skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the sooner this kind of thing gets out in the open, the sooner sites being propped up in valuation based on fake users today can change.

On another note, think back to how general people responded to things like Eliza and other chatbots, or the sims and other emergent storytelling games. What if there was a "social media" platform where all your connections were purposely AI, like your own personal TV sitcom/drama/comedy/whatever. Surroubd yourself with people who think like you that you can finally have "intelligent discussions" with without heated arguments from all the idiots who disagree. People love gossip; what if you had an endless supply from fake people? "You'll never believe what Frank said to Janice!" "I thought Bob and Alice would be together forever."
The airport in Las Vegas is one of the most depressing places I have ever been. There are slot machines in the waiting rooms, placed there so that people who have just gambled away big money over the weekend get one final chance to throw a bit more down the drain before boarding a plane home.

The last time I was there (a decade ago), I watched a mother compulsively dump quarters into the gaping maw while her young child literally sobbed and begged her to stop.

* * *

Casinos are pits of human suffering and exploitation. You can walk into pretty much any one of them at any time of day, head over to the slot machine section, and watch sad hypnotized people hand over their savings bit by bit to machines carefully designed by highly trained psychologists to take their money as efficiently as possible.

* * *

The big money-making gambling in modern casinos is not a “tax” on “ignorance”. It is a large-scale fraud perpetrated against the impulsive and weak willed by some very rich people and their unethical professional employees.

(I’m not talking about college students betting their next round of beers on a poker game here, or whatever. Not all gambling is inherently problematical.)
Why do we send one of our team members to a family dinner every month
I get 60ms in C. But in your code, the compiler might decide to remove most of the code since b is not used after being calculated. I checked the assembly code and it does not seem to be the case here, but it's still something to be aware of.
I am not against nuclear per se, only against current nuclear technology. I think that if we want to stick to nuclear, we need to heavily invest in technology, that would be more safe and would not produce long term highly radioactive nuclear waste. If those issues are solved, I am all in.
This is actually a really interesting concept.

I think there are certainly some benefits of focusing on one thing or epoch, but I do wonder if most of my energy going toward one thing would make me no longer enjoy that particular thing. Regardless, I like the concept and how it perhaps pertains to people's continuous change/growth.
Same as regular URL hash I guess? (Browsers tend to wait a little if they don't find the target)
Worked in nuclear industry in the late 90's. Most *WR designs are inherently not fail-safe, complex, require dedicated teams, are nearly impossible to insure and require a massive capex investment. This
isn't necessary. Modern MSR/LFTR designs tend to get around most of these problems by being smaller, simpler and most robus, similar to what some startups, Taylor Wilson proposed and partially what ANP/ASTR/MSRE/DMSR proved. Downsides to many small reactors include more, smaller sites needing physical/SCADA security and more geographically-diffuse waste handling. Upsides include no exploding containment vessels and consumption of HEU down-blended.
Are you sure that's RAM and not flash?
Something open, standardized, quite similar and already working is Web annotations. This includes 'robust anchoring' capability which could surely be used to solve this problem.

https://www.w3.org/community/openannotation/

Hypothes.is is a well established open implementation.
Hey niiiice, opening PRs early is definitely the way I work. This will definitely help with PR grooming :)
No, no, Microsoft was the old Microsoft but now they're the new Apple. Google is the new Microsoft, and Apple looks like the new Google but is actually the old Apple (the old one, mind, not the middle one where Jobs came back). Oh, and Dell is the new Gateway. :P
if your bar is running every tactic possible to keep you there and drinking and ignoring the consequences of it then yes i think they would have to answer for that.
And they are going to hide from the user the fact that they are indeed on AMP page on google server by hiding all prefixes.

They already started doing part of this plan btw - https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=881410
I get the feeling that most people don't want to be entrepreneurs. But places like this seem to value signaling otherwise, so you get weird reactions like the comment section on this post.

Nearly every top level comment is some form of dismissal explaining why building something while working full time is in fact not possible, and how the author is completely wrong because of X. X varies somewhat, but it's always some minor detail that wouldn't be in any way an obstacle if you really did want to build something outside work hours. But it makes a nice excuse if what you really want is an excuse not to try.

It's a shame. It'd be so much healthier to simply internalize and own "I don't want to be an entrepreneur". I'm sure those folks would be a lot happier, if they didn't have to constantly prove this alternate reality where the thing they think they want to do is in fact impossible, and thus they're OK not trying.

Just don't try. That's fine.

But it looks silly trying to prove that it's impossible. There's lots of us out here doing it.
how so? Sia has it's own token aswell
D is still miles ahead of C++ if you care about compile times, even in pathological cases (like using tons of templates and/or CTFE in your D code).
SPDY was donated to the IETF for adoption into the HTTP/2 standard. Other browser vendors only implemented it at that time.

WebP is a file format and doesn't fall into the normal standardization process. Browsers implement support for new file formats at their own behest.
In my own impression, math is best done with total disregard for applicability, which is to remain entirely accidental.

Concerning "The problem is epistemic: why is mathematics, which is developed primarily with aesthetic considerations in mind, so crucial in both the discovery and the statement of our best physical theories?"

Abandoning the primary goal of "aesthetic considerations" would undoubtedly lead to such math becoming unusable, or even degenerating into non-math.

Therefore, I believe that in everybody's best interest math should stick to its own goal of exploring mere aesthetics.
Competition that spurs innovation is good, more like, but I am skeptical of the claim that competition is necessary to prompt innovation, and whether the costs of such a model (leading to massive waste of society's productive capacity) are worth the purported benefits. For instance, a good deal of mathematics and science was not done on the principle of competition, but search for improvement. The real question is whether the development in goods and services can be or could have used similar principles, which is not only more efficient but seems condusive to better mental well-being; I'd rather desire to improve than to slight (and possibly sabotage) someone who must be my opponent.
To be fair their special skill can be actively dangerous. In the same way that my devops skills can also be dangerous. Disclaimer: I've periodically been doing data science since before it was called that.
Calm Down, Its showcase of what is possible, not what is ideal solution.
For those hipster LFTR fans, care to elucidate on the "less safe" part?
Show HN: Free Disposable Temporary Email Service
A new site to add to my collection, Free Disposable Temporary Email Service, keeps email for 24 hours and allows attachments, what you think?
I recently started to run into new IE6 stuff - bank plugin for certificates that was made only for Chrome, then on mobile some ecommerce site which simply didn't work in mobile FF (real one, on android), stuff like that. I suspect there will be way more of this monopolistic crap now that FF has fallen below 10% and Edge died.
A social media that is part Her, part Westworld. I think that could be a multi billion dollar idea.
What is it about this article (as in which particular text contained in it) that makes it belong to a set?
> I get 60ms in C

OK, I get cca 80ms for my run with the parameter 1 on my main computer, and 200ms on N3150 Celeron.

> b is not used after being calculated

Earlier, I've never seen that any C compiler optimizes away the call to the allocator and the access to the so allocated arrays. Maybe it's different now? Hm, dead code elimination... I guess a random init of the few values before and read and print of a few values after the loop must be always safe... Now that I think, also filling the array with zeroes before.
Oh my, another one of those PR fluff pieces.
They still act as if Rust would be thread safe, and as if they are the only one around. And they still keep on their memory safety and type safety lies.

There do exist thread safe languages, with guaranteed deadlock freedom and race freedom, determined at compile-time. Rust is not of them. You still have to place manual mutexes around shared data, or do the slow thing: copy by value (as with Go or Erlang). With a manual mutex you lost race safety though, and you lose on concurrency waiting for your locks. It's not only unsafe, it's also much slower than lock free threading. Of course this PR piece doesn't mention any of these limitations.

Mozilla turned into a hype factory which cannot be trusted.
3) they think, but don't explicitly say, that externals should be priced in. But AnthonyMouse expressed the real dilemma quite well.
The point is that that some people are already using the good ideas like tolerance about what people do in the bedroom to sneak outright pedophilia in there. Where you see someone complaining that not everybody accepts it, I first and foremostly see someone who does accept the argument they are making, otherwise they wouldn't be making it. That doesn't not count just because not everybody on the planet agrees with them. And if you think that's just the one person that exists, rather than an example for many persons that exist, that's a very bold assumption.

And in Germany for example, there is quite the long and sordid history regarding that, among other things with people trying to legalize "consentual" [sic] sexual relations between minors and adults, but I don't know if there is anything thorough in the English language about it:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A4dophilie-Debatte_(1970e...

And that was directly in the wake of working against discrimination of homosexuality. For some naive people, it all fell under the umbrella of "being different sexually", and for pedophiles, that was how they tried to get a foot in the door.

This sentence

> Die Debatte über die Legalisierung pädosexueller Akte ist historisch eng verbunden mit der Forderung nach Abschaffung des § 175 (StGB)

translates to

> the debate about the legalization of pedosexual acts is historically tightly connected with the demand to get rid of [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paragraph_175 ]

Or hey, this

http://www.taz.de/!5143954/

An article about an article that appeard in 1979 in the taz, declaring pedophilia is a victimless crime in the title. One sentence from that:

> Bei einem Blick in die Archive wird klar: Teile des linksalternativen Milieus sympathisierten mit Pädophilen - zumindest boten sie ihnen einen ideologischen Rahmen.

translates to

> A look into the archives makes it obvious that parts of the alternative left scene sympathized with pedophiles - at least they provided an ideological framework to them.

So, that already happened. And it absolutely was fueled by being overzealous about being liberal and progressive -- that's not what made anyone a pedophile, but that's how some people fell for the schemes of pedophiles, and let themselves and their networks be used. That's a fact. I'm not familiar with similar things in North America but I wouldn't outright bet on not finding anything if I had the nerve to go looking, which I don't at this time.

edit: there's ignorance, and there's active suppression of information. what a cesspool.
I have a thing I do which I like to call "Artificial Stupidity". That is, I like to take a naive implementation and see how far it can get me. Chances are I'll do it in perl. If I need to do some more serious statistics or visualisation with it I'll haul out R. I have not yet had the opportunity to bring some python into the mix, but that's 50% lack of opportunity and 50% that I'v not yet found a normal general purpose computing activity I can't do with perl.
That’s the kind of observation I’ve come to appreciate the older/wiser I get. You start off life feeling invincible, that those kinds of stats won’t apply to you because you’re not a fool like everyone else. But eventually you learn to pay attention to the stats because much more often than not you fall pretty close to the center of the bell curve for most things in life, no matter what.
Back when I was first doing XP style development, we did everything with trunk based development (TBD). As a rule, we pushed to trunk (master) every 20 minutes or so. Since we were all co-located (i.e. in the same time zone and working relatively similar hours) it meant that there would be a push to trunk every 5 minutes or so (frequency depended on the team size, of course). We read all of the diffs between trunk and our branch before we merged our code -- and integrated with any changes.

Probably most people won't realise, but it was in that kind of situation that "continuous integration servers" came into being. The idea was that after you pushed to trunk, the tests would run (and in those days we slapped your fingers if the test suite ran for more than a minute or two -- for reasons which will become obvious) and you would have a minute or two to fix any gaffs you made merging conflicts, etc. If you wanted to merge your code, you would wait until the CI server gave a green light, so if the tests were slow, it would be a major PITA.

The massive upside of this process was that you always knew what your colleagues were planning to do. You saw all their progress every 20 minutes! You integrated with their changes! If you saw a problem, you yelled over the cubicle wall and said, "Hey that won't work because I'm doing X" -- saving both you and your colleague hours of wasted effort.

TBD in this style is hard, but very rewarding. The main reason I don't practice it these days is because 1) We have continuous deployment and you don't want to deploy unfinished work 2) The teams I work on these days are distributed (and I'm 9 timezone hours away from their day). However, I really miss that immediate feedback and the seemingly effortless way in which everyone on the team is kept completely in sync. I've never found anything that even comes close (and I've done the "preliminary PR" thing many times).
Trust and skepticism aren't binary.
Your neighbor buys a house for $100k, doesn't install solar and then sells their house a year later for $85k.
There is a new alternative to MobX/MST - Reactronic:

https://github.com/Nezaboodka/reactronic#readme

It is transactionally reactive state management library for JavaScript. Key difference from MobX/MST is that Reactronic doesn't enforce developers to stick with MST rules of building the structure of state - the state can be a set (graph) of usual JS objects.

Also, Reactronic has minimal set of concepts, just three: State, Transaction, and Cache. So, it is easier to use.

Drawback is that it's a new thing and is not yet battle tested.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19163522
Thanks for the link. I haven't read it before. It looks really interesting indeed.
What? No. The only thing the Indian government did in this regard is demonetization, a rare act but something that has been carried out across the world.
Those implications not even look that scary to me.

Otoh I saw enough marketing fakes/mock ups to be skeptical on this one.
For example my takeaway from OpenAI five was that the bots outmicrod the human players with little more to it.
You've missed a step here. No one thought to do math until people started to seriously worry about proportions, distance, quantity, time, etc of the natural world. Once you've set up those rules (and necessarily rigged them in favor of explaining the natural world) you can stay in the platonic realm, change the rules so they apparently stop reflecting reality, and rely on your sense of aesthetic, but then I think the onus is back on you to explain where this sense comes from.
That looks like a bug, rather than an inherent characteristic of wasm.
Are we blaming the wrong hand ?
"Look at you, standards committee - a pathetic creature of humans and ideals, panting and sweating as you chase after my unrestrained "innovations". How can you challenge a perfect, immortal GOOGLE!" (c) Shodan, probably
The way I've done this before is to have a directory in the project called TODO. In the directory, I add a file with the same name as the feature branch I'm going to work on. I put a description of the work I'm going to do (and any TODOs if I think of them). I commit that and submit a PR with the title "DO NOT MERGE -- whatever".

I find that nobody looks at them, though. :-)
The best weapon against centralisation and control by the few is publication and distribution.

Others are going to do it, others will replicate the work, the best defence is getting it out there so we can understand it and learn how to counter it.

“Open” AI indeed.
try D! its a seemingly weird mixture of scripting languages and compiled ones. but ill all makes so much goddamn sense once you try it :)
Glyphosate increases cancer risk by 41%, study says
Fedora 30 Might Enable DNF's “Best” Mode by Default
"Glyphosate, an herbicide that remains the world's most ubiquitous weed killer, raises the cancer risk of those exposed to it by 41%, a new analysis says.

Researchers from the University of Washington evaluated existing studies into the chemical — found in weed killers including Monsanto's popular Roundup — and concluded that it significantly increases the risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), a cancer of the immune system."
Hmm, video evidence may be trustworthy - eg. video from a CCTV system. Perhaps it could be written onto some write-once, tamper resistant format? Not sure how that would look.

I suppose one place to start thinking about this would be photos. Are photos admissible evidence or do courts only allow negatives? Photos have been modified for a very long time. This is probably the most famous example: https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/52af668569bedd3b2643d...

But yes, I am far more worried about how much more effective fake news will be once they start coming with actual videos.
I think gambling is like booze in that respect. There is hardly any tail at all in the distribution. 5% of the drinkers are consuming 95% of the booze.

Edit: Prostitution is probably also like that.

Basically the three things that underpin Atlantic City right there.
What legal concerns? Companies benchmark their competitors all the time.
is this why we have string theory but can't confine plasmas?
Yeah, what a patronizing piece of trash.
D has:

- fast compilation times

- a module system

- famously powerful metaprogramming and compile-time introspection

- a familiar, but not ugly syntax

- comes with a package manager

- simple-to-use build tools with dependency discovery

- mostly-optional garbage collector (great for 90% projects!)

- interfaces with C and C++

- memory safe

C++ still has:

- header files

- a preprocessor

- infamously hard-to-parse syntax

- decades of legacy cruft

- fun things like design-by-SFINAE

My biggest reason to use D is that it works great for both small scripts (one program can be one file and is ran with one command, or even a shebang), and large projects (with packages / dependencies etc.). Similarly, if idiomatic D is too slow, you can optimize it by going as low as C or inline assembler without having to call-out to a lower-level language.

Source: using D for almost everything since 2006, while also maintaining a few C++ projects.
Interesting, would you elaborate? Do you perhaps mean that even if you do trust someone, you should still be skeptical?
Totemic (YC S17) Is Looking for a Design Lead
I don't think the idea is difficult actually. What I've found difficult when I decided to implement my own tool (https://github.com/skypjack/entt) was that technical details on how to design something that was both easy to use and with good performance were scattered all around the web. I'm just trying to summarize what I've discovered so far for the "future me". :-)
One thing I’ve discovered from learning and using Common Lisp seriously is that it’s really important for a system to be specified in a way that allows for extensions to the system to be implemented in terms of primitives the language provides (e.g. you want a new language construct, write a macro to transform your desired syntax into Common Lisp). In languages and systems that don’t have this feature, an implementation that introduces useful extension begins to develop lock-in and makes it harder to compete. (E.g. no one writes the Haskell specified in the Haskell report anymore, because all the libraries you might want to use use one or more ghc-specific extensions.(
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We must run a bot on HN with upvotes/downvotes for comments acting as reinforcement.
My words were "Bandwidth Alliance members who give free egress to CloudFlare".

DO is a member but they do not give free egress to CloudFlare (or anyone else).
> I can't think of a more scalable way than fission to combat carbon

I think it's a techno-optimism blindspot to prefer the "make more" solution to these things.

We waste enormous amounts of energy to non-essential things.
Not just electricity production. Consider the electric cars craze. It's obviously just going to result in more emissions unless oil extraction ramps down at the same rate.

Solutions involving adaptation to lower consumption are met with protests like "then we would have to change our way of life", and for some reason that's perceived as a good argument.
A Human Just Triumphed Over IBM’s Six-Year-Old AI Debater
Most quorum implementations I have seen don't use mining for consensus. Out of the box you can choose between these consensus algorithms: https://github.com/jpmorganchase/quorum/wiki/Quorum-Consensu...
I went similarly from a 286 with 1MB to a Pentium 166 with 16MB.
Ugh - more retreating from nuclear caused by ignorant fear mongering :(
D Programming quit interesting this waiting for this.
There's a lot that can be done in excel already, if someone really needed this I think they'd be able to create it with what's available already
On top of that he is a big NBA fan so that he might have “stolen” the idea from LeBron. Also, he kind of was mocked for the whole thing, he’s no Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo so the majority of football fans wasn’t that interested in his future club (even though he still is a pretty good player nonetheless).
Depending upon how much money you’re thinking of investing, you could look to get involved with OceanX. They are soon to launch their newly redoublantes ship, Alucia 2. Along with “science!”, it will include a full video editing suite for working on documentaries while at sea.

For those that don’t know, most of The Blue Ocean 2 documentary was shot on the first Alucia.
struct wl_list from wayland project also works similarly. It really blew me away when I figured out how the macro uses pointer arithmetic to get the address of container.
Here's an article I wrote about the wl_list implementation:
http://www.sagartewari01.com/c-macro-magic/