skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Suppose you have two theories, and you run an experiment whose results produce two assertions, each couched in the language of their respective theories, (I'd call these assertions facts).

I wouldn't. An experiment will produce one set of "assertions", about what was done and what happened. Those are facts.

Different theories might add different "assertions" on top of that, but that doesn't change what was done and what happened in the experiment, and the theoretical "assertions" aren't facts. They're theories.

> So you've got a bunch of mirrors and a pattern of light, and then later in the day you have the same pattern of light. That's not facts, that's just phenomena.

No, they're facts. What you are calling "phenomena" are facts. At least, I call them facts.

> a fact is some correspondence between a model (which lives in a theory) and some phenomenon (which lives in reality).

No, I would not call that a fact. The phenomenon is the fact. The correspondence is a successful test of the model.

To go all the way back to what I quoted from you to start this subthread: the question you asked was "which facts to use?" And my answer was "the ones that are confirmed by experiments". Now that I see what you meant by "facts", I think the way you should have phrased your question is simply "which theoretical models to use?" And the answer is still "the ones that are confirmed by experiments", but with the added note that "confirmed by experiments" means "confirmed as correctly describing the facts".
80 Days PC Review (2015)
Prisma and GraphQL Fit Together
I disagree. The natural business model will be a mix between subscription services and free to play games with micro transactions. Microsoft (and others like EA) is already moving in that direction with game pass (monthly subscription gets you all first party games plus partner games).

The biggest concern is going to be internet availability and data caps. I tried the beta for Project Stream (now Stadia) this past winter. It worked well and was impressive, but I have a good internet connection with a 1TB cap. I have friends with much worse speeds and harsher caps and I am not sure if this would be viable for them.

I am more concerned about 'physical' gaming being phased out. I doubt Stadia will do this soon, but I like building a new computer every 4 years for playing games. Maybes it's something I won't actually miss(like how I don't miss CDs for music), but it remains to be seen.
You really didn't have to do this, but I'm glad you did! Thank you! :)
Pakistan, India, Nepal; visits to a few other nearby countries. Yes, I'm sure there's pretty good healthcare to be found in Lahore (although it may not be readily accessible to everyone?); similarly, when in Karachi we had AKUH (where a couple of my kids were born) available. It's a different story in rural Sindh, though, or in remote districts of Nepal where it's a day's hike to the nearest road, or among tribals in central India.

Re Urdu: yes, Pakistan is the only country where it's the national language, but I also encountered it in Hyderabad (Deccan), where Urdu is widely used. It's even one of the official languages of several Indian states.
Patreon also hosts mp3s and provides RSS feeds for podcasters, whom of which are among some of their largest users. It wouldn’t be inconceivable for them to start hosting video content.
>Basement: A social network for your close friends

Seems like this would impose some serious limits on ad revenue generation (assuming that's how they plan to monetize). With only close friends the volume of friend-generated content would presumably be much lower than that of Facebook or Instagram (even if those individuals are generating more content), meaning you have a much lower threshold beyond which you start pissing off users with ads due to relative volume.
I don't understand how this racket is allowed to operate. From my experience (three NYC apartments through realtors), the landlord's realtor provides pre-screening of "desirable" tenants for the landlord, showings, collecting paperwork from the prospect, and handing over the keys. None of this adds value from the (prospective) tenant's perspective, but the tenant must pay the fees (in all three cases, one month's rent).
Cheers, that is something I'm sort of considering, perhaps 3 x 2 month periods or longer if I like the place... I'm kind of in the ideas gathering phase here.
That was Sprinkx C-- Great Compiller with IDE in late 90's
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Ublock origin has the :has and :xpath operators for cases like this.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Procedural-cosmetic-f...
How is high density sustainable?

Higher densities are clearly sustainable. We have historical precedent for higher densities than San Francisco. (Resulting in exceptional, vibrant communities.) Futurists envision (and quantify) ways this planet alone could sustain approaching a trillion.

Kids need tutoring because everyone wants their kids to succeed

Higher densities mean lower housing prices. Lower housing prices mean teachers and professors can actually live where they work. Lower housing prices mean creatives, craftspeople, artists, and diverse people can keep living locally.
Creator and donator friendly UI. A creator doesn't have to worry about chargebacks, balances in paypal, or other payment gateway BS. The donators can manage multiple people in one place, sometimes donating as little as $0.10 per creation (Daily Tech News Show, for example).

"Simple" is worth a lot of money to a lot of people. Patreon is simple.
Abstraction allows us to substitute one thing for another without breaking compatibility. This is at the heart of both API-level compatibility and also most optimizations. If two implementations weren't considered equivalent, we wouldn't be able to do the substitution without breaking things. On the other hand, if the change didn't have some important, user-visible difference (such as performance), there would be no point in doing the substitution.

Now consider that most optimizations are enabled by inlining, which means that changing the internal details of a function could break optimizations in calling code and this could cause performance regression.

A stricter API could prevent regressions (some bad changes are disallowed) but it also prevents good changes (they break compatibility or are disallowed optimizations).

Language designers get to decide what "equivalent code" means using various forms of abstraction, but there is not going to be a perfect answer.
OnLive's patents were bought up by Sony in 2015, and I imagine they now power at least some of Playstation Now, Sony's streaming servier.
I'm currently in Echo Park, a few blocks from Sunset.

Downtown is great if you want a true urban feel and don't mind the homeless. I found a deal on rent but was looking heavily at Macarther park to Koreatown area.

I've heard parts of Hollywood are good and pretty well connected on transit lines but didn't really explore.
You would think by the comments here from Netflix employees that one or two of them would appreciate our feedback and pass some of it on to higher-ups.

Or perhaps management already knows and deliberately makes these decisions based on internal metrics and HN folks are essentially a non-existent blip on their radar...

EDIT: I also regularly leave feedback using the ? button (only available in Watch mode) but it seems to go unread. I don't even get an email "we take your feedback seriously and will look into this" which other sites tend to provide.
To the people citing Freakonomics. I've read that piece it was a comparison of real estate agents selling their own houses vs their clients houses. Not flat fee vs % based commision.
I think it's an unacceptable short notice. I now feel extorted to pay an annual fee that wasn't budgeted this year, because I don't have time to plan and execute a migration, even if I wanted to.
Anybody can look up listings. And anybody can go directly to the selling agent to buy the house. It's not about negotiating a price, it's about making sure that everything is legit with the transaction. Are you going to make sure that everything is properly filed? Are you going to keep on top of all the other people involved to make sure they're doing their jobs? Are you going to go through 4000 pages of legal paperwork? Are you going to ride the sellers' asses to make sure the sale closes, so you aren't stuck homeless after moving out of your old place?

There's nothing stopping you from hiring a real estate lawyer instead of an agent. I'm sure he'll be happy to charge you by the hour.

And also as the buyer, you don't typically pay anything to the agent.
The questions ask for all permutations of length 3. What you've described is the Cartesian product:

import itertools

print(len([x for x in itertools.product(range(10), repeat=3)])) #1000
print(len([x for x in itertools.permutations(range(10), 3)])) #720

itertools.product essentially does a nested for loop.

The reason it's less is because each number has to be different, so you can't have 000 or 111, etc.
I can't tell if this is a sarcastic comment, because this is exactly what the specs provide. You can parse it and get all that.
I bought an Odriod once. It was DOA and at the insane shipping prices I just took it as a lesson learned to never buy Odroid again. I've gone through probably 20 Pi's and never had one DOA or even die for that matter.
Depends on the service. It's more convenient for subscribers to use a single place and a known brand. No need to establish trust and figure out another platform. As a result you get more subscribers, way more than the cut they take.
The key to me is that this is a console built for YouTube and that might be its biggest selling point to a lot of people.
The downside of this is that OSS can only be produced by people who have a sufficient degree of financial security. No matter how useful a given piece of OSS is, if the creator is not financially secure they're required to either beg for money, or beg for a job.

Isn't it odd that a piece of software, could be widely deployed, forked, starred on Github etc. etc. and yet with all this infrastructure there is no mechanism to ensure that any money finds its way back to the creators unless they ask for it? Some kinds of business people praise the selfless creativity of the open source community while simultaneously conserving their own profits and often denouncing taxation as theft. When challenged, such people attribute all human progress to the profit motive, and thereby in part to themselves, in manifest disregard of the facts. Creative people don't like this but they need to eat and keep a roof over their head, which requires money.

On the one hand, creative people with a mindset of mutual aid and consequent abundance, whose genius expands and structures much of our economy. On the other, well-resourced people who preach a gospel of scarcity and systematically give less than they take. These same people denounce any interference in their profit-making, and choke the unfortunate with externalities because they refuse to bear the cost of cleaning up their own waste, often going so far as to deceive the public about its existence.

How are open source creators any different from blacksmiths, forging the very chains and weapons which bind and oppress them? How much life must be given away, how much filth heaped on heads, before creators will unstop their ears to the laughter of those who exploit and rule over them, mocking their generous spirits and diligent efforts?
They might roll it up into youtube or something, but the main components are cloud compute (GCP) and video streaming (Youtube). Its naturally aligned with their other initiatives so its pretty safe I would think.
But the server knows which frame you pressed the 'w' on. So when it gets the 'w', it rewinds it's state machine X frames (hopefully X==1), applies your input, moves the state machine forward X+1 frames and displays that state.

So there might be a slight visual glitch but you won't be missing your targets.
Almost one-third of Chinese cities are shrinking
> It was initially poor style to relativize this fact

You're confusing facts with models again. The statement you give is not a fact: it's a prediction based on a theoretical model. Einstein proposed a different theoretical model, which we now know makes more accurate predictions. But no facts changed during this process. Thinking that switching models changed the facts is like thinking that switching from a less accurate map of a city to a more accurate map changes the layout of the streets in the actual city.
I go backpacking a couple times a year with an almost identical tent (https://www.sixmoondesigns.com/collections/tents/products/lu...). The six moon's version of this tent does include a couple of small poles that slide into the top of the canopy, which I think is to improve water shedding. I've used the tent without them before and didn't have any problems.

Overall I'm a huge fan of the design. It's super easy to setup and tear down, you can control the airflow by raising or lowering the base of the canopy, it packs small and I've never had a problem with water getting in.
On macOS, does setting about:config "geo.provider.use_corelocation" = false and restarting Firefox fix the geolocation error? Firefox 65 or 66 recently changed from always using Google Location Service to first check the operating system's local location service (CoreLocation on macOS, which might have a local location cache for faster lookups).

If disabling CoreLocation fixes the problem, you might look in macOS System Preferences for location permissions. The first time an application tries to use the local location service, macOS prompts the user to grant permission to the application. If you accidentally click "deny", then macOS will automatically deny all future Firefox location requests.
What about when they realize their children and Grand children are all moving out of state? only to be seen once per year again.
You'd still want those at a fixed size though?

I can't think of a good use case for auto generating arbitrarily large images, and as a user I wouldn't want to visit websites where the web designer thinks that's a good idea either.
I don't like ruby or rails. But I feel not liking it has really hurt my career. The amount of job requests I get for Ruby on rails or ruby is significantly higher than my typcial stack.

Additionally a majority of the remote jobs I've seen have been Ruby as well. So despite it not being hip. It is still very much a requirement.
I'm not sure why we need to convince those people, as we don't require consensus. We enact policy as a whole.

Also, I'm not sure what "devaluing" is going on; by pure financial value there's almost no way to build enough to actually drive down the price of any individual home; more likely as zoning increases the home will go up in value, but individual condos or townhouses will be available for much less than a single family home.

If you mean "devaluing" by "I now have apartments on the block," there's absolutely no right whatsoever for somebody to control the use of that other property.
Big discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19378567
The practice of offering zero-hours contracts for university lecturing has been very controversial in the UK[1] and other parts of Europe. I think they short-change the students and the lecturers, and represent a long-term risk to the institutions who use them.

[1] https://theconversation.com/zero-hour-contracts-are-turning-...
Yes, something like this will happen in and close to SF, like till Palo Alto may be. But if you allow building high rise apartments, places far enough from SF will see a good fall in prices. Then you can build fast enough in those places given the demand for homes at those prices.

Beyond all this once its clear that you can get decent accommodation for $300K, spending $1.5 million for the same becomes stupid.

Sure people will buy McMansions and homes in cul-de-sac as a badge of prestige. But anybody with a brain, and knows that money is better spent on saving up for retirement will look the other way go stay in the $300K flat. You would stay in the same if you rented, anyway.
I don’t think you can make the assumption that Patreon is better simply because you might be able to hide in the chargeback background noise.

There will be alternative solutions that exist after Patreon sunsets, simple solutions.
They seem to think they have plenty of developers to burn through like this as if they were some sort of consumable.

But if every developer who has been banned can get other developers banned just by association, this will start slow and then move like an epidemic.

They don't know it yet but unchecked this will seem to them to instantly become an existential threat to the play store. There's nothing like a geometric progression to make you think everything is a-ok just before it all goes to hell.
Google’s Stadia game-streaming platform kills downloads, lets you play anywhere
Does this just incentivize them to spend a lot of time without actually selling the house? While I think 3% is outrageous, it at least incentivizes selling it quickly (even if it doesn't incentivize getting the best price).
>greed

There is definitely a lot of that. But that is not the only reason. The excessive housing pricing have gone on long enough now that many people will be trapped and ruined if housing prices stagnate or fall.

People have had to spend far more than is prudent to get a house that is not that great just because there are no other options.

If you are putting all of your extra money into your mortgage payment, you are going to have to rely on being able to sell that home anf move away when you retire. If you cannot at least sell it for the equity you have in it, you will be trapped in an expensive city with no money to retire on and no way to sell and get out.

So I understand why so many are fighting to keep prices high. Their financial future depends on it and I don't think it's greedy to try to avoid financial ruin.
I’d love a world where an ML chip is baked into phones, motherboards, and the like so we can move our data out of the cloud and get the same features.

Honestly I can’t see the cloud making sense for another decade.

NVidia’s new hobby board for $99 + open source has me imagining a future where someone like myself can offer similar experiences to Alexa or a number of Googley features to family and friends in a few years.
Yes, even with a Steam Link over Ethernet in my house there's a slight but noticable input lag. Most games are playable but it doesn't feel quite right.
The difference is they launch high-profile, promising-the-moon projects and put their full weight behind them, and then give up a couple short years later for inscrutable reasons ([cough] Google Fiber [cough])
Looks like Fuchsia is a year years too late to be used for this, but I guess it wouldn't be too difficult to switch it out later on.

Still a great thing for Linux and Vulkan. Too bad Sony refuses to support them on its PS consoles.
NIMBY is a pejorative, and I think this sort of labeling is not conducive to honest conversation.

The truth is that people have different wants/needs. Not everyone wants to live in a high-density megalopolis. Many want a smaller, slower-paced life, with more breathing room. And those who have that and prefer it, don't want to lose it in favor of accommodating others - which is a very rational viewpoint. As such I don't think it is fair to paint it as 'disconnected from reality'.
> I think if you're asking a question like "do you like it", you're not yet in that state.

Haha very true. Most meditates are trying to achieve a particular state, not happy with the state they are currently in ;-) But thanks for answering my real question regardless.
Donations are not tax-deductible for now. We might do that later if people ask for it.

30% includes all payment processing costs and other costs for both users and projects, so there is a flat 70% remaining for projects that doesn't get deducted further. We do this to keep things simple and make it clear how much projects can get.

Payment processing alone costs $0.3 + 3% with Stripe, so at $10/month that's a fixed $0.6 out of the $3 we take. The other $2.4 needs to accommodate the fees to send money to each of the projects + infrastructure costs. Not sure how to account for that but assuming at scale around $0.4/user/month, we're looking at $2/user/month in profit. Assuming sustainability is reached at $200,000, that is approximately 8300 people giving to open source through this. That is high but seems approachable.

Does that seem reasonable? My objective with this is to build something that increases the pool of people who contribute but also ensure the underlying project can stay afloat indefinitely with the right incentives.
Patreon also provides an easy means for distributing subscriber only content which is more annoying to manage otherwise.
None of this type of equipment should be on the internet.
This won't help you in the short term, but long term, this is where I'd probably go.

https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
Yes.. actually... I'm considering gamifying it like this as you suggest.

I'm planning on hitting a usability milestone first as I have a few big changes planned (new webapp, some important features, new chrome extension, etc).

Then I'm going to make a pitch for this and include a fundraiser bar in the app.
A post on HN two years ago, "A therapy chatbot for depression" [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14504306

Kenneth Colby, a Stanford professor, had something like this in the 1970's and 80's. According to the Wikipedia article [1] it was sold as a product. I remember reading a skeptical account of it in a popular book back then [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Colby

[2] http://rdrosen.com/psychobabble-fast-talk-and-quick-cure-in-.... bah, link now broken
I haven't gone through anything that has resembled dark burnout, but I also share a similar sentiment.

Years ago, I would be amazed at all the cool startups and tools people were building. Now, my reaction is more.. "OK, so what? You build AirBnb for X... so what?"
And camera and microphone in the sole.
It's designed to make money for everyone EXCEPT the person writing the code.

Especially business people who resell the code to their customers without ANY investment into actually creating something or paying people with talent who do things that make the world a better place.

Why would the world properly value our contribution if WE don't value our contribution?
You cannot control HPPD.
Because according to the UCC (United States commercial code or something like that) you can't just say "no warranties". You have to explicitly offer the software "as is" and disclaim one/some implicit warranties BY NAME. It should only apply to merchantability, but you throw everything else in there for good measure.

In the EU we have none of those things, and cross-border issues is governed by the UN version of the UCC which is much more lax with regard to warranties.

Since I live in Sweden I could probably just say "Copyright 2019 Bjoli. You can use this code as you please as long as you don't hold me liable for it's use or remove this notice", but IANAL so don't really listen to me.

Edit: but that is of course only if software is a good, which hasn't really been established.
Yes, such locks exist, and are actually sold in the real world. They are often used in "outdoor key storage", which will find you images of what they look like. Though I can't guarantee any particular model has this particular PIN flaw (some are even worse, such as only allowing a single number from each row).
The number of millionaires is increasing, their money is invested in one drink