skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Autonomous agriculture
Why are there so many Russians in crypto?
That's naive approach to decision making seemingly based on a narrow frequentist outlook eschewing a copious amount of prior knowledge on the subject. An analytical/scientific outlook on deciding behavioral decisions doesn't mean you only accept things based on whether a single research trial rejects the null hypothesis. I'd recommend reading more on probabilistic decision making [cf 1].

Personally this research has convinced me to try a small amount of baking soda. Specifically, I'm basing this decisions as the outcome of an internal decision matrix based on reading a lot of prior literature and personal experimentation balanced with the low risk of the behavior changes and not by taking the article in isolation. Personally, I've read a number of various "anecdotal" evidence pointing toward acidity / pH balance but didn't take it too seriously as it seemed unlikely modifying dietary pH levels could affect blood chemistry. This article provides both a plausible method of actions built around solid dual-pronged approach. The direct physiological studies with mice shows direct (and high powered results) indicating shifting populations of regulatory cells based on sodium bicarbonate intake. Combined with even a low power human based trial it overall yields a fairly convincing argument. There's lots of prior evidence linking RA severity with regulatory immune cells [2]. In the rise of recent direct links of immunology and gut flora it's very likely there's links of diet to immunological health as well.

Therefore, I'm going to experiment a bit and see if it helps with periodic inflammation. Unfortunately whether any effects last long term or build up tolerance would be good to know. But even temporary relief that could cope with flare-ups would be very helpful, and given the caustic nature of auto-immune medications a bit of baking soda has small risk profile [cf 3] that I'm willing to tolerate.

1: https://cocosci.berkeley.edu/tom/papers/OneAndDone.pdf
2: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/1529-0131%28...
3: https://www.statnews.com/2017/06/05/actemra-rheumatoid-arthr...
The author of the linked analysis specifically says they do not mind trips taking longer (Uber Pool is not nearly as fast as Uber X) considering how much money they are saving. I am doing the same comparison: public transit takes longer than Uber Pool, but you save something like 50%. So I think this is apples to apples.
Monitoring API for Wrappers of Let's Encrypt Clients
Operating system for security tagged architecture hardware [pdf]
vim-tiny differs from regular vim in how much stuff is compiled into it. Regular vim is actually quite hefty since it includes e.g. scripting bindings to Python, Perl, Lua, etc.; or support for X11 (which is useful even in a terminal for working with the X clipboard), and so on. If you have both vim and vim-tiny installed, you can use the command ":version" to compare which features have been compiled in.
> If types are not erased then `foo` can behave differently when given, say, a `String` or an `Int`

Perhaps worth pointing out that this doesn't apply to languages like Java and C# though (which I think is the most common comparison, since generic support is quite similar between the two, but Java has type erasure and C# doesn't) as both languages support `instanceof` and `getClass`, which would allow a function to change its behaviour based on the type of its arguments.

It seems that once the type of an object can be determined at runtime, the argument that it is beneficial to hide the type of a generic parameter is quite a bit weaker.

It also removes some useful features, eg, without type erasure, this is possible:

collection.getFirstValueOfType<Foo>()

including compile-time checks that the collection can contain elements of type Foo.
> I just don't feel like Haskell fills that requirement..

About readability, Haskell in unreadable until you understand some basic precedence rules really well and until you internalize a hand full of things like function composition operator or the $ thing.

Then it becomes extremely readable.

Think of writing in shorthand [1]. For someone who does not know it, it looks quite cryptic. But once you internalize it, it becomes extremely concise and information dense.

So it is a case of a big initial investment and low long term/usage cost vs low initial investment and much higher usage cost.

So that, in a way answers the question raised by the post. Why hasn't Haskell taken over. It is because human beings are risk averse. ie we have preference for a sure outcome over a gamble with higher or equal expected value.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorthand
Brookings created a blueprint to transform education
Well, maybe not in a timely fashion, and maybe not at all if the shop who put them on really turned the bolts. But in general, I think it's more about leverage than raw strength. Also, a tire isn't that heavy unless we are talking about a non-standard vehicle. And, as a bonus, you actually don't need to lift them all that much... they roll.
Decided to give a go at React XP. Based on their claims, they're good because:

- React Native Web and React Native (iOS/Android) are handled in one go

- Windows Support

- Stripped down so nothing from within will work on iOS but not Android, for example, as is the case with React Native...

- Lots of components from Material UI (just launched v.1) can work right on top without too much of a hitch

Caveat: we're just getting started, so I don't want to oversell this. But faced with a similar problem, this route seemed optimal at this time.
I wouldn't even say Jeff Dean is the Bill Gates of today. But I'd say that would be a more correct statement.
1) The Microsoft development product line is great at some things, but not for directly enabling cross web/mobile solutions. However do use VS Code as the environment for other solutions mentioned here.

2) If you are a non-MS person, make sure you don’t miss out on the greatness of Visual Studio Code by dismissing it as yet another Windows centric product. VS Code is world class performant, has a great plugin arch/ecosystem, and somehow combines a hardcore developer first mindset with carefully thought out UX at the same time.

Also to be clear for those not much in the MS world, the “Visual Studio“ product line you’ve heard of for decades is not the same thing. It’s confusing naming but Visual Studio Code is relatively new and very different.
That's exactly where it came from.
They're discussing Cognitive Based Therapy - a technique used (sometimes in concert with medication) for the treatment of real psychological problems.

Caveat Emptor and all that, but if we assume the best intentions of the article's author: they're just giving people tools, and attempting to show that those tools can work. Convincing people that the tools work will require some marketing language and idioms.
Google really does have the best business model. It uses an auction model for advertising so most of the profits go to google and then user still blames the actual business for the problems.
How did you learn?
OS/360?
I wonder how much his rides would have cost if Uber didn't classify him as a 'frequent rider':

https://therideshareguy.com/uber-is-ripping-off-frequent-rid...
Excellent answer to a sarcastic troll. The best and brightest are obviously not going into science, and those who do must learn to play the idiotic game for survival.
Ask HN: What, if anything, do you listen to while coding?
I rarely listen to anything, but I'm going to give it a try for a week and how it affects my productivity.

Looking for playlist recommendations.
First the obligatory: I'm not a lawyer or expert on GDPR.

My question is if your app simply passes on messages between users of the app and doesn't store these messages how can you be held accountable for what's being held on the users device, even if it is a different persons message? Your app has simply processed that users data with their consent, at the time, and passed it on as they wanted.

The other issue, if the answer to the above is: 'yes', is does the GDPR expect you to be able to go into a user's phone and delete content from their phone at the request of another user? Surely that's not legal?

Like I say I'm no expert, simply asking questions.
Just to be clear, ALL our documents were wiped out from view. We could not search anything.
Yes; Mickey Mouse is covered by copyright law, via the copyright on the original work he appeared in -- Steamboat Willie.

While the protection of the copyright of Steamboat Willie in itself is probably of no consequence to Disney, it's foundation to the licensability of Mickey Mouse is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamboat_Willie#Copyright_sta...
I agree with you about not trusting anything we see on TV/Newspapers (even if it is from 60 Minutes; NYT; whatever-is-reputed-to-be-reliable). I grew up in Myanmar and after reading a lot of one-sided coverage about the refugee issue there (labeled as 'genocide'), I realized it's impossible for news organizations to be almost always impartial and accurate.

They have to obtain information from some source. Almost always, that source of information can mislead the reporter/news writer easily because of the latter's lack of familiarity with the issue, the region or the culture. The reporter, on the other hand, works against time. Plus, s/he is, after all, human (susceptible to persuasion/personal biases and worse, is sometimes too lazy to do a fact-check and more importantly, to hear the voices from the other side).

As most things in life, the truth is always in somewhere the middle.
The agreement of sale itself is such a very small part of the potential sources of disputes (not even disputes, necessarily, sometimes just glitches) between buyer and seller, though. I'd rather have a single system that can handle all the potential problems, as well as most redress in the event that something goes wrong.

Since the usual redress when something goes wrong on either the buyer's or the seller's end, in my experience, consists of nullifying the agreement of sale, it seems to me like blockchain's solution consists of grossly misinterpreting the needs and motives of both parties (By starting from an assumption of zero trust, which is just silly, why on earth would I buy from a retailer in whom I have zero trust?) and then hyper-optimizing for that misinterpretation. It's classic solution-in-search-of-problem behavior.
Reading the title, I had assumed this was just going to be the digitization of the typical AA / NA creep hitting on "fellow" attendees, or drug dealer looking for clientele. Instead this is predatory companies looking for a meal ticket.

I can't help but think just how much the internet opens the door to bad actors trying to pillage and plunder. Really makes this line of work feel like a massive mistake.
hunger- Has been mostly solved thanks to GMO increasing crop yields.

crime- Is strongly correlated with poverty, which has been rapidly reduced globally thanks to technological innovation

Housing- Will be solved by tech making remote work viable and thus reducing demand in cities. Automation and some form of income stipend could also allow people to live in more affordable places rather than cities.

Your view of "tech" is pretty stunted if you only think web apps.
With constant innovation the temptation to jump to the next new thing is great. This mitigates the value you gain by using something regularly and consistently over a long term period.

I've used Evernote since 2012 - when I started it really wasn't that useful. But now, after over 6 years of using it daily, I have a huge body of content personal to me which I find tremendously useful. This only came about because I didn't jump to the next shiny alternative.
I've been meaning to look into Kakoune for some time now. How steep is the learning curve for a long-time vim user?
In Soviet Union, computers encrypt you.
The Dig (Steven Spielberg)
typically I can't listen to music with words while coding. I stick to EDM, mainly Drum and Bass. Many years ago I found http://www.bassdrive.com. Streaming Drum and Bass from DJs around the world. They have IRC interaction and mostly Live shows. Cheers!
Ubuntu bash running on Windows 10 on ARM (starts at 13.50)
Could someone chime in with a TL;DR on what this thing does?
Atop Salesforce Tower, one of the world’s highest works of art comes to light
The scroll behaviour on that page makes me angry. Can't read.
> “I reached out to Laurie to see how I could help,” Calvert responded when I reached out to her.

Man, what's with this fascination with "reaching out"? Here we a sales person targeting victims of addiction for a sales pitch terming it "reaching out", setting up some pretty negative associations of that phrase. Yet the journalist is so conditioned they use the very same words for the process of requesting a comment from one of villains of the story!

I guess it's just poor editing, but the blindness is still remarkable!
'Project Indigo,' the quiet program between banks and U.S. Cyber Command
Open Sourcing Zuul 2
Funny. For more articles on why blockchains and bitcoins are overhyped, see the Bits & Blocks Press Bookshelf collection e.g. Best of Bitcoin Maximalist - Scammers, Morons, Clowns, Shills & BagHODLers - Inside The New New Crypto Ponzi Economics [1] or Crypto Facts - Decentralize Payments - Efficient, Low Cost, Fair, Clean - True or False? [2] Happy Blockchaining.

[1]: https://bitsblocks.github.io/bitcoin-maximalist
[2]: https://bitsblocks.github.io/crypto-facts
Pushing My Side Project Forward in the Face of Real-Life Obstacles
Full Cycle Developers at Netflix
Unexploded Ordnance found in Server Room
$12k over 2 years for maintenance seems extremely excessive. That can replace the whole engine in a small car. It could also mean the car never had any proper maintenance done (like oil changes), and now serious engine parts are having to be repaired.

I have a '05 Tundra and just had to replace the entire ABS system, so while it was being worked on also did all of the belts, water pump, etc... and came in ~4k. There shouldn't be any maintenance except oil and maybe tires for the next 2-4 years.
I put together a sample playlist for a teammate who didn't usually listen to music: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm761ub-NrD7jq1zwjHlS...

That stuff works for me, but, uh...I doubt a lot of people share my taste in programming music.
He's talking about sustainability via usage. The highway system has no shortage of that. Unfortunately climate change is not yet an economic model; trains are.

I know there are monorails (outside of Disney) that Florida municipalities spent a lot of money on but are rarely used (for a multitude of reasons). I don't think the revenue even covers the cost of maintenance in many cases. I think he's referring to that.

I remember talk about a train that goes down the 95 corridor from Jax to Miami. I'm not sure whatever happened to that.
you can remove that https://github.com/kanzure/pdfparanoia
> I'd love it see it in action, and in particular the major differentiators from other blogging platforms

That is actually a very reasonable idea. The summary in words, is that once you added your social accounts to Known, posting the same content would be a simple on-off flip from Known.

> can't we do all this with wordpress?

None of these features are in the WordPress core. There are plugins for WP (see https://indieweb.org/WordPress/Plugins for details) to add similar functionality, but Known is, so far, simpler to use.
Healtch Check Response Format for HTTP APIs
The DOCTYPE element technically describes the Document Type Definition (DTD). The HTML there doesn't mean it's an HTML document: it means the root element of the document is an HTML tag. The "-//Dow Jones//DTD DJ-HTML//EN" is a Formal Public Identifier, which specifies the actual DTD. The vast majority of sites don't actually guarantee their HTML is valid or even well-formed. In the grand scheme of things, this is most likely cruft left over from the early days of when the site was published and a lot of these things were more up in the air.

For a bit more detail:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_type_declaration#Synt...
I think the first Settlers game on the Amiga had the same feature.
> Marketers from the treatment center had to approve every post in the group, which gave them the first opportunity to privately message good candidates for their rehab and try to talk them into going to Windward in California. They needed that edge, Mendoza explained to me a few weeks ago, because they knew a Facebook group that big would be full of other marketers, waiting to swoop in as soon as a juicy message was public.

There is something uniquely... American about this comment. By that I mean that divorced from the ethics setting up large Facebook groups and using them to funnel patients into your addiction center is a great strategy, and it clearly works. It seems, to me at least, to make good business sense. That's not to say that the practice itself is unique to America, more that it's encouraged by the hyper capitalist 'profit above all else' that America espouses.

After taking a step backwards however then you're just exploiting/taking advantage of vulnerable people looking for help and using that to manipulate them into giving you money.
Kdb+ 3.6
Yes! I always thought the unaided or alarm clock only wake up is a tall order and doesn't quite jive with how I sleep/wake. A proper physical wake up is just the thing.
Some Advice No One Will Tell You If You're About to Graduate
You're not. They're only improving transparency a little bit, but ultimately that same data can and will be abused by whichever government comes into power next.

I also wanted to add how deeply involved into surveillance Vodafone seems to be. I've started noticing it since some Snowden and Wikileaks revelations back. Helping governments enable surveillance on their populations seems to be kind of Vodafone's side-business.
Same at my uni (Dresden University of Technology). The first two semesters have "Algorithms and Data Structures" where the first semester is taught in C (probably because students should have an unobstructed view to how data structures are laid out in memory and how algorithms traverse the pointers that make them up), but the second semester switches to Haskell.
Yay! Somebody else has discovered Forth's principles.
Top 3 Challenges to Fintech in a Post-Equifax World
This kind of things are rarely problems for locals* , so I can see how they might be a low priority for the government/police. Instead, solving poverty issues+better education seems to be a better solution (for me and for the cities) than trying to make it into a police state.

Example: one of the safest places in Spain I've seen are libraries in Universities. People leave their laptops and go to the toilet/for lunch and nothing happens. The unsafest places I'd say are beaches, clubs and main statios.

* which happens all around the world. I never thought I'd be scammed like this, being from Spain, but I was scammed in Vietnam!
Wait, is that article simply ignoring that self-driving car are now commercially available in Phoenix? That’s probably a bigger revolution than the steam engine, and someone’s take on this is “That’s it?”

Let’s ignore the shattering impact of incredibly convenient video streaming, content filtering via image tagging, electric cars, transportation or food on demand, having contactless payment available to anyone for pennies…

MTurk pays offensively little, sure, but thanks to ‘Silicon Valley’ anyone can work now, no matter how much discrimination or how remote they are — and buy groceries with it. If the accusation is “building”, Amazon built it. If you want it to be more lucrative, you can either legally enforce minimum wage, or start tasks that pay more.

Shelter, like food, is a problem we solved a while ago, as long as you can afford it: inequality is a problem, but you can’t blame AirBnB, SpareRoom and countless others for allowing people to find others with a lifestyle, a schedule that fit them so that they can save on rent. Let’s not talk about how internet empowered people to compare mortgages.

Crime: Well, yes, Silicon Valley has done a lot for Law enforcement, but expectedly and Thank God, not as a B2C business model.

I’m honestly more confused arguing that article than I would argue with a flat-earther. At least a flat-earther is probably right when they say that you have not personally checked yourself for what you claim.
Eh, I think you're stretching in your interpretation of the causes of our current science publishing climate. As a current researcher, and former scientific publisher, I think most authors are interested in hitting certain "target" journals, it's a discussion that comes up early on in the research process. They want the right topic audience to read their work, and they want to publish in the highest impact factor journal they can. Some university departments requiore that researchers publish in multiple high impact, or many more low impact, journals before they get tenure. So, I believe countries are mostly unaware of this problem, except for UK and now others, as the UK has been demanding their publicly funded research be open source for a few years.

To me, the problem is that scientists are highly motivated to achieve successes in publishing and prestige and impact, and they are less likely to stand in front of governments and demand open-access and freely circulated articles. This is not in their best interest, I would argue, however they are EXTREMELY busy people, researchers work 60-70 hours with a multitude of different duties. It's not at all surprising they don't have the time to lobby congress vociferously on behalf of the commons.
Who Is Responsible for the Middle Eastern Cyber Espionage Group Bahamut? (2017)
Curious about your staff's past experience with database migrations.
But they're often still better than other freely available resources.

I don't think that's the case at all.
I am sorry -- I assumed since this reached the top page of HN that this was a bit more serious that just some dude's personal project. This portable graphics API thing has been tried 10000x and they are almost never useful for any significant app you want to write. I see one of these and I hope that maybe someone has figured it out -- one glance and I see no documentation nor any rational as to why this effort is unique, then I know this is not a serious offering.
For many, the larger sum is very painful.
No one is talking about piracy? Hmmm
> say, by increasing the minimum liability insurance to the cost of several statistical lives

I still remember arguing with some people on the internet about how irrelevant what insurance someone bought was if you got hit by them. After all, you'd have to get into quite the accident to exceed the liability limits on car insurance.

I was so sure I was right. Then they introduced me to the idea you can drive in the US with insurance that wouldn't even cover the costs of a new medium sized sedan.
>> Go if it were allowed to use an arena allocator

Go is allowed to use an arena allocator.

>> I guess because its not in the stdlib in Go?

A popular third-party library implementation would be fine.

For example, couchbase/go-slab except that it doesn't seem to be a live project and there's no indication that it is actually used by the Go community.

>> so does C use malloc?

C using malloc -- https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
In the event of Gsussian noise, linear state transition and linear measurement, KF yields the exact posterior.
Both unscented and extended refer to non-linear measurement or state transition equations. Neither are designed for non gaussian noise.

Though the KF and it's variants are one of the simplest, well-performing estimation methods out there, so it wouldn't suprise me if it's used for everything, appropriate or not.