skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I usually put these into the description so the next engineer has a better time tracking what is what.
@awake: Let's assume that the story is false and then ask yourself some questions:

What is the story about?; Why was it released?; Is the timing significant?; Who are and will continue to be SM's customers? ...prospects for future customers? ...prospects for current and future earnings?

If you like the answers to those questions (and those are just the ones I could think of in 30 secs), you know what to do.

Cheers!
> Which basically says that when we deplete the body of certain neurotransmitters, people get depressed

Your statement represents a logical fallacy. I can also prove that depleting a car of gasoline causes it not to run, but fixing the fuel situation won't make all non-running cars functional. Just look at the more recent research that shows a connection between our microbiome and mood disorders to see that depression is often far more complex than the simple neurotransmitter model favored by big pharma.

The causes of depression are varied and what works for some won't work for others. As someone else that lost a decade of my life to the numbness of anti-depressants, I've seen first-hand the psychiatric industry's strong preference for directing patients towards medication-based approaches. Taking medication was the worst mistake I've ever made in my life and I believe that more people need to hear messages like the one in this article. In particular, I very much wish that I, like the woman in the article, had started meditation much earlier as it has become, by far, the most effective thing I've done to deal with my depression.
In modern browsers, you can sometimes achieve this effect with `:target`. (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:target)
Is that really true? Say Apple uses a manufacturing technique that makes the product more reliable, but less repairable. Eventually, the two criteria meet an equilibrium where the device is no longer useful because its apps aren't supported, or it's too slow.
How'd you get access to the psilocybin mushrooms?
I do not think you should be worrying about superintelligence. If you are investing in AI firms that are going to make products that will be profitable, providing a return on investment, they should focus on making the products, not on making general AI.

(I mean read the book "Superintelligence" if you want, it's an interesting read, and may help you have conversations with certain people, but as someone else here said, it's an "interesting distraction".

There are more and more zealous true believers in the tech world, unfortunately; some of your investees may bring it up themselves!)

There are real ethical problems in systems that learn from data. I'm describing them that way rather than as "AI", because in fact these problems can show up anywhere along the spectrum from deep neural networks all the way down to the simplest linear models. These can arise from biases in the training data or in the learning process.

Others have posted Google's AI principles, which are good. The keyword for researchers working in this area is FAT -- Fairness, Accountability, Transparency. There are conferences [1] in this area that have a lot of good work. You may also want to see the syllabus for Moritz Hardt's course [2].

I would also add -- we're in an unsettling place right now. It's not clear that there are "best practices" that can be widely recommended. Many proposed definitions of fairness are inadequate or mutually contradictory.

[1]: https://fatconference.org/2018/index.html
[1]: http://www.fatml.org/schedule/2018
[2]: https://fairmlclass.github.io/
LINQ in C# makes code very declarative, not only reducing the line count by half but also making it obvious what the code does. Code like persons.Where(x=>x.age>21).OrderBy(x=>x.Name).ToList(); doesn’t need a comment to spell out what it does, but imperative code might.

Being able to easily create types as needed gives not only compiler guarantees but also communicates exactly what sort of “id” or “name” you’re dealing with.

Generics separate orthogonal parts of logic, e.g. a List vs domain object. I remember the days when the domain objects would contain the “next” pointer. More generally any ability to separate aspects is hugely helpful. Eg: list<lazy<person>> is a lot easier to read than baking it all that in one object. Once done, you don’t have to have a section of code inside person that says “instantiate these fields lazily for performance”.
"the video recorder and subsequent personal recording technology and internet streaming on-demand helps to lesson the demand"

Demand may be getting more stable, but supply is going in the other direction! There is a need for energy storage as the UK grid moves to more renewable and intermittent energy sources, predominantly wind.

Pumped hydro stations like Dinorwig can help lessen the need for fossil-fueled thermal power plants to provide spinning reserve / frequency maintenance. So can batteries.

Whether we will see any more pumped hydro built in the UK probably comes down to cost and environmental concerns, when considered relative to other storage technologies like batteries and electric vehicles with V2G.
Heard strange stories about a 30 person company where comments _were disallowed by policy._ I can't even imagine what kind of other problems this place would have.
> My post 4 months ago is why I'm here today. It's the singular action that pushed me to talk to my work, to talk to a therapist, and eventually to talk to my parents. The truth is it's easy to hole yourself up when you reach a dark enough place, but sometimes staying silent is its own torture.

Huge props to you for stepping out and sharing what you were going through. If only this was more commonplace for others in your situation.

At the end of the day, we all deserve to be happy, and I hope you reach that point very soon through careful management of all things “life”.
This is very bad.
How did people deal with mental illness before these drugs were around?

I recall that melancholia was a real diagnosis a long time ago.

My personal view is that in some cases physical exercise can be helpful. I have family that are on Wellbutrin etc., and others that studiously avoid any drugs.
They must not really want the people at large to use it. Maybe it’s part of some other bigger discussion they’re having. Maybe as part of the pitch to get a government contract. “If you give us the contract, we have a hiring tool that the stakeholders can use”.
If there's a market, why isn't anyone addressing it? As geeks, we love the idea of upgrading and repairing computer hardware, but the majority of the market HATES it. They just want something that works. So much of the desire by geeks for removable batteries reminds me of someone wanting an engine crank (like on the Model T) in case the starter fails...
Congratulations OP and thank you for sharing your inspiring update.

When I read your post it sounded like you were being a little too hard on yourself. Something that helps me is instead of thinking about how far there still is to go, thinking about how far you've come so far. Or as Adam Grant says:

"After reaching a goal, raising the bar often increases motivation but decreases happiness.

To enjoy your success, imagine how your past self would see your current achievements.

If you knew 5 years ago what you’d accomplish now, how proud would you have been?"

You're doing great. Thanks for sharing again and keep it up!!
I'd wager at least that many 65+ yearolds in the UK would think the same. And they outnumber British Muslims by a fair margin.

Elderly people in the UK have a surprisingly hostile outlook on black and homosexual people, at least around where I grew up.
Ever read Kuhn? [edit: down voters are Kuhn haters or what? Downvotes are so totally useless.]
+1

What is this "self-documenting" code and where can you read it?
Yeah this is my issue. I'm not too worried about it being a successful business (more like a small side project), but I don't have the resources to fight any legal claims.
Speak for yourself, I have no regrets about curing myself and can only share what worked for me after years of struggles. In my opinion, it is a crime against public health that these drugs aren't already legalized and widely available. Of course everybody takes a different experience from them, but when used therapeutically in a safe environment, they are extremely powerful and safe.
Efficiency, to me, means getting the same result for less inputs. This could take the form of a less expensive method for performing some work or a higher utilization of existing time / equipment. A lot of these gig employers aren't increasing efficiency they are just shifting costs to unsophisticated workers who don't realize it.
Should we consider this, then, a regression?
I hoped merely pointing out that discrepancy would suffice - how ben_ws comment compared the history of nuclear accidents to the potential dangers of dams.

Potential scenarios are very important in determining probabilistic risk. Simply showing "it hasn't happened yet" is not a valid way to assess risk. This is the reason it costs more to build and keep nuclear plants safe, than it does dams.
Some code is complex enough to need a proper explanation. Maybe you just haven't encountered any. I guess it would be rare in CRUD or web apps, but when you start getting into algorithms... Look at Ryu for example. Good luck understanding that without comments or documentation:

https://github.com/ulfjack/ryu/blob/master/ryu/f2s.c
This is true, but it's a matter of degree. We already rely heavily on Wikipedia and it's probably a good idea not to raise the stakes even more. There's a limit to how much pressure a volunteer organization can withstand.
The Making of NHL '94: An Oral History
This isn’t about whether the SEC likes or dislikes Musk. This is about the ability of public company investors to rely on a modicum of good faith that the official statements of public company CEOs aren’t pure BS or stock manipulation. In this case an inference of intentional stock manipulation to hurt “shorts” has a fair bit of merit.

If investors need to wonder if a CEO can say anything without any ramifications then public markets break down. The cost of capital goes up for the entire investment universe. This is serious stuff.

Tesla investors need to realize there is a broader world beyond their one obsession.
Tests are what matter to me and my team, too. Tests = requirements.

As another commenter pointed out, we use comments for why. Sometimes the commit history can help this, but a well-placed comment can shrink that effort.

I get a feeling we may not pass OP’s litmus test, but I’d be curious if we would. We use the term self-documenting code, but that’s primarily because our tests are part of our code, and those tests are indeed our primary documentation.
For $2.5, I guess it's Vultr.
You may need education, but certainly not school.
Every programming environment has down sides and Clojure is no exception but I still think that using Java instead of Clojure is not better because simply you have 3-10x source code to maintain and the number of bugs are correlating with number of source code lines. On the top, I quite often see null pointer exceptions in Java when in theory that should never happen because we are statically typed.
If programmers were half as clever at writing self-documenting code as some of them are at explaining why writing or reading comments is never a good idea, there would be no use for comments.
Nuclear proponents always point to the Banqiao Dam disaster, and it's always a misleading argument because that dam was built to control downstream flooding as well as provide power and its failure was probably attributable to how the flood control aspect was mismanaged - by holding back too much water for too long out of fear of downstream flooding, they ended up overfilling the reservoir. If China hadn't bothered with hydroelectric power, the dam would still have to have been built and all those people would still have died when it failed, you just wouldn't be able to use their deaths to make nuclear power look better. (Also, nuclear power didn't exist back when that dam was put into operation, and given the quality of engineering that went into it that's probably a good thing.)
With regards to negotiation, I know a friend who did this at a normal (not FANG) company and not transitioning from manager to IC. However, I tell this anecdote since you seem wary of your negotiating power. He was moving cross-country for family reasons. He said that the key to getting full remote approved was approaching his boss like “I’m moving out of state. I’d like to continue working here.” However, the important thing to note is he stated that the move was a done deal and implied that he was willing to walk away from this company and find a new job if he had to. You have to go all-in. Good luck!
I imagine not much has changed since the last two hundred threads about this if you'd like to start there.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=passive%20income&sort=byDate&p...
.... umm, no.

If anything they will just change it up and disappoint people who liked it just the way it was.

As they are doing with GMail.

They did create “Inbox” to do the same thing as GMail (email) in a different way... But they’re killing Inbox and just making changes to GMail.
I don't see it that way. This is probably just a pragmatic move to keep Wikipedia users and contributors from getting their panties in a knot.

It's basically impossible to have a discussion on the internet about the merit something a strongly right leaning media outlet says (well it's possible, but the discussion won't be very civil). Anything factual Breitbart reports will be reported elsewhere because that's how media works, if one outlet covers it others will too. In light of that there's not much to be lost by banning Breitbart as a source. What you gain is that it gives the monkeys that edit pages one less reason to fling poo at each other.
A weird case of having too much money (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_Unit...) since cutting edge medicine he could afford at that time would be quackery today? The blistering agents applied in his throat and externally seem pretty painful, one today on my hand or foot is quite a hassle, on top of the bloodletting weakening a person. The 40% blood on his deathbed sounds incredible in hindsight but there are a few people who regularly give blood today as often as is permitted every couple of months without apparent ill effects.
I don’t think it would make much difference. An extra mm wouldnt matter much but I wouldn’t want to sacrifice any water resistance for it.

Over the lifespan (ownership) of e.g 3 years I usually replace the screen at least once, usually also some other component. Having the battery user replaceable wouldn’t make much difference, it would be 2 services instead of 3 in case the battery died.

I never replaced a battery on any of my 3 smartphones nor on any of the 4 dumbphones before them.
If you had a childhood full of physical abuse, and your right leg was frequently broken until it became malformed, then the solution might involve crutches. All of which is to say, just because the damage done is in the past, doesn’t mean that it can’t have lasting effects you can’t just wish away. The developing human brain, it has been shown time and again, undergoes permanent changes associated with abusive environments. Those are real, physical changes that may require interventions beyond talking or therapy. It’s not just learned insecurity, it’s the biochemical changes wrought by years of stress during a formative period.
Fair enough, it sounds like you've found something that works well for you. Prescriptions worked pretty well for me for a while, but psychedelics have been a game changer for me. The mind and living life with it is a tricky thing.
If you're interested in setting up your own VPN, take a look at streisand [0].

Also, running the VPN in a docker container is rather nice. There are a bunch of existing containers for that[1].

Oh, and if you're interested, Aruba Cloud [2] offers a 1 Core, 1GB ram VM in CZ and IT for 1 Euro/month. It comes with more than enough bandwidth for personal use.

[0]: https://github.com/hwdsl2/docker-ipsec-vpn-server

[1]: https://hub.docker.com/search/?isAutomated=0&isOfficial=0&pa...

[2]: https://www.arubacloud.com/
It's hard for me to provide a good example without knowing some of the stuff you're in to but here's one of my favorite macros: https://github.com/lvh/caesium/blob/master/src/caesium/bindi...

It takes a symbol and figures out the name of a C function, how to most efficiently call it (with type hints for perf). If you screwed that up in one location it might have security consequences. But I _can't_ scre it up, because instead of copy pasting that code a gazillion times as I would have in Python, I just figured out what I want once and then use that functionality a gazillion times :)
Strange new forms of company towns.
Is all your data private or google using all the data. It doesn't seem explicit on the feature page.
I would add, as a compromise with the superintelligence true believers, "Concrete Problems in AI Safety" is quite good, and worth reading and thinking about. (It's especially relevant to RL systems that interact with the world.)

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.06565v2.pdf
One of the worlds most valuable companies just launched a way to keep its people seasonal and essentially homeless. whatever this is, its not progress.
I don't know about OCaml, but Haskell has typeclasses (which look like "polymorphic interfaces"?) so you can define functions generically and put a typeclass constraint to make them work on a certain class of types. E.g. your avg function would be of type:

avg :: Num a => a -> a -> a

Where your "a" is a number (that is, a type that implements the Num typeclass)

This would work out of the box on floats, ints, etc
As a candidate, the shortest pipeline is one I can exit after a 30 minute chat with the hiring manager.
> For the last 10 years, "if it gets bad enough, there will be a bail out" has become standard investment wisdom.

Plenty of private companies receive public funding disguised as defense costs and the output of their research goes to private investors. The transistor, GPS, Arpanet, etc ...

> Socialism for those who own, free markets for those who don't.

I get the point but the sentence is an oxymoron.
If you want some help getting your financial life back on track, the folks in /r/personalfinance are pretty understanding and supportive. If you lay out your budget and situation, they can help you come up with a plan, and having a plan to get back on your feet financially will probably have all kinds of good benefits for your general mental wellbeing.
> One of the bigger questions that society needs to answer is why the costs of the things that have been rising so much faster than incomes are doing so.

I don't really think it is a question that needs to be answered, but a problem that needs to be resolved. It's pretty well documented that income inequality in the US is at an all time high and will only get worse with more automation and recent changes to the tax codes.
I just checked on the keyboard app that I use, Google GBoard, and it supports both Scots and Gaelic.
Ask HN: Which charitable projects does your business support?
A youth soccer team in Thailand has a new strip thanks to my little business. This makes me smile. Which charitable projects does your business support?

This isn't a trumpet blowing exercise. I thought it just might be encouraging to hear about what others are doing.
Surely from an ideological perspective, running a Tor relay node or two would provide about the same amount of fuzzies at much less risk?
> I'm not from the US, so I don't know about that "RV Culture". But if I'm cynical, it sounds like Amazon is looking for people who can't afford to say no.

Plenty of people outside the US, too, live in caravans for a considerable portion of the year. Go to southern Morocco or Western Sahara in the winter, and you will see many hundreds of camping cars owned by German, French, and Italian pensioners who want to spend the cold months in warm, sunny weather. If there actually were seasonal work down there, I would totally expect some portion of them to take it, since some people do feel the need to make some extra money or to do something "productive" during the day.
Really? Do you search by doi number?

It’s a direct proxy to university databases - it should have almost everything.
Just go outside, they’re pretty much everywhere. Join your local mycological association, there’s a list on that NAMA website:

https://www.namyco.org/clubs.php
This is a good point: iphones are easily serviced physically but you may not get the parts.

There have also been rumors that some parts would not be replaceable unless you used original parts but I have never had any problems with “original” parts (eg refurb screen with new 3rd party glass), obviously if a phone required parts one could not buy it can’t be considered user serviceable at all.
> The culture in Silicon Valley is exactly the same as the one in Beijing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY

> The one in Alabama is identical to Russia?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/russian-than-democrat-shir...
Why not just use a 0-100% scale? It would make it clear how big a drop there has been. (Technically, you could get a ratio higher than 100% but it still seems like a reasonable upper bound in actuality.)
I think the Clojure answer to stateful data storage is "use Datomic". There's a big impedance mismatch between the functional world and the stateful (RDBMS) world. Datomic extends the functional world all the way down to data storage.

You can certainly use SQL, and it's not any worse than any other language (and in some ways a little better), but IME it's not Clojure-simple, either. It's still the most awkward part of all my Clojure programs.

Clojure excels when you can avoid mutating state, and I think that's why people especially love it for web apps. It fits almost perfectly into that model.
You can follow this guide:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/940017/user-profile...

You access it through the group policy editor (covered in the above article).

I guess this was a problem once with Vista 10 years ago. The same exact steps work with Windows 10.
I save into a pension fund every month. In the UK this is a good tactic because of the tax benefits. I hope it will provide me with a substantial passive income if I can keep the savings up for another 20 years.
Do you have any source where I can read more about this? Is this for particular models? Refurbished screens work well on iphone6 on latest iOS as far as I can tell
All that being true, "philosophy" is also the name often given to an emerging science that has no name of its own; for example, physics used to be known as "natural philosophy" (despite Aristotle having used the word long before that).
I'm currently working on a cross-compilation solution that needed these root filesystems, and knew they would be of use to others.

If it helps with piece of mind, the images are built in the open (the Azure Pipelines YAML file in the repo handles this).

There are a bunch of scenarios in which you may find yourself unable to create these with debootstrap yourself (e.g. restricted permissions, a kernel without binfmt_misc suppport), but are able to use them (using proot to avoid needing admin, or Resin's patched version of QEMU that reworks execve() to operate without binfmt)