skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A single prediction being wrong does not mean the concept is wrong. Especially a single prediction that was not based on evidence and that the scientific community said was nonsense. Al Gore said there would be no snow on any mountains by 2012. Since that was wrong, climate change is debunked right? Science is all wrong because one guy said something dumb one time!

Technology can not magic you up some more land. The earth is finite. When people say "technology will save us" they actually mean one of two things. Either "I don't want to think about this so star trek will come true!" or "we can develop the technology to completely eliminate all non-human life on earth and live in pods being fed an industrial slurry that has the highest % return of solar energy to chemical energy so stop worrying!". Both are dumb. Our standard of living is already going down. It does not make sense to choose to have more people living worse lives rather than fewer people living better lives. There is no benefit to increasing our population.
Discussion from 3 months ago (291 points, 166 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17546207

Link to paper:

http://www.pnas.org/content/115/31/7925
Getting Started with Fastai Deep Learning Framework
MapleChange Hack Is a Reminder to Get Your Cryptocurrencies Off Exchanges
> Interestingly enough, I almost completely ignore the gamer side of reddit.

Same. I'm a frequent reddit user and have almost no exposure to the "gamer" bits. Reddit, in my experience, is exactly what you make of it. For me, it's a DIY and craft forum.
Just watched the video, but is it correct to assume the inputs to this are:

- Manually specifying layers in the image by depth.

- Manually specifying all the objects you'd want to animate.

- Providing an animation direction and type.

Then it generates an animation?
And maybe also that Redis Search etc were AGPL licensed, but then re-licensed under Apache + Commons Clause, that is, became no-longer-open-source.

... and apparently this mattered a lot to some people / organizations — they forked those Redis modules: https://goodformcode.com
Well I just built a 4 node array of Raspberry Pis... so eat your heart out Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Berkshire's new fintech investments fit into a classic Buffett strategy
KitSplit co-founder is HN user (kenamarit): https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kenamarit

They may care to weigh in.
Sounds good but is this different from a site that does product reviews? Amazon does shipping and customer support which is hard and the only difference between quality store and quality reviews site seem to be one click more when buying.
More of an online service, though.
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The Attack on Gab
While there are some valid concerns in the article, it mostly is just a rant against SPAs, which seem to be unfamiliar and subjectively disliked by the author.

As with stacks, this is highly team-dependent. I for one do not crave for the time of constant back and forth between backend-frontend mindsets and stack lock-in because of rigid query/rendering requirements. This may not work for the author's team of mostly "backend-mindend" devs who wish for more control over output, but is much preferred for a more diverse set of members (or especially departments).
I suspect it's a scare to then do something less severe but legally feasible, like restricting green cards or change visa policy.

Going from birthright to lineage is such a radical legal change that it might be unfeasible even if there were great popular support for it.
There's lots of great stuff for embedded in Rust now too, you can no_std and use core, the new panic stuff. IMO it's awesome to write a language and do some more 'advanced' type stuff like add compile time safety with phantom types and stuff have it compile and run on an embedded device. The interesection of features there is great.
"I like their early stuff, before, you know, they sold out."
How were these working copies made?

The article makes it seem like there's some "copy" operation you can apply to the reference artifact, but that seems absurd...

I Googled "working standard kilogram" (no quotes), in case I'd find some article, and I did find only this:

https://www.technology.matthey.com/article/17/2/66-68/

I don't really get a sense after reading, of how these things are used to make more of them.
Screen time tied to lower psychological well-being among children
Fusion 360 has a license like that - free for personal use, but you have to pay if you use it to make anything you sell.
I already know this one will end up in court, thank god for the ACLU.
Designing products for users around the world
Fun project, but C++ sure is getting more ugly and arcane by the day. I think it's time it went away. I have great love for C but C++ has just always turned me off.
> That won't do anything. CO2 is not the problem, too many people is.

CO2 is a problem.

This year's Nobel prize in economics was awarded to Bill Nordhaus [1] for figuring out the economic impact of carbon based emissions. He, along with many climate scientists and economists, think that this is the most market-aligned way to reduce the impact of climate change.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Nordhaus#Nobel_Memoria...
I'm glad we have SCOTUS available to smack down POTUS idiocy when necessary.
It depends on the context. Personally, the trigger points are:

- ever evolving problem domain research manifesting as architectural doubt

- underspecification

- unforeseen integration issues with host API or environment (pattern collision, resource collision)

- F.O.M.O i.e. ego corrupted view of the problem

- cognitive fatigue

I’m sure the list is as endless and diverse as the people who make software...
Clion?
So children of diplomats, tourists, illegal aliens born in the USA are citizens of the United States now?
>Guns are not all advantages in real world situation.

I wish I could explain how ridiculous it is to remove an option from yourself before a situation arises... but if you don’t already understand that, how could I explain it?

I also think having a fire extinguisher and jumper cables / jump box is a disadvantage in your bizarro scenario where “you might shoot yourself” comes up.

It’s a little funny low obviously little experience you have with firearms - but absolutely trust agents of your government who have maybe 2-3 weeks training once during accedemy with them. Those agents are the ones not coming to help though.
I would assume you just make an object that will be the working copy, and align it's weight with that of the standard.
It already becomes my option. Though I am still open with any opportunity, i am thinking about focusing more in cs problem, considering master in cs. I saw right now, it is much more interesting and has higher leverage. But will see that later.
What? This was done overwhelmingly by very poor people in an effort to make themselves slightly less poor. How do you figure they didn't consent?
Somewhere (possibly Reddit?) I learned about the unlabeled mute button for gas station TV ads. For certain pumps there are two rows of five or six unlabeled white buttons on the left and right of the screen - pressing the second button from the top on the right hand side of the screen mutes the blaring advertisement for me about 50% of the time. The times it works is pure bliss. YMMV but it's worth a try.
I'm perennially confused by the opinions expressed on HN and this is is no exception; the range alone is quite amazing.

I am with you.

I think advertisers —and the people implementing their work— are a net bad, at all ages. They are actively and openly trying to force influence on people to get them to spend money. Why would you want that for yourself, let alone your kids?

"But they'll never learn!" - the hell they wont. You don't need to cut your leg off to know it'll hurt. Talking about this stuff, as you have, is the perfect way to expose them to what's actually going on. The unfettered "Let them learn their own way" nonsense doesn't do it justice.

"My kids are fine!" is an anecdote, not an argument. How about one of the dozens of reviews of the impacts of junk food advertising on diet, spurring record rates of childhood obesity? https://www.apa.org/topics/kids-media/food.aspx

I don't get it. Your right to hold your own opinion is an important thing. Letting people (and now AI) openly influence you is a stupid decision. Letting them do the same to your children is much worse.

And what I originally came here to say was that I applaud you getting your kids on real computers. The education system —in general— has given up on educating computing because "kids know how to use everything". 20 years ago, we were taught how to use office productivity apps (eg MS Office), mostly worked into other lessons as part of the (eg) data collection (eg Bio, Geography).

Ask today's school leavers to make you a pivot table.

Edit: The only place I might deviate from you is internet access. I've got a few years before self-learning is a thing for my children, but when they're ready, I'll be more than happy to give them access to Wikipedia and other sanitised (read: ad free, "people aren't the product") learning resources.
Not having children will have a bigger impact.

A plant based diet is moderately low down this list (again from the Guardian, they could try to be a bit more consistent).

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-...
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How do biped robots walk?
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It's also that fake reviewers probably don't try to game 3rd party sites rating systems. It seems plausible that if you implemented the same algo that some spotting-fake-reviews site uses on Amazon, sellers would quickly find a way around it.
"It’s not just powerful, it has a stunning memory. There’s enough storage space to hold every written work of humanity, in all languages – twice."

I really wish they just said it has XX TB of memory

Maybe I'm grossly underestimating how much data all human written works would actually occupy... but that sounds like the amount of data I could put on a home NAS (frankly I would have guessed my laptop hard drive until reading that comparison).
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There are two issues. First, naming is confusing, as you said, and wording implies "<open source license> + something more" instead of "<open source license> but with more restrictions". Second, some open-source projects choosing the Commons Clause still say they are FOSS. Choosing Commons Clause is your choice, lying to your users is different.
Yes - just like they've always been.
Perhaps not saving cookies is something bots tend to do, hence the number of attempts...
A look at Web Components
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I am a Spark data engineer and spend a lot of time in Scala / Python IDEs & browser notebooks. Databricks lets you package code as JAR / wheel files & attach the binaries to the cluster. I write all the complicated code in tested projects that are checked into GitHub & use the notebooks to invoke the functions and visualize results.

Folks that try to do all programming in notebooks typically drown in complexity and suffer.
> The whales they research aren't endangered.

Does it really matter? Number of countries agree not to whale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling#International_Whaling_...) and Japan is OK to do that?

> Also, other nations and people hunt whales.

Other people kill people as well. Should I be afraid of you?
I think that since we're all IT people here that stare at screens 8 hours a day that it's fine.

Not saying kids should do it, but screens being unhealthy to the eyes is not one of them, it's a social problem.
Apple Finally Updates MacBook Air with Retina Display, Touch ID
Build portable PEX from Python script
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Hey Folks!

We tried to capture our experience in developing a VSCode extension. This was our first attempt, so any feedback is very much appreciated. Thank you all!
That's surprising because I have the opposite experience! Since my first cell is to import all of the libraries I want to use to memory, the intellisense works without fail, regardless of how big the libraries are. Comparing that with my VS Code experience where using intellisense to pull up functions' doc strings takes an age for all but the inbuilt Python libraries.
Mass tourism is being treated as unique when really, we're discovering that everyone cannot have a "good" standard of living.

We can't all go travelling, we won't fit in the same place and we'll boil the earth doing so.

We can't all have a car because we'll boil the earth. If we develop EV's and don't boil the earth, they won't all fit downtown.

We can't all live in the country, that's not sustainable either.

We can't all eat high quality meat as often as we want. We'll boil the earth and it'll require too much farmland, anyway.

I could go on.

We either eliminate these experiences, accept economic inequality, or watch the experiences be eliminated via attrition (e.g. cars devolving into gridlock, tourism devolving into queues and displacement, ...).

I find this to be an odd aspect of certain political movements at the moment - unwilling to accept that the Universe _is_ actually a big competition, and either some people lose, or we all lose.

It sucks. But what's the alternative?

It's perfectly reasonable to drag people out of poverty.

But the idea that everyone should be able to do the same things implies a set of "things" very different from what, say, the middle class families on my suburban street do today.
How is this specific thing "very bad for the majority of human kind"?

It's very bad for rhinos and tigers, for sure.
It seems to depend on what you’re doing.

Python definitely has more mindshare for machine learning, and particularly deep learning. However, that’s not all of statistics. For things like mixed-effects modeling, I think R still has a clear lead. There are some python packages (e.g., statsmodels) but R’s lme4 has more features, like custom covariance structures, and virtually every textbook and tutorial currently uses R. I’m actually not sure if I’ve ever actually encountered statsmodels in the wild. PyMCMC is relatively popular, but I think bugs/jags are also more common.
Where is the logic in your statement? That makes absolutely no sense. You honestly think the world can support the same number of humans as it can chickens? And even if it did, do you want to live the way those chickens live?
That's a pretty condescending cliché, in my opinion and experience.

Personally, I've never heard a parent say anything like that about their kid and my own kids were nowhere near that advanced at that age.

Every (15-20 at the last kids birthday party I attended) parent I know give pretty realistic accounts of their child's development and are pretty humble about their own deficiencies or challenges as parents.
I still have my university-library-xeroxed pages from Expert C Programming from 20 years ago... Seems like I got lucky since it was the second and only other C book I ever read on C, apart from K&R of course...
Open-source doesn't necessarily imply everything that the FOSS and GPL folks think it does outside of their semantic bubble. It's one of those bastardized terms that has become so mangled and situationally-dependent as to be almost meaningless.

For a significant number of people "open-source" just means, "I found this on GitHub"
Here’s a cool example of secret sharing from the paper[1]:

> App store. A mobile application platform (e.g., Apple’s
App Store or Google’s Play) can run one Prio server, and
the developer of a mobile app can run the second Prio
server. This allows the app developer to collect aggregate
user data without having to bear the risks of holding these
data in the clear.

However I would like to know why Firefox doesn’t want to just adapt RAPPOR instead. It seems like a better fit for general telemetry, and it’s already used by Chromium.

I guess you can intersect and union Prio datasets in ways you can’t with RAPPOR?

[1] https://crypto.stanford.edu/prio/paper.pdf
9000 porn sites? I can understand that if his job involved researching porn. Otherwise, who has time to visit that many websites at their job? Where does he find the time to do actual work with his busy porn-viewing schedule?

And most importantly, why is there no mention of termination of employment? How can someone spend all day at work browsing porn and jeopardize the network with malware/viruses and still be employed?
You are trading your safety for mine. You are lying to yourself if you think all scooter operators will be like you, and slow to walking pace when they go around pedestrians. I literally have 500+ data points, and I've seen it like 1 or 2 times. And then, it was only because there wasn't a straight line through the pedestrians because there was a crowd of them.
depends on the marketing. Death rate for driving is worse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...

And a lot of people still drive
How do they align its weight?
That's a fantastic album. I can't really understand the lyrics to most black metal songs, even if they speak English, so I always listen to them as if it were classical music or a video game soundtrack, and just enjoy the highs and lows.
You're not the first person to try this, good luck.
Having looked into compensation law in the US, my understanding (I’m not a lawyer but play one on HN) is that housing accommodations are generally considered taxable income. However, the way you’re describing it means it could work. They would need to live in your house, and also work in your house with you. They would accept that arrangement in your hiring docs. You would need to be able to demonstrate benefit by having them live on the property.

I think this gets tricky if you live and work in two different areas, so it’s probably best suited for remote work or new projects.
This view of things doesnt take into account that an absurdly higher number of people can travel and see multiple countries in their life, which was impossible 50 years ago.

It is absolutely possible for every earth citizen to become a tourist, there is no economic impediment to do it.
I didn’t make the claim that population is the biggest problem. I responded to the incorrect suggestion that population size is not a problem (which you repeat without offering any evidence that we could sustain ourselves). Growth is by no means a “solved” problem. Growth is expected to slow, but even at our current population size we are consuming an unsustainable amount of resources. And growth will slow as a result of increased wealth > higher consumption. Given that we live within the finite ecosystem of of our planet, this means we need to make significant changes and we need to make them now.
...seriously? This has been best practice in government and enterprise for about as long as i can remember.
Wow, that is a very powerful use of language here.
> I do, however, think they generally scale (developer-scale, not performance-scale) better than any multi-page system I've ever worked on.

I've never understood this opinion. To me it seems like you're forcing such complexity that you _need_ focused developers. That by definition scales far worse than having all cross functional team of developers that can work on the view layer and the data layer (by virtue of the view layer being easy enough all developers can understand it).

It's touted quite frequently ime that it's better to have front-end engineers and back-end engineers and that to me just feels flat on its face wrong.

I'm not claiming there are no benefits to SPAs, of course. I'm just saying I don't understand the opinion that claims it scales better with development cycles.
> What can we do to change this?

Get people out of poverty. Educate people.
https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_...
Honestly no it wouldn't suck and from a end user perspective for a calendar. It is actually far superior. Granted this is only my personal opinion. There seems to be this desire to overcomplicate the front end when simple solutions work quite well. Granted they don't have all the catchy buzzwords. But they make for a better less bug filled solution.
> I've got to say, you're using a pretty wild definition of the word "abuse", as well as "hurting other people". How in the world does an ad hurt you?

So, I realize this is a minority opinion, but this is close to how I feel, especially with respect to exposing my children to advertising.

Advertising is almost always an attempt to emotionally manipulate people by lying to them. There are some exceptions, like a catalog that lists objective descriptions and prices. But virtually everything else falls under that description.

Humans have the capability of reason, even though they're emotional naturally. Children, by definition, are still learning to use reason and logic and building effective habits. To expose children to a world of very smart adults trying to undermine their ability to reason or make good choices really is an act of aggression against children.

Abuse is probably too strong, but it's definitely an aggression.
"Also, other nations and people hunt whales."

A grand total of ...two. And not at the scale of the Japanese. Iceland even exports whale meat to the Japanese because they don't eat enough of it. To top it off, Japan has to subsidize the "industry" (quotes used because Japan claims it's for research) because it's unprofitable.

Sources:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21729043-000-taxpayer...

https://www.ifaw.org/united-states/our-work/whales/which-cou...

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151203-why-do-some-countrie...
So in essence, styling a component with em can reduce reusability of components more and more as em gets introduced in various places?
The new Mac Mini is up to 5 times faster
Choose not to have (biological) children.
I remember playing boatloads of old-school Flash games in the mid-2000s. Never saw a single ad in-game. When Jobs wrote his "On Flash" open letter, I thought at the time he was pushing for a mobile-friendly equivalent of what Flash offered. It was years later I realized he was really only pushing to keep the walled garden "app store" the dominant distribution model for interactive mobile content, with Apple taking a cut of every dollar spent.

I really hope HTML5 games sitting on simple websites go back to being a thing.
Autonomous Vehicle Hype Is Overblown
I'm privileged to be an early-science user of Sierra (and Lassen) to pursue lattice QCD calculations while the machine is still in commissioning and acceptance. It's completely absurd. A calculation that took about a year on Titan last year we reproduced and blew past with a week on Sierra.
I'm definitely well in the R camp but keep feeling this nagging pull from Python. Especially for trading...it would be so nice to have a language for both research and production, as right now I translate all my research into scala for production.
This specific thing isn't, just taken against the broader backdrop of similar events and trends.
Shielded VMs
The justified text on this page makes it so hard to read on mobile.
Another link that had comments on it:
https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/33115
Apple collector and commentator Stephen Hackett has a video [0] opening a mint Pippin. He also has a succinct article on the history and hardware of the Pippin [1].

[0] - https://youtu.be/y9pwX-j6dfw

[1] - https://512pixels.net/2012/11/pippin/
Underarm odor is largely determined by bacterial breakdown products of fatty acids, steroids, and other aliphatics into odorous compounds such as smaller-chain acids. Urea plays no role that I know of.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochemistry_of_body_odor