skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You only have evidence that they're "universal" in this particular universe. Have you tested the laws of logic outside this universe? If so, congratulations, you've answered the whole question. No? Yeah, that's what I thought.

All the evidence comes from inside the universe. All the evidence is suspect. There is no progress that can be made on this question without, effectively, divine revelation. Which would still be suspect.
Mention Beiber and you'll get a swarm of likes, Rts, and responses. It used to be a personal game for me to get a friend to mention him and watch the swarm.

It used to kill the usefulness of your notifications for at least a day. ;)
This brings back memories. I have screenshots of my desktop running Window Maker from 1997 (on a SparcStation). Guess I could start using it again, after 20 years :-)
wow, there's a nice bit of nostalgia!
Hmm, I remember using Window Maker on Sun Spark workstations back in 1998-1999 or so...
But the question under discussion wasn't who was moving to Windows 10, it was whether bundling of security and UI updates was the way things were going and whether giving up control over the update process is acceptable to everyone. My argument throughout has been that not everyone is willing to hand over that level of external control of their systems, and that Microsoft recognises this by having a very different upgrade regime for Windows 10 Enterprise.
From anecdotes of living beside the biggest open air drug market in Canada for a decade, and from watching my own friend's behavior growing up it seems to me the biggest problem is being unable to do anything when somebody you know or a family member becomes an addict. You can't force them into treatment, you can't even get the police to find them if they disappear into the streets, and the cycle in and out of jail just makes them career addicts as any chance of normal life seems over to them at that point.

Here if they check into detox, even if you are direct family you can't visit them or bring them anything because detox will deny they are there. You can't ask detox to call when they are released so you can pick them up and they don't end up released back on the streets.

Another problem is the waiting times for treatment. Real treatment is a long commitment sometimes living for years in a halfway house being supported by other peers to remain sober. An addict should be able to check into treatment and immediately commit themselves instead of waiting for months for a spot to open.

Lack of any facility for police to just dump out of control users and have them treated by doctors and addiction specialists is another issue. Often there are mentally ill with secondary addictions or other problems, and the police don't know what to do with them and money is wasted having them ferry around doctors to look at these addicts in jails or playing catch and release after a weekend in jail. A one stop sober shop and treatment option is always requested by police here but it never materializes.

Of course all of this costs money nobody will get elected with this spending platform on junkies until the synthetic opiates problem is so large the political will exists to do this.

All the addicts I've talked to including 2 of my friends who had a bad addiction for a few years, they all ended up addicts by becoming successful and partying to celebrate it. Anybody who lives in Vancouver if you go to VANDU and listen to one of their meetings sometime this is the same story you will hear: I was successful, I started drinking and partying, I used drugs to help regulate my sleep, or to get sober (cocaine sobers you up) or stay awake to function, I ended up an addict and lost everything here I am living in the dumpster or flop hotel being enabled by other addicts because I stole from every family member/friend and burned all those bridges.
They're clock shaped things, but not actual clocks, just discs with two indicator hands. Pretty tho :)
Android phones can have adware preinstalled, especially the cheap ones from chinese noname brands.
It tasted that way because you're not used to it and used to other flavors.

I appreciate unsweetened lattes (sans flavor syrups) other people enjoy vanilla, sweetened matcha, etc. Neither one of us can say one flavor is objectively better than the other, we just prefer different things --many children detest greens when young but come to appreciate them later in their youth or as they get older.
Don't do this unless you are a Jekyll developer. You don't need to install Jekyll on your Mac to test your website locally. Use Docker instead. There is a learning curve, but you can use your Docker skills for much more than just testing a static website.

Briefly, you need to (1) download and install Docker Community Edition for Mac, (2) create a DockerHub account and download a Docker image that's configured to run the GitHub Pages software, and (3) learn how to create a container and communicate with it. This is all documented online. Contact me if you need help.
I just looked through this subreddit and I still have no idea what this is all about. Please explain.
I disagree. Strongly.

A common attitude of effective managers as documented by First, Break All The Rules can be summed up by, "I never waited too long to make the right hire. I never fired the wrong one quickly enough." Having the wrong employee is very toxic for your organization and culture.

The rules that Steve laid out do not actually put pressure on people. They amount to, "Be accountable for what you say, try to make it work, and let people know quickly once you hit a roadblock." It is about effort and communication, not achieving results.

People who don't put in effort and don't communicate can't be made to, and can't stay. But people who do, can. And, on average, this will work out well.
I would love the opportunity to chat with you. Could you spare me an email or two?
AI Review, a Telegram Channel about AI, ML, NLP, Chat Bots, and AI Economy
I deeply love Moom because you can set it up to be tiled-with-gaps, which is ideal if you're still occasionally using your mouse to move stuff around.
This second video is of particular interest to me, as it tackles a problem I've been thinking quite a lot lately : is self-modification compatible with volition? What's the point of wanting something if you can chose what to want? The pill that makes you love the idea of killing your kids is an extreme example, and probably no-one would accept to take this pill, but it's really not so obvious why. Or at least, the reasons are pretty deep.

BTW IMHO a simpler example would be a meta-suicide pill : instead of being a poison that would just kill you, it's a pill that would make you want to kill yourself. I suppose you can make people want to kill themselves by inflicting them an awful chronic pain such that death would look like the only solution, but the pill I'm thinking about would not do that : it would change your mind so that you would want to die just because you like the idea of dying, for no particular reason.
Is this one of those things where all the terms are made up to sound really technical and the whole thing's a joke? I don't get it.
Well, that will happen if you pick an artist that is somewhat obscure, to be sure.
whoo, I just started using WMaker again a couple of days ago and this is one of the features I missed the most from other envs.
I build a Haskell program that checks the RSS-feed that you can download from Snyk against a package.json file of an NPM-project. I do not have some of my projects on github and never will have. I am especially alergic to providing anybody access to my private repos if i do not have to, so...
https://github.com/phuhl/SnykVulnChecker
Have you thought about selling stickers for tech conferences. Could be a nice way to get bulk orders.
Yes, this! It's a measurement. Daylight savings time makes about as much sense to me as it would to have a "Winter Temperature Time", where we would all shift our thermometers up by some number of degrees to pretend it is still warm out. Nothing is actually changing, after all, we're just making it more difficult to talk about.
> Also, the speed of the simulation doesn't need to be 1:1.

This is what I think of when considering spacetime and relativistic effects. If you think of "matter" as being equivalent to processing power required, then the more processing required, the longer it takes to update the entire frame. So other things with less matter are updated more quickly relative to more massive segments.
Trump lost the popular vote by more than 3 million. The Senate majority sits on a vote deficit of 6 million. And the GOP holds the House by a margin two digits greater than their share of the portion of the vote they won.

If you think the government we have is a reflection of the popular will, you are deeply mistaken. Indeed, the whole point of gerrymandering, Voter ID, registration purges, and a host of other practices that have flourished in post-VRA era, is to ensure that the will of the majority is not embodied in the government.

We've never had a minority in power that was this formally unopposed, while being this hostile to the popular public interest. As far as the health and even survival of our republic's democracy goes, this is uncharted territory.
Wigan Pier mostly.
That illustration image. In hindsight i can't help think that the release of Compiz was what made the DEs jump the shark.
Seems to have no ability to scroll with the keyboard. That would be a major impediment to me using it.
I like that idea, though it seems the best way to 'make that happen' is to explicitly form a community that agrees to only put their content in IPFS. And there would have to be enough popular members that others would be motivated to join and access what's there. Otherwise I don't see it as more than a toy.
I have sleep apnea.

I need 10 hours of sleep and coffee in order to function.
I wouldn't downplay something that is supposedly 5000x to 7500x times as potent as morphine.
As a nation of immigrants steeped in commerce this is catastrophic mismanagement of some of humanity's greatest resources.
The nth world problems series of subreddits.
You can start with the second world problems (https://www.reddit.com/r/SecondWorldProblems/), and climb all the way to the thousandth world (https://www.reddit.com/r/1000thworldproblems/).

Lots of amusing content on the Fifth World:
https://www.reddit.com/r/FifthWorldPics
https://www.reddit.com/r/FifthWorldProblems
i showed this to a mexican friend of mine (who only knows [mexican] spanish and english), and she told me that the pronunciation in the video sounds off---a bit too "english".

she doesn't know any of the the languages described in the videos, but she says one becomes familiar with quite a lot of native words when learning mexican spanish, because it borrows a lot of native words. i believe her; her name after all, is of native origin...and that for some reason is worth a little more to me than a youtuber's pronunciation---what fallacy am i falling into there?
Tasks for ML are relatively narrow and specific, so it's hard to see how that one task, or even a collection of tasks, could be identical to somebody's job. Jobs are ordinarily not restricted to performing one repetitive mental task over and over. However, ML could potentially make some jobs easier by speeding up some tasks, and allow them to be handled by fewer people.
> some obscure disease

I don't know whether to bemoan the decline of literary education in recent years, or applaud the improvments in medical treatments…
Am I the only one who came away with more appreciation of the "what", but none at all of the "why"?
If you care about security, use iPhone or Google Android phone (pixel). They're not bullet proof, but they're 5x more secure by virtue of being able to react to issues like this immediately. Third party integrations like rest of Android phones are messy by design security wise.
In Canada they have identified that Carfentanyl was found in current drugs on the street and after further evaluation was trigger for a strings of od deaths from last year to present that they had attributed to fentanyl.

There is of course still fentanyl related occurences​ aswell still, but scary Carfentanyl was in the wild already for some tims
I'm the same way. My wife likes to say "you're not there". I haven't found a way for me to turn my mind off a problem quickly yet. One thing I do that may or may not help is if I see someone trying to tell me something that requires actual thought and feedback, and I'm not in the right mind set to provide them that, I'll let them know honestly in a diplomatic way.
Is the article overblown? I thought the bill was about removing regulations that was hard to enforce technically... I didn't thought the bill gave a black check to telcos to sell internet history without consent.
It's a feature. If they're allowed to disclose it, and you agree to the terms of service, what expectations of privacy do you have?
Sweet milk chocolate is pretty awful though.
Does TensorFlow Suffer from the Second-System Effect?
The Chaos (1922)
I wonder as an analogy what markets would develop if caffeine sources were illegal. Caffeine isn't as harmful as other drugs but it is very addictive. By the same extension, this is why I think getting any drug should be eaiser. It's safer
> Given our experience with actual simulators, the fact is that simulating a world populated with intelligent beings capable of simulating another world, going into a recursive loop, requires infinite processing capacity.
This reminds me of old-timers talking about "You'll never use 640 kB of RAM!" It is rather odd when thinking about "infinity" though, but there are a couple things that I would note: 1) It's hard not to accept the concept of infinity. It's used quite a bit. 2) In order for one infinity to exist, all infinities must exist. 3) http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/04/24/when-hubb...

Those are galaxies...in a tiny patch of "empty space". Space is big. Really big...
Kinda weird that it gets to the front page of HN.
That's me. Genetic daytime sleepiness is a thing.

Modafinil has been a lifesaver for me.

Also, you have people with inherited dopamine management issues. Adhd aside, dopamine regulates internal clock, so delayed sleep phase is also a real thing. F.lux, blindshades and enough sunliht help, but just to a certain extent.
What would it take to port to wayland?
So, agency.

The core of my argument is going to be agency. We are in control because our actions often arise out of our own agency. This as opposed to there being another agent being able to decide our actions.

For this argument to work at all, we need to define agency/being an agent and establish that humans are agents. Moreover, humans must be at least somewhat unique for having agency. Certainly, we don't want rocks, or calculators to be ascribed agency.

I'd say an agent needs 2 things:
- Intention
- 'Potency', that is the posibility to measure and affect things related to those intentiosn.
This has again moved the goalposts, since we now need to establish Intention and potency. I'd posit that, if humans have intention, they certainly have Potency and thus only focus on intention.

Intention arose in humans through evolution. Skipping some steps, at one point organisms started measuring their environment, and responding to it. This is a huge evolutionary advantage (i.e. move towards the food and away from the predators). Simple measurement and response isn't quite enough though, but there is another advantage to be had: modeling. An organism is modeling when it isn't just measuring the outside world, but also making predictions. Once these predictions start taking into account possible actions by that organism, and those predictions start informing the actions of the organism, those actions have 'intent'.

And that is my argument in short form. Free will arises from choosing actions based on their predicted effect in some internal model.

There is some stuff to clear up between being an agent, and having agency over your own actions. It might be some other much more effective agent has more control over you than your own agency. I don't believe any such powerful agents exist though.
https://www.prix.ai
If God had meant us not to eat people, he wouldn't have made us of meat.
I believe this just isn't possible for a whole lot of projects. Codebases tend to grow so large, and people tend to come and go, so people don't really know most parts of the code, so then a lot of the time estimates are inaccurate to the point of being useless.
I'm responsible for the Watson Speech JS SDK, which is aimed at making the speech services easy to use in web apps.

Code is at https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/speech-javascript-...

Simple demos at http://watson-speech.mybluemix.net/

More complex demo at https://speech-to-text-demo.mybluemix.net/

I'm goin to be out some this evening but feel free to ask me questions and I'll answer them as available.
Content > layout. However, write your own and blog about the process as you code it. Best of both worlds.
I don't think it works

https://twitter.com/brndnmtthws/status/840680198102228993
That was my first use of them as well.
Action alert: 5G cellular technology warning – NaturalHealth365
JavaScript and Angular
GitHub doesn't offer anything more granular than read/write all repos in their app permissions matrix.
Ask HN: Advice/Mentorship in exchange for stock options – was it worth it?
In the past months i have been networking like crazy. Finding potential hires, sales, business angels, VCs and their associates, biz devs (allrounders), etc.. After a cold start i got more and more warm introductions over time. I pretty fast came to a point where i got introduced to a bunch of seniors of all kinds. We got great feedback and a lot of them where really excited about the team, vision and our product and offered to support us by giving advice and mentorship. In exchange they wanted to have virtual stock options.

Until today i said "no" to all of those offers as i love to figure out things by myself and i have the feeling that i get most advice and knowledge for free. I trusted all of those persons. But there always was a huge uncertainty if they would really tell me something i wouldn't come up by myself. I mean i mostly have the feeling to know what i'm doing; it is just that the resources are so limited that i couldn`t care about it until now. As a founder, I am the person who knows best where we are right now and how to prioritize our tasks, as being the only person with a complete overview and roadmap in mind. So my more important question always was "How good is their network?".

What are your experiences? How many advisory and mentors have you had in your startup and how did you compensate them? Did you have requirements? Did you agreed on milestones or metrics? How important was their network along the road?

PS: We have an ESOP in place by offering a virtual stock options pool of 15%. Until today only our top notch developers got some.
Ask HN: Must a Senior Developer be proficient in design, UX and Photoshop too?
Had an interview for a Senior Developer position, they ask me if I have Photoshop in my Computer, also told me that I must be proficiency in CMS(Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal, ...) !!!
That it is the definition of a Senior Developer, and the basic is to have these skills after think to do others things else.

They also ask me how I'm going to manage a team with these skills if I don't know them well.
Hear hear.

On the other hand you have people who have messed up sleep due to genetics, and this causes depression. And people who could sleep all the time and on schedule and still not feel rested.

The article hurts them all, and you too.
Expa's founder is from BC so I think them opening up an office there is mostly due to an excess of cash they have from Uber's success, not that it necessarily makes sense from a VC perspective.

I hope I'm wrong since I would love to see Vancouver / Toronto have the same earning power as SV.
Ask HN: Stay in west coast tech scene or join hedge fund?
I'm a fairly senior data scientist/machine learning engineer at a major tech company. I recently got invited to apply at a major hedge fund, and decided to give it a shot. It looks like I might get an offer, which surprises me, given how selective I perceive them to be.

Setting aside my impostor syndrome, what would I be getting myself into by taking the offer? I can expect all of the typical perks of working at a hedge fund, but it would involve a move. I have a family, but the move actually puts me much closer to my extended family. I can assume that there will be more work, on a wildly uneven tech stack.

Has anyone been in a similar situation? How did it play out, and were there any regrets?
An entire society is my alarm clock :D

"That's just slavery with extra steps!"
I like his signature.
How to recover lost Python source code if it's still resident in-memory
And one of them is mine. It recommends an event once you tweet to her. It is actually a service that many people appreciate. So in summary, bot != bad.
Here are a few less-known subreddits I've been enjoying:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/ -- active subreddit, lots of interesting miscellaneous images of old historical items

https://www.reddit.com/r/heraldry/ -- coat of arms, etc

https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/ -- good for worldbuilders
This will no longer be true as the divide in the GTA grows out of control.

Canada has a very small population so you haven't noticed these divides yet but they will only get worse with time unless our government takes a serious stance on ensuring the middle class doesn't shrink.
Thanks for answering despite the obvious and unnecessary offense I caused you. ;0)
It feels very discouraging to start out in this space once a given platform reaches a certain level of maturity. For instance, Insta now seems littered with these local service/small-business accounts spamming the most optimised hashtags with inspirational quotes on stock photographs; most engagement seems to come from bots and scripts being used by these same accounts. (Maybe I'm playing the game wrong.)

Does buying 5k followers really help in any way? Won't the more sophisticated users (ideally those whom you'd be targeting as followers) see through this based on your engagement rates, or does having a certain number of followers hold some weight with the algos which leads to your stuff attracting more engagement, followers, etc. in some kind of virtuous cycle?
LSD can help breaking bad patterns, but if someone has messed up eurotransmitter genetics, after two weeks they will return to the baseline :(

If you read reports of people after psychodelics, for many of them, after two weeks the symptoms return.

But yehah, people should research it more, and try it. Same with MDMA for fighting with traumas and anxiety.
It's hard to call advice blanket good / bad when the decision is heavily dependent on an individual's end goal combined with their tolerance for risk and uncertainty. Different people need different advice.
Yeah, I hear ya and don't disagree totally. I wonder if excluding (norming?) Those extremes is always a bad thing.

I hate the Alt Right and the Ctrl Left pretty equally.
Goodbye Fossil
Wouldn't it be easier to use neutrinos?
This is the text of the STOP act mentioned in the article: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/6045...

IANAL but would be interested to hear from one about the privacy and financial implications of this bill. For example, (d)(1) seems to suggest a $1 processing fee for non-letter class mail originating outside the US.
Show HN: G3N – Go 3D Game Engine
The treatment of airplane crashes comes to mind here for me. Crash studies look for cultural and technical improvements that reduce the risk of the same thing happening again, as even "pilot error" ultimately points to some problem in education or work environment.
Do you know any competitors?
> Windows has actually gotten pretty good, surprisingly (drag to corners to get a quarter screen window, drag to sides to get half screen)

Holy shit on a shingle... how did I not know about this magic incantation!