skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But my co-workers might have strong emotional attachments to answers that I know are wrong. I might have a co-worker who promotes their favorite technology as the answer to all problems. I might already know, from previous battles, that particular people are going to distort the conversation in particular ways. If I'm going to go into a situation without trying to push a particular agenda, I'd have to be willing to let the wrong choice be made.
The historian claims that the missing copyright is "the real reason" for industrial expansion. I think it's "only" a contributing factor. Germany was divided in many smaller states and every state had their own universities. Many of these states were competing with each other about talent. So instead of centralising everything they had a distributed scholary culture. That's probably why there was a culture of "thinkers and readers". EDIT: Hence why a copyright law was not really enforcable. So the root cause was the division and competition, the missing law just a symptom of it IMHO.

Plus: lot's of iron and coal easily accessible and many big commercially usable rivers for transportation.
> I'm more wondering why legit investors pour 12 mil into something that it obviously a short-lived gimmick.

I think that might because you're looking at it like this:

"How will a game that lets you breed collectible cats be something that people wanna do for a long time?"

When instead you should be looking at it like..

"Can provably scarce digital assets that are actually owned by users (not rented like the current system) be useful in the gaming world?"

CryptoKitties as a game is likely just a fad. But the investors are betting the latter idea might be a game changer when executed correctly (ie. building a fun game that has longterm user retention)
RENFE Avant isn't older rolling stock IIRC. It's just a cheaper version of the RENFE AVE equipment. The idea is that the higher speed trains are more expensive to run and that they take a while to accelerate / decelerate. On a 70 km route the time saved by running a full-on tilting 300 kph train set is probably insignificant and not worth the cost.

SF to San Jose is a similar idea. No sense in having Caltrain run HSR train sets.
Two Long-Lost Nintendo Arcade Games Are Heading to Switch
> Pirated editions back then as today increase the popularity of the artists, often more than their agency could do.

Could work the other way too, though. Alexander von Humboldt had troubles with one of his books because a pirated translation into English was completed before the authorised version. Unfortunately, the pirated translation was so shoddy the book got really bad reviews in England...
Open up your case and disconnect the power and disk-activity LEDs
When I read that section followed by "He chalked it up to the demo’s generalized machine learning model." I also got doubtful, but then the second demo seems to indicate that they can drastically improve the results by adapting the model to the user.

In machine learning terms, it seems that they can manage supervised learning (given a known task, they can figure out how signals correspond to movements) but not unsupervised learning (given a new user's signals, they can't decode them without knowing what the user is trying to do).

So I can imagine this working if new users first had to complete a short initialization sequence (maybe gamified in some way) but could then use it without errors more common than typos when using a keyboard.
ITC suggests Apple infringed on Qualcomm battery patent
Is it surprising people don't use a feature they don't know exists? This is a catch-22 problem.

I would very much like to see a banner at the bottom of the new tab page introducing RSS and how it can be used, similarly to how Mozilla did for Firefox Sync.
Trump Campaign Reportedly Adds Former Cambridge Analytica Staff to 2020 Efforts
“The Road Ahead” CD by Bill Gates (1995)
This was a neat interview with a guy who is living history. I have never been to this website before, I don't know how they got this interview, but they should hire a copy editor. This thing read like a LiveJournal post.
Ask HN: How to Build a Career as Machine Learning Engineer?
I am a software engineer, who is involved in building (backend) data products (from building ETL, data-warehousing, scaling DB, .. etc).

My question to those who work in big companies and applied research labs, do engineers need to have MSc/PhD in Artificial Intelligence/Data Science to grow in the company.

I am not a data scientist, I am interested more into enabling Machine Learning in production (https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/becoming-a-machine-learning-engineer).

What are you recommendations ?
To be clear, Go is not "solved". We just have AI they is strictly "very good" at it (superhuman).
Oh, and how about the time UPS accepted a package from a vendor with multiple shipping labels on it. They got the package to the local distribution center (different than my previous post) and kept rescheduling delivery without ever putting it on a truck, contacting myself, or the vendor.

Meanwhile I've ordered replacement parts for the Waytek order from a vendor that ships USPS. The tracking information is showing an estimated delivery date of two days from now (Tuesday), but they're also showing that the package has left the local regional distribution center. That gives me about a 95% chance of having the package in my box 10 AM tomorrow morning (one day early).
> I seldom take a plane[0], so I simply don't have enough experience and data to go on.

I fly frequently but I'm also unable to predict how much time I need. It varies greatly. Security/check-in can take anything between a few minutes and 30+ min each. Usually, late passengers can cut the line, but I wouldn't take the risk.
I'm quite ignorant at the topic and just at the beginning.

Right now I started to read The concise guide to economics[1] As the title says it's a really simple and concise book which explain basic terms from economy. I find it quite good for beginners like me.

In the future I plan to add these to my reading list:

Financial Times blog[2]

Paul Krugman's blog[3]

The New York Times

The Economist

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Concise-Guide-Economics-Jim-Cox/dp/19...

[2] https://ftalphaville.ft.com

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/column/paul-krugman
This isn't unexpected to happen occasionally, as long as it is rare. Nothing is failure proof and the failure mode for a big battery is many times fire. This is like reporting on somebodies car throwing a rod while on the road or another fire.
Gasoline is not explosive, it requires oxygen to burn. We wouldn't allow normal passenger vehicles to drive around with big tanks of explosives.
The next programming paradigm is due
Perhaps it's a subtle point but how do you contrast your comment with this part of the article:

>> When I explain this process to junior team members, an objection is often, "I don't feel like I have the authority to do this. This is a job for our leadership." They feel that a person must be empowered to make a change before they can venture to do so. That's not true. Team members become senior not because they are deemed senior and granted senior responsibilities, but rather because they show that they're capable of effectively taking and addressing senior responsibilities.
The physics of accelerating Spacecraft in the Expanse
On the other hand, it is believed that British patent law is one of the reasons most of the great inventions of the industrial revolution happened in Britain. James Watt ultimately died a very wealthy man because if it [1] and it encouraged others to get wealthy through invention

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watt#Patent_trials
About 25m^2 (270ft^2)
Some interesting things to see in there, for 1995:

- "asynchronous TV", similar to modern TV appliances (like Apple TV, Roku, Fire TV)

- an internet based encyclopedia

- mobile maps app (similar to Google Maps)

- mobile videoconferencing

- interactive whiteboards

- a mobile payment app (similar to Apple pay / Google pay)

- websites with shopping carts

The predictions aimed year 2004 but many of these did not become a mainstream until 2010+.
I like wotlk better, I think it was the best expansion, and I’m sure wotlk servers have more players than vanilla servers now. I don’t know why they chose vanilla over wotlk. :/
Maybe so, I haven't made this move before, which is part of the reason I'm asking here, as unlikely as it may be that "someone who is in this position would be asking on HN." Sorry for being vague on all of this. Regardless:

1.) No specific discount, this is standard, public pricing on major commercial clouds, with some tricks applied like reserved instances, which is part of the reason I am not worried about low prices first and then ballooning pricing later,

2.) Our operations and maintenance and sustaining are in fact more expensive that anyone would reasonably expect, I believe partially due to vendors getting their hooks in decades ago and expanding scope and increasing prices, I've walked the data center floors and coded with the ops teams.

It is #2 that is really hitting us. I have personally moved several apps as a PoC and you wouldn't believe the savings, or maybe you would, which is even more when not ported 1:1 but used in conjunction with smaller VMs and autoscaling.

I would like to retrain to to end all manual configuration and have the current workforce take over all of this, which is a big deal for me personally. Thank you for the response.
Color _IQ_, really?
I’ve got no clue what this has to do here, but all that article shows is that The NY Times is doing a swell job in providing substance free material and a love for the almighty state.

The author of that article is this fella [0]. While I do not doubt his writing abilities, I do doubt his expertise in economics and his political motivations.

Simply put, I do not show up at X field and pretend to know things just because I think I’m smart, even if I don’t have anything to do with said field. It’s interesting how with economics everyone thinks they can do just as much.

If you would like a basic intro to free markets checkout Milton Friedman’s Free To Choose series on YouTube. It’s from the 80s but well worth the time investment. It’s an easy to understand documentary series and at the end he talks to a group of people about the subject shown.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pankaj_Mishra
I bet you’re not that far from 99% on supercomputers running Linux. Drivers are not the bulk of the system.

Obviously desktops aren’t at 99% unless you’re running Linux.
Well, that is a matter of opinion. Picasso's early works are certainly realist/academic in style and technique but nobody gets excited about them.

Like I say, this is opinion, but as in architecture, where there is definitely no good classical building happening today, there is no credible 'old master" painting happening now. Even the whole category of figurative art is in question in the same way that ornament in architecture is effectively dead. There are still people who can carve classical architectural ornament but as a creative tradition, it's over.

I'd reiterate that the division of labour and the role of the artist means there isn't really any access to the "old master" position any more. Being an artist since about 1900 has been about ego/charisma, a largely self-selected group rather than talents discovered in obscurity and then elevated to greatness by patrons. The art business is structurally similar to how it was, in the sense that it still runs on patronage and prestige, but there is some kind of crisis in the formation of artists. Probably part of a wider loss of cultural direction and the general fact that there is now too much to know about the world and everything (paintings, careers) feels rushed. You still see flashes of intriguing visual ideas, sensitivity to colour, new combinations of different forms of art, but I don't think anyone would claim that even the best of today's art can compete with that from before modernisation took hold. It's a state of disenchantment that we can't wish away by going back to the old techniques.
Yes, luckily Bitcoin isn't the only cryptocurrency.

For example Bitcoin Cash is a great payment system.
How someone with no sleep issues can choose to sleep less than 8 hours is beyond me. I would be in heaven if I could consistently pull off more than 8 hours.
I don't really care. I can ask a copypasta to define themselves.
It's always been clear to me which specific vendor I'm buying from, it lists it right under the product. I can click on new or used in order to see other vendors and select one of them if I prefer. Based on my experience, the vendor defaults to Amazon if they have the product themselves, otherwise it is likely based on whoever they make the most money on. That is not a straightforward computation - they might make more profit on a more expensive listing, but then fewer people would buy it. I'm sure they use some proprietary ML algorithm to decide which vendor to show, but its always been very clear to me which vendor I'm purchasing from, both on the item page and also in the cart.
I was in a similar position post divorce. Drove away from the family home with next to nothing and was sleeping in the car. That was actually not as bad as it sounds - I worked out and showered at the gym, and spent a lot of time in the office - sometimes sleeping on the sofa in the break room if I thought I could get away with it. I remember one guy came in one morning and joked with that old chestnut "you been here all night?" - I would laugh, but little did he know!

Then the company went bust almost overnight - VC pulled the plug...

It was then a lot tougher. I moved to Thailand and lived on my credit card. I got some remote work with a borrowed Windows laptop, and did some marketing work for local companies. I then moved to Malaysia and became a dive bum. Best time of my life. I was lucky.

All I can say is hang in there, things have a way of working themselves out...
Rolled Royce have over 50,000 employees directly involved in designing, manufacturing and testing engines. The team to design an engine is well over 500 people and takes more than a decade from concept to first production run. It's by no means a small team or a small undertaking.
Jet engines today are also routinely torn down, inspected, and rebuilt if necessary - much more often than piston engines are, I gather. But that's because of the overall materials stress and the necessary safety factors involved, not because of any general mechanical complexity. I mean, I guess you can count having all of those individual blades as being "complex", but in reality these are just the parts that make up mechanically simple fans and compressors and such.
GitHub’s new CEO promises to save Atom post-Microsoft acquisition
One would presume they have data collected from more than one individual to train their model.
It's about "hash tables" (ie associative arrays, HashMap), right?

Is security even an issue in hash functions for this purpose? I honestly don't know, it's not obvious to me that it is.
you nailed the color test but failed the reading comprehension test
I'm looking for a good way to offset the carbon emission from the 20+ flights I take a year.

Anyone has good recommendation of a reliable charity for this? Also, so far all calculators I've seen usually count the carbon emission for economy, but for longhaul flights in business class, I'm sure the actual emissions are significantly higher... I cannot avoid flying but I do think that I should at least pay the actual cost of the carbon emissions I cause.
I'd say this is due to

- disagreements/factions

- wanting the satisfaction and validation of building something yourself

- implementational conflict with existing systems

Sometimes the validation thing is due to ego, sometimes it's because the journey of building a new system is useful in itself.

In the case of the distro I want to create (:P) it's because the (very simple) ideas I have conflict with the way things are commonly done, so I'm going to have to set out on my own. It'll be fun though. Users in my case will be a headache because then it won't be a fun personal project. I just want to solve my own frustrations.

And "Linux on the desktop" has been a meme for years. It'll never happen until Linux achieves cohesiveness, aka never, full-stop. (Took Microsoft a while to figure that and build WSL...)

NB, I don't see an email or other contact details in your bio. I could let you know when I finally do get around to starting w/ that distro.
One thing I do with my online resume is tweak/customize my resume to the job rec and then use zeit.co/blog/new-static-deployments or surge.sh to deploy a static site with a custom/creative url. Additionally, if there's a take-home assignment/challenge, I just deploy the take-home challenge alongside my resume. Feedback has been positive.
To Further Reading I would add:

The Influential Mind
By Tali Sharot

It was on FT's shortlist for Best Book of 2017.

https://upliftconnect.com/tali-sharot-influential-mind/

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That aside, tools, I would think, are a function of culture; and culture a function of leadership and hiring. Whether a tool is good for any individual - as the author presented in this article - is irrelevant. Either it improves the end product and satisfies leadership's lead (and target ROI of adoption) or it does not.

That's not to say it will make adoption easy. But the less clear that foundation is the more friction there's going to be.
Phi is the most irrational of the irrational numbers, meaning that successive rational approximations are just slightly better: 1/1, 1/2, 2/3, 3/5, 5/8, 8/13, etc. There are no rational approximations that "jump out" as being much better, so you won't find any unexpected patterns when using it.

The Golden Ratio (why it is so irrational) - Numberphile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj8Sg8qnjOg
Libby, by OverDrive – an app for library ebooks and audiobooks
When a particle is observed at some energy the theories that predict that no such particle can exist are invalidated. It fault of the experiment to see something is just that, the experiment has failed. The causality of the failure is unknown, also if you do make the observation then the causality of the observation if unknown; Newton's observations and all the observations made by people who believed in a Newtonian universe were not unobserved when relating came along. I believe that the probabilistic approach to observation and observe to rule out approach in HEP now is a big error.
Hi. I'm a software engineer at Fitbit. It is not my job to speak for Fitbit or to sell Fitbits, but I'm answering you because it gives me the chance to point out three reasons why this article's quote about Fitbits not being accurate about sleep stages is wrong.

1. The researcher is also an entrepreneur whose product's sales depend on people thinking Fitbit isn't good enough. https://sonicsleepcoach.com/about-dr-dan/
2. The quote lumps Fitbit and Apple Watch together in terms of how frequently heart rate is measured, when there's a 60x difference. A sincere quote would be more along the lines of "Apple Watch's 1-5 minute sample rate certainly isn't enough, but even Fitbit's 1-5 second sample rate won't give the accuracy you need..."
3. He doesn't say what's wrong with any published study showing sleep stage accuracy of Fitbit, notably https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/40/suppl_1/A26/378095...
I wonder what are the benefits in comparison to using Akka Persistence with whatever database you want?
A vocal minority of the community was pushing for vanilla. There was a somewhat popular (supposedly 150k active players) vanilla server setup by some people in the community (Nostalrius) that was shut down by Blizzard for copyright infringement. It's hard to say what Blizzard will do after they roll out the vanilla servers. They may create TBC, WotLK, etc. servers, or it may be a dud that they just shut down... I'm sure it will depend on how successful they are and how much effort is required to maintain the servers.
It's easier to start again than to build anew in a lot of cases. You'd need to pay me to stare at and figure out existing code; few people (especially nowadays) have the attention span to invest 6 hours in fixing a tiny glitch they deal with every 2 months, but such impulsive development/drive-by patching is what fuels >50% of OSS development.

As for the group thing, you're basically describing distros there. Commercial vendors provide value-adds such as security patching and corporate-focused features around a community-derived base system.
The ideal situation is to be in a growing company, and to move employees from shrinking areas into growing areas.

For example, if the company needs 8 fewer people to install and set up servers, but 10 more people to work on robust automated code deployments to support business growth, and both jobs need Unix skills.

Hence, the setting-up-servers department budget shows cost savings, the overall technology budget grows by 2 employees instead of by 10, and business growth means overall profit increases.
Refactoring workout: Relentlessly green
You know it’s definitely not a cult when the leader gets asked to reassure the crowd that it’s not a cult and has a well-prepared answer describing the differences between this and a cult. In that case, definitely not a cult.
Wotlk was like heroin for teenage me.
I don't think it's right to say that enforcing copyrights is an aspect of free trade. In practice many countries don't want free trade unless their copyrights get enforced and so copyright ends up getting rolled into free trade agreements but you could say the same with health and safety standards in products.

I also think of government support for industry as orthogonal to free trade. Yes, countries have certainly sped up their development through the use of tariffs. By transferring money from consumers to people accumulating capital they increased the effective savings rate of the country and increase growth. But you can also literally just tax consumers and pass the money on to industrialists in the form of cheap loans like the Japanese did in their development. They didn't go off the gold standard until the Great Depression but I'm sure you could industrialize through fiat currency too though no cases come immediately to mind.

I'm not entirely happy telling current poor countries "Suffer now so your grandchildren can be rich" even it that's what my ancestors did for me. And I'm certainly not going to advocate the sort of violent labor movement suppression that seems to have always gone hand in hand with rapid industrialization[1]. I suspect that a lot of truths about the world are going to change as AI develops over the next half century so I feel like I shouldn't be advocating sacrifices I'm not sure will pay off.

[1]https://pseudoerasmus.com/2017/10/02/ijd/
> There’s this new finding where playing sounds at a certain frequency when your brain is in deep sleep actually increases the percentage of time spent in deep sleep. We’re publishing this paper in Society for Neuroscience Conference in a couple of weeks, and it’s basically what my TED talk is about. Playing these pulses at the same frequency as your deep-sleep brainwaves primes more deep sleep. Scientifically speaking, it’s a similar process as transcranial direct-current stimulation, except it doesn’t use electricity—just sound. Sound gets transmitted into electricity because you’re picking up on the auditory cortex while you’re sleeping.

I've tried the open source app Binaural Beats[0] a few days ago, mainly just as a noise blocker, but I was surprised to notice it working quite well with getting me into a deep sleep too. I don't know if it uses these frequencies though.

[0] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.axet.binauralbeat...
Most actually have a limit and even on those that don't you should not exceed 130km/h unless you know the road: the next speed limit will come and just afterwards a speed trap....
I added some more references where possible!