skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most dreams that predict the future do so in symbolic form. It is relatively rare for dreams to be akin to a film clip of the event.

Some people think in pictures. My oldest son is one such person. I sometimes have what might be termed "visions". I have come to believe these are not psychic events, but are brief episodes of my brain thinking in pictures -- like my son does normally and like we all do while dreaming.

I was raised with really scary, terrifying ideas that such "visions" were inescapable Destiny and I spent years fighting against a mental model of Greek Tragedy style fate. I was raised with the idea that seeing the future in a dream meant it would happen and you could not stop it.

Dreams that I believed predicted the future haunted me like my own personal Hound of Tindalos. I spent years waking in a cold sweat, desperate to figure out how to avoid the future I saw before me.

The two things I most frequently foresaw in my youth never came to pass and they no longer can come to pass. I am no longer terrified of my dreams and "visions". I see them as prediction in the vein of how we crunch data to do weather prediction on TV.

Except it predicts my future. Since it is my life, I can change that future by making different choices informed by the prediction that "The path you are on currently leads to X."

A picture is worth a thousand words. A flash of imagery is an information dense means for the mind to spit out an inference based on "big data." I see it as the mind's own charts and graphs, so to speak. It's now useful information for me, instead of something that leaves me paralyzed with fear. It's now "Ah, so my mind spit out this information rich thought. I wonder what I was trying to tell myself."

As for "gut" instinct, I think there is a book called "Blink" that talks about how the mind comes to first impressions and that they are frequently more reliable than things we actively thought through. You might also want to look up "amygdala hijack."

In some circumstances, we react faster than we can consciously process what we are seeing. Our body takes action before our mind spits out the reason. A classic case is jumping in a river, not realizing why, then seeing the child you are there to save. That's an amygdala hijack.
You know we've been here before, right? I mean, lighthill report, Ray Kurzeweil is a serial offender for over thirty years, the singularity is around the corner thing, outrageous claims for fMRI, self driving cars. Over hyped ibm Watson which now health professions are talking about misdiagnosis problems.

Sure. We have google image match and better colorisartion and some improvements in language processing, and good cancer detection on x-rays. These are huge. But hype is, alas, making engineering increments look like cult.
Trucks do “pay.” They move goods that are sold and taxed. Until subways start shipping things other than people, they can’t be considered the same as roads. A subway can move people around; roads also move significant goods around. Every single thing in a store has arrived by road for at least some portion of the journey. Farmers aren’t shipping carrots via tram.
Not nobody, sure, but the halving really only matters if interest is at least half what it has been in prior bubbles.

Reduced supply may push up the price... or it may not if there isn't much of a market for the supply anyway.
Why it drives the economy compared to private trasport?
Alternative Minimum Tax

There's a good summary here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_minimum_tax#Stock_...

Basically, if you are given stock options with a strike price of $small, and then the company has a liquidity event and you exercise your options when the shares are at $large, your AMT taxable income increases by $(large - small), and you'll owe taxes on it for the current year (at AMT rates), regardless of whether you sold (or were able to sell) any shares. This is in addition to the short or long term capital gains that you'll eventually owe after you actually sell shares.

Apparently some people went bankrupt after the first dot-com bust because they owed absurd amounts of money in taxes but weren't able to sell any of their shares (e.g. due to employee lockup) until after their company's stock tanked.

If this happens and you are able to afford the taxes, there's a mechanism to carry your losses forward and get AMT credits in future years, but the rules are hilariously complicated, and you either won't get credit for anywhere near what you paid initially, or you'll end up getting a tiny tiny fraction back for the next hundred years.

It kind of sucks. There's been talk of fixing this for a long time, but I don't think it's ever gotten anywhere.

*I'm not an accountant; do your own taxes.
> I've found my sweet spot near 150BPM trance which gets me into the zone rather quickly if nobody interrupts me. Also I think the problem is while repetitive music works great with programming you have to find different music for each day.

Just use web radio, that way you don't have to spend time finding/managing new music.

https://DI.fm is a totally awesome alternative, they have a channel for every electronic genre you can think of. Just music, no talking or jingles.

I usually listen to their Goa-Psy Trance channel while working, it's around your BPM:
https://www.di.fm/goapsy
The issue is that it's completely opaque. If you want to promote transparency, you should "start with your own garden".
Compiling machine learning programs via high-level tracing [pdf]
How to Upload Videos to Pinterest (And Why You Should Do It)
If you're looking for Trance music to write code to, try these podcasts on iTunes:

- Markus Shulz Presents Global DJ Broadcast
- Above and Beyond: Group Therapy

There are many more, these two are my favorites.
The price is included. Potatoes are sold and the proceeds taxed. Those taxes go to pay for roads. If we didn’t have to fix roads, taxes could be lower, resulting in higher profits for the potato farmer.
Those code examples look very clean:

https://github.com/google/jax/tree/master/examples
Show HN: db-scheduler – a simple cluster-friendly task-scheduler for Java
Sadly, no. Both kernel and device drivers are in the HAL: https://blog.linuxplumbersconf.org/2017/ocw/system/presentat...
> How do people keep mistaking pattern matching with intelligence?

Isn't that true? At what level you call something intelligent rather than just a clever pattern recognition?
Just because a profitable subway exist does not mean it's possible anywhere in the world. The location, geography, culture and population density all affect profitability.
its only long term cap gains if you hold the stock for more then a year. if you exercise and sell immediately, its income.
This is seriously awesome
When I worked at AOL in the mid-90s, I knew people who said they were going to retire in their 30s.

They had enough stock options and had seen enough splits, that by the time the stock reached a certain number above 29, they were going to cash out and retire.

That’s retiring in your 30s.
And all those Emacs jokes don't work anymore
This idea that we’re close to some runaway superintelligence has been a theme through the history of AI. I look at AI today and I see some powerful techniques for optimization and categorization. There’s still an enormous leap we need to make before we’re making something that has the autonomous intelligence of a fly. We’re at least 20 years away from the first signs of real intelligence—the biggest problem is that we keep trying to engineer it rather than reverse engineer it.
Making inferences is beyond pattern matching.
> Best case for survival would be to become multiplanetary.

How far away do you have to be to avoid getting gamma'd?
Because we have things like Quantum Field Theory that tells us the energy scales it's valid for, and it's experimentally checked to be valid for those scales.

Since the brain doesn't presumably contain supernovas, black holes or particle accelerators, that means that we have a basic theory covering the mechanics down.
Because homeowners wanting an idyllic, natural respite from the big bad city are such sympathetic characters in our culture.
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Who said it was in the US?
I discovered this about three years back as well. India has quite a few holidays when you are required to travel to your home with two major festivals - Diwali(Oct/Nov) and Holi (March). Since, it is important for people to be at home for these festivals, they would book early, or take costly flights, or alternate flights. With my parents being flexible, and understanding about how I love them even when I am a day late to be at home, I ended up booking the flight on the festival day, rather than before.

Cue and Behold. An empty airplane, with a total of 30-40 people in an Airbus 320. I got upgraded to business class for free. There were no lines for boarding. The plane took off on time, landed on time, and all of us could sleep in peace (or do whatever it is people do on planes).

From that time, if I am going home for a festival, it will be the day of the festival.
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How to Configure Magento 2 Full Page Cache
Opening the link and clicking on a channel worked for me; no login prompts to be found.
An American is killed on island where people are protected by law against murder
If the text is larger than the area designated for the image there is built-in support for scroll. Also, a decent resolution is needed to have a great user experience. If you click on an image a gallery opens up. You can use the ESC key to return. On the content side, we use great resources that go through a diligent process of synthesis.
However, most people do not hold the power of the US Attorney General, so we care less with them.
I Created NodeJs Structure and i would like to share it
Oh, which one? I was under the impression it uses only Nvidia GPUs (CUDA) on desktop.
> I don't usually explain this because, as you can see from this post here, it takes too long.

Wouldn't the solution for this type of problem be to write it down only once and thoroughly in a blog post, and then refer to it? Or a number of posts, and you only post the pointer.

I've had that idea in general for public forums, that there should be one thoroughly explained list of aspects and view points, and when there is a problem with a post you simply moderate it with "That
is a #42".
> From a moral standpoint,

You mean from your (current) moral standpoint. "Moral" is not exactly something fixed, it is varies greatly depending on both space and time.
Show HN: One-To-Many WebRTC Live Video Stream Broadcasting
I am the founder of History Lapse. I have fixed the bugs, now the modal/gallery that pops up has the "close" icon visible. I'm working daily on adding new content and improving the layout presentation. Regarding the "fresh approach to telling the story" here is our whitepaper that explains why History Lapse could be a great tool: https://en.historylapse.org/whitepaper
how do you know? some things that were thought of as inferences in the past have been shown to be clever pattern matching.
While you're not wrong that campaign donations aren't a direct benefit to the politicians, you're arguing on a too limited scope.

Donating to a campaign buys influence. That politician is keen to keep a good relationship to the donators do keep the money flowing, and get good deals outside the campaign, get positions that pays him/her directly ect. In really bad cases a donor can blatantly say "I have this new boat, since I've used it once it's only worth half of the original sales price - want to buy it? And completely omit that it was actually build for the donatee". That is just some of the examples of indirect payment involved in blatant corruption.
I worked as an analyst for an email security company. Stopping scams, malware, phishing, etc that comes through email. I liked security and had a machine learning/stat background, so I was eager to apply. What I learned was that basically, ML and stats are not applicable to this particular problem domain because there is no level of acceptable error. No matter how well my systems performed, whenever a vice president, C level exec, or any pinhead got a single FP or FN, I have to grovel at their feet and spend weeks explaining to people what happened. I once had 10 months of work go down the drain because the system let through a single phishing email to some secretary (it detected blocked millions of malicious messages prior)
Risks extend to pricey areas as well.

Look at aerial views above the Oakland Hills before and after the 1991 fire. Roads choked with illegally parked cars, badly overgrown brush, etc. Almost 3,300 home's destroyed.

Look at the same streets now on a typical Fall day: the exact same risk factors in similar proportions. A similar fire now would kill twice as many.
I must say I am tempted by Qubes OS as a way to get this level of isolation between apps. However I'd likely need a new laptop, as RAM requirements are much higher.
I like to fly international on the afternoon of Christmas day - I get to have breakfast with my family then arrive in another continent to look forward to a stress-free New Years.
Fixing Price for Precious Metals
Why is this hosted on Sourceforge? Looks fishy. Is it a bitcoin miner?
"And let's not forget, the copyright crowd don't want to claim rights over just 1 specific number, but any number that happens to render (when run through a movie player) anything that resembles e.g. Star Wars. I don't think this argument is as absurd as it first appears..."

It makes it more absurd, as it indicates clearly that it's not a random sequence of numbers that is being protected by copyright, but a specific, recognizable, creative work. If I watch an mpeg of Star Wars and then watch a laser disc version of Star Wars, I will recognize them as the same work (well, ignoring Lucas' retconning nonsense and CGI shitshow). Most humans would, including most judges and juries in a copyright case.

"The copyright crowd" includes the leadership (and presumably the populace) of nearly every developed nation on earth, so you're arguing against a pretty solid majority (which is fine, I have some unpopular ideas that I hold pretty strongly...the majority seems to love and support war and killing more than I ever will).

Anyway, I'm all for reasonable copyright terms (and the US has absurd and abusive copyright law that punishes and inhibits new creators at the behest of old corporations and billionaires), but it's just not a sound basis to argue that because one can randomly generate any creative work given infinite monkeys and infinite time that no creative work should be able to be copyrighted. It says that there is no difference between a creative work, like Star Wars, and a random series of bits, because Star Wars can be recorded as a (non-random) series of bits.
Broad threat to humanity from hazards intensified by greenhouse emissions
The Indian island is inhabited by sentinelese tribe whose number is estimated to be below 50.

Under Indian law, no outside person is allowed to land on their island and if they kill somebody, they can not be prosecuted.
I've worked in the adult industry (you can say porn) for 10 years for some of the biggest brands. I have some regrets, especially contributing in a major way to the proliferation of free porn, pushing our product to millions of users per day and negotiating advertising campaigns in the millions$ to feed the system. Many in our audience were in developing countries and no doubt a lot of them under 18.
The latest studies confirm that heavy porn consumption affect adolescent's view of others and their self-perception in a negative way - reading these made me evaluate my role in that ecosystem.

The flip side of this is when I realized this is not something I want to carry on doing I just quit the industry. Now I'm working for a VPN company with a stand-out product and service, built by an honest team driven by the mission of helping people protect their privacy. I feel very content with that decision.
Original link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0315-6
Cheaper doesn't always tell you "least busy", especially when planning ahead. I'll have the misery of flying the day before Christmas this year and the flight itself was peanuts but I'm not looking forward to the airport situation.
Human Images from World's First Total-Body Scanner Unveiled
I set Hopper for a date I'm interested in and let it tell me the best time to buy. https://www.hopper.com
How to build an Application Loadbalancer for – 1$ / 1mio requests
La soledad del ‘freelance’ es un hándicap para su productividad
Upstreaming costs like several times more than just hack it and ship it. It seems that a lot of vendors can't estimate the costs and benefits.
There should be a bot or a separate feature on HN which would add a FAQ section automatically based on a title, a domain and maybe if we are wild on contents. So when something is hosted on Source Forge this link could be presented: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/under...
History Lapse is a start-up with no financial support other than my income on my full-time job. I think I have a great idea on how to implement the map concept on History Lapse but at the moment I am stuck in my current predicament.
Pdx is like a ghost town most days depending on the time. I think it’s what makes the airport so nice.
Anecdotally, will say age doesn't matter, but at least 7+ years of experience across different projects and languages.
I really enjoyed it, particularly the focus on business and pragmatism and not woo. It's a quick read. I'm curious to read Jevons now too, thanks.
Amazon Cuomo will fix it.
I don't mean to say "he made a Rick and Morty reference, Serious Adults don't make Rick and Morty references". That'd be dumb. I mean that he points to a robot in Rick and Morty that was sad about being programmed to pass butter, and attempts to infer from this that real robots would refuse to intelligently pursue arbitrary goals, and therefore that the orthogonality thesis is false. He's treating a thing that happened in fiction as though it was a real thing that happened somewhere that we should treat as evidence. That doesn't work.
Glad you like it. Here is our whitepaper that explains the concept and mission of History Lapse: https://en.historylapse.org/whitepaper
Disclaimer: Throwaway account.

I worked on a banking product that indirectly got a couple of kids tortured and killed.

It’s only recently that I’ve started accepting responsibility for that. It was just so out of the realm of possibilities when it bappened, that most people I knew, most people I worked with, couldn’t fathom that we had something to do with it.

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2009/apr/27/french-studen...

The product was a standalone card reader, that allows the generation of OTPs by the crypto chip inside the CC, or challenge/responses by the same chip.

This allowed the attackers to verify the PIN without going to an ATM.
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Never been to NYC but I think that the MTA rail coverage is way lower especially in the non Manhattan boroughs compared to the London Underground, Overground, DLR and National rail. You could get from any point in London to anypoint for less than an hour only by rail and walking.
I hate sports, but I don't argue there's no point to them because there's no point to them for me.

A library's advantage isn't just "musty old books" books (some young people, myself included, love physical books and have small apartments!). It's also a free, public space you can come to just be. If you're a kid who has no spending money, you can come to do your homework, or code. Especially relevant for kids who have a poor learning environment at home (too many siblings, parents fighting, etc.)
Or for really serious stuff, 3 processors running 3 implementations from the same spec, voting.
Numerology and pseudoscience are not liable to be well-received on HN.
Points of View (Alan Kay)
>The internet used to be an Electronic Frontier where everybody could be who they really were

come on - on the internet nobody knows you're really a dog is quite an old cartoon at this point. It might be it was a place where everybody COULD be who they really were but it was also from the first a place where people could pretend to be who they weren't.
Apple in talks to give military vets access to electronic medical records
have you ever tried leaving an expensive camera anywhere in new york? that thing would be gone in an hour
OpenCV is ubiquitous in some domains. It's like asking; "What's numpy?"
I sort of discovered this myself when looking for flight prices about 4 months back around this week (flying from the US). I happen to have the whole week of Thanksgiving off from work due to it shutting down that week every year (supposedly not guaranteed but has been given every year since instituted), so I was looking to take advantage of it to travel - I settled on the UK, but picking good days/times to fly was a challenge. I knew that generally early morning/late night flights were cheaper if I could get them in general, but one thing I noticed was flights were expensive the Saturday before to fly out, and expensive the Saturday and Sunday after Thanksgiving to fly back.

I settled on flying out the Friday before Thanksgiving, and flying back on Black Friday for a savings of about $200-300. My flight to the UK though was completely full, in part owing that SFO is a major United hub whose employees take advantage of flying standby whenever they can. I’ll be a little surprised if it is full going back though.
It's not just Python. You need to learn Rust
> Having realized that the world is not a programming problem,
> AI obsessives want to make it into a programming problem,
> by designing a God-like machine.

We invented programming to solve problems from the real world.
What do you mean by a "programming problem"?
Note that SB 901, the recent PGE bailout over last year's fires (Coffee Park, etc.), is illegally being applied retroactively to this year's fires (see George Avalos' article in the Mercury).

It doesn't even take effect (legally) until 2019.
It's well known that infrastructure projects in the US overall cost way more than comparable projects do in most of the rest of the developed world. Here's just one link, from a cursory Google:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-05-31/the-u-...
I never really got how Multi-Cursor / Multi selection became such a big deal. It really never happens to me that I have to write the same thing on N-lines, and when that happens VIM ninja works just as well.
This makes me think he really was innocent and wanted to resolve the issue properly.

Otherwise, for a smart guy, he wouldn’t be very smart.
The former employees group didn't steal shit and still got lawyers up their ass the whole time.
If you were a farm worker who was paid piece rates rather than hourly, you might be less happy about that
I am sorry for Jack Dorsey being at the receiving end of online trolls in India, mostly from the right. These trolls are deliberately confusing 'anti Brahmanical' (pro rituals, pro superstitions, anti - constitution) stance with being 'anti Brahmin'. Two very different things.

In American terms, this is kind of like being 'anti KKK' is same as being 'anti white'.