skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did qualify my statement by adding "over time." Note Feynman's famous observation about scientific progress in a commencement address at CalTech:

"We have learned a lot from experience about how to handle some of the ways we fool ourselves. One example: Millikan measured the charge on an electron by an experiment with falling oil drops, and got an answer which we now know not to be quite right. It's a little bit off because he had the incorrect value for the viscosity of air. It's interesting to look at the history of measurements of the charge of an electron, after Millikan. If you plot them as a function of time, you find that one is a little bit bigger than Millikan's, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, until finally they settle down to a number which is higher.

Why didn't they discover the new number was higher right away? It's a thing that scientists are ashamed of—this history—because it's apparent that people did things like this: When they got a number that was too high above Millikan's, they thought something must be wrong—and they would look for and find a reason why something might be wrong. When they got a number close to Millikan's value they didn't look so hard. And so they eliminated the numbers that were too far off, and did other things like that ..."

But the number did eventually converge to a consensus, though it took many years to get there.
The government's current IT infrastructure crisis is not caused by any one administrations. The root cause goes back decades. Things like "Improving Veterans' lives so they don't have to wait 5-10 years for an Appeals decision" shouldn't be political.

I can honestly say that the projects I've been involved with in USDS are the most impactful and meaningful projects I've worked on in my entire life.
Being able to do that (and it doesn't take that long because you should be leveraging your prior experience to quickly build that picture) is literally the core value prop for engaging my services, so it seems to kind of matter to a lot of folks.
The most insidious effect this has, with drugs like Suboxone or Subutex, the courts are basically mandating prolonged opioid use by the defendants, all on some Doctor's opinion that this is better.

They should also seek the opinions of addicts who have sought or been forced into this treatment regime. Though I have not experienced it myself, the general consensus from the people whom I have spoken to who have, is that withdrawal from these drugs is much more severe than Heroin.

If the point is to help the addict through the withdrawal process so they can get clean, it seems rapid detox protocols would be more expedient. But of course, as we all here on HN know, the real money is in a monthly subscription, not a one-time payment.

And that's what Drug Replacement Therapy (or as pharma PR prefers, "Medically Assisted Treatment") is. It's switching to a dope man who wears a lab coat and uses a prescription pad instead of balloons. And a huge payola scheme for pharma and practitioners.
I'm not sure why you've been downvoted, as your question looks like an honest one, and the answers are very informative. I certainly learned something new from the replies. Thanks for asking!
I don't disagree that these features create legitimate reasons for concern. For me, whether or not such features are attractive more or less correlates to whether or not the product is a good fit for my needs. If its not attractive, then that particular CPU SKU is not the right product and I should decide if the tradeoff of PSP for performance is worth making and if not I should choose a different product.

Faced with such a decision, if I am inclined to suspect nefarious motives, I'll assume that it is just as easy to install the ARM cores or the equivalent on other chip SKU's and just not tell me via the spec sheet since I have no practical way of determining if it has been done...and hence should probably assume it has been done.
I'm sure the possibility of a bomb there blinding missile detectors was pressing enough to do the tests even if there wasn't any competition spirit.

And Van Allen was quite possibly thrilled about the possibility of measuring his discover, from strength and shape to stability. (Good thing it is stable, otherwise people would keep probing it.)
>So you don't understand why people like something and dismiss it as silly hipster bias?

Yeah, it can seem annoying when someone does that to what you like, but all humans do this at some level. Its same thing as when someone insists that a $7,000 bottle of wine makes you sit down and have a personal experience with the wine, makes you appreciate the weight of the wine, its powerful robust swirling texture, and its assertive character. cue: eye-rolls

>Does everything have to be about efficiency and logical superiority?

No, but I bet you don't consult tarot cards before choosing your next job.

>People enjoy the experience more and are spending money on it. How horrible.

Agreed, leave people alone, people !!
Having the graph go beyond a point with the last axis number under it is annoying as hell and everyone who does that should feel bad.
Absolutely. I actually started listening to discover weekly playlists without giving it any feedback and it started based on my previous trends and gradually drifted into the more main stream stuff.

Once I realized I just needed to give its recommendation engine more fuel to work with and started liking/adding things I actually wanted to listen to, it went right back to giving me cool stuff with loads of obscure artists I'd never heard before but liked a lot. (It really only took me about two weeks to right the ship).

Spotify's recommendation algos are excellent.
No, value does not come from rarity alone. Many things are rare but are not valuable.

> This is important because essentially it ensures that a BTC has stored value.

If people believe bitcoin has 0 value, then it will have 0 value, regardless of the work that was put into it.
These features sound great.

On the Data Migration Tool (DMS), I really wish they would fix important issues related to Postgres. Right now, if you have a JSONB column in your database, DMS truncates the data.

This makes it impractical to use DMS for most Postgres deployments: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=735961
honestly i've always assumed people thought vinyl sounds 'warm' because of the crackling, which activates connections to wood fires.
My sympathies to India, although it's strangely comforting to know that the United States isn't the only country where military procurement is a complete clusterfuck.

In other news, the F-35 is still useless garbage: https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/breaking-news-the-f-35-is-... and the lifetime cost of the program is now projected to be $1.5 trillion, up from 1.3.
That wasn't clear at all when I subscribed.

Anyway, I'm off writing a mail filter.
> Even Thatcher (hardly a shrinking violet when it came to using force to get her way) couldn't get a deal to continue British rule in Hong Kong.

Deng actually told Thatcher that if britain didn't leave, china would invade HK and unify by force. Thatcher actually asked the US if they would protect britain from china and we said no. And that was the end of britain's hope of keeping stolen territory.
.. no protection against dishonest sellers

.. no protection against dishonest buyers

.. no protection against dishonest website operators
Sure, for any one component that's probably true. But there's a lot more than routing going on in a typical SPA, and you'll never really need to dig into most of them most of the time. My preference is to dig into components when I actually need to, rather than digging into every single detail "just in case" it might matter later.
Yeah I hear you. I really appreciate the feedback as well.

We only try to partner with high quality companies. For example this Tokyo one were running right now is with journy, ProductHunt, theSkimm, The Wirecutter, and Conde Nast Traveler. All legitimate companies. It's unfortunate that their emails are seen as spam because that's not good for anyone.

We'll keep this in mind moving forward. Thank you again :-)
Regarding JPEG compression, there used to be a site that would make a heatmap of JPEG-induced noise for a given image, so you could see hotspots where it looked like it had been compressed twice (i.e. manipulated).
I like vinyl for the same reason I make americanos with my work's espresso machine which makes both espresso and coffee. It's a process. I enjoy the ritual of heating water and pouring it into espresso, even though the machine does the same thing I am doing.
Thanks for putting my feelings into words.

And their partners are extremely spammy at best. They're all trying to force engagement and word of mouth.

Here's an excerpt from one of the intro e-mails I got:

> Welcome to the #SkimmLife! Here's how it's going to work:
> We'll meet you back here, in your inbox, bright and early tomorrow morning (PS If it's Friday or a weekend,
> you'll get theSkimm on Monday). We're a company that respects brunch, so we won't be with you on Saturday and
> Sunday. Can't wait? Here's the most recent Skimm
> Also, download our new app theSkimm for iPhone. It has a service called Skimm Ahead that makes it easier to
> be smarter about the future. Never again will you miss moments like when you vote in a primary or when your
> favorite show is back on Netflix. Best Part? It can integrate directly into your calendar.
> Lastly, good things happen when you share theSkimm! (read: winning prizes, swag, being a Skimm'bassador).
> To get credit for sharing, use your unique link: http://www.theskimm.com/?r=3cbcb2df OR our fancy invite page
> to have friends sign up. See how many people listen to you by checking this page.
> Your morning just got better. Trust us.

edit: formatting
don't most frequent flyer programs require the name on the ticket to match the rewards account? E.g. I can't buy my sister a flight, she flies it, and I get points for it.
So I wanted to try Neos after meeting a Zoopla exec who said they had invested.

But when the premium came out at over 4x my existing renewal quote I became less enthused.

And then I saw the Excess Charge (for making a claim) was £1,000 vs the £250 norm, I ran away to the nearest comparison site to find vanilla home insurance.

I think the conversion process might need looking at to make the benefits less nakedly focused on cost.
Hey there, I'm the USDS Administrator. Most of our projects are the same, like making sure that veterans can get their health benefits. We've found partners in the White House who really want to make government work better for the American people. An example is Chris Liddell, who was CFO for Microsoft. Every administration is going to be different and have different interests, but we've been able to find common ground on projects, and those projects are helping people who need it.
>> only to trust "green padlocks"

It's not so much about browser-specific behavior, it's about using the padlock to ensure that the company or other entity you're interacting with is the one you wanted, as opposed to only ensuring that the server you're talking to is the one indicated in the address bar.

A gray padlock is better than none, but telling less technically-inclined, clicks-all-the-links, fat-fingered users to trust them outright may not be the best idea now that you can go get bankofomerica.com, dress it up to look like BoA's site, and put a gray padlock on it for free.
Would you really argue that Bitcoin has "large scale adoption"? Most people aren't using it yet apart from cryptocurrency enthusiasts and currency speculators.
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> What should the US do?

Focus on the threat, not ban the whole bloody country or make all travelers from that country suffer somehow. Really this is a totally disproportional response. Note that this specific individual was blocked whereas you hypothesize a general threat, the two have nothing to do with each other unless you're aware of the Curl author being up to no good.
Even if you don't trust the previous author, you can still use your "go to definition" shortcut and see the real thing: who is it who is coding one file at a time?

You shouldn't be considering the implementation details every time you want calculate the circumference. Even that pi is involved is WAY more information than the caller needs to know. And if you are debugging you need to know where to look for the answer, not the answer itself.
Right. This all started with the first bitcoin. We had a paradise before.
Yes exactly. Just like servers. There just needs to be a big lawsuit, or law, or something, to make it clear that owners of a device shall have real ownership of that device (i.e. be able to have your own boot keys and capability to disable/enable features like trusted computing).
This is more like a fuse that can read and modify the memory of the computer it delivers power to, is accessible over the internet, and for which you cannot get the source code let alone run your own code on it.
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You're right, I oversimplified the null hypothesis.

Based on my best understanding climate scientists have pretty well proven that CO2 plays a huge part in the recent temperature changes. Perhaps an actual climate scientist lurking on the forum could weigh in.
(Managed to cut a lot of snark I think. Less light-hearted now but also less annoying.)

If you "just want to build your app", your app is gonna blow up (not might, will, given a long enough timeframe)

I feel pretty safe building stuff using technology (Java EE) that I only know the surface. (i.e. API) of.

I think that we should choose solid, well though out libraries that we wouldn't have to fix by yourselves.

and you're not going to be equipped to fix it.

This seems to be more of a problem in JS land where tecnologies seems to get born, hit peak popularity and die within a few months.

In such a case I guess it makes a lot of sense to choose stuff that I could rewrite myself.
I don't think this is a good argument.

Anyone who has passed a freshman physics class is equipped to (with significant effort) verify Newton's law of gravitation.

Any middle school student with a stopwatch and a tower can drop things off and determine that there are laws describing the ways that unsupported objects move downward.

Everyone who ever lived has been in a position to independently observe many of the properties of gravitation without needing to trust even a single statement or datapoint provided by another person.

In order to even understand the theory of ACC, much less test it, requires a person to first have a ton of education and then to navigate a substantial amount of academic literature.
I remember listening to the 8-track tape with my Dad, and I do not miss the clunk in the middle of a song or other content differences.
Hey,
we are using:

backend:
- node (express)
- Mongo
- Redis

Frontend:
- Angular (1)

iOs:
- native written in Swift

Infrastructure:
- Cloudfront
- S3
- Root for Backend
> Insurers try to protect their margin by finding ways to reject claims.

The ACA limited that incentive (though perhaps in a way with other problems) since insurance premiums are limited based on expenditures for care (the 80/20 rule) and surpluses must be refunded (the potential adverse impact being that insurers that increase costs can potentially keep more profits.)
I've been hosting for almost two years. The hardest part is definitely getting reliable cleaners/scheduling cleaners. I wrote some software to auto send emails to the guest, remind the cleaners, and remind me to reprogram the door code etc. So now I spend about 15 minutes per week answering random questions with everything else semi-automated.
> Another problem cited for INSAS was that it performs badly in Close Quarter Battles (CQBs) for which the forces preferred AK47. However, INSAS was a field weapon and its 5.56mm ammo (designed to injure, not kill) was not suited for CQB, very much like the any 5.56mm weapon with NATO ( e.g. M16) ,is not suited for CQB.

I know very little about the INSAS. but I'm not sure I follow the reasoning here. Why does the author not believe that 5.56mm is suitable for CQB? It may not have the momentum of other calibers, but it's most certainty not a less-than-lethal system...
Obviously not. Except when it can. (joke..)

You can google around for secure boot, trusted boot, chain of trust, etc. Breaking secure boot is the biggest vulnerability a device can experience (e.g. Apple will pay you the most money for this type of break).
Btw, we are on Producthunt:
https://goo.gl/gmxtQx
I am the author, do let me know what you are trying to do. I too have some ideas of what to add to plotnine or build on top of it.
i wonder if there would be any use in services that don't respond in real-time.

I think these digital assistants are nerfed by the real-time response requirement. I'd be happy to ask some of those questions, and get a pop up in a few minutes. And they could be of much higher quality as they can be processed and better researched.
Nonsense: there was plenty of horrible music that came out in the past that did not stand the test of time. Ironically it's all on Spotify now for your enjoyment :)
While I completely agree with the sentiment, I think that most people who spend a serious amount of time seeking out and listening to music digitally have the same level of involvement. Communities like private trackers and /mu/ are some of the most expansive record stores in the world. Try walking into a record store and finding someone that listens to whatever weird shit you're into. It'll be more rewarding, but far less likely.
A new project I've been working on: Bliss UI, Create UIs in the cloud. Thoughts?
> However, INSAS was a field weapon and its 5.56mm ammo (designed to injure, not kill) was not suited for CQB

This is so wrong it hurts.
No, I'm saying people are less likely to work for free when they can find work that pays instead. Seeing lots of people do work for free is a symptom that lots of people are underemployed.
I agree that it's sometimes over the top, but I do prefer that over a presenter who's clearly qualified to speak on the topic but lacks the communication skills. The dude clearly cares about his productions, and I really appreciate that.
Totally possible to use it for personal finance!
It's because individuals don't protest loud enough, but corporations want this. It's market pressure. Apply market pressure by raising a consumer-level fuss if you think it's important to have chips without this.
Okay suppose somebody raises a concern about the state of the research. Climate scientists address the concern and show that it is not meaningful. Then two decades later people raise the same concern. That's what is happening here. There hasn't been any new criticism. It is the same debunked arguments over and over and over and over and over. At what point can we stop encouraging that?
"Proving them wrong" is a bit strong, I admit. Proving something they don't already know is closer to the mark. And sure, in any field there are people who don't want to rock the boat. They are necessary to do the grunt work for the people who do want to rock it. Not everyone needs to be a pioneer, but enough regularly appear that science continues to make great progress.
Curious how this would affect private ventures like SpaceX?
> We have music on in our cars while we drive.

I am not sure how this is a passive activity. For me, listening to music in my car is when I am actively listening, I have time to contemplate the lyrics, listen to songs over and over again and hear the nuances, and really gain appreciation for a song. It is sad that my car has the worst audio quality, but it is far from a passive experience.

That is not even beginning to talk about the fact that on an open road (admittedly rarer and rarer each day), that music becomes an interactive experience. Be it slowing down and opening the windows to feel the wind pass by while the perfect Americana song plays, or pushing that pedal to the floor when just the right song comes on.

I'll readily agree that music at work is very passive though, I have to avoid songs that require (or encourage!) active listening.

> When I want to listen to music I grab a record.

I reach for my FLAC collection, legally ripped, and stored in the cloud.
There's two parts of addiction, and chemical dependency is only a small part of it, imo. This might resolve that problem, but it doesn't do anything about people who just like to be high all the time. There are lots of people who have addictions to drugs or just activities that don't have any chemical dependency associated with them at all.

Psychology's discovery of the relationship of neurotransmitters to behavior was a huge breakthrough, but trying to treat every problem with drugs is like trying to fix a broken Office install by replacing RAM. Sometimes the problem is software, not hardware.
Why is Apache foundation supposed to be Java-centric?
I believe in this, and also a part of our brains relates to the physical embodiement of a perception. When I ran an old pentium box full of mechanical drives, it beeps, it moves, it cringes .. and I like it. It's a piece of stimulus that is the basis for my other activities on the device. I love the bliss of SSD and tablets but I'm holding a piece of magic vapor. It tickles my brain less. Same goes for the vynil players, or even CD players, there were a magic show that you could experience in itself.

ps: this and the album scale, art, lyrics. It felt crafted a lot more. I spent most of my life trying to generate everything perfectly and I miss the analog stuff.
What does this change about the core observation, that shifting a unit of productivity to China from the US would increase CO2? If the goal is to minimize CO2, this seems like an important fact.
Sure, that's a valid issue, but it's unrelated to my comment on the ease of changing ownership of an asset.
A high quality regular scale (of similar build quality, design, and construction) to a Withings scale is $40-60

The Withings is $100. So it’s up to the consumer of the simplicity, ease of use, lack of friction in monitoring, and saving of time is worth $40-60 extra.

If I save 30-45 mins of my time over the life of the scale: yes it is. Just from time alone (not taking other benefits into account yet) That’s not wasteful - that’s economical long term.

You’re promoting such short term thinking.
Our mission has remained very consistent: use design and technology best practices to improve government services. The new administration has different policy priorities, but it has been remarkable to see the bipartisan support for our mission. Our work has remained largely the same. The major difference is fewer technologists are raising their hands for public service now, which constrains our ability to improve things.
Hopefully some video high "dpi" vynils too :)
I confess: I used to get Vinyl rips of old albums for this reason on what.cd

It wasn't that Vinyl is better, but the MIXES were better. They didn't compress the crap out of everything.
Stop waiting for perfection and learn from your mistakes
Thanks. I think the fact Cisco routers fail to route TCP packets bothers me even more.

/you had one job
that doesn't make it a collectible!
They could always switch it to feedback about the river.
This looks really good, I'm going to give it a try, thanks.
Pack the whole miracle world into a box? Maybe- if you have enough boxes, you can path some trodden path with boxes.
Or you could stack them and put some marketing hor'selsman on top of it, praising cowardice as innovation.
It would all be joke, if something new was at least tryied.

But what the article tells us is- basically , that its time to go back to where we where before the cloud hype and get statistic models on the machines, in the machines and horray. Full Circle.
Till we are all in boxes.
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