skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm baffled by this comment in so, so many ways.

Everybody has the "right to shout their opinions at us from every corner of the web." That's one of the incredible things about the web.

And of course being a successful, well-liked billionaire buys you privilege and a greater audience!

Why is any of this considered shouting? It's certainly not being shoved down your throat. You're not being harassed by a constant barrage of "Bill Gates" ads on every site you visit, or spam emails promoting his AMA. What made you take it as an affront?

Who would you rather fill the Internet with content than a billionaire who is trying to fix the world?

Should Gates just stop producing content now that he's a billionaire simply because it might annoy a few people?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vacci...
It is required. Just claiming something is well-known to counter someone’s suggestion without providing any evidence isn’t very productive.
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What you're not considering: the person doing the AMA chooses which questions to answer.
>Do you have the maximum number of children biologically possible?

You can't reason about ethics from the standpoint that whatever you are doing right now is known to be ethical. If you did that, you'd just be constructing post-facto justifications for decisions you already made. There are plenty of things I should be doing from a utilitarian standpoint that I don't do (I'm not saving the maximum number of African children, for example).
Went through five celebrities before the first I recognized. Would be nice to see how many of us can spell e.g. Dijkstra.
> just re-hashing the unfalsifiable concept of a "soul"

Yes. It comes from religiously inclined or deeply religious philosophers and “philosophers”. Once they fix they “belief” they search for any possible way to fit the reality, which otherwise wouldn’t support their belief, with their already pre-decided goal.

Even worse, the last time I’ve checked, nautil.us was financed by the people with such goals:

https://www.templeton.org

"The Foundation takes its vision from its founding benefactor, the late Sir John Templeton, who sought to stimulate what he described as “spiritual progress.”"

And, as a more obvious parallel, if you ever wondered who produces "Ancient Aliens" on History Channel, it's also non-accidentally the guy who wants more "spirituality", in his words:

"It’s really a show about looking for God. Science would have you believe we are the result of nothing more than a chance assemblage of matter" whereas "Ancient Aliens" "offers seekers an origin story."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/21/style/ancient-aliens.html

Yes, both behind the "conscious matter" and behind https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/158327-ancient-aliens is a "spirituality" drive.
The single most important decision YouTube could make to defuse this crisis would be to disable comments on all videos. Period. Permanently. If you want to be a social media site, you need to do the necessary curation. If that means spending serious money, so be it.
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I guess simple is relative, but in my opinion, coding theory is not simple. It requires some high level math to understand what is going on. Many people's eyes will glaze over when you go into Galois (finite) fields. Abstract algebra is not part of the typical undegrad CS/engineering math curriculum. And then the efficient algorithms for the decoding procedure were found much later than Reed & Solomon's original paper by Berlekamp.
> that's a deceptive semantic conflation (i.e., poor logic; a bad idea). tolerance is for the person, not the idea (e.g., morals). ideas neither need nor deserve "tolerance". many ideas don't even deserve attention, let alone esteem or support.

That's true, but then you need to set up judicable public standards for how to rule on which ideas are good and which are bad. Since most of "liberal" or "free" society is based on refusing to institutionalize morality outside fairly specific civil guidelines, this kind of society is, well, as many people have pointed out, largely incompatible with and unprepared for the challenge of systematically and publicly telling the difference between right and wrong.
This YC talk from Amazon's CTO on how they grew to a microservice model and team structure was really interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adtuntQ8rh4
I've often thought it a cruel irony that 'dyslexic' is spelled the way it is.
I have a lemon tree that is indoors in full sun. Last summer I put it outdoors for the first time and it has 3-5x more foliage than it has ever had.
*wouldn't recommend since it hasn't been updated in a long time

ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.5.5/enu/
Hi everyone, Leo here. I feel grateful for the HN community's response to this post. I only emerged recently to the "real world" again and feel still some hesitation and fear around showing a much more vulnerable part of myself with the work I do now. (Building marketing software was fun too!) So yeah, just want to say thanks and would love to discuss anything this sparks.
OBNC is just a compiler. Whereas other languages evolve by adding more and more features, Oberon seem to converge to a set of features which are tried, tested, orthogonal and (most important) essential. Wirth has been very careful not to introduce any misfeatures.
AWS Route 53 DNS Service Does Not Support DNSSEC
Q. Does Amazon Route 53 support DNSSEC?

Amazon Route 53 does not support DNSSEC for DNS at this time.

FAQ Here: https://aws.amazon.com/route53/faqs/

Can AWS still be used for services with stronger security needs or folks who want to support a secure web?
Oh man... I won't be editing the typo so that I can be properly shamed.
Thank you for the response. I just wrote, "I don't have any social media" in the field.
In fall of 2016 (the start of my senior year of university), I bought a Thinkpad X40 for $40. After putting a 32GB CompactFlash card in, installing Debian, and increasing the RAM to 1GB, I started using it as my primary computer. (I didn't have to do that, I had a perfectly-good Thinkpad T430, but I wanted to give the X40 a good try.)

(For the record, my X40 had an ultra-low voltage Pentium M Dothan running at 1.1 GHz.)

It worked great for me, and did everything I needed or wanted it to do. I actually didn't use my T430 at all that school year, because the X40 worked fine for everything I was doing.

Unsurprisingly, it was fine for doing assignments in Python and C. It wasn't perfect with DrRacket -- I had to close and reopen every half hour as memory usage increased -- but it worked, and then I realized I could just use `gracket` or `racket`. I did a bunch of PDF/image editing in GIMP to clean up the lousy scans one of my professors gave us every week to read from. I wrote papers and presentations in LibreOffice. I killed time on reddit. I taught myself how to do CAD in SolveSpace. Most impressively, I ran CompuCell (a voxel-based biochemsitry simulator) in a windows virtual machine, fully interactively and only slightly slower than my classmates' computers.

I loved that computer. The battery would easily through one 90-minute class, and I could stretch it through two if I knew I wouldn't have an outlet. The keyboard was perfectly sized for me, and very comfy to type on. The trackpoint worked and felt great. (People didn't ask to borrow the laptop, since it din't have a trackpad.) The display fitted a satisfactory amount of stuff on it. It had real USB ports on it, just as people started having laptops without any USB-A ports at all. Using a laptop that was just able to do everything I needed it to do, I felt a lot more like I was working with the laptop, rather than just on it. (Perhaps this is a similar feeling to what people get when driving Maxda Miatas or BMW M3s -- working with the machine to get the most out of it.) And, in my eyes, it looked great -- a platonic ideal of a laptop.

Unfortunately, the X40 has a fatal flaw -- the southbridge tends to die. When that happened, I spent another $30 on a new motherboard. That also died, right around the end of the school year, in late spring of 2017. I decided I didn't want to to through that again, and I gave away the husk of my favorite computer ever -- my own "oldest viable laptop".
Oh dammit! I wish I had seen this before I went to the drug store...
yes, I'm aware. The anti-vaccine nonsense was going on long before this became public knowledge in 2011. The same ideology of fundamentalists who were behind the events surrounding the siege of the lal masjid in 2007 were spreading the "westerners want to sterilize your children" stuff since at least the early 1990s.
I just got a refurbished Thinkpad x230 and it work great with an ubuntu 18.04 install. It has 16GB of ram, a 512GB ssd and a Intel Core i5-3320M CPU @ 2.60GHz x 4 and cost $350 on newegg.

The difference between this machine and a $1500 latest model machine strikes me as marginal and it's silly to drop four times as much money for something that is marginally faster.
An alarmingly frequent misspelling is "Ghandi" instead of "Gandhi".
Interesting point to pick from the ones I bought up. I guess that's an improvement.

Would you mind addressing the other one, particularly who from PIA this is?

https://www.reddit.com/user/common_sense7

Interestingly one of the comments seems to allege that's you. Hm.
Rents out pace wages in suburbs and rural areas too. They rise in SF, Fresno and Anchorage. Even places people flee like Flint Michigan, land costs rise. They are unbearably high even in tiny apartment Tokyo where a 4m ceiling means you have no roof.

They rise in places with bad public transportation and good. The rise in supposedly under-priced Berlin and supposedly over priced San Francisco.

Land is not a normal commodity and the market has never fixed this anywhere using indirect tweaks. By all means, build more public transit but it won't fix housing prices anymore than it did in LA
Members and employees can bring whatever kind of food they like into the space, but no WeWork funds can be spent on meat (fish is ok)
>The letter of the law is given great weight, no matter the intention of the law.

You are assigning the responsibility the wrong way around.

The letter, and the intent, of the law have two points of interfacing: the point of execution (interpretation by the taxpayers or by the courts of law), and the point of redaction (the lawmakers distilling the intent into actual letter of the law).

In case of the letter of the law not representing the intent, we would be much better off assigning the blame to the lawmakers. It is both their primary duty, and also what they have the best tools for. Putting the onus on anybody else than the lawmakers creates perverse incentive to get bribed for sake of writing loopholes into the law.

When the lawmakers fail at properly writing the laws, punish the lawmakers: both vote them out, and also have the media launch investigation into possible corruption - the slip-up could very well be intentional.
Yes, I'm a big fan of Tara Brach's work too! My experience has been that many of us live in such a cognitively focused world that the sensations and feelings of our bodies take a huge back-seat.
Gun starts a process for each connection. The main idea for Mint was to not do this so that users can choose their own process structure.
Yes, that's better. Thanks!
So there would be a stretch where it were 4 versus 5 players? Oh my! The idea of minimizing free-throws seems worth exploring, though. Maybe store them up so they are all done at the end of a quarter. One can then go get a sandwich if they don't want to watch that.
Personally I would say that the base design of the app is wrong if you have 100k direct connections => I would implement some kind of intermediate layer that caches and/or schedules DB connections by some sort of priority queue... .

And "re-connect and repeat if the query is too slow" is probably a killer (basically a negative "feedback loop" which makes a system that has performance problems become even slower and slower and slower...).
I do my gaming on a Desktop from 2011. It's a Core i5 with 12 GB of Ram (one bay is dead) and a Nvidia GTX 960 card.

I'm running Linux and Proton/Steamplay, and play a few AAA games from 2016. I'm not really confident that my framerate would improve much if I bought a new PC.
When you hit upon a proof like that, you know it. If you're struggling and need feedback, then your solution is probably more complicated than the elegant one in the book, and the question you're asking is, okay, my solution isn't great, but is it even a solution?

There's a reason these books declare some level of "mathematical maturity" as a prerequisite. By the time you get to certain content you have to either be comfortable checking a proof (maybe set it aside for a few days like you would any other writing) or have human help.
I'd like to see this with PostgreSQL
Maybe whitelisting channels for youtube kids is the only solution.
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Hi LeonW, I was born in Bozen, I use your software, and I practice meditation every day. I work at a startup where we try to keep stress low in a friendly environment.

Wanted to say thanks, nice article, and you are very brave to open up that way ;)
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Great article, touches on so many aspects of mobile development with react. If someone wants finally see how React app can fit into his stack, this guide will walk him through all advantages of the technology.
I'm afraid that's not the case. HN moderators (of which I'm one—sorry if that wasn't clear) ban accounts that keep posting unsubstantive comments. It's just one of the things we have to do in the attempt to keep this site from degenerating too quickly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Gates apparently flied coach until about 1997. I'm not his biggest fan, but I find that interesting about him.
Great point, I feel incredibly indebted to Stephen Porges', both for my own internal well-being and the lessons I've learned and can share with others.
> DELL wants to re verify by phone 3 times before they bill or ship anything. Don't ask me why, I don't know, I keep begging them to stop doing that.

You need to get a Dell sales rep you deal with everytime you order. You'll get better pricing too.
If this is the same guy who was talking in front of congress and refusing to say that java was seen as a threat to MS 20 years ago, I believe he's capable of giving sanitized answers without a publicist. He's had years and years and years of practice. I hardly see a reddit AMA where you can choose your questions and response timing as much of a threat to someone like Bill. Sure, if it was musk but it's not.
A query time out is probably a better approach
So that being said, I may not be able to use the HDMI port, but CUDA works great.
Regarding the whole privacy thing - this is the "If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear" argument. There's plenty of information around on the arguments for and against [0].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument
But why couldn't you?
Operations can mean anything. If Amazon has staff at the location and exclusive cage access, and only dark fiber and electricity coming in, then it doesn't really mean who owns the physical site.

If AWS outsources physical security to the DC operator, and doesn't enforce other kinds of operational isolation, then it's of course doesn't matter what else AWS does there.
This isn't really a whole article, is it? It's an anecdote.

I don't doubt that this is a problem, but this isn't a good look at it.
Interesting Site Issue with WP Engine
We have been caught in the middle of a big screw-up Exoscale did - they managed to rebuild a RAID array wrong, and lost all data of one of our boxes.
This said, they have been very open and quick to respond and explaned what happened in great detail, so we will keep on using their services.
My personal law from working in software consulting is "triple the estimate."
A tool my company always pulled data from was depreciated and the web ui and api got shutdown. They used the awe bucket url though for the web ui downloads and those had predictable url patterns. Turns out they didn’t stop generating the data we needed, so we still just go straight to their urls.
The Starbucks I visit doesn't even seem to play music. It's been a while since I've been to a store that did and when they did it was just coffeehouse playlist with Spotify integration so it was kind of cool what they had set up.

I imagine working in an environment where you hear the same music regardless would cause some pain if you focus on that aspect of your work environment.

Just imagine being alive in the 80s with muzak and really crappy jingles play
Not better managing 3rd party sellers is what's going to kill Amazon. It's pretty common to see orders sit two weeks without shipping, or marked as "shipped" with no tracking number, or counterfeit items, items different than what's pictured/described, etc.

Banning the crap sellers would also make search easier. Less duplicate listings.
Consider that there are people who've only seen a small fraction of what your stepfather has, but can't handle it nearly as well.
Thanks man! Feel the love over here in the woods. If I can support you or your company with anything, please reach out! (l.widrich@gmail.com)
Stick with that x230! My x240 maxes out at 8gb of ram. :(
With infinite time and infinite space, you could do all the computations required for the nematode worm neural network with a pencil and paper rather than an electronic computer. Would you say that this pencil and paper is now conscious?

Does the speed of computation cause emergence? How?

Does building a computer out of organic particles cause consciousness? How?

"Emergence" is mostly lazy thinking and lack of understanding the hard problem of consciousness.

Roger Penrose has some plausible ideas on this, not sure if they are correct, however to me it seems that they must happen at a sub-neural network level.
When I was in high school I worked in a Pizza restaurant that had a CD player in the closet. There were two CDs--The Carpenters Greatest Hits, which was used January to November and The Carpenters Christmas album, which they used in December. I must have listened to the Greatest Hits hundreds of times.
The burden of proof should've been on me, for sure. I was going off of anecdote. Now I'm not so sure on what the actual percentages are, though I do still think that description probably does apply to a large number of vegetarians and perhaps vegans.
Attacks on wind and solar power by the coal and gas industries
The first company to hit viral status with “centaur” shopping models will kill Amazon the way Amazon killed retail.
RS codes give great reliability but galois polynomial solvers are slow. Parity (xor) bits are fast, but they can’t fix more than one error, which means it’s really not reliable to fix an error at all. Use parity bits to check for an error, and then RS to fix it.

That backblaze speed quoted seems really slow.
Look at the numbers for MySQL without the thread-pooling and that will probably be close enough.
I went into a Starbucks the other day early in the morning that didn't have music playing yet, it was really weird. It was actually kind of disconcerting. I think that's the only time i've ever been in one with no music. Everybody's voices echoed really loudly. You could hear every conversation going on and people ordering from the other side of the store.

As much as I dislike their music choices usually, I kind of understand why they have it going. Though a redesign of their interiors could probably do a lot to help the empty echoey feeling without constant music.
A price like that tells me they're not producing these in very large numbers at all, probably in the low five figures max.

Makes sense, as this is new tech and they are trying to understand consumer demand and use cases for the product. Also, they may want to avoid costly recalls if it turns out that the V1 hinge isn't as sturdy in real world use as it was in their tests.
I spent years working retail in a CVS. Hamilton's got nothing on off-brand Christmas music.
I remember that.

That is a technique that is often used to impose frugality and get savings [1] out of the rest of the execs by setting an example. If he flies coach well then so do a hundred others.

[1] I knew a guy who owned a small company and bought a low end car until he had locked up his union contract. He knew if he was seen with a nice car it was going to cost him a boat load.

Likewise in my old school company years ago I never even drove up to the business in my nice car and I went out of my way to hide it's existence. It goes along with staying late and arriving early to set an example.
I've added more details in the reddit thread:

https://old.reddit.com/r/cofounder/comments/auj8b5/looking_f...
>Under the influence of dark energy, the cosmos is now doubling in size every 10 billion years — to what end, nobody knows.

It's a simple concept to grasp, but to truly understand I think is something we'll never be able to do. These kind of simple little factoids absolutely blow my mind. They're not new to me, but being reminded me of them kind of forces me to sit back for a second and realize just how irrelevant our planet is.

The entire universe, just doubling. Because it can. And there's apparently nothing stopping it. It's just going to keep going.

Life is maybe only about ~4 billion years old. That's it. Life was able to start up, evolve, and make us. In about 4 billion years. We don't even have an idea about the type of technology that we could use to get out of our own, singular galaxy. In about double that amount of time, the universe will apparently have doubled. Perhaps forming new galaxies, new types of matter, new life and all sorts of non-sense.

Sorry for the rant. But it really is a bit insane to think about.
You actually can.
Usually you want that unless you don’t and you don’t here :)
That should be an OSHA violation.
how about just search hacker news?
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/11/10/6665455...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/09/is-vitamin-d...

And those studies saying otherwise have been backed by a lot of questionable money:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/business/vitamin-d-michae...

Oh by the way sunscreen is terrible, it doesn't have a proven link to reducing cancer and it destroys reefs so do yourself a favor and get more sun without all the slimy goop so you can feel better AND save the planet!
this library was renamed from xhttp to mint and new name is much more refreshing :)

I'm excited to try out this library (or something built on top of it)! In my day to day work I use hackney, it's an awesome lib, but sometimes I struggle with documentation.
I wish I was like that. I have the opposite problem - I have great difficulty reading fiction, and all the nonfiction I read consists of math textbooks and papers.

I used to love reading novels when I was younger. I read them voraciously. These days I find it incredibly hard to sit down and read novels, even when they're "good".
Taiwan Game Upsets China with Xi Jinping/Winnie the Pooh Reference
For me on Google, "mint elixir" has the GitHub repo as the first result, then a bunch of links for "How to install Elixir on Linux Mint". DDG gives a software company called "Elixir Mint" as the first result, followed by links to drink recipes, and the GitHub repo is down near the bottom.
What are centaur shopping models?