skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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For the record, I am a technical and sometimes creative grunt and this kind of research is far from my specialty.

The last time I tried to do this, I exhausted everything I could find on the internet and was still very short. I was researching a major professional user software sector and my only option at this point was an annual report sold by a private firm for around $4,000/year. They seemed open to bids but did not accept my extremely low ones. They did keep spamming me for a while, though. I never could tell if this was going to be legitimate. I wasn’t able to find reviews of the firm’s services, and even if I could have afforded it, I expect I would have been too suspicious to follow through.
An ironic joke that you don’t find funny doesn’t make it nonsense. I was aware he was not a bot and was simply commenting with tongue firmly planted in cheek that he seems to expend bot like effort on posts exactly like these.
Yeah, the best abstractions I've built have been 3rd or 4th iterations after persistently refactoring to account for unexpected impedance mismatches.

I'm skeptical of the notion that great code is designed up-front by "clever architects". I think the best code is usually the result of dirty hackjobs, persistently refactored into clean code.
>>I donate hundreds of dollars annually to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, so I have a vested interest in privacy protection.

Do you want a gold star? that in no way proves you have a "vested interest" in privacy, that just proves you have give some money to charity.

> The point is there is a strong and historic precedent that transportation systems are monitored

Yes and people that have a "vested interest" in privacy are concerned about and have problems with the current levels of surveillance on these systems,
So basically Rails is not as popular as it was before, but it seems to have influenced other successful frameworks.
Here's a brand new one, from a famous history podcaster, Mike Duncan of The History of Rome fame.

The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic

It would have been great if everyone had read this in the 80s, 90s, 2000s...

An under-analyzed period of Roman history.
The central dilemma is how far the regulations go to prevent innovation. Just look at the accredited investor thing in US, it is unbelievable while you can go to Las Vegas and lose everything.
I don’t think most people know better now.. most people probably haven’t even heard of ball lightning
This was somewhat underwhelming as an information effort both when you take into account the attention span of the average reader and the kind of stuff shown. It is easy to come away thinking "meh".

If they really wanted to get the message across they could have focused on two things people tend to care about: youtube and music. There's tons of nonsense in that area that may be more relatable.
It used to, but not anymore for long sentences. That is one big reason that I switched.
Maybe I didn't make it clear, but my point on the carpentry thing was that it's not clear to me that the average philosophy student is much better at critical thinking than the average, say, history student. My response to the carpentry analogy was to say that if the benefits of carpentry education were equally anecdotal and unclear, I would absolutely question its usefulness.

My comparisons weren't meant to be insulting—they were meant to clearly show why a field intending to do something doesn't mean we should assume it succeeds. And, even if it does succeed, we can't assume it's uniquely successful. I'm sure you'd agree that homeopathy doesn't succeed at its central goal, and that comparative literature also succeeds at teaching critical thinking skills. The claim is that more people should study philosophy, not that more people should study one of several fields in the liberal arts. I really don't feel it's insulting to question this.

For what it's worth, I'm in the pro-philosophy camp, so maybe that will help put my questioning into perspective.

As for your third point, I myself said you'd have a "very hard time going through a philosophy program without thinking critically," so we're in agreement in that you'd fail if you could not thinking critically at all. That on its own doesn't do anything to imply that the philosophy program teaches critical thinking, though. You'd fail a programming exam if you couldn't program, but the exam does not teach programming. I'm not even trying to split hairs here: philosophy certainly wouldn't be the only subject that, in practice, failed to teach its own requirements.

Which is what brought me to my final point about education. It's basically impossible to argue about what philosophy should do in an ideal world, because we all agree that everything should be great and ideally confers as many benefits as possible. I think that, in practice, philosophy education is a very mixed bag, and that this is very relevant when recommending to people that they pursue philosophy education. You could say the same about many subjects, but I think philosophy is somewhat unique in that the benefits are quite elusive without the right education to confer them.
While I won't dispute that many in AI thought machine learning was the correct path, the majority of researchers in machine learning in the 2000s were dismissive of neural networks as the way forward. When I started my PhD in 2007 with the specific goal of studying deep learning, many of my peers told me this was a very bad career move, because neural networks were a dead technology. Convex optimization, kernels, and variational Bayesian methods were the future. They were wrong.

AI has had a lot of fads, but neural networks are here to stay, in my opinion.
I think the pass rate for such course is very low, 50%-ish.
I once took a similar course but was about mechanical architecture. Pass rate was 50-60-ish. I spent whole summer studying it and only got 4.75...
But indeed, I learned a lot.
Non-photorealism [pdf]
i read the link only in part, but this look reasonable.
if you exclude ads and paywall how should they make money?

moreover when mozzilla made attempt to "non-tracking privacy-respectful ads" in the mr robot scandal everyone was at their throat.

how should site make money then?
Thanks for the advice, following people made it much more interesting.

I also started to appreciate what's the price for decentralization: after following just a couple of users I already have several hundreds megabytes downloaded.
Hell, even if specifically requested, you'd be "amazed" at how many times, if the information looks negative it will be "lost" or the camera will be "non-functional".

One department tried to claim that their cameras were "malfunctioning" in the majority of FOI / criminal cases where they were requested.
Yeah, that's totally a console port. The micro-B device connector gives that away.
What's ridiculous is your sampling bias.

"Sampling bias"? I'm not the one who's pretending that Chernobyl is somehow representative. Nuclear power is operating safely in more than 30 countries, and has been for decades.

You're picking a crap Soviet reactor and pretending that it's somehow representative. Then you accuse me of "sampling bias".

Whatever, dude.

Next thing you tell me that Fukushima doesn't count either.

Fukushima doesn't count either. Magnitude 9 earthquake. Devastating tsunami. Outdated reactor that lost all power to its control systems.

Still didn't kill any members of the general public (some plant workers were killed fighting the fire, but that hazard exists with any technology).

So tell me, why should Fukushima "count" and just how safe do you expect something to be?

Edit: to put things in perspective, suppose a similar magnitude 9 earthquake struck near the Three Gorges Dam in China.

What do you suppose the death toll would be?

Hundreds of thousands, minimum. Possibly millions. Compared to zero at Fukushima.
I've actually played around with this a bit and it was surprisingly pleasant to use even with all the "beta software" warnings
I would be surprised if the chrome ad blocker will block Ads for Google's own properties like Youtube, and while most ads probably adhere to the advertising standards they have still be caught accidentally serving crypto-mining ads (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/now-e...).

So to me it's bad because it's opening up people's computers to exploitation that even Google can't control.
Frankly, I’d say both are out of scope since access patterns are entirely different. They make different trade-offs so anything less than a holistic review of both is a false comparison.
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If the project is not written in a framework with which I am already familiar, what I usually do is trying to find the application's entry point and start reading from there.
No, the problem that YeGoblynQueenne points out is that when the current state-of-the-art machine translators get it wrong, they get it hilariously, catastrophically, gibberish-wrong.

If a system is 99% right, but the remaining 1% is catastrophically bad, it negates a lot of the part that is actually good. You might end up more confused by the machine translation than you were without it.

Machine translations is one of these systems where 99% good simply isn't good enough.
Here are some rough summaries:

* Physics Barbie, a toy that talks physics

* Meme-Making DVR, which would let you edit and remix video

* Rein N Train, letting you selectively block private data, like loyalty cards or GPS for auto insurance

* Ad-Free YouTube Kids

* Machine Translation, for translating video based on subtitles or automated speech-to-text then translation

* Text-to-speech, for ebooks

* Third party consumables for 3D printers

* Fonts on e-readers, just being able to choose and change them

* Arielle, which chooses the appropriate soundtrack for whatever you're reading or watching
I can't be sure, but I think a non-trivial reason why I block them is because they are frankly unspeakably ugly. :)
It looks like fairly solid science:

Finally, the researchers merged the results — and found a few methyl groups that were linked both to the famine and to health conditions later in life. “We were able to connect the three dots,” said Dr. Lumey...

And the Dutch famine probably led to many miscarriages and early deaths. It’s possible that the survivors had some genetic variant that made them resilient and gave them a distinctive epigenetic profile not captured in this study.

I had never heard of this famine. I read the article and found myself wondering how this impacts the collective subconscious and the culture as a whole. Probably not in a good way. (That is not a criticism of the Dutch. Please read that compassionately.)

I wish I knew what to do to promote food security in the world. It seems like food security is some fundamental aspect of peace and just making sure people get fed well (both enough and healthily) is one of the best ways to avert all kinds of problems.
A PhD alone wouldn't necessarily make a good scientific advisor, but someone who came from a high-level position in a university might.

Beyond a certain level, scientists become managers rather than practitioners. The successful ones have insight into the process of raising funds, the politics of large-scale research facilities, and sometimes the process of major international collaboration.

Discerning whether a given study is junk probably doesn't fall under the remit of Science Advisor. That's more of a tactical issue that would be delegated to a specialist policy wonk.
There are already different types of filament that are mutually-incompatible.

You can't load 1.75mm filament into a 3mm extruder and expect it to work without any modifications.

It's not too much of a stretch to imagine different cross sections.

The equipment required to melt down plastic and extrude it into a new filament of the appropriate type is still too expensive and inconvenient to be popular.
Hire people to work on documentation.
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Not sure I understand what you mean. /bin/sh is the system shell, I don't believe it's possible to make it fish unless you change the symlink itself.

On ubuntu, /bin/sh is always dash and it's not possible to change without changing the symlink:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh

So, if you use chsh to make your shell fish, it would have no effect on os.system or the system function in C.
They've done this many times before.
The last time was in 2016 when they shut down https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostalrius which is what lead directly to WoW Classic.

Before that, they've done several bi-yearly waves of shutdowns.

There's still hundreds of repositories on github that contain versions of this code used for various servers.
Mazda is small in comparison to its Japanese counterparts(Nissan, Honda and Toyota).
This is an interesting idea for companies that just want a cookie-cutter product design for your MVP. Past that, good product design requires a level of business/user problem solving that no service like this could possibility fulfill.
That’s what I mean by “safe Rust”, so we agree.
Definitely seemed like that in the 2000s when I was doing my PhD. Yann LeCun even wrote an open letter to the computer vision community around 2012 complaining about them automatically rejecting papers that used neural networks. I've been told that letter led to him launching the conference ICLR. Only a couple years later he was a keynote speaker at CVPR, the big computer vision conference.
Except that the Windows 95 UI was a rip-off of system 7, which was a rip-off from Xerox Parc.
It sounds for me like a begin of monopoly: google ads put in silence all other ads competitors thanks a largely used in-house browser
Come on, that would be simple. The solution is even related to the given example of Torx screwdrivers (although those actually serve a purpose instead of just being a nuisance): make sure the filament has to have a certain shape, say 'penta-lobe filament', sell the idea as 'improved heat transfer filament' with a 'large surface area ensuring quick melt with lower heat requirements'. Patent the shape - no matter that it represents a trivial 'innovation', defending against patent infringement is expensive - and do some creative advertising.
Do you believe this is approachable by a developer without significant ML experience, nor trading experience, but with significant motivation?
> their new designs are gorgeous given the price range.

Definitely. Compare their designs to anything else from Japan and you'll find that they manage to be modern and interesting without being too angular and aggressive (see new Honda Civic, esp. the Type R and the Prius Prime).

Besides that, their driving experiences are tuned for pure joy. The CX-5 is by far the best handling mid-size SUV, and of course the MX-5 is unmatched. Best of all, they still somehow find the time to experiment and create masterpieces like the MX-5 RF.

Now if only they can deliver on Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, then they'll really check all the boxes.

Source: a 2017 MX-5 soft-top was first brand new car.
Ask HN: What language do you recommend for building a search engine
Couldn't you set up a VPN to that raspberry pi and use that to block ads on your phone too? I use Adaway but I don't have a pi hole
Safe rust doesn’t mean “no bugs”, these kinds of issues aren’t inherently memory safety issues, they can also be the product of logic bugs.
Windows 3.11 for workgroups had the win32 subsystem
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Brave is ad friendly, something that doesn't sit well with me. I want it all blocked. No ads, beacons, trackers, bad JavaScript. It's my browser, I call the shots as to what is allowed through. Ad companies have proven themselves to be evil and untrustworthy. They are now one of the main vectors of malware. I owe it to myself and my family to block everything like ads, beacons, and tracking my our network. I'm not interested in helping other people make money, generate crypto currency, whatever... My computers, my rules. Ads are a bad way to make money anyway and I've been blocking them since 1998. No way would I use Brave or any other software that actually encourages the advert companies to continue down their dark path.
> The particular paragraph is mangled to the point of being gibberish

I actually disagree it's gibberish. I could understand enough to make sense of the situation (the part about blades in his leg puzzled me, but I understood about Maria being an ex girlfriend even if the sentence didn't resemble actual human language). This translation is by definition not gibberish.

> But if we hung out with Vasiliki, Mitsos and Maria last year and you put that on Facebook, I'd at least know enough to send my sympathy to Mitsos and have a good chuckle over Vasiliki's romantic endeavours, which would probably be what you intended - - which is pretty much the definition of "good enough".

Exactly!
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> These posts are fun, but they are in jest right? Does win95 have true advantages over any modern OS? ( I currently use debian for most of the day )

The author wasn't recommending the use of Windows 95 in 2018.
I’ll drop one of my favorites, from Ken Iverson’s “Notation As A Tool Of Thought”:

“The utility of a language as a tool of thought increases with the range of topics it can treat, but decreases with the amount of vocabulary and the complexity of grammatical rules which the user must keep in mind. Economy of notation is therefore important.”

http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm

The full paper is wonderful and will make you a better developer.
I mentioned this a couple months ago, but here in London an Amazon courier left our item in the bin (ie, garbage can) in front of our house!

Not even a friendly note thru the mail slot to say “we put your package in the bin”.

Luckily my wife happened to find it.
My vps host picked the most inconvenient time possible to reboot the root node for the grid. Things should all be working again now.
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I hit "Reset All" and it started working :)
Why would they do that? Karma is not visible on posts and you don't gain any extra rights apart from downvoting. You could just use new accounts for this.
I would like to know also. I have had one moderately successful product and I am not even sure why it was when others were not. I did put the most amount of effort into it. But since it was a somewhat early app I made out well in the app gold rush period. I have found that "If you build it, they won't come". One thing I have found in the software world is that great amounts of effort is put into features and areas which few people should care about when other great needs are unmet. Why did Apple spend so much time with a feces emoji when we don't have a machine based closed caption service for the hearing impaired yet?

What I would like to see is a website where the public itself develops a product or refines an idea so that a market is already in place before engineering begins. I would love to see someone do this with the Linux desktop. There are zillions of Linux desktops and great effort is put in areas where users wonder "what were they thinking?? We were happy with the way it was!! Why did you change it? Why didn't you put in this feature we all miss from Windows 7 or Mac OS?".
What's the difference between this CRISPR search problem and DNA sequence alignment? There were extensive development in the latter and is highly optimized. The author seems to be coming up with solution from scratch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_alignment
Film running along both "walls" of a space which then became a "corridor".
I don't think this can work. The idea is nice but usually you want someone "inhouse" that knows about the business, the customers and can craft a solution for them.

Additionally I think this is very overpriced. I mean "(Without having to pay $6,000/mo+ for an in-house UI designer)" is completely absurd. Here in Germany a proper designer will be happy with a 3k/mo salary, since there are so many and the market is competitive and crowded with good designers... so I would rather bring someone on board full-time than paying nearly the same amount to a external firm, where you never know what happens.

Also oftentimes you need something "fast", so a 3-4 days wait time is not working most of the time.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16291211
Articles like this are why I return to HN everyday. There are 3 terms in the title that I know well, but put them together and they are something completely new to me. And the cost savings here is pretty remarkable.
Not, ever, to be confused with Dschinghis Khan.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NvS351QKFV4
Not true. If I know you want a keyboard and that you can buy it from 100 different stores, I would probably give you a discount to buy it from me as long as it still makes me money.
Thank you Simon!
In my experience "cookie-cutter" (in other words "consistent") UI is more effective than custom UI most of the time.

Absent A/B testing - which isn't part of most product design processes - there's no utility gained from deviating from conventional UI for common elements like dropdowns, buttons, lists, links, and the like. In my anecdotal experience there's more often a negative impact on the utility of custom or unconventional UI design, usually because the user is confused or not familiar with novel UI design.

Put simply, is it effective to reinvent web forms for every product? I don't think so.
So I'm in the market for a service like this, but the presentation/pricing is a little bit wrong for me. I'd rather have less "unlimited" access and more speed when I do need service. I'd also like to see more examples and more about the designers. The design challenge we have is maintaining consistency across different interfaces, so having a designer on retainer is appealing. But I could probably accomplish the same thing for 1/2 the price on an outsourcing site.

Also, the headers and site payment buttons are broken on Safari.
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