skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you give a counter-example? In the same product class what is more secure?
Man, this view of getting a PhD, which seems fairly common, is so alien to me. Both my parents are research professors, both regularly have students, and I have never seen any of the misery or stress that people keep bringing up.

Sure, if you are unprepared to do research then you shouldn't do a PhD, but my parents' students are hand picked, and it is very rare that they end up with a student that doesn't want to, or is unprepared to do research.

Being a PhD student should be one of the most fun parts of an academic career. You get to focus on your research, and are mostly removed from the politics and stress of securing funding. You aren't constantly being barraged by requests to review papers or having your time used up by a myriad of other responsibilities.

I guess it is totally possible that the corner of academia that I grew up around (ocean sciences at a lab removed from the main campus) is an outlier, but my impressions of getting a PhD were always positive, and the reason I never did it was because the part after your PhD seemed like it sucked.
v0.7 is mostly for developers upgrading packages. It is nice because it throws warnings instead of errors for things that changed. So if it works on v0.7 without depwarns then it will be 1.0 compatible. But in many cases it's not perfect yet, so staying at v0.6 can be nicer than throwing a bunch of depwarns at new users.
That was the first thing I tried! And it worked! Cool project.
Seems like a good argument for single payer insurance!
How in the world do you measure and teach them that without having them actually do research and demonstrate that they've succeeded? It also does a lot for them by building professional relationships and making sure their name is at least somewhat out there by the time they've finished the PhD.
Yes I agree wholeheartedly, sorry I originally missed your point. I do think it's more of a DL vs. the world problem than stats vs. ML but everything you said rings true. I was kind of odd in that I started with DL and then became fascinated with statistics and lost focus with DL. Statistics is just so much more useful outside of the niche domains where DL is extremely effective.
Exactly, and that is why 1.0 is a big deal: the end of breaking changes until Julia 2.0.
Containers are byzantine, but presumably you can at least run your own process inside the container and debug from there? How can you hope to even start to debug if your debugger has a different view of the filesystem from the process you're debugging?
For people who like/use it (and there are many), this is a very sad day.

Only temporarily. Once folks move off of Facebook and onto something better, they'll realize that this was a Good Thing overall.
Some of those folks started when Fortran, Basic, Clipper, Pascal, Modula-2, Ada were relevant.

1 based indexes were just fine.
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There’s no way to represent 1/3 as a decimal float. It’s a problem with any base.
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> some scientific studies have shown a link between vegetarianism and a variety of mental health issues including OCD

Could you provide links or keywords? My close family went full-vegan ~ 2y ago and I'm worried they may be doing themselves more harm than good.

If taurine is a start, then all other microelements are the continuation? Studies for taurine would also be helpful.

Is this a troll given the username?
Can you feel your heart beating within your chest, and blood pulsing through your body? Why do you trust external metrics more than internal metrics?
Thanks for the kind words. When you say "when you add new product categories", are you referring to the collections (https://bestbestlist.com/collections)?

Or do you just mean new list pages in general? I'm trying to add new lists pretty frequently so I would hate to flood someone with updates on a bunch of things they may not care about (e.g. laundry detergent when maybe you don't do your own laundry, kitchen tools if you don't cook).
Discord is launching a game store
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Ask HN: Companies Hiring Fulltime, How Open to Contractors?
Let's say company XYZ is posting a job ad for a fairly specific yet market-competitive technical skill, under full time positions.

Let's say my small company does contract work in that space.

How receptive would XYZ be to my firm reaching out via the job ad and suggesting a potential contractor collaboration?

To me it seems like a decent case of supply meeting their demand, but not in the particular format initially sought.

Anyone have experience with this? Tips and tricks? Ideas on how to better sell the idea of taking on a contractor for a project instead of hiring?
I think their appeal is broader than conventional Democrats. Sanders won northern rural Democrats over Clinton in the primaries, which seems to indicate a precise rift that hasn't been fully elaborated:
https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/national-results-map
You're quite cocky. That's not an insult. I think if you cut your teeth on this problem for a couple months, you'd look back on this comment with some mixed feelings.

When a system is inherently toxic, there is no way to make it not-toxic short of coming up with a different substance. We can't make nuclear waste pure just because we wish it were. This is a very similar situation to this particular type of game. When it's a team game, and you rely on people who aren't doing their job, and you're separated by distance, it brings out the worst in you.

The problem isn't chat. If it were, it would be solved already, for the reasons you point out. The problem is the people. When someone doesn't like someone else, they will find a way to ruin their game while bypassing your censors. And yes, you can ban some of them, but not most of them, and not when most of the community acts like this. Which they do. Which you can't understand unless you go play the game for a bit.
That title is mangled.
You do realize that 0-based indexing is mostly because of C's huge influence and not because it's natural to higher level languages, particularly ones that are designed with scientific computing in mind. Fortran existed before C.

It's also not hard to get used to. No more OB1 errors.
Slightly off topic....

He mentioned that over 20Mbps you really don’t notice better browsing speed. He’s right. I have gigabit internet - usually around 950Mbps up and down. Nothing takes advantage of it in the real world. The best real world throughout I’ve gotten is through my work VPN in the middle of the night or transferring something to AWS. Even then it’s only 100Mbps. BackBlaze tops out at around 70Mbps with multiple threads running.

Video streaming at its highest but rate is only 15Mbps.
And while the rate of child and teen suicide has risen by 23.5 percent nationally during the years covered by the study, it "more than doubled" (a 136 percent rise) in Utah, according to researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

https://health.usnews.com/health-care/articles/2018-03-22/cd...
I can invite you, but I need somewhere to send the invite. Email is in my profile if you want to share yours that way.
this. They don't mention to students, who are too inexperienced, to understand funding and how it works. Professors want the prestige of having tons of students which isn't always in the best interest of the student. The professor's plan can also be "vague" in order to always hold the carrot in front of the horse's mouth. Endlessly chasing something it will never reach.
Yep. They were also basically peaceful US allies at almost their onsets.
Good. Anything that rattles Red Emperor Xi is a good thing.
And a reminder of how life with SaaS platforms looks like. You have little ability to improve things for yourself.

Exactly. Hopefully this will nudge more people to start running smaller, more regionalized (maybe down to the level of the individual) instances of Open Source platforms, based on Open Standards, to replace the kind of functionality people have been getting from the Facebooks and Twitters and Instagrams of the world. That would be a Good Thing.
Am I to understand from the title that I am different from my brain? Then who am I? Something other than my brain/body?
Neuroscientists get at the roots of pessimism
(I can't tell if you're an expert in gas/oil, or not. I work with a lot of people from the gas/oil industry, so I'm not an expert per se, but I do read a lot about the industry).

The proven reserves for California are based on historic estimates, they haven't been thoroughly re-evaluated, and were based on previous extraction technologies (before side-drilling etc). The current position of my friends who do oil/gas analysis is that California proven reserve estimates are at least 1 order of magnitude below reality mainly because people aren't actively looking because of the moratorium.
> The article isn't about bad encryption though. It's not about a flaw in the signal protocol or something like that. It's stuff like Moxie doesn't like F-Droid. Which is not an invalid criticism but I'm not gonna stop recommending Signal over Facebook Messenger because of that.

You have to look at the whole system, not just one algorithm that it uses - if any part of the system is secure then the whole is insecure. Do you believe Signal-the-system is meaningfully more secure than Facebook Messenger (which uses industry-standard HTTPS, so at the low-level protocol/algorithm level it's certainly secure enough)? If so, why/how? If not, why recommend it?

(I agree that Signal is more secure than SMS, but so is Facebook Messenger or any number of other messaging apps).
At anything other than really-low-valuation-seed-stage, the cost to purchase is going to be material. Since 409(a) is basically just 1/5th of the last valuation, at $5mil valuation, 1.0% equity will cost you $10k to exercise. If you can burn $10k without thinking about it on startup salary, this advice isn't for you.

If you wait, you get substantially more information. A company that makes it to a Series A has a much higher chance of succeeding, and you'll typically know that in your typical tenure of 1-3 years as a junior dev.

If you want to spend $10k cash on buying startup equity, at least call yourself an angel investor and go find a company that's willing to issue you a note that converts to preferred stock. It's too easy for a company to have a couple of missteps and wipe out most of the common stock value, even much later.
> The big difference between Chinese and American labor is that we place a much higher standard on human and worker rights.

I used to believe this until I read up on how prisoners in the US basically work like indentured servants for pennies.

There's a few news articles and occasional "anger" at the situation, but I read about it 15+ years ago and nothing has changed.

It's not like the average Chinese person is against human and worker rights. If you talk to them, of course they will say they value it.

It's just those in power don't care. And those that do care, don't have the power to change anything.
Sounds like circling of the wagons to me, to reduce or prevent Facebook users from leaving the domain.
Sure can:

# Magic
julia> Base.to_indices(A, inds, I::Tuple{Complex, Vararg{Any}}) = (real(I[1]), imag(I[1]), to_indices(A, Base._maybetail(Base._maybetail(inds)), Base.tail(I))...)

julia> A
4×5 reshape(::UnitRange{Int64}, 4, 5) with eltype Int64:
1 5 9 13 17
2 6 10 14 18
3 7 11 15 19
4 8 12 16 20

julia> A[3 + 2im]
7

```
> The US and others had looked the other way on China’s mercantilist actions in the past on a strategic gamble that China would slowly evolve into a more democratic state, with open markets, freedoms and rule of the law. This strategy had worked out well with South Korea and Taiwan as they made their transitions from poor dictatorships to wealthy democracies (and peaceful US allies).

One important difference is that both Taiwan and South Korea have been continuously dependent on US military protection from WWII until now.
I don't even understand why the blindfold analogy is even useful or relevant to the entire discussion. It's just adding another layer of complexity to an already complicated issue.
"Google Play Services is a proprietary background service and API package for Android devices from Google" [0] - I don't know a phone running pure AOSP without any proprietary code.

[0] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Play_Services
> Why should a profit-seeking insurance company insure me past some point when the data strongly indicates i'm going to need drastic and expensive intervention.

They shouldn't.
And quaternions for image stacks in ML? Troll, but not too troll...
Zero based arrays are frequently better in a numerical context. Many times when you’re using the index in the computation itself (FFTs for instance), zero based is what you want. For instance, the zeroth frequency (DC) is in the zeroth bin.
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Interesting. What reviews do you personally find to be the most trustworthy?
I too went on a 2 year mission in Ohio and I second the statement that it was incredibly hard but totally worth it.
To be fair it does that to map you with the contacts who also are on Signal just like WhatsApp or Telegram does. Though you could also use Telegram just with user_names w/o phonebook permission but for signing up you need to use your actual phone number.
Gas combusts pretty cleanly and doesn't release much.

I personally wouldn't worry about particulates from cooking that much. Get an air purifier if you want, any decent one should be able to pull that stuff out of the air fairly quickly.
maybe my reasoning only applies to big cities?
In manhattan daycare is like $3k/child. To break even, one has to get paid ~$5k, since there are federal tax/city tax etc.
If we wanted contractors, we’d be looking for contractors. Contractors are easier to find and in some ways lower risk.

So if we’re looking for full time rather than contractors, it’s for a good reason. Usually something to do with culture, communication, efficiency, time, growth, stability, or other considerations. Inquiries from contractors in this context are spam.
I think vectorEQ's point was actually that 1-based indexes are a reasonable abstraction.

"computers dont care for what is first idex...none is better, your compiler is taking care of business"
It is. https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/
Your western imperial biases are showing.

China was doing pretty well for itself for millennia with intensive terracing and silt harvesting. They have fields that have been under cultivation for four thousand years. We can barely manage four hundred.

And pre Columbian California was agrofoerstry from sea to foothills with seasonal migrations.

Without anhydrous ammonia we would have a diet much higher in legumes and lower in staple starch, which is probably killing us anyway. A more efficient source of high fructose corn syrup doesn’t inspire confidence in our future.

Corn still uses far too much water for us to sustain indefinitely.

[Edit] We would also be using more perennial crops, which don't have to build up an entire plant from seed every year. More efficient, as long as your form of civilization does not involve moving into new areas every ten years.
I would argue so. Despite my mind telling me not to eat cookies, I feel a strong compulsion to eat them.
The author is speaking of the scale of the expansion of our Universe. Given the distance between us and that galaxy, the speed added by pure expansion of the space between us becomes a significant number.
"Having multiple branded builds to choose from would be a terrible thing and would easily allow fake apps to gain traction"

In this particular case, not likely. People who are into more secure communication do not randomly click on anything. They know what they are doing, or get it installed from people they trust. And if they don't - their fault. Not Signals.

And Signal can continue to work and introduce breaking changes whenever they want. They simply only support the official build of Signal. Any person using anything different, cannot complain, if things stop working. (they will anyway, sure)

And the ressouce-abuse. Can this really be a thing? I don't know in detail how the protocol works, but what can I do with the servers, I can't do with Signal anyway? Sending (encrypted) data from A to B.
I can allready abuse that today, if I want.
I underexpose two stops on occasion if the highlights are too blown out and I want that detail - it's really easy to bring the shadows back up in lightroom.
I actually find this style of writing interesting and engaging. It makes a mundane topic like rate limiters, easy to understand (along with the topics related to it). Not everyone enjoys the same styles of writing, but if I’m learning something new, I want it to be engaging.
Could one poison the records by sending multiple samples of different blood sources attached to the same name? So the database query would'nt be conclusive, but you would know which test is legit.

How would the ancestry testers react if I sent several samples in my name?

Will there be a market for clean blood that you can use to confuse the records and get a sort of plausible deniability of identity?
Haha yea why'd that guy on vacation write with any sort of style... Everything should read like an RFC and look like notepad and we are robots that only consume information.
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The blog post states the following:

> [Moxie] makes arguments which don’t hold up, derails threads, leans on logical fallacies, and loops back around to long-debunked positions when he runs out of ideas.

Can anyone provide examples of threads where Moxie is acting like this? The blog post didn't give any.
What happened to France vs. Italy? I'm curious.
Yes, on these pages: https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.5.html .

Of significant interest to people who are stuck/like writing Python would be the async changes in 3.5 and 3.6. There have also been constant type annotation enhancements made throughout the 3.x releases.
A lot of this seems ridiculous:

> Mental health issues are rife: approximately one-third of PhD students are at risk of having or developing a psychiatric disorder like depression.

The baseline percentage of the population which experience depression (and other mental illness) each year is known to be pretty high -- and highest in for people in their 20's. One third sounds fairly normal; at any rate, there is a burden here to show that this is an exceptional proportion.

> For instance, a PhD in Germany is supposed to take three years, according to university regulations, but most students need five years to complete one.

If you are starting from an undergraduate degree, you probably need at least two years to take the PhD intro classes. One year to start a research program might work in a subject like the author's where your papers are chats about social implications, but there are plenty of subjects where even the data collection is going to take longer than that.

> In the US, meanwhile, the average completion time for a PhD in education sciences surpasses 13 years.

These programs are dominated by people who are working teachers, working on PhDs part-time.

> One study found that for every 200 people who complete a PhD, only seven will get a permanent academic post and only one will become a professor.

Being a professor is only one possible goal and for some fields, it isn't even the primary one.
I do. How do you get your news now? Google, facebook, some kind of feed reader? This site youre on? Youre already being influenced.

What about the education system? You wouldnt go back to school if it was free?

The important part is that its either opt in, or very clear to opt out, and that I can choose the organization I get my, for lack of a better word, education from.
Of course. The Chinese government isn’t immune to criticism even if they try to suppress it. In fact, they know that their position is very brittle, which is why they are trying to stave off a crash/recession at any cost.

Trump’s trade war is enough I think to set an economic reckoning in motion. However, it also gives the leadership a nice scapegoat if they know they can’t avoid it. That might not be good enough, however.
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Reading Nassim Taleb's article [1], I feel politics will become more and more extreme in the coming years.

Where it will become the far-left vs the far-right. And honestly, the US "far-left" isn't really that extreme compared to some European parties.

1. https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
I don't find that too surprising, Rich tends to let things bake internally (in his head and at Cognitect) for a while before releasing anything publicly for consumption and feedback.

Most of Clojure's current development is around tooling [1] and some changes to move clojure.spec out of alpha. I believe they want to accomplish this for 1.10, but I'm not sure where I remember hearing that.

Alex Miller has mentioned that Cognitect built and continues to work on a tool that tracks all of your functions with spec definitions and generatively tests them only when the function or one of its dependencies changes. This would be extremely helpful since generative testing can be expensive to run, especially if you want to generate huge amounts of test cases. It'd be nice to say "test all of my codebase's functions 10 million times" and then have that information stored locally with the code.

In Rich's "Effective Programs" talk [2] he outlines the "10x problems" that Clojure was targeted at solving. In it there are two 10x problems that weren't solved by Clojure: resource utilization and libraries. There's not much Clojure can do to solve resource utilization as it's dependent on the host (JVM), but the library problem (especially Clojure libraries with spec definitions) is solvable (though there seems to be some disagreement on whether only allowing growth in libraries in a practical).

Pure speculation: All of their tooling projects (spec, codec, tool.deps, and the above mentioned generative test runner/tracker) are going to come together in a tool that attempts solves the library dependency problem. Rich outlines a lot of his thinking about how to accomplish this in his "Spec-ulation" talk [3]. He wants Clojure to "become the first community to make [dependencies] great". I hope that we'll see more tools and guidance from the Clojure team on this soon (and maybe improved out-of-the-box error messages)!

[1] https://github.com/clojure/tools.deps.alpha
[2] https://youtu.be/2V1FtfBDsLU?t=29m53s
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk
This is ridiculous. It is literally part of the job description of PhD advisors to train students and provide research experience. It is not the job of the PhD advisor to totally absolve himself/herself of hiring risk, for god's sake. If you already have 2-3 years of genuine (i.e. truly independent) research experience, you are half way to being a postdoc and the advisor is simply a funding source who should in turn have to pay market rate for employees and have greatly reduced powers over them.
> From a humanitarian perspective, Fritz Haber ended up creating a process that helped us take huge steps forward as a collective species.

It also made possible the industrial production of dynamite and other conventional explosives, and you could say it's why WW2 dwarfed WW1 in terms of destructive power. Point is, it's not a one-sided issue as you say.
The gamergate crowd, I'd assume. Normal for this sort of story, unfortunately.
> people that simply feel something about a tiny corner of the whole picture

Why is this about the author's feelings? There are plenty of links in the piece to underlying data sources, and these show that the problems mentioned don't vary a lot by discipline. For instance: http://phdcompletion.org