skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He may be misreading stagnant productivity growth.

Manufacturing productivity is measured in dollars[2], and prices of manufactured goods have been going down[1] (largely from China competition):

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/price-changes-in-consumer...

[2] https://www.bls.gov/lpc/faqs.htm#P03
> an arcane language like Scheme, which the students are bound to almost never encounter in real-world usage

Posted on a site running on MzScheme.
Companies are awful at culling bullshit jobs when the economy is good. That's why they never hire back as many as they laid off during recessions.
It's not that bad. It's inconsistent and clunky, but all of the tools are there (and tend to be faster than the tidyverse versions). Don't get me wrong, I love the tidyverse but R is very, very usable without it.
As I've been trying to reconcile both the behavior of my own body and all the data that has been coming at us over the past couple of decades, one of the things that I've wondered is whether a crap, sugar-filled diet can do permanent damage that can never be undone, making the body especially prone to take carbs and behave badly with them.

My idea here is that perhaps some of the issue here is that people like you (and to a non-clinical extent, me) who may have had a very bad diet in the past kick our bodies into this "mode", for lack of a better word, we find we have to watch our carbs relatively closely. Or perhaps for some people, their genetics simply start them there. Meanwhile, people who never got to that point are saying "It's no big deal, I eat a lot more carbs a day and never get fat." It may still be the case that when you get down to it, the sugar and the white bread aren't doing them any favors, but they never overwhelmed their body's ability to deal with it.

I think one of the perils of medical studies is that it's really easy to run a study like "How Important Is It To Eat Beets 5 Times A Day" and get back a statistical result that it's a 3% detriment or something, without noticing that the 3% detriment is that two people had a horrible reaction and everybody else had no reaction. As an individual, the 3% isn't really interesting, because that number doesn't correspond to the result that anybody had; the question is, are you in the set of people who had an extreme reaction or not? I wish I had time to study this question concretely; how many studies are presenting their results using Gaussian-based statistics when the underlying data is fundamentally bi-modal ("it worked really well for a few people and didn't do anything to most"), thus causing potentially useful treatments to get statistically fuzzed out of existence?
Which freeways do you cross under/over? How do you do it safely?

I'd happily ride on trails or small streets (and have) , but most of the regular commute riders I know do ~30mi rt a day... most of them doing it more than 5 yearrs have been in an injury accident. Maybe cyclists talk about accidents more than divers, but the percentage certainly seems higher.
If you're on Windows, perhaps this would be nice for your workflow: http://www.ivanyu.ca/windock/
Create a Lean Raspberry Pi System with Raspbian Lite
Also to be fair those are more often than not just someone using exploits someone much more capable found.

Also to be fair, even if the cracker wasn’t paranoid I expect doing it in a VM is much more convenient since you can trivially reset your environment.
Please provide some sources for these 'many studies'.
Previous discussion about case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16374458
It's a straight violation of the CFAA [1]. There is going to be a few lawsuits for this one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act
Acquired podcast on Google’s acquisition of Nest
I buy meat, fish, vegetables, fruits and I have a nice diet without counting calories or other nutrients. I avoid ultra-processed foods, I may have a few of them on weekends.

I've had 2 blood analysis, one at the beginning of my new diet (and lifestyle) and the other one 6 months later. All perfect.

I just eat carbs for lunch and that's because I'm looking to lose weight. If I wouldn't want to lose weight I would just look at how reasonable are the quantities I eat. There's no need to be maniac at what you eat if what you eat is healthy and natural.

It seems like the food industry has made us forget how to eat properly, and that's normal because they influence us since we are kids (even babies).
Do you have any details on the compute resources available? How much ram do we get, are GPUs available? I can’t find anything on pricing, so I’m assuming it’s free, at least for the time being?

Thanks for this, it looks really cool!
SF is a toilet.
Do you not live in a big city? Nearly every movie I see ends in applause.

And when I saw Get Out...

Standing ovation at the end.
er no it was chemicals they add to lo salt foods to replace nacl - not using more pepper and other spices which is standard advice for chronic renal failure patients
We got the same thing in France with the various welfare programs to access housing (mostly for renting, but there's also some when buying): the APL, for people in the lower income brackets but not living in social housing. But it just raised rents and house prices, which is detrimental to the people in the brackets above the limit.
I do the same thing with Emacs + Elpy, I love interactive programming!
> substitutes that haven't been forbidden yet

FTFY
"Lifestyle" is the key here. Diets are temporary, a lifestyle change is what most people need.
It wasn't flagged; it tripped the flamewar detector, which we've just turned off.
There's some pretty damning evidence mentioned in the article that's unrelated to the headline:

> As a result, even in situations where girls outperformed boys in science, they typically outperformed them in reading by an even larger margin.

and:

> [..] boys' self-sufficiency ratings were higher than their test performance in about half of the countries; for girls, this was only true in seven percent of the countries, which suggests that boys' confidence isn't entirely justified

These findings would suggest that it's in the interest of science to encourage girls to take up careers in the field. There's an enormous amount of talent that's currently wasted, with resources going to less-qualified yet over-confident boys.
You replied to me, but your questions and comments seem directed at GP? And actually your protein intake is closer to the low end. You could safely and probably beneficially go up to 1.3-1.6g/kg [1] [2]. It's as important to muscle gain as it is to fat loss. Athletes actually require less since they're better at utilizing intake.

You don't seem to be disagreeing with anything I wrote, but just a comment on your last paragraph:

> Going back, what's common sense is to eat natural foods rather than avoid them. Processed stuff is the real danger, including meal replacement with powders.

I think avoiding something "processed" is a terribly blunt tool, which will likely end up not serving you. What does processed even mean? I usually buy pre-washed potatoes because I'm lazy, those are processed. As is my cheese, as is my chili sauce, my peeled nuts, and most if not all my spices.

I don't think we're there yet with Soylent and similar meal replacements, but I don't doubt that we in the future will have meal replacements with much better macros, better taste and fun texture, as well as lab grown meats and meat substitutes that taste better.

Processed doesn't mean inherently bad, and there's nothing definitive saying that processed through photosynthesis is better than on a molecular level processed through a series of tubes in the other kind of plant. The only thing making "processed" foods bad are businesses cutting corners on cost with the only goal of delivering something palatable, not something healthy. That isn't a process problem, but a market problem.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26797090

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22150425
The Car Hacker's Handbook
Being funded by the public doesn't mean the studies won't be biased. Just as the study proposed might have been biased, since it's financed by GMO producers, your study could be biased because of an agenda of the members doing the study or pressure from the bigger funders or commercial interests.

As an aside, it does not mean that the study you linked is wrong, I'm trying to say that everyone can be subject to bias.
Would say Google has a couple gems. DeepMind comes to mind. Also Google Brain has done some pretty interesting things.

Probably my favorite of late is from Jeff Dean

https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01208

We just got YouTube TV recently and also something that is pretty impressive by Google and saves me a ton of money as my cable provider was awful charging for every TV monthly.

Another example of something I find really interesting is Spanner.

https://research.google.com/archive/spanner.html
My go to:

http://www.codelitt.com/blog/my-first-10-minutes-on-a-server...
Ask HN: Does anyone have success stories with MongoDB?
When we talk about MongoDB most of the discussions focus on how people have lost data and have had operational issues with it.

Are there any companies/teams that have successfully deployed and scaled MongoDB in the recent years? If so why did you choose it despite the negative publicity and what kind of data and access patterns are you using it for?
I have to admit this scares me just a little bit. I'm a senior sysadmin who is trying to lateral transition into data science, but I'm no math whiz, I'm just good at pragmatic use of tech stacks and have a generally analytical mind. If you are a math undergrad how could I ever expect to know more math than you? Of course a standard deviation should be easy, but your comment on math just stuck out to me.
Perhaps a dumb question, but do those languages tend to have wrappers for common Python libraries like Pandas?
We manifest what we see in ourselves.
I recommend a capsule wardrobe. Buy a decent set of monochrome shirts/pants and mix them around --> many good outfits!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_wardrobe
"and the Dutch weather is famous for being rubbish"

http://itAlmostNeverRains.nl: 90% of rides is dry, 10% slightly or worse wet.
Contact your representatives about the 50+ active cryptocurrency bills
Here is an old [2016] article about why the Tesla S might not be a "Full-Size Luxury Sedan", which lists arguments I personally find convincing:

https://www.autotrader.com/car-news/tesla-people-hate-me-but...

TL;DR, it is roughly same size and offers same leg room as BMW series 5 and Mercedes Class E, besides, given that virtually no BMW or Mercedes is sold in a base equipment version and that the government subsidizing for fully electric cars must be taken into account they are also in an approximately similar price range.
So neither of those supports multi-inboxes, labels based on complex filters or the ability to 'snooze' emails.

Also, they don't automatically extract information from a mail into my calendar (e.g. event/flight/...).

Can't see in which sense those are "better" than free gmail.
Roughly none of that land is freely available.

It's also pretty clear that some sort of resource footprint is more interesting than apparent living density. Just food requires more than a few hundred square feet per person and we consume a lot more than food.
Here is a pip package called "nbstripout" which tell git to ignore notebook output: https://github.com/kynan/nbstripout It can really help establish good practice in a project with little effort:

pip install --upgrade nbstripout
nbstripout --install
I would suggest any freelancing site ( toptal, upwork, fiverr... ) and taking small projects one at a time. So you can build a portfolio and reputation. The downside is it´s a long game.
If it was a paid ad, it was successful, because now I want to go to Finland.
They’re just standard “ignore the name this is about how things are combined” notation.

It’s algebra but with functions.

If you read any computer science books they’ll often use this form. It’s a holdover from mathematical notation.
The key is imagine. We have no means by which to estimate the proposed loss in the future when it happens. Talking about such a "loss" is irrational, at best. It matters not if someone pirates software. If someone is pirating your software, and you care deeply about it, your model for making money is probably off.
Hey I’m a crypto enthusiast and engineer at FiscalNote, and I’ve seen a lot of buzz about policy relating to crypto on this subreddit. I did a quick search on our platform, and saw that right now there are already over 50 bills and regulations related to cryptocurrency around the US[0]. A lot of these bills would affect the average individual because they relate to taxes and payments.

We sell our platform to organizations that want to create tailored campaigns about advocacy topics (like net neutrality), but I talked to some people in the company and got this page set up for free. We’re not going to be able to offer the level of support that we give to our clients, but I’m happy to answer any questions.

Even if there isn’t an active bill in your state right now, you’d help the broader crypto community if you tell your representative that crypto matters to you. It’s a lot easier to get this policy written properly than to amend it after it already exists. In the CFTC/SEC hearing a few weeks ago, Chairman Giancarlo and Sen. Mark Warner have shown that they read up on crypto, but I doubt that’s the case with everyone.

I’ve already submitted my own message, and I’ve gotten a lot of my telegram groups to participate as well. I’d appreciate if you also shared the campaign with your friends, forums, communities, etc. Thanks!

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/wMKt2Tx.png
>The issue is that IP/computer != single person.

This brings up a thought I've had lately: The endgame of IPv6 -let's say, 100% adoption, and the retirement of IPv4- will be IPv6=single device, no? I would think that ends (in however many years it takes to get there) what little anonymity IPv4 currently provides.
This shift of focus from fundamental computer science to "real-world software development" training seems to be short-sighted and more appropriate for a vocational school or a coder bootcamp rather than a place like MIT.
San Francisco: Trash on Every Block, 303 Piles of Feces and 100 Drug Needles
You are making a good point. I made the comment because I have heard several time from people who worked for rich "liberal" celebrities in LA that often these people are extremely stingy and want to pay extremely low rate. I know someone who got stiffed by a celebrity who is publicly known for a lot of charity work

In the big picture Russell Brand can't change the world but it would be good if he did pay people working for him well. Same for Facebook. They could pay their service workers better and do a lot of good that way.

In the end I think doing more studies is just a smokescreen for not doing anything.
Show HN: Memospeak – Memorize texts with speech recognition
Perhaps I was a more troubled child, but my mind was constantly full of buzzing, illogical anxieties when I was a kid. Only now have I been able to outgrow them, and my mind is much more soothed.
Writing "hug" won't get you banned from a technical community. Grow up and realize that context is important.
I created this app to practice memorizing and thus improve my memory. It can be anything from song lyrics to Shakespeare poems. It’s a simple tool but I have plenty of ideas how to make it better, let me know what you think :)

PS. Right now it’s Chrome only but I will work on that!
This reminds me of the old joke that GDP goes down when a man marries his maid. But this article manages to not only make that error, but ignore how clearly the data suggest that there are a fair number of men who are housekeepers and are going off the labor market for similar reasons.
This comes back to my initial question: if data is encrypted by my key before it ever leaves my device, as Apple has repeatedly claimed, why should it matter to me?

China can have all the encrypted blobs of my data they want. I have to assume that unencrypted information has always been available to the CCP on request, even more readily than it is to US law enforcement.
Mathematica/Python/MATLAB user. Mathematica and MATLAB do both have great documentation and intuitive examples shipped with their product, however, document your own code using their system is surprisingly hard (compared to Sphinx). Jupyter learnt the idea of the notebook from Mathematica (and some other notebook based math software) but the killer point is that it extends itself to more and more general purpose programming language with Python, R, Julia and even C/C++ kernels. MATLAB still popular in the field of control engineering, communication partly because of its SIMULINK simulation environment. I have been looking for a Python alternative but the closest I have found so far is Modelica. In my workflow, Mathematica is used to derive the mathematical formula, Matlab for simulation and finally software is written and distributed as Python package.
I think it's a combination of tax breaks and subsidies that are at play here along with high taxes on ICE vehicles. Not just on the purchase price, in some European countries for cars with engine sizes well over 2.0l it totals up to €12000 in road tax to keep it on the road for 5 years.
Excited for a new Julia IDE. Seems like it's a nice interactive style which surprisingly doesn't feel like it has the kludge of the notebooks.
What it means to me is that if they put in 100k and it sells for 85k you don't get your percent ownership of 85k, they get all of it.
How hostile are the drivers in Stockholm? Bay Area drivers aren’t super friendly to cyclists (to be fair, plenty of cyclists also behave like assholes, cutting in front of cars and crossing intersections when they shouldn’t.) My biggest concern during a year of using my bike to commute was making sure I didn’t get ran over by a car taking a turn, because signaling is not always their forte.
You probably know about but with DDG you can add a !g to the search query to get results from Google. So I keep DDG as default and then sometimes I retry with a !g query.

Sometimes for programming related questions DDG does a better job I noticed.
Start here - https://weworkremotely.com/ and inquire about off-hour work. Also look at companies on European hours. While letting those "soak" - Next, Wisconsin is makes it hard - but.... Find all the python and .Net meetups in the state, go. Maybe tell your wife you've been thinking about a position and want to network. If that's not do-able, cold email the meetup organizers for .NET/Python in the area and keep circling out until you get some good leads. On the other side - really plan with your attorney the situation of custody. I know a buddy who has no income, and was divorced (initiated by him) and he could have had full custody, but they chose 50%. Remember the courts generally choose, the mother - so bust a$$ to cover every angle she could attack and strengthen it.
The Nature article and notebooks from a few years back are still pretty good for demos, though everything has updated since then , especially iPython -> Jupyter.

https://www.nature.com/news/interactive-notebooks-sharing-th...

hth

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Bad news (the fake news game)
FB is an ad business. If a big customer want help to run its campaign, I don't see why FB wouldn't do it, on a business optic. Of course it FB wanted to select people it's doing business with on ethical grounds, I don't think there would be a lot of ads on FB.
You’re going to get downvotes to hell because of the tone of this (and that’s probably fair) but you raise a good point: that form IS extremely common in basically all technical books. It’s probably more common that O notation.

The comment makes poster look like they haven’t read anything CompSci related.
If unions are anything to go by, in those 10/20/30 years powerful institutions will arise ensuring bias will always be detected, either by technical/political interference with the means of measurement, or altering the scope of what constitutes "bias".
Any company able to obtain financing will instantly replace 10 workers with a $1 million machine.

If the machine is vaguely durable that even works if wages are $10 (~$30K annual cost per worker->$300,000 payroll per year, investment pays off in reasonable time).
What tires do you use to ride on ice? I've wiped out on ice myself, and it has scared me off from riding when it is icy.
If they marked teaspoons instead of grams on the nutrition labels, I wonder how many people would be swayed away by that approach. That's a mind-boggling number.
What baffles me is that someone who basically flopped is made a partner in a YC.

[Edit:] Oh, I see. In the SV land driving a company into the ground is a win!
The entire series of 20 lectures (uploaded by MIT) is available here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY&list=PLE18841CAB...
Blockchain is a useless technology
Cloudformation based installer for reasonably secure multi-node kubeadm cluster
I live in SJ and work in Menlo Park.

My direct door-to-door commute is 19mi. Takes me about 50-55 minutes. None of it is on bike paths.

I take Foothill from the cupertino border all the way to menlo Park.

I can also go into cupertino and take the bike path to the edge of the 101 (close to the PA airport).

If you want to make it longer, you can take Stevens Canyon to Foothill. This makes the commute 30mi but also less traffic and much more challenging to ride.

I would say on average I commute to work about 3 days a week during the summer. I just don't like commuting back in the dark during the winter.

In terms of accidents, I've had none. I had 2 close calls over the course of 3 years. One was a complete jerk and one was due to the sun angle (something you need to be aware of as a cyclist too).

Bay Area is really awesome for riding to work. Foothill is busy but also gets a lot of rider traffic so drivers tend to be more patient.

I also find that a lot of it is up to you, some riders ride like the road belongs to them.
Disclaimer: I'm not at all familiar with Rieman, but I'll weigh in despite my ignorance :-P

> The complacency of seeing progress solely in economic and scientific terms

Well, his emphasis has been on rates of human violence. That's a pretty salient thing to study, no? Is your issue with his specific choice of quantitative metric, or the use of a quantitative metric in the first place?

> leaves the gate open for our basest natures to dominate.

If I recall correctly, Pinker touches on that in Better Angels of Our Nature's discussion of utopian political ideologies, such as Nazism, communism, and jihadism, which can justify enormous and perfectly avoidable human tragedies in the name of "it will all be worth it".

He's also fairly explicit that we shouldn't be complacent about the possibilities of such human tragedies.

> Such progress seems to have no predictive power for what we as a civilisation might sink to next.

Pinker's point is very much one of "there are no guarantees, but things are generally getting better". The purpose of his book was to (quite rightly) push back against the widespread misconception that the problem of human violence has only been getting worse.
The closest thing to what you're asking for is the first image in the post, which is a screenshot that has this caption:

> JupyterLab is an interactive development environment for working with notebooks, code, and data.
I'd love to cycle to work, but the terrain and the density plus the weather here in Hong Kong means it just won't work.