skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If any of the multiple NPR pieces I've heard mentioned that, my comment would have been more moderate. I have heard nothing about altered Nicotine composition, only that "vaping liquids can have a pack of cigarettes' worth" of Nicotine, and separately, that Juul has flavors, as if that's what draws teens into it.
Good. A crappy shell is something Linux never had. I can't wait to start using OverlyVerboseCommands with -VeryLongOptionNames.
I appreciate what the article is saying, but regardless of how likely such an outcome is, “something bad might happen” is rarely a good reason to not do something new and unknown. A modicum of caution is important of course, but if said caution spirals out of control you end up with stagnation which with time is arguably as dangerous as the worst outcomes of attempted advancement.
Almost. This lets you move the insertion point, but AFAIK there's no replacement for the 3D Touch feature wherein you can push in again while moving the cursor to select the word (and again to select the whole line).
In the case of South Sudan, it might be due to George Bush. He had a personal desire to see South Sudan become independent. He also made economic assistance to African nations one of his policy initiatives beyond what would be expected from a conservative president. Perhaps some in the African Union felt it was in their best interest to support the independence of South Sudan because it would put them on good terms with the American president.
If literacy involves writing, then most kids are illiterate.

Remember the three R’s? Now it’s down to two. Well, maybe one (American kids have long been using calculators).

But a deeper question is, what do we actually lose if people can’t write by hand or do arithmetic?
I wonder how they got approval from the Northwestern Institutional Review Board. Not having explicit consent from research subjects might indicate that they qualified for some form of exempt status. Did they sell them that Dropbox collects that data as part of their normal operation, therefore consent is not required? Did they say that Dropbox's anonymization was enough to guarantee subjects' anonymity? Did they say that Dropbox's user agreement already enrolls users into research projects?
> I'm sure that spending fully one quarter of the total lifespan of your company doing something besides building features would be equally unpleasant for many founders.

Why? Founders are building a business, not implementing a list of features. Businesses need funding. So a serious founder would approach funding with the same about of regard as building features IMO.
Is Susan Fowler related to Martin Fowler?
The other responses to this post may be thinking of CA vehicles year 1999 and older which require tailpipe measurements and dyno loading.

Newer vehicles usually only require the OBDII review and they will double check codes haven't been cleared recently and all sensors are in spec. No dyno or tailpipe measurements are required in CA on year 2000 and newer.

This is why smog shops offer $20-$40 for year 2000 and newer and $70+ for 1999 and older. It's more human time intensive to test year 1999 and older.
This terribly punishes military servicemen who wish to return to normal life and attempt a phd

Note:just making an observation
"now, turn it over and flick off the planned obscelence switch, look at that good as new"
Yup it works, thanks!
Introduction to the calculus of variations (Byerly 1921)
Also (defense attorney) Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy and (ACLU / academic) Michelle Alexandar's New Jim Crow

http://newjimcrow.com/

http://bryanstevenson.com/the-book/
One of the things another team at my organisation is working on is using it so that competitors can pool their data to do better analytics over the whole corpus without actually revealing their secrets to the other company - https://www.n1analytics.com/.
Is it really substantively different from “imaginative play”?

My own kids watch similar stuff quite a bit, and while I don’t enjoy watching it with them, they enjoy it and talk about it with their friends. They even make their own (private) videos for fun.

Ask any kid age six to twelve or so these days what they want to be, and most will reply “I want to be a YouTuber!”
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to offend. Many people believe ADHD is related to Autism and, while I never heard it of being cured, it can be managed/tuned with medication. Maybe autism can be managed in a similar way - and we just don't know how yet.

BTW, I also don't think of ADHD and ASDs as diseases either. Like you said, it's more like the way we are wired. I am wired in a somewhat odd way, but I wouldn't trade my brain in for the standard model, even if it is inconvenient sometimes.
My parents both had Ph.D. educations in chemistry. A big part of my father's work involved scientific programming in Fortran. Both used computers in their research. Neither really got on board with the internet. My father never even used email. My mom did, but minimally.
Is a bounty for reporting an offense a common thing in the US (or elsewhere)? I've never heard of it.
This might not be a popular opinion, but I feel that plea bargains are the result of an overextended legal system. The war on drugs has overburdened our courts with cases which should not exist in the first place. Imagine how many less cases there would be if there were none involving possession or sale of narcotics. Sure, there would be tangential crimes like an addict resorting to theft but those exist now and I doubt the number would increase significantly.
Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have all been hiring crazy amounts of people for the cloud as it is growing so fast.
What's worse is that 99% of Americans, or rather the global population, (including businesses) use it for BS.
> books were the only way

I am sure you mean newspapers and magazines. Books still are.
> While it's easy to say, how far do you go? Do you test every bit of every upstream library you use? The ideal is probably yes, but the reality is this rarely happens.

It depends. I have a friend who used to work on banking systems. They had full test coverage of every dependency. Even standard lib functions and language features.

One time they found a bug in the md5 implementation in a minor version of a popular database.
Funny you say that, since historically Apple computers maintain their resale value much better than any other manufacturer's computers.
The level of optimization they are not doing must be staggering.
I don’t understand why you say that. Basically the prosecution has a lock on evidence that makes them think they can comfortably convict. They offer the defendant a standard plea to 2.

The issue typically isn’t innocence (they’re guilty), it’s an issue of how the defendant handles his guiltiness.

If there is a lack of evidence or a strong alibi, then typically the DA won’t threaten a trial — they will drop it or offer a lesser crime (depends on the context).

DAs don’t make a career of threatening trials for cases that aren’t locks. They want high conviction rates.
... you’re not already doing that?

I organized a LAN party to play SiN a while back. It was fun!
You're essentially doing a rough manual version of Bayesian classification on n-grams (which is still very explicable): http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html
I'd gotten a job as an RTOS kernel developer, gotten married, and had a kid due in a few months.

Advice: Take the evil mother-in-law's threats seriously, and just move out of the state ASAP. Don't let a romantic wife crack your knee joint.
"If you went to a good school (as you seem to claim), I am willing to bet that one or more admits were advocated for by a professor and (most likely) ended up as that professor’s advisee. You may not have been told about this, but I bet it happens. As I said elsewhere, strong doctoral students (relatively speaking) are extremely hard to find, and most good professors won’t leave a good fit to chance. Maybe your field is different, but I somehow doubt it."

The program doesn't do direct admit like that - I know because I asked. Faculty can advocate, and everyone was matched with an advisor, but for the most part first year funding was not under someone's direct RA line, and a slim majority of students ended up switching advisors (myself included).

Ironically, one of the professors who did recruit the strong doctoral students did so in a way that was a very useful cautionary tale for my own recruiting - namely that it's very hard to actually determine that from an application.
We're doing tons of optimizations, trust me. :) Working on compile times is a constant, high-priority request from users. rustc is also a Rust project, and so we want Rust programs to compile faster too. It's just non-trivial. If you've got a suggestion to make rustc compile quickly with little effort, we're all ears!

D, on the other hand, was always designed for fast compilation (If I recall correctly), and so it compiles quickly. It's important to us, but not as important as other things. You can't be the best at every task, so you have to prioritize. For example, take two implementations of D: DMD and LDC. As I understand it, DMD uses its own codegen, so it compiles quickly, but produces slower binaries. LDC, based on LLVM, compiles more slowly, but produces faster binaries, for the exact same code. My understanding is that LDC is still faster to compile than rustc, but these are the kinds of tradeoffs you have to make.
> history is hindsight here

Sounds like loser talk
>Incidentally, this is a large part of why the US response to the VW emissions scandal was so different than the EU response. The affected VW engines broke EU regulations by a little, but broke CARB regulations by a lot.

We had some Dutch friends visiting when the scandal broke. Their BIG concern was the emissions tax they paid to register the car for the road -- whether they would need to pay back-fees, and an increase in tax for future registration.
A lot of people routinely did a simulation of c. elegans. You can find it online on Google.
I know very smart 60yo+ doctors with a lifetime of scientific achievements, who understands concepts way more complicated than the IP protocol or a browser, and who just refuse to learn it.

I know a woman who until recently worked as a secretary to one of the presidents of a large regional bank. The first thing she did each morning was to print out the president's e-mails, and bring them to him on paper. He would then dictate his responses and she would send the e-mail responses for him.

The job paid big bucks for several reasons:

- She knows how to take fast, accurate dictation with steno. They don't teach that anywhere anymore.

- She knows how to file. Real paper files.

- She would place his phone calls for him, old-fashioned style. He would say, "I need to talk to Mr. X," and a in a couple of minutes she'd be on the phone: "Is this Mr. X? Please hold for bank president Y."

- She dressed the part; coming to work in a proper business suit and briefcase each day, not carrying a backpack like a sixth-grader.

- She didn't mind making coffee for the boss. It's a hate crime to even ask these days, but she did it happily.

That bank president must have a very low stress level, since he only had to see his paper e-mail once a day.
> what’s new and novel

Literally the genesis of OSX.
If and when the court removes the self-incrimination threat, usually by granting use immunity, you can still be compelled to testify. The privilege only protects against self-incrimination.
Thanks for assuming I have not read the case !
https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...

The FTC explains their view of what is a monopoly.
Weren't they previously complaining about their /presence/ in local restaurants before? The whole thing strikes me as foolish and entitled - as always there is no such thing as a right to a business model.
Maybe.

There are a lot of issues involved, and contrition (or lack thereof) is one of them.

Most of the judges prefer pleas for obviously guilty people since they clog the docket. Going to trial just because you can even though your case is a slam dunk guilty verdict is an abuse of privelege, imho.

If a case is not a slam dunk, the judges often don’t give the max out of spite — it all depends on the details of the case.

If you have some free time, go watch a few criminal court trials. Some of these things will make of scratch your head and wonder why the person didn’t plea (e.g., clear cctv footage of the crime being committed with multiple eyewitnesses who corroborate).
Fixing Sequelize Models with Migrations
I wish I could be one of them.
fwiw, I maintain a website called smallrepo (https://smallrepo.com). It builds go language code together, and maintains an always buildable commit set as a "super repo". If you sync to smallrepo (rather than using go get), it can shield you from many unexpected build breakages.
Interesting Twitter thread about why this happens: https://mobile.twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1021187217664...
Argh! I love the deprecation example! How elegant! How did I never think of this (or why did I never think to ask)!

edit: pasted here –

func ListItems(query Query) Items {
ListItemsWithLimit(query, 0, 0)
}

func ListItemsWithLimit(query Query, limit int, offset int) Items {
// ...
}
Who are those people? Most are paid or sponsored by corporations.
Why can't we just put a battery onto DRAM that maintains state if the power goes out, and be done with it?
> I think the other side you have to consider is if revenue related to wrong doing is in the billions and your fine is in the thousands, it's toothless.

If the revenue related to wrong doing is in the billions and the harm is in the thousands, attempting to prohibit the conduct instead of imposing a small tax and using the money to compensate the victims is obviously a large dead-weight economic loss.
I continue to be stunned that people still somehow think that these services have any modicum of consideration for their users.

If you don't want your information accessed--run your own servers, people. That's your only option.
> I thought we had an amendment that said that while we might be compelled to show up as a witness at court, we can't be compelled to testify if we think it might implicate ourselves?

It only protects you from being compelled to be a witness against yourself; because of indirect use, you can refuse testimony that isn't directly against yourself based on that protection, but only so long as you haven't been granted immunity that protects you against those derivative uses.
They carry pens and paper if they need to track something.

I do, too. And in the nerdiest possible way: https://logostore-globalid.us/ProductDetail.aspx?did=17363&p...

And it's super cheap!
A Historical Look at the VAX: Microprocessor Economics (2006)
Yes this was curious. I wonder if these insights (2.3 v 3 collaborators over 180 vs 130 days with the top person contributing x%) was really effective or just a coincidence.
I take a half an Ambien to sleep on overnight flights, no side effects that I can discern. It's all about managing risks relative to benefits, and not always in an evenhanded way. 2 grams of Tylenol/paracetamol with a bottle of wine and it's bye bye, liver, yet you can buy it in a vending machine.
Oh please.., tell me nobody serious actually believes this nonsense. People go to prison and while innocent of all crimes accused. That attitude of certainty in any situation should bar a person from a career in the justice system.
> One of my random question is that what does Google gain by spending resources on developing course like this?

Mindshare or more generally PR. Also to "collect" the talent on their platforms (Tensorflow, Google Cloud, ...). Also these guides were repurposed from existing (internal) guides and are a few years old by now, so the cost is low.

You further describe the role of a data engineer or ML engineer. If you'd approach data science with a focus on engineering and tool use, you could be one of the few dangerous data scientists that is able to go end-to-end (should be safe for at least 5 years when such pipelines are evolved without much human intervention).

> But when I see data science, no excitement. All I imagine is image manipulation and fancy charts.

This is because, while there is legit substance to the hype, the hype is real and it is focused on deep learning ImageNet (and later GAN's, Atari games, Go). Being able to show deepdreamed images and cat neurons is like catnip to journalists. Computer vision is but a very small part of ML and lots of data-driven companies have no need for such skills. Charts are made by analysts.

Everything (including block chain) will move closer to ML paradigm of learning software. Data infra engineers will see their infra increasingly used for ML. It remains all software (very advanced, but accessible to anyone) and hardware (still a asymmetry here between industry lab and practitioner). Don't get left out: Do machine learning like the great engineer you are, not like the great machine learning
expert you aren’t.
> We survived with no evidence or entirely questionable evidence before, and we'll survive in that situation again in future.

Surviving isn't the issue, quality of life is. You made the point that "fakers [have] gradually [gotten] better at lying in a near endless arms race."

While I understand that things have a tendency to stay the same, history has also shown trends that have lasted thousands of years can also be punctuated in relatively short periods. Sure, people have lied and faked for thousands of years, but fake videos just might be the critical inflection point that in our timeline that creates a huge asymmetry of power and influence.

What sets this apart isn't the technical quality of the lie, it's the agents that are performing the lie: Machines.

Not only are machines capable of fabricating evidence, they are incredibly effective at measuring the efficacy. Lies can be cheaply produced, tailored for very specific micro-demographics, and directly sent to their intended recipients.

The early 20th century showed us how broadcast radio could be exploited for propaganda warfare. The early 21st century could show us how history rhymes when well financed organizations or nation states can finance disinformation campaigns that leverage machine learning.
I’m in the US, and I do what I can to make sure women who feel that they are in danger are armed and trained.

“Trained” is an important part of that - both in preventing someone from harming them and enabling them to be confident in their ability to protect themselves.

I mention this not to start a flamewar on HN but to underscore that this is a very real problem that many people face and to urge people to help be part of mitigating it.
Do you think 90% is really feasible any time soon? Wouldn't that require nonexistent new technology for air travel and container ships?
A plea bargain and the ability to threaten the accused with long prison sentence means they can get convictions for marginal cases.
It's also fucked up because a vast majority of the people who come via this route are rich kids with parents ready to back them up with cash if shit hits the fan. Lower middle class/lower class students usually don't even dream about taking a 4 million rupee loan, because they realize how fucked they would be if something goes wrong. No wonder what this kind of a sampling bias will do to the average quality of people coming in. It used to be different when a vast majority of students used to come on scholarships, but there are plenty of colleges now who run the MS program like a cash cow.
I haven’t figured out how to implement this, but the key observation is that Semver is trying to delineate degrees of substitutability (LSP).

I think the right solution here is to build version numbers off of your black box tests.

The devil is in the details though. What’s a change to the tests mean exactly? Adding new tests is probably a patch release. Modifying tests demands at least a minor version number, but what makes it a major version number? Deleting tests probably qualifies. Removing assertions probably does too.

But now what if the author is bad at tests too? Can I substitute my own? (I could do that right now for regression testing, and in fact I do occasionally for interdepartmental issues).
I would say, like Dijkstra, they are recording the value on the wrong side of the ledger!
Even as a ~20-30 year old, libraries and them acting as community "hubs" seems so foreign already.

I'm not sure why. Libraries are still massively popular, and most have embraced digital media fully. In many of the cities where I've been in the last 10 years, the libraries are struggling to keep up with demand. Many even have coffee shops and internet cafes.

In my estimation, a lot of people under 40 think the library is empty all the time because they've never been to one to see what it offers.

It's like how people say they don't watch PBS because there's nothing good on. But how do they know there's nothing good on if they don't watch?
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Sorry I just find statements of the form “nothing exists”
a bit irksome especially when the person talking doesn’t know what exists as can be seen by looking at the matter at hand. Chinese has plenty of ten key input systems, some alive, some dead, since the mid 1990s at least for phones and possibly before that for the keypads accompanying computers. It’s been a very fertile space for innovation and I’d be extremely surprised to meet anyone who has kept up with it, so forgive me for being skeptical of your claim of perfect knowledge of a negative. I was asking a different person who sounded like he knew something, and you answered. I did mention zhuyin which is commonly understood informal shorthand for zhuyinfuhao, the more formal word for bopomofo. There are component based systems as well that work with radicals, strokes, quadrants of the characters, and all kinds of zany stuff. That being said, I am not very familiar with Japanese and didn’t know about the the flick method.
In my experience, dragging the scrollbar slowly hasn't been an issue I've seen. What I have seen people do is drag the scrollbar really quickly and end up at the bottom of the page, when what they want is in the middle. They correct this by dragging the scrollbar sharply up, but they're now back at the top of the page. Rince, repeat.

I also see people use the arrow buttons on the scrollbar. But they just click the button repeatedly instead of holding it down. Which means that for a very long page, it can take them a long time and hundreds of clicks to get to the section of the page they want to see.
The problem is our insane drug laws. I don't believe we have enough criminals to have such a high incarceration rate.
Yep, no argument about user metadata. My point was specifically about location data, which users do not have to give.

> Google Maps is free for me to use, so long as I relinquish location data necessary for it to function
I didn't read a book for probably 2 years at some point.

That doesn't mean I'm poorly educated or ignorant. I was reading a lot, I was just reading articles rather than books.

I still don't read a lot of books. I just don't enjoy them that much. I'll read short fiction and poems, but I just don't really like novels.
The way the document looks made me nostalgic. When we started to be able to edit documents like that it looked like science fiction.