skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very simplified example written by human hands just for this post (not machine written). The database is immense and has far more fields than you might imagine. It takes into account how many clicks content with Van Halen has had in the past and how many clicks content with American Brewpub has had etc to figure out how likely this article is to resonate with our audience, plus how many human-written articles have been published about these subjects and sentiment analysis to figure out if our articles were positive or neutral (we don't write negative articles, if we don't like a business/event we just don't talk about it), which impacts how the machine-generated article is phrased or even if it gets written at all.

We have about 90 events on our calendar per city in any given month, and this AI writes about three or four articles per city per week even though it's running constantly. It's pretty selective and very rarely writes something that our two human writers wouldn't have mentioned otherwise. Our personal preferences and those of our audience are certainly taken into account.
- NKS (Wolfram), among other things for the idea that sometimes reasoning backwards from what you observe cannot work.

- I read Brave New World (Huxley) when I was young, and it didn't have such a strong impression on me at the time, but it has strongly influenced some of my political takes over my whole life.

- The four steps to the Epiphany (Steve Blank) showed me that there can be method to the apparent madness that is entrepreneurship.
$2.7 billion pre-money valuation from Tencent? Really? Sounds like a soft power overvaluation loan.
Probably that science via statistics is problematic and not as reliable as believed.
It's hard to understand, as a programmer, how some website bugs that are obviously visible can remain unfixed for months and months. Presumably, the developers encounter these bugs themselves when using the site (assuming the developers use the site).
> I am not judging the individuals that work at reddit

I'm sure you don't mean to, but as an FYI, when you say:

> It amazes me the kind of sheer incompetency their product team has demonstrated

It does sound like you're judging the individuals.

I totally agree with everything you said in this post, I just think the way to couch it is not by seeming to attack the competency of people who have business pressures / goals. Just my two cents.
> where BAD achieves an average score of 24.174 points in the two-player setting, surpassing the best previously published results for learning agents by around 9 points and approaching the best known performance of 24.9 points for (cheating) open-hand gameplay

I didn't realize Hanabi is already that close to being solved.

My gut reaction is that the game is a lot simpler than it appears. I guess your simpler "matrix" game points to that--you already had an intuition for reducing Hanabi. Indeed, looking at the code you share for the "matrix game," it would seem that Hanabi's problem is that, like Chess and Go, it doesn't really resemble more sophisticated games as much as it resembles something that can be literally expressed in Tensorflow.
I would say that is somewhat outside the jurisdiction of the VCS. Sure you can have post-commit or CI hooks that ensure your code always compiles, but it doesn't need deep support from the VCS to do that.

However, the fact the pijul doesn't really treat the "no conflict" state as "special" is in some ways closer to what you want - the repo is just a collection of patches, and whether the result is "good" or "bad" is not determined by the VCS, but by whatever means you choose to employ.
I save up and buy one in cash. No contracts for me and no debts thank you!
"The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson

It inspired me to think about the role technology can play in improving someone's life, enhancing their development, helping them thrive.
He has a boyfriend and no kids so I guess a high paying programming contract is easily enough to cover his needs.
Reading all the comments seems like most HN users have pretty good work life balance. I am surprised I thought most tech people are overworked.

Anyway since most people here seem to be from industry. Here is my situation working as an academic in Europe.

I normally work from 9 to 6. Sometimes if I am chasing a conference deadline (2-3 times a year) work after hours and weekends. I also choose conferences which also double as my vacation spots (one of the reasons why I decided to stay in academia).

Bike to work (15-20 minutes each way). No kids most likely will never have any. Spend most of my free time with my SO after work cooking, watching TV, reading, or just relax. Go swimming sometimes. Bike trips in summer. Cook and Eat healthy balanced vegetarian food.
Until someone writes it into the kernel at which point that won't be a feature anymore.
> Shipping container homes are also a sort of niche thing at the moment.

I spent a lot of time researching these homes. Outside of situations where they're being used as glorified sheds, it's not really cheaper to construct a home with them. Which is a bit disappointing, because there is a certain "green" aspect to them that I find appealing.
What’s a good alternative to Mailchimp?
"Am I crazy?"
Yes, but never underestimate what people will pay for.
German Government Abandons Small Businesses Over EU Copyright Directive
"Deep Work" by Cal Newport. It completely changed how I view my work, and how I spend my time, more than any other generic self-help book I've come across. It isn't the usual "delete Facebook, and everything will be fine" blog post. The main take-away for me is making a well-defined separation between "busy"/"shallow" work and "deep" work. This takes the form of spending long, uninterrupted periods engaged in deep work (e.g. academic research), with shorter periods allocated for shallow work (e.g. checking and responding to emails). I have managed to allocate one day per week for myself where I completely turn off WiFi, allowing me to focus on whatever task I choose. This means not accepting the temptation to respond to interruptions from instant messaging apps, email, news websites, etc., and it has worked wonders for my productivity! For me, it serves as a weekly reminder of the insane amount of content I consume while online, along with the (highly expensive) constant context-switching I must perform to do this.
Have to agree here - SV gets too caught up in its own inflated politics and self-contrived problems that are seemingly not sustainable or profitable.

NYC may have fewer "unicorns" but NYC tech generally solves actual problems with shorter term realities of profitability sans VC slush funding.
Looks the lite version is actually a native app, unlike other "lite" apps (eg. google maps go) which are just wrappers around a PWA. Nice to see they actually spent effort into making it as smooth as possible.
Yes. If data can be captured to apply targeted ads, each ad can be worth 2-5x as much to the company. Browser compatibility issues occur sometimes, but mobile device compatibility are always an issue for my apps. It's actually more work keeping an app working smoothly than a website, and the cost must be offset by the ad revenues
"The Impersonal Life" by Joseph Brenner
Blu Homes (from their website) are from $200K - $550K. That might sound cheap in some areas but if you're comparing to a traditional "manufactured home" it's close to an order of magnitude higher.
This comments page has over 1194 elements on it right now, with only 34 comments. Thousands is peanuts.
Our Biggest Economic, Social, and Political Issue
> What would be news is if Google were paying $11/hr + social security, etc. just to have people tell an algo which pictures have a dog in them. That would put them at a competitive disadvantage.

Yes. Sometimes maximizing profits and having a functional society where everyone has a meal and home is incompatible. I would prefer to see that the long term viability of countries is put higher up than the short term profits of companies. And that is why it is so important to set all countries to the same standards of living (on the high-end preferably).
What's up with these titles nowadays? I don't know if it's because the title is (possibly) missing a semicolon before 'A Young Woman Followed Two Hackers', or Lies to Her Death -- but I can't make a sense out of it. Is somebody dead because they lied? (I know I should have read the article, but this title!!)
> Or none of the women techies you know want to admit in front of you they want a place like this.

Clearly some women don’t like places like that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14702676

As I wrote in a comment on that story, I have a theory: Women-only groups aren’t just “Women-only”, they also exclude women with these beliefs [from the linked article]. But this is far from obvious, so women at these group gatherings see only themselves, and it becomes an echo chamber where they believe they represent all women’s views on this subject.
The Science of Paper versus Screens (2013)
Maintainer of lit-html here. AMA, especially if you're interested in how lit-html works, or where we're going next :)
I'd argue you get more value out of NYC as a city for what you pay to live there than SF. You can also have a life outside of the incestuous tech circle-jerk.
The hard to swallow part is that it's outputting a fraction as much light, using a simpler method, and that translates to more watts.
I do wonder what tasteless books benefit from this magic, but the other way around.
Don't forget the tax savings involved in laying some cement down on your vacation property for a trailer instead of building a tiny home there.
The sequel, Lila, is also really great. He's worked out the structure of Quality, in detail, and it makes a lot of sense. p.s. If you love Pirsig, read Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) - the form is identical.
Not Markov chain, but I have been wondering about Dwarf Fortress. Some stories of Dwarf Fortress sound quite interesting. So I wonder if an automated writeup of an automated Dwarf Fortress game could yield something worthwhile.
The Feedback Loop Difference Between Developers and Managers
Yeah, letters are much more used in situations where they do not denote some sort of order. They do, at least in English, but it's a much weaker association. It seems on some level we intuit that letter orders are arbitrary, whereas in some sense integers are literally nothing but their order.
I recommend others to switch to Firefox on their Android devices as well especially since you can install add-ons like UBlock origin. A couple years ago it was almost unusable, but this past year they have really stepped up their game and I haven't used Chrome mobile since.
My SE goes down pretty quickly even with light use.
T_D is about basement dwellers and Russian bots displaying their idiotic meme skills
There was a TechCrunch article 2 years ago that lays out a convincing argument that something/someone started siphoning value out of the US financial markets--thus driving up prices for everything--sometime in the last 50 years. It asks "Why so costly in the US?" but doesn't have any definite answers. Link here: https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/09/why-so-costly/

I think TA offers some really good answers, all centering around market deregulation beginning under Reagan in the early 1980s. Suddenly, corporations had a lot more tools at their disposal to siphon off their value towards shareholders and manipulate the market in the process.

... Which leaves me wondering, how long can the current bull market last in the US if it's draining US corporations of their value?
I probably shouldn't have drawn a distinction between full-time pros and very serious amateurs in the ultra-tele niche. And that's absolutely a fair point about autofocus especially at the highest focal lengths.

But obviously 800mm lenses are already pretty niche.
I agree there may come a time when we need to upgrade to something different.

A lot of it comes off similarly to the dentist I had once who told me I needed to get my wisdom teeth removed immediately because getting them removed when I'm 70 would be much more of an issue.

There is a lot of time between now and then, and I think it makes more sense to prioritize my current needs and keep my options open than to prematurely decide what I will want in ten or fifteen years.
The problem with that claim is that a significant portion of our drone use does not take place in countries we are deploying soldiers. And an insane number of dead children keep turning up.
Is Facebook Lite too big or slow as well for you?
Except you have captured the essence of the market, a 'fair' price (in market terms) is one that leaves the seller thinking they got too little and the buyer thinking they paid too much. They were both right at the equilibrium point.

Exploitation occurs when you prevent the buyers or sellers in the market any ability to move. So if these buyers have no other opportunities or ways to change they can be exploited, if the sellers don't have any other buyers they can be exploited.

Neither Crowd Flower (Figure 8) nor Mechanical Turk "exploit" workers because the workers have a choice of tasks, and the option to add skills to open up other tasks. Nor can the workers "exploit" the people offering jobs because they cannot prevent another worker from taking a job at an offered price, even if they personally wouldn't take the job at that price.

What it does do though is allow workers who have a lower cost of living and expense rate to bid lower (or take jobs that pay less) and still cover there costs.
You can actually build the house you want. There are empty lots on the market most places. That's what we did. Our house is so well insulated and passive-solar heated that here in Iowa, even with the -20+ temperatures we've just had, the furnace doesn't run all day.
AFAICT, the most common installment plan is carrier-based and usually not a loan, the payments total up to the same as buying it outright at the beginning.
An Alien Spaceship May Be Among Us, Says Harvard's Top Astronomer
I'd say the worry is not just ad / tracker blocking, but loss of control.

Apple decides to start notifying on cookies or make fingerprinting harder? Poof. There goes a chunk of your ad value per user.

And who knows what any given browser vendor will do tomorrow?

Some would say "So it's like the 90s, where everyone was continually adapting as web specs were negotiated." The difference is that now there are billion+ dollar businesses directly tied to that ad revenue.
What do you think is an affordable price point, in dollars per month?
I am actually surprised that Reddit is only valued at $3B. Given the amount of traffic and engagement, I thought the valuation would be fairly higher. Pinterest has a $10B valuation, Reddit definitely feels more popular than Pinterest.
I would like to see an SE that’s thicker to accommodate a bigger battery.
On the floor at an open-outcry exchange.
You don't need to start your own IV to do it at home. I've been getting IV ketamine occasionally for around 8 years. I've also been using a prescription ketamine nasal spray for most of that time. For me, the effects of the two are nearly the same. Intranasal only has about 20% of the bioavailability of IV, supposedly, although in my experience it's closer to 10%. It takes quite a few sprays to achieve the same level of the drug as the IV treatment provides, but it works.

$130 gets me 3000mg in a spray every month. That's enough for about 4 IV-equivalent treatments even with the low bioavailability. The biggest difference is that the intranasal (of course) absorbs more slowly than an IV, so some of the effects last for 2-3 hours after I stop administering the spray, whereas once the IV runs out, I'm ready to leave the clinic in about 15 minutes. (Taking an uber or the subway rather than driving, obviously.)

The therapeutic index for ketamine is ridiculous and I know I don't have adverse reactions to it, so I'm not at all concerned about harming myself with it accidentally. I wouldn't recommend it for anyone who hasn't had some IV treatments, partly because a small number of people do have strong negative reactions to it, and partly because it would be really difficult to know what kind of effect you need to achieve. It's pretty easy for me to tell how high the levels in my blood are because I'm so familiar with how it feels as the IV dose escalates.

While I wouldn't recommend it for an initial treatment, I would recommend it to anyone who has been successfully treated with ketamine. Unfortunately, I think that it's harder to get now. I know my doctor has stopped prescribing it to patients because too many people were selling or abusing it.
Ask HN: Most hackable browser?
What browser gives the user the most power?

I think it's ridiculous that I need to install a browser extension to do something as simple as block a list of sites. I want more power.

What browser exposes the most power to the user?
Hah, certainly an interesting interpretation of that law. But 'intent' matters as well, and tech corps can always point to A/B testing, usability testing etc to show what we already know: everyone wants to be healthier, handsomer and richer than they actually are. Social media enables this via a constant feedback loop of our human frailties.
Yeah. There was no way to slope away from the house because the house was built too low. We actually ended up draining the system into the city sewers under the street. So, I had to work with their contractors to connect it.

We removed a few tons of dirt by hand lol.....I regret not renting a bobcat.
Guess again.

https://www.ft.com/content/eef717f2-bb6e-11e8-8274-55b729265...
https://www.army.mod.uk/who-we-are/corps-regiments-and-units...

etc.

There is so much information available in democracies if you have the time to work through it, that they are effectively protected just by the sheer amount of documentation an interested observer has to plough through.

Start with the annual budgets - they´re extremely informative as to what the real issues are.
Yes. Assets vs Liabilities. I read it when I was maybe 15. Made a huge impact on me.
The title is grammatically correct, it also makes sense, and it also conveys the message it was intended to convey.

The lies belong to the hackers

A young woman followed those lies until she was no longer alive

This would be the worst place for a semicolon
It doesn't. This has been an issue in Minneapolis, one of the best food scenes in the country. We've had restaurants that could legitimately compete for Michelin stars, but not a lot of interest in them coming here to look.

I know of at least one place in Minneapolis that is now shooting for a star or two. There's a lot of preparation involved, far beyond the food alone.
I've seen this comment more recently. I just thought he was a notorious reposter. What specifically is bad about him? (I often don't mind reposts when it's a first time for me..)
Ah, I probably should've mentioned that the DigitalOcean article I linked shows how to install/configure a synapse binary with apt-get.
Reddit isn't worth $3B, and management trying to justify the validation and provide returns to the investors will kill it. Just a quick peek on `/r/beta` will show you the weird things Reddit is doing to maximize value and how it is alienating users.

Unobtrusive ads don't make investors enough money, Facebook has already shown that. To derive maximum revenue per user, you need to drive your users to the edge of not enjoying the site anymore. With these investments Reddit will be walking that line, and who knows if Reddit is too big to digg?
You decrypt the traffic. Or you monitor on a point in the chain where the traffic has already been decrypted. I think what you meant to ask was how do they obtain the decryption keys or establish a point of presence post-decryption?
Two very different beasts. When you use the mobile payment system all your traces and data are being exposed, even much more than using cash. While people who need anonymity, or at least want to be hard to track, be it for buying drugs or escaping the unstable local currencies, definitely have a valid use case for crypto. Lumping everything under the term "scam" is shallow.
Dare I ask what an edgelord is?
On the religious details of the status of the shochet and the number and character of formulations uttered by him (or, apparently, her) I can well be wrong, not being an insider and as such only having access to the (often only partly correct) information which is available to outsiders - although there is also the possibility of there being several 'truths' for different rites or sects. This is also mostly besides the point in this context.

On the minimising of pain I'm not wrong. Captive bolt pistols and electric shocks can be misapplied and that certainly happens in some cases. In the majority of cases these devices fulfil their purpose in that they knock out the animal before the knife is applied. This knocking out is instantaneous, contrast that to the slow death by oxygen deprivation which is what happens in halal and kosher slaughter. A sharp knife only makes the cut itself less painful, it does nothing for the minute-long death process which follows.
Do you have any screenshots of what the website looks like? I'm curious. I'm not asking you to make them just for me, I want to know if they already exist. If they don't and you don't want to make them, that's fine.
There are multiple hackers and multiple lies, so the apostrophe goes after the "s". One hacker's lies; two hackers' lies.
Surprising that BEAM is such a CPU hog!
Those bluhomes are really expensive. You could have a bespoke home built in-situ for those prices. What is their strength?
I'd love to know some of the things you find interesting or meaningful about the Oresteia - I read it as a freshman in college and was never particularly impressed, but these days I'm becoming more and more interested in revisiting ancient literature. What about it left such a mark on you?
> Though market forces should generally push unskilled labor wages high enough to be livable

I do not see how the market forces can do that.

In the USA there is a lot of non-livable paying jobs that need to be complemented by public spending. For a person that has nothing, a salary that is not enough to pay for their basic needs is better than nothing. That creates a race to the bottom.

You get the lowest price independently of if people that do the job can make ends meet or not.
>The problem is that the effect sizes for most anti-depressants is quite small and the role of pharmaceutical companies in advancing their use has been quite a bit larger. The difference between psychotherapy and medication and psychotherapy alone is small.

Ketamine is not your traditional SSRI. You're making the same error as the other poster in grouping all "antidepressants" under the same umbrella, which is particularly egregious when discussing ketamine.
The main reason you pack scripts is because you're compiling, and your compiler is checking and optimizing your cross-file interactions. For example, you need to merge scripts to be able to detect and delete unused functions, because otherwise some unmerged script might call the function without the compiler being able to detect it.
If that method of slaughter was meant to be humane, it would allow for stunning prior to killing.

Now, back when it was introduced, thousands of years ago, sure, it was humane for the time. But times have changed.
Odd, I just finished a night shift in which I used my Galaxy S9 quite a lot, after a day of using it quite a lot (including wifi hotspot, camera, video, maps & navigation) and it's showing 65% battery. This is after 23 hours of constant usage. I think this may be due to both better and larger batteries in all flagship phones, as well as better power management in both Android and iOS. Or maybe I just got lucky?
I'm not the person you replied to but I read the Diana Burgin & Katherine Tiernan O'Connor translation and thought it was absolutely brilliant!