skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If someone like Holmes can become a billionaire by peddling nothing except lies and hope, what’s the real value of the software and tech industries if you take away the hype and money machines that surround them?

"Real value" is a tricky concept. What is and isn't real? Clearly societies have evolved (and are still evolving) to incorporate "dreams, future potential and hype inertia" into the equation, so anecdotally and tautologically, there's some value in that. Future considerations affect today's reality, so they're "real" in every sense of the word.

We don't know what exactly it is that captures the human imagination—a combination of history, ancestral stories, greed, a tangled mess of primal urges—but peddling improbable futures is definitely a well-established evolutionary pattern.

Dreams and ideologies are the rudder that helps civilizations steer away from local minima, overcome adversity and plod through suffering.

My point is that Holmes is a somewhat extreme example because her confrontation with reality was so head-on, so clearly falsifiable. But if you take away the "hype and money machines" en-masse, I suspect you'll end up with something that isn't human. It's all a house of cards. And it's nonsensical to discuss money, economy and value without humans, these are purely social constructs.
By changing the system to internalize extra costs of products with low lifetime. If companies can earn more by building products that last decades instead of years, they will do it. To make this work, you'd probably need to come up with a pretty convoluted taxation scheme.
I think it also makes a difference if you work with people across different timezones or not.

Regular chatter might be good enough to communicate between people in roughly the same timezone. However, If I send an unclear chat (or email) to a colleague who's starting her day when mine has already ended, she can't act on my message and we'll have to waste another day clearing up that miscommunication.
No nicotine for me, but I would make caffeine "dip" pouches out of the coffee packet and napkins that came with MREs. No one ever drank the coffee, so I always has multiple packets on hand.

Pour the grounds into the napkin to keep it all together, then pop it in like a plug of dip. The taste was brutal, but it got the job done.
Read it all the way to the end. Again, from the article:

"Should the US system be even more progressive than it already is, bearing in mind the skewness of the pre-tax distribution, especially at the very top? Maybe it should--but a steeper tax-band schedule is a dumb way to improve fairness and raise more revenue."

A progressive tax system is progressive in effect, not just in form. The author is saying that people who focus on the tax rate bands are barking up the wrong tree, because the US system already looks like one of the most progressive, even though it may actually not be.
Differentiation With(out) a Difference
I regularly stop drinking caffeine for days at a time and have been unable to notice a difference. It's a shame because I was really hoping to find that my headaches had an easy solution like not drinking caffeine, but they don't appear to be correlated.
Any update on some distributed names resolution for tor? At some point there seemed to be a chance for namecoin to handle this.
> he said they were giving raises of about 7% to their developers twice a year.

Inflation in India is pretty high as well compared to developed countries.
> I can't help thinking that most journalists probably study social science etc. at undergrad level, leaving them ill equipped for gritty technical investigation

Social sciences are empirical sciences where knowledge of statistical controls and other tools needed to deal with the difficulty of laboratory research in the area of study are necessary as well as all those things necessary in any empirical science, so they don't have that effect.

OTOH, most journalists probably study journalism or other arts, not any kind of science, at the undergraduate level.
Caffeine == Caffeine

But if a Coke is ~3mg caffeine 100ml and coffee is ~40mg per 100ml, drinking 13.3 "units" of cokes will not be equivalent to 1 "unit" of coffee.

1. Timing of the intake will affect the efficacy (x mg of caffeine over 2 hours vs. 20 minutes is very different to the body)

2. Controlling for time-dependent intake (the spherical human consumed both quantities instantly), concentration of the substance affects the rate / efficiency of absorption by the body (I cannot predict for which way it will go, this stuff is complex) so the net absorbed caffeine will be different between the two substances

3. Delivery mechanisms are different: Coke is very sugary, black coffee is not and is a colloidal suspension. The local chemical environment for the caffeine within these two substances will be different. Sugar is known to affect osmosis, meanwhile who knows wtf the gunk in coffee is doing at the chemical level.

So to sum up "caffeine = caffeine = caffeine" is probably a useful rule of thumb and will get pretty far, but at the physiological/biochemical level, that is as useful as armchair pseudoscience is.

To use a possibly relatable issue: most people find consuming shots of vodka more efficacious than consuming the equivalent amount of beer by alcohol. 3 shots will probably get you more wasted than necking 3 beers
There was an article I remember from 2600 about all the various stimulants readily available at the time (1996-97), I found a text version of it:
http://67.225.133.110/~gbpprorg/2600/HackHead.html
I believe the original title was "Hack Your Head".

Ephedrine was an excellent stimulant, but a few people died because they didn't understand what it would do. You wouldn't feel thirsty, and it was sold as a workout supplement, so people would take it and then exercise outside in the summer and suffer severe dehydration. After that it was made illegal in the US, which is too bad because for me it was much more effective than caffeine and sold over the counter.
Lol this post shows an amazing savior complex. These poor altruistic artists just want to work for meagre amounts and no profit but thankfully heroes like you appreciate their craft and are unwilling to let them peddle their wares for anything lower than a healthy profit margin.
The old bobble head :) I was there for a month, the whole country, and it's their form of agreement/understanding. Particularly when you're trying to teach them something.
You can always start your own company and compete with TCS :)
This makes sense to me, as I've asked myself was she bad or deluded? But perhaps instead she started out with the best intentions, only to be forced into gambling with ever greater stakes as each attempt at changing the world fell flat.
i live in the sauerkraut region, so i inherited the sauerkraut clay pot, but betrayed local customs and started "farming" kimchi instead.
it's so much more interesting in taste and not that hard to prepare (when in hurry you can prepare ~5kg in an afternoon).

one day i wanted to be cheeky to my 2-yo son, so i offered him a bit. to my amazement he gasped, but wanted more and more. weird :)
Temporal Difference Learning in Python
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It's interesting to look at the source code. There's definitely some heavy differences in how each implementation is handling underlying aspects of the tests.

Just looking at the database related ones to see about some of the differences in interesting.

It also doesn't look like the Elixir code has really been updated in about 2 years (aside from version bumps). It's still using a JSON encoder (Poison) that's 4x slower than the primary one (Jason). For multiple queries, Ecto hands back the connection after every query for concurrency sake. Looks like the Plug logger is still setup on the endpoint.

I'd be really interested to see the Discord folks look at that as a pet project. :-)
I was talking about their source of income. I think adwords / adsense still accounts for the the absolute majority of it.
Carreyrou wrote a book. This story was going to get out anyway.

Murdoch is a very skilled propagandist. He knew that trying to suppress this story would have backfired on him. Especially because the machines don’t work and because Walgreens would have soon learned the truth.

Nothing hurts a propagandist more than being really caught in an obvious lie. To protect his ability to slant the WSJ, Murdoch couldn’t have gotten caught suppressing this story. And he would have gotten caught if he tried.
Letting the User Guide You: Analyzing Store Design
... in Christianity.
Except for the “No”, that whole description is consist with “not very inevitable”.

“Inevitable” means “unavoidable", but what you've described is “possible, and maybe slightly more probable than if it wasn't a GV-backed firm, but by no means guaranteed.”
Agreed, classes with typescript and Vue make sense to me in a SFC approach.

Something about components just fits the class model well.
Years ago, a woman, a medic in one of the airborne divisions, told me that people in the military don't want to say that they don't know how to do something. I think this was in reference to two near-debacles, one scuba diving, one rock climbing, in one of which she had been the one that said "Sure, I know how to."

[edit: change "one said" to "one that said"]
Getting to the bottom of the ads-coinciding-with-conversations mystery
Mostly makes sense. What seems strange in this pitch is that there's no camera. I totally get why there's no camera, but in the "outdoor activity, minimal functions" scenario, I generally want one.
"Review" sounds official and somehow based on a methodology, but in reality it's just the subjective feelings of some dude. A dude that often has to pretend that he/she understands the technology, what is difficult or not, and who is doing good work.

As you have noticed, you can output the same quality of work and it can be seen as very good or not so good at different times, or with different people, because feelings.
Well, you always had to rephrase it. Being that the number of possible sources were pretty limited it would be easy for the teacher to catch you plagiarizing heh.
I once took a bus trip from Seoul to Seoraksan (basically coast to coast). I was tremendously impressed by the industry with which every available square meter was cultivated. In Seoul, anywhere there was green space, there was a garden. No space at all wasted on grass. Even the narrow verge between the highway and an apartment block was be cultivated. In the countryside, people were logging nearly vertical hillsides, and as far as I could see they were doing so without using mechanized logging equipment. Every barbecue restauraunt had sesame plants growing outside, which they used for leaves to serve with bulgogi, although I think it's also for advertising.

And of course, there were pots for kimchi everywhere. Korean people told me that eating kimchi is why Koreans are so strong and healthy. I find it hard to disagree -- anecdotally, I have never felt more energized than after eating kimchi jigae for breakfast. And my American companions who passed on the kimchi but tried to keep up with the soju, they all got quite sick.

Anyway, kimchi is delicious and everybody should eat it.
There's no technical reason why that can't be the case. Legally, I agree.
Terraform for Amazon EKS
> ...back during the Java days...

The Java days are in the past for you? Must be nice...
Ask HN: Difference from being a consultant and employee?
Im considering a role with a consulting company, and a regular non-consulting position; both full time.

I have never been a consultant before and wondered how its different ?

As a consultant are you just expected to know your shit completely? Or this there opportunity to learn from others more experienced in a subject matter?

Thanks
Murdoch had a short term incentive but a very large long term disincentive. If he tried to suppress this story he would have gotten caught because FDA and Walgreens care about facts. Not to mention that the story itself would drive readership.

Looks to me that Murdoch acted exactly according to his long term goals.
They're now, or soon to be, SEC regulated. Maybe contact them?
>Just wondering if there is a cultural/societal push towards the management/boss level that diminishes value towards senior technical roles?

To an extent I felt similar working for average tech shops in Montreal, Canada. I moved to California to live and work in a culture where the IC track is real and highly valued (which is fantastic).
This is available within pfSesne. There is a package called openvpn-client-export that exports the pfSense config to .ovpn and a number of other config/packages.
> If you rebase locally and force push the branch to maintain the clean set of commits after addressing review comments

Why would you do that, in general? That seems needlessly hostile to reviewers, since then they have to go through your diff and make sure you caught every place their comment applied (e.g. "did they actually handle the else-case everywhere they're testing on $var?").

Is this common practice in situations* where it harms diff readability? If so, why?

* There are totally cases where that's necessary, but they don't seem like more than a small minority of comment/feedback/amendment cases. These are times like "you put all of this code in the totally wrong place" or "this is missing a fundamental assumption that would require you to totally rearchitect every change you wrote". In those cases, a rebase (plus clearly calling out "everything was rebased starting here please start reading from here on!") or a brand new branch is in order.
To achieve "5 minutes training" interface, they'd have to simplify it to the level of point-and-click operations. That is: fasten your seat belts, place the destination marker on Maps screen (or select from a list), press "Start", enjoy the view.
> Go home, you'll work better tomorrow.

This. Things happen (emergencies, sicknesses, etc.), but if you are sleep deprived due to work more than a couple of times a year, change it! For people saying they do not have this option, go make it (choices, like rights are never given; they are taken). It might take a while, but it is worth it. If you have in demand skills but are not appreciated at your work, move. If you do not have the skills to move, acquire them, etc.
State of E-Learning Funding in 2018
"Well, if what he's saying is true.. then you'd lose the chance by saying no anyways. So getting caught lying is the same result as not lying."

That's only true locally. Globally, you've got a variety of reputations, for yourself, for your firm, and whether or not you like it or consider it fair, for your country. You're burning all of those things. This will eventually catch up to you, your firm, and your country if withdrawals exceed deposits. This is, of course, a global truth, not an India-specific truth.
Nobody is saying these people need to be destroyed. Not jumping to some extreme dystopian conclusion would help with the actual discussion. And if you're going to be ranking the importance of rights, how is the right to live in dignity more important than the right to survive?
Personally I see nothing but discourse in hosting my code with a company that is anything but inpendent and dedicated to hosting my code with no alternative motives.
I did mean "used to be", you're right. I was saying that pre Citizens United money was not banned, it was regulated. There is a huge difference.
Same thing has happened to me before. I was in a funk about it for a while, but it gets easier--especially if you polish the 'ole resume and start looking for alternatives.
Zebra Medical Vision gets $30M SeriesC to create AI-based tools for radiologists
Here's some data from various sources regarding caffeine levels in different types of tea, and also some data about extraction:

Theanine and Caffeine Content of Infusions Prepared from Commercial Tea Samples
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4787341/

Caffeine in Tea Revisited
http://teaintheancientworld.blogspot.com/2017/06/caffeine-in...

Caffeine Content in 39 Tea Samples
https://www.teaguardian.com/tea-health/caffeine-content-39-t...

90% of the tea I drink is loose-leaf, and I'm sure there are definite differences between loose and tea bags, because tea bags very often have very fine almost tea "dust" instead of actual leaves, and the increased surface area makes it extract faster.

The psychoactive effects you are talking about are likely a result of L-Theanine, if I had to guess
Unless you’re in the US Congress, where profiting from stock movements was made explicitly legal - by an act of Congress.
Mullvad has gateways in the US. Does this help?
Isn't modifying commits considered a poor practice in the general case?
Except that providing an API to a third party, without controls, makes Facebook complicit. They don't get to provide such an API to a third party and then disavow themselves of any responsibility what it is used for.

Whereas if the manufacturer backdoors the browser of the phone to steal or siphon data from Facebook users, Facebook's only fault is creating the unnecessary data hazard itself (which is merely irresponsible instead of illegal in the US).
The most depressing truth that I've mentioned as well on HN many times. Chrome is the new IE. I have never stopped using Firefox. I was an early Chrome user till I realized no adblock, then when adblock came it was weak and barely worked and gave up on Chrome altogether. Firefox has always had powerful customization without screwing the end user in the long run.

At least back in the mid 2000s if you ever saw banners that said a site needed Firefox to run properly it was because people were on IE which didn't support new standard HTML features. Not because devs didn't test their JS outside of Chrome. If you can't code for more than one browser you shouldn't be a web developer imho. Unless you're doing Electron or something.
I have JavaScript enabled but cookies disabled and it shows nothing for me too.
Responding to this but resetting the nesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17255181

>"Assuming the background estimation is correct, the p-value will only converge to zero if a true signal exists."

Aren't you assuming the background model is correct and a true signal exists?

>"Your null is specifically "no signal exists"."

No, it is never this. It is an entire model, one assumption of which is "no signal exists". The p-value doesn't care which assumption is wrong, it is only wishful thinking that leads to people focusing on that one.

>"We don't know that the null is flawed to begin with."

Sorry, I don't believe this. Give a concrete example. Do you believe the standard model is 100% correct? If not, then any background derived from it must be assumed to be flawed to begin with.

>"Things like malfunctioning equipment go into the uncertainties if they occur in a way that the researchers have considered (which often means uncertainties are set conservatively if the equipment behaviour is poorly understood). If they occur in a way that no one considered, there's no statistical trickery that's every going to compensate for that."

Correct, there is no statistical trickery to compensate for this. It is a scientific problem, not statistical.

Did you check out that Meehl paper I linked elsewhere?[1] If you take a prediction of a model and test that, messing up the experiment means you get results that diverge from your prediction. If you reverse the logic of science so that you test the "opposite" of your prediction, messing up the experiment yields results that seem to support your model. This is why the prediction of the theory needs to be set as the "hypothesis to be nullified".

[1] https://meehl.dl.umn.edu/sites/g/files/pua1696/f/074theoryte...
Exactly. His long term incentives were aligned with letting the story run.
My main reason for using Microsoft Defender is the business model. It's in best interest of A/V companies for people to have viruses, it's in best interest of Microsoft for people not to have viruses on Windows.
#VPNFilter #malware now targets new devices, even behind a firewall
> For example, the license at least used to forbid even saying "Datomic" aloud in public.

> Publishing benchmarks was also forbidden

Seriously? I find this absurd, but I have no reason to think you aren't being accurate.

That is some corporate paranoia.
Don't forget that dart now has an AOT compiler and is strongly typed. It is close to Java in performance in a lot of stuff (faster in some).

Syntactically, Swift is almost identical (dart being older) aside from GC vs ref counting. I think it has more of a future in the Java managed language area (but with better typing, better syntax, and first class functions with closures)
Care to elaborate why this particular site is notable?
> and you'll have to hire Portuguese-speaking legal counsel to deal with them

This is simply untrue. Why do you repeat it? Why have you posted it?
Drivers of new Cadillacs will soon be able to say, ‘Look, Ma–no hands’
its pretty broken. i gotta mess with it more. the font is screwy so far.
There doesn't even seem to be anything smart-ish about it, except that it uses the same form factor.

>It brings a few essential tools to the Light Phone, like messaging, an alarm clock, or a ride home

And yet further down it says that these are not even definite features, but "some features that we might explore".

Clearly the appearance is the selling point. From a utility perspective flip/button phones make a lot more sense if you're only using them as phones.

$300 seems quite a stretch when there are a huge variety of dirt cheap dumb phones around. How about a Jenny TV 2.8 [1] with 175 hours standby for $30 at Amazon?

Or a Nokia 130 with up to a month of standby, which sells for around $25 in India. [2]

[1] http://bluproducts.com/jenny-tv-2-8

[2] https://www.nokia.com/en_int/phones/nokia-130
That's the beauty of these "pinewood derbies" though. Sometimes they sit dormant until some kind soul says, "HEY!, that's not representative of my favorite framework!" and submits a PR to showcase its true capabilities.
It may be increasingly hard to find because employees see things differently now.
It's a job market. My employer wants me to put in overtime and go out of my way to improve the company? Great, let's go. But I demand appropriate compensation.

I think that's a reasonable position. My company treats me as a human resource, I treat my company like my client who writes checks for the work I put in.
Not a chemist or even a frequent caffeine user either, but from my experience you can't reduce the effect of something you take to its active principle.

For me, the same whisky has very noticeable differences in the effect and after-effect depending on how it's served / mixed.
I never, ever paid for a version of Netscape. Hardly anyone did.

I - like everyone - paid a huge cost in wasted time and non-existent security when I tried to use IE or develop a site compatible with it.
Which of them support code reviews modeled with distributed git objects? Maybe with git-appraise or something similar?

One of the annoying things, to me, is that the solutions I see all model code reviews as records in databases instead of doing something distributed and reusable.
'Sonic attack' fears as more US diplomats fall ill in China
> Anything other than C or Java really

Rust, C#, and Go also seem to fit the bill, according to these benchmarks. C# particularly has rocketed up since the last time I looked in depth at these. Pretty impressive work from the .NET Core folks, I'd say.
Deno looks very promising
Gnomes Beat Microsoft: Git Virtual File System to Get a New Name
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