skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few points:

- Here's a recent example[1] of a father who doesn't seem to raise his sons with empathy and reason as his core value. He explicitly state that this is in opposition of "raising boys like girls"[2]. It's an over-the-top example, but of course every time an adult encourage a boy to bottle up his emotions, to be stronger than the other boys, to go and force-kiss a little girl, etc. they reinforce this construct a bit.

[1] https://twitter.com/aubrey_huff/status/1199200986658553857
[2] https://twitter.com/aubrey_huff/status/1200543836700889090

- Women contribute vastly more than men to the fundamental care that keep society going via mostly invisible, unpaid but constant and demanding work (see the documentary "Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics" for an accessible intro to that [3]. Example are child rearing, elderly care, domestic chores, generally taking care of social organizing... Men mostly opt out of this work, and we should not let them. We should teach boys to take an active part in this. That's another way to raise boys as girls.

[3] https://www.onf.ca/film/whos_counting/

- Are you sure that dangerous behaviors like drunk driving or bar fights are a necessary component of learning how to become a brilliant top manager? I have my doubts. In any case, it's a cultural decision: do we continue to encourage young men to be reckless and let them die more often than women of violent death, because being reckless will also help them steal all the good spots? If this kind of risk taking is so beneficial, do we encourage girls to be reckless too? Or do we encourage a more peaceful culture for boys?

(Anyway, your point about risk taking is conflating different kind of risks. Launching a startup or managing a big co has nothing to do with jumping off of a bridge because your friends dare you to do it.)

- Do I find some traditionally male traits desirable? Yes, a few of the less toxic. I think girls should be raised and socially accepted to be much less self-diminishing. To easily talk in public with confidence. To recognize their own physical force as it is and not less. To assert their own desires and to not default to fulfill the desires of their partners as a priority.

So I'm one of these persons who think that erasing the gender lines as much as possible would be beneficial for our societies :-)
> it's now clear the current AI paradigm will not produce the kind of massive, society-shifting promises that were made to investors

It's correct in that it won't produce the society-shifting promises. But there is a huge amount of money on non-society-shifting innovation.

Besides, I really doubt the media predictions are what actually was told to investors.
and now its my secret trick for /r/legaladvice :)
For #7 there is the great webmerge

https://www.webmerge.me
Arguing that Trump's success is due to his personal qualities is very controversial. I think Adams is trying to emulate Trump's purported persuasive abilities, so whether people are convinced by Adams is evidence for or against what he is claiming. I think this is the attraction of the whole thing - magical things might happen because he believes in them.
Urbit “planet” is like a VM, but running an OS developed completely independently from existing computing words. There is a custom language, a custom network layer, a custom cryptography and custom identity system. There are even custom words for common terms. This has no GUI, but it does has a web interface that you can connect to.

From the practical standpoint, you have a linux process running from a data directory. You run it, and the you can access it via CLI and via web interface (which also has a terminal-like webapp). It then uses regular IP to talk to other urbits in P2P fashion.

From what I could find, the whole thing is full of magic and pretty opaque - you are only supposed to interact with it by running it and typing commands there. In particular, you’d probably want to back it up. The only instructions I could find is to stop it and tar it up, and back up manually. Better do it often if you want your “digital life” to be safe.
Yes, but you can see this with kids competing too. Their desire to win seems inversely proportional to their honesty or rational observation of a call, to the point where it seems like they believe their slanted viewpoint and beyond just trying to manipulate the ref.
I don't have anything new. I might have to re-write a GC for Clasp. Then I know :)

A better questions would be whether anybody has a moving, precise GC running on LLVM. Clasp with MPS runs, but that might be coincidence/luck.
If you can support a family on a single salary, you aren't anywhere close to being poor. But I think we're talking about US$5.5 a day, not US$55.
Russinovich claims it was an OpenVMS clone and upgrade with some convincing evidence:

https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/windows-nt-and-vm...

That gave them a huge lead in developing a server-grade OS. They probably just used OS/2 for the OS/2 part that ran on top of it. Fast forward to today, the result still isn't robust as its predecessor in cluster configuration or the AS/400 Microsoft ran on before using their own product. They did show how much better VMS could've been as a desktop... by dominating on the desktop. :)
If you take that view point what renewable resource doesn't require some product built for it's harvest?
Thanks, that's some quality discussion. Really impressed with the depth and breadth of the commentary.
I would hope that making employees effective and efficient would be a selling point for executives. And the idea of charts and graphs shouldn't just be for execs.

If someone wants to really optimize for exec only, just do it the old fashioned way and bribe them. That's probably cheaper than making functional software, right?
Looks neat, and appears to work well.

I found the gumroad payment process a bit confusing. In particular, I wanted to first try before buying (among other reasons, apps like this have a tendency to fight the OS for permissions, so I wanted to be sure it works). I ended up ordering twice, once for $0 and the second time for >$0. Wish there had been an easier way.
Oh, I can totally believe he would have described it that way. And for someone else it might have been. But his career doesn't seem to have been particularly limited by it.
This says it. Yikes.
Most people don’t realize that being average is a matter of luck. It doesn’t matter how hard you work, you just have to be in the right place at the right time.
Yeah, I’ve seen this movie before. It’s an art project.
This is often repeated, and is incorrect. life cycle analysis of wind turbines suggests that the carbon and energy pay off is anywhere from 1/2 to 2 years, after which point, the turbine is a net win compared to fossil fuels sources. In this context, life cycle analysis includes all of the embedded energy used to manufacture and operate the wind turbine. See, for example, https://www.ourenergypolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/t...
And if the user is interested in that change to actually happen, contacting the moderators is the best way of doing it. They might not be aware of that, which is why I mentioned it, so that they and others reading the comment know in the future.
Not wasted space. Unreleated space would do.

Keep in mind that you only have a tiny amount of L1 data cache lines. They are gone so quickly. If you can get a couple more struct instances in an array into those cache lines (without the cache lines holding unrelated nonsense as a byproduct of a memory fetch) that is a huge win.

The issue of L1 cache lines is more important than the size of the L1 cache. The granularity of the cache lines uses up the size of the cache very quickly if all cache lines are padded up with 3/4rd nonsense that you don't need right now.
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Well they do ask for lower salary (their cost of living is lower), and in my case it's less about "keeping more of the money" and more about having a bigger chance at building a successful product with the runway we have (being an early-stage startup and all).

But that's not what I mean by entitled. Entitled is an attitude of thinking one is special and thus deserving of special treatment.
Wayland/X11, PyGTK/PyQt, usbip, being able to compile apps without dealing with Android's awful NDK, telephony scripting, itch.io's butler, PulseAudio streaming... and those are just the first things that came into my mind.

I have a secondary Android device just out of necessity, I am a power user with enough past experience (I was active in Openmoko community, made Debian chroot for Kindle Paperwhite, am still using Nokia N900 etc.) and no - I have no actual interest in Android. Stop-gaps like Debian chroots or layers on top of libhybris won't replace the real baremetal, mainline thing.
I recently read and enjoyed Cal Newport’s “Digital Minimalism.”

After reading it I locked Safari and Mail off my phone — those are the two that distract me constantly. I also deleted my Facebook account and removed the Twitter app from my phone.

I haven’t missed any of that, it’s been really liberating actually.

The next step, which was a bit harder, is I starter politely asking the people around me to put their phones away when we’re together. At work I ask my coworkers to close their laptops in meetings.

It’s kind of weird. Nobody has ever said no, and while one or two have found it a funny request, it has consistently led to much nicer meetings and social time. Some people have even thanked me for this.

Honestly I think it’s that simple.

As for the kid in your story, I don’t know. I have young kids and I don’t plan to let them have phones, and I don’t really let them have a lot of screen time. It’s a bit hard for me as I was that kid glued to the green and black computer screen learning by hacking... so instinctively I want them to have that same experience, but I’ve come to realize it just isn’t the same at all.

One day, when they’re a little bigger, I’m hoping I can interest them in building an 8 bit computer together, programming Pong on it, things like that. I don’t know if that’ll work, but I hope so.

I’ve kind of resigned myself that if I can’t get them interested in simpler / retro / hacker tech, that I’d rather they not use tech much at all than be digital zombies. :/
There are users in this thread that aren't fully disclosing that they work for Urbit, despite commenting about the software from a third-party perspective.

Just a heads up.
I wonder if it's the same process that bears go through when they hibernate?
It is a VM as in JVM, not like a VirtualBox. This is a Linux app you run and it listens on a port; you use your browser to connect to it.

It was called “overlay os” because it reimplements a bunch of things traditionally provided by OSes. There is a peer to peer network layer, and a storage layer, and a way to execute code.
I am a friend of simple garbage collectors. Let initial placement be decided by running code.

Let later placement be decided by the order in which the heap is scavenged. That is what e.g. re-unifies array-of-pointer target instances. You scavenge the array of pointers and in the default case you line up the instances the pointers point to beautifully one after another. Even if the initial allocation had interleaving other memory. In that case your code gets faster after GC than before the data is first GCed.
contrariwise, if there's no jobs (or you broke yourself in a job and can't work, or .. ) .. you might not have a choice.

The poster i was originally replying to was complaining that $1 US a goes further in other places and "could be like $10"; my point is that that's still pretty poor!
I was referring to his comment ‘The wind turbine hydrocarbon based lubricants industry is fast growing.’ Talking about this as if it was a significant issue is completely failing to understand what’s involved.

Anyway, it depends on what you’re doing, if your for example using coal to add carbon to iron to make steal the it ends up in the steel. If you’re burning it to make heat then it ends up in the air.

The average CO2 intensity for the steel industry is 1.9 tons of CO2 per ton of steel produced. Taking into consideration the global steel production of more than 1,3 billion tons, the steel industry produces over two billion tons of CO2.

That’s ~5% of global emissions per year, though looking at a number per decade and comparing it to a number per year is rather big difference.
> Legal-Doc-to-Google-Form

> Every founder goes through an identical process: downloading Microsoft Word, changing variables in a legal template, opening it in Preview, attaching their signature, and sending it over to the counterparty. Automate this process. Offer templates for common documents (company formation, SAFEs, etc). In time, you might become the store-of-record for company documents.

My friend was working on a product that does this called Formswift! I can upload a PDF, have it convert to a set of form fields, and email it out pretty quickly.

It's not the most glamorous-looking startup, but it works really well for the mom-and-pop small businesses that are their usual clientele.

Take a look:
https://formswift.com/self-serve-builder
Why deep neural networks are so good at solving complex problems (2016)
For me it's a huge disappointment. I was a huge fan of the main game and if they dropped it on PC/consoles I'd love to play it.
But VR? I'll never buy it for one game.
Even if you're not obese, fasting appears to be one of the most healthy things you can do for your body. Low insulin variability, autophagy, clear out visceral fat on organs, yields extended longevity in lab mice, etc.
Thanks Dang! I've become interested in alternative forms of Internet due to the recent .Org/ICANN news. Is it okay that I post these (also posted gnunet)? I'm learning a lot from people's comments.
Its on par with banking. On my trip to Europe in 2009 major cards were contacless cards (VISA). Just when I got my USA Visa chip card year ago I visit Europe again and most merchants were concerned why I still have a chip (“it wont work your card probably already expired. Oh wow chip card still working, amazing”). By 2010 you were able to wire money between banks at zero or close to zero fee inly using app on your phone and someone email. Just recently I was able to withdraw money from European AMT by using my email address (I had phone, no cards). I put my email in, verify when I got it and then in my email i I selected card and amount and replied. 15 seconds later ATM spit out $50. Altho I paid 3.2% transaction fee which I gladly did considering I didnt have my wallet w me and really needed cash.
Ask HN: Is there any KPI for doctors for treating patients?
That isn't context unless this video stream is a direct result of that story.
"primadonna scientists"

Feynman's shenanigans at Los Alamos are famous due to his memoirs, but at the time, he was not an important person, was he? Is it possible that peoples' viewpoints are distorted by this?

Also, the Apollo program seems more impressive and worth studying than the atomic bomb to me. Like, in one case, they produced unprecedentedly large explosions, and in the other, they did that and balanced people on top and got them to the moon and back.
The first step to a decentralized network is establishment of identity and authentication protocols and network anyone can use with ease. Everything else should be built upon that foundation.
I think they should have backed out of it a little bit earlier. Being able to recognize your own failing might be as important as success.
Show HN: Pretinder, Another Tinder Automator
We are building better zendesk here - https://provlem.com

Still, many to go, but we have started to build better zendesk already.
It’s software that you run on your computer on macOS or Linux. It provides a VM that only does IO to the underlying system through a typed kernel interface. That’s it. There are blog posts showing the software running on it.

I think you’re right about making it concrete instead of metaphorical
I mean, sure. I've done keto, I've fasted for several days, it's fine. I personally would have eaten some cruciferous vegetables since I don't trust multivitamins to provide everything, but sounds like he did fine.

My only curiosity as a strategy for months or over a year is if the lack of any protein whatsoever has harmful effects.

I was under the impression that some level of protein intake was necessary to maintain muscles -- something that burning fat doesn't provide.

I'm wondering if he had any muscle loss problems? Or if his leg and back muscles were already so extremely overdeveloped to support his original weight (as is normal), that as they naturally decreased, their protein was made available for normal baseline muscular maintenance?
This is a ridiculously reductive take on DeepMind... they produce a TON of great research, and have helped advance the state of RL considerably (speaking as an AI researcher here, having read many of their papers). Google should be commended for investing in largely basic AI research, even if once in a while they make a PR splash out of it, IMO.
The project is exclusionary by design--instead of using an existing programming language or even keywords/terminology from an existing human language, the creator decided to make everything up, right down to new names for existing symbols. F'r example:

gar >

hax #

hep -

kel {

sel [

ser ]

sig ~

soq '

Have to agree about the screenshots--if there's something useful here, why not show it off?
Hm... I think I get what you're saying, but isn't computing the average age of a person over their lifetime pretty straightforward? integral of their age divided by their total lifespan, which would be their (total lifespan)/2.
I did a nine day fast and the first three days were difficult. From day four I was not hungry at all but also felt noticeably weaker and couldn't do anything strenuous. After nine days I lost 10kg and six months later had only gained back 3kg. But the best thing about the whole experience was redefining my relationship with food. I appreciate and enjoy it a lot more now.
I submitted this before and received a request from another developer to change the name. He's actually made a great tool for sending webpages to your Kindle device, and I recommend you check it out! https://github.com/darkhelmet/tinderizer
When using generational GCs it is of utmost importance to match the policies for moving things between GCs to the actual pointer interconnection pattern.

This can go really bad, for example in systems that keep caches/repositories of preallocated things for faster re-use. If they are anchored at global variables, or near global, then you need to treat those preallocated things special. You can't just go and move them every time even when knowing you will never collect them.

Generally, GC works better if you don't do tricks/optimizations with memory allocation and let just everything flow freely into the heap. If you do have to optimize allocation you generally have to teach your GC about your hack.
In investing you control real resources that you offer to the company to further their goals in exchange for future gains. When you squated on a good name you seized an opportunity from them by registering a name you had no use for for a legally defined minimum fee and demanding payment for something you had no use for ensuring they must pay someone hundreds or thousands instead of the legally defined minimum fee.

It would make more sense to let registrars charge what they please instead.

It's the opposite of investing. Squatters aren't providing value they are pure parasites. People are most apt to learn of the parties smartly chosen name not through their marketing but via being the second person to come up with it and learning they must pay the squatter.
tldr: 15yo boy has a FB account with 1.2M followers, which he fills with 100 posts a day. He makes $10k/month. Instagram shut down the account without warning or reasoning.

----

Reported months ago in this article in Atlantic:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/08/insta...

It notes that "More meme accounts than ever are monetizing, and memes have become the default way many young people consume news information on the platform" ... and notes that: “Curation is a kind of creation. Within the right bounds, there can be a lot of value in finding gems and sharing them...”
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Perhaps folks might like to do a search before making such damning judgements about other HN users.
It's a cost model, they probably have a coefficient for what % of people they think will wait vs. go elsewhere while the website is down. When you're running a retail company, you have to at least attempt to quantify lost sales in order to model your business.

There's no way to measure lost sales with high accuracy, but that's not really the point, because it's most useful for modeling decisions and policies in a forward-looking context. Future revenue forecasts, the other term in the equation you're optimizing, are also inaccurate.

These functions are also generally "bathtub" shaped, and with the amount of money at stake, you can save quite a lot by being a little closer to the optimum, so they're worthwhile.
I'm curious: why reinvent the VM "wheel"? Why is LLVM inadequate? Or any other VM?

More specifically, what functionality does Urbit require that makes a bespoke VM necessary?
The article mentions him being given vitamins and yeast, and "nutritional yeast" is a protein source.
How someone would jump from a Native American history to Stephen King is beyond me. Assuming an inappropriate joke is also a mystery.
Belarus is a dictatorship. If Lukashenko says “this should happen, I’m gonna make it happen”, I think it’s reasonable to interpret that as a proclamation of a new law unless there’s evidence it’s not being followed.
How to Choose the Perfect [Kitchen] Knife
The funny thing for me is that if The Economist had just hacked the input into GPT-2 so that it was an ongoing conversation they would have found that it's OK at holding a conversation, better than I expected when I did so.

The conversation that I posted at:

https://medium.com/@scottlegrand/my-interview-with-the-world...

is performed in one shot. And I think it shows both the abilities and the limitations of GPT-2 and similar models. I am 100% role playing with the language model and prompting it to go in the directions it goes, but it surprised me several times, and eventually it all fell apart because I didn't perform any transfer learning on the model I just used the raw GPT-2 XL model to measure whether further work would be worth the effort and I would conclude yes it would be.

The first thing I need to do is dramatically increase the length of its input context. It's pretty good at running with an ensuing script because I suspect much of its training data was formatted that way. But since I ran out of context symbols, it eventually suffers from several incidents of amnesia and eventually effective multiple personality disorder. It also contradicts itself several times but then no more than the typical thought leader or politician does IMO.

What The Economist did was effectively erase the thing's memory between questions. So they were starting fresh with each question. And I think that's why they had to do the best of 5.
I was sitting on a pile of tech book pdf's but realized I simply wasn't going through them (and was wasting my life endlessly refreshing social media feeds). I threw together a web service which serves up a random page from a random book and it has been great for engaging with these books -- just enough of a tease to make you want to dig in further. https://gist.github.com/cellularmitosis/1dabd7587662f8aa7652...
The rise of solar power is jeopardising the Western Australia energy grid
It looks like cloning your chip is already a thing as well as other types of attacks. It doesn’t make sense why banks would deny fraud claims,