skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think you're describing something like a hybrid social network/semantic web with versioning, knowledge provenance, and asynchronous peer review.

Great breakdown, thanks.

> One serious problem for any such system is ontology selection: how is one to represent the entire body of scientific knowledge under a single type system?

I think you can do it through market forces and forking. Similar to Linux distributions you could have "science" distributions. As for the type system and unifying language, I think you can do a thing that can start from just a dot and no dot and build up characters and numbers and words and types etc, with no extra parts. So perhaps if you had something like that, where simplicity could be rigorously defined, you could get consensus on base level types. If people had strong differences, you could go off and fork a new distribution. I'd imagine you'd have a few distros emerge with decent gravity.

Pull request could be really neat. I can imagine you'd have the speed of light defined somewhere in a science distro, and there would be data from reproducible experiments that people have done. Perhaps someone comes up with an ingenuous at home experiment that is just a few steps and sends a pull request that would add that, and perhaps prune some more complex experiment.

> offloads the hard, fuzzy work to the...brain

Yes, exactly. I'd love it if it was computable (of course, this isn't an original idea--Wolfram Alpha is trying to pull it off). If I could "go to definition" of any scientific conclusion (not only to definitions, but to real data, and simple, repeatable experiments). If you kept "going to definition" all roads eventually would lead back to 0 and 1.

> One could try to compare the shape of various data under different encodings, for instance (some sort of topological analysis?) to identify similar structure?

I'm giving it a go with Trees. I think it will work, but still might be a few years before I know for sure.

> There are already a few entries in the social network/resource-sharing platform space. Have a look at Open Science Foundation. Academia and ResearchGate are similar, but without the materials-and-data-sharing.

I like those, especially OSF. Definitely a lot of activity in the space (I invested in some new ones as well). I haven't seen one yet that does the "science monorepo" thing, but hoping someone takes the lead there (and I'll do my best to support it with hopefully useful underlying tech and research).
Flipping back to page1 would be problematic.
Man you can already build web applications without bundlers! go with sqlite will give you a single binary you just run!

Also if your needs are simple you can just write a cgi script (provided you don't need too many RPS.)
From what I understand one big difference between Caesar and Augustus was that Caeser had a fairly sizable domestic agenda with a list of reforms that had been building up and getting frustrated for decades, so it's possible/plausible he was planning to retire once this was accomplished. As far as I know Augustus never had such firm plan aside from consolidating power.

But understanding the domestic politics of the time certainly isn't easy, it's hard enough to understand the internal politics of another country today but throw in a radically different set of political structures and issues.
> 1935

> May 21, Hitler speech to Reichstag:

> "Every war for the subjection or domination of an alien people sooner or later weakens the victor internally and eventually brings about his defeat."

Hitler predicted his own downfall. Fascinating!
Mortality is not a defence against cancer. Mortality is a tool that allows species to more speedily adapt to changing environment. Sexual reproduction is another such tool, which ensures enhanced diversity of future generations, so some of the descendants will adapt better and leave more better adapted descendants.

Btw, in this sense cancer is just another tool, that limits lifespan and ensures generations change. Of course, it didn't appear as such, but most species have no natural incentive to develop a resistance to it.
The Myth of the Artistic Genius
I wasn't trying to assert that ruby is faster, just trying to correct the notion that python is an inherently faster language than ruby.

If I look at a composite benchmark like debian's and don't see one leading by an order of magnitude, I file that away as "probably about the same speed, depends on your use case"
One can hope that this is the impetus we need to reform bankruptcy and laws governing assets. Companies should have no mechanism to shield assets in such a manner.
I don't think you're wrong. This guy has made a career out of smug superiority plus badly drawn cartoons: https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/09/why-generation-y-yuppies-are-...

Now he's apparently expanded his repertoire to Slatestarcodex-style "oh god, he's still typing..." effortposts.
PopCap games were great. My brother and my dad would co-op play Bookworm Adventures together for hundreds of hours.

Also you reminded me that the Insaniquarium Screensaver was the original cookie clicker.
In my metaphor, I consider both direct action and political action to be "rowing". It's all about what the 8 billion people put their attention, time, and labor into.

Change must and will happen at all levels. While those at the top have more power, they are also dramatically outnumbered. Those at the bottom have greater power if they are organized (which is why those at the top spend so much time trying to keep them disorganized and divided).
Bummer.

My oldest son is a voracious reader, and I would love to get him on an e reader, but I don't want to go for a traditional screen, so the lack of color e ink type option kinda stops me.
Totally fair, but given that you only pulled out the basics the first time through the book, why not go through it again to see what the book has to say about those basics? You clearly didn't get everything out of the first book on the first run through.
Who remembers browsing the web/usenet on 28800Kbps modems?
Damn, sorry, wasn't trying to call you out; rather hoping that you had thought of something I didn't that I could steal from you.

I think starting with an IDE from the very beginning was a smart move.

For what it's worth, here is my current vaporware plan to solve this problem: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/3028

I would be curious to see your thoughts on this, especially if you end up trying to tackle this problem in Beef.
Don't rule real-time out. Real-time GC's exist. People just need to build open ones for these languages. Example write-up on this:

http://michaelrbernste.in/2013/06/03/real-time-garbage-colle...
I've been reading Tim Urban's writing for a while. One of the most valuable things in his writing isn't originality, but delivery.

He might not be coming up with original ideas (he regularly references the research he consulted to form his writing) but he _does_ do a great job of breaking down complex ideas into a form that's easily digestible.

The first several chapters of this series (worth a read, even if it's the only thing you read this year) are devoted entirely to building the vocabulary needed to discuss these concepts. He works hard to help build a mental model for the reader, which makes his writing significantly more accessible to the average human.
I bet your eyes do a cool robotic ‘shine’ when viewed in some lights (eg. in a dark room with a diffuse light behind the viewer) though.
> Are you sure you know EInk/PVI's business better than they do?

Never said that I do, and, yes they are NOW finally starting to pursue the signage / label markets. My point was that they could and should have done so 10 or more years ago.
Late Fee
I find it ironic that you respond to a comment about political polarization increasing with a polarizing extreme of a comment...
Dupe: Build a web application without a bundler https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21989967
Let's put the myth of nuclear waste to rest by putting things in perspective :

The amount of energy required to run France's trains for one whole year is 9 TWh. In terms of waste you can take your pick between :

* assuming 100% nuclear energy : 200kg of nuclear waste

* assuming 100% coal : 700.000 tons of solid ash (usually stored in the open air), plus 1.000 tons of soot and fine particles, including tons / dozens of tons of arsenic, lead, thallium, mercury, even uranium and thorium.

(Source : http://www.sfen.org/rgn/dechets-radioactifs-verite-faits-exa...)

Option 2 is what German coal plants are pumping into the European air right now (34% of total electricity production as I write), for years, contributing to dozens of thousands of premature deaths.

That is the clear and present danger. And there is no credible plan to get out of this, because no matter which way you put it (and as much as I'd like the opposite to be true) you can't solve the renewables intermittence problem without a major breakthrough in battery storage.

All of your arguments will be valid when and if that happens. In the meantime, this stance is betting on a future that may or may exist, whilst causing immense and certain harm right now, in the middle of the climate emergency.
The Mystery of Teen Vogue’s Disappearing Facebook Article
Yeah we don’t have many great purely Canadian engineering + patriotic accomplishments which to parade around so much like CanadaArm it gets plenty of reverence locally (not to downplay the plenty of other Canadian tech and engineering exports, especially talent wise, but there’s a unique subsection of tech which crosses into government and cultural significance, which is the niche group I’m referencing).

Plus the whole “what could have been” allure to the story which made for some great TV shows and written accounts.
I agree, and I don't think I appreciated this point enough when I was in school. In high school or college, I would do literally what is said here - get assigned a book, and read the book. In my professional reading, or also hobby reading as an adult, I would never approach learning a topic that way. As an adult, I supplement my reading of a text with secondary sources about the text (things people have written about the text, wikipedia articles about the text or things in it, etc.).

To take an example of an edition that does this really well: the "Landmark" series for Thucydides [1] and Herodotus [2] both qualify as "big, difficult" books, but the book comes with additional secondary sources that aid in the reading to orient the newbie in how to approach the text.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Landmark-Thucydides-Comprehensive-Gui...
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Landmark-Herodotus-Histories-Robert-S...
oh look, downvoted again.

The downvoting system on this site is a really broken by design sort of feature. It's entirely just a manner to ensure the groupthink stays on track.
Could you give some real examples of topics and the books you chose?
Museum of Hoaxes
> The dish is foreign in Thailand too. It's always available where westerners might be expected to ask for it but I've never, ever, ever seen anyone Thai order it.

I'm sorry but what on Earth are you talking about? I can only assume you have simply never visited Thailand? This is just so inaccurate I don't know what to say.
MAD goes out the window once the missiles are up. The whole point of a credible second strike is to discourage a first strike. However this isn't subgame perfect... which means players should want to strike first, breaking MAD.
it's not an argument. I'm just telling you what's ahead for you. Expect to be disappointed by the scientific community in the years ahead. I'll repeat so you can giggle some more: You really don't know.
> I meant that short term gains tax applies post-vesting. I'll try to make that clearer. Of course, you're right in that selling immediately incurs no additional tax, as you'd be paying short term gains tax on essentially $0.

That's still wrong. They purchase date of the RSU is on the issue date. Vesting is unrelated. You are thinking of "exercising" an option. This is not an exercise.

1. You get a RSUs. They are actual stock, but they are encumbered by the vesting schedule.
2. When they vest, you are now allowed to trade them, but your ownership start date is from #1. If you had a 180 day vest, you'd have to wait until a full year is up to avoid short-term gains, but if vesting took longer than a year, you've already held them for longer than a year.
You could drive down the backlight intensity to try and keep the contrast the same, but then the whole screen would start flickering like crazy due to PWM - and that's assuming that the hardware even supports being driven down to that level! It can also be hard to recover if you accidentally drive the backlight down too much or even turn it off altogether!
Same here. Not seeing any jobs or ways to apply.
Yoshua Bengio and Gary Marcus on the best way forward for AI
You can get monochrome and 2 color displays very cheap! I bought one a while ago to play around with building a smartwatch but school got in the way, then I graduate and have been moving and my whole electronics lab is all packed up.
But if the phrase "friend person" caught on (similar to, I don't know, the phrase "my bad"), we wouldn't consider it a "secret handshake" or "dog whistle". Especially since "members of the Democratic party" generally consider Republicans to be less well educated on average. Ascribing this to some kind of intentional, coordinated malice in all cases seems ludicrous to me.
Most-Recommended Books for Software Developers
Any 10+inch color LCD display of 250dpi or higher works well for comic books. It turns out that if you make a tablet capable of showing HD video at 60fps, it can show you comic book pages quite well.

I use an Amazon Kindle Fire Ow It Burns HD10 for this, because it's at the minimum intersection of suitable hardware and price.
That's a myth. The US government was offered the chance to buy the Arrow and all its intellectual property but declined.

It was a promising design but it was not the world-beating wonderplane that its reputation suggests.
Crowd Cow Is Looking for Engineers
The problem with the "it's Teen Vogue's fault for fat fingering the publication" is that Sheryl Sandberg immediately shared the article on her personal Facebook page. I mean, are we to believe that she did not realize this was paid sponcon by her own company (PR/comms falls under her leadership) that it was "mistakenly" published and was organic content (in which case she should've known as well as they had access to FB employees with pictures inside the office).

Mistake or not, FB leadership clearly cheer led it's publication, and then walked back and claimed they had no idea this was sponsored, and only in the last hour or so said it was a "mistake" to deny it was sponsored.
Non-backlit LCDs already have pretty low idle power though. Normal digital watches last about a decade on a battery and smartwatches like the Amazfit Bip last about a month on a charge with the screen always on (and bluetooth, heart rate monitor, etc which are surely a pretty large fraction of the power draw). And then the biggest smartwatch manufactures have decided to use OLED and have 2 day battery life for some reason.
Check out AntsCanada on YouTube, he films tons of ants behavior that is really fascinating to watch.
I wonder if you can sue the government for preventing the use of your equipment while it depreciated in value?
They are talking about very small regional affiliates of the church. So take the quarter of a billion here, and the half billion there, then multiply it by estimated 2,200 dioceses around the world.

The result is a damn large number, maybe around a trillion dollars.
AI Debate: Yoshua Bengio and Gary Marcus on the Best Way Forward for AI
I've been waiting for something like that for ages.

Really, setting up and fixing js tooling breakage often take more time than actual development for smaller projects
The article starts with breathless quotes from someone at "bishopaccountability.org" and then describes an utterly sensible financial rearrangement.

In 2012--six years before it filed for bankruptcy in 2018 (and likely before lawsuits that were pending at the time of bankruptcy were filed, although the article does not specify)--the diocese instructed individual parishes on how to separately incorporate to separate their assets from the diocese:

> Salgado had called the meeting to explain to the managers how to incorporate their parishes separate from the archdiocese. “We got step-by-step instructions,” says Christine Romero, then the business manager for St. Anne parish in Santa Fe.

This is totally reasonable. If a parish has a priest that commits sexual abuse, then it should be liable. If the diocese facilitates that, sure, push liability up to it. But what's the justification for then pushing liability across and back down to a parish across town? Why should those parishioners lose their assets and property?

Note that bankruptcy law prohibits transfers made in anticipation of filing bankruptcy. The transactions described in the article wouldn't fall under those rules, because there is nothing wrong with structuring an organization to keep liability contained in distinct sub-units. Maybe it's different for a business where the individual units are income-producing entities funneling up all profits to the top. But churches, even Catholic churches, are pretty local things. Most of the property and assets is used for the benefit of each group of parishioners, and they have little to do with the diocese as a whole at the financial level.
F-22 weren't exported, it was probably just at Okinawa
From what I understand, a lot has to do with IP ownership, this was developed at MIT and any licensing deal is not as profitable as being able to sell a product. Thus, to make a VC/equity funded commercial venture of it they have to develop a product.
Where to Learn Advanced Unreal Engine in the Bay Area
Where ou how could I learn advanced Unreal Engine(UE4) for realistic architectural visualization?
If the vesting period is longer than a year, you shouldn't have a short-term gain. Secondly, you only make profit when you sell the stock, not when it becomes vested.
Almost rhymes with "mud". Like "Pahd" but even more "uh".
Yes, but strongly typed.
How many of those have you seen in the real world?

Maybe they're more popular elsewhere, but outside of warehouse store price labels I haven't seen the technology.

Certainly not in large format.
> The Democratic national platform is all about increased support for the poor and middle class

The "basket of deplorables"? The Democrats talk about caring about them (sometimes - Hillary seems to have forgotten that part when she was running), but the contempt shows through. Actually caring about them instead of paying lip service might take the Democrats a long way. Listening to them wouldn't hurt, either.
The backbone of the USA in its formative years was slavery and outright slaughter of native Americans. By people who went to church.

This dark legacy stretches into today - the last lynching was in 1981, and white Christian America still worships a vision of a nice, pearly white European looking Jesus, presented by millionaire preachers in mega churches who say “just give me some money and you too can be redeemed”.

And not to mention their pseudo worship of a man who is so laughably espouses the exact opposite of the Christian teachings. A man who had sex with a pornstar while his second (or third?) wife was pregnant at home and has never read the Bible.

I’d appreciate knowing how you can reconcile thinking what you commented with what actually happened, and how you can view a system of oppression, control and political propaganda (USA’s brand of “Christianity”) as anything but that.
Show HN: JavaScript web component for online spreadsheets
https://archive.is/8J1qB
Very nice feature set! I especially like the referencing functionality and ToC. Though I wasn't able to test it out (stuck with Windows at work), here's some feedback:

In the example images, you write that you eliminated all toolbars - this is arguably false since I see a vertical one on the very left ;-). I would even get rid of this one and move the ToC to the left edge of the window. You can keep the help button (move it next to the MacOS window controls) and maybe even the export button (also next to window controls) but I'd rather make use of the system UX and use the MacOS toolbar instead (same for the preferences button, it's useless if you make use of the OS functionality).

I'd love to give this to my coworkers for their Wiki drafting, right now I have too many issues with people copying from Word and the system trying to do ... something with that input. Unfortunately, only Windows flies here ...
I didn't say it was exactly a zero sum game, I said it resembles one, especially in the long term planning horizon.

There are many problems with using Game Theory terms in real world/pragmatic discussion, but yes, clearly among them is that I anticipated this pedantic a response. You are right, it is not exactly a textbook example of a zero sum game and we can't prove it is one. I use the terminology metaphorically and not mathematically.

The question I pointed out is "how much does it resemble one?"

I think that it is much closer to one than not, and I do think there is plenty of reason to suggest that many actors in private capital would prefer money be spent on natural gas over renewables due to vested interests. Vested interests by themselves are something that I have seen modeled as a zero sum game, in theory and divorced from greater context. As just one part of the whole mess of motivations, politics, and sociology in trying to address climate change and energy industry spending, does it mean the entire thing is reducible to zero sum? Of course it doesn't. Does it add evidence that are enough zero sum games and zero sum-equivalent games in play that we can worry metaphorically that the entire thing is one giant zero sum game? Yes, it does, and that's all I was saying.
I am upset that they're using signal 9 instead of 15.
yes, and that’s basically the model of emergent behavior in many (all?) complex systems, such as human societies. the population exhibits properties that only some of the members exhibit, and some members diametrically oppose.
Thank you. These changes are nice in the right context but are even worse than useless if they distract from systemic changes. Especially useless is the kind of personal change like buying solar panels or an EV that take being middle or upper middle class as the economy continues to get worse for most people. Almost every major source of carbon pollution is socially interdependent(eg transportation) or controlled by a few near-monopolies (eg general purpose energy production). And lots basically exist due to how capitalism controls the state (as it always has) for its own purposes, eg in the massive subsidization of industrial meat production. We need social solutions that correspond to how the economy is socially specialized and interconnected.
I didn't downvote, but your comment came across as dismissive.

Personally, I think there's a world of difference between the aphorism of "correlation does not equal causation" and actually understanding how causation works. I understand the former quite well, but haven't much a clue about the latter. (And I'm not alone!)
I screwed up the math. It's 28.6 days at the world record speed. I multiplied by 24 unnecessarily. Still a long time, but a lot more reasonable (and it agrees with your records).
Related: about a month ago, Google auto updater which runs in the background, really started going crazy recently tripping up my little snitch many times a day. Previously, little snitch never mentioned it.
If I can get it in ePub then a Kobo works well.
Some of Trump’s supporters are completely deplorable. Those where poorly chosen words spoken at the wrong time, but that doesn’t make them incorrect.

“The Republican Party: not racist, just #1 with racists”