skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We enjoy the taste of sweetness because it tends in nature to indicate that the thing we're eating contains a lot of energy, such as fruits and sweet vegetables. And we underestimate how finely attuned this sense is. Chew on wheat for a little bit and it will begin to taste sweet as the starch breaks down in your mouth and turns into sugar.

Sugar is ridiculously sweet. Anyone who's laid off sweets for a few weeks or months and goes back to eating a muffin or having a soda tends to find it offputtingly sweet. We've taken this evolutionary benefit and exploited it for pleasure, which is quite alright in moderation. But the natural pleasure we feel from the sweetness of fruit is set in overdrive with concentrated sweetness such as powder sugar.
Whoa I didn't think I'd see Dunedin on the front page. If you're ever in town the Early Settlers / Toitu museum had a good exhibition on this study the last time I was in there.
For OP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination_theory
IBM outsourcing deal with Aecom 'a mess' and the CIO is 'on his way out'
Ask HN: Best website for making source code public according to the GPL
Shipping products with open source components requires fulfilling some tasks, such as make the code of GPL-derived work public.

Instead of reinventing the wheel, I am thinking about making the code available on one website offering public git hosting such as github or gitlab or bitbucket.

Based on your experience, what hosting service would you recommend? Why?
You need carbohydrates for energy. Glucose is the primary source of energy for almost every food consuming organism. Too much sugar is harmful, yes, but don't say things that aren't true.
It's nothing majorly life-changing, like some of the other people in these comments (and I'm a bit late to the party).

But HN has given me a mostly nerd/geek/hacker/science/generally curious person focused news site that is simple and straightforward and doesn't try to track me or otherwise infringe on my privacy.

It has also given me comment sections that are generally full of thoughtful and intelligent comments, some of which I vehemently disagree with, but they are intelligent nonetheless. This is a marked contrast to the comments on Slashdot, where political rants and virulent racism/sexism/general assholishness seems to be the norm now.

So thanks everyone, for being civil and respectful.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_famine_of_1921%E2%80%9...

Your claim that it was a "forced famine" doesn't appear anywhere on that page. On the contrary, it states:

The famine's primary causes were due to severe flooding
in the Volga region in 1921, as well as the exacerbation
of the Russian Civil War.

The only pages on the internet that concur with your belief are anti-Semitic neo-Nazi blogs.

> it is still surprising that the only links you can find are from some fringe sites

Then again, for the third time of asking, provide some non-"fringe" links that claim, as you do, that it was a "forced famine".
Yes. What is being suggested by the zeitgeist is that we are in a transition period; and that the scale of the problem is going to be so large that it cannot be ignored.

That is, if 75% of the population has no job in 2150 you have a huge ethical and societal problem.
from what I understand it talks about embedded devices (a screen on a fridge or in an airplane). It doesn't say which one is better - it makes an argument based on cost.
Now switch to WireGuard for even better performance.
Great anecdote from Jeff Dean's twitter [1] about how they thought to try this experiment, given that doctors didn't know such a thing was possible:

"Funny story. We had a new team member joining, and @lhpeng suggested an orientation project for them of "Why don't you just try predicting age and gender from the images?" to get them familiar with our software setup, thinking age might be accurate within a couple of decades,and gender would be no better than chance. They went away and worked on this and came back with results that were much more accurate than expected, leading to more investigation about what else could be predicted."

[1]: https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/965720435290791936
a lot of people using spark?
Those kinds of jobs are only sustainable when the audience is 100-1000x + the size of the pool of creators. It's not a broad panacea.
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>Is this true? The stocking frame (and the reactionary group of Luddites that it incited) didn't really increase productivity.

It was largely used to employ cheap labor to produce crap. The luddites produced higher value artisinal goods.

The luddites weren't reactionaries intent on destroying technology any more than strikers are protesting against the concept of 'work', they were just saboteurs trying to improve their negotiating position.

The whole thing about them being anti-technology is historical revisionism. Similarly, French taxi anti-uber strikers in 2013 were literally depicted by Forbes as being "anti smartphone" - the motive for the lie being the same in both cases.

The reason why low wage employment and crap clothes were more economically successful at the time had more to do with the economically hemorrhaging effect of the Napoleonic wars - which led to cheaper, more desperate labor and a demand for cheaper goods. It's a bit like how McDonalds gets a sales boost during recessions while mid range restaurants take a hit.
How about accessibility, and other input methods? Is it hard to do with HTML5? Do any web frameworks make it easier?
"black people on average commit more crimes; these violent outburst make them unable to work in engineering teams"

Here; I took a real statistic, made it a generality and pretended that it applied to engineering.

Just because you cherry pick facts to support an argument does not mean that you are 'speaking the truth' as you wrote.

Moreover suggesting that a portion of your coworkers do not have its place here is crossing a very big line.
What I'm missing are some points regarding:

- Maintainability: Who will maintain a Qt application once it's deployed? How fast can a Qt application become modified?

- Cost for/of developers/development: How easy is it to find good Qt frontend developers/maintainers?

- System upgrades: How will HAM upgrade its appliances?

I assume he's talking about HAM as BSH (Bosch and Siemens Home Appliances). They're currently heavily researching IoT for their appliances. Looking at certain planned features, I guess their appliances will soon be equipped with more powerful embedded systems anyway...
Could You Fall in Love with a Robot?
I make the claim that you can go very far in the SciPy ecosystem without ever touching R.

It is worth understanding the concepts of numpy and pandas. Furthermore, try out IPython/Jupyter, especially for rapid publishing (people run their blogs on jupyter notebooks).

I think certain libraries depend very much on where you focus. Machine learning? Native language processing? Visualization? Something in economics? Fundamental sciences? For instance, I never need NLTK in theoretical astrophysics ;-) Instead, I need powerful GPU based visualization, which is however very old school with VTK and Visit/Amira/Paraview (also very much pythonic).
that is, i read it few months ago in spam from qt
If QT could produce a "themable" web app where you can give the theme.css of whatever it generates to a designer would be nice.
> There's an emphasis on speed, accuracy, and working with more unknowns

How is this not getting more work done? It sounds exactly like more work is getting done to me.
You don’t need to consume carbohydrates for energy. You can live off of fat and protein.
Hi, I'm wondering about buying a used Pebble 2. Does it make any sense though? Isn't it using some services now maintained by Fitbit which they can shut down at any point?
If you will work in some bigger company doing data analytics, you can also come across Tableau instead of Excel. Apart from SQL, if there is more data, you might want to use Bigquery or something similar.
If there are schools/libraries near you that run coding clubs you could go and help teach. If there aren't any around, you could help to start one up.

I have spent several years helping to organise and run a CoderDojo, and it has been a great way to meet new people, and you don't need a heap of technical people to run one, just one or two who can help with the really hard problems.

https://coderdojo.com/
Nutrition isn't a solved problem and it won't be for many decades.

"Problem" can refer to something you need to think to solve or to something you also need to do something to solve. General effects of different diets in health is known because before gobalization, every country had its own.

The real problem is how to deal with food production for billions, with different cultures and with huge companies using their money to manipulate science.
That's a fair argument, however we also want to exploit computational ressources. It's nothing new that clock speed stagnates but everything points to manycore architectures. Parallel crypto maybe hard but it is somewhat inevitable to research, investigate and implement.
Suppressing minority voters is the reason it is called for in the United States. The only people who think it is widespread in the United States are members of right wing organizations and generally states that had to have the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (made to stop the suppression of minority voters) imposed upon them by the federal government.

The reason the type of voter fraud you are suggesting is rare is because it's not that effective at swinging an election and it's cheaper to buy a politician's vote legally in the USA.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/11/upshot/vote-fraud-is-rare...
Any similar articles or advice about power law relationships in general (not distributions)? I've fit a lot of data to power law relationships in the past but don't know if there are any non-obvious pitfalls. I can recognize when a power law obviously won't work, but as has been said, a lot of data can look like a power law relationship. So for each obvious failure of a power law relationship, there are a certain number of false positives.
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Facebook/Snap/Gaming/Digital-Entertainment don't employ all that many people.

I'd be surprised if the ratio of entertainers / audience is much different than it was for, say, stars of silent movies 100 years ago, even though Charlie Chaplin wasn't doing something that could be termed "needed for society to function".
We have three sectors, agriculture, industry and service.

Technology has replaced people in agriculture, at the same time industry jobs exploded. Most people were shifted.

Technology has replace people in industry, but there were services to provide - lower paying - jobs. Most people were shifted.

Now technology replaces jobs in services. There is no "next" sector.
In principle, yes, PLEASE!!!

In practice, people have been wishing for a well-functioning micropayment system for well over twenty years and the best we have to show for it is PayPal. Flattr seemed like a good idea, mostly, but for some reason it tanked, too (AFAIK).

Either people are not interested in creating one that works, or the problem is really, really hard.
Great article that seems to leave the question unresolved.

If technological unemployment is not a large factor; but inequality within advanced economies is rising, then what other factors are at play? Are the changes necessary to deal with those causes the same changes that would be needed to deal with an all-knowing AI in 2150?
This article is about unemployment rates, but wage drops in lower paying job sectors is already a huge ethical and societal problem. It can already not be ignored. It is, nonetheless, still being ignored.
If you produce one report in a day, or a computer does it more accurately in 50ms and you don't need the person, the same amount of work is done.
If that's what increasing productivity is, then AI will surely increase productivity.

I think the shift will probably be towards internet-based jobs. Content creation / software development / content curation (think social media managers) / customer service, the things that it's hard for AI to get right.

It will probably take longer and definitely leave some malcontents but, so did the stocking frame.
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Alright, my aim is very off. But even 5 years would be enough don't you think ?
Lots of people would love to play in the NBA and would find it fun and satisfying. It's just that very few of them are 6'8", absurdly athletic, and skilled at shooting a basketball. However, if something like nanotechnology made it possible for all those people to play basketball at that level, then the entertainment and spectator aspect would fall away and the desirability of that occupation would go away as well.
Every time I pick through some new Scala code I feel like a detective because of this. It's a powerful feature but so unintuitive it makes life difficult.
Fruits are good. Fruit juice is bad.

Why?

The fibre content in fruits make consumption self regulated.

With juices however, refinement concentrates the sugars and removes fibre.

Example: You'd need to eat bags of coca leaves to feel high. A few pinches of cocaine?

It's difficult to eat half a stick of sugar cane. But trivial to eat 50 sticks worth of refined sugar.

Basically, overdose due to concentration by refinement is the killer.
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I think the story here is that the protesting students clearly didn't understand even 1% of the backstory either. They didn't come to the protest with a deep and sophisticated understanding of Alice Dreger's positions and history. Rather the protest was fueled by an inflammatory quote posted by a fake social media account under her name. Then the students blamed their confusion on her for not policing social media.

If you are against HN users commenting on Alice Dreger's story because we don't have the background, what do you have to say about 100 students from one of the country's top liberal arts colleges who showed up to a protest without even verifying basic facts about what they were protesting?
If you use Python: scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy, Tensorflow or PyTorch

Language agnostic:
XGBoost, LibLinear, Apache Arrow, MXNet
Empathy in architectural decisions to empower users
> sources like Patreon are the most appealing for me, though it might hurt websites I have not yet in my list and would not be able to access if I'm not a subscriber.

There's also the crowdfunding model. Backers can pay in advance to cover your production costs, and post-funding sales can earn you a profit. I've seen cases where the product became freely available once sales brought in a pre-determined profit.

Of course, this works best for individual productions with rather small budgets, such as documentaries or music albums. Not so much for big productions (think Hollywood movies) and not so much for periodic publications like magazines or blogs.
I don't know where you're based, but here in the Netherlands I can set up a Stripe account, connect any Dutch bank account and start charging worldwide. They do need a tax identification number but that's trivial to get here.
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Inheritance vs. std::variant in C++
Pypy is proof that you can speed up Python considerably. And it's written in Python. Imagine what could be achieve if one would write something like that in, say, Rust ?

My guess is that they didn't invest anywhere near the resources on unladden shallow (which was probably a side project) than they invested on chrome vm (which was a core project).

Actually, I spend quite a lot of time on the Python mailling list, and here you can see they regularly find things to improve, perf wise. They just have terribly low resources.

I've rarely seen a project as popular as Python, used by so many rich huge corporation, which such little resources actually. It's heart breaking.
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You can still buy them new [1] but fitbit is discontinuing support and services on June 30th. [2]

1. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KM4NCP8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_mB-I...

2. https://dev.fitbit.com/blog/2018-01-24-pebble-support/
> You need carbohydrates for energy

no you don't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis

> Glucose is the primary source of energy for almost every food consuming organism

yeah, those carnivores consume so much carbohydrates!

> Too much sugar is harmful, yes, but don't say things that aren't true.

the problem is with public perception of what is "too much" - it has to be lowered significantly and people have to start counting starches as sugar.

but in any case, you could always argue that fruits are good or starchy vegetables are good in moderation, but none of it will ever apply to table sugar.
Someone linked me this last time Pebble came up: https://us.amazfit.com/shop/bip?variant=336750

Heart rate data is stuck in their ecosystem and it doesn't have any open ended app capabilities, but for $60 on GearBest it's definitely interesting
That doesn't make any sense to me. So, if a tractor digs a hole in 5 minutes that a person could dig in a day, the same work is being done because a person could have done it? If a horse carries a person 10 miles in an hour and a car does it in 10 minutes, the same work is done because the horse did the same work as the car? Does an ATM do no work because a teller could do the same thing, just slower and at higher cost?

By your standard, does the industrial revolution mean that more work is being done?
Thanks for the insightful comment. Let's just not bother doing research any more and just go with our hunches from now on.
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> first, you identify inefficiencies in the market: weaknesses, loopholes, things like that

Huh? That's not what inefficiency means. It means that an asset costs more (or less) then it's worth.
I don't see why it matters. In the end, there won't be massive job loss to automation.

Automation right now can eliminate most farm laborers. So why are there still so many farm laborers in the world? Because

a) human wages in most of the world are cheaper than expensive machinery

b) There isn't a profit motive to automate away jobs that pay so little

c) structure of society is such that many technologies take decades upon decades to trickle out to most people in the world (talking the whole world here, not just Euromerica).

In addition, the service economy won't be automated away for a long time because human contact is valued by lots of people in that field. Service economy scales with the purchasing power of communities and AI is going to create a consolidation of purchasing power wherever it is introduced.
I don't know how to contact you, can't see anything in your bio. My details are in mine, be great if you could email me.
I honestly can't remember the last time I had to repair anything on my desktop PC, but I think it was a hard drive (which I promptly replaced with an SSD).

It's been running flawlessly since 2011.
Good luck getting any serious technical support with Qt. At least with HTML5 there's a huge amount of users and technical resources. I was never able to get answers to any technical questions that weren't trivial.
Okay, I'm not a scholar on European history, so you're probably right. It was just an example. Still there have been automations in the past. We're all still here.
Python: Jupyter, pandas, numpy, scipy, scikit-learn

Numba for custom algorithms.

Dataiku (amazing tool for preprocessing and complex flows)

Amazon RDS (postgress), but thinking about redshift.

Spark

Tableau or plotly/seaborn
People who still smoke nowadays aren't even deterred by the very graphic images of internal organs affected by smoking-related diseases that are printed on cigarette packs in many countries (next to very clear wording that smoking will harm you and people around you). So I doubt that this would make much of a difference in that regard.
> Now humans can start focusing on spending their day building things for the entertainment of other humans, and also choosing careers based on what they feel is fun/satisfying for themselves.

How long before we get to a situation where this is a realistic proposition for many people? Most people on HN live in a comfortable bubble. The reality right now is that the vast majority of jobs are not creative, fun, or satisfying for the people that perform them. Shop work, changing car tires, cleaning roads/offices/windows/people, mining, warehouse work, digging holes, erecting scaffolding, checking invoices, data entry, driving trucks, painting houses. Dull and exhausting: that's the reality of work for most people right now.
> it will begin to taste sweet as the starch breaks down in your mouth and turns into sugar

are you sure about this? wheat doesn't have any fructose, and it's the fructose in sugar that gives it sweetness. glucose is taste-neutral.
> Some good experiences with C

> Reading the POV-Ray code source code for the first time and learning how to do object orientation and inheritance in C.

But https://github.com/POV-Ray/povray is all C++... It even says "Written in C++" on the Wikipedia page. Was he talking about some other source, maybe some older version?

Edit: [1] Here is a discussion about this topic from 2012. It seems that POV-Ray was ported to C++ for version 3.7.

[1] http://news.povray.org/povray.programming/thread/%3Cweb.4f01...
What about Flutter? It will also have similar advantages over HTML as QT.
Stripe India is in private beta, I believe. Can you use something like Razorpay? Also I read somewhere that incorporating a business in India and setting up a bank account is a really difficult process... here in The Netherlands you can do it online and it's almost immediate...
same question that i have. Anyone using pyspark in production ?

Would you use pyspark mllib in a webservice instead of scikit ?
What does trump have to do with any of this
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The article is light on the description of what actually happened but there is a section about the impact of his action and whether he relised the impact.

One thing to understand is that there was not one but two distinct manipulations of Libor.

The first is the one this article refers to, which is before the financial crisis, swap traders influencing the libor submitters to move their contribution to the fixing by a tiny amount, often a couple of basis points, to fit the massive future positions they were sitting on. Completely unethical and illegal but unlikely to have any noticable effect on the market, kind of like stealing a penny from a million bank accounts. It’s still stealing, but the impact on the market is limited.

The second manipulation was of a different nature. It is at the height of the financial crisis, when banks were failing as a result of bank runs every week, libor submitters, probably under instruction / tacit consent from their management and regulators, low balled their contribution to the libor fixing to not appear to be struggling to fund themselves (by having a high cost of borrowing) since these contributions were public and investors were trying to infer what bank was next to fail. These low balling were probably in the 50-300 basis point range, ie with a material impact on the wider maket (borrowers should have paid significantly higher interest rates during that period). And this is the one whistle blowers complained to regulators about, falling into deaf ears.
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