skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear that in 5 years everyone will be using tablets and there will be no more laptops or desktops either...

oh wait, it's not 2013 anymore.. never mind.
You are part of a tiny group of people that has the knowledge and motivation to do it, much of the population couldn't/wouldn't.

Maybe 20 years from now, this would be different with majority of the people being tech savvy (like the majority of people who can drive today).

Of course one can argue that it is the consumers' fault for not looking for better options...
I don't think you're shadowbanned here.
8:30. My hours aren't all that terrible, but after burning the candle at both ends for the better part of a decade of grad school, I'm a little worried about burning out.
1) Are you arguing that Soylent picked it solely on health properties and not for its relative health properties when choosing a sweetening agent (necessary evil for some foods)?

2) Is disaccharide a relevant classifier? Water is a hydrogen calcogenide, as is hydrosulfuric acid. That doesn't mean they're comparable as a food item.

It was likely chosen as a substitute for sucrose (table sugar) for being comparatively good (less bad):

> It is particularly suitable as a non-cariogenic sucrose replacement and is favorable in products for diabetics and prediabetic dispositions. [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12387299
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GearBest has it for $60: https://www.gearbest.com/smart-watches/pp_1126414.html

I don't know what "Lite" means, but there's also this listing at $72 for maybe the fancier version: https://www.gearbest.com/smart-watches/pp_668632.html

It says $63 until I click on it but the discount is lower on the product page than the search results.
Its a good skill to learn to deal with agents - you can get a good idea of your local market, who is hiring, what skills are paying what.
Well, similarly a lot of folks think Facebook is the internet, and they use Facebook's search bar instead of Google.

Probably something similar holds for Amazon.
I'd highly recommend "Gödel's Proof" by Ernest Nagel and James Newman (https://www.amazon.com/G%C3%B6dels-Proof-Ernest-Nagel/dp/081...). It'll probably require a bit of patience to go through, but should be fairly accessible to reader without an extensive mathematics background.
I have a short commute to work, only 2.2 miles each way, but I have been doing it for the last 2 years every workday, under any conditions. From the very beginning I told myself, no excuses. I also realized that if I wanted to stick to it, I would want to be comfortable and not miserable, so I bought gear for the rainy days and winter weather, and a nice backpack to carry everything I need. I live in a big city, so driving and parking is always a challenge... it's nice not to worry about it where to park and how bad is the traffic.
The Fitbit Ionic looked like it could be a spiritual successor [I'd presumed - without evidence - that that was where the Pebble team ended up].

It doesn't yet look open enough (or quite cute enough) to persuade me, but I'll be keeping an eye on OS/ecosystem updates and hardware revisions.
> But what about the risks of agricultural monoculture?But what about the risks of agricultural monoculture?

Most of agriculture, GMO and non-GMO alike, is monoculture. It was monoculture long before GMOs were even invented.
I commuted by bike (6km one way) in Tel Aviv, Israel and it was awesome. Great route, bike lanes/parks and a (tiny, but who cares) shower in the office. Did that for one year straight, just like the person in the article.

Now I'm living in Singapore, a city that has a traffic problem and tries to reduce the cars on the streets. You'd think they would welcome bikes, but riding a bike here sucks. Big time. It's basically unbearable.

There are no sidewalks to speak of on a lot of roads. Often the sidewalks are divided in two segments of different heights. Tables will be on the sidewalk, garbage bins will block it.

Riding on the road - the norm in my home country - is discouraged by every local I've met, both bike fans and car drivers. You can ride the bike in this city, sometimes, in some places. But it's a pain in the rear to use it for commutes and a very, very bad experience around the central part of Singapore. Park connectors/outward regions are fine, but the traffic infested center is no place for a bike, which is quite sad..

What I'm trying to say is: I agree that the article describes a great way to live, something I dearly miss. I believe that this isn't possible for a lot of people though, in spite of the benefits it would provide to them and their surroundings.
Timing issues when using BPF with virtual CPUs
This talking point comes straight from the top

https://twitter.com/georgesoros/status/964471195793068032?s=...

Expect a lot of press on this subject over the next few weeks.
Those of you who want to cycle but live far away from work or in a hilly area, get an ebike. I really think they are the future of commuting.
Experimental design and observational causal inference would be excellent skills to have. Especially if you’re working with people who are asking you “why” questions, ML is helpful but isn’t going to cut it alone.
Nope! Thanks for the catch!
This is a syntax thing only. You can do the same in Smalltalk with an array of blocks (which are closures).

{
[ user := url fetchUser ].
[ address := user fetchAddress ].
}

and pass that array as an argument to whatever evaluation strategy you want.

You can also do with with proper macros, e.g. in Nim (fictitious example, there's no actual `usingContinuations` macro):

usingContinuations do:
user = fetchUser("url")
address = user.fetchAddress

This is all a matter of syntax allowing you to write a sequence of code fragments in a readable fashion while allowing transformations on the underlying sequence.

That said, outside of Haskell (or other functional languages emulating the approach) you'll encounter them fairly rarely in this particular form, because just allowing for a sequence of code fragments is a bit limiting if you can combine them in more general ways. For example, Smalltalk builds pretty much all control flow in what we'd call combinators (on closures and values) now and allows you to pretty much extend that arbitrarily. Not because Smalltalk does anything super-special here, but because it has a nice, concise syntax for expressing executable code fragments as values.
The simplest (and still educational) way would be to have the stuff in the different cells as functions, and to collect all the functions that should be re-run in a single cell.

To do it more properly, however, you can have a post_save_hook for the whole notebook, which runs the code from whichever cells however often you want outside of the notebooks. Of course, this way you wont see the output in the notebook.
This was my exact thought. I guess all these attempts at perpetual motion machines are variations of heat engines at some level of operation.

At the least this clock could take the title of longest running 'fake' perpetual motion machine.
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Ask HN: Who's hiring CS summer interns?
Particularly, any interesting startups which are looking to hire final year CS undergrads to build something fast over the summer? (Asking for a friend)
Ask HN: How can I solve the chicken-and-egg problem of starting an AI startup?
I'm working on creating a statistical model to test the feasibility of my idea. But it's tough. I only have around 550$ a month to spend on training a model on the latest GPU's, which is barely worth a few days of training, and since I'm not an expert in the field (not even remotely, I come from a programming background), it takes a lot more trial and error to test things and make things work.

So I need an expert in the field and money to train a model on my data, in order to start up. But an expert in the field wouldn't join me without some credibility, which could mean having some breakthrough technology, or funds from an investment backing me up. But an investor would not invest in me without a team proficient in the technology and knowing the idea is feasible.

How can I go about solving this chicken-and-egg problem?
There will never be a universal answer to the question of what foods are good and what foods are bad because a universal answer would be a stateless solution to a stateful problem. And that problem is: who are you? What do you do? How much do you move your body? What are your goals? What are your genetics predisposed to? How much do you sleep? What are your causes of stress?

At one point in my life, a very well respected nutritionist recommended to me that I eat at least 3 candy bars per day. The reason: I was a D1 swimmer in college, and I couldn't keep my weight on with 4 hours of training per day, and I was having trouble keeping up with the 7000 calorie/day diet she had prescribed for me. Sugars filled that gap. And yes, that would have been unhealthy advice to almost any other American, but for me at the state I was in, it was the healthiest thing for me.

Not everybody is a swimmer. But that doesn't matter because there is no "average" human. We're all different in some way or another, and no diet is universal. Maybe we can hone in on basic dietary recommendations, but the idea that we can find universally good or universally bad things is going to be impossible.
monkeys eat 70%+ fruit and then a mix of bugs, worms, and seeds for proteins to make up the rest. Do you want gorilla strength or not? :)
This was a nice intro to cobol. Not sure if the title is accurate, as I didn't see much info on the beauty of cobol. But I did appreciate the comparisons with more modern languages.
JupyterHub is the multi-user application which will proxy a single user application. Jupyter notebook is the default single user app, but it can be configured to use jupyterlab.
The book "Trekonomics" has some interesting discussion about this, comparing it to status- and prestige-driven competition in academica. However, even if prestige-driven competition is the norm at least everyone has enough food and medical care?
One that fits your butt. Basically you want to have your weight on the sit bones, not the tissue in between. Seats come in different widths and shapes to accommodate different shaped butts.
I agree that a graduate degree goes a long way. Even though the requirements of the role varies greatly from team to team, it almost always involves going out to learn and apply new math to solve a problem. That's one of those things a graduate degree (humanities as well, not just STEM) tends to require of you. And a Phd demonstrates you've done that for years.
help to buy also means the government has an increased financial interest in increasing property prices because they have a larger portfolio of properties that they have a direct equity share in.
I would like to see the incompetent hackers who can reverse engineer and break non-trivial copy protection. I'm sure they exist, but I would imagine there's not an "incredible" amount meeting said criteria.
The problem is Google will just be replaced with someone that dominates. Tech just ends up winner take all or most.

We see it with each thing. From Search, to Ecommerce, to social media, etc.

So we need to think through would someone else be better than Google? Because that is just what will happen.
Your Walmart point is the same as his janitor point. In both instances what is causing huge inequality is that American businesses spend a huge amount of their time and effort finding 'efficiency' in finding ways to get jobs done by paying the average person less and less. It's an asymmetric game where these enormous corporations are spending their enormous collective effort on something that can only result in worse conditions for their employees.

Start with Walmart or start with facebook, it doesn't matter. What matters is that it's the same driving business value by squeezing people.
Yours is a good question, and I can't really provide a good answer. Firstly, I suppose I wish for something more akin to an IDE with a proper list of variables, functions, classes, & cetera; tabs; and as the screenshots of this JupyterLab beta release show, a capability for displaying different data types in different self-contained windows that are not in-lines to the notebook document.

I probably expressed myself very poorly.
I suspect they're referring to the fact that it is? (Well, Bing and 400+ other engines)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo

https://web.archive.org/web/20150124074006/https://duck.co/h...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2017/08/15/bing_microsoft_...
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You're right. This is Tesla's framing to get comparisons articles like these. The Tesla Model S should be compared to mid-range BMW's and Mercedes and the shipping numbers for those German models far eclipse the Tesla Model S.
Deliberate Practice Claim Refuted – Beyond Born vs. Made: A New Look at Expertise
I've been biking for ~2 years, and I have had one very very close call, where I had to actually dodge a car, but I wasn't really in control of the situation. Scared the crap out of me, because I did not see him coming. I've had many other incidents where situational awareness let me see the idiot coming in advance enough that I was able to just easily avoid the collision.

(The close call I had was an idiot in lane 1, which was a straight/left lane, who decided to turn right. The only right turn lane is lane 4: he cut off a lane of traffic, the bike lane, and the right-turn only lane. I had to take the right "with" him, essentially, or I would have hit him, and I could feel the traction in my back tire slipping the entire time from the huge amount of braking I was begging for.)
No, that doesn't sound like a good situation. You want to know some other big companies that have been hacked? - LinkedIn, MySpace, Adobe, Dropbox, DailyMotion, Sony, Kickstarter, Equifax... ad infinitum. Do these companies also deserve to have their data deleted?
It’s really hard to measure underemployment. I mean, I have what most would consider a pretty decent tech job, however many of my peers are Senior Director of this and VP of that, and with my background and experience I know I could be a CTO rather than what I am. Am I underemployed? I feel underemployed, but who’s to say I am or am not?
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As St. Randall of Munroe has put it: I had a hard time with Ayn Rand because I found myself enthusiastically agreeing with the first 90% of every sentence, but getting lost at 'therefore, be a huge asshole to everyone'.
I'd really like 1 thing from those articles. I didn't knew what Jupyter was in first place.

So please dear authors when I click on your articles I'd like to have a single sentence somewhere on the landing zone where I can easily figure what we're talking about and not having to read entire paragraphs

Thanks,
Jupyter supports lots of languages (including R).

RStudio is probably still nicer for working R, but I haven't done any serious analysis in R for a while now.
There is only one mention of Python in the entire post... there are 5 mention of JavaScript. Recently, I have been mulling over the GUI creation problems and packaging problems that still plague the Python ecosystem. That being just the start of it...

I guess my love affair with Python is souring a bit. Compared to JavaScript it seems like it has slowed to a crawl on the innovation front. That is, for anything NOT related to machine learning.

I use Jupyter notebooks with Python all the time and only recently started using them with Node.js it seems like JS is just killing it...
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The reason why your comment is being downvoted is because of your ignorance, because you're trying to float widespread piracy as a recent phenomena and it's not. You just don't know your history.

Before CD-RW lots of games were available on floppy disk, which were simple to copy. And even without a CD-RW you could copy the data off the CD. Perhaps you don't know about no-CD cracks? They were everywhere. There were plenty of ways to pirate CD based games without a CD-RW. It might seem difficult or complicated compared to 2018, but only if you didn't live through those times. At the time that's the way it was, and it was relatively easy.

>Everyone had their own copy of an album. A select few would make cassette tape copies, but you were never satisfied with that.

Forgive me, I never say this, but it's appropriate in this case: LOL
Agree. Google is a verb. Watch TV or in movies, and they all say "Google it". Never seen one say Bing it.

Or DDG it.
It makes sense for one off / exploratory idea style scripts - exactly the sort of thing that scientist will do, which is probably why its so popular with them.
I like Medium, but I always struggle to find a link to the company's site. Is this hidden somewhere? I had to google it to find it, not that it was hard, but I thought it would somewhere on their Medium blog.
I replied in main to your other comment, but regarding the "Argument Adaptation" issue it's maybe worth noting that I'm 90% sure V8 would have optimized this automatically if not for the subsequent issue (with monomorphism). I'm dubious that the former issue could be statically fixed as easily as you suggest, but either way I think it should be considered a symptom of the latter issue.
When is the last time you had theft resolved by local police? I never have. My local police don't even have the resources to collect security system footage from adjacent properties. Even if they did, they told me their job is to gather evidence for criminal charges not help me get my stuff back. Hire a private detective. Hire a private security firm. Do it yourself, because no else is going to do it for you unless you pay them to.
Who would win the argument, 129 Nobel price scientist, or one anonymous Hacker News boi? According to most of the comments here, it's the Hacker News boi. :-(
Captain America punches Campaign Finance in the face, freeing the American people from the grip of expanding monopolies and anti-consumer practices!
> I'll wager that the average not-technical user who ventures to Google doesn't understand 1) what exactly a search engine is 2) alternatives exist.

I have seen my father type a web address into a google search page because he doesn’t understand that he can use the location field to go directly to that address. I corrected this behavior the first time I saw it. He was doing it again the next time I visited.

This is a man with a high level of education and a healthy mind. He’s utterly lost on many of the basic concepts of his computer. The thing is, it works for him and I would never know he was making this mistake without watching him because he still gets the desired result in a roundabout way.
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> And don’t over use viz. [...]

I don't fully agree with this neither. Especially for mathematical concepts, visualization can give insight into how theorems are constructed and combined. This can prove to be vital when applying concepts and theorems to new problems.

I would especially like to bring forth 3blue1brown[1]. He is a creator of videos which beautifully visualizes and explains complex mathematical problems. His efforts has given me an insight into math which theorems explained in text and variables could never do.

However I do see your point that visualizations without understanding can be misleading. Hence the pure, written math is important to read and reason about, but I do believe that some concepts need to be visualized to be fully understood.

[1]: http://www.3blue1brown.com
Conclusions:

Twenty-five years ago, Ericsson and colleagues proposed
their influential deliberate practice view of
expertise. Though an influential account of expertise,
this view is inadequate to explain the body
of empirical evidence that has since accumulated.
Moving ahead, we believe that the overarching goal
of expertise research should be to develop and
test theories of expertise that take into account
all potentially relevant explanatory constructs. This
includes different forms of experience, as well as
basic human traits; it also includes task and situational
factors, such as task complexity and performance
pressure. This research promises to increase
theoretical understanding of the origins of expertise
and provide scientific grounding for interventions
aimed at accelerating the acquisition of expertise.
For example, it may one day be possible to use information
about people’s genotypes to tailor musical
or professional training, as is already being done
in sports. This type of intervention
promises to help people realize their potential for
acquiring expertise.

Non paywall related link to 2016 paper: http://www.psychologie.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:bdb69b97-5c72-4f0f-a26...

Excerpt:

Ericsson’s view has inspired a great deal of
research, as well as popular books, such as Talent is
Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers
from Everybody Else6 and The Talent Code:
Greatness Isn’t Born, It’s Grown. Here’s How.7 Here,
however, we argue that Ericsson’s view is inadequate
as a theoretical account of expertise, both in terms
of its ability to account for relevant findings and
its specification of key concepts. More generally,
we argue that the nature versus nurture debate in
research on expertise is over—or certainly should
be, as it has been for decades in other areas of
research.8 We end by describing a multifactorial
framework for research on expertise.
It really depends what you're searching for - product reviews are an endless landscape of garbage, science-related stuff is pretty good.
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see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16418056
It's not like he took those $72 billion from poor people. He created wealth that wouldn't have existed with him. This is the basic principle for how economies grow.
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>those people are not made any worse off by the existence of wealthy people. //

How does that work? If there are wealthy people using more than their share of resources and energy, staying wealthy on the back of other's labour (rent-seeking, capitalism), then surely the presence of those wealthy people makes resources/energy more scarce and the need to pay the excess in order to maintain the wealthy means all goods/services/resources are more costly.

If one person owns the farmland and charges rent without giving back value then all the workers must work harder than if the farm is owned cooperatively.
But you do have to wonder what Soros motives are. He is really not someone that looks for the greater good.

There is going to be some financial aspect that makes him money. Not saying he is not accidentally aligned with the greater good but most certainty not the driver.
I did - also very interesting!
Yeah, output right in the notebook is important. I'm wanting them to be able to do something like this in a cell:

for ship in myShip.radarScan():
if ship.is_enemy:
display([ship.type, ship.range, ship.bearing])

And then have that cells results always showing the current data as they play the game.
A janitor no longer is an employee of a large corp with their pension plans, stock options, etc. He/She is just a commodity, they can have "on call".
That’s what the genetic algorithm is for. You essentially add a entropy function that trims connections. If the performance is neutral or improves then the leaner network topology is subject to positive selection in a population.
I'd definitely recommend it. I had a 2km commute I walked for about a year, and then a similar length commute for half a year I rode by bike. In the time I walked, my fitness was really bad and I'd get pretty winded even by a small sprint (I didn't do any other sport). When I switched to bicycling, my stamina quickly improved, even tough it was not a long distance + I had the freshness impulse as described in the article.