skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My all-time favorite graph is the plot of incident solar particles on Voyager 1 in 2012 [0][1]. That to me is the perfect image of scientific thinking. "We anticipate that the probe will enter interstellar space and see a significant drop in the number of incident solar particles." And then it happens, clear as day.

I teach high school math and science, and I have shown this graph to students every year. Many students get what this really means. They suddenly understand how far Voyager is from us, and how small and isolated our solar system really is in the universe.

Now it will be fun to show them the same graph from Voyager 2 [2][3]!

[0] https://3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net/newman/gfx/news/hire...

[1] https://phys.org/news/2012-10-voyager-left-solar.html

[2] http://earth-chronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/voyaz...

[3] http://earth-chronicles.com/space/voyager-2-is-even-closer-t...
Guessing you didn't read GP's link..
That same argument could be levied against all patents more generally, and as a result, I don't think it really helps the anti-software-patent cause. Physical patents have been licensed for this reason (to avoid the r&d of alternative methods) since nearly the advent of patents.
https://www.quantamagazine.org looks good. Thanks!
Visualizing Promise.all in JavaScript
this is the best shutdown i've seen to-date: http://vmashup.com/BDMLAWn6
Real-time object detection on a Raspberry Pi
No, i'm arguing that you are not making any kind of point by saying that. What is your statement intended to prove?
Guessing someone offered to do all the work if he lent his name. Probably his previous money has run out...
Or it could be replaced by Carta, and it is.
@soneca thank you for that link, I hadn't read this particular post. rolf dobelli's 'the art of thinking clearly' has a similar essay which greatly affected me to avoid 'news'. Ironically he also wrote a piece in the UK Guardian newspaper
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-ro... recommending people stop consuming news...
For those of you who wants to jump to the mouse demo, here is a direct link (on a saved snapshot):

https://colab.research.google.com/gist/ontouchstart/7ae904ac...
Did you read GP's link? And you came to this conclusion?
That's not being sold by Best Buy, it says "sold by CC Trading Bridge".
And same here. Such intriguing title, but can't really understand what the article is trying to do -- other than resonate on what the author has written about in his/her books.
>"There's nothing at the code and protocol level about sustaining the price, but at the human level the early adopters (i.e. the 4% owning 97% of assets) are incentivised to try to sustain or increase the price through whatever means they can (e.g. funding pro-crypto press, social media, lobbyists etc.)."

Ok, but this is trivial. It is true for everything for which there is a market. And both early and late adopters have the same incentive to increase the price. Why does the timing matter to you?

>"There's a big debate about whether it is inflationary, or deflationary, or hyper-deflationary, or different things at different times"

Who is debating this? It seems pretty straightforward that creating new coins is inflationary.

>"if there are the same people holding assets and there are more of those assets enabled, then all else being equal each of those assets would naturally be worth less"

Yes, this is literally the definition of inflation, I don't understand how someone can debate that this is actually an instance of deflation. "Worth less" == Prices (of other things denominated in the cryptocurrency) go up. I see no room for any disagreement about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation

>"the people at the top are incentivized to take action to counteract this"

Isn't anyone holding the currency incentivized to do the same? What does "at the top" matter?
To be clear, since now ycombinator is in the business of clickbaiting titles, this is a blog about shutting down a company, not a blog about ycombinator or HN shutting down.

Edit: the original title was 'Shutting Down'
With a continuous (non-flickering) light you see your blurred finger. With a flickering light, you'll see your blurred finger with gaps in the blurring. This effect is especially pronounced with sharp-flickering light (like in LEDs) as opposed to gradually-flickering light (as in incandescent bulbs). CCFLs are somewhere in the middle.
The fact of the matter is the market continues to value Tether at $1, despite having multiple alternatives. So, even if it is the case that Tether is insolvent...it was still a much better investment than leaving the money in regular crypto. QED.
The example in the article has very little transmissive ability because it grows in the brain and eyes. If there were a respiratory prion disease that could be much different. By nature of being a protein they are simpler and harder to eliminate than bacteria or viruses:

> In a particularly vexing twist, prions are also nearly impervious to destruction, even when attacked using a strenuous combination of disinfectants, heat, and pressure.
https://www.democracynow.org/
Here you go, an IPFS copy:

https://ipfs.eternum.io/ipfs/QmbABUy4jr8432sfAV97Vicyzu9kmpt...

Now it's permanent (please pin the hash to help).
If my team had that much discipline to begin with, they’d do just fine without Scrum.
How to get started in AI
Yes, but please pay for my music ?
Microsoft Plans to Add Chrome Extensions to Edge
The kiosk is renting from the mall owner, the mall owner has no liability about what the kiosk owner sells.
You should check out allsides[0]. It's a new aggregator that presents news from the left, right, and center. They're constantly reevaluating what side of the spectrum news sources land on. They post about their findings and explain why they consider a new source left, center, or right.

[0]: https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news
One of the papers I like reading is the monthly "Le Monde diplomatique".

https://mondediplo.com/

It has in-depth analysis of current events and world topics, and is a nice mix of recent news and long-term stories.
I often find myself looking for more information after reading one of their articles, as they often include a lot of references to other topics or events I am not familiar with : it feeds my curiosity this way, and I get to read various news source about one topic.
Quote from the article:

"the US space agency says that Voyager 2 has a working instrument aboard that will provide "first-of-its-kind observations of the nature of this gateway into interstellar space"."

Does anyone know what Voyager 2 is carrying that Voyager 1 wasn't that might give interesting data in this part of space?
Most of those features are optional. So if you don't care about some functionality just uninstall the specific 'App'. Sure that is not as secure as not having those Apps in the first place, but I think, in general, Nextcloud is moving into the right direction, as many of their use-cases require a tightly integrated but wide set of features.
I love the ideas centered around summaries:

1. Weekly
2. Monthly
3. At the end of significant events

Is there anything out there that provides this sort of service?
Thomas Pynchon is the poster child for this. Well, not exactly the poster child, but you know what i mean.
Even if this is a good idea, it seems like a slider is the wrong way to control it.

You really only have a few discrete levels, and as a reader you probably always want to be able to tell which level you're at. So maybe some radiobutton like UI that's anchored to the window.
This seems similar to Expounder, one of my projects: https://skorokithakis.github.io/expounder/

I like the idea of Parametric Press (given that I made something similar), but I prefer the granularity of Expounder.
There is no confusion here. The set of infinite strings is not countably infinite, it has cardinality larger than the set of integers.
Docker-in-JS: A case study
Netflix does not release it's viewer data as far as I understand. You cannot compare that which you have no data for.
Decoupled Drupal Authentication with JSON Web Tokens
The moment you engage with Topic X, you will be inundated with Topic X in the feed, in your email digest, in additional follow ups asking "Are you still interested in X" and so on.

It leaves little room for true exploration and discovery because 1 mis-click on a topic could change your entire content experience for days or weeks.
The hard thing in software is not idea, but execution.

Patents that patent trivial ideas are nothing but roadblocks.

Edit: There are some ideas in software that were non-obvious. Algorithms and protocols. Those might make sense to be patent-able.
I think a big part about mentorship is actually that part. I have been fortunate to have had fantastic mentors, people who have looked for opportunities for me to explore things. They didn't just ask me what I wanted to do. They found out and helped me get there and I've never once regretted it.

In every case, though, the meaningful help has come from someone who knows me - either because we talked shop at the gym, played football or board games together, or because they were actually formally my manager (or CEO or whatever). So I think it's unlikely anyone could _really_ help you online with this particular problem.

In attempting to replicate my mentorship experience for someone else, I find that this is easier with some people and harder with others. I haven't yet quite captured what it is, but I think at least a small portion of it is the will to progress in an exploratory manner and iterate rapidly on that. i.e. you don't actually find out what you want to do so much as you aim for a safe but challenging opportunity in some area that has clear success criteria and then you see if that specific opportunity thrilled you.
The Soulja watch is interesting to me. I see very similar ones coming from China, but it’s pretty amazing that at any hardware spec a “smart” watch could be sold as little as $10, let alone with profit. They’re shameless rips of Apple, but at $10 damn that’s crazy.
The article handily links to the Alibaba store: https://www.aliexpress.com/store/3850034

I suspect what happened is that someone approached him with the idea of putting his brand on it, and he was flattered; otherwise it's basically the Amazon drop shipping business.
I think you could largely get around having to boot into DOS mode by enabling a specific setting on the MS-DOS shortcut for those games. I think it unloaded win.com - so you're essentially shutting down Windows rather than rebooting into DOS) but we're talking > 20 years since I've last used that trick so my memory is a bit fuzzy.
>we had little hate for immigrants- we wanted them to help us grow.

This is hilariously wrong. Almost every single immigrant group to the US has faced discrimination and backlash before being assimilated (if ever). Just because immigration has a net positive doesn't mean people liked it
> When feel something isn't right, it's a good indicator that something isn't the way it's supposed to be

according to "evolution", which only cares about survival of the fittest. Those emotions may be entirely self-serving.
> If we count from the Kodak DCS 100 introduced in 1991

Kodak invented digital cameras in 1975.
> "Every source of information will be biased, and you have to take that into account by being critical."

A thousand times this. Bias is everywhere. I think people who say they're looking for an 'unbiased' source of information are really looking for a source of information they can just blindly consume without doing any pesky thinking. And if you're blindly consuming information without thinking, you're allowing someone else to think for you.
It’s much easier than that, all the bitcoin hashpower is in the PRC, all it would take to initiate a 51% attack is for Beijing to send a strongly worded memo to the miners.
Consoles with a bunch of preloaded pirated games were quite common in Eastern Europe back in the 90's.
Been running Shairport Sync on a Pi3 for the last couple of years. It works great.

I've been adding more stuff to the Pi over time, so it's now a Plex server, Home Assistant hub, Torrent box, Pi-hole and more.
I'm happy to host a copy, as I was just about to crawl his site for my own personal archive.
Jumping through stupid hoops to turn your cryptocurrency into usable money is the least desirable workflow for moving money across borders.
I'm not really qualified to be able to tell the difference; what makes you say that?
Since 1998: https://aldaily.com/
Considering they already have their own Retro offering with presumably an insane markup i feel you're correct.
How Water Towers Work
To be fair, they were replying to a request for news sources..
Basically, I see three ways of looking at what Boring Company is trying to do:

1. It is being built by people who don't know what they're doing and don't understand the field, and it isn't going to work. (This seems to be the way you look at it.)

2. They expect to be able to reduce the costs of tunneling so drastically that the lower throughput of PRT won't even be a problem.

3. They plan to use an unprecedented level of automation to advance the state of the art in how PRT can be done. (This is my guess.)

Obviously, nobody really knows which of the above is the case. They haven't shared a lot of detail.

But in support of the idea that it _could_ be #3, there's a reason I think there's room for innovation in PRT. It's so expensive to build any transit system that relatively few attempts have been made at PRT. And some things have changed since many of those tries, mainly advances in automation. So for example, if switching is a bottleneck for headway, maybe there is a way to build a much faster switch but nobody has put the R&D money into it yet.
Rap music has a strong history of building your brand then licensing products with your name/brand on them or even to the extent of Kanye where he actually designs his own fashion line/shoes.
Journalists are always looking for stories to get people to read and human interest stories get clicks. So yeah there was probably a PR professional that set this up but it doesn't mean that money was exchanged behind the scenes. Certainly the PR rep was probably being paid but did they need to send a payment to the journalist or their company, not necessarily. It could be that the scooter company advertises on this media outlet and thus there was extra incentive to write this story. Who knows except the people involved. A lot of tech journalism is essentially cribbing the press release and talking all about the newest greatest piece of soon to be e-waste. The fact that we are talking about this article means it was effective in getting this story out there and associating the scooter company with humans that get paid versus the cold calculating algorithms that are replacing what would of been a human logistics team. Shrug.
Lol what you call "PC culture" is what regular non-troglodyte people call "not being a dick." Get the fuck over it.
Yeah definitely thought ycombinator was shutting down at first
Since you mention Reddit already /r/arduino is sometimes useful - though often it is a case of the blind leading the blind.

For most of my projects I prefer to use ESP8266 devices, since they're cheaper than (official) arduino boards and feature onboard WiFi. For that /r/esp8266 is a good resource.

Mostly though designing a simple sensor/and monitor simple. The hard part is making it fool-proof, user-friendly, and easy to mass-market. Assembling 20 devices by hand is simple, but you don't want to be doing it for 100+!
(You!)

Soulja Boy, I tell 'em

Hey, I got a new cheap emulator for you all called the SouljaGame

You!

You gotta steal intellectual property rights then crank back three times from left to right
That is 10,400 out of 152,300 per the article, or just a bit less than 7% of their workforce.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18614882

For a previous discussion on this.
I think that "On Shutting Down" may have been a better choice of title here
Hey, would like to know the interview process and how long does it take for the candidate outside of UK.
FB didn't explicitly give you the ability to shut the offending app down.
The article does a good job of mentioning small likelihoods but large stakes, and is intellectually honest in doing so.
When they first showed up in SF people chucked dozens of em right into the bay.
This was discussed here a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18614882
Real-Time Object Detection in 10 Lines of Code
> Are we negating the person, or their name? Neither one makes sense to me.

This is a fair statement. I think a treatment of predicates would be necessary before getting to using names as predicates. "When we say 'Bob', we mean 'Bob has enough money for a bus fare'."

Then, if we want to say "Bob doesn't have enough money for a bus fare" we can express it with !Bob (which means, in this case 'not Bob').

I agree that using names can be confusing. I think meaning needs to be addressed first.
The product page website was originally a vehicle for a knock-off smartwatch. Clearly he's just shamelessly pitching a drop-shippable console with some branding on it. I doubt he had any influence on its creation, and will probably just plead ignorance if the lawyers come out.

I'm shocked by how few people realize the scheme he's running. Then again, it only involved a tiny bit less effort than 99% of other celebrity-endorsed products.
They aren't laying off people, it was a voluntary separation:

> Verizon Communications Inc said on Monday that about 10,400 employees will be leaving the U.S. wireless carrier by mid next year as part of the company’s voluntary separation program.

They offered a package earlier in the year https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/25/verizon-offers-separation-pl...
Learning Libraries of Subroutines for Neurally–Guided Bayesian Program Induction
If feminism means being fair to both men and women, then I am a feminist -- though I don't like the bias of the term.

But what actually happens? Every role where men seem to be doing well, an effort is made to promote women, using "outcome based" metric. On the other hand, where women are at an advantage, nothing is done. Eventually, the work environment becomes toxic for men, just as primary schools are already becoming for boys.

I love women and girls. But let's just treat each human being as a unique individual, not as part of a census category.
output a vector of confidence scores that they can recognize classes A, B, C, ...

This is literally what neural networks do when classifying patterns.
Microsoft's rebuilt Edge may come to Xbox One
Thanks, I've subscribed to them as they all sound really interesting :)
I think Google Maps picks whichever is closest to you when you enter the code.
Then make sure to do things with intention.
Brilliant, added!
A) The Vice President's condemnations ought to be worn with a badge of pride, B) Google is being fined billions because the EU wants money, not because they've done anything amoral, C) employees protest the actions of their employer all the time (see every single labor dispute ever), D) I don't underestimate anything, I accurately estimate how small of a topic privacy is to everyone outside of Internet forums, E) "several" is hardly a movement; I know "several" people who would be ashamed to work at WHO because of how "under-prepared" they are for a zombie apocalypse, and finally F) your comment absolutely confirms your status in the HN "pretend to be concerned while actually doing nothing and continuing to use/benefit from the very people/organizations you claim to dislike" bubble that you and so many other people on HN seem to live in.

You're not grounded in reality, so your opinions as you've expressed them so far are not even remotely accurate, for the reasons I've listed above, as well as many others. You're going to continue to be surprised and confused about why things happen, and it's not going to get better until you figure out a way to hop off your cloud and come join us in the real world, because here no one gives a shit about Dragonfly (many down here, including at least one Chinese citizen, think it's better to have Google at all), and everyone is laughing at Google for their inability to keep the Pixel 3 under wraps.
> The lack of maybe or nullable types in perl6

P6 supports something more powerful and uses that instead:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_union

In P6 the symbol Int, when treated as a type by the compiler, denotes Int:_, which is a sum type, with two subtypes, namely a generically existentially quantified Int (Int:D) and a generically universally quantified Int (Int:U).

Thus Int can be used in the role of a nullable type, but is an improvement in the sense that the equivalent to None (Int:U) encodes its type.

In P6 all constructable types are automatically sum types with :U and :D subtypes.

> need to check for definedness

There is relatively little need for users to check definedness. The language and compiler ensure basic type/memory safety and the user can just write code and it'll automatically be type safe at this basic level.

When the need arises, the user only need type one or two characters in almost all cases (either `:D` if writing a type constraint or `if foo` or `?foo` if writing an explicit check).

> at run-time

In P6 definedness refers to the notion that something actually exists and this is deliberately aligned with the notion that something exists at run-time.

Users seldom need to concern themselves with this but when they do the P6 approach is simple and convenient.

> one of its major design blunders. Also this syntax!

I see the Int, Int:D, Int:U semantics and syntax as a design triumph. See another comment in this thread for an introduction to my view: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18647590

> I rather use proper maybe types as in every other language.

When I read things like "proper" and "as in every other language" in this manner I experience them as appeals to authority.

Perl 6 is not a typical language. Just as Perl 5 isn't either.

For example, a P6 compiler is allowed to statically check that types match at compile time:

sub foo (Str $bar) {}
foo 42

yields the compile time error:

Error while compiling .code.tio
Calling foo(Int) will never work...

but it doesn't view static type checking as a panacea any more than it considers dynamic type checking as a panacea.

P6, like Perl, is designed around the notion of a this and that view of things rather than an either/or view.
I already liked Contrapoints but I hadn't subscribed until now. Thank you!
Palo Alto Networks bets on Google Cloud Platform
What do you mean by pulled up the edges?
I'm using Brave
It sounds like it's the exact same situation as if they owned their own scooter or bike and crashed into the car.
I'm semi-famous. Does anyone want to buy a raspberry pi running RetroArch with my name written on it? /s
>Edit: Downvote me all you want, doesn't make it less true.

I suspect you're being downvoted because you're off topic and not contributing to the discussion in a constructive way. On the other hand, HN and reddit users have a habit of downvoting comments they disagree with.
Tesla is an actual car company making actual fun awesome cars. Dentacoin is... a coin for dentists to...
While I like and respect who Aaron was and what he did for us all, I cringed when reading "I Hate the News" because it came across as very naive. It's the same logic young people use to justify not voting, also the same logic my fellow parents use as reason for not attending town meeting.

Find new sources, find your news. While today's news doesn't effect you directly, it might tomorrow, or it might effect your friend, loved one or neighbor. What Aaron is ranting about is the "business" of news which is fair. If the nightly news on your TV news network of choice offers nothing for you, find your local news, follow a reporter, a journalist and get involved. Actual journalism is what informs, enriches and protects American democracy. See also the "fourth estate".
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