skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I come from a family of immigrants. Growing up, I at times felt oppressed by the constant throng of cousins and uncles and aunts and family friends at our home...but now that I'm older I greatly appreciate the dense social fabric that envelops my life. I sometimes think that the dark side of a society that extols individuality and independence is the possibility of immense alienation. I'm grateful to live in a country that creates space for self-expression and agency, but I sometimes think that for those who are not used to being part of a big community, life can become quite lonely.
String theory.
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Cryptocurrency ICOs showed venture funding could be innovated on way more fundamentally than "tweaking a formula". The simple ICO model may arguably have been largely misused, but it kickstarted a lot of promising research and experimentation[1].

[1]: e.g. https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/10/24/gitcoin.html, https://www.zfnd.org/blog/dev-fund-guidance-and-timeline
I am not saying 2 wrongs make a right. Can companies in other countries ?
Text selection as well as copy paste are horribly broken on my up to date iPhone 11 Pro. It’s crazy bad and it bothers me every single day. How has this not been fixed by the .3 update? Crazy.
The 5% figure is out of _total US retail_, not online retail.

Just the fact that Amazon is now measured up against all retail is kind of frightening.
Would you mind sharing your cheat sheets? I know others who might benefit.
> Also, who are the modern non-gentile Christians?

That sounds like Messianic Judaism.
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Precisely. Christmas is definitely not Biblically inspired just adopted by the church. Elements such as Santa are definitely not Biblical.

I am a Christian who doesnt celebrate Christmas because its origins are extrabiblical and pagan. The 7 feast days (Jewish holidays) are much more Biblical and Christian in my opinion. Even Easter is tainted because it was actually supposed to be the Passover (Pesach) but was based off a Pagan holiday instead.

Despite the obvious there are many Christians who will defend Christmas to their dying breath.

I have nothing against celbrating Christmas I just choose not to go out of my way to get a tree and I dont intend on lying to my kids about a fat man and toys.
Sam's Club is at least one competitor to Costco.
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“Where would we be without humor?”

“Germany”
>>B) The situation is actually worse than exhausted. We know (have proven) that the regular methods simply won't work (check up "the reletaivzation barrier" and "natural proofs" and "algebrization")

I've heard of those, even tried to read the proof. Still, my understanding is those claims are ultimately "informal proofs" despite having formal step so the situation isn't entirely closed-up but still very bad.
Same here. 98% of my mail is spam. I receive far, far more physical mail spam than email spam. (I'm sure the total volume of email spam sent to me is way higher than the physical mail spam's, but the email spam filters catch almost all of it.)

I've definitely accidentally thrown out some real mail which was wedged inside of some kind of spam ad.
Algorithmia here . What are you concerned about license wise? You own all ip always. There is some restrictions if you choose to commercialize on our service (mostly guarantee you won't take it down on users). System was built for this. Happy to answer questions
Why they have to use "racial bias" immediately? Can't they just treat it like a normal stage of a developing of a system? All systems are developed with some "bias" until they are used a lot and all the "biases" are smoothed out. The article says itself that in Asian countries they are better at recognising Asian people, so it is only normal progression, you start with the people around you and then slowly improve the system, I don't see what is the problem with it. How about black people just develop a better system which will deal better with black face features instead of whinging and crying about their poor luck? The same thing the Asians are doing, I am sure law enforcement agencies will be happy to buy a better system if exists.
As someone who grew up in europe, let me introduce you to the wonderful world of catholic atheism. We celebrate christmas, easter, and have saint nick. We even know all the stories and the lessons.

But we never go to church and don’t believe god exists. Or at least the stories are just stories and lessons, not reality. It’s a cultural thing. Tradition.

In Slovenia where I’m from some 65% of the population self identifies as Christian, but only 32% believe in there being any form of higher power.
Any loneliness discussion is incomplete in today's age, especially on a forum like HN, without a discussion on AI/conversation-bots.
I love this paper, I believe it will be. Something like APL meets Prolog with a little side of lisp.
FWIW, I've met a Dominionist family that practiced the entirety of OT, including all the ritual purity laws. I never really clarified it, but it sounded like it was a thing in their local denomination in general.

They also did believe that the government should be structured according to those same OT provisions, and enforce them as laws.
The gesture is now a two-finger swipe back. For some reason Apple couldn’t be bothered to add an “undo” to the cursor dialogue though.
same. but extended family rarely gets along and really is a force of opression. My cousins family was stigmatized by the extended family when he came out as gay. He feels the constant guilt.

All the extended families i've seen are full of gossip, jealousies and backstabbing. Maybe all those things make us human too i don't know.
Oh I see. Didn’t occur to me because I discovered the list by coincidence. Apple indeed overdid it with all that minimalism.
Canada is a considerably more opportunistic country than France in every way. I love French culture and they make many things, but for people looking to get ahead, especially migrants, there is no comparison.

Your rebuttals don't help: a 45% max tax (instead of 50%) + ~25% payroll tax + 20% VAT is really quite a hostile.

The difference in GINI between Canada and France is really quite small, unfortunately, there's nothing to be proud of when 'everyone is at the same level of poverty'.

The culture is boring in Canada, but almost 'everything works' well - civil government, low levels of corruption etc..

My brother is essentially 'working class' and he and his wife live a nice, big new home (that they can afford), they have every material pleasure one could imagine, an impossible achievement in most of France.

I still love France but it's not a fully functional state.
Why not meet up with other people in the same situation (possibly also elderly)?

I have at times invited friends who didn't want to celebrate with their family. But a complete stranger would be too much for me (with little children).
In my limited experience, Jewish communities tend to have stronger ties and identity than Christian ones.
Huh. "A simple X" is a wily phrase, because everything is exceedingly "simple" in the aspect its designer had in mind[1], but complex from other perspectives. C may be simple in terms of how you would describe it building on the interface provided by a typical CPU, but to someone who only knows Scheme or Haskell learning the machine model is no small task--I don't think the 683-page length of the C11 specification can be attributed to its authors being long-winded. I don't really see Go as having inherited C's simplicity-in-terms-of-differences-from-a-machine-model. If they were optimizing for the same kind of "simplicity" that C has, they'd have to be out of their minds to add garbage collection, strings, maps, lambdas, and goroutines. Go, like Scheme, Haskell, and python, is a different "simple" from C.

1: unless designed by a committee with no such single-minded aim
I host Christmas Orphans parties. Anyone who does not have a place can come and have lunch.
I guess you're right - I don't know if emphasis placed on this has changed over the years but the neutral tone was always a bit of an after thought/edge case when I was taught.

Though I also wouldn't really consider my formal Mandarin education to be particularly rigorous or thorough...
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None of the other comments on this article point out that he said he ran a red light. He risked a side impact collision event to verify the status of a pizza order.

"7:25 p.m. — The Chase Continues

With his first order delivered, Salim 3 pulls out of the driveway and heads left, so I pull out just behind him. He once again zips along, and I manage to lose sight of him again — for almost 10 seconds this time. I finally catch up with him at a stop light, and to catch back up, I’m forced to run a red light and cut off oncoming traffic."

The world is a strange place.
Isn't that basically what dating apps are trying to do? I think "lighter" variants exists, for meeting friends, not just dates.

Not that the situation couldn't be improved, though.
We hide to observe animals all the time.
Yegor has direct and extensive responses to each of your points, and many more. Not that he is always correct, but he never avoids the questions you raise, and is happy to engage in discussions. Since he himself ran a development shop in Ukraine for many years, he is pulling back the curtain and sharing tips to stabilize a difficult process, especially for non-technical customers. He even has his money where his mouth is, with patents and a startup implementing many of the principles he lays out in a scalable system called Zerocracy[0].

And just as a counterpoint to your $10k customer needing to choose between things, there are hundreds and hundreds of customers who lose every penny of their $10k and start over from scratch. (That is what is in the podcast episode, if you have yet to listen.) By imposing the extra process and expense at the beginning, the customer can guarantee some forward progress toward their goal instead of trusting the dev shop to deliver everything by the end in a big bang delivery.

[0] https://www.zerocracy.com/
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Yep, the first thought of mine. I mean, it's not like something else is intended, but I'm feeling uneasy once more because of all these EU interventions. Don't get me wrong, I felt genuine joy and something akin to being proud to be an EU citizen when I read the article: the intention is to condemn something that very much should be condemned despite of us being used to that being a norm. But all that "we use cookies" notifications also were somewhat a noble cause, and it all made the web much less usable as a result. Which, I guess, was obvious from the start, but it isn't obvious to me they cannot fuck up whatever legal decision they are having with booking.com out there. And it would be more than a simple inconvenience to me if it turns out like that again. It would be kinda shameful.
The heuristic of trying to work on what you genuinely love is not helpful or practical for most people. It sounds good, but it is just a platitude.
Genuine love and fake love feel and look pretty similar. Most people naturally start loving the life they live in, if it is generally positive. Then, they make up a self-affirming, coherent narrative that justifies their emotions, decisions, and interests. If you do an AI startup, life goes well for you, and you embrace that decision and life, how can you differentiate whether it was really a genuine interest or not?
The fact that incinerating trash may lead to using slightly oil is not recycling. Just like driving your car more slowly to increase its efficiency is not recycling. I don't remotely understand your reasoning.
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I don’t know many people who would be unable to derive value from the use of text selection on their mobile device - that should be a low percentage of the market, because everyone should be succeeding at using the functionality ...?
The original name of the programming language Scheme was "Schemer", which was shortened by removing the last character because of file system limitations. The motivation for the name Schemer was that the authors were scheming against Actors analogous to the programming Conniver, where the authors were conniving against Planner.
Eh, my wife's mom abused my wife horribly and denies it today. She's now a lonely old (and still awful) woman, but that's not our problem.
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Use DBPedia. They have a public Sparql end Point.
Yes, this. Not trying to take anything away from this, but this car is essentially "running a program." I would love for someone to come on here from the program and publicly repudiate what I'm about to say.
I bet they ran that "dance" hundreds of times, no cones or hay or obstacles, got it to the point where it was precise and repeatable enough to then set up the cones and barriers (I mean, we have robots that place parts to within 0.001" or better repeatably).

What would impress me (seriously). I go out the L.A. Colliseum parking lot, set up cones / a track that the car can definitely do (based on radiuses & turns in this video), the car "studies" the track (I don't care if a drone looks at it & takes measurements), and then the car calculates and executes a perfect path through the course the first time without hitting anything.

Again, not trying to crap on this, I'm just saying that anyone who's worked in controls, automation, engine control, etc. (I've done all these & more) isn't utterly wow'ed by this. Kudos, but we didn't just put a man on Mars.
I’m down voted for pointing out that basically all companies comply with the directives of the president/parliament/prime minister. Then we have an article about a NSA lotus notes back door
> Name one promising theory/approach in physics which is not getting interest because it goes against "the currently dominant theory of the field".Tip: LQG does not count.

Lack of such promising theories is precisely the point (I guess we are talking specifically about the problem of quantum gravity). Everyone is working with the same 1.5 old approaches and the progress has stalled. Of course individually this strategy is rational because if you try to think of something new and it doesn't work out (which is very probable) your career is toast. But imagine what the brainpower poured into string theory could achieve with a more breadth-first search strategy.
You're right, my implementation was not a drop-in replacement for replace. How about this?

String.prototype.replaceAll = function (n, sub) {
let t, f = "g";
if (n instanceof RegExp) {
t = n.source;
f = n.flags;
if (!f.includes("g"))
f += "g";
} else {
t = RegExp.escape(n);
}
let r = new RegExp(t, f);
return this.replace(r, sub || "");
}
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I want to add on here—the problem isn’t gestures, it’s gestures for core functionality. Gestures should be like keyboard shortcuts—optional pathways for advanced users. It’s okay to never discover them.

I'd use macOS’s three finger trackpad swipe for switching workspaces as an example of a great gesture. It’s just one of a ton of ways to switch workspaces.
Ask HN: Would you differentiate between hacker, artist, craftsman and engineer
I am looking for various views on how you would define and differentiate between a hacker, artist, craftsman and engineer. I have some thoughts, but in order not to influence the discussion i will not post my own definitions until some time has passed.

The question again:

How would you differentiate between a hacker, artist, craftsman and engineer?

I have drafted some questions based on my own thinking. Feel free to use these to answer.

x = hacker or artist or craftsman or engineer

How does a (x) see the world?

What character traits does a (x) demonstrate?

Why does (x) do what they do?

How does (x) do what they do?

What does (x) actually do?
The essay is from 2004, the whole book (240 pages) from 2010:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obliquity_(book)

And TEDxWarwick talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BoAtYL3OWU
Politics can't have anything to do with "love" or "being nice" or "inclusivity" or "diversity" or "social justice" or "the clear & radiant truth" or "we- the good people, with hope & belief in one another, trust in the diversity & variety of humankind". These things cannot exist in public. When they are invoked in public, they are immediately corrupted and transformed into hypocrisy. They will never form the foundation of any civilization.

The values upon which civilizations are founded are the kind that have been purchased with blood. Values like "give me liberty or give me death," "all men are created equal," and "I have a dream". Platitudes of the kind spoken to third graders don't qualify.

We have a formula for civil rights in the United States. People who want to complete that work should adopt the language of the civil rights movement, which saw itself as an extension of the revolutionary values that founded the United States, rather than as a departure from those values.

Or you can keep calling people evil and keep losing elections.
I'm a student trying to get my first contracting job. I have very little experience, and and essentially no past work. I believe I'm competent enough to do some of the tasks I see on sites like Upwork, but I'm not having any luck. The jobs I'm applying for are basic things like write Google Apps script to send emails based on contents of a Google Sheet, not large projects.

I'm not going to lie about who I am and what experience I have. Do you think I have no chance getting a contract at this point?
> Go look at a hotel in the middle of nothing in the most off-peak season, and it will still tell you that several rooms have been booked in the last few days and there are like 4 people looking at that hotel right now so you should book NOW! And of course everything is a one-time bargain. It's so blatant I don't even know how anyone can believe all that.

Oh yeah, and you make your choice, it loads the page where one supposed to enter the details, as you are about to type in your first name, a popup comes up “hurry up”. This is the moment when I always shout “fuck you booking.com”.
Ok, but what is your exact technique? Do you periodically pause the tape so you can follow along with it using the book in written form? Or just plain listen?

Also, are you studying Chinese this way or a language more similar to English? With all the different grammar and word order in Chinese, I can't see how I could pick up the meaning without some reference, unless I was extremely familiar with the material.

Edit: Also because there are vocal sounds in English that aren't pronouncable in Chinese, even character names are not the same. “Gandalf” becomes “gan dow foo”, for instance
Not on the individual cell level. Human cells last days to months ... continually replaced by division. Over time all of our cells are replaced. I guess all other cellular organisms are like that.

Question of definition whether clones are the 'same individual organism'.

More details here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-living_organis...

Then there's this possibly immortal jellyfish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_dohrnii
"Narcotic" has shifted, at least in American vernacular, from meaning drugs that induce sleep to meaning any illegal or Schedule-I drug.

Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/narcotic

Collin's Dictionary:
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/narcoti...

Edit, regarding "no one calls marijuana a narcotic":

Not sure why I was downvoted, considering that we are discussing angel dust rather than marijuana.

The United States Government calls marijuana a narcotic:

[1]: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/08/29/2019-18...

[2]: https://www.incb.org/incb/en/narcotic-drugs/index.html

As do The UN and the World Health Organization (in process of amendment):

[1]: https://www.healthpolicy-watch.org/who-recommends-cannabis-s...

[2]: https://www.who.int/medicines/access/controlled-substances/U...

And the Australian Government:
https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2018L00106

As well as the Swiss Government:
https://www.ch.ch/en/cannabis/

And the Government of Singapore:
https://www.cnb.gov.sg/

And the European Union:
http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/topic-overviews/cla...

It's important to note the apparent legal definition of "narcotic" when discussing drugs, as it drastically differs from the traditional use, and includes a much longer list of substances.
The first recycling robot was installed only three years ago.[1] There's been considerable progress since then. BHS is now installing and reselling the MAX-AI robotic picker, which seems to be a recent addition to their product line. This is out of the experimental stage and in use at high-volume sites. Expensive up front, about $200K each and $160K for installation and integration. Each one replaces about 2 people, plus the robots can run 2 or 3 shifts, so payback time is maybe 3 years.

There are some VC-funded companies in this area, but the vision/AI part is pretty much solved. It's getting the mechanical systems to be robust enough in a very dirty environment that's hard.

The big insight is that most of the separation has to be done by cheaper processes operating on the bulk material stream. The robotic system is just to pull out stuff that didn't get sorted correctly by screens, drums, shakers, magnets, blowers, and vision-based air jet sorters. An all-robot system is too slow and too expensive, but quality control robots for getting from 5% contamination to 0.5% contamination are cost-effective. Here's a good video of the whole process.[2] 70 tons an hour.

That makes it possible to get contamination levels down to China's new standards and the ones of US plants which can use the stuff. "Because of China's voracious appetite for all types of U.S. scrap exports over the past 20 years, MRFs "had the luxury of being able to sell the mixed rigid plastics [and] mixed paper without a lot of sorting and quality control." ... "Some materials are up in price … PET is actually increasing. It's a supply and demand thing," Butler said. "For the most part, if you can separate that material, there are domestic markets for that right now."[3]

So, in the recycling industry, some are whining about China's policies and others are fixing the problem, shipping products, and making money. It's small and medium sized cities that can't keep up. The big cities have big plants with multiple 70 ton per hour processing lines with the machinery running 2 shifts a day, and direct deals with companies that can use the plastics, metals, etc. A small town doesn't generate enough recycling to do that, and trucking unsorted material long distances is too expensive.

[1] https://resource-recycling.com/recycling/2019/05/07/how-recy...

[2] https://youtu.be/4FpsH_ETT7c

[3] https://www.wastedive.com/news/china-contamination-standard-...
Has anyone tried the free "Getting Started" sessions that Apple offers, when you buy a device? (Edit: I think they're online. In-store would be easier to learn the UI.)

Although you probably need an annual refresher.

Edit2: https://appleinsider.com/articles/17/11/06/apple-offers-30-m...
"Pics or it didn't happen."

My bullshit meter is off the clock. Note that we never see a picture of the actual writing in the card.
Thanks so much! Finally sharing the end result of all my hard work feels really good. And seeing so many visitors swing by on the livestream is insane!
And yet it still pales in comparison to Walmart.
If that approach is followed consistently, we'd likely have to conclude that "real Christians" were largely wiped out in the early persecutions. The modern Christian tradition is firmly rooted in the government-mandated imperial cult that was established by the Edict of Thessalonica.
Sure, but that doesn't mean it's unstable.
But if you’d had a faster machine, would you still have disabled Spotlight?

I’d say Spotlight was a pretty big deal on the whole.