skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I've been saying something like this for years now. HOW do we know something is not going wrong without any long term/clinical data (ESPECIALLY around these custom flavours that people sometimes roll out themselves)?

I think it's completely presumptuous when people tout vaping as being much safer than cigarettes. We didn't all wake up one day knowing smoking was bad - it was a long road filled with politics, science and data.

Vaping is in its infancy and already people's mantras sound like old Camel commercials.
I finding it interesting that no one would have known if it weren't for modern tech. The doctors felt very safe about what they were doing. I wonder how the doctors felt when they were discovered?

Lawmakers don't need to make a law against it they just let the children sue for back child support. That will stop the practice real quick. :)
I’d argue Apple Pay and loyalty card scanning basically deprecated a wallet.

I use my banks app for loyalty card scanning because it doesn’t work properly in Apple Wallet yet.
Capability vs practical rule injection:

The question is that if the NNs are capable of encoding logical rules? The paper proposes a neural network and proves that the network is capable of expressing any ground truth over encoded rules in the KG. The paper focuses on one class NNs as well as one class of logical rules. Investigation of capability of different class of NNs in encoding different class of logical rules is indeed an important problem which can open a new window in front of ML.

When one is sure that the KGE model has enough capability to encode a class of logical rules, deriving a formula for each of logical rules is essential. The derived formula can be used to guide the learning process.

The paper reported that injection of rules in the learning process significantly improves performance the learner (KGE model). Therefore, the prior knowledge which is encoded as logical rules significantly improves the performance of the NN.
500kUSD is astonishing, even for high cost of living places like Seattle. I sometimes get jealous seeing high TC like this on blind/Glassdoor.

But I'm not sure if I'd really like working at Amazon. I'll bet that some teams are great and others not so much. But I get a subtle vibe that there's more intensity/pressure. Sometimes that kinda thing can be exhilarating but I wonder if it gets exhausting.

In any case, best of luck on your entrepreneurial endeavor.
The line is drawn at the point it's possible to form coalitions to overpower another party. Hence at minimum 3 people have to be involved otherwise it is just direct negotiation.

Most of life is deeply political in this sense.
Ideally you wouldn't have to be creating something you don't care about at your day job at 40-60/h/w, but instead could spend all your creative time on something you really care about, and doing it to benefit you and your peers instead of primarily just shareholders, and the rest of your time reading a good book, and being silly with your kid.

However in the modern world, those things are mostly pushed aside, and instead most people in the modern world spend most of their waking hours as hamsters in a wheel.

Then there's the middleground where you try to do both. That's where most people burn out.
Thirty year time-lapse of Manhattan [video]
All those parts can be bought essentially off the shelf. It’s obviously not anyone can do it, but certainly the barrier to entry has been significantly lowered.
(Disclaimer: never used powershell, so unadulterated opinion here)

Scripting is programming, so you want data structures. For interaction, you want human-readable syntax.

e.g. programming languages mostly have a syntax: C, python, bash, fortran (exception: lisp), but they operate on data structures.

We can see powershell, nushell and other structured shells (e.g. some use XML) as an attempt to "get out of the syntax business", which XML began and JSON finished (https://blog.mlab.com/2011/03/why-is-json-so-popular-develop...).

This has been taken further into human read/write domains... with mixed reception: ant, XSLT, json as a config format. After all, parsing and "the syntax business" has a practical purpose.
> Google is a company that provides gyms, cooking classes, non-work discussion forums, extensive cafeteria service, massages and so on and so on to make sure employees are living within the company as much as possible.

I would argue these perks exist because they are what top tech workers can command in the market, not because of some nefarious purpose of wanting people to work longer hours.

Sort of like how MLB players have all kinds of nice perks written into their bargaining agreement like always flying first class, etc.
General advice: make sure you have a solution on all platforms. TV, IoT, phone on wifi, phone on mobile network, etc...

At home you need to first subvert your ISP.

Make sure you have a router doing blocking, like a PiHole. For mobile devices always use a VPN and DNS protection like dns-crypt. Use Cloudflare’s mobile DNS over HTTPS solution even though that’s a single point of failure, decide for yourself how risky you think that is.

Besides browser specific plugins you should implement a host block. The host block lists are not too exhaustive so if you use dns-crypt configure it to log every dns request and add any new hosts to your block list that look surprising.

It’s a lot of work, but if that’s what you’re looking for you may find some fun ways to automate this workflow :)
Did you approach Sony for a repair, and if so, how did that play out?
I tried to get Samsung to repair my two year old Galaxy when it turned off one day and refused to turn back on, but as it was purchased in a different country they refused to help. Haven't bought a Samsung since.
There has never been any serious expectation of getting usable power from fusion. All the reactor designs worked on in mainstream research would destroy themselves in a short time by high-energy neutron flux.

Fusion research is, instead, a jobs program for high-neutron flux physicists, to provide a pool to draw on for weapons work.

There are interesting commercial projects for designs that do not suffer from high neutron flux, such as those pursuing pB reactions. I read of another where neutrons are emitted in a place some distance from where the expensive machine parts are.

You can tell if a fusion process is serious by whether they have an answer to the neutron problem. Tokamak doesn't.
Why is JSON so popular? We want out of the syntax business
I always wonder how HN does de-deduplication. Sometimes it works automatically, sometimes it doesn't. This was already submitted yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20778994
Quite an entertaining read, despite the dark subject matter. Especially at the end, when Stuart starts to regret picking up the phone. Possibly intoxicated, or maybe he's just like that all the time at age 89.
So when I learned Lisp and ML, FP was impossible it seems.

Only through the glasses of "Haskell, the only true way".
Ask HN: GitHub stats page not working since three days?
Hi,

is it only me and my repositories or are the Github stats pages currently not working (showing 0 visits...)?

Kind regards
Johannes
I love righteous indignation when it's expressed with humour. Dry wit is often like bullets
There are plenty of NIMBYs in the San Jose area and there is not a lot of high-rise housing. Both San Jose and San Francisco have median house prices over a million dollars, but you get more house for your money in San Jose and apartment rents are a lot cheaper (and the apartments generally come with parking, which you'll need because public transit is a joke).
It wouldn't because that's a drastically more complex solution.
> given a couple months, I could pose as just about any sort of expert.

Intriguing, and I wonder whether it's true. Probably in social settings for a while, but hopefully not eg through a job interview.

(related xkcd, "Impostor": https://www.xkcd.com/451/ )
Subnautica has been on my wishlist since before release but as it got more fleshed out, I just never went and picked it up. I think I may have been put off by the base building element or something, and I definitely had a bad taste in my mouth about exploration after No Man's Sky. Can you give me any more insight into the gameplay that would change my mind?
How they "got lost"? Uber has never been profitable. Ever. They sold their investors on the idea that if you hemorrhage money to create growth profit will spontaneously appear like mana from heaven. Recent events are just people realizing, after ten damn years, that just maybe never ever making any money is a bad thing. 100% market share of nothing is still nothing and it's time to pay the piper.
Do you understand that industrial output of all "China alternatives" combined would only equal that of one well industrialised province in China despite not so insignificant investments coming for more than a decade?

So US will be stuck, and will have to live with understanding that even a plain plastic bucket costs $20.
This idea is already preset in xonsh
It works pretty well on the Mac now, too.
It seems like so, but I rather prefer the quixotic way that some education is still possible.
It looks to me like they took the concept of “everything as sql” to the extreme.

Do you want to live your entire life and everything you do in sql? I don’t.

I think I will pass.
It’s odd you hate ads taking your privacy but don’t mind your bank and government doing so with your money.
I haven't seen bot spam go past trivial things. A text field name="url" that's hidden via css gets filled by them. They don't execute JavaScript. Granted, those solutions won't work forever, once they are widely adapted, bots will adapt too, and they obviously won't stop targeted spam.
The earlier submission likely didn't attract enough attention for the later submission to be rolled in.
Well, we'll see how small the elaboration is... :)

A brief review of how quantum teleportation works. (I have a diagram in quirk that might help with the explanation

https://algassert.com/quirk#circuit=%7B%22cols%22:%5B%5B1,%2...)

You start off with two qubits in a known state, say |0>. You then shift one of the qubits (using a Hadamard gate) into a equally mixed state of

qubit_1 = k(|0>+|1>)

and then use a controlled NOT gate to put the entire system in the state of

qubit_2 = k(|00>+|11>)

(where k = 1/sqrt(2)).

So you then ship one of the qubits off to your friend in Antarctica (say, qubit_1). You then pull out qubit_3. Now, let's say it's also in some known state |0> to begin with, and then you apply a bunch of gate operations to it, resulting in it being in the following state:

qubit_3 = a|0> + b|1>

Where a and b are two complex numbers whose magnitude sums to one.

You use another controlled not gate, this time, qubit_3 will act on qubit_2. This now has entangled qubit_3 into the qubit_1 and qubit_2 system. Finally, you apply another Hadamard gate to qubit_3. The system is now in the following state

|Psi> = |00>(a|0>+b|1>) + |01>(a|1>+b|0>)
+|10>(a|0>-b|1>) + |11>(a|1>-b|0>)

Note, that we've written the above state in a way that separates out the two qubits you control, and the qubit that your friend controls.

Now, you measure the two qubits that you control. Doing this causes the full state to collapse to one of the four above states. If you measure |11> then your friends particle is in the following state:

|Psi'> = a|1>-b|0>

So you call up your friend and you say to him "Oh hey friend, I just measured it, and if you want the original state, you want to do a simple phase shift (Z gate) and swap the probabilities (X (NOT) gate)."

The important thing to note here, is that from your perspective, the collapse happens immediately. The submitting of the classical information is just to 'patch up' the quantum state that got slightly out of whack.

Now, suppose your friend has the ability to clone qubits. You and your friend agree ahead of time when you'll perform the measurement.

Once the measurement is performed, your friend makes a large number of clones of the resulting state. He can then extract statistically the values of a and b (values of which, you had control over).

So not only would we be able to do FTL communication, we'd basically also have bandwidth limited only by the number of copies your friend could make.
Perhaps this is an example of a "dollar auction":

A dollar bill is auctioned with these two rules:

1. (As in any auction) the dollar bill goes to the highest bidder, who pays whatever the high bid was. Each new bid has to be higher than the current high bid, and the game ends when there is no new bid within a specified time limit.

2. (Unlike at Sotheby’s!) the second-highest bidder also has to pay the amount of his last bid – and gets nothing in return.

[...]

This peculiar game leads to a bad case of buyer’s remorse. The highest bidder pays far more than a dollar for a dollar, and the second-highest bidder pays far more than a dollar for nothing.

http://www.heretical.com/pound/dollar.html
This comment is at the bottom while I find this is actually a valid point. I've often experienced this.
HN seems to more and more turn into Reddit when it comes to upvoting articles people only read the headlines for.
Another difference is that the cashier, receptionist, and janitor have a good chance of having an employer provided health insurance plan, and perhaps other employee benefits.

Since Uber says the drivers aren't employees, it does not provide them with any of that.
Instagram’s Chain-Letter Uprising
I think if the URL is identical, a second submission within 8 hours serves as an upvote. (That submission was about 10 hours earlier.) Or if it got substantial traction, then the window is larger.

If the URL is not identical for any reason, it has to be manually addressed.
Although the flow is a great place to be in, and I enjoy it very much every time I incidentally discover I am in it. It is not something I actively try to achieve. I believe it can be counter-productive. It must not be a requisite for being able to work.
Radium. Cigarettes. Asbestos.

We've seen it plenty of times when a product comes out and people with an agenda to make money off it say "buy this, it works" and then decades later it is discovered to have been toxic or harmful in some way.

Especially given the nature of this product, skepticism should be the default position.
Lack of respectful political discourse in general results in worse politics.

It should be possible to talk (and disagree) about politics without it affecting work cooperation.
I'm not sure whether the fact that it's not, is a cause or a symptom of the current political climate.
The Let's Note series is underrated. I wish they sold them in America.
Unions work well if a large part of the workforce in that sector are members, see the nordic countries for examples.

It's a bit like herd immunity.
> Vaping is in its infancy and already people's mantras sound like old Camel commercials.

I agree. I'm one of the people who managed to quit smoking using vaping and at one point I had some sort of awakening. After vaping for a couple of years I stopped and asked myself what the hell am I doing? I had countless mods, juices, RDAs, RTAs, etc.. and was a frequent contributor to the electronic_cigarette subreddit. I replaced a vice (I hated) with a hobby and was part of a cult (1). But at least I knew I was taking full responsibility for it. I knew the wattages, coil materials and what went into my juice. Most people buying stuff from gas stations or shady online retailers don't always know what they're doing (see for example the battery venting incidents).

And I stopped. I got rid of everything, vaped only unflavored juice for a while and quit altogether. After a couple of years, I ended up on the electronic_cigarette subreddit again and I was legitimately scared of what I was reading. It's a bubble. 'big tobacco' conspiracies, all doctors advising people to stop vaping are quacks, downplaying all sorts of issues (batteries venting due to shady mod soldering, hardware from China advertised as stainless steel which rusts, silica coils etc..). And nothing would change their minds. Even online vendors have these big-ass disclaimers that they won't take any responsibility for the health effects of their products but that too is classified as a plain old 'CYA' policy so you know.. nothing to worry about. Also, now they're vaping nic salts? WTF is that?

In this particular case, my personal opinion is that was definitely something seriously bad in the juice these people were vaping so I wouldn't panic just yet. Contrary to popular belief, I still believe that the CDC will get the job done and figure out the root cause. It reminds me of the time people started smoking bath salts and ended up in the ER where doctors initially didn't know what to make of it.

But I wouldn't bet any money that in a couple of years we won't find some weird/horrible side effect of vaping which appears only after prolonged use. Let's not forget that people did not get sick from cigarettes instantly...

(1) Small cult checklist:

- The group displays excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its ideology

- Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished

- The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself

- The group has a polarized us-versus-them mentality (see analog smokers)

- The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members (converting friends/family with starter kits)
Be a producer, not "a consumer".
Privacy is a human right. Not having to pay various institutions in society for services they provide is not a human right.
I can't believe someone just downvoted me, WOW! This is why I barely login to comment on HN.
In Python, specially after 3, everything is an object, easily observable by applying dir() on them.

The only thing that fails short of Smalltalk are the conditional and looping operations.

Python also offers multiple inheritance and proper meta-classes.
All dictators have to do is wait.
Clearly the cost outweighs the benefits for run-of-the-mill software and hardware, as the majority of the world's code is written outside the valley, and most low end hardware is designed outside it as well.

Also it's not worth it where the valley is behind the curve (e.g. engines are designed in different centers of excellence).

Even for venture-backed (intended-to-be) high-growth companies, the Bay Area is only about 50% of all US venture capital investment. And there has been some spread: in my professional lifetime the "Valley" has grown to encompass SF and parts of the East Bay. When I first started working here people lived in SF and commuted to tech jobs in MP and points south.

But some products are just so high margin (iPhones, Internet search, USB-powered vape tubes) that it's cheaper overall to be here and take advantage of the affordances available.
Slack allows 2-tier conversation (and IIRC, you cannot share code snippet in 2nd tier).

Reddit and HackerNews allows n-tier conversation where you can branch a thread to heart's content.
AFAIK protobufs are not schema-less.
The Hong Kong Way
We didn't 'discover' it. America's constitution is one of the shortest in the world and written in very clear language. The text is available for free around the world. Being ignorant of its contents is completely 100% on you.
Unlike most base building/crafting/exploration games, Subnautica doesn’t rely on procedural generation. It has an actual plot, and all of the environments showcase the sort of creativity and artistic choices that we simply don’t know how to teach to a computer.
Still, they are making an editorial decision that the book is worth reviewing and/or excerpting.
I got to briefly/tangentially Work with Ilan at Ooyala long time ago. Brilliant guy... very well deserved this outcome for the DD team.
Because iPhones lock up unless you decline the call.
"planet Earth doesn't care" - The printed money will end up in retirement and transfer funds. Put another way if San Francisco can't even control the human feces, homeless and needle problem - how on earth can liberals control something complex like CO2 through non market legislative means?
> How is it a betrayal of anything or anyone to vote for the better of two viable options (according to your own opinion)?

How do you weigh two options when one has a record of imposing very long-term harms (PRWORA has now been on the books for almost 30 years and if you remember her response to Sanders' accusation she helped round up the votes for PRWORA, it was to defend the law) vs a more acute set of insecurities?

That's the choice between measles (orange, fast-spreading, kill you or you recover) and polio (not orange, slower spreading, you might not ever fully recover). So I am not entirely sure from the perspective of being married to a non-American who was the lesser evil except to say they were both genuinely horrifying.

Theres a second very important point here as well. If the issues that matter to my family (for example, full inclusion in the protections of the working classes -- even we knowledge workers are working class) are not on the table, withholding my vote may be the only way to get them on the table at all, and voting for someone who has actively worked against those interests is a betrayal of that.
> People don't realize how conservative SF is:

You realize having restrictions and governmental regulation is exactly the opposite of 'conservative' (in the republican sense, which it's usually used in pejoratively), right?
What does ABP and PB add to Brave? I have used Brave for several months and found it to be excellent from a speed perspective. I sort of always assumed that if it's able to go that much faster than Chrome, it must be blocking most of the nasty trackers. But perhaps I still need to add in some reinforcements?
I don't think see the point of owning a car, if it's used by other people for most the day. I think there is going to be a big company that owns most cars.

Uber could raise the capital for it on the stock market. The problem that I see is that Uber doesn't have the technology.

In a world where self driving cars are a commodity, Uber's brand could be an advantage. But in reality, by the time Uber gets access to the technology the market has already been taken by others.
Similar story here. Smoked for ten years. Actually found it easy to replace smoking with vaping (strong menthol). Stopped vaping after 1 year because I was suffering from GERD and suspected that vaping was an attributing factor. Since I stopped 5 years ago, my GERD symptoms have more or less disappeared.

I really enjoyed vaping, probably more than smoking, but somehow it did not seem to have the same addictive effect on me as smoking had. I did not find it that hard to stop cold turkey.
It used to. They were removed later
After browsing through your site I see that you're a kid, and see how you might be inclined to classifying certain creator-narrated-advertising to be amoral. The video you cite has high production quality, with a ton of time put into it's creation. I don't agree with your assessment that the dashlane ad, which is obviously out of place in a video on electromagnetic pollution, can be construed as content versus an ad by the average user, average being the operative word.

You are free to not consume content, but automating revenue stripping en-masse from otherwise high quality content is more unethical than the supposed sketchy advertising tactics.

Unfortunately, you don't walk away from this as the moral victor.
This one?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16500974
San Francisco is conservative? I highly doubt that. I can absolutely see anyone not wanting to give away their house they spend $4m "for the greater good" of everyone else who didn't have the capital to buy a house.
This is incorrect. The solvent is boiled, not burned.
Do the merits of his claims hold true? Then I don't care if it's written by a guppy fish with I'll intention. Truth is the standard. Not the writer.
Glycol, as in ethylene glycol?