skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ariel Rubinstein is one of the most honest game theorists I've come across. He's extremely critical of the claims that game theory can be used to accurately predict outcomes of the real world [1]. Economic Fables is a semi-biography as well, and has details of his life growing up in Israel. I wish more scientists (across all disciplines) had the audacity to critically assess their own fields of research like Rubinstein. He also gives almost all of his books -- including his widely-used text "A Course in Game Theory" coauthored with Osborne -- for free on his website [2].

[1]: http://arielrubinstein.tau.ac.il/articles/FRANKFURTER_ALLGEM...

[2]: http://arielrubinstein.tau.ac.il/books.html
Are you expecting SpaceX to allow their (copyrighted) logo to appear in various media without requesting permission first?

NASA's copyright policy is the exception, not the rule.
Hmm..reviews on Goodreads seem kind of mixed. Some make it sound like it's a bit of an idiosyncratic editing mess with disconnected chapters, etc.
Nothing especially life changing, however:

The Sy Hearsh interview on Intercepted is a must-hear for anyone interested in journalism and media.

The Ezra Klein show has been great. Individual episodes have been hit or miss for me, but listening to his backlog, you get to view the intellectual development of a very introspective and intelligent guy who was thrown for a loop by 2016 as he makes sense of the changing world. It's not explicit on an epispde to episode basis, but if you're willing to pay attention, it's there.

The No Agenda Show's a morning-zoo style biweekly podcast covering current affairs. It's a lighter take on the news, and the hosts (Adam Curry - former MTV VJ,and John C Dvorak - the guy who was always wrong about technology) have longer memories than most pundits. The episodes are long, but if you enjoy as I do, or are willing to look past their eccentricities, well worth adding to your pod rotation.
> Why can't we have self driving buses that replace trams?

Why can't we have both, and sizes in between, and then dispatch whichever vehicle size is most appropriate for the situation?
La zanzara.
U.S. Firms Helped Africa’s Richest Woman Exploit Her Country’s Wealth
Of course it hasn't happened to Boeing. There's no one else in their Civil Air Transport niche, and you'd be a fool to bet against a company with as much established Government business as Boeing.

Overconsolidation has neutered the competitive landscape for airliner design and manufacture.

Thino of a Government contract as a big fat insurance policy against free market forces. Add in a multiplier for being the only shop left in the country in certain verticals, and you'll find Adam Smith turning over in his grave as the market is paralyzed at the thought of putting down it's golden goose that has taken to laying hand grenades.
That “problem” has been solved two decades ago. In the EU debt reins, with zero fees, and there are dozens of micro-payments systems operating all over the world. Isn’t Venmo big in the US?
For the same reason they "email my friend" but don't "tissue my nose" or "drug their head". If it doesn't sound right to start with it won't sound right after you swap the generic term for the brand name.

You've at least heard someone say "let me Google that" or "that's photoshopped" right?
I also listen to this. It had a rough start but is now getting really good. Listen when you have time to process tho. If you're coding or something and have it on in the background, you'll be missing out.
Grief, this is impressive. For the record, I really can’t recommend learning (typed, pure) functional programming on Idris. It’s a whole extra step beyond learning to do Haskell well.
Ask HN: What spectator sport would AI compete in?
Many people have watched AI compete with humans in Chess, Go, and Dota 2. Do you think we'd ever be willing to watch AI compete with AI? If so, what would the game be?
> Where are the criminal charges, and if this is not a crime, why it is not?

My dad used to be a executive at a large company and I remember he was occasionally called to court and he (and all the other executives) had to carry massive personal liability policies incase they were ever personally sued for their decisions. I suspect there will at least be some personal lawsuits if there are no criminal charges. I think there will be criminal charges but I believe it's probably very early in the investigation as the evidence is still coming out and it's going to take a lot of time to see how wide and how deep this goes.
> At any rate, I got annoyed at this point (mentioning for those who couldn’t tell), so I switched to DuckDuckGo.

For those who might be misled like I used to be DuckDuckGo is just a proxy for Bing.
Not sure about screens versus gauges since a screen can mock the appearance of a physical gauge but I do recall a lecture during a UI/UX class I took long ago that about analog gauges being easier and quicker to understand than seven segment displays. Something about the brain needing to interpret the actual number for the seven segment display versus quickly understanding the approximate speed from the needle on the gauge.
You couldn't implement the standard library or libraries providing tools like the standard library without having "new" etc available in the language. And of course C++ hasn't had all of this from the start, some use cases still like or need to avoid using too much of the standard library, ...
Any comments on the cheaper, earlier edition printed by Dover as "The Nature of Light and Colour in the Open Air"? Is the later edition worth the higher price?
Two podcasts, very high quality, but are paid subscriptions, $15 a month or so each. I have no affiliation:

1. Real Vision - finance - https://www.realvision.com/tv/home

2. Peter Attia The Drive - health - https://peterattiamd.com/podcast/
Love JRE - I’ve been an avid listener since the early days. “Humble, but fearless curiosity with some good laughs” would be my best attempt at describing it in one sentence.
Types are specifications, Knowing if and how something doesn't meet a spec is useful both in development and at run time.
The Original 'Washington Crossing the Delaware' Burned in Germany
Legio IX Hispana
It costs $10k to ‘own’ a Chick-fil-A franchise
agree..OP does a poorly formed search query and complains.
try "reddit best phone to buy 2020"
you're welcome!
They armed the FTS, as they would need that if the range safety officer needed to do that. But it was not needed or used by the RSO.
by Danielewski?
Chapulines have become a snack favorite among baseball fans in Seattle
Gauges especially are great to see the rate of change.
I'm pretty sure development on this project has stopped. That said I would love to see a project of this kind come to maturity. A Haskell like language with a good macro system could solve a lot of problems that are poorly solved by something like template Haskell.
How Much Warmer Was Your City in 2019?
This blog is “built” on cloudflare apparently.

Why is medium being compared to IPFS???
True, though they spin around one fixed axis.

So if there is a big radiation source due "north", there should be less radiation received on the "south" side.
If you have trauma or signs or trauma like persistent anxiety or imposter syndrome, Tim Ferriss’s work on psychedelics may be the most important podcasts out there for you.
Going in the other direction, there's a pretty good YouTube channel called amstudio that shows how to hook up physical gauges to your computer for use in racing simulators. IIRC, they've even taken out entire instrument panels from cars and interfaced them to the simulator.
The problem with this kind of unrelated disciplinary action, like punishing sites for having too much javascript, is that you're losing sight of the goal of a search engine: helping people find the content that they are looking for.

I'll take the website that has exactly what I'm looking for but loads in 30 seconds over an irrelevant website that loads instantly.

I suppose these factors can help when you need to tie-break information super-commodities like a search for "dogs" where all other potential tie-breakers have already been observed with no affect, but nothing more.
The "On Being" podcast. Really broad range of guests; it's centered around spirituality, but (again) with a really broad lens. Krista Tippet is a fantastic interviewer.

"Pursuing deep thinking and moral imagination, social courage and joy, to renew inner life, outer life, and life together."

https://onbeing.org
Thanks, which is a must have episode in your opinion to begin with?
The question is, does that pay mechanism actually result in tying compensation to the long term performance of the company? Will Boeing's executives come out ahead even after all the destruction they've caused?

If so, we still have moral hazard: executives are incentivized to chase short-term gains at the expense of long term company health.
Tiësto's Club Life. I appreciate the show and it made me appreciate a genre that I thought I didn't like.
Relevant story from Peopleware (Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister):

One thing Townsend seems to have missed entirely is the presence of women in the workforce. The typical person being moved today is part of a two-career family. The other half of that equation is probably not being moved, so the corporate move comes down hard on the couple’s relationship at a very delicate point. It brings intolerable stress to bear on the accommodation they’re both striving to achieve to allow two full-fledged careers. That’s hitting below the belt. Modern couples won’t put up with it and they won’t forgive it. The company move might have been possible in the 1950s and 1960s. Today it is folly.

Even in the sixties, organizational moves didn’t make much sense. A case in point is the decision by AT&T’s Bell Laboratories to move the 600-person ESS project from New Jersey to Illinois in 1966.

[...]

Years after the ESS cutover, I arranged to interview Ray Ketehledge, who had run the project. I was writing some essays on management of large efforts, and ESS certainly qualified. I asked him what he saw as his main successes and failures as boss. "Forget the successes," he said. “The failure was that move. You can't believe what it cost us in turnover." He went on to give some figures. The immediately calculable cost of the move was the number of people who quit before relocation day. Expressed as a percentage of those moved, this initial turnover was greater than the French losses in the trenches of World War I.

[...]

And that accounts only for the initial loss. In the case of Bell Labs, there was another large exodus starting about a year after the move. These were the people who had honestly tried to go along with the company. They moved and, when they didn’t like the new location, they moved again.
Yes, it's a type of evolutionary gradient descent: you see an entity get stuck in a locality-constrained hill-climb before it gets culled by another entity that climbed a different hill (of regulation).
There are two aspects to maintenance. One is in maintaining a codebase, which is what you're referring to. This greatly benefits from static typing as you can have good guarantees about your code before you deploy it.

The other aspect of maintenance is in keeping a running system up without any downtime. There are plenty of of use cases where recompiling code and relaunching an application is not a viable solution. You need to be able to patch a running system. Dynamic typing is beneficial here because you need the old running code to be able to call into the new code which it knew nothing about when it was originally compiled.
Some things are actually acceptable, not necessarily good, if only done/available on a small scale. But get problematic once done on a large scale.

Good example is paper records, lots of sensible stuff is recorded on paper records. Access to those is often less than perfectly secured. But, because accessing hundreds of them is tedious, and stealing them might require an actual truck, this is not a real world problem. The moment we digitize this data, it get‘s so easy to access, copy, etc that the old level of access protections is no longer enough.

Similar problem with scaling up face detection. Lot‘s of jerks would surely like to harass other people by following them around everywhere, spying on them and generally make their life’s miserable. Until know, this was really expensive - time and money wise - so it did happen only rarely. But once this gets automated, it also gets cheap.
That guy is a force of nature
Please don't go on about downvotes. It's against the site guidelines, is tedious, and usually turns out to be wrong. In the end your post got almost no downvotes relative to upvotes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> You can slap on features on a bad language and make it good language.

I believe you meant to say “you can’t ...”
Show HN: Stocks ordered by maximum profit for 2019
Because Rails is a huge mega framework that tries to do everything in a very opinionated way.
We need guys love to compose bigger things out of small things. :-)
The species of the story's narrator: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_amazon
This is a headline from a tabloid which is maybe a step worse than something like Bloomberg, maybe on par with Huffington Post or Buzzfeed.
But isn't the premise that no one wants the US to be the leader anymore.
Even if the screen itself is reliable, you also need the soldering connections and all other components to stay good (on a moving vehicle, exposed to a wide temperature range, direct sunlight for many hours, water etc)

Plus you need the software to be reliable, which probably isn't the case even when the system is new.
Zhang is an extremely common Chinese family name, so I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of people with the same name.
Films of 2019 and Other Rants and Raves
- Waking up - Sam Harris

- The Portal - Eric Weinstein

- Naval - Naval Ravikant

- Joe Rogan
Revolutions by Mike Duncan. I've always been interested in History, but Revolutions has really deepened my understanding of how our nations and political philosophies came to be, and what could have been.

https://www.revolutionspodcast.com/
Someone dislikes this author/podcaster enough to downvote? Is he a controversial figure?
Most of us are questioning these supposedly "perfectly reasonable" decisions. There is a line and Boeing crossed it.
This line from the wikipedia article about DDG somewhat contradicts you, but it is rather vague:

> DuckDuckGo's results are a compilation of "over 400" sources,[15] including Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Bing, Yandex, its own Web crawler (the DuckDuckBot) and others.

Could you elaborate on your comment, I am sincerely interested in learning the details.
Novosbed+Mattress+Savings+Reduced+$100
> the search and web is being optimized for “measurable immediate economic impact” that is ad revenue at this moment

So much is obvious. The discussion is about whether there is a less shitty metric.
As for the Case Study part, and me saying this isn’t simply a rant - I lied, hence the quotation marks in the title

So it's NOT a case study...
That's hilarious. I love how confident you are that a European equivalent of fb, Google, etc. would not be as inventive or bold. That's cool, but let's not pretend like it's a fact.

As to your other point, I'm not sure how else to describe it. Not only do we fetishize monopolies and other large, dominating corporations, we fetishize their CEOs like Jobs, Gates, Bezos, Musk etc. We encourage our kids to see them as role models. We bend over backwards legally to increase profits for such entities and their CEOs to the detriment of millions of Americans. The pursuit of monopoly is the only business strategy that can even be discussed, let alone contemplated. I think fetishize is too weak of a word here, actually. Worship is a better term.
Yes. That is what happens when you edit your post and then skip proofreading.
The CEO just left with a $62M golden parachute.
I’d never driven a car where the gauges bothered me, so I didn’t worry about it when buying a 2019 minivan to replace my 2006 Prius. I hate the screen. The clock isn’t always displayed! And it displays in multiple places! I just don’t use the radio because it’s too many taps to be safe while driving.
They definitely have a strong point of view
Nah man, that is what Haskell should have looked like so we could have escaped the horrors of template Haskell.

I would love an ML-ified scheme, but I am not sure Hackett captures what scheme is, at least not after playing with it for a couple of hours. It feels very much like haskell.
Although it was immensely popular in its time, I haven’t found anyone else who has read it - “Memoirs of a British Agent”
Road Deaths in Oslo in 2019
The author is not using a "search" engine, Google is a recommendation engine.
If William Langeweische's NYT article from last September (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/magazine/boeing-737-max-c...) is accurate, Boeing is scrambling to make a transition from selling airplanes requiring extremely high pilot skill ("airmanship", Langeweische calls it) to requiring medium pilot skill. They're trying to make the transition due to competition from Airbus. They're partly using public relations and market position to do it. "No transition training needed to fly this differently-shaped airplane!"

It's not terribly surprising this is causing all kinds of upheavals at Boeing.

Richard Feynman is right again. "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."

Boeing changed my life. My family traveled a lot when I was a little kid. The advent of the 707 meant we no longer had to spend five days on a ship in the North Atlantic to get from Europe to New York or vice versa. I sure hope they can pull their company out of its present poorly controlled descent.
> I have been thinking about the same problem since a few weeks. The real problem with search engines is the fact that so many websites have hacked SEO that there is no meritocracy left.

That's not actually the problem described here. His problem is actually a bit deeper rootet since he specified the exact parameters of what he wants to see, but got terrible results. He specified a search for "site:reddit.com" but the resilts he got were ireelevant and worse than the results that he would have got when searching reddit directly.

I don't say that SEO, sites that copy content and only want to genrate clicks and large sites that culminate everything are bad fkr the internet of today, but the level of results we get off of search engines today is with one word abysmal.
Venmo is far from ubiquitous. (None of my friends or family have a Venmo account, for instance. They prefer other apps like Square Cash / Google Pay / PayPal, or don’t use payment apps at all.)

Debit cards are not popular here because they tend to lack robust fraud protection - and even if they did, your bank account could easily be zeroed for weeks while they work to reverse the fraudulent charges.

Also, debit cards still have an interchange fee here. It’s cheaper than credit cards, but even for a small purchase there’s usually a $0.20 minimum fee - which is too much for microtransactions.
I think IPFS should be a pluggable back-end among many back-ends that become possible once we move away from the idea that websites must be hosted by a specific server / domain and start thinking in terms of “client-first” architecture.

I don’t want to write a wall of text, right now the top post on https://qbix.com/blog lays out several specific actionable things we can all do to bring about this future. It requires a snowball effect and a critical mass for any of this to take off.
I think bloggers deserve some leeway in how they write; it's an informal medium and maybe the author's usual audience is arriving with a lot of shared assumptions.

Still, I wish IPFS had been defined within the post. I had to look it up on Wikipedia; presumably it's "Interplanetary File System".
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. We're trying for something very different here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>This blog is “built” on cloudflare apparently.

You can read more about why that is here: http://teetotality.blog/posts/how-this-blog-was-made/
'Certain Unflattering Truths'
Please don't reply to a bad comment with a worse one. That only poisons the thread further, and the site guidelines explicitly ask you not to do it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Boeing knowingly misrepresented the handling characteristics of the 737 MAX rather than risk losing money by building a new airframe to accommodate larger engines. That’s definitionally cheaping out. Rather than starting a development program and taking the business risk, potentially costing money, they chose to instead risk the lives of passengers by fixing an aerodynamic problem in software. For money. This calls into question their integrity as a company.
One way is to stack allocate it `foo temp_foo { 1, “bar” };`.

Another is to ‘emplace’ straight into a container. When the container is deleted so are the objects.

A third is to use `std::make_shared<foo>(1, “bar”)` or std::make_unique.
I'm sure it was also possible to buy poor quality versions of older mechanical signs. Perhaps newer technology made it a little easier for suppliers to hoodwink incautious purchasing managers, but that's all.

Britain's railways have mostly orange LED platform signage. The LEDs have good lifetime and each sign has enough local intelligence that a failure in one doesn't knock them all out, but they also don't run Windows, because that's neither necessary nor sufficient.

You can even buy replicas (either desktop sized or full size if you're really train crazy) which pull data from the national railway system over the Internet unlike a real one but function the same. So e.g. configure one to show you platform 2 from your local railway station and you'll know at a glance if the train home is running normally before leaving work.

Early full colour displays suffer bad burn-in, but the orange LEDs don't have a burn in problem and many have been in service for decades.

Yes it is technically possible for one LED or even the entire sign to fail, and at the smallest stations there may not be any other signs for the affected trains but that's not different than any alternative, the fault will be reported and a fitter will be out to fix or replace the sign.

I simply don't believe that previously all the signage which exists today was duplicated but mechanically or with hand-written signs. Instead my guess is that mostly you just didn't know. On a London bus for example, before they had screens telling you where you are, which bus this is and what the next stop is, there was nothing. This is fine if it's "your" bus and you know the route, but it made buses very intimidating for visitors. Today iBus has screens and spoken announcements, "2 to Marylebone" says your bus, and the display spells out Marylebone in case you don't understand the pronunciation. Later on another bus "Lavington Street for Tate Modern" says the screen. You have no idea where "Lavington Street" is but the bus knows this is where to get off for the Tate Modern art gallery, and now you know too.
Slightly related, I just finally was forced to upgrade from a 2010-era brick phone to a smart phone (they were turning the 2g towers off).

With my old phone, I could pretty safely check an incoming call or text without taking my eyes off the road for more than a second or so.

With me new phone, I can't even manage to unlock my phone without feeling like I'm going to kill someone.

I guess it makes sense that the rise of all the anti-cellphone laws coincided with the rise of smartphones. They are absolutely hostile to anything but undivided attention.
Still trying to land the remaining changes to 4.4. It’s working, just a lot of workarounds still waiting to be replaced with real changes. It has definitely taken longer than anticipated to line up all of the impact from Fedora CoreOS cleanup and changes.