skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As soon as people's posting style moves from "don't take investment advice from comments on the internet" to "long AMD" is when I start getting suspicious that I maybe shouldn't long AMD.

Granted I'm a penniless student so I'm not longing or shorting anything but you get the point
Russia Raids a Renowned Physics Institute, and Theories Abound
Ask HN: How do hackers use Ebola?
Im genuinely curious: A post yesterday told a story about the discovery of Ebola. I asked how this was relevant to me as a hacker (seeing we're on hackernews) and within 3 minutes I was downvoted into oblivion, flagged and had the comment removed. But Im still wondering...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21461101
I've had vim open when on accidental presses before, and that always made me panic. The stuff on your screen can start jumping around like how movies always portray "hacking". If it wasn't for tools like gundo, I'd always be wondering if ran undo enough or if I went back too much.

I now have long-press disabled by default, but I used to be in a state of constant worry.
Hope is not a plan, especially when that hope has proved illusory so many times in the past.
Yeah, it is. But when you have that and start talking healthcare ... you should not relay on the system of democracy. But far too many people do.
So well they can't afford homes, health care or even food? Despite working more than full time?
Boomer here.

An exercise for those who wonder: look at historical tuition + fees costs and the minimum wage at that time. As I recall, a summer of 40 hours per week at minimum would more than cover tuition at the University of Virginia in 1970.

So, no, the education wasn't free. But it was a lot more affordable.
I am a gay male. I know the behaviors, because I’ve witnessed it countless times.

Update: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/29509889/
My parents, and their parents, and all their university peers, got grants to cover all living expenses, and paid absolutely no tuition fees. That's more than free - they were basically paid a wage to be there! None of them worked as far as I know - it was seen as full-time education.
> We are using RDS and would like to have a standard PostgreSQL instead.

Having not used Postgres RDS, what about it makes you want to have a standard Postgres instead?
Goodness. That really is incredible.
And Facebook isn't? Gmail tabs work pretty well for me. Yes, a lot of email comes in but my Primary tab is relatively clean. Email is still my primary communications method for home and work with texting in 2nd place for more immediate needs.

Added: What email was/is bad for is the family member/friend who just had to share jokes, what we call memes these days, etc. with 100 of their closest friends on a daily if not hourly basis. Facebook etc. have largely replaced that sort of thing and that's for the best. But sharing baby pictures with the grandparents? Email's is fine, even best, for that.
A lot (if not most) of remote workers live in places where shared working space is not available and general purpose offices are too expensive.
As I said I do not know much about Elixir so yo be the judge. I do however have doubts about throughput of well designed code running on VM being faster then that of native. My understanding is that on Erlang VM this throughput is achieved by using async and message passing patterns backed up by thread pools inside. All perfectly available for "low level" languages as well.
It comes from personal experience. People feel like everything else is treatable so if HIV is prevented than they’re all good to take off the condom. Can’t tell you the number of times I heard this from friends about their own behavior, from people trying to have sex with me, and from others trying to have sex with my friends (condomless).

Also: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/29509889/
What is a 'sync action'?

Async is fundamentally cooperative multitasking. There is no real difference between the 'blocking'-ness of iterating over a large for-loop and doing a blocking I/O action - the rest of your async tasks are blocked either way while another task is doing something.
You wanted to run a sentry as a service side project?
Shutterstock employees fight company's new Chinese search blacklist
As John Gielgud's character in Chariots of Fire says, "Perhaps they are God's chosen people after all."
Indeed, confirmation bias might be summarized as "hearing what you believe" - very nearly the opposite.
Yes. And I want the language to use types and compilers to eliminate that whole class of bugs.
Let's look at this from another view then.

Those rabid unproductive people are rabid and unproductive because society can't provide basic necessities such as 'housing' or 'food' or 'water'. They are being made rabid by people that would deny them the basics needed to survive.

Your argument is essentially 'Let them eat cake' and if you're at all familiar with history, I need not mention the possible origin of that phrase. When you create a desperate class of people willing to do anything to survive, you shouldn't be surprised when they show up at your doorstep seeking to drag you out into the streets.
If this software helps people realize that arguing politics on reddit isn't productive, then I'd say it's done us good.
A Computer Model from Facebook AI Research Group Can Offer You Styling Tips
Code is easy to follow. I see no problem there.

`pack_simd_row` is lambda: `|arguments: types| { body }`
Arguments are:
* `i` of type `usize` (unisgned size_t),
* tuple (anonymous struct) with two fields: vd_stripe and vt_stripe, which are modified inside of lambda. They are references to fixed size array of 8 floats.

Inside function we have loop over result of iterator, which produces tuple with two fields: `jv` and tuple with two fields: `vx` and `vy`. `vx` and `vy` are elements from `vd_stripe` and `vt_stripe`. `jv` is their index.

Inside loop we create two temporary mutable variables: `vx_tmp` and `vy_tmp`, which are fixed size array of 8 floats, which are initialized with infinity.

Then we have next loop, which goes to modify these temporary arrays in place.

And so on.
You can make pretty good money off WordPress. It's more a numbers game. If you're hardworking, willing to advertise and sell a little. Maybe do a couple of sites a day.

A lot of the people who do it are quite bad at it, so it's probably not too hard to do well in it. I almost went the route once, but landed some bigger Android projects later.
Most people in our industry aren't artisans. There's also a ton of jobs that aren't high end, but are dependable development jobs.

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/DarkMatterDevelopersTheUnseen...

If you're a "pure developer", I suspect someone like OP won't be looking at the kind of job you work in.

However, I suspect you're less concerned about your work environment than salaries being pulled down, or the "developer culture" being changed.

I will say that at different times in my life I've shared your attitude. I do believe there are those that are being sold on hype that may be out of line with reality. However, I'd rather work with someone who is novice and hungry than someone who is elitist.
Apparently because it gets your post nuked, whatever it was
Hard to say if giving the battery its own avionics is better or worse than equipping it with a parachute or steerable glider. Either way, it's the kind of thing that SpaceX decided was worth trying for the sake of fairings worth a few million apiece. Asking them how it went is probably a good place to start.

Regardless of the specifics, it's obvious that any of these schemes is a logistical and technical nightmare compared to "taxi up to the terminal, plug in the refueling hose while people and cargo are loaded onto the plane." It's unlikely that the private sector will be too enthusiastic about investing in anything like this without heavy incentives.
Version 2 of the changelog generator for gitmoji commits convention
Uh, I think pretty much all christian denominations would say everyone else does not know what real christianity. My wife says it all the time when I point out some absurdity of religion. I'll bet $100 she's not in the same sect/group you are.
The ARC reactor is still unacceptably large and expensive. Its volumetric power density is still a factor of 40 worse than a PWR primary reactor vessel.
An async function compiles down a function that returns an iterable-ish state machine thing (a Future), that needs to be stepped through. The await keyword indicates a yield point.

It's kind of like how if you declare a Python function containing the yield keyword, then the function returns an iterable rather than simply executing top to bottom.

In the same way that Python yield only makes sense from within an iterable, Rust's await keyword only makes sense inside of a Future. Outside of a Future, there'd be no concept of a yield. This is why the "outer" function must be declared async.
My parents have flipped to Google photos. They're tired of Facebook too and don't know what instagram is.
In 100 years, Flint, Michigan is going to be one of those cases in US history books that shows the ugly side of the American spirit and how little faith we have in local government to do anything right (and how that's often the case).
I'm convinced Linus Akesson is a warlock practising black magic. His "chipophone" is one of the best hacks I have ever seen.
I grew up with a whole bunch of books on astrology (among other nuage
subjects) that belonged to my mother and I used to be quite fluent in this
"language" you talk about, as a kid.

My impression, already since grade school, was that astrology did its level
best to flatter you and stroke your ego, even when it supposedly discussed
your "negative" traits which were always presented as if they were actually
positive. For instance, I remember Scorpio's vicious vindictiveness (my mother
is a Scorpio) and bloody-mindedness first noted as being the Scorpio's
downfall (from a soaring eagle to a crawling lizard) but then discussed as a
strength, a powerful weapon at the Scorpio's disposal that everyone should
take care not to provoke. Far from making it sound like vindictiveness is a
bad thing, it made Scorpio sound like a total badass (well, my mother is
badass so I was kind of convinced).

The other thing I noticed was that it didn't matter if you were a Scorpio, or
a Leo, or a Virgo, or a Libra. I could open any random page on one of my
mother's astrology books, discussing any one of the 12 signs and find a
passage that I felt described me absolutely. That is, I noticed that the
descriptions of the signs' personalities had absolutely no predictive value
whatsoever. Anyone could have any of the traits that were described as being
characteristic of their sign, or their ascendant, but also any of the traits
ascribed to every other sign.

So at least in the books that I've read (and I apologise that I don't remember
their titles but that was a while ago) astrology was basically a well-thought
out system for flattering people and filling them with empty platitudes.
Has anyone looked into mutual corps or coops that allow individual (accredited or not) investors to crowdsource solar or wind production facilities? Does it not work out financially or logistically?

edit: Never mind, it would make a lot more sense for me to post that on this collective.energy. I will do that instead.
The level of fanboyism in the comments is saddening. Many other fast and productive languages have async since a while.
Ask HN: How do I make money from an algorithm?
Hi HN,

I developed an innovative routing algorithm for Automated Guided Vehicles. I know from experience that this is very valuable for companies in that space. I also know some business owners of smaller companies, and employees of bigger companies.

I have a few options here, such as selling the algorithm to 1 company (using NDA?). Or I could try to get a patent and license it. From what I read I possibly could even go for a patent in EU.

Has anyone experience with monetizing such an algorithm? Which route should I take? I have no intention of starting a company around this since I already am starting something else.
Lump sum tax deals for foreigners have nothing to do with wealth tax really.
Nice job! Some feedback:

1. Ditch the two pulsing animations. I tried to click on the pulsing animation top-left and nothing happened.

2. The logo is hard to read. Consider simplifying your logo, but keeping the flashing red record icon on home page.

3. Keep content above the field. I didn't know I could scroll.

4. Don't make me sign up to try it. Why can't it show my webcam feed on the home page? At least defer sign up after you've given me a link that will let me broadcast my feed, then I can sign up on my phone.

5. The flashing recording icon is distracting after the initial "I get it," e.g. on the register page.

6. Be more up-front about T&C on your access to the feed.

7. Nowhere on the site does it say, "Why do I need this?" Said what you said in your post here on your website. "Hey, I'm Geoff. I wanted to keep an eye on my kids & my pets, so I made uView to save money on a camera, now you can save too! Here, give it a try: [Request Webcam Permission]"

8. Hard to read the features with the pulsing thing.

9. The weight of multiple call to actions conflict: Register, Login and "Try Free Now" all feel equally heavy.

10. Hard to read centered text on privacy policy: https://www.uview.io/privacy - also, put Privacy as a main nav link.

11. Consider making it free for 5 minutes, then you have to keep clicking to refresh. Or, an ad-driven business model where you show highly-relevant ads overlaid in the feed, since you know the person using it is interested in security.

Good luck!

edit: @dang, pleeease can we get Markdown-style list formatting? :)
While the virus analogy feels heavy-handed to me... the GPL one is actually incredibly on-point. I'll have to remember that one.
I know some very smart people who are working on this. http://el-sky.com/
The real question is the issue of crime 50 years ago when lead was far more common everywhere. We’re crime rates higher in the past when lead was more prevalent?

The destruction of the two parent family probably has more impact on crime than lead.
If you are into javascript there is a lot of nice demos here: https://js1k.com/
> It was cheap, durable, and ubiquitous.

This, this and this. Where & when I grew up - rural Norway in the eighties - just about everybody had one, ensuring that no matter what you wanted to do, someone nearby were into the same thing; magazines with code listings, books and -ahem- evaluation copies of software were all over the place; as were peripherals - this basically meant that any latecomer to personal computing chose the C64 as it was everywhere, creating a huge positive feedback loop if you got into the C64.

Poor kids next door - their parents got a good (for the seller!) price on a Dragon 32; the nearest Dragon 32 to theirs probably was in Aberdeenshire or thereabouts...
Why not a network kvm instance? There is lots of hardware out there that can do this and it doesn't limit you to the IPMI integrated hardware
How does Colorado’s Lockheed Martin keep future engineers interested in space?
Heya!

There seems to be a lack of (affordable) tools for doing quantitive research in the early stages of product development, so figured I'd build something for my fellow UXers, Information Architects and Product people.

Currently in early access, goal is to make it as useful as possible with additional features + more research methods and ultimately come up with a pricing if there is interest.

All feedback and thoughts appreciated. Thanks!
> It wasn't identified until the 80s.

We didn't identify any retroviruses until the late 70s, we didn't know to look for them. That's different.

The first peer reviewed paper on human retroviruses wasn't until 1984.

https://retrovirology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/174...
In fact the impact of the 1st is substantially greater, because of the energy required for takeoff.
It also sucks pretty badly as a photo management app, especially when compared to Apple Photos.
See Gramsci's work on hegemony. Or (slightly easier) Tressel's "Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" which makes exactly the point about how the poor become convinced that it's better to give more things to the rich.
If you go anywhere within Latin America, you'll find quite quickly that "American" is used to describe someone from the continents, and it's consider very odd to introduce yourself as "American" to a local. You say you're Estadounidense, or "Soy de Estados Unidos" (From the United States).

It's actually a very charged topic in Latin America, as many latinos feel that the word they use to describe themselves has been stolen.
Frank Herbert wrote a couple of novels about the Bureau of Sabotage.

The setting had a government so powerful that it could cause horrible problems with offhand decisions, and so large that it couldn't be reasoned with or set unified policy. (It rather reminds me computerized stock trading today, with problems like the "flash crash" where decisions outrun the actual intent of any human involved.) It couldn't shrink or slow down and still handle genuinely pressing decisions, so the solution was an agency meant to delay and interrupt whatever actions it thought would cause problems.

I certainly don't think modern governments are so efficient they need to be intentionally delayed, but the nature of the department is interesting: powerful and almost unrestricted in oversight, but strictly reactive and unable to make policy. It's not a perfect fix, but regulatory capture and incompetence are less worrying when the people deciding on government procedures aren't the same ones enforcing them.

In the real world, that might look like a Department of Exceptions. It would be unable to make or even change policy, but would have broad power to reverse specific government decisions. The point isn't to fix bad governance, that's too hard a problem, but to fix issues like this where the edge cases of a rule produce absurd results. For safety from overreach, it would probably need to be one-sided; able to undo government actions on private entities, but not apply new ones or step into private disputes. (I.e. it can grant you a car registration without the normal papers, but it can't peanlize a non-crime or reverse a civil lawsuit.) And for safety from capture, it can't be unaccountable, but holding it to strict policies would be self-defeating - perhaps the best fix would simply be to record common-sense rationales for each decision, and set a low bar to fire or vote out employees for bad decisions.

It's a wild idea, and I can see a host of possible issues. But your point about courts is interesting: we already have a system which can't make law, but has enormous power to review government decisions. This would be much the same idea, aimed at irrational actions instead of illegal ones.
This stuff is easy to generalize and misunderstand.
Really nice, but this is not a "File System" but an I/O library.
> point source capturing co2 from burning fossil fuels and then turning it into more liquid fuels that you then burn again is madness. you get that right?

Only if you equally value energy at the time of burning and the time of conversion.

Imagine a natural gas peaker plant that captures CO2 during its typical operation, but it converts that CO2 back into a synthetic fuel during periods of energy surplus (when renewables provide more than 100% of the demand). The synthetic fuel is then essentially a battery, which just happens to be energy-dense.

There also reasonable ways of acquiring a "green" CO2 stream that does not involve fossil fuels; non-liquid biofuels (ex, cellulose or charcoal) would work here.
How do you know you understand real Christianity, as opposed to other Christians who hold fast to an emasculated version?
IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display
See current article on HN about Facebook leaks.

Lying at scale without consequences seems to be becoming more prevalent. The inventor of that is generally considered to be Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister. He used radio and film technology, which were new at the time, plus large rallies, to present a consistent but bogus view of reality.

After WWII, that sort of thing had such a bad reputation that it was not used much until after the WWII generation died off.
You're right, the bridge is very narrow and the lens has a very long field, which makes the picture a bit deceptive (useful also to give the impression of a concentrated crowd). The bridge is about 6 metres wide (two narrow car lanes) but the farthest visible point is about 250 metres away. So it could be approximately 1500 square metres, and a crowd of about 1000-2000 people, although those who are actually visible are far less.

Nice tool though, I'll use it again!
idk if people are downvoting me because they think $20 a month for a social network isn't crazy, or if they think that someone willing to pay $1 a month isn't a sign of appetite for paid social networks...
Whether a function is async-safe isn't black and white. A function that performs calculations may return instantly on a small dataset but block for "too long" on large parameters. On what is "too long" will vary widely depending on your application.
While the behavior of a large for-loop and a blocking I/O action doesn't change the event loop, I'd still appreciate the compiler helping me identify the blocking I/O loop. I'll take whatever help I can get.
It's been surprising to me to behold the hawkish rhetoric we get in the press re: Turkey and Iran lately. I don't believe it's coming from people who are genuinely concerned about the fate of the PKK
If we accept those premises, is it advisable to allow the populace to vote on our lives and property?
Sort of, I guess. But it’s also the idea that most people receive a lot of information passively as a result of whatever ads are shown to them on tv, YouTube, Facebook, etc - so all that money goes to the volume of propaganda pushed out promoting one result or another. Important concepts often have nuance, and that means some good and some bad, and if you’re on one side or the other you can tell the part of the story you wish to become the narrative.
This is why people say "The first million was the hardest", because after you have used their skills to make a million others will trust your skills and thus give you more exposure and opportunities.

It is precisely advantages like this that drive the "trickle up" effect. To use your original example, let's say one author legitimately wrote a book that was 10% 'better' than the next best effort. As a result, many more people bought her book (let's leave aside for now the notion of winner-take-all markets, which is another factor in the skewed distribution), and now she (and her publisher) are enriched. On her next book, they can afford a lot more promotion, and with her name recognition, her next book is a huge success, even though it is 10% worse than her nearest competitor. Now they've both written two books, and they're both 1-1 in terms of quality. But the one with the first good book has two best-sellers, and the second is a failure who will probably drop out.

No one is saying that the first author is morally wrong, they're simply saying that if we, as a society, want to reward people according to their skill and effort, the current system fails in numerous cases because it is heavily biased in favor of existing wealth over talent.