skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find not being able to show up to your job, especially a 9am meeting you scheduled, because you were hungover to be irresponsible and unprofessional.
I do believe the parent did mean specifically the base taste is less bland, independent of cultural factors. For someone who hasn’t experienced the taste difference one might think ‘really, how much better can a tomato taste?’- but no the difference really is substantial, esp when comparing, say, a North American tomato and one from southern Europe.
I think you use "federated with" in a different sense than most people do in these discussions.

A newly created Mastodon instance by default federates with everyone in that allows messages and following from and to every other instance.

But it's federated timeline has no posts from other instances, because that view only shows posts that the instance actually sees. It only shows what people on the same instance actually follow, because otherwise there is no reason for the posts to be sent to it.
There is a chart in the article that gives you a better idea of the distribution.
I don't think valuable should be seen as black and white, although companies and employees both make that mistake in different ways.

Irreplaceable is an extreme version of valuable. Companies are right to avoid that extreme. But they shouldn't take it so far that they are allergic to admitting that employees have value. Any current employee who is right in the middle of the bell curve has value because, while they could be replaced, they are a known quantity.

From the employee side, there can be a temptation to believe that because you're not exceptional, you're not valuable. Even if you're merely average, that is OK, and you need to accept that you are a worthwhile member of the team. If mentally you can't claim the position you rightfully deserve as your own, then you believe something wrong about the world, and like any wrong information, that will corrupt your decisions about how to act.
I've learned that being an expert in any field does not shield you from being very very stupid in many other fields. Critical thinking skills are hard to learn and maintain. It's a constant battle against our own biases and misinformation we are ingesting. Especially when you consider the memories that are strongest are the ones we tie to emotions. That particular fact alone makes it easy to feed misinformation based on things they might fear.
There are also people allergic to yellow food dyes (for example, tartrazine).

Of course, there could be a downside if there are more people that are allergic to the replacement. But the replacement is still a benefit to people allergic to the original ingredient.
Please provide some context and links.
Yup, they did this for me back in 2015, and it was a really good customer support experience. I'd actually created a second account & asked them to close my original Facebook-linked one, but they offered to move across all my playlist data etc over to the new account so I didn't have to start over. And they checked in with me to make sure the data all looked good before deleting the other account. I was really happy with how they handled it.
>I have some doubts though regarding the safety of manned launches here.

I have some doubts about the safety of climbing mount Everest too. That doesn't mean people shouldn't do it. People like to do risky stuff.
Since we just asked you to please stop posting dismissive comments like this, we've banned the account. We're happy to unban accounts if you email hn@ycombinator.com and commit to using the site as intended.
What’s Snapchat’s AR Endgame?
I wonder if there are different levels of picky eaters. For me, there are some things I like better than other things, but I will eat or try something if nothing better is around.

For some people it is an extremely strong aversion -- something that they can't really control, and that would not be influenced by food science or rational arguments.
The nature paper is not a rebuttal, it just says "hey look we did some studies, didn't they read those studies? We studied lots of things and came to conclusions."

There's no modeling of the Wilson argument that is then proven to be wrong.
I think that's the only excerpt from the blog post suggesting that companies will do this research out of good will. The reality is that this work is largely being done by academia and government research groups for now and it's unclear that MPEG is pushing the state of the art forward more than incrementally.

There's also the idea that our personal medical data (which is only a portion of all genomic data currently but it's increasing rapidly) should be entirely open to reading, no licenses required.
You just identified a wish-list-item I have for music apps: Location aware playlists:

The device would be aware where it is located - or moving via either gps, accelerometer or wifi ssid visibility or even an ibeacon.

The device will then know that it should play from selected sets/playlists that I have tagged appropriate for that location.

I would like this in a video library management app as well.

Basically, the content most likely to be relevant to my current location or activity should float to the top of the playlist or click-field.

All content should obviously be available, but preference to play a cetain list over another based on location or activity without overt action from me.

Kind of like an "ok google - I am now running so play my running lists" and "ok google - I just arrived at my office so either STFU or play my worklist"

"Looks like you just got on bart list"
Do you think his central thesises around Black Swan events, tail risks, hedging, and skin-in-the-game principle for evaluating advice/statements, are not relevant to scopes beyond options trading?

Note, I am not stating he is not a gadfly. He is, absolutely. But is he wrong?
Serious advice: you're using your brain wrong. Find something better to do with it. Questions which start with "what if everyone <insert verb here>" are bad questions. People will always behave in diverse, contradictory, and conflicting ways. We've been doing that pretty much since the Cambrian explosion, and we're not going to stop any time soon. Asking what would happen if we did is useless -- like asking what would happen if gravity reversed, or if black was white and white was black.

If you're vexxed by income inequality and consumerism and environmental degradation and such -- as I am -- then it's best to pursue avenues of enquiry and develop theses which aren't fundamentally impossible from the fifth syllable onwards.
If "clearly" in the UX meaning of the word (e.g. same size or greater than that of surrounding text, but visibly emphasized) - sure. If "clearly" in the legal sense, let's be honest - who's going to notice that?

And ultimately, why risk confusing people just to make the article prettier? That media outlets do this is one of the many reasons proving that they don't really care about informing their audience.
PS4 consoles are crashing due to a malicious message circulating the network
I'm curious, how many people work on Pony now? What scale of effort does it take to get a language to this point?
Thanks for that, I was wondering if the grounds portion of the ils was hit, or the plane component.
Curious if there is any work to build ecosystem to run complex models on ML accelerators, like some layers for TF for example..
Such furious goal shifting. Demand evidence and then assert the evidence doesn't show rampant thievery. It's absolutely shameless.
If her arguments are faulty, you ought to focus on the flaws in her arguments, beginning with her strongest.
Neither engaging in ad hominem nor making use of ecological fallacies contributes anything.
Possibly, but sometimes things do need to be said and he changed the names of the actual people he did not like so much, so maybe consider this "dry cleaned"? It definitely is useful to other people in similar circumstances and pretty much raises a point about all the pettiness that occurs in all industries. This is a human condition that needs to be addressed or this world will continue to be built by people who shouldn't be in charge.
And also I cannot change my name if I will not add facebook account. It is very ridiclous. They are very huge startup but they did not much time for adding a simple form. :P
I've a friend, a high end foodie. he proposes to use the big Mac as the international standard/reference point for burger quality. that would t be possible unless the big Mac basically tasted the same at pretty much every mc Ds
That is interesting, I am wondering how this differs in performance for existing page-based approaches used in debugging, such as Page Heap on Windows or Guard Malloc on Mac OS.
Postgrest[1] is similar, and seems very popular, so this sort of thing is scratching somebody's itch.

[1] https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest
Thanks for the heads up! I was literally just thinking I miss the sunday times and was going to get the sunday paper delivered and use the online subscription throughout the week.
Do we know that photons obey normal gravity? I was under the impression that we know that light can be bent by the warping of space-time due to gravity, but not that it interacts with the Higgs field.

Photons don't really have an anti-matter pair that we can observe afaik because anti-particles have the same mass and spin but opposite charge as their counterpart. Since photons have no charge, a photons anti-matter pair is just another photon. Furthermore, we know that anti-hydrogen has the same spectral lines as hydrogen so their electromagnetic interactions are the same.

Finding that anti-matter has anti-gravity would be world changing, though I'm setting my expectations very low. It would mean that we have access to the kind of exotic matter needed for a practical Alcubierre warp drive and could open up an entirely new field of space time engineering. It's just extremely unlikely, given all we know, that anti-matter has such properties.
It suggests an increase of ~20 to 30 points and a decrease of 3 to 6.

So yeah, really. Or do you think the other poster meant to establish 1970 as the baseline?
Look at what Monsanto did with bribes to scientists to say GMO is ok
I don't doubt what we decide should survive isn't necessarily what "nature" will decide should survive. If we get to a point where we are in too much conflict with "nature" we will lose most likely. Earth's evolution of life is much longer and stronger than we as a species are. But why not try? It's our imperative as a species to continue doing what's best for our survival.
Translated books live and die with the ability of the translator. A bad translator can make a bad book boring, a good translator can turn a mediocre book into a page-turner.

Whether the translator did well or not can only be seen by trying to actually read the book.

I read the first few pages of "Serve the people!" on Amazon and found it to be quite well-written, with appropriate explanations for cultural context where necessary. Then I read the same part in a pirated Chinese version [1] and found it to be even better.

The most difficult part of a translation is to preserve not only the content but also the form. Yan Lianke makes some stylistic choices like reusing sentence structures with only a few words swapped out, that would sound incredibly forced if you tried it in English, but flows naturally in Chinese. In these cases, the translator can only leave it at an approximation.

Some metaphors are also difficult to convey. In the original, Yan Lianke compares history to a measuring rope, whereas in the translation it turns into a yardstick. Maybe there's some intentional subtlety that gets lost (the rope is flexible, the yardstick is rigid).

Then there are simple translation errors that slipped through quality control, e.g. 一颗发光的五星 (one shining five-pointed star) is translated as five gleaming stars.

But if you're not explicitly trying to compare between versions, you're probably not even going to notice that there's anything off. Rather than wondering whether the translation is inferior to the original, try finding out whether you can enjoy it nonetheless.

Disclaimer: I'm a native speaker of neither English nor Chinese, so I might not be the best person to judge what quality literature in either language looks like.

[1] https://www.bannedbook.org/resources/file/600
This is the type of person I would want to work with, and if he had an issue with me I'm pretty sure it wouldn't show up in a twitter rant because I'm the type of person that would work it out in house. There is some responsibility on those managers that they did not consider and should be held accountable for.
Malicious messages are crashing PS4 consoles
I freely admit to being a picky eater. And I even understand why I became that way. It doesn't change the fact that I rarely sample things I have never had before.

Growing up we were constantly told to eat everything on our plates because there were kids starving somewhere else. And I was forced to sit at a table and stare at food I absolutely hated the taste or texture of for hours. Watched it get cold. Get even worse tasting. And still I sat. As I became an adult I was able to eat what I wanted and refuse things that I didn't. I developed a taste for things I like, and constantly work to refine those flavors. I cook all the time, I use smokers, grills and ovens, we hand raise our own cows, pigs, birds and fish along with a large garden that I eat very little out of but my wife loves. I love looking for the ultimate version of the particular food that I enjoy eating.

But I still have no desire to try anything "new" not out of ignorance, but because I don't have to.
I work remote in a rural western state, I make closer to the national average for an SE than the SV worker. I ran the math once in my county and found that I was in the top 1% wage earners for my county.
it's just math. you have your typical concave risk averse utility function, and you measure the difference in expected utilities between a low variance option and a high variance option, feed into softmax hoila
If you don't want to be tracked by Facebook, there's https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/read-ft-wsj/ which fakes the referrer.
Even simpler: If you don't want your stuff counterfeited, don't outsource it, period.

Unless the company buys a factory in some cheap labor country and sends some of their employees over to "manage" (police) the foreign workers, then there is always going to be a risk of loss with being so removed from the outsourced production.

(Then again, there's no guarantee the outsourced workers are going to get treated any better by foreign managers - look up the history of United Fruit Company for an example.)

Counterfeiting comes with the territory of using cheap labor/production in order to get more profit into the pockets of those outsourcing the business.

That's not to say counterfeiting isn't wrong. However, the validity of "wrong" becomes more of a gray area depending on which party you ask. Each party has their own motivations and those motivations have different socioeconomic impacts and ethical implications.
OS X 10.11th
You've got that backwards. Attitude can be adjusted, but only if the person is willing. Talent can't be learned--at least not by most people, and not on the timescale of an actual job to be performed.
> On the other hand, if there is a good reason (e.g. the food lasts longer), then I see no reason why not let the market decide what they prefer.

There is a good reason for it to be in food, and a good reason for it to not be in food. As it happens, the reason for it to be in food is that it makes food taste better, and the reason for it to not be in food is because people were falsely told it was unhealthy. So the market is deciding, but as a result of fear-mongering and racism, not based on what makes for better food. That’s still the market deciding, and that’s just how the market works sometimes.
Some people are just jerks.

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/05/09/soldier-...

If you watch the video you’ll see the type of clown he is.
> Reverse geocoding and automated tagging based on Google TensorFlow.

> ... No privacy concerns.

Tried too look up this. I thought TensorFlow was some hosted Google service but as I understand it now it is an open source library which makes more sense given the quotes above.

Can someone who's more into TensorFlow than me explain this?
could be, but for risk averse people (most people) the variance matters.
Most successful AI ventures.
Or the mid-range jobs move out of the Bay Area because of the high cost of living?

I grew up in the Bay Area but there's a snowball's chance in hell I could ever go back due to what it costs to live there...just to rent a bedroom from some homeowner would cost more than the two bedroom apartment I currently live in.
As a relatively high-earning person in tech, let me say again: Please tax me and people like me (or wealthier) more. Please, please, please. I'm a greedy capitalist, but income disparity hurts everyone and our country would be such a more pleasant and productive place if those at the top would express just a shade more generosity by supporting their fellow citizens.
It's not good will. It's in their interest to have better compression ratios and higher quality video.
>we know that light can be bent by the warping of space-time due to gravity

That literally is light obeying gravity. Gravity interacts exclusively by the warping of space-time. Gravity and the Higgs field are completely 100% unrelated.

https://profmattstrassler.com/2012/10/15/why-the-higgs-and-g...
I liked this from the README -

Why this has to be free software

The development of every commercial product is focused on monetization. We've built similar apps more than once and every single time the constraints of working in a profit-oriented corporate environment were an impediment. We are sure we can do better with only a fraction of the budget. Simplicity can be very powerful.
I tried to cancel my paid account so I could create a new paid account without FB login. It was so frustrating that I’m now a happy Apple Music user.

Protip to companies: if your product is excellent, make account cancellation frictionless and the respect you show your users will pay dividends.
FWIW, GCHQ's powers are explicitly exercisable in the "interests of the economic well-being of the United Kingdom". Given the close cooperation between the UK and the US, I would not be surprised if the information is also forwarded to the US.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/13/section/3
I don't see why a volunteer organization should be held at the same standards that a tax funded agency -wrongfully imo- is. They can do whatever they want with their lives.
British people can understand American variations, e.g. 'sidewalk', the pronunciation of the last letter in the alphabet and 'candy'. But there are a surprising amount of Americans that simply do not understand the original British English variants, e.g. 'pavement', 'zed', 'sweets'.

This even applies to those few Americans that have passports and travel to the UK. This lack of initiative when it comes to understanding language is possibly due to how American words have to be spelt out and explained. In original British English context is good enough. So a 'bin' will suffice for a receptacle to place your rubbish in, whereas, in America, you have to have a 'waste paper basket'.

This latter point is something that British people do laugh about, e.g.:

Americans Don't Understand English - The Jonathan Ross Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wSw3IWRJa0&vl=en-GB
It was even posted on HN about a year ago:

https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-iphone-app-secret-acces...
First impressions of Pulumi
If the food industry were more responsible and didn't do everything it can to reduce costs at the expense of selling crap, maybe there wouldn't be so many "picky eaters".

Obviously no common citizen can track a list of 20 ingredients and know which of them are the worst offenders and which are harmless. But there is a clear correlation between processed products containing lots of weird-sounding ingredients and products that taste bland, upset the stomach and/or are unhealthy. So in absence of detailed knowledge about what each individual ingredient is, it's a perfectly rational and sensible decision to prefer the food with fewer, and well-known, ingredients. I have a scientific education, know what dihydrogen monoxide is, and still do that, because I don't trust the industry and regulations enough* when it comes to eating an unknown ingredient. And the industry can cry me a river.

*And this is in Europe, where at least there is some more regulation... in the US, the same applies multiplied by 10.
There are several libraries. PyMC4 [1], the next version of PyMC3, will introduce TF as a backend. Tensorflow probability [2] from Google. PYRO [3], from Uber, uses Pytorch backend.

[1]: https://github.com/pymc-devs/pymc4

[2]: https://www.tensorflow.org/probability/

[3]: http://pyro.ai/
I can tie this back to my own experience as well. Humility generally comes with age, and it's important in running a successful and socially responsible business. It's easy to get caught up in the young successful founder myth because that's what gets the most press. But look at a guy like Bill Gates. I'm sure had he started Microsoft 20 years later (assuming all conditions were ripe for it), he would have done it quite differently and likely would have had less law suits on his hand. That being said, I do think there's much to be said about the ambitiousness of the ideas when you're younger than when you're older. Your view of the world changes tremendously.
Couldn't you just make a new, empty facebook account just for spotify login with no real personal info on it?
On less than half that in London, if that's any consolation.
I really don't think many in the West understand how interconnected business and government is in China. The scale at which companies work with the government and how the government funds companies makes it very hard to trust any Chinese company. China is the most opaque business world we can imagine and Chinese military intelligence has deep connections to Chinese businesses. They are two sides of the same coin, where Chinese military agents are even implicated in attacks on Western companies to help their own corporations.

We will never be able to truly discern the true data sharing agreements they have, and I think it's safer to ban Chinese communications companies from working in the West until things change. It's clear China has no intention of curbing bad behavior and the current approach is not working.

It is well understood that Chinese military officials carried out the Nortel hacks and gave the IP to Huawei (and others). Nothing coming from China and no Chinese company can be trusted.
Are you kidding me? I barely speak english (native speaker) and I didn't have that much trouble landing a gig. Most people are willing to ignore most of the nonsense I speak as long as I produce a bit of work now and again.
This is probably interesting enough for its own post.
Colonial Canada Had Slavery,It Still Matters Today,
Steve Jobs is probably the only person in recent human history that you would actually want to have controlling your company instead of you.
Actually, oops. I heard they do not support the US frequencies before but forgot. Sorry.
thx for your reply. I‘ll investigate it further :)
Yes tax us more so it can be spent just as inefficiently. Throwing more money at our problems is not the solution.
At this point there's so much blatant China panic and propaganda that it's descended into farce. Look at this thread. We've now reached the point where the less evidence behind some baseless anti-China claim (an unecrypted file airport_china.txt!!!111!) the more it will be seized upon and quickly up-voted. The people pushing this don't have any integrity at all and if you call out the total lack of integrity they will just take that as further validation of their paranoid fantasies.