skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems that you don't understand the problem. I try to simplify it for you.
Point out a single energy extraction working technology, that pays its cost. Aka: "constructing wind electricity generator using only energy outputs from this generator". (You can replace electricity generator with solar cell, algae, anything.)
The problem with that claim is that you have to go back decades, where general quality of life was different, life expectancy was lower and the causes of death were different - or harder to assess. as this chart shows, average life expectancy has gone up from 50 to 75 in the past 50 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#/media/File:Li..., while this page (http://www.fauxpress.com/kimball/med/heart/h2/coronaryd.htm) indicates most heart disease only starts to show up after the age of 50.

So yeah, a bit hard to assess combined with higher life expectancy. Not impossible though, I'm sure there's good research out there.
Indifferent to either is a red flag for me; I'll take neither, thanks. You don't have to have one at the expense of the other.
> the prospect of Jeremy Corbyn waiting in the wings to become Britain’s next Prime Minister is a rather more relatable bad omen for London property values.

This seems to be contradicting itself: it's not a bad thing that house prices come down if they're too high. Arguably they should be brought down if they're too high (ideally in a more controlled manner, no one wants prices to collapse in a catastrophic manner). As such, shouldn't we be welcoming Corbyn's strategy here?

> While undoubtedly a lovely sentiment, Jez, making state confiscation threats out loud isn’t great for shifting houses to minted foreigners.

As if we should endeavour to endlessly bow to the wishes of foreign investors? Running your own country into the ground and making it hard for your own citizens to live there doesn't do you any favours. Foreign investors should take a backseat to ensuring the people who live and work there can actually afford to and aren't having to suffer exorbitant rents.
This study was discussed here 7 days ago (67 points, 14 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16363479
Hard to say... I was more proficient in PHP than python, but when doing AI, we use python anyway, since in PHP some necessary libraries just aren't there...
10 million GBP to eliminate need for money.

Retire and use my data engineering and deep learning skills to help genetics and drug discovery field. I think this area is ready for vast technological improvement, and we can help alleviate a lot of suffering here.

Almost at the 10M, maybe in 1-2 years I’ll be there
My observation is that polite, decently-articulated comments are generally well-received at HN, and snarky, mocking comments are not tolerated. Stating an incorrect opinion as fact is not tolerated, but opinions are generally welcome.

This rule does not apply to political discussion, however.

If someone is incorrect, or there is a disagreement, the community will usually offer a correction, or open the topic for discussion. They will directly offer a rebuttal to what has been said in a manner that it beneficial. This, I believe, is what makes HN the great place that it is.

Again, this rule does not appear apply to political discussion.

I agree that the HN community runs the gamut of political views. I made no claim to the contrary. My observation is that I consistently see comments that meet the "HN Standard" of reasonable discourse being down-voted, and this practice appears to apply overwhelmingly to criticism of central-planning by the federal government.

I find your comment to be needlessly mocking, and I cannot make sense of your attempt to fudge the definition of "socialism" as "things I don't like".
Correct, but it's only the case if one has thought of this scenario in advance and cared to instrument the contract with this indirection via mutable state. That said, this logic will still be fixed once the contract is deployed.
Twenty Questions with Steven Pinker
Yes, But…
This is one of the most terrifying comments I've ever read. The prospect of harvesting or growing brains to use as computing devices isn't just some weird thing from cheap scifi anymore, but something someone out there is actually researching and trying to make work at this very moment.

Growing organs for transplants or meat for consumption is one thing, but using the brain of a living creature purely as a tool is a whole different kind of horror.
I don't see your point. I haven't pirated a game in over 15 years (basically since I started working), and I buy some games at full price and tons of games at dollar sales or humble bundles. The thing is that the ones I don't buy at full price are the ones I would never even entertain playing at full price, and statistically I rarely even play them after getting 5 of them in a bundle.

What that means is that those games can have <$15 from me, or nothing. $60 was never on the table. And the games I buy at launch others won't bother with at full price.

The only difference between me and the pirate in your example is that the pirate hypothetically would have bought "some" games at full price if piracy wasn't available, like I do. But that's not an assumption you can naturally make. Some people just don't care about playing games when they're new.

I'm just as inclined to assume that a pirate only buying bargain games would have the same legal consumption without piracy.
NFPM is not FPM: a deb/rpm package generator
But then you start doing violence to the categories. Twitter/Facebook certainly have entertainment functions, but they also have tentacles reaching deep into publishing and news. Now, suddenly a like for like comparison needs to include newspapermen, typesetters, printers and papermill workers.
Gov’t launches cyber security investment fund
There is an interesting documentary series about the study, called "Predict My Future - The Science Of Us".
>> So that the left side was your regular view, half width, and the right side was the continuation of the same page, where the left side ended.

+ 1.

Our two eyes are placed horizontally, giving us a landscape field of view. Yet, left-right eye movement/tracking is limited, so print or online reading material is mostly portrait. I guess we did not really evolve for reading! :-)

The book printing industry did not face this problem as they print on both sides of a page and then position these as the left and right pages of an open book! And sometimes also use of multi-columns formats when using wider papers (e.g., newspapers) or smaller fonts (e.g., journal papers).

Could someone not create a browser plugin that automatically lays out the content onto the left and right sides like a book? How would scrolling work is a question, as also asked by a comment here [1]. Do we really need scrolling? Aren't page flips just sufficient? :-)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16405710
The separation of pure and impure code in Haskell isn't something inherent to monads but is instead a side-effect (hah) of the typing rules of the language. It's easy to see how this separation need not hold when using monads (look at any monad library in virtually any other language), but more importantly there are ways to accomplish this separation without the use of monads (an effect-tracking type system is being developed along side OCaml's algebraic effects/multicore project).
LXC 3.0: Removal of cgmanager and cgfs cgroup Drivers
>while speed limit in Moscow is 60 km/h.

Only when you are outside of apartments' territory.

http://pddmaster.ru/pdd/pravila-dorozhnogo-dvizheniya-dlya-z...
Do we really need scrolling? Won't book-like page flips just be sufficient? :-)
https://www.sandboxie.com/

You can either run Steam sandboxed which in turn will sandbox all the games it runs, or you have to do a bit of finagling if you want to individually sandbox your games.
"Can easily replace" - you can easily become the president of the US, it is political problem, etc...
It is better to rephrase it difeerently: "At the moment we cannot replace fossil fuels with nuclear energy, and we do not know if we ever will be able. Due to different economical and political problems."
This would be more honest and would not conceal a valid pint of the author.
Out of interest, can you give an example of a problem you've solved using Z3?
The economic machine used to fulfill our basic needs, to keep us varm and fed. Now, that problem is solved, we have infinite sugar and cheap synthetic clothes. So it's on to massaging our psychological needs. And the market forces who gave us cheap soda gives us the same "solution" in FB, Twitter and friends.

A giant perverted maslov hierarchy for our society if you will.
on an area of how many square-bananas?
I've never dealt with the police regarding e-crimes. Do they have capable detectives in this area? I bet it varies widely.
Wait, flying cars? Did I miss something? How long have I been asleep?
Reading bits in far too many ways, part 2
State.of.dev – Explore the current state of development (2018)
Just don't try to tackle all of them at once. Take it as it is a way of flexing your muscles before doing exercise and only do a couple of them daily.
> Breaking DRM is still illegal, but that's all.

It's not illegal in all jurisdictions and even then there are cases that allow you to do it.
Peter Pan and the Copyright That Never Grew Up
It's pretty ironic, because that "disable AV" line is what you will find on most pirated copy readmes.
> If you're in the US or Europe, you don't have access to fresh coconuts.

What does fresh mean in this context? I can buy them whole from the supermarket…
Free Online Resources/Books to Learn R and Data Science
New Significant Features in Upgraded EntityDAC from Devart
Yes! a while back I had a consolation with a NHS specialist renal dietician and asked about lo salt versions of food /condiments.

They sniffed and said the low salt movement has been very well marketed but what they don't tell you is the "shit" they put in to food to replace the salt - which is actually worse than salt - same with these low fat spreads
Spoken like somebody who has never actually worked in a large company.

Picture a stereotypical manager who does nothing but attend pointless meetings all day. (S)he attends reliably, and is good at appearing busy and authoritative and otherwise managerial.

This manager will not be fired, as (s)he's outwardly doing work duties and not doing anything specifically incompetent or negligent.

Other management-layer folk like this person as they confirm to middle class white collar norms socially.

Nevertheless, this person is useless. Every company is full of people like this.
Another fun introduction to Lisp: http://landoflisp.com/
Well, I have Ph.D. in Physics, and what he says makes a lot of sense to me. And I did experiements and know that managing reality is much harder than thinking about it.
I’ve issued stop payments on ACH transactions multiple times with success, so yes, it’s definitely possible to cause an ACH return.
KFC shuts more stores in chicken crisis
I think the fact that the data shows gradual trends over long terms with reasonable changes at big inflection points such as recessions gives some confidence that it is capturing some real world signals.
My toolkit hasn't changed since 2016:

- Jupyter + Pandas for exploratory work, quickly define a model

- Go (Gonum/Gorgonia) for production quality work. (here's a cheatsheet: https://www.cheatography.com/chewxy/cheat-sheets/data-scienc... . Additional write-up on why Go: https://blog.chewxy.com/2017/11/02/go-for-data-science/)

I echo ms013's comment very much. Everything is just tools. More important to understand the math and domain
The best examples, those with more divergent results, are those with a lot of subordinate clauses, which get mixed-up and moved from different parts of the sentence. You can select complex sentences from the list below.
It is not so much progress, as fixing of bad science and bad interpretation of science. The overcorrections and pendulum are not necessities, they are result of bad science and its reporting.
At 1:05:20 one can see a bug where
(average 1.5 (/ 2 1.5)) evaluates to 1.3333
rather than 1.4166

Nitpicking aside, I would have loved to have this sorcerer among my CS professors!
CF: effective altruism or 80,000 hours for more in this vein.
> A vast majority of articles published right now will never even be reproduced and yet we take nearly all of them as if they are gospel.

First of all, who is "we"? I certainly do not take them for granted. Any other responsible scientist doesn't as well. Science is not always perfect, like everything in life. Testability and reliability are just its goals. When they are reached, this is the success of science. When not, we should push further and better.

> Science is based on some kinds of assumptions taken on faith (like every thought system). Here are a few (there are more surely).

>1) Everything is observable to us as human beings.

Not true. Quantum wave function [0] is not observable. But it works reliably nevertheless.

>2) Everything scientific will be reproduced and confirmed by someone else <...>

There is no such assumption in science, too. One just does the research which _can_ be reproduced. Due to the lack of infinite resources, only selected things are in fact being reproduced.

> his physical senses will not let him understand that third dimension.

What is 'understand'? This is not even a declared goal of science. No one 'understands' quantum mechanics [2], but it is tremendously useful nevertheless.

Upd: by the way, some scientists say understanding is just nonsense. Everything is just mathematics [3].

> Observations are powerful but they are limited by our observing senses.

Not true. We created many devices which allow us to observe what our senses cannot. An obvious example is X-rays.

> posting it online will make most people think it is true.

This is not a problem of a restriction of science. This is the nature of humans, which goes against science in general.

Upd2:

>You also forget that the meaning of life may exist and yet operate in a way we cannot sense. Just as there are planets we cannot see and may never be able to confirm.

Sooner or later we will reach those planets. There is nothing preventing us to fly there in principle.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_function

[2] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Richard_Feynman#%22If_you...

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.4024 via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15637074
Outside firewalling, Linux already has support for offloading switching and routing to hardware if possible (through switchdev). This works with Mellanox network cards for example.
compiled it recently while looking for R Resources. just blown away from what is out there for free from top most people in the field. please add to any resource that is missing here
Next time when making a pirate game that gets pirated, add a routine to use the pirate's webcam for a mugshot and use that mugshot throughout the pirate game for the baddies.
Just a thought.
"One of the curious features of the deep neural networks behind machine learning is that they are surprisingly different from the neural networks in biological systems."

What a silly thing to say. It's pretty depressing that there are obviously scientists, engineers, and investors out there with the arrogance and/or naivete to believe that software neural nets are something more than mere conceptual mimicry of layman-level theory about how actual brains work.

What's really sad is that however good brains are at what they do, it's also pretty silly to think that emulating them more closely is a good way to improve digital computer systems, which have entirely different strengths. Yes, take what we can learn from how brains process information efficiently, but don't try to force an incomplete and inaccurate model of brain function onto non-biological hardware and expect it to be anything more than a poor brain and a poor computer.
> [What makes you say] Swift is inferior? It seems like a huge improvement over ObjC.

Not the poster, but both of those can simultaneously be true.
It entirely depends on your perspective. I think the article is relatively balanced on either side, both stating the positives and negatives for the property market failing and also making tongue in cheek remarks about Londoners.

Personally I think the state stealing property is not a good thing, however, this could be a good thing if you take the opposing view.
No they select for fruits with the longest shelf life for economic reasons
It is illegal. Actually, in most of Europe unauthorized access to computer system is a criminal offense that might lead to jailtime, while downloading pirate movie/game is a small wrongdoing that nets you fine (unless it's for profit, large scale operation). And that's access only, distributing malware and stealing personal data are two more, separate criminal offenses. So basically that's shooting a boy who has tried to steal an apple in a crowded market.
Beyond convenience and honesty, my thinking about pirated software is that in a world where malware and viruses are prevalent, the last thing I would do on earth is to execute some dodgy cracking utility or game from some random torrent website, unless it is in an airtight and up to date VM.
> but classic common sense

Common sense is kind of a myth though right? You have no clue what is and isn't good for you: that's the point of people demonizing fat one minute and sugar the next, because you can't just do this on "gut feel".
Hellishly expensive in comparison, but I found the Garmin Fenix 5 to be the perfect replacement for my dear departed Pebbles. It helps that I wanted a fitness watch too, but even just as a smartwatch it ticks every box that the Pebble did for me, and looks way nicer on the wrist.
There is an API for creating one yourself, I did, not hard at all. Now it might not have a dictionary and other fancy features but it was adapted to our needs and it didn't take long at all to implement.
SpringBoot Messaging with RabbitMQ
You know that good hackers are wearing balaclavas!
So this video features a self-driving car developed by Yandex. Does someone have insight into why so many big tech companies seem to all be in agreement that developing self-driving cars is an area they need to be pursuing? Is it mostly everyone looking at what Google is doing and replicating that? Or is it the getting swept up by the Uber hype? Or is working on self-driving car software just such a natural extension to what these tech companies have been doing all along in their main areas of expertise anyway?

(I feel like this question must have been brought up a number of times already, since these projects have been going on for a while by now.)
> This is why many democracies end up with two party systems

Are two party systems really worldwide phenomenom enough to claim it is people issue? I thought it is consequence of American constitution or appears in counties with constitutions based on American one.
To emphasize, of course the monad interface isn't useful if the only implementation of it that you use is also the monadic implementation used by an imperative language. But if you "just" use an imperative language, you lose all the other implementations because the language hardwires the "conventional" one at the bottom. You lose the parser implementation of the monad interface, the free monad implementations (which are useful for writing "programs" that are then separated from their interpreter), the software transactional memory implementation, the probability implementation, the effects-controlling implementations (that go beyond "either in IO or not" to implement more granular controls), and the many other things that have been implemented.

Obviously that's ultimately a viable solution since almost every programming language works that way. But if you're going to ask "is the ability to implement the monad interface worth it for some given language?", you aren't going to get anywhere if you consider only one of the many implementations of the interface.

Why would anybody use the iterable interface if all it could do is the equivalent of "for (i = 0; i < arr.len; i++)" and couldn't iterate over a binary tree or hash table as well? Why would anyone use any interface if an interface only has one implementation, ever? The problem lies in the question, not the value of the interface.

(I'm trying to get better at phrasing my posts about "monads" better because one of the major problems they have is that people think of "monad" as a noun. But it is an interface, just like in Java or a Rust trait, that can be implemented by a type; it just so happens that the interface is not something that can be cleanly represented in most statically typed languages because of the high-order polymorphism. "Monad" is an adjective, not a noun. And "monads" aren't "about managing state" any more than the Iterable interface is about "incrementing an integer to walk over an array"; the conceptual error is the exact same kind in both cases.)
First of all, you're looking at a mass-produced ("artisinal" is marketing wank) low-fiber generic bread, with a rather low percentage of whole-grain flour.

Not to mention that what the US allows under the umbrella of "whole grain" is problematic.

Secondly, you're completely ignoring the fiber, vitamins and minerals you get from the bread, compared to eating straight refined pure white sugar.

No food is nutrionally perfect, but good whole-grain bread can certainly be an essential part of a balanced and healthy diet.

This war against all carbs is insane. Sure, you should absolutely avoid refined carbs and straight sugar. But that does not make keto/paleo a healthy diet.
As atrocious as it was, it was pretty late. The largest pandemics were probably hundreds of years prior. Some believe the herds of buffalo etc was a sign of an ecosystem in great change, where the change was extinction of societies that previously tended the land.
>Of course, the algorithmic approach lets you upscale any number of preexisting games.

This is the point of these algorithms, for sure. Hand-crafted graphics will always beat algorithmic upscaling of lower quality hand crafted graphics, given the same amount of time to do each, but that isn't possible for most examples of games with pixel art.
Well, you need to try to look beyound economy. There are such concepts as Energy return on Investment, when you start to thi9nk in pure energy terms. Horisontal drilling is much more energetically expensive. So you lower your return from 20:1 from conventional oil, to 7:1 or something like that. After some threshhold you don't have enough spare energy to pay to doctors, teachers and computer programmers. And industrial civilisation starts to collapse. Read Odum for these concepts.
And then get shutdown by PayPal for violating the ToS by transferring money into your own account unauthorized. How would that help?
I think where disagree is that you are framing it as cases that would be lost, where as I am interpreting as talking about cases that may have been lost. The difficulty is that that "might" can be interpreted in different ways here. Thinking about it, I can see why your interpretation is reasonable. I think mine is a reasonable interpretation too, though.

your interpretation = "we wouldn't have won but we would have scared them"

my interpretation "we may not have won every case but the very fact that cases were prosecuted would have been valuable"
Another spy recruitment tool in disguise?
Yandex runs an Uber-like service in Russia, would make total sense to get driverless cars.
Too many ex-Goldman execs are in positions of political power for that company to ever be punished in any meaningful way.
VC funds is where founders go to retire. Im not sure why this is a big/good deal - afaik, its a waste of talent.

The only people who can sustain investor jobs are the MBA hacks driven primarily by money and fomo. I have yet to meet a single founder who was happy with the lack of control that such a job requires.