skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you don't think they're doing anything worthwhile at https://intelligence.org/. I'm going to guess you actually have no idea and are just extrapolating from some articles you read.

What are _you_ doing to make legitimate concerns heard then? Did you even read the article you were complaining about?
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if the VC has access to a bank which has access to funds at the fed funds rate of < 1% then they can lend or borrow and invest at 10x returns thereby making them a funnel for fed money
DevDocs is great. I use it all the time.

If only it had the Elm docs as well :)
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Thank you for the detailed response. I am part of the general public, so to speak, but am also interested in this research because I have a certain disease. I am treating this disease with diet modification, which seems to be working. (The Specific Carbohydrate Diet.) However, it seems like there are many questions as to why it works that is very much not understood.

> The control group better have reasonable overlap.

I wonder if there is enough understanding of what makes a "healthy" gut microbiome in order to properly assess what "overlap" means. Isn't a microbiome a complex system with many moving parts? For example, a study of successful businesses could include many successful businesses that are completely different from one another. Comparing these to "unhealthy" businesses would probably not be very useful.

It seems like you're answering this question by saying the different labs should process the same samples, to at least see if the same samples are returning the similar results. Is that right?

I wonder if there is a resource for further learning on this topic. Reading scientific studies, as you say, provides only limited value to a layman. The number of people with diseases affected by the gut microbiome is very, very large.
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Show HN: Let’s upgrade the way our laws are created
I am not the original poster, but I share some similar sentiments. I will try to explain why I agree with that comment:

The Federal Reserve has kept interest rates artificially low through its programs, in order to nudge economic growth. In turn, companies have used these low interest rates to borrow vast sums of money. Most have spent it on share repurchases but others have used it to fund acquisitions to chase higher growth. It is in this environment that VC money has thrived, funding candidates for future acquisitions or providing money to large companies (like Uber) to continue growing their business.

I am by no means a professional economist. I am just trying to interpret the current situation with the little bit of knowledge I have. I welcome other opinions telling me I am wrong and why.
Oh yeah, Guate taxis are awful -- having to negotiate separately for each ride is crazy.
This is very much like the Novena[1] laptop from 2014.

[1] https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena
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The federal reserve is keeping the federal funds rate low to try and run the economy "hot", and grow inflation. This is in the hopes that a "hot" economy will also grow wages and decrease unemployment further. Inflation is seen as less of a problem in recent years, as its been too low* for a long time.

The low federal funds rate (federal reserve interest rate) results in new Treasury bills being issued at very low interest rates. Large banking institutions must maintain certain capital reserves, which they hold in these TBills, and the low interest rates mean the banks earn tiny returns on the capital.

Banks, being commercial ventures, are expected to return a certain profit. The low interest rates from the TBills are too low of a rate, and won't cover inflation or operating expenses. So banks must chase riskier investments (in general, risky investments return higher interest rates) with their remaining capital to return high enough profits.

The riskiest investments are startups. Very high returns, if a startup succeeds and exits in an IPO, but failure is more common. Banks don't invest in startups though, they are too risky, but banks end up investing in all the less risky assets available. This demand for "medium" risky assets (sovereign debt, corporate or municipal bonds) drives other investors out of the market, they can't compete with the volume banks can purchase at, and are forced to chase the even riskier assets banks won't touch.

So low rates -> low interest tbills -> banks chasing risky assets -> investors chasing startups
That's precisely why they IPO'd. Private investors needed an exit while they shift their money to Docker Inc for the next tech hype train.

https://www.hntrends.com/2017/september.html?compare1=Mongod...
There's the EU right to be forgotten if a company does business in the EU, and the ability to ask the mods to delete things, which they do.
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Hence apps like "ONCE" where you have only one match per day.
I agree, but that's the only option for posting something structured. I wish HN would give up and implement GitHub Flavored Markdown and allow us to post code snippets, nested lists, etc. Sorry, I do extra effort to convert HTML into comments - maybe I should write a tool instead. I try to always post a comment with release notes and not just an outbound link. It would be great if HN implements https://changelogs.md/ and gives an open to see the changelog without leaving the site.
https://lowercasecapital.com/ is my favorite VC fund name
These arguments would be true if most of our economy and transactions would indeed be centered on things we absolutely need to survive, and the difference between being able to pay and not would be life and death.

It's not. Surviving in any modern first (or even second) world society is laughably easy. So I think we can safely describe most of the transactions as being "voluntary", yes.
Yes but you can sue the company that owns the machine learning algorithm, probably for much more money than you can sue an individual. You can even imagine class action law suites and the like.

(I am one of the researchers mentioned in the article.)
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Seems like the possibilities are endless. When Skynet takes over, this is how they will hear us coming to switch them off.
James - that's pretty interesting. Could you please share what SW (or other tools) did you use to train for dual-n-back?
No one here will answer this one for you, because they are all trying to answer it for themselves.
Do you know the best exercise for your brain? Actual exercise. Running increases neurogenesis[1] more than anything else.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/well/move/for-your-brains...
Most of the time is just wasted effort. Yes, more ideas features, use cases, but I usually prefer one thing which is very high quality instead of a lot of small things which are never complete.
Reposting this in the context of yesterday's HN discussion "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15502074" [1], because reading through it I saw a lot of discussion about pesticides but surprisingly nothing at all regarding nighttime light pollution. This also seems like an area where there is more easy direct action potential for technologists. Both individually and in terms of community ordinances we should push to better take advantage of advances in LEDs and sensors to try to reduce color temperature at light and try to better ensure that lighting exists only when and where humans actually directly need it at the time, rather then the current dumblight defaults of "always on, lots of spread, and always at the same temperature".

This really seems like an area where at least some form of win-win is possible, because we generally don't really need lighting on when literally nobody is around, it's just been that way by default because there was no better way to ensure it would be on if somebody came around. Fixed color temperatures have been a matter of necessity given the technology available. So there should be a lot of room to reduce wasted light (and in turn energy) and benefit pollinators. Personally this provided the impetus to get my camera, door sensors, and other presence detectors all linked up with my lighting at last so that outdoor lighting is by default off at night except when directly needed. I'd support a national push to develop more directed, warmer, and smarter street lighting and the like as well.

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1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15502074
Well, as these teenagers grow older, their market segment then becomes young adults.
> This is the whole point of the argument from the people in the rust belt. They don't want low cost labor. They want to be high cost labor.

I'm sorry, its just not a question of what someone wants. Of course they want to have their low-skilled, highly-paid jobs. But labor doesn't automatically go from low to high skilled: you have to proactively engage in training programs, you have to learn the skills that are relevant to the high skilled jobs. Which most of these people, it turns out, have not. And therefore they are left behind.

Those that have embraced the new reality and economy are flourishing like never before. So the promises were true. The quality of life has increased, cost of commodities has decreased. Its just that these people have not managed to participate. Whose fault is that?

And please don't argue for tariffs and such. Trade must go on if only for the security of the current world order. When trade stops, war begins, as Jack Ma has put so astutely.
I found layout saving cumbersome in i3, mostly because of the manual editing you would sometimes have to do to the JSON file[1]. I have used it a few times, and didn't run into many of the common problems, but there have been many layout related questions/problems on the i3 subreddit.

I wonder if because people had so many problems with it the developer chose to skip over it due to lack of demand. Surely there's a better way to implement it, but that way may break compatibility with i3. This is all speculation of course.

[1] https://i3wm.org/docs/layout-saving.html#_restoring_a_vertic...
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> title change and derank

I don't understand why the articles shown that had to their titles changed also were deranked.
You can use Qemu for that. I used to do that for a while, but found it annoying. Dual boot is much better imho, especially since it barley takes any time.

When I had issues, I had no clue if it was because of my config, the game being buggy, the nvidia drivers being buggy, etc. etc.

Also having to have "two"of everything is annoying as well.
I think it's more of an exercise than a stringent philosophy. Looking at these rules, they're designed to be helpful for cultivating functional habits and patterns of thought if you're not used to thinking and coding that way.

I wouldn't expect anyone to follow them religiously in production code.
Comparing WeWork to traditional office landlord is like comparing Starbucks to Dunkin' Donut. Please don't go to Starbucks because its coffee is better or cheaper (it's neither), but as a lifestyle choice. Similarly, people don't go to WeWork because they need a desk.
Two things:

Sting operations are vastly more expensive. They are very rare. Most all police arrests come after the perpetrator has been reported to them by some member of the public. Police then interview/search that person and either find something (guns drugs etc) or the person admits something. Stings and such are the 1% cases.

>>"people who can afford lawyers tend not to commit crimes that are easy to prove".

Yes they do. That rich people are rarely charged is no indication that they are not committing such crimes. London sewage has tested highest in cocaine. Richer cities consume proportionally more cocaine and other drugs. The rich people that live in them presumably are committing more crimes (possession) than those in poorer cities.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33009682
Which service do you use to host static website?
Firebase Hosting, Netlify, surge.sh, Github pages or some other service
This reminds me of testing I did years ago on ... CD-ROMs. Funny how lessons from old technology can apply to new technology.

Around 15 years ago my company did a Linux distribution on CDs: KRUD. It was updated monthly, and we had something like 400 subscribers. For various reasons we burned these CDs in house on a cluster I built.

We would burn, eject, read and checksum, and if the read test succeeded we would ship it out. We found some users with some discs had problems reading them. We contacted these users and paid them to return the CDs and did further testing on them.

Our initial test was using dd, and we found that the discs that were not obviously damaged in shipping, would tend to pass tests on some of our CD-ROM drives, but fail on others. But when they did succeed, they would tend to take longer than normal.

I wrote a new test program that instead of using dd directly used SCSI read commands, and timed every one. It would then count the number of reads that were "slow" (like 2x normal) and those that were "really slow" (like 5x), and if these got over a certain threshold we would throw away the disc.

Being able to time the raw operations was incredibly useful, and seems like it could have shown the authors of this paper problems before being deployed to production.

Except, they didn't really seem to do very thorough testing of the drives. Running stress testing on a 1TB drive for an hour seems pretty short.

Also in my above job we did hosting. We found that if we burned in disks by reading/writing to them 10 times ("badblocks -svw -p 10"), we would almost never experience drive failures on the Hitachi drives we were using. If we didn't do this, the drives would have a fairly high chance of falling out of the RAID array in production.

As drive sizes increased from 20GB to 200GB to 1TB, these tests started taking weeks to complete. But, they were totally worth it.
I guess we have different personalities in mind when it comes to gear-heads. I think of them as people chasing tiny (sometimes imperceptible) improvements which only require you to buy something as opposed to learning something. (much like the casual bikers who chase tiny weight reductions or obsess over which bike is more "aero").

>My point was that phones can and are making great pictures without requiring a bag full of gear, and that it's highlighting that gear is secondary to the skills you listed.

I'd phrase it differently though, and I'm sure you'd agree. I'd say that gear isn't secondary, but gear is a tool that should be used when appropriate. You still need carry an external flash/light/etc if you want to light your subject in poor light. You still need to carry a long lens if you want to take a picture of an eagle perched in a tree. You still need a tripod if you want long exposures, etc, etc.
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Ask HN: Integrate HN with https://changelogs.md
It would be nice to be able to see embedded changelogs without leaving HN. I've been trying to post a comment with the changelog when I post release links, but the monospaced comment is very limited and people report it as unreadable on mobile devices.
I know it's addicting to be dismissive, but:

https://github.com/Microsoft/napajs/wiki/Why-Napa.js
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(on mobile)
step 1: offer 'x compatibility'

step 2: make 'x compatibility' terrible

step 3: profit!
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Nice attempt, too many regressions.

Needs just a bit more aesthetics, compute* and ios.
Teenagers grow up, and the next crop of teenagers would use not Snapchat but QuickBlah or FastYap or something else. There is no inherent advantage to Snapchat, it's just luck that they happened to be the one there. It's like finding a suitcase with money on the street - valuable, but not sustainable.
mongo is web scale! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
The one that says "Women blatantly lie in order to make themselves appear better to others".

"Women prefer intelligence" - what a load of bollocks.
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HN's readership is a bit less progressive than what you'd expect from the age/education demographics–or at least than what I'd expect.

See, for example, this very article calling out the moderation of a submission on anti-white racism in the restaurant industry, while there are probably dozens of stories buried each week exploring racism or sexism on the tech sector. Yes, some of those do make it to the front page. But in terms of <front page time>/<magnitude of problem> you need about a thousand female Uber employees invited to a strip club for every alt-right Googler that gets fired for writing the wrong memo.

It's also interesting to watch the insistence on "engaging with others' arguments" when it comes to literal mobs with torches calling for the next holocaust, yet the overall treatment of these hot-button issues on HN is far to the right compared even to conservative outlets like the WSJ.
I mean those aren't the only two variables that determine the value of a real estate company. I feel like that signal, absent context, tells nothing. It's the same way that you can infer little about a line from only one point on it.
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Source: the WhatRuns browser addin: https://www.whatruns.com/?source=plugin
> I'd rather have the time, money and energy go into a free software commons. Anyone contributing to LLVM is enabling proprietary software.

Am I clear in understanding that you're statement is "people contributing to this piece of free software are not contributing to a free software commons"?

Because that makes no sense to me, and it's hard to avoid interpreting the dismissal as pure zealotry.
When residents don't want to move away, they'll call it "Stockton Syndrome" :P
also, the uber app tracks your location while you're not using the app (they say they only do so for ~5 minutes after your drop off, but you have to trust them).

whereas you can deny the m.uber.com browser tab the ability to get your location from the browser (caveat: [0]), and you can close the tab when you're in the car.

[0] companies can still get rough location information from your mobile IP address [1], because of course that's a revenue stream for all the big mobile carriers.

[1] https://www.xda-developers.com/services-grab-location-info-d...
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>Whereas two analog pins Just Work.

Actually, they only work when they follow the standard physical layer. Try plugging a Line device into a Mic input, or a Line device into a speaker. Or an unbalanced into a balanced jack. It'll "work" but not "correctly."

And, just like saving money with "rubbish DACs", there's room for designing complete crap, noisey audio paths (and noisey amplifiers) in products.

If people could actually agree on a standard (USB3 seems a good choice), sending audio over a digital port seems fine.

The ONLY real problem, is digital audio isn't digital audio. It's a protocol with MANY audio formats. 44Khz. 48Khz. 96, 192khz. 2 channels, 4 channels, 7.1 channels. 16-bit, 24-bit, 32-bit float. Compressed with different compressions.

THAT'S where the real shitshow happens. Because now you're basically in the oldschool Modem situation where you have to try various standards and HOPE that the sender and the receiver both have compatible formats and in failing that, falling back to some standard required format like "stereo 44Khz PCM".
It's progressing in KDE, but it's not quite there yet. Some applications still require XWayland are not even moving to Wayland so far, and XWayland path has its own bugs.

For instance Wine was quite glitchy for me (mouse movements were messed up) last time I tried it under XWayland in KDE.
S3 + Cloudfront seems to be a popular choice.
And Hugo is just a re-write of https://jekyllrb.com/

It's the ultimate Magpie progression.

Ruby -> Go -> Rust
> The fact of the matter is that we don't know a lot about how our ancient ancestors behaved

But we know for certain what they came up with in reaction to whatever they were doing before. The reaction appears to have been nearly universal: Patriarchal family.
Your metaphor is ridiculous. Plenty of people prefer Starbucks coffee to DD, claiming that going to Starbucks is a "lifestyle choice" in 2017 is absurd. People go to Starbucks because it has products they like, primarily a variety of coffee drinks that include milk, cream, sugar, or other flavorings. Comparing Starbucks to DD is a perfectly appropriate thing to do, as is comparing WeWork to Boston Properties is a reasonable thing to do.
Firefox is undergoing a major redesign of the engine, so may be after its switch to WebRender, Wayland support will get some traction. I suspect it's the reason for several other features being stalled in Firefox now as well, like hardware accelerated video playback.
But bees and ants have genetically determined reasons for their social structures - their genetic makeup is more strongly shared between siblings than offspring so it's in their rational self-interest to be sterile themselves and to farm their sisters (usually just one sister - the queen) so as to maximise their biological utility function - which is usually the greatest number of closely related bees or ants out there.

Most other species don't have this sort of genetic makeup, so it wouldn't be rational for most of us non-Hymenopterae to mimic the social order of such insects.
Wait, they invented internet messaging??? That existed since forever. Calling it "SMS" doesn't change much. Yes, they exploit the greed of cell providers as leverage, but that's a very tactical innovation (not to dismiss it, tactical innovations can be very lucrative) but nothing strategically new.
Nor does it wrap in Firefox, so pretty annoying on desktops as well. Unless you're using a large monitor.
Too bad they don't do syscalls.
Direct answer: no, probably no database. HN forwards info to Firebase which provides an API. But assuming Arc is still running on Racket, there aren't a lot of options for database bindings (https://docs.racket-lang.org/continue/) and flat files work well enough.

EDIT: Actually, you may be right. They already forward data to Firebase, which means they could just store the data in Firebase directly. Firebase is pretty great, so it's possible they did this.

One bit of supporting evidence: there seems to be no startup time. Loading GBs of data from disk takes a little while, so restarting HN would be painful. We'd notice it as ~30 seconds of downtime. Especially now that HN has grown so large. I haven't noticed this in a couple years (but I'm not omnipresent).

So it could go either way, and there are a lot of advantages to the Firebase approach.

I guess I take back everything I said. But only because a lightweight alternative exists, not because flat files are inherently bad.
I agree that they aren't the only two variables, but I disagree that it tells nothing.
Show HN: A first try to implement a Deep Learning model
On macOS I use Hammerspoon which I have configured to move and resize windows to specific slots. It's not the same as tiling but it relieves me from having to move windows around manually. On Windows there is Window Sizer or similar.
I am taking the deep learning course in Coursera by Andrew NG. I came across this dataset recently and took it up to build the present model. I am very new to this field and I will be very happy to have feedbacks to improve the model and hence the prediction. The python code is not really clean and may not be Pythonic always. Sorry for that. I was focused on the ML aspect more, I guess.
In a world where Giphy is valued by investors at 400M, I'm not sure if half that for mongodb is good or bad.