skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The quality of Netflix's recommendation engine went downhill quickly after their move away from the 1-5 star rating system last March. I put a lot of time into picking the right values for each of the movies I watched and was constantly amazed and how good its recommendations were.

Still a happy subscriber, just a little less so.
I met Dr. Coase at a small meeting/conference that a consulting firm put together for its clients back in the mid-nineties. It was my first encounter to his thinking, and it was transformative for me. Today when I think about blockchain technology, I can't help but imagine how Coase would jump all over it and theorize about the further disintegration of large companies and how they will be organized. Reading about this tech with a Coasian mindset will also lead one to conclude that blockchain tech without an open digital token has limited value.
>a survey

right
There are plenty of highly talwnted people who work for existing companies vs start their own thing. The fact that big companies often acquire startups I think has less to do with caliber of talent and more the focus of that energy. You are asked to move some KPI OKR whatever. And you are evaluated on how much you move it on at least an annual basis. Successful startups often take many years to become valuable or product revenue. It's too risky for most companies to hold off evaluating for that long.
I’d say that LinkedIn is a much more notable supporter of Ember than Tilde.
Ask HN: If you are a freelancer, which are your three biggest problems?
If you’re a freelancer, which are your biggest problems and how did you solve it or you hope to solve it. You can list three problems
Just a misread of the data by a well-intentioned scientist and some meddling humans.
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There are parasitic mites that attach themselves to ants and they look like a colored dot (usually red).
I think the ant “thinking” that the dot was a mite is a much more plausible explanation than the that the ant is some how conscious with its cluster of like 3 and a half neurons
Not really, tbh. You’re certainly right that design is oppinionated. It might be useful to have some different styles for different feels.
For you and for other tech-heads like us, possibly.

For the public at large? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_illiteracy#Prevalen...
We've been using Ember at Intercom for over 4 years to build our main app.
We continue to be super productive with Ember, our customers love our product, our code base has never been healthier and Ember's careful upgrade path and approach to deprecations means that we don't spend much energy or time thinking about non-product related technical challenges. The 6 week release cycle is great.

We've grown from 10 to 150 engineers in that time and Ember's strong conventions has helped us continue our tradition of enabling new engineers shipping to production on their first day and shipping a feature to production in their first week.
Depends on the machine architecture really but I agree in principle.
The problem is that the prevalent view of what is considered 'systematic fashion' tends to change rather quickly.

Even in modern science, there is a lot of ambiguity about what scientific method 'permits'. For example, many physicists would scoff at the idea of String Theory being called real physics.

What happens, if, in some 500 years we find a definitive way to simulate experiments? I can see any physical science not validated by such a simulation being dismissed.
I much prefer the original black on white, personally.
>My reasoning is based on Apples actions, their own comments, experiences of third party repair shops who are being threatened by Apple, and my own experience with third party repair shops

No... your reasoning is based on your interpretation of all parties' intentions of which you have no basis for combined with flat-out misinformation about what the third-party repair shops are doing/claiming. Apple is not stopping anyone from choosing where they repair their products nor are they stopping third-party repair shops from repairing their products. The fact that you continue to spread this objectively false information is all anyone needs to know to validate that your position is unfounded. If it was, you wouldn't have to lie and rely on already discredited information to make your point. Your point would stand on its own. As it is, though, it falls apart immediately under any kind of basic scrutiny.
The process of fossilization by definition replaces organic material with very hard minerals. The fossils we find today are the ones that by chance have fossilized into the hardest minerals under the best conditions for preservation -- buried in the right kind of mud at the time, or by tar more recently, or in ice, or in a bed of limestone.

I can find one not-great reference suggesting that carbon fiber items are expected to be in landfills for on the order of hundreds of years -- not very long in geological scales. Steel rusts and degrades spectacularly easy, and a lot of the steel we've produced is exposed to conditions helping it along.

Neither of these items is susceptible to the process of fossilization; it's that process that helps preserve some things for a long time. The stuff we make has to last that long all by itself, and we're not that good at making things yet.
I'm curious what prompted two people to disagree with this comment so quickly, with no comment.
How long before roads churned under the pressure of the earth into indistinguishable small pieces of rock? Would they be gone in less than a million years?

When built on top of freezing and thawing soil the current roads and asphalt start crumbling away already in few years only.
That's true, it just seems like there might be downsides to only working in one language. Even though the upsides of Node and React are great.
right in the middle of pip-conda-deb / py27-py35-py36 conflicts here.. I was startled to see a pip 9.0.3 msg "urllib3- download is not secure, get the newest version of python"

first thanks very much for all the work in the ecosystem.. not kidding. huge respect to the SciPy stack .. and others coming up now..

second, is this pip 9 msg really a veiled coercian to use Python 3x !?! really? using security cert FUD .. I really hope this is not the right interpretation of the msgs I saw on an ubuntu server yesterday.. It is a breach of trust, and so wrong on so many levels.. DO not become what you despise.
I love Joe Rogan, but cringe when he gets into conspiracy theories. He’s so easily mislead cause he just listens to his friends and guests, and rarely does any independent reading or research.
The nuclear war between the Dinosaurs and the Martian Kangaroos laid waste to both their planets 65 million years ago. The final phase occurred when the Martian forward base on the moon, from where they bombarded the earth, was wiped out by asteroidal bombardment by the dinosaurs. Then the Venusians moved in and finished the job, eliminated all the remaining dinosaurs and the Martian kangaroo people and retreated behind their cloud cover. A few 'roos survived, but retroevolved to a pastoral state. We had better tread with care - lest we anger Venus...
From the documentation [0] for Mutex<T>:

For a mutex, this means that the lock and try_lock
methods return a Result which indicates whether a
mutex has been poisoned or not. Most usage of a mutex
will simply unwrap() these results, propagating panics
among threads to ensure that a possibly invalid
invariant is not witnessed.

A poisoned mutex, however, does not prevent all access
to the underlying data. The PoisonError type has an
into_inner method which will return the guard that
would have otherwise been returned on a successful
lock. This allows access to the data, despite the
lock being poisoned.

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/sync/struct.Mutex.html
I have felt, increasingly, like the only way to deal with this and many similar problems (global warming, growing wealth inequality) is a legitimate global government with real authority.
Unfortunately, it feels like the public appetite for institutions like that has never been lower, and all the smart people seem to be obsessed with decentralization.
From the article:

If vaccination campaigns and modern sanitation systems don’t outpace the pathogen, they anticipate a return to the pre-antibiotic era when mortality rates soared.

“This isn’t just about typhoid,” ...“Antibiotic resistance is a threat to all of modern medicine — and the scary part is, we’re out of options.”

Typhoid is endemic to Pakistan, where poor infrastructure, low vaccination rates and overpopulated city dwellings persist.

Experts are also reinforcing hygiene habits for prevention: washing hands frequently, boiling drinking water and eating well-cooked foods. In the longer term, modern sanitation infrastructure is needed.

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We aren't out of options. The article itself provides options: Fix the infrastructure problems. Make sure people stop living in filth and have access to clean water and modern sanitation.

This is handwringing and it also amounts to justifying not fixing the infrastructure problems, which I frankly find not only disingenuous but also disgusting.

Furthermore, in the pre-antibiotic era, people went to "the baths" -- usually located at a natural hot spring -- where they took hot and cold treatments. It's harder to kill infection that way and it really helps to have access to modern water infrastructure, but it is possible to kill infection that way.

There are other options for treating infection beyond that, such as herbal remedies. For decades, antibiotics have been the slam dunk, sure fire answer that is convenient because you can pop a pill and head off for your job while recuperating, but they aren't the only means we have to kill infection.

There is also research on reversing antibiotic resistance. But those studies get largely ignored while the public focuses on these kinds of dramatic stories because, in the minds of most people, news means bad news, a point I have made many times before and don't feel like harping on by giving my same tired examples involving Y2K and the Kuwaiti oil well fires.

There are myriad other options. We just don't really like hearing that for various reasons.

I would much rather see the world focus on how to get the infrastructure built and how to come up with effective solutions rather than more dystopian fiction indulging macabre fantasies of a future without antibiotics where we can't really be arsed to solve it because we are such drama llamas.
Argument: China Will Always Be Bad at Bioethics
This is how the end of e-mail as we know it looks like. Self destructing messages, expired attachments, disabled forwarding. Heck, they took the mail out of the e-mail.
Also the notion that only great products besides search for google came from acqusition is false. Top of my head: gmail.
I always wonder: how are journalists supposed to get paid when people steal their content?
Yeast probably is millions of years old; but a species being millions of years old doesn't naturally cause it to spread across the face of the Earth. Sometimes a thing evolves in a niche and can't get out of that niche (despite there being other places it could thrive) because it's surrounded on all sides by inhospitable local habitats.
Most small/middle companies hire people with a CS degree who can create a data model, some APIs in any language and then build a JS web app calling those APIs. Well, at least that’s how companies work in France. Not sure what’s mythical about these profiles, they are the most commons from my experience.
There is no "HN crowd" in that sense. This is a common illusion, known as the Hostile Media Effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effect

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22hostile%20media%20effect%22...

People with opposite views have opposite images of the "HN crowd". Since these images are determined by your/their own views, they don't contain any information about HN.
One of my favourites I watched recently was Dan Abramov introducing React hot loading, Redux and Redux Dev Tools in the same 30 minute talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsSnOQynTHs
19 years old John Titor will be sad tonight in his alternate universe.
Figure out what's more important, learning something new or building a project.

I think there's a point where you're experienced enough for it not to be a trap. Concepts, patterns, and structures repeat and once you've started to accumulate enough experience, learning a new language or framework is just implementing things you've seen elsewhere. Then it becomes a choice of productivity and what does the project benefit from most.

If you're not there in your career yet, focus on learning something new. I promise it'll be a level up one way or another. For your project, it might delay it a little, but it'll help your resume and round you out as a developer.
Yep, there's more than one kind of corruption. It's hard to compare dollar amounts and lives
I fear it might even be too late. Tech-hotspots like Shenzhen are so highly specialized on producing any kind of tech extremely fast, that the Western world cannot replicate that without massive costs that would instantly double all hardware prices. The kind of expertise needed to create those manufacturing powerhouses might not even be in Western hands anymore.

Nowadays, if you are a hardware start-up that needs specialized components, you don't start in the EU or NA - you go to Shenzhen to get your prototypes cheap and super fast. Often within two days from design to working prototype.
(or happens to say or do something incriminating in response to a clever trick/setup)
You might enjoy Marooned In Real Time, in which a few humans accidentally persist 50 million years past the seeming annihilation of the rest of the human race.
"But if readers can’t supply the missing information, they have a hard time making sense of the text."

This is what angers me the most about the ACT exam. I recall that passages with vague and uninteresting topics were difficult to comprehend. What was even more infuriating was a passage on a capacitor physics experiment in one exam. I initially enjoyed the passage because I had a thorough understanding of capacitance and voltage across two plates, but it turned out that for the sake of the "comprehension," the equation for capacitance was INTENTIONALLY rearranged in a way that violated the laws of physics. In other words, the meaning and relevance of the content of a passage in a comprehension exam like the ACT was intended to be misleading for the sake of testing attention to one tiny detail.
The article refers to ancient surface, as in, the oldest place that we can find that has continuously been an exposed surface. The take away is that most areas don't remain stable at the surface, either they erode away, or get buried via sedimentation.

The article is in no way stating the oldest bit of the Earth's crust is 1.8 million years old. Crust has a specific meaning, the chemically differentiated rocks at the surface i.e. everything but the very very rare bits of exposed mantle. Oldest oceanic crust is <200 Ma, oldest continental crust dates to the Hadean (4.4 Ga, if you set the bar at only zircons).
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It's not hard. All the DARPA Grand Challenge vehicles, including ours, could do that in 2005. Watch the technical video from Chris Urmson at SXSW about how Google does self driving.
Thanks! More platforms are coming soon; we started with a single platform (Mac) so we could launch and iterate.

Our animation engine IS a UI engine, and we decided to ship an "interactive animation builder" as its own thing. If you can make any pixel render any value at any time, you can express any UI. Component composition, layouts, form controls, and more are coming soon.
> To be honest, this is horribly unfair. Somehow ELL students are seen as “behind” the native speakers when that’s only when you measure them in English.

This does not reflect the reality of US practice, in which students may be labeled "ELL" even if they prefer to speak English at home and/or with their friends. You graduate from the ELL designation by passing a standardized test, so it's more of a designation for "who's stupid" than for "who has trouble with English". It's not really surprising that a group defined by their inability to score well on standardized tests turns in poor scores on other standardized tests.
That link scares the hell out of me. More alarm bells should be ringing about this issue.
The “GDPR consent” email I’d like to receive
I should have noticed that. Thanks for pointing it out. I do think the title on the page is a bit more nuanced.
Perhaps consider moving the site to Firebase and put Firebase Authentication in front of it (believe the author piece is free based on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44161195/which-pricing-t...) ? Firebase services also have a general free tier (although may not be suitable to your use case if course), and many paid pricing levels.
>"These days, it's not the legacy. It is mostly regulation pushed by Chuck Schume"

The OPs comment was that the airlines were burdened by legacy from the 1950s. Mr Schumer's legislation is quite recent. Additionally the legislation "Passenger Bill of Rights" is quite reasonable - let your customers off the plane after 3 hours of delay. It's pretty easy to avoid that penalty. It's also worth pointing out that legislation was in response to unreasonable practices by the airlines in the first place. I'm not sure why it is even relevant here.

>"The main legacy are the huge health care and retirement obligations"
How is this relevant to discussion about the practice of intentionally overbooking?
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>The polynomial (3, 1, 0, 0, 0, ....) Induces a natural map from R to R that is generally called “evaluation”.

I am well aware of this. If you look at my comments within this very chain, you will see that I made reference to polynomial evaluation, which I will call Ev(f, x). I Am not denying that the partial application given by f' = x -> f(f,x) is naturally induced by the polynomial f. Nor that this is so natural that it often makes sense to identify f with f' so that we would consider f=f', even though they are different types of objects.

>Ask a million mathematicians, “is x^2+3x a polynomial” and without hesitation they’ll say yes.

As will I, because the distinction between formal polynomials and expressions which can be naturally modeled as polynomials is so unimportant that it is almost never worth thinking about.

Put another way, how would you compute the following sets:

{ x \in C | x^3 - x = 8 }

{ x \in C | x^3 = x + 8 }

{ x \in C | log(x) = x^x }

{ x \in C | sin(x) = .7 }

{ x \in N | exists y \in N such that 5x + 3y = 1 }

Are you really claiming that these questions are ill-posed without stating them in terms of algebraic geometry?
In my opinion YC had some good wins early on but now, especially as the cohorts have gotten much larger, it’s not clear if they’re still “kingmakers”. It would be more impressive if their cohorts were still very small and had a high success rate (however you measure success).
There are 3 sides to every story. In the US the mafia "supports" the workers but violeny hijacks unions for it's own profit.

The "Fasci" "workers" became the Fascist government that went on a murderous rampage across Europe
I'd be more inclined to fall in line with their data collection practices if dental insurance wasn't so utterly useless as an insurance product.

It almost always makes sense to save the premium payments up and pay out of pocket for any dental services you need.
Your comment intrigued me so I went on some quick reading.

Worth pointing out that the group at play in Southern France seemed to be predominantly Corsican - though not to say that Scilians or the Scilian Mafia were not involved.
Facebook's partner “fact checked” a satire site
I personally liked star ratings more, but can see why they'd make the switch. Average star rating is basically a 1 dimensional model, but now what they're doing is communicating a prediction: how much will so-and-so enjoy this show.

A show can still have a lower match for all people (similar to having fewer stars). But I think I still like the (assumed) transparency of stars better.
Not really a SaaS website, but I really dig this https://district0x.io/
If this is a problem that concerns you, get off your behind and do something about it. Whining that there isn't some all powerful government to take care of every problem for you is not productive.
I'm going to guess they start with a generic human model that includes all limbs and extremities and then the "machine learning" process attempts to fit that model to the silhouettes extracted from the video.
So you’re saying the page is simply incorrect and hints at no interesting ideas?

I see the world as composed of interconnected entities which metaphorically influence and resonate with each other, and there is a lesson in the creation of (metaphorical) power by the closer synchronization of these entities.

I extrapolate the implications of this as literally revealing a path leading to world peace.

In sum, I enjoy thought-provoking interpretations way more than thought-restricting interpretations.
Is there a reason that the PostgreSQL TIMESTAMP type only goes to microsecond (not nanosecond) precision?
I did the same. I remember spending a week trying to have an out of body experience per instructions from one of his shows. Rest well, Art.
Given that pillow lavas can be recognised in some eclogite facies rocks, I think a porcelain toilet would stand a good chance of remaining recognisable at all the way to granulite or eclogite facies, as long as it is not too deformed.
Did you notice that y2kenny was talking about how, if you use local feature branches, then the remote tracking branches make it really clear what's been published vs not? The implicit meaning is that we should use local feature branches but also publish them to the repo while we're working on them.

But maybe to you, 'publish' means 'publish to master'? In that case I can assure you, they are not necessarily the same thing. I regularly work on a local feature branch, publish that branch to the shared repo, rebase it on top of master, then force-push to the shared tracking branch. When I'm done I merge it into master and don't rebase master on top of anything.
Yeah he's a lovely chap. I remember him making hateful comments about a British swimmer called Rebecca Adlington's face a while back. She won a gold medal at the Olympics - so wtf does it matter if she has a big nose, and who tf is he to criticise her? Somehow his lefty fans choose to overlook the misogyny and hatred when it's mixed in with enough politically correct, anti-Trump etc. material.