jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Not letting him drink water or whatever is simply inhumane. Not giving him information is simply a judgment call or policy decision. Perhaps it is against policy to reveal which exact molecules their machines react to.
Shhh... don't let people know about the oasis that is SLO, Oprah already opened that up! http://travel.usatoday.com/destinations/story/2011/04/San-Lu...

I regret leaving SLO county. I live in the Bay now, but returning is on my to-do list.
You think that was a stupid mistake? Probably a deliberate documented procedure: throw the person off-balance with some unexpected "stupid" weirdness.

"You told the border guard you're entering the country to work." "What? No! I never said that! I'm entering to marry my fiancé!"

"I'm here because of the MBA conference." "NBA? We didn't know there was a basketball event in this building."

Yeah, I've seen it a number of times.

They weren't upset. They were manipulating the author. They weren't stupid. They already had agents heading to the apartment to investigate.
God, what a terrible article.

So we canceled the surgery and started the scheduling
process all over again, this time classifying my patient
as a "self-pay" (or uninsured) patient.

Yeah, how well does that strategy work when you're having a heart attack and are moments from death?

I quoted him a reasonable upfront cash price, as did the
anesthesiologist. We contacted a different hospital and
they quoted him a reasonable upfront cash price for the
outpatient surgical/nursing services.

And what would have been his recourse if the doctors all came back and said, "Sorry, $20,000 is our best offer. Pony up!"?

It's not like you can typically elect not to get medical care without dire consequences, so the demand structure is totally broken for an efficient market.

And, of course, we're taking the doctor at his word that his price was "reasonable". How on Earth is a layperson supposed to know what a "reasonable" price for a medical operation is? I don't even know what a reasonable price for having a plumber come over and fix a leaky drain is!
They were hoping to use his failure to identify it as proof that he was an adversary.

When it turned out that he had identified it, the person who had hoped that now had egg on his face. (I wouldn't be surprised if in another room they had figured this out as proof so that they could get him.)
I'm not a health-care professional, so I don't know: But wouldn't you be able to not tell the hospital that you have insurance? Pretend like you don't have any from the beginning? Or can this backfire?
I get the feeling that we need public defenders in all airports and at borders. The complete lack of an adversarial process there is downright dangerous.
Nice work, chad!
Well, seeing as that's not what actually happened I think they don't need to worry about it.
Nothing, put them in the library, give them the resources they need and let them discover for themselves. why should we drive kids towards our own desires? what about what they want? show them the path but only after they tell you where they want to go.
> I can't nest it any further

You can, if you either click on the "X minutes ago" or simply wait. I'm deleting my comments because this item is in danger of tripping the flame-war detector.
I would recommend The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene. Whether or not you agree with the rule in the book, I found all of the historical examples and anecdotes interesting to read on their own.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_48_Laws_of_Power
Same here. It's partially why I became a programmer – closest thing to being a wizard I could find.

I still have the original paperback versions that I read as a child sitting on my shelf waiting for my son. He's 2 1/2 right now, so I've got some waiting ahead of me.
OCaml. Everyone should be using OCaml. For the love of God, use OCaml. No, it's not perfect, but it's really good.
I've seen photographer advice that said something like "take 100 photos and only show 5" so maybe the trick is to keep taking tons of photos and learn how to select the best of them.
What's happen when trial access expire? Will files remain accessible without payment?

I know that Google Drive don't allow to uploads until you pay for storage or remove files that above limit, but they're still available. Interesting what happen in case of Amazon.
I like the suggestion of letting the user decide on the activity. I found it a little unnerving the first time I came across it just after Halloween... it was as though some strange individual knocked on my door after weeks of stalking my friends, holding up pictures of them and asking, "Is this your friend Jane Doe? How about this one?" followed by 40 more pictures.

Even just by saying, "We're trying out facial recognition, would you like a demo?" I would've felt more impressed rather than creeped out.
To put "23,000" employees into perspective, that's three times more people than EA employs.
Ah, that's an interesting point. And not just 4chan. Imagine if someone posts your license # along with some rant about how you were a jerk to Reddit or Digg. Let the mass flagging begin! This already happens with polls, or yelp or whatnot. Even if you were in the wrong, you could get punished way out of proportion.
This reads like the 'fallacies of distributed computing' paper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_Distributed_Comput...).

While the likelihood of failure (or added latency, impacting upstream changes, etc.) is greater in large-scale distributed environments for which you do not control vs. your home-grown datacenter, those scenarios are just facts of life in distributed environments.

An awesome side effect of hosting an app in a cloud environment is that you must face up to those fallacies immediately or they'll eat you alive.
For the people who do strength training: how much do you exercise and how quick are the results? (in kg of muscle/year or in strength improvement or whatever is the standard)
You need to be prepared for halting failures and variable performance. Moving from higher end, dedicated hardware to lower end, shared hardware means an increase the failure rate and in the variance of your latencies. In exchange you get elastic scaling, you convert capital costs to operational costs (no more building datacenters), and you hand the "undifferentiated heavy lifting" to AWS. The posts aren't, IMO, understating problems but demonstrating the tradeoffs that come with AWS' core value proposition.
Good argument. I buy it, largely because it wouldn't surprise me in the least if Linux users are actually more generous. I just often dislike data summaries. If you want to show me the data, show it directly.
What OpenGL hardware and drivers are you using?
Down. Use https://archive.today/Wh0Ht
Sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from incompetence.
You can have Quill syntax for Doobie nowadays:

https://tpolecat.github.io/doobie/docs/17-Quill.html

That's by far the best DB access layer I've ever worked with.
> Anyhow. It appears you represent Google, so know this: We are watching carefully. Any attempt to subvert Python will be publicized and have a disproportionate response from the user community.

Who is 'we' in your sentence? Please do not speak for the community at large. For many Python users, as well as for the Foundation, as well as for many companies building on Python stacks, Google's allocating part of its vast resources to the continued development of Python is considered a Good Thing(tm) that brings a net financial benefit in the short term as well as an increased peace of mind in the medium-to-long term.
Haha, you mean that you are watching me. I do not represent Google. Don't worry, you don't have to fear any Google psych-ops trying to brainwash you into accepting its contributions to Python: Google is probably too big to care about such things. If caught any such behavior would probably cause a massive stink. And dude, there is literally only one free browser left: Firefox.

All other browsers are derivatives of Chromium at this point or have barely any users, made even worse by the way Google executed EEE on web standards with DRM extensions. It takes enormous resources to write a battle-tested browser viable for the web. It is far easier for someone to write a script interpreter for their own uses. HN is written in Arc Lisp, for example.
Yes, its possible, and, yes, they actually do. And the IRS is fine with it.
A friend of mine was reading a C&H book (probably the same one) a while back. Suddenly he ran to the bathroom, and there was a flush followed by gales of laughter.

He was in his thirties.
The A1243 is available on eBay, but the A1242 is really hard to find here in Germany. Hence the iMac detour.

+1 for eBay, anyway. I've made an exception for my M1 MacBook, but generally I try to buy everything used.
it opens you up to questions of "isn't that expensive?"

I suspect that if one has a secondary goal of increasing local employment and benefitting the local economy, then the PR side could be managed in a way that allays that. It would have to walk a thin line bordering the exploitation of the underclass in blighted urban areas.

Even if all of that works out, there are other things to consider: costs (and time) of shipping. Want it in a week? Well, get ready to pay. Even if you ship it air freight consolidated, it's still not cheap. If you want it on a boat, there's a good chunk of time to think about.

Maybe a "hybrid" approach would have tremendous benefits? How about an organization of local makers that also had language and cultural skills to enable it to work closely with and maintain solid relationships with reliable manufacturers in China? (Or maybe Mexico?) Local workers would handle prototyping and rush orders, but work with foreign manufacturers to reduce the cost as volumes increased. Such an organization could also be used to economically empower people in the local community. (Such efforts work most reliably when small numbers of new members can be acculturated by the majority of established members.)

On top of THAT, there are all sorts of fun import tariffs and such to deal with (at least on the US side). Get ready to front money for an import bond, for starters! And there may already be some hidden costs of importing into the US

My experience of several years ago, bringing a chinese-made laser cutter to my old hackerspace, is that all of the small-time people flaunt most of the customs stuff. In fact, if you are concerned with the possible jail time for not obeying this or that regulation, your friends in China may well tell you, "Yes, of course," on the phone then just blow you off, knowing you won't get caught and not wanting to pay the fees and bother with paperwork. (Also saving you some money in the process.)
I think there are two different problems here: building a good solution, and building a solution for a problem that people have to begin with.

If you /don't know/ if there will be any customers for your product (no matter how well-built it might be), spending time and money on building a very solid v1 is a waste. Sure you will have experience that you can leverage in your next venture, but that's an extremely expensive way to get it. And if you're bootstrapping, or have hired other people, you're potentially spending the financial stability of you or your employees to get this experience.

If you /do know/ you will have customers (either because you're sure it's a problem people have, or you've got people giving you money for basic R&D without any guarantee of returns), then I completely agree with you and the author -- build the product right and it will pay dividends later on.

In the prototype-then-throw-away model, you might not get the engineers' best development work, but you will get the best brainstorming and design work, because everybody's comfortable adjusting the product until they're confident they have something that people want. If you marry yourself to it beforehand, if you commit people's livelihoods to it, people will naturally try to rationalize what they're doing because they're committing so much to it, even if it's wrong. And if you've got the smartest people working with you, they'll be incredibly good at it. This creates a much bigger problem years down the line if it fails.
I disagree. MSFS is far from the only thing around. There is also War Thunder, VTOL VR, and X-Plane. The first two are amazing and I suggest trying them in VR.
By the fundamentals yes.

Are people betting the long game? Trend from digital to physical game is going to reverse and raise the used market again? I think that’s a big jump..
Yeah, niche products feel like an education in how powerful economics of scale & competition really are. It's easy to understand conceptually without having a grasp of the magnitude. But take apart a $300 food dehydrator, and it's basically 1940's technology. The market just doesn't have competition or scale.

Gives me a new appreciation for why access to goods was so limited in the past.
The same query, but but outputting an ASCII bar chart: https://bit.ly/3bcElz4
Yes, to be clear, these problems can be worked around (although many such workarounds have their own tradeoffs that must be considered in the context of the rest of your stack as well as your application requirements); I was observing that the defaults are not what I would consider to be production-ready.
i had one and returned it because of this i KVM between devices and like using the same setup so it broke the deal for me.

seems m1 is still highly praised though so maybe i should reconsider..
Mozilla had some of the most aesthetically well-designed tabs, and they're throwing it away for… that?
Decades of corporate/industrial espionage, of course
Continuing to do something regularly doesn't ever mean you're just going to do it once more.
If you looked instead at the number of people who obtain tenure at a research university, it would look much more comparable to getting into the NBA.
1:5000 would suggest an average lifetime of 13.7 years for a grown tree (i.e. not counting the years where it's too young to sleep under), and that's before the ability to avoid trees that look more likely to fallover.

I don't know anything about trees around there, maybe they're really short-lived? For forests around here, it's a gross overestimate.
If you click on the comment directly ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30262341 ) you can click the favorite link.

That will then let you find it via https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=somethingAlex&comm... (which is private) which can be found on your profile page.
Slippery slope is a fallacy, not a principle. Just because you took N steps, that doesn't necessarily mean you will take N+1 steps.

It's a convincing fallacy because sometimes you do take N+1 steps. But just like in the article, heuristics aren't always right.
> If Apple were a different company, it would've made maps available for use on web browsers and non-Apple devices. That could also help in a more rapid improvement of maps as opposed to the mostly-useless state it's been in (except for a few countries and regions in certain countries that Apple likes and works more on).

Try https://satellites.pro/plan/world_map# - you can switch between Apple Maps, OSM, Mapbox, Google Maps, Yandex and Esri
Here's the disruption I'd like to see for printers - forget all that driver nonsense; network printers should have a webpage where you upload a PDF which (after proofing, if needed) it then prints.
In addition to what the others said, these two pages make the arguments that convinced me:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/scottdensmore/archive/2004/05/25/140...

http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?SingletonsAreEvil

I don't know the particulars of how PHP's ArrayObject works, but take Ruby for example: instead of inheriting from Array, to make a class that operates like an array, one mixes in the Enumerable module (similar to a trait) and implements an "each" method to handle the low level access. All of the other methods come along with the module. In this way, the lineage of a class isn't important; rather, it's what it actually does that matters. (How meritocratic! :-)

But particulars of any language aside, I think this is an important step for PHP. Once a language gives the ability to compose the behavior of a class through traits, modules, mixins, etc rather than standard inheritance, it becomes easier to separate the data that a class encapsulates from the behaviors that it provides—and that, I believe, leads to more modular code.
It would be disruptive enough if someone made a printer that just fucking worked. My parents have been through a series of all-in-ones over the past decade or so, all of which have crapped out and shipped with terrible driver software that causes kernel panics. I've been told you can't even buy a consumer printer with metal gears anymore, just cheap plastic gears that are liable to break in a paper jam.

The printer landscape out there is so dismal, I still haven't replaced my HP printer from the late 1990's. Even though it only prints black and magenta anymore, at least it still prints at all despite being more than a decade old. I won't be able to say that about any printer I buy today.
One thing you should understand, we currently have basically two types of clients. First is of course the kids who go to lizardstresser.su and buy the $20 plan so they can attack people they play video games with.

Now, on the other hand we have our corporate clients. These corporate clients usually contact us via email or over forums and either make us a fixed offer or request a quote for a given target and time-frame. Now, these types of clients are usually willing to pay tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars to disrupt their competition for a couple of days.

The second type of customer is obviously our main source of income, and what better way to find those clients than worldwide media publicity?

It'd be funny if this ended up being a sting op, wouldn't it?
Would I rather have to pay?

Fucking yes! This should be the default. The default should be pay, with a free option that requires you to dump truck all your data.

Tech giants have completely ruined the internet economy. You can’t even pay for these things now. It’s just hand over all your data and secrets, or fuck off.

And the worst is that new businesses can’t compete unless they do the same. You can’t compete with free.
Not so beaten that I won't even dare to try iMessage...
WhatsApp is simply king, and I'm not even including the network effects...
Yes this is the idea of mole mapping and there are 3D whole body photo imaging systems available for this with automated detection of changing lesions. It's harder to do on a smart phone but maybe possible.
It’s a recruitment center for terrorists, like the terrorist attacks we saw in the American capital yesterday. It’s no different than ISIS recruitment websites.
They only have to worry about moderation if they host anything. They can keep Apple clean of social networks while endorsing and supporting an open protocol or format for fetching/presentation into a thin client (something like ActivityPub/ActivityStreams, to pick an existing implementation that could make sense to adopt/adapt). I don't know, I think that'd be a very "Apple" thing to do with integrations into the rest of their client side ecosystem.
That’s literally my startup, I won’t get deep into the reasons why good tools for this don’t exist yet, but if you imagine game development is like regular development but with orders of magnitude more chaos you can understand how difficult it is to build stuff for reuse. After 15 years in the industry, my approach is just the same as yours
I don't actually use SMS but I don't think that most people get read/receipt confirmation. The little check-mark system in WA is a big step forward compared to plain texting. Of course, similar features exist in other chat applications, but if the comparison is just between WA and SMS, that's a big difference.
In machine learning the "bias" that relates to the bias-variance tradeoff is inductive bias, i.e. the bias that a learning system has in selecting one generalisation over another. A good quick introduction to that concept is in the following article:

Why We Need Bias in Machine Learning Algorithms

https://towardsdatascience.com/why-we-need-bias-in-machine-l...

The article is a simplified discussion of an early influential paper on the need for bias in machine learning by Tom Mitchell:

The need for bias in learning generalizations

http://dml.cs.byu.edu/~cgc/docs/mldm_tools/Reading/Need%20fo...

The "dataset bias" that you and the other poster are discussing is better described in terms of sampling error: when sampling data for a training dataset, we are sampling from an unknown real distribution and our sampling distribution has some error with respect to the real one. This error manifests as generalisation error (with respect to real-world data, rather than a held-out test set), because the learning system learns the distribution of its training sample. Unfortunately this kind of error is difficult to measure and is masked by the powerful modelling abilities of systems like deep neural networks, who are very capable at modelling their training distribution (and whose accuracy is typically measured on a held-out test set, sampled with the same error as the rest of the training sample). It is this kind of statistical error that is the subject of articles discussing "bias in machine learning".

Inductive bias has nothing to do with such "dataset bias and is in fact independent from dataset bias. Rather, inductive bias is a property of the learning system (e.g. a neural net architecture). Consequently, it is not possible to "eliminate" inductive bias - machine learning is impossible without it! The two should absolutely not be confused, they are not similar in any context and should not be interpreted as in any way similar.
Plenty of companies redeem USDT for USD. I myself worked at a company that redeemed billions of dollars. The FUD on HN is approaching delusional levels.
That DB does 343M queries/day. If the average page requires 10 queries to render, that's 397 pages/second the db would be able to return data for.

This math is obviously an average, but even if you halve that number you are still very much above everything most of us web devs are ever going to build or even see.
You would not make the same argument about cars "on noes government employees are driving bog standard ford sedans and not Porsche's"

And unfortunately those expensive mac laptops suck when it come to working in any group larger than a one man band.
I think Java-style OO was successful because it made code organization obvious, more so than any other programming language I've seen. The key insight is that source files are the natural unit of writing code. Each source file has an explicit public API and private internal state, and a dedicated namespace that always reflects the file's name and location in the source tree. That makes it easy to see the big picture by just looking at the directory structure and the imports.
I agree that object orientation is a psychological success, but I think it's more for linguistic reasons than anything else. Our speech and thinking are organized into things, attributes, and actions.

"The stove heats the water." An object performing an action on another object (a direct object, in parts of speech), changing the state of the direct object.

So when we code this, it makes sense naturally to write something that is readable in human terms:

stove.heat(water);

This makes code easier to reason about and easier to go back to later. Hopefully, our code reads like the computer- and human-readable literature it is.
"There is great genetic diversity within all human populations. Pure races, in the sense of genetically homogenous populations, do not exist in the human species today, nor is there any evidence that they have ever existed in the past." - American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 1996 - http://www.virginia.edu/woodson/courses/aas102%20%28spring%2...