skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not saying I disagree (I tend to favor rational behavior myself), but this sounds like a dogma.

What evidence is there that only acting rationally is "better"?
You don't need to go that far back in time, changing statues heads was a thing in USSR.
Sure, sorry about the initial omissions.

https://github.com/xi-editor/druid

https://github.com/linebender/piet
In that case all you need is dynamic time of day pricing and a feedback mechanism to the cars. Or you could give control of the car batteries to the power companies, and let them charge them by X oclock, this has already been suggested as part of a virtual power station type setup.
There are tons of exceptions though. Most applicably to this conversation speech that can threaten or cause physical harm is not protected.

There's the famous example that yelling "fire" in a crowded theater is not protected speech. Threatening someone with violence is not protected, nor is telling someone to jump in a lake if they can't swim.

There are also laws around giving bad advice, which is what legal and medical malpractice is about.
I run modern computers where I don't have to worry about these things.
Society needs skeptics, this is true. But they need to be skeptics who value rational thinking, the scientific method, and peer-reviewed research.

It adds no value to society for someone to say "I don't trust the experts who have spent their lives studying this subject, and also I refuse to take the time to become an expert myself so that my opinion is an informed one."

Challenge science and popular consensus all you want, but do it with evidence and research, not with scare tactics and appeals to bias.
There are a lot of users who come to HN just to submit their own stuff, aren't participating in the community, but don't realize that they're breaking any norms either. We tend not to treat them as spammers unless they really overdo it. Often we explain to them that (a) using HN just for promotion is something the community doesn't like, and which we eventually penalize or even ban accounts for; (b) if they want to post to HN it would be better to fully join the community and submit a variety of things they personally find intellectually interesting, and (c) if they do that, it's fine to occasionally include their own stuff.

Most people respond to that explanation pretty well and HN has even gained a few excellent submitters that way. So we've learned to treat this class of users with a lighter touch than outright spammers, who mostly leave quite different fingerprints.

(p.s. thanks for the kind words!)
Very few H264 decoders can decode those profiles. Basically anything other than Baseline, Main and High is going to be pretty hard to find. Hi10p, Hi422p, etc. are very uncommon in hardware decoders (no iPhone or Core i7 processors supports these).

That leaves software decode, which is pretty hard on phones and other constrained devices.
If there were an extensive history of phony-Autism-cure-peddlers kicked to death on the pavement by assailants screaming phony-Autism-cure-related slurs into the cold night air, while the responsible authorities looked the other way or even took part in the brutality... then, perhaps, these situations would be comparable.
Ask HN: Are there any programmers working on a novel and/or series?
I'm also open to hearing from programmers who write non-fiction as well. I've been working on my first book for a series and feel like I don't hear enough about programmers doing the same. What has been your experience trying to get published and how do you manage your writing life with your coding life?
Nah, that won't make a difference. People who pirate media know that they're accessing the content illicitly, they just rationalize it because it's convenient.

For example, if a movie costs more than $5 to rent on Amazon Prime, I'm probably gonna pirate it. Not because I think I "deserve" to do so, but 1) it's possible and 2) minor hassle < $5.
http://www.medievia.com/ was mine, and it's still chugging along since '92, I played all through high-school, but then WOW came along. Before I learned about the tintin mud client, I had actually memorized key strokes to get around the map, good times.
> I am actually a bit worried that I’m already starting to see search engine traffic coming in...

Brilliant, now you only need to come up with a way to use this for good and keep (at least slightly) ahead of the cost in the long run.
Certainly. It took TWO YEARS of negotiating with Louisville before Google could start construction. If the municipalities do it themselves, there’s no small time politicians hands to grease, and the city can start construction immediately.
Well that's because Seinfeld is the best show ever and don't you dare disagree with me.
A lot of people in the scene seem to like them alright, but I never took to them. The lyrics don't appeal to me, and I mostly find their music too bland. Hence, if you'd ask me about the nazism allegations, I could not tell. I've also never met the guys nor have I been at a concert (you often get a good grasp whether the guys are idiots there).

Love the name though :)
> India plans to triple its nuclear capacity by 2024 to wean Asia's third-largest economy off polluting fossil fuels.

One has to admire the no-nonsense problem solving happening here.
Once I am done with the project I am currently working on for pay I am going to work a bit on a personal project, writing a small MUD. However I was planning on writing the client myself to offer, among other things, sound etc. as well as giving me endless future possibilities over having people connect over telnet. However, http://www.middle-earth.us/?page_id=55 says about that MUD:

> Connect to Middle-earth.us: 4500 with your favorite MUD client.

And this made me wonder. I thought classic MUDs were played over telnet with a regular telnet client, but apparently not. So, market research time. What sorts of MUD clients are people using?
Your "typically" is based on media showing few cases of highly functional people with autism. They do not show the rest.
In the U.S., false statements of fact are not protected under the First Amendment. [0]

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_statements_of_fact

So, even if you consider Amazon liable for the protection of free speech (I don’t), this doesn’t really qualify.
Yes, because that's the land's actual value.

This is why land-value taxes are unpopular: small landowners (e.g. Mom & Dad) want to be able to hold onto their small single-family homes instead of being forced to sell to a developer who would build a multi-family dwelling.

Cf. Prop 13 in California.
I think it's unfair to say there is no point in e-voting besides malice.

e-Voting could make it easier / cheaper to deploy polling stations, collect ballots faster, and potentially to use more complex (but more fair and accurate) voting methods like Ranked Choice or others.

As for the "We won't tell you how you voted but you can validate it", my first guess would be some kind of PKI where you are given the equivalent of a private key, and your results are signed.

There are issues trusting hardware vs. trusting the sight of paper and two humans, I get that. But it's worth researching.
That was not what cakes they bake, that was which customers they sell to. They were happy to sell wedding cakes to straight couples.

If Amazon started saying "we won't sell these books to gay people" then, yeah that would be a problem.
It's the end of the world in Marvel's new trailer for Avengers: Endgame
Isn't there a law in the US prohibiting public institutions from competing with private businesses? This may provide a cause for not rolling it out, but rather handing it over to private enterprises for implementation.

Edit: I recall the US having to withdraw from the Human Genome Project because of this as soon as a private enterprise claimed it as a field of business.
For Elite: Dangerous fans, what's the current best bet for a VR setup if one doesn't have 4 USB ports? Is there even an option?

I got a gaming laptop right as the first VR headsets were coming out, and I'm just at the cusp of being able to power them with my setup, but the input ports may be my limiting factor.
I don't believe that putting a price tag on a piece of software legitimizes it for a given use case.

I get this same feeling from posts that say "Product X written in language Y". While I agree that there exists a right programming language for a given task, it is not in itself a reason to use product X.
The debris found in Reunion island was likely handled by France as it is a French overseas department. Debris photos here: https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/mh370-l...
The CODE: A declassified and hostage rescue story
Maybe, though it's a common thing I've seen in setter functions or constructors:

Eg void set_foo(int foo) {this->foo = foo;}
They are removing evidence and that implies malfeasance.
It is pedantry because the details and circumstances of the second crash are indicative of the same root cause issue.
Vepr157 [1] on Reddit has several similar Imgur albums on the design of submarines, such as "American Second Generation SSNs" [2] and "Soviet and Russian Submarine Propulsors" [3].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/user/Vepr157/

[2] https://imgur.com/a/9h3gD

[3] https://imgur.com/a/t6UjU
It's a book, not vial of disease.
Keep in mind that the HN crowd is not always reflective of the broader population. There is a reason apps show adds they way they do - it's very effective in making a lot of $$.
I’m not sure David and Goliath is an apt metaphor when Google has a market cap 4x that of a broadband competitor Comcast.
We don't know whether that happened in this case. Maybe journalist (who was there hours later) asked the eye witnesses "did you see smoke or hear strange sounds?" - if so, all bets are off.
My guess is that the desired DOM is entirely re-created from some state, instead mutating it in place. The declarataivity then is that "given this state the DOM should be this".
There's nothing ethical about the way advertising invades every part of society, every corner of your home, and every available minute of human attention. Blocking ads is eminently moral, because the only way to stop their encroach is to punish their purchase by blocking them.
Grace Simrall the CTO over there is no n00b. They're a customer of ours and they're probably one of the most advanced cities we work with in terms of thinking about a "city stack". Google Fiber didn't abandon them, as far as I can tell they just have better plans that don't include being strong armed by google.
Wait, people click on ads?
Sure, yes you could do that -- I mean, PrivateStorage is just shipping you a "real actual Tahoe client". The main feature you're getting is the managed storage-servers.

So if you happened to "not completely trust" the availability of those you could also configure one of your own and configure your client(s) to use that and the PrivateStorage servers. That is, hedging against PrivateStorage going away so suddenly you can't retrieve your data.

But, I agree: if you're doing that you're likely able to run your own Tahoe grid on VPSes or similar.
Nope. Mobile phones grew from a few dozens of millions to a billion users throughout the 90s. The started growing around 1991 and never looked back or stalled.

In case you forgotten what we're disputing, a grand-grand parent wrote "[VR] It's a constant hype/disappointment cycle" and another replied: "Mobile” was the same until it was just everywhere".

To which I replied that no, mobile wasn't "like that" (= a constant hype/disappointment cycle).

Mobile started growing fast (exploded) in early nineties and KEPT growing. Like with the iPod (that broke in early 00s and kept growing and growing until it was superseded by smartphones), there were no hype/disappointment cycles with mobile.

VR, on the other hand, did have hype/disappointment cycles. In 90-92 VR was touted as the "next big thing", then the craze passed and it disappeared (living only the legacy of having inspired the Lawnmower Man movie), taking 15+ years to re-emerge.

Similar, AI was touted as "imminent" in the 70s, only to break down in the 80s (the so-called AI-winter) and it took 20+ years to drive back mainstream tech interest again.

Mobile, on the contrary, never stalled once it got going.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LyjMpXpsnyI/TZWzzCflQiI/AAAAAAAAP_...
Any chance some form of wireless can increase competition?
If you read my explanation at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19392902 you'll probably see where eps and other users are coming from.

The issue isn't submitting your own stuff, it's only using HN to do that. That comes across as promotional, and HN readers don't like it because you aren't really participating in the community. Much better would be to join as a reader and general submitter, and use the site for gratifying intellectual curiosity—your own and others'. That's the primary purpose of HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

The other thing you can do, when submitting your own stuff, is add text explaining how you came to work on this and what's different about it. If you say things that interest others, you'll be more likely to get a conversation. Sharing what personally interests you (not the same thing as what's in your personal interest!) is often a way to get others interested too.
Try a Python or a Pony, or maybe even an OCaml.
Except - We're nowhere near it.

Using Siri, not itself the outmost edge, but an estimate of the state of the art... If you have an iPhone, take it out and ask Siri how much memory is left on your phone. If she doesn't know how (she doesn't) explain it to her (she can't learn). This is not a philosophical question, it's not a question that requires opinion forming, or fuzzy guesses, it's not a question that requires establishing ad hoc priors that update in real time, it doesn't need to parse an idiom, or draw connections, or to disambiguate complex meanings. It's a simple request, and a simple task. To anyone overly paranoid about the AI issue, this might actually help attenuate those fears when someone starts going on about the singularity being upon us... you just need to take out your phone and ask Siri how much free memory you have left; if she tells you... panic.
Yes, thank you. People frequently forget critical lessons from history :p
1. No.

2. I don't know (see 1). What a loaded question though.
Spam filtering is an arms race. Spammers know how to download all the existing spam filtering software and tweak their emails to make sure it gets past it.
Finally something that helps us avoid the beginning climate catastrophe. Nuclear power is of the very few effective means of working towards that goal.
I might be one of the 10% mentioned here. It was sefinitly true for instagram since facebook took over. If every 5th image in my stream is a sponsered ad by nike or some startup it doesn’t feel like my stream anymore. There is weird content coming out of nowhere that I didn’t ask for. Effectively I just ended up using it less and less, till I sropped using it entirely.
> Netflix and Amazon Prime represent most of the best TV drama series of the last 10 years

I guess this comes down to personal preference, so it's possible to argue that, but I would absolutely disagree. A look at the list of Emmy Award winners for Best Original Drama (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primetime_Emmy_Award_for_Outst...) surfaces many titles that show that cable and broadcast networks haven't been sitting still this decade: Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Dexter, Downton Abbey, True Detective, Boardwalk Empire, Homeland, The Americans, The Good Wife, Mr. Robot, Better Call Saul, This Is Us, etc.

You can argue that the list of Emmy winners has been slanted until very recently by bias against streaming providers. And I wouldn't disagree with that! But my point in citing Emmy winners isn't to say that those awards are an infallible guide to what's good and what isn't; it's just to say that there's been plenty of good programming coming out of cable networks over the last 10 years.

> Maybe Amazon will figure things out and it'll come to dominate TV, or maybe Netflix will

Netflix has already given up on the idea of dominating TV. Their shift to original programming means they're not trying to be your one source for everything anymore, they just want to be a source with enough good programming to convince people they're worth subscribing to. Which, as a business model, is kind of like... HBO.

Netflix's Ted Sarandos has even said this explicitly: "The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us." (https://www.gq.com/story/netflix-founder-reed-hastings-house...)
> …loading up multiple images into the same IDE…

At the same time? Why? What will that let you do?
Bob Ross: “All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.”
> Your phrasing implies that everybody (or at least just you) already and always knows and uses the optimal code styles that make it "easier" for them to read code.

No it doesn't. All I've been saying is I find Go - in general - more readable than other languages. Everything else thereafter is you badgering your language snobbishness onto others and me having to say, repeatedly, "I like what I like"

> Those are matters of taste. Not matters of cognitive skills and how people read best, learn best, etc.

"Read best" != "learn best". Anyone who has dyslexia will tell you that they struggle with layouts that others wouldn't take issue with. People who aren't native English speakers also often have different preferences for writing styles to native English speakers.
What are you trying to accomplish by clicking "not relevant"?
The Grave of Putin Suddenly Appeared in a Russian City
If you search CoreML, TFlite or Caffe2 on GitHub, there are already a score of offline AI models on the vertical of image recognition and vision. While these guys might have gotten lucky landing a couple deals with phone makers to enable some 'AI', it's hard to imagine the real AI leaders like Apple, Google or FB making models more and more accessible in the future.
At least in my case, the SquareSpace/NordVPN/Audible/etc ads aren't preroll - they're embedded in the middle of the video by the content creators. Which is really irritating, because I DO pay for YouTube premium... (by way of GPM All Access, grandfathered in)
Not sure why this gets downvoted. This is an entirely valid comments.

It's getting increasingly obvious that despite being highly distributed, cloud systems run by Google, Amazon and other big cloud companies are inherently centralized. If nothing else, they have centralized controls.

A decentralized system can, of course, fail, but it would never have "configuration change" as the root cause.
I hate being outright dismissive but it sounds like an expensive html/pdf form with a printer attached.

I do agree that the paper trail is a great thing. I'm not fundamentally against electronic voting, but I haven't heard of a system that can really compete with the simplicity and verifiability of the immutablility you get from paper ballots inside ballot boxes being watched over by interested parties on all sides.
Oh-ho-ho... and here you will enter into a holy war on the scale of VI vs. Emacs but with about 1k people in total that care about it. In my time I've used MushClient, SimpleMU and zMUD, all of which I can endorse (but MushClient was probably my favorite). I've also heard people rave about TinTin.

Most MUDs (including SoI) do fully support telnet, but get richer if you use a client that allows intelligent logging, macros, multi-channel support and better text highlighting. If you're curious there's a nice wiki page about the different clients available.
If I may elaborate my thoughts:

any kind of engineering - I did not want to "catch-all" everything.

How's this - "if you introduce a negative effect that can yield a catastrophic consequence..."

Remove it, or mitigate it?

I say remove it, and charge more for the flight fare. If people want more leg room, then pay for it.
Good point. And I think that is an important consideration.

However, to be clear, he does have smaller scale management experience - most likely consistently, but at the very least during the Trump campaign.

Perhaps he would be wrong for the job, but certainly there are examples of both experienced and less experienced/inexperienced persons doing awful jobs at the helm of agencies, companies, and even countries.

I would also add that being in charge of such a massive organization often means you do not get to make off the cuff or unilateral decisions so easily as you would, say, at a 50 person organization. You do certainly get to steer, but there are many other hands on the wheel.

As for you being CEO of MS, Satya is doing a decent enough job + I know nothing of your background and you come off as under confident in your ability to do the job. So I'll go with no :p
I'd would legitimately be less angry at my kid for pirating games or using cheatEngine than buying those sorts of loot boxes or paid boosters or pestering me aggressively about them. At least kids would pick up on some basic reverse engineering.
Windows Mixed Reality headset is your best bet in my opinion. I just got a Samsung Odyssey+ for $300 dollars. It has the exact same high res oled screen as the vive pro, and it only has an HDMI and USB 3.0 connector. Doesn't even require external power. Worked right out of the box for me with Elite as well and looked amazing. So much clearer than my Vive.
I’ll admire it when the fuel is loaded and the generators spin up. Until then, it’s PR, not energy policy.

Aspiration alone is no different than failure.
But this was a book, not arsenic being sold to cure a disease. Telling whatever bogus claims in a book doesn't do any harm per se: surely harm can only happen if someone is stupid enough to actually believe the claims.

And the people who don't happen to think about cross-checking information with a couple of other sources before digesting it will surely suffer from the lack of that very habit eventually.

If the same did apply to everything we'd have to shut down most of internet and reduce the selection of non-fiction books only to cover academic publications to be on the safe side.
The music industry "beat" piracy by providing a better, more convenient experience at a low monthly fee.

The publishing industry hasn't come close to this. In fact, they're most well-known for an illegal price fixing scheme.[0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/07/apple-450...
> The automation of physical space may take away the consistent reassurances which our belongings have traditionally given us, just as many of our hours may seem to have already been “lost” while staring at illuminated rectangles. Life within a world of constantly circulating goods could make their physical presence more closely resemble the persistence of the refreshing screen. But that change may only make the kinds of hands-on experiences which we tend to already seek and share on social media seem even more reassuring. The experience of watching a plant grow or a candle burn down with the passage of time might leave a more vivid memory than we can now possibly imagine, if our things themselves begin to seem less real in a world where they no longer collect any dust.

Actually, I suspect that this will make personal possessions much more prized. If something is so important that I choose to own it instead of rent it, I must really value it.

Look at the resurgence in vinyl record ownership. I mostly stream my music through a streaming service that costs less per month than a typical vinyl record; but if I really love a piece of music, I pay dearly for the physical copy.

The same could be said for things that I use on a daily basis, or value enough to own. For example, I might pay a high price for a premium screwdriver and drill set, but rent the the specialty tools that I will only use once or infrequently.

But, one more thing to consider: This might increase the quality of consumer goods. Something that's built to a price-point now would need to be built for high durability. I see this as win-win!