skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting post. I have found myself doing a lot of the same things through my own experience. One thing I have been striving for lately is to build functionality using relatively more small methods that accept paramters as opposed to using state which is stored in instance variables. I find that this makes my life easier when writing tests and also helps identify corner and edge cases that I may not have thought about. And when something does break it is usually very easy to add a failing test, fix the code, and see that everything is now working. Also makes me a lot more confident when I go to refactor. Sandi Metz gave a great talk on the gilded rose problem that explores these concepts.
- We don't know about X.

- We don't know about Y.

Therefore X and Y might be related! We don't know! How can you say they're not?

This isn't a very convincing argument. Perfectly understandable for people to not want to spend much time considering it seriously.
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Single-purpose accounts aren't allowed on HN. This one is only posting on mental health issues and you appear to have created it for that purpose. Please don't use HN this way.

Mental health issues are important, of course, and to judge by what you've posted, you have had some significant experiences in this area. But HN is a community. We want people here to participate as individuals, not abstractions or issues.
I would have left the party and then see if my friend/girlfriend was okay and if she needed support (professional or not).

I would certainly not try to get strangers into a bigger brawl.
> You're inventing an anecdote and using "can be at times" to weasel out of making an actual statement

What statement do you want me to make? That I've experienced discrimination? Okay, "I've experienced discrimination." Are you happy now?

> It's amusing because that's actually even mentioned in the article

Yes, in a way that DEMONSTRATES THE PROBLEM. Instead of trusting that most people who claim discrimination are actually experiencing discrimination, ESR is demanding they submit forms in triplicate that somehow prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt so high elder ESR will spend his precious time fixing the issue. Most women and minorities do not make shit up for the sake of taking advantage of Eric Fucking Raymond. If many people are telling him there are issues, there are issues.
> lime water with honey

Unrelated, but about a week ago I was shown a jar of honey where the beehive was next to a small patch of flowering garlic. It was bizarre - the jar smelled strongly of garlic, almost overpowering, but there was no taste of garlic in the honey itself. Curious.
Thanks for posting the -components followup, I had this question on my mind immediately - i.e. wonder, if there are more components.

Any chance I could convince you to add a slider (or knob) as a priority component? Sliders and buttons and knobs are nice, modern, user interface components that work well in various places ..
Isn't this a positive thing? Increased supply will reduce prices.
There is one more problem. Schizophrenia developing is a part of development of human. Not just biological object, but real human, who use his neural system widely in a lot of developing tasks. So to be sure, you'll need to simulate human development. You'll need to simulate for a such experimental object complete environment with loving mother, child games, school, some social relatives (human is sufficiently social creature and he is unable to develop without social environment).

From technical point of view its just a computational complexity issue, but how about ethical point of view? How about human rights of simulated consious person?
Suggested reading: the principle of parsimony. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
> it correlates with performance

"Results suggest that, contrary to common beliefs, job tenure is largely unrelated to job performance."

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001879113...
This particular link seems new indeed.

There have been other links listed on HN in the past. One that came back a few times is on renormalization group theory (actually a semigroup).

Currently my new angle of attack is to check what people have to say who come from a representation theory angle.

I also liked this paper by Persi Diaconis a lot: http://statweb.stanford.edu/~cgates/PERSI/papers/The%20MCMC%...

I also like that on his wikipedia page (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Persi_Diaconis) it's stated that: According to Martin Gardner, at school, Diaconis supported himself by playing poker on ships between New York and South America. Gardner recalls that Diaconis had "fantastic second deal and bottom deal". :-)
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You're right, the iTunes Store does not sell in ALAC format. They sell a "Mastered for iTunes" format though, which is encoding the 256Kbps AAC file from a high quality source.
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> many of the implementation owners don't have a huge amount of time, so getting them to also agree to the new features is complicated.

That's another thing I noticed - people are not really prototyping the new ideas. I know that Bob Harper and John Reppy are also working on other projects, so they probably can't invest much implementation time on SML anymore. I wonder how OCaml and Haskell managed to keep implementers active.

The Successor-ML feature I'm just curious about is modular implicits (or some of the other alternatives mentioned by Harper). I much prefer the SML module system to Haskell's type classes, except that it is notationally more cumbersome in use. Sprinkling a little bit of implicit behaviour (when choice of functor is unambiguous) would help a lot.
> Has Putin not invaded Georgia

Georgia started that conflict for the record. I don't know the details but Russia retiliated pretty aggressive but they responded.

> and Ukraine,

Annexion of Crima (important seaport, russian majority) and supporting the seperatists in a region that was pro russia even before the the conflict to have a frozen conflict to avoid Ukraine joining NATO... is a bit more complicated than "invading".

> ordered the killing of journalists,

There is no proof (afaik) that Putin did that. There other poeple in Russia with connections to Putin that likely did that through e.g. the ruler of chechnya. There are internal battles in Russian politics (invisible outside of the kremlin)

> jailed and assassinated political opponents,

You mean the other oligarchs? That's not as black and white as western media likes to explain it. I'm not sure if any assassination attempts that can be traced to Putin are reliable documented.

> and deployed his military in support of Assad's genocidal regime?

Quite a simplification of the Syrian conflict, also Russia has it's only warm seaport in Syria. Russias involvement was widely seen as a reaction.

> How do you "sabre rattle" against someone who's already charged into battle and killed?

It's actually complicated and the west, especially the US is not really the good guy in a lot of stories. Putin is also not good. It's strategic game playing while ignoring deaths. On both sides. There is no simple black/white good and bad logic here. It's ugly from all sides.
> cheap as dirt at $6.99 a pound

Cheap for most people reading HN, but unaffordable for many.

> It's doing very well indeed if you compare it to any other system tried for producing food

Yes for producing (AFAIK) but not for distributing. I believe, but have no research to back it up, that countries with better social safety nets have less malnourishment than the U.S.
I don't see the relevance. Great album though.
It's the exact same attitude that is often extended to rape and violence.
African grey parrots are similarly intelligent, and appear to be socially complex as well.
There just doesn't seem to be much interest in the west, though it's quite popular in Asia, largely it seems due to Sony pushing it.

A bunch of FLAC stores have been mentioned but here's a couple more (and other lossless formats), courtesy of Sony: https://www.sony.com/electronics/hi-res-audio-music-services:

- http://prostudiomasters.com - This one in particular seems to be the only one with many of the more "mainstream" albums. It seems to be the only place that has the soundtracks for most of the recently released movies for example.

- https://www.onkyomusic.com/

- http://store.acousticsounds.com/superhirez

- http://bluecoastrecords.com/

- http://itrax.com/

- https://www.nativedsd.com/

- http://www.classicsonlinehd.com/

And in Japan: http://www.sony.jp/high-resolution/

And Korea: http://www.sony.co.kr/electronics/hi-res-audio-music-service...
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Or put another way: it is calorie dense. Very easy to overconsume calorie dense foods. If most of your calories came from them, you would miss the chewing you are used to.
By leaving the party and/or leaving things at that (and getting support from security/police/etc if things escalate).

She shouldn't get back to her friend/boyfriend asking him to `fix` things caveman style. That's a very bad line of thinking and will usually get anyone close to her into troubles. It's like dating a walking grenade. Try not to.
Interesting, how so?
Those interested in the legal basis for medical premium insurance discounts based on wellness programs should read
Incentives for Nondiscriminatory Wellness Programs in Group Health Plans. It has all the details on what is and isn't legally allowed.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2013/06/03/2013-12...
Maybe, but it's hard to imagine him stepping down voluntarily, no matter what sort of scandals he's involved in.
Of course, but it's pretty well accepted that fibrous and fatty foods are typically more filling that sugary foods, with fewer calories (especially for fibrous foods). It doesn't invalidate intake with respect to TDEE being the primary cause of weight gain and loss.
> How do they figure out the building heights at all then?

I don't know how this software does it, but people are tagging "number of floors" for buildings, and you can get a decent estimate of building heights from that (by presume X metres per floor). When standing on the street, you can easily figure out the number of floors.
I think this is it: https://www.instagram.com/p/BNXT5EQAsKY/?taken-by=sfpc_nyc
I'm very surprised that two authors that are commonly confused with each other would make a secondary plot point about the same subject that is very weakly related to their main interests.
OK, I stand corrected, maybe parrots understand what they are saying, but the core of my question is why can parrots speak and monkeys cannot?
I tend to use one tool for everything I'm doing and then when I switch it's everything at once.
> The spectre of famine ended in the US around 1800 with free market agriculture

I'm not sure how you define "famine", but many people have been malnourished since; some are right now AFAIK. Think of the Great Depression, for example, for a much greater scale problem. I would bet some have starved.

But most of all, any research you have would be appreciated; I feel like everyone, including me, is a bit naked out here.
The Vedas and the oldest, the Rig Veda, were composed as oral poetry and memorized. We don't have the first evidence of writing in India until inscriptions using the Brahmi script from the edicts of Ashoka around 300 BC. Even then, it would be centuries before large bodies of spoken word such as the Vedas and the Pali Canon were committed to writing.

Of course there's the the Indus Valley script, but theres no real evidence to suggest that it was used to write significant and lengthy works. Especially since the IVC collapse would have predated the migration of the Aryans. But there actually doesn't need to be a common writing system, since we know for a fact it originated independently in two places, the Sumerians and the Maya. It's less clear cut (no ocean separating) but it's likely the Oracle Bone script in China was independent too.
The article is good but the headline is terrible, falsely implying some surprising new discovery rather than the sobering actuality that we lack a good theory of genetic development. A better one would be 'Gene Editing's Risks Are Hard to Manage.'
> Add FLAC in MP4 specification docs

This intrigued me, so I went looking. Apparently this effort was launched earlier this year [1], with Monty authoring the initial spec basing it off of the Opus-in-MP4 spec, and developed quite rapidly. Meanwhile Mozilla immediately incorporated these features into Firefox and their Rust mp4 parser [2].

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1286097 [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1303888
If anyone is interested, I made as site for doing daily creative work, it's called https://streak.club

There's a daily art one that's been going on for a few years now that you might be interested in joining: https://streak.club/s/8/daily-art
It has been interesting to see the responses. And yes it was a not so oblique reference to Stonehenge. :-)
While I agree with Eliezer that "emergence did it" is no more of an explanation than "god did it", I'm not sure that this is the meaning people are trying to convey when they say e.g. "intelligence is an emergent phenomenon". What the statement means to me is that intelligence is a computationally dense phenomenon. This doesn't rule out the possibility of understanding it from a lower level, but it does rule out _simplifying_ it to the point where it can be understood without performing large computations.

In my mind, the concepts of irreducible complexity and emergence are inherently linked through the concept of abstraction. An emergent phenomenon is a computationally dense phenomenon for which much of the computation can be abstracted away, at the cost of giving up a low-level understanding. In a sense, emergence is the antithesis of irreducible complexity. In another sense, emergence is a sparse chain of islands in a sea of irreducible complexity.
> I fully subscribe to the definition of legacy code as “code without an automated test suite.”

> I’ve never really subscribed to any of the test-driven-development manifestos or practices that I’ve encountered.

I feel the exact opposite. I've worked in project with a lot of legacy code, both with BDD or with UTs that we added latter on.

Even with the best intentions the latter always failed: we always ended up doing a lot of unreadable tests that had no meaning and that we were afraid to look at.
However, when I was working in a team fully committed on BDD, we were looking at the tests before looking at the code, the tests were in the center of the developing process, and we were able to write fast, solid, and simple tests.

Nowadays, I'm more interested on articles that understand that tests can be a pain too. And tbh I don't really trust articles that aim at a high coverage without talking about the different challenges that comes with tests.
I've had zero problems with the BJ's brand red plastic cups

http://www.bjs.com/berkley-jensen-18-oz--plastic-cups--24--c...
Most of this project is build using prebuild components/shields, so elementary electronics knowledge should be enough ;)
I'm not sure where you're sensing anger. The thread so far is a pretty great example of the discourse I've come to really appreciate on HN. Sure, disagreement may be uncomfortable or feel awkward to read at times, but I think it's easily for the best. I'd much rather have somebody disagree with me and give good reasons than just blindly agree.
A sauce is probably the best place to put sugar. A tiny amount goes a long way.
I think the original is still a lot cleaner, though.
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Seeking out and using so called super mitochondria for this therapy could have it's own problems. If future generations only had such mitochondria they could become immune to future therapies. By selecting and actively promoting "healthy" mitochondria we could limit mitochondrial diversity which could lead to diseases which affect huge swathes of the population. Obviously we are not there yet but these are some of the dangers of applying gene therapy to broad populations.
moved to US from London. Instant 100% pay rise for same role. Yeah yeah US has its problems but more money always helps. Until UK gets its head around paying devs properly it's a waste of time there.
Right, Emergence is a general term like Entropy, and I chose that on purpose because Emergence is more like the negative of or inverse of Entropy. Emergence is when you get order, complexity, and non-randomness out of pure randomness plus time plus rules.
This is exactly right. Accredited investors do get scammed, and they lose some money and perhaps the next time it is harder to scam them. There is no second chance for Grandma though.
Well maybe I'm mistaken. It struck me that this is one of the proofs we discussed in class. I took calculus in high school also, maybe we discussed it there. However I've forgotten most of the geometry, and calculus I ever learned, having never had a practical professional need to use any of it. I'm not sure whether that reinforces or contradicts your original point on this subthread.
Stock and flow or just basic integration.

People have very bad understanding of rate vs level problems.
http://www.systemdynamics.org/conferences/2004/SDS_2004/PAPE...

This doesn't even get to the problem of compounding yet, which is related.

Another pet of mine is Bayesian logic. Doctors and psychologists at least should definitely be familiar with the idea.
Apparently there is:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160623/09170034795/email...
> What statement do you want me to make? That I've experienced discrimination? Okay, "I've experienced discrimination." Are you happy now?

This is actually probably why ESR wrote this article. You saying that you've "experienced discrimination" doesn't mean that I'm obligated to take your claim at face value and it especially does not mean that there is a systematic problem related to your experience.

ESR isn't saying that racism, sexism, whatever other crappiness don't existing in the world, he's saying that for the sake of the open source community, it's very important to be sure that there's a fire when you scream it, lest people stop responding to the word "fire."

> Instead of trusting that most people who claim discrimination are actually experiencing discrimination, ESR is demanding they submit forms in triplicate that somehow prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt so high elder ESR will spend his precious time fixing the issue.

In America, if you go to the police to report a crime, they will consider your claim based on how realistic it seems and if there is any preliminary evidence. When the court becomes involved, the evidence is scrutinized. Are you suggesting that this is the wrong way to do things? Would you prefer to be in a world where feelings and claims are more important than evidence?

> Most women and minorities do not make shit up for the sake of taking advantage of Eric Fucking Raymond. If many people are telling him there are issues, there are issues.

Again:

> Third: show me your evidence. I want to see evidence of specific harm, attack, or attempts to exclude, on identifiable victims, by identifiable perpetrators. It isn’t sufficient to say, for example, “Women (or black people, or gays) can’t get their patches accepted, or are sexually/racially taunted on forums.” and then wave your hands as though the accusation itself is to be treated as evidence and anyone demanding specifics is part of the problem.

I can't believe how quickly this article has become useful.
I think the author makes the distinction between an alphabet sensu strictu and an alphasyllabary, or abugida. This is also how wikipedia classes Devanagari [1]:

Devanagari ... also called Nagari is an abugida (alphasyllabary) alphabet of India and Nepal.

The distinction is kind of subtle and like I say in another comment, the idea of using symbols to represent the shortest possible phonemes in a language was not invented by the inventors of the Proto-Sinaitic script. The OP might be exaggerating this point a bit.

I'm also not totally convinced that learning a complex writing system like an ideographic script is such a big deal. After all, if all you want is a way to write down your name or a short prayer (longer prayers would be prohibitive by having to carve them on stone during either work, or breaks from work, anyway) you can always do that with ideograms. You can always learn only the few symbols that say what you want to say; you don't have to learn the entire script!

Come to that, there's no real way to tell whether the people who wrote their names in the Proto-Sinaitic script actually knew how to read the entire alphabet, short as it was. Maybe they only knew the characters for their name, and then a handful of other characters outside it, perhaps the ones used in the names of popular deities or their friends etc.

I mean, sure, that proto-alphabet had an easy mnemonic, but that doesn't mean that everyone who knew how to write their name in it had actually made the (small, but not nonexistent) effort to commit the entire thing to memory. It probably takes kids today a good few months to learn to read and write using an alphabet even with all the leisure and support of modern education systems. I can't see the miners of Serabit having an easier time at it.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari
Ask them for a solution to a problem. Tell them you want the solution using best practices and with all of the bells and whistles. They should be able to do this. Then tell them the optimize the solution for:

- development time

- execution time

- memory constraints

A good programmer should be able to respond to changing needs. They should be able to see the best solution for the current situation. They know what technical debt they are incurring and should identify it in their solution.

Also, if this is a small team then personality should play a large part in your decision. One person can really ruin a productive team. Does the person respond to your feedback well? Where do they show cracks in their facade? Do they explain themselves clearly? Can they think in the abstract or do they always speak in terms of their domain? Will you be able to give them high level directives or will you have to talk them through line level code? Can they do things the way you do things or do they have to change the world when they are out of their comfort zone? Do they feel a desire to throw code out when they don't understand it or can they work with existing code? Do they use phrases like "it's broken" or other catch all phrases that indicate they don't understand something and are unwilling to learn it? Do they ask for clarification or do they make assumptions and quietly go down the wrong path? When they do ask for clarification, is it at a level consistent with their title and experience? I can go on, but I might save it for a blog post. I have learned a lot from having to staff and lead a team and the above have been some of the points that have distinguished the producers from the consumers.

Cheers and choose wisely.
Yeah, sorry. I corrected the link.
Yup, Alex the African Grey is a great example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_(parrot)
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> Not getting your Cheney thing. If he said it, was probably a joke. But I doubt it, since Iraq was an Ally at the time.

"A decade before 9/11" was 1991, which saw the Persian Gulf War. The US and Iraq were most decidedly not allies then.