skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My approach is to try to avoid the obvious "tinkerers" who are just messing around. I'll happily work with amateurs, but I have to believe that they are invested in getting something working and I also offer to buy the parts and provide them with a complete assembly for a fixed fee. The pickier I am about the project, the more likely it is to go smoothly.

But I far prefer working with actual businesses because they just want an end result and won't try to dicker with me by pointing out how high my prices are and how much less "this guy on Guru.com" can do it for.

The thing I truly love about the Arduino ecosystem is how fast it lets me put together those one-off projects. Things that would take weeks in "normal engineering" can be out the door in an evening. What I don't like about Arduino is that the focus on simplicity often comes with a huge cost in performance. Luckily, it's rarely been an issue.
I think that many MDs see physical issues as only physical, but in my experience an injury from physical trauma may have an impact on the mind as well.

I suffered chronic headaches for years after I broke my maxilla. All exams and imaging were negative. Physical therapy helped, but the problem would always come back. This is when I decided to stop visiting MDs (neurologists, psychiatrists, traumatologists). I also tried alternative therapies (i.e. acupuncture), but the effect lasted hours or days at most.

I completely relate to you about trying to find any possible solution. In my case, not finding solutions added layers of frustration and other negative emotions to the problem that didn't help.

I started looking at the psychological aspects of pain after a HN post with this article [1]. That triggered a lot of reading in psychology, and I also started practicing yoga and meditation. This path led me to many discoveries about myself, since it taught me to pay attention to my mind and body in a different way. Being able to recognize triggers was crucial to find a solution. I can say that I never have headaches now.

Feel free to shoot me an email if you're interested in more references and or other details of my experience.

[1]: http://aaroniba.net/how-i-cured-my-rsi-pain
Look buddy, you are wrong. No one looks at the thrust values to determine the strength of the rocket besides you. A rocket's job is to haul payload and so the strength of a rocket is determined by how much payload it can haul not max thrust values. As you can clearly see in this case, despite having more thrust the BFR can haul less payload to LEO than the Saturn V.

All you did in your last comment is literally repeat what you said earlier. The "pure and cold numbers" you posted shows how ignorant you are about spaceflight. Come up with something original and present an argument for why the thrust is a better and more useful metric for measuring the strength of a rocket than its payload capacity.
In general, I don't think that most people will choose to live "on the dole" forever. As you've identified, we are driven by status, and having to move into state housing will probably be looked down on, and seen as a "failure" similar to how moving back in with one's parents is seen in middle class families. People will want to work because, whatever the floor is, they will want more, and more importantly they will want not to be seen as failures.

In fact the example of moving back in with one's parents is rather instructive in that middle class young people essentially already have a half-assed privatized version of this reality: their social safety net is their parents and other relatives. Decommodifying healthcare, housing, and food would have essentially extend the same kind of safety net to people who aren't lucky enough to have well-off relatives who can help them in such times.

At the very least, we should decommodify healthcare. One can make theoretical arguments that doing so for housing and food would have huge, negative knock-on effects because the last major experiment with this model were the Soviet-modeled socialist states, which obviously were a disaster. That isn't the case with healthcare. Plenty of other countries have decommodified healthcare, and nothing bad happened: nobody is meaningfully disinclined to work, health outcomes are generally better, and overall healthcare costs are generally lower.
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They increase urea, which lowers blood ammonia. I have never heard of using LOLA for alcohol, but seems possible. Got any links, and rurthermore, how this would be useful in this context?
No. It was found during a sample inspection. That’s too late.
> I couldn't find anybody manufacturing high-res small size touchscreens.

RPi only supports 2 lanes of MIPI DSI interface, iPhone 4 screens (that are still manufactured and offered for $5-15 on aliexpress) use 4 lanes precisely because they are higher resolution.
Thank you for sharing, could you please expand on that last sentence? It's quite intriguing
One factor for why companies are more comfortable hiring a person living in US is that then both ends of the contract fall under US law. Meanwhile, if the freelancer lives overseas, then the combination of US and that country's laws are applicable, which can create an unparseable mess. This is especially important in area of copyright, because the company wants to be 100% sure that the freelancer passed the rights to code to them (and you can't be 100% sure of that if you don't understand applicable laws of the freelancer's country). You could even potentially lose a VC deal because of it, as unclear status of the code ownership could come up in their due diligence.

(I am not a lawyer, this are just my layman speculations).
My father was a builder (albeit in a different country) but affordable housing (or standardized apartments) are actually a builder favorite. They are quick to turn around, no architects involved and require smaller capital outlays/financing. Sure he might make less but it's easier money. As long as some one is paying I think the free market will build it.
I've often felt that there was something sketchy about meta-analysis,...

"But as the headline-generating study in The Lancet notes, “Until recently, most meta-analyses of alcohol consumption have not controlled for the composition of the reference category,” and that “subsequently, assessments of harm relying on these studies have been biased.”"

...but overall systemic bias wasn't what I was thinking of.
Is 'immortal time bias' not 'survivorship bias'?
That’s the purpose of “Pro Workflow Team” at Apple.
https://www.macstories.net/linked/the-mac-pro-is-coming-in-2...
There's a big difference between knowing that A causes B and knowing how A causes B. For most purposes relating to health it's sufficient for a layperson to know just that A does cause B, no matter how. But if A is just correlated with B and doesn't cause it, that makes a world of difference.
That might not even matter, because if you think you're using one version of gcc, but you're using another. I experienced this multiple times over the summer with scl and gcc.
No, sorry. Mostly it came down to "find out where your customers are". I had a payroll service for home help, so I reached out to the people who place the people and pitched the service as a way to help their customers. I had a site to check for security problems in popular blog frameworks so I made it so you could direct link to a site's results and then helped people out on forums, providing a link to the analysis. Stuff like that.

Advertising on FB/AdWords/etc can help, but there's no substitute for finding your customers yourself.
>Who said anything about not believing you (or believing you)? Why jump to conclusions about my mind-state, like that?

>Can't I just be curious to see what it is you mean, and perhaps learn something I don't know?

Fair enough! I think you're right to ask for sources. What I'm saying there is that I have nothing on hand that would convince you of my claim, so whether you believe me or not is left to you, and if you don't, I will concede that discussion.

Since I now know you're only asking out of interest, I guess that point is moot now.
Sure, but this is a narrow view of the issue, which is that neural nets are solving a somewhat superficial version of the problem. This may not be an issue for simple image classification, but if we're looking to attack more complex tasks (e.g. describing what happens in a movie), it's clear that we need neural nets with deeper understanding.
Yes workers deserve a say, but a say about work-related things. Leave the politics, religion, controversy at home.
The problem that they are solving with their macro is that

> gcc assumes that if you add something on to the address of a symbol, the resulting address is still inside the bounds of the symbol

I'm asking - how can you write a valid C program which adds something on to the address of a valid symbol and get something outside the bounds of the symbol?
> So, is it really important to describe why a ball falls to the ground when I release it, or is it good enough to have a system that describes the interactions enough that I can apply it to problems?... does it really matter if I think the ball falls back to earth because mass attracts mass or because mass bends spacetime?

I think you answer this question in your own post. The answer depends entirely on your goals.

"All models are wrong, but some are useful".

If all we ever wanted to do was shoot cannon balls over/into walls accurately, then we probably would've never bothered inventing modern physics.

But we did want to do other things, so we built better models. It's worth noting that some of those things we wanted to do were more philosophical than others, e.g., engineering ("put satellites into orbit"), explaining empirical observations that seem important ("explain how electricity really works") and philosophical ("understand the nature of reality") are all answers to the question "what are you goals?" that have inspired progress toward better models in physics.

> What does applying a similar mind set in something dealing with vastly more complicated systems, such as in medicine, looks like?

It takes a certain amount of philosophical sophistication to realize that even the most perfect model is still a model and to then reason through what that entails -- epistemologically -- for less perfect models and for the entire scientific enterprise.
Out of curiosity I added brotli to the test results:

normal	crazy	% larger
brotli 58667	76202	30 %

$ curl -s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy | sed s/\</$(printf '<%.0s' {1..136})/g | sed s/\>/$(printf '>%.0s' {1..136})/g | brotli | wc -c
If paid, half of your year may be worth having dst, if it turns out to be important. Hope they make their best decision, since it may affect too many things.

Btw, did you deal with it or it’s still a mess? Long ago I wrote a library that manages dst, leaps, even ancient calendar changes, for fun. Datetime is hard topic, but still manageable. What problems did you meet, specifically?
Yes, these are the same concepts. As is often the case, slightly different terminology across fields. But no difference in the main idea.
> it just results in undefined behavior.

Right - I'm saying that if they need this macro then their program is not a defined C program in the first place. They should fix that, rather than trying to use a macro to work around the problem. The macro may break in the future if GCC adds other optimisations.

They call it a 'miscompilation' - how can you 'miscompile' something which is undefined!
It also includes the exponentiation step before the vector normalizations. There are connections to statistical mechanics here, where the relative energy population numbers are proportional to the softmax of the energy levels divided by temperature. (so as temperature goes up, the relative energy differences get smaller and the states are more equally populated.) That idea has been ported over as "softmax temperature" in some places.
Not yet.

Disney isn’t going to drop their adult content when the Fox acquisition is complete.
Startup 1 (2 years): $0. Acqui-hired for less than total investment raised. I had long left by then but had vested shares which were wiped out.

Startup 2 (6 months): $10k. Mainly from the profit-sharing of the startup incubator, not from actual equity.
Are you referring to some NeXT box, RPC, or the cut-down SGML with links? Or any combination of thereof? It is amazing how easy it seems to appropriate technical engineering feats with simple narratives that are repeated often enough (ie. propaganda, in the Goebbelsian 20th century sense).

Everything was ready by that time, just remember the conference where it was presented. Or compare the internal memo with contemporary systems, such as the Symbolics Document Examiner. Or the NeXT demo for that matter.

The WWW you might allude to exists in large part due to US deregulation of that time, and therefore politics. The "value" part of it is as old as Alexandria, or Paul Otlet (TBL's boss who signed it off at the documentation dept. was also Belgian).
Glass of wine in the night is a very bad habit and you don't need a large scale study to prove it. If you have a watch that can track your sleep cycle, you will see that your deep sleep doesn't start until much later if you consuming alcohol before going to sleep. In other words, a glass of wine might make you feel relaxed but it robes you from your deep sleep.
The first paper is about blood lipids and CHD and doesn't seem to mention alcohol. Did you post the wrong link?
It's not a particularly new trend but yes. And apparently there's at least some evidence to suggest it's getting worse rather than better. You can debate cause and effect. Some have suggested it's in part because more drinking has gone underground in response to campus regulations and community crackdowns. But there really does seem to have been a shift over time.
Same on mobile Safari. On page load it immediately scrolled halfway down the article and covered up half the screen with a “trending articles” popover whose assets — including the dismiss button — failed to load.

Seriously, does anybody in publishing actually visit their own sites? I see UX like this and all I can think is, “gee, somebody got _paid_ to make this?”

Edit: I see from another comment that the scrolling was (partly) a result of the link being to an anchor tag. I stand by the rest of my point, though.
Clearly you haven't been following along, but NASA is SpaceX's primary customer. If SpaceX does not man rate the BFR, they'll go bankrupt real quick.

Additionally, spaceflight is under the domain of the FAA so there are a crap of regulations there that they have to be compliant with even if they aren't flying with NASA.

https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/as...
No, it's not. It's actually e ^ x_i / sum(e ^ x_j for x_j in x), which is in fact different. Simply dividing by the sum wouldn't work for "squashing to a probability distribution" in a large number of cases.
It's not secret for sure, and there is little evidence it ever worked. It's a cargo cult, painting by numbers for engineers.
Why would you ever want to represent activations directly as complex numbers in that case? I can’t think of any good reason, compared with putting them in rotation matrix form or some other equivalent form that actually maps to the domain modeling problem.

Even when working in signal processing problems that require complex arithmetic, the underlying representations are just based on tuples of doubles and operator conventions, and you always need to map to real spaces (real part, imaginary part, angle, or magnitude) for any type of analytical representation that can be human readable.

In all these cases, the idea that what we should optimize for is overhead-free easy expression of cutesy math domain verbiage is a bad idea.

Writing libraries that expose an API that matches the user’s domain mental model is a great thing. But enforcing a particular abstraction and extensibility hierarchy so those things can be “autogenerated” just by parameterizing over a new type turns out to be actually much worse than just writing that type separately, with helper functions and converters, and customizing its API to be efficient from a domain mental model perspective.

A better way, for example, might be to use mixin patterns or decorators and other metaprogramming, while writing a custom data type and its associated methods.
Whoops, yes. Correcting it now. Thank you. Also updated 2015 to 2014.
It matters for decision-making. If A causes B then forcing A to happen artificially (without changing anything else) will make B happen too. If it's not a cause then it won't. The correlation might always happen in the original environment, but it doesn't survive intervention.

This does matter in physics too.
You can consume all you want through “the open web”.
Incidentally, my mother was recently taken to the ICU due to an acute heart condition (she's perfectly fine now), and she was very impressed with the cardiologist there. He was very experienced, yet he told her "we are always learning new things; we have to listen to patients more" and was very attentive to her description of the symptoms and, yes, some things she read on the Internet.

That's what a good doctor should be like.
> simply offers a deal that Qualcomm can choose to accept or not

With China's culture of corruption, "or not" comes with a giant asterisk of "will face harassment from the communist party"
Doh! I did miss it
I think the real problem is that the "rethrow as unchecked" case is probably the most common, but is clunky and verbose.

A more ergonomic way to do that would probably make people stop complaining so much.

This problem is especially noticeable when using lambdas. If you're implementing an interface that doesn't have a throws clause, but the body calls something that throws a checked exception, you _have_ to introduce a try/catch to your lambda body. You don't get to re-throw it without wrapping it in a RuntimeException.
Is there a non-twit source?
Why is it that hard to do actual research? Like science? Observe what alcohol does to the body and identify risks. I know this is hard.

Lazy survey door to door salespeople posing as scientists dominate this field unfortunately.

This is not science. This is guesswork. And this causes serious problems to people who trust this crap.

Throw away your shitty biased studies and start doing actual science.

It took Newton a lot of time to observe and repeat and prove the physics of gravity. And that stood the test of time for several decades at least.

This shitty research area needs to stop. People post media coverage as somehow being the final validators of their crappy research.
I think VR would be a great way to practice giving talks, especially in front of bigger audiences, etc. To practice being comfortable in that environment.
I thought F# was roughly an Ocaml clone. What significant whitespace does it have?
If you quit you have to sell your shares back to the company. That's how it works at law firms, for example, when a partner leaves or retires.
Would that suffice, in this case? Or they would give you problems?
Life finds its way. One dies, another takes its place.

Rip.
Thanks & I used to do 12+ years of Java and other OOP languages myself before I started using Clojure in 2011 and ever since got hooked on the more functional approach without trying to become a fundamentalist FP. These days I'm mainly using TS, Clojure/ClojureScript, Go, C (not C++)...

Re: the above example - you didn't really explain which aspects you find alienating, but finding this hard to read, could have to do with the fact that this demo uses a few other concepts & libs not very popular in the JS world (specifically transducers)? I totally grant that without prior knowledge of those constructs this specific code is not the easiest to comprehend (though I've tried to comment every step).

In general though, IMHO this approach is a lot more direct and lightweight than any OOP solution. Having your entire UI defined using native ES6 primitve data structures, provides huge potential and endless options to transform raw app state into UI components. If you ever worked with a Lisp, you'll also find the nested inline definitions not that hard to read. To me it's also more legible than having an (often) over-engineered, multi-layered OOP architecure, riddled with inheritance and so on... Though again, this all is highly subjective. There's certainly ample opportunity to refactor this example into smaller functions and I might as well do that when I get a chance...
Do you mean "Should a driver still have a vote/share in the co-op if they quit driving for 6 months?" If so, then there are various ways to handle it. I'm not an expert but in agricultural co-ops like Oceanspray, the problem simply doesn't arise: there's no scenario where it is in the farmer's best interest not to harvest his cranberries at all, and they contract for delivery before the harvest season (they can go it on their own or sell to a different processor next harvest if they want, in which case they leave the co-op). For worker co-ops like grocery stores, there are various solutions: some give credit (including voting power and dividend) per hour worked, others just pay regular wages but have tiers of ownership that you move up with tenure. There are infinite possible models.

For Uber specifically, I can see miles=votes for each election period. IOW, if you've driven 10,000 miles since the last election, then you get to cast 10,000 votes. The fact that all the work is tracked mechanically makes it easier in Uber's case than in others.
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> What programming languages a CS undergrad should know?

That depends; what type of institution are you teaching for?

If it's a research university producing future researchers, go wild but cover at least one common language, e.g. Java or C#. The screening processes at a research university tend to be sufficiently stringent that you can expect your students to be bright enough and motivated enough to pick up additional languages on their own.

If it's a teaching college, nearly all jobs now are web front-end/web back-end jobs and those that aren't are mobile or desktop apps. JavaScript + Java/C# are the order of the day. Offer C/C++/machine language as an elective if you can.

> ...move on to modern languages like Rust or functional languages like Scala, F#...

I would estimate that the job openings that use those languages at less that one half of one percent. Skim the monthly "Who's hiring?" posts here on HN if you'd like to confirm it.
We now know that tech isn't an high impact factor when it comes to learning quality. This is based on John Hattie's profound research work covering 1200 meta studies: https://visible-learning.org/hattie-ranking-influences-effec...
"Is it a problem?" is always relative. The question would be better phrased, "is it a problem worthy of expending limited resources on fixing?" with the usual considerations of opportunity costs, etc.

So yes thinking about whether something is a problem worth addressing is totally healthy behavior for anyone with a modicum of self-awareness.
I'm not sure I like the reasoning in this article. They go to bed later because of FB and other stuff, which makes them not have enough sleep before school. Then it's the school, rather than the FB-ing that has to give way?

If they wake up and start school later, what's to say their FB-ing won't shift even later, causing them to sleep even later, and then again we're back where we started?
I'm not talking about anything else, I'm talking about workers having a say over what they produce in a moral and ethical sense. Without the workers, you don't have a business.

>Leave the politics, religion, controversy at home.

This only strengthens the authoritarian Private Government argument.