skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really care about eating ice cream, but I'd need to be paid a lot to accept to not eat ice cream for a year.

Not because of the ice cream's value in my life, more because it's an unsolicited offer to sell my rights away. I have little reasons to sell, and I might want ice cream within a year, so you better pony up the cash to make it worth my time and inconvenience. However, it really doesn't mean anything about the value of ice cream.
Blog post from the Malta team on their graduation from X with their molten salt battery grid energy storage play.

https://blog.x.company/introducing-malta-81bceb559061
This year was actually Mickey's "90th birthday" and Disney did a massive amount of promotion and advertising.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/business/media/mickey-mou...
> I doubt there is a deeper understanding what a doubling or quadrupling of computer power will do than any programmer learning about neural networks.

Sure they do. They just hook up four times as much compute power or simulate whatever they want to do in four times as much time. A slow AGI would still be an AGI. But we do not see anything like that if we use four times as much power as in the control. It is still nowhere near.
You don’t need to “take it to court”; if the recipient of the DMCA complaint says to the host that they disagree with the DMCA takedown notice, the host is required by the DMCA to put the content back up (or, at least, return it to whatever state it would be in if the DMCA takedown notice didn’t happen), and it is then the responsibility of the complainant to take the other party to court.

Which the complainant will never do, in these cases where it’s obvious that it was just an overzealous algorithm flagging things it shouldn’t have—because actually pursuing damages for those situations are exactly the type of thing that make a judge issue contempt-of-court charges.
Do you also think all of the many other people in this thread who've had the same experience are lying?
The mnemonic I gave is joke on the original one: “My very educated mother just served us nine pizzas.” But since the P is gone, the pizzas go with it. ;)

In case anyone is wondering what the new one actually is, the mom now serves nachos.
> often the MongoDB support spent half the time on the phone trying to work out what version of mongo, opsmanager etc. we were running.

That sounds awful. Reading these stories I'm happy I work with small companies without such a huge infrastructure.
It's not that you don't write anything in a new thing. It's that you start with small, less critical projects. Get your feet wet, give people a chance to get a feel for the pros and cons, that sort of thing.

Jumping right into writing "mission critical services" in the brand new language that few people at the company know well is asking for trouble.
>where the student body is so smart that half of them would pass the exams if handed the reading list and syllabus for the exams and given a year to prepare.

Is that unusual?
I'll confess to admiring the greatly reduced mess of the first pod system I encountered, which was in an SF startup.

Not only were developers given fewer reasons to leave the office, but the non-men on staff weren't stuck with maintaining a coffee service.
Yes that was my intention. Please note that I didn't say "doesn't exist", I said "doesn't really exist", which is not the same.
It might still take some time to show up in search, but if you visit https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wireguard/id1441195209?ls=1&... on iOS, it should take you to the right place in the App Store.
False Novelty
In addition to the other replies, I suppose it also removes some of the incentive for foul play if I want to use a copyrighted work and don't want to wait for a natural death.
TBH, I had kind of wished that one of you from the Django core would take the reigns next (preferably, you), as a BDFL, since Django was it an extremely well-run project, especially under your leadership.

I believe an open-source project is best run as some form of an oligarchy, but with democratic processes for gaining ideas and feedback.

In my opinion, this kind of shift towards complicated government structures is the end of high efficiency in open-source. The thing that makes many open-source projects so great, other than being open, is that they don’t have a burdensome corporate structure breathing down their necks; so they’re able to turn and burn on projects; they don’t fall prey to sunk cost fallacy as often (thinking back to the efforts to integrate Django Channels that were sidelined, or back further to the efforts at GSOC by some developer, 2 years in a row, to add composite key support, which were also sidelined - futile like this turn into disastrous sunk cost slow train wrecks in corporations, but instead teach us what it is that we don’t want in open-source projects); and only the carrot is in play, for the most part, no stick.
(2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18380366

130+ points
Social advocacy has always been the province of lawyers. You owe your civil rights to lawyers. The codification of human rights into meaningful rights was done by lawyers. Hell, the very concept of individual property rights that underlies Western Civilization was the work of lawyers.

And it was all driven by lawyers concerned about virtue and equality of outcome.
Ex particle theorist here. I think this answer is a bit misleading. Symmetries in quantum mechanics do typically act via $e^{iHt}$, but this isn't why amplitudes are complex. It's a consequence of the fact that symmetries generally act via unitary transformations, but to even speak of unitary transformations, one must already have amplitudes which are complex.

A secondary complaint. None of the groups you mention play a central role in the machinery of quantum theory. They're important in some of the quantum mechanical models we use for particle physics. Arguably more important is the group R of translations in time. But even this isn't necessarily central. Quantum theory works just fine on curved spacetimes where time translation isn't a symmetry.
I've been following this debate for a long time, and it's definitely not settled science.

In fact The Lancet just published this article:

"Planetary electromagnetic pollution: it is time to assess its impact"
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5...

There is plenty of evidence of non-thermal and non-ionizing biological effects [1]. The problem is at the moment most people are focused on cancer, when in fact there are a lot of other published effects that need to be looked into.

ICNIRP and FCC are both focused solely on thermal effects, with human modeling as a blob of jelly, when the latest science shows there also exists non-thermal effects on a cellular and bio-molecular level.

[1] An example of 500 published papers on EMR (electromagnetic radiation) since August 2016:
https://www.saferemr.com/2018/04/recent-research.html
They’re not going anywhere unless and until case law or changes in law make it clear that they’re not necessary for GDPR (and similar statute) compliance.
Much faster and/or better compression/decompression of images (tunable of course, depending on what level you set in the code), and also faster startup of VMs. I haven't measured exactly. I'd guess ~30% in my case.

But all this depends on where the bottleneck is in any particular case. My VMs are on HDD, so increased decompression speed doesn't matter that much, but reduced size helps reading the necessary data faster. Linux VMs seem to be more compressible than Windows ones.

It's certainly better than zlib in any case.
Solutionism is a belief in the power of technology, in the most general sense of any applied knowledge, to eventually solve all problems. While any particular solution may create new problems, those are in turn solvable. (If you mean something different by the word, let me know.)

If you believe solutions exist, you can think of lack of money as just another problem to which there must be a solution. Indeed, any problem you care about probably requires solving several other problems before you can address the main problem. Getting money is just another step in the giant yak-shaving project.
> The art is... the AI algorithms ...

To the extent that this is a common POV, it is a bit of a problem for AIVA, in contrast with open systems. Because how do you assess the "art" that might or might not be embodied in AIVA's algorithms, when those algorithms are not in fact available for scrutiny? Where's the compelling expression, the impressiveness, that is supposed to be a defining feature of "true" art? It's nowhere to be seen, really - all we have is some "magic" and we can at best surmise about what it might be doing under the hood. The developers of, e.g. BachBot, DeepBach and other open systems seem to be in a rather more enviable position as "true" artists!
All this talk about the returned package credit is surprising me.

Occam's Razor would suggest here that the driver was simply a thief who lied and gave an excuse that made himself look less guilty than if he'd stolen.
12 years copyright, 20 years moral rights sound good to me.
One of the things I don't get about this concept is how they plan to avoid the surface bottleneck - if everyone's trying to get into the same number of limited holes in the road, then there's more and more congestion and traffic wanting that access. To make a 3d network of roads work, you'd also need a 3d network of buildings, other wise it's not really solving any problem.
Thanos (https://github.com/improbable-eng/thanos) or Cortex are both great projects depending on your needs.

I would be wary of PromHouse since at a glance it seems to be storing each timestamp in a separate row, which will not be as space efficient as either of the above options.

Full disclosure, I am a maintainer of the Cortex project.
No, you have mixed up the incentives. The federal tax credit incentive expired. The California incentives, some of which are not tax related, still apply to Teslas.
Amazon Web Services hints at quantum computing future
"And that's it's not, on its own, harmful."

I'm sorry to say, but that statement is incorrect. Even the gwern.net link has a section titled "Health Issues". I'll add that it is an immunosuppressant, which Gwern does not appear to mention (or I missed it when skimming the link).
> Because I don’t really care about someone’s moral belief in what’s right or wrong as long as it doesn’t effect anyone else.

Moral beliefs tend to eventually end up externalized in some form or fashion. What then? What if I told you that everything we do affects someone else? This post-modernist idea that you can do whatever you want as long as it doesn't affect someone else is a fallacy. Unless you live in an isolated, self sustaining biodome in Antartica, chances are you are impacting at least one other life in extreme cases, if not more.

The "Desert Fathers" of the ancient Church, of whom left the holy cities with the extent purpose of leaving the world to not impact others (or be bothered by the cares of the world) ironically, impacted millions.
It’s my understanding that the Hana offering is run entirely by CBRE, much in the way CBRE will manage buildings as a service. I would assume it’s an offering for the owner/landlord where they (landlord/owner) would be hands off and there would be a split with CBRE.

https://www.cbre.com/real-estate-services/directory/flexible...

Disclosure: I work for CBRE, but in a different line of business with no knowledge of Hana outside of what is explained by the above link.
Technically accurate and precise specificity is rarely a goal when marketing a product. Their target audience will be using "8-bit" in their search terms.
Why are vendor directories a bad habit ? There just shouldn't be any GOPATH at all as far as I'm concerned.

Look in /usr/include. There you can see what's wrong with GOPATH, 5 years in the future. Now try installing 2 different versions of libraries.

I'll wait.
I just finished reading that piece and it was really good. This (Spiegel) author really spun the most outrageous lies.
Most YouTube copyright complaints are not actually DMCA complaints. The complainant is just asking YouTube nicely (whether that be manually, automated on their side, or automated on YouTube's side) and YouTube is complying of its own volition. 4J of their terms: "YouTube reserves the right to discontinue any aspect of the Service at any time."
Ask HN: Is there a detailed structured database of programming languages?
Every programming language can be qualified by a vast number of attributes and metrics. E.g. typing discipline, support for every particular programming concept, syntax type, support for particular platforms, execution style, how old it is, how actively is it developed, how prone it is to breaking changes, various popularity metrics, average salary, attitude of employers towards remote jobs, availability of good libraries and frameworks for particular tasks and of intelligent IDEs etc.

Are there any projects trying to systematize this data in a single database you can query? There probably isn't a perfect one that would already have or target to collect all the relevant data but perhaps there is one that can tell about a particular subset of the parameters?
1) The $1000 is misleading because although it's an average, the median is considerably lower, around $100 in that case.

2) This shouldn't be surprising as it tells us most people don't care that much, and a few people 'really do' - which is normal for most goods.

3) Since we're dealing with network externalizations, wherein the value goes up when more people use it (the value of FB is the network, less so the features) - then a lower price makes more sense. If all those people who bid $100 or less (say 2/3 of the population) quit FB tommorow, than those in the $1K range who 'really like FB' would probably leave as well, because their friends would not be there.

This gives us a hint that in product wherein the consumer surplus is not very evenly distributed - and there are strong network effects ... that the optimal price should be low.

4) Getting paid to leave is simply a different metric than having to get out your wallet to pay for something. Surely the authors know this but I didn't see it mentioned. 'WTP != WTL' i.e. willingness to pay is not the same as willingness to leave.
>The thing about production is that when more stuff gets made, people get lifted out of poverty. When food gets mass produced and cheap, hunger starts to disappear, for instance.

The first part of the statement only makes sense if you take the second part; people are lifted out of poverty not because more stuff is being made, but because with more stuff being made, more people can afford it. I'm not talking about eliminating growth, I'm saying that the way society operates at the moment (which I view as through exploitation and coercion) has given us such a vast product, but the issue isn't of needing to "grow" at the rate we currently are to solve issues such as hunger, it's to allocate resources according to who needs them rather than the profit that can be made from them.

Nobody, not even Marx himself, would doubt the quantitative number of people that capitalism has brought out of poverty, but neither would anyone really doubt how many then-slaves in the Roman Empire were rescued from wretched conditions of not even being able to get by. The question is not whether capitalism is "good" or not, it's whether we can acheive the same or better advances in other systems which come without various negative qualitative aspects for society, culture and ecology. The issue was never that some people are getting hyper-wealthy, the issue was that capital enables this to happen only from the exploitation of others. Everyone is better in absolute terms, but the absolute terms don't tell the whole story, nor does capitalism show signs of improving the lives of many in the third-world other than by a dogma similar to "the ends justify the means" - continue working in a sweatshop, for one day your country will be as rich as mine!

Again, the issue isn't that some people have big pie slices and others have small ones, it's that some people are deprived of access to social means of production, and with that they are reduced to a relation that depends on someone else to provide them with access. This social relation still persists regardless of the pie slices, because we're talking about one person who owns raspberry pie and the other a horrible pear pie.

I don't think externality pricing would work very well in the long term where such large sums of money can be amassed that the tax won't matter very much (so damage continues) and I doubt that sufficiently large taxes could come about in a democracy controlled by capital rather than "the people" - a people who still prefer the luxuries (i.e perhaps even false needs from Establishment ideology) so would be unwilling to restrict their supply.
Many people can and do go elsewhere, because an individual can have presence on multiple platforms. And while one's social graph in different platforms looks different and is missing some people they know, the network is both self-healing and self-fulfilling, in that it can be reasonably assumed that strong connections can survive irrespective of the network, while weak connections may not, and all connections that didn't survive will be retroactively redefined in one's mind as weak.

It's not like people genuinely use Facebook to discover brand new individuals (as opposed to bands or groups), whereas they'd frequently do that on Instagram, Twitter, or Tumblr. And for interests and activities like music discovery, live music, celebrity fandom, neighborhood activities, and classifieds, other viable alternatives do exist, even if they aren't packaged alongside a rolodex of all the people you went to college with, or your vacation photos, or some isometric farming simulator you used to play 8 years ago.
Being conscious or not has little to do with inability to comparison shop for healthcare in general. I wouldn't disagree that what you're talking about should be illegal and I would expect it to already be illegal.
I'd be socially ostracized if I started with SMS groups every time I wanted to have a group chat via phone without first having to convince everyone involved to install some new app on their phone or get everyone's email beforehand, which would basically be the alternative today.

> Personally I’d hate it if my cousin sent me her vacation pictures by email,

That's kind of the point. People didn't hate this before Facebook. Now it's become the only socially acceptable medium of communication for many occasions.
How to Create 3D Games with PureScript Native and C++
DMCA take down notices on 1923 content will be a thing you say?
The surprise for me was learning that Disney is almost as worried about Winnie the Pooh as they are about Mickey. He’s nearly the same age and they sell a ton of merch.
The IceStorm tools are open source, based on the reverse-engineered Lattice iCE40 FPGA architecture: http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/

I found it very easy to get started, although first you have to buy a compatible FPGA (iCEstick etc.) and make an adapter for your preferred output device. The advantage of the MISTer is that you have all the connectors, FPGA cores for popular platforms and a couple of ARMs for when things get complicated.

Raspberry PI is fine, but not great for latency, assuming you need that extra 1/60 second. (HDMI monitors add so much latency though!) Some folks have had success connecting PIs to old CRTs though.
It's not an exact quote.
The linked page has a section on why this was done on an FPGA instead of a pi: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki/Why-FPGA
Raspberry is emulation which will not be console accurate. The FPGA would more accurate since it is recreating the console on a hardware level(chip)
Right. This isn't surprising to anyone who knows how the Ivys work. It just makes it harder for the Ivys to pretend otherwise.
That's a lopsided comparison but the thirtysomething is judged by the same ruler you are, while a teen has lots of space left to make horrible mistakes you wouldn't survive.
And another configuration file that you (and all tools) need to know about pointing at yet another global directory (global for all your projects). That override file, of course, does have to be in your project folder and is yet another thing to take into account.

If I want to share things, I am aware of links in filesystems, thank you very much Go authors. "go.mod" overrides ... I wish golang did not try to solve yet another non-problem badly.
So the online world mirrors the actual world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDoVckC6NhA

In short, men are animals and e-animals.
Please note that in your linked article, the very end states:

"Last week, YouTube removed the claim from the flagger who said TheFatRat was using copyrighted material, and less than a day after Johnson filed a dispute on his video, the flagger released that claim. That means both YouTubers shouldn’t have to worry anymore about those specific videos.

Neither TheFatRat nor Johnson returned emails from the Daily Dot to see if they were satisfied with the outcome."

This implies that the content creators resolved their problems before getting traction on the published article. However, I will grant you the obvious point here that these content creators that were able to resolve their problems have a huge following, compared to the majority of content creators that don't have the same voice, so maybe this isn't the same for everyone. derefr who also commented below says that it should be the same for anyone who receives a DMCA takedown notice.
> not sure I totally agree the subject at hand is why is the universe the way it is.

I'm confident that is what Aaronson is discussing here.

> Additionally, if by real amplitudes he meant a completely different set of laws, I don't see how that is relevant to a discussion of why complex numbers play such an important role in QM.

He's not having a discussion of why, assuming that the laws of QM are what they are, complex numbers feature in the most elegant representations. You brought that topic up.
It's absolutely 100% about speed for me. There is no faster way for me to get my coffee fix any way you cut it, and when I'm under major time pressure I appreciate it a great deal. With some of them the taste is a bit better than others, but there's really no getting around the fact that it's significantly worse than with other brewing methods (on top of being expensive and wasteful). Swiftness is the whole deal.

On a more leisurely day, I will break out the good beans, the grinder and the french press. But all that takes noticeably more time and energy, and when those are in short supply I tremendously value a lightning-quick alternative.
I live about a mile west from the Nike campus. I have Amazon deliver packages to the locker at the Plaid Pantry on Murray and Walker. Never a misdelivery, never a stolen package. And I drive right by it as I drive home from my daily commute, so it's super convenient.
Thats good to hear. Fedex is the one here that is really unreliable. I work from home and my office faces the street. I'll have the blinds open and the driver will still try to sneak up and leave a delivery attempted note.
"more because it's an unsolicited offer to sell my rights away."

Most people don't think in those terms.

Also, you're not giving up 'rights' you're willingly not doing something. You don't have a 'right' to Facebook anyhow.

I think what you might be getting with ice cram is the 'optionality' value.

Sure, you ate ice cream 20 times last year, but this year, maybe you're at your kids b-day party and want to eat with them! Or take a toor of some Irish Cream place with great ice cream. There's a big variability and unknown distribution of value, with a long tail in there that has to be accounted for. Often by instinct :)
Makes sense. I wasn’t think about all this use case.
It is difficult to make audio equipment disposable. There's no Moore's Law-driven metric and anything low durability is obvious enough.