skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> governments aren't particularly worse

or particularly better.
Hi, thank you for the feedback.

By Look I mean The ability to create advanced UI which are not influenced by the Desktop native theme (as are all successful end user oriented applications). The ability to create a native app which is at least beautiful as modern WebApps.

e.g. Slack or VS Code (Electron) are beautiful, while fractal or notecase (gtk) are not.
> When they refused to release GPT-2 the OpenAI researchers took an extreme on that spectrum, asserting that essentially they had built a mind control device.

Having read everything I could find from OpenAI on this topic, I have no recollection at all of such claims by OpenAI. Sources would be appropriate.
I think he meant "the source control they used before using git" - not that it came out first.
You're confusing socialism with 'government involvement' -- admittedly a mistake many Americans seem to make.

'Socialism' in the classical sense is definitely business unfriendly. Its foundation is a critique of private ownership of factories, workplaces, and other 'means of production'

Socialism means social management of the economy. That need not involve the state at all. And it may not describe China at all, depending on your definition of 'social', regardless of what the Communist Party says about itself.

"Socialist" certainly does not describe Singapore, which neither calls itself socialist, nor acts socialist.
Presumably no-one productive ever shared their life with anyone else? The best way to be productive? Work alone, as a hermit remotely, without the Internet. (tricky if you build websites)
I have left my yubikey attached to my house keys attached to my computer at work and gone home more than once.

I now perform an abbreviated version of the macarena before leaving the office.
Same approach also adopted here, except we don’t bother with daily stand-ups just on demand “regroups” once we finish tasks or someone requests help. We also don’t write a whole lot down, rather we just learn and internalise lessons as we go. We just define and evolve some key team ethos.

Limiting work in progress is the game changer for me.
Other interesting physics riddles solved after some time:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbird_(land_yacht)

And the infamous plane on a treadmill..
Some days ago I wanted to buy a Mi Band 4. I thought of Amazon. Let me make a search right now to see what I find.

Here's a screenshot (not in English but easy to understand what's going on): https://i.imgur.com/hRJIiKk.png

The first one has 1.5k votes and 1.5/5 stars. If you get into the commets to see what's wrong you will see it's a fake. It's a M4 Smart Band, nothing to do with the Mi Band 4.

The second one has 2.5/5 stars and looks like people are receiving also a fake.

The others look good but who knows. All of them are from 3d party sellers.

Now I can buy the Mi Band 4 from Aliexpress for 36 euro (33 if I wait for a promo in 3 days) and I can be 100% sure that I'll receive the original one within 2-4 days. I can also buy it a bit cheaper from China but delivery takes longer.

I can give you another example. I want to buy a bag for my laptop. Almost everything I see in Amazon is from Aliexpress but more expensive.
What about being “big enough that they will discount all of these ramifications”?
For reads just create a new connection for every request (be sure to set connection properties for wal etc). Then create a global (or something equivalent to global, like a singleton) connection to serve as the writer and put a mutex around it when doing writes. Easy, scales like a mofo.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20776327

lol "0-day vulnerability". I've known this since forever, everybody does. If you have someone on your contact list you see them with the name you've stored them as on your contact list in groups too.

Telegram is not e2e encrypted by default and group chats can simply not be encrypted. Whoever uses Telegram expecting security is a dunce.
The social aspect is everything. If I didn't know anyone playing or make any online buddies there would be no hook to the game. It would be just grinding for the sake of grinding.
South Korea decides to exit intelligence-sharing pact with Japan
> why are MacOS apps so damned beautiful and plentiful compared to linux and windows apps?

This is entirely subjective. Several of my colleagues use MacOS and I find their interfaces overcrowded and clunky compared to my minimal linux setup. What is "plenty" to some, is "clutter" to others.
Any data supporting this statement?
Revelation 7:16 references scortching heat
Revelation 11:18 "The nations were angry, and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your people who revere your name, both great and small— and for destroying those who destroy the earth.”

So it is like the video says, an apocalypse
SICP is such a fantastic book.

I've been working through it using Clojure rather than Scheme and loving it, I've been a developer for around 15 years and I'm still learning stuff from this wonderful book.

I'd recommend it to every developer out there who hasn't worked through it with some dialect of Lisp / Scheme.
Given that a walk up fare on a bank holiday is £89.60 return I struggle to see where you get £120 from. If you're happy to take a slow train it's £35 return.

Bank holidays are always very busy, you'd think that if prices were really so high people wouldn't travel. The extra 10,000 seats an hour that HS2 provides will certainly help though.
The team I'm on uses Agile, but in practice it's a combination of Agile, Kanban, and Waterfall. The tasks we work on are usually pretty big and undefined. And it's nice to meet every couple weeks to plan out a sprint. But an overall waterfall-like list of objectives drive everything, and we're not strict about adding or removing things from the sprint. So I don't know what system fits us best. Agile encourages us to document tickets so they can be worked on, which is nice.
Are you approaching this from an environmental POV?

I think China is targeting specific products, not thinking of this the same way I think you're thinking of this.
Hmm, there is something going on here. The user “tablet” appears to be behind burnout.so in this thread but claims to work on fibery.io in a much older comment. Is this some kind marketing (for fibery) by satire?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16660961
"The problem of identifying the cause of this effect has been featured in Scientific American magazine, with several theories given to explain the phenomenon but no definite conclusion."

According to a quick googling, not really.
I'm not much of a Model 3 fan, but the 35K model is definitely not BMW money. Factoring in lower fuel costs, it's cheaper than an average new car.
I'm not sure how power was shared between the Koch brothers, but who fills in this power vacuum of a person who probably had more influence over the US than any president? I'm sure there is a succession plan, and I'm willing to bet they can be even more successful in the Koch agenda.
Agreed. This is a major problem in the energy sector as well. I regularly hear "oil and gas are cheap energy compared to the alternatives" but they're really not. They're just punting the real costs down a generation or two.
Show HN: Check if the yield curve is inverted, without the fluff
I got a friend of mine into chess. First, I beat him easily.

Turned out he's competitive and while I was abroad for 6 months he trained hard to beat me.

When I got back the games became competitive and while playing chess we ended up having a business idea and we started a business.

Now 6 months later it earns both of us about what's an average salary here + pays another employee.

He in turn played his cousin while I was away. They got together after since childhood and started going rafting and other adventures.

I know a bunch of stories like that.

All sorts of things can happen that won't happen online. Of course I played online too, and them also ... to improve.

I think even if you think you don't have friends it's good to just play anybody who's down for it. Or join a chess club generally inquire who knows chess when you meet some new cool people.
Regarding differentiating index funds, what are those? When ducking "differentiating index funds", I find results about index funds versus ETFs (afaik an ETF is just a stock) or index funds versus mutual funds (not sure what those are). Are ETFs and mutual funds what you mean by differentiating index funds, or am I looking at the wrong thing?

> Also insurance companies are basically bookies.

Hehe yes, it also occurred to me that being in a car accident is basically winning the insurance lottery that car owners pay into.
Supporting Trump isn't necessarily the biggest role to play. Look wider than that, for example quotes from the Koch Summit in 2014 [1]:

[1] https://www.commoncause.org/democracy-wire/seven-disturbing-... (I know the URL uses loaded words, but it's a DC watchdog group founded by a republican, if that's of any relevance)
No US Warming Since 2005
I don't see any mention of that on the Wikipedia page:

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

Why does it not exist to Italians?
Quick Meals to Try on Vacation – With Directions
Hi, while I agree this criterion is highly subjective, I've based my analysis on the successful Desktop applications, and how it's easy/difficult to customize components.
Amazon got this way due to competition in the early 2000s with eBay. Today there aren't a lot of mom-n-pop e-stores. Sure some of it is coming back with Shopify, Magento and others, but most people starting off in online retail just create a store on one of the big marketplaces: Amazon, eBay, Newegg, Reverb or Etsy. All of them both sell their own products and are also meta-resellers.

I wrote about the death of the mom-n-pop estore not too long ago:

https://penguindreams.org/blog/the-death-of-the-mom-and-pop-...
Some human puts some species under some label.

You: I'm not eating anything under this label as it must be alike!

But in this case insects a lobsters are not even close in the tree of life. Maybe they indeed look alike a bit. Do you eat feces because it does look a bit like chocolate?
indeed, but they have a "kids" account for that :)
End of the Line for NetNewsWire 3.3.2
Go to a manufacturer's direct sales site, or buy at respected brick-and-mortar shops or online retailers who have reputation to loose.
I keep seeing this claim. Where to sell this data and how much for example 1 million unique visitora / month worth?
Depends on the seller. That's the whole point - they make it hard to know if you can trust or not the seller.
Cannot comment on it unless see it in details that adding additional moving components of k8s helped.
The idea that a regulator can pre-run the economic actors to price in all known and unknown negative externalities before transactions occur is disingenuous. Competitively breeding an evolving species of ever more creative amoral actors seeking to concentrate benefits and externalize negatives and then somehow hoping you can contain them is madness. In an environment were the 'guards' can and frequently do swap places with the inmates it is beyond madness.

Furthermore, even if that were true there is nothing to stop a malevolent actor, either deliberate, by ignorance, or by lack of better alternatives, to just eat the cost.
The rise of artificial intelligence comes with rising needs for power
A lot of the need for AC (and having lights on) is just really, really bad modern house design. I recently finished building a house (my first one) and everyone acted like I was crazy for not building in central air conditioning. (This is in New Hampshire)

I built in an older style, with windows on every side, with a mind towards ventilation and light. Inexplicably most houses in the area, even $500k+ houses do not have these two things. My mom's condo has central air but the system is so feeble and the venting upstairs so poor that two bedrooms in the house remain stuffy anyways. It seems like light and natural ventilation are not even afterthoughts, but non-thoughts, and the designs all rely on electric light and forced air. Its amazing being in an expensive home where you need a light on in the kitchen at 8am. How do they decide what to build?

I built 9 foot ceilings on the first floor and 8.5 on the second. Then I placed the attic (3rd story) door centrally in the upstairs hallway. The result of the design is that airflow moves on the first floor in all directions, and upward, and on the second floor can move at least east-west (bathroom and hallway windows), and also north-south if bedroom doors are open. Finally, air flows upwards to the attic, which has windows north-south. So winds should suck air higher, and out.

If I close windows in the morning and open around 7pm, the result is that the house stays very cool, about(? only tested with temp gun a few times) 74 downstairs and 76 upstairs during these 90 degree days, and then gets cooler at night as I open windows again. So far, I've only bought one fan, though things might work better with more. Note I'm not an expert or an architect, I just included some design features that should be obvious to anyone who's lived in an old house for a summer.

This takes some manual control, but there are far fewer parts to maintain (this was a general design goal beyond AC), and summer electric bills are $50-60/month. With this design, there have been 3 icky-hot days so far this year, when there was no wind and the night did not get very cool.
Microsoft admits your Xbox One is spying on you
There's also a tactic to launch the same product with multiple names / marketing / pricing. It's basically multivariate testing the whole business. I don't know if anyone has done it actually.
As I understand it, the difficulty with this approach is that it depends on the night being significantly cooler than the day. Heat from the day can radiate away during the cooler night, preventing cumulative heat buildup in the stone, which acts as an insulator. But one of the effects we're seeing from climate change, even in Europe, is that nights are warmer as well.

(This was discussed recently on an HN thread, but I can't find it.)
For lightbulbs, try 1000bulbs.com. Simple searches will reveal better sites, just scroll past the usual catch-alls like amazon and Walmart, Home Depot or Best Buy. pencils? Pencils.com. Gaffer tape? Gafferpower.com. Literally anything. It’s a bummer google SEO pushes the bigs for everything when there is better value further down.
>Look at today's world vs the world just 3 decades ago. No mass Internet, no WWW, no mobile phones, no eCommerce, much more smoking, much less obesity, a vastly different financial system, ... Society is apparently extremely plastic in adapting to created changes.

The effects of the internet and social media on political discourse already looks like a disaster, obesity is a result of changing food infrastructure and availability, and our financial system goes through a cataclysmic global hiccup every decade or two.

If this is what adaptation looks like, we're screwed.
Hmm, indeed...
It's the noise of window air conditioners that bothers me more than anything else. My hearing is average, but for some reason I get annoyed by noise more than others. This is true when it comes to everything from restaurants to commuting (walking, subway/metro, etc). I also don't get why people like earbuds over headphones when you can block out so much noise!

I have earplugs, but prefer just not using the A/C.
It wouldn't be a theory if they had proof, it would be a fact ;-)

Of course you are talking about evidence which is not the same as proof. However, if we do think in terms of proof for a moment and following that line of reasoning, is it even possible to have a fake conspiracy theory? That is to say, is it possible to have a fake theory? I think the notion is absurd. The moment someone makes a hypothesis the theory is real and by definition, pending proof to qualify as fact. If someone provides evidence disproving the theory, then the theory would be wrong, but not fake.

I like your comment though :-)
You'd be amazed just how poorly dynamite works for making miles of tunnel, in between up to 12 layers of pre-existing tunnels, through wet central London clay.
> He said he’d accept the election if he won. He ended up repeatedly questioning its legitimacy despite winning.

My question then is, why is it worse to you that he chose to say it was rigged after he was elected? It seems you're saying he should have done the politically expedient thing, and stopped saying it after winning.

Wouldn't you criticize him for that as well?
I didn't know that! An interesting history.
I’ve got the same experience as many other posters here and have been buying less from Amazon lately.

One thing I haven’t seen people talking about much is how profound and impact Apple Pay is for direct online retail.

I used to find products on a company website and then go to Amazon to buy, mainly so I didn’t need to create yet another account, and because of prime shipping and Amazon’s return policy.

The amazing thing with Apple Pay is how much it creates an even better purchasing experience than Amazon’s “one-click,” while being open to any merchant. You don’t have to create an account, put in your shipping or billing info, or do anything really. You just click “buy with Apple Pay,” and click to confirm.

Between that, and offering “free shipping” (just include it in the product price), and a good return policy, I see retailers being much more able to sell direct and compete with Amazon’s fading reputation.
The Complicated Politics of Palantir’s CEO
Hi,
I would love to heard from your experience the easiness/difficulty to theme your Gtk application.

Also, In the analysis I tested Qt with QML, not widgets.
What if he actually is an apostrophe?

Disregarding the semantic absurdity (and the e/i mismatch), the rule works fine: "his an apostrophe" should look a lot more wrong to anyone with enough understanding of English that its/it's mistakes make a difference than "he's an apostrophe".

"He's" also only ever means "he is" or "he has", just like "it's". That's the entire point of this little memory aid.
To be fair, not having any of those technologies is just a side effect of deciding to make a dead simple, spartan UI (which isn't a bad thing).

You can get away with very fast, very maintainable front-end code that doesn't need any special frameworks when you say no to modern tastes and features. More websites should really consider doing so.

One of the things that breaks my heart just a little is visiting these sites that load in 30ms and thinking that the Internet of 2019 could be largely like this and how amazing that would feel. Sure, there's lots of complex features we cherish having online, but those could all be hidden behind the main pages that are dead simple. Makes me think about how google.com is the gateway to a massive conglomerate of capability, web apps, features, etc. but the main page itself loads almost instantly.
You seem to be arguing different things in every comment.

As I understand it, your thesis now is that most scientists most of the time accept things they hear from other scientists. That's probably true. And it's part of how science works -- which it does, rather impressively on the whole. But the paradigm-shifting stuff is also part of science, and a vital part at that, so if this is meant to connect somehow to your earlier remarks about science being passive, "scientism" being passive-aggressive, and "intuition" being assertive, you have more work to do to justify that connection.

(And, once again, if you want to claim some sort of superiority for "intuition", you need to show not only that intuition purports to assert things more definitely than science does, but also that it does so correctly. Mere overconfidence is not an intellectual virtue.)

Thomas Hobbes was a smart guy. But when he tried to do science and mathematics, the results were not good. The most infamous example: He thought he'd accomplished the so-called squaring of the circle and duplication of the cube. He hadn't. (They are impossible.) So far as I can tell, none of Hobbes's scientific work turned out to have any lasting value.
Funny coincidence! I thought about this when I showered this morning. The water probably sucks air down the drain with it, causing slightly negative pressure causing the curtain to bellow inwards.
Er, sure?

If you think the lesson here is "SSL/TLS is terrible, look at the bad implementations people have done" then you screwed up.

What's notable is that TLS is good enough that this even matters. Compare the situation with PGP and S/MIME. Instead of a list of bad examples, as a contrast to how it should be done, all you can say for those entire ecosystems is "Well, this is terrible, never do any of this".

The same story applies for the Web PKI. There have been a bunch of problems with the Web PKI over the years. But rather than "This PKI is terrible" the lesson is actually "This PKI is so good that it actually matters if things go wrong".
"Socialism is when the government does things"
Here in Canada, at least, sporting gear and technical outdoor clothing is a complete joke on Amazon. Sometimes two, three, times the price.

And, yeah, likely fraudulent.
From my limited, anecdotal experience, Berlin. That being said I've done no formal research on statistics, etc.

Edit: Also the industry would affect things, I imagine
The only time it doesn’t default to the fastest possible shipping is when there is the option to ship items separately, or to combine the shipments with a delay. I think it will default to the delay in that situation. My guess is that occurs when the closest distribution center doesn’t have all the items in the order.

For context, I’m in the US and about 20 minutes from a good-sized distribution center.
Ask HN: Retired, Diabetic, Old and Issues
I'm old and retired folk. Worked physically throughout my life.

Now I'm 65, retired and old. I'm diabetic for more than 15 years.

Few months back my left side got numbed. Today I forgot a location which I was visiting from 30 years.

Need help here pals!!! What just happened to me. Why I forgot a place. My sugar and blood pressure was fine at that time.
> What online store exists today, where I can be guaranteed to buy quality things? Do they no longer exist?

I'm in Canada, and increasingly I'm buying direct from brick-and-mortar retailers w/ online ordering and delivery.

Best Buy, Staples, Walmart, the Apple Store, the Microsoft Store, etc. BB's site does have third party sellers, but the website has a useful, clearly marked toggle labeled "Best Buy Only" which I always click. Walmart's search function is terrible, but once you locate the product, you can usually pick it up same day or have it delivered to a pickup point in a couple of days if you live in a city.
Is that also how the environment calculates the impact? As if per-capita has any bearing on the final outcome.
There already was a international fund for paying for inspections and so on, but it was canceled after Bolsonaro said they were using that money to compensate farmers.
We have this now, our scrum masters do everything now because they don’t really understand their role nor is it well defined. It’s hell.

They are now delving into solutions architects and seem to be expert software engineers who ask questions like, “but isn’t that simple? How come it’s going to take so long” etc.

Nightmare.

I find it telling that I never met scrum masters who can actually tell you what they’re working on or what their backlog is. Funny that?
Assuming the Chinese economy can hold up, Xi Jinping doesn't have an election coming up in 2020.
The problem with the system is that it's not one person one vote. If you're in New York, your vote is basically worthless. And it shows. You barely ever see presidential election ads on TV, or get any robocalls. Meanwhile, people in swing states are inundated.