skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I certainly like logic and rationality. Rational thought is a super fine tool, and for the purpose of what I'm gonna say maybe it is okay to reduce "rational thought" to "logic" for the sake of thinking about it:

I find it difficult to use logic when a) you don't really know all the premises that you're starting from and b) you have a material / emotional / ideological / or identity-driven stake in the outcome.

If you have a simple closed system where you can know how everything works and you're just trying to get the system to some state, then logic is very good for that.

If you have a more complex system where you are open to being wrong about premises and are open to reworking those premises when you come to paradoxes, that seems okay.

Unfortunately much of my life has come down to systems where I have to just give up having a rational view of a process or object and intuit my way through things or guess about stuff. Simply guessing is a rational process, but I do it a lot in my life.

Or, conversely I've occasionally rationalized my into believing things about the world that aren't true because I wanted them to be true.

I've seen other folks do that often. I've seen a lot of people make technical decisions where they think they are using a "superior" technology when in fact they are driven by a fear of missing out, a need to identify with what they think is cool technology, or simply need to find a solution to a technical problem so they don't have to solve a more difficult to solve non-technical problem.
If you want to get experience with 7400 series, i had a great time building an 8bit computer following this YouTube series https://eater.net/8bit/
Well, the government does need to hire contractors, to build buildings, develop public transit, etc., which don't make sense to have a permanent government business around.

But yes, anything more than the minimum required to perform public functions is inequitable.
> Also I bring it up because it’s the only db conversion I can think of that is documented.

A more recent one, for future reference:

https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-h...

;)
They are legally obligated to NOT give a reason for anything that relates to money laundering, fraud and customer verification.
The point is that climat change is real and it’s coming fast. So from a purely pragmatic standpoint it seems more reasonable to deploy solutions as soon as possible with available technologies than to wait for a plausible technology improvements.

Otherwise you risk being almost as inactive in the required efforts than an average climat change denier.
The Untold Story of the Grateful Dead's Short-Lived Wall of Sound
The Dangers of Artificial Intelligence in 2019
The Navigator in the Early Modern World
Is it time we take the dangers of AI seriously? The more we delay regulation, the more peril we put ourselves in for future decades.
I think plain PHP may have been taken to mean you're using an in house framework without using a package manager such as composer. In this case it's definitely more expensive to roll your own solution, especially when it comes to maintenance and onboarding.
Unvested employer contributions can be taken back.
Working More Magic at Disney
There’s some more weight.
Sounds like this book has a serious number of issues.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/cr/B07BLKWBYT/ref=mw_dp_cr
Perhaps they are, but then they should be sued out of existence or left alone if what they do isn't ilegal. That is far preferable to a world where giant, unaccountable corporations act like police, judge and executioner.
Think of it this way:

Town A gives tax breaks to Company that pollutes environment. Town B doesn't. Company moves to Town A. Citizens of Town A are better off in the short term, locally speaking, but Company simply pays less for their pollution externalities, creating a net negative from the viewpoint of society as a whole.
They intentionally named their site that way to capitalize on Google search result traffic. If you read their articles, you realize they can barely put together two English sentences with proper grammar and structure. Furthermore, most of their articles are stolen from other sites. I've seen journalists from Motherboard, The Register, and Bleeping Computer accuse them of blatantly copying articles, and when I checked out the articles, they were right. I have zero problems with this. Couldn't have happened to a bunch of bigger assholes.

And I'm not the only one who noticed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18783710
tldr: discussion is about why disk access under WSL is slower than under Linux, mostly due to the different design constraints of Linux vs Windows for file systems.
I very much enjoy working as a programmer, but, to be honest, there is constantly a little anxiety in the back of my mind that I do not get FP/docker/devops/insert-latest-buzzword-here enough not to look like a clueless coder in a watercooler-side chat with a fellow. So I really appreciated this article, it made me feel better about myself :-)
Can you elaborate on what you mean by EU donations?
I worked a tiny bit over a year around 2013 at a hospital network and was on a team that maintained custom integrations with Cerner, an EHR system.

It was by far one of the coziest jobs I ever had. Low stress environment, redundant meetings, etc. But development of any kind of god awful. It was extremely sluggish, lots of red type, and seemed to follow a manual QA approach over any sort of automated testing. Things were just too lax in general.

Myself and another junior developer left after we noticed that an intermediate engineer on our time hadn't committed in over 3 months.

My point of this story is that hospitals didn't seem to attract/retain passionate software developers. With high turnover or apathetic developers, most software built custom for hospitals is probably Frankensteined.
> An expert human player is an expert precisely because her mind automatically identifies ...

The "Patronizing 'Her'"

Almost invariably, when the author decides to use the patronizing 'her' instead of the gender-neutral 'they' it's written by a man.
Ask HN: What UX work can I offer small companies?
What would you offer them?
From the follow-up tweet:

> Instead of giving a valid reason, company says "specific reasons for such a decision is proprietary & it is not released since that could impair PayPal's ability to do business in a safe and secure manner"

I've been trying to close my PayPal account for the last week and will keep trying, but so far have not been able to. I've had this account since 2000. I want to close it because of the treatment of SubscribeStar and others. I've never watched a video by Sargon of Akkad. But even if it was Adolph of Hitler I'd be concerned about this behavior by Patreon. For PayPal to back them up by dropping a competitor is enough for me to want to reciprocate.

First, PayPal required me to individually cancel most of the vendors I've paid via PayPal in the last decade or so, and made it difficult to discover how to do that. But I finally figured it out and cancelled them all. If they weren't being mulish about this it seems like it would be easy for them to do the same as part of the process of closing the account.

Now that I've done this I still can't cancel via their web site. I get the message "Before you close your account -- Sorry, there's a problem. If you keep seeing this, please contact customer service." There is no email address on their contact page. Their pop-up chat app on the contact page freezes immediately and is unusable. I'll call them if I have to, but I shouldn't have to. The issues closing the account are by themselves enough to make me want to close it.

When I do manage to close the account I'm hoping that they ask me for a reason, at which point I plan to tell them "specific reasons for such a decision is proprietary & it is not released since that could impair my ability to do business in a safe and secure manner."
The percentage of links to your blog that you post in your comments is extremely high and extremely notable. Make of that what you will.
Yes/no (in the United States).

In other words, they claim a common law trademark on it [1], but they have not registered it with the USPTO. This means they probably have some trademark protection, at least in some states, but not nearly as much as if they had a registered mark. For example, they might be able to get an injunction against a similar user in some states, but probably not damages or attorney fees. With a registered mark, they would be able to go for damages and attorney fees.

[1] See reply to you from 'disconnected' for link to claim.
Almost like asking: Can't we all, just get along and adopt the same language? Cause that goes over well here in America where we don't have an official language. :)
I don’t see how many different types of “juice” they tested, maybe I missed it? I always hear (on HN) that it is certain types of flavored juice that is the most harmful, so I’m interested in which one(s) they tested
Even though the website seems to have a history of plagiarism I don't think they named the website after HN. By going through their about us section it looks like they started the website in 2010 as a cybersecurity and hacking news platform. The Hacker News is kind of a no-brainer name for this kind of website. Also THN seems to be an Indian website. I think HN was not at all popular outside the Silicon Valley in 2010. So no reason for them to name the website after HN that had an extremely small and passionate userbase. There is a good chance that they may not have even known about HN when they started THN. The name defintely has confused a lot of people though. Even Elon Musk seems to be following THN over HN in Twitter :)
Indeed, and for good reason.
Scary stuff. That's the real reason to use and encourage Crypto: to avoid political censorhip and control. Its a shame it was co-opted by mining and speculation.
Nobody here denied there are limits to rationality; as you point out, reason itself has in fact proven that there are.

But as far as I know there's no proof that consciousness is beyond the limits of reason. The mere fact that reason is limited is not a universal argument against all rational discussion.
Not sure what you mean. I'm all for a large government providing all kinds of services. What was discussed was subsidies (usually tax breaks) directed to individual businesses or industries. That's a terrible practice and we were saying how we were amazed how it is still allowed (unlike in e.g. the EU).

Governments obviously will always need to enter contracts with businesses to provide the services it wants to provide.
What free market are you talking about? There is no free market in the financial sector. Everything is regulated and licensed.
Yup, they froze the Neo900 project's funds and caused them to miss a bunch of supplier contract deadlines: https://neo900.org/news/paypal-trouble-delays-project

Basically killed the project. It's still sortof moving, but a shell of what it once was.

PayPal's size allows them to dictate terms like "We'll screw you worse than a bank but you can't sue us like a bank", and nobody's been able to take them down yet.

One can only hope.
Sure... everything is ok until you get a fake. Then it's a problem. Next time you buy any brand just think whether you'd be willing to pay that much or at all knowing it's a fake label and the content might be "98% accurate". Software included.

Would a person selling you a fake dollar deserve jail time? Do you need more time to think about what you're saying?
Views on a Let's play are not equal to lost sales. Most of those people wouldn't have been exposed to the game in the first place and plenty of viewers go on to buy the game after watching a let's play anyways, even for linear story experiences. It's practically impossible to come up with an exact figure of how many sales a let's play drives, vs. how many it prevents, but for many games exposure through YouTube has gotten the word out to an audience many times larger than what a developer with a small marketing budget could have managed otherwise.
Flexbox guides on MDN
> They also reportedly shutdown Subscribe Star recently, when people started to use it instead of Patreon, in the wake of the Patreon banning of some prominent You Tuber. This isn't working. The free market doesn't seem to work well in the tech world, where we have all powerfull monopolies controlling what we say, what we know and what we buy. We need new laws.

This is not what a "free market" means. Paypal is not remotely a monopoly, nor is Patreon.
We had something called “mom-onomics”.

There was a list of “jobs” with their going rate posted on the fridge.

My siblings and I could sign up for any job we wanted to make as much money as we “needed” that week.

Cooking dinner paid $10 with the added benefit of getting to pick the meal (it had to include a veggie).*

There were two evergreen jobs called “footrub” and ”shoulder/neck massage” that paid $1 per 15 minutes. Mom would tell you if you were doing a shit job at massage and you had to step it up to earn that dough.

Mowing the lawn originally paid $20 but my mom lowered the price when we got a riding mower because we thought it was “fun” and we were always arguing about who got to do it.

Footnotes:

* I made tacos, Kraft macaroni, and basic AF romaine salad EVERY WEEK.
Lack of related infrastructure is a real problem.

Bike lanes built one at a time, and not connected. So, if you happen to live and work along a single bike lane, great. If not, you're back in the car.

Lack of bicycle facilities at destinations. My office has a tiny, poorly constructed rack outdoors. I wouldn't trust it to hold my bicycle, even with a good lock. Much of the USA is warm or hot in summer, so anything more than a few miles on the bike results in lots of sweating, so showers at offices would be helpful.

In places where bicycle infrastructure is provided, it is well used. The first Reston Metro stop (Weihle Station) has a large, locked bike room with nice racks and a small workbench area. The station is located right off one of the regions main multi-use paths. That bike room is heavily utilized.

Sadly, the second Reston Metro station, Reston Town Center, doesn't provide any infrastructure at all. No bike storage, no parking, nothing. Not sure what the heck the county was thinking when planning this station.
Zoom is the best command, after using tmux for years, just discovered it. Ctrl-b z brings a pane into full screen and back. I use a 4x4 grid and zoom in and out.
Specifically, what's stopping a competitor
from eating Paypal's lunch right now?

Perhaps being a payment processor is actually difficult, and Paypal is doing a tolerably good job?

I only hear people bitching about their paypal account being locked once or twice a year, whereas I assume paypal deal with hundreds of attempts at credit card fraud, chargebacks, complaints about ebay goods and suchlike every day.
You could say the same thing when Town A hires a sanitation engineer from Town B by offering them a higher salary because they want better sanitation. Overall the two towns are now spending more as the same person is getting more money. It’s normal healthy competition, it’s not a problem. Good on the successful sanitation engineer, I say.
It’s deeper than that - you won’t just look like a “clueless coder”, you’ll find yourself unemployable. I learned early on that it doesn’t matter what credentials you have or how much experience you have, never admit there’s anything you don’t know, or they’ll pass on you to hire somebody else who confidently insists that he does know absolutely every single thing there is to know. I feel bad for the author of this piece, because putting his name to this _will_ cost him employment at some point in the future.
You are right, I should try. I'll see if I can find time in the new year.

I'd prefer to try with a go player, because as you say, in chess it's hard to exactly control the input to the network, it's easier in Go.
There was another article about teachers today. It feels as though much of the problems in the U.S are self inflicted - how can a country that is home to best innovation on the planet, that attracts best brains from all over the world, that has insane amount of wealth, abundance of raw materials etc, get so wrong about basic things like teachers' pay, near zero protection for employees and so on? It is mind boggling - these problems just shouldn't exist in a country like U.S and still they do :(
https://travis-ci.org/sirixdb/sirix/builds/473332290
"completely relying on a 3rd party..."

Okay, agreed it's not ideal, but for payment processing what's the alternative?
Wow, the "bitcoin" responses to that thread. Talk about trading one problem for another....
Only for the year.
Yes, exactly! I briefly tried to search for it, but failed. Thanks for digging it up!
Paypal relies heavily on mastercard and visa to process payments, if these companies refuse to play ball with a competitor (which I would say is incredibly likely given the cosy relationship these companies have) then what chance does a competitor have? Merely being usable is in Visa and master card's hands, let alone eating into any marketshare
MasterCard and Visa are though. If you note elsewhere in the thread, it’s basically on their request that a lot of people have been banned.
Of all the legit PayPal outrage stories this one doesn’t seem outrage-worthy. Looks like a bad blog spam account trying to capitalize on this community’s name. Good for PayPal and for everyone really? What am I missing?
Docker, Traefik Reverse Proxy and Hugo
In a true capitalist fashion, there should be some "course" and some "workshop" that teaches how to do this...
From the website it's unclear how nodes are authenticated. How can one node enforce access control over objects if its connection is proxied?
https://blog.hubspot.com/sales/paypal-alternatives
I think part of it is that the grandparent’s comment feels like a thinly veiled defense of religion - which is mostly just tedious.
Not in my experience...

I have noticed that people who exclusively use "his" rather than "her" or "their" tend to be men though.
I've gotten hired or an offer several times admitting I don't know something. I don't think I'm an exception
>The point is that the speaker should have acknowleged that there is something to be gained from thinkers who aren't old white men in the broadly-speaking European tradition.

Why is the race, age, gender or ethnicity of the thinker relevant to the credibility of their ideas?
Do you not feel your initial comment was ad hominem? "Listening to Joscha Bach is like listening to the screams of computer scientists as they are slowly squeezed to death."

I initially reacted to that and replied more harshly than I should have, so I edited the comment slightly to remove the emotion. What's insidious about that?
You can change the inputs: it depends on when (ply) and which move you play. Some moves are uncommon enough to make it possible for you to uncover something?
The “out of whack investment to reward ratio” is the fundamental mechanism of capitalism. It’s how we get enough of what we need, motivating self interested actors to provide it. We should be terrified if it isn’t happening somewhere, or else rejoice that every demand everywhere has already been met.
exogeny said... The percentage of links to your blog that you post in your comments is extremely high and extremely notable. Make of that what you will.

HN uses rel=nofollow links so he's not posting links as part of some SEO plan. Cursory review of his previous comments shows he links to other sites more often than his own. It makes sense someone would often post links to their own blog though - if they're interested in a topic, they're likely to both comment on and blog about it.
How did they determine vaping is 95% less harmful than smoking? I don't see references to the methods they used to make this assessment. Where did that number come from? As far as I can tell, the number was just made up!
Real Hacker News would’ve known to avoid PayPal :)

This story only made the front page because of the name confusion. Other comments claim that name choice to be intentional
Health insurance is the killer. It doubled last year (thanks to Trump not reimbursing insurance companies). Even with insurance, one emergency room visit could wipe you out due to 1 in 5 visits resulting in out-of-network charges.
I don’t have a problem to people linking to their blogs as long as it’s relevant and helpful to the conversation.
GNU Taler is aimed at this. https://taler.net/en/
Hah! Probably. I'd rather learn about distributed systems, the idiosyncrasies of bash, how file systems work, dive into how http/2 & ipv6 will solve some of our problems, etc. Absolutely love fixing bugs in code though, but the actual act of coding an application from scratch bores me. Can't explain it!
Others comments have addressed the difficulties with creating a PayPal alternative. New laws would be vulnerable to corruption, yes, of course, but that is not a new problem and there are mechanisms to fight it. As things stand now we are fast and sleeply sliding back to the Rober Baron times as more and more of our lives are gated by a handfull of players.
> The information is in the block headers

> You still have to download all the block headers from block 0 and check if they are valid, including the PoW and other hashes..

and unless you validate those blocks you don't know if the chain you're looking at is valid. headers don't help with that.

> The blocks are basically tamper proof as in Bitcoin (but can also be vulnerable to a 51% attack)

vulnerability to 51% attack depends on cost of such attack. if it is "normal" in ethereum to trust third parties with state of just couple hundred blocks old - the attack becomes very cheap. and if i understand correctly that's the case with majority of ethereum nodes as they aren't fully validating and are in fast sync or light mode.

in BTC `--assumevalid` points to a block that is more than year and a half old.

> The roots of these trees are in the blocks, once you have these, you can verify a particular value of, say, a state value, without the need to verify each and every other value, by walking through the tree and doing a merkle proof.

except when the state you downloaded from third parties and assumed was valid, was actually forged. since you're not executing transactions you can't know what transaction receipts would have been created.

> And yes, it got all the blocks from 0 to current. Blocks by themselves are very light.

nah, i call bs. it might have downloaded them but didn't validate anything beyond headers and some recent transactions. admittedly i haven't checked for like half a year, but full sync was literally freezing and not completing at all on powerful laptops and aws instances. it's quite possible the wonder kids of javascript cryptocurrency finally fixed their shit but i wouldn't bet my money on it.
Is it really sensible to believe any press release about future batteries?
All Your Patient Data Are Belong to Us [CCC; English Sync Available]
Typora, then switched to writing in Sublime Text 3 with few extensions.
Underworld is definitely a classic. But just comparing the two, Doom still feels like a major leap forward: it’s so fluid and frenetic in comparison.
Okay.

But why just Amazon?

What about hundred Joe's Car Shops and and a hundred Betty's Diners and a hundred Sue's Tech Startups?

Does not the same calculus apply to them?

What about an up and coming competitor to Amazon that would have provided even more jobs, had the government treated them fairly?

Should we not be equals under the law, having the same requirements, receiving the same punishments, paying according to the same tax code?

If Amazon can negotiate different tax laws, should it be able to negotiate more lax employment requirements, or lower speeding tickets, or more voting rights?

I'm as staunch a low-tax and pro-business libertarian as they come, but for everyone, not just for the government favorites.

Equality under the law.