skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe the real world is the weak reality? You can do anything in virtual reality, while the real world has tons of limitations. Thinking (very) long term, I don't see a reason for why we should prefer the physical reality made of atoms arranged in an arbitrary way and with laws we can't control or change, rather than the reality made of bits of information with limitless possibilities.

It's sort of the difference between theatre and motion pictures. Theatre plays are great, but they are limited by what can be physically done on stage with real world objects and flesh and blood actors. Motion pictures with CGI has no such limitations.
They're like amusement parks in a way so the repeat customers are more spaced out but people will come back due to the memories and bring different people with them.

Also customers come back when themes change for the rooms or the room is redesigned.
I think the point is probably "children who's experience ends up being very different from their parent's". Parenting is (relatively) easy when it's problems you faced as a child and teaching things you already know.

When you don't understand what your child is going through, helping them through it is a lot harder, and in some cases, parents simply won't be capable of it.
Well Apple's pricing has increased dramatically while the devices haven't really gained any new game changer innovation.

Thought I'd get a iphone X to replace my 7 but meh
I'm running that configuration with a somewhat powerful desktop and an el-cheapo 10.1″ 2-in-1 (worth ~$200, I bought an used one for ~$120). I was initially saving up to replace the latter with a powerful small laptop, but over the past couple of months necessity made me learn to work more over SSH. So today, I can do 90% of my work somewhat comfortably on that small 2-in-1 via SSH-ing to my desktop and running an extra Emacs frame in terminal. Since that's just a "view" of the same instance I have running in GUI mode on my desktop, I can switch between the two machines almost completely seamlessly. This fits my current needs so well that I actually refrained from buying new hardware right now, and will just keep the money in a "hardware fund" until the poor little 2-in-1 dies.
> [...] Then they are only willing to pay a fixed price for a car that averages the value of a "peach" and "lemon" together (p_avg).

So every used car has the same price?
You can also make this assignment throw:

window.tcg = ...

And the script will do nothing.
The thing that would get me excited about mobile devices is the ability to run my own programs and access a real file system like a general purpose computer. That would be a real improvement in capability along the lines of the first true smartphone with a touchscreen, browser, and GPS for turn-by-turn navigation.
my 2 cents for my personal planning I use pen and paper for monitor teamwork (10 people) I found great help with https://abstractspoon.weebly.com/ todolist (win based) it store everything into an xml but unfortunately only windows based.
This site was indispensable for when I traveled throughout Europe. Most useful was the detailed information about reaching Pompeii from Rome https://www.seat61.com/places-of-interest/day-trip-to-pompei... It's easy in retrospect, but finding the Circumvesuviana train is tricky if you don't know what you're doing
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You need iSH, a full Alpine Linux environment, emulated on iOS. It’s still in beta, but surprisingly functional.

https://github.com/tbodt/ish
I came here to precisely point out that Ezra Klein and Sam Harris's episode, and Klein's total lack of intellectual honesty in that episode. I'm glad I first searched to see if it's already mentioned here.

I recall listening to the same fated podcast you allude to, that Sam Harris did with Klein. It was frustrating to see how meaninglessly stubborn Klein was. Klein's attitude was so two-faced that Harris was not joking when he described how Klein's false politeness came across in their private emails: "Hey Sam, let's meet together and discuss how you are a bigot. Thank you, and have a good day."

I can completely see how one could feel that way after reading and listening to the relevant articles, published emails, and podcasts.
If you are a cycling person, this is like the Sheldon Brown of trains.

Someone make a golden statue of this guy.
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I live in Munich (the city with the highest rents in Germany) and there are like 4 or 5 rooms within walking distance (Maxvorstadt/Schwabing West area).
I wonder how they make a profit if there is so much competition close by.
I am actually going the other direction, I used to build my own, went to laptops-only for a while but then got a mini-tower prebuilt. That one died after about 18 months so I recently ordered an even smaller Gigabyte Brix, with a 10W CPU (Celeron J4105) instead of 65W, but better I/O, and compatible with my existing RAM and storage options. Small enough to mount on the back of the new monitor I'm also getting. I have gone smaller with every desktop I built.

Basically, I now use laptops for games and the desktop for storage/office tasks. The single board desktops are quickly growing out of the RPi-type niche and look increasingly competitive with the traditional ATX platform for this role, and opting for them means that I define my system around the storage and RAM, rather than the multitude of PSU/motherboard/CPU/GPU/case combinations, which is both easier for me and eliminates most instances where components push each other out of their tolerance range. So long as I'm on the same memory and storage, I can replace everything else in the case for <$200. This is really what sold me on the idea; since my existing system fell out of warranty after one year, repair would be the cost of a new board. But if the whole system is the board, then a failure is a forced upgrade.
That's the whole point of the survey, as I read it. You can't look at it and say it's fine, but they do. That is important to understand.

As a counterpoint, the US polls the lowest concern in the world for poverty and inequality. Yet there's no way in my mind you can look at inequality in the states and say "yeah, that's fine", but over 4 in 5 Americans polled said exactly that.
I binged the whole thing on a long bus trip once. Didn't implement much of it, but enjoyed the read.
It is kind of sad how every single web-based technology is turned against us. I shudder to think what they will be able to do with Web Assembly.
https://youtu.be/xzYgiOC9cj4 : Milton Friedman - The Real World Effects Of Unions (1980)
Sure...just a quick overview, but I used Apollo Client on the front end with a few different Apollo Link packages to handle retries, offline queueing, and batching. I set up the grapqhl server as a middle layer using an Apollo server serverless instance. This graphql function then relies on the RESTDataSource package to hook up to various back end APIs.
You get a lot of time to fill when you travel by train
This website is indispensable and the guy who runs it is such a train fan. It’s amazing and he’s been enthusiastic to receive updates for the site whenever I’ve gone far enough afield to fill in a number or piece of information he hasn’t gotten a chance to track down yet, or grab a photo of a station he hasn’t seen in a bit that’s changed, etc.

Whenever I go to a country I spend some time on seat61 looking up the local train system. For a number of systems without websites, seat61 is the place where you can find the information about what trains go where before you get there and it’s just slowly (actually surprisingly quickly, all things considered) populated as people find out various pieces from ticket agents on site or physical boards posted at stations and email bits and pieces in.
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But the amount of vitamin D synthesized is proportional to the amount of UV radiation received.
Cf my ansewr to zzleeper's comment below.
Nancy Bass Wyden, the daughter of the Fred Bass (who gave the prediction in question) is now the owner of her father’s bookstore. She is the wife of senator Wyden and an outspoken critic of the tax breaks given to big tech, particularly Amazon: https://cnn.com/2019/01/08/opinions/amazon-big-tech-threat-c...
Some do, if they can find a way to survive or avoid competitors with cheaper/free offerings that are ad-supported or subsidized by VC money.
Haha, wow, the one and only! Really cool to see you here on HN 16 years later, this is the kind of response I was hoping for :D Thanks so much for all the effort you've put into Massassi over the years.

I had a lot of fun in your community, learned a lot and also got a great introduction to practical computer software. It might have been a critical part of my career choice later on. My nick was Gandalv the Gray at the time, just a random 15-year-old kid with recent internet access and lots of excitement for what was definitely for me, and probably for many others, a very novel way of interacting with others (online). Jedi Knight & the community at Massassi was an important part of staying sane through middle school for me, when there were no other people around me with any sort of scientific or technical interest.

I don't think I've realized until I thought about it right now, but being able to interact with smart and creative people online back then was actually a very big deal for me. I think I really wanted something bigger and more interesting than my random middle school, most of the people there had completely different interests. It would have been much more lonely if it wasn't for the online interaction on the side; it was definitely the right community at the right time for me. It's also very cool to have been present during an early period in online gaming. When things were much more chaotic, and everything was being explored for the first time.

Thanks again, and take care :)
I used this site and the book to plan a rail trip around Europe when I was about 25 (young enough to get the discounted rail card). It was great fun and I used so much of the useful information on the site every day.
Yes, that's a great example from Kahneman; and FWIW, I quoted it here before.

But I also wished Kahenman wrote that in a more prominent location, like edge.org, or publishing a public errata to his book—so that people reading the 'priming' chapter, titled The Associative Machine, in the book are appropriately primed; instead of a comment buried deep in a Wordpress blog.
That’s what the Kelly Blue Book thinks
This has been my experience as well. The one time I had to go to the hospital while uninsured, while in-between jobs, they immediately tried to negotiate a settlement with me.

This has made me wonder what the point of these high prices are if no one ever pays them. My guess has always been that it has something to do with tax write-offs for the services that they never recoup.
Whos paying for safer buldings/milk/etc ? Could not the people who just benefited from these laws, give money directly to the businesses ? If people really want and can fund something they want, they can just pay the private sector directly. Why waste so much money by routing it through the gov ?

If one cant pay for the gov service/product one is consuming. Then he should be grateful for the forced charity not the gov. Gov created improvement in QoL for free, is not permanent.
I think that an important obstacle is that the industry and academy have different goals and therefore different motivations.
We (researchers from Palo Alto Networks and Shodan), recently published a paper on machine learning challenges in cyber security, aiming to the academy.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.07858

Finding problems that will be of interest to the academy wasn't easy.
Taking algorithms that will be based on them and turning them into a product will be hard.

We explained why textbook machine learning will fail on these problem, what make it interesting academically.
We also provide data for academic use, what enables academic research.

So far response is positive, so I hope that we found a way for academy-industry cooperation.
This site recently helped me a lot in a tourism travel to Europe.

The general info is googlable, but it helped my choose a seat that was facing forward and positioned in the middle of a window. A very relevant information for me and my wife wanting to observe the world while traveling. And an information that we wouldn't be able to google.

I learned about it years ago here in HN I believe. It would be hard to find by myself googling something like this too
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"Examples given in Akerlof's paper include the dearth of formal credit markets in developing countries, and the difficulties that the elderly encounter in buying health insurance"...may someone please shed some light on these two?
No, because there are other factors than whether they are a ‘lemon’ or a ‘peach’. For example, age, mileage, brand value, warranty offered, convenience of purchase, etc. These don’t tell you whether the car is a lemon or a peach, although some can help you to guess it.

If you held all these other factors constant, then yes, all used cars would have the same price.
The iPhone X was released one year after the iPhone 7. Your anecdote is really not apropos as the manufacturers have never expected that users would upgrade every year.
> how would you determine which one an individual is dealing with?

It really depends on your relationship with this person. If you are peers, it is really none of your business, they need to chat with their manager or HR (if they want too/have too). You have no idea what they are going through at home, it could be some health issue, and none of these things, or all these things. If you are managing someone who is going through this, you need to support them, what can you do to help/understand? Likely this starts with a coffee and a chat on how's things going? Do they need time off, are they over worked, work on what a path forward looks like. If you are friendly peers, chat with them in a non-weird way. Take them for coffee/beers, ask how are things going, how's work?

Just a heads up, don't ask someone who is burnt out or depressed, why they are lazy or lagging behind, this is extremely out of touch with what they are going through. I'm sure they are already hyper aware.
> and make it clear that if they do give hints (no matter how bad we do) they won't get paid.

That sounds a bit harsh. The escape rooms I have been at all made it clear that the objective is to finish as fast as possible but if you get stuck on things and it seems unlikely you’ll make it on the hour they will give you clues. It’s just part of the deal, you will almost always finish, and “winning” vs losing is a question of how fast you finish.

This doesn’t apply to competitive rooms of cause. Where I actually don’t know how they handle clues as that has never been an issue for my groups in those room.
Exactly my thoughts after the design in Zeplin got presented. If your goal is to create this landing page, do you need much more than HTML & CSS and some sort of static site generator / CMS?
The original iPad was a potato. Came out with 256MB RAM in 2010 and could only run one app at a time. Sure, everything else about it was very good, but it was not cheap for what it could do. Like the iPod with "less space than a Nomad", haha.
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Android is Linux: it has a real file system that you can access. You can run your own programs on it as well.
I've had nothing but great experiences with their support staff. I guess it's a your-mileage-may-vary kind of thing.
Whoa I had no idea about the monthly train updates for Europe. Going to have to watch that page! Thanks!
> They are still over 200 million per year.

The argument, which you may be able to but have not refuted, is that “PC sales” is not a singular product or even a singular form factor like the iPad.
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Judging from http://kolmogorov.com/ there seems to be a fair chance the original is in French. But I can't find anything that looks like the essay in question... Might be a bit easier if the name of the essay was known...
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But what is the point of using Haiku if you are going to run (desktop) Java applications? The main appeal of it is its native API, use of multithreading everywhere and how integrated the applications are. If you are going to treat it as just a window manager with a different theme, then why not just use XFCE - it even has a BeOS-like theme.
You're probably right. It's pretty childish to upvote/downvote a comment because you have the same/different opinion rather than based on the value it adds to the conversation.
"To clean the village we had to destroy it!" he said, wiping his brow. Nods of agreement and approval all around.
What are your favorite or most exotic gimicks? Like additional rooms hidden behind mirrors, or blacklight revealed writings on the walls?

I’m always curious to find out what new things people are creating, but due to the nature of the game it’s quite hard to find “reviews” of escape rooms and I mostly just talk superficially with others about where they’ve gone and how they liked them.
You might also want to mention early that when you talk about the length of a row or column, you do not mean its (thanks, Apple, for autocorrecting that to it’s) length (i.e. number of elements), but its L2 norm. That just caused me to lose half an hour...
I think AirBnb's strategy has worked out well for them for reasons completely unrelated to any of their technology choices. We're living in a time of cheap airfare, insanely inflated real estate in popular markets, and overburdened local governments unable to enforce regulations. That adds up to great success for Airbnb, regardless of what software runs their website.
Tl;dr: the author proposes a scale where the strength of technology measures how much the world had to do to start using that technology.

Another interpretation is that "weak" technology is designed to be immediately usable and useful, while "strong" technology expects the world to adapt and succeeds in this expectation.

Perhaps using the word "compatible" or a synonym would be more appropriate.
Umm, huh? No offense but this looks like a game of buzzword bingo. "Now is the time for the cloud I think." How does "the cloud" have anything to do with the rest of what you've written?
While the idea is sound, a lot of the examples are questionable to the point where I wonder if this is just another "blockchain is the future" shill article. Private clouds are extremely big business for FAANG and some governments, for example (I believe there's a particularly big one in Utah). iTunes is doing fine last time I checked. Pokemon Go is AR not VR and so on.

The problem is that for every iPhone, there are 99 other technologies that are not adapted to the world, and fail as a consequence (3D TV where you have to wear polarising glasses at home or sit at exactly the right angle to the screen, anyone?). It's not a hard problem to look back at what has already happened and explain it with your pet theory, as long as your theory is sufficiently flexible. Using a theory to predict what's not happened yet, and getting it right - now that's where the real money is. The model as presented here doesn't seem very strong at identifying what upcoming technologies will be the strong ones, but really good at explaining things retroactively. As an investor at least, that's of limited use.

On blockchains specifically, I can imagine a world where in 10 years' time bitcoin has completely collapsed. In fact, Satoshi has the possibility to create such a world if they still have the private key to their initial coins. I can also imagine a world where private/regulated chains are widely used and permissionless ones less so, or one where permissionless chains have taken off in a way they haven't yet. It's really too early to tell, although the Ethereum/DAO experiment makes me pessimistic.
The abuse that they are subjected to by their parents.
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There is actually another more important lesson, which is that there is always someone bigger and more powerful than you.
You can write IRC bots in any language you want.
It’s probably not something that will happen. Computers got commoditized. Just how these things goes I guess.

But I do agree. It’s sad to see the PC-era, and the free software ideals, die-off. Slowly the idea of running your own software on your own devices is becoing arcane.
Wrong year and video.

It was during WWDC 2016, "What's New in Swift" session.

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/402/

From the transcript. More on the video.

"I want to talk about a particular case study, and that's the Dock. And the Dock is interesting for two reasons.
The first reason is it's a lot more than people think. It's not just the bar at the bottom of your desktop. It's actually a large amount of the macOS Windows, you know, management experience. So things like Mission Control, LaunchPad, Spaces, this is all what we consider part of the Dock.
The second reason why Dock is interesting is it's actually been a Swift adopter for two releases. It started adopting Swift in El Capitan.
So we have two releases to look at and to compare in how it was using Swift. So a lot of changes happened to the Dock in Sierra.
First, almost all of Mission Control was rewritten in Swift, and the accessibility engine was rewritten in Swift. Why did we do this? We just didn't rewrite code just for the sake of rewriting code. The code had kind of grown organically over time as features had been added and it was time to refactor it.
But also some new functionality needed to be implemented, and so it was the appropriate time to make this, you know, to do this rewrite.
Now, what does this look like at the project level? So to give you an idea, Dock is about 200,000 lines of code with tens of thousands of lines written in Swift.
And between El Capitan and Sierra, the amount of Swift code in the project more than doubled. And this actually, because this is part of a rewrite, this replaced a significant amount of C and Objective-C code. And the effects here are somewhat non-linear, because there's some refactoring and some new features being added, but we saw there was about 15 percent less code to replace the existing C and Objective-C code in Swift, and this is with new features being added at the same time. And the net result is this project is actually slightly smaller in Sierra than it was in El Capitan. Now, there's a lot you can read into statistics. I think the most important thing here is the engineers working on the Dock love using Swift. They are not mandated to use it. They volunteered."

So one would expect that during the last two years, the amount of Swift code has only increased, specially with the tiny spot Objective-C now gets at WWDC.
Suggesting that physical violence against children "works" is a low value contribution.

And you misunderstand the voting culture on HN.
I have a 6s plus, and had the battery replaced, and still drains the battery like that. I’ve tried all the obvious tricks. I’m befuddled by this, it’s the worst battery life of any phone I’ve had. I thought the bigger case would have helped, but maybe the bigger screen out weighs it.

What I find mystifying is why as an average user it’s impossible to figure out why it happens, is it normal, is your phone broken?

Apple docs and support provide no insight into one of the primary usability issues.

Other than that, it’s quite a nice phone. I picked it up cheap on Craigslist and it’s going strong for two years.