skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you're old enough to remember the internet before 1998, when Google was founded, you'll recall what it was like when searching online involved AltaVista or Lycos and consistently delivered a healthy dose of spam or porn."

The main things I remember were that AltaVista showed ads along with its results, while Google was, ironically, ad-free. And Google was also much, much faster.
If you're not living in absolute poverty, it's completely possible to take care of your parents as they grow old. My father took care of my grandfather until his last day and they lived under the same roof albeit on different floors.

No matter how my life turns out, I will still do the same for my parents as they have done for theirs.

For large swathes of the population, putting your parents in and old-age home is seen as a complete and utter betrayal for the sacrifices they made for you.
Footage Contradicts U.S. Claim That Venezuela President Burned Aid Convoy
in german there is a saying: "vote with your feet".
but why is bifurcation required? is the one stopping the impulses any different than the impulses engine?

the reason you don't smash all of the skulls is as causal and determined as the impulses afaict.

to me it seems that life is just sufficiently complex self contained units that are completely bound by deterministic laws. we have a sense of self referential capalbility which may give the illusion of free will but I'd say that it's not your decision to stop the impulses of smashing skulls rather it is the inescapable result of your unique determined state or rather process that your brain has been configure d for based on life experience and genes.
I obviously do not know your situation. But have you tried something wildly different that is communal? Church, community theater, community choir, a group that goes on vacations together, etc.? It is never too late my friend.
> since the feature importance hierarchy can change drastically based on what other features are included

This sentence describes a disturbingly large proportion of social science papers. After controlling for X,Y,Z (naturally!) then we find that A is the leading case of B.
I have Haiku as sole OS on a Thinkpad, not my primary machine but some days I'll work the whole day on it no problem - it's a really enjoyable experience in fact.
A guy in a wheelchair talks about considering ending his life due to a debilitating condition. First question asked to him on HN is about productivity. Never change hn, never change.
Especially if you start to work at your inner self and tune your reactions to be who you really want to be, it gets deep and very much in tune to what you are saying IMHO.
I have been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 2-3 years ago. I have been contemplating a lot about what I am going to do, and if I would be able to do it when and if it comes to that. I do not wish to rot away on some hospital bed waiting for my life to end. I might just end up overdosing on morphine if it ever comes to that. Hopefully not. I try to maintain optimism, I hope that we will be able to significantly slow down demyelination, stop it, or even reverse it. We will see...
Surely retrieving an individual fact is more like a conditioned response than it is storing some bytes on a harddrive?

When I say "what is 9 times 9" your brain activates all the pathways (probably trained in childhood) that lead to you thinking "81" in a similar way to Pavlov's dog.
For an airliner, decision could be implemented in under 24 hours if a country’s civil aviation authority (FAA for the US) decides it’s an emergency. More likely, they’d permit ferrying to maintenance bases, and very unlikely to emergency ground the aircraft absent a finding of same root cause, even if preliminary. I’d be surprised if they took a fleet wide emergency grounding action.
Google and Facebook at the root of a huge percentage of our other social problems. They are inherently harmful, and regulating big tech will be my primary voting issue in the 2020 election.

Bear in mind our many of our issues with election tampering, disinformation, and radicalization, can all be traced to online platforms. Facebook was essentially at fault for a genocide. Google has set a new high bar for corporate lobbying and revolving door practices with our government. Both companies bleed our journalism industry further and further dry every day.

Big tech should be the highest concern on your list, and you shouldn't buy the PR campaigns about how they are good for the world.
You should try patching Debian packages. I too am an outsider, but I have had to modify Debian and it's brutal; every package is different and the number of entry points into the tooling is mind boggling. I have bugs I've never filed over years because I don't understand the particular packages process.
If anything can be learned from the article and the commenters, it is that it is very difficult to know your own, true stance on this matter until you're in the position where you need to make a decision. It is easy to say that we would choose to end our lives than live with a crippling disease, but we forget about the omnipresent hope that is within us all, the same hope that got our ancestors through disasters, war, and unimaginable suffering. Unfortunately, in most cases, a person is not able to make the decision until they are already suffering.

I don't know where I stand on this issue, truthfully. I feel that people should have the right to choose, but it seems like most people really struggle to predict what they will want when push comes to shove.
> Back in the 1950s, tech and policy didn’t really interact, unless it had to do with something like nuclear weapons or the space program. Today, tech and policy are intertwined, Schneier said.

> “Today, technology makes de facto policy that’s far more influential than any law,” he said. “Law is forever trying to catch up with technology. And it’s no longer sustainable for technology and policy to be in different worlds.”

Isn't that something of a misreading of late 19th and 20th history?

Just about every decade in the late 19th and the 20th century was part of an ongoing telecoms, media, and IT boom. There were the telegraph, telephony and the fax, satellite communications, the internet, usenet, mobile telephony and SMS, internet forums and chat; radio, TV, streaming and social networks; typewriters, mechanical counting machines, transistors, microchips, mainframes, PCs, smartphones; etc. It's just wave after wave after wave after wave, with every decade or two adding some major development in one form or another.

Sometimes what was happening required lawmaker attention. Laws and regulation followed every single time -- if only eventually.

It's not entirely clear to me, apart from scale, how the problems we face today are that much different than, say, those that were on a would-be legislator's mind when radio became mainstream or when TV news became a thing.

Bruce's points are most welcome and valid, but I wouldn't be surprised if a historian were able to dig up people making similar points (at least) since radio has been around. (Edit: And possibly since Gutenberg's printing press became mainstream.)
I agree with your pragmatism (and admire it). I would only urge you to add a couple of tools to your toolbelt for analysis:

1. Open source politics aka is the project viable?
2. Where's the money coming from? Aka, what products/companies build solutions off the tech?
3. Look for growth, not survival. If a company is not growing, it is dying.

These extra three test "gates" help me select what technology I will use, learn, and bet my career on....
I'm not paranoid, but if I can avoid flights operated with the 737 MAX, I will. Two accidents in 5 months is a dangerously high fatality rate for a new jet.
You’re digging a hole for yourself. HN is not the place to brag about your superstar coding skill. There are probably literally thousands of people here who have more impressive credentials.

In school, many of us were use to being the smartest kid in the room. It’s just like being the star basketball player in high school and going to college and being surrounded by a dozen kids who were also the best in their high school.

For instance:

I know there are thousands of other developers on here with similar background, many who are much better than I am but I started off good. I took AP C/C++ freshman year of high school and was in the top of my class etc.

Bragging about being good at C based on how well you did in programming class is not saying too much. High school programming classes have historically been easy for anyone who was already a programming geek. Do you know how many of us wasted time on comp.lang.c on Usenet before the web even existed?

On any technical subject that’s posted here, you could have experts in the field that could put either of us to shame.

I don’t think I was a special snowflake, but by the time I was 14 (1988), I turned my nose up at any “high level” language because they were too slow and non performant for the little hobby projects I wanted to do on my 8 bit computers. I had already been doing assembly for 3 years. A lot of the grey beards around here can tell you much more impressive stories.

The whole point of this lecture is that your professional experience is no more impressive than plenty of people I’ve worked beside every day and certainly not any more impressive than people on HN.

I am not trying to discourage you. But as has been said by myself and others, you don’t have a consistent easy to follow resume that tells a story about what your area of expertise is, how you stand out from dozens of other applicants and I couldn’t tell where you would be a good fit from reading it.
Vaguely dissonant with username but I like it. :)
Imagine a database that stores strings using a common prefix method, one could make the same claim: this database does not store or retrieve strings. And yet it does.

The model of what something does is implemented by an underlying mechanism. But for many reasons the mechanism doesn't have to be, and often isn't, a naive translation of the model.
Boeing failed to disclose important changes in the system. And Lion Air's maintenance rendered the plane unsuitable for flight. They can both be contributing factors to the earlier crash.

If the EA flight was caused by the same sensor problem as the LA flight, then it would appear that Boeing's changes were the primary (and superseding) cause of the earlier crash, rendering Lion Air's non-maintenance moot from a legal point of view (in the US, for purposes of assigning damages).
For some time now it has been on my mind how the... how to best express this? the default stance is that everyone wants to live as long as modern medicine can stretch their lives. Very reluctantly, a few places relatively recently began to allow people with debilitating conditions to end their lives at their will. As far as I am concerned, I already only live because I feel a duty to the small school(-ish) I started and finance. It was always meant to be a relatively short lived affair. When your bucket list is empty, you are alone in this world, when you don't have anything to look forward why go on? I have known for years now that I don't particularly want to survive my 50th birthday (some six years from now) and there's no dignified way to just end it.
Lack of standards and lack of a killer engine implementing it.

Also people don't like to switch and SQL does a good enough job for most cases and recently it added a lot of fancy features like windowing functions.
I’ve also wondered the same. I can think of a couple of reasons:

- Athletic activities are social and visible, especially in professional sports.

- It’s technically difficult to start an athletic company without access to significant IP in producing advanced athletic gear - both from engineering as well as manufacturing aspects.

It’s not too difficult to start a T-Shirt company. It’s monumentally difficult to develop your own Gore-Tex or Dri-Fit, Flyknit fabric, construct clothing or shoes from it and manufacture it at scale.
It doesn’t make sense to me how they can continue blaming pilots if the cause of today’s crash is the same as last year’s. Even if they tell us with undisputable evidence that the plane was operating within standard operating procedure, it sounds like that SOP is unintuitive garbage and putting everyone at risk. The latter part is what matters the most. I don’t see any sane or reasonable path other than grounding the 737 Max.
When people fear automation what they fear is a world where selfish people are no longer forced to share anything. Deep down they know that there is no history of power sharing more without mass casualties. It's not automation that is scary, it's the approaching fight.
Almost any air crash is due to a sequence of factors. Both things can be true.
Can anyone explain what it means to "thrive in hospice"? My impression is that the plan is 1) to discontinue "heroic measures" and 2) dope you up with opioids "to make you comfortable" so much so that your body shuts down. I'm fine with the first, but I don't see how that qualifies as thriving. I'd like to hear if anyone's experiences are different.
See my three rules above. Engineering is a zero sum game, even in open source. Nomad has a very dark future. Single vendor, no community, very little usage, no competitors adopting the tech. If your competitors don't adopt your tech is dead (basic open source 101)...
> Just don't tell me it's a hallucination until you've done it successfully yourself.

I cannot resist, I've done meditation with never performing the out of body experience and I've read about it in great detail. I would still think the possibility of it all being a hallucination and even if performed with thinking it was definitely real. Hallucinations can be so real that they're impossible to disprove. Consciousness might not even be real in the sense that most people think about it as because reality tends to be deterministic with the impossibility to prove otherwise.
> Contrived example: say Google has a URL like mail.google.com/json?action=inbox which returns the first 50 messages of your inbox in JSON format. Evil websites on other domains can't make AJAX requests to get this data due to the same-origin policy, but they can include the URL via a <script> tag. The URL is visited with your cookies, and by overriding the global array constructor or accessor methods they can have a method called whenever an object (array or hash) attribute is set, allowing them to read the JSON content.

What an absolutely ridiculous language and platform we decided to base the whole web on.
Have you read the book “On Death & Dying”? It’s a collection of interviews with terminally ill patients, with commentary from the author.
With all respect to the witnesses, early eyewitness reports are notoriously unreliable. I remember reading the exact same thing about the plane that crashed in NYC shortly after 9/11. There were also many ‘eyewitnesses’ claiming to see the crash of the Malaysian airliner. This report may wind up to be substantiated, but I wouldn’t put any weight on it until then.
Huge market for what goods/services? What is your client selling / providing?
Living 60 days on the streets in the UK
> I think that the Internet as a decentralised system doesn't require any regulation. This a self-regulatory system.

First, this is not true, as there are already several regulations in place regarding the operation of several aspects of the Internet, such as the DNS. Second, I don't think anyone who cares about, say, copyright law, would agree with your statement.

Frankly, in real world, if you are responsible for even a small network, you'll soon discover there is someone who wants to abuse it, and solving the problem by technical means is not always optimal.
I’m glad you like i3!
The downside of "Google" becoming synonymous with "Internet search" is that normal people don't understand that Google is a search engine and that it's possible to use the Internet without Google. You don't need Google to search the web or visit websites, Google is optional. Alternative search engines are garbage, but it was like that back before Google.
The researchers don't know if the choice was made in the first second or in the final second: it doesn't make sense to say that the brain activity predicted the choice 11 seconds beforehand.
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Trying to have an outside perspective, the black robes do seem pretty silly in this day and age.

But not nearly as silly as the powdered wigs I think are still in use in Britain and other parts Europe which seem downright ludicrous.
I’m finding this “How To Sell” Startup School lecture by Tyler Bosmeny helpful: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/startup-school-by-y-comb...
How long should one charge their energy crystals for before attempting this?
I LOVE the junk drawer analogy. I will credit you on my next blog ;-)
Not really a fan of "I'm leaving X because of free time and also this 20-point list of why you suck."
Agreed. My Ego battery-powered leaf blower is one of my favorite tools. I use it to clean all around the outside of my house, especially the porches. In just a few minutes it will scour the dirt and cobwebs from every nook and crack, and it blows the dirt right out the thin outdoor carpet that covers my porch. It will clean my outdoor shelves of dust and grime, as long as I stand back far enough so that it doesn't take out my things on the shelves. I wear a dust mask.

I also have Ego's lawn mower and weed whacker. The mower is fucking amazing. It's so quiet that you often can't hear it inside the house, and easily powerful enough as long as I don't try to mow wet grass. I can do my entire ~3000 sq meter yard on two batteries, which take just a moment to switch out.

Same with the weed whacker. I have a second home in the mountains where I maintain the grounds solely with the weed whacker. I can throw it in my car with an extra battery or two, drive up there, and trim up the entire place in a couple hours. I feel like I'm living in the future.
The old european rich families will never wear anything with a logo. But the daughter of an emirate family that got rich during the last century may travel with 20 suit cases with logos on them.

This is still value signaling for both. It's just that when 20 generations lived in castles, showing off money is considered bad taste and uneducated.

In fact, a typical signal is having expensive things, but not caring that you have them. Some do that by not showing them off. Others displays that by showing them off, but treating it like it is disposable.
Just wondering, do passengers have an option to chose the model of plane they are flying? Not flown around much so just genuinely asking.
It's tomayyto or tomahhto, but they're spelled the same way.
The article only mentions Muonium in passing -- I guess it's only somewhat exotic? -- but I can assure you that it's very real. Chemically it acts as a light isotope of hydrogen, and the interaction of the (anti)muon spin makes it useful for probing reactions in otherwise problematic environments -- for example, supercritical water, where the pressure chamber needed for hundreds of atmospheres of pressure gets in the way of most sensors.
We transitioned to Fastmail.

I don't like the recent development of Australian privacy (i.e., lack of) laws, but I'm willing to give Fastmail a chance to address the issues—and switching is easy enough to allow us to transition to another provider if that becomes an issue.
If you believe prison is for "punishment" and that prisoners are "fundamentally bad" then the answer is no - don't let them do anything that could improve their lives. However, if you believe prison is for "rehabilitation" and that "people can change" then exposure to current tech, within reason, would be good thing. I vote for the latter, mainly because almost everyone who goes in comes out.

And now for the off-the-rails part of my answer... maybe we could limit prisoners to outdated technology - they might end up with decent jobs maintaining old mainframes or Cobol or Fortran - somebody is going to have to do it and a lot of the old school guys are retiring.
Or maybe you just don't care what others think about what you wear and just go with what's cheaper, which is generally the brandless clothing
You might live your life over and over. The universe could be expanding and retracting for infinity. Resulting in all the variables for your same exact life to repeat for infinity.
Relevant anti-stall SW problem on initial ascent, which they explain as documentation problem:

"In that case, investigations by the Indonesian and American aviation authorities determined that the Lion Air plane’s abrupt nose dive might have been caused by updated Boeing software that was meant to prevent a stall but that can send the plane into a fatal descent if the altitude and angle information being fed into the computer system is incorrect.

The change in the flight control system, which can override manual motions in the Max model, was not explained to pilots, according to some pilots’ unions."
Pardon my fuzzy spelling. The joke was just around "yoo say.. oi say.."
If the problem is just gmail then there is the option to 'Load Basic HTML'. Either click the link in the bottom right when the page is loading or go to https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=html

If you have more than one gmail account you should change the 0 to the number for the relevant account (so the 2nd one is 1, the third 2...)

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15049

Otherwise Thunderbird is a good suggestion. It does the job.

If you're okay with terminal-based programs then you might want to try Mutt

http://www.mutt.org/download.html
An ACME protocol client written purely in Shell (Unix shell) language
A family member just made a contract with a "zero fees in first year" offer and the hidden, real pricing starts in second year.
As we live in Germany, can you share more information about what you say?
A "digital computer" is simply one in which information is represented in binary. The encoding of information does not alter the process of computation, so that's an irrelevant detail to compare to.

We have plenty of Harvard architecture computers (eg. DSPs), and there are plenty of other computational architectures (DNA computing, optical computing, quantum computing).
Indeed. I started using NixOS and Nix a bit more than six months ago and I was contributing patches within no-time. One can just submit a pull request on GitHub (with the proper format) and a lot of aspects are automated: e.g. the impact of the change (in terms of packages that are effected) is automatically determined and someone with the right privileges can request a build. Some PRs linger around for a longer time, but most of my PRs were merged within the day. Also, I received useful feedback if a PR needed more polish.

What helped me a lot with Nix is that you can easily make your own local derivations. Derivations are usually short [1] and bear little risk with sandboxed builds enabled. Basically, you do a nix-shell -p mypackage, you get dropped in a shell with your derivation, but it does not affect the rest of your system.

[1] Example of a C++ library: https://github.com/danieldk/nix-home/blob/master/overlays/30...
The motor of engine is part of the noise, the other is the fans pushing air through, their speed and pitch affect noise levels too, so even an electric leaf blower can be loud and uncomfortable.
Cooking is just chemistry--science, not mysticism--though it is taught and passed down in the form of culture and tradition, not as a science.