skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a universe bubbled into existence, stars exploded and cooled and a bag of atoms were to self-organise and develop the capacity to experience its own relative concepts of pleasure and suffering over millennia, I don't think it would be irrational or illogical for that bag of atoms to seek to selfishly maximise (long-term) the former and minimise the latter, and that scales out pretty comfortably to persuing philosophy, politics, raising a family etc., even in a universe where everything else is also just a differently shaped bag of atoms.

There's nothing inherently more meaningful about the supernatural than the natural.

This particular bag of atoms, for instance, derives much more pleasure from acknowledging itself as such, than from deciding that it is instead some platonically ideal "being" who was created by an ideal God who always was and whose mere existence eliminates every trace of the incomprehensible, random and emergent beauty that exists in this brutally materialistic framework in one fell swoop.
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The jury is still out on that. There simply is no research to prove or disprove what you or I are saying.

My educated guess is that it actually is quite important and the key to making VR more comfortable for long term use.

I think it is the primary issue. I am a software developer who works in the neuroscience field. I am not an MD but I have read enough research to know you cannot definitively say what the cause is, and that disrupting such natural processes in the brain are likely to have consequences. To me it seems obvious that it's the primary source of the headaches and nausea commonly associated with VR.

For example I have certainly felt sick in the real world from roller coasters. But I have never felt the type of sick I get when I put on a VR helmet. It's another feeling all together. And it comes on differently than any other sick feeling I've had. This is anecdotal of course. I digress.

If VR doesn't solve this issue, VR doesn't go anywhere IMHO. But it's obvious they will solve it in time and as someone who closely follows the field it seems to be one of their primary concerns.
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It's only real if you believe that tolerance is some sort of moral absolute, demanding that you be tolerant even of the intolerant.

It's not.

Tolerance is more like a peace treaty. When someone breaks it, they are no longer protected by it. I've found this post[0] from a few years ago to be a good explanation. Once you look at tolerance this way, the paradox disappears.

[0] https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1...
Hahahaha. No. I don't care to ever be forced to write a C# program. I write my applications in python, running in trusted environments. If I need optimized low-level code (which wouldn't be C# either), I access it as a library from within the python glue. Dynamically importing config files works extremely well.
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My understanding is that most people are not actually traveling coast to coast, but on shorter segments of the overall route. I don't think you're likely to be next to the someone for 3 days.
I agree that the number is arbitrary, and probably not a good one but I'm not sure that warrants not having it at all.

Surely we would agree 7 year olds should be kept from (porn, alcochol, tobacco, working 'for money')
Because the linked example is code, not just configuration data.

And if I'm writing code, it should look like code you'd actually want to read and edit. Not something with hacked-on delimiters {%- all over the place %}.
And I work with lots of people in Europe who routinely fly all the time. I'm not sure how big a "movement" it is to take trains when it doesn't make sense in terms of time and money to do so. Not to put too fine a point on it, who cares what someone with an Instagram account says?
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> I never have to restart my phone like I had to for my Galaxy S1 every day.

Give it time. The slow-downs/reboots happen to every Android device over time.
You might, but you talk of a movement. If it's in the "movement" stage, then it is very much not an ingrained part of the culture yet, which was your original claim. Ditto for the instagram account. That speaks to something that may be grass roots, but not cultural. Further, this mindset speaks towards an ingrained bias of privilege that many/most people probably can't actually afford. Even assuming the rail cost for a 4,000 to 6,000 km trip is comparable to flight, the ability to take upwards of 3-4 days of your time to leisurely make a trip requires you to have that much leisure time at your disposal.
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A bit. When you collide in both tables, you switch to a different hash function and try again. With real-world data, that should work great. But with pathological data (i.e. the worst case behavior) that will never succeed.
Last year my sister had a week off and took the Empire Builder across the country out west. Lots of talk about how the sleeper car is worth it and I remembered she didn't, so I asked her her take and this is the response:

"I traveled alone on the Empire Builder from Milwaukee to Portland, Oregon (two nights/almost 48 hours) in June 2018. I wanted to get a sleeper car but waited too long to book so my only option was a regular seat. I knew I’d be unhappy if I went straight through two nights with no bed and no shower, so I made a stop in Whitefish, Montana for 24 hours. In the end it couldn’t have worked out better. I loved Whitefish and was happy to spend some time exploring the beautiful scenery I’d seen whizzing by. The sights around Glacier National Park were literally breathtaking.

As far as the train itself, I spent most of time in the observation car, and as a solo traveler I was happy to find everyone was very friendly. I’m only 5’2” and luckily didn’t have a seatmate so I could pretty much lay all the way down at night. A lot of people brought pillows and blankets, but I was ok without. Ear plugs and an eye mask were the key to getting any sleep. There were delays here and there which didn’t bother me because I had a very loose schedule anyway.

I don’t have enough good things to say about my trip! I’m looking for an excuse to take another long-haul train."

People have their own stories, so hopefully this gives another perspective.
I'd give this multiple upvotes if I could.

I don't know how or why it happened, but solar/wind has become the most prominent notion of sustainable power generation.

It isn't. Not by a long shot. We don't even have a workable way to recycle or decommission photovoltaic solar panels after their useful lifespan. Reflector based solar plants and wind plants are causing so much ecological damage that their initial designers and proponents are now advocating against their use. At the same time these plants are consuming huge amounts of land that must be cleared of native flora and fauna. The guys building the Ivanpah solar plant have been walking off their jobs because of the wildlife destruction they were causing[1].

Wind and solar are a feel-good distraction which fall an order of magnitude short of meeting our projected energy demands. I'm not fundamentally against these power sources, but ignoring their limitations and trying to scale them to tackle climate change is absurd.

Nuclear is literally the only path forward. Nuclear fusion preferably, but even nuclear fission with all its downsides is currently the lowest deaths per kWh and lowest ecological/climate impact per kWh power source that exists today. Nuclear is also the only power source where we can internalise the waste product and store it in an inert form instead of immediately inflicting it on the environment. It's an order of magnitude better than solar/wind on those metrics.

This is not a controversial fringe view. This is what pretty much everyone in the sector has converged on over the last decade. It just hasn't filtered down to become popular opinion for some reason.

[1] https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/00000144-0a3...
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I'm guessing you've never been on a galloping camel.

This is not a comforting observation...
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"this" is zero value clickbait and easy to catch. "kid" is a lie in this case, but it's hard for software to detect that automatically.
That's wonderful news. I've been begging for this for years.
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Took Amtrak from Chicago to Las Vegas once. Worst travel experience of my life. Hit a car, had a breakdown in the mountains, and they lost my checked luggage. Over 24 hours late. Never again.

If you are ever tempted, just fly. It's cheaper, much faster, and you can spend the time and money you saved on something interesting.
Nothing out of the ordinary for prototypes. Much easier to solder fixes to without accidentally stripping a trace and better RF properties, which will help with an oversized board like this one.
This.

Been running my own mail for a long time, and with one big exception[1] and occasionally spotting misconfigured systems, any time I've had delivery trouble it has been my fault.

If someone is bouncing you, make sure your ducks are in a row. One easy thing to do that won't catch everything but will help is to send mail to a Spamassassin-protected account, and look at how it classifies things.

[1] The Deathstar has been bouncing me for a long time, and their postmaster appears to be /dev/null. Given that I've had exactly one person using them I wanted to mail, they can bite me.
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On the 737NG 3 pitot tubes are pilot, co-pilot and the elevator control feel input. They aren't averaged, voted upon or compared in any way.

I don't know much about the Airbus pitot system, except one ended up at the bottom of the Atlantic due, in part, to a frozen pitot tube.
If your model of the property market is correct then you should be able to reliably make enormous amounts of money by investing in real estate investment trusts with exposure to the appropriate property markets or construction or construction materials companies that are publicly traded.

There’s nothing special about private equity that gives it better access to markets like property.

“We’ll just out-build these prices” is the equivalent of “Charge more” when the problem is that you, a consultant, are too busy. If you keep doing it for long enough the problem goes away. Tokyo has grown by 1.5m people since 2001. House prices and rent have been basically flat throughout. Have the metropolitan areas you’re talking about added about 100,000 people a year for almost two decades?
YAML = YAML aint't markup language

Please don't give markup a bad name because of YAML, or the clusterfuck linked by GP.
That’s the difference between “some kid” and “your kid”. Find a kid that likes playing the piano and it’s no longer an issue.

It might be unusual for kids to make something that would still be interesting if an adult had made it. But, their are millions of kids out there.
So, my opinion is based only on perhaps 1h playing with it. I have mixed feelings about this. It's definitely neat, but I don't like that it adds quite a bit of cognitive overhead (again, this might be because I'm not fully used to it). I believe configurations shouldn't force you to think "how will this be rendered?". For my personal projects I started using protobuffer text formats as configurations. Having the proto definition is the only docs you need and you get meaningful errors when you misconfigured/forgot something.

Sure, the text format is quirky, but so far it works quite well for me and protobuffers (v3) can be easily rendered as JSON.
I would so love access to Google database, but with Boolean search and some simple Regex / Grep type functionality. We can but dream.
Calling teens "kids" is part of the cultural problem in modern society. We expect too little of teens, and infantilize and demean them, instead respecting their talent and accountability.
So far nature have not solved the problem of most of the earth being desert and all of the live ending in 600mln years [1]. One could argue that having humans (trillions of them) is natures way of solving these problems, and having less people that eat less fish doesn't help with any of these.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
Imo that's data, except if the filter is an executable script. For me, the programming part in yaml is string, either single, array or multiline, that will be compiled, executed or eval-ed.

In your case, it can be defended as documentation for data mapping, but executable scripts are rarely so.
This is based on income alone. Many blue collar jobs pay well. If you look at educational attainment, you can see a wide gulf between Trump supporters and Clinton supporters. That's a better indication of class than income.

Here's a more detailed breakdown of Trump supporter demographics:

https://www.thoughtco.com/meet-the-people-behind-donald-trum...
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Someone should tell him, but maybe parent doesn't want to get fired?
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This has been happening for many years now. In fact, Google introduced "verbatim" search back in 2011 for those who wished for search results that more strictly contained the exact search terms:

https://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2126346/google-introd...

Verbatim search is still available today. Searches from the URL bar can be made to use verbatim search by default via this search string:

https://www.google.com/search?tbs=li:1&q=%s
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I really like how Germany solved the drinking age problem: you can drink beer and wine at 16 and hard liquor at 18. This gives you a safety net to experiment with alcohol. You won't drink yourself into a coma with beer and you aren't allowed to drive till you are 18.
thanks I'm glad to meet someone with my same passion :) do you have a website?

yes some of them I manage to test, others no but make the reviews on particular parameters like presence of AI, responsiveness ,presence of sdk, functionalities, etc
Many ISPs now do opt-in for their customers.

For example by default the Website runs in PHP 5.6 and it is up to the site owner to change the local site version to a newer version via cPanel or similar.

So non technical users that just know a bit of PHP or use some CMS, end up being stuck with the default version.
Apple had police raid a Gizmodo editor's home searching for a lost iPhone prototype they had obtained -

https://www.pcworld.com/article/195053/gizmodo_iphone_police...

Same company that once optimized negative publicity just by making an official guideline warning iOS developers not to talk to the press...

"If you run to the press and trash us, it never helps."

https://web.archive.org/web/20141226094343/https://developer...
The thinking behind child labor laws insofar as working restrictions is that they should be in school and getting an education during those years.

Of course "train-on-the-job"-style apprenticeships are education, but this gets into how blue-collar labor seems to take a backseat to tech jobs.
Over the years I've audited a lot of math classes and tried various ways of taking notes.

I've found that live-TeXing lets me keep half my attention at best on the lecture. The people I've talked to about it agree. Also, when the professor requests for the class to be transcribed, the live-TeXing duty is rotated among the students as to not unduly impose on one of us.

I eventually gave up and moved to taking notes with an iPad and an Apple pencil, which has the quickness of handwritten notes, and the availability of digitized notes -- if I'm looking for something I can usually find it pretty quickly by navigating to the class and the (labeled) lectures.

Of course if live-TeXing works for someone, more power to them!
Correction: Military only.
I sometimes hear people muse about buying a house to rent it out, because it seems such easy money. I would never be able to do that, because renting out property is a real job with real risks and responsibilities, and it's not a job that I want.

I might rent out a house to a friend of a friend, but certainly not to a complete stranger.
What a nonsense. As if earbuds would require the cloud to function somehow. This 'I'm forcing my cloud down your throat' stuff has to stop.
Ever try to port a POSIX utility to BeOS? I did. No mmap and no BSD sockets killed any chance of easily porting any network utility to BeOS. It had a directory called /dev, yes, but it was absolutely nothing like /dev on any Unix system; it's all home grown. No permissions; it's a single-user system. It stores file owners and modes, yes, but they don't actually mean anything; you don't need the +x bit to execute a file, you don't need the +x bit to list a directory, everything is owned by "baron", etc. It supported fork but it's incompatible with threads, and everything on BeOS is threaded. Some signals are implemented, but the C API is home grown instead of the standard POSIX calls. Etc. They built a Unix facade but the system is very un-Unix like.

If it were really Unix, they probably would not have needed to write a whole book on porting Unix applications: https://www.amazon.com/BeOS-Applications-Martin-C-Brown/dp/1...
Agree. But it was listed clustered with “college/school graduation likelihood, wage earnings, fertility (again hmm for this one)” and other indicators which are arguably termable as life success metrics (or any other suitable verbiage).. my point is that “one of these things is not like the others”.
It's a remaster and it's published by Microsoft, I doubt they'd let a sub-par Windows experience slide for their own product.
The most difficult part about rail travel seems to be booking it. I've looked multiple times at using Amtrak for both travel and for rail tourism, and I've never been able to fully understand what to book and how to book it. Maybe I'm being dense about it but it always feels unnecessarily complicated and confusing.
> Why swap between devices AT ALL?

Because I'm not watching the new trailer on my iPhone when sitting at my computer.

> What's with the "concern" that your music is playing from a single device?

It's not. It's that I'm playing some media I want to hear on a certain device.

> I don't quite understand

You don't, so assuming it's some mental gymnastics is rude. Don't be rude.

> Shouldn't matter anyway, since you have completely playback control either from your Apple Watch or the AirPods themselves.

You don't.
Plus all of them provide JIT/AOT compilers.
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> Of course, that's always the other people...

I never said that. It's all about intellectual honesty.

I know that I'm not qualified for my opinion to matter on the topic (I'm just debunking low quality propaganda here) despite the fact that I did hours of research on it.

We don't ask random people about their opinion on string theory, do we ?

> Laughable nonsense.

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-economy/brexit...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/29/britain-bil...

https://qz.com/1477680/brexit-is-a-bad-idea-whichever-way-yo...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-22/u-k-brexi...

https://fullfact.org/europe/our-eu-membership-fee-55-million...
VCs generally have liquidation preferences on their shares, so if they put in $1m they will get their $1m back first if gains from a product sale are not in excess of $1m pro rated to their stock position. Something to keep in mind.
I would exercise at least a single option, or whatever 'gambling play money' you have.

If the company eventually unicorns, you will regret having been a part of it but not benefiting financially at all. Even a single share could be a consolation and may actually end up valuable.

If you max out all your options, assuming that's more than your 'play money' budget, you may much sooner regret the decision if the company tanks in a month or two which seems like a definite possibility.
Some people can't afford the transaction costs associated with buying and selling real estate every year or few. Clamping down on rentals hurts the economically weak.

Your xenophobia is showing, blaming "foreigners". Absentee landowners with vacant properties are a problem. Landlords are a valuable service provider in an economy.
> A terrible thing that, employment and economic stability. Fortunately, you can elect a government that throws them out, together with the EU, and nationalise all their property and do it your way. Venezuela did exactly that, and you could join them in their glorious ascent to complete sovereignity.

But we don't want to be a country that nationalises stuff. The point is on the exact opposite of the political scale. We (the citizens) didn't want to sell it away dirt cheap in the first place.

> Fortunately another poster did your homework for you: "In the countries with 10 million population, you have roughly 500k people per MEP. In Germany & France, it's 850k."

How are German and French citizens relevant to the laws of my country, why do they have a say about it in a vote? I don't want to vote about Germany either.

> Except for the "our people" and the "noble blood of our forebears" and the "insidious foreign influences" bits.

Nothing noble about it. There is nothing wrong with cherishing your heritage, especially in case of people just a generation or two away. ;-)

Are you denying history? Our national history has undeniably significantly shaped our whole culture - movies, theatre, language, literature, music, art, ways of parenting and education and so on... Basically the whole Czech culture is build on top of the fight against foreign oppression and the will to gain sovereignty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_National_Revival

Our people == citizens, nothing else. When I say nation, I mean people with common cultural background and in most cases citizenship. I don't care about immigrants, economical migrants and even refugees and I support helping them in any way possible, BTW - they're free to live with us, by our rules (or their, if they're citizens already).
I'm not saying anyone should blindly trust their doctor, and I would advise anyone to do their own research before accepting any kind of medication/treatment, but I agree that advertising medication should be illegal and provides essentially no beneficial or unbiased information. The goal of ads for medication it to make money, not to help people
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The WSJ online costs $39 per month, but the print copy costs $43 per month. It's pretty crazy, because I would expect the physical paper to cost much more than the online version.
Bitcoin reminds me a lot of monetarism, where the thinking goes to increase the money supply at the same rate as that of productivity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetarism

I'm not a huge believer in monetarism. It pretty much precludes all aspects of monetary policy save growing the money supply to influence the economy. I think Bernanke and the policy of quantitative easing played a crucial role during the 2008 financial crisis, along with TARP and ARRA, and that would not have been possible if the U.S. dollar physically obeyed the properties of Bitcoin.

A thought experiment: how would an economy run solely on a Bitcoin-like currency behave? And how would it respond to business cycles?
> random politicians to know better?

They're not random, you're supposed to vote for them.

And they're supposed to represent your general opinion. They're supposed to have an education in politic/economics/&c. which makes them better equipped to make informed decisions. And it's supposed to be their full time job.

Just like anyone can bake bread at home with no tools / minimum knowledge but the bakery at the corner of the street will make better bread.