skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very true. Newton was an alchemist first and foremost and spent the vast majority of his time practicing alchemy rather than -what today one would call- science. One has to wonder what private reasons/results a genius of his magnitude had, in order to do that.

This little known fact is so embarrassing to some institutions [2], that they made up a new word "chymistry" in order to further obscure the issue and not outright admit the obvious.

[1] http://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/texts/newtons-works/alchem...

[2] https://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/newton/project/about.do

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Newton-Alchemist-Science-Enigma-Natur...
And yet there it was, right in front of your eyes, right in the middle of the tourists.

When I walk in Venice I constantly meet locals I know, going around their daily life.

It's hard to see this unless you are with some of them.

And even if you see it, it won't tell you anything unless you are part of it.

It's fascinating to see how two different "species" of animals coexist and barely interact on a meaningful level.

I'm not saying it's a good situation but it's not a living museum, people live, work, love and fight there.

We can't dismiss them because we don't see them.
I remember working at a startup with separate ops and no docker. I just remember it causing a lot of friction and it slowed us down. I see no reason why ops people wouldn't enjoy docker just as much as devs. I found it cleaner on average than system config trackers like ansible or puppet, and could reduce the complexity of your configuration management.
This is a neat idea. Seems there's room to weigh value of electorate based on how liberally they praise. Thanks for sharing
If we didn't use mathematics in science, what else could we have used?
Jaeger Graduates CNCF
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. If people show up here to discuss their work and get harangued, what incentive do they have to show up at all? If we allow commenters to disincentivize that, HN will be less interesting and worse.

It's fine to ask a good-faith question or make a good-faith critique. It's not fine to cross-examine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's harder for Eve to get your loved ones to betray you than to speak for 5 seconds.
if you care about privacy you’d be better off with Mozilla Firefox. Brave is just a Trojan horse for Eich’s ambition to replace google as an ad broker. With a meaningless market share it’s not likely but still, it’s important to know what Brave is about, and it’s not about the users.
Print multi-material devices in one go
Cool! Will definitely have a look at it!
It must be hard to be someone like him. Always chasing the original high that made him famous, the enormous pressure to succeed must be nauseating.

Instead of retiring and relaxing and looking back on an impactful and lucky career, it says something about how powerful the original emotions were that led him to his current point.

He will do anything to get back to that state, that place in time, even sacrifice what are supposed to be the good years of his life stuck behind a screen.
Nah, I see it on student laptops all the time (who aren't running anything with the lid off).

Also not correlated to putting pressure on the lid with it closed, I've lugged mine around in a backpack full of stuff for years and have no peeling issues.
you're possibly thinking of the problem of consciousness, which is a totally separate thing.

Disagree.
The social media websites could have been hacked by some attacker, the private keys could have been obtained as well. Or put there by an attacker that is now locked out by 2FA.

The entire point of 2FA is that it's a second factor and no way around it without a second factor that is verifiable without doubt.
magical breakthrough ...

https://research.fb.com/publications/canonical-surface-mappi...
In a time where a belligerent crowd of rowdy people with a shallow education in social pseudo science, a penchant for social atomisation and self-victimization has our industry by the throat, you'd have to be a fool to do anything, even something as simple as wearing a hat, that goes against the contradition-riddled narrative being spun.

It's akin to pissing into the wind.

Unless you've something to sell (including yourself via talks/appearances), stay off social media, except for interactions with your close friends/family, don't engage with this nonsense and just focus on your own skills and growth, both tech-related and not.

It's not worth it and this is all destined to blow over. Remember when we all used to agree to not engage the troll? That applies more than ever.

The Linux Foundation has been an utter shitshow for a while now, but who actually cares? Keep using its members' projects for free, don't support the foundation financially and move on with life.

It will all blow over. Don't cause your career irreparable damage over a bellicose flash in the pan.
Stop Wasting Your Designers Time
Ya right.

Try getting your avg software engineer to get out from behind a desk, and go have a conversation with someone they have issues with.
How do you know he isn't just doing what interests him? Not everyone wants to retire, especially highly creative people.
Cities of the Future: Preserving Privacy in AI-Powered Urban Planning
Technically, a human can't draw a human. A human can only draw something that looks like a human to another human. The human viewer is doing most of the work by imagining that the drawn human is real (or by recalling the real human suggested by the drawing).

As an example, consider all of these ASCII stick figures:

http://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/s/stickman.txt

Clearly, it isn't necessary to deeply comprehend the essential nature of humanity in order to draw one.

Knowing how a mind works well enough to build one is an immense task. A better analogy would be building a human body from scratch, which is also something humans can't do.
Don't volunteer at a soup kitchen as a software engineer if you want to do good. Volunteer at a soup kitchen if you want to get some warm fuzzies. It's near a complete waste of your time from a doing good standpoint. You have a highly in demand, specialised skillset. Use it to earn money and donate to a soup kitchen (or a more efficient charity) instead.

Hardness of an activity or it involving things you don't want to see have no bearing to its goodness.
What, pray tell, did Elon do that is "novel"?
I get it... but it would be really nice to include WHY these comparisons are important somewhere
That's an interesting insight. Was it "pulled out" or "we screwed up the next gen product" though? Quite a gap between Opteron and Threadripper, so you're probably on to something.
Canaan Creative Sets Terms, Plans to Rake in $100M in Upcoming US IPO
Easy enough, except it says that they must satisfy EACH of the conditions, not one of the conditions.
Neo Founder Explains Why the Internet Is Imperfect
ML is not AGI
Iris (YC S16) is hiring a C++ engineer – AI for autonomous industrial drones
Tara Westover on Trump and Rural America
Absolutely and of course the opportunity cost from missing out on a lucrative oil field could buy a room full of compute.
My issue is that he implies that there’s something nefarious going on because of a lack of discussion of genes. I claim he lacks critical thinking because he ignores that the book’s primary audience is a person with past trauma, not someone with sufficient biological understanding to get the nuances of “genes”. So, instead of implying some political agenda, it’s safer to infer that the author left out the discussions to prevent an overly-generalized explanation that may cause more harm. For example, see what happened with BRCA. Look also what happened with “The Bell Curve”. It’s easy for a lay reader to view genetics as the cause rather than one (extremely nuanced) factor of many. And, when we see that many victims of trauma are, by circumstance, at the lower end of the social class spectrum, this leads down a slippery slope.

Second, medical doctors aren’t usually also research scientists. They’re specialists in clinical treatment of physiology. He’s probably smart and well educated. But, not a scientist. As an analogy, it’s similar to when I cringe when I see a programmer try to write a new cryptography protocol or algorithm. Some things are complex and risky enough to leave to the experts.
One of the main goals of a PhD is educating an individual so they can independently direct a research program.

Awarding PhDs to pairs of people goes directly against that.
I had no idea Rod Stewart covered the Tom Waits song "Downtown Train".

I do not thank this article for informing me of this fact. It is a horrible cover. The world needs more Tom Waits and less Rod Stewart.
Could you summarize what exactly interesting insights did you gained by casting this problem as the election system? Unfortunately abstract fails to communicate this (I hate "teaser-only" abstracts!). Also, it might be easy to go from relative metric to sort of absolute by comparing against a "starndard" agent, for example, a random agent.
Carmack might just be a basilisker after all!
It's nothing too crazy, simply that for brand awareness campaigns to work, or even collect the market research data that you are talking about you need to spend significant money for a decent period of time. Something that smaller companies tend to not have while they are focusing on starting predictable growth and product market fit more than scale. Smaller companies will invest in marketing that has some guarantees of performance like retargeting, email or search rather than brand.
You seem to have a very blase understanding of scientific progress and genius. The fact that hundreds of world class scientists have been working in a field for decades does not at all mean that a genius can't come along and make groundbreaking progress. That's the very definition of genius, someone that makes a leap "off the path" that nobody before him could make.
Here's another one for ya if you get stuck with a case of the nosleeps - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wKu13wmHog

Something about predatory nature of both insects seems to tune up their intelligence. Of course it never hurts having the BBC tell your story either.
His interview on JRE was pretty enlightening. He definitely has a polymath background to navigate towards the right direction. I believe he’ll be working closely with Musk and Neuralink.
Well, you could say the same thing about most notifications including most emails, yet people presumably like notifications so much they'll get them delivered straight to their wrist watch.

I don't see how Github is much different in this regard. Besides, maybe you want the notifications while on the clock.
The philosophical musings about what it means to "draw a human" are pedantic and really not relevant. My point is that "dog cannot do dog-related task" does not imply or even suggest that "human cannot do human-related task". It's pseudo-logic of the sort that is unfortunately often very convincing to people.
What features make it the editor or choice?
I just hit "Buy" and it was bought -- I didn't get any prompt that I noticed except for "approve this on your watch"
Between being forced to reduce margins to meet Walmart and other grocery stores price points and then the sudden loss of 4% of their sales volume. I feel pretty comfortable in the assertion.

/me shrugs.
Math truly is the language of the universe.
He took his cat to the animal shelter because it was getting old. Justice for Mitzi!
I'd rather get an app notification than an email notification for pretty much everything I can think of. I'd be surprised if I wasn't in the vast majority on this.
Sounds like I'll be able to put a fake 1kph speed limit sign on a stick and cause everyone to hear terribly annoying warnings to slow down? I look forward to it.
Moto Razr 2019: A foldable smartphone with no display crease
When pray tells come into the conversation... :)
Exactly. I have been hearing about this stuff for ages. Oil companies optimized raping the land decades ago.
How can soheil opt out?
This is awesome. I've always been a super 'smeller' and seem to be able to taste/smell very minute concentrations of bad stuff well before others. Being careful what I say, I also work in EMS and have been able to identify 'sick' patients, even just on walking in the room, often their smell of their 'sickness' gives them away - even when they're not showing a lot of outward signs.

Hopefully someday we'll have some kind of tricorder device that can identify disease processes by gas/scents/smells.
David Shah is creating open source FPGA tools
Convince people to give him a lot of money to set on fire.
Ask HN: What Ever Happened to Airpair?
A few years back Airpair allowed you to hire experts for 1:1 consultation. I noticed today that their site is basically defunct and that they haven't had any twitter posts since 2016. Anyone here know what happened to them? I'm just curious.
Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes the thread even worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Another plagiarized story, ripped verbatim from Cointelegraph with actual author byline stripped:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/canaan-creative-sets-terms-pl...

Please flag down clickbait-plagiarism content farms.
Love it, passion for his subject and a great message.
Reminds me of the LifeAfter podcast:
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/panoply/the-message
Can you please stop breaking the site guidelines in comments here? Doing this will eventually get your account banned, and we've already had to ask you repeatedly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Pick your favorite designer perfume/cologne and look at the reviews on Amazon. (For example, Creed Aventus [1]). A large percentage will say "fake".

I can't believe any trademarked brand would sell on Amazon, given they do not care to control their supply chain. It's a lose-lose: unhappy customers getting ripped off, and name brands getting disappointed customers of their faked products.

1. https://www.amazon.com/Creed-Aventus-Parfum-Spray-Ounce/dp/B...
I think they're mainly benefiting from the Trump era. When it ends, I think their subscription numbers will plummet, since there won't be so many shocking things happening every day.
I hope you at least got a diamond with an official certificate containing the picture and signature of the child soldier that found it.
Using light to generate order in an exotic material
because VCs believe it gives them defensibility
> and A^* is a standard notation for the conjugate transpose

This seems strange. I didn't realize A† was mainly only used in quantum mechanics, but it seems better to have a distinct notation, since A* could mean a matrix with all the entries conjugated but in the same places.

So, from a physics standpoint it appears to have a bit of a mathematics accent, which is a bit like how real accents are perceived: someone who has lived in two countries will have a foreign accent according to natives of each.
Yeah I believe in this game / simulated world NPC idea too. To get the kind of complexity we want we either need sensors in the real world or interfacing in a virtual world that humans bring complexity to (probably both -- the humans are part of the sensing technology to start). Things like AlphaZero etc. got good cuz they had a simulatable model of the world (just a chess board + next state function in their case). We need increasingly complex and intetesting forms of that.

In some sense you can think of interfacing w/ the online world + trying to win attention to yourself as the kind of general game that is being played.
I also see a lot of hare-brained stuff in Berlin, fairly transparent money grabbing schemes with little hope to make a positive difference for anything and little innovation / originality.

Germany's most successful former startup is Zalando - they sell clothes online. Notably its success isn't selling the company to a stronger US rival who could have as well crushed it, but saved time and maybe money by buying instead.
This is incredible.

The thought of her ability potentially leading to advances in disease diagnosis is a humbling reminder of how complex the human body really is. And that there is still more to know.
The problem is that even if you don't sell on Amazon, Amazon is more then happy to let counter-fitters crap on your brand.
> Things came to a head when King Charles I came to the throne in 1625

Pop quiz: when did the mayflower sail for the new world?

So the England the pilgrim fathers were moving first to holland and then to the new world was an England where Elizabeth and then James I had first tried to compromise with them before banning them.

Normally I cynically try to work out what religious leaders gain in the real world to work out what motivates them. It’s usually greed etc. But the puritans are a special case: I don’t think you can make distinctions between religion and politics with the Puritans, as they were didn’t seem to see any distinction.
For anyone unfamiliar with all but the most trivial details, do you have some good papers to recommend, to save us from wading through all the rest?
I agree! Especially when it comes to dot org. The thought was more about how first one there gets to keep it forever because it's cheap enough to hold out doesn't feel great either.
No, they can't sue the company. America has invented the concept of binding arbitration, that effectively allows the company to opt out from laws, as funny as it sounds. Your isp contract, your bank account contract, your insurance contract all likely contain the binding arbitration clause. Coincidentally, these are the companies that get the most accurate and valuable information on you.
One could imagine him beginning to work in gaming AI, but he says he wants to work on AGI, not simply gaming AI.

I'm personally not convinced that it is encouraging when someone bright sets their sights on AGI, particularly someone who appears to have never competed on Kaggle. It screams hubris.
In Victorian times, a "gentleman" was someone who had so much money they didn't need to work.

He's been a major shareholder in 2 companies that have been acquired (Id and Occulus)
As I like to say: lots of people are working on making a car that is smart enough to drive itself wherever a human wants to go. How many people are working on a car smart enough to tell humans to fuck off, it doesn’t feel like driving anywhere today?
...which is looking down at the keyboard.

It’s half an inch away from the bottom edge of the screen, but a considerably longer distance away from the things a person usually looks at when working.
There's a few other factors and I'd be worried about the combination of them more than any single one. Depending in location and geography and timing you can easily lose a couple of feet by an exceptionally high tide, sea level is the average of high tide marks and not the highest it can get. Even in inland areas well above sea level this can affect drainage and cause flooding. Then you've got large waves that can be whipped up by a regular storm or a hurricane, these can easily go another couple of feet above the current tide level and just standing ankle deep in water like that isn't the safest thing in the world. Then there's things like rainwater flooding that can come from inland, depending on geography and rain that can be negligible or huge.

But if the high tide and waves alone conspire then you might only have 6 feet of storm surge buffer. With an 18 inch sea level rise that's down to 4.5 feet.

Even without that erosion can do a lot of damage without expensive remediation.
Interesting! Was wondering about this recently when shopping for a USB-C hub, and couldn't find many that supported 4K@60hz. Ended up getting one that does 30hz because my Display at home is only 1440p.

I have used Displaylink adapters before (have one floating around somewhere), and was not super impressed (my machine was a bit flaky when using it), although I did have 2 external displays going on my Macbook at one point (this was before the days of multiple Displayports on Macbooks), which was kind of fun.
By now it's clear from your history of behaving aggressively in HN threads that you don't mean to use the site as intended. I've banned the account. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21245546

I'm sad to do that because you are knowledgeable about a number of things. Many of us could learn from you if you would share what you know without putting other people down. But the aggression subtracts more than the knowledge adds. We can't have users behaving like this sort of asshole in comments, least of all in Show HN threads, where the idea is to teach people things and expressly not to shit on them and their work: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

Other users here know things and are willing to talk about them without being mean. GistNoesis modeled this wonderfully in the GP comment. We'll learn what we can from them instead. But if you decide that you want to use HN in the intended spirit, as described in the site guidelines and especially the one that says Be kind, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and let us know.

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That can be solved by raising the bar to asking questions, can't it?

Make accounts cost something:

- limited number of invites per year for existing valuable members

- small payment

- hassle (send us a post card or something like that, a "proof of work for humans")

Stack Overflow seems to want:

1. asking to be frictionless even for complete strangers

2. yet to be taken seriously when they continue to complain that this is going on.
Probably quite a few combinatorial problems not to ignore, https://phys.org/news/2018-09-quantum-mechanics-oil-industry...
Why not? I'd say that a world that is managed by AGI with limited input from human beings is a good goal to have. If AGI could be done without the nasty parts of human psychology and they're inherently superior to genetically intact human beings why shouldn't be embrace it?

I understand that it's a big assumption to make -- that a benevolent AI could be constructed. But under that assumption, why not have a benevolent dictator in the form of an AI?
This is all really confusing. Why not just represent divergence and curl for what they are? Sources/sinks, and circulations. As someone who had lots of courses in electromagnetics, I see no basis for physical reality in these diagrams.
I wish I had come across this article when I was looking for a dock for my MBP (connected to a pair of 4k monitors). It was a pain to try and figure out if I'd be able to get 60hz video from a particular docking station. I went with the Caldigit one and luckily it worked. It's nice to learn why.
He didn't do the fast inverse on quake. The wiki article has a bunch of guesses for who did it.
It was meant to be gender-neutral. I ought to have used "they," for clarity's sake.
Really? How so? I use it probably almost daily and haven’t had an issue, at least I don’t think I have!
It doesn't support modern features like checksumming, transparent compression, or snapshots.
I have to admit, I felt a bit disappointed too. Carmack and Facebook always struck me as an antithetical pairing - the creativity/independence of the former didn't seem to sit right with the maniacal/emotional exploitation of the latter.
The work involved in setting up a server/dashboard for twilio to work is too high for it to be popular for mass independent businesses.

This hints that a "shopify for twilio" would be popular
How the Titanic, Avatar, and Got Helped This Chicago Company Raise $20M
By preventing large numbers of people from working at all.

Joining unions is impossible for many. I once lost a job because the union insisted that I be let go rather than let me join. It was not a performance issue.