skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show me just one ad per page, no scripts, no movement, no tracking and I'll be fine with that.
Seriously... It's not just missing the point, it's literally not true.
Keenan Crane is awesome! All the work he puts into his graphics. High Quality stuff!
Harder to do with human cashiers, I imagine this is a wholly budgeted phenomenon
I don't know. I hadn't bothered to quantify, but my sugar jones isn't as bad as it used to be.
> I had been assuming that HN hit its peak in 2007 and it was all downhill after that

I'm not sure why anybody thinks this way. HN is still one of the best places I know to see rational discussion of interesting topics, and a plethora of resources on all kinds of things. If I want to learn about something programming related, one of the first places I go to is HN. There's such a diversity of opinions and such a wide base of knowledge to draw on, it's incredible. Add to that, there's nearly no trolling or flame wars, no off-topic memes, no effortless jokes or puns (okay, sometimes). People largely stick to the HN guidelines and if they don't, they're usually called on it by others. It's not just great moderation, it's a certain amount of self-moderation that you don't see in most other communities (that I know of). It's civilized, in a way that Reddit, YouTube, Twitter, etc. simply aren't and can't be.
You'll select for something, sure. The fear is it will lead to a monoculture that ultimately leaves us worse off
I'm not sure if the money my supermarket saves by getting rid of humans (and the humans' incomes) translates to cheaper groceries for me.

I'd believe it if there were somehow a fine for using a human checkout. But there isn't.

So every once in a while four bell pepper somehow scan as three. Accidents happen, full plausible deniability.
I don't care about size of a startup and whether it is startup or not.

I care about the quality of the product and support
Hold on, modern pub/sub frameworks are WAY nicer than dealing with CORBA. shudder
Functional Programming (Over?) Simplified
Yeah that much is obvious. The job is untenable unless it's commutable. Just move the job out of Tokyo instead of requiring such a ludicrous "sacrifice".
Satchin Panda from UCSD did a round of podcast interviews when his book came out, and the advice essentially boiled down to having a feeding window of up to 8 hours and having it start towards the earlier part of the day rather than later.

The weight gain/loss/plateau seems to correlate with the insulin presence in the blood system, and meals eaten later in the day tend to generate higher insulin response compared to exact same meals eaten mid-day.
Isn't that what they already do? You apply for a credit card, get a few multiple choice identity questions, and if you answer them right, they assume you're the right person.
The problem is that document delivery is still the main function, but the platform wants to be a fully capable app platform.

Yes, it’s great that the web is capable of stuff like Google Docs. But all those capabilities are actually liabilities when it’s a news site.
Personal attacks will get you banned here. Please review the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
A simplex is a point, line segment, triangle, tetrahedron, or higher-dimensional analog.

A simplicial complex is a bunch of simplices stuck together (adjacent simplices might share a lower-dimensional simplex as a common boundary).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicial_complex

I’m not convinced “abstract” is a good word here, but what they mean is that it doesn’t have any metrical/geometric relationships beyond the graph structure.
Please don't call names in arguments on HN. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. It's tedious and leads to worse.

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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20542805 and marked it off-topic.
Interesting, I was vegan for about a year before starting CrossFit. Was gluten free, alcohol free, dairy free and exercised frequently and felt basically the best of my life. After starting into CrossFit I added meat back into my diet which basically became paleo at that point. After about 10 months the fatigue started.
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I glean from this that the correct answer is 125 / 5 = 25 years old. 16 out of 32 kids can’t be wrong.
If we always select the same genes then it's not fair to say we'll create a smarter scientist.
Related course: 6.838 Shape Analysis at MIT

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/gdpgroup/6838_spring_2019.html

Roughly about measuring properties like curvature and distance on shapes, and similarity between shapes. Very cool class.
Nationalistic flamewar will get you banned here. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use the site as intended, we'd be grateful.
Tech also became tech because of massive centralized investment from the defense industry.
San Francisco's high stakes underground dice scene
You’re mad the Japanese aren’t passing regulations to tell people how to live their lives?
Robot gardeners can't come soon enough.
Imagine if stores posted all their surveillance videos online. Creepy!
Malaria vaccination/parasite elimination/even vector elimination would seems to have a different risk/cost/benefit profile than removing, without anfull knowledge of the biology or the social stability implications, a defining emotional/mental characteristic of our species. But whatever, maybe you plan this change just for the "betas and gammas" we alphas can keep flaming away.
Please don't add nationalistic insults to HN threads. Also, please don't post unsubstantive comments generally.

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I've been doing this for about 20 years now, and I solved the problem through "hobby programming". I've been doing a bunch of AI stuff the last couple of years that has nothing to do with my job or my company. I did it out of pure interest in AI. Then I started speaking about what I was learning at conferences [0].

Yeah, it's tough to squeeze in hobby programming with two toddlers and company to run, but it's the only thing that keeps me interested. Also, I involve the kids in it (you'll see that the kids help me with my experiments as test subjects and assistants if you watch the video).

Incidentally I'd considered learning to draw instead at one point as well.

[0] https://www.infoq.com/presentations/deepracer/
> it would be $1.50/gallon

That translates to 0.35€/L, which wouldn't even be half of the taxes already levied on gasoline in many european countries.

If it were phased in over time it would hopefully be another incentive for the uptake of electric cars.
My coworker likes to call it RDD. Resume Driven Development.

Just stick with something long enough to comfortably add it to your resume, then drop it and never maintain what you made.
The Clickspring creator hasn't provided updates for months on his Antikythera reconstruction, but recently he updated his patreon supporters of the reason why: He has discovered something new about the mechanism, previously unknown, that he is working on publishing. Fascinating!
I interpreted it as HAVE to report, given the context of police asking you for information rather than the other way around, which seemed like a very fascist requirement.
> But even that doesn't explain why organizations refuse to switch from bailing-wire scripts to a pre-built, commonly-available infrastructure-component better solution. In such cases, both staying and switching are ops costs.

The costs of staying are known, because they’re the ones you’ve already been paying for a while. Switching to a new system is inherently risky as there’s always a significant chance you haven’t correctly identified all of the requirements from the existing system.
I always appreciate how the HN crowd evaluates the quality of the evidence, not just the quality of the headline. Great filtering function.
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar.

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> smartphones

I will take this as an example. I was developing in 80386 machines. When smartphones appeared and people said that "this is different because you have limited resources compared with a desktop machine", I just thought "it is new for you, not for me". I said nothing because they are right. It was new to them. I was happy to share an environment with people excited with "a new challenge".

> there is also so much more depth than we used to have. No?

Most intelligent behaviour in games is based on agents and finite state machines. With more states than ever, with higher polygon count, but it is the same that you had 20 years ago. The results are way more impressive because the hardware is faster and there is way more memory. But, the algorithms are the same.

Look for A* search algorithm or Dijkstra's algorithm. Been there for a while. Graph theory is still a building block for most things that look intelligent.
Nobody is forcing you to use FB or Google, and I have all their domains null routed at my firewall.

However, you do not get to use the government to force your preferred terms of doing business on them. That is the definition of authoritarian. It's akin to nationalizing a company's valuable assets.

Even China was able to just ban them (i.e. choose not to do business with them), and try to steal their tech instead. The US government will not stand for this intellectual property theft, even if it's done through legislation.
I’ve recently started a regime of CBD and have wondered if it’s helped my health. Of course, it could be placebo and totally unrelated.
The Theory of Interstellar Trade – Paul Krugman (Written 1978; Published 2008) [pdf]
Not to be rude, and i could be wrong, but the rules you mentuon sound stupid and gratuitous, rather than the photographers being a problem.
>>> If you don't believe this, can you give examples of cases where "the rich" have successfully withheld a beneficial technology from everyone for more than a few decades?

Control over the means of production
So what can I do to fuck them over?
Would be interesting to compare DARPA spending in the 70s with the current levels of NIH spending
Or we could focus on emitting less CO2. Those articles make CO2 séquestration seem like a saver bu themselves, but they won’t be useful if we don’t get our actual emissions to close-to-zero.
Yeah I read all that, but there's no way I could get away with skipping dinner. Dinner is our family meal. I'd literally have to sit there watching the family eat, or miss out entirely.
It looks like you've been using HN primarily for political battle. That's against the site guidelines and we ban accounts that do it. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended? It's intended for intellectual curiosity.

Plenty more explanation here:
I've been running on IF for at least a decade. Can only eat twice a day.
If i try to have breakfast, I don't feel hungry for the rest of the day and have to skip lunch. People in comments mention plateau effect, but this is kind of the point - my weight is stable for years on easy mode and I only have to correct and tweak it slightly +/- a few pounds from time to time.
so... if you want to modify it you need to make available the modified form also...
It is as if knowledge about them was methodically wiped off history, or more likely (since history is written by non-engineers) it was not understood well enough to write about it.
I've been here ten years.

HN had more of a sense of community ten years ago, probably mostly because it was smaller. People seem to generally long for a sense of community and most modern peoples -- the kind found on forums like HN -- seem to generally lack a real sense of community in their lives and seem to wish very much this were not so.

I suspect this is a factor in comments that indicate a nostalgia for "back in the day, you know, when HN was better, IMO."
Right now, in America and Europe, if you work hard, you have a decent shot at becoming wealthy, or upper middle class. Once genetic engineering enters the picture, wealthy people will have a genuine intrinsic advantage.
We use as much of built-in gcp stuff as is reasonable but unfortunately there’s no “make things secure” button yet.

Additionally not all gcp components work well with each other as soon as you start using anything beyond google io demo happy case and there’s a lot of missing features still (it’s getting there though). Source: i work on container platform at Cruise
Is your goal to facilitate discussion on efforts to solve climate issues or to participate in the development of technologies to solve climate issues? You could be working on a project that is focused and could use Hacker News to gain attention to the issue. You could also be looking to participate in a project, which means a thread could show up here to grab your attention or you could find a project somewhere else on the net to sink your time into. Either way, a focused communication app is great, but I guess my suggestion is to find a community and aim to improve it, or find a project and use sites like HN to achieve your goals.
Crane’s recent work on the “Heat Method” is awesome, http://cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/VectorHeatMethod/

I highly recommend the hour-long lecture linked there.
Leftists think HN is rightist, rightists think HN is leftist. We moderate on both sides of the ideological abyss, in the hope of preserving HN for intellectual curiosity rather than ideological battle. One can't have both.

That doesn't stop anyone from perceiving bias, indeed obvious bias ("of course"). It's the instant reflex that every ideologically committed user experiences, but it's in the eye of the beholder. People's own views determine how they imagine HN's bias or mods' bias—not only which polarity they perceive, but how intensely they perceive it. If you tell me what bias you perceive in HN, I can tell you what your own politics are. This is perhaps the most reliable phenomenon we see on HN.
Why hasn't google used this on youtube?
Its not an either or proposition anymore, that ship has sailed, we need quickly to lower the CO2 emissions, yes, but we should also think about sequestration in all forms, trees etc.
There was a good meta analysis of the impact IQ has on outcomes estimating that, while statistically significant, IQ was not much better of a predictor of success than parent’s socioeconomic status or education, and high IQ people still have a wide variance in outcomes. So while you may get a bump, achieving Gattica-style world domination through gene editing seems a little far fetched.

https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/2007-strenze.pdf
> I'd believe it if there were somehow a fine for using a human checkout. But there isn't.

Because there are easier, less abrasive ways of disincentivizing this behavior, namely by making fewer human checkouts available.
>Seems to me that tech is going to be much better at solving this problem than the government.

Whatever "the solution" in the end may be, we can all play our part. Individual, company or government.

Personally, I feel it's both wrong and harmful to play up feelings of "government should leave things to tech". That was never at play, in terms of working out a solution.

>Maybe after all that time we can start looking to other means to help address the issue rather keeping trying to alter it with legislation

The issue isn't being altered. Are you perhaps trying to say you think it's bad that the governments regulate what companies can do on their territory?

It makes perfect sense to fine companies that come onto the territory you own and are responsible for, when those companies pollute said territory.

Fining indeed doesn't solve the problem directly. It does offer a chance for reflection and study on the side of the companies.

The problem isn't that the government is trying to protect its territory and its people. The problem is that companies continue harming the environment despite the knowledge that this eventually kills people, animal and plant life.

What you're saying sounds a lot like the rethoric of "Don't fine us because we're not going to listen anyway". Which is downright evil.

>Of course even if the entire USA went carbon nuetral tomorrow it wouldn't do much because the biggest contributer to CO2 emissions right now is China at almost 2x what the US producing.

Respectfully, that is complete and utter bullshit. The impact would be gigantic.

It's not because there's still more to fix, that this means one action won't fix anything. That's absurd.

Also, the idea of "going carbon neutral tomorrow" is a strawman. A total exaggeration meant to portray the plans of one side as impossible. While those are not actually the plans to begin with.

Your entire post feels like anti-government propaganda.
Actively sucking carbon out of the air is always going to be more expensive than not emitting it in the first place due to several factors, one of them having to build dedicated infrastructure for it on top of the energy production infrastructure you have to build whether it's fossil or renewable.

So if you have a limited pot of money to do something about climate change then exclusively relying on sequestration gives you less overall reduction.
Would you be comfortable sharing the product you worked on and a postmortem on why it didn't succeed?

I'd find it helpful to learn from as I'm in the process of getting early feedback from businesses to validate or tweak my own tiny saas idea.
Coffee shops being third spaces more than half a thousand years old, starting from coffee shops alongside the Bosphorus in Istanbul in 1400s, before it jumps to Italy via the merchants of Genoa and Venice.

Coffee shop + armchairs you mention is also a time-honoured tradition: the TV show ‘Friends’ is effectively just a camera pinned to that armchair. It’s probably the most famous TV series in the whole western world. People don’t change all that much!
We use docker to spin up and down tens of thousands of short lived (~10 minutes) containers per day. Docker 17.05.0-ce on Ubuntu 16.04 tolerates this fine, but Docker 18.06.0-ce hangs after only a few hours. I've not bothered troubleshooting in detail yet; I've just pegged the docker version and moved on with my life. Still, I've lost a lot of trust in docker.
That’s ridiculously untrue.
Basically, the entire world's conspired to promote Ashkenazi: bankers, surgeons, lawyers, acm winners, Nobel prize winners, scientists and mathematicians are all curiously overrepresented by these Jews. If this little group has managed to infiltrate every field in our society, they must have outstanding intelligence because you know, dumb people generally don't make it to the top.
How did you get diagnosed?
Amazon's Revolutionary Retail Strategy? Recycling Old Ideas
What I find interesting about this post is that it only talks about blocking ads but not about how to replace them as a source of revenue for websites.

I actually do pay for some websites, including for not seeing ads on Youtube (with mixed results now that ads are just baked in the video, when the entirety of the video itself is not an ad) and I want an easy way to do so : I want to be able to access the content I want while its creator gets paid.

So far, ads have been a successful way to do micro payments (the only ?).

Instead of waging this increasing war between ads and ad blockers, I would rather see organizations that try to find a better solution (with privacy somewhere at the top of the checklist).
This is only interesting for US city planners. Europeans or Asians do have much better resources (and of course cities).
Technologies of Mesmerism
Consumer goods is great, things nobody really truly needs except to satisfy a missing dopamine hit from no longer really being engaged in society, nature, and life, only living an image, an appearance, existing only as a commodity.

Just about everything else is worse though. Wages stay the same while costs rise, markets continue to monopolize and we get fewer choices.
We'd only likely see huge consequences like that if we went outside the normal range of human variation. I agree that evolution would find single gene swaps with huge effects, but most of the variation available to us is over hundreds or thousands of genes making incremental effects. This is why I think we're probably first going go be able to effect marginal shifts in the overall distribution of these traits, not large jumps.
Last night when I went and took a look at the claims site, I noticed they were loading Facebook and twitter scripts.[1] These scripts were even on the pages that ask for PII. I can no longer get back to the form page to get a screenshot as it's 403, for me, now. I would definitely suggest not using the online claim form, as they've polluted that with tracking.

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/ARPFyFl.png
I've had a TouchBar MacBook Pro for about 2 years now. The TouchBar has frozen or crashed on me multiple times. Apart from the terrible butterfly keyboard on this same computer which also tends to fail, literallyt never in 35-ish years using computers I had a mechanical key failing on me.
Are you familiar with Caplan's Case against Education? Here's a good review (and some critique): https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3678

Caplan makes a very compelling case that education, while inarguably teaching something, primarily serves to signal preexisting ability.
According to Wikipedia [0]. fuel taxes on the order of $6/gallon exist in some countries.

I don't feel like working through all the countries to normalize the units; but the US tax is comically low by comparison. In many countries, your estimated cost is far below what they already pas in gas-specific taxes (although some of that tax might be for non CO2 issues)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_tax#Tax_rates
If you created a HN-like site to facilitate communication on a broad range of subjects, your goal would be to get the right sort of people to actively participate in constructive discussions. You'd end up casting a pretty wide net and I'm not sure how much good could come from a bunch of people talking and not doing.

However, when you focus on a specific project, knowing that it's much more reasonable to assume you'd be getting more done in terms of actually solving climate related issues, then discussion that is needed can happen a lot easier, with your team and with the smaller net you cast when needing specific feedback.
Things don't take up much space in themselves, activities do. What you lose when living smaller aren't the things themselves, but a kitchen were it is easy to cook healthy food, a kitchen table to discuss politics at or a workbench were you can leave your tools out. There isn't really much of a replacement for those spaces. While I do think some American concepts are outdated the idea of having capabilities in things like a larger home and a car wasn't unfounded. One of the best ways to not be part of something is simply to miss it. Having a lower standard of living is one easy way to do that. It tends to be hard to explain way things happen, but fairly easy to explain why they don't. People not having the time or space for them tends to be a common one. (Of course it is still always hard for people to accept). The 'next big thing' is unlikely to be created at starbucks. They will be created at kitchen tables and in garages and bedrooms like they always have been. Because that is where you don't have to ask anyone for permission.