skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"What's the point of going to a play when the script is already printed?

That's a ridiculous analogy. You go to a play to be entertained, because it's a live experience, it'a performance that will always be slightly different and unique from performance to performance depending on any number of variables. In fact a play is great example of why spontaneity is so important.

>"Not all forms of engagement require spontaneous unplanned interaction to be considered interesting or useful by those partaking."

Really? Name one live event that doesn't presume some level of unplanned interaction? You go to see someone speak - there might be laughter, groans, facial expressions - a feedback loop. You go to see a band - there will be between song banter, audience reaction, requests. It's a kinetic ritual.
You go to a book signing and there will be an audience Q AND A with an author.

Please share some examples of which live events that are completely devoid of any unplanned human interaction are interesting?
I am quite happy using LXD. Is there any built-in way to expose a tcp port ? I am using iptables in the host to do this.

thanks
Right, one is a 'machine that can perform some word processing -like functions' and the other is a 'machine that a real user would use for word processing in an actual work setting'.
Most of the CO2 produced is the energy used to process it. Concrete is very energy intensive.
There’s a Sev2 bug report sitting Unassigned in God’s JIRA, something about humans fundamentally lacking the capacity to understand how even the poorest people can shine and how even the richest can suffer.

There’s no magical set of circumstances that result in happiness or joy. In fact I think the external things that we most often identify as bringing happiness or joy, apparently when most people are faced with these things, it results in quite the opposite.

In my opinion Taylor Swift has one of the hardest and most unrelenting jobs on the planet. Going out night after night trying to appeal to the teeming masses sounds like absolute hell. Everyone you meet more likely to be a vampire than not. No thanks!
Isn't the whole bamboo thing just a sort of greenwashing? Sure, it grows fast, but it doesn't really grow more efficiently in terms of a resource consumption to output ratio than most other trees.

Might have been here that I heard this: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-bad-environmentalism-is-...

Unfortunately, some of the links out from there on the topic now appear broken.
I'd argue that those feats were easier to accomplish than what we're trying today. We got the low hanging fruit out of the way, and now we're trying for the big game. Eradicating polio was just fighting one monster. It's amazing we won, don't get me wrong. But fighting cancer is a hydra. Once we make progress in one place, another pops up, then another.

For developed nations, there's not a lot of low-hanging fruit anymore. We can basically cure (or treat so well that it's the same as a cure) almost any disease that threatens to cut a life short. For many of the ones we can't cure yet, we have built amazing technology around as a stopgap. Spoons that stabilize themselves so Parkinson's sufferers can eat normally aren't cheap or easy to build, certainly not something that could have been done in the 20s or even the 60s.

For developing nations, progress is still moving swiftly. They're now benefiting from treatments and vaccines that are taken for granted in the developed world, so their quality of life is increasing dramatically. Tons of effort is going into curing illnesses specific to their problems, like Bill Gates with malaria, condoms, and toilets, or Jimmy Carter with the guinea worm. And it's working.

We've chosen to fight harder battles because the easy fights are already won. Don't mistake that for a lack of progress.
Okay, but you don't need to pay to get Full SSL.
Windows 95's 3D look & feel was copied from NeXTSTEP. To me the pinnacle of 2D UI design was OS X from Steve Jobs' time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Tiger#/media/File:Tig...
Looking forward to trying this someday.

If you need a caffeine-free alternative in the meantime, check out rooibos. It's not tea, biologically speaking, but it's a great approximation and it has a really nice red color.
This is partially what it was implied David from Prometheus was doing at the start of the film (although he appeared to be working back from modern pronunciation to earlier proto-languages too)
Man, I feel old when Imgur, a yesterday's establishment from my point of view, can be considered a ’first‘ of anything.

While I also believe Slashdot to be the first one (it certainly is the first one to use the _term_ ’karma‘), some two other early communities to check for prior art are Kuro5hin and Advogato.
I don't think I ever see any Medium content linked to anywhere else outside of HN. Am I just missing some other sources? Is it a case of Medium writers link to other Medium writers?
How do you use wget? I know you can specify a start position, intended for resuming downloads, but you need to specify an end position as well (to extract just the single compressed file), and I don't see any way to specify an end in the wget manpage.
113 comments and also on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18670723
i feel like this article is missing something. i guess the big thing was "you can make a site where you don't track people individually"? but that doesn't seem like a huge revelation.
There is also a great deal of lost history recorded on (some of) those tablets. I do find that quite valuable. So much history has been lost, and destroyed. ISIL/ISIS actually destroyed a lot in the last few years in this area. I find this INCREDIBLY sad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_cultural_herita...
Sounds sort of similar to 0xbitcoin in that it's possible for anyone to mine tokens, but that project currently raises the difficulty (like Bitcoin). I'm assuming that a few changes to the difficulty scaling could make a proof-of-concept of sorts as a mineable ERC20 token. In this case, the security of the system relies on the security of the Ethereum network though, which shifts the concerns but also means that people still need gas to send transactions - which might be difficult for user adoption.
> astrology is falsifiable and would thus qualify as a science

To qualify as science it should also not have been falsified. There is simply no problem in astrology being a candidate here, it's not reject because of form, but because of the contents.
If you enjoyed Snow Crash, I would definitely encourage you to look into Stephenson's other books if you haven't already.
REAMDE is very good and is also partially set in VR.
Anathem is an interesting exploration of the distant future and alternate universes.
Cryptonomicon has so much going on it's hard to know where to start, but it's a lot of fun.

I was also a big fan of Stranger in a Strange Land! I'll have to check out Scythe and Thunderhead.
So they won’t make money on this and admit they are buying users. Seems like a bad idea and makes me question their solvency in the future.
Then other people will ask to make them more detailed :-)

Thanks for feedback though, we’re listening.
> Expecting her to be as architecturally diverse as Europe is asking too much.

The suburbs and shopping streets of London or Dublin contain row upon row of identical buildings.
Show HN: Health Wizz – Control your healthcare data
This feels like FinTech Moviepass. I understand how they monetize their brokerage trades but how are they going to make money on this?
This article seems to be putting on some strong rose-colored glasses. It appeals to the idea that people in the past all lived in beautiful, long-lasting buildings. The reality is that the long-lasting buildings are the only ones that still exist.

Well sure, but at least some houses used to be beautiful and long-lasting; nowadays, even large, expensive mansions are typically built in a cheap, slapdash manner, using techniques and materials that are not nearly as long-lasting or durable as the ones that would've been used to build a nice house a century ago.

For a really obvious example, just look at roofing materials; a good slate roof can last over a century with minimal maintenance, but nobody builds houses with slate roofs anymore. Instead, even high-end homes use asphalt shingles that last 20-30 years tops.
Sorry if this is ignorant but how does the ATM system for this work? Who owns the ATMs at Target and 7-11? Is there a limit to how much cash you can deposit? I'd like to use this but I will be processing a lot of cash in the future and worry about depositing thousands of dollars at an ATM.
I don't disagree with your points, but paying >$40k for a vehicle is an impossibility for most people. A working class shmuck like me can't prioritize luxury
LXD has proxy devices, which allows you to map your host's port to your containers ports.

https://github.com/lxc/lxd/blob/master/doc/containers.md#typ...

Makes life very easy, I used to have to mess with iptables too but with proxy device things became much simpler.
Is it FDIC insured?
The fundamentals of quantum computing are absolutely a science. The hypothesis, discovery and characterization of useful quantum systems is done in Physics labs all over the world. Beyond that, is Computer Science not considered a fundamental science?
Can anyone explain to me how Archive.org is exempt from DMCA? For example you can download a lot of copyrighted old console ROMs from them. Not abandonware. How come no one goes after Archive.org? I mean TPB founders went to jail even tho they don't even host anything. How is Archive.org different?
This is exactly right. I live in a large TX metro area and we're inundated with these "ER in a Box" facilities. We also have at least three major full service hospitals in that 5 mile radius. The majority of these places are just a re-branding, with higher fees, of the older "Doc in box" model. Over and over again we hear stories of people visiting these places for fairly minor things, like stitches or back pain that are slapped with $2000 bills because they are "out of network" or coded as ER visits. If you have a real emergency, they call 911 and have you transported.
It has to be by law.
I’m not sure why other banks haven’t followed. One month treasury rate is already up to 2.3% now and banks can certainly lend it out at higher than treasury rate.
I've been keeping my emergency savings in VMSXX (vanguard's Muni bond money market) for a while now since on a tax equivalent basis, the yield (for me, it depends on your income and state) is roughly 2.5-2.6%. Maybe I'll switch to this.

My question is though: how the heck are they doing it, and is it sustainable?
My position is that you can't maintain neutrality on the sex of people who make achievements if you keep highlighting it. It's a phenomenal achievement, period.

I really, genuinely, can't see why Hill's sex, say, is important here. Could you spell it out for me?

I've no idea what nationality she is, if she's say Inuit, would that be notable relative to her achievement?
Finding resources is as simple as searching "learn HTML" or "learn JavaScript"

YouTube, online tutorials, local meetups, and just trying to code projects on your own. The cool thing about web development is that if you have a computer with internet connection then it's free to do.

Just start doing it.
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Grenfell cladding firm: 'fire could have been put out with simple extinguisher'
Quantum computing boils down to unitary matrix operations over complex space. It's very straightforward. But the way those pieces behave in more complicated systems and the emergent properties they give rise to can be studied... Scientifically.

Some of it will be encompassed by computer science in that algorithms will still have the same metrics, but there may be other metrics for which to study quantum algorithms.
AR Insider's 2019 XR Predictions
You will be interested to learn about the existence of tomato jam.
Not my project. I'm interested in something like this, but curious if anyone knows more about this app or alternatives.
Agree with this except for the last bit about “mature” software market. Software is just the execution of logical processes. There’s no reason to think we’ll run of out need for new logical processes to be implemented.
You're right regarding the peer reviews, but I'm looking for a way to elicit this feedback from reluctant seniors. I've been upfront about my desire for receiving critical feedback (even harsh) with limited response :(.
https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/networking/private-network...
Sounds like a classic urban legend to me.
ATM is reimbursement based. Very much how shared branching with credit unions work.
Remember that this is a slap more than a bite, so it may not do as much damage as you'd think.
They're probably partnering with Cardtronics (which includes Allpoint) which has a really wide ATM network, partially owned and partially thru partnerships with other banks, credit unions, etc.
There's nothing there that would make the coin stable in price versus a fiat currency; you just described the platonic ideal bitcoin type thing where the mining participation is particularly democratic.
Apple Developing Modem as Chip Efforts Expand [paywall]
A previous HN discussion [0] on the same (rougly) subject, with many different and good points for and against Medium (mostly against, though)..

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18440756
stumbleupon can also be considered in this list
Yeah, except it's not like that. It is much closer to the random collection of anybodies found at any company, just with a tech bent. The idea of these uber specialist is myth. I work in security, at high levels. It's just normal people.
I think you misunderstood who the watchers are supposed to be. Santosh83 is probably referring to the high risk of the establishment of a police state.
I use Simple, which is similarly online-only. They recommend depositing cash by getting a money order, which you can deposit via online check deposit by taking a picture of it.

I doubt the ATMs at Target/7-11 can take cash deposits. I've only seen that feature on bank branch ATMs.
it's not "just a bit more verbose", subprocess is much longer and complex module than sh! i constantly need to go back to the manual (is it check_output or call? or maybe i need to create a pipe for that one? never remember).

sh provides clear semantics for certain use cases - that it doesn't match your expectations on how a program shold behave is understandable, but there are knobs to change that behavior, so I don't know if that is a strong enough argument to completely "stay away from" it altogether.

i know i've been happy it's there and used it in a few projects with good success, particularly projects that need exactly that: replace a shell and have the terminal passed down correctly.
Honestly I am speculating here wrt distilled feedwater, essentially just geeking on a subject I happen to enjoy :^)

Any ship installation is limited in size, weight, and power, so you carry machines only big enough to produce sufficient supply for normal operations plus a bit of spare capacity. Even if they had a distilling machine(s) on board, they would certainly not be able to supply as much water as they'd be able to boil off in the main boilers.

Also, the apparent ease of distillate production is a bit misleading. In fact, it is a bit of an involved subject, with multi-stage processing, and delicate balances of pressures and the occasional thorough cleaning. At least in the submarine world[1], that is...

Basically you want to heat up the water only as much as you need to, but later on recover as much as possible of the heat from both the distillate and the condensed discharge. This is helped greatly by maintaining proper pressures at different stages. Otherwise you'd be running exceptionally inefficient process, and at scale & over span of weeks things add up to real numbers.

[1] https://archive.hnsa.org/doc/fleetsub/still/index.htm
The limit on deposit is based on FDIC limits and how much you want to risk. The amount FDIC insures today is $250,000 https://www.fdic.gov/deposit/deposits/
then should we aspire to... weakness, fragility, and impotence?
It is definitely possible but there’s so many more places you could make a mistake if each custom Hook has to do bookkeeping like this. I don't know if I could write or extend the code you wrote without making quite a few mistakes in the process. By comparison, I find following a rule like "calls should be static" much simpler.

My post does mention that we care about copy paste experience:

>Code passing non-unique or badly composed keys would accidentally work until a Hook is called multiple times or clashes with another Hook. Worse, if it’s meant to be conditional (we’re trying to “fix” the unconditional call requirement, right?), we might not even encounter the clashes until later.

>Remembering to pass keys through all layers of custom Hooks seems fragile enough that we’d want to lint for that. They would add extra work at runtime (don’t forget they’d need to serve as keys), and each of them is a paper cut for bundle size. But if we have to lint anyway, what problem did we solve?

I later go into why allowing conditional declarations of state or effects isn’t even particularly useful or desirable because the semantics are too confusing. So I do think I kind of addressed that.
> I've seen (and largely agree with) your post (somewhere? Can't remember where) here, are you working on a formal proposal?

I'm currently working on a blog post to describe and justify the design, as well as a PoC. The formal proposal for OCI will come after the PoC (and after sufficient benchmarking and discussion within the community). But I plan to write a spec document along the PoC.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16438615 and in general the HN search https://hn.algolia.com/?query=ask%20learn%20web%20developmen...
I would be very unconfortable depositing large amounts of cash at an ATM unless it was a first-party (owned by my bank) ATM with the newest tech that can scan bills as they go in.

Even then I think for cash I might be more comfortable handing it to a teller and getting a receipt.

These third party low-rent ATMs at convenience stores don’t even take deposits. They are withdrawal only.
@vrk's Web Programming Fundamentals course is a good start

http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs193x/
Sounds like it's probably using the AllPoint network.

http://www.allpointnetwork.com/
Basis was something special. Its algorithm was such that if it ever stopped growing at a sufficient rate, it would explode to zero. And this would remain true no matter how much Basis had previously grown.

Every gain against a dollar by Basis was erased, either by paying off previous bets, or by paying “dividends”, and would not count for future price resiliency. If the market cap was 3 trillion and basis was used by 500 million people, and it needed to issue “bonds” to hold the peg, then the doom clock would start ticking again afresh.

In order for Basis to hold the price, you placed bets, not only that that the price would go back, but that the market cap would grow enough beyond a parity price to pay off every bet ahead of you in line. If the price just returned to parity, you still got nothing. So the more outstanding bets, the bigger the risk of placing a new bet. And this risk grew at a power ratio the farther behind the currency got.

Basis could do nothing but explode.
Maybe just your account? Using the same password on multiple services? There has been alot of database released online and all someone would have to do is cross reference an email and they got your login.
As a user of the Robinhood brokerage for all of my "fun investment money" I'm a fan of this. I do wonder how the big banks are going to respond however as this is blatantly a "shots fired" kind of event.
Wow that's a bummer.
Will the 3% be a long term thing or is it just a sign up gimmick?
Link to their blog post instead - https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2018/12/13/introducing-robin...
I have never heard of this, do you have references to this?

If this is true, and even if you (or someone) made it up but it is a practical possibility, then it has truly horrific consequences for social organization and the peaceful transition of power (democracy).

I've written about that before:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15110645

This is bad.

If you take away more and more ways to (relatively) peacefully protest something (for example by arresting the leaders as you say). Then the frustration will just continue, and grow and grow until the only way is violence, say what Marx had in mind.
Agreed. I once got upset with a forum for the same reasons.

Why am I throwing my content away?

So I set up a CMS and started blogging away.

Made over $50k over the last 10 years, just with Adsense.

It’s now mostly “dead”, but on a $3/month s3 static copy that still earns $100/month.

The most difficult part now is the yearly tax/accounting work.
Because there is basically no competition. Plenty of credit unions around my area offer 3% or sometimes 4% checking, but the best bank rate I could find was under 1%.

But credit unions and especially new small players like Robinhood aren't going to threaten PNC or BoA or Chase. So why would they give up free money if they don't have to?
This is higher than even most long-term CDs at the moment. Anyone have thoughts on how this is possible? Possibly a teaser that will adjust down soon?
Art of the Problem and IEEE are making videos on the most cited papers
"was found to be unseaworthy, and operating without a license, lookout or qualified master"

I think one of the shocking things about the Titanic is that it was considered to be top of the line and operated in a professional manner. I don't think anyone is shocked that third world countries operate unsafely.
Steel roofing is becoming more and more common. Wonder what the expected life expectancy is on those bad boys.
Shades of Kaminsky!

How usable is the speed on this?
Panicing is not handling anything, it is just crashing the program. Unless you can catch the panic, in which case it's just another name for an exception. Not handling failed allocations except for on large allocations is just asking for rare crashes when one of the "unlikely to fail" allocations fails. Neither of these solve the problem in a robust way. Handling this properly is a language design issue. This is just applying a band-aid.
The big issue was that ocean liners were the method of crossing the Atlantic for the rich and poor.

There was a strong sense of "That could have happened to me!", especially among the elite.

Imagine how terrified the tech community would be if a major accident at SFO killed 1000 people trying to get on or off flights.
I'm not a lawyer or an expert, but looking at the Wikipedia page for the DMCA [0] there appears to be protection for retro games:

"An exemption was made for 'Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a condition of access.'"

EDIT: Actually archive.org posted an article about exactly this [1]

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright...

[1]: https://archive.org/about/dmca.php
>So one hard or soft slate for each square foot of your house times $1,500 will be total cost of a new slate roof. Asphalt shingles have a total cost around $200 per square.

Well, yea slate roofs cost 7X as much. No wonder people don't.
This is great to see. It's even better than the current 1-year CD's I've seen for 1 year. And since this is a checking/savings account there's no time aspect to locking up your cash.

If my bank can't compete with this then I will be moving some cash savings into a new Robinhood account.