skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"safe gas stations" sounds a bit like "clean coal" in this context.

Safety isn't the primary issue at play here. Both batteries and gasoline are energy storage mediums and come with some level of unsafety (Not to mention moving > 60MPH on highways is intrinsically unsafe).

I'll argue burning oil is not safe for our environment!

The metric we're all arguing over is practicality, and appeal which are highly subjective.
The Life and Death of an Instagram Fish
No. I don't believe Human gene-editing will enhance socio-economic divides. For one thing genetic enhancements is incredibly hard. There will always be some risk of side-effects. Even without side-effects there will be huge problems in coordinating multiple changes and making sure they are actually beneficial. This is especially so for traits like intelligence. And you don't get a do-over in Humans. If the treatment doesn't work as intended, you still have a child.

We're very far from routine genetic enhancements. Multiple Decades, in my opinion. Even single-mutation treatments for serious diseases should not become routine in the next 10 years.

On the other hand these treatments could be relatively cheap, once the technology has progressed far enough. At the very least, it would be beneficial for any society to pay for any health- or intelligence-improving treatment for any parents who want it.

Next issue: Virtually any improvement in Health, especially during childhood, will lead to higher intelligence, body height and muscle mass. The reason is that the foundations for those traits are "grown" in a specific period of time, using the resources available. If a child gets less nutrition, less time in school or gets sick, those traits are negatively affected. That means not only gene-treatments improve intelligence, but so do vaccinations, antibiotics, antihelmintics and better hygiene.
MIT Fellow Says Facebook ‘Lifted’ His Ideas for Libra Cryptocurrency
> Singapore, who has some of best pollution regulations of any modern state, has rated electric cars as "super polluter" status.

Because they measure CO2 emission at the electrical generation point.

Not Tesla's fault Singapore plants are almost 100% natural gas.

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/electric-ca...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Singap...
Was there a Nabokov novel about mathematicians/mathematics ? Or perhaps it was about chess.
I’d like to think so hah, but I’m not 100% either. It seems it would be easier to integrate the true (or close) environmental cost so there is a negative profit impact, instead of twisting people/countries to do the right thing. Because right now we basically incentivize environmental destruction because it’s cheaper in an economic sense.

I agree with you that capitalism is the origin of many of these problems, though. Doesn’t mean it can’t evolve.
shh! in this timeline, isb power doesn't come into use until 2026. study the damn opsec dossier, sam.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/cirhpc/100_pr...

By coincidence I saw this rant on PCmaster race today. 100% price increase.
If one or two doctors missed it, I would be ok, but basically everyone I saw ignored it. My neurologist thought something else might be causing it and sent me somewhere else to get it looked at. That was about half way through the process, so the doctors were being told that someone thought something else was going on and they still missed something rather easy to see.

I have had other issues where doctors thought I was lying to them, although no others that ended up with any serious consequences, just having to go see someone else.

I also had a doctor recommend dangerous surgery for a condition I ended up not having. Which, yes, getting a second opinion is good, but had I not done that, I would have had major surgery on my head that has a roughly 10% chance to deafen you for life.

I have the misfortune of having multiple rare issues (on more than just my eyes) and as a result, dealing with western medicine sucks.

My father has similar issues, so I have seen it with him too. For example, doctors let his appendix explode inside of him after he went into ER twice complaining of extreme pain in his abdomen. It exploded a few hours into the second visit and he almost died.
How does this play out in the stock market?
Some resistence is higly warranted. Some isn't.

The amount that comes from essentially protectionist, conservative, and/or rent-seeking interests, as documented by Stern, is notable.
Every feature on the macOS sales page today is something that macOS shipped without for almost 20 years (and Mac OS for almost 20 years before that). That's what sales pages are for: they show off the new features.

Apple didn't withhold copy/paste out of spite. They were shipping a completely new platform, and you can't do everything in 1.0.

For comparison, with the first version of the Macintosh system software, copy/paste crashed 50% of the time: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
I'm talking about the style of the strokes, not the structure of specific letters. The example shown on Wikipedia is thousands of years old, of course the letters looked different then.
Work should aid in your underlying purpose, not be your underlying purpose.
tag as category: con_dismissive_doubt
I think this a fair criticism which you haven't well explained, that a minority expert might be minority misled.
But they should at least be compatible
You could argue that “yes” is indeed a surprisingly popular answer to a question that should have 0 yes’s. However, the 7% margin probably isn’t considered significant enough to draw a conclusion on the real answer.
At this point it should be considered unethical to have more than 1 child per household. I don't care if that's politically incorrect, it's basic math. The entire species needs to drop to below-replacement reproduction. No eugenics, genocide or war required, just stop acting like horndogs or get snipped for Pete's sake.
I don't have an experience buying female clothes, so maybe I don't appreciate the scale, but it's not like there is common a standard for male clothes either. Sometimes M is literally XL, depending on the company and the country of origin.
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If the law is believed to be unconstitutional, a US company can fight it in court. Otherwise, the company is required to comply with all laws applicable in the jurisdictions they operate. If there is a conflict, the US law has highest authority.

In this case, if GitHub EU is owned by Microsoft, a US company, GitHub EU still must follow US rules. On the flip side, while GitHub EU must follow GDPR, GitHub US would not be required to do so.
In this particular instance, the victim was collecting these items not for their sentimental value, but for their monetary value, as he was planning to fund his retirement with them.

So here, I suspect the victim would have been compensated fairly -- and reasonably satisfied to receive payment -- in cash, as opposed to replacement of the lost items.
Can you link to something for evidence that this kind of logging can play a similar role as fires in some ecosystems? Because afaik fires don't typically raze down entire forests.

I would encourage you to read the article: it addresses the issues of fire (this ecosystem doesn't go through fire cycles because it's too wet) and talks about this being a case where logging is especially harmful to the environment.
> the whole suburbanization of America and the rise of cars and cheap gas are foundational to a lot of the problems we are facing today

On the other hand, we've generally had riots and/or public health crises whenever we've crammed too many people into cities.

So from a 1950s perspective, it was a reasonable decision.

Hindsight is 20/20.
The unspoken prerequisite to all of the advice here is to have a job where you can spend a nontrivial amount of time doing things that feel deeply meaningful to you. I doubt most people have that.
Many thousands of people living in Tokyo right now disagree with your middlebrow Internet contrarianism.

This isn't an art protect, it's an actual part of the subway system that has been in place for a long time, providing ad hoc guidance in the face of sudden alterations due to construction in progress. Have their been complaints about how it has harmed anyone's ability to navigate?
Twenty Four years doing software development and I have the same frustrations.
Given how 10% of people responded "yes" and so few thought people would respond "yes," I would agree that "yes" is in fact surprisingly popular.
The Luzhin Defense is about chess. But perhaps the same novel could be written about a mathematician, I first learned about the novel while reading this article by V.I. Arnold: https://www.math.ru.nl/~mueger/arnold.pdf
Thanks for this. I'm halfway though the book you wrote in 24 hours at the moment :-)
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500th comment.

(Wow, this must be one of the most discussed HN posts.)
I've used both DeGiro and Meesman as well in the past. From what I've read funds should be a bit more safe with Meesman compared to DeGiro. For me safety is a prime concern as this will be my retirement money.
I feel like this comment must me a satire of HN?
Ask HN: Resources on how to do worldgen like Dwarf Fortress?
I've become inspired to make my own (bad) fortress manager kind of like dwarf fortress. Are there any particularly good resources on world generation in general and agent-based modeling in particular?
Good luck! I tried to launch something like this years ago [0] specifically to summarize HN, it's not easy but I think there's value in this type of service.

In my case, the summarization was manual - I wanted to see if people liked the service, before building the summarization engine.

I also created a chrome extension to be able to see summarize with just one click from HN itself.

[0]: https://github.com/simonebrunozzi/MNMN
And the credit limit for non residents in China has been $2500 for more than a decade.
The mystery is whether he does this during downtime at work, or overtime after work.

Due to the medium, he must be doing the laborious work onsite.
Curious, why would you want to invest in Europe at all? For awhile now I've seen Europe as the past, and Asia as the future.
Does anyone may tiny compressors?

I'm thinking a micromachined scroll compressor could be far more efficient, silent, and perhaps fit in a unit the size of a matchbox and still provide a welcome 25 watts of cooling (from ~5 watts of input power, since the input/output temperature difference is small)
Probably varies by industry, in my experience man hours are treated as too precious for this. I worked in a sign shop and there were still old hand letterers in the industry but forced to use vinyl printers and plotters. Doing it by hand isn't even contemplated. Also construction companies don't usually value good graphic design. Hand lettering such nice temporary signs is so surprising.
You don't seem to understand that part of the article.

There are no discrete models for inheriting intelligence and wealth, and making such sweeping claims about this issue is just not warranted.

It has been shown that wealth improves children's intelligence and "success". It has also been shown that intelligence is one factor in success, but not the only one. Even academic success is "only" about 70% dependent on IQ.

Another problem is the difference in backgrounds for such studies among different countries. Sometimes wealth will have a big impact on childhood health (for example developing countries) and sometimes it doesn't (developed nations with proper medical systems, i.e. every one except US).
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As the article says, banks are trying to get out of this business. They are probably just there to avoid angering customers who already have one, and to appeal to the nostalgic sense of a bank being a physical thing.

Not sure what regulation will really accomplish other than giving them an excuse to exit the business faster.
What I'm saying is at a certain saturation it's impossible to ignore.

It's nice in theory but if something becomes ingrained in language you'll either use it or communication will suffer.
Does Sony have any experience in designing and selling air conditioners? I've never heard of a Sony air-conditioner product before.
A new study of rudeness in the workplace
Some cities have hscker or maker spaces,

Within reason, check out what your local library may have. It's not going to be a workshop, but some of the same kind of things have been showing up at local libraries as they shift to meet changing usage patterns.
I’m sure we are all very impressed by your insider knowledge of the details of a tiny portion of the industry irrelevant to most engineers. For the rest of us Google Fellow or equivalent is a reasonable way to sum up the entire niche.
Indeed. Charging fees for something you built is very nearly the opposite of rent-seeking.
1) The strategy I outlined requires them to maintain an internal culture of ignorance about electrification. Which makes it impossible to design a great electric car.

2) The supply chain is non-trivial to negotiate, particularly batteries, which will give their long time competitors an opportunity to eat them.

3) Autonomy is hard and it’s not clear there will be cheap good software that’s available to license

4) Car dealers don’t want to cannibalize their ICE inventory by marketing electrics. ICE makers are legally tied to the dealers.

All of these are solvable, but I don’t expect more than 1 or 2 will be able to solve all 4.

There will be a lot of consolidation.
The banking industry is rife with malfeasance and incompetence, Wells Fargo especially [1]. This is yet another example.

[1] https://www.thinkadvisor.com/2018/07/30/a-timeline-of-wells-...
In my opinion the link between intelligence and economic success is hugely overestimated...

A strong belief in "meritocracy" leads to a lot of cognitive biases.
That was left as an exercise for the reader :p

As you said, knowingly going against the consensus does not an expert make.
He did not mention that the curvature is the product of the minimum and maximum directions. Otherwise, a fair question would be that the gaussian curvature would be different depending on how we draw our lines. In the video, he happens to draw one direction along the fold of the paper, which gives the correct answer.

Good video though!
>In theory, all regulations need to be carefully considered and walk a fine line in order to do more good than harm.

Yes, and one of the possible definitions of a (technical, safety related) regulation is "the added cost that the society is reasonably willing (or capable) to pay for a reasonable increase in safety"

The issues always revolve around how much the "reasonably willing to pay" is and what is the corresponding "reasonable" increase in safety (and how exactly to measure the latter).
I agree- I too think that financially or politically powerful people don't live by the same rules as the rest of us.

The answer of course is to band together and form units with more power than those people. Another benefit of living in a society, I guess.
> Imagine if it were legal for companies to pass something off as a "bank account" when they weren't actually a bank.

Robinhood’s attempt at checking accounts come to mind...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkauflin/2018/12/14/sipc-hea...
That's impressive. It must have felt pretty amazing!

There was a guy in one of the FM DXing groups on Facebook recently who posted a video of a French-language Canadian FM broadcast station he picked up from the Florida panhandle.
Is there a way to loopbin user feedback on summarization that improves the algo? How could you incentivize users in the process?
Because I don't take kindly to people telling me that the excruciating pain, bone fractures from gentle use, and fascia disintegration I had was really just my brain amplifying pain signals for no reason.
Asia, and then Africa
Wealth can only accumulate exponentially, and there are big limitations for the "growth" factor. You have to build on the wealth of your parents. This makes it substantially easier for those with richer parents!
BC law requires planting 3 trees per logged one. So in theory regeneration is there.

No one thinks the logging industry is especially echo friendly. It’s as exploitive as any other.
The mystery to me is how he's allowed to block off large sections of floor/wall for hours to make them. You'd think management would be cross about that, at least.
What the music of Bach can teach us about consciousness
No, now people post things for Internet Points - likes and follows, rather than for the joy of sharing - and it shows in the kind of content that is popular. Some folks have optimised the hell out of their Skinner box solutions.
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> Also, a vinyl plotter and computer take up space and need a secure room.

They presumably already have these for their official signage, though. In most civic-infrastructure organizations, the bottleneck for producing signage is the design talent.
I just got back from my first cruise, a 6-day on the Disney Dream. I couldn't help but keep thinking about how astounding the Titanic was at the time, and how tiny it is in comparison to the ship I was on. It was a genuinely incredible experience, but I can only imagine what it would be like to take a ship like that to the new world, to start a new life.
What are we even arguing over? Is it just over the exact percentage of signaling in education's payoff?
The AMI build process is also incredibly slow compared to docker. When worked into the build process, creating AMIs probably accounts for an extra ~30 minutes for every build, as you have to spin up a separate ec2 instance to create the AMI, snapshot it, copy full AMIs around between regions...
Ask HN: How can I set up an Instagram account if I keep getting Instabanned?
This must seem like the dumbest question ever, but every time I try to set up an account for my business via the website, I get "Something went wrong please try again later." Then when I try again later it tells me the email/username has been taken (I'm running out of ideas for usernames now that make sense for the business). If I try logging in with the supposed failed sign up credentials I get told that the account has been banned for violating the terms & conditions (not sure how I can violate the T&Cs without ever having logged in or even successfully sign up).
Visiting the help pages for Instagram gives some promising forms to fill in, but upon submitting I get a "This page does not exist." error showing up.

I did manage somehow to get hold of a human, perhaps via support@instagram.com, but they told me to go see the help pages and fill in the broken forms, and when I replied that they are broken they told me "I cannot help you through this channel". (so much for "support")

The help pages mention that to appeal a banned account I must use the App, but I don't really feel like installing the App given how useless the experience has been so far. Is this really the only way I can resolve this?

Any ideas on how I can get this fixed, help me please HN!
Direct Buffers are a Java API to directly use C buffers and access them in a fast way. They're the fastest way to handle memory in Java.
The definition of “mass market” changed hugely too from the shelved box software era to app stores, so much so that I’m not even sure how fair it is to compare anymore.

I’d argue that the majority of customers in the software market didn’t really evolve with the distribution model; phones arguably just expanded distribution to a great many people who previously weren’t software customers of any kind or rarely made software purchases at all (beyond that which came for “free” on their devices), many of whom appear to think paying for software in any fashion is almost unthinkable.
Yes, we own some datacenters as well as use multiple cloud providers. You are still responsible for running your own worker VMs with a managed Kubernetes anyway.
This would be a great type of service for news publishers. Digital producers often have to type out summaries (bullets) in stories for those who don't bother reading full articles. If it could be automated by sending the story copy via an API and getting back summary bullets, it would certainly be valuable.
War against open source? They’re the largest corporate contributor to open source, they’ve open sourced a ton of projects, including XAML and .NET Core (which is also now cross platform), and they joined the Open Source Initiative. If you honestly believe 2019 Microsoft is anti-open source, you’re living in the past.
That's true, but those distributed goods primarily come from rural areas.

Obviously we need both rural and urban areas, but I suppose my "born in a small town" bias wants a better balance between the two than we currently have. For the benefit of both!
all I get to eat today is milk lol that's supposed to be used with coffee (kwa-fee lol lol) but I just drink it lol lol, not super ethical but life is too short lol. Hope you enjoy pasta with fine partner lol and enjoy life bruh
Is anyone else concerned about the surveillance in the new BART trains?

It looks like there are 7-9 small CCTV cameras in each car. This means that there is nowhere inside the vehicle where you have private space to enter a password, or check your work email, or pull out a laptop to do some programming.

For people who spend 60 minutes (or more) commuting, this is obnoxious.

Also, this is another step toward pervasive surveillance in the public sphere. Default-on all-angles video recording normalizes what infrastructure operators (and their third-party contractors) are allowed to learn about you, your work, and your life.
Desired destinations amongst top tech company employees
That is the utility value. It’s the primary utility value desired in human experience, even though most don’t grasp it directly, and instead think they want money, or to be a pop star, or to be a footballer, or to own x, y, z - but these are all manifestations of the fear of being forgotten. In fact, many, many people are miserable because they’ve chosen a means that they didn’t actually want, and the ends of fame are never quite what they expected.

Most of what humans do is to be noticed, to be remembered, for posterity.

I find the notion of being forgotten far more liberating.
Not sure what being a millionaire has to do with avoiding burn out. There are plenty of wealthy people who still burn out. If you’re burning yourself out solely for “getting rich” you should probably buy lotto tickets instead.
Are you behind a proxy? Firewall? Ad blocker?
Data gathered from https://repher.me, where you can give/get referrals to tech companies.

Sankey diagram shows Lyft/Uber/Airbnb being the most desired companies, and the most number of requests came from Amazon/Microsoft/IBM employees.

Sample size is around ~500.
Also covered by Greg Egan in Chapter 2 of Diaspora, with some accompanying drawings here. https://www.gregegan.net/DIASPORA/02/02.html
Sorry to disappoint you again, but like you, I also take issue with “McMindfulness”.

Another commenter (one of the first) made the point that “mindfulness” is an inaccurate translation of the Pali “sati”, which in the original context doesn’t mean much more than “remembering to be aware of the objects that your mind is attending to” - those objects being specific and often elaborate mental and emotional faculties. Sati is no system in itself.

Anyway, I only ever set out here to share a single illustrative example of “anatta” or non-self.

Have fun there.
>As America slouches toward the 2020 presidential election

That twenty centuries of stony sleep

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches towards the 2020 presidential election?