skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ossification phenomenon happens to all sorts of APIs. Consider stat(2): all hell would break loose if we introduced another file type for st_mode. I'm a fan of keeping things "well oiled" by exercising extension points that are supposed to keep working.

That said, I wish we would be more willing to force these rusted joints to open, breakage be damned. Breaking 3% of the web sounds like a lot, but it's not that much, especially considering that anyone broken will very quickly upgrade.

By using elaborate workarounds described in the article, we recognize and reward the worst technical practices. The author may not want to cast blame, but I do.
For what use case do you need to perform a 'clean'?

Every time I have needed to clean a Makefile based project it has been due to imperfections of the build system, i.e. needing to do a full rebuild. In theory (I've never used tup in anger) you should never need to do that with tup because the dependecy gathering is so robust.
The last set of samples includes comparisons with the source human. The only one that I can guess with confidence is the last pair. (Sample 1 of the pair contains assumed-context emotional inflection.)
Is crypto-currency considered to be the most innovative use of blockchains? Is there anything that currently doesn't use blockchains that could see a benefit from doing so?
I came here to say this! There is also a newer (cheaper) ERX, but some of the specs are not as good.
Yeah, I decided it wasn't worth the potential contention right now -- I have some stuff I'm trying to wrap up before I head out for some holiday festivities with the kids and I didn't want to worry about the shitstorm it may've stirred up. But I appreciate your comment; thanks for expressing it. As we know from the blurb I ended up snipping, I can vouch for that first-hand. I was just a little surprised to see it so blatantly.
You’re only making sense to yourself and less intelligent people.
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Until it's been independently tested and used in the real world for a while, it makes sense to be suspicious of any form of energy transmission or storage. Energy is dangerous.

Just don't let the suspicion last long enough to become superstition.
Paired with face2face, totally.

http://niessnerlab.org/projects/thies2016face.html
The quotes from the FDA, et al in the article are all about how they just want to help and are wanting to work with farmers, etc etc. But when did the regulators show up? Friday, the start of the weekend, during a apple orchard's peak season.

Not Tuesday morning in August to discuss worker safety for peak harvesting. Not Wednesday afternoon in November to review incidents. Peak season, start of the weekend.
I never learned much from Duolingo. It makes learning languages incredibly boring, and my eyes would glaze over every one of the dozens of times I had to match/construct some variance of "der junge trinkt die milsch." I learned more German just reading English translations of Rammstein lyrics. Anything by Pimsleur is still not very interesting, but at least it can hold my attention.
What’s TS for?
I could have written this exact article. My phone died a couple of weeks ago. I can't accurately convey how unsettling it was to realize how to deeply into my subconsciousness my phone had ingrained itself. Any time there was the slightest lull in stimulation, I found myself reaching for it. I kept carrying my phone with me even though I knew it was dead.

The first night, I was cooking dinner. Once I had everything going on the burners, I had a few minutes to kill. Normally I'd reach for my phone, but I couldn't. After a while, I got bored so I went ahead and did the dishes. Instead of leaving that chore for later and adding to my stress I got on top of it. Better, it required no willpower to do so since I was bored and literally had nothing better to do.

I've felt for years that the days were too short. It turns out they got shorter because of all of the accumulated minutes sucked into my phone. The days felt longer, more relaxed. It was easier to get the minutiae of life done during the between-times. I wasn't irritated by the kids interrupting me. I read more.

At the same time, I really missed the practical aspects of my phone. Listening to the radio while driving sucked. Not having navigation — I have essentially no sense of direction — was a nightmare.

I have a phone again now, but so far I haven't installed any of the consumptive apps on it. (For me that was mainly Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.) It's been good so far. I do find myself sometimes missing the ability to share things on those platforms. If there were write-only versions of those apps, I'd install them and then only consume on my laptop which is a little more naturally self-limiting by not being easily carried around.

A while back, I rewatched the original Alien. One thing that struck me, watching it with modern eyes how all of the characters constantly smoked. When the movie came out, that helped the characters look natural and believable. Now it just looks gross and distracting. I believe strongly in a few decades, we'll look back on phone use today in the same way.

At least, I hope we do. The scary alternative is an entire populace constantly drugged by our own dopamine receptors triggered by carefully engineered cognitive manipulation.
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I think that you use "vouch" to say that the post shouldn't have been flagged. I suspect (but I am not certain) that a post will be automatically killed after a certain number of flags (and I suspect that the number is more than one). I suspect that it takes manual intervention by a mod to undo the flag kill, and that vouch is the way you bring it to the mods' attention.
why so negative? if somebody provides value, why not contribute back by watching ads? or do you regularly pay money to authors? if not, then maybe don’t visit websites if you refuse to compensate other people’s work?
I've noticed that. I'm not 100% sure what the deal is.

From what I know, my one major gripe is that they devalue you based on where you live.
Actually, the ethereum blockchain includes "uncles" so it's a DAG that is almost a tree. I'm not sure where is the canonical link, but I found https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/3c9jbf/wtf_are_un... and https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/10/31/uncle-rate-transaction-...
Wealth != salary. Most wealthy people who got wealthy didn't get there by making a large salary, they (at some point) booked capital gains on something.

Nothing is stopping you from venturing out into the world and setting up a business, and making your way into the 1%.

Most work is commodity work. And in a lot of cases, you have a significant amount of people who can solve a problem. This results in a race to the bottom in terms of compensation.
Do you have any references for that? I'm quite incredulous that American IBM employees were on place, in Germany and occupied territories, during a time that America was engaged in war with Germany.
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If I give you a paper wallet or something like openDime? You now have BTC and nobody knows about it.
> It's very possible that the core beliefs and faith on which the Internet as a radically open, radically free, nearly anarchic space was founded, are...wrong...

I don't really understand this sentiment. If we admit that we all hold beliefs that could be wrong, isn't the ultimate conclusion radical freedom? The radical freedom of the internet isn't a result of a set of beliefs, it's the result of evicting belief and allowing all ideas to stand on their own merit.

> We all thought, like the author, that access to the Internet will put people in connection who otherwise don't hear from each other, that we will be exposed to new views, be more open-minded, etc. And the opposite has happened.

I think you're wrong here. The world is becoming an exponentially more peaceful and tolerant place in my experience. There is still a vocal minority which gets attention thanks to the open platform, but the overall result of this openness seems to be growing disdain for beliefs which we now know are founded in hate, not logic or science. Do you really feel that the world is in a worse place than it was in the 70's or even in 2010? In what ways?

> It became difficult when you would go online and see just how many people iterated these sentiments behind a veil of anonymity.

Genuine question, what percentage of 4chan do you believe is racist? Do you feel that racist memes genuinely come from a place of racism? What large anonymous groups do you believe consist of genuine racists? Do you consider me a racist if I make the statement, "more crime in America is committed by people with dark skin, relatively", even if I make no attempt to suggest a correlation or reason for this statistic?
And it's going to throw your medical privacy out of the window in the process.

I suppose we'll also see some major deregulation similar to the net neutrality repeal in the healthcare industry before long.
They are going after health care because they either ran out of customers or people to advertise to.

Hopefully they can make some progress but so far I don't see much.
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Are you really arguing that social media isn’t optimized to create bubbles?
Right, it's not stopping you from trying, it's just drastically lowering your odds of succeeding.
Isn't he just being factual though? The comment he replied to was also a personal attack of sorts on the husband from the story.
This Django style template library is also quite slick: https://github.com/flosch/pongo2
Tax bill spawns new holiday headache: Waiting in line to pay taxes
Block explorers work great. Is that what you mean?
This article talks in more detail about that: http://www.bzarg.com/p/what-bitcoin-shows-us-about-how-money...

Bitcoin is a bad currency because it doesn't count value consistently. And it never could, because there is no central bank to regulate supply to balance an inevitably fluctuating demand.
So you don't need physical access you just need to install a malicious application? Okay then.

Why can one application even explore and access the views of another?
I don't understand what are these soft skills the author is talking about. To me, it seems like he's talking about manipulating and deceiving people. Why is it good for a manager to be skilled at creating the impression that he/she respects his reports?
Fair question. I've made some basic audience assumptions. These are:

- people who buy Japanese candy also like other Japanese items

- people who buy Japanese candy also like the Japanese culture

- people who know about Japanese candy are within a certain age range.

- people within that age range that know about Japanese candy have also purchased some

- people who enjoy the Japanese culture that fa within the age range of those who like the candy may also potentially enjoy Japanese pop culture

- people who enjoy that pop culture enjoy consuming media about it

- people who enjoy consuming the media have adopted newer platforms (YouTube vs tv).

- most of these people are male

A show with a cosplayers who talks about Japanese candy in a memorable way seems to fit these assumptions.

Why a female cosplayer? Sex sells.
This is really important if not bogus. Any comments from people in the field?

It's like back-propagation for digital logic.
Note the username and just ignore the troll. I have faith that the account will be dead soon.
> there's no solid link between inputs and outputs

> a properly trained ML algorithm

#ThinkingFaceEmoji
Risk isn't the same thing as expected value.
That was a great read. Considering I'm from the area, it's weird that I've never heard anything about it.
No, I just cobbled that together from other SF I've read. If you want more of that, try:

- Permutation City by Greg Egan (Imagine a world where everyone's consciousness has been uploaded to computers.)

- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (People play sports, knit sweaters, whatever- all in virtual reality.) Note: this book is corny as hell and borderline YA but still fun

- Blindsight by Peter Watts (You spend more and more time playing alone or tittering with a circle of sycophantic AIs. ... squeezed out by increasing scarcity of computing resources)

- https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football (Over time people decide to pass on by ritualistically committing data-suicide) Just for the impact of functional immortality on common people
"You're just not using it correctly" is absolutely correct, by definition, in all cases where "Agile" is imposed as some kind of top-down corporate policy.
In my country, Uber service is far better than taxis by a mile... many taxi drivers are poorly-paid employees which don't care much, and they're basically immune to any kind of incentive or threat.

On the other hand, Uber drivers with a bad score are usually suspended or banned from the app, keeping out the bad apples, and they're usually the car owners themselves, thus having an incentive to drive better and take more rides.

I believe than something similar to Uber scores for taxis with similar effects (removing bad drivers from the service) would create a huge improvement.

Another unfortunate side effect is that there's some segmentation - poorer and older people still take taxis, while more affluent people take Ubers.
The Raspberry Pi is pretty terrible for "cheap desktop computer". It's better for a lot of graphics and video-related things than the Beaglebones. And the newer Pi's have more RAM and faster CPUs than most of the Beagles.

The PRUs and huge GPIO count are the good things about a Beaglebone, IMO. It seems like there's less documentation and pre-built libraries out there for them than for the RPi computers, which is a shame.

RPi wins out on price and community.
I'm actually thinking to add currencies besides only USD and EUR. At the end of the day we don't have any particular love for either, since our costs are all in JPY. The biggest issue is to not clutter up the interface...
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> he doesn’t see Apple purely as a tech company

That doesn't mean Apple isn't a tech company (one of the biggest there is), and consequently that this particular complain isn't nonsense.
"Huge if true"
Can the excess energy on certain days be converted back to money through cryptocurrency mining? (While society decides whether batteries are a crucial energy security investment)
Did you look at the paper or just throwing the analogy out there? It seems the described problems are integer programming which wouldn’t have gradients as in back propagation.

The magic seems to lie in the so called self organizing logic gates detailed

https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.05064
I know someone who once trapped a cockroach in a box and sealed it shut. When the box was opened, years later, the roach was still alive. It had eaten some glue on the inside of the box, and then went into a kind of torpor, simply waiting for either death by dehydration or starvation or an opportunity to escape, whichever came first.

Zombies are like that. They gorge on fatty foods, like brains, bone marrow, and body fat, then go into an induced stasis that outwardly resembles death.

The zombinism vector is undoubtedly an endoparasitic fungus related to Cordyceps. Mycelium spreads throughout the host during the infection, preferentially following existing neural pathways, and flooding the body with antibiotics, to kill native gut bacteria and other possible putrefying factors. The normal digestive functions are destroyed. The regular circulatory system is destroyed. The only elements preserved are sensory organs, muscles, skin, and bones. All other functions are replaced by the fungus. The mycelium, as it followed the existing neurons, actually grows into a replacement brain and nervous system as it destroys the host's nervous system.

The copy isn't perfect, though, and genetically hardcoded structures produce an instinctual desire to seek out and eat more fat. Destroying the head does not actually kill the fungus, but it does remove its ability to create a facsimile of a mammalian brain, by scrambling the template. It could still make the muscles twitch, but would have no means of coordinating them into coherent movements.

I would therefore expect a zombie running low on energy to have almost no fat left, and ascocarps growing out of it all over, like cactus spines. It would probably resemble a spiky mummy. Any rotting appearance would be due to colonies of microorganisms that have evolved resistance to the fungal antibiotics.

So it's not just eating brains, but also not spending as much energy as a human normally does while using the organs evolved to keep a human brain alive.
How the world's languages handle thorny gender issues
Amazon is planning a push into digital advertising in 2018
ReasonML, more functional programming, more parsing techniques/algs
Debian has vcswatch to keep track of updates. I think it only works if the upstream repository keeps the Debian control files updated, but keeping track of commits that update a generic CHANGELOG file should be simple.

That said, I don't think the vendor can be avoided unless you want to live on the edge. If you're on a released version of a distro (otherwise, you wouldn't have to cherry-pick from Sid), chances are you're not on the latest version of the software, and the patch has to be backported by the distro maintainer to version you are actually on.
They didn't say whether electron was good or bad. Just that this app is one.
Who is arguing for "soft skills only"? Haven't seen that so far.
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What to do with my next home server?
I recently received an Intel NUC[1] as a gift, which means I'm in the market to create a home server for some use. I've run various home servers over the years, as firewalls and file servers, but those needs are mostly met now by cheap consumer electronics or abundant options for streaming and fast internet. What would you use a compact, fairly powerful general purpose computing platform for if it was suddenly available?

I'm happy to hear any solution, or what you would do in your circumstances, but if you want to tailor it to me, I'm married and have multiple children and pets. I work from home part of the week in a small home office (converted walk-in closet). I also recently received a Nest cam, but haven't set it up yet. I'm not sure if it supports local storage of video or any other local integration, but I probably wouldn't want to invest in a separate camera without good reason. Most media consumption is done through a combination of Roku and Fire TV devices and subscriptions to a few media services. The kids already have computers that aren't all that bad thanks to the office getting rid of a few older desktops.

1: https://www.google.com/?q=dccp847dye
This reads like an Adam Curtis piece: starts with an obscure historical reference, and builds it up to dramatic ripple efect on the world, usually by way of a cultural shift.
The measure to look at is consumption inequality, not wealth inequality. It has also increased (though it is harder to measure than income inequality, but see https://www.nber.org/papers/w17982.pdf), but the progressive global wealth tax of up to 2% advocated by Piketty in Capital in the Twenty-First Century could increase consumption inequality instead of diminishing it, and is otherwise less efficient than a tax on consumption.

See “Measuring inequality: A three-headed hydra”[1] in The Economist and “Economics is all about consumption” by Scott Sumner.[2]

[1]: https://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/07/measuri...

[2]: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2014/07/economics_is_al....
The FDA specifically (and famously) does not regulate the practice of medicine. They regulate the marketing of drugs and medical devices - mainly that you cannot market something as an safe and effective treatment for a disease/condition without proof of (a) safety and (b) efficacy (or effectiveness), which is obtained through clinical trials.

Adherence to "evidence based" therapy guidelines is typically enforced via malpractice claims. Obamacare tried to introduce incentives for outcome measurement/tracking and evidence based care by either cutting or supplementing medicare reimbursements, but even that has been difficult to implement nationally across the 5-7 most frequent and costly conditions and procedures (e.g. acute myocardial infarction, COPD, knee replacement, etc).

While the FDA's regulatory approach does slow the pace of innovation, they exist for a reason -- I acknowledge that GP is not calling for any policy change. Snake oil salesmen were a real thing, and still abound in the valley albeit in different form.
The truth is that in our field, there's a wide distribution of skill levels, and some technical problems go from "impossible" to "routine" once your technical people pass a certain skill and quality bar. Soft skills do not get you over this quality bar. Actual technical knowledge does.

Yes, hard technical skills are absolutely necessary for "building the thing right". The necessary level of skill depends on what that thing is.

But there's also "building the right thing", and that is a completely different set of skills. Many of which get lumped into the "soft skills" bucket.
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Try doing it in government.
Go hiking on Mt Tam. Tennessee Valley is a nice accessible spot with lots of trails around.
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How is that actually stopping anyone? It seems you're referring to "ability" as in skills and talents to meet some demand for work, but that changes as it always has throughout history. The world marches on, that is inevitable and we must all adapt, wealthy or not.

Someone is going to make progress eventually and it's often just a worker who creates automation or other innovation to change their industry, and as a result creates massive wealth for themselves. This is exactly the competition that the OP seems to think doesn't exist. That's before getting into details like how many new ventures take investment from the wealthy to become viable in the first place, thereby helping everyone involved.

I fully agree that the pace of change and inadequate societal policies can create harsh conditions at times, but the perspective that that the wealthy have taken everything and nobody else can have it is just a simplistic, inaccurate, and unhelpful outlook on capitalism.
OK, maybe an improperly trained ML algorithm?
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I completely agree with this article, and the parallels I draw from it (and some of the comments here) are extremely close.

But why is it that I read this article, agree with it, yet then continue scrolling HN or FB 2 minutes later? How can I get out of this dopamine cycle?
I'd say it's pretty damn close.