skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems somewhat of an odd tagline "why good people are divided by politics"...

All people are divided by politics.

Perhaps it's one to give a read though.

I swear I'm noticing a systemic failure at a global level of people to recognize they are always-on 24/7 political machines living inside an always-on 24/7 political machine and it's mostly Garbage In, Garbage Out.

That's the default mode of operation. Most people are wrong about most things. Couple that with the fact we are de-facto tribal animals that can't turn our politics off. All you get is one big, giant disagreement where everyone is likely wrong and nobody will admit it.

But I keep noticing patterns in everyones language... Patterns that make an assumption that the crazy political debates we find ourselves in are somehow an abnormal state and the world has "descended into madness" or "we've gone mad" or "it seems people have really lost their minds lately".

This pattern crops up over and over again. It's like no man, look at the hardware and software producing the outputs. This is the output the system is designed to produce. We haven't "lost our minds" or "gone crazy", we were always this batshit insane and this is always the protocol we have operated on.

Curious what the framework the book lays out and what resemblance it bears to my own framework...
Maybe they were too willing to believe his depiction of small town America as a bunch of poorly educated, bigoted hicks? Perhaps because it confirmed their own biases?

I know it’s a German publication, but this is perhaps a symptom of the monoculture that permeates a lot of organizations in the “West”
Don’t trust your gut: why self-doubt is a key ingredient for success
We've just posted up a rundown on the changes we're implementing in response to feedback from threads like this. Please give it a look and see where it lands for you: https://brave.com/rewards-update/

We shipped confusing, poorly thought out UI, got a bunch of negative but really thoughtful feedback, and are moving quickly to get things fixed.
>Looking at the revenue, growth rates, etc, it looks like Youtube sadly does not need to do better.

Careful with this line of thinking. Youtube got to having massive players by moving up market from indie videos. The main thing blocking a competetor from following the same path is that Youtube still dominates in the indie sector as well. If they damage themselves in that market enough to give a competetor a foothold, then they lose that moat; and their competetor can follow the same up market path that Youtube took.
Yeah, the microspheres have the property of being very retroreflective (shine headlamp light directly back toward a driver efficiently) and so get used in lots of automotive visibility scenarios.
1. I would agree: I discovered it a few weeks ago and it changed my understanding of both how my mind works and the practice of meditation (after 5+ years of on/off practice, retreats and many many books). I found the explanations so clear that I'm going for a 6 weeks retreat to his center in a few days.

2. In the same vibe I was recommended Shinzen Young "the science of enlightenment"[1], which has very enthusiastic reviews from many masters, including Culadasa. I haven't read it yet.

[1] printed in 2016, https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1591794609/
Back around 2012 or so I interviewed with a company doing just that to price mortgage backed securities. So it is being done.
I am not sure why I got downvoted. Mark is the oldest of the Gospels. The others, especially Matthew and Luke are just derivative works. They are anonymous embellishments of anonymous writing that was never meant as historical record. They were meant to convey the basic ideas to a non-christian populations.
We've just published a rundown on the many changes going into the UI to address concerns like these. You can find it here: https://brave.com/rewards-update/

We shipped confusing, poorly considered UI and are hustling to get it fixed. Thanks for your feedback.
Actually the conservative estimate in humans, according to Wikipedia is 0.5–1.0 mg/kg. Rats are a lot tougher than humans.
You are probably right on the money. And that likely happens with the rest of the mainstream media - the readers/viewers will believe whatever is fed to them because it aligns with their narrative of the world.
Of course I realize the consequences.

My point is not that there should be no filter, but that this specific filter is deeply flawed. There are a nearly infinite number of other ways to filter the onslaught of requests, your fallacy-of-the-excluded-middle argument notwithstanding.

It’s worth noting that the people in question have astonishing financial resources. Is this really the only and best possible solution under those circumstances?
They can if you go on a diet
I am surprised does not include 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt.
I have not read it, but judging by the synopsis on Goodreads, it seems to gloss over any developments during the Islamic Golden Age. Is this judgement accurate?
We've shipped a bunch of hotfixes to our UI in response to this thread and others. You can read about them here: https://brave.com/rewards-update/

Thanks for your feedback. We shipped UI that sent the wrong message about unverified creators. Understood. We're hustling to get fixes in place and talking more about what we can and should be doing.
It'll be after 20 for sure, we're still waiting for the executor TS for async networking to be able to come in.
Oooh. Added to my list.

I read Man's Search for Meaning this year and man that's a bleak, hard-hitting book. Just such a gripping experience reading that.

I've recently bought a copy of The Gulag Archipelago which is a historical account of the Gulag in Soviet Russia.

Will definitely add Rwanda to the list. I think these books are so important to read. They're absolutely horrifying, but lest we forget where those ideas lead people.
Ask HN: What skills are required to be successful entrepreneur?
Not our intention. We've just posted up a rundown of the many changes we're pushing up tomorrow to address these concerns and clarify things a lot more: https://brave.com/rewards-update/
The Dictator's Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith

Everyone should read it. You think you know politics, but you haven't even begun until you've read this book.
Why is it illogical to say that a Maybe a -> b should be callable as if it were a -> b?

His point is that Maybe a should be composed of all the values of a, plus one more value, nil. A value of type a is a member of the set (nil + a). Why should having a more specific value reduce the things you can do with it? It breaks composition, fundamentally. It's like saying (+) works on integers, but not on 3. I'm saying this someone who really enjoys type systems, including haskell.
We agree our UI sends the wrong message. We're pushing up a bunch of fixes to make it clearer tomorrow. You can read about them here: https://brave.com/rewards-update/

Thanks for your feedback!
You often see complaints about this story-telling kitch here on HNs in response to many long-form articles garnished with many paragraphs of tangential location and people stories.
Rust is used in production by companies like Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Dropbox...

(Still way less than C++, of course. But we’re making big strides!)
> Performers like getting paid because they like to eat and not be homeless, and suggesting that most of them don't want to be paid is simply not true.

He suggested no such thing, you should try reading more carefully.

> Amateur porn is absolutely not the default, as even a cursory glance at porn sites reveals.

He also never claimed that.

What he did say was that there's enough amateur exhibitionists who would do it for free and don't care about getting paid to more than satisfy the demand for porn and that's why professionals are going to continue having a hard time being paid.
> In other words, what was the main Arab religion before Islam? I'm guessing that it was something like Judaism. Indeed, maybe there were many forks.

Pre-Islamic Arab society was largely polytheistic, with pockets of Jewish tribes and smatterings of individual Christian and Zoroastrian priests representing the monotheistic element, the latter largely either as immigrants to the Arabian peninsula or via the influence of foreign traders, etc.

When the prophet Muhammad emigrated from Makkah to escape economic and physical persecution at the hands of the Quraish Arabs, he moved with his followers (or rather, having already his sent his followers ahead of him) to Madinah (then known as Yathrib) which was home to, among others, two Jewish tribes.
Juul seems to have much smaller battery than vape "pens". It also does not produce nearly as much vapor. Their whole innovation is formaliting high concentration juice which would not make you barf (using a different nicotine-derived compound than the pure nicotine in the original e-juice) so it could be used in a low power device.
Truly a great read
Mars: Pictures reveal 'winter wonderland' on the red planet
You're beating the wrong horse. I'm not arguing against public transport per se, but against the idea that the MTA resembles any kind of efficiency. Compare to Hong Kong, Singapore, Santiago, Chile, or really almost any other subway on Earth. The waste is incredible.
The "corporations are people" thing is exaggerated in a lot of understandings, and I doubt corporations are deemed capable of "personal communications". Still, personal communications might be found to cover the communication among persons at the companies.

But Slack does support a lot more than just people chatting with people, like bot and app/SaaS integrations. Those clearly aren't personal communications and frequently accomplish more than just exchanging information.

Good catch that the license does have provisions for fee-based services as well. However, the person I was replying to quoted the one for no-cost services, so that's what I focused on in my reply.
Yeah, and it's FDA certified to be less deadly than cigarettes. Forgive me for having a higher standard for calling something "healthy"
Trump signs legislation to back quantum computing with $1.2B
Rent control is a terrible policy and it is good for California that Prop 10 failed. The only solution is to allow more housing to be built.
We've just published a blog post listing then many changes we're pushing up tomorrow to address concerns in this thread and on Twitter; https://brave.com/rewards-update/

As it says in the post, we're definitely planning to talk about whether to block attempts to tip unverified creators altogether.
Ask HN: Favorite Fiction Books of 2018?
Paul’s letters were all written to previously established churches. If pre-gospel written or oral traditions about Jesus’ life had already been given to those churches, Paul had little need to repeat it in the short, practical letters that were written (except in a few cases for the sake of his argument, where he does quote the words of Jesus also written in similar form in the gospels).

In general I think none of the epistles in the NT discuss biographical details of Jesus, even those scholars generally agree were written post-70 or not by Paul. They’re pretty short and focused on specific points they want to argue.
A $1.2B law to boost US quantum tech
The tagline is meant to emphasize that even good people are divided by politics, and the book is meant to target people who didn't find that obvious.
Perhaps, but then again, why shouldn't we care? Don't we care about animal species going extinct?

There is value in preserving various approaches to life. Both at a biological and cultural level. It's a pity to see ways of life stop existing when they could have been spared.
It completely blows my mind that blizzard got it right over a decade ago with a dedicated physical device that would generate a one-time, time sensitive key for second factor authentication (to protect my video game account).

Where as I feel I'm still waiting for my bank (actual money) to catch up. they took the easy way out by sms-ing me a second factor authentication key. Even though phone number theft is a known attack vector.
This one https://medium.com/@raj7k/the-hackathon-guide-127aedd4d024
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this sounds almost exactly like how React works under the hood. Which I suppose goes a long way to explaining why the Flutter API resembles React's a lot.

Not a knock, I really like the React approach to building UIs.
You could query the live api:

https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/updates.json?print=pre...

Do this periodically and you can have user activity stats
That was not our intention. We see how people could argue we were though so we're dropping creator images from our overlay that explains tipping to unverified creators. You can read about this and other changes we're rolling out here: https://brave.com/rewards-update/
> When have you ever had to unnecessarily break API compatibility because something you thought was an Option[T] result turned out to be really a T, always?

That would be a breaking change. And should be, if you're into that sort of thing.

The objection is to the opposite case: What was a T is now an Option[T]. I don't know Scala specifically, but that's a breaking change in every typechecked language I know. Rich is arguing that it shouldn't be. But it could be possible even in typed languages through union types. For example, you can do this in TypeScript by changing T to T | undefined, which is a superset of T.
The man turning China into a quantum superpower
We just posted up a list of changes going live tomorrow that hopefully address all the concerns listed in this thread: https://brave.com/rewards-update/

Thanks for your feedback.
I am having a hard time conciling compile times as a complaint. That is a compiler problem. Or an inevitable problem as the project grows.

I don’t understand how that is a problem with Boost.

Same thing with the IDE. If you add an external library such as Boost, it is natural that your intellisense or whatever IDE feature may get slower.

Both of these are undisputably an issue with the environment as a whole. How on the earth is it a quality problem with Boost!? Please explain.
I believe that. We pair up on super complex things but have been promising to do more of it having heard of successes like yours.
I'm not sure if those models would work with the version in the current master (wav2letter++). The old version of the master branch (wav2letter, written in lua/torch: https://github.com/facebookresearch/wav2letter/tree/wav2lett...) contains links to the models you listed, so I guess they belong to that version.
Thanks for laying this out. Due to great posts like this and many others in this thread and on Twitter our eng. team is pushing up a bunch of changes tomorrow. You can read about them here: https://brave.com/rewards-update/

The bottom line is that it will be much much much clearer that unverified creators are not participating in Brave Rewards and what happens to any BAT tips a user tries to send to one. We'll also not be using any creative assets at all from unverified creators like their Youtube images. In the post we also commit to looking into whether to block attempts to tip unverified creators altogether.
Man pornography will die in its own fire. It's quest for optimization and hyperinflation (sic) is sick. That's most probably how brains get addicted short/intense/void.
Brave doesn't insert ads into the browser or otherwise replace web site ads. This is a thing people like to say about the company because it'd be obviously lame if we did this...but we don't do this. Do you have a citation for the claims that Brave does this?
Glad to see there are still contenders for peak 2018.
The 1-Page Marketing Plan by Allan Dib
Totally changed my view and understanding of what marketing is and how core it is to product development. No theory or fluff, cuts straight to the point.

https://www.amazon.com/1-Page-Marketing-Plan-Customers-Money...
I live in Germany and the story of the liar journalist fascinates me. There are multiple things at play here, that man did similar things with Syrian kids etc.

Ultimately the reason why he did it is because he could and I blame the nonexistent fact checking at Spiegel for this. But on a more personal level Relotius said he couldn’t stand the pressure of not delivering a great story (he won multiple awards first). I would also blame these awards for beeing to trusting, somebody like him should never have reached this level of fame and reputation.

I never really read his stuff, but I remember reading one story a long time ago that had someone start singing a song and I remembered wondering if this really happended or if I am in the realm of phantasy there. Now I know.

The problem is incentives, always
I tried to read Mein Kampf and could not. The language is just so incredibly bureaucratic and dull that I gave up after 50 pages. Maybe it reads better in German, but I can't read German.

I suspect a lot of dogmatic texts are the same way. Rand is at least not a total drag to read even though I find a lot of her ideas hilarious (chief of which is: the very ethical, honest, and hard working rich people).
Study Confirms: Global Quantum Internet Really Is Possible
It's an old book but I really enjoyed Liar's Poker (1989) by Michael Lewis.
For sure I think it is toothpaste.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18733433

80+ points
my guess was large denomination US dollars
* aluminum - obvious I hope

* metalized - take a non metal material and cover it in metal

* polyethylene terephthalate - this is simply PET plastic, also called Polyester, and is used to make fabric and bottles.
Does it all go to QC? If so, this is a major bet.
It’s dumb as rocks, agreed.

But it’s the massive prep they do and skills they have that make it genius
I think for new developers to a team, you shouldn't be letting them commit to master until you've got confidence they're not going to cause problems. I've done this several times in small teams (less than 10) for new members and it's essential for orientation in my opinion so they know what the team is looking for.
Yes, I should have said "Greenwich great circle" since the "meridian" is referencing only a half-circle in geography.
You make a lot of great arguments against business practices we have no intention of pursuing. We shipped some poorly-considered UI, got a bunch of deserved flack for it, and are pushing up fixes swiftly (tomorrow). You can read about them here: https://brave.com/rewards-update/

Thanks for your passion for creators and for those of modest means and with disabilities. The internet is awesome in part because it's a place where everyone and anyone can contribute.
There is no evidence for nearly any human being from that time period, barring descriptions of them after their death. And in contrast, there’s as much evidence of Jesus’ life within 100 years of his death as almost anyone else historians claim to have existed at that time period—frankly, there’s more.

Thus, correctly pointing out that there is no evidence “from when he was claimed to be alive” is not a very convincing argument that the vast majority of secular Biblical historians are wrong in their belief in a historical Jesus. Two elements of Jesus’ life story are nearly universally held to be historically accurate: that he was baptized by John the Baptist, and that he was crucified.
That's not true at all. The existence of a historical Jesus is totally incedental to their faith. There were tons of Messianic preachers at the time, what's so unbelievable about one of them getting deified? The hypothesis that one of those people was named "Jesus of Nazareth" does exactly nothing to prove Christianity.
This was not our intent. We're shipping a bunch of changes tomorrow that we hope fix this: https://brave.com/rewards-update/
Why would you burn glitter of all things?

Glitter is plastic and aluminum. You could just burn those separately if that's what you wanted. What's the purpose in making them into glitter first?

And in any case they wouldn't turn the smoke white. And there are better ways to get rid of black smoke (easier is add some air into the fire).
and the question is, are we meat suits or are we driving meat suits...
Overall yeah, but that's why I focused on similar-scale regions. For long distances, like SF-NYC, I think the current US solution of planes is basically the practical one and am not expecting a coast-to-coast bullet train. What's slow and could be improved in the US is regional-scale travel, the 150-400 mile range. I was disagreeing with the person who started this thread who argued that that kind of intercity travel in the US is already solved by autos. It is sort of, but only if you don't mind slow and tedious travel...
We agree the UI in that screenshot tells the wrong story. It doesn't represent what we're trying to do so we're shipping a bunch of changes tomorrow that we hope will fix things: https://brave.com/rewards-update/

We'd love another shot at winning your interest. Thanks for caring about finding new ways to get creators paid.
its fitting i think. its all about perspective and context albiet the title does not give context but depending on your perspective and/or background it fits.
Why Am I Always on Move: AN OPEN LETTER OF AN INDIAN TRAVEL BLOGGER
We're shipping a bunch of fixes tomorrow that will (we hope) dramatically improve this: https://brave.com/rewards-update/
Learn how to bake a really good cake. Work colleagues and your extended family will live you for it!
Books I liked in 2018:

Crashed by Adam Tooze ; history of the financial crisis, goes into more detail than most of the others

The Future of Capitalism by Paul Collier; lots of ideas on how to improve our situation, most of them are good, UK focused

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou; if you've ever been in a startup you'll recognize bits of this story, but it quickly gets out of control in novel ways. Astonishing story.

What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michel Sandel

The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu

Who we are and how we got here by David Reich: ancient DNA and human history

The Book of Why by Judea Pearl; liked it but I need to reread this one a few more times to comprehend completely or go to his textbooks

Empire of Cotton: Sven Birckets; a history of the first global technology including how it made the UK & USA rich

The Away Game: The Epic Search for Soccer's Next Superstar by Sebastian Abbot
The irony is that nearly every prestigious American publication has run dozens of versions of this story, and while most of those should be presumed to be factually accurate, they are fundamentally the same work of fiction.
“Never Split the Difference” was fantastic. Still it was super weird that unlike the advice in the book, some of the book comes across as bragging. Also, Chris Voss does not perform the audiobook although in the book he discusses his mastery of voice, his smooth radio jockey voice and covers different speaking techniques. Still, one of my favorites of 2018.
We don't do that and don't aim to do that. We shipped some bad UI, got a bunch of flack for it, and are hustling to get it fixed and improved. You can read about what we're doing here: https://brave.com/rewards-update/

Thanks for caring about this being done in a respectful, thoughtful way. We'll keep trying to do better.
Turns out good questions are sometimes more valuable than good answers
Also here's a great video that might help Peterson fans understand some of the problems with his positions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LqZdkkBDas
The Lion King was loosely based on Hamlet where the prince's father the king dies by his uncle making it look like an accident. The uncle then takes over the kingdom and the prince goes on a journey. After that, it deviates from Hamlet to have a happy ending.

Still a good story for children without the adult themes of Shakespeare.

I don't think you can trademark words that are in the public domain in Africa, this is an international trademark dispute.
Obviously it is cultural appropriation. Not all cultural appropriation is bad.

Was it disrespectful towards the Swahili people? I'm unconvinced.