skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'll likely be the nth time Matthew Walker is cited here, but in his interview with Joe Rogan, he mentions this is likely a societal trend rather than a biological need:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaWilO_Pig&t=3294

> Joe Rogan: Yeah, I've heard this recently, that people - that you should have two sleeps. The idea of two sleeps.

> Matthew Walker: Yeah, it's actually a little different than the idea of two sleeps. So there was a time in the sort of Dickensian era where people would sleep for the first half of the night, maybe sort of 4 hours or so. Then they would wake up, they would socialize, they would eat, they would make love, then they would go back and have a second sleep. If you look at natural biological rhythms in the brain and the body, that doesn't really seem to be how we were designed. It certainly seems to be something that we did in society, but I think it's more of a societal trend than it was a biological edict. However, we do seem to have two sleep periods. Those tribes will often sleep about 6.5, 7 hours of sleep at night. And then especially in the summer they'll have that siesta like behavior in the afternoon. And all of us have that, sort of this - what's called the post-prandial dip in alertness, just means "after lunch" - and if I measure your brainwave activity with electrodes, I can see a drop in your physiological alertness somewhere between 2 to 4 pm in the afternoon [irrespective of diet].
> Don't rethrow the same exception. Handle it. It you want to handle it by throwing another internal unchecked exception, that's fine-

No, that's not fine. Typically, the layer immediately wrapping the throwing code has no knowledge about semantics. It's measurement code, logging code, caching code, transaction handling code, batch explode/aggregation code etc, but nothing that could make sense of a FileNotFoundException. The layer that wraps all this infrastructure code has more info, and can make sense of individual exceptions. By wrapping the original exception, this code now has to go on a getCause() safari to find out what happened. And yes, with checked exceptions there is no way around that, and that's the reason they should go.
Certain aspects of the US are starting to remind me of the good old USSR. I'm wondering when we are going to need to get exit visas.
> The User Agent is just software that happens to be called that

This is impressive rationalization. It's the User Agent because it's the software the user is running as their agent on their own computer. The only "moral statement" involved is basic property rights. The user gets to control their own computer (including the browser) for the same reason you get to control how the products you own are used.

> DNT ... but the lack of an ID to go along with it is the problem

You don't need to have an ID to not track someone's browsing habits. What, exactly do you want to do that 1) needs a tracking ID, but 2) isn't some type of tracking?

> Having an easy ID system would let ad networks [...]

That's nice. That isn't the user's job.

> and build up profiles that only last as long as a user is willing to keep the same ID

See? That's exactly the type of tracking we're trying to prevent. Surveillance is still surveillance even if you delete later.

> not overloaded with the same ad shown 20 times.

Again, not the user's problem.

> You know what's actually naive?

The surveillance-based businesses that are driving us straight into a surveillance state without any care for the risks and damage they are creating?

> It's refusing to listen to the industry that moves 100s of billions in ad spend every year

You should realize that many people see this as a bad thing. Those billions could have been spent on something useful. Of course, I don't expect you to understand this if your salary currently depends on not understanding the harm created by the ad industry.

> trying to have rational discussions instead of constantly fighting emotional tirades

You're sense of entitlement is amazing. People get emotional when people try to use their property without permission. There is no "rational discussion" here. If you are tracking people, you are the enemy. One day, when the databases of everyone's behavior starts to cause real damage (Cambridge Analytica was only a tiny preview), you will understand this. Until then, I suggest at least talking to the average person about what they think about having their activities tracked.
I was disappointed to hear about QCOM shuttering the team building the Centriq, it seemed really promising. At least there’s still (on the ARM server frontier) Cavium ThunderX2, with which GigaByte recently started rolling out ARM servers and workstations. (Of course, there’s still also AMD, OpenPOWER, etc. in terms of data center competition for Intel.)
So the repository is billed as "Open Source Resource for Newbies to Learn Algorithms and Implement them in any Programming Language". Which I would indeed have interpreted as a resource for learning, but it actually seems to be meant as "newbies implementing algorithms while learning from some other source, and submitting the results to this repository".
DILEMMA FOR OVERSEAS PAKISTANIS
Yes that's a bad example for an empty try catch, in that case one should throw a runtime exception. Apologies for the misleading example.
Netherlands would be one of those countries that has high taxation and indeed has good infrastructure and still decent public services (though it's been getting worse). Still I decided I wanted to leave the country for many reasons, but in part because I feel I pay too much for what I receive.

Now I live in Thailand with my girlfriend and while infrastructure is much worse and public services are of (much) lower quality than The Netherlands, yet here I will be able to make much more savings due to low (in my case pretty much non-existent except VAT) taxation.

I think it's better for us to raise our daughter here because we'll be able to give her an easier life where she will not have to work very hard and can enjoy her life. I think it's easy to save at least 35k a year here (if not more) where in The Netherlands, due to high taxation and high cost of living I should be happy to save maybe 15k.

I also think in the near future we'd have some property coupled with some other investments that will allow me to "retire" by 45 if not earlier. In The Netherlands I don't believe this would be possible either. I am 36 years old now by the way.
All valid points, but not everything needs to be about money and business. A lot of people here are interested in subjects like generative art, simply for the joy of creating something nice and for fun :)
Murdered man found when non-local tree grew from seed in his stomach

("non-local" is admittedly a bit funny sounding. Alternatives: "non-native tree", "unusual tree", "unexpected tree").
Up above there’s a link to the paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18050904
Don’t solve imaginary future problems. Solve actual problems at hand. Most of the unnecessary complexity in programming can be avoided by keeping this in mind.
I believe 4k uses hdcp to your monitor, but the other formats are as simple as screen capturing.
Note that not everyone is convinced by Ekritch.

http://www.textkit.com/greek-latin-forum/viewtopic.php?f=36&...

Or https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26480842
> Until they killed off extensions with Safari 12, just a few days ago.

At best this is a strong exaggeration, and at worse completely wrong.
Also, I gave a bad example for empty try catch. In this case, I would want a runtime exception thrown. Apologies for misleading the conversation.
I'm a Duke '91 graduate and had several sigma chi friends and witnessed this game many times. Don't know if it still takes place now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwmpLZHKF4Y
I think that's most likely just you projecting your own views. See people's reactions to their launches. YouTube is the home to some of the most antagonistic commentary, yet check out the comments to the Falcon Heavy Launch. If you can make YouTube look like a great group of enthusiastic, optimistic, unified aspirants - then it's safe to say they're already bringing the world like nothing before. And that's with little more than the launch of a special rocket. When SpaceX is putting people on another planet, I think we will have entered into the beginning of a new era in humanity.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c
Try this one : https://i.ytimg.com/vi/I11Vlcpz3jc/hqdefault.jpg

I tried it on a couple of online demos, neither spotted that there was a car in the picture.
Presumably one octopus must be caged in order to prevent them from harming one another.
Has progress in science and technology come to a halt? (2014)
I hope it's not for Russians customers though
You’re really off about that. Our night vision is actually pretty good, especially if you’ve used it for every night of your life. Fire’s clearly been with us for long enough to be a factor, in addition.

I’m against the hypothesis though, if only for the fact that energy levels peak shortly after waking up - “why we sleep” discusses this a little.

That book also suggests the variety of sleep patterns exists for evolutionary reasons. Ie we are social creatures. Having a multitude of waking/restful cycles in a group kept our ancestors protected with a nearly round the clock group of protectors - who evers sleep cycle woke them up when ever.
Understanding schizophrenia: What exactly is schizophrenia?
Couldn't you train multiple nets with somewhat different training sets, and for each classification see how many agrees?

If they all agree you have a high confidence, if they mostly disagree you have a low confidence.
> > I want higher taxes if it comes, for example, with free university, like in Germany.

> Is that really fair? Those in poverty are less likely to be qualified to go to university, so you are essentially subsidizing the wealthy with policies like that.

You are right, and that's precisely the reason why rich people must pay much more taxes than the poor if you want to sustain a welfare state.
I can’t believe their cookie consent banner can’t be closed.
There are a few people like that. Apparently you don't need a brain to be a mathematician or french public servant:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/70204/man-without-brain

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2003/oct/02/research.h...
Check out https://www.kadenze.com/ They have some interesting courses
>You'd probably only get a photo of some random thing behind you, and only learn of your mistake a week later.

Instantly made me think of Buzz Aldrin's 1966 space selfie - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_selfie#/media/File:Buzz_...
Honestly, I disagree with you on the summer part. When I was in high school, summer gave everyone a much needed break, and gave us the opportunity to work a job, do internships, and prepare for the sat/act. Summer is a time where students dont need to feel bound by school and do what they want, which is important for learning to be an adult.
At government expense
Then in what sense is QML’s proposal worse than the status quo?
“Murder victim discovered after giving birth to unusual tree”
This looks like a nice effort and is appreciated, but be aware that the quality of the python is REALLY bad. Don't follow these standards if you're looking at these algorithms. For example, in Quickselect, I saw this:

pivot = random.randint(0, len(list) - 1)
pivot = list[pivot]

which is bad at every possible level. First, it can be a one liner with `pivot = random.choice(list)`, but also, reusing the same variable over and over again is discouraged.

Again, congrats to the team that put this together for free and with probably the best intentions. But if you're using it, be aware that the code might be worth a refactor.
... and even that is just four comments.

But there's not a lot to discuss at this stage.
But why does “getting uncertainty without parameter sampling” have anything to do with parametric numeric types?

The latter is just a possible manner of implementation (that I’d argue is too cutesy), but there are many other ways to design a system like that, for example like fused types in Cython combined with numba class jitting.

I still see no reason to believe that something that parametrizes differential equation functions or linalg functions over “uncertainty primitives” would be anything but a functional programming hot take on something that could be more straightforwardly done many other ways not relying on parametric abstraction.
Here's an example C# pseudocode to illustrate the problem with not having checked exceptions:

Programmer A writes this C# code:

class A {
public static void startFoo() {
if (/* Foo is not installed */)
throw new FooNotInstalled();
// ...
}
}

Programmer B calls the above code like this:

class B {
try {
A.startFoo();
}
catch (FooNotInstalled) {
// Tell user to purchase Foo
}
}

Later programmer A updates his code because there are newer versions of Foo and he needs the newest version:

class A {
public static void startFoo() {
if (/* Foo is not installed */)
throw new FooNotInstalled();
if (/* Foo version is too old */)
throw new FooVersionTooOld();
// ...
}
}

Now the code written by Programmer B crashes even though it compiles fine. That's bad.

Had this been Java, programmer would be would be alerted to the fact that he needs to decide what do do if the version of Foo is too old. This is good.

So listing exceptions that can be thrown is a good thing because it helps you write more reliable code. If you are lazy you can always defeat the system by declaring your method as throwing a parent (or the root) exception class, in which case it is no worse than C#.
Cylus – Railway cyber security
http://archive.is/ulQnm
There's a lot of coworking spaces in Shoreditch, but more to the point, they already published the address themselves to anyone who clicked the lock in their browser.
This is very helpful. Thank you very much. Is it also documented somewhere the problems you face when using Omnibus packages, and why you are planning on shifting to Kubernetes?
I'm confused about what's so special here.

This is analogous to a person from the early days of photography having no knowledge of the possibility of image doctoring, and us feeling "smug" because a photo like this would elicit confusion.

It seems to me you just have to run your NN on pairs of doctored and undoctored images, and create a separation of concern between scene continuity and object recognition. It's likely that a lot of implementations currently rely too much on surrounding context for successful categorization.

It's also worth exploring certain image analysis techniques during pre-processing to draw out certain attenuated aspects. Edge detection is par for the course, but things like shading are also important to attenuate so that the NN has an easier time learning.

If we're dealing with multiple frames and not just a single image, this opens up a whole dimension of temporal analysis that should make it trivial to separate the background from juxtaposed images.
If you have 1000 trucks and 10 000 containers to be moved, you have a problem with 100% of the delivery distance. Now if you cover 80% of the delivery distance by rail, you still have the impossible calculation of transporting 10 000 containers with just 1000 trucks for the resto of the 20% of delivery. This has been the problem since beginning of logistics, the bottleneck on the last mile to target.
I don’t understand why you believe that question is rhetorically interesting or connected to anything that has been discussed.

You’d have to write virtually all the same tests in this type of use case whether you are using the static typing approach or not. The tests won’t explicitly check types in the dynamic typing case, but will verify type safety for fixture settings and data indirectly, as a byproduct of all the other testing.

It seems like you are really missing the point. In use cases like a big training program, you have to write integration tests, period. The compiler is not ever a useful substitute for that in this case. Now, since we know you have to use integration tests and so the cost of writing and maintaining those tests is baked in, we can ask: will those tests also cover what a compiler could have helped with, if we’re in the dynamic programming case? Yes.

And so then the extra code we’d have to maintain and extra constraints we’d have to live with if choosing static typing turn out not to buy us anything we can’t already get with the baked-in costs of the integration tests.

Tests don’t write themselves. Why would you ever ask that type of question like you’re being cheeky and rhetorically dramatic? It reveals that you’re still stuck imagining that you’d need to write extra type-specific tests in the dynamic typing case, which misses the point of the discussion.
"Riddle me this: Why did people write books before there was an economic incentive for them to? The crux of our disagreement appears to be this: it wouldn't hurt the world for us to return to those times."

In the middle ages, books were written by the elites, for the elites. Necessarily so, because education itself was an elite activity. You want a return to those times?

"Are you so sure your book would have maid those thousands of dollars in an era before it was possible to widely distribute it? Who would buy it? And moreover, who would hear about it and how?"

Surely you don't mean to say that a product would never be heard of if there weren't the means to copy it. Surely you don't go into a theatre and livestream a play or concert or standup, because the poor "victims" outside wouldn't have a chance to be enriched. If broadway is expensive, go elsewhere for your entertainment. You don't have the right to give away or consume someone else's work just because technology brings the cost of watching it down to zero.

This is the last I am going to say about this argument. I'm quite done.
> Plans without a bundled phone are much cheaper.

And were not widely available at the time...
Thanos linux bash script, kills half of the universe
Also, depending on the country, the job may be extreme hours, low pay (GPs in particular), and huge stress coming from legal risk. While that does not excuse general assholery, after hearing a lot of stories from the field, including from my brother who's just finishing his medical degree, I'm much more sympathetic to even rude doctors. Theirs is a thankless profession.
That’s a brand issue again. The App Store is hosted by Apple. They choose not to host certain content. That’s not the same as restricting access. You can fire up any number of BDSM sites in your browser.
Java is according to Tiobe the most widely used language and has held that position for close to 20 years. So not teaching the students that language would be doing them a disservice. You could argue that other languages are similar, but them being able to put the Java tag on their resumes will make it a ton easier for them when dealing with recruiters.
> Then wow, they proved it true!

I don't know of any reputable scientists that would claim to "prove" anything. Popper rather put an end to that.
Nokia was bought by a Chinese company who now produces the phones. In addition to having no reputation (good or bad) of quality at this point, the company seems to have remote access to modify the OS and apps installed.
VS Code plugin for automating imports
I don't mean to wrap it in a generic exception, I mean to wrap it in a context-specific exception written for the purpose. A "UserDoesntExistException", or a "DatabaseNotRespondingException". Something for the purpose that likely exists in a useful hierarchy.
God no!
ULA = United Launch Alliance

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Launch_Alliance
Undisputed and lamentable. I just didn't see it coming in paragraph 2 of a NY Times editorial on teenage sleep habits.
An interesting option is the Moto Z line with one of its external power pack accessories (in particular the Moto Z Play, which of the Moto Z line is the heaviest and the one with the biggest internal battery). The internal battery is not changeable, but the external power pack feels a lot like a changeable battery.

(Disclaimer: I have one, as do several of my friends and coworkers.)
As Vi Hart explains here[0], it's critical that you establish enemies for your followers if you wish them to crusade for you. Playful banter and "agreeing to disagree" don't cut it. You have to dehumanize them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deg1wmYjwtk
Airbnb wants to give its hosts equity in its business
I created this plugin, which currently supports JavaScript and Python:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=edb.vand...
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I know VS Code apparently has some auto importing functionality if you are using Typescript, and they seem to be trying to bring this to non-Typescript, but I haven't been able to get it to work at all.

Additionally, these plugins let you fully customize how the imports get written to the file, modifying import paths, names, sorting relative to other imports, etc. The Python plugin even lets you "group" imports together with extra line breaks.

I built this plugin so that each language is itself a plugin to the core package. I'm not currently planning on building additional language plugins, but would be happy to flesh out some documentation on how to do so if anyone is interested.

Let me know what you think!
NASA tech is in your everyday life – find out where with this interactive tool
Obviously I didn't know about about all this before I bought the phone. On paper it seemed like it would be a nice upgrade. I don't send 100's of texts, so I haven't been bothered to look for a different one.
Taxes are not the only factor. Just an example: the average salary of an Italian worker with a university degree is just 30% more than that of one with a "diploma di terza media" (middle school degree/8th grade). [1] A degree just doesn't seem a valuable asset in the Italian job market.

[1]: https://www.corriere.it/economia/18_settembre_22/trent-anni-... (link in Italian)
This is what the article says but it's not really correct. Modern CV systems perform "segmenting" before identification.
Out Of Place Tree Leads Researcher To Find Murder Victim

He was blown up by dynamite.. not super clear that his stomach was all that intact.
Even worse: did they surreptitiously capture the browsing history of everyone that has intentionally avoided signing into chrome over the last few years? I'm glad I switched to firefox a year ago and have auto update on chrome disabled.
Well if there's a thing/elephant/chair floating over someone's head in one part of the room, that does change the context for interpreting other things in the room.
Hackers target #Port of #Barcelona, maritime operations had not affected
I'm talking about casual language-usage, like this headline, not commercial usage. Open and source are regular words, and they still are regular words when used together. Trademarks can't force people to talk as they want, it can only force company to not sell everything as they wish.
for the mythologically less-developed, this literal scenario is in a similar configuration to certain deep-mystery tales from various cultures and epochs. spoiler: personal inquiry on this and other symbolic content may vary substantially, require a lot of time, and lead to odd ideas in ordinary life
Exactly. The op is essentially agreeing with the gp, but seems to be saying that the op’s view was ‘luckily abandoned a long time ago.’
Housing is simultaneously a necessary good and an investment opportunity.

As soon as someone realizes this, you can practically see the dollar signs light up in their eyes.
Herbal-Medicine / Physiology-Expert 'TURPINS' Abuse
Note that you can get a form of confidence by just not applying softmax to the output during inference. Softmax is primarily to aid in training.
Have you seen a neurologist?
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