skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you take into account the positive effects of mental health donations but not the negative effects of the promotion of healing crystals. No shit you'll come out ahead.

Promoting bullshit has real costs associated with it. Those bullshit crystals cost people money and don't do anything. People get dumber being convinced to buy them, and will use that dumbness in other parts of life. Promoting a market for delusion and false hope is the last thing anyone needs.

It might be hard to put a precise dollar value on second order effects like these, let alone on things like moral integrity, but that doesn't mean this value isn't there.

There is no shortage of people who will do whatever bullshitting it takes to earn more money, and that's not something to be celebrated regardless of whether it comes with mental health donations or another trendy atonement mechanism.
Nicely written! Looking forward to getting my hands dirty with Python 3.8.
> Nothing but touchscreens.

And, according to the text and pictures in the article, lots of buttons directly on the steering wheel, one which activates their voice input.
I like it. I like pedestrians asserting themselves in traffic.

I think in urban areas pedestrians should have precedence. Walking is our natural way of getting around.
Who cares when the investment was recouped 3x at the box office alone. Hollywood makes money hand over fist at the box office and clammoring about lost DVD sales is clammoring about icing on the cake. Movies like infinity war make several orders of magnitude more money at the box office than home release.
Can someone please explain why this comment is getting downvoted? It seems like common sense.
Is it Springboard that actually renders that notification, though? Seems like it should maybe be a separate process. Even if it is Springboard, rendering a notification that crashes the process shouldn't brick your phone, because it shouldn't re-render once Springboard relaunches.
Not to mention while CNG is better than gasoline which is way better than diesel. Small internal combustion engines produce large amounts of air pollution.
Something like a gyro/accelerometer could ensure the keyfob is on a person, and not just sitting on a table.
I'm not saying I support the idea necessarily, but

> why should the West pay?

Because: 1. It needs the rainforests to exist and 2. It's very rich.

> asking my neighbors to pay me to not burn down my flat.

Which would also might make sense if: 1. You are deranged. 2. You tend to burn stuff. 3. My flat is next door to your flat. 4. I'm rich. 5. I can't reason with you about not burning your flat.
Check out the book if you can. Among other things, it gave me a new perspective on McDonald’s as one of the greatest social institutions in postmodern America. I think a lot of HN readers would find that part interesting.

Like others, I was struck by the discussion of (not) moving away from home. Arnade describes the bewildered reaction that he usually got from people if he asked them why they never left the area where they grew up. i.e., how is that even a question?
It had all the DVDs, and for a while the catalog really was expanding into major titles and releases. Everyone assumed that eventually the DVD catalog would be entirely available digitally, but that never happened because of greed.
I assume you mean Viktory II, the boardgame?
I have this pet theory that much racism is actually wrongly interpreted classism. In many countries, big ethnic minorities (eg African Americans and Latinos in the US, or the Turkish & Maroccan Dutch where I live) are much poorer, on average, than the national average.

I suppose that many people might think that poorer people are more likely to break into their homes, rob them on the street, sell drugs etc than richer people. So they prefer to avoid poor people if they can. I mean, that's classism in a nutshell right?

If you're black in the US or Turkish in NL, it's like having an "I'm poor" sign on your forehead. Especially if you don't dress overly businesslike.
Porsche sells sports cars without driver assistance and with manual transmission to young US-American people who are using it to learn to drive. I think it's safe to say that passenger safety or safety of the general public is not a mission critical topic for Porsche.
> These computer AI chess programs have weaknesses.

> ... have collected statistics on which openings will lead to situations where Stockfish (or LeelaZero, or Komodo, etc. etc) will inevitably fail.

In case of Stockfish and other "conventional" engines, yes.

However, with engines like LeelaZero those weaknesses gets much harder to exploit, since you can create your own version of Lc0 by training a new model with tensorflow.
There's a battle sequence in Frank Herbert's Dune (probably Chapterhouse, maybe Heretics) where a commander (Miles Teg) directs the battle by giving real time commands to individual soldiers, where the deepmind you mentioned resides in his head.

It's a great little sequence, worth a read if you're into that sort of thing.
Looks great but you missed the https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0554/
Typical NYT bias when it comes to reporting on India. Not the first time, certainly won't be the last.
you mean, if you tie a rope from the car to the human runner behind and see whether he is able to keep up the pace with a reasonable running gait or end up being dragged and tumbling on the ground?
This is exactly how I answer the folks from the crypto community that make a serious run at the argument that crypto could be a feasible alternative currency.

Things like gift cards are, for all intents and purposes currencies, minted by non-governmental organizations with dollar-parity and limited transferability - and even with those constraints it's incredibly difficult to actually play nicely with Federal/State/Local laws.

If there's one thing governments have ZERO tolerance on it's messing with currencies/money.
Ask HN: Should a scientist be highly moral and give an oath to serve for good
I've been just shocked about accusations of 77 y.o. Marvin Minsky in sex with an underage girl and having "deep ties" with Epstein and participating in AI conferences at the finencier's private island. Now I can imagine an after-party very well.

And the whole John Brockman's Edge scientific community which is probably benefited from Epstein's activity terrifies with thoughts "who else".

I could imagine also myself being a scientist at age 30 and willing to hang out with a millionaire-billionaire. But I'm expecting that with age my priorities would shift from being famous and rich to being less ambitious, more careful and being a caretaker or at least an advisor to teenagers.

A scene of 77 y.o. Minsky, whose lectures I've been watching and whose ideas I tried to adapt and understand, forcefully fucking a teenage girl:

* scaries me: would I do the same being in his shoes?

* raises questions about intentions behind Minsky's intelluctual work: should I listen to his (and others', who did amoral acts) ideas, believe him when it's not very pleasant to even look at videos with him now?

* forces me to think about the need for a scientist, an engineer, a programmer, a journalist, a finencier or any professional to give an oath like doctors do to do no harm to other living beeing, a human, animal, plant for fun, for pleasure, money, satisfaction.

I see how technologies are advancing but I hardly can observe like the humanity is able to progress and not to degrade morally, spiritualy or how you call it.

Should I follow disgraced scientists? How I can avoid to be ashamed in the same manner?
We've since gone with the subtitle.
What else should for profit companies exist for?
>Nothing but touchscreens.

I believe it still has a steering wheel. And pedals. Which are the main things you need for a visceral driver experience. For knobs and dials there's always, I don't know, ham radio. When I'm driving, I just want to drive. Or, sometimes, be driven.
The 'AI beats worldchampion in ...' is a story that has diminishing newsvalue as time progresses as people will just come to expect this to be the case.

Competitive games survive AI not because humans are a good match to the AI, but because people like playing other people, or watch humans playing each other. A Dota 2 championship does not wane in interest because there exists an AI model that can beat most human teams. Cycling races did survive the advent of the motorcycle just fine.

What does change is the scrutiny that needs to be deployed for catching fraudsters using automation assistance in human competitions. But is looking out for a hidden computer or communications device in a chess tournament different from looking for hidden motors in a cycling race?
>The text goes on to say

Doesn't go on to say that authoritarianism is unbecoming to "the real spirit of Germany". Just that antisemitism is.

>The abstract categories we put people in have neither intentions nor characters, only individuals do. So to ascribe a character or intentions to groups always seemed pointless to me, like horoscopes or wine reviews.

Well, you can't predict what an individual molecule would do, motion wise, but you can statistically predict the behavior of a collection of lots of molecules and find it has certain characteristics, the same holds true for whole populations.

In fact, those shared characteristics, tendencies, etc., we call "culture". Most people follow their culture, like fish swim in water. But even the fewer who dislike their country's culture, they are still nonetheless shaped by it in many degrees (and usually only dislike certain aspects, whereas their dislikes are also typical manifestations within the culture: e.g. how coastal americans might dislike 'flyover' norms, and vice versa).

So, yeah, populations have intentions and characters, just like individuals do. And just like in individuals those are fuzzy, but still useful.

Since individuals have "intentions nor characters" it would be absurd for collections of individuals not to exhibit "intentions nor characters" too, of a certain type shaped by their shared historical experiences, politics, education, enmities, culture, economy, pop culture and so on.
A good grid, batteries and power-to-gas is a replacement for base load generation.
So is Denmark unusual? And if so, I wonder why.
I would not say it is net-good. Spreading misinformation, pseudoscience is really, really harmful for the society (global warming is being questioned on the base of various "healing crystals"-like arguments, similarly nuclear energy was (and still is) fought using unscientific arguments leading to the unfortunate situation we have now).
Baselessly prejudiced discrimination is obviously bad, but whites in the west had a head start of hundreds of years of amassing wealth and power. That's how the game mostly works.

We're born, we do the work and we die. We're not entitled to anything.

>The only solution is to replace the class system with something that provides unconditional dignity for all.

Basic income, let's go!?
Prices and choice reduce health care costs by 75%
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We've been conditioned to believe that some evidence is infallible, such as technology based tracking and even DNA evidence. Whilst people might embellish, lie or simply have bad recall, we think technology is near perfect. The reality is that this can often be flawed or indicative, and not always a certain proof of guilt. A lot of this technology, or advances in it, is new and I imagine not everyone is keeping up with the full implications.
If it gets upped by the community (presumably because it's interesting) what do the intentions matter?
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According to their status page this is limited to a single AZ, but that doesn't tally up with what we've been seeing.
More than once have I written something like this

if(condition)
printf("WTF??! value: %d", value);

...only to have the compiler nag me about it. That's pretty much the only situation I've come across trigraphs :)
fair enough, I like the staff at all the cafes I go to so I enjoy seeing different types of people. I think the outlook you mention, while positive, does reflect the sort of insularity and lack of curiosity about new people so present in Sydney and to a lesser extent Melbourne.
There is definitely a strong aspect of relationship with the barista/staff as has been mentioned.

In addition Australian's are known to be coffee snobs, anecdotally I've found even those that are not big coffee drinkers tend to be quite particular about the taste of their coffee.

If coffee roasting and preparation is held in high value and seen as somewhat of a craft it makes sense for Australian's to hold loyalty to particular roasters/baristas/cafe's.
To draw a parallel, when getting a haircut many people will return to the same person if they are happy with the experience/result.
IMO the situation is dire enough that we should just follow both paths simultaneously. Build as much nuclear as we can, but also build as much renewables as we can.
I'd imagine you can already do that with some basic web scraping tools. This definitely makes it easier.
Well then we probably shouldn't even try right? Just keep on accelerating towards that cliff.
Except the small detail that C's POSIX support is much wider than Rust's tier 1 platforms.

I am fairly certain that without profiling and defining a test configuration for a set of specific C++ compilers / standard C++ library I won't assert anything about std::regex performance with 4 MB of RAM.
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From the description "Huawei launches its Ascend 910 AI Processor & MindSpore Computing Framework in south China's Shenzhen. The company aims at boosting computing power for the development of artificial intelligence technology."
Having a great touch screen does not rule out also having great buttons.

I don't know how long your test drive was but you may have missed that there are plenty of physical controls in the S, including buttons, that cover most functionality.
I'm naive to rust, but I do get your concern. For a small part in a project, I used a tokio based library. And it just exponentially increased my build time.

What about if rust could support something like dynamic Linking/loading. Like have some crates globally installed and while building we could link to the global one instead of locally getting all the crates. Like C/C++does it right?
The crystal article is a guest post by another brand. They don't ever claim that crystals will heal you of any disease. Their brand's purpose is: "the ultimate goal is for you to find your inner voice."

I think for some people, crystals are a frame through which to explore their own intuition and emotional world. Not necessarily a literal concept.
Look,

Reflect on this: there are at least 200 factual errors on the front page comment sections of Hacker News. Do you nod along while you read it being entertained, or do you pinpoint the errors?

I'm not even talking about nigling details. I saw one comment about relativity with a huge scientific howler right in the middle of it. And people upvoted it sky high.

The people who upvoted it were being passive. The users of this site receive a passive experience and generally speaking are too childish to handle asserting their own mind. Even comments are largely passive. People don't even reflect on the subject-verb agreement of the sentences that they write. They are so childish that asserting themselves by the tiniest amount on their writing is not trivial nor has it reached the point of automaticity.

How does science work? It's largely like reading Hacker News. Scientists download research papers, understand them, and test them... and occasionally come up with new directions and ways (equiv 2 commenting on the newslink).

None of that are assertive. When an assertive person presents himself on a subject, he causes a PARADIGM SHIFT. He doesn't go along with the presuppositions: he creates his own presuppositions. This is Thomas Kuhn's "groundbreaking" thesis on scientific progress: some people internalize other people's presuppositions until they are fossilized in their brains resulting in them kicking and screaming on their death bed when it's time to admit it was a bad idea... or some people are like creative genius Thomas Hobbes who said he didn't bother reading all the failures before him because he was too busy thinking his own presuppositions.
It doesn't help that BMW decided to make it so small. It definitely does not suck on the Model 3.
if you know about this issue I guess you just go back to regular keys
This was a headline in all the Swedish newspapers a few days ago. Apparently a gang of car thieves has been sweeping through parts of the country and stealing dozens of Teslas in a very short time span.
The only time I develop on Kubernetes is when I develop something which builds on top of the Kubernetes API. In that case I use skaffold. For all the rest Docker Compose is a better fit.

You don't develop your full CI pipeline on your machine either. So why care about the orchestration?
> Has there been any research into the benefit of formal QA with a separate test team?

I hope they meant QC; QA comes from design reviews and code reviews while testing informs QC. As I learned in my days in pharma, "you can't test your way to quality".
Wow. I have been looking for a good resource on implementing self-attention/transformers on my own for the last week - can't wait to read this through.
The best answer is, we don't really know yet.

To a first approximation, implementing - lets call it machine automation and optimization - into how we do what we call F3EAD (Find, fix, finish, exploit, analyze, disseminate) will effectively do what we do now, only faster and more precisely.

Beyond that, it's pretty open as to what kind of novel planning capabilities will emerge from implementing DRL and other combined optimization strategies within kinetic and non-kinetic conflicts.

Note also, that the state space for force on force conflict, even small unit tactics are orders of magnitude more complex than something like GO because they are neither fully-observable nor deterministic (and can't easily be approximated as such).
What's the best subscription model for an online game?
I'm a dev coming from an eCommerce SaaS background, where subscription pricing, either monthly or yearly, is the norm. Recently I acquired an online multiplayer game, and since it's my first time in the gaming industry I'm wondering if the same ideas work here?

The game has a hybrid monetization model. There are in-game purchases, and also a subscription plan. Sales are split about evenly between the two.

For the subscriptions, originally they offered 1 month, 3 month, 6 month, and Lifetime subscription plans. When I came on board the first thing I did was eliminate the Lifetime subscription option (replacing it with a 1 year plan). I know from my SaaS background that lifetime plans are a killer. (You collect money from the customer 1 time, but are obligated to provide support to them forever. It's like a ponzi scheme where you rely on money from new customers to keep paying your support staff dealing with old customers.)

However I now have 2 problems:

1) Sales are down. At first I thought it was just a "rain shadow" from all those lifetime subscriptions that had already been sold. (Also the old owner was doing a big sale on lifetime subscriptions before I started, and a ton of people bought it.) But now it's 6 months later and sales are still down.

2) People are always asking me why there isn't a lifetime option. Now some of those people have been around the game for a long time so they would remember we had it before, but some people are new to the game and asking about it. I see some other online games offer lifetime plans, so is that just a thing in the gaming business?

So my questions are... should I offer a lifetime subscription? Should I get rid of subscriptions entirely and focus on in-game purchases? Or something else?

Your thoughts are much appreciated!
I totally agree that when you are driving you should be driving and nothing else. Even fidling with the radio is dangerous. However the vast, vast majority of people do fiddle with stuff. We can't even get enough people to stop using their phones to keep it from being a fatal epidemic. So if it is present, people are going to use it, and because it's geared highly toward usability while driving you can forgive them for thinking it should be fine because clearly the manufacturer thinks it is.
The start of seeing ads in your terminal
Why? Looks like he runs a relevant site about startups.

I don't really get the problem with him automating the submission, in fact, isn't that the hacker instinct the site is named after?
Depends on the country, in the US no in the UK it would be.
> I'm not sure if it's been proven that first move guarantees a win with perfect play

It has not, chess is an unsolved game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solving_chess
These look awesome! Great work on the reading experience as well as the code experience, something Jupyter notebooks lack.
Another advantage to an old car. Mechanical keys, and a gearshift :-)
I had a Geocities site in high school (mid 90s) complete with wood panel background, animated gifs (rotating skull, etc), visitor counter, headings with color gradient, blinking text and an autoplay midi file of Hotel California.

I'm so sorry. :)
Huh? Dieter Rams would be fine with traditional aircraft cockpit controls. His work was strongly supportive of the notion that form should follow function.
This PEP has mentioned the python version as 3.9
Are you sure this will be there in 3.8?
> you can get the work done very quickly and then have large periods of unproductive time.

Totally agree, but I've also worked in codebases where I spend a huge effort and don't get anywhere (these are usually codebases with dark corners which no one knows anything about).
Show HN: automate like a human
For profit companies should exist for whatever they want to exist for, as long as they can stay alive.

Public companies, on the other hand, apparently have a legal obligation to make as much money as possible, a feature I find despicable.
I don't appreciate the "throw until it sticks" hustle attitude. YMMV.
What would you recommend for development of some private project on a local server? No cloud cluster, bare metal and great opportunity to learn.

Something on the order of 20-40 services for even the most trivial things. Development speed above all else
`cargo install` install 237 packages for this?! I don't think that's acceptable.