skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can I name some tautological claims instead? The last three bullet points are all basically conjecture. "Google could do this" or "Google has the capacity to do that".

The article uses dark patterns to make you think they're making strong claims when they're just saying things that might be the case, or that the researchers don't have the ability to rule out. And it doesn't help that this article goes to great lengths to word things in more nefarious ways than the underlying research paper.
Even if it's not the primary cause, this is a highly visible, concrete set of events that can be pointed at to increase awareness.

I don't condone dishonesty or propaganda, but using these events to help point out that a) climate change is really happening, b) it's not just a few extra hot days during the summer, seems perfectly okay.
My commute lasts anywhere from 1.5-2hours (NJ-NY). While I respect that this article found that Taiwanese commuters who used public transport tend to be slimmer than those who use cars, I personally find that spending 3-4 hours a day commuting interferes with my ability to actually get in physical exercise that would allow me to be slimmer in the first place!

I don't dispute the accelerated learning bit- I've recently started taking out my laptop and trying to learn Go while commuting and it's been mostly productive. I had to block reddit on my phone first though...
I agree with your complaint but I wouldn't use the terminology "fake news". To me, that's more of a specific term that refers to media bias as a propaganda tool. Whereas this is more of a rumor mill going wild as rumor mills naturally tend to do.

But yes, while hoards of people behave in a bit of a crazy manner, it is a known thing, and if you're responsible for public communication, you should understand those quirks and their predictable consequences. And you should realize that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure by just making everything as clear as possible from the beginning.
That appears to be my same problem.
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If you care, you can get an accurate measurement of lean muscle mass from a DXA scan for about $50.
No, coconut is used extensively in cooking, though perhaps especially South-Asian cooking. The "poisonous" part is because coconut oil is mostly saturated fats. Saturated fats have no adverse effects on the skin.

The last decade it's been featured heavily as a healthy alternative oil to use in food — perhaps boosted by studies (I don't have a link at the moment, unfortunately) that seemed to show that the saturated fats in coconut oil were metabolized in a way that somehow didn't clog your arteries.

Coconut oil also happens to have a high smoke point, so it can be used on high heat, which makes it a great oil for certain types of cooking.

Oh, and pretty much all the popcorn in the US is made cooked with coconut oil; it's part of what makes the "theater popcorn smell".
We haven't experienced an alternate-history version of America without slavery, so does that mean we don't have any information on whether it was bad or not?
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The license commit is very clear redis core is unchanged BSD 3
https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/COPYING
The upvote is an implicit down vote for other things.

I think you need two things. First
an upvote/downvote so that users can express their agree/disagree. This value wouldn't necessarily effect the visibility of the content. Second, a sort of budget system where users can trade earned karma to classify an items "quality".

I think this would lead to a system where you would spend your karma on the communities you care/know/like the most. If I were, for example, a blind apple hater, the upvote/dowmvote makes it easy to downvote apple content or upvotecother content to push it down the page. But I may be more inclined to save my karma for promting Android content instead.
True, but the asm.js is then compiled to machine code by the browser's JS JIT.

I'd expect some overhead from sandboxing etc., but it should be fairly close to native speed.
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Oh, no doubt. Hell, the nearest big street where I grew up was called 'Battle of Borodino'.
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> More broadly, the average OSS license is far from robust.

Like several people here, I'd really appreciate clarification on this.

The average OSS license doesn't apply to some use cases, but in every case I know that's intentional; they're uses that don't uphold the four freedoms. There are a handful of outstanding issues like Google's allergy to AGPL, but the GPL and MIT licenses are well-tested and accepted. I've regularly used them personally and professionally without any confusion or trouble at all.

If there's a flaw or weakness in these licenses, people are obviously eager to hear about it. If they simply don't support restricting downstream rights, that's by design and I think "far from robust" is a thoroughly unfair way of framing the situation.
Ryanair compensation cheques with no signatures 'bounced'
I don't disagree, but I'm sure that users will also flag stories as false that are most likely true, but that don't reflect well on their side of an issue.
What makes you think Facebook isn't played with lasers? In some countries it's played with death squads, apparently.
It would be terrible PR to call this the "Anti-
Commons Clause", but it would indeed be accurate.
The physics involved in multi-rotor drones and fixed wing aircraft are quite different. However, there is control software that works on either.

https://github.com/iNavFlight/inav/wiki

The underlying differences in how they fly aren't that relevant. You have a six-axis IMU, various controls that influence how the craft behaves in those axes and various PID loops that influence the controls.

I don't really understand the downvotes. Obviously, having a type certificated auto-pilot for a commercial helicopter is a world apart from the flight control system for a hobby-scale drone, but the gap between them has nothing to do with the technology and everything to do with the process of type certification.

My point is that it's pretty impressive what these software projects are able to achieve with sub $100 MCUs. Some of them now have 32khz control loops with 32khz IMU sampling. Anyone that's ever peeked under the hood of a commercial auto-pilot would be amazed by that.
Where's lichess?
Can second all these suggestions. Also, from my experience all the Haskell events I've been to have been incredibly welcoming and positive, whilst I'm aware there are a tiny subset of abusive people out there, I've never met them nor met anyone who would tolerate them.

Shoutout if you're in the SF area, BayHac (https://wiki.haskell.org/BayHac2018), a yearly unconference/hackathon is incredibly fun, and also there are (roughly) bi-monthly Haskell meetups (https://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Haskell-Users-Group/) in SF which are great fun (disclaimer: I co-organise the meetups - find me @Nick_enGB).
I didn't flag and I think the discussion is worthwhile, but any U.S. political topic that isn't directly related to tech is usually flagged.
They have different ideologies behind them, but they refer to almost exactly the same class of software. A license that doesn't allow commercial use is proprietary and closed source.
> Machinarium --> Anything else notable? --> Still cute ass heck

Is this a Freudian slip from one of those robosexuals?
There's no need to get personal about it, even when you disagree about licensing. Please don't.
Well, other than companies just not bothering with making specific Linux clients, and relying on Valve. And then when something doesn't work, the developers brush it off and say, "not my problem".
I bet there's a few cheeky hackers around the world who may disagree with that statement. Always assume it's broken.
Im generally curious, what's the definition of "externally"? It's a bit more vague compared to "operating as a service", since you may expose your service externally, but only allow access to internal users.
Do you think a PID control would would fail to be able to accommodate those dynamic factors?
I'm 19 minutes by foot. it's hot and humid where I live so 5 minutes out my clothing is drenched with sweat and by the time I make it to work I have to wait about 20-25 minutes to dry off
> Some are seeing that corporations are the ones making all the money on the back of open source software.

This is true of everything. This isn't a problem with open source, it is a problem with society generally.
I agree, it's terribly misleading and could cause a real lack of licensing clarity.
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The speed is surprisingly reasonable. Testing with a simple loop, I get about 1.3-1.4 million loops per second in python3, 2 million loops per second in python2, 14.5 million loops in pypy, and 0.61 million loops in the browser.

My code basically calls int(time.time()) until its value changes, doing i+=1 for every time it did not change (n=10 for every platform (python2/3/pypy/browser)). My browser is Firefox 61, full code here: https://hastebin.com/turenofise.py
I understand the objection but in general I support the Commons Clause-- as long as developers can easily opt out for projects where it isn't desired or doesn't make sense.

Open source developers are building software for free that is then used by extremely large corporations to make vast amounts of money without compensation to the original author. Even worse much of this revenue comes from business practices that the original authors may find highly objectionable including mass surveillance, "surveillance capitalism," and data-driven propaganda, con artistry, and manipulation.

If you create open source today you have no choice but to indirectly offer free labor toward the construction of a global surveillance state. The commons clause offers a way out while still encouraging people to use your software for personal, private, academic, and other purposes and retaining the openness of open source.

The "free as in beer" part of OSS is a relic of the 1990s when the prevailing enemy was "embrace-extend-extinguish" at the hands of (mostly) Microsoft. It was sort of a growth hack to enable open source software to gain critical mass and challenge closed source proprietary platforms.

Times have changed. Today the big threat is SAAS walled gardens, surveillance capitalism, and other business models that in many cases run on and depend upon open source. In some cases SAAS can verge on piracy-- not necessarily in the legal sense since nothing is being done to violate any license but in the moral sense of profiting handsomely from the work of others without compensating them.

Edit: I will provide a concrete example of the last point: RethinkDB.

RethinkDB was probably the best NoSQL database, at least before Mongo was improved enough to challenge it on robustness and versatility. It still has features Mongo and others lack.

Unfortunately RethinkDB the company failed because... well... nobody paid them. Instead they paid services like compose.io to run RethinkDb for them in the cloud. Cloud SAAS database services were making more money off RethinkDB than the database's own developers were. In the end they failed and the project is now almost abandoned.

There are numerous similar examples. AFIAK the Commons Clause would have prevented this, allowing either RethinkDB to capture their own SAAS market or charge compose.io something for making money off their software.
Steam reviews have recently started including "caveat" titles above the reviews themselves, like "Game received for free" or "Presale purchase". I wouldn't be surprised if Valve next added a "Linux version review" caveat.
Indeed, sort of like how not ever bathing is only a problem if you think long term.
well i think software engineers would likely be unionized if that were the case.
Not sure but it’s important to remember that silence on issues like climate change benefits the status quo- the companies that wish to keep up the current situation. Avoiding conversations like this is the same as taking a side - the companies’ side.
Too bad it’s not discussed more.
Exactly. Ugh.
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Yes! In poetry, William Carlos Williams is a great example. In music, Lou Reed and Randy Newman are good examples.
I'm very confused by the number of people arguing that the problem with Open Source is the difficulty of controlling IP and restricting future use. It looks to me like a case of burning the house down today to be sure it won't crumble in the future.
I put this stuff on my face every morning and my skin has never looked or felt better.

I also put it on toast almost every morning, have been doing so for years, and I am the healthiest I've ever been. I mean, I have also taken other steps towards my health (coconut oil is definitely not the biggest factor either) but come on, this article is a joke.

Sounds like fake news.
Alternatively don't offload the responsibility of what is acceptable content to a powerful 3rd party and use your common sense. Free speech isn't there to protect stuff what you agree with
Unfortunately it hasn’t been a drop-in replacement for our CPython codebase (lots of Numpy/Pandas/etc).
Learn Python via Spaced Repetition
HashWick V8 Vulnerability
Sounds like Evan is copying Mark this time :p

https://www.fastcompany.com/3052887/mark-zuckerbergs-growth-...
At this very moment I am checking the applicative and monad laws for the state applicative / monad discussed in Hutton's book. Wish me luck ...
>I am skittish about flying in tiny aircraft that have the word Experimental plastered all over their sides, but as my bus back from New York was slogging along Route 95 at 5 miles an hour while ensnared in a massive traffic jam that stretched from horizon to horizon, I began to understand the appeal of the SureFly. I would have been happy to fly above the clouds at 70 mph instead of being trapped in the gridlock below.

...BUT as soon as the thingy will be FAA approved, a new Law will - rightly - prohibit using it in New York (or in any city, for that matters).

It will be a long time before self-driving multicopters will be allowed anywhere near densely inhabited areas.

It is years that everyone dreams about these "flying cars", but set aside the cost, if they work and become common, they won't be usable in cities because of traffic.
I get your line of thinking, but in the part I quoted they talked about offering loans "with lower interest rates".
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Do as I say not as I do!
As a counterpoint, biological systems grow stronger when stressed then allowed to recover.

Routines are great when interspersed with periods of non-breaking stress. Growth is dependent on stress.

I refer to a more general term of stress, not necessarily psychological. Although the latter can make you a stronger/more empathetic person; the danger is in not being able to let go of them for the restoration/growth period.
Some guy went to jail for doing this.
I live in Boise, ID and this is the worst smoke I've seen in my lifetime. I fully agree that global climate change is a huge problem and that politicians are doing little to stop it. Most seem to be making it worse.

Is there a technology-based solution to this? I don't know, but maybe technology could be used to improve the tragedy of the commons issues that are wrecking the planet. Please unflag this post.
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Lol...of course there is a xkcd for the topic... I should have known. Thanks for the great link.
A lot goes into choosing a candidate, my point was that we do not just pick someone because we need to meet a certain quota of diversity. I will add that we are diverse more than everyone might be thinking from my statement above. But allowing the diversity to be organic, natural, and not hand crafted leads to a much better work environment and culture (at least in our case).
This RedisLabs link explains the kind of bad behavior this clause aims to prevent. As I understand it, the bad guys here are cloud providers.

[1]: https://redislabs.com/community/licences/
Integrity is quite a thing ;)
Some objective criteria: with more focus, you are likely to chew more, and therefore to digest better.
https://github.com/trekhleb/javascript-algorithms is way better and has been running for some time, would it help to contribute to that instead?
If it is public I don't see a problem. Reminds me of wardialing in the 80s.
You can't abuse anyone like that here regardless of how wrong they are or how you feel they are. Please keep the online shaming culture well away from HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Wow. I have been delving in my own delusional mind for far too long. For me, this really is the truth that has been hiding in the mist of denial. Thanks for sharing.
FoundationDB has announced its first community conference, FoundationDB Summit, taking place December 10 in Seattle, WA.

This announcement is via the CNCF blog. FoundationDB.org also published an announcement this morning: https://www.foundationdb.org/blog/announcing-foundationdb-su...
> It'll be interesting to see how the carbon fiber body survives.

CF is expensive, but I'd expect it to last longer than steel - it won't rust.

The thing that makes me nervous about CF cars is how quickly they burn. Look up videos of Lambos on fire; the entire car is engulfed in a matter of seconds. Epoxy holds carbon fiber together, and it's very flammable.
> you're not telling us anything interesting

First of all, that's a pretty condescending thing to say and you're obviously not speaking for everyone. I wouldn't mention that if you weren't tone-policing me.

I'm telling you that if you make technical decisions based on "feature support" charts, you're going to fall flat on your face with WebGL. That's pretty useful information unless you never have to do any actual work with that technology, but then your opinion is also irrelevant.

> Knee-jerk disagreeing and suspecting everyone to have less experience than you will just get you downvoted everywhere.

Nobody who has experience with WebGL and SVG will say WebGL is better supported across the board. You'll have to take that at face value, there's no scientific study for it and I'm not going to just give out more information than I'm comfortable with.

I'm getting downvoted across the board here, presumably for using "bad" words like "terrible" to describe everyone's favorite Web technology they never really used. Or if they have used it, they don't know how poorly it compares to something "evil" like Flash. People want "the good guys" to win, which means "free and open source" and "standard". It makes them upset when somebody criticizes that harshly, but it's the reality.

I got some upvotes initially, by the way. Not that I care either way, I'm not paid in upvotes.
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The most important import doesn't work, unfortunately:

import antigravity
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Sounds like OLTP transactions and aggregated state only with hip names.
Reposting my comment from here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17816981

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Prime factors of a number is the ultimate high-dimensional space.

Damn. The more I see UMAP, the more I think it is going to be a central and generic tool for high-dimensional analysis. I haven't taken the time to go in depth into it yet, though :/

So far, my understanding of it is: t-SNE on steroids

* t-SNE is great for local proximity, but it 'rips' high dimensional global structures too early. UMAP solves both scales by using transformations to map overlapping points of the different lower dimensional spaces that are locally relevant.

* It is faster than t-SNE, and has a better scale factor.

* t-SNE is about moving the points when UMAP is about finding the transformations that move the points.. which means:

a) it yields a model that you can use to create embeddings for unseen data. This means sharing your work by contributing to the public model zoos.

b) And you can also do supervised dimension reduction as you create your embedding. Ie You can judge if the shape looks good for unseen data (aka it generalizes well), and then correct the embedding by choosing which unseen instances to add to the training set. This means you control the cost of labeling data. You can see where your errors are, and back-propagate them to the collection process in a cost effective manner. For high dimensional data.

* You can choose your metric! Specific a distance function and you're good to go. Haversine for a great orange peeling, Levenshtein for visualizing word spelling (and maybe provide an embedding for ML-based spell checking?)

* You can choose the output space to be greater than 2 or 3, in order to stop the compression at a specified level.

I believe it will replace t-SNE in the long term.

Here is a great video of the author presenting his work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq6iPZVUxZU
Unions allowed Volkwagen in Germany to switch to a 4-day week (28h) 1995 to avoid layoffs. It was switch to 5 days (33h) again in 2006. I could imagine in a different environment (country) unions might have acted differently. http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-01-04/news/1995004005_...
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I guess it's a sign of human progress that the basic idea of being grateful for having food, as opposed to NOT having food, wouldn't occur to some people.
Yiftach (and Antirez),

Please talk more about AGPL. MongoDB has a similar problem, and they solved it by making their product dual-licensed, AGPL + commercial. They then clarified the AGPL to say that in their opinion, it did in fact prevent cloud providers from building managed services around the modules.

https://www.mongodb.com/community/licensing/faq

The AGPL is lengthy and a bit convoluted, so it's possible they're wrong. Could you talk through your reasoning?
something needs to be fone about clickbait

it literally makes the internet so frustrating
The finance guys are running the company at that point, so presumably they already have that knowledge. And most companies do retain a finance guy in a senior management role as the CFO. So their perspective gets heard and in some cases actually listened to. It's just that running a company purely with safety in mind generates far less profits than aggressive investment in a business model.

If a finance company is running a business, it's because the industry people that started the company managed to run it into the ground, finance people never seek to start businesses in any other space than the finance space. It's just not interesting to them. When they wind up running companies, they mostly just delegate all the decisions to the consultants they have a working relationship with.

It's simple, you go to a lender who demands you keep $10MM in the bank as a contingency fund. You run the company into the ground, and the lender has to foreclose on the loan, taking control of the business. They then use the $10MM to turn the company around, eventually recouping their investment over the long run.

You're bringing the $10MM in collateral, not the bank, so the bank doesn't have to use their own money for the turnaround. It's a hedge against risk, not some kind of magic bullet like you seem to think. No paradox needs be invoked, the finance company simply runs the company differently than you would, from a purely financial perspective.
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