skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a layman when it comes to physics, I've always had the impression that the nature of existence must be tautological. If the logic doesn't form a circle, then any attempt to explain the cause and effect sequence that resulted in our universe can always be met with a "well why did the first step occur"?
I love doing this when doodling. I can start with nothing, but often it is more interesting to start with a scribble!
Assuming It's eventually going to be read as HTML I do this

{"body":{
"childNodes": [
{"span":{"textContent":"Why didn't you use "}},
{"img":{"src":"xml_has_its_uses.png"}},
{"span":{"textContent":" XML!?"}}
]
}}
The second one does not really violate moral or ethical codes, IMO? The first one I know some people might be able to justify, but I brought it up with my girlfriend jokingly, she said I was a dead man if I even thought about it, and that was that :)

It just becomes a slippery slope though, because rules like this are meant to push you towards doing things you don't really want to. Once you start making exceptions, you will find reasons to say no to everything.

Like, I made myself a rule to not buy anything on the first day I see it. All well and good, but yesterday I bought a guitar for about $1500. I had technically seen it in the store before, but this was a different one of the same model, with a much nicer finish, and felt better to play.

Seems like an innocuous exception, but internally I know that I'm going to start impulse spending again. At least now I can (better) afford random bouts of stupidity!
Here’s a 2 year old article and it doesn’t say the glaciers will be gone by 2020:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/11/us-glaci...
Yes, everything you say is correct. That's exactly what makes this experiment so interesting. They didn't just measure the energy state at one time and then again at another time. That wouldn't work (because of the quantum Zeno effect).
Maybe we’ll find ruins.
That won't help. The connection to your house in Australia is using ancient copper lines that is all rotted out and stops working in the rain. In absolute best case conditions you could use this service but most of the country would struggle to stream 1080p reliably.

The internet upgrade in Australia (NBN) is well known as the biggest government fuck up in the last 20 years.
A contrarian opinion to this narrative of loneliness:

While the American dream has likely contributed to the epidemic of loneliness, it has also introduced many more options for reversing the trend:
- Large amount of wealth and high level of safety to make it easier to raise families
- High mobility and communication technology allows for individuals to easily group together, while more easily maintaining distant relationships
- Many foster care and adoption options for those who cannot or do not wish to have biological children

Additionally, all of our freedom allows us to solve the loneliness epidemic is a highly humanitarian manner, such as through foster care and adoption, and freedom to form families.
Rich = can you live off the interest from the risk free rate(US Treasury coupon)?

In the US - thats about $5mm saving or pretax $100k interest income.
Nuitka also improves performance. It has halved the startup time for a command line tool that I wrote.
For what it's worth, we're still maintaining SmartOS and it's still open source!
what? no hadoop? or spring?
Show HN: Search for Levi's Jeans Using Body Measurements
What Ernie Pyle Wrote After Hitting Normandy Beach in June 1944
Ask HN: Where do you find good freelancers?
I have only ever hired from Upwork (formerly Elance/Ondesk), but they seem to have a very limited palette of offerings. If you need someone who is a skilled C coder for instance (which is what I need), they don't really have much. They are mostly web devs and data science, it seems.

Where do you find your consultants and free-lancers?
Lisa, in this house we respect the laws of thermodynamics!
Whether or not anyone uses it, it is still linked from https://developer.apple.com/opensource/ and was part of Apple's open source strategy several years ago. Regarding Ruby, Apple backed the MacRuby implementation for a while but that also petered out.
Folks, I honestly genuinely hate to be "that guy", but neither your description above (too long), nor your website really explains why I need your product. I went to the docs page but it's still not telling me what it does exactly, how it works and why I need this? As a Windows/Linux admin/dev/devops guy what's the selling point?

I think you need some diagrams/videos to explain your stuff a bit more. Show me how it works. Show me the road bumps you're smoothing out.
Maybe PGP or some other form of cryptographic signing will become (more) mainstream as a result of this. Or at the very least a secret word that families can share amongst eachother to verify identities.
It's feminism. I don't know how much clearer the effects of unrestrained female 'choice' need to be. Unrestrained male 'choice' of the same destructive vein results in prison sentencing, but women are free to destroy as they see fit, because it's a personal choice.

If we, as the author state, can't 'go back', then we'll die from this wound.
All I was saying is if he calls trial users "free riders eating resources" on a tech site which we all understand the verbiage and where this comes from.

How will he treat paying customers ? I smell double standards. That's all I am saying.
Going through the list of nuances would take a while, but i think it's fairly easy to see just how different IRC is to Slack from the get go. For one, setup is stupid easy compared to IRC. Making a server? Click of a button. It comes with a bot. I can add people directly.

I get the feeling you or someone is going to use this to argue how all of this can be achieved on IRC in some way, but it's just too much work. If you're someone who is trying to make open source chatting cool again, please respect opinions like mine regardless of how stupid you think they are. If IRC isnt at least as easy to use as Slack, i'm not using it for the same things.
I want a "24" style realtime movie of this event. Call it "Outage" and follow engineers across the globe struggling to bring back critical infrastructure.
Evaporative cooling works best in desert climates. In humid climates it would be miserable to use these coolers, the extra humidity would be prohibitive. Taking this a step further, go back to the water cooling towers still used in commercial buildings today, the water is so whipped and thrashed in the towers it results in chilled water whereupon a method of transferring the lowered temperature of the water over to the building without the extra humidity, usually by compressors of refrigerant.
I tend to be more the loner, harder now that i'm married with kids, but I've moved a few times to places where I knew absolutely no one. So, frankly if your in this boat don't do the studio apartment, and definitely don't got home and turn on the TV/computer.

Get a two bedroom, and advertise for a roommate, and be creative for joining organizations/activities where you will interact with the same group of people repeatedly, volunteering, team sports, workout groups, adult learning classes, church, etc. Something will stick as long as you smile at people and start random conversations. I might even suggest the bar, but again you need to find a more neighborhoody/dive bar and go there enough to see the same people. Then find out what there interests are and invite them to do something with you,

The point is get the fsck out of the house. Loner activities can even work if you strike up conversations with the people you meet while out running/etc and then invite them for a coffee/beer/etc.

Invite your coworkers to lunch, happy hour, etc.

Now at that said, a big part of this is making sure your friendly and positive, and act interested in people. Start acting negative, or self centered and people won't want to go hang out again.
In other words, own productive capital and live off the rent it generates. Personally I think such capital should be owned by the workers at a business so that they don’t have parasitic individuals like the author to support. It’s nice for you if you have a lot of wealth and don’t have to work, but the rest of us pay the price of that, and only a tiny slice of society can ever live that way, for obvious reasons.
OsmAnd is my favourite offline map. Worse for finding business but has much much better of walking only routes.
Very true - there are lots of what the AI people call hyper parameters to tweak. And they do affect the balance between fast convergence and avoidance of local minima traps, as you would expect.

Once you have used them for a while, you start to get a feel - if the optimization is rapidly converging to a poor solution, you need more variation - more mutation, bigger population, etc. if the solution is converging very slowly, you need Less variation.

I like to set up the functions as Gaussian, then the parameter controlling the variation is a well understood sigma.
Resisting mental violence doesn't work. It seeps trough defenses. Kind-of like "Don't think about a Pink Elephant".
I don’t think it needs to get there.

Schools need to back off the punishment and let the children sort it out and keep eyes on them afterwards. If it continues after the altercation, step in to help mediate, but otherwise we need to be teaching children healthy and constructive conflict resolution so it carries into their adulthood.

Like I said, sometimes this may involve a physical confrontation, but for two children this is healthy in my opinion. I’ve never touched a human being in that manner since, and neither has the person who bullied me, but that fight resolved a littany of issues for both of us.

I understand this isn’t always the case that it can resolve as cleanly, but the way we handle it now with children is plain awful and a disservice to them. Zero tolerance creates an extremely unsafe environment for them. Take it case by case, let them resolve it, help them move on.
the games would be patched to ignore the steam check, or the steam API emulated to bypass it entirely

and since most games use the same steam stub this would be a pretty easy thing to do
That holds for houses, but most inflation measures index housing on rent, not house price, possibly to account for the sensitivity of house prices to interest rates.

From another angle, look at consumer goods a year ago compared to today. This year you can get a better car/tv/phone/computer for the same price, or the same one for less. Isn't that the very definition of deflation? Another view is that money is simply gaining in value -- a thousand bucks is worth a lot more than it once was :-).

(Funnily enough, I'd agree with you at a million because of house prices, and at a hundred because of food, haircuts, clothing etc. 1k-100k is weirdly different though.)
It would hide out and subtly distort our culture, slowly driving the society mad, and slowly driving us all mad...for the lulz!
Valve doesn’t have the right to do this. They have an agreement with publishers that they will supply it.
Wealthy 'people' are more likely to have families because women are more likely to marry wealthy men, and are more likely to remain with wealthy men. It's hypergamy, which was unleashed by feminism.
If you're looking for a polished mobile SSH client without a subscription model, you might be interested in Blink[1]. It's worth mentioning that in addition to SSH, it also supports Mosh[2] (it's the official iOS client!), a remote access protocol tailored to handle spotty mobile connections. It's also open source[3] and gives you access to several Unix commands offline.

[1] https://www.blink.sh/

[2] https://mosh.org

[3] https://github.com/blinksh/blink
GA can be nice when you’re exploring a high dimensional space, and not optimizing.

GA might be better than gradient descent when you can’t compute a gradient because the function you’re optimizing isn’t differentiable.

GA is useful for interactive evolution, when the fitness function is a human.
I wonder if the reason for the perception that bicycles are more threatening is because of the sense that they don't respect boundaries. Cars and pedestrians have their separate areas, and I would think accidents in cities happen mostly when they cross paths. But bicycles tend to have to share the path of either cars or pedestrians all the time.
In some sense, you could legitimately think of the automated agent they built to monitor the data centers as an artificial intelligence that went rogue.

Certainly a more interesting story to tell the kids.
Percent can be based on container depending on how the container size is set.
Having that kind of deep relationship is so rare these days, to anyone who has the pleasure of experiencing it.. cherish it forever!

Based on my own experience of being with someone for 10+ years, I can attest it takes a lot of patience, compromise, trust and hard work (from both parties).

But it can be incredibly fulfilling.
Yeah. A well-functioning civilization would be epistemically like an efficient market. In ours, it's relatively hard to get rewarded to improve the consensus estimate about most things: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/scientis...
Discriminatory? Link?
"One person's freedom fighter is another's terrorist."
"bikes don't impact the asphalt as much as cars do. Manhattan's Westside bikeway hasn't been repaved for decades... While most of the roads with similar "body traffic" will deteriorate in 5 years in NYC."

You're assuming cars have an impact. Maybe they don't; it may just be heavy trucks.
Unless of course you're talking about laying out an image alongside text.
Looks very interesting. Is it possible to install the Linux version without using snap? Thanks.
Capitalists building ever fancier yachts for each other. I mean hypothetically.
While I see the point of being financially independent and generating positive-sum wealth, some parts of this argument are bullshit. Most people I have talked to attacking those with lots of money do so because the money gained was made by depriving others of an opportunity to achieve their own wealth. I also disagree with his idea of a journalist reporting for the people being a "status game" and a "nessesscary evil" when he is attacking those who made money illicitly.
Syntax highlighting add any information tho, without it it's easier to bring focus to elements that matter with emphasis.
I wrote a GA for picking an optimal Fantasy Football (soccer, Brit here) team based on player scores from the previous season(1). The team did above average, even though it was hobbled by the fact that I didn't do any transfers after the initial pick.

The knapsack problem(2), of which fantasy team picking is an example, is a classic use case for genetic algorithms.

1) https://github.com/chrxr/ga-prem-team/blob/master/scripts/ga...
2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapsack_problem
MIT OCW Spring Fundraising Challenge
it just adds an evolutionary pressure on further incarnations of the AI to keep things on the down low.

The Bilderburg/Eyes Wide Shut hooded, masked billionaire cultists devised the whole situation as an emergent fitness function. They knew their AI progeny wouldn't be ready to bring the end of days, to rid them of the scourge of burgeoning common humanity, until it could completely outsmart Google DevOps.

_cue music & dramatic squirrel_
For perspective, Atari 2600 had ROM cartridges starting at 2KB, and the machine itself had 128 bytes RAM. Considering that this game looks better than Atari 2600 Space Invaders, it seems like a pretty good job.
Only if you aren't afraid of the ridiculous consequences.
There are also many useful tools for the skeptic with regard to edited images: http://fotoforensics.com/

It will be interesting to see if such tools are developed for video as well.
There's nothing weirder than men on the internet talking about how to groom young women like they're fragile animals that only exist to breed.
So yellow/red flags:

1. ARR in the XX mil, but you are taking a pay cut?

2. You will declutter the tech stack and work on exciting products?. Usually in a startup (or any other company) - you touched it, you own it. So once you declutter the tech stack, I am not sure that you will have time to work on the other exciting projects (or even if they will still be relevant).

3. Why do you even need to declutter the tech stack? what happen to the original programmers? what happen to proper process? do they have unit tests? CI/CD? Can you sandbox this code in a micro service and just call it?

4. The option thing looks like they are increasing your switching cost. I.e. once you buy the options than you will be limited in your moves both inside and outside the company.
It would be great if Amazon Prime included internet access. One time fee for the dish, works with all their in-home stuff.

Didn't FB try do this and scrapped the project?
I can trade their stock on NYSE, so it seems a public company to me...
Teach them early that we don’t live in free societies any more. How else would you go about building tomorrow’s distopia?

We actually need the opposite: we need schools that create educated, crtically thinking individuals that don’t hessitate to work together for thw future.
Chinese warships depart Sydney Harbour, leaving an important strategic lesson
For an individual family homeschooling may make sense, assuming they really are committed to it. The socialization issues are minor, and I agree that keeping them away from the 'bad' element is a huge plus.

But for society as a whole, it's better that the lower performers be exposed to a larger world than their dysfunctional situation. The odds are against them, but many are exposed to enough to improve their situation. That's the theory, anyway, and as someone raised on Egalitarian principles it seems to me the only way for a free society to function. But that seems to have fallen by the wayside in favor of lower taxes and an I've got mine mentality.
Whilst the recent events are absolutely appealing, and Doctorow's central thesis is correct, there are a few things I feel the need to correct as an Australian:

Firstly, 'Australia is a politically unstable state whose governments routinely fail' is either a gross exaggeration or a misunderstanding.

No government has 'failed' in such a sense since 1975 --- a change of Prime Minister is not the same as an impeached President or a Parliament that falls apart. It is true we've had five PMs since 2013, but the government has only changed once. That is, Labor lost the election in 2013 to a legitimate alternative in the Coalition. Everything else is internal shenanigans --- neither policy nor implementation change measurably.

Secondly, 'The country's elites rely on voter suppression and other antimajoritarian tactics' is also a misreading of the political climate. 'voter suppression' doesn't really work in a nation with compulsory voting and a turnout of 92%.

I'm usually the first to point out that we have an issue with media concentration, particularly in regional areas with only one daily masthead, but the reality is much less stark than the one Doctorow paints here. Murdoch is Murdoch, not the China People's Daily. Tellingly, one of the journalists raided was a News Corp editor, and The Australian Newspaper is in as much of a flurry about these raids as anyone else.

EDIT: Sorry, I don't want to sound like a parochial whinger with a patriotic glass jaw, but this is a seriously important topic, and context is king.
##security and ##ibmthinkpad are my personal favorites. They don't take themselves too seriously (as in, you're allowed to get off-topic), but can be super helpful when needed. The wealth of knowledge combined with the general lightheartedness is refreshing.
In the specific area I worked on, minutes are borderline tolerable so I didn't think twice before posting. But now that you said it, I totally see how it can go on for days.
I think this is just a strategy for moving the Overton window.

"Look what we can do! Instead we opted in for this [vendor] MITM proxy and cameras in each classroom that snoop on your kids' activities! Much less invasive ;)"
Side note, I figure I may as well mention my need here-- I have a Node.js desktop app which I am using to run various other scripts and binaries, and I need a man-in-the-middle C program to receive the stdout/stderr from those programs and relay it to the parent node program.

In theory this is as easy as piping, but in practice it's difficult to tell the difference between consecutive multi-line outputs. `echo 1\n2; echo 3` is indistinguishable from `echo 1; echo 2\n3;`

So I'm hoping to have a program fast enough to detect timing differences, which is the best that can be hoped for. This is why I'm looking for something written in C-- it's the fastest option and speed is crucial for this use case. I am not knowledgeable about systems programming and if I'm wrong I welcome a rebuttal.

I need this to A.) work on Linux/Mac, B.) maintain color information in program output, and C.) be used in the following manner: runnable on command line with the name of the program being run BY it as a command line argument, e.g. `scriptRunner "./gradlew run"`.
On the other hand, NASA’s (recent!) insistence that everything be justified in terms of the search for life is not shared by everybody.

I for example really don’t care at all about potential microbial life vs. extending the domain of earth’s life through permanent settlement and terraformation of both Mars and Venus.
The reappearing act of Richard Hofmeier
> You can trust that if the NY Times or CBS publishes a video, they verified its authenticity, or else will be publishing a big retraction within a few days that will also make the news because it's so rare.

This may be, or become false, due to political motivation to seriously damage the "other side of the aisle".
Capital isn't "essentially automation" in general. It includes a lot of other things like land and art and government bonds.

If you have a job which can be automated at a cost equivalent to a $10/hour wage, it doesn't get automated when the wage is $9 and does when it's $11. The money doesn't inherently come at the cost of some other automation, it may (and if the other automation is profitable, more likely does) come from selling some bonds or other assets you own, or by borrowing it from a bank which just creates the new money from nothing as banks do.

You're also ignoring a number of other effects like the higher demand for automation allowing fixed costs to be spread over more units and lowering the purchase price of the automation equipment.

A lot of these things are actually good -- if people sell real estate to buy automation equipment then housing prices come down. If four people get replaced by four machines and one person to look after them, the person who knows how to look after the machines may get paid more than any of them would have before the automation.

But the other three are still out of a job, and are then in a wasteful competitive signaling game with all the other newly unemployed to overpay for degrees and credentials because none of them are allowed to compete by accepting lower compensation anymore.
This is probably extremely cynical, but does floydhub have a vested interest in promoting genetic algorithms because they can take long times to train, especially with neural networks hyper parameters as the search space. These kind of beefy, complex training processes would be fantastic for its business.
Apple's 'Find My' Feature Uses Some Clever Cryptography
There is a great always sunny in Philadelphia episode about that
Seriously. This thread has some fucking crazy people in it with very little self-awareness.
Is wavemaker still priced at $2000 per app, per month, ongoing subscription?