skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah Folksonomy. Had completely forgotten that del.icio.us site :)

I agree completely on the authentication being important. I referenced IPLD in another comment. My thinking was to try and build on top of that initially, at least while prototyping, to really shed the idea of having a single moderated database to rely on, can’t really imagine how to do that without strong authenticity.

When it comes to different audiences I’m hoping to address that by layering. A layperson will read books, blogs and news. Those will contain various contradictions and misunderstandings of publsihed research and pure myths.

I’m thinking a similar layering. Start with any unqualified statement. If it is interesting (contradicts “wisdom”, leads to new prescriptions, or whatever) interested parties debate it’s quality, adding metadata and rules to the graph until consensus on desireble inferences is reached, rendering it uniteresting to debate further. I’m thinking something akin to Wikipedia authoring here.

Now people will have different agendas, so a common shared consensus on a specific set of conclusions is probably not viable. Therefore I’m thinking some kind of personalized, or community curated, axioms and rules will be a thing. Perhaps not unlike how rules for spam filters are maintained and used. As a byproduct, a formal definition on which axioms and weighting’s exactly leads to conflict between groups could be a useful tool in some context. (I’m hoping a system like this could be helpful in accelerating diffusion of beliefs, to not spend decades on debates on wether global warming could be important, the next time an important question comes up)
Depleted uranium is waste or otherwise a byproduct of production of enriched uranium, yes.
This is the kind of thing I come to HN for. I’ll never use it, but I love the creativity and the drive and the spirit that went into this. Just building a beautiful thing because it’s fun and beautiful. Love it.
Web Assembly also does not expose browser vendors to Intel’s patent portfolio.
View your contribution graph from the terminal
I find the caller and callee stuff kind of useful if I'm handed a legacy project that is kind of well structured I can get an overview of the code flow.
Does that really solve the problem of cars turning to the right in front of cyclists? Seems like the same motorist that would pass the cyclist in the bike lane and turn right in front of him, would also pass the cyclist in the roadway and turn right in front of him.
$600m for AWS.
Cheating AI Caught Hiding Data Using Steganography
And you can still buy an iPhone 7 for $449 and the iPhone 8/8 plus is still for sell...
In case anybody is interested, this video recording of a demoscene production on one does a pretty good job of showing how it looks.

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=78756

I've seen one in real life and the left-right 3d is great, and in many cases it looks like there's a solid, low-res object floating inside the box. There's no up-down movement, but its surprisingly effective.
Greg, shut up.
Is this Greg Maxwell self promoting again?
I'm no expert on the issue, but the decades lasting and still ongoing discussions about a atomic waste location in Germany seem to contradict your statement.

Burring something for a few years is easy, but what about hundreds, thousands, ten thousands? The earth moves and this stuff is way more concentrated than anything found naturally. What if it hits ground water?
English Verb Regularization in Books and Tweets
> This is the current trend in many progressive cities, and so far it's a massive failure

> Perhaps it's not surprising that when you work to make addicts happier, you attract more addicts.

> Common knowledge used to be that an addict needs to hit "rock bottom" before they will turn their life around.

Please cite your claims.
Well in most industrial nations, the iPhone has 30%+ market share, in the US it hovers around 50%. Nothing with that type of market share is a “status symbol”.
I saw this in a magazine years ago and have been doing it ever since.
Last semester I was driving university cars a couple days a week and I would sometimes be amazed at how people had the side mirrors set up.
Miss my Yacht Boy. Had it sitting on top of my car, while listening to a ball game. Forgot got it was there, and drove off. It hit US Route 11 at approximately 65 MPH after serving me faithfully for many years all around the world.

RIP little Grundig.
Apple’s Troubles Extend Beyond China
> All of these questions have multiple contradictory answers. Why are these questions so hard to answer?

All of these are phrased as yes/no questions, but the answer is neither binary nor even unidimensional. Which is the problem: people want at least unidimensional value scores and preferably binary good/bad labels as the output of science on health issues, but the underlying facts don't fit that preference. So, the actual science is mangled by charlatans who sell people what they want (sometimes these are also propagandists for people with an interest in shaping belief, but a lot for time it's just people making a buck directly off selling people answers that fit the shape they are looking for, irrespective of the relationship to the facts.)
I drive a motorcycle, and from the other end, "being seen" is one of the most important things.

The main rule is, if you can see the driver in his mirror, he can see you. You should always try to jump past the blind spots, and stay in the spots that they can see. If you have experience on the road, a lot of times you already know what a driver will do before he does it.

Cars are still OK, but trucks have plenty of blind spots, and they are pretty large. Right behind them, right in front of them (!). I'm always careful around them.
Shouldn't the title be "The size of the Earth, a correction" according to site policy?
OTOH, neither is the ARM ISA. Yet, once you try to bring a non-ARM Android device to the masses, you will soon discover the rule of Hyrum's Law.
If the edges go to parent you mean out degree one.
Seeing that the iPhone 6s is faster than most “modern” Android phones and it isn’t even sold anymore. What does that say about modern Android phones?
Yeah, I think what he means to say is ultra minituarized matrix of billions of high powered phased arrays all synchronized to keep billions of charged aerogel-type mm^2 "pixels" with a different angle of refraction as you rotate it and a different excitation at different ... just make it up as you go along, its decades away at best!
The average selling price of an iPhone is over 3 times that of an Android phone...not exactly “slightly pricier”.
To be fair, No Man’s Sky has apparently seen some significant improvements. I don’t myself play it, but my kids have reported as much.
Not a course but I believe

Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning
by A.D. Aleksandrov,
A.N. Kolmogorov
, M.A. Lavrent'ev

may cover this in book form. (FWIW I have not read this, but intend to at some point)
You land on the webpage. Now enter all your payment info, validate purchase, make account. Cool

Or is it f2p? So you land on page, still need to make an account for persistence. Also will need to do credit card eventually for game developer to make money. Also now game developer is looking at cdn costs of over 500 a month at a minimum for any kind of real game that is even 0.5 gb in size.

I actually own a web assembly f2p game like this. It is really not a bright future for games that compete with real client games on steam that are not tiny and have the barest performance requirements.

With unity basically the entire game needs to fit in like ~512 mb of ram, and runs poorly.
Ask HN: Full list of HN nonprofits/NGOs?
I have found a few woefully out of date lists, and also this

https://yclist.com/

but that is not filterable.

Is there a list anywhere of all NGOs that have gone through YCombinator?
Tell her that I will do all of the tasks she's capable of doing (and more) for 45k. And that won't even include delegation.

It's a cold and competitive world out there. Sole proprietors can't afford 250k, let alone 100k.

Oracle profits billions per year and routinely lays off people making around 70k. So clearly even big corps don't have an appetite for random salaries on the payroll.
Even something as simple as a proper gradient between two colors is surprisingly difficult. I think I finally cracked that one though: https://stackoverflow.com/a/49321304/5987

Color mixing is easy if you're mixing light, just add together the linear intensities. Color mixing of pigments is a different order of complexity, because you have to consider that pigments are both transmissive and reflective and there are other effects like dot gain and spectral lines to consider.
You're going to miss out on something amazing, then.
Photosynthesis 40% boost with synthetic biology
Somewhat related: OSI Layer 1 map: https://dev.networkatlas.org/
> I suspect anyone willing to do that is probably already healthy,

A fair number of people get healthy by doing that as part of the effort, so, no, not all the people willing to do that are healthy before actually doing it.

> given the amount of effort they're willing to put in.

Willingness to put in effort alone won't make you healthy, alone; effort on healthiness can be, and often is, misdirected.

Also, willingness to put in effort isn't intrinsic and immutable; it can be dependent on being convinced that the ffort is likely to payoff.
Housing prices don’t necessarily go down if a place increases in density. It depends on the location. Take a look at 5th ave in Manhattan - as large single family homes were being replaced by skyscrapers, the value of land went up.
Is floopnet testnet?
For another, more recent counterexample see the Hirsch conjecture: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirsch_conjecture
>It is not trying to say that this currency is not countable or something like that (how would that even work?)

Yeah, that's what I thought at first, as well as some other people. I thought that maybe each person creates their own "currency" - maybe all the transactions are just sending files? The people trading determine the currency - a rare (e)book? Photographs?

I feel like it'd be very useful to make this clearer. "No amounts" is a very different statement than "no public amounts".
The procedural macro feature of Rust is very simple:you write code that reads a token stream and writes a new token stream. This article might have done something unnecessarily complex, but that doesn't mean the feature is complex.
I don't think the difference for Dwarf Fortress is the learning curve, I think the difference is that Dwarf Fortress is better designed and it is designed in such a way that it's goal is to produce "stories" that Tarn and Zach have explicitly written. I think for No Man's Sky, they had a much more vague idea of what they wanted the user to experience, and thus the experience is more vague, and less interesting.
Looks like uses some same techs as Monero. (Confidential Transactions, no amount, no address)
That's an interesting point. The GPU should do the resizing too if they're using it.
Does anyone know how please (https://please.build) compares?
Line numbers have one benefit as basically the program is explicit about the program counter, at least conceptually, in a way.
Pakistani Airline Tells Crew Lose Weight or Don't Fly
Becoming a Developer Team Force Multiplier
> It ought to be easy for someone to realize they are having too many sodas, or playing too much video games if they think in terms of e.g. what diet/activity restrictions they might impose on hypothetical kids.

People often impose poorly chosen parameters on their actual children, so I'm not at all convinced that merely considering what one would impose on abstract hypothetical children will magically get people to correct answers.
When you peer with HE, you only get their paying customers routes. If you buy transit from HE, you get routes to the entire internet (and your routes go out to their peers).

Peering costs them little (they just have to backhaul to a customer that is paying them anyway), for transit they may have to pay Comcast, Sprint, or another provider to reach the networks they are not directly connected to.
It does shed some light on the whole Fermi Paradox thing, though.
"Not everyone wants to be a musician, some people just want to play rock band."

+1 for the apt analogy, and another +1 for maybe the best quote I've come across on HN in some time.
if you truly love your wife then quit your job and find something better. Seriously. You only live once and your jobs should not be your life.
How Trump Can Challenge China
Author here. The Right Way :tm: is situational - there isn't one right answer to things like when and how to make contracts, or how to break them. When I used the term "force", you'll see that I'm usually talking about dialog between people and teams.

It's not that it's a single right way to do it. There isn't, and anyone who tells you there is has something to sell you, or is inexperienced enough to not have seen enough of the problem domain.

What is for certain: teams need to have tooling that causes the conversations and behavior that lead to the outcomes we want. As systems and teams scale large enough, this tooling becomes essential - without it, teams go their own way, and in so doing, may or may not create the culture needed for the outcomes you want.

I have never once in my career, so far, had to tell a team to communicate less. When we're talking about engineering organizations that are large enough to diverge, you must solve these problems somehow, and it needs to be systemic and intentional.
In practice, Thunderbird is all of comm-central sans suite/ and chat/. calendar/ used to be Sunbird [a standalone calendar client], but those people decided to channel all of their resources into Lightning instead, so all of the Sunbird-specific stuff was ripped out.

Lightning is strictly speaking an independent project from Thunderbird, but it is far and away the most-used extension in Thunderbird and parts of it (particularly the backend) have essentially moved into the TB distribution for various policy reasons. There's some other stuff that's basically build system, release engineering, or testing gunk, but that stuff is mostly Python anyways and won't impact the SLOC metrics too badly.
The assumption here for me anyway is a literal clone of XCode

Same look feel etc. maybe with some touch gestures if it works well
> And there's no way we can fight climate change effectively without political support.

Of course, that's true. But where does political support come from? It comes from the voters, who may be individuals making choices that spread to groups and communities and so on, along with social/political activism.
As the sibling said Most people dont see dwarf fortress as the same “open world explore & build” genre. And the arena style FPS was called out explicitely as an interesting, but different, type of game. “No story” doesnt mean no fun. But when people say “I want to go and build and explore” they usually, unintentionally, miss the draw of a well done story component. There are plenty of interviewers with producers of games like warcraft, witcher, or skyrim who explicitly call out the limitations/benefits of a written story system in an “open world.”
Let me turn on my lamp in Florida, from New York (but I'm in Florida)
Quick note @jashmenn : in the last sentence of section 8 of the "write a book" page, "filling" is misspelled as "filing" (missing n).

Also fullstack.io seems pretty cool!
Gregg isn’t a bad engineer. In fact, quite the opposite. Do yourself a favor and overlook the TLS on his read only blog.
That would help prove you were with such and such person or not with them.
There was a small orange digital(ish) Sony I lusted after a few years after this unit. I think it even came with a premade dipole on a spool to plug in.
I want to try out eBPF tracing in Linux. I really do.

Last three times I tried to install bcc/bpftrace on my Debian boxes, I failed to do so. The situation has not changed for over a year. I'm not the only one:

https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/issues/678

https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/issues/1434

https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/issues/1985
I always thought Rockstar should've made an EMT / first-responder version of GTA where the goal was to help rather than harm.
Obviously a joke poster
I'd be curious to see if any of the work done here could be applied back to the main CPython project. I doubt it could happen immediately -- at least, not with the way GC is currently implemented -- but PyPy has been a source of innovation for CPython in the past (see: new dict implementation).
Reducing bug density is not the main value of static typing as the article states. It vaguely recognizes other values, ending with static types being overrated for reducing bugs.

The famous marketing rhetoric is “large-scale web applications are hard without static types”. It’s true that static types power some really great developer tools such as jump to definition and automatic refactoring, and those tools feel like they make us more productive. (And may actually make us more productive, we need more study on the real benefits of static types).

Productivity is what it's about. And if you have increated productivity then you may have the same rate of bugs per delivered feature, you have more bugs delivered per unit time which is a nonsensical metric. The main thing is you have more featured delivered per unit time.
How Predictive Analytics Can Help Finance Professionals
> Clearly there's a spectrum, but a vegetarian diet or a vegan diet may not be the most healthy diet for a given individual.

Your comment would've been comprehensive if you'd also said that a meat based diet may not be the most healthy diet for a given individual. Without that, it's just one sided argument for your preferences, the exact notion that you seem to be against (in all your comments) with respect to the article's author.
Show HN: Dragonboat – a high performance multi-group Raft library
Well, I watched a wall defeat a caravan of migrants on TV back in November and December...
That Knock LA article misunderstands Seattle housing, cherry-picking facts to suit its argument. The core problem is that over 80% of Seattle residential zoning is single-family, and much of the new development is concentrated where people are reluctant to live.

E.g., article cites claim that two-thirds of downtown new housing development is vacant, yet ignores the source article's immediate next sentence: "thousands of new workers... are choosing to live in other neighborhoods." Most Seattleites don't want to live downtown; they prefer to live in surrounding neighborhoods: Capitol Hill, Fremont, Ballard, the Central District, etc. But those neighborhoods are mostly single-family zoning, so existing residents are either being displaced or seeing huge property tax increases (if they're lucky). A more distributed growth plan would alleviate this.

Also re: "insatiable demand for a necessity". My demand for housing is one apartment and I'm fortunately sated. How many apartments do you need?
Bootstrap builder for busy developers
Does the expansion of the universe mean that galaxies that are too far away from us are seemingly moving faster than the speed of light, and this is why we can't see any galaxies past a given point (because that's where they "accelerate" faster than light)?
For those of us married to emacs: I would love to know if anyone has succeeded in using SSH on an iPadPro with a sensible mapping of the keyboard. Every SSH I tried had some intercept of control sequences, which was fatal as far as I was concerned. This was at least couple of years ago, so perhaps there's been progress.

So far, the only usable iPadPro emacs is via uVNC to a graphical remote machine, which does seem to provide unhindered transmission of control/meta combination key events when using an external keyboard.

Pointers/corrections/tips/advice welcome.

Edit: Any reviews on ssh with Blink to a remote machine to run emacs?
This is fairly easily worked around for sites that look at the user agent — just build a browser app around WKWebView and set its user agent to that of desktop Safari, and boom, you’ve got desktop versions of most sites. There are a few that judge which version to deliver based on screen resolution + OS, but this can sometimes be worked around by injecting some JS to force use of desktop stylesheets. There’s probably some kind of trickery you could use to spoof screen resolution if needed, too.
Learning a new skill by putting in 45 minutes a day for a month
> what is the market failure that requires subsidies for child care in order to obtain this hypothesised greater efficiency?

I'm guessing that varies, but around here the main ones seem to be demand outstripping supply due to setup costs (expensive real estate), lack of trained workers, rapidly growing population (child care doesn't get much lead time from census data) and regulation (parents can't operate their own systems).

There are plenty of market failures here when it comes to childcare.
Gmail's Auto-Complete Makes Me Feel Like a Robot
FYI You can get gamma correct resizing (and other operations) in recent versions of photoshop by first switching the image to 32-bit colour depth mode.
I did the Kyrgyz part of this by bicycle back in 2008. http://daxfohl.blogspot.com/2008/08/stuck-in-bishkek-blues.h.... It was incredible, definitely the best part of the best trip I'd ever taken, but from these photos the Tajik part looks even better! (I diverted East to lake Song Kol and on toward Torugart pass instead -- I think Tajik visas were difficult back then or something). Now if I can only convince my kids to grow up and move out before I'm too old to do the Tajik part!
Data Representation in Solidity
Here's a link to a 100-car pileup: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2018/02/0...

These kinds of crashes generally have the some root cause: everybody is traveling too fast for conditions, and when one thing goes wrong, the end result is that you get a chain reaction of everyone accreting into a single crash. If self-driving cars are capable of making the same misjudgements, then these kinds of crashes absolutely can happen.
No. You can try this at home:

import sys
sys.setrecursionlimit(2 ** 32 - 1)
def recurse():
recurse()
recurse()

This code attempts to create unboundedly many Python stack frames. If those frames were allocated on the heap, you would expect it to either throw an exception or else display symptoms of memory exhaustion. Instead, it segfaults.
"As of 2010, about 48% (3.3 billion people) of the world population lives in nations with sub-replacement fertility.[2] Nonetheless most of these countries still have growing populations due to immigration, population momentum and increase of the life expectancy. This includes most nations of Europe, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Russia, Iran, Tunisia, China, the United States and many others. In 2015, all European Union countries had a sub-replacement fertility rate, ranging from a low of 1.31 in Portugal to a high of 1.96 in France.[3] The countries or areas that have the lowest fertility are in developed parts of East and Southeast Asia: Singapore, Macau, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea.[4] Only a few countries have had, for the time being, sufficiently sustained sub-replacement fertility (sometimes combined with other population factors like higher emigration than immigration) to have population decline, such as Japan, Germany, Lithuania, and Ukraine. As of 2016, the total fertility rate varied from 0.82 in Singapore to 6.62 in Niger."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility

Data viz: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-born-per-woman

Deep dive: https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rates/
The website UI behind your URL is maddeningly hard to navigate if you're looking for the content. I wasn't even sure what this website was for, but it pointed me in the direction of understanding what the demoscene is [1].

If anyone wants the link to the content, it's here: https://youtu.be/US7hzM0a21E

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene