skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taken and adapted from my comment on this thread also about books read in 2018:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18661546

1. "How to Measure Anything" (Douglas Hubbard)

Presents a few simple techniques (confidence intervals, Monte Carlo simulations, regression analysis, Bayes, etc) to help with decision-making. E.g., should we build this feature or spend the same money on marketing?

Many other books explain how our thinking can be flawed (Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow", Ralf Dobelli's "The Art of Thinking Clearly"), but this book gives you some actual real-world mathematical tools to avoid flawed thinking.

2. "Why We Sleep" (Matthew Walker)

As I read this book I kept thinking about all the people I knew who would benefit from it: family and friends, managers, colleagues…

With references to studies, the book explains the different factors that influence sleep, what your body does during sleep and the different phases of sleep, how your body—mostly the brain—benefits, etc.

For days after reading it I kept telling friends about things I'd learnt from it. One of my favourite was how certain types of bird are able to sleep: they line themselves up in a row, with the birds on each end putting only half their brain to sleep. This way they can keep one of their eyes open—the one furthest to the end—so they can keep watch. Then after a while the birds on the end will turn around and sleep the other side of their brain.

Fascinating!

3. "Superforecasting" (Philip Tetlock)

Tetlock explains his work on the "Good Judgment Project" which is a kind of experiment he's been running for a few years, getting people to sign up and provide regular predictions for different questions (e.g., "Will the South African Government grant the Dalai Lama a visa within six months?")

He explains what the best predictors (superforecasters) do, and how collaborations between predictors can do better than individuals (and even better than wisdom of the crowds).

Favourite quote: "[The data] revealed an inverse correlation between fame and accuracy: the more famous an expert was, the less accurate he was."

4. "Shoe Dog" (Phil Knight)

The story of Nike, told by the founder. I honestly don't care about Nike but that's not the takeaway—it's not about shoes or T-shirts or Michael Jordan. It's about a guy trying to keep a business alive: almost from day one there no let-up, the company is continually under threat.

Also the early employees are a really fun bunch.
Your comment makes no sense. First you acknowledge that everyone does it, but then you assert that the article is "rich in hysteria".

So, which one is which?

If anything, the article makes it quite clear that the US feels threatened by China, and Huawei is used to inplement a strategy of global domination that actually poses a real and credible threat to the US's dominance, to the point that the article quite literally addresses that concern. That isn't the case with "UK, Korea, Japan, Rusia, France, Germany, etc.", isn't it?
> inflation over the last 100 years prior to the US coming off the gold standard. There was basically none, but it has since sky rocketed.

Sure, but I don't think that the high inflation between 1934 and 1976 can be used to judge the current system with an independent central bank and an explicit 2% inflation target.

> I did a quick google and found this right at the top: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-02/the-consu...

The proposed measure merely claims to be faster to respond to changes in prices. Note how the new measure is lower than CPI during the crisis, but higher elsewhere. In the long term they should be the same. So I don't think that this suggests that inflation is being systematically underestimated.
My memory tricked me. You are correct. I'm sorry.
The terrible thing about the C++ and Rust solutions is that one needs to understand many idioms and quirky syntax choices in order to comprehend what's going on.

In Python it's blindingly obvious what is happening: one is creating a group of 3 values, where the values are in specific ranges if a certain condition is met. Itertools.count() is perhaps opaque, but otherwise this is literally how the code reads!

Rust is already going into the weeds after the first '=' with its flat_maps and (1..) = c, whatever the heck that means and the C++ code is not even worth talking about.

Performance is not an excuse, since loops can solve this with good performance and probably the best readability.
Could've been written about the con in general. I recently read a book about this called The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It Every Time by Maria Konnikova [1]. I can highly recommend it.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25387895-the-confidence-...
This is about disputed copyright claims, not all videos. Besides, most of these copyright holders probably file hundreds of automated claims (from examples in the thread: chiptune samples, royalty free drum loops, presidential speeches, CC licensed music). If it's obvious that it isn't copyrighted, YouTube can remove the fingerprint from the Content ID system and force the supposed copyright holder to issue a DMCA notice, which is much easier to dispute and works in favour of the uploader.
Somewhat unrelated - ArtStation has a browser extension that randomly opens a random artwork every time you open a new tab, and I highly recommend it, it's one of my favorite extensions and a great way to see some stunning artworks, it always brightens my day.

On topic - dumb decision, nothing new, not very surprising, waiting for PWAs to get to a point where arbitrary Apple/Google rules don't matter anymore.
The big attraction of Juul is delivering cannabinols via vaping.

That is why Phillip Morris (aka Altria) put 18 billion into it.

They plan to combine Juul their vape acquisition and Cronos their cannabis acquisition.

Big cannabis is coming and will dwarf big tobacco...
Hopefully project Amber will arrive soon.

https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~briangoetz/amber/pattern-match....
After reading Bad Blood, the exposure had almost failed was it not for Carreyrou's enduring persistence. He met both internal and external pressure to call off his investigation. Not every journalist is cut for that kind of pressure.
Most workplaces operate on a high amount of trust though, especially in Western Europe. If you’ve achieved star-reporter status at der Spiegel, as such that you’re sent 3 weeks to America to do investigative journalism, it goes to reason, that you also meet a high amount of trust. So I think it’s easy to see how the editorial staff might have missed the problem.

I work in the public sector of Scandinavia, we do a lot of internal reviewing of employee behaviour. When things go wrong, it’s possible to steal 111 million danish kroner after all[0]. Despite our best efforts, things still do go wrong though, and that’s because, even in the heart of bureaucracy, we still rely on trust, and when people intentionally abuse it, shit happens.

It’s unfortunate, but things aren’t perfect. Everyone is pressed for financial resources and then everything from financial security to editorial journalism becomes patch-work “good enough” type systems. Because the perfect system simply doesn’t exist. One of my user accounts has a lot of privileges for instance, more than it rightly should. It’s like that because I need access to so many different things, that our IT-department would need a half-time hire if they were to keep my user rights for our 500 different IT systems up to speed. It’s an imperfect solution that only works as long as I don’t misbehave, and while we do a lot of internal reviewing, the truth is I could abuse those rights.

At least Der Spiegel fired the fraudster when they found out.

[0] https://www.information.dk/debat/2018/10/111-millioner-krone...
Investing applies to everyone, in all walks of life, is is the sole reason the 1% exists - the wealth is built up through investments and passed down through the family tree.

No one is saying don't invest.
i watched the video and it was fine and has lots of views and plenty of comments that understand the dark humor without going off the rails on outrage.

none of the videos have n-word in the title, are you making that up? did you read about how that channel is verified by youtube itself?

now youre calling it terrorism? slow down there. i think you should learn to take a joke like the rest of the world. if everyone else can figure it out then maybe its you that has an extreme problem with it?
They better take down every camera app and internet browser app.
Google and Github both built their U2F support for Firefox before WebAuthn was released, and as you've pointed out, the U2F support in Firefox is gated out by default. Presumably Google, Github, and other companies that coded to U2F will migrate to WebAuthn eventually.
Deviant Ollam seriously needs an award.
It is almost comical. But it seems to be working, since it got a lot of attention. I should call my latest paper about finding integer solutions to LP relaxations something with quantum.

I agree that the crucial property of quantum systems is interference, specifically "negative probabilities". Just having a dead/alive ambiguity does not make "wavefunction collapse" a reasonable name.
Yes, but in this case the algorithm would need to figure out the constraints from preexisting examples and so would you not need to program complex constraints rules with probabilities by hand?
1. Operating systems : three easy pieces

2. Computer network a top down approach

3. Electric Machinery Fundamentals

Each book teaches what the book is intended to and in a really comprehensive manner.
that you can do crazy stuff for 5 bucks that didnt get stopped all by the services he tried and the people he hired
A few points:

If you don't want to deal with begin/end, there are lots of utility libraries, and there's not much reason to standardize it. For example, here is Google's wrapper library (disclosure: my employer) that takes "just the container": https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/master/absl/algori...

Regarding your edit: it's pretty simple in c++ to alias namespaces as needed for your project. The standards committee is working with a big install base, and they have a few hard requirements. They don't break the ABI. They try not to break calling code in other ways. (Adding overloads while client code passes around pointers to your functions can have surprising effects - perhaps causing their code to stop compiling? Pretty sure one of abseil's requests is that clients don't take addresses of their functions for this reason

Stack overflow on taking addresses of overloaded functions: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2942426/how-do-i-specify...

Abseil compat guidelines: https://abseil.io/about/compatibility)
Strange argument. What is this 'big powerful Outside of your control'?
One requires a mobile phone to function (and continue functioning), whereas the physical token only needs itself.
Your welcome :)

It’s a nice board for sure (I have a few). I personally use a more powerful desktop setup with a few nvidia 1080ti cards, mounted in a trunk of a 2017 Honda. The tx2 is definitely a good platform for a powerful RC car setup or similar, especially with the discount. When it comes down to it, during the dev/learning cycle, any general setup will do.
Most annoying: AWS doesn't support two devices...

How to fix it? Create two accounts -_-.

LastPass and bitcoin.de also don't support multiple devices.
> Instagram is rated T for teen

Because people in barely any clothing are never sexually suggestive? Ah, sorry, the word is gratifying.
I don't think they'll want to, if they're ad supported. Adblockers don't run on native apps, and in general apps have better access to relevant ad sell info. A lot of ad supported companies are giving up on the web.
I feel like The Blub Paradox should be the mandatory read here
http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
Based on Betteridge's law, I would say “no”. At least not reliably.
Thank you very much for your suggestions. They are helpful.

By the way, they don't offer more benefits. When I asked them if they do, they replied with some crap on how they are a big company and some more bullshit which did not make much sense.

I will follow your advice, thank you.
Tumblr was sharing images of child sexual abuse, not just regular porn. It's only when they discovered the images of child sexual abuse that they took action. They'd left user generated porn content alone for many years.

That's not "puritan idiots", that's people who are aware of the harm caused by the distribution of images of child sexual abuse to the survivors of that abuse and to their business from law enforcement activity.
> What's the consensus view of homeopathy scholars on the efficacy of homeopathic "medicine"?

Near East historians have an agenda? News to me. What’s the proportion of Christians versus non‐Christians in that field?

Even if that group is replete with biased theists (something you seem to be suggesting but haven’t presented any evidence for), surely there is some scholarly group whose views on historical science you can agree would be worth listening to. So what’s their consensus on the historicity of Jesus?
- "Rationality: From AI to Zombies" - probably the most influential book I've read in my life, profoundly changed the way I think. It's a collection of LessWrong essays on science and rationality.

- "On Intelligence" and "I am a Strange Loop" - how mind works.

- "Rework", "Zero to One", "Start Small, Stay Small" - insightful startup advice.

- "Atomic Habits" - by far the best book on developing habits. Thought it was just another one of those self-help books, but turned out to be very insightful and well written.

- "The Obstacle Is the Way" - amazing introduction into stoic philosophy, by Ryan Holiday (author of Trust me I'm lying). He summarized everything I wanted to learn about the subject, and explained it extremely well. Absolute best book to read in hectic/stressful situations, audio version is great too.

- Fun autobiographies: Ghost in the Wires (Kevin Mitnick), iWoz (Steve Wozniak), Catch me if you can (Frank Abagnale), Just for Fun (Linus Torvalds), Elon Musk, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

- How companies work: Creativity Inc (Pixar), In the Plex (Google)

- On writing: Art of fiction/nonfiction by Ayn Rand, Story (and Dialogue) by Robert McKee, Save the Cat, Step by Step to Standup Comedy.

- Grokking Deep Learning - by far the simplest and clearest introduction into deep learning, starts from scratch and takes you through the whole thing, without any of the scary/overwhelming math.

- Refactoring UI (design tips), Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics, Master Algorithm - still reading these books, but they look REALLY good.

- Other: The Selfish Gene, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Serious Creativity, Hackers & Painters, Hacking Growth, Angel (on angel investing, by Jason Calacanis).

Also collections of essays by Paul Graham [1] and Scott Alexander [2]:

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/2no0sqybnxurpcd/Paul%20Graham%20-%...

[2] https://www.dropbox.com/s/i43lqpdyd4qa255/The%20Library%20of...
Agreed.

For US carriers its just business as usual. Technically the FTC would have to act on this but I think we all agree what side they are on. I really don't get why the US population doesn't demand better phone networks.
But seriously though, JUUL is the rocket ship I wish I could put my money in.
> [The surface temperature of the moon is] an absolute limit on the amount of incoming irradiance you can create to your object.

It's the radiance (brightness) of the moon (as perceived at the moon) that is an absolute limit on the incoming irradiance you can create, because of conservation of etendue.

Separately, the fact that moon rocks (which experience that exact amount of irradiance) reach some given temperature X°C while losing very little heat to conduction (certainly less than an object on earth would), shows that this level of irradiance is insufficient to heat up your kindling above X°C.

This argument has nothing to do with the moon being a black body, or an approximate black body, or any such thing. Just the fact that moon rocks, which are exposed to this light (with very little heat conductive losses), function as a kind of a thermometer which tells you how hot that light can make something[1]; and the answer is "a bit over 100°C"

> Since the moon absorbs about 90% of the light incident on it, we can assume that the surface temperature is lower than it would be if it was a perfect black body, presumably reaching a temperature corresponding to a sun that was about 10% less strong.

No... An object with 90% absorbance absorbs 10% less light energy, yes. But it also emits 10% less light energy, so the two effects cancel out and it reaches the same equilibrium temperature as a black body.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_temperature
The governments owe money to the public.
Still this works the best: https://www.xkcd.com/538/
> Access denied

You'll have to adjust the permissions on that document.
The extension sounds cool. Have you found it SFW?
This is modern myth, typical of dictatorial regimes. Even the most powerful people in the planet need others to exist and being powerful.

People who deserve their power simply know even by instinct that they have to keep looking at the big pictures constantly to direct others correctly so they need to take emotions into account but remain detached and focused with ratio both to decide properly and to direct properly.

People who not deserve their power but they still have it act as you describe.
Big Cannabis is coming. Marlboro Man to acquire cannabis firm
[P] Training on the test set? An analysis of Spampinato et al. [31]
Google, RSA, ...
I worked at Los Alamos for several years, and wore a TLD (dosimeter, radiation detection device). The only two times mine was ever "triggered" was when I left it on at the dentist (x-ray) and at the airport (x-ray).

It's interesting to see that these explanations are suggested even when employees say it isn't the case -- when I was "brought in" for my "why did you get this many mrems" talk, I explained about the dentist and the airport, and still got sent home (for a week!) with three doctor's visits and additional screenings. Many anecdotes != data, but when I asked a lot of my friends who worked there, or still work there, they were equally surprised.

None of us knew Chad Walde. It's well-known that different groups at the lab take safety more or less seriously. Which is obviously a huge problem when your dealing with source material.

I do wish the article had a little less of a "nuclear taboo" doom & gloom to it... there's less background radiation in Los Alamos than there is in Los Angeles. And substantially less than areas surrounding coal plants. In my experience, the "fear of the glow" causes people to view nuclear power with extreme suspicion... even when coal & oil plants actively pump far more deadly stuff into the air, far closer to major population centers.

The lab needs to get their shit together, and I believe they've done a lot over the past 10 years... hopefully it keeps moving in the right direction...
That's how I and many others used to feel about homosexuality.

This is where we are now: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/dragkid/

You don't like this? What are you, some kind of bigot? It's almost 2019, for fuck's sake! ;)
Schedule – 35th Chaos Communication Congress
I'd like to see studies of how social media affects different personalities types. My intuition is that the negative effect can manifest in different ways. For example a person that has social anxiety in real life, let's say because is unconsciously worried about how to behave socially, maybe because the fear of rejection or being bullied by the group.
This person would post probably close to zero, and avoid public comments, while being very anxious while waiting for a private response. I think the effect in this case, is that the person becomes even more isolated and even less social.
Because these people can manage still in small groups of 4 to 5 people but I think on average we have 300 facebook "friends", that might not be manageable.
And the extroverts would engage reactively only to other extroverts, causing other type of harms.
That's my intuition from my direct observations.
I'll quote from Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EU96DSK/ )

(I'm pulling text from subchapter III.2.7, "Aphrodite", but my pulls are not necessarily contiguous in the original.)

> Aphrodite's sphere of activity is immediately and sensibly apparent: the joyous consummation of sexuality. Aphrodisia, aphrodisiazein as a verb, denotes quite simply the act of love, and in the Odyssey, the name of the goddess is already used in the same sense.

> However impious the apotheosis of sexuality may seem in light of the Christian tradition, modern sensibility can nevertheless also appreciate how in the experience of love the loved one and indeed the whole world appears transfigured and joyously intensified, making all else seem insignificant: a tremendous power is revealed, a great deity.

> Behind the figure of Aphrodite there clearly stands the ancient Semitic Goddess of love, Ishtar-Astarte [...the text lists many correspondences between the two deities...] In the process of transmission from East to West a part was probably played by frontal representations of the naked goddess

> Unabashed acceptance of sexuality is, however, not a matter of course even in Greece.

> In the iconography, the naked oriental figure was supplanted as early as the first half of the seventh century by the normal representation of the goddess [emphasis added] with long, sumptuous robes and the high crown of the goddess, polos. Fine attire is Aphrodite's specialty, most notably necklaces and occasionally brightly colored robes intended to give an oriental effect.

> It was not until about 340 that the statue of a naked Aphrodite apparently preparing to take a bath was created for the sanctuary in Cnidos by Praxiteles; for centuries this figure remained the most renowned representation of the goddess of love, the embodiment of all womanly charms. The statue was displayed in the round so that it could be admired from all sides; Greek sources suggest that it excited more voyeurism than piety.

That is the tradition into which the Venus de Milo falls. Let me suggest to you that your ideas of how people can view their religious icons are rather more restricted than historical practice would justify. We're talking about a statue showing the apotheosis of sexuality flaunting her supernatural sex appeal.

Sexual content was routine even outside the context of Aphrodite specifically. For example:

> At the doors of the anaktoron [in Samothrace] two bronze statues of ithyphallic [priapic] Hermes were to be seen. Originally these could have been just phallic boundary markers, but the mythical explanation was that Hermes had got into this state of arousal because he beheld Persephone.

(Subchapter VI.1.3, "The Kabeiroi and Samothrace")

EDIT:

From Wikipedia, on the Aphrodite of Cnidos:

> The statue [...] was so lifelike that it even aroused men sexually, as witnessed by the tradition that a young man broke into the temple at night and attempted to copulate with the statue, leaving a stain on it.
Yes. Constructivism in Journalism refers to constructing the truth (around a narrative).

Two examples:

1) As avid reader of American news, I'm always amazed by their one-sidedness when they report about "success"-stories of the German renewable energies program ("Now This" has multiple videos that if translated to German would come across as a teenager's propaganda attempt). But since their audience is American, usually not fluent in German, it's a cakewalk to "construct the truth" by not write a single sentence about domestic German criticisms of those programs.

2) The right-wing example in Germany would be reporting about violent and raping refugees, without stating that most of the victims are refugees themself and that it is often refugees who help with the investigations etc.