skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That encourages bad behavior and ultimately decreases productivity.
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I enjoyed your article very much and it touches on many of my own interests, but if we got to the point where "it's not neural networks" is now a legitimate reason against trying some technique, then something, somewhere has gone really wrong.
Good catch! This is a pretty epic idea but it is defensible. Here I quote from a paper linked below:

"One additional aspect of nuclear sustainability—noted long-since by Bernard Cohen—is that a significant fraction of the nuclear fission energy resource is in fact completely “renewable” in the same sense as wind and solar energy [32]. Wind and rain constantly erode the Earth’s crust, which contains an average uranium concentration of 3 parts per million. Rivers then carry this dissolved uranium into the oceans, at a rate of approximately 10,000 MT per year [33]. In a breeder reactor energy system, this is a sufficient rate to supply the world’s entire electricity demand at the present time more than five times over—or is roughly one quarter of what’s needed to supply a continual 100 TW to a hypothetical global civilization of 10 billion persons which is energy supply-replete by any contemporary measure.

As the crust is being eroded by rivers, it is constantly replaced by new layers of rock being pushed upward by plate tectonic processes. The supply of uranium in the Earth’s crust is effectively inexhaustible, on the order of 40 trillion metric tonnes, a factor of 10,000 more than is present in the oceans. At present erosion rates, this source of uranium would last on the order of 4 billion years, similar to the timespan over which the Sun will become a red giant.

Therefore, this assured source of “continually mined-by-Nature and oceanically presented” uranium will last as long as life on Earth does—even if burned at rates sufficient to supply a large fraction of a fully-developed human civilization—and represents an astronomical amount of nuclear energy, one that is in fact truly renewable and inexhaustible by any human measures."

[1] http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/4/11/3088/htm
fascinating. yet must the history of a painting always overshadow its current emotional impact & message?
This guy has such an ego problem. I'd hope that the PSF would actively ask people to stop linking to learn python the hard way, when it's teaching a version of the language that's over ten years old (and it's far from the only resource). The book has the benefit of having a catchy name that people can easily recommend, but that's about it. This guy really needs to get off his high horse, I'm even considering writing my own book just to compete with him.
serendipity.
Cloudflare Transparency Report: First Half of 2017
How I Get Things Done by Richard Branson
Let's get rid of those things then.
Thanks I will try and improve the tag line then!
I ran across this article while researching a stock and as I read, I kept thinking, "This was not written by a person. This was written by software." [0]

I checked the attribution, and there is a person's name on it. Sure, any hack can write and publish and this is probably just another example. But the odd style doesn't even strike me as 'writing the way I think' or writing and publishing quickly without editing. For example, from the 2nd paragraph, "The corresponding low also paints a picture and suggests that the low is nothing but a 97.89% since 11/14/16." I can't gather any meaning from that statement, yet it has oddly specific details.

I am not glad to see this trend and not glad that Google is embarking on this path. I suppose it is inevitable, but unless there is expertise built into this AI that can extract meaning from data on my behalf and present it in a way that is more insightful and interesting than I am, it will become yet another source of chaff I'll have to filter.

Can we at least, please, flag AI generated prose as such?

[0] https://www.nystocknews.com/2017/07/05/tesla-inc-tsla-showca...
this is a great answer. I have had viewers come in and become very upset that I'm writing javascript in ES5 (usually this is because I'm maintaining a library I wrote many years ago). I have a chat macro to explain why I'm not upgrading the library to ES2015/2017 and hope folks can stay pragmatic and respectful. Besides, I welcome pull requests ;)
Apple picking is like crunch time – or at least like crunch time should be – it's not a long-term activity: the time between apples ripening and the first frost ruining them is not long.
Rendering of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
funny to me, that HN brings up "Godel, Escher, Bach" in the most general of situations but not when someone's specifically asking for it. enjoy! :)
Will that also affect rich guys who buy real estate?
Yes totally understandable! :) Thanks.
Generally speaking. Given that DynamoDB is a NoSQL database service, I'm not certain that moving larger clients to their own dedicated AWS resources should cause too many negative side effects. Especially ones who are so large they're causing scalability issues.
There are good, non-hypothetical reasons that publicly diagnosing living people without their consent is considered a bad thing to do. This came to a head with psychiatrists trying to diagnose Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in the news media [1], but the general principle that it's uncouth or even unethical to publicly speculate about a person's mental health status has been more broadly adopted in many circles. Please consider the possibility that what you're seeing is not "faux-outrage", but people who genuinely disapprove of your overall line of argument.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldwater_rule
That's resale companies that recycle or sell used goods.

They often won't take pure trash on junk that can't be sold(food waste).
"If you are managing as a group, go for the average"

This is a point I strongly disagree with. Just the way some people need fewer hours of sleep than others OR some people can run further than others. I have found that people have vastly different ability to focus and personal drive.

Orienting around averages is a terrible way to develop a team and people. It also demotivates people that want to work harder and they end up leaving. Instead of setting an average, create an environment where people can push harder if they want to AND get incremental rewards.
Solving the Youth Unemployment Problem in Afrika
Why is this being downvoted with explanation?
Right, it was a completely different world when the 40 hour work week was proposed and people were pretty interchangeable in the industrializing shift.
Usually they will ding you on every other HOA law to make up for it.
This is an interesting idea!

I probably didn't focus on sales as much as another CEO might, but I tried my best. Sometimes that's just not good enough I guess!
Amazon: The Company with a 100 CEOs Cannot Be Stopped
Aw no I wasn't targeting California at all. I was mostly targeting timezones that I would be working the same hours with theirs. The spreadsheet has some outliers but those must be a few exceptions that I would be happy to stay late at night to work with.
Check: an platform to help journalists fact-check claims and debunk misinformation
Post on Craigslist, somebody will take it.
I wonder which had the biggest effect on its widespread adoption, Ford on the unions. I'm sure I read that once Ford did it, it became almost fasionable in the factory owning classes!
I too had never heard of the Rangers and their work. Here's their site: http://www.freeburmarangers.org/
tvtropes should also be considered in this category.
"But for homicide? Are murders being selectively investigated?"

There's a scale from accident, via involuntary manslaugher to murder. There may well be bias in judging what to prosecute.

Also, laws such "three strikes you are out" may lead to more murders. If, say, you're a burglar with two strikes, and a house owner wakes up and recognizes you, hitting him hard out of fear for that third strike becomes more likely. Similarly, racial bias by the police may make people so wary of "he said, she said" situations that they will 'snap' and kill someone instead (IMO, many people convicted for murder aren't cold-blooded killers, but mentally not the most stable persons who have been dealt a socially unfavorable card in life)
It actually isn’t important that society have clear insight into how food is produced. What is important is that government enforced the health and safety regulations.

Does the public have the right to see the inside of the Boeing design lab? The Ford assembly line? How about a livestream of code being written that runs medical equipment?

The public doesn’t have a “right” to see that.

The militant vegan crowd would have the most humane slaughter in the history of the world featuring a cow that lived to a ripe old age eating nothing but grass imported from a Swiss meadow while listening to the soothing acoustic tunes of John Mayer – and they’d still portray that as if it were an ISIS beheading. Because they have an agenda and it isn’t “safety.”

The FDA and the Department of Agriculture have the job to ensure health and safety. Are we making an argument that they are failing? Based on population size and geographical size, the US has a very safe food supply.

These documentaries aren’t about food safety, let’s not be naïve.
If people aren’t comfortable watching animals being slaughtered maybe they shouldn’t eat them.
I understand and appreciate the consistency with which you value life. my proposed solution is to stop killing things. not "kill all things equally".

killing a dog because it bit a person is just another demonstration of how we overvalue human life. you should get mad about that- too.
I doubt that the bugs provoked by tiredness have an aggregate of negative productivity.

And even if so, it can be mitigated. As a webdeveloper, when Im tired i do the most menial tasks which means that bugs introduced there are rare and not important.
I would be interested in joining! I'm working on (among some other things) a compiler right now that could be fun to live stream.
Utilities fighting against rooftop solar are only hastening their own doom
I don't even know honestly where to start.

1. "as someone who is atheist/nihilist/suicidal". Describing yourself as suicidal is not a great introduction, go and see a doctor. Self-termination is not a "normal" feeling.

2. "I see no reason not to put down humans who have malfunctioned" - See point 1. Also, non third-world countries should have a justice system which would aim to recover individuals instead of "putting them down" or "making them pay/suffer". You might be stuck during middle-age if you think otherwise.

3. "There's enough effort to focus on progressing those who do buy into constructivism; those who don't wish to participate should exile themselves from society rather than lash out in deconstructivism" - again I don't even know where to start. Like if life was not difficult. Such a superficial view on life.
AI Is Making It Extremely Easy for Students to Cheat
NG plants can't start delivering power in seconds. That's what "stabilization" means.

You're right that NG plants do play an important role in the grid today, but it's a "we predict that we'll need more power generated in an hour" role.
Breivik spent hours on an island with a youth camp methodically killing children. I think that was the incident where a girl called her father on her cell while hiding and the last thing he got to hear was his crying daughter getting shot in the head at point blank range.

But on the plus side, Breivik is currently working on his Poly Sci degree should they ever let him back into society.
>> Those systems sort-of, kind-of worked,

Rather more than that. For a famous example, check out the wikipedia article on MYCIN (a classic of the era):

MYCIN was never actually used in practice but research indicated that it proposed an acceptable therapy in about 69% of cases, which was better than the performance of infectious disease experts who were judged using the same criteria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycin

There were many practical reasons why expert systems fell out of grace (although like others say they are still used widely, in real-world applications) but a large part of them was political, rather than anything to do with their effectiveness.

Some historical background:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3454567_Avoiding_An...

In the end, the problem with expert systems was probably that they didn't scale as well as one would hope -primarily because it's damn hard to develop and maintain huge hand-crafted databases of knowledge solicited by experts who have very little incentive to collaborate in the creation of a system that will put them out of work.
WTF Is Product/Market Fit? By Christoph Janz
All Nations Except U.S. Agree on Climate Accord at G-20
> Reporters purchased a cryptoasset to have this priviledge, and if a certain Reporter submits information in conflict with a majority of other reporters (e.g. they lied) then they lose a portion of their cryptoasset giving them incentive to play by the rules and get paid for it.

To be precise: it gives them incentive to submit the same information as majority of other Reporters. This is a huge difference.
TL;DR: Wolfram Alpha is very useful and kids are using if for homework. That doesn't matter, says Wolfram: be a computational thinker instead.
Of course not, we give them sweetheart deals and tax breaks.
Hi folks – this is a case study I just published of my experience helping design & build Check (https://checkmedia.org), an open-source platform for social media verification.

It's basically a React/Relay app with a GraphQL/Rails backend. You can see the source here:

https://github.com/meedan/check (Docker compose app)

https://github.com/meedan/check-web (client)

https://github.com/meedan/check-api (server)

I have no official connection to the project anymore, but I helped build a lot of the frontend over the past year and will answer any questions as best I can.

The writeup has a number of (responsive) images and two gifs FYI, but no images/PDFs.
"I don't honestly know where to even start"

maybe next time try starting with some empathy.
While I think most companies need to do better at making this acceptable, and I'm in no way downplaying the importance of treating mental health like any other health issue...

One of the things I like about our unlimited/flexible vacation policy is that I don't have to justify time off and can take it at short notice. I think there's quite a spectrum from "vacation for an event", through "vacation to relax" to "time off for burnout" and finally to "sick days for mental health" – I don't think there are clear cut lines between some of these. I tend to take relatively short notice days off to relax and recharge after stressful periods, and while I call it a vacation day, it's probably much closer to this. Unlimited vacation policies get a lot of criticism, but I see this as a big benefit.
Years ago I learned to separate the art from the artist. There is too much art that I love made by despicable people, like Picasso. He was a really awful person but I leave that aside when enjoying his work.

Another interesting article about Picasso.

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/05/arts/art-review-occupied-p...
*a platform, sorry for the typo :)
Edge is only gaining usage share at the expense of older versions of Internet Explorer. Their combined usage is either flat or still trending down depending on who you ask.
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Here’s how to get a refund if you registered your drone with the FAA
Does this include side projects? ie if you work 10 hours/week on a side project you shouldn't work more than 30 in your job.

Maybe employers should be able to ban side projects for this reason.
I had the exact same experience in SF. I really wanted to use Redfin, but it was just impossible. Every person we dealt with from Redfin was uninformed and unhelpful.

Finally went to a traditional local buyers agent who did a great job, showed us houses in different neighborhoods that matched what we wanted, and we finally closed after looking for about 2 months. The other interesting thing we noticed was that the houses we were seeing with the agent wouldn't show up on Redfin until weeks after we got to see them. I learned that one thing a good local agent can do is get you in to see stuff before it's officially "on the market".
Why can't I do something bad that only affects me?
Short and to the point. I like it.
Great links, thanks! I'll have to add street theatre company Royal de Luxe ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_de_Luxe ). Due to them being essentially free, they will probably never get as rich as the founder of CdS, but their scope and mechanical accomplishments probably leapfrogs any other show. It's really a sight and thought to behold how they transform a city and keep a story moving day and night for 2 or 3 days with 10 meters high giant puppets.
Test of n = 1: ("Random article") -> Yūyūki -> 1989 in video gaming -> Golden Joystick Awards -> Video game -> Electronic game -> Game -> Play (activity) -> Psychology -> Behavior -> American English -> Variety (linguistics) -> Sociolinguistics -> Society -> Social group -> Social science -> Discipline (academia) -> Knowledge -> Fact -> Verificationism -> Philosophy

That was fun!
What about these?

* 30-40 hours

* 20-30 hours
Sadly I'm forced to lower my expectations when Virgin America was sold to Alaska :(
I find it very interesting, the constant A/B tests that Trump is keen on.

Nobody rational would dare to upset the entrepreneurship in US, so I kinda want this to happen, just to see how this will play out.

Granted, I'm not planning to move to US really soon, so I might be biased, but I've really wanted for Brexit to happen and I'm EU.

That is turning out as a disaster, just like rational people suggested. Trump has yet to truly permanently fuckup something so I started to wonder if I was wrong. I see that we're keeping our options open.
Yes, coming from the UK, where my hours in academia were 37.5/week, I was surprised to learn (from my incorrect interpretation of the title) that those 2.5 hours/week I work here in the US were pointless.
None of those arguments really wash. If an industry depends on hiding its typical (or even exemplary!) operations from the general public, because of fear that people might not buy the industry's products if they knew what was involved in its production, that only builds the case for making sure the public knows what's going on. That reaction is basically proof that something the public is interested in, is being hidden.

The public interest absolutely trumps some sort of business-model protection. In fact the only exclusions I can think of to that involve trade secrets provisions, but typically there IIRC there are fairly narrow definitions of what can be protected.
If you have a persistent data problem, and introduce redis, then you'll have two persistent data problems.
To paraphrase Merlin Mann: that's fine for Richard Branson.
Building design process within teams
> he now spends the rest of his days

iirc, his sentence was @20 years, not life.
Ability to perform is in part a function of age which the article leaves out completely. 40h/week is doable for most but there are plenty of posts by more experienced developers here who have said they strictly limit hours or report that when they were younger they were able to perform longer.

There is also the question of sustainability. Not only health wise but also the social system around one gets impacted imho. somewhere beyond 45-50h. More work directed output may well be possible but at the cost of weakening the support system and with that increased risk in times of crisis.

I'm willing to discuss this more in depth with the author once he's got a few grey hairs.
Germany is locked into a model that always puts exports ahead of anything
And surprisingly I completely agree on this.
i've never thought about how these two things relate to each other: asymptotic productivity of work, and winner take almost all nature of capitalism. seems like a very succinct way of explaining why people work so damned much. i'm actually kind of embarrassed i've never connected the two. it seems to make the argument against it more clear too- if marginal hours worked grow less productive, and marginal improvement to the product is negligible in every day terms, we ought to mitigate that somehow, unless its something people are doing because they love it.
Wouldn't the limit be that you said something? Eg. if I come into your home and yell something loudly enough to wake you up and destroy your nights sleep, then that should have a higher penalty than just coming into your home?
That doesn't change my point.

If new evidence comes to light that now says a treatment is ineffective, and doctors are still applying that treatment, that isn't medicine either. At best it's, again, placebo. At worst it's fraud and/or profiteering.
No, if you have a million bucks to throw at an “investment” you can become a permanent resident immediately.
Yes, murders are selectively investigated. The clearance rate for urban core murders is surprisingly low. In some major cities it's as low as 30%. The national average is 65%.
The only clear consistency in his policy is undoing everything Obama did. It's really weird and petty.
Empathy in what sense? Not taking someone who is "suicidal" in such a direct way?
It is effectively life. In 20 years they will have to consider releasing him or locking him for 20 more. And on and on.
I agree to that. But:

1. Most ML techniques are bad at connecting to rules (random trees and inductive logic programming are a small subset).

2. Most of the ML techniques that one encounters in practice while verifying intelligent autonomous systems are currently neural-network-based: Sensor fusion in the AV itself, coverage maximization attempts I am currently aware of in the verification environment, and so on.

I suspect that most ML techniques, by their nature, will not play nice with rules by default. But this is just a hunch.
I’ve been working remotely for the last 3 years, including for one of the top rememoré-only companies. I’ve also did freelancing sourcing clients on my own and working through a recruiter.

One thing which is surprisingly not as oftenly discussed here are other criteria besides pay taken into account when making a choice between remote and non-remote.

I’d like to make an argument that remote work works only for a particular use case: when you need to execute on a particular vision with some strict framework of action. You’d need employees who are highly senior (therefore autonomious) and have great communication skills.

Probably the main reason why I’m considering to move away from working remotely is the lack of challenging projects. Even though I definitely improved my engineering skills by working on projects and reading up blogs/books, I’d learn much more if I had direct interaction with other engineers which is impossible due to constraints of communication medium in remote context.
The maximum sentence is 21 years, but they can renew it every 5 years forever.
You'd probably appreciate the ascii pterodactyl in the source of http://theoatmeal.com
You should mention it is the Ecole Polytechnique... de Montreal. Usually, when people say "Ecole Polytechnique" they mean the original one.

It's like saying you went to MIT (Minnesota Institute of Technology).

Other than this small nit, great article.
With cheap telescopes from china, it is now pointless to build your own.
Shame is a firmware interrupt, as described in Donald Nathanson's Shame and Pride, a book on Silvan Tomkins' Affect Theory.
Are there any academic research papers that you would recommend in this field?
I don't think Breivik is by anyhow a good base line for analogies.
Do you have more recommendations except that one?
Show HN: ORC – Onion Routed Cloud
What are the subjects/titles of the unposted chapters?
Richard Branson is such an inspiration for me. A billionaire with dyslexia who would've thought!
Your estimate on time to take care of children is ridiculously low.