skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How long ago? My color CRT TV took a good 10 s or so to warm up the tube before you'd see much/anything. But at least it responded instantly, so you could spend that time walking back to the couch instead of waiting for some stupid menu. Instant and trustworthy response is basically gone from most appliances. I think it's a combination of marketing (has to look high tech) and cost (touch buttons are cheaper than mechanically interlinked toggle buttons.

I still can't tell if my computer monitor is on or off because I don't know the weird LED flashing code it uses to communicate that (Holy crap! appliances use something like morse code to tell you important information about their state! How did they get so needlessly cryptic? If there's no picture, I have to check all the cables and push the power button a couple of times to see what happens.

Web programmers are as much to blame too. Show me a web video player that has play and pause buttons that always do what they say when they say it.
It is a problem inherent in any ML method with large VC dimension. The model will overfit, and when it overfits, adversarial examples become possible.

The very nature of ML seems incapable of dealing with this dilemma. You either work within a very constrained domain (low VC) to ensure everything is covered, and thus are unable to fit complex datasets, or expand the domain (large VC) and thus overfit the datasets. It's the bias-variance tradeoff, and is insurmountable.
Ask HN: Where can I learn how to build APIs for developers?
I am looking to learn how to build APIs for developers, what are the best practices around organizing them and exposing them through API keys.

Any courses, guides, blogs, or books that people found helpful?

I code mostly in Python and Javascript.
I love that natural feeling of interaction with other people in VR. When playing in Rec Room so often you take a break from games to just have a chat with some other people because the interaction is somehow so engaging despite the cartoony graphics.
No, I don't remember any such thing. The thing that haters fail to recognize is that people buy Tesla cars for more than the government subsidy and fuel economy. Ask any actual owner and they will tell you how incredible the cars are in practice. Disclaimer: owner since 2012.
Well, alternative medicine that actually works is usually re-labelled medicine. e.g. vaccines are thought to have had origins in China way before the scientific revolution.

An exception is the Alexander Technique (AT), which I think cured my RSI, despite medical doctors and physiotherapists being unable to help. AT hasn't been incorporated into mainstream medicine yet, presumably because nobody can explain how it works (though it doesn't make any obviously superstitious claims).

But this lack of good explanation goes way further, beyond alternative therapies and into the heart mainstream medicine. There is a problem with medical science, imo. Most 'testing' and clincical trial related-work is beset by empiricism, wherein many treatments are assessed without an idea of how they allegedly could work.

As I understand it, this is why a large proportion of medical studies can't be reproduced: we understand by now that theory without experiment leads nowhere; most of us don't yet appreciate that experiment without theory is equally useless.

This is why I see even Science in its present form as insufficient for medical progress.

Rather, solid engineering is the more reliable answer, which is essentially the approach of the anti-aging SENS Research Foundation. Our philosophy should be, as far as possible, to engineer and fix the body, repairing its accumulated damage and so forth before it gets ill or aged.
P(all heads|double headed coin) = 1

P(all heads|fair coin) = 2^{-L}

Applying Bayes gets P(double headed coin|all heads) >> P(fair coin|all heads) for a long enough sequence.
Absolutely.

Maintaining a ship's heading is a full time job. If you get distracted, you get off course pretty quickly.

Speed isn't even really handled on the bridge. The engine order (ahead full, back half, emergency stop, etc) goes to the engine room where multiple people do the work.

Note: This is in the context of oil and nuclear steam-powered ships. Gas turbine ships may well have an actual throttle on the bridge. Whether the bridge has a throttle or just an engine order telegraph, the helmsman can often have their hands too full to deal with it. But someone else can do it along with their other duties, as speed control is not so intensive.
Good. In the past year they have become very preachy about exact which political opinions the tech community is allowed to have, and how they are to express them.

My limit was the "Time to take a stand incident" when Joel effectively dictated that the developer community of StackOverflow must agree with the statement.

> Carving up the world into ... nations ... is both morally repugnant and frankly stupid

The follow up of mods keeping the post open, backing it up and enforcing that idea on other questions really hammered home the idea that StackOverflow belongs to them, regardless of whatever they might say.

There was no room for nuance, just an American-centric political orthodoxy you must follow or aren't welcome.

[1]https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/342440/time-to-take...
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Well, I do think that Touchbar is an absolutely awful gimmicky product.
The design is baffling : you lose tactile feedback on the function keys and even the nice additions have had zero thoughts put into them (for example the lock key sounds like a good idea but in practice is extremely annoying since I hit up accidentaly 2/3 of the time .. it would have been easy to make it a slide to activate button).

The thing is : unlike what the pro monicker suggests, I am not at all the target of this product. So while it is objectively worse in all the criterias that matter to me, it does not matter to apple sales.
A three months notice before quitting seems pretty excessive IMHO. I can kindof understand it from the perspective of the company that would need to find a replacement, but for the worker, it seems ridiculous.

Note: I am American, and most states are aren’t “right-to-work” meaning you can quit at a moment’s notice, but it’s common courtesy to give 2 weeks notice.
If all people benefit from something then it's hard to find a problem with it. That's presumably not the case for someone who is a high level producer comparing a UBI world to a non-UBI world and seeing only an outflow.
Seems like one big simplification would be to make a bunch of base “characters” (face, poo, dog, etc) and a bunch of combining characters (smiling, frowning, crying etc).

The current crop could be precomposed characters.
This is simplistic libertarian nonsense. Pollution regulations have had obvious good effects. Workplace regulations have made the workplace a much better place for all than previously. Road regulations make transport safer. And deregulation has frequently failed.

As taeric says, reality is more nuanced than polarising libertarian rhetoric would have us believe. Slogans make a poor substitute for thought.
Actually, from experience, you are wrong. If your database if 50G, chances are most of that is index space. So no, mysqldump has absolutely no problem dealing with database that size.
My main concern is support for the CSS3 Paged Media Module.

I have been using PDFReactor for this reason, as wkhtml2pdf and weasyprint have had problems, as will any webkit or chromium based renderer because these layout systems simply do not support paged printing.
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Global atmospheric CO2 levels hit record high – Environment – The Guardian
A more accurate example in the non-2D realm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
Huh I missed that (on day 4 of a road trip atm), thanks, that makes this even more interesting.
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The distance to the satellite has nothing to do with it. You're using big numbers to exaggerate the problem.

Decrypting and demodulating have be as fast as the data is coming, otherwise the delay would grow until you never saw the end of the show. So that's not the reason either.
> the model starts with an unsupervised naive translation model obtained by making word by word translation of sentences using a parallel dictionary learned in an unsupervised way

So they DID have a parallel dictionary at first. How they learned it is another problem.
Of course Go has error handling. Thinking it doesn't shows lack of understanding of the language and its goals. Go's error handling is minimalist in order to fulfill the goal of making the code easy to read, understand and predict, in context of large software projects.

try/except in python doesn't fit that goal: looking at a line of code in python, one cannot with any reasonable level of confidence determine what types of exception could be raised, where they will be raised or if any, unless they read the documentation of the every method call that could happen by running that line.
>threading macros

Wow that's pretty awesome. I'd been annoyed with needing to use lambdas for this type of thing. I especially like the as-> macro.

I need to take the time to explore Scheme macros to see what other useful abstractions they can provide.
It's not necessarily a good thing. Apple are quite nasty. And the bigger they are, the more damage they can cause.
Key passage: "When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and depth of understanding out of that than reading a scrap here and a scrap there and elsewhere. Then go to people who influenced that writer, or those who were related to him, and your world builds together in an organic way that is really marvelous. Whereas the way these things are taught normally in college and school is a sampler of what this one wrote and that one wrote and you’re asked to be more interested in the date of the publication of Keat’s sonnets than in what’s in them.”

I think many of us have deployed this graph in our own lives. I watch movies this way - watch more movies made by a director I like. Then watch movies by the people this director likes. Its a wonderful exploration.

I wish there was a version of IMDB that allowed this meta exploration of movies - i.e. exploring the influence-graph for movies (or any art as a matter of fact).

There is a wonderful documentary called Connections [1] that explores this in the world of science, technology and engineering -- it traces the sequence of inventions and inventors that had influenced each other. I strongly recommend viewing it. You may find it very inspiring!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)
I have not read the article but let met give a reality check. Innovation has stopped around Mysql 5.0 which supported binary logs and multi master replication. What features have actually been developed after this version that is useful? Json?
Given the C++ commitment to backwards compatibility, I think the case for a new language in order to reduce complexity is very straightforward. A minimal case would be a C++ subset I guess.
Haha, brilliant point. Fortunately, it's probably a lot of VC money instead of individuals, or publicly traded companies; at least one would think.
> I'd agree with this assessment of developers. However I've come into these exact moral dilemmas myself in the line of working for various companies doing web programming. How did I resolve them? By making the decision that affected my own bottom line favorably.

That would be _not_ having a strong sense of personal values and ethics. If your good morals always lose out to the promise of more money, that's you not having good morals. Just own up to it instead of pretending the real culprit here is a lack of governing bodies that should be protecting you from all the evil money out there.
Those who commit war can kill a much higher multiplier of casualties than ever before, however. It would get pretty bad if there were a reason for the percentage who are fighting had a reason to broaden their scope.
Is it even possible to call Stack Exchange a startup anymore?
Certainly the game of getting smarter due to sociality had been going on for a long time before this. But it is still quite possible that something about those survivors gave them an edge in the following centuries. And since we can't see a fast change in anatomy around then, it is a fair guess that any such change was mental.
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Stanford Prof. Sues Team of Scientists for Debunking 100% Renewables
Aside from the neurotoxicity and the fact it destroys appetite, it certainly does work well for burning fat I believe. If one could gain the effects minus the amphetamine downsides, I wonder what it would be like.
Tails – What we accomplished in 2017
Luddite lite.

Tech is one of the only sources of growth in our stagnating economy and is responsible for humanity moving past a subsistence standard of living, but leave it to a well-paid actor sitting in a comfortable air-conditioned room during the most prosperous period ever in the history of humanity to whine about its downsides.
disaggregation is the key in everything. If 90% of the world decelerates at -1% a year but 10% accelerates at 10%, then for a few years it looks pretty close to flatline but the extrapolation of that is garbage. You have to have exact factor analysis.
that writer might be Tim Urban, for me
Take a look at Cardano https://www.cardanohub.org/en/home/

Cardano was founded by the same people who originally founded Ethereum, and they also maintain Ethereum Classic. Their team has leading computer scientists and cryptographers on board, such as Phil Wadler. It addresses all the shortcomings of Bitcoin and Ethereum and is based on scientific research instead of hacking.
Your email address only accepts emails from certain email lists. You may want to fix that.
Instead of stating the assumption the be flawed, they've termed it as a lie. While I disagree with the lawsuit, accusations of lying seem a little outlandish.

No journal should encourage publication of accusations of lying
Inspiration gives amazing internal motivation, so follow your inspiration.
Automatics are usually less efficient than manuals - the Hydraulic torque converter has to slip to function.

That said, the automatic might beat a manual in other metrics.
The NEET lifestyle is truly amazing. Too bad not many people espouse it.
I completely agree, it seems like the speed was entirely excessive, and they literally lost control of their boat. Shameful.

This sounds like pandemonium and panic. Sounds like the bridge was totally out of control. They didn't even follow basic procedure to warn nearby ships of danger, they just plowed right in front of one.
Yes, the Star Chamber was exactly what I was referring to (I even wrote it but ended up erasing it). Your arguments don't follow, though.

First, you say:

> It's about a belief that it's immoral to put someone under oath (to God) and pit himself against himself

and then you say

> It's about as close to a human right as you could find in that age

First, something being immoral doesn't imply that the opposite of it is a human right. Many people believe revenge is immoral but don't believe it to be a violation of their human rights. Not donating to charity might be immoral to many people but they wouldn't consider there to be a human right to take money from others. etc.

Second, we're not talking about English law either. These people were fleeing from English law and establishing their religious freedom. So it's fair to assume their biggest worry in the 5th amendment wasn't religion or God, but rather the government.

And third, your own source contradicts what you said. They clearly say courts relied on the the maxim (that “no man is bound to accuse himself”) as a protest against the unjust methods used to extract confessions. i.e., it wasn't that they viewed it as a human right in any sense, but that they began to invoke this maxim to avoid extracting forced (and hence potentially false) confessions. Which supports exactly what I said. (And note the use of "unjust" rather than "immoral" -- it's not about morality, but about administering justice. Religion and morality weren't new concepts then, and it's not like they avoided it initially due to moral reasons or suddenly avoided it due to feeling guilty.)

I don't have time to make a longer response to the rest of what you said, but the negative wording itself is further evidence that they were worried about government behavior and not trying to declare what is considered a fundamental human right (or trying to even "advisingly" prescribe good behavior for private individuals for that matter). I'm baffled at how you say things that align directly with this and then draw the opposite conclusions. If you're going to use the state constitutions as evidence, they're not going to be evidence for what the federal Constitution says. They can of course be evidence for what they themselves say, and nowhere do I argue that state constitutions do or don't declare anything as a fundamental right.
Are they still taking a cut per transaction? I remember they had an arrangement like that with some banks before (but banks weren't happy about it).
I think the grandparent could have characterized China as an "emerging market" relative to say the US which is a "developed market".
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I am on a roll. This article plays this out like poor investor lost his money in a market downturn. My view is this; they are trading derivatives. This is known to be very risky. It just goes to show how a shiny education was hired, when in reality nothing was known / gained here other than a market bump. Sad waste of an education IMO.
In argument 1:

I agree with the premise: "Self-discipline is virtuous per se."

I don't agree with the argument that follows: "We shouldn't develop alternates."
This is incredibly well thought out and written. I felt like a friend was telling me about something that we would only understand. Matt Kline, bravo.
I feel SO must really be run as a non-profit like wikipedia.
I think there is a large difference between searching for key info you need and trying to learn a bunch of information through a course.

If I want quick information on how to install or troubleshoot something that realistically should only be one or two lines of code, watching someone's youtube video is a very inefficient way to provide that content.
Chuwi is taking the crowdfunding route with its latest tablet, the CoreBook
No.

Not 'most irrational/dysfunctional' in any sense beyond the topic at hand:

> this form of irrationalism

Nor 'most in the world':

> is peculiarly concentrated
This to me is the under reported fact. Realizing how fast these ships were moving up to and through the moment of impact, while the crew responded hopelessly is extraordinary. Absolutely tragic.
Use mydumper/myloader. I've had issues using mysqldump over 50g databases with three or four figure tables and has to write a script that dumps every table. To get a consistent snapshot you have to close all the client connections.
Routine is simultaneously marvelous at producing results and a prison of one's own making. I'm into archery and at a certain point I was shooting everyday. My groups got tighter. Then, at a certain point a good shot lost it's wonder and became expected. I didn't feel anything except disappointment when I made a less than perfect shot. I then stopped and better understood why those that are better are better. There are no heroes, no calls to adventure or treacherous journeys - just a dull ceaseless repetition. Like a hammer driving a nail.
The paper:

http://www.pnas.org/content/114/26/6722.full
Typo: Campbell's needs that apostrophe.
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This article shines light on the power bestowed upon Twitter employees. They can randomly deactivate one's account, and unless you're the president, you might not have any recourse.

Particularly worrisome is the general left leaning political and social affiliation of such employees. We are an era of systemic censorship of right leaning speech by popular internet platforms.

I'm personally center left, but in no way do I condone the actions of the new breed of leftists, from SJWs claiming "free speech as torture" to wanting "safe spaces" everywhere
Ask HN: What has your experience been with using Docker for local development
I am just beginning development in local with Docker containers. So far it's been a lot of work to set up Hot code reload, DB persistence etc. It takes up a lot of memory.

What has your experience been? What tips, tricks etc. helped you?
Also see this comment in this same thread for role @ Stitchfix' data science department:

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=15605645&goto=item%3Fi...
I have the same observation and prepare to do something about it. I am in China, the Web is terrible, quite hostile to anyone reading them. If you have the same idea and really want to improve it, welcome to contact me.
Look at all the people kinda sorta microdosing on Adderall. It's ubiquitous in some domains.
I have taken stimulants on and off through my life. I certainly don't need them, but it is very unlikely I would own a tech company if I hadn't taken them. They have almost certainly improved my life immensely.
Also see my post in this same thread for Stitchfix's engineering / dev jobs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15603560
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They go hand in hand. If you write tests, but they're not run after each dev commits changes, you're not testing those changes for regressions. If you have CI without tests, what is the CI going to do? It could still be used for packaging executables/distributions, and possibly orchestrating deployments, but it sounds like that's not your goal.

Save yourself some grief and use a service like CircleCI, it provides isolated (Docker) environments that are spun up per test run. It supports many languages and background services (like databases).

As for writing tests, you would be best to start writing them at a "system boundary". This might take the form of sending HTTP requests to your endpoints and parsing the response.
Hacking the DNC
> He probably got temp banned for violating their Code of Conduct in regards to Hateful Conduct.

Nope. It was intentional. Employee's last day.
From my experience, you have to be very, very loud if you want to reach them.

This is how I managed to reach them in July: https://twitter.com/i/moments/878356515622617088