skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a ridiculous argument.

Microwaves don’t make it easy for someone to send harassing messages to 40,000 people.

Shoes don’t make it possible for someone across the globe to send a SWAT team into your living room.

Those aren’t communication methods. That’s like asking why the waffle maker didn’t solve tuberculosis.

You have to compare communication methods, like the telephone and the post office. And notice that we have lots of rules about how and who can contact you and trying to enforce accountability. If you start sending threatening letters to the post office, they’ll work to find you. If you start making dirty calls to random strangers, you’ll be tracked down.

But Twitter and Reddit and a great many other things on the Internet don’t seem to think that’s necessary… or at least didn’t early on. They chose to ignore (or didn’t know of) how previous communication methods tried to deal with these issues.

You can only make one phone call at a time. For a VERY long time you might not have been able to call across the country let alone overseas. It would’ve cost you a lot of money to do either one. It took time to physically mail envelopes or postcards and you had to pay a fee for each one.

The Internet has removed all those barriers. It’s made harassment trivial. Without something else to keep a lid on the issue the obvious has happened: harassment has exploded compared to other media.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Esperanto_speakers though...
I've worked in healthcare tech before and one thing we didn't need was more people claiming you could solve every problem with some random FOTM untested medical method that doesn't hold up to scientific scrutiny. No need to make yourself out to be some sort of scientific martyr. If you can't do people here the justice of backing up your comments, don't comment and then complain about getting down voted
Those are entirely different business models - services vs products. Companies aren't always successful in making such transitions.
The ISM field strength levels here are defined in 47 Part 18.305. they are measured in an anechoic chamber and inverse square law scaled to the field strength at the stated distance.

Source: I used to work with RF lighting devices, which need to meet the levels of 18.305(c), and were usually tested the same way in pre-compliance before final OATS testing.
From which book is this?
I agree, I was merely entertaining the parent's claim that Crohn's could be solved in that way. I'm sure he thinks Crohn's can be simply solved by going gluten/dairy free or by fasting.
Most recruiters get paid more than $100K which is better than most IT folks.

https://www.topechelon.com/blog/how-much-do-recruiters-make-...
Docker explained for PHP Developers
From the outside looking in ( and a handful of anecdotal encounters and work experiences) I feel like the educated Indian workforce is bifurcated between one cluster of brilliant hard working people and another cluster of... Bullshitters who try to project the visage of knowing what's going on.

But maybe that's because for better or for worse India does have an articulate culture of speaking up for yourself, and these two outlier groups just become memorable.
But access to the data that exists in those systems is a pretty big carrot for integration partners to help push adoption.

The scary reality is, they don't even have access to the data in those systems. I had a friend contracted at cerner working on a FHIR api end point. Something as simple as answering the question "what medications have been administered to a patient" was extremely difficult to pull out of their system. One would think there'd be a simple report for that information, but they didn't have it. The domain/system knowledge wasn't there either. That one simple api endpoint drug on for months as new data was "found" in the 5000+ table schema. Oh, and they don't use foriegn key constraints in production either.
I read it as 'likely to produce nothing useful'; maybe I'm just not imaginative.
Engineering can certainly be done outside. However, there is a real risk in having the core business competency and value be outsourced rather than something built up with employees at the company with an interest in the company's success rather than looking at it as just the next project.
Their main national sport (cricket) is really only played in handful of countries. And in those countries (AU/NZ) soccer is still more popular.
Like Boeing isn't internationally linked to the US, or "buy American" wasn't a thing...
I did back it up. Again, remember, there is not much "science" to back it up - because universities and pharmas have such little incentive to studying what may prove to render the medical world useless. Think about it. Why would they study it? If it doesn't work - anyway no one believed it. If it does - all their patented work becomes unncessary for many diseases.

So you are left with real life people who have seen success. And there are plenty once you open your eyes.
I think you may be subject to a cognitive bias where you overestimate how representative racist, sexist, etc people are of the larger population.

Anonymous communications technology that enables avatars are always going to attract these kinds of malcontents, lending to a perception that most people are bad actors.

This isn't to say there are not depressingly high numbers of these kinds of people, but the conclusion you've arrived at comes from a typical group attribution error.
Understanding image histograms with OpenCV
How did they convince their customers they we're worth paying?
Western Union takes up to 10%! Of people's wages, often cash wages of low income people. You're assuming I think incorrectly that the value add won't cause people to find another way to circumvent. Either learn how to transfer BTC yourself, use a system someone else wrote that your friend told you about, or even use a different crypotocurrency.

Secure isn't a problem if you don't assume every exchange is a Mt Gox waiting to happen.
Whenever I read about "ignition" my mind goes strait to weapons research. There is a blurred line between those looking wanting to use fusion for purposes of generating power, and those seeking to further nuclear weapons. 'Ignition' generally draws a good line between the two. For instance, the National Ignition Facility isn't doing reactor development. If I were the author, I'd reconsider the title to emphasize that it's focus is the generation of electrical power.
we're a small managed private+public cloud services provider and we only have 2 full time operations engineers to support 30+ client companies. we also have a handful of consultants that do specialized work, working a handful of hours each month. they seem to be serving a small cluster of customers each also.

we could support 40, our existing 2 engineers are basically under-worked - we have 2 because it would be insanely irresponsible to have just 1, aside from company ownership (which is able to do the work also, if needed). if we absolutely had to, we could cut that down to 1 full time guy. let that sink in; 1 full time guy to manage 40 customers.

having said that, we're still growing as a business, because we've embraced the new reality, but it hasn't been without turnover and pain. we're also putting money into developing products.

the kicker is, even with the R+D, we're more profitable now than 5 years ago, with LESS ops folks (ostensibly less people to do the actual work, though we all know that's not what's really happening). i imagine the same exact thing is playing out with larger in-house staff, as you describe.

this is the new model. WAY more output from less but higher paid full time people, small networks of high-$ specialized consultants, and smaller firms and IT groups working in mercenary fashion. embrace it, or you will bleed yourself dry in less time than you think.
This looks too good to be true ... am I missing something?
>OpenBSD makes a phenomenal firewall

How about a router? I've been considering getting some single-board computer (probably an APU2[1]) and turning it into a router, possibly using OpenBSD + pf. Or maybe just install Pfsense. Or maybe use Linux and...iptables? (Not sure how that stack would look exactly)

1. https://www.pcengines.ch/apu2.htm
Interesting to see the big players like Apple, Google and Amazon making significant investments in this area.

The big problem though still lies in the maze of regulatory bodies with which all these innovative solutions have to navigate before they even get mainstream. Small players who does not have enough financial leeway ends up burying what could be a groundbreaking solution. Of course, governments need to do their due diligence as public health is the one at stake but there needs to have a certain compromise where the end result is the good of the public and humanity.
The quality of the work has been subpar from what I have seen at my company.

Though the biggest challenge is timezone problems and the sheer challenge it is to communicate.

Though I'm sure people have had different experiences in their sectors.
Apart from the thing that another commenter has clarified about tom-toms, "sen Di'" is an abbreviation of "sen Dio" 'Godless'.

Edit: I just noticed that still another commenter also already clarified this part too.
Good point about the seasonality issue. I do wonder if they will eventually make it the norm if they see there is no real productivity drop.
Perhaps there's some chicken/egg going on here? On HN, members will downvote based on tone as well as message because many do value civil discourse and recognize that regardless of the value of the substance, the manner in which a member communicates that substance can drag HN down. And deciding not to couch your comments as constructively as possible is much more likely to result in downvotes, if that's what you're concerned about. You've gotten plenty of feedback in this thread.

If you have a message you want to convey, it's in your best interested to also convey it in a manner that has the best possible chance of being accepted. If you've already decided that's not worth the effort, it's probably not worth the effort to comment at all.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.08439

The original paper.

The references in the paper paint a much clearer picture of where exactly the idea behind reinforcement learning with optimal, suboptimal, random oracles comes from. There are also mathematical proofs that these setups work.

I was quite shocked to not see [6, 16] references in any of the recent MCTS papers.

These references prove why the stuff works and show how well it works. But the whole field of imitation learning seems invisible to the deep RL papers. Don't have the faintest idea why.

The algorithm described is the ultimate generalized algorithm. If you have the expert policy the algorithm is learning completely supervised, if expert policy is suboptimal but the score (loss) is fully calculable the learned policy will outperform the reference policy, if expert policy is completely random the algorithm behaves as reinforcement learning.

What the paper at the top adds is the ability to improve the expert policy with the learned one simultaneously in unison and the math covered previously guarantees improvement.
> the phenomenon is rather that HN readers with strong ideological feelings tend to see the site as dominated by, and the mods in cahoots with, their ideological enemies.

I agree, but I don't think that's why this is a popular piece. Such a post would not resonate as well on NeoGAF or ResetERA or even Reddit, but the political leanings of this site propelled this to the front page. There's more to it than just seeing the mods as being in cahoots with enemies. It's the ideology that any moderation is inherently untrustworthy and that the power must be constantly kept 'in check'.

You can find endless examples of folks who feel they are pariahs. I still think that Hacker News has a severe idealogical bend, just like any online community. And I don't think it's a stretch to say that bend matches the mindset of many programmers - techno-libertarianism.

To be clear, I'm not claiming that the moderators have some idealogical bias - I've never come across that. Simply that certain trains of thought are very popular here, and the notion of "free speech" being impeded by aggressive moderation is something that has been rehashed on this site time and time again.

I realize you may have taken issue with my comment because I said "site-runners" in my claim of an ideology. I realize that this was poor word-choice, as I actually meant the YC, not Hacker News - they got conflated in my mind and I apologize for the mistake.
> We've been there with CSS box model, DOM levels, (X)HTML(5), and CSS prefixes.

Other examples:

Content-Type. There were a few years where many sites were misconfigured to serve virtually every non-HTML file as text/plain. IE, deviating from the HTTP spec, always used its own algorithm to detect the actual file type and thus "worked", whereas Netscape (and later Mozilla) respected the header and would display "garbage".

Windows-1252 mojibake. Various Windows-based authoring tools simply used the native Windows code page 1252 to encode their text in HTML files, which were then claimed to be encoded as ASCII or ISO 8859-1. This led to documents that mostly looked correct but would have garbage sprinkled around due to added punctuation in Windows-1252 (primarily the distinct open/close quotes and em-dashes, if memory serves). IE of course handled these "correctly", i.e. interpreted ASCII or ISO 8859-1 to mean Windows-1252. I think this behavior is now specified by HTML5 under certain conditions.
Lojban is actually equivalent to first-order predicate logic, I believe!

for instance, "lo cmalu noltru (ku)" is equivalent to "there exists some X, such that X satisfies the predicate 'cmalu noltru', i.e. X is a small type-of prince."

unlike Esperanto however, lojban isn't likely to be teachable to children, or fluently speakable. all words in natural human languages seem to have a maximum of three 'arguments', i.e. parts of speech that valsi bind to. words in lojban may have up to five arguments, so it's unclear whether human brains can accommodate that many slots.

additionally, while lojban is LL-parsable, machines like Parsey McParseFace can now accurately parse human universal grammar. unambiguous parsing was a big feature of lojban, so it's lost a major selling point.

but! learning exotic languages is good for the brain, so it's a worthwhile and rewarding endeavor. I speak a conlang with only 2 speakers, and it has enriched my life, so tilt at those windmills! :)
It can be done. Not for everything. But for a lot of things.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal. Through Pivotal Labs we have various consulting engagements with the US government, including the DoD.
Notes on Standing Desk (2015)
Yup. I've tried every note taking app. nvalt is the best (used to use justnotes but it's done I guess).
@badsectoracula's comment resonated with me, and obviously many others. VB was transformative. Since then, people have tried to recreate that magic. Hasn't happened. Other transformative magic has appeared but, to build on what @badsectoracula said, people miss the point when trying to recreate VB (or other magical things).

Technology doesn't exist in a timeless vacuum. VB was in the right place at the right time, and solved a big problem. Solving that same problem now isn't nearly as magical. We have new problems. Still, what people miss is that a person (often brilliant) has a vision and creates it. The result has conceptual integrity and resonates with some people. Not all, but some. The goal is not to be all things to all people. That never works.

I loved VB. Still do. I used it from v1.0 thru v6, and was one of the first 4 VB MVPs when they created the MVP program. As badsectoracula said, it wasn't any one thing that made it special; it was the whole. But, just as the Director's Cut of a movie isn't always better, there is the possibility of taking something and making it better. Maybe not in the visionary's view, but for others. A tale as old as time.

There is a time to hold tight to the past, and a time to move forward without forgetting it.

There is a time to fiercely defend our position, and a time to give way and relinquish victory in small battles so that we may win the war.

Red is still very young, but Rebol's design is old. The problems Rebol aimed to solve were like classics in literature (or algorithms in CS), long-lived. Red is not aimed at solving only today's problems, or tomorrow's. It's aimed at solving the future's problems. Not by being one amazing product or technology, but by being a language we can use to communicate about problems we don't even know we have yet. For most people, though, it can serve very well as a tool to solve problems we have today, without knowing any of that.
It's AFAYK because that's what you are being told currently.

Who do you expect to show you the evidence that a 2-week water fast will cure your Crohn's? The company that makes Remicade which brings them up to $200K a year per patient? A university that gets funded by the government that is lobbied heavily by the pharma companies?

Come on. Think about it.

I already shared it - now it's up to you to pick it up from here and do your own research if you are interested. I've seen many who have stopped and reversed diseases including Crohn's using water fasting followed by a diet of mostly fruits and veggies.
Tired of winning yet?
Before the racists were, to some degree, self-censoring due to their fear of how they were perceived by others. In many cases they would try to conform more so that they wouldn’t be outcast.

Now people are far more aware how many racists are in the US. And many of them have taken that as proof that there’s nothing wrong with their way of thinking and are censoring themselves less. They are discussing their beliefs and pushing their agendas stronger than they have in a long time.

Is that an actual improvement? Before all but some of the most hard-core we’re effectively incentivized to be more accepting. Now they’ve learned not only do they not have to do that, they can STRENGTHEN their position knowing there are others like them.

Given the level of backlash they’ve faced, I don’t think it’s an improvement.
They claim to solve np complete problems, which this paper is not demonstrating.
Funny how utterly natural and subconsious this stuff becomes after a while. I almost felt like commenting something snyde about how superfluous it is to make it this explicit, but then I realized that it was only a few years ago that it made my consious brain totally overwhelmed.
Meanwhile, still supporting TLS 1.0 because of office 2010.
Duh. Making generalizations based on everyone of a race will be wrong. But if a large percentage of a race have certain cultural values, then amplified examples those values would emerge in the stereotypes, right? Or are we to believe that stereotypes all come from nothing?
Can you share some numbers? If you count colocation as cloud, I think there is a wide range of products and services you can use.
When I think tech bubble I think of the dot.com years in the 90s. We're way passed that... The internet remains the driving force and backbone of any future tech.

If you think in terms of where the internet was, is and is going - you'll see there's plenty of juice left...

Internet v1.0 was primarily the internet of "links". V2.0 - which we're at the tail end of now - is the social network and connecting people. (I'm appropriating this "versioning" concept from something I heard or read - can't remember where)

We're on the verge of Internet 3.0 and there are multiple driving forces that will shape it: 1. cryptocurrency and decentralization of payments 2. blockchain and decentralization of ledgers 3. IoT 4. AI enhancements ... (non-exhaustive list & should be taken with a grain of salt as the things we think will be big never do end up being so... )

The focus on technologies that support decentralization and network resiliency will most probably continue - especially with net neutrality repeal.
Sad that you get down voted when you make so many valid and useful points. Galileo was in the same boat at one time!

I don't think you can blame traditional physicians. Most of them really didn't go to school for a decade to tell fat people to eat less. They want to solve medical problems, not play life coach.

Maybe there is a role for technology here. People accept statements from a machine that they'd take great offense to in person. Maybe Siri would be a better entity to tell you you're fat and need to lose weight.
I agree, I may come off as a troll. I get your point. It's too bad if I do though, my intention is to point people in a direction that will help them and one that they've likely never come across before because no one in the traditional medical world will ever suggest this as a viable option.

I will make it a point to phrase my comments differently in the next health-related thread.
You’d be wrong. Our city does all its own fiber plant. It’s significantly less expensive than a recurring contract with a telco. Significantly.
No, I am blaming certain people in positions of power for making bad decisions about designing technologies, and I am blaming certain other people in positions of power for not making better policy decisions.

I do try to understand why individual humans at work and in my neighborhood sometimes lash out with nasty remarks. I try to empathize, and give them the benefit of the doubt, as long as they aren't becoming clearly abusive.

I do not, however, tolerate Nazi sympathizers. They can go take a flying fuck at the moooooon!
A list of animals with fraudulent diplomas
At least in this case, 56,000 people in the 1st level lost their jobs. What's the total number of level 1's who matriculated to level 2? And is there a net job loss or are the laid off people finding other jobs that pay as well or better?

Without answers for these and related questions, it's uncertain if this is good progress.
Fusion technology of the kind being discussed here is not terribly useful for nuclear weapons. If you want nuclear weapons, build breeder fission reactors.
> Git Flow fosters a harmful development mentality where developers merge untested changes to the develop branch, then move on

I don't see why this assertion would hold true. Anyone can test the code (the developer, the reviewer, the CI server, etc). This code can also be tested by applying it to various branches (current release, older release, etc).

> Do not use Git Flow for a web application deployed on your own infrastructure (SaaS, microservice, mobile backend, etc.).

Web applications, I think, are a special case where continuous change is the norm. Other applications do benefit from versioning. I certainly would be more wary about using Linux distros or git if they weren't versioned like they are now.
Both the Keynesian and the Austrian models have been shown to be flawed and incomplete understandings (from what I understand of it). They can explain some things, but they break down, and in those breakdowns we had crises - keynesian thinking was abandoned after the 70s crisis, and now monetarism is being (slowly and reluctantly) abandoned after 2008.

I find that the assumptions on both models, that humans can measure and act according to their own preferences, might be one of the core issues with economics today. In fact if you keep to that idea economics is more of a religion than fact. There's very little evidence that humans act rationally in economic situations. There's accumulating evidence they don't. Economics makes more sense if you come at it from psychology from my view: humans are irrational and so are markets. Rational thinking is the exception, not the norm (might be an odd idea for the HN audience, but think about everyone else...)