skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can you "select"?

One way is to get a mentor/guide/teacher. I believe it was Stephen King in "On Writing" who described one important lesson (adjectives are often superfluous) with a story: As a student he got a job as sport reporter. When he submitted his first draft, the editor immediately sat down and revised it. King noticed how he strikes lots of adjectives, understood that they were superfluous and was enlightened. Personally, I also experienced this. Lessons stick best if someone else corrects your text.

Another way is learn it by yourself. This way of learning is harder, but finding a good teacher is not easy either. How?

I believe the first step should be learning to notice mistakes. One idea would be to keep the rules in mind and read bad writing (most fan fiction for example). It should be easy to spot violations and this spotting should become a habit.

The second step is fix mistakes. Just fix the bad writing.

Now repeat. Use good writing and fix mistakes there.

If this becomes a habit, it kind of spoils you. You will see mistakes everywhere. As a programmer you know this feeling: Everybody's code looks ugly. The advantage is that you notice the mistakes in your own writing as well. This is the "selection" skill, which allows you to learn on your own.

Still, having somebody else is much easier. There are online communities for peer reviews. That is kind of a hybrid. The problem is: How good is your reviewer? If your reviewer is a great writer, why does he hang out in that community?
China is already the first global superpower. To believe otherwise is delusional. China became capitalist several decades ago under the disguise of communism, keeping a tight control over its people, economy and foreign policy.
Video of the talk was posted yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15572978
> so unless there is something in Facebook's ToS/EULA that mentions doing this I'm skeptical

I don't see why the vague terms in their data policy [1] couldn't include audio (all-caps are my own emphases):

> We collect information FROM or about the computers, PHONES, or other devices where you install or access our Services, depending on the permissions you’ve granted. [...] Here are some EXAMPLES of the information we collect:

> - Device locations, including specific geographic locations, such as through GPS, Bluetooth, or WiFi signals.

If device location is merely an example of information they gather from my phone then why couldn't audio just as easily be another example?

[1] https://www.facebook.com/full_data_use_policy
It's becoming harder to avoid their apps now that people I need to stay in touch with are on the inevitable Whatsapp that needs voice+other permissions, plus whatever other apps they bring into our lives next. I think it's kinda hopeless.
It's fine, we just import educated Europeans and let their countrymen pay for it.
Here in the Kansas City area, it seems most of the new housing is mixed use; commercial on the bottom and apartments on top. Not many single family homes. Maybe it is because millennial not wanting/affording a house, and prefer dense urban living.

Though that is beginning to change as they have kids, and are now moving to suburbs. So they now build little cities within the suburbs.
From the article's third page: "Eventually, however, if you drive on gravel roads on a daily basis, your windshield breaks, your tires wear out, your front end goes out of whack". Gravel roads are worse than paved roads.

Yes, gravel roads are cheaper. A mud hut is cheaper than a marble building. Inferior things are often cheaper. Yes, they generate lower speeds. The point of a road is not to generate lower speeds. It is to facilitate transportation. Gravel roads do that less effectively than paved roads.

You're just rationalizing our society's backsliding. It's depressing enough that we're regressing a less-developed form of transportation because we can't afford to maintain our forebearer's technology. We don't have to celebrate it!
You don't have any knowledge of X beyond the fact that it's between 0 and 100. It could be uniformly distributed, it could be the number of heads in 100 coin flips, or it could be the average number of yards that a kickoff was returned for in all NFL games last season. It could even just be 73. Assuming a uniform distribution is an arbitrary prior assumption that you're making with no support from any data, and it's no more or less reasonable than any other prior assumption you could make about the distribution. There's nothing special about the uniform distribution that makes it some kind of natural or default prior for a random variable on a bounded interval.
The problem is you do not own anything you are only given a license to use in a certain manner.
ChefSteps Has Created a “Joule” with It's New Home Immersion Circulator
Fuel taxes are at least somewhat proportionate to vehicle size.

For gravel roads that have a tight washboard, going 30 mph often results in a smoother ride (the transition is above 20 anyway).
No, but I'm also a huge edge case.

I don't use a smartphone. My non-smartphone does have an unlimited texting plan but I rarely keep my phone in the same room as me when actively using my workstation.

Mainly because when I'm in work mode, I put the horse rudders on and try to eliminate as many distractions as possible but also cell phones are known for creating line noise in audio equipment and part of what I do requires recording a lot of audio.
> On a desktop you can always swap hardware, but on a laptop you're stuck with what you get.

Raven Ridge is the same stepping as Ryzen, i.e. potentially subject to the segfault bug. I'm really curious whether it will manifest there too or not.

It's a pretty generic errata that manifests under load. Compiling happens to be one way that flushes it out pretty reliably (as with many errata), and nerds do a lot of compiling in Linux, but it can and does manifest as general OS and application crashiness even in other operating systems (including in Windows). It's a ticking time-bomb, sooner or later some OS or application update could hit the trigger conditions more regularly.

There's nothing quite like being "the brand that randomly crashes all the time" to build a brand image with your customers. And I'm sure OEMs are going to love handling RMAs for AMD's defective processors.
Just noticing that logical replies by return0 has been downvoted, and straw man replies by leftists have been upvoted. Haha what else is new?!
Who said that we have to use petroleum? You can pave roads with cement or even old tires (as a base layer and part of the aggregate).
This does also change how education works. In Germany, I'm told, you can't expect students to have done assigned readings. And an exchange student from Poland told me that his fellow students would typically show up for the midterms and finals only.
I can run a dozen containers on my laptop a lot more easily than I can run a dozen VMs.
"...shove Facebook to acknowledge and act on its responsibility as the most powerful distributor of news and information on Earth."

'News' is highly problematic here. News is packaged information. FB segments people into lots of distinct groupings and reinforces their belief patterns. I don't believe many people go to FB for information or 'News'...they go there for social reasons.

I have no desire to consume information packaged by Facebook and presented to me as 'Facts'.
On a good gravel road, you can go 80 mph... I've seen loaded log trucks doing that on the Golden Road in northern Maine.

Of course that is privately maintained road, and the logging and paper companies that own it are invested in keeping serviceable.
tcpdump? How do you record HTTPS connections (with pinned certificates, I might add) via tcpdump?
woah there, why don't you slow down on the hard science and just let me enjoy West World over here?
You argument seems to be "why use Docker when you can do all of these things by hand?". It's kind of the Devops corollary of "why use Java when you could write everything in C?".
I second a recommendation for Xiaomi. Happy owner of a Redmi Note 3 for about a year and a half now. No lag, very little junk apps by default, and a UI that is actually useful (instead of good looking, but impractical UIs). Even my mom, who's very non-technical loves the straightforward nature of the UI (I ended up getting a Redmi 4 for her recently).

Plus, the developer forums are very very active, so even if you run into any issues (rooting, flashing , etc if that's yout thing), then you know you have a very supportive group of devs. Also doesn't hurt that the phones are cheaper, so the whole "what if I lose my warranty?" or "What if I drop/lose my phone?" concerns are much lesser.

It's not got the most stunning camera in the world, but having ZERO lag and a easy 1.5-2 days of charge besides all the other pros more than makes up for it!
Idea for startup: web site that provides a unified storefront for vineyards, but doesn’t actually touch the transaction or shipping.

Maybe the wineries pay the site a percentage of referred sales at the end of the month.

Once you’ve made your first billion on this, please gift me a few choice subscriptions. :-)
Building roads using concrete made with Portland cement is more expensive than asphalt.
It's the race for core counts that we've been expecting since the mid 2000s - just a lot later than anyone expected since we detoured into GPU and mobile computing.

Our software still isn't really ready for it, but I guess that's to be expected.
It doesn't seem like it supports LPDDR4, so I don't think they are competitive for the "macbook pro" market.
Let people have the freedom to decide how they want to spend their time. So what if fb is addictive? You don’t own other people. It is fascistic to impose your will on others.
But cement roads last longer and can handle heavier loads.
You can’t “violate” the interstate commerce clause; it grants powers, doesn’t limit them.

(It, along with “necessary and proper”, have been used to justify just about every activity the federal government has done.)
Portugal: ISPs are now splitting the net into packages
Ryzen 3 1200, 4 core 3.1/3.4Ghz vs. i5-7400 3.0/3.5Ghz the Ryzen uses .12 watts more at idle and 2.19 watts more at all cores full load.

That is a pretty small (<5%) gap.
If anyone in the New York area is interested in collaborating on this, as a political project for 2018, let me know.
It was in one of the linked articles that doctors are required to undergo special training from the FDA before they are allowed to prescribe fentanyl. So they absolutely should know.
Or they could create a different website for these types of questions. Or you could. There's no reason for SE to be all things to all people; I like that they have a focus.

> too self-absorbed in their self-righteousness

I'm feeling the self-righteousness, but it's not coming from SE...
Does this exist on Epyc platforms that don't use a traditional chipset?

This is bad, but seems like more of an incremental issue than anything. Can you audit every line of source in your system? No closed source drivers or firmware on any devices? No devices on your network with vendor controlled firmware? You log all network I/O through a passive tap? For the average user targeted by a state actor this makes little difference.
New York City learned this lesson only after infrastructure got so bad in the 1970s that a concrete truck literally fall through an elevated highway.

http://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/16/archives/truck-and-car-fal...
Graduated repayment plans are basically start off interest only and ramp up every two years. If you're mistakenly pursuing PSLF with one, you'd likely want to take the longest horizon payment plan, so the ramp up is slower.

https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/understand/plans/gr...
They were great when they were part of the Tracy Ullman Show. All downhill from there.
Loan servicing really seems like a bounded enough problem that it should be solvable by a rules based expert system. Why is this shit so hard? Where's the unbounded complexity over making payments and understanding what programs you are enrolled in or qualify for?

I'm not saying it's trivial but it's not like there 15,000 different programs that need to be individually coded using data that isn't available using rules that change daily. The problem seems hard but absolutely doable to automate 98% of the work.
Back in 2nd grade my friend got a small snickers bar at school that he discovered had a hole in the wrapper and a same size/shape hole also extending further into the candy bar. I recall it being a small squarish kind of hole, you could sort of see it going into the candy bar.

No idea if he did it himself or not, but he never admitted it. It could easily have been some part of a toy that poked into it.

After school we went to his house and cut it to pieces with a knife in his kitchen. It was an exciting adventure, we were eager to see what might be inside. Never found anything, though I'm not sure what we were expecting to find.

We didn't eat it either. But it did freak me out enough as a kid that for awhile after I would check for candy wrapper breaches.
My personal experience is that there is a huge need for competent experienced developers who know what they're doing. I would love to work with people who have been through stuff and instinctively know how to seperate the buzz words from the real deal.
Perhaps the friend you were talking to about the Fruit Loops shake did a search on Facebook on their smartphone?

Anyway, I want a LED on my camera and microphone. And a hardware switch.
Let's wait for the 30th Anniversary Edition. Then it would be the perfect time anyways for me to get a new laptop.
You can also monitor the network traffic, audio takes up a decent chunk of data.

You can decompile the app and see what it does.
>I'm feeling the self-righteousness, but it's not coming from SO...

Relax.
So you’re looking for a group of software people to join together to form a farming commune and escape the oppression of smarter software people?
Yep, AMD lacks the "courage" to limit customers to 16 GB of RAM.
KeePassXC for my Windows and Linux computers. KeePassDroid on my Android phone. All three are synced in Dropbox
It doesn't require a login and works with public video pages.

Facebook offers some public content but the majority is behind the wall.
> Wonder if Nix package manager would work here.

The problem is extra work is needed to support things like cross compilation.

Instead, you want to pass a toolchain file that describes the build environment(including for cross-compilation) to the build system, and it will compile it correctly for the target. This is the way cmake works, but we should have standard toolchain file that can be used across all build systems instead of requiring everyone to use cmake.
There are only two options. One is all or nothing like tor: if you become a node you have to pass through everything. The other option is node operators can decide what they pass through.

With the tor model you get very few nodes, because most potential operators are afraid of being arrested and/or object to a lot of content. You don't get remotely as many nodes as you need to make the internet free and more safe.

With selection, you get many more nodes and, as saurik points out below, you still will have a few for material that some governments censor. So it seems to me a model with selection is the way to go.
Azure Container Service (AKS) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/intro-kubernetes and it's free, you only pay for the used resources ie VMs
And then there's the Sackler Oxycontin story: http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a12775932/sackler-famil...

> You’re aware America is under siege, fighting an opioid crisis that has exploded into a public-health emergency. You’ve heard of OxyContin, the pain medication to which countless patients have become addicted. But do you know that the company that makes Oxy and reaps the billions of dollars in profits it generates is owned by one family?

There's big money in opioid addiction.
The open source native kernel drivers (AMDGPU) are excellent, the only minor but incredibly irritating issue is the lack of proper fan control, i.e. the GPU fan never turns off like it does on Windows. Thats why I again moved off AMD to nVidia (i like silence)
I am a huge fan of the Donald Sadoway team at Ambri. http://www.ambri.com/technology/
Liquid Metal Batteries
It's not backsliding. The backslide was the inefficient allocation of resources to roads that were hardly used. They're now reversing the backslide.
The PSP is part of the processor die so it is included in Epyc.
If rates went up, the homes may be cheaper, but you'd then be paying more on your monthly mortgage, and more money would be just going to the banks. I'm not a finance expert, but this doesn't sound like a good solution.
I am sure that youtube-dl is against YouTube's terms of service, and the only reason why Google hasn't gone after it is because:

1. It's decentralized (i.e. anyone can just fork it and have a new working copy)

2. It's not worth going after, yet. Lawyers cost time and money.

youtube-dl is an excellent project but I'm pretty sure once #2 becomes true they will receive a letter from Google's lawyers.
Do they really insert extra dynamic checks?

Is Sound Gradual Typing Dead?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11041272

http://prl.ccs.neu.edu/gtp/research.html

It was my understanding that MyPy was purely compile time with no runtime checks. But I could be wrong. Gradual Typing as implemented in the original paper would lead to much much slower code. The weight of a static language bolted onto a dynamic runtime for the worst of both possible worlds. Sufficiently abstract Python code is almost un-typable.

I think eventually we will get there, where one can explore a program in a dynamic language and ship a correctly statically typed one. Types are only the beginning.
But also see "dormant commerce clause."
The only thing it's approved for is breakthrough cancer pain for patients already on opiates. Presumably it's safe for this purpose.

The problem is when it's used for different purposes- and the drug rep was caught lying to the insurance company to imply the prescription was for breakthrough cancer pain.
Dear Lenovo, please make A485 based on the (future) 45W Raven Ridge, not the currently released ones.
The link worked but thought my mobile was a desktop and put a huge banner that is uncloseable.
>the vast majority of people

The vast majority of the rich people I know started out poor. I believe this is the case for the majority of the wealthy in the western world too.
I am relaxed. Don't add patronising to self-righteous.
In Israel:

a) If you are Jewish, you have a fast-track to citizenship.

b) If you are Jewish, you are not allowed to work on a Saturday. If you are not Jewish, you are not allowed to work on one day of your choosing (not dependent on your religion, mind you).
I think the author's retort would be that PHP is one of these "outdated" languages like Python and Ruby. I tend to disagree, but overall enjoyed their opinion anyway. I came to criticize the article, but I think this comment already does that well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15578147
Ok, but can Facebook forbid me to export my own data into a competing service?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMas0tWc0sg
Hmm,

Ianal but it seems like the controversial opinions of John Yoo [1] written[2] in justification of torture in support of the War on Terror seems like they are referencing the concept of Outlawry[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yoo
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_Memos
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostis_humani_generis
> I thought your original quote was direct quote

Actually, what I actually said is more accurate than my off-the-cuff paraphrase in the above comment. There is no flaw in the reasoning. The reasoning is correct, and I say that in the presentation too. It is the premises that are false.

> your true belief is that there is a flaw in the logic

No. See above.

> My understanding is that all the different accepted interpretations are mathematically equivalent

Yes, that's true. The part of the Copenhagen interpretation that is scientifically untenable is the non-mathematical part, the part that says that there is this physical phenomenon called the collapse of the wave function which is non-unitary and outside the scope of the theory, but which causes real measurable effects (i.e. the destruction of interference). That part is demonstrably false, notwithstanding that it is a fair approximation to the truth in many interesting cases, which is the reason that it has survived as long as it has despite being demonstrably false.

What is also false (and the reason I have such a bee in my bonnet about all this) is all the pedagogical baggage associated with the Copenhagen interpretation, how it's intractably weird, and no one understands it, and you shouldn't even try to understand it because you'll "go down the drain" (Feynman's words). That's all bullshit. QM is not hard to understand. The key is that measurement is just large-scale entanglement, and there are no particles. That's it. That's the big reveal. This has been know for decades. I learned it 17 years ago and it was considered old news even then. There's some evidence that Heisenberg knew it but didn't want to advance the hypothesis because there was no way to settle the question experimentally at the time. But since Bell and Aspect and Zurek (and Cerf and Adami) there is no question that it is true. It is as well established a result as any in science, and has been for decades. But for some unfathomable reason it's still controversial.
> I imagine the path of alcohol and wine will give us a road map for future regulatory of marijuana

I don't think this is a safe assumption. Prohibition intersected with the Great Depression and the Constitution. The latter is key; Section 2 of the 21st Amendment expressly gives states the right to regulate the "transportation or importation" of "intoxicating liquors". Marijuana has no such Commerce Clause [2] override.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-first_Amendment_to_the_... § 2

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.
So it'd be easy for everybody to contribute their address and GPS coordinates to an open database. Eventually it'd be usable enough that most people wouldn't need to access the paid for DB.
I'll add one requirement to the OP request: not wider than 71mm.

My hands are small and I use my phone with one hand most of the time. I'm still on a nexus 4 (love the size), but it's getting laggy and battery suffers (i owned this phone for 4+ years)
Yep. My immediate read of the denial was, "the legal entity that is Facebook does not itself spy on users in this exact manner".

Once they have a business model that does not revolve around selling data about their users to their customers, claiming they don't spy can be something other than a bad punchline.
> most powerful distributor of news and information on Earth

Sandberg (somewhere else recently): "We are explicitly not a news company, we are a tech company."
Only where companies like you exist. Everywhere else will get limited.

This was just like Google Fiber. Suddenly, ISP speeds shot through the roof wherever Google Fiber threatened. Everywhere else, they didn't budge.
Argh, this is very interesting, but they don't say what it is! Does anyone know? What was the update? Did that really single-handedly (or almost) bump price 12k->25k?

"To make things worse, an update to the prototype's design added an unexpected 500 pounds to the car, creating more cost overruns and a much pricier car at $25,000."
I suppose ageism is indeed a thing, but I don't it's specific to the inudstries people from HN work in. I'd love to see some numbers to back up claims about ageism in the tech industry. I wouldn't be surprised to see ageism be less a thing in tech than in other industries.
Didn't know that. Since they know how to fix it on TR/Epyc, why would they release a brand new line with the same issue?