skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is key. You can't keep all of your data off the Internet, but you can guarantee nobody can see all of it by trying to prevent your various internet identities from being linked or associated, and keeping data siloed in different, disconnected services.

There's a couple things I do still use Google for, like YouTube. But since they no longer have 95% of my personal data, the impact of them having my YouTube history is drastically reduced.
But what are jupyter notebooks? Had to Google it to find out. Still not sure what it does.
I personally think that some of the actions that they take are evil. A few examples:

Facebook - the emotional manipulation experiment that they ran with non-consenting users was evil. Technically speaking, users agreed to it via the fine print regarding internal testing, and to me, that makes it even more evil. Internal testing typically means A/B testing, and it is not unreasonable to think that internal testing does not include intentional emotional manipulation.

TelCos - their (United States) relentless push, subterfuge and lobbying to continue to rule the laid lines with an iron fist in spite of the government subsidies to help provide fast connectivity to most Americans. Not only did the telcos not upgrade the lines like they were supposed to, but US customers still pay taxes and fees that should go towards these upgrades that most users don't see. Some quick searching shows that the average download speed last year was below 25 Mb/s. I admit that this is actually an adequate speed for every day use in a cable household that only does light browsing. However the plan was to deliver much faster symmetric speeds. The net neutrality decision is just insult to injury (though that's an FCC decision).
Here's a great community for just that:
https://www.indiehackers.com/

Coincidentally, Indie Hackers was acquired by Stripe via patio11.
I agree with your gripe.

We are in a field where backgrounds vary widely.

A little "what am I looking at and why do I care" would be useful on this page.
That's a Model 3, not a Model S
What're you going to do, fine them? Evict them from the city outright?
My guess is both, i.e., inequality as such is not a problem, whereas poverty is. Frankfurt makes a similar distinction in "On Inequality". One way to distinguish the two is to observe that it is possible to have a society in which everyone is equally poor and thus one in which inequality does not exist. Conversely, observe that the difference in material wealth between the upper middle class and the billionaire class poses no problems where wealth itself is concerned. Both classes are very well off.

Now, there may be problems that are more likely to occur when economic inequality obtains given the power that money can afford people in practice. But as such, inequality itself not the root of these problems and not the ultimate problem itself.
>But, like, there's no massive discontinuity in how likely people are to employ a cleaner (is there)? I'd expect that distribution to be a bell curve like anything else

Even if it was a bell curve (and I see no reason why reality ought to be that neat), there's no reason to suppose it doesn't just lead to slightly cleaner houses rather than fewer maids.

> You already mentioned Roombas, and I mentioned LaundryBot

Roombas are singularly unimpressive as a means of cleaning your house (I know of nobody who actually owns one, and the reviews on amazon are... only really impressiveif you are without stairs and have a pet hair problem). Googling laundrybot gives me some japanese thing invented in 2015 that costs $280,000 and, product-wise, doesn't seem to have gone anywhere since then.

It's almost as if the automation hype isn't matching reality.

I wouldn't be surprised if in 20 years time nothing has really changed in this space either. Roombas came out in 2002 - 16 years ago. Significant potential I'll be dead by the time a robot that can clean my toilet exists and I'm not exactly old.
I commute about 6 miles each way between Brooklyn (home) and Manhattan (work). I've been raving about it to everyone I know because it's legitimately changed my life. It feels amazing, saves money, keeps me in much better shape, gives me more energy at work. It's slightly faster than the subway, and significantly faster than driving/cabbing at rush hour.

I also love that transit time is very consistent (even relative to the subway, which has lately been wonky). It's great to arrive for our morning standup exactly 7 minutes early, rather than having to pad in 30 minutes of unproductive dead space in case the subway has some problem.

NYC bike paths have gotten pretty good over the years, such that I can use protected lanes for ~70% of the trip, and dedicated lanes for >90%. No accidents yet but several close calls, mostly with pedestrians. New York streets are crowded and aggressive, but the speeds are low and drivers are relatively vigilant.
Nailed it, imho. I wrote a very long unpublished blog post, but this is basically the tl;dr
The title is misleading - the article covers the fact that some supplements are useful. Yes, there is a ton of crap, but that doesn't make the entire industry a racket, just as fast food doesn't make the food industry a racket.
The old phone an African President is spotted using
* i can't edit my original comment

That was true on previous versions. In 3.0, you can just use Up/Down on the keyboard.
Yup, revision control is the elephant in the room with Jupyter, and why I struggle to recommend it for reproducible research.

R Notebooks followed the org-mode model of keeping a simple, revisionable document with code interspersed.
I would love this! I love trains, we should have never stopped building them.
That review is incredibly biased and concerns the Model 3 not the Model S.
The universal property for a sum type that having an X-valued function from a sum is equivalent to having X-valued functions from each summand, for any type X. In other words:

(0) There exists a procedure “foo” that recovers the functions from the summands, given a function from the sum.

(1) There exists a procedure “bar” that recovers the function on the sum, given the functions from the summands.

(2) “bar . foo” is the identity on the space of functions from the sum.

(3) “foo . bar“ is the identity on the space of tuples of functions from the summands.

It is easy to see that, if your definition of “sum” is “a JavaScript tagged union”, and your definition of “function” is “any JavaScript function”, such functions “foo” and “bar” are not constructible.

Tagged unions only work under very stringent conditions:

(0) Tags never overlap. Have fun enforcing this.

(1) Tags are only used to discriminate between cases. Again, have fun enforcing this.

Moreoever, any talk about universal properties being satisfied is utterly pointless when object identities permeate the semantics of the language.
Tesla cloud systems exploited by hackers to mine cryptocurrency
It's sort of like comparing a house decorated from Design Within Reach modern furniture to a house decorated with 18th century ornate, solid-wood antiques.
So, this quote is my key takeaway:

"There are, broadly speaking, two ways to sell SaaS. The selling model dictates almost everything else about the SaaS company and the product, to a degree which is shocking to first-time entrepreneurs. One of the classic mistakes in SaaS, which can take years to correct, is a mismatch between a product or market and the selected model to sell it on."

From helping build a SaaS company for the last couple of years, I can tell you that knowing which kind of "touch" your product is very very important. Really important.

There are a lot of SaaS markets where the customer needs high touch but can only pay low touch prices. That's not a fun place to live, though it can be a good place to start and then move upmarket. I remember seeing that grid of high/low touch and high/low ACV outlined somewhere, but I don't remember where.
I don't find them to be very hostile. A lot of drivers are extremely stressed (particularly in the morning) and unfocused though. I always try to expect them not to see me at all and I pick safer roads over marginally shorter roads.

Some cyclists get very worked up by ill behavior from motorists, getting into dangerous situations to prove their point. Motorists are protected by a >1000 kg shield of metal, so I try just get on with my day.
I've been cycling to work in downtown LA for nearly 8 years, 4 miles each way. I'm faster than a car over that commute. The weather is fantastic, and I am physically in great shape. Mental benefits are huge.

I've gone about 15,000 miles in dense urban environments without any accidents of any kind. There are a number of keys to this:

- Think like a driver -- it helps to be a good driver first

- Think, period. Don't listen to music, pay attention.

- Don't ride in the door zone. Don't let drivers make you ride in the door zone. If you need the lane, take the lane. It's your right.

- Use flashing lights on front and back, at all times of day. Nobody else except emergency vehicles is allowed to have flashing lights. There's a good reason: they are unmissable and very distracting.

- Wear brightly colored shirts and a bright colored helmet.

- If you don't wear a helmet, don't worry about it, it doesn't mitigate that much risk. The exercise benefits of biking do way more to increase your life expectancy than skipping a helmet does to reduce it.
No, click through EULAs are not always enforceable. But generally, EULAs are certainly a valid and enforceable form of contract throughout Europe - how else would things work, if not through a contract describing an agreement with the end user to license the software, i.e. an EULA?
Vision is one problem under snow and ice. But the one I think will be tough to overcome is operational.

In normal conditions, your car stops in a predictable way, at predictable speeds. It doesn't slide. It doesn't follow cut-paths in the road. Acceleration is a simple function.

Think that you've adjusted for these parameters? Well, the ground you've driven to has more snow on it then before. Or you're elevation has decreased so the snow:ice ratio has shifted towards the later.

And the above only describes the situation if you are one of the few people on the road. Add in all the other drivers who are acting _strangely_ in terms of performance and psychology. Driving lanes shift depending on where the road is clear, typically centering (bringing sliding cars closer together).

Never mind people FOOLISHLY walking on the road (the sidewalks are covered in snow).

Driving in cities in summer requires a high degree of attention and quick responses to others. But it is just a matter of interpretation and response. Winter driving is an art...
Thank you for your input. I will, however, disregard it without prejudice. Cheers.
You can use it with GPUs: https://towardsdatascience.com/fast-ai-lesson-1-on-google-co...
Agreed, however nuclear power from thorium seems like a really promising technology that is much safer than uranium and it seems like only China is pursuing it seriously.
This Architecture Tastes Like Microarchitecture [pdf]
Yeah, but I'm not going to leave a ladder outside my house for use by anyone who hops the fence.
The identity monad's sequencing is just basic cause and effect: you need to have produced an `a` in order to get a `b`.

The sequencing is very obvious from the signature of `>>=`. You don't need to know anything about any instances to see that it's there.
Are supplements generally exempt from fraud laws?
This is a good lecture from CMUs 15-251 class on his two incompleteness theorems https://youtu.be/bmECBK_TOQA
The idea that the lack of a rigorous specific study indicates supplementation doesn't work is flawed. The entire Eastern system of medicine evolved based on shared experience and knowledge, and ample experience exists with many supplements to support their use, even if not the sort of rigorous evidence we might like. Sure this opens the gate to fraud and self-deception, however the level of personal experience shared on the internet is unprecedented in human history and certainly worth referring to when deciding on the efficacy of supplements.

Further, scientific studies are very often flawed. I trust how I feel at least as much as I trust a study.
Labdoor: Supplement Ratings and Reviews
Any idea about how far back it was?
Maybe nobody will believe me, but the first time I saw a Tesla Model S in person was a few months ago, when it stopped in front of me at a traffic light.

I couldn't read the word "Tesla" and only saw an unfamiliar car with a logo I hadn't seen before.

My thoughts were "what strange Chinese crap trying to look like a big car is this?". Really.

I know, sounds stupid. I was able to read "Tesla" shortly thereafter and certainly felt stupid, not recognizing the car or the logo after reading so much about Tesla.

My opinion has slightly changed, in the meantime, I don't see them anymore and think of "cheap" and "wannabe", but I suspect that my initial feeling was the true one and I'm now subconsciously factoring in that I know it is a Tesla.

Still, they badly need an experienced "conventional" designer if they see themselves as one of the luxury Mercedes or BMW cars. But I suspect they don't see themselves like that and actively try to force a new design language into the market and create a new niche.
Private military contracting and undersea welding are both dangerous and require fairly specialized skills. Waste management, though critical for the proper functioning of society, is a low skill job and not particularly dangerous, which keeps the wages low.

And medicine, finance, and consulting, require a fair amount of intelligence and the barriers to entry are high, keeping wages high.
If things worked out according to the rosiest predictions, that would raise what classical economists called the "margin of production" and would thus raise wages for as long as there is freely available land of sufficient quality. Although, you'd be surprised how quickly a commons can be enclosed.

Yet, given the harshness and distances in space, and the fact that land generally obtains value by proximity to other stores of human-produced value, I'm not as optimistic.
Problems with Content Security Policy
It's not better. Because often the top result is a paid ad for that result. This is bad for a couple reasons:

- It's a tax on the services you use who have to pay to be the top result, you burden companies you patronize when you do this. When you search for Dell.com in search and click the top link for Dell, Dell just had to pay a couple quarters to not have you redirected to a seedy scam site instead. Times millions for every other person who does this.

- Google Ads allow advertisers to spoof addresses, and display a different destination address than where clicking the link actually takes you. I've seen amazon.com, bestbuy.com, and even, hilariously, youtube.com hijacked in very authentic-looking malicious Google Ads at the top of Google Search. For security reasons, you should never, ever click on a Google Ad.
I have never looked at the data for NYC but for many cities cycling is about as dangerous as walking. The data might surprise you.
Because it truly doesn't matter what 'x' is. It could be a number, string, an Array, Map, React Component, a very specific VerifiedUserWithBillingAddress object from your domain that you're working in right now.

So then what name do you want to give 'x' in `I = x => x`? Is `something` better, more readable?

If you write these functions ad-hoc in your modules as local helper functions, then by all means, use a more appropriate name:

[1,2,3,undefined,6].map(anIntegerOrUndefined => anIntegerOrUndefined)

But the functions presented here are not those that you should have to write yourself. They are available in the Haskell base library, in JS you can import ramda or other packages. The important thing is to know how and when to use them.
> The criminal offence isn't against the company anyway, it'll be against natural persons working for the company.

What makes you sure of this? Corporations can be criminally prosecuted, at least in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Facebook's Onavo Protect VPN Offers Less Privacy Protection Than Other Apps
How did they display the lecture slides on the in-classroom television in those days?
<x> Security High Priority-Until It Comes to Paying for <securing x> is true for way too many values of x.
Possibly the biggest news in agriculture since hybrid corn. Some crops (like soybeans) can 'fix nitrogen' in their roots, actually by using symbiotic microbes to produce it. Corn, rice, wheat have relied upon the soil to produce it through rotting organic matter.

Commercial farmers rarely plow organic matter (manure) into topsoil any more. They instead spray anhydrous ammonia, produced from propane(?) using tractors and sprayers. They do this usually once. The crop needs it continuously, so they apply 10X-100X what's needed to ensure a supply when needed. Which can 'burn' the crop and change the biosphere.

This microbe will recycle atmospheric nitrogen instead of converting (and releasing CO2) from propane. Its greener by 100X. And the crop improvements should convince any farmer to convert to this technique.
I also have been cycling for 2 years now everyday. 100kms average every week. Never have felt more enthusiastic and energetic at workplace. Helps concentrate on the work, beats bad traffic and gives a very good exercise overall
https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/03/new-york-attorney-...

no. But for makers of actual pharmaceuticals, etc., the FDA can appear at your plant and they have the legal authority to close the site and halt manufacture until they're done auditing you. That particular power is not granted to them for supplement makers. I think it ought to be.
Fifth Wall backs ‘Lyric’ to develop the next-generation of short-term rentals
Tesla now dominates luxury segment in Europe, outselling gas-powered German cars
Don't ride in the door zone. Don't let cars make you ride in the door zone. Take the car lane instead.

I've gone 15,000 miles safely in dense urban environments because I am heads-up about the 2 main threats: intersections, and the door zone.
Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers
I have no idea what the usual advice is to chronic renal failure patients.

I do know there are easy to find salt alternatives out there that do not have chemicals and do replace salt with other spices. (Some are low salt, and not no salt). As in, you can find them in your grocery store.

And most people who are on a low salt diet are not renal failure patients. They are people with hypertension.

So er yes a number of salt alternatives out there are just fine. And er yes a number of them are pretty bad for you. And statements like "salt alternative products are bad for you because they replace salt with chemicals" are inaccurate.
The article makes no assertion about the demographics of Fentanyl dealing or trafficking, just that these Chinese lenders are involved with these activities.

Are you saying that the opioid crisis can be fully blamed on Chinese foreigners? Is that really what this article is saying? Or is that your intuition.
Whatever Hiro.
YouTube is a major player in that space.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/02/how-youtu... YouTube's algorithm recommended extremist/conspiracy content during the 2016 election.

Here's YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/05/youtube-taking-ex... (behind a free registration wall)

"Since June we have removed over 150,000 videos for violent extremism."

"We will continue the significant growth of our teams into next year, with the goal of bringing the total number of people across Google working to address content that might violate our policies to over 10,000 in 2018."
This.

If traffic is light and not too fast, I just signal, merge into the turn lane, and turn as if I were a car. If it's a multi-lane road, that means "taking the lane" for a bit. I try to minimize that, but it happens.

If traffic is heavy or fast, I will signal, pull off to the side, and cross like a pedestrian.

Generally speaking, I try to be as "car-like" and predictable as possible.
Closed timelike curves are intrinsic and irreducible features of Gödel space-times.12 If they are possible, so is time travel. And with time travel, certain paradoxes arise. Imagine a traveler arriving in the past and killing his own grandfather.13 Would he survive the encounter if he broke the causal chain leading to his own existence?

There are two popular views about how these kinds of paradox might be managed. The first is committed to an ensemble of equally concrete but different versions of the physical world. Travelers into the past arrive in worlds that are distinct from those that they left. They are free to kill their grandfather secure in the knowledge that their grandfather is not really their grandfather, but something like his counterpart. David Deutsch and Michael Lockwood think that restrictions posed by classical systems on the actions of time travelers imply that time travel must must displace travelers into different worlds.14 It is by no means clear that time travelers under such a scheme are really following a closed timelike curve. Closed timelike curves are paths that return to, or very close to, their own spatiotemporal starting points.15

On quite another view, time travel really does return an agent to his very own past. A temporal rerun is possible only if everything he does in the past is already in place in his history. This means everything. Consistency might be maintained through the most ordinary of physical processes: the gun misfires, or the bullet dribbles out inconclusively, or at the very last moment your grandfather ducks to tie his shoelaces. Your efforts can make the past what it was but they cannot make the past different from what it was.

There is a third, which is that you would arrive in the past only to find that you had no agency at all, no free will. In this formulation you would never attempt to kill your grandfather, and no faulty guns or lucky grandparents are needed. If the present is a hypersurface sweeping through spacetime, leaving the past in its wake, and the past is a set structure... you’re an automaton if you travel to the past. Presumably in this kind of natural order, the future doesn’t exist except as a word and concept. There is the fixed past, and the hypersurface of the present.

Or the future and past are both fixed, and the hypersurface of the present is some strange artifact we perceive. Or... who knows?
Prime Members Now Earn 5% Back When Shopping at Whole Foods Market
> And yet somehow the right is still willing to engage in reasonable discussion.

This is a joke right? Proposing universal health care, paid maternity leave, or raising the minimum wage leads to screams of "SOCIALISM!" and any explicit support of socialism leads to screams about the millions of people killed by Stalin.

There is no reasonable discourse about the idea of weak-link based cultures (rather than strong-link), or government-mandated egalitarianism.
Real threads.

For better or for worse, Python is the language of deep learning. We're going through all sorts of contortions to make it scale to large datasets, and the biggest problem is that Python is single-threaded for practical purposes.

I know all about the GIL and how difficult it is, but as a user, I don't care about any of that. The moment a similarly usable language comes along that does have working threads, I'll use it. I hope that language is also Python.
Claudia Schiffer: 'You shouldn't confuse the word iconic with fame'