skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related: https://blog.beeminder.com/willpower/

Excerpt:

Here’s what I mean when I say there’s no such thing as willpower, despite having just defined it. Paraphrasing Laplace, I can explain all behavior simply in terms of responding to incentives. You want this whole pie in your body right now, and also you want to be two sizes smaller by next summer. Conflicting preferences are normally no big deal. You just, y’know, weigh them, make your tradeoffs, and reach a decision. But when the preferences apply at different timescales (pie now, thinner later) humans suffer from a massive irrationality which philosophers call akrasia and economists call dynamic inconsistency and normal people call … being stupidly short-sighted, or in the case of time management: procrastination.

Commitment devices are a way to change your own incentives so that willpower is a non-issue. They make your short-term and long-term incentives line up. There are many less drastic things you can do as well.

PS: Also the whole "willpower is like a muscle" theory, known as Ego Depletion, failed to replicate.
Would you be comfortable having to pay for that experience decades later or past retirement? A lot of people in the US are in that boat, and the debts are non-dischargable.
Legally, you cant send a letter via UPS (only USPS is authorized). You can however send documents via express/expedited services, and its pretty pricey - think tens of dollars for a single sheet of paper.
It would be like saying that, if voting involved putting a machine in my house to report information about my daily activities to the government, and they used that data to attempt to determine which candidates and policies I would prefer without actually consulting me.
It seems noteworthy that clock, Vdd, and Vss trees do not penetrate the microcode array.
Of course they slept on grass to begin with (outdoors)... and of course, once they settled, they would reproduce the same arrangement in a proto-domestic setting.

Also: people at some point discovered they could lay down floors, because it felt good underfoot. Then they realised that floors would be great to have in more places. Then somebody came up with the idea of making mobile pieces of floor and strapping them to the underside of your feet. And so, sandals and footwear were born.

Archeological records are good, but deduction will get you a surprisingly long way.
I'm glad we agree there was a heat anomaly in Greenland when it was named Greenland, which indicates the glaciers had receded.

Digging into that historical data further, what sourcing is there? The wiki page I already links indicates records for most of the world at the time were, well, awful. And that what we do know suggests it was similarly warm and dry in Asia, Africa, and South America.

Skepticalscience.com is a web cartoonist's blog, not a serious scientific source. That said even cartoonists can read and learn, so I'd be very interested in seeing his sources.
> By chance, did you read the article?

Please don't do that. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There is nothing about the IBM symbol, for example, that suggests computers, except what the viewer reads into it. Stripes are now associated with computers because the initials of a great computer company happen to be striped.

I hate to disagree with legends of their fields, but the IBM logo did make people think computers because the stripes looked like things that were familiar from computers of the era.

For example, it was common for computer displays at the time to have space between the character lines. If you tried to create the letters IBM in a very large size on an early computer terminal, you would get lines between them because room was left for character descenders.

I had relatives who worked for IBM in upstate New York in the 60's through the 80's, and they identified the stripes as being reminiscent of the green bar printer/ teletype/ terminal paper that was commonly used.
Very nice environment. Please add more nodes, probably generic ones too. In addition, I want to be able to add labels to connectors too. Keep up the good work!
Is Bach Better on Harp?
The energy per calorie is a very good insight that I hadn’t considered. I do agree that beef is a significant culprit and I tend to eat it rarely. But the environmental concern isn’t a consideration in my diet because it’s not something I’m willing to compromise on. Not only because I like meat, but for the fact that it’s a nutritional powerhouse that would take too much effort to emulate with a vegetarian diet. I try to do my share with respect to carbon by driving a hybrid, and plan on using the most energy efficient options when I own a house.

Back to beef. My main reason for avoiding it is the cost. Especially with the more flavorful cuts being extra pricy. Perhaps the best way to lower consumption is a tax like what we have with cigarettes. But I can’t see any political will for this anytime soon in the US. It would be nice to see the more progressive countries in Europe lead the way, like they’ve done with other aspects of emissions control.

Edit: typo
Can you give more information (link?) about why Servo was inseparable from JS?
Everyone (on Reddit at least) seems to be yakking away at whether Paragon Software is good or bad and what other things they've done. I just wanna know if this driver is actually good or bad. Far as I know, a Linux NTFS driver capable of writing has been a long time coming.
I thought all these self-control and willpower studies have been recently debunked.
s/US/California.

The US is decentralized (especially as it relates to electricity). Most of the rest of the Union is doing just fine.
I'm writing my web publishing platform to work on HTML4 and CSS2 standard so I can brag about how it's still performant on Mac OS9.

I just need background images, absolute positioning, <area> + image-map, and form submission to work as expected. No JS.

Classic Macs aside, I would be thrilled to find a no frills rendering engine that I could package up like an Electron app serving from localhost, but without all the performance expectations of electron apps. I'm imagining like what Ionic does for apps -- just wrap everything in an OS provided web viewer -- what's out there like that for desktop?
You do realize that most 1st world countries have experienced a rolling black of some sort in the same time period.

1 rolling black out every 20 years isn't all that crazy. Would you rather we spend billions/trillions on infrastructure used for 3 days every 20 years?
I do not think this is really much of a concern in practice. Nobody would bother to attack a browser that isn't popular (unless it is used by someone who is a target themselves, but the attack wouldn't be for the browser but for the target and the chance of others being affected will be very very low) and by the time the browser becomes popular it will also have attracted a developer base and pairs of eyes large enough to have those bugs fixed.

Remember the claims about Mac OS X security back in the early 2000s? Mac OS X wasn't secure because it had no security issues, it was secure because nobody bothered to attack it. As it became more popular (and it had to become very popular compared to what it used to be, which took several years by itself), it also attracted people attacking it.

That would be the same story with a new browser. Or anything new and obscure for that matter.
Am I in the minority being a GCP fan?
Articles like these leave me conflicted because on the one hand he's right but on the other hand I actually really like GCP and Firebase is a godsend. It would really suck if GCP goes under.
Hidden variable theories don't satisfy the bell equation.

There are other interpretations that don't require hidden variables and yet are fully deterministic. There is no free lunch though, so usually these interpretations require you "lose" something else.

As a layperson, the one that I can make most sense of is the Everettian interpretation (often called Many Worlds, although I personally find that a source of confusion).

In the Everettian interpretation there is only a quantum state and the observer is part of it. Thus the non-determinism and the wave function collapse is just an illusion due to the fact that the observers themselves are in a superposition state (which they are not aware of) and entangled with what they observe.
Can't wrap my head around this deal

Can you think of some way that they can integrate these 2 products? Scribd is a content subscription site, SlideShare is essentially a PPT hosting+search. How can Scribd benefit from getting SlideShare?

* technology? I don't think so

* community? I don't know anyone who goes to SlideShare to find new content and comment on it

* content? If yes, how can free slides be included in Scribd's paid plans? Can they put all this content behind a paywall?
It was posted yesterday and the replies indicate issues with the patch. So as these things usually go it'll probably take a long time until it's ready for inclusion.
It's cheaper to buy faster computers nowadays. Code optimization for speed and size is a lost art as the programming world is filled with layers and layers of libraries and frameworks nobody knows what happens under the covers.
Hi Jacob,

A couple of questions.

1. I could be mistaken on this, however, the resume template used by your service ("The Rezi Format") appears to be generated with LaTeX. Do you allow your users to download the tex source code?

2. If your service does use LaTeX behind the scenes, where was the original tex source code for "The Rezi Format" template acquired?

3. A resume will typically contain a lot of high value user data. What steps does your service take to keep this data secure from you, your employees, or any future buyers?

Thanks for taking the time to answer these questions.
> Just wondering, how do you vet the people that apply? I can imagine a lot of people would love to "earn" a free 2k a month and would happily play along doing the bare minimum amount of work required.

I think people that never worked in the public sector, particularly in something like social services, overestimate the goodness (for the lack of a better word) of average people. People that do this usually come from highly-competitive and privileged backgrounds -- top tier universities, FAANG jobs, etc. And the assumption is that "anyone else" could have made it, too! Everyone is just as stubborn, just as motivated, and just as smart. But FAANG jobs and top-tier universities are self-selecting.

There's a nugget of truth here, and we shouldn't forget what Rawls taught us about the Veil of Ignorance[1], but the reality is that social mobility (particularly in the West) is at a historic all time high. I'm not saying don't donate or don't give back (as a Christian, I feel a moral obligation, in fact, to donate to the less fortunate), but just that implementing welfare policies or -- as @songzme did -- giving resources away, is pretty tricky. Not only do you want to avoid the Free-rider problem[2], but you also want to make sure that people won't end up being wholly dependent on the resources they're the beneficiaries of.

[1] https://fs.blog/2017/10/veil-ignorance/

[2] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/free-rider/
The title should be NeXT not Next.

Had me thinking we'd found some previously unreleased work of his or something.
Find your local liquidation auction house. You'll see a lot more of the types of atms that show up at cash only businesses than bank location style atms, but sooner or later, one will show.
Have you tried Draw.io? I use it heavily in our Confluence and it has an offline client.
We sleep on a bed made of wool batting enclosed in two sewed together wool blankets. It is super comfortable. I think most people would be better served by abandoning modern "inner-spring" mattresses
its about what their clients and users use them for.

they have an audience that wants both. its not about what that audience could do, its never about what that audience could do.

> I'm not sure why anyone would use them over dropbox

the irony is that the same thing was said here about dropbox when it was introduced. this is really the icing on the cake to your comment. HN will never live this down.
Not always. In an ionic fluid electric current can be transmitted via movement of positive ions.
Besides, I'm confident that Knuth would never say something like that, and Ritchie was not known for such antics, either, to my knowledge.

Dijkstra would probably have said something like that, though he'd have crafted a pithier way of saying it.
Elm really is a gem. It's like an "approachable browser Haskell". And the Elm Architecture makes it really easy and fun to handle your state and the view(s) into it.
I don't think the claimed findings of the marshmallow test were relevant here, just the fact that some kids managed to avoid eating the marshmallow while others did not.
One more example: on Dec 2019, AWS Cloudfront finally decided to drop support for Flash [1]. Yes, Flash. And anyone still using Flash still has until Dec 31, 2020 to migrate.

[1] https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=7356
Show HN: Reload Field Manual (A bundle of 4 courses)
> They also enforce lock-in by preventing you from exporting to a portable format eg. PDF.

I think this is the point of these services.
Looks really interesting, I tried to sign up but got a 'something went wrong' with this stack trace in the console

Uncaught TypeError: msg is undefined
handle_response http://www.browser.engineering /signup.js:67
onerror http://www.browser.engineering/signup.js:49
submit http://www.browser.engineering/signup.js:48
SignupForm http://www.browser.engineering/signup.js:13
SignupForm http://www.browser.engineering/signup.js:13
<anonymous> http://www.browser.engineering/signup.js:82
EventListener.handleEvent* http://www.browser.engineering/signup.js:80
Beware, it does not seem functional: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87h7t5454n.fsf@suse.com/
Does anyone manufacture these? Or do you have a photo?
Is making such deductions not a sub-form of anthropomorphism, though? (To whatever extent humans 200k years ago were different than us, I suppose.)

> Modern psychologists generally characterize anthropomorphism as a cognitive bias. That is, anthropomorphism is a cognitive process by which people use their schemas about other humans as a basis for inferring the properties of non-human entities in order to make efficient judgements about the environment, even if those inferences are not always accurate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism
Do we really need to pay for an electric grid that can handle a once every 20 year load?
So far, signs are not super positive: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87h7t5454n.fsf@suse.com/
I still eat meat, but I stopped eating any sort of pork. I no longer crave it and it tastes bad, I no longer enjoy it.

It is amazing how fleeting our tastes are.
How to set up local Apache Spark environment (5 ways)
Ackercrowd resolves the contradiction between agriculture and nature conservatio
> You do realize that most 1st world countries have experienced a rolling black of some sort in the same time period.

Do you have some numbers for that? The only load shedding I remember in Europe was done through turning off large consumers and they would typically do this on their side.
So instead of having a .push method that takes a list of two arguments, I have a Cons2 constructor that takes two arguments... groundbreaking.

If the Haskell method gave you iterability for free I could see the benefit, but it doesn’t.
Ask HN: Is there market for self-host, customizable web UI for Google BigQuery?
Hi HNers,

I’m trying to build an open-source, self-hosted, easy-to-customize web UI for Google BigQuery. Do you find it a product that you would like to use? Discussion on features are also very welcome.

The product is to solve some problems I experienced when using Google BigQuery:

(1) Cost saving. There are quite a few common, well-known “best practices” that a self-hosted web UI can easily enforce to save cost, for example discourage users from using “SELECT *” [1]. But to me it would be hard to imagine Google actually adds this feature to their own BigQuery UI, since they are getting paid when users don't follow the "best practices".

(2) Allow users to add links to the UI. For example, I think many companies would like to add links of internal guidelines on how to use BigQuery and how to find datasets.

(3) Keyboard shortcuts. There are a lot of shortcuts I would like to add in BigQuery, such as "focus on result sheet", or "open query history".

Do you think it's an idea worth spending time on? Feedback is very appreciated.

Thanks!

[1] https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/best-practices-costs
Obligatory book recommendation: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33369264-blackout

This terrifying novel describes fragility of our society and its absolute dependence on power grids. Must read in my books
Instagram does do facial recognition, they are just not doing it for your benefit, or showing you the results.
> It seems like it measures kids who want to please the researcher

There are the kids who immediately eat the marshmallow. And then there are those who try not to eat it and fail. The latter is relevant. The former is not.
It's a shame that the web/browsers have grown up to be so forgiving of shitty markup that isn't valid.

The experience would be much better for the user if it was all strict, as I suspect things would be faster.
But the article just referenced some techniques the children in the test used, not the claims derived about their characteristics, which is the discredited part AFAIK?
Why Isn’t Everyone Buying EVs Yet? It’s Not Just the Price
Viral Archaeology
> compared to most everyone else I seem to have failed life

Please realize how offensive and insulting this is.

You were hired by one of the most successful tech companies, which most people could never aspire to. You claim that Amazon pays you 80% of what (you assume) Facebook or Google would pay you, which puts you financially ahead of the vast majority of people. By calling yourself a failure, you’re calling nearly everyone on Earth an even bigger failure, which is offensive and makes you look extremely entitled and detached from reality.

> Don’t know why people say this.

It’s because you come off in your posts as entitled, obsessive, elitist, insensitive, and bitter. These are the only sideS of yourself that you convey here, so that’s why people assume you’re failing your behavioral interviews.

Sorry again if I’m being harsh, but you’ve been posting the same stuff here for months, and every discussion gets derailed by people consoling you or advising you, which you invariably reject. Let’s stop going in circles.
I built givecrew, an app to donate with your friends as a team. The goal is to have a larger impact by grouping together your funds, donating together, and making a social long lasting experience.

https://www.givecrew.org/
so therefore any corporation that has the power to jail and kill is no longer a corporation and cannot pollute the distinction? paradoxical.

US slave trading firms were government agencies folks.

I'm sure we can find some modern example if we dig deep enough.
> The entire U.S. is feeling more and more like a third-world country. Corrupt government. Unreliable and deteriorating infrastructure. Extreme poverty (I recently learned that 30% of houses on Indian reservations don't have running water). Marginalization or even outright vilification of intellectuals.

Americans have been saying this about their own country for decades. Many people see the worst in their own. And if anything I think the outlook was more pessimistic than now in the 80s, and even more than that in the 70s.

Realistically, for all its faults, the US is still where I'd aspire to live for best opportunity and quality of life if I couldn't live in my home country for some reason.
the state handling it means antitrust breakup. not whatever other thing that first came to your mind because of your particular relationship with the state.
The creator of C++ Bjarne Stroustrup has been banned from Reddit
Apparently the creator of C++ Bjarne Stroustrup had his account suspended by Reddit for unclear reasons. At this point his account displays the "This account has been suspended" message and no further information is available.
The account in question does indeed belong to Stroustrup, which in a different occasion has done an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on the subreddit /r/denmark.
Link: https://www.reddit.com/user/bstroustrup
Didn't stop them from building Diablo Canyon, of course.
Yes, as users. Not as someone willing to be a torch bearer of language designer.
How many memory safety issues are in the JIT? Because Rust won't help you there.
Actually, it's somewhat the opposite. The lisp curse refers to the ways in which lisp can easily be extended with nonstandard or bespoke features. Apl relies much more heavily on primitives; they are so expressive and general that you often don't even need to add functions. This gives the code more universality (assuming you know the language, which I expect should be a given).
I think the point was if #feature is using the experimental channel and not the stable channel memory stability wasn't as important to the project as it was to him.
Apache Commons NET 3.7 released
I was about to say computer cases too but that came way later. You're right the striping is very reminiscent of printing and displaying.
Zeolites can do this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeolite
because one is objectively better than the other
Yes. We're there already, with "sharability regions". So far, only the OS has to deal with that; each process (always?) is in one sharability region. (Shared memory between processes, though - how does that work now on machines with sharability regions?)

Total sharability slows down systems with large numbers of CPU cores. We're seeing the hardware features appear to allow for less sharability. It's not being used much yet. These have programming implications, and OSs and languages have to keep up. Probably more the OS for now, with groups of CPUs and areas of memory dedicated to each other. Can Linux cgroups be used that way?

This has to be invisible to the application programmer, somehow. Or we'll have another hard to program mess like the Cell.
That's the real question.
Even 1 in 10 year load, do you build for it or just live with it?
It's just a $ decision.
Yikes! I guess I better finish it now. Although, you should prepare to be bitterly disappointed because the next book will have something to piss off almost everyone (not by design, it's just that simultaneously seeking breadth, depth, and readability will always fall short on at least on dimension).
Sometimes You’re the Datadog, Sometimes You’re the Hydrant
Does anyone really care anymore since ntfs-3g works well enough?
What you say was true in 2008. But Vermont Yankee shut down in 2014. Bernie Sanders and many other anti-nuclear campaigners fought for its early closure, in part because of low fracked gas prices (among other things).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_Yankee_Nuclear_Power_P...
You mean Google:

https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...
100 kW may make sense but as part of a large facility with maybe a few hundred of them. Distributing nuclear material so widely would be imprudent. The materials themselves are dangerous, there's no getting around that and there's real value in a minimum of centralization and control of the reactors in one place. A turbine generating half a gigawatt is also much more efficient (orders of magnitude) than 5000 turbines generating 100kw.
> because they were sick of the pop-ups advertising it on Google sites

for the longest time chrome advertising on google.com were actually malware : (
If they had a solid business model, why did Google go IPO? Or Nike? Or Apple?