skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what society is really missing is this sense of belonging. We're raised to think that wealth correlates with happiness but it clearly doesn't.

History has always formed these loops of prosperity, then spirituality. I mean it's nice not to starve, but I think people would be happier being part of a tight knit tribe who support one another, even more than having air-conditioning and dating apps.
Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2020?
I am still frustrated with the amount of incidental complexity required whenever I want to do this. My latest attempt was to use a Digital Ocean droplet with Django pre-installed. I guess the biggest issue there was setting up something so that I could easily deploy my local version to the droplet (ended up using git/Github), and ensuring those two environments were in sync. I looked into Docker in some detail about a year ago, and I think it's the only pretty good solution for this I've come across—but there's a steep up front cost in learning/setup etc. (or so it seems).

What services and technologies do you use when you'd like to quickly build a web app which may never be more than a prototype, but may also turn into something real? A big aspect of what I'm wondering is about automatically setting something up for keeping local/production environments in sync, quickly deploying to production, and not having to mess with a bunch of server configuration things, user accounts, security, etc.
We don't open enough tickets for this to be really meaningful (things generally work as expected), but I'd guess around 8h
In the long run, this could also help combat the "Fake News" phenomenon.

Part of the Utopian mindset of the early Internet was the belief that making more content available to people would automatically lead to people being better educated and informed. But of course it also opened up people up to unprecedented amounts of disinformation, deliberate or otherwise.

Slowly establishing authorities on given topics and building their reputation could help over time to filter the wheat from the chaff on various topics.
I find myself angered by the negative reactions to my comments here. Are people seriously suggesting that Asimov's attitude was unusual for the time? Actions, perhaps, but attitude?

I will defend my comments! Men of that era, in that society, were incredibly sexist. Women suffered through that, and continue to suffer today.

If people here can only react emotionally without comprehending what they're actually reading, there's not much hope to improve anything.
How the Logistics of the Ivory Trafficking Supply Chain Affect Elephant Poaching
Isn't the classic problem with pumped hydro that you can't really store very much energy unless you have a huge amount of water or a large drop?
The lack of authorship attribution or institutional affiliation is quite strange in this piece. Apparently a lot of effort was undertaken to write the software or at least to write the article. "We" and "our" appear in nearly every sentence. Who are "we"?

The ideas in there are quite interesting to think about. I'm glad I read it, but questions like this are unsettling given the lack of expressed ownership:

"Why bother with environmental control and especially environmental optimization when the goal is accelerating photosynthesis genomically?"
There is an excellent documentary by Fredrik Gertten called "Push" that explores this phenomenon, definitely worth a watch if there's a screening nearby: http://www.pushthefilm.com/
If I remember correctly, the percentage of light that passes through a column of water exponentially decays with distance, like stacking a bunch of fixed-percentage optical filters on top of each other. They’re using parallax shift between multiple images to generate a depth map, so they have a measure of the amount of water obscuring each pixel.

I’m not sure how they’re finding the optical properties of the water; there’s something about using the darkest pixels in the image for calibration that I didn’t quite follow.
People don't want to die, I think it's as simple as that.
Nice thank you. The last time I looked at Raku a few years ago when it was still called Perl 6 I hadn't considered native bindings. Will take a look.
Btw, you seem to have misspelled the link to the landing demo at https://github.com/prevwong/craft.js/blob/master/packages/ex...
The reason I don't mention brew today is that I don't manage the formula myself and I don't check it. I'm not even sure of what it does.
In addition to the one mentioned by a sibling comment, there are several others:

Windows:

- http://textmode.netne.net/Extreme.html

- http://www.ztree.com/

Unix:

- http://www.unixtree.org/
Oh, simple. It's a cult. People like cults. Peace.
Yes, but VLIW's premise was that all that coordination that the VISC architecture is doing at runtime in hardware could be computed at compile-time in software.
Are you saying that you don’t enjoy the 4 page life retelling story intermixed with countless ads and the same staged photo from 5 different angles and 4 different focal points when you just want to see the recipe? Luckily, there is an extension to parse all that out.

https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter
Interesting I think it requires a lot of software changes to support such screen layouts and changes (in case of physical keyboard)
Society is in no way set up to support UBI. Everyone gets $1000 and then rent, food, and everything else become more expensive.

Instead focus should be on guaranteeing necessities like healthcare with Medicare For All, relinquishing student loan debt, and making public college free to attend. Bernie is the only one focused on universal coverage for all of these things.
But... there's a clear policy angle here? There's no need to navel gaze about culture on this. If you follow the same policies that other major powers followed when they were growing (protectionism + heavy coordination between government and large coorporations) you will find growth.

To be honest I feel so little empathy from this author and their post.

I mean there's so much comprehensive studying about the american health care market. The US gov't has spent 50 years staring at it in trying to make it less of a nightmare!

He poses the question of quantifying worker productivity in knowledge economies as if this hasn't been a topic of discussion and like 10 iterations for the past 50 years.

He talks about a lack of criticism of institutions, when there are _centuries_ of criticism on various arms of the government and how they function. Political science is a whole branch of study!

I just get the vibe that this person almost never actually reads books, and just reads pop science takes on economics all day. I mean he's probably a major player in economics but I guess that's kinda the point.
>A comprehensive guide to the American healthcare system.

im afraid this might be a moving target at best. So much of American healthcare is arbitrary, clandestine, and opaque. Prices are rarely made public, and justification or schedule for increase in drug prices or premiums is almost never made except in the most dire circumstances (Insulin inflation for example) and even then, its almost condescendingly boilerplate. Even seemingly simple things like ACA exchange markets and Medicare are mind-numbingly complex institutions whos coverage varies widely from state to state. Healthcare coverage is also governed by religious code in many states, where simple services like abortion, contraceptives, and family planning are subject to strict Judeo-Christian moral laws. many service providers can refuse to even process drug prescriptions should the customers request cause the employee some religious moral unrest.

>Who are the actors and what are their incentives?

Pharmaceutically these are largely institutions borne of dynastic wealth seeking profit. They run advertisements and sponsor content in local, state, and national news in order to drive customers to consume drugs and treatments, but they also lobby and in some cases bribe physicians and caregivers to give preferential treatment to their products.
Commute on a train. Then get to a desk.
Google had little influence on scientific python. I agree python did not have technically much advantage over ruby, but:

1. Old history of using python for scripting linux, starting from mid-late 90ies, especially around clusters and HPC, i.e. where you find applied scientists in academia.

2. A full C API. Not especially good, but powerful enough. I don't think ruby is much different, but wrapping C with python, again for HPC (or GUI libs). Lua C API is definitely better.

3. Communities matter

4. Different people starting to talk to each other more and more, and right timings. First mid 90ies (numeric/numarray, use in astronomy, etc.), then early-mid 2000ies (NumPy/SciPy consolidation, matplotlib, ipython), then late 2000 with scikit learn, and pandas.

Also, while I know little about ruby, I fail to see how much better it is than python. Both are essentially the same w/ some minor syntactic differences, and different communities. I have never seen an example where ruby was much better than python or vice versa for non trivial code. I mean is RoR that much better than Django ? I doubt that stuff matters very much.
AIUI, Microsoft juices those numbers a bit by including Office365. Yes, it’s in the “cloud”, but it’s not exactly apples-to-apples with AWS.
Simply because we reached a state where we can.
And also, we evolved a brain that led us here, so why not?
So roughly 10,500 then? These figures were shown at demo day?
One of the nice things was that you could run Windows NT on a DUAL PROCESSOR PC with two Alpha chips. This was such an attractive idea I thought of buying one. However, when I did a very quick trial, it didn't make any noticeable difference to my very simple workloads (mostly Microsoft Office).
I think there's a lot allocated to it, both funds and brainpower. Maybe there should be more, but money is probably not the bottleneck.

It's not necessarily the worst thing either. Some researchers think nuclear apocalypse is still more likely to cause human extinction, which could happen if too much political pressure goes upon climate change.
You missed something: the huge amounts of effort required to make it work and produce acceptable results
At 300PPI, the cost of powering (electricity, CPU and GPU) a large feature wall might actually exceed the cost of the wall itself.
I was wondering about this. If I switch to Proton, but 90% of my outgoing emails go to gmail accounts, google still has 90% of my email data.
SF is hardly starved for cash; its budget is around $12 billion, something like $15K per capita. That’s a huge amount of money.
This is why DynamoDB has become my datastore of choice lately.
Yeah, there's something "off" about it.

It seems to take for granted that the domain of human affairs runs like clockwork, like a machine that merely "needs fixing". This smells libertarian and a quick google of the authors and their books confirms that suspicion. The "hint of violence" you're detecting is subtly judgemental smugness.
When it comes down to it, they're all still novelties. Tablets have been consumption devices you use every now and then. The truth is that touchscreen keyboards just can't match physical ones. And until tablets become productivity devices, they will always be treated as novelties (rightfully so).
ClassPass Now Worth More Than $1B After Latest Funding Round
Public institutions usually have a lot of systems but not a lot of traffic (if we compare to tech companies), so it makes sense for them to put things in the cloud instead of building everything themselves. Also public institutions rarely get top talent and instead do everything via contractors, do you really think it is cheaper to get government contractors to build and run infrastructure instead of letting Microsoft do it?
Sometimes "cheating" is just fixing broken things the devs make really dumb decisions about. In RA2, online matchmaking required you to use the smallest resolution possible, which is dumb when you just beat the full game at a normal resolution. In DotA2, you can't zoom out. I just played LoL instead of "cheating" though (a.k.a. making the game playable). In Dawn of War I used a zoom out mod once but honestly the game already let you zoom out reasonably enough anyways. But these weren't for getting an unfair advantage, this was for solving claustrophobia and not-having-the-camera-right-in-the-dirt.
probably in places that just got connected to the internet
It appears that throughout human history an increase of wealth is the precursor to an increase in all of the things anti-capitalists love. It’s a pretty safe bet that if you want to enrich the poor’s souls then you need to enrich their pockets first.
https://www.amazon.com/Violent-Land-Single-Disorder-Frontier...

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/103/36/13271.full.pdf

This one seems a little odd, but I included it for completeness.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00220027156031...
This gap is filled by consultants; a centralized, interdisciplinary knowledge-hub would be more than "a huge undertaking", because the forces that are at work when people try to reach consensus are not the same forces that drive unbiased research; "science is great, but full of people". unless you find a way to form such an organisation without the detrimental impact of social and opportunistic dynamics, the result wouldn't match the desired outcome.

(ignoring matters like funding etc.)
How to come up with an idea for your SaaS
A tour of Go concurrency patterns via the new Heartbeat scheduler
This is sponsored content. From Intel about a topic that threatens Intel. Honestly there should just be an indicator on HN to flag sponsored content.
Also, check out this style-transfer combination of three different painters:
https://deepsing.com/engine/UYNRxev8f1c/5dfc994dc9e5f7311d8a...
What would Van Gogh (0,1) draw if he listened to this song?
FWIW, the process of spinning up an Ubuntu Data Science Virtual Machine on a GPU resource type has gone without a hitch over here. Last I checked it's only available in some areas, though, so YMMV.
AWS Amplify + GatsbyJS = 1 click deployment
One of the reasons I hope they justify doctoring product shots (I mean really, the video includes a lot of pre-rendered models post-processed with heavily tweaked video)
Unless the algorithm could actually detect "quality" (instead of poor analogs for it). Then if SEO couldn't really exploit it, SEO would just be making "quality" content.
Pro-abortion people generally don't argue that abortion means ending a life. They argue that women should have the same control over their bodies that men enjoy (i.e. almost total control).
It seems to me like most of the topics Tim covers are not very complex at all. His most famous articles are on procrastination, which pretty much everyone already understands. The main value was in adding characters that people could use to visualize the problem. Likewise, all the ideas presented in this series are either obvious (eg. US politics are very polarized these days) or dubious (eg. The rational mind is politically centrist).
I was at a company for 6 months that started with 9 hour days and after 4 months turned to regular 10-14 hour days. The worst was a week of 10+ hour days straight, usually there'd be one "normal" day each week but something was always going wrong (having to meet unrealistic deadlines, systems breaking, etc). Glad that experience is in the rear-view, it taught far more on self respect/care and connected me to a lot of great people (who also left soon after I did).

Edit: Forgot the initial question. It was a huge negative influence on an existing long-term relationship. If I stayed at that company it likely would have ended the relationship.
It's as fast as C, since anything you can express in C can be expressed in BeefLang.

The real question is how fast an idiomatic expression of an identical complex program is in both language. Well, that might not even be the question- it may be more like "if presented with a problem that requires writing a program, what are the characteristics of the solution to that problem if the language chosen is X vs Y". Maybe?

Anyway, I don't think anyone has figured out how to properly compare programming languages yet in that way other than "try it and see if it works better for you than other things you've tried before".
Funny that you mentioned the issue of googling for recipes.

We discussed it in another thread just the other week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21938261

I agree that it’s a tricky and quite big problem.
Is Grimes Having Elon Musk’s Baby?
I have to agree with you and admit that I'm somewhat relieved to see I'm not the only one who felt this way. The list as a whole reflects a certain self-unaware separateness from the "real world". It is hard to describe, but eery indeed.
Nb: A Simple Benchmark Tool
Not sure, there's a bank building near me that was built, used for two years, and it's sat empty for the last 20. How does that work?
It's so HN it's almost /.?
This is impressive but I think it's interesting that Apple is seemingly jettisoning Auto Layout with the introduction of SwiftUI with Stacks and Alignments.

Having worked with a lot of different layout and alignment systems, Auto Layout seemed to me to be considerable overkill. I found it generally not worth all the brain power needed to understand it and more importantly debug it when it isn't doing what you want.
Point being it would be better for them to go to Vimeo, or host high-bitrate copies themselves
How Amazon Mechanical Turk got its name
Way Cooler Post Mortem
From what I recall having read, there are health improvements, financial improvements, having two parents is much better for raising children (from what I recall this is independent of the gender of the two parents), and there are larger systematic issues when significant portions of the population have difficulty finding a relationship (look at the purposed roles polygamy plays in destabilizing the Middle East or the social costs of China's one child policy that strongly influence people to have a single boy now that a few decades have passed).
You’re kidding, right?

These conversations frequently tend to devolve into a long discussion about the negative on hacker news.

In fact, 3 years ago I wrote that this story should be banned from HN:

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2017/03/28/stories-that-should-...

“Death gives life meaning”

“It’ll only be for rich people”

“The money should be spent on something better.”

If we spent as much time trying to solve the problem, rather than having philosophical discussions, we’d all probably be living to 200 by now.
No argument here. I learnt about it from Alan Cooper's The Inmates Are Running the Asylum, which was published in 1999.
Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Episode 19 English Sub CC
There was a Stargate episode based on this particular threat. It had Richard Dean Anderson going around shouting "It's a plant!"
Point of order: Based on the anti-linkbait guideline for titles, can this be changed to something less imperative and more informative?

“Underfunded research initiatives” seems like a reasonable start, but maybe someone can come upwith something better.
My theory would be that life expectancy measures more length of life than quality of life. There's also Asian culture in place.

For example, an old person eats unhealthy, smokes, makes lots of irresponsible decisions in life. She gets cancer, stroke, diabetes, kidney failure, we can still keep her alive for decades. She might be hooked to a dialysis machine. She has little savings. She might not have the money, time, or energy to deal with this.

Asian culture dictates that her only daughter quit her job to take care of the sick mother. There's a huge drain on society, but it keeps someone alive longer.
These are really bad reasons to not use a language.

Anyone who makes a language that is not like a popular language (ex
C or C#) should have to do a lot of justification for it, not the other way around. Change for change's sake is bad.

In other words, if you can make a language that does something new, without having to have new syntax or paradigms, that is much better.
Surprised nobody has mentioned it yet but please make it more obvious which cards are premium, finding out after I drag them becomes frustrating after you drag more than one. I would "disable" them and make a tooltip show up on hover (alert is bad and better for critical errors).
I've read a lot of reports that most of the big cities in California are going downhill hard. I'm nowhere near informed enough to have an opinion on these complex issues, but the constant reports of "state of emergency" and "poop patrols" make me angry for the people who live there.

It's ponderous how some of the wealthiest cities in the world can't manage themselves. How do they not sweep out the current administration, and bring in people willing to change things?
> I'd love to hear what mac-based GPU cloud computing system you are using

Is a strawman, and snarky at that. You could presume original commenter is just interested in a *nix-based GPU VM.
TBTK v2.0.0 released (second quantization for C++)
Still Heroku.
Ant behavior might mirror political polarization
One of the guiding principles of nnn is minimum disk IOs so probably it's not comparable in this respect. Reading through a complete volume on a stuffed microSD or SD card attached to a RaspberryPi to list the filesystem and then supporting dynamic events may not be very simple. nnn development is driven by minimum resource availability and usage.
Seismic reconstruction of a new underwater volcano off the Comoros
It's comparable to WorkMail/WorkDocs. Sure, O365 is a little more complete, and, sure, MS has more of their cloud revenue in that area than AWS has in its comparable services, but almost any time you are comparing business in a category where each has multiple services there’ll be differences like that.
This is a question I have; We have a similar problem in Atlanta.

A new residential apartment building goes in with 300+ units; leases to 70%, but 2 of 3 shops/restaurants closes/moves to the next high rise at the 1 year mark for lease renewal.
Auto layout is not user-friendly enough to make sense on the web. 99% of the time the format is not readable at all. Does anyone honestly think this: [
'H:|[view1(==view2)]-10-[view2]|'
'V:|[view1,view2]|'
] is readable?

Especially since Apple admitted their mistake and is moving towards SwiftUI.
That was my question -- what is IIS and TOR? What does it mean to modify them?
You would definitly need http/2 to use this, I've tried using imports in vanillajs with supported browsers its sloooooooow. I do wonder whether you could leverage server push for this and whether that would help.
> So if the majority of power will be non-nuclear, how is nuclear supposed to prevent inevitable global climate change? And why aren't we just pushing to go for 100% non-nuclear and non-fossil fuel energy? Why is that not an option?

First off, they have "biomass" as one of the options, which happens to be a bad one in almost all cases.

Second, it's very hard to have reliable grid power once more than 50% of your power is coming from unreliable sources. Even storage isn't a great answer, due to 10/100/1000 year events.

As the article points out, less than 2% of current power comes from wind/solar. It's very difficult to scale that to even 50%. Nuclear, on the other hand, can easily be scaled beyond 50%. In France, it was 80% at one point.

To have a great future, the human race needs clean, abundant, cheap energy. Nuclear is a win!