skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My thoughts exactly, when we go too far things get distorded which backfires. Sugar is good, just limit it, thus don't eat processed food that tastes like sht unless the producer sink it in sugar (often from the lack of fat too)
I agree that capability people tend to get too extreme, and this tends to lead to failure. With Sandstorm we've tried to be more pragmatic, but still careful not to do anything that breaks the whole model in the long run.

Whether or not the URL bar of a browser is a kind of powerbox depends on how extreme you want to get. In a pure capability model, yes, it would have to be. And hypertext would no longer be plain data -- it would be data with embedded capabilities (for each link), and would have to be transmitted via a protocol that can track capabilities. Obviously that kind of stuff, even though it would be amazingly powerful in a lot of ways, is not practical. :/

> Have you considered an ICO? Asking for a friend :-)

People keep asking me that, often citing Urbit as an example to follow. :) At the moment I'm having too much fun at my day job building Cloudflare Workers (an unusually practical project by my standards!), and want to focus my outside-of-work time on coding Sandstorm rather than fundraising for it. In the future, who knows.
You cannot prevent one or more of your friends from being a proxy for someone that is not one of your friends. On the other hand, you can log everything, which renders propositions like "I can trust friend X not to share resource Y" falsifiable (i.e. scientific/testable).

Personal computing is the thing that is antagonistic to DRM, where "computer" means "can simulate anything, including a better computer", and where "better" means a computer that does what I want, including ignoring DRM.
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The questions, then, are: Why? How can this be the case? What are we not taking in to consideration in order to properly treat, or at least understand the condition(s)?

Maybe having all those things actually isn't what leads people to feel grateful for being alive.
What do you think of Elisabeth Warren?
I imagine this is the service they used to implement greyballing. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-...
What even is a chemical anyway... honestly people throw this word around in these kinds of contexts with all kinds of meanings.
Does education work, in terms of improving health? Does it work better than regulation?

I guess there should be data on this (in relation to tobacco/ alcohol).

My personal biases tell me that people don’t have great self control. Shifting social norms, such that over-consumption is less socially acceptable might help. But that’s hard to do (and something different than education).
Sounds legit. I heard Uber does lots of queryable stuff per second.
It looks like such a tax has been introduced in quite a few places now, with results ranging from okay to good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugary_drink_tax
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I don't want to be a bummer, but video streaming might stress the hell out of the internet infrastructure.

Before YouTube and Netflix, video broadcasting meant that you send data once, but a per view service sends a copy each time.

I'm all for net neutrality, but to be honest I think that some use cases might add a little pressure to the whole network when you compare them to more classic uses (HTML, images). I don't think that Snapchat, YouTube and Netflix can really be sustainable models if they keep growing and growing forever.

At some point, transmitting video online, on a large scale, at a good resolution, at peak hours, is going to be expensive.

Netflix is popular because the real cost is on the ISP, and there never are any guarantee of quality of service, it's not up to Netflix.
Here's some science then. Based on analyzing food groups controlled with total calorie consumption, it was found that meat availability is most highly correlated with obesity: https://bmcnutr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40795-01...
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"Y'know, I suspect that Leave voters thought leaving was in their self-interest — or at the very least that voting 'Leave' send a message which was in their self-interest."

The trope about rubes voting against their interests is easily my least favorite of this political season.

1. First of all, when a group of people consistently vote in a way that surprises you, perhaps it's time to update your understanding of the world, instead of assuming -- over and over -- that theirs is broken. At the very least, one might admit that they don't actually know much about those interests.

2. An inability to understand why somebody might vote against their most immediate economic interests isn't something to be proud of. There is an enormous gap here and it's increasingly a gap in a belief in the transcendent. Yes, for a lot of rural American voters the transcendent is god, but it's more than just that. Are there or are there not ideals worth dying for? It shouldn't be so surprising to the left that some people actually behave as though there are.
It's nice to see this raised as an important issue for designers. It can be really hard to get anybody outside engineering interested in error messages until they see them show up in production.

I also like the emphasis on giving explanations that help the user understand what they can and can't do next. When users see errors, they immediately go into the mode of trying to make it work. They get hyped up and focused; they don't relax. A vague "friendly" message will just frustrate them further if it doesn't help them understand what to do next.

I think this is one aspect of UX where engineers can provide a unique perspective. I think designers and product managers are often surprised by the amount of energy a user can pour into struggling with an error, and the level of anger and frustration that can result. As programmers we can identify with that experience better than most, so we need to take it on ourselves to write good error messages and, when possible, present them to the designer as part of the design that needs their attention and vetting.
What's a good life?

A lot of people would say that making 75k and healthy is a "good life".

Yet we know that most of us are in dead end jobs and in a constant rat race.

A lot of people,including researchers, have such low standards and they look at other people with those standards and think "but they have a good life!"
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This is exactly why personal responsibility is a terrible argument. Individual lifestyle choices are responsible for a tiny part of climate change, compared to industrial ones. Likewise, it’s silly to ignore the major impact corn subsidies have on the sugar crisis.
Right, sorry, correcting it now.
The author justifies his desire to regulate facebook with election outcomes he finds personally unpalatable. (u mad, bro?)

Yes, visceral content has high engagement. But is this really new information?

How can you recommend content regulation without exacerbating the problem?
I'd like to think that medical professionals and academics in the mental health field have probably been thorough enough in their research to have looked at these finding over the years. I somehow doubt a person whose graduated in Social and Political Science and has no medical or scientific background might actually know what they're talking about in relation to this.

Interesting thing about the author. He was a rising journalistic star in the UK. He'd won awards was regularly on TV and radio, until it was discovered he had been plagiarising others for a lot of his articles. It was also found that he had been editing wikipedia articles to attack people who critisised him. An interestingly tragic character.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Hari
"Complicated S2?" That's surprising, the S2 library (https://github.com/google/s2geometry) seems really clean and fairly intuitive to me.
Hey, really cool tech, good work. How's building a profitable business going?
Easy answer, yes.

Charisma has been attributable to popular opinion since we figured out how to talk to one another.

If you still think charisma doesnt matter, pick up a history book.
Sure they have a good life when they try to enumerate the qualities of a good life, what they forget is that some "needs" may be unknown to them, though if they listen the needs aren't usually very quite.
Great question! Though it would seem we are delving into the realm of metaphysics, which is unfortunately taboo for modern psychiatry.
There are two things that both get called "depression". Like so many other confusing things, this all is the result of fuzzy language.

There is depression: the feeling of being sad. This can be triggered by all sorts of environmental factors, and is ultimately a psychological disorder that can be solved by changing environment variables.

There is also depression: the neurochemcial/neurophysiological disorder that has depression (sadness) as one of its symptoms.

It can be treated with various (miracle) drugs.

--

People who want to fight against the idea that these modern miracles (drugs that treat depression) are effective treatments for this debilitating, but curable disease, belong in the same category as flat earth era, anti-vaxxers and now, apparently, "raw water" fans/advocates.

Required viewing: a lecture on this topic by somebody who knows more about it that anybody else who is currently alive: https://youtu.be/NOAgplgTxfc
I think "modern society" is a scapegoat here.

You aren't yearning for a more antique society. You are romanticising the past.

The part you are looking for is being connected to a community, and there's many more ways to do that today than ever before.
> So then all the measurements are relative but at least there is an equal and measurable baseline?

But the baseline measure may not be useful to the customer. In the laptop example: much of the advance in "web browsing battery life" in the last several years has come from lower idle power usage, or being able to reach idle more quickly. An Ivy Bridge Core i5 laptop and a Kaby Lake Core i5 laptop may actually get similar "full load" battery life, but the Kaby Lake model might last twice as long for web browsing or general office use. Reporting the "full load" battery life will actually mislead the consumer about the typical battery life of the two laptops.

Likewise, if you sell a gigabit cable connection with a 1 terabyte cap as a "3 mbps" connection, then you're misleading the customer about whether that's fast enough to do things like download an iTunes movie in a reasonable time, use a VPN into their work network, etc. Ironically, you might do more consumer harm by effectively upselling consumers to buy "faster" connections than they need.
Getting two (sibling, Border Collie x Foxhound) puppies, and taking a boatload of magnesium and Vitamin D, a fair bit of rock climbing, skiing, jogging, and weight training, seems to have alleviated me of all my anxiety and depression.

I obtained a prescription for an SSRI from a doctor, sat in the car outside the pharmacy for an hour staring at the prescription, then drove home. No way, fuck that those drugs. I've already wasted the better part of 10 years of my life to meth-amphetamine. I'm gonna work this out without drugs.
From early 2016.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16092975
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2 years after the initial blog post, and we get this submitted twice in two days?

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16084090 for the brief discussion yesterday.
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/1/e1701230.full

Original paper, in case you don’t want to slog through Phys.org’s brand of press release nonsense.
In every real-world security system I know of, if you share a sensitive document or photo to a friend, it is trivial for them to make a copy and share it widely. For example, if nothing else, they can copy/paste or take a screenshot. You rely on your friend to respect your wishes in not doing this; if you can't trust them, then you shouldn't share with them in the first place.
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> WhatsApp

> Instagram

You're still using and supporting Facebook services, then.
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> Does education work, in terms of improving health?

No. This has been beaten to death in dozens of studies going back to the 50s. Education does not trump brain chemistry.

> Shifting social norms, such that over-consumption is less socially acceptable might help.

It would help a lot, but food purity laws would help more. It would be nice if I could find a loaf of bread in a supermarket that didn't have HFCS in it.
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>> So I stand by the assertion that for China to lend $1trn to the U.S. means to export a similar amount to the U.S. as well.

OK, if I accept that then I'm left with the idea that it's a really bad policy. The stuff we bought from China has a useful lifetime (food gets eaten, products wear out), but the money we owe them does not - barring inflation of course.
I wonder if this will lead to capped content providers to mask their data as online gaming or other different traffic. A mod on the protocol both at servers and clients side would allow that just fine.
Monads are just monoids in the category of endofunctors
Could we ban Uber from HN? There really needs to be consequences.
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Taking a page from the UK on that...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/oct/11/big-soda-sma...
Software products are never finished.
The outcomes of going outside without a hat and sunscreen are a drain too; in Australia, skin cancer kills thousands of people per year and requires hundreds of thousands of people per year to be treated.

Should going outside without a hat on be ticketable?

And what about people over 70, falls cause many bone and brain injuries, and many deaths in the elderly, and it's expensive and dangerous. Should we require a helmet and kneepads for anyone over 70 to be work at all times when walking?

And what about salt? Heart problems come from more places than obesity, and it's heart problems that are a huge drain on the healthcare system; will we also ban salt?

How about a sedentary office lifestyle, this is also bad for your health, will we tax sitting? Will the gym, like voting, become compulsory in Australia?
Why do you need 50ms for 99th percentile for such a simple and stateless service?
That's just meant to be a time saver.
There's Google Panda, which was meant to combat content farms, but unfortunately generates a lot of false positives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Panda
A couple more points regarding "Don't talk about what you don't know":

1. How would we even know whether the person who posted the comment has no personal experience with depression? They may be agreeing with the author of the article because they've both had long experience with depression, and have both become skeptical about the mainstream views of it.

2. Just because someone has had personal experience with depression does not necessarily make them an authority on that topic.

Lots of people on HN express strong opinions about things that they're not personally experienced with: poverty, sexual harassment, etc. (not to mention tons of technical topics). If we stopped talking about everything we have no personal experience with, discussion on HN would dry up pretty quickly.
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I know it's fun to hate on Uber here, and there are plenty of reasons to do so. But this is surprising to me. I was at one of the Uber tech meetups in NYC last year or maybe a year and a half ago, and it seemed like a total circus. The guy who was championing golang was up there talking about how cool go is and that they were rewriting all their microservices in it just because go is cool.

He also talked about how many problems it had caused them and all that fun stuff. I left that meetup thinking two things: 1. Who the fuck breaks stuff just to use a cool new language? 2. Good lord, I really don't ever want to work on this team. It's chaos.
This verb-noun split in latin-rooted languages makes me to recall the essay by Steve Yegge "Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns" https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdo...

It's really amazing how our linguistic system influences our process of thinking and systems we produce. Also, "unknown unknowns" phenomena (part about blue color in the article) explains why lambda calculus feels so alien :)
Netflix is already paying their fair share of bandwidth usage and infrastructure upgrade costs via their peering agreements. Ending net neutrality is double-dipping.
> The problem is that every 18-year-old answering phones isn't just answering phones; he's also auditioning to be that 24-year-old finding the right person (experience he gets from the job itself). Likewise, every experienced 24-year-old is auditioning for the job of the very experience 36-year-old.

Having interned in a political office, the other problem is that the 18- and 24-year-old described often doesn't exist, because there aren't enough to people to have the heirarchy you describe exist at all; the 18-24 year old answering phones is doing much more what you describe for the 36-year old (answering phones, logging constituent positions appropriately if it's a position call, directing constituent services calls (and any other calls they don't handle themselves) to the right staff person. And, on top of that, doing a lot of non-phone tasks like drafting correspondence, assisting legislative staff with research, etc., etc.

Of course, lots of staff are never college interns and do their first staff job as a graduate fellow, or as professional staff often after completing a law, business, or public policy and/or administration degree.

So, I'm both not worried that the lower level will be automated easily or much concerned that there won't be an entry path if it is.
I really like this - is the price being hidden behind the "Buy License" button a deliberate design decision? I feel the price is low enough that having it shown upfront would encourage me to buy it, so interested in your thinking.
I mean, are the electronic signals that constitute my nervous system a "chemical balance" (I could make that argument), well then SURE all depression is completely 100% chemical...

But I digress.
>I'd like to think that medical professionals and academics in the mental health field have probably been thorough enough in their research to have looked at these finding over the years.

You might like to read up on the short history of modern psychiatry. You'll find a great deal of mistakes, pseudoscience, and human rights atrocities.
It is natural for one’s intuition to be in the middle of one’s perception of two extremes. :)
That's why I have doubts as to how often depression is actually caused by a medical condition. Judging by myself, I suspect that a lot of people, including people who are seemingly happy and successful, have hidden disappointments that even a psychologist can't pry out of them.
The accuracy of the computation is pretty much never the issue anyway. That's checkable by any auditor. As far as I can tell triple entry accounting adds one buzzword..
i didnt realize that until i finished reading
Isn't there bias with self-diagnosing yourself though?
"This was possible to achieve thanks to state of art photon source and detection technology"

What's a photon source thats not a lamp/laser?
> It can be really hard to get anybody outside engineering interested in error messages until they see them show up in production.

IMHO any given request should be able to return multiple errors for the different stakeholders who will be consuming them. A good JSON error response could be something like:

{ 'display_error': '', 'field_errors': { 'field1': []}, 'internal_error': '' }

The idea is that display error is something shown to the user, possibly a form-level error when relevant. Field errors are validation errors for user-submitted data. And internal errors are things that aren't shown to users, and are only meant as a way for backend and frontend devs to communicate amongst themselves to help debugging.
If you'd read the article, you would know that it is not about election meddling, but about the susceptibility of social media to social engineering, because of specific underlying technology (filter bubbles) and current policy (outdated).

You making this out to be about Democrats vs Republicans is a pretty cheap move, and detracts from those real (hopefully non-partisan) issues.
If you pay for 250 GB of data from your ISP, then they're on the hook for the cost of delivering that 250 GB. That's what they sold you - or actually what you should be able to buy.

The problem is when they'll deliver 250 GB of $PARTNER_SERVICE but not 250 GB of Netflix or YouTube, and none of the 1 or 2 ISPs in your area will give you a reasonable deal on your GBs from Netflix. (And to be clear, Netflix is not charging them anything.)

(The other problem is when they say "unlimited" but of course it's never really unlimited.)
Great write up! I cringe whenever I see that blog post; other spatial indexing systems at Uber were and are designed more thoughtfully, and with better performance characteristics.
Better, the law should ban these fleecing data caps.
Not sure why you had issues. In my experience under KDE it was rock solid. It was my primary browser from around 2002 until ~2009. I often tried other browsers and Konqueror led the pack in terms of web conformance and performance.
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Dear all,

I am about to design a deep neural network for a small logistics company from Germany (about 10 employees).

It will be able to predict the best prices for courier deliveries the company mediates.

I don't have proof of experience, but I have references.

Now I have to negotiate my salary. I have never worked in this area before, therefore I am afraid I will not have a very strong position when I dont know what is a common price to ask for.

If somebody has experience here, it would help me to know if

1. I should ask for a hour-based salary or just name a price for the finished network (what is common?)

2. What hourly wage/price respectively is reasonable?

Thanks alot!
I think that Sen. Warren had more charisma before she entered politics (this is probably true of Mrs. Palin, too). There's certainly a strong group of people for whom she has quite a bit of charisma today, but I don't think that they're a terribly large electorate (although they are probably disproportionately represented in the media, which will certainly help her).

She's certainly smart, but that's not the same as charisma.
By proxy, yes.

If you were interested in the job, you would do enough studying to become "consistent enough" across 6 interviews.
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Interesting to hear this from the UX team at spotify. I think these are all very good advice.

Of course, Decided to see how fast I could trigger an obscure error message in the app. 2 minutes in:

1. Enable offline mode
2. Click a song that hasn't been downloaded yet
3. "Song unavailable" is the error. No explanation why.