skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a reasonable point to me. We went to the moon a long time ago. Most people alive today were born after we abandoned the moon.

If we're even hazily serious about Mars, it seems like we should spend a couple of decades practicing on the moon. Mars does have a bit of atmosphere (0.6% of Earth's), but with a travel time 100x larger, minor issues quickly turn fatal.
Hi Raph, I don't normally do the fanboy thing, but you are an idol to me. 12-year old me grew up reading your UO patch updates regularly. When I found your personal blog a few years ago I think I spent a week straight reading through it.

UO remains the only MMORPG that I have ever played that felt like a truly immersive virtual world. It ruined all MMO's that came after it for me. I played the WoW beta for about two weeks before the grind became apparent and I lost interest. Who the hell cares about only completing pre-made quests? In ultima, you defined your own adventure, and if you succeeded in it your fame could actually be known among players on your shard and not just a mechanic of the game's code. To me, this sets the benchmark to what an MMO is supposed to be.

There's also a slightly darker/mischievous part to my experience with UO: Macroing (the act of automating your character via third party programs) really introduced me to the world of programming. At first it was using point and click step-by-step UI recording software, but after a few years I had a fully fledged ore mining bot that could even do things like respond to a red name appearing on the screen by recalling to a safe house programmed in an actual turing complete language. Although I'm sure that had to be a pretty big pain point for you, I'm not sure I'd have a career as a software engineer if that hadn't happen.
Curious what the median was.
Anyone can quit caffeine forever by not drinking caffeine for a week? I know a lot more people who have quit smoking forever (so far) than people who have quit caffeine.
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Who stole page 69?
No, but I don't use it aside from Messenger either.

I don't have any of the apps installed and none of my browsers are specifically logged into facebook.com (just messenger.com which is likely just the exact same cookie/tracking wise).

Mind you, it's basically the illusion of freedom because I use Instagram every so often which is another Facebook owns product so I'm still in the ecosystem.

I did delete my Facebook account around mid-2017 but the utility of it pulled me back in once I started my job/moved to the city earlier this year. Whoever referred to it as a "human pokedex" wasn't wrong.

As long as you feed it a little, it'll give you quite a bit in return. For example, you could meet a total stranger at a party and only learn their first name. Using that, mixed with your own geolocation and social network, is usually enough to find out who they were. While it is publically available information (in a sense because it's still inside a walled garden), I don't think most people realise how little work is needed to track down who someone is.

That in itself isn't particularly useful of course. Anyway, I'm just rambling at this point haha
A lot of people in this thread seem to be under the mistaken belief that nicotine is the harmful thing in cigarettes. While rather more addictive, nicotine in isolation is really no more harmful than caffeine.
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Elon Musk is already working on that problem.
I love oatmeal and eat loads of it, but we really need to avoid telling poorly-informed people that the path to cheap nutrition is to eat bland goo. You might think about it as a rhetorical example, but you need to remember that people won't remember what you say, only how you make them feel. The salient imagery in your post is living on unflavored oatmeal, and that's not appealing to anyone.
IIRC, vaping pure nicotine might be less addictive than smoking tobacco because tobacco contains a ton of other chemicals
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Why do you think it would be suicide? Very risky yes, but the plans being proposed do include provision for returning the crew to a Earth.
That’s cool. I think Minecraft mods did this for a younger gen as well.
What you say is entirely correct. People need to take a step back and see it for what it really is. In our economy people often get rewarded handsomely for causing harm.
My experience is from ~3000 online peak in the mid 2000s, with a more pure T2A ruleset.

Outlands has a breathtaking number of additional systems and enhancements that I’m sure are exposing weak points in the architecture (timers, pathfinding, and distance checking stuff especially).

Amazing shard btw, I logged some hours the week of launch before I got busy over the holidays.
> Nobody intentionally starts smoking, either.

I just tripped and it fell into my mouth!
What you describe is not inheritance.
We're working on it, but it's not a data transparency problem, it's a governance problem
second that
I am aware of what Fuse.js does and what fuzzy matching is ;)

However if project is named "autocomplete 2.0" (which is an UI concept first) and your landing page focuses on search input with suggestions, it's safe to assume whats the focus of the library.
Firefox has been and continues to be libre in the sense of software freedom -- free to run, inspect, share, and modify. Anyone who complains about how Mozilla runs their variant of Firefox should thank Mozilla for that licensing choice so that with other people's hard work, the world has multiple variants to choose from all of which are also free software (as far as I know).

You won't see such improvements for non-free (proprietary) software because it wouldn't be legal to prepare or distribute them and because modifying binaries is remarkably difficult. Any improvements the proprietor distributes are untrustworthy unless they are freed. I think it's great that software freedom exists and that people are willing and able to distribute variants that serve their needs.
You can get over the chemical dependency on caffeine in a week to ten days, if you go more-or-less cold turkey and put up with the headaches. The psychological dependency might be trickier.
E cigs are the “cool” thing now. Used to be weed when most of us were growing up. Last 15 years it was weed. Seems like whatever society condemns becomes the cool thing for young people.
From reading a bunch of biographies from that time, I do get the feeling that buzz was a bit of a loud mouth asshole, but I don’t see Why you think that makes the dedication sarcastic? He wrote this well before he joined nasa
DDR exists in an interesting middle ground for me. I find that I really enjoy Standard, and occasionally Extreme class steps (for the uninitiated, that's basically "medium" and "hard") but could never get into the really complex charts. At the medium level of play, the charts are interesting and the planning of my body mechanics to get the footwork to flow naturally is a lot of fun. My friends that are really good at the game though, they set the scroll speed up ridiculously high and seem to be doing some kind of twitch reflex thing. I can tell they enjoy it, but it's so fast and mechanical that it ceases to really feel like dancing. It's not my cup of tea.

So I do enjoy DDR up to, but not past the point where planning ceases to be something I can do in the moment, and transitions into something I must through repetition and practice.
The main problem is not wasting 20B/year, but that this puts a super conservative, risk averse incumbent in the driver seat for technology development which shuts out competition.

SpaceX used up 1B in the first 10 years; I would rather spend that 20B/yr to fund 200 spacex-es. My 2c.
https://imgur.com/a/i9rWJbb
If anyone uses Juul in my proximity I get very jumpy. The amount of nicotine this is delivering must be staggering. I’d stay away from this stuff.
Check Typora Markdown editor: https://typora.io/ - it is a markdown editor made with Electron.

It has as sort of WYSIWYG editor as markdown source editing so it is conceptually close to html-notepad.

All basic ratios are the same - it consumes RAM 4-5 times more than it should. Same with distribution size and size on disk.

Yet I think that it will be fair to compare Sublime Text and Visual Code as they have close functionality. Sublime (has its own DOM and uses script for plugins) consumes 10 times less RAM than Visual Code.

Each Electron application is a full scale browser with its own JS VM instance and Node.js that is full scale web server with another instance of JS VM. It is just that for communication they use IPC rather than HTTP.

As many E applications you are running as many browsers and servers you have in memory. That is by Electron's design - nothing new here.
> SQLite is likely used more than all other database engines combined. Billions and billions of copies of SQLite exist in the wild. SQLite is found in:

> Every Firefox, Chrome, and Safari web browser

Where is SQLite in Firefox? It would be wonderful to use SQL in the browser, on the server, in mobile devices (everywhere!), but alas I suspect SQLite can be "found" in Firefox as the underlying storage engine on top of which IndexedDB is built.

Dammit Mozilla, set SQLite free!
Nicotine is a nootropic, that is, a drug that has a positive effect on the performance of cognitive tasks involving attention and memory, and may even boost IQ. Starting points for further research:

"Nicotine as a cognitive enhancer." (1992): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1579636

"Nicotine treatment of mild cognitive impairment" (2012):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3466669/

"Cognitive Effects of Nicotine: Recent Progress." (2018):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29110618

A study measuring higher effective IQ (1994): https://www.gwern.net/docs/nicotine/1994-stough.pdf

> We therefore hypothesised that nicotine is acting to improve intellectual performance on the elementary information processing correlates of IQ. [W]e tested this hypothesis using the Raven Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM) test. APM scores were significantly higher in the smoking session compared to the non-smoking session, suggesting that nicotine acts to enhance physiological processes underlying performance on intellectual tasks.

"Will a Nicotine Patch Make You Smarter?": https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/will-a-nicotine-p...

These may be reasons why people choose to use it. I've certainly spoken to people who believe they're more productive or effective on nicotine.

I don't know what the current research is on whether these benefits are short-term only or can be sustained long-term. I'm not an expert on this - I'm just casually interested in nootroptics. I don't consume nicotine or tobacco.

There is also debate about how addictive nicotine is by itself. While tobacco is extremely addictive, there is evidence that nicotine, alone, is habit-forming but only mildly addictive or perhaps even nonaddictive (but still habit-forming). Psychopharmacologist Paul Newhouse makes this point in the Scientific American article above.

An essay by Gwern Branwen presenting an overview of data on nicotine addiction: https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine

> My take away is that there is addiction but it’s drastically overestimated by almost everyone and may been conflated with the habit-formation capability

An in-depth review and critique of the evidence of nicotine addiction: "A critique of nicotine addiction" (2000): https://www.gwern.net/docs/nicotine/2002-frenkdar.pdf

> We submit that an objective evaluation of these data leads
to the conclusion that [nicotine] is not an addictive drug and that the popularized equation of the addictive properties of nicotine [...] has little to do with science.
Nicotine in e-liquid lacks the MAOIs that tobacco contains, so it's a stretch to claim it is equally addictive. See: https://www.nature.com/articles/1300987
Post a source, please. Tobacco is one of those hot button issues where people will automatically assume you're a shill if you don't have the data to back up what you're saying.
Is that in option grants or a bonus? The article reads as this is a bonus not equity, unclear if that is actually the case but the two are fairly different things.
From the article:

Then there’s the added bonus that it may finally stop people from being jerks on the escalator—like the London commuter captured in a viral video this year telling a blind man with a guide dog to let go of the handrail so he can pass him.

Someone with a guide dog -- a clear signal of special need -- can have their need for reasonable accommodation utterly ignored. It can be worse for the many people who are less obviously impaired who lack some clear public signal.

I'm seriously handicapped. Most people cannot tell that by looking at me. I gave up my car more than a decade ago and I mostly get around by walking, so a lot of people see me as unusually able-bodied because I walk everywhere.

But I have serious trouble navigating certain situations, such as stairs. Escalators are hard for me because they are moving and I'm visually impaired and I walk with a permanent limp and I have joint issues and yadda. It's stressful for me to deal with the transition to step onto the escalator and stressful for me to deal with the transition to step off the escalator and I generally cannot cope with walking on the escalator. I stand on it.
Electronic nicotine delivery devices:

- Contain ever increasing amounts of nicotine per "hit"--many teens report using an entire JuulPod per day, equal to a whole pack of cigarettes in nicotine volume.

- Like menthol cigarettes, manufacturers develop ways (ex patented JuulSalts) to overcome body's natural resistance to starting and continuing nicotine abuse.

- Use concentrated "e-liquid" that poses serious acute toxicity concerns to users and small children, not an issue with cigarettes

Amazingly enough, research shows that youth who intentionally start nicotine abuse via electronic delivery rationalize their behavior by differentiating it from "real" smoking--compounded by misinformation from peers. It's no accident that Juul's design looks nothing like a "real" cigarette--despite delivering deadly drugs every bit as well.

The vape industry (which is quickly becoming an extension of big tobacoo) wants you to believe that this is justified because they help smokers. But there is no evidence that they help people quit--and ample evidence that youth who develop nicotine use disorder from electronic delivery readily begin use of "real" cigarettes. JuulLabs/Altria do not make an FDA-approved smoking cessation device. They make an extremely effective delivery device for new abusers of nicotine.

We must take a stand before the next wave of nicotine abuse takes permanent root in our society: make nicotine a schedule I controlled substance at the federal level. No longer can bigwig suits legally addict our country to a deadly drug.

Sources:
https://www.yalemedicine.org/stories/teen-vaping/
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1805758
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/3/17529442/juul-vapes-nicoti...
The vast majority of incoming fax numbers now don't physically print a fax, they just turn into PDF files, so unless you've visited their office in person and confirmed the presence of a physical fax machine, it may be a futile effort.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_fax
This study argues that nicotine is indeed harmful [0]. This study argues that caffeine is harmless in healthy adult populations (although pregnant women and children shouldn't consume caffeine) [1].

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4363846/

[1]: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0265203021000007...
> once EQ showed up and redefined the genre.

I don't think I would frame it that way; more like it reverted the genre back to the Diku mold. See

1. https://www.raphkoster.com/2009/01/09/what-is-a-diku/

2. https://www.engadget.com/2015/01/03/the-game-archaeologist-h...
Uh, no, it's not. There are a great number of people who say they would be willing to live on mars under those conditions basically just for the novelty of it. There are a great number of challenges with colonizing mars. Getting a small group of competent people is not one of them.
Is there a reason to believe, given how little we trust Facebook, that deletion and deactivation are different things? I've built multiple consumer web apps and if there's one rule, it's that rows are never really deleted from a database. Not to mention backups, caches, Google crawls and so on. I'd worry that the naive consumer thinks they can post embarassing content to Facebook, delete their account, and somehow believe it will never be found again.
The big dollar store chains are mostly real estate schemes.

Inner city urban areas are served by bodegas and dollar stores. It’s not about consumer buying power — the margins are actually higher for these stores. The issue is that the grocery store model doesn’t work in the traditional 20,000-30,000 urban footprint anymore, as nobody can compete with WalMart for the stuff in the aisles.

Instead of enhancing margins with fancy cheese and overpriced pre-prepared fresh food, bodegas cash in on convenience faire, lotto, tobacco, etc. The rural equivalent is the super size gas station.
On the other hand, there is no substantive content in metaphysics (at least as far as ontology goes) if the statements do not pick out real entities.

You've just committed the fallacy of begging the question -- you assumed the truth of mathematical realism in this line, and arguably in a couple others.

If mathematical realism is false, various parts of your argument start to crumble.
Weed is definitely still "cool" to people my age.

-21 year old college student.
Then replace niche with untapped potential, something that's needed, dozens of other ways to say the same thing? For example, we could use "niche":

> A situation or activity specially suited to a person's interests, abilities, or nature

but I just realized that wouldn't fit at all. But you get the idea of what I meant when I said niche, right? I see people wanting to throw money at other people, and they will find a way, either way. Not providing them a way before they make their own is "leaving money on the table", if you will.
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Dear b1r6,

We are currently discussing a non-programming topic. Your mind seems to be stuck in a source code thought trap, because you posted a bizarre, meaningless comment. No one has equated vaping with smoking. Please try harder on your next attempt at a meaningful contribution.
We hardly have grocery stores anymore even here in affluent north-central New Jersey. Walmart, Sams, and Target came in, and quite a few of the old line stores closed, helped along by the A&P debacle. Then they closed the Sam's near us, so the nearest market that sells fresh food is around 10 miles away. I'm no expert on the economics of selling food, but the current situation seems like a lot to lay on the dollar stores.
> It may turn out that e-cigarettes are, on the balance, safer than cigarettes, however it's way too early to make that claim with any level of certainty.

No, it isn't. Tobacco contains 70 known human carcinogens and is known to directly cause lung cancer. No one is claiming that vaping causes cancer. The possibility that's being raised is that after decades of use vaping may cause lung disease. I know which is worse.

And importantly, as you say, the matter in unsettled and it is just as likely that it does not.

Is your point that it should be pre-emptively banned, just in case?
Hey Axel! Just started watching but the interactive guide is incredible. It's like having Screenhero with a private tutor.

Only thing is, I kind of wish there were something like the time-coded comments SoundCloud has. At the end of the second guide, we're asked to play around with the tests.

I added:
console.log(net.run([0, 4]));
console.log(net.run([3, 3]));
console.log(net.run([8, 4]));

Based on the training data, I would expect this to resolve to ~4(or 1), ~0, ~8(or 1) by standard logic expectancies (if same return 0, else return the higher number or 1). But instead I received ~0, ~0, ~0.

It's not immediately obvious what is causing this. But it seems like the model created is inherently ignorant of basic logic (at least by my narrow definition), and there isn't any immediate discussion of caveats as to error margin.

I'll admit this might be a n00bish concern based on never programing neural nets before, but as this guide seems focused on introducing NN's to n00bs like me: a way to discuss concerns with other viewers/the author would be amazing.

Aside from that, incredible work! I'll keep watching to see if I can figure out my misunderstandings.

Update: Just discovered the Q&A tab, this should likely be adequate for my concerns. Well done. This may be the best online demo/tutorial I've ever seen.
To me the existential risk argument is good enough. We'll probably want generation ships too, to live without a planet, but Mars is close enough we can get going on some terraforming ideas and within a short timespan create a real last, best hope for humanity should one of several disasters befall Earth.

Here's another benefit: "I don't want to live on this planet anymore" people can leave. And pioneer-spirited in general. Before NA was so colonized, the US used to have a doctrine that if you went out West far enough and worked a piece of land (alone or with a small community) it was yours. Such opportunities aren't around anymore, everything is claimed. On the larger scale, competition in governance models is probably a good thing, if the colony can be made self-sufficient they can get out from the political thumb of whichever parent nations helped set them up.

Of course if I had to pick one future tech to focus on it'd be brain emulation since besides greater consequences that seems feasible on a shorter time scale than terraforming a planet enough for say a million people to live without a dome / in a crater / underground. Non-ems will still probably want to go to Mars but there'd be less urgency for ems who haven't retired. But crater life seems doable even before ems, and we don't need to pick just one thing.
Some people would see that as a highly desirable vacation from the overcrowding here on earth.

To each his own.
This still causes runaway inflation of item power, which results in mudflation.
* A script that will quantise all any type image at any level of given directory.(like tiny png but for all formats including Gif). This saved a lot of space on my builds

* Made AI for my game sineline using rule based expert systems

* A remote file sync engine and CD software which deploys projects to digital ocean and configures clusters and stuff

* Made a GANS script that generates fictional art work based on other samples
That was Web SQL.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis...
The few people I know who still smoke do it for stress and weight issues. I have casually mentioned a few healthier alternatives to them but none seem receptive so maybe there are other, more personal reasons.
I am neither a principle engineer at a big "N" company, nor am I a high frequency trader, but I kind of hope I am not an "IT peon" either.
What are you missing from the native language + lodash?
don't forget to stand over the corpse and spam your bow hotkey to keep the animation on that one particular frame where it looks hunched over the corpse...
This and many other experiments were tried in the MUDs and early days of MMOs. The idea of denying services to those who killed a lot worked pretty well on many UO player-run shards.
How far away is AXE from being ready for early adoption?
(Btw, hi Mark! Good to see you on HN)
"Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (date: controversial, but definitely BC)
Here in NZ noncitizen legal permanent residents who have met a minimum residency can vote .... no taxation without representation and all that (something that the US has sadly forgotten)