skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a personal issue, and that your point of view is just as valid too!

Marriage, for us, was a big deal. That commitment was heavy at the time. Breaking up with a GF, even one you lived with for years, is not too terrible (depending on local laws) outside of the emotional turmoil. Where we are, divorce is a nightmare of legal issues, time, money, and the emotional turmoil, let alone those with kiddos. Ending a marriage is a lot of hard work in a 'raw' time, and that weighed heavily on us both. I guess we were scared of that 'level' of love.

That said, I am so glad we did it and want to kick my younger self for waiting so long. She helped me through all the weight of marriage, the wedding, and even today we lift each other. Marriage, like all things, takes practice to be good at, and a lot of work. But I wouldn't want anyone else to shoulder the loads with.

For us, this weight has strengthened our backs.

I know it's not for everyone, and that is OK! Y'all do y'allselves! Be happy and love the way you need to love! Be careful on separating 'want' and 'need' though. For myself, I have no idea why I didn't do it sooner, knowing what I know now. I guess I was unsure of the amount of responsibility I could handle. With her by my side, there is no amount of anything I cannot get through.
I guess I can understand why I'm being downvoted, but I'll share more info.

FYI, the homepage is SFW.

This was a goofy idea that I launched 2 years ago to test out Amazon SES and Sendy along with some content marketing skills I was wanting to put to use.

At the moment I spend ~10 minutes each morning making the email. When I do a shirt, I wind up spending ~ 20 hours sending out ones I've sold.

It's got ~10k subscribers who are all loyal fans (60% open rate on emails). I'm selling about 100 shirts everytime I post one for sale. I think there's tons of opportunity that I am not realizing as I've lost interest.

Happy to answer any other questions.
You can also fine-tune the feel of a jump when you're directly editing a handful of values vs trying to find a function that describes your desired results.
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Yeah, the “mathematical genius” is describing the author of Auto-Tune, not Auto-Tune itself. Through me off a bit too.
I think AR will find a useful niche here, IKEA already has an ARKit app and I think it will become standard for any large furniture or home improvement store. One problem with AR is that is won't solve the comfort problem. You don't need to get a "feel" for a bookshelf or a cabinet, but couches, beds and chairs vary a lot in terms of comfort level and you can't really know if something will be comfortable unless you sit or lay on it.
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For people interested in the SMB disassembly, you may also be interested in this one: http://bisqwit.iki.fi/jutut/megamansource/ NES MegaMan disassembly, with some comments
The rate you're talking about is extremely deceptive. People may pay a 500$ bill over time, but not a 50,000$ one.

"hospitals uncompensated care costs -- medical care for which no payment is received -- jumped nearly five percent to $41.1 billion in 2011" And that's just for 0$, they also get paid >0$ but less than full costs which is a separate number.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2013/01/07/unpaid-h...

Numbers for the same time period:

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/12-statistics-...

• Total net revenue: $821.3 billion
• Total expenses: $756.9 billion
• Cumulative profit: $64.4 billion

Critically, it's only hospitals in prosperous areas that are doing well and those see a much lower percentage of unpaid bills. Medicare is basically break-even, but hospitals need a lot of profit to offset these write-offs.

PS: Having trouble finding public sources for total write-offs. But this is from 2005 (As a result, hospitals
write off 40-50% of what they charge.) http://classic.ncmedicaljournal.com/wp-content/uploads/NCMJ/...
Any particular reason this made it onto the HN homepage?
Decline of Midwest's Public Universities Threatens to Wreck Vibrant Economies
The "margin of error" reported in opinion polls is typically just a function of the sample size and sample variance. The error is assumed to be due to statistical variation, not to problems with measurement. Measurement error is a bigger problem than statistical variation because statistical variation can often be assumed to be unbiased.

My comment above is not about statistical variation, it is about measurement error. Inaccuracies in models for labeling images are a form of measurement error. Having humans label a (often stratified) sample of images is required to understand the measurement error. This requirement is the main difficulty when it comes to generalizing learning from one context to another. If you use multiple independent humans to label all your images, you can understand the errors made by the humans very well.
I had noticed the disappearance of the cube after a while indeed. With Firefox it happens much later than just six rotations though. Can't test it on chrome right now.

Apparently this happens when .valueOf() becomes NaN. I'll modify the code to display that value. Heck, I'll show the floating point approximation for the whole matrix.

.valueOf() becoming NaN is probably related to the behavior of big-rational.js. I suppose it does:

x => x.num.valueOf()/x.denom.valueOf()

instead of doing a custom division of x.num by x.denom

PS. yep, it does just that:

https://github.com/peterolson/BigRational.js/blob/master/Big...
It's a relief to see that raw IQ is no longer the widely accepted standard for "smart".
Just about all childrens' shows with singing use it, I think. Some on harsher, obnoxious settings (Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood), some still very noticeable but toned down a bit (MLP). Someone could probably put together a spectrum of auto-tune settings samples from such shows.

I hate it because it's throwing off kids' sense of what a natural human singing voice sounds like. It's photoshop for the voice and is similarly damaging to one's image of self and of others.
The latest Adobe Flash vulnerability allowed hackers to plant malware
Those running the popular ESP8266 and ESP32 boards for various IoT devices: a fix has been published for the RTOS running on those boards. If you're building devices on these platforms, try to get this out to your customers as soon as possible.

http://espressif.com/en/media_overview/news/espressif-releas...
I would LOVE to buy furniture online, but the kickers are that quality is so hit or miss (usually miss), and there are expensive penalties in the form of return shipping fees. So I usually avoid it because I'm not ok paying $50-$100+ just to find out the photography was misleading so the colors are all wrong, and the built quality is exceptionally cheap.

I don't mind buying online as long as there are free in-store returns, but that tends to limit me to things like Target, Bed Bath, and a couple others. Some, like West Elm are really sneaky here. A lot of their items are just in a warehouse and are "web only." If it isn't a local warehouse, they don't do free in-store returns, so you again get hit with the ridiculous fee.

I hope to god Amazon does something with free in-store returns with all the Whole Foods real estate they purchased. If you could drop something off (and not worry about packaging it up for return shipping with FedEx), have them handle the return and be done with it, that would save me a lot of headaches AND make me spend a lot more for large online furniture purchases.

In the meantime, I've started experimenting with Modsy, which is great because they have 3d renderings of all the products from various stores, so at least I know the dimensions will be right, and the color should hopefully be a bit more on point. It also lets me visualize it in my space with lots of other stuff which is half the problem. Seriously, the renderings have to be seen to be believed.
Yep, and we had it in the U.S. as well before the advent of the Constitution. Similarly a disaster.
The lack of cooperation already happened. Agreeing to letting him patch and then throwing him under the bus for doing so.
Thanks!! This is pretty awesome. Would recommend just adding something with linkedlist, graphs, and trees.
Phaxio! I'm a founder :)

Our goal is to provide devs that have mission-critical applications with the most reliable and redundant faxing capabilities. (If you've dealt with faxing, you know it's annoyingly finicky.)

Re: We're fans of Twilio, but our approach to solving this problem is significantly different.

(I'm answering the second question above, not necessarily the first)

edit: I guess I was answering both :)
There is a lot of talk along the lines of "at least important things use HTTPS now." Well, for WAN traffic, that's largely true. For corporate/university intranets, not so much. For example, SMB (network shares) only supports encryption as of version 3.0, and a server admin who disables handshaking below v3.0 is disallowing Windows clients below 8.

if (win7 && smb && wpa2) then vulnerable to password theft
Richard Nixon trusted Checkers with the wrong dog walkers, and look where it got him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_(film)
I guess if you can get 8 points in less than 15min on a slow news day, you will get on the homepage
Drone hits commercial aircraft over Canada
I was thinking the same thing and was even more confused when I saw the actual changelog.
I'd like to think that's a feature not a bug. The solar electric revolution finally looks like it's right around the corner, but it's not here yet. LNG has shown up just in time to server as a bridge to solar, allowing the US to lower its carbon emissions while critical solar technologies are still being implemented. It's important though that we move past LNG as solar takes off. The depletion of wells will hopefully increase hydrocarbon costs just in time for them to be outcompeted by solar.
Same thing goes for Super Mario 64. The popular TASer pannenkoek actually explored whether it was possible to manipulate Demo-Mario's starting position in such a way that he collects a star with the demo input (this was for the purposes of special "A-Button Challenge" speedruns, where pressing the A-Button must be kept to a minimum, but since the demo input isn't actual player input it isn't counted)
Sadly I think there was no conceivable way to do it. (i.e. manipulating the starting position is possible, but not in a way that leads to collecting a star)

https://youtu.be/-0emgkIEobI
Switzerland solves this problem by disallowing group policies: everyone is thrown into the same pool individual market and companies cannot provide health insurance.

Obamacare is just romneycare...a dumbed down version of the Swiss system. But they left out this very important detail and now it's coming back to haunt us. It is also politically difficult to eliminate employer provided plans.
Landscaping, maybe. Cleaners and car washing are pretty commodity though. I agree with the broader point that there are a lot of tasks you don't want done by a random person who signed up with an app but those aren't the best examples.
For another interesting read there's the guy that disassembled Robotron, and traced the code out by hand across 512 printed pages of assembly and fixed 2 long-standing bugs.

http://www.robotron2084guidebook.com/technical/christianging...
Right now they aren't going to the coasts, so we should be fine there.
Relevant: if you want run their actual code via your browser, check out their jupyter notebooks:

https://notebooks.azure.com/roywilliams/libraries/LIGOOpenSc...

Click View to read or Clone to make your own copy and run.
It is a popular and useful tool that has a great overlap with the HN community?
What? No. That is a very very bad idea. That would end up legitimizing Facebooks power and open the door for absolute government control. It is very simple, if you do not like Facebook then don't use Facebook. Tell your friends and family not to use Facebook. They currently only have any power because we give them power.
Serious question - are all the images submitted? How do you know nothing is 'revenge porn'?
Who are these people buying sofas, mattresses, pillows etc online? Bedframes, end tables, storage? Sure. Amazon knows what's up and realizes it has to have some form of brick-and-mortar to sell goods that [normal] humans will never be comfortable buying sight unseen.
At a minimum, shops should have some short documents that explain where the code is in source control, what is needed to build it, where it got deployed, and some general idea about how to do a full system test. Call it the "Hit by a bus" doc if you want. Or more nicely -- the new hire orientation doc. And it's management's job to ensure it gets kept up to date. Because it's a business continuity issue.
You know, all these ships, terminals and people around it are not for free.

That "little markup" means than many European industries would be dead. They literally cannot afford it.
> What if the service/goods you buy turns out to be a scam or something defective?

Reputation systems reportedly have worked well on darknet markets, but it's also simple to do third-party arbitration; when the two parties agree, the arbitrator doesn't even have to be aware of the transaction (or get paid).

> What if my company stops paying me?

You sue or quit, just like now. Fiat has no particular protection here. I'm arguing for a payment system, not a new judicial system.

> What if the government starts unfairly taxing me and threatens to throw me in jail if I don't comply?

I don't advocate cryptocurrency as a way to avoid taxes. However, if they did make our existing taxes hard to collect, various other taxes could be used instead. E.g. I'm a fan of carbon taxes at major point sources; just count tons of coal coming out of the mine.

The remaining paragraphs argue with points I didn't make. However, I'll mention that capital controls and confiscation are not that uncommon in emerging markets, and while your money might not be your biggest problem in that scenario, it can sometimes help solve your other problems.
Dynamic typing isn't lack of typing.

The fact that types cannot be statically checked doesn't mean you don't have any.

Bash only has one type, the string, and is thus statically typed.

Is Bash's type system better than say, Python's ?
Yeah, they really shouldn't deliver anything their driver can't get at least to the door. I doubt if their insurance policy covers injuries that might happen to a customer helping move a package from the truck to the dwelling.
Yep, all submitted. I don't know that, but have the obligatory DMCA page. I've never been asked to remove one.
Huh. Looking at phaxio's prices, faxrocket is charging a huge premium. For a techie, is there a reason to use faxrocket vs curling to phaxio?

Edit: I guess the phone number makes faxrocket a better deal for low usage, but phaxio becomes much cheaper quickly.
I used to use VirtualBox on a Linux, but these days I've migrated to KVM/Qemu[0] + Virt-Manager[1]. It's much nicer to use native Linux virtual machine and not have to worry about kernel modules and proprietary licenses.

That said, the UI polish isn't as nice or intuitive as VirtualBox.

[0] https://www.linux-kvm.org/

[1] https://virt-manager.org/
>You can get far with inlining. You can also use libraries specifically built with this in mind.

This implementation of parametric types for Common Lisp looks nice:

https://github.com/cosmos72/cl-parametric-types

It allows you to do templating which additionally declares the (parametrized) types, so the compiler can optimize accordingly.

Worth a look.
This stuff makes Elon Musk's plan to colonize Mars relatively less exciting.
I can write a parser in C and can use a library in C. LLVM exposes a C API but I could not find any type of documentation/sample/tutorial for using it. There are some articles on the Internet but (those that I tried) don't work with latest LLVM.
I love stuff like this. Seeing the disassembly somehow adds to the nostalgia for a childhood pastime.

What's this endlessloop for: https://gist.github.com/1wErt3r/4048722#file-smbdis-asm-L712

(Yes, please ;)
https://nixos.org/nixos/nix-pills/
Presumably because a lot of readers here use vagrant for development environments and may be interested in hearing about a particular bugfix in this release. That's why I clicked at least...
Who would ever buy a book online without being able to leaf through its pages?
> sometimes people seem to confuse the two

Holy cow, will I ever echo that. I mention it in another comment, but to be clear, marriage is work. Again, it's a cornerstone, not a capstone, you have to build the house now.

(Another piece of advice: In an argument, you are both correct at the same time. This is because you are co-owners and not co-workers)
No doubt. Fortunately it doesn't have to. The US doesn't need to beat Russia's lowest pipeline price, it needs to get near the European average price.

Russia needs to yield a fat profit on their exports, which is one reason why Europe's gas prices are so much higher than the US domestic prices to begin with. The financing of their government and their economy in general are both heavily dependent on that. Russia isn't going to be willing to drop prices much, while the US exporters will look at every possible means to drive down their costs and pricing (they can afford a much slimmer margin than Russia can on its exports).

Russia has 1/3 the natural gas market in Europe. It's unlikely they're going to grow that market position (which is why they're looking east for growth), their customers do not want to be more reliant on them. As Europe shuts down coal, it's going to be replaced by natural gas and renewables; most of that natural gas will be from sources other than Russia (meaning: Qatar, Australia, US, etc).
It was quite nice to let a wifi router be the VPN client to offload it from all your laptops/phones/etc. and better guarantee "VPN always on".. so much for that.
This is like Lockheed/Boeing execs saying that landing a rocket booster and reusing it was impossible. There's a clip of that somewhere which I can't seem to find right now.
'Scientific computing' is a wide area. One recent shot at is CLASP, especially to reuse scientific computing tools from the C++ world:

https://github.com/drmeister/clasp
I'd like to point out how some of the responses may be skewed. This is not a criticism, but worth discussing.

I would suggest that in some cases, the priority of various values has a lot to do with fears and insufficiency in recent experience, rather than the true priority given to a particular value.

Example: In the US, Promotes From Within is rated higher than other values when compared against other regions. Does this mean it really is a higher-priority value, or is this a contrast to experience for US workers? Maybe they are mentioning it more because they are experiencing it less, but that doesn't mean other things they assume/always get are not more important. I may not mention High Wages if I am used to getting paid well, but that doesn't mean I would not recognize that as a priority if I faced a situation where I might get paid a lot less.
There's also:

https://flippa.com/

https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/home

Probably more
Which will cause massive hunger and poverty, therefore death, to millions of people in poorer nations completely dependent on cheap plentiful reliable fossil fuels.

To achieve what exactly? What catastrophic predictions are you claiming are accurate that would be changed by the immoral policy you advocate?
Urg, when I looked inside the multiprocessing module it made my eyes bleed.

There are too many bits that are no customisable like that (amongst other things).
Not just brick and mortars, recently I was looking at a couch on OverStock.com at ~ $1,100 , they have good prices right? I shopped around, found the same couch from a local company online (LA area) for $399 shipped. Transaction went smoothly quality was good.
Sure it is, I love it and use it every day... but seeing something like this on the HN homepage makes me think something has happened I really need to know about.
The big takeway for me is that even if untrue, similar situations are true. Like this one from the article: "Gender-From-Iris or Gender-From-Mascara?" https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.01304.pdf
Ask HN: How to transform from US lawyer to Euro programmer or data scientist?
My wife and I have two young children. I’m around 40. I’ve been a lawyer for ten+ years. My previous career was as an editor (MS tech writing). Before that I was (early days of the web) a website designer. The days of table layout, HTML and CSS by hand, Macromedia Dreamweaver, etc. I was just getting into the bad old days of PHP3 when I decided to make the change to editing.

I learned Java and C in college; no Java since, but a bit of C still. I started Python a couple years ago. I’m probably of intermediate skill level. A.k.a., not my full-time job. I also have a certain level of sysadmin (Linux machines, AWS, Linode, etc) that char restrictions won’t let me account for.

This has been a long time coming. I am tired of being a lawyer, and I now regret not going into software engineering like my father before me. Well, maybe not SWE exactly.

A few months ago, I picked up a couple of machine learning books. I am hooked. I think I missed my calling.

The catch, of course, is that my wife and I want to move to Europe form the US. She has lived in Germany. We have traveled extensively in Europe. We’d prefer Germany or Sweden, but we’d be open to alternatives.

So I want both to make a major career change, and do it far far away. I don’t know where to start, really. School? Try to get a job somehow with my existing skillset?

Moving to Europe is more of a priority than starting a new career right now. I think I would like to work in machine learning, or maybe some sort of artificial intelligence field, but I am not above starting with doing some programming work or web development, or even sysadmin.

I’ve got about $70k in cash and liquid assets, and if I plan for it I can come up with another $30k in a few months. My wife can possibly take a job in Munich any time she wants, to support us for a while if necessary.

My German is intermediate-ish.

What’s the fastest way to go about this? What’s the “right, but would take longer” way to do it?
This 1973 Camper Is the Mobile Home of Our Dreams
Virtualbox is my go to on Windows. I have used VMware workstation but didn't see any advantage other than the availability of proper support for small businesses or individuals.

Why do people use VMware workstation over virtualbox?
It's funny, I heard this legend a bunch, but stopped hearing it after the 2012 AlexNet paper.
Even if the technology is possible and useful, I personally don’t think we will ever see brain implants used outside of medical applications. The surgery to install a brain implant is dangerous and expensive. There are also religious and social stigmas to overcome where brain implants are seen as something dystopian. Or what about the hipacratic oath of do no harm? It’s hard to justify the convenience of implanted computers when the potential side effects include death. IMHO Brain implants will stay in the realm of science fiction along with flying cars.
I have hard time understanding "Serverless" part... It sounds cool, but there are bunch of servers there they are using.

As far as I can manage to understand that name only has to do with pricing rather then actual servers, but then why is it not called something like "cheap" or "pay as you use"?

Maybe I am missing the point here, but this is just a buzzword? (nano-services being the other one, much like micro-services, do we have pico-ones?)
Agreed, especially when an incident with a dog can be a death sentence for the dog even if the human was at fault. If someone is going to be walking my dog I need to know who they are and know that they know how to handle dogs and know that my dog isn't going to act aggressive towards them.