skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. Decoherence is really uncontrolled and "in practice irreversible" entanglement, but in practice != in principle. The state is still in a superposition; it has just become practically impossible to demonstrate the fact.
From 1821 until adoption of the 14th amendment in 1868 New York required black men to own property to vote but did not require white men to own property to vote. There are many other examples of discrimination that could be found, but your entire position is frankly too absurd to bother arguing against any further. The idea that there were not at least two centuries of time in which there was some form of race based slavery or discrimination in New York is preposterous.
Correct, but software then needs to be explicitly mapped with a brightness range.

Otherwise you can't have on the same screen a game simulating a dark night with low contrast, and a guide for that game which uses the full contrast spectrum.

Your suggestions all break if I want to be able to have at the same time extremely low contrast content and text on the same screen, next to another, and want both to look fine.
In society we often interpret certain traits as moral failings, but if we put a label on it and make it a condition those traits become a result of bad luck instead of weak character.

The label has a net-positive value in that it can allow others, and yourself, to forgive more easily. Now if we could just learn to forgive without the labels, that'd be really valuable.
Might these proto-engineers also harnessed radio waves to transport signals across the aether for a form of telemetry?
Be different if you want to. Don't give in to peer pressure.

I think it was easier when I just saw it as peer pressure. In fact, I think the teenage maelstrom of awful social bullshit made it too easy for me to hope that maybe I wasn't the problem. Then everyone grew up, people got a lot nicer, and I had to face up to the fact that I was constantly screwing up social situations that should be very easy for everyone involved. Encountering someone friendly at a social event who wants to talk to me and is curious about where I'm from and what I do. Seeing someone who feels awkward and out of place in a situation where the right words from me could put them at ease and make them feel welcome. After talking to me these people can feel less comfortable than they did before, and not eager for a second encounter. A poor social performance can undermine good feelings and compound bad ones. When I was a kid and was a misfit for a lot of reasons, many of them positive, I could frame it as simply "not fitting in," but now I have every advantage and every opportunity and I realize I still have to be right on top of my game to avoid bringing bad feelings into the world for other people.
This is a fair point. I guess it would be more like a car enthusiast. Regardless, both cars and iPhones kill more people than guns, but those facts are not as convenient to some groups of people.
> With that said, I think the stock is a bargain today.

That's very disingenuous for you to say. If you are in it, you should disclaim it so that others know why you paddle it. If you know anything on TA (technical analyst) you know it broke uptrend and major barriers and will temporarily stop around 140-150 before it decides what to do next. In mere you should warn its your personal opinion.
About ML-related research, Fong also piqued my interest earlier with his categorification of almost PGMs. Though it didn't inspire him or anyone to bring effective methods of algebra to PGM and improve the base theory, making the exercise really shine. So like with many categorification research it's just a 72-page statement „it can be done”.

Brendan Fong (2012) Causal Theories: A Categorical Perspective on Bayesian Networks https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.6201
It doesn't make sense if the country cannot afford to properly educate all those programmers.

Don't shift the argumentation towards inequality.
The biggest names in AI technology are the very same advertisement companies. General public can't win in this arms race
To be fair, banks and trading markets affect the economy directly, which is a primary concern of the government.
It's Laffer curves all the way down with them.
BMW is sending me an SMS every month - how many cars do they think I need? I can't even call the number that sends the messages - it just says BMW.
The fact that they were both stupid and breaking the law doesn't make it better in my book.
I know SourceSafe was a disaster and didn't think anyone used it until I started with a firm in 2013 - thankfully they were on SVN, but the first commit of the repo was from 2009, which stated simply, 'Initial import from VSS'. The company was founded in 1995...

TFVC is annoyingly proprietary but seems to follow a solid client/server model. Git support is very nice.
Did you move away from Lastpass for any reasons other than self-storage/management of passwords?

Anecdotally it seems like a lot of people are losing trust in Lastpass. Just curious if this describes you as well.
Eggs or feta would have been a better choice.
> Guess what Facebook asks you to provide when initially setting up!?

Amusingly enough, so does Fetlife (NSFW). It's not outside the realm of possibility that even your specific kinks could be appended to that list.
Could you please start commenting civilly and substantively, like the guidelines ask?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Also, no mention of potential types like Ghost/Normal that have no weakness, or Ghost/Fighting that have complete coverage with their STAB moves. I haven't played in ages, but surely there's more type combinations that are exceedingly OP.
> My guess is that if you manage to do all of that you'll just end up bought by Facebook anyway.

Of course.. unfortunately you can't say no when some behemoth wants to buy you. /s
How to use Swift for back end development and deploy to Linux
Yes. Microsoft employees still use Skype
Universities capture it all. I agree with you, and I would further suggest that any publications done using public money should be released under the public domain. As it stands, that research is behind paywalls, and in many cases, researchers pay (again using public funds) to put it there. In other cases, researchers paid using public funds are doing the editing and reviewing for free. That's a whole other discussion though.
> It's the exact same hardware with artificial restrictions added to the software for unclear reasons.

Well, a quick search of Google Scholar turns up at least one citation in which the Freestyle Libre CGM was significantly less accurate in the first day of use than in later days, indicating that it needed more time for proper calibration:

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/dia.2014.0378

I expect that the differences are based on some actual findings, not just "unclear reasons," but you may have to do some research to find out.

The FDA is notoriously cautious, possibly somewhat excessively so, but there is some good reason for that caution; medication and medical devices can have unexpected behavior and side effects and it can take a lot of long term study to find them. One example of the caution working out well is the Thalidomide case, which was approved in many other jurisdictions but not in the US, and which had significant side effects on fetuses.
I knew that Google uses version control very differently than I do, but that seems insane. That averages out to 28 new files per commit. Unless I'm bulk renaming something, I rarely have more than a few files modified, let alone added, in a commit
> There have been way too many products pushed out failed utterly and abandoned by mozilla in the last few years.

Have there? Off the top of my head there's Persona and Firefox OS, the latter of which Mozilla kept trying to push on with long after the rest of the world had concluded it was doomed. Meanwhile we got Rust and Focus out of Mozilla.
This is a specific use of phenology, studying animal/plant life cycle events, like flowering time.

Since ancient times, people have noticed these events – the first snowdrops show spring, for example – and in the 19th century, some naturalist-nerds started recording the exact dates. This was then a surprise climate change dataset.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenology
Article on their migration: https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/24/microsoft-now-uses-git-and...
For java, I would look at gradle, not maven.

Of course, gradle hooks into the whole maven ecosystem but that is one of its advantages. Everybody in Java land understands Maven packages but how you generate doesn't matter.
On the other hand high counts of invisible tabs may be a hint that the code needs refactoring..
K&R isn't that terrible when code is neat and clean, but it starts to have trouble IMO particularly when declarations or conditions wrap to multiple lines. Compare the following examples... I personally have to stop and read the code to find the blocks with K&R braces, vs being able to see them at a glance with Allman.

void MyLongMethodName(SomeLongParamType param1, SomeOtherLongParamType param2,
YetAnotherLongParamType param3) {
if (longContrivedVariableName1 == longContrivedVariableName2 &&
longContrivedVariableName1 != longContrivedVariableName3) {
// do stuff
}
}

void MyLongMethodName(SomeLongParamType param1, SomeOtherLongParamType param2,
YetAnotherLongParamType param3)
{
if (longContrivedVariableName1 == longContrivedVariableName2 &&
longContrivedVariableName1 != longContrivedVariableName3)
{
// do stuff
}
}
EDIT: If you're downvoting to disagree, please explain why

Ha! This line was off the page when I read your post. I immediately upvoted it because (a) I agreed and (b) I knew it would be downvoted.

Scroll down one line and ta-da, I was right.
I suffered from a wide range of psychiatric conditions as a child/teenager. When I finally accepted my diagnosis, it all made sense. I understood why I was in so much pain for so long and I realized I wasn’t crazy, I just had a few tendencies that clustered together to cause the difficulties I was experiencing.
Hey everyone! I'm the author of this post, I'll be here to answer any questions.
I think the amount of development required to make a new SCM was more than the amount of development required to modify git. In addition most software engineers are already familiar with git so there is less training required, and it is used as a symbol of their open source embrace.
No no, that march is in January, but you don't hear about it on the news.
> I see very few complaints

If you live in a filter bubble (survivorship bias).
The pr0gramm.com-admins spend the whole day banning users that upload screenshots of this article to the platform.
Just in time for easter which is when I go to D.C.
It was on top of HN last year. I paid 60 cents that month.

The AWS CDN is really cheap, and 1 TB is a truly massive amount. Remember, this is static content, not megabytes of useless JS dependencies.

In any event, it's easy to set a budget in AWS. I'll add one now, just to be safe.
Sales lead idea:

Make a facebook account and befriend all (and only) your competitors, market to the suggested friends.
Just because “exuberance and fraud” are bound to happen doesn’t mean they are a good thing. I also don’t buy the skippery slope between pitching your vision and lying about the facts. Theranos clearly crossed the line, demonstrating that the line is sometimes clear. An article arguing that the line is sometimes blurry, or that deception can be a good thing, should draw on different material.

If Silicon Valley as a whole is a bit scammy, it doesn’t serve us to defend it on that score or spin it into a positive.
DARPA is effective because, in many ways, it is sort of a research aggregator and packager, focusing basic research into solving specific problems. There's no HN without news elsewhere on the web, just like there's no DARPA without basic research in all the sciences. As such, it's budget should probably be somewhat proportional to the budget of basic research.
Sometimes it's not about "oh I am gonna crush you financially" but "if you want to play, you need to play by the rules".
Their 2003 budget of $40B should be $54B in 2018 dollars.
How My Car Insurance Exposed My Position
Of course we’re talking about different things. Facebook knows it and is confusing the issue intentionally. The last thing they want is a nuanced discussion of informed consent and how it relates to click-through alerts nobody ever reads.
> For example, EM radiation of certain wavelengths hit the eyes which cause us to experience colors.

Right, but our knowledge of EM radiation would be knowledge of the noumena. Science tells us that EM Radiation exists independent of our perception. Color is mind-dependent, but not electromagnetic radiation.

To be full-on Kantian, you would have to say that everything we conceive is mind-dependent with some unknowable reality out there being the source. That includes all of science.
It depends. Sheets with multiple users is a bad smell to me.
"The only problem with an honest buck is they're so hard to make - the margins are too low, too many people are doin' it." -- Yuri Orlov , 'Lord of war' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399295/quotes/qt04033055

There will always be unethical people willing to exploit the commons for their own profit. Some will do so spectacularly, as a society it's our job to ensure that the EROI of such actions are < 1x so that they will lose out in the long run. Elizabeth Holmes was thoroughly unethical and will spend the next decade paying for that choice, I doubt she profited from it.
That will work for direct dependencies but not dependencies of dependencies. See https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24500
It definitely was written in HyperCard, using a couple of custom 'XCMD' extensions for the color images and QuickTime animations, which HyperCard itself did not support at the time.

One of my early contract jobs involved reverse-engineering the entire game and reconstructing it as a screen-saver, with a little AI that would generate plausible game-play activity while you watched. The startup that hired me got sued out of existence approximately ten seconds after shipping the product, despite our scrupulous attention to copyright (everything we used was loaded off the CD at runtime), and that was a valuable lesson about the true nature of the legal system. Even still, the experience of immersing myself in that game world deeply enough to recreate its structure remains a fond memory.
Especially in the pitch, the value of a lie there is quite low and the long term costs of a mismatch are great.
Ask HN: Glamorous vs emotion vs styled components?
There are all these new fancy ways to write CSS, can somebody explain to me what is the difference between them and which one should I choose?

Is there a good reason to switch to them if I'm pretty happy with Sass+Bootstrap?
The difference in Silicon Valley is that the shipments go out and there’s nobody checking. It’s a big fucking difference too.
“Government is often used to funnel money to well connected friends” in general. DARPA is by no means unique in that regard. It is unique in that every 20 years or so it manages to crank out something that turns the world on its head.
Indeed the FDA is cautious. But we can also show the other way that inhibiting these technologies also has fatal results too.

What's the right regulation? I don't know.
"I'm less worried that the Trump campaign used CA"

But, and maybe someone can clarify, every single intelligence agency has come out and said that there was some interaction between Russia and Trump and, more specifically, between Facebook and Russia. And it's been proven Facebook is directly implicated in both the Trump campaign and Russian election meddling.

We hold the ability to vote in free elections as pretty a basic fundamental right in a democracy, so why wouldn't this be the thing we should all be worried about?
Only if you think all forms of realism are indefensible. But why think that given the success of science and technology?
+10

TCO is indispensable, when a language is used as the target language for a compiler.
Show HN: Stephen Hawking's Text to Speech Simulator Using HMM/HTS
https://voicemynah.com/

hello HN

I've tried to build a Text to Speech system based on Stephen Hawking's Text to Speech System (using audio samples extracted). I don't have any use case in mind as this was just a fun experiment to see how close the speech sounds. Appreciate if you could give it a try and leave feedback.
VCs can invest money with garunteed payments greater than 1x. It doesn't mean that if the company sells for less than their investment they'll get their money back, but if they put in 1x and are garunteed 2x and first in line to get paid, when the company gets sold for 3x the VC gets their 2x and all the other investors/employees get to pull from the leftovers
as in echo chamber?
In my experience, anything that allows one to better model their feelings can have significant impact on life. That might come from a diagnosis, though I haven't experienced that myself.

When someone says, "Nothing is wrong with me, I'm just autistic" they might feel as though they can stop predicting how they'll respond in a certain situation—or as a result of a certain decision—based on what others expect of them. Instead they have the opportunity to anticipate themselves without judgement and stop doing things that hurt them.
Haven't got a diagnosis myself but I tick a lot of boxes for mild autism and a few articles I read about it 5 years ago (31 at that time) made me realize it's a pretty good explanation for me.
I'm not surprised that women are diagnosed less, they are integrated into the social web of family and friends a lot better and from early on. I'm pretty sure I didn't have even a 10th of the social interactions my little daughter has. If only I could remember more than 10 things from my childhood.

On quote from the article that I find heartbreaking is this one:

> I’ve watched people carefully and studied psychology to degree level to get me to the point where I can now act quite naturally.

Acting to appear normal, I can do this for a few hours (assuming they serve a social lubricant ;), but put me in a room with small kids, parents and bad acoustic and I need to get out after an hour.
My wife's not helping in such situations, actually is embarrassed by my reserved behaviour and inability to connect. She knows that I think I'm an aspie but held it against me so often, that I wish I hadn't told her. She even complains about me not looking in her eyes when she talks, despite know that I'm not wired to do that. On the other hand, no one before pointed that out to me.

What's the point of a diagnosis at 36 when all I'd do with it is show it people who wouldn't believe me otherwise?
Because getting the diagnosis explains what's going on, gives you access to a wealth of resources to understand things that were previously mysterious, and unlocks a community of people with the same condition as you who will understand. These testimonials talk about spending years in the wilderness with no idea why you don't fit in.
> TRR

?
Yeah that is true.
No driver to hold responsible, just machine and billion dollar company behind it. And their lawyers ready to punch a hole in your face... confusing, isn’t it?
My experience is quite different. DARPA is a good agency to work with for engineering seed funding in academic research. They're willing to fund some interesting ideas that other groups think are too risky.
"But it’s a logical flaw to think that if we have to take it seriously, we also have to take it literally."

This is a perspective I like to take on the world's various flavors of spirituality. I really liked the "desktop" analogy, in particular. Spirituality is a very useful abstraction on top of reality, which our minds have evolved because of its usefulness. The fact that elements of it don't exist doesn't make them meaningless or reduce them to a simple opiate; just because we shouldn't take them literally doesn't mean we shouldn't take them seriously.
> iPhones kill more people than guns

How?
"If a company like Apple were running it and people were paying for it, that would be a different matter."

Oooh if only Apple did "social" apps well; they are famously not-so-great at doing them, I'm not sure where that comes from at root though.

Shooting from the hip: Maybe their intense internal secrecy translates into a worldview where the hyper-focus on the 1:1 relationship with their customer obscures their ability to see how their customers (and potential non-customers!) could interact; might even be dangerous.
Yeah your OS is 60 times bigger and it still has to get dragged down by business models. Nix was literally invented to be small thats why we have kernel panics. Still I'd love to get a carbon copy of the windows source. Could you imagine the power...
It’s not just sensationalized. It’s a lie. The “overpriced” part is entirely made up and the “63k families” is a misrepresentation of the 63k individuals in homeless shelters.
KeepassXC browser integration actually works well.
Creating with a Design System in Sketch: Part One (Tutorial)
That's just a ternary operator. I use that in Java all the time.

value = boolean ? this_value : other_value;

If the branching logic gets too complicated, I usually move it into a function (private method) with a return in each branch.
What's unclear is not the data but the decisions they made based on the data. Why is that first-day margin of error acceptable for European diabetics but not American ones?

Anecdotally, as a diabetic, the margin of error in that paper is much less scary than going 12 hours without a CGM. Poor data is much better than no data, especially if I know the data is going to be a little questionable the first day. I was completely ready to switch from Dexcom to the Libre until they announced that restriction.
>> You could not form a true description of the innards of the computer if your entire view of reality was confined to the desktop. And yet the desktop is useful. That blue rectangular icon guides my behavior, and it hides a complex reality that I don’t need to know. That’s the key idea. Evolution has shaped us with perceptions that allow us to survive. They guide adaptive behaviors. But part of that involves hiding from us the stuff we don’t need to know. And that’s pretty much all of reality, whatever reality might be. If you had to spend all that time figuring it out, the tiger would eat you.

What he's overlooking in that desktop metaphor is that there are people who understand ALL of the inner workings down to atoms. No single person has it all in their head, but the software was written by human minds to run on hardware created by human minds that understand the device physics down to a very low level. A user of the software doesn't have to have a full model of the reality - in fact that was the entire point of the desktop metaphor, to make it simple for people so they don't NEED to understand it all in order to use it. For most users that is sufficient level of understanding, and if everyone took the full deep dive we would indeed all be eaten by tigers. But that only says none of us has a full model of reality, it does not say our model of reality is wrong in any way.

I find it amusing that he chose a metaphor designed to hide the complexity of reality from people while ignoring the fact that it was done that way deliberately by people.
I think this style dates back to K&R C where you (maybe) declared argument types after the parens.

int max(a, b)
double a, b;
{
return a > b ? a : b;
}
good comment.

Most folks think in terms of absolutes, like "good vs bad", "right vs wrong", "steve jobs", "freedom", "jail", "fraud", "ponzi scheme", "criminals", and don't care about the details. People are easily misled by labels, like "Little Marco" or "Lyin' Ted" or "Crooked Hillary"

All of a sudden people are calling Theranos a ponzi scheme when it's doing something completely different.