skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>cryptocurrencies being artificially constructs doesn't sit well with some non-techies

fiat currencies that non-techies do use are also artificial constructs. There is however the gold bars in federal reserve/national bank myth so the fiats appear as non-artificial to many people. Possibly that makes the difference. Or, more likely, people use fiat currencies since forever and don't really think about that.
I believe more "the thing that exists for ages and I'm familiar with" vs "the new thing" thing.
Anyway I'm not trying to invalidate your point, my experience with talking to non-techies about cryptos is more or less the same as yours
You've got to love the "abbreviations" for these laws.

RflEttÜAÜG
A bit pedantic perhaps but let's bear in mind that with the exception of contaminated products, there are no such things as unhealthy foods. There is such a thing as an unhealthy diet constructed from disproportionate and inappropriate amounts (as you point out) of the essential nutrients we need including carbohydrates, fats, protein, vitamins and minerals.
I find it interesting you are harping on an aside I made in the middle of an accurate (though very abdriged) description of the history of proprietary software.

But, to your point -- yes, companies can do altruistic things. That doesn't mean they always do altruistic things, nor does it mean that they tend to do altruistic things. This should not be surprising -- companies are designed to maximise profit and altruism is rarely as profitable as other avenues. Companies which contribute to or sell free software are in the overwhelming minority today, let alone 30 years ago.

I didn't mention socialism, nor redistribution of assets. More importantly though, if you feel the need to protect the concept of capitalism whenever there is even the hint of criticism, then you should take a page out of Hamlet -- "the lady doth protest too much, methinks".

Also, free software isn't socialist. If you feel the need to tie to it a political ideology, it's much closer to anarchism.
I can see why this is needed. English has very broad words for relatives like "grandfather" or "aunt". Most languages have more specific words, especially Chinese where there are separate words for fathers or mothers side, older or younger and sibling or siblings spouse. You also often use these relation words rather than their names when referring to a relatives. If this code was in Chinese, they would all be short words.

English words like "aunt" cannot really be translated into Chinese. If you are translating a book you either try to figure out the exact relation from the context, or just pick one if it doesn't matter. In someones address book you can't do that.
Simple; that was forbidden:

https://books.google.com/books?id=u9MUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA19#v=one...
Paypal does 200 transactions per second, Bitcoin does 3. I doubt that Paypal consumes as much energy as Switzerland.
> is really fricking slow

But the problem is, as far as I can see, that the whole "Interpreter" project is started based on the assumptions, not on the realistic measurement of real life timings for real life inputs.

At least in the text no proof is presented that the work is really justifiable.
Who is 'we'? You know, and I know. Most users of youtube do not.
> this is all wrong.

Okay, let's go through what you identify as being wrong point-by-point.

> first you don't need to normalize by r ruining vehicles, both metrics are yearly.

I provided the (active/daily) running vehicles metric in order to establish a (very) conservative estimation of 54m distinct human drivers in calendar year 2016. This was to ensure subsequent analysis was reasonably well founded by way of using common base units.

> second the real signal is death per mile driven, now that's something you should look for, not abstract drivers.

Perhaps that signal is significant for other premises, but mine was to provide a probability of any given human driver causing or being involved in a vehicular fatality. This was to ensure that the derived probability was reasonably correct based on referenced data.

> third using drivers as base assume all cars vehicles have no passenger.

Perhaps my use of the descriptor "driver" was improper for the entirety of the analysis. Given the limitations of the medium, it was a trade-off I was willing to make.

Your point is correct and, yes, it would affect the probability iff the intent was to determine driver liability.

> this should at least get you in the right direction, but you'll likely want to put motorbikes into their class at some point.

> anyway short story long you want the cumulative chance of getting killed, basing the estimate on the average person lifetime miles, which varies widely anyway one person to another making a synthetic number over such variability unfit for any purpose

Your analysis is keen and one which is goes beyond what I was trying to illustrate to the GP. To wit, the specific point being addressed by my terse analysis was:

> U give far to much credit to human drivers.
that's so shallow.

One could easily counter you with "tell that to the surviving members of families who died at the hand of terrorists who walked into the europe without a right to do so"
Things like that often come as a shock to normal users when they actually see or realize the amount of knowledge these companies have. The big silicon valley companies are literally peeping toms that the society yet tolerates.
Is there an easy to use alternative? Less and less laptops are coming with ethernet ports.
If you have a macOS or iOS beta installed, please report that through the Feedback app on either?
I prefer depending on the market instead of the state dictating how much my money is worth.
it's not about what it means for this community, where we all know the shortcut to the dev console in chrome. this is about regular users of Facebook having their own "they live" moments on social media. where they can see plainly how Facebook regards them as consumers. "oh just show him pictures of DRINK and TEXT, that's all he's into anyways".
Please have your email solution tell me that you are tracking opens, so that I will never correspond with that sender again.

I think tracking opens without notifying the recipient is a blatant privacy violation. If that’s where society is heading, I want to part of that.
Your comment is so weird, and I see this more and more on the internet.

In that article there is evidence gathered by people over a 20 year period, its an amazing effort which in many ways represents the very best that science has to offer.
We have no reason on the face of it to doubt their evidence.

You have dismissed it in 20 seconds with a casual smear and no evidence whatsoever.

Is it perfect and guaranteed to be accurate? beats me, but its a pretty convincing show by some obviously passionate people who love their insects, and yours is a pretty unconvincing effort.

Shame on you.
While we are at it, can anyone tell me why selecting large text in a scrollable window works faster when you move the mouse?
> in the front yard on the grounds that they were unsightly.

With the stupid reasoning of subjective aesthetic no less. It is almost as stupid as circumcising babies because it 'looks better'.

So many problems can be traced back to the stupid ideal of suburban homes with meticulous lawn neighbourhood.
Most of people of course don't like the pressure, but it's looks too classical: Youtube is a monopoly in video hosting. Monopolist always dictate his own rules, so better be prepared to adventures.

My channel monetization was banned and I'm very grateful, there's a lot of bigger things to do.
Wow. Just wow. What it must have been like to be a coder in the 90s. Your job was your hobby.

Now the industry is full of crap kids who only studied CS for the money. But the truly gifted engineers are the passionate ones who live and breathe the craft.

Much respect for this time capsule.
Does that include the employer contribution?
It's reproducible for me when viewing the home page in Chrome 75 on Android 9 (Pixel 2 XL).
I see here people quoting "Patanjali Yoga Sutras" as a definitive text on everything Yoga. Not so; it is definitive only so far as "Raja Yoga" is concerned. In fact, it has got far more in common with Buddhist texts rather than Hatha Yoga (also Tantra) which is where you should look for insights on everything physical. To that end, the three main Hatha Yoga texts are;

1) The Gheranda Samhita

2) The Hatha Yoga Pradipika

3) The Siva Samhita
That only works if you assume that "rational" means "make as much as money as possible in the shortest possible time while ignoring any externalities."

Labelling that kind of behaviour as rational is a neat rhetorical trick. But by any objective standard of ethics - or even realistic expectations of medium-to-long-term survivability - it doesn't meet any of the standards required for rational action, any more than any other hoarding behaviour does.

And there's the post-financial view that the real benchmark for rationality isn't competitive acquisition but maximisation of personal and collective opportunity - which is something that markets consistently fail at. (Although again the stock rhetoric claims otherwise - typically with selective interpretation of the available evidence.)
Fluent Bit Elastic Search Data Type Filter
Oh I see it is that time of the year - People upvoting Bitcoin has breached $X or Bitcoin energy consumption is equal to Y country stories.

And the discussions are also same old - People criticizing bitcoin, others defending and then a small majority who feel quite smug about buying at $10.

Can we really stop upvoting stories which add zero value to what we already know?
Radio burst traced back to its origin in deep space
Core Intel Cascade Lake-X CPU Spotted, Beats 32 Core AMD Threadripper 2990WX
You check for replies and you notice that all of your most recent comments have had a down vote in a suspiciously small amount of time, even if the comment was days ago in a tiny thread no one is reading.
Hardware noob question: How do you figure out when a packet of 24 bits starts?

From the diagram in the post, the clock signal seems to just be identical blocks of 4 bits.

Edit: Found the answer in one of the linked articles:

> Between each series of 24 bits there is a longer period during which CLK remains HIGH
I still don’t think this is a good solution because of the common CNLabelContactRelation prefix. It would be better to introduce a CNLabelContactRelation enum? Then the enum cases would be much less painful. Or at least an empty enum as a namespace:

enum CNLabelContactRelation {
static let aunt = "…"
static let auntFathersBrothersWife = "…"
}
If earth was already spinning, then an explosion that splits earth's core into two chunks would end up with those chunks orbiting round eachother.

The resulting spin of each chunk can depend on the location of the explosion in the pre-explosion earth.
You don't need to transition unless you want a microgravity lab or possibly docking another spacecraft. Stopping is also an option, though debris and even furniture might float around.

Picture a long truss connecting an office building to a nuclear reactor. It spins end over end. There are multiple ways to connect a non-rotating part at the middle.

One way involves an air lock. Pass through that, shut the door, and then adjust the relative rotation.

Another way involves a large and troublesome seal. I suspect this might best be done with ferrofluids to seal the gap.

Accepting a bit of air loss is another option. If the gap is tiny, it might not be bad. It would just be part of the accepted loss, just like the loss from spacewalks.

For docking, you could skip all that if you accept the complexity of docking with a spinning object. You could even dock away from the center if the rotation is slow enough.
I guess there are many convoluted and interconnected reasons. Here is just one snippet

"As time went on, though, it became clear that divestment was also squeezing the industry. Peabody, the world’s biggest coal company, announced plans for bankruptcy in 2016; on the list of reasons for its problems, it counted the divestment movement, which was making it hard to raise capital. Indeed, just a few weeks ago analysts at that radical collective Goldman Sachs said the “divestment movement has been a key driver of the coal sector’s 60% de-rating over the past five years”."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/16/divest...
Is there a difference between eclipse and bringing tour plant inside? How is it difficult to simulate a eclipse all year round ?
Don't see how, only technical users would care about these blogs and they are too few to matter, even assuming these blogs somehow kept them stuck on older Windows versions.
I don't think that's how it works. You can't downvote replies to your posts, and you can't downvote a post over 24 hours old.
From article:
"But, Ramirez-Valles says, the study does a good job of showing that when it comes to health outcomes, "it's not always [immediately] about health." He says the study's findings indicate a need for two broad policy recommendations: a revision of the minimum wage and a rethinking of our current taxation system.

"Income inequality is at the bottom of this," he says. "We need to target and attack [it] aggressively. Not only in this country, but worldwide." "

When I read this I think of Thomas Pikettys research. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_...

This concentration of wealth haven't happened over a night. I don't think the income difference is the only problem but also the accumulation of capital. The article seem to forget the difference between income versus spending in addition to start capital.

How is the health of people with a lot of capital and a low income and high spending? Or is it not possible to have low income with a lot of capital?

The rethinking of the taxation system, I do think Ramez has a point as income has higher taxation compared to capital. The amount of capital matters more than the amount of income.
Reality is stubborn, isn't it?
I have radio control on the steering wheel on my Citroën C4.

They feel like they have been thoughtfully designed, they work well and they seem easy enough to use (the thing they lack is a "next track" button, which is only on the central console) but for some reason I almost never use them and usually use the buttons on the console instead.
Of course it's up to you to decide what computer to buy or not to buy, based on whatever criteria you see fit.

But I don't think you're doing yourself a favor by ruling out ThinkPads just because of a boneheaded decision that Lenovo's consumer division made a few years ago. ThinkPad and IdeaPad really are two separate organizations under one corporate umbrella.

Superfish was not something handed down from on high, it was the bright idea of the consumer group. The ThinkPad team would never go along with something like that; it's not in their DNA and it would destroy their business. Their bread and butter isn't you and me, it's large organizations with IT and security departments who deploy hundreds of ThinkPads at a time and look very closely at the software on them.

Only offering food for thought, it's cool with me whether you buy ThinkPads or something else. :-)
I agree with your point entirely but I wonder if more people outside of tech would care if only they understood what these companies were doing with their personal data.
I am no expert but I fail to see what will be an environment-friendly solution will really be.

The problem is any solution which doesn't need a boat load of money will be get concentrated quickly because everyone and their grandmother wants in.
Hackers use adblock anyway.
It shows you the sad state that the communist government is in when they can't control their population so they have to subdue them. Blatant and flagrant violation of human rights. I would like to take a windows phone in and see what happens.
I've attempted to fix it. Details at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20352144.
Had some fun with this a while back, with a simple dictionary attack in Rust. Some might enjoy: https://github.com/timvisee/vigenere-cipher-simple
> The internet promised so much, but is being ruined by corporations and governments.

No, it is ruined by normal citizens who largely don't understand democracy and its value. As long as the dictator doesn't bear the label "dictator", people generally prefer dictators, and then at times they are surprised that dictators abuse their power.
Interestingly for me it will very hard to read what an autonomous car is going to do, there is no veering a bit left in the lane before they change lanes, there is no driver looking over their shoulder for a clear lane, nothing. Probably explains why most of the accidents with autonomous vehicles has been people crashing into them.
Join startup school which starts on 22nd [1]. YC is going to have co-founder matching part of the course.

[1] https://www.startupschool.org
To be fair, Spotify do in fact give you the hooks: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/

You can have a script sitting on your machine remotely controlling an internet connected player somewhere else.

e.g. here's one I wrote that makes Spotify not play the same track too often: https://github.com/sl236/spotify-deduplicator
how to connect the instance from a windows machine using ec2-instance-connect? is that possible?
I like that better than the American way of inventing stupid names, so that the acronym is "cute".
Besides - both Apple and Google openly reveals that they auto-tag images by allowing you to search your albums on these sites with the tags as a feature.
That is an incredibly charitable interpretation of the word "reveal" in the headline. Every piece of information can be "revealed" to someone by that definition, it's happening all the time, and it wouldn't be a newsworthy event.
You have a small Error;

>It's about eight limbs (hatha)

"Hatha" does not mean eight limbs. The correct phrase is "Ashta(eight) Anga(limbs)" in Sanskrit.
There is nothing to come up with. Serving video is a well understood process, both as a service and self-hosted. YouTube's popularity is based mostly on network effect and Google footing the bill for a top notch experience for your viewers. Few people will pay the Vimeo prices, or build something at multiple the cost, if they can get the whole package for free.

Disclaimer: I'm a Googler, so can't help you with estimating the cost. But a few years back the research community had some reasonable-sounding models. Plug in current hardware and you can get an idea.
Something like this
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_stages_of_enlightenment

You’ll know you’re 100% ‘doing it right’ when eventually weird sensations called piti show up. Could take some months of practice or could be a week. It gets progressively crazier from there, but you’ll develop an intuition for what meditation is by then.

This is a 400 page book about sitting still and focusing on the breath that is known to work:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Mind-Illuminated-Meditation-Integr...
I quite enjoyed Robert Wright's interview with Lee McIntyre about his new book The Scientific Attitude (https://meaningoflife.tv/videos/41931). It has much to say about this particular contemporary strand of of anti-scientism.

It's so deeply non-rational that there's not much we can do other than to ignore it until it goes away, or consigns itself to becoming a marginal Flat Earther style phenomenon.
There's a Vigenere cipher on the back of this "book"[1] I wasn't able to crack.

[1] Quritania.com
How can they not have designers? It's like they designed it explicitly to be both cheap and ugly looking and have a terrible UX. Making it one or the other could at least indicate a tradeoff being made (form over function or vice versa), but here it's just a complete horror show of too many colors, poor layout etc.

Are "good looking" (boring looking at least) interiors such as VW or Volvos really that hard to make? Just do clean lines, a color scheme, keep things within reach etc. This looks like it was designed by children.
In case you're serious I'd have to rely on IDE completion or copy/paste to input this, not being familiar with chinese input methods. It would also make it trickier to compare identifiers and make sure that it makes sense.

I think it makes more sense to keep all identifiers in English or alternatively provide completely localized versions of the API in other languages, going halfway is just going to confuse everybody. Remember for instance the confusion created by PHP using hebrew in the symbol for the '::' operator: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/592322/php-expects-t-paa...
In python, I hate hate hate having to do

import numpy
import scipy.sparse
import scipy.sparse.linalg

just to begin writing something.

You cannot create a literal array without calling a function. You cannot concatenate arrays without calling a function, and moreover this function has a different name depending on whether your arrays are full or sparse. The @ notation for matrix products is horrendous (and .dot is even worse). Arrays are not first-class objects of the language, and you have to use an external library. This is more infuriating by the fact that other, more complex data structures like dictionaries or strings are natively supported, even if they are mostly useless for numerical computation.

Compare the clean matrix flipping in octave

z = [ kron(speye(rows(y)), x) ; kron(y, speye(cols(x))) ]

to the python monstrosity

z = scipy.sparse.vstack([
scipy.sparse.kron(scipy.sparse.eye(y.shape[0]), x),
scipy.sparse.kron(y, scipy.sparse.eye(x.shape[1]))
])
Yes, that seems to be by far the biggest issue with it: it's a flip switch so you can easily toggle it by resting your arm on the center console, which would be especially likely when cruising on the freeway.
JFK “We Choose to Go to the Moon” Speech (1962)
AlexNet hallucination quiz: can you find which image matches the stated class?
Back of an envelope maths:

bitcoin does some ~450k transactions/day [1]

Switzerland has some 8.5m people [2]

Let’s assume bitcoin is only used in Switzerland, meaning we get some 0.05 transaction per person per day, or in other words every citizen of Switzerland may execute one transaction every 20 days. I have no numbers for how many financial transaction swiss people perform per day, but lets use a conservative estimate of one per day (think of the daily coffee paid by cc), so that there are 8.5m transactions/day handled by the swiss banks.

Now, if the total energy budget of Switzerland would be going to running their banking system (which it probably does not do) it would still be 20 times as efficient as bitcoin.

[1] https://www.blockchain.com/charts/n-transactions

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland
Hmm, what about the US prohibition for municipal utilities to provide network service and compete on the micro local level?
I think this is the reason all sort of conspiracies regarding who controls the money become so popular. People just use money, no time or reason to think of those things or even why the world moved to fractual first place.
I think you may have missed my point. I want businesses to profit off of their software... I just also want them to provide customers with the sources used to produce the software they just paid for.

Copyright law can still apply. Just because I have your sources doesn't mean I can go and use them in my own software, or re-implement your patented algorithm.

"But how can I be sure that my customer isn't stealing my work?"

Well, ask someone to look at the source code they provide to their customers. Remember, we're in an imaginary world where source-included is the normal way to sell software, and anyone peddling binary blobs is seen as shady.