skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't have to have an 8 hour shift. What about a 6 hour shift with breaks?
Bass/DR1: The nature of the most luminous obscured AGN in low-redshift universe
> Having said that, there is a lot of good Pizza in the US

Northeast region pizzerias are a given. Varasano's down south in Atlanta is pretty fantastic however.
The negative social side effects of these drugs have more do to with becoming a member of a stigmatized social group than the drug itself
The First Transhumanist Presidential Primary
> Why is CNN even remotely relevant?

> That CNN is part of the propaganda machine is doubtless.

So being "part of the propaganda machine" isn't enough to qualify as "even remotely relevant"? :/ If you value consistency and intellectual honesty you might want to backtrack on one of these claims or at least admit that your statements are obviously incompatible without further qualification. "Even remotely" isn't a very high bar to meet.
(This missed my question. Once the compiler is updated to the uArch change, we don't rebuild all binaries out there that were built by the old versions, and their speed is possibly compromised by the uArch change. Should we then even care about emitting binary code optimized for a given uArch, if we can guarantee it is stable in time?)
Corporations hold no allegiance to any flag (well unless chinese :) ) they only serve their own interest.

'The secret outside influence' on usa is negligible scarecrow used to put fear in people, so they pay attention to scary putin instead of focusing on who really runs the country.
Honestly how much influance do you think russia had on last election?
I don't think it's necessary to prevent minors from accessing pornography. 17 year old teenagers have a sex drive, it's time that society gets over it.
Well, obviously different tasks have differing levels of complexity and difficulty. I'm sure no one seriously thought that exactly 10,000 hours were needed for mastery of all tasks.
NVC makes sense to me.

I reject the idea that we have libertarian free will. In my view, each of us is an ongoing process, we don't strictly end at our skin lines (the world is a unity, maybe quantum fields), and no one is responsible for their actions in the strictest sense.

In other words, "You didn't build that" because there is no separate, tangible "you" to have built it.

I don't usually talk about this, because it often makes people uncomfortable, and I don't typically don't care enough to try to answer all the questions that such a view raises.

What I have noticed is that this view has allowed me to be a lot more charitable with others and with myself. If someone cuts me off in traffic, I feel a flash of anger which then fades pretty quickly, as I remind myself that the driver is as much a victim or a winner of life unfolding as I am. I think it's important to develop in myself as much of a sense of compassion for myself and others as I can.
Coherent nanomechanical oscillator driven by single-electron tunnelling
Humboldt is still remembered in Chile, especially the Patagonia region. He visited the area and gave his name to the cold current that sweeps up from Antarctica and makes Chile a poor beach destination in spite of its thousands of kilometers of coastline.
All transit projects in San Francisco are actually combined sewer, power, and water projects with transit branding. Better Market Street's budget incorporates all these components: https://www.sfcta.org/projects/better-market-street
You might get more mileage with Catholic.
Analogue Pocket: a gorgeous handheld for playing your old Game Boy games
Sfmta votes unanimously to ban private cars from part of Market Street
Businesses optimize for low middle management quality (being able to keep track of attendance == good enough), not for good grunt quality.
How is that? If more 'ordinary' people understood that the only functional encryption is one that is resistant to MitM etc., and the undesirability of implementing backdoors, even for ostensibly legitimate reasons, there would be far more pressure on legislators to not keep advancing these proposals than there is now.
Hah, I take it back then...
Cool Spotify Excel Dashboard
People said the same thing about IE6, then IE7, then IE8, then IE9, then IE10. At some point you have to pull the plug on your customers or they will bleed you to death with technical debt and wasted productivity.
It's pretty hard to evaluate. If you're asserting that Tor is used more for criminal purposes than non-criminal purposes, I think you might be right. But that would be a simplistic way to evaluate the impact of Tor (or really any tool) on society.
Not sure what to think about it. Seems awesome at first glance but then the examples are skipping songs and hand waving pokemons. Feels a lot like a solution looking for a problem.
OpenShift 4.2 developer tool release notes
Exactly it looks cool, but no one needs to make fancy tiring gestures to control the app when you can just do it by a few taps, not the mention most people already know how to navigate touch screens with gestures and taps.
Desert Rock Exercises
Innovative Apple Watch Series 5: OLED LTPO Display, Compass, Always on Feature
From the text of the article, the title ought to be "Although the idea is 40 years old, there is no conclusive proof that depressive realism exists and the evidence suggesting that it does may be an artifact of experimental design."

I'm not actually sure what to make of this article, to be honest. The two sources interviewed are very clear that 'depressive realism' is a poorly supported and not particularly useful concept, but the inertia of the article leads in the opposite direction.
I upgrade my Apple Watch every other iteration: so 1, 3, and now 5. Apple's heart-rate monitoring has been generally found to be the most accurate amongst smart watches which makes the Apple Watch a great fitness tracker. The new always-on display will be a major plus for me. I still find software upgrades on Apple Watch to be hit and miss, it's a quite a slow and laborious process. Cellular roaming for normal usage needs to be addressed, it prevents me from buying the cellular version.
I think legalization is good. I also think universal healthcare is good. Unfortunately healthcare is super expensive and enabling certain behaviors increases costs a lot. Different estimates seem to suggest that (back in 2015) the opioid epidemic had had an economic cost somewhere between a half a trillion and a trillion dollars, and it's increasing [0, 1]. Full-on prohibition is bad, but maybe there's still lots of societal value in having some controlled substances.

[0] https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/images...

[1]https://altarum.org/news/economic-toll-opioid-crisis-us-exce....
By what measure is he, or indeed anyone really, a "full on Communist"? I have always believed there have never been any real ones.
Everyman's Library put out a book with selections from his writings last year, great stuff.
There's a difference between enlisting help to enact desired changes in ones consciousness and being brainwashed. There's nothing "Clockwork Orange" about this.
> The idea that awarding a prize to the most respected scientists in a particular field is solely for the purpose of advancing an ideology is in itself extremely anti-intellectual and biased.

The very idea of it is anti-intellectual? That's absurd. There's nothing magical about awarding prizes to scientists that prevents it from being done with a motivation. The committee famously cancelled the prize for a year to avoid awarding it to Einstein, since he was a Jew with radical political beliefs.
We're getting perilously close to seeing software developers reduced to those kinds of measurements again. People stuck working in "Agile" shops are putting up with "velocity" metrics. And with the spread of GitPrime, for instance, they're even seeing lines of code per day used as part of their metrics; something that used to be considered a relic of the past.
One thing I've found to be true throughout my career: the culture and ethos of organizations is usually a direct consequence of the culture and ethos of the leader who built it initially, and remains as such loooong after said leader is gone.

Well guess what ... the android team at google and the entire android ecosystem is the brainchild of Andy Rubin, who has recently been outed publicly as a total asshole (and who everyone at Google knew was a total asshole since pretty much the start of Android).

All the things wrong with Android, including the iron-fisted management of what can and cannot run on the platform ("I know, I'm squeezing your balls til you pass out, but don't worry, it's for your own protection") can easily be traced to him.
I love mushrooms, and pick and enjoy both edible and psychedelic types, but this advice is frankly terrible. Russian roulette indeed.
Sometimes illegal activity is an ethical necessity.
I would say, it’s a horrible use of taxes to have the government attempt the Sisyphean task of classifying every site on the Internet and keeping it updated.

If porn is a social ill (not sure I’m convinced, but I probably could be with some data), before we go all boot-on-face, let’s at least try engaging with minors first.

As a minor in the US I was subjected to countless classes and lectures exploring the harms of tobacco, drugs, and alcohol. If a minor in the US begins smoking, it’s not because they’ve never heard that cigarettes cause cancer.

Are youth in the UK educated about porn and its harms? I would say starting there seems smarter.
Ah yes, the multi-billion dollar megacorp trying to prevent goodwill donations.
Dear regulators: BREAK UP GOOGLE.
It doesn't matter to me as I personally don't bother and outsource the job - that's the point.
Glasgow may be in the words of Frankie Boyle "like Blade Runner without the special effects" but it is worth noting that it is definitely one of the friendliest cities, whereas here in Edinburgh we might have one of the most beautiful cities in the world but the inhabitants tend to be comparatively grim of mood.
What the Decentralized Web Can Learn from Wikipedia
I completely agree. Then of course, when I point out that it means that suicide is a totally valid and perhaps good option, people tell me I'm seriously depressed, not mildly.

Maybe there's not such a big difference between the two, mild and debilitating depression, just the amount of energy you're willing to put into living your life.
Yes, that would be nice, but at this point it would take a few billion to replicate all the functionality - who is going to be willing to pay for that and be still tied to Google? Might as well start a brand new smartphone/OS company...
A thread from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12063808

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8929040
I sometimes do call them robots, but you could exclude them on the basis of lack of mobility, or, better yet, lack of decision making. (Although a friend of mine has a laundry dryer with a moisture sensor.)

In a sense, anything with a PID controller or even just a governor could be considered a "robot", or at least "automation", eh?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_governor
Sun's OpenWindows documentation had a man page for every OPEN LOOK cursor! How you'd figure out the name of the cursor you see on the screen to look it up in the manual, I have no idea.
In what universe is that true?

The very essence of being a boss is having the means to force you subordinates to submit to you, and at most companies I've worked with that's an explicit primary benefit to the rank!
“Tag a friend in this post. If we become friends, you both get $20”
(1) lack of primitive hash tables (2) lack of primitive arrays

I'll note that if there are primitive arrays and the compiler optimizes arithmetic, the rest of the hash table can be implemented in Bel.

Also, maybe a Sufficiently Smart Compiler could prove that a list's cdrs will never change, store it in cdr-coded form, and treat it like an array (with the ability to zoom right to, say, element 74087 without chasing a bunch of pointers).
Natron: Cross-Platform Open Source After Effects Alternative
Ask HN: Advantages of Using APM Software (AppD, NewRelic, DataDog)?
To my fellow DevOps folks, what makes using an APM software vendor (AppD, NewRelic, DataDog) so much better than using something developed in-house?
I've tinkered around with gesture recognition with the Magic Leap quite a bit for art projects. I hope this gets released as a standalone product with an SDK!
I think the mind is constantly trying to avoid death, and when we learn death cannot be avoided we come up with "solutions" like an afterlife, reincarnation...
Can someone explain to me why they would spend effort on this kind of thing? Other than minimalist websites like HN, I can't remember the last time I saw completely unstyled form inputs in the wild.

If every web developer is going to immediately reach for CSS/JS to style these things, who cares what the default style is?
This OP is about an app being dropped from the Play Store because they're asking for donations. That's a pretty good reason.
Since the UK is not a patriarchal society, this comment contributes nothing.

Also, to keep the peace in societies such as you described, it would probably make sense to have pornography available as outlet for repressed sexual desires.
You can use the Tor network through bridge nodes and in fact the Tor Browser Bundle will ask you if you need to connect this way on first run.
Nope, I mean owning or having control over money (which is effectively a share of societies productive output). The alternative to rich people (in this case kids) having control over this money, is to tax them. That money could then be redistributed to others. The Universal Basic Income is a concrete proposal based around this kind of insight.
This seems an awful lot like the eye/head tracking in the Amazon Fire phone and that went over super well.

This type of input makes sense in certain applications/platforms but a phone isn't one of them - at least not with current phone usage patterns.
In England you can sue a company for failing to follow its own policies but I don't know if this is possible as a small claim. If not it's probably eye-wateringly expensive.
before I built : http://foxie.cool
Gathr was the name we had haha
Like voice assistants, it's amazing tech—if there's some way to use it that doesn't make me a data-collection appendage of a spyvertising company. Their data collection & hoarding activity is quite dangerous and this just means they're gonna get more private and sensitive data about me and everyone and everything I care about, whether or not I buy a device with one of these.

[EDIT] to expand, the hate train is because they're the world's richest and best stalkers & peeping Toms. Any time they come out with new tech it's usually used to make them richer, even better stalkers & peeping Toms. It's intensely creepy and a little hard to see past.
As stated, no evidence.

I would like to make a point that the effect doesn't have to benefit everyone equally. Historically powerful factions of society have pushed things to the detriment of the majority and the furtherance of a tiny minority.
> I strongly disagree with the hypothesis that people are not responsible enough to make decisions for themselves.

Well, with all due respect, you've lived either a short life or a sheltered life.

People have weak moments in their life.
I read the book and I want my money back
They probably dumped hundred thousands man hours and hundred millions $ on this so we can skip songs while cooking. Every time I see a project like that released by a major tech company I lose a bit of my faith in tech.
Yeah but its not if you have children, its if you see them. Children are not playing in the streets of Denver or Cleveland.
I have a desktop at work, and a personal laptop at home. When I work from home I use Teamviewer.
It seems like google has the unfortunate culture of just releasing a bunch of new services, not maintaining them, and allowing them to die. (Remember all of their chat apps?) I think I’ve read it’s due to google’s promotion process and needing to “release” something to move upward. I expect the majority of these service to no longer be around in 5 years.
17.3% of schools in New York start later than 8.30, the majority starts between 8-8.30 SA starts at 7.45 yet they dominate the Top 30 out of a sample of 2400 schools.

I can live with that as a significant sample size and control group ESPECIALLY since I never said that the earlier you are up the better but simply that it's not a problem if you get early enough to sleep.

The study you refer to compares 2, TWO schools and doesn't come to any conclusion that contradicts mine in fact it support it. More sleep means better performance most of all.

But sure keep on claiming I am the one who is making anecdotal claims.
<> avoids syntactic ambiguity just fine-- There won't be an identifier or constant before it. <1,2,3> <1> and <> are all plausible-looking and you don't need to guess how to do 1 element or 0 element things if you know <1,2,3>.

> Honestly, the more I've learned different languages the more I've come to the conclusion that little syntax changes like this are minor, for the most part,

Sure, it's minor. But it's one of the few things I tripped over learning python and had to google repeatedly to get to stick in my head.

The fact that python has relatively few cases of weirdness like this-- compared to say, perl-- is a big part of what makes python nice.
Radar is just turned off in Japan. Wonder why India banned it.
Show HN: Health Insurance Out-of-Pocket Cost Calculator
Merged thither. Thanks!

Edit: oops, this one was posted earlier and that was the dupe. Fixed now.
Disclaimer: am a co-founder of this company

Applied Brain Research has software called Nengo (www.nengo.ai) explicitly for developing neural network models and compiling them to different backends, including CPUs, GPUs, and neuromorphic hardware (Intel's Loihi, Spinnaker, Spinnaker 2, BrainDrop). It's been battle tested for over 10 years of developing models, built the world's largest functional brain model (https://bit.ly/2VNGgSX), integrates deep learning and spiking neural networks. Would be interested to hear your thoughts on it.
Reviews costing a dime a dozen i don't really think it's a valuable indicator of success, use or quality.
My social-network/IM app (https://movim.eu/) got also removed from the Play Store because I had a link to the F-Droid app.

The Android app is basically a web-view pointing to one of the many instances of the social network https://nl.movim.eu/?login.

Regarding the time (and also money) spent to publish the APK on the Play Store and the hassle it is to discuss with the Google moderation team I didn't bothered putting it back.
Inherited Learning? It Happens, but How Is Uncertain
If that's the case they've enabled a whole lot of criminal activity to trap relatively very few criminals so far.
‘Broken Windows’ Theory Was Right About the Windows
I've been learning more about these psychedelics and they seem to have good medical benefits but if anyone is looking for a psychedelic or spiritual breakthrough, similar breakthroughs have been achieved through things like kundalini yoga.
Its the same as weight training vs steroids, but of course you can do both. You might not be ready or even know how to process your experience if you just take a drug. (I'm not talking about for medical purposes)
>Ugh, app stores!
>No one needs them for discovering new software

I so badly wish I could agree with you :)

Sadly, observing the non-tech folks around me, some of which don't even know what an app is, and some of which think the only apps they'll ever use on their phone is the ones it came loaded with ... it's not true.

What is needed is an android app. store that is decentralized / distributed, where the "trust" of an app is a consensus-based score and that has the popularity of whatsapp.
I'm arguing in favor of legalization, not against it. In my estimation legalization means more addicts, a greater burden of addiction for society, fewer people in jail, and fewer bystanders hurt by the business. On balance it's the more moral choice, because for the most part those who end up experiencing the negative effects are doing so by choice, and dealing with legal addicts is preferable to dealing with illegal enterprises.

tl;dr Legalization makes sense, because even though more people end up negatively impacted, they are generally only hurting themselves.
A friend of mine used to tell a story of a Mercedes Benz car he knew from the German embassy in Cairo. When they first went there, it was their car. It had a crack on the engine head that leaked a little bit of oil, just enough to make the crack obvious.

When they went back, the car was still there. Still being used day in, day out, for 10 years. It still had the crack on the engine.
Discriminatory pricing. What could possibly go wrong?
That and to fight hippies and the anti-materialistic movements.

If individuals mostly make decisions based on a number of internal currents, conscious and unconscious, the same must apply to collectives.
There are mobile apps or fitness watches/bands that apparently can tell your sleep state based on your movement etc. I don't know how accurate they are because my phone is cheap with cheap sensors.

You tell these apps what time you want to wake up at the latest, and they will ring the alarm before that time when you are not in deep sleep.
Well, I don't know where communication went wrong, but I'm not talking about catering to China's demands. My original point was that this whole thing could have negatively impacted the company regardless of how they chose to act. I stated as clearly as I know how that it's probably a case of "caught in the crossfire" and blamed for being shot when the only way to escape the crossfire entirely would be "you shouldn't have been born in that time and place as it wasn't safe."

You can be a peacenik conscientious objector who refuses to take sides in the war and still get caught in the crossfire while minding your own business and trying your hardest to stay out of the fray.
Congratulations on costing us hundreds of dollars in damage just so you could feel like a big strong man for 30 seconds.
Building a Product Catalog: eBay's University Machine Learning Competition
I wouldn’t call the general idea “moronic”, however the attitude of the UK government seemed to treat “website” as equivalent to “publication” without any awareness of how much larger the current film classification board would have to become for that to work.

Separately, I would argue that if even one category of content should be age restricted, then internet access as a whole should be age restricted. AI isn’t ready to be a good age-appropriate filter yet.
If the aim is to reduce the social problems caused by addiction then criminalization is the wrong way to do it.

Now addicts are 'taken care' by the justice system which is less effective and more expensive than social and healthcare programs would be if applied to the same population.
The real question is why is that a goal in the first place? What is the harm prevented?

The way I see it avoiding awkward conversations seems to be the most consistent "real goal" judging by other actions.
So? I don't understand your point. Authoritarian solutions are good as long as they are not "the Final solution" because ... ? And what does having to follow the law have to do with any of this? Even "the Final solution" was law, and in a developed country at that, so ... yeah, could you explain what your point is there?
> You weren't going to deduct the donation from your taxes anyway.

Unless I’m mistaken, this is only possible if you’re donating to a registered charity. Many view open source as more noble, but OSS developers don’t magically get a different rule book :)

(I don’t disagree with your perspective here, but the prevailing sentiment in this thread seems to be that OSS developers should get a different rule book.)