas.
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Break into AI: A Q&A with Andrew Ng on Building a Career in Machine Learning
Facebook failed to stop a child bride being auctioned on its platform
Sounds like your typical car commercial. I wish cars were only used for these types of infrequent trips, rather than for nearly all of one's transportation.
Yeah, but unless you're going full totalitarian, I don't see how it can work. It will just add additional legitimacy to the speech which is 'suppressed'. So unless you want to do a china style great firewall, and punish people for speaking out, maybe it's better to actually defend freedom, instead of limiting freedom in the name of protecting freedom?

Sorry if I sound frustrated. But I just think all this anti-free speech is a knee-jerk reaction to the symptoms of the rising far-right, not a well thought-out strategy of preserving liberal democracy.
I ended up being the sole developer for a system that managed vehicle trackers installed in fleet vehicles.

A few months after I took over they picked up a new client that was a finance company for people with bad credit ratings who wanted to purchase vehicles at exhorbitant interest rates. The trackers allowed them to remotely disable vehicles if the finance payments weren't met.

After a while they became the systems's largest customer and finally the only customer. They then asked for some changes so that all their vehicles would be remotely disabled at the start of each month and would be re-enabled when that month's payment was received.

Fortunately, they then purchased the system outright from its current owners and that allowed us to stop developing for them.
I can definitely say I wasn't personally making anything better. Any liquidity our little prop trading firm was adding was at best epsilon.

I agree that the industry does produce some value. But ask yourself honestly: what percentage of any given person's time and energy is devoted to value creation? To what extent are they sure their day's work is value-creating rather than value-subtracting for the economy as a whole? Maybe things have changed, but at the time very few people even cared about those answers. Those that did thought about the question very little, and with none of their customary rigor.

The reason I said the industry could be half its size (rather than eliminating it entirely) is that I know it produces some value to the rest of the economy. But if it could be half its size (or smaller) then it's perfectly plausible the average person in finance is a net drain on society.
Show HN: A Reddit+Wiki-like site for finding and sharing audiobooks
OnePlus Roaming announced: a global SIM-free data service
Inside the Hunt for the World’s Most Dangerous Terrorist
I thought it was a case of hashtag-itis.
The problem isn't professional outrage trolls. All of us sometimes take a comment the wrong way, inferring an insult where none was present. The problem is that Twitter's design makes it very likely for someone who's having a bad day and doesn't have any context to see your post.
How to Install ELK Stack on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
It's a shame what this world has come to.

A part of me wanted to dive right into the witch hunt and hoped that the BBC would have posted the actual name of the academic, but then I realized that I was getting sucked into the exact same thing that makes Twitter a miserable place to be. The snap reactions and the quickness to anger. It's the Social Media version of ADHD.

I hope there is hope once we get past this morass, but meanwhile, I can only see the winning move to be to not play at all.
The Confluence of HPC and AI Flows Through the GPU
That was my experience as well. Experimentation becomes much easier and for things where you want to run the same analysis every year/month/etc when more data comes out it makes things much easier. It's also great when you have computationally expensive steps to just be able to issue a build the world command at the end of the day and have the computer regenerate everything overnight.

This was my version of that:

https://github.com/pedrocr/codecomp

Ruby made for a good way to have scripting together with more declarative build like tooks (e.g., rake). I also automated the plotting like you did by embedding R snippets. There's probably space for a good framework for this. To be the rails of scientific workflow as it were. Integrate nicely with R/LaTeX/etc for bonus points. Maybe a procrastinating PhD student somewhere will make a name for himself doing this :)
Keep in mind you pay the AMT, so you need to have liquidity, but you will get those extra taxes paid back eventually, via AMT credits.

Source: me, I have gone through it exactly and recouped ~100k of AMT I paid, in about 4 years.
I love threads like this as I always end up discovering a new gem. I'm just going to post some of the things I've read recently in case you haven't - it doesn't really matter if a book is recent if you haven't read it I guess.

This definitely doesn't fit the category of recent, but I've been really enjoying working my way through some Asimov classics. If you haven't read Asimov I'd highly recommend him.

Give the Elijah Baley series a try first:
- Caves of Steel
- Naked Sun
- Robots of Dawn

and then move right on to the Foundation series.

I'd second the other recommendation for Three Body Problem, though the third book went a little crazy at the end for me :-)

I've also been really enjoying reading some Verner Vinge novels:
- A fire upon the deep
- A deepness in the sky
- The Children of the Sky
Amazon was given $2B in tax subsidies for HQ2 by New York and Virginia. We may as well be paying for this with our tax dollars.
See https://contributor.google.com/ which offers almost exactly this.

It's $5/mo even for the limited list of sites participating (already $60/mo). I suppose removing ads everywhere by paying web sites the amount advertisers from all networks pay them would cost several times as much.
I feel like your book gets posted to HN every other year. My girlfriend is using it for one of her graduate OR classes at GMU.

Edit: I think they may be using a different metaheuristics text.
"Why would you want to learn this stuff? We're never going to use it."
If Google news holds so little value to Google, why didn't they shut it down at the first sign of controversy? After all they publicly oppose these laws and shutting the service down would remove a big argument of their opponents, wouldn't it?

In particular I'm sure Google benefits from news indirectly by giving them valuable info about their users (you can tell a lot about somebody by what news they're interested in) and also by adding one more potentially useful service to the Google "suite", giving one more reason for users to commit to their ecosystems. That being said I'm incapable of judging of the actual monetary value of either of these things.

>People do pay for Google Search ads to drive traffic to their site, and for newspapers that probably gives them ad revenue and signups.

>Newspapers get a similar service from Google News for free.

That's a bit of mental gymnastics here. That's like saying "people pay to have google ads, but you can also get listed in the organic results for free! Thanks Google!". If I go to Google news then I expect to see news, them only displaying newspapers that agree to pay for it would make the service objectively worse. That would be like having Google search only listing ads and no organic results.

As rational actors it's in the newspaper's best interest to create content that interests people and it's in Google's best interest to promote that content to make their service valuable. Nobody is giving anybody a freebie here.
Yes, totally true. Apple did face a relative drop in the iPhone 6s year (2015) because iPhone 6 demand was so insane. It's possible that this year's results will be soft.
Good motivation to be bad, right? A game needs some villains, so I can see why you'd want to make room for both fame and infamy (as long as weaker players aren't totally at their mercy).

I only played UO for a month or two. The only skill I leveled up significantly was Hiding. I'd go where the loot was, and adventure for a few minutes until the inevitable gang of PKers came wandering through, looking to loot all the players like me. Some players ran, some hid, most died.

If you successfully hid, your player would be invisible to everyone else. So the PKers would walk a pattern through the dungeon, trying to step on every square. As a cowardly hiding level 1 character, I'd wait in hiding as long as I could, then jump out of hiding when I saw a chance to escape. Invariably I'd be spotted. I'd run around a corner, hide again, and the process would restart. I swear I spent more time hiding behind rocks than fighting whatever monsters the game made available to low level players. I could never tell if I was having fun or not!
yes, there are a lot of other situations, but this is the general one and I was explaining the situation where why the person would not be paying capital gain tax
How realistic/gameable are those geekbench benchmarks?
Also see publications by Richard Ivry lab on time perception: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?cmd=search&term=Ivry+RB%...
Nice work thank you for sharing.

Tangentially it’s not clear to me what relevance D should have for any greenfield projects where there is not already heavy investment in a code base to consider.

First there’s the whole Rust comparison, and then the incredible impact of the comparative size and momentum of ecosystems for various languages.

This reddit thread has a few interesting comments. It was quite surprising to see D’s architect/designer discount the value of memory management issues in a sub link there. Anecdotally what I’ve read, and experienced, is that it’s one of the most important sources of bugs when quantity and time to debug and fix are considered.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5h0s2n/what_made_rust...
Think this got posted last week, my feedback.
Great site idea, audiobooks are gonna get huge in the next few years and we need a Netflix for audiobooks asap.

I would hope a company like Audible would do something like a subscription and also do something this site to help find new books.
If you always need a car to go places (work, groceries, visit friends, church, etc.), is it still freedom?
Paying a penalty for getting caught breaking a law sounds a bit like a bribe to me.
Let's say you're an Indian guy living in Midwest America.

The algorithm will put you in the bottom pile, because your race is different than the women in your local area
Blockchain Security: economic vs. technical attacks
Considering the blatant abuse it was very much necessary.

Planting notions is[n't] really doing much?!

The idea that more tracking and more data collection has no downsides is how we got here in the first place.
^ Startup idea?
Diversity has become a dogma in the tech world
> I think once you touch the £1,000 mark you have to start proving far more worth than polished marketing. My work thankfully proved an iPhone 8, otherwise, I was going to buy an iPhone 6 or 7 [0]

Fraser Spiers (famous in certain circles as an ‘iPad in schools’/productivity tools proselytizer) recently faced the same dilemma and made the switch to Android/Chromebook instead:

http://www.speirs.org/blog/2018/11/18/on-switching-from-ios-...

https://www.relay.fm/canvas/72
I'm confused. What about containers makes them inherently less free than other tech? Ultimately, they're "just" a layered filesystem with some OS-level isolation magic sprinkled on top, they're not really revolutionary in any meaningful way other than that they unified two pre-existing technologies. LXC/OCI are great specifically because they give you a reasonable scaffolding upon which to build your containers, but you get to define every last thing that goes into them.

Example: I used to work at a place that, for a variety of reasons, needed to use custom builds of upstream Debian packages. So, we created our own Debian container base and rebuilt all the major Docker container "base" images (e.g. `openjdk`, `python`, `node`, `nginx`) with our own image as base. We had custom control all the way down to the OS level, and our orchestration solution (Kubernetes in our case, but a pile of shell scripts calling LXC directly works too).

I totally get being skeptical of {Docker|Kubernetes|Mesos|GKE|EKS|AKS}, but there's nothing inherently "un-free" about containers. They're a nice packaging primitive that happen to have some (useful, but not mission-critical) security features bundled in. So, your whole point kinda confuses me. That containers are standardized by OCI/LXC just makes them easier on your poor sysadmins to administer than 100 engineers' pet servers each running a different version of Emacs.
CUDA 10 in Clojure
Without violence, it's significantly harder to defeat griefing, nonviolent but antisocial behavior. The work required to overcome griefing significantly outweighs the work the griefer puts in. An example would be obstructing someone's path so they don't have freedom of movement or "theft" of assets in the commons that the victim was trying to earn, such as dealing the killing blow for XP after another player did most of the work.

I'm using "state sponsoroed violence" in broad strokes. Without PvP in player-governed game worlds, you can't even really enforce simple jail time.