skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I don't want to pick strawberries for $5/hour, when my rent is $2250/month. That's not because manual labour is beneath me.

It is about economics and expectations.
No, it is because a $1000 apartment is apparently beneath you.
It is the same reason there is a "shortage" in technology yet thousands of Indians applying for those jobs -- because most American students dont want to live in outer San Jose, San Martin, or Rucker and commute for 4hrs or live in nasty apartments. Most Americans also dont want to be tied on Production Support getting calls all night for crap wages.

And frankly, I dont blame you. I'm a computer science grad in the US. The bay area wages, even while inflated, are not living wages for families, certainly nothing given my excellent education...and alternatives. I'm in management. I work half the hours, and earn a good pay.
I have my first-ever desk by a window. Naturally, other coworkers jockeyed to also sit near the windows, so they could promptly complain it's too bright and insist on lowering the shades.
That misses the point of rights in the first place. A proper system operates under the assumption someone will try to abuse it and has measures to counter it. Just like a banking website designed under the assumption nobody would try to access it illicitly is hopelessly naive so is assuming it about the levers of power.

Rights and justice are based upon the same assumptions - no you can't take the prosecution's word that they are totally guilty because they look shifty and aren't from around here! They have to prove that there was a crime and that they committed it beyond a reasonable doubt.

Until they can prove say secure communication in itself can kill anyone in the world like a magic spell they have no case for this.

Pessimism is thus wise in the same sense that you shouldn't ask a stranger on the street to hold your wallet for half an hour.
Any devoted individual with sufficient will and power can track you down. Even with a little less power, will can do it. We rely on the fatigue of adversaries and limits on their time and resources. Any sufficiently motivated entity can find out who you are.
Nevermind that scheduling family members to work can be much easier than a worker you hire, which lets a small business run with fewer employees working more valuable hours.
I think that’s completely and utterly wrong.

First off, available evidence says that exercise alone for weight loss doesn’t really work. The amount of exercise it takes to “burn” off an Oreo is insane. Tons of Americans start exercising every year and lose no weight.

Exercise is great for cardio strength, endurance, power, etc. but if you’re hoping to lose weight on a treadmill alone, good luck.

Second, different types of food do different things to the human body. 400 calories of sugar and 400 calories of whey protein powder will do radically different things on a biochemical level. While fine tuning the amount of food you eat might be necessary to lose the final pounds, an astounding amount of weight can be lost by changing macros and ingredients without changing calories.

Also calories are bullshit. They represent how a good burns, not how humans actually metabolize their food.

Finally, food affects how you eat. Foods affect satiety in different ways, which feeds back into how much of it you will eat. Trying to eat less of a food that doesn’t make you feel full (or is engineered to not make you feel full) is a path to exhausting your will power and failing.
Bernie Sanders introduces Stop BEZOS bill to tax Amazon for underpaying workers
you can use LaTeX notation and then render it with something.

For example MathJax, or emacs's org-preview-latex-toggle to show the rendered equations in the same buffer you write in.
Moved from Seattle to California, in large part because I realized how much happier I am when it's sunny.

Was a great choice for me.
"Longest" seemed clear to me. (Over "largest" and "slowest".)
> CPU and data intensive heavy lifting is rarely done in such programs

That's absurd. They aren't as high-performance as C or C++, but Java and C# both have screamingly fast JIT compilers and plenty of high-performance code is written in them. We're not talking about Prolog here. And memory access patterns absolutely makes a huge difference in performance in these languages.

Sure, you CAN ignore that kind of stuff if you want to, but good programmers don't.
Lol: you are not Katzenberg. Neither am I.

Good points. Good post.
I'm stunned that people still today don't realize that there is no, big and centralized free services. How would that work on the company side? Who pays for giant servers and software development and maintenance? People are not too sharp in 2018.
This comment chain is about Mozilla prioritizing a windows thing over linux / wayland work.

You're commenting in defense of the original comment, so while you didn't explicitly complain about it, you implicitly supported the complaint.
You know they are already doing that, right? That is the singular purpose of Amazon Robotics. They think they'll have a fully robotic warehouse workforce in the next ten years.
iPhones still use the lightning port, and Ethernet to lightning ports are a bit on the pricey side.

Also, while I hate t link to a lifehacker article, the lead photo is pretty hilarious in terms of the need for that many adapters to connect an iPad or iPhone to Ethernet and to keep it charged. (https://lifehacker.com/hack-together-a-way-to-connect-an-ipa...) Android isn't much better, but at least it uses a more common and cheaper USB-micro or USB-C.
Ask HN: Medical symptom checker website – with ML?
I have found a thread about medical AI/ML on HackerNews and someone posted a link to a medical symptom site which looked quite professional (similar to symcat) with very functional design and there was incredibly many options to enter (even lab test result eg. low iron in serum etc.) I visited this site on my tablet and left it open in a tab - unfortunately my device had been stolen and sync was off. This was between Jan-Jun this year. I have tried google-fu and hackernews search to no avail. Can someone help?
> would never be allowed to offer this as a result of that regulation

Sure they would, I can sign up to stick a device between my wall and my major appliances where the power company will shut me off during peak hours in exchange for a cheaper bill. Why wouldn't this be allowed? It's hard to argue that such a system is anything but beneficial to everyone involved.

> Lastly AT&T service is not cheap to to begin with.

ISPs, along with a lot of businesses really, don't really compete on price. The industry has long since figured out how much value customers get from their service and wouldn't dare undercut or risk accidentally killing the cash cow.
That looks interesting. IPFS backed -- nice.

A web interface would be nice so that I don't have to install a tool to browse the content. Going to give it a shot non-theless.
hours of fun for sure.

even the attempts at restricting stuff to make a saner version (PDF/a) eventually devolve into allowing all the crud back in.
> It is about economics and expectations. No, it is because a $1000 apartment is apparently beneath you.

And yet, letting my apartment out for $1000 is apparently beneath my landlord (Look at how entitled he is, to be asking $2250! It's almost like that's the price the market is willing to bear!)

Yet, we only use this sort of judgmental language to express outrage at employees, unwilling to work at a price below what the market is willing to bear.
Right? It's born a unicorn. But could also be a eunuch.
While I completely see your point about the negative side of individualism, I think this attitude is also partly based on a very culturally healthy distaste for nepotism.

When you ask your rich uncle for a loan, it's hard for both him and you to really know whether it's being given because he believes in you, or because there is perceived to be an obligation. And where there is an obligation to give loans/favors just based on familial ties, it's a slippery slope to a culture of nepotism and corruption where your name matters more than your skills and accomplishments.

I'm not saying that relatives shouldn't help each other, but perhaps it's not such a bad thing that people seek out other avenues first in non-emergency situations. It's a delicate balance to be sure.
The causation goes the opposite direction. If your kid is already fat, you won't give them candy. If your kid is thin, they can have some.

Thinness causes candy intake, more so than candy intake causes thinness. The study cleverly misframes that.
Enterprise software:

- Slow GUI

- Horrible Java thing

- Complicated

- Weird patching process

- Doesn't integrate with what you want (or does but costs more)

- Bought and mandated by somebody that doesn't need to use it

(:
It may be absent, but tests on food prep surfaces show wood performs surprisingly well. Better than plastic.
The whole idea of breaking monopolies and now allowing a free market is that after a certain point, you don't want these companies improving their product, because their "product" just becomes "a whole market segment that large chunks of the population need".

The natural progression of any company is to get larger and buy up more and more of the market in order to improve its product, prevent its competitors from improving their products, and widen its reach. This is the basis of capitalism. The problem is that because these companies have so much money, they're able to buy legislation, solely determine market conditions, and generally stack the odds in their favor (which isn't "wrong" per say, but isn't always in the common good). They may even do this will continuing to produce the best product in their sector. The issue always comes down to the idea of "Who do you trust more to represent the general human population, corporations or government" and there's good arguments for/against both sides being the one who SHOULD be the determinate.
I found the SFML documentation to be one of the few cases where I didn't find myself looking for third-party API documentation or tutorials.
Don’t. Pay attention, write down the things that aren’t in the text book. And then learn to read the text book. It’s a hugely valuable skill.
I get near daily migraines from an open office layout with excessive glare from natural light. Polarized sunglasses help a bit, but not enough.

It’s not a preference for me, it’s a disability. I love light, but glare is physically painful and results in migraines.

The strongly contrasting glare, from just a single blind being open, sounds horrible for others else in your area with sensitivities.
Thank you. I read your reply 5 or so hours ago and had to go to a meeting, hence my delay in reply. I've re-read it another three times.

My assertion of mental damage is was perhaps badly phrased. Yes, it's a sliding scale, and the more people I meet, the more I understand most people have their demons…some will admit to them, others won't. Not wanting to backpedal, but my choice of words wasn't ideal

Also, I noticed someone (not me) had changed the title to "[…] and have anhedonia.", and currently it's "[…] and have depression." I'm fine with either, both or all three, but clearly I've tripped a filter and someone's had to step in.

Semantics aside, I really appreciate your reply - thank you very much.
To be fair, with Jeff Bezos and his parents it wasn't a loan but purchased equity that is now worth billions.
Back in the day, the documentation for the 3DO seemed great. I was programming on another platform and remember looking at those manuals in envy!
this is absolutely amazing!
Just to be clear : there is no "fix this issue" because the problem is with certs issued _in_the_past_. The only fix is to re-issue the cert and replace the existing one on servers with the new one. This fwiw is easy to do, if you know you need to do it. But then presumably folks running SSL endpoints already knew they had to keep on top of expiry dates, cipher suites and so on so this is just one extra aspect to watch out for. Explicitly tested and reported via ssllabs, of course.
Originally from Joel Spolsky: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2009/09/23/the-duct-tape-prog...
> Or they will just buy up a bunch of cheap streaming rights to low budget stuff and older movies. They will the Belgian equivalent of "Who's the boss" or something.

> Course that doesn't fit the narrative of "Regulation is bad"

I would argue that it does.
They touch on it in the article, but in my area most elementary schools have in school after school programs, typically running about $60/week for after school care. That seems like the easiest way to go, you get rid of transport costs, utilize under utilized space, and provide additional income to school staff if they want it. The biggest issues seem to be that because they are aligned with the school year they don’t necessarily have summer or holiday coverage.
I took AP computer science AB (2005ish), and while the class was decent the actual exam was intensely difficult. It was the only one of 16 or so AP exams I got a 4 instead of 5 on.

In particular the last free form question was to implement A*. With over a decade of professional experience and a CSCE degree I'm still not sure I could _by hand_ write out syntactically correct, compiling code for that in less than 45 minutes _in Java_.
That’s not quite right either. You need fat and sugar together. Humans can’t synthesize fat easily, so dietary fat is what gets stored. But insulin is the chemical responsible for storing said fat, and insulin levels are heavily modulated by sugar and other simple carbohydrates.

The rub is that humans need some level of dietary fat. Without it we go into “rabbit starvation” and die. What we don’t actually need is carbohydrate, we can live just fine without it for arbitrary periods of time. Since any human in a non-extreme situation will have dietary fat and can control their carbs, it’s colloquially correct to say that “sugar causes weight gain”, even if the technical answer is more complicated.
Wow, cool story. I wonder under what visa or work permit scheme he went there. I had two uncles and an aunt who went to the US and stayed there, but they all went via the traditional grad student then H1-B then green card then citizen route, and were all white collar workers (an engineer turned entrepreneur and two academics), not farmers. Didn't know there were schemes for farmers and such, then or now, for the US, although I think there might be for Canada.
All I can say is Firefox and Mozilla need to go away.
ODEs as taught in a first-course undergraduate course is precisely a bag of tricks.
I spent much of the Need for Speed sprint on Python doing benchmarking between 2.4 and the 2.5 alpha that we were trying to speed up. It was significantly slower than 2.4 at pybench.

Measuring performance is hard. It's easy when there are big differences, like the new exceptions in 2.5 were 60% slower. But small things can add up, and it's hard to measure them.

One piece of wisdom I got from Tim Peters: Run short benchmarks. The longer you run them the more likely they are to be influenced by context switches and the like. I used to always run long benchmarks hoping to push these changes down into the noise. Instead I started running short tests and looking at the fastest of the runs.

Another area of speed improvement though was less about A/B testing and more about thinking hard about where time is used and how to just get rid of it entirely. Some use cases really suffered because in Python strings are immutable. If you are reading from the network and, say, looking for the end of a data frame, you may create a lot of new objects as you append incoming data. IIRC, a "bytearray" was created that was basically a mutable string to get rid of that problem entirely.
RecapJS: Browser session record/replay without leaking user data
"recursively" is but one way to build a potentially infinite set. They're not mutually exclusive.
MUSCULAR, revealed by the Snowden leaks, is a program in which the UK's GCHQ broke into Google datacenters and exfiltrated information, which it handed over to the US's NSA. Because the NSA received the data from a foreign partner, they treated it as foreign data and did not scrub it for US citizen data.

For those who remember, this is the program with the famous "smiley face" drawing of where Google decrypted data at their network edge.
> What abstractions are we missing today that will be obvious to future generations?

The first that comes to mind is rooted in the problem that our concept of "tech" is still incredibly mechanistic. Look at Foucault's "technologies of the self" and you realize that technology is not just something we create in teams at work using this or that set of tools. Rather than a "thing" outside of us, tech is very much already a part of us. We are compelled to develop it (externalize it; give it objective manifestation) simply by living.

A computer is us, but even the word computer is no longer sufficient; people needlessly mechanize humans when they think in those terms and this creates fear, fear of AI and fear of becoming mere batteries; meanwhile our fault-protection circuits have already accounted for this and we can trust them (while leaving them engaged).

We must zoom even farther out from the typical computer model in order to compute at the next level. "Tech" as an industry (in hindsight to be found a ridiculous and temporary construction) has turned too far inward. In fact there is nothing to fear outside, even in the foreign-to-tech irrational world. We can accept that world, live in it, give it the respect it seems now to unfairly demand, and learn it as a technological mode. We can bridge with it, build more technologies to abstract our relationship with it. At that point we become truly powerful, able to spin technology out of limitless resources and into limitless solutions.
>When big companies like IBM were trying to grow their workforce, they found that the best programmers were antisocial loners, and that woman programmers were more likely to leave the workforce early in order to get married and raise a family. Knowing this, they deliberately started trying to change the public perception of programming to a nerdy guy thing, and it appears they were succesful.

This is a new one. I know you already said you can't find your source, but if anyone else has one, I would love to see it.
Complex survey samples in R (2007) [pdf]
I am not sure if mobile track is enabled, but it shouldn't matter because my phone wasn't moving either. Both were on the desk, till evening. After work (I work from home and I only use the watch when I step out), I stepped out and was surprised to see it was showing ~800 steps. It was a bit amusing!
I think dispersion plays into this. I could hardly live farther from my aunts/uncles/cousins if I tried (living within this country) and the same could be said for a large number of them. It's a lot harder to stay in touch at a distance. I guess given social media you might say it's easier to stay in touch when close.
It's not that they "don't count" but that it's relevant to include the calculation.
The penny dropped for me about 5 years ago. I cleared my account out. Didn’t bother deleting the account though.
|...there is no, big and centralized free services.

Wikipedia?
I highly value a good view, and lucked into a lovely space on the 8th floor in a corner with large picture windows on 2 sides, and views of MIT and East Kendall Square nearby, and Central and Harvard square in the distance. The bottom half of my view is very green, mostly trees, with a few buildings nestled among them. The top half is blue sky, white clouds.

I watch the slow progress of several buildings under construction. A huge tower near Central has appeared, the stairway core apparently. Two big projects to the north also, near the cinema and Donnelly field.

Soon I'll see the first yellows, reds and oranges of fall.

I enjoy the view so much that I brought in binoculars to see more detail. I have a sort of hobby of identifying landmarks visually and then finding them on google maps. This can be surprisingly difficult to do. The relative scale of things is surprising. Things that loom large in my view don't look big on the map, and vice versa.

I can visually trace a good portion of my bike path to work, as I live near the top of a distant hill. I identify the landmarks on that route.

Despite these treasures I only remember to look up at the view a few times a week. I sometimes forget to open the blinds for days at a time. Very sad! I'm happy that this article reminded me of this great pleasure. It's trite, but life is short; enjoy the view.
Intro to the survey R package (CMU)
I could not imagine trying to take notes with a computer in a math heavy subject. I had to use paper for everything during my undergrad in Civil Engineering. However, if you already have a computer with you, record the lecture and review it later.
When you use a corporate social network, you are trusting a bunch of people trying to make enough money to pay Silicon Valley rent (never mind pay back huge piles of VC investment) to do the moderation. They are likely to be more interested in a constantly-rising user count and ever-longer user sessions that give them opportunities to sneak in as many ads around the edges as possible; they are probably only going to kick people off for behavior that can get the company sued.

When you use Mastodon, you are trusting a handful of people who are probably running it as a hobby to do the moderation. Their only goal may be to have a nice, chill place to chat with friends; they can kick people off for whatever kind of behavior they find undesirable, whether that be "repeatedly failing to post pictures of cats on Mandatory Cat Post Day", "talking about feet on No-Feets Friday", or "using the Banned Circular Letter six times" on an instance that demands you never use the letter O.*

And if an admin finds that they are getting a lot of reports of a foreign instance for behavior they forbid, they can defederate from that instance, thus slicing out a large source of undesired behavior in one go. Users can vote on moderation policies with their feet (though perhaps not on No-Feets Friday if that's the issue that's polarizing huge portions of the overall community) and move to another instance - or maintain two accounts if they want to keep a foothold on both sides of the divide.

I could probably spin this into a metaphor for representative democracy if I wanted. Pick an instance whose admin (and her moderation team, if it's big enough to have one) feels likely to agree with you on moderation, report violations, let her do the dirty work and maybe say "thanks" and give her a little something now and then.

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* Of course, you could also kick people off your instance for things like "expressing political views opposed to the instance admin" or "acting like this is 4chan". But comedy examples are more fun, and less likely to make you snap into reflexive defense of whatever your position is.
There is a Russian novel, I guess a monument of socialist realism, called Concrete. I bought an English translation, but somehow never got up the energy to read it.
It's strange to me that the gate is based on success, and not just a panel of your peers/mentors judging the way you performed the study. After all, negative results are just as valuable as positive results, unless we decide we're going to ignore them and let someone else run the same experiment... which is what we're doing.

At least when considering someone for a PhD or Masters, you'd think the point would be to learn good practice, not to actually push the field forward. There's just not as much frontier as when the rules were set.
Exactly. Serious investors aren't going to look at this list, but rather do their own research. This is basically to protect against lawsuits.