skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I just realized it's probably friendlier if I post a direct link to the documentation: https://www.tinydrop.io/documentation/#wind-detection
That's what I'll do, that's what I did on the Wolfenstein book from the same author. My point is not about UX hardness or my expenses or anything like that. My point was: it's crazy there's no better way for me to get a book.pdf, and for him to get my money (a digital download and some row changes in databases).

Can't you just send xyz@gmail.com money on Paypal? At the cut that Amazon takes, if people send him $20, and half the people then "chargeback", and he just automatically sends the money back, he's still way ahead. Obviously the author is a smart guy so it can't be this simple, I'm just wondering.

Sidenote: The fact that "Bitcoin" is not the obvious answer is social/product proof that "Bitcoin" didn't work.
Trying to switch to the functional paradigm
Reading a lot and trying a new programming style! In the beginning it is quite difficult to deal with immutability https://elm-lang.org/.
a: Interesting!

b: Good point, but I just meant quieting the hiss that the author ended up solving with the op-amp circuit, not the 'explosions'.
I only want my team to be composed of those who like to see what's behind the curtain.
I had to dish out for Audioquests Dragonfly red just so I could enjoy my headphones on pc. The audio quality is really good but I can't really endorse that as the general go-to solution since the price is quite steep. Would not go back, though.
>"It is also a fact that after the 9/11 attacks the airline industry nearly collapsed because people were afraid to fly"

No that it is not a "fact." The airline industry in the US was already experiencing financial problems prior to 9/11. There was also a bad recession at that time which translates to lower demand for seats. Additionally all flights were grounded for 2 days after 9/11 resulting in huge financial losses for the airlines. The combination of these things resulted in large layoffs by the airlines, potentially sending the airlines into a death spiral. The industry was then stabilized by a 15 billion aid package from congress. A near collapse was not caused by people being afraid to fly.
I got my start in programming basically via Minecraft. Multiplayer servers taught me DNS, ports, & bash... modding on Mac OSX & configuring a server to work with the same mod (Flan's Mod) taught me basic client-server principles... hell, even Buycraft fuelled my interest in Bitcoin and web development. I don't know if I'd even have been a serious developer at all if it wasn't for Minecraft.

And now kids have access to learning JS directly. This is 100x as powerful as learning how to web inspector pages. I look forward to watching my little cousins surpass me.
And that is why I have a 2FA app for my email.
> Who would possibly want to live in cramped quarters built around rail system when you can live in suburban mansion with basement home theatre system.

Sorry if I sound selfish but it is really scary to think of 1.5 Billion people doing what the 330 million US Americans do.

At some point, I'd argue there is no such thing as sovereignty. I, a neighbor, have a right to not suffocate to death more than you have a right to burn your house to the ground (or I'll take it by force even if I don't have that right).
>> You seem to care a lot that these approaches rely on assumptions, but I find
that silly.

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind.

>> Further in _most_ specific applications of e.g. CNNs for computer vision tasks
or RNNs for time series or sequential prediction tasks, you _do_ control the
entire sampling distribution (e.g. user photos with exactly satisfied
criteria), and you really can fully and unambiguously guarantee that the
training and testing set come from the “true” distribution you care about.

One of my pet peeves is the Deep Gaydar Paper from Stanford
(https://osf.io/zn79k/).

The authors trained a CNN to identify sexuality (gay or straight) from images
of faces. The images were self-submitted to a US dating site and the users
also stated their sexuality. The dataset included different numbers of images
for each user, but of the users that had at least one image in the dataset
(i.e. all users) 50% had stated their sexuality as "gay" and 50% as
"straight"- this, for both men and women. The research concluded that it was
possible to train an image classifier, a CNN, to identify sexuality from
facial features. The authors justified this with a theory about the relation
between the hormonal environment in the womb.

I hold this up as a perfect example of why this assumption, that you can
control the distribution in the real world because you can choose the
attributes of a dataset that you wish to work with, is very risky. And I don't
mean for the social implications of that reprehensible publication. The
researchers chose a uniform distribution for their gay and straight subjects.
The paper itself cites a 7% estimate of the chance that a person is "gay"- so
what, exactly, did their classifier learn to represent? That "gay features"
and "straight features" are equally distributed?

In any case, "fully and unambiguously guarantee" is not something that happens
outside science fiction. Not in machine learning, not in physics or medicine,
not in any subject of knowledge. Guarantees always come with assumptions. If assumptions are violated, or if they were bad assumptions to begin with, guarantees fly out the window in haste.
Disclaimer: not trying to convince you, just sharing an anecdote like you did.

- I agree Apple pricing has gone out of control. I should not have to shell out 1500 EUR for a 256GB phone with a bigger display no matter what (XS Max). I mean okay, it's probably the best phone out there but come on. It's a mobile computing device, not a life's insurance bill.

- I fully agree MacBooks and desktop Macs haven't had good years in a while. IMO the MacBook Pro 2015 15" was Apple's laptop peak. They haven't produced anything worthwhile in the laptop departments ever since.

- Desktop Macs are a horrid mess where greed trumps everything else so much that even I who spent 6 figures on tech during my life cannot justify paying 5000 EUR for an iMac 27" 5K with maxed out specs (i7 CPU, 64GB RAM and 1 or 2TB SSD). Right now your only viable choice for a future-proof machine however is either the iMac 27" or the iMac Pro, and both are expensive as hell.

- macOS version, not sure, I started actively using it only a year or so ago so it feels quite good to me and is tons more predictable than Windows 10. You have to fight with Windows 10 to make it your own and not be barraged with popups. macOS in comparison stays out of the way.

---

To summarize, Apple has peaked, including in the smartphone and tablet departments. Upgrades are very smallish and iterative while the price tags remain huge.

The way I see it, Apple has been coasting for a while. They need to get back on track because inevitably somebody will try and displace them.

(As a random example, Xiaomi phones are probably the best physical designs and software experience I ever had. But I still don't trust Google's binary blobs and the general baseband processor stuff so I stay away from Android.)
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Surrogacy is banned in most of Europe. See eg https://www.euronews.com/2018/09/13/where-in-europe-is-surro... (or just do some Googling).

I don't have too much of an opinion either way, but the Dutch are more consistent than you seem to give them credit for.

(Selling hair is legal though for all I know.)
I'm sure you are aware that your university program in engineering from Caltech is not necessarily broadly representative of all education in the US?

I can remember history, science and math tests from elementary through high school that were nearly 100% memorization. Even the math tests.
How do we calculate land area? Is the area more if there's a hill rather than the place being flat? How do we get accurate land areas?
It might be pirated, but probably not very much. First, a book PDF is probably 100MB or more, so too big to email. Second, it's a niche market, so there probably won't be enough seeders for a decent torrent. Third, it takes some amount of effort to host a copy on the web, and there's very little benefit in doing so.
A modern-day paradigm for computational approaches to psychiatric illness
No, you can't. Can you call any number in the US/Canada for free? No limits.
One of the reasons I prefer function as a service "FaaS" over "serverless" is because of how useful on demand ephemeral functions can be on premises.

The term serverless implies that the main benefit is not having to deal with infrastructure. While that is helpful, setting up a "standard" means of event driven and stateless business logic is useful in its own right.

Can you accomplish that with long running processes? Sure, as long as you are disciplined enough to do so.
For most of my life fusion has been teased but not delivered. fission has been pimped for decades yet cannot get private funding, or build reactors in a decade, or provide solutions for the waste. Yet still the industries persist with their propaganda while renewables beat them in cost and time to operation. If I managed the funds I'd cut nuclear and redirect to wind and solar immediately.
Probably.

I've tried a few different pairs and the pricepoint where sound quality becomes "good enough" seems to be somewhere around ~£35. If you want a microphone too, bump that up to ~£50.

My _purely anecdotal_ experience is that cheaper headphones tend to work well for pop music, likely because their reproduction range is bass heavy. Sadly the moment you want to add podcasts into the mix, the balance is off. Spoken word just sounds stuffy.

When I'm not on the move, you can pry my AKG K270 off my cold, dead hands.
Sometimes I absorb, sometimes I deliver, e.g.,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18380654

You made an assertion, I'm curious how you will back it up, if at all.

The stage is yours.
And yet every time I go to a presentation or a lecture people ask to borrow my MacBook for it because their Windows or Linux laptops can never even connect to their projectors or Bluetooth speakers on the first try. Often they cannot at all connect.

Yet the MacBook connects to everything on the first go with zero fuss.

So yeah, I am calling part of Apple's functions and devices interoperable. Why aren't you? These are observable facts in the wild and it happens every day somewhere around you as well.
It’s amusing to still hear “Apple tax” in 2018, as if there is no additional value in better hardware, software and support for many people’s use cases.
>Sirin Labs, for example, raised $158 million last year to create a mobile phone that allows consumers to trade and use crypto. The company, which will ship its first batch of a few thousand phones in December, is now considering abandoning hardware altogether and refocusing on shipping software for other phone makers to use, Chief Executive Moshe Hogeg said in an interview. Sirin now only has enough funds for six to 12 months of operations, he said.

Uh. Glad this bubble has popped. Of all the things I want in a phone, "trade and use crypto" isn't quite a requirement. Besides existing phones trade and use crypto quite well
A lot of industries still rely on multipart carbon forms. Shipping is a big one.
Value your assets in fiat and you've already lost.
Classic combination - BBC Micro and MX-80.

Seems you were hacking yours differently to what I was doing. I acquired some army headed letter (UK), or rather 'stole'. With it I forged a letter with my MX-80 to trick a friend's parent to pop into the army recruitment centre.

This friend's parent had skived off National Service many aeons ago and I pranked him into going back to account for himself. The letter 'had to be legit' because it wasn't hand typed. So easily fooled. The things you do as a small child that you would never do as an adult.
Its not an issue on Android devices as well, I've no idea whats broken on OP's setup.
Case Shiller index is the highest on record at the moment https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/csushpinsa
How the last schematic works ? What is the purpose of 100 ohms resistor and diode in series for ?
>"Looking at the comments here so far, it is, as ever, the never-ending debate as to whether climate change is real or not."

I have still never seen a single person argue that "climate change is not real", definitely don't see that in this thread.
Because the Dutch minister of internal affairs admitted as much (PDF in Dutch, see answer #2) [1]

[1] https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/binaries/rijksoverheid/document...
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Smart and biased.

Drinking the Apple hate juice in particular.

I envy the people who have the free time to tinker but what they keep forgetting, time and time again, is that they are the minority. Many people have happy family lives and prefer to spend most of their leisure time with people -- or non-tech hobbies. I do enough programming already, thank you.

(EDIT to add: and not everybody is in perfect health shape as well, so they use their free time to recharge -- not to work some more. Stress and overworking come with an army of health issues. Climbing a hill with a 50kg backpack, to give an analogy, is not as easy as it looks like from the side.)

I respect smart hardware technicians but he lost me as an audience with his Apple hate.
Show HN: Run your unit tests with Maven directly on AWS Lambda
I have started this open source project to explore how much AWS Lambda serverless technology can help us test software. I'm looking for other serverless early adopters who would like to test and contribute.

https://github.com/automatictester/lambda-test-runner
I would like to see WikiStyle links to other notes
This is why SEC Reg D exists and is important.

Most of the money wiped out during the last few years is not coming from wealthy “smart money” investors.

The money has come from the middle class and mom and pop investors.
If it's put on KDP and using their print on demand, it works approximately as follows:

The cost of the printing of the book is subtracted.

You then get 60% of what is left.

The only way amazon's percentage will reduce below 40% is if you print the book through another source and sell it on Amazon as a platform. Then you're going to need to manage inventory.

Source: editing, typesetting and researching self-publishing for a friend who's going through this process right now.
I don't have this issue on my Android phone (G5+) but I did have a very similar issue on my laptop (XPS 9350) where there was lots of line noise whenever the power management turned off the audio chipset.

So I wonder if it's something with this specific phone?
You gotta stop selectively enforcing moderation. The person who said China has concentration camps and is now somehow racist isn’t being inflammatory? A few threads back when the Christian missionary got killed by the natives the entire comment section was a leftist circlejerk. The flamewar was already burning when I got here, and there is no discussion. I guess I shouldn’t start dropping out shitposts but I don’t feel particularly bad when the entire comment section is already beyond saving. I shall refrain in the future and just flag instead.
More people -> more people exposed to heatwaves. It is a flawed metric to use for assessing an effect of climate change.
Elite tastes: depressing entertainment, schmaltzy science
How's chain.com doing? Anyone use their APIs?
Yeah, I took your comment to mean something like "2008 wasn't normal. But imagine a "normal" price in 2008, and how it would have risen normally over ten years. Then maybe it would reach the actual 2008 price, which is about what we have in 2018."

Not sure if that's correct, but sounds plausible.
I'm a big fan of lots of her work. Beautifully written, fun, engrossing.
I like a text adventure game but sometimes the puzzles seem were so obtuse. They seen to gave gotten better lately (being able to look up stuff on the internet helps..)

I always think of old man murrays rant on a "gabriel knight" puzzle, and wonder who has the patience to figure these things out: (the puzzle involves spraying a cat with water and using tape to collect fur and maple syrup as an adhesive..)

"
Gabriel Knight must disguise himself as a man called Mosley in order to fool a French moped rental clerk into renting him the shop's only motorcycle.

In order to construct the costume, Gabriel Knight must manufacture a fake moustache. ... Knight must do this even though Moseley does not have a moustache.

"

http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/78.html

http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/79.html
> I'm not saying open source is bad and everyone should prefer free software.

Why not?
Four times as many people experience heat waves in a period where the population increased by ~20%. You don’t find that problematic?
Are the security and privacy properties of Qbix dependent on Javascript cryptography? How do you handle JS package dependency and integrity management?
my point in short is we don't have time for this right now. we need to de-carbonize our energy system a decade ago. this tech. is not operational and will take a decade to be so - that's not time we have to avoid catastrophic climate destabilization.
~20% more people, ~300% more people exposed to heatwaves. This change is clearly not due to population growth.
We definitely need at least four train tracks for mass transit to work. Two tracks each way: one express and one local.

What I don't understand is why do autonomous self driving cars and subways have to be either or. Why can't we do both? After all, we can't use the subway for ambulances and fire trucks so we still need to build some kind of roads even if we had full confidence in the subways...

Just thinking out loud... Unless we had helicopters for emergencies?

Can we have a town with no paved road? Only sidewalks? That's still paved, right? Can trash collection also take the subway?
That's bunch of balony. I have two children who are polar opposite in behaviour. How do you account for that?
A dongle is ~10$ and you can pick one up anywhere. This horrible contraption he had to build just to enjoy music costs way more in time & money.
Actually once you know all the details of how form affects the fruition of function, then even aesthetics are just a matter of incapsulating that knowledge into the product.

The emotional result of perceiving the designed object, is still inside the realm of its function.
Thanks for this book tip!

Furthermore, this book was also discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18331219
(1978) should be added to the title--it's a transcription of a talk from APL78.
I was replying to a specific list of problems:

> usually people spend their time with having DNS not working, having servers hanging, having etcd nodes not talking to each other without explaining why, having deployments say "SUCCESS" while actually not running

I'm not saying k8s is free of problems.
I almost never discuss anything important with people outside of extremely close and likeminded friends because of the current political climate. I worry about being ostracized/alienated by them for not believing in the same things as them, so it's not at all worth the risk to actually discuss anything meaningful with them if the outcome might be permanently destroying our relationship.
No one's gonna mention Bloackberry 10? In my opinion it was years ahead of the competition with its gesture based UI and Hub. Also, it felt like something that was truly different from the ios and android phones everywhere.
Lets say you want to implement this element:

<ProductPicker />

You can implement it as a React component in which case it only works in React applications, and will be brittle because of the global nature of js and css.

You can implement the same element as a Web Component and now it will work in any application regardless of framework... you can just drop in and it will work. If your application has conflicting css classes or element ids or javascript variables the Web Component will still work reliably. That’s hot! React components will feel a bit cold as cross-framework Web Components take over.
Do you have some data to support this?
I see this a lot with Linux and non-stock-Android users.
Having it be DRM-free means he doesn't have to mess around with every store under the sun. I'm not a Google Play user normally, but this lets me purchase it through the web interface, download the PDF, and then read it however I want. For his book on Wolfenstein, I did just that by reading it in Apple Books on my iPad.
Boiler room operators have traditionally not called the investment heads of major banks and pension funds.

Less evidence and more historical precedent

(Having said that, I would love to hear a recording of any such calls.)
> If I managed the funds I'd cut nuclear and redirect to wind and solar immediately.

To make those a reasonable base you need to add enough storage to keep everything working even when your current weather does not meet the energy demand. I think setting up that storage is currently going to be the biggest cost factor.
Worth noting that the principle of "a package can only access the dependencies it declared" is already something that we (Yarn) are pushing through Plug'n'Play.

We're not focused on security (yet), but any help we can get to move the ecosystem towards a stricter model will help you in the long term (by ensuring that common tools will be compatible with the even stricter model you're advocating).

[1] https://github.com/yarnpkg/rfcs/pull/101
Earstudio bluetooth DAC by Radsone would solve all his problems. Check em out they are neat.
Employer sponsored life insurance is a little bit of a different beast, I think.

And it wouldn’t make sense to buy life insurance to go to a non-dependent. You’d statistically be better off just paying them the premiums.
It's true that the original non-recursive definition of Y doesn't typecheck in Haskell:

Prelude> \f->(\x->f(x x))(\x->f(x x))

<interactive>:5:14:
Occurs check: cannot construct the infinite type: r0 ~ r0 -> t
...
I've got three cats, one little girl with a violent past, I was sure several times that she would kill herself in various ways (including having 7 Kittens at 5 months old). 18 years later her every single day has been complete indulgence and she expects it! She changed from being an indoor cat 2 years ago into 'bush girl' and she's never looked better. The point being, as long as your cat is super happy. Enough.
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Funny how companies can go bust after getting millions from these token sales. Quite clearly they weren't on Ramen Noodle start up mode. Okay offices need to be paid for as do staff but it is not like they had to buy raw materials, build steel foundries, invest in a distribution chain or anything else capital intensive.

If they had been promising to make regular products and didn't ship then there would be front page scandals and outrage on consumer rights TV shows. But nobody cares, cryptocurrency has become a dirty word, normal people reading cryptocurrency stories don't get past the headline as they know the story already.

It will probably take a few years before documentary film makers make sense of the shenanigans that has gone on. There are no good stories though, at least with the dot.com crash you could tell the story through the lens of a company that was there at the time for it to have storytelling value. Shame Tom Wolfe is no longer with us, the crypto experiment needs someone of his character to do the story justice.
Do you have any stats to back this up. While it seems like there is a boat load of stupid money washing around when you look at studies of coin distribution they tell another story.
Stats on this kind of thing are certainly difficult.
What if the med diet effect is from something like fasting?
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They may have to rename the browser again.