skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Question - how do you think consciousness develops?

See, I don't know. So, giving an algorithm the ability to store facts, determine weights, and make decisions that they can see outcomes of... who is to say thats not how consciousness spontaneously develops.

Smarter men than me perhaps. But, again, smarter men than me also think we should nuke the internet :)
Is it possible for project approval time to be related to color?

I would imagine a lot more would file comments against building a yellow house versus a bland gray one.

> Lilac house in Watford conservation area rejected by council

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-5873041...

> Court rules woman can keep her red and white striped townhouse

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/24/red-white-st...
In case you're wondering... http://blog.assafnativ.com/2018/02/dolphins.html
Is there anywhere else that uses "£"? I didn't feel great about having $ default to USD but it is probably what most users want. I'll probably make it location-aware and/or allow the user to decide which it defaults to in the future.
Found an error:

20mm * 30mm * 7mm in m^3 -> incompatible units
It's on the list ;) https://numpad.io/about/
> but why is "big snake" so common?

Well, over 40% of humanity has the Abrahamic religions in its cultural background at this point, and one of the foundational myths there is the evil snake which tempts primordial man, with god cursing man and snake to be eternal enemies. So you have one cultural artifact with a single source (ok, not really, but sort of) accounting for that. And Judaism, Islam and Christianity don't have mythical evil pigeons or rabbits.
I'm still hopeful that this technology will enable writers who have a good idea for a story to build much more on their own without having to be in a position to hire voice actors and artists: whether that's pixel graphic backgrounds for adventure games with decent text-to-speech for characters, or 3D worlds built in Unreal with Metahuman-generated NPCs playing out a curated story within a procedurally generated city.

There being lots of low/mid quality games is, I think, a problem that already exists today on app stores -- on Steam especially between Greenlight & vast numbers of games 'releasing' in Early Access... and the more that a single writer with some dev skills can do on their own the more opportunity they have to develop their games as a brand, and get feedback to fire their creativity.
Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds
400 inch^2 -> 400 inches²
10 km^2 -> 10 km²

... works for me.
I think that's right, isn't it?
I don't know any corporation that can be trusted, but it is microsoft that is known for "embrace, extend, and extinguish"
fool me how many times?
From an energy-efficiency perspective, the difference is negligible. Getting out of the gravity well is by far the biggest hurdle. From there you might as well just give it a gentle push over to mars.
The official reason is here: https://github.com/elm-lang/websocket

I believe it's quite possible to support websockets with the current language features, though, and I hope that websockets will be ready for Gren along with the 0.2.0 release in december.
The boxes with plans are too large for me, you need to scroll to see everything. And the font is quite big, so it could easily be smaller and still readable.

Plus I'd prefer some sort of a format where you have a clear distinction between category (e.g. quest runs) and the number in each plan or maybe a table format that would let you skip repeating categories for every plan. Now there's a lot of eat and not that easy to see the differences.
Seems humanity is headed towards Asimov's Caves of Steel anyway due to climate collapse, so you'll get your wish.
Haha I am still not a citizen, so can't vote myself. I was trying to encourage my friends, but they were often too busy. They would vote for Hillary (or even for Trump), but never for a local mayor.

Sometimes I am considering running myself for a local government after getting my citizenship, with the only goal: drop housing price at my city for at least 70%. Once achieved - retire from politics :).
British RAF recruiting head resigns to protest pause on hiring white men
I have to say it’s slightly different.

— In case of some addictive substance, one might choose to do it to “get the kick” associated with that substance. Yes! The addictiveness makes the term “preference” highly questionable, and I can totally see how big social is pushing similar bio-psychological buttons with impunity. It’s an important point, but different to mine.

— In the case I described, the preference is in favor of keeping in touch with friends; and using Instagram is a necessary suffering to achieve that preference. There’s no alternative: all my contacts are there, APIs are closed, no competitors, etc. It’s more or less similar to claiming that my revealed preference is driving/taking taxis in a city where there is no public transport: I’d rather avoid both, but I do like to go places.
Macron also removed "impôt de solidarité sur la fortune", which suggests you have to be actively trying to shift the tax burden to poor people for a carbon tax to go wrong.

> "The movement is predominantly against a tax system perceived as unfair and unjust, but there are numerous grievances and differences of opinion. Most want to scrap the fuel taxes, hold a review of the tax system, raise the minimum wage and roll back Macron’s tax cuts for the wealthy and his pro-business economic programme. But some also want parliament dissolved and Macron to resign."

But strangely, the media focused on "carbon taxes bad" not "low minimum wage, regressive taxes bad".

It's like the only measure to 'help' the poor that has wide acceptance is to give them money to buy fossil fuels.
The Segway was worse than an e-scooter in almost every way. It was wider and needed more clearance around obstacles like curbs, railings, and bollards. It was higher, making dismount more dangerous. Lateral wheels and fixed roll axis (combined with high cog) make sloped surfaces dangerous, and cornering clumsy. It might be better for someone unable to balance a scooter, but would they feel safe with that big step up onto a moving platform? That’s a marginal case likely better served by a seated mobility scooter, which is no worse than a Segway for clearance, cornering, and fixed pitch.

Kamen’s self-balancing wheelchairs are neat, but the Segway is a non-solution.
It's a valid transliteration. Don't have any umlauts on my keyboard.
Birds are as much "flying reptiles" as pterosaurs. Animals with powered flight on the reptile branch of the tree stop looking like what most people think of as "reptiles". Powered flight requires a high metabolism, a high metabolism leads to insulation (fur, feathers), furry or feathery animals don't get called reptiles (even if they are, phylogenetically speaking).

Pterosaurs almost certainly wouldn't be called reptiles if they existed today.
I'm just paying the standard fee for a .io, it's a far less polluted namespace than .com :)
Although I don't disagree with you, I will just mention that housing affordability is also a problem in Australia where voting is mandatory
Do you think there exists a political option that will give more rights to the renters?

Do you think there's a correlation between having more leisure time (living from rent) and having more ability to do politics?

Do you think blaming the renters for not voting is the most constructive way of going forward, or does it reinforce the status quo?
yes, according to officialdata.org, 225 pounds in 1860 would be approximately 30,000 pounds today [1]. Admittedly, not enough for a family with seven children, but an annual income of 30,000 pounds is hardly "extreme penury" except for the really well-off. I agree that perhaps the real issue was the cost involved in bringing up and educating her children. Even with all this misfortune, all of them seem to have done well later.

[1] https://www.officialdata.org/1860-GBP-in-2017?amount=225
Hm.. Given:

> Where jank differs from Clojure is that its host is C++ on top of an LLVM-based JIT.

So this is similar in kind to pypy? (or maybe hy on pypy..).
> IMO the "wrong" part is that most heroin users will tell you they fucking love heroin.

It's totally possible to choose to take a drug regularly and at the same time hate it (along with your own guts for choosing to take it). Source: former smoker.
Their value proposition is that it's as easy as Firebase, but built on the rock solid Postgres.
"...and claims that the common traits of dragons seem to be an amalgam of the principal predators of our ancestral hominids...".

In forested areas of the world, there usually is* at least one very large feline predator which hunts by climbing up onto tree limbs which extend over a trail, then leaping onto unsuspecting prey as it wanders past. Having a "regularly check for danger above you" instinct in such areas could prove quite beneficial.

*Before more-modern humans drove them to, or nearly to, extinction.
This is a great decision. I think they make an unnecessary case that the nature of data has changed. The real issue is that the use of the word has seen wide adoption and therefore adaptation in the language. Language belongs to who uses it. Corner cases like datum, whom, antennae, etc. are more often used as ways to retrench classism than disambiguate, so I say begone.
Have more futuristic optimism. We are doing quite well on the climate. We will prevent it once we get fully to solar and then build CO2 scrubbers using solar energy. Energy percentage that come from renewables is more than 10x higher than anticipated 10 years ago.

And don't call it a "collapse": a change is not necessary to the worse, sometimes it is to the better.
Ask HN: Which startups are thriving in the downturn?
We have had nearly 6 months of economic gloom. Theres has been lots of hypothetical talk of who will win in these turbulent economic times.

Does anyone know of actual companies who have had some explosive growth in recent months?
you didn't even hit the core dependency: a capitalist operating system which inherently directs capital to a small pool of people
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21293544
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16009459
Personally, I believe that the fascination stems from an appreciation of simplicity. Low-tech solutions are generally simpler than high-tech solutions, and as I've matured as a software engineer, my appreciation for simplicity has only grown stronger.

I imagine that there are quite a few other software engineers here on HN who share this sentiment.
>They rented a fourth-floor walk-up apartment in London with four bedrooms, two sitting rooms, and a “nice outlook on green.”

The space afforded seem pretty substantial. Even if it was fourth floor. That is still 6+ rooms.
Congrats! I'd say it makes no sense to post here before doing hex,bin,dec conversion and bitwise operations ;)
>> He also notes that it cannot be demonstrated that the fears of ancestral hominids are coded into the human brain

I am pretty used to see harmless European spiders but I still can get an adrenaline burst if one shows up a bit too close. And it is not just surprise, because very few other "insects" cause that reaction. I believe there is a "reflex arc" in our brains for this.
I did a re-install last year to get rid of the clutter. I created a document that describes every step. Whenever I install a new package, that is going to be useful, I add it to pacman -S command in the document.
Probably a combination of insane zoning and tax laws that would make owning a parking lot that does something productive cost 10x as much as it yields and that landlords are as a rule stupid, petty, and greedy and demand a large enough share and dealing with them is so volatile that noone wants to take the risk.
Compared to JavaScript. React has to always compare everything to the virtual DOM.
Self-hosted Ubuntu server ;)
For APIs, WebApps and websites.
> know's how to write

In fact Xe's personal writings[1] are quite regularly on the frontpage as well. I'd post an HN domain listing link, but the domain recently changed.

[1]: https://xeiaso.net
As said there:
[..] the title should specify [...] 2017.
If you are bootstrapping you dont need a $150K/year cofounder, you need one willing to put money into the business. If you are VC funded you need to pay yourself good salary, because chances of cashing out are very low and chances of burnout while doing 15h days on ramen are high.
Pterosaurs were entirely distinct and evolved flight independently from the Aves lineage, indeed they weren’t even dinosaurs (they were related to dinosaurs via common superclade Archosauria, like modern reptiles and crocodilians). They generated lift with flaps of skin much more similar to bat wings than bird wings. Had they survived the K/Pg extinction, we might indeed have flying reptiles that don’t look much like wings.
That's slightly higher than minimum wage in the US.
Great feedback, thank you! Glad to hear it's not only us feeling that way :) Will make some first changes asap.
My opinion on the problem of "too much content to watch in several lifetimes" will not be solved on the supply side, but the demand side.

All content is not created equal: we are social animals and what people around us do interests us much more, even if it is of lower quality. So, if anyone can generate professional-looking creative projects with relative little effort, we'll gravitate towards people creating content on niche subjects that interest us; thus creating small communities with high engagement. Even if they have low watch count, they'll matter to those participating in them. Fanfic communities already work that way.

There always be a place for conventional mainstream media outlets creating run-of-the-mill high-production-value works, with themes averaged to appeal to the masses; it's just that they'll have a lot more competition from communities of the first type.
>Is "big snake" really common?

Just off the top of my head:

* The European dragon.

* The Middle Eastern wyvern.

* The Chinese dragon and its variants throughout Asia.

* The Mesoamerican feathered serpent (Quetzalcoatl for a chief example).

And I'm sure there are many more.

If you ask me, it's far too coincidental for various unrelated peoples across the entire globe to have fundamentally the same mythical construct.

The concept of a "dragon" is one of the Lowest Common Denominators of humanity, nearly everyone everywhere knows what a "dragon" is (local equivalent term as appropriate), and the mystery behind why that is is simply intriguing.
That is because designers usually tend to push for "making stuff easy for users" by removing options, whereas engineers tend to like to expose everything configurable so that power users can customize the application to their optimal experience.

I think that "old school Windows" aka Win95-Win7 (where you could still use the classic Windows UI) and "old school MS Office" was the perfect balance between "keep it easy enough for users to get started, with clear visual distinction to aid them" and "allow power users to work as well", and that was a large part of why MS Windows and MS Office became so utterly dominant. Only when MS started to go bonkers with Vista and then the disasters that followed from a design perspective, users suddenly started to look for alternatives.
That is not true. The tech required to maintain long-term living on Mars would be extremely valuable here on earth. It is directly relevant to many of our current goals for more sustainable lifestyles.

Much like the moon missions, the side-effect benefits that it encourages will likely end up making such a mission worthwhile for the tech alone.

I don't understand your criticism of starship though, would you clarify why you think it's not suitable?
"artists" are just exploiting human tendency to navel-gaze and socially signal sophistication, producing nothing of value except perhaps the circuses to keep people from finally eating our masters alive.
Really cool! Only missing a "sum" function.
Can Niche build the next decentralized social platform? Here’s why it matters
> a Google term

"keyword"

(OED, meaning 1a: a word used in an information retrieval system to indicate the content of a document)
>underpaying health staff

yes, things like surgeries or dental dont bankrupt you in Europe, and doctors dont automatically become millionaires collecting vintage cars or buying private planes.
The main question seems to be "are we biased to use certain animals in mythologies, and on top of that to mix and match specific animals?" and the secondary question seems to be "if so, why those animals?" I can imagine the former might be true, but have a hard time seeing how one might prove it. Let alone even try to answer the secondary question.

I mean, sure, we have a bunch of different mythical animal amalgams in various cultures. For the sake of the argument we can assume these cultures came up with their hybrids in isolation (because if not that would already answer our secondary question). Even then it is still possible that by chance they may end up with hybrids that have partially overlapping "source animals". So basically a mythological equivalent of a hash collision (except in reverse: the "input" would be the mythical beast and the "hash" would be the source animals). Then these cultures meet, and the natural thing to do is to use the same word for these mythical creatures because of said hash collision. And looking at how we apply the name "dragon " to various mythical beasts we just needed two out of three or more animals overlap, so our odds of a collision is pretty high.

Then there's the question of why these hash collisions happen. Note that we're already skipping the option of "because a bad hashing algorithm makes it statistically likely".

This book argues it's an "innate evolutionary fear". Innate fears are a very controversial topic within evolutionary psychology. This blog post dissecting another "innate fear of snakes" article[0] does a good job of laying out the issues. Basically, there is a difference between "innate" fear and predisposition to acquire a fear. We only have evidence for the latter: babies, as well as animals raised in a lab, do not have an innate fear of snakes or spiders (or anything really). We look to adults to teach us what is safe and what is dangerous. IIRC we do have some evidence that the predisposition to acquire fear is innate (basically, using doctored footage showing a chimpanzee that appears to freak out at the sight of a flower doesn't succeed in teaching other chimpanzees to be afraid of flowers. It does work for snakes and snake-like shapes). Of course this leads to the question of "why snakes and spiders, but not other predators that our ancestors should have been afraid of?" AFAIK no such predispositions have been shown for the other supposedly common source animals in dragons, and there's lack of spider-like features in these universal "dragons".

So this explanation really comes with a ton of issues - it's a typical "reason backwards from the explanation" thing, a just-so story.

[0] https://neuroanthropology.net/2008/03/07/innate-fear-of-snak...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story
Suburbs are urban.

The 'sub' is a reference to the proximity to the (likely denser) city, not a step between urban and rural.

So for instance, the small town I live in is also considered urban (but is located in a rural county).
Those are equal values right? This is just formatting preference.

I agree formatting should probably go with the first factor, but I wouldn't say current behavior is incorrect
I think young generation needs to engage in the politics with the uncompromised goal to crush the housing price

At least where I live, the “bank of mom and dad” either use their home equity to help their kids buy OR the kids are banking on getting the family home when they die.

We’re in too deep now. We basically painted ourselves into a corner where the economic engine is so intertwined with rising home prices that nobody wants the gravy train to end.

My best guess is tenancy laws change to be more and more in favor of tenants (SF, NYC) securing near permanent housing for current renters and massively disincentivizing an increase in supply of new rental units., completely screwing over those that come later.

Basically kicking the can down the road another few decades.
These assumptions are baked into Confucianism, which along with Buddhism formed the basis of Chinese philosophy and culture. I can't speak to the association between government and dragons specifically beyond the fact that dragons were associated with the Imperial family, in a way that seems to mirror the common motif throughout history of nobility claiming an association with the divine (as Chinese dragons are seen as divine/godlike entities rather than mere creatures.)

Meanwhile, Western philosophy and culture are based on Christianity, in which Satan is depicted as a serpent in Genesis and a dragon in the book of Revelations. Also Greek, Roman and Norse mythologies, each of which heavily influenced Western literary canon, contain dragonlike beings representing primordial chaos, or evil monsters to be slain by the hero, such as Jormugandr and the Lernean Hydra or Typhon.

And there is a common narrative thread with Western mythology called "Chaoskampf," possibly descended from a now lost proto-indo-european mythological root, which involves a storm god or sky god doing battle with and defeating a dragon that represents the primordial order before creation/the current pantheon. Traces of this can even be found in the Old Testament, with God battling and subduing Leviathan.