skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The stock chart example is not arguing that calamity is likely. Its a skeptical argument to illustrate the limits of the type of empiricism that observes and extrapolates the path of a complex system without understanding it.

You should read The Better Angels of Our Nature, or at least a summary of it. The entire book is an attempt to "understand the complex system," as you put it. It's an attempt to understand the underlying causes of violence. It does not involve merely looking at charts and extrapolating that they will go up or down based on their previous trends. Pinker himself criticizes that type of lackluster "analysis".

> Rieman's counter-argument is that the source of human violence is human-nature which has not changed and that looking at some metrics is the wrong way to reach a conclusion.

"Looking at some metrics" — again, this is total strawman that can only honestly come about by failing to read Pinker. His argument is not and has never been, simply, looking at metrics and extrapolating. Instead, he's analyzed the sources of human violence, and found that Rieman is quite wrong — it is not so simple as "human nature".

In actuality, there exist systems and institutions that are external to human nature that drastically and predictably influence the levels of violence we feel compelled to inflict upon each other.

For example, we have police for a reason. Because, by and large, they work! I don't know any well-read people who advocate returning to a pre-police society and think it will make us safer. And that's just one of many dozens of advancements in institutions that's led to a much less violent world, despite human nature remaining what it always has been. Is it possible for violence to still exist with police? Of course! But it's also a likely bet that, overall, it will be lessened.

The vast majority of refutations of Pinker unfortunately fall into one of two camps: (1) Arguing against the strawman claim that Pinker bases all of his conclusions on statistical extrapolation, which is simply false. (2) Arguing against the strawman claim that Pinker thinks it is impossible for things to ever get worse in unpredictable ways, which he repeatedly denies.
I have no problems cutting out sodas, but I still love dessert. Suggestions?

I'm doing a little better about portion control, but whenever I think about never eating dessert again, I just want more dessert... thanks brain.
Most of the cost of most things - especially most things consumed by wealthy people - rests much more in labour than in physical resources; poor people are net sellers of labour so wealthy people inflating the price of labour helps them more than it hurts them. Land is an exception (being in limited supply) and I do think a land value (Georgist) tax would be morally desirable, with the proceeds distributed equally to everyone.
I'm not distracting anyone else; only I know I'm getting a call/notification. It works even when the phone isn't physically attached to me. And I quickly check/answer the call/notification without having to fish out my phone.

It's definitely more convenient to have a smartwatch.
If I can have a console view simultaneously with everything else, I may finally switch to Python
Analysis of Campaign Donations Reveals Liberal Bias Among Journalists
Monads are too general though. Saying 'try monads' to solve a problem is like telling someone, 'try vowels' when they're trying pronounce a word.
Why do you have to activate the extension before entering the password?
Fast Java: The bar for properly crafted Java code can be set very high (2012)
Out of curiosity: why homeschooling?
Marcy Wheeler, who's been doing a lot of good writing on Trump, Russia and Mueller lately, wrote a rather scathing - and in my view fairly convincing - article criticising this claimed fact check: https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/02/19/in-two-so-called-fact-... (Not that it matters. The New York Times can convince the world that black is white and white is black, and everyone will believe them. Won't be the first time.)
Great article! I think this really highlights and challenges some of the assumptions that newcomers make about how they approach their ideas and build their companies.

Too many people are focused on protecting their ideas and finding funding (to the point where they ask potential investors to sign NDAs) that they never focus on the most important thing: the product and whether or not it solves issues for potential customers.

It's always good to see a call to action for future bootstrappers and micropreneurs.
The 'how it works' section of your landing page is broken on iOS safari.

This looks like a good product and one that I will consider trying when I have more disposable income. I would be more likely to use it if it included blood tests for vitamin deficiencies before coming up with a custom formulation. Is there a reason you aren't doing that?
Bread is chock full of bioavailable calories to start with, adding a smear of butter on top doesn't really change it that much.
Yeah, a few years ago I lost 55 pounds. The primary change was just cutting out soda and an increase in light activity (mainly walking.) Also drinking more water in general. I found for me that if I went to the gym and ran I would end up overeating on those days, so instead I went with the small changes which worked well for me.

For me sodas sweetness lended well to making super salty foods taste better, by cutting out the sugar in the sodas I didn't have the same desire to eat salty fast food items.
My dad until recently has bought new vehicles every few years in cash.

Probably the most cash I've ever seen at once was when we bought a chunk of property in cash-we took a paper grocery sack full of cash to the real estate agency. You could tell they'd never seen that much cash in person.
You did indeed miss it:

Dr. Gardner said it is not that calories don’t matter. After all, both groups ultimately ended up consuming fewer calories on average by the end of the study, even though they weren’t conscious of it. The point is that they did this by focusing on nutritious whole foods that satisfied their hunger.
Generics first please, I can live with using tools like vndr and deep.
It's a hint, like lane lines. You're going to be using GPS and LIDAR as well. Yes, some of the lamer self-driving systems put too much faith in lane lines.
Nice.

I think you need to add somewhere that C# is called C Sharp, and the idea - besides the connection to musical notation is that the character # ("sharp", though improperly as in ASCII it is "Number sign") is made out of four +'s, increasing from the two in C++, your sentence:

>C# as the '#' symbol looks like two '++' stacked on one another, indicating that C# is an increment of C++.
though at the end of the day means the same, is IMHO less clear than the original from the source you cited:

https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/261958/a-z_programm...

>So the naming committee had to get to work and we sort of liked the notion of having an inherent reference to C in there, and a little word play on C++, as you can sort of view the sharp sign as four pluses, so it’s C++++. And the musical aspect was interesting too. So C# it was, and I’ve actually been really happy with that name. It’s served us well.
While running Heysan (YC W-07) we were having a hard time hiring; startups were a hard sell back then, and given we were building a product aimed at feature phones it was harder still to convince folks to join. We faced a meaningful decision: whether to buy a subscription to a product or build it ourselves. The notion of SaaS clearly existed back then, but it had not yet developed into what it is now; it was more akin to buying software licenses per CPU than the sort of products and pricing that we have now. Also, pertinently, I was a young and inexperienced CTO who had no real framework for how to approach this problem, so I took it to the board, the answer was resounding: pay for it.

In 2011, while deeply ingrained in converting justin.tv -> twitch.tv, the same sort of decision came up: should we build our analytics or should we buy it (mixpanel in this case). This time it was obvious: buy it.

In the time from that first decision and the later decision at Twitch I was able to fully appreciate why you buy, and Patrick nails it in the first few sentences:

> Unfortunately, many entrepreneurs discover this body of practice the hard way, by making mistakes that have been made before, rather than by spending their mistake budget on newer, better mistakes.

also:

> Customers love SaaS because it “just works.” There is typically nothing to install to access it. Hardware failures and operational errors, which are extraordinarily common among machines which are not maintained by professionals, do not result in meaningful data loss.

I've often retaught these points to folks: "Our job is to deliver a product to our users, they don't care about the ancillary product we use to deliver them our primary product. Buying Saas is like hiring pro's to do a job at the fraction of the cost of hiring pro's to do that job".

Or as Matt Brezina (Xobni & Sincerely) likes to say: Hire via API ( http://www.mattbrezina.com/blog/2011/08/hiring-via-api/ )
I don't know. Battery costs are currently massive, so Model S might cost more to manufacture. R&D and advertising also make the direct profit comparisons tricky.

Have you seen a good direct comparison?
It seems much more problematic for a platform to control personal posts than to control abuse of advertising and promotion mechanisms. The narrative of NYT and much of the media has been that Russia manipulated the pre election by abusing advertising and promotion mechanisms, and debunking that seemingly false narrative is the point of his post. Am I missing something?
gofmt, sure. Consistency in style is great.

But GOPATH was a mistake in the same way Go's hitherto lack of versioning was: it deliberately breaks easy isolation between projects / dependency management.

This mindset only works if you control most of the ecosystem (such as with a monorepo), but it's a irritating mess otherwise.
i have and i'm still not seeing why calculating is better than scheming. it also lays into lack of lazy evaluation, but haven't we determined over time in haskell that lazy by default has it's own tradeoffs?

Could you maybe break it all down for us ? thanks
I honestly never thought we would see a from the ground up car manufacturer coalesce into existence without divine intervention. I remember hearing that the barrier of entry to the automobile market is measured in billions per vehicle platform. For a long time I assumed that the only way we'd see another car maker is if a Chinese or Indian manufacturer entered the US Automobile market.
what was the timeline concept? (as someone who has never got into smartwatches in general)
I'm not disagreeing with your point, but your analogy isn't good. The best heart surgeons actually are the ones with the highest failure rates because they are the only ones prepared to take on the riskiest operations. I would imagine this is also true of the best lawyers.
> The last was pure user error, riding tipsy from my local bar home :)

Doesn't that count as DUI where you live?
The medieval astronomers had it right: epicycles work! However, they didn't reflect the actual mechanism behind planet movements, but merely predicted them. "Circular regression", essentially. The ancient Greeks used threaded pegs to make puppet shows etc.: the first programmable robots. I'd like to see possible emulations of such.
How to spot a suckercoin
> there's no reason to suppose it doesn't just lead to slightly cleaner houses rather than fewer maids.

If we assume people's willingness to hire a cleaner is a function of how dirty their house is (and how could it not be?) then the two are equivalent. The only way roombas could not be putting people out of work on the margin is if there's some sort of mysterious discontinuity, and why would we assume such a thing?
As an investor, I agree with you and disagree with the article. I dig in with factual questions because I'm excited, not because I'm not. If I'm not interested, that's when I pass instead of asking questions.

FWIW the real truth is somewhere in the middle: some investors invest based on their gut, and if they are asking factual questions then that means they are not emotionally interested enough. Other investors invest based on their brain, and if they are not asking factual questions then that means they are not intellectually interested enough. (Or your presentation answered all of their questions, which is very rare.) Interpreting the actions of both investors in the same way is a mistake.
Hey Jacques, you're absolutely right given Justin's background.

We started Atrium Academy to help democratize the fundraising process for founders (ie. speaking with first time founders who just raised their Series A, reviewing pitch decks and narratives with mentors, being matched with recommended investors based on industry and expertise)
Comparing today’s tesla against a 2020 competitor is unfair. You have to compare 2020’s tesla. People have been saying tesla will be outcompeted for years and still no real competition has materialized. If the traditional car companies wanted to be in tesla’s market, they already would be.
> That's why we are putting standards and QA processes to make sure our vitamins are pure and not filled with 99% fillers as most vitamins do.

That non sequitur of a response doesn't do much to allay the concerns you're responding to.
Interesting.. yeah I don't have an eye out like you do so I didn't quite understand how you were getting the sense that more Americans are less healthy (which I don't disagree with) just from HN comments.
It's really not irrational to want to organize my projects in a way other than by their (current) git repo URL. It's also not irrational to not want disparate projects to not share the same pool of dependencies (which even go has begrudgingly accepted as evidenced by "dep" and this proposal). Go is alright but I refuse to drink the GOPATH cool aid.
You could have said that without the snark.
I'm sure we could figure out a way to use carrots as a building material, but I'm still going to use steel.
Probably to add the css file to the page you're on.
I like this answer, but it leaves one important thing out. Mathematicians have been studying abstraction for thousands of years. When they decide something is useful, that probably means it has broad applicability and enough functionality to get interesting results out of.

Mathematicians decided monads are useful.

Take advantage of that. Even if you're working in a language that can't express the abstraction, you can allow it to inform your library design. If something could be a monad, that's usually a better choice than something ad-hoc instead. (Sometimes it's overkill and a monoid would suffice, but both are better choices than an ad-hoc interface without any broadly accepted theoretical basis.)
How does Go not have package versioning? What do you guys use to get the appropriate version of a dep?
What they are saying is that calorie restriction works, but most people are too incompetent to follow through, so need seemingly magical alternative strategies to avoid calorie dense food.

The danger with this approach is that the average Joe hears the message as "weight is not related to how much you eat (energy/quantity), but what you eat (quality)". That message is a public health danger, yet is becoming the prevailing sentiment for health magazines, supplement marketing, popular lifestyle shows etc.
1 can of coke has 140 calories. A good rule of thumb is 3500 calories is a pound. So if you drink a single can of coke every day, after a year that's worth almost 15lbs.

This observation is what led to me cutting soda out of my diet entirely almost a year ago (barring the rare treat).

And don't be fooled by the promise of diet soda. Lots of studies recently have shown that drinking diet soda doesn't help with weight loss either. Apparently the artificial sweeteners do something to your body by tricking it into thinking it's getting sugar; I'm not really familiar with the details, but studies showed that people who swapped soda for diet soda didn't lose weight, but people who swapped soda for e.g. water did. This advice is what led to me cutting diet soda out of my diet 6 months ago (which I had switched to after cutting out regular soda), so now I drink almost exclusively water.

If you're interested in cutting out soda as well, and don't think you can just switch to water, I have a couple of suggestions:

1. Start with those crystal geyser flavored sparkling waters you can get at Costco. I drank those for a while, because the hint of flavor tricked my mouth into thinking I wasn't just drinking water. I eventually stopped though, in favor of

2. Get a SodaStream and just make your own sparkling water. You can add flavor packets to this if you want, but I never have. Once you get used to it, unflavored sparkling water is pretty great. The downside here is the refill tanks for the SodaStream aren't cheap, but if you're concerned about that, there are homebrew carbonation setups as well (they just take up a lot more space; SodaStream is pretty compact).
Show HN: Woe – A concatenative language inspired by Joy
To be really dangerous, I think this would need to defeat client-side cache strategies. If the browser caches each resource, the server-side reads wouldn't account for repeated characters or overall length with perfect accuracy. Consider palindromes like "racecar."

This would still put many, if not most, passwords within guessable striking distance, for anyone able to intercept plain-text HTTP traffic, between Alice (the client) and Bob (the CSS image resource server).
We could summarize this better as eating higher quality foods with lower calorie densities and better satiating effects will lead to a reduction in calories consumed. This could be easier on the human psyche than just calorie counting.

After all, you can still end up feeling eternally hungry if 100% of your diet was high fructose corn syrup liquids.

Unfortunately this article and study will likely be misconstrued as calories not mattering to weight loss. This is a common misconception or delusion.
It's not harder, just more expensive and inconvenient.
I can't seem to make it work from a web page. Perhaps it's for extensions only?

https://jsfiddle.net/tdwsw6zo/3/
Also, when you start talking about raw foods a lot of those calories won't be bioavailable. Your body simply can't extract more than a trivial amount of nutrition from raw kale.

So all the article is really saying is don't bother with the math, just eat mostly vegetables and you'll lose weight.
Two factors that seem to be on the mind of the NYTimes:

* Tech companies' role in 2016 election interference (agents buying ads, trolls)

* Tech companies' impact on journalism (Google News, decline in subscriptions, shift in advertising)

The first one is explicit, and they have every right and responsibility to hold it up to the light, given its seriousness.

The second one is a more of a speculation about their motivations. Newspapers are clearly frustrated -- how much does it factor into NYT's recent trend of aggressive coverage of tech & social media?
> not filled with 99% fillers

Personally, my doubts about the supplement industry aren't about the purity of the vitamin supplements, but the effectiveness of supplements in general.
Sure, I agree. Abstract algebra isn’t directly helpful. But:

1. The context is knowing more math than someone who has an undergraduate degree in it,

2. Abstract algebra is part of such a degree, and contributes significantly to overall mathematical maturity, and

3. You can avoid some subjects in the short term, but in the long term you can’t progress further without a reasonable mastery of algebra and analysis.

Probability theory and linear algebra are heavily used in data science. You won’t be as competitive a candidate for a job if you don’t have a firm grasp of both subjects. At a certain point, linear algebra ceases to be distinct from abstract algebra, and those exercises you were doing become applicable to real world results.
Obviously all diets have to be LIMO - Less In, More Out. But the question is how you get there.

Eating vegetables and whole foods without worrying about counting calories or limiting portion sizes doesn't feel like effort. You don't WANT to eat more. And your body becomes happier about burning fat rather than demanding that you eat.

Counting calories explicitly is a lot of work and a lot of self control. Few people can succeed at that.

Personally I follow the former strategy using http://www.weightgrapher.com/ to keep myself honest. About 15 years ago I decided to lose 20 pounds, and kept it off for close to a decade. Then I let my weight get away from me, because life got complicated. This time around I've decided to get back to that weight again, and I know it is sustainable. I'm not aiming for fast weight loss, I've been going at a comfortable pace for 3 months and expect to be dieting another 6 months to reach my target. But I know that I'll be able to get there and stay for years without a lot of willpower. Partly luck of genetics/gut biome. Partly because I'm doing it in a mentally easy way.
Yeah, this whole thing seems a bit silly. You can't trust the webcam to be real or even functional.

And even if you could trust the entire website-to-webcam path end-to-end, you can't trust the image the hardware is reading. There's a reason that other face recognition systems like Windows Hello require that you have an IR camera, so that it knows it's not just looking at a photograph of a person.
There's a bunch of external packages. One by the go team: https://github.com/golang/dep
No.

Content recommendation algorithms reward engagement metrics. One of the metrics they reward is getting a user's attention, briefly. In the real world, someone can get my attention by screaming that there is a fire. Belief that there is a fire and interest in fire are not necessary for my attention to be grabbed by a warning of fire. All that is needed is a desire for self-preservation and a degree of trust in the source of the knowledge.

Compounding the problem, since engagement is improved and people make money off of videos, there is an incentive in place encouraging the proliferation of attention grabbing false information.

In a better world, this behavior would not be incentivized. In a better world, reputation metrics would allow a person to realize that the boy who cried wolf was the one who had posted the attention grabbing video. Humanity has known for a long time that there are consequences for repeated lying. We have fables about that, warning liars away from lying.

I don't think making that explicit, like it is in many real world cases of lying publicly in the most attention attracting way possible, would be unreasonable.
If you don't mind me asking, how do you deal with the sweat? Do you shower on arrival?

I would love to bike, but no showers at my current workplace :/
You are. CSS has gone "too far" the second it allowed linking to images.

I can simply background-image:url("myTrackingPixel.png") and then track whenever someone tries to load that image from my server.
You can volunteer your skills to work with nonprofits that use technology to accelerate their impact.

The most well-known of these tech nonprofits are Mozilla, Khan Academy, Wikipedia. Some have come through YC, like Watsi and SIRUM.

At Fast Forward (org that I started, like a YC for nonprofits), we have a listing of some available tech-based volunteer opportunities on our website (https://www.ffwd.org/tech-nonprofit-jobs/opportunities/?_sft...).

For example, TalkingPoints (tool for teachers to text parents) is looking for a machine learning advisor. MindRight (text message counseling for kids who have suffered trauma) is looking for a code reviewer.

Your software engineering skills are incredibly valuable, and it's hard for nonprofits to find and afford quality developers. Providing those skills can greatly help others.