skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! I dump the grounds in a clean filter before bed. In the morning my machine turns on and heats up, when I’m ready I hit the button. It brews and I toss the now dirty filter into a tupperwear beside the machine. A few days later when I’m out of filters I dump the now dry grounds into the trash and rinse the filters with a drop of soap and the pressure hose on my sink. Almost as easy as the store bought pods but it’s better quality coffee and I don’t need to feel bad about the waste. It’s less expensive too by a significant margin too
As I always ask regarding this sort of story, why do we believe human intelligence is computable? The only answer I've heard is the materialist presupposition and sneers at any other metaphysic as "magic," which is not exactly a valid form of argument.

As an alternative, the human mind could be some sort of halting oracle. That's a well defined entity in computer science which cannot be reduced to Turing computation, thus cannot be any sort of AI, since we cannot create any form of computation more powerful than a Turing machine. How have we ruled out that possibility? As far as I can tell, we have not ruled it out, nor even tried.
In my opinion, the big rub for using Go in scientific computing is the lack of a REPL. The nature of Go essentially requires it to compile. On the plus side, compilation is very fast so iterating small code changes is practical. But it's still not nearly as nice as typing commands into the prompt and seeing what happens.

Beyond that, Go is easy and performant. It's great for paralellizing workflows via concurrency and compiling tools for distribution. So if you know what you want to do and need to scale up, it could be a great choice.
Interesting, I didn't know this!

But what different does it make? Whether you're getting the revenues from the indefinite future, or you need to keep the sum over several years at a certain level, you're incentivized to ensure sales don't fall.
UK calling in. I walk home at nights, beating cars over the mile-and-a-half (c.2km).

Ours is a small UK city, larger cities the traffic is slower still.
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We call it our "canary". :D
There probably is a strong distinction in Microsoft's decline in Windows/Explorer use versus a potential decline in Facebook. Since Facebook is network-based, losing users and engagement could have a much steeper multiplier effect. If one person switched to Chrome in 2007, it didn't change anyone else's Explorer experience. Eventually, if enough users switch, sites will be designed primarily around Chrome, etc., but this is a slow bleed versus a waterfall.
I use the names of the planets to remember the mnemonic.
Honestly the only effective potential remedy I see is to probably tax producers for their wasteful byproducts. Tax Keurig the corporation a dime for every one of those cups, and I don’t buy the things but figure a box comes in increments of a half dozen, so we’re talking between 60¢ to an additional $2.40 a box. Now theoretically the cup and the seal are separate components as far as a recycler is concerned, so maybe they should be charged separately for both the lid and the cup, but at least the coffee itself is compostable so there is no need to also charge for that, but you can go ahead and throw an additional dime on for the box itself and any other cardboard components that act as a spacer inside the box, and maybe a dime on for the tape. Charge a quarter for any non-recycleable components.

Then: nix the tax for any corporation willing to take back their own wasteful byproducts at their own cost and recycle them.

Extreme? Oh yes, but also a great way to align a corporations incentives, and anything else is most likely a half measure that makes the problem worse by preventing an effective measure from being put in place.
The amount of data they collect surely they stream much of it directly to log files. Those log files are not by user. You try reading and rewriting petabytes of data out of S3 to remove lines matching a specified ID.
Facebook Is a Problem. The System It Feeds Is a Bigger One
In my previous startup we used mongo as the main datastore (this was pre Postgres 9.4, before indexable JSONB). It worked for us, and it worked fine. I saw the mob rising up against it, but we have not had any of the problems (maybe we just read the manual and had it configured correctly?).
Today my go-to is postgres of course, but I had to wait until JSONB was out to make the switch.
NIH? Only thing I know is `National Institutes of Health`, of which I don't see a relation.
One possibly non-obvious problem with this idea is that laser light will also spread out over very long distances, just like the light from the sun does. Any light source is subject to diffraction. The narrower the beam aperture, the worse the diffraction.

As a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation: assuming you have a gigantic 100-meter diffraction-limited aperture, the smallest possible beam divergence for green light (550nm wavelength) is roughly 2 nanoradians. In the limit of large distances from both the earth and the sun, the area covered by that beam would already be receiving about 1GW of total energy from the sun. To outshine this you would need a laser of comparable power or more; the most powerful continuous laser I could find a reference to is only about 1MW, and was designed to destroy satellites and cruise missiles. [1]

I wouldn't rule out the possibility that you could detect a reflected laser beam, with sufficiently sensitive detectors, but it's hard to see what you would gain as opposed to just using sunlight.

Furthermore, lasers are by nature monochromatic, so you wouldn't really be able to do spectroscopy. At best, you could collect a few different points on the spectrum using lasers of different wavelengths.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIRACL
What really happened is people wanted something new but did not want to change the ways they DESIGN their application and processes. There is place for NoSQL but if you are going to use it as if it was SQL then you would be better served by an SQL database.

Also, I think MongoDB tried to be everything and failed to be good at anything. It offers neither stellar performance nor scalability and I guess for most projects there is not much advantage over regular SQL database. Certainly nothing to fight over when there is much more technology choices to make.
Life is immeasurably more enjoyable as a fit, healthy person. Even if it had zero impact on longevity, it's an obvious win.
Hi! I'm Pierre, one of AIVA's cofounders :)

The tool we are developing is indeed aimed at composer. Have you seen this video which walks you through the interface? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuU3UI7iJSo

Basically, you can select an influence (either stylistic, like Modern Cinematic, or using an existing piece of music), create a piece, and download the MIDI file generated by AIVA.

The value we are trying to add for composers is by giving them an original, 2-3 minutes long theme in seconds, that they can modify however they want in their own creative workflow (Digital Audio Workstation or Notation program). You could think of this as a composition assistance that gives you a sketch, as opposed to starting out with a blank slate, and potentially having to face writer's block.

FYI, our closed beta is going live in early January, and we'll be on-boarding new users on a regular basis from there.

Hope that clarifies!
I think MongoDB has a place, but that place isn't being the database for a big distributed content store for a web site or something like that. Where I do think it has a place is for some of the in-memory data structures of a node running an application or a service. Applications tend to have a lot of data in various structures that it works with while it's running. Sometimes you need this to be persistent and sometimes you need to be able to scale this across a node. MongoDB is fine for this, so I think of it more like a SQLite replacement.
> Why do ostensibly smart engineers keep falling for this stuff?

Review driven design is likely a large contributer. If you know you will be looking for a new job in 2 years, you better get some experience in $latestTrend instead of $provenTechnology.
Sounds like a fair summary to me. Add Afganistan and Syria for good measure.
Plus the additional 23 states where you are out but cannot vote because you are on parole.
I don't really want this thread to further devolve into a tit-for-tat. I'll just say that Rust's community has its bad eggs like any other, but that it does do exceptionally well at sympathizing with criticism. I'm mostly in "the Go camp", but Go's community can learn from Rust's here. On the other hand, for whatever reason, Rust is rarely approached with the same hostility that Go's community is--at least I don't see nearly the same percent of threads in /r/rust in the form, "I've been using Rust for 2 hours now and I haven't been able to figure out lifetimes and lifetimes are different than my language so lifetimes are stupid and no one can ship code with Rust!"
It's not just convenience, it's fashion and wealth signalling. Instant coffee takes seconds, a couple of minutes if you include boiling the water.
I've seen physical simulation written in MS Access + VBA...
I can only speak for Stanford when I was there, but almost every CS graduate took "Computers, Ethics and Public Policy" as it was the best way to satisfy the degree's "Technology in Society" requirement.

In talking to friends and coworkers it sounds like taking an ethics course was more common than not.
Elastic maintains a page documenting the current status of their "resiliency" efforts on Elasticsearch:

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/resiliency/cur...
HAES is not BS. Here's the deal. For lots and lots of people, being not fat is very very hard. So hard, that even though there is enormous social pressure that they've had basically from ~12 years old to however old they are, they still haven't managed to become non-fat for any significant length of time.

HAES is a reaction that says "What if we accepted that some people are just going to be fat, and then tried to come up with ways of being as healthy as possible given the circumstances". You may not like the packaging that HAES comes wrapped up in, and the most vocal proponents of it are often the least interested in making it palatable to you. But it's not BS.

Consider that there is essentially nothing that medical science has for people who are chronically fat except a gastric sleeve. Shit is hard, yo.
That's already happened with me, I mainly look up recipes and buy in store.I believe that adding "perks" for best customers would help keep them around a big longer.
Just the fact that google is gatekeeping the images instead of dockerhub makes them a better security proposition.

It's 2018 and dockerhub _still_ doesn't have 2FA. All it takes is one cred-stuffed account belonging to a debian maintainer to take you down if you don't pin your images.
It seems much easier to use a machine which doesn’t need pods and just has a hopper of beans
It's not "popular". It's a strawman created by anti-feminists. It doesn't really exist in the real world.
A tax on disposable plastics is probably pretty doable.

The worst part is that K-Cups solve a non-existent problem. Their advantages over your normal office percolator is that it takes less work, nobody has to make it, they don't collect rancid coffee oils that nobody bothers to clean out, and the beans are marginally better than the garbage most offices are buying. You can also stock a variety of flavors without having to commit your entire office to drinking a pot of artificial cinnamon flavoring.

But you could solve all of those by just using instant coffee and a water boiler! Just about every other country in the world has figured out how to make decent enough instant coffee, especially in Asia. But for some reason, America is still stuck with Folgers crystals.

That's actually where I'd start if you want to have an impact via guerrilla marketing. Convince your office to switch over to something like Sudden coffee or even the Starbucks Via packs. No, it's not as good as your fancy third-wave coffee spot around the corner or even just a regular Starbucks. But it can be head and shoulders above anything a Keurig will give you.
Creating a tiny, 17 kB style transfer ML model with just 11,868 weights
You've been able to permanently delete your GitHub profile and all data associated with it for quite some time.

https://help.github.com/articles/deleting-your-user-account/

I've seen this 'ghost user' around on threads for years....
Reminds me of

“The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion.”
— Larry Ellison
Buddy, we regret it too.
Well it would take me an hour to ride my bike to work, but I get here in ~11 minutes in my car. True for most people in the US.

And as I wrote that last bit, I realized that I should not have said "in the _world_".
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Try a mokapot. Much lower capital cost and just as resource light. Not so much crema though I have to admit.
Am I misremembering or was there really an article few months back that a lot of tech unicorns prefer private money over public and hence deny public a chance to make money via stock market.
Kind of like how drones are smaller and cheaper than fighter bombers.
Basic concessions like not having a family? People aren't 25 their entire life.
Of course it's not sufficient. I don't even think it's necessary. But, generally speaking and in my experience, formal algorithms knowledge is incredibly useful, and you are at a significant disadvantage if you do not have it in your toolbox.
I've noticed that they don't actually believe "Healthy At Any Size", because they routinely skinny- or fit-shame people.

So I've started referring to them as "Healthy At My Size", which is their real argument -- that their overweight size is healthy.

It also yields a more appropriate initialism.
Kind of odd considering they changed to make single opt-in the default on new mailing lists.
That, and simply reading the documentation. N+1 problems and denormalization-by-design are a failure to understand SQL.
If they're deployed in areas with continuous LTE coverage, robust anti-tamper measures are entirely feasible. Cameras (which most autonomous vehicles have for perception) will witness and record the crime (and should be able to upload the footage in near-real-time).

Stealing an unmanned vehicle-- and getting away with it-- should be very difficult.
> being not fat is very very hard

Irrelevant. It is not more healthy to be fat than it is to be not-fat because it's hard. Acceptance is not going to change a damn thing about the health risks inherent with being fat.

You have all my sympathy. One of my closest friends is a very large guy, and I want him to be around when we get old, but the stats tell me that's less and less likely every year he stays obese. Me accepting him (and I do) won't keep him on this planet. :(
It's not popular. There are far more people making fun of fat acceptance than there are people who are making the claim that being fat is healthy.

There are plenty of people who are against body shaming, unrealistic beauty standards etc...

Very few who think that being very overweight is actually healthy.
For one thing, a good chunk of what happens in the industry isn't particularly well described by the term "engineering," which in my mind describes someone who is well-trained and experience-versed in relevant scientific models for the application domain and the dynamics of relevant "materials" and their interaction that can be composed into a solution. It might be the term "craft" better describes a lot of software development activity.

For another, it may be everyone is susceptible to the influence of trends. Even engineers. And the more complex the details of a subdomain of software engineering are, the bigger the tradeoff between becoming someone who can make a true engineering assessment in that niche and developing expertise elsewhere...
The velocity of money returns to normal after it is spent into the private sector again. It’s just one hop for how it is spent. In the meantime the taxed money may be held in some funds, and those funds may be invested in private banks. We really don’t know. The Grace Commission found that hardly anything from personal income taxes even reaches public works. There is hardly any difference if the government burned all your tax money with their left hand (fiscal policy) and printed shiny new money with their right hand (monetary policy).

My point is that the money keeps circulating. Isn’t it short sighted the other way, to act as if it disappeared?

Circulating among rich or poor is a different question - of outsorcing, automation, demand for human labor and services, UBI and so on - rather than spending it on the armed forces. Poor people get paid in the armed forces and go spend that money into the economy too. It’s apples and oranges. I’m saying the tragedy is the bombing and destruction, the money found its way back into the economy.
Those specific respirator filters only do light organic vapors (as opposed to say the 3M 6001 cartridge), so the smell can't be that bad.

(Or you know, leave out the hyperbolic pictures.)
It's really not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_acceptance_movement
Sometimes I see comments like this and it's like someone is posting from another galaxy.

I've literally never heard of a movement that says that can be healthy. How did that even happen?

Edit: link for HAES https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_at_Every_Size
There's also a technical reason for writing the TLDR up top. When a web crawler indexes a page for search results, they capture a snippet of the first <p> tags that follow the <h1> of the title. That snippet is what is shown on the results page, and really is what determines whether a user wants to click the link shown by the search engine.
Obviously you're trolling here, but I expect more from adults that behaving exactly like spoiled children dropping litter everywhere because their parents or maybe their servants will clean up after them.

About this convenience thing, people are just getting lazier and lazier and then come up with rationalisations. Keeping a clean moka pot is painless, it also makes a cheap, really nice and eco-friendly coffee.

It's absurd to produce 10000% more thrash because you just don't want to wet your hands.
It's not "recession around the corner" as a main driver. Market is great now, but that will change when they interest rates go up, hence people wanna catch this boat before it sails.
So it's the same logic as, "Well, we should let them do heroin -- just try to make it as safe as possible"?

Seems like a meme we should minimize the transmission of, to me.

> Consider that there is essentially nothing that medical science has for people who are chronically fat except a gastric sleeve.

It also yields ridiculous statements like this. Medical science has some very clear advice for fat people: eat less and exercise more.

They're making an entire movement to justify why they're lazy and undisciplined.
The problem of ill-informed lenient sentencing decisions was already dealt with by mandatory minimum sentences.

The 3-strikes laws serve a different purpose. The trouble is that some people simply won't get the message that crime is unacceptable. It doesn't matter how long we keep them in prison. Letting them out is like being an accomplice, because they are going to commit that crime. The only solution is to separate these criminals from society.
NASA Says Hackers Stole Employee Information
For ~$100, you can get a sous vide machine that attaches to most pots and a set of reusable zipper bags with a valve built in and hand pump for vacuum sealing. I highly recommend trying it out as the steak and fish I have tried cooking so far all come out very tasty and well cooked.
I would suggest you look a little deeper into Debian's history and work on reproducible builds: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds

They've been at it (looks like) since ~2014, and their goals and motivations seem 100% in line with google, but at the package/distro level, not the container-base-image level (highly related): https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/unstable/amd64/...
I remember seeing a similar, slightly-less-semantically-awkward title being posted recently.

Something along the lines of "Not Exercising just as bad for you as Smoking"
Hi there! :)

Indeed, up till now, all of the orchestral tracks we released where orchestrated by humans.

However, we've just finished automating that part of the process as well; our Beta will allow users to generate scores that are orchestrated for a wide variety of ensembles.

And regarding our database, we have over 30.000 scores right now, digitized in MIDI format. :)
What do you think Safe Injection sites are, if not exactly that?
> Starting to think that maybe, just maybe, finding ways to securitize everything under the sun is not such a good idea.

It's weird to blame that on the security - ie, the vehicle that enabled the payment of this settlement in the first place - rather than the manipulation and outright fraud that the tobacco companies conducted for years (which is why the suit even existed).
An IP lookup system utilizing open datasets
> My SO is a soils engineer/geo-physicist, so I know a bit about the issues at play

what's this? PhD by association?

I came to Bay Area from Japan, I was surprised to hear that high buildings are not a thing here because of earthquakes. For comparison, in Japan there are about 2000 earthquakes that person can feel every year. And somehow monorail/high-speed trains/tunnels/skyscrapers are everywhere. Lazy engineering and crumbling infrastructure which stayed same for decades.
Apple puts a lot of effort to make iphones NON-repairable as explained by this technician: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26cNHSilikI&feature=youtu.be...
The post I'm replying to is arguing about interest rates & wage growth over the past 2 years. I'm pointing out that this is false for wage growth over that time period.

If you want to discuss how structural changes in the economy have let capital fuck over labor, that's a different conversation. That trend has been going on since before I was born, though, and the takeaway I learned from it, before even entering the workforce, was "Build capital."
I think this is the thinking: get while the getting is good, before the Trump Slump hits.
Most people in history were _not_ fat. It used to be _hard_ to be fat. Modern society and sedentary jobs make it harder to not be fat, so it takes discipline and hobbies like hiking and working out to actually get physical activity, and healthy diet is the key element. When everyone is eating processed food and doing very little during a typical day, it is hard to not be fat, but that doesn't mean we should accept that, we should push for a healthier society. There are things about lifespan, but also quality of life, ability to think, dealing with stress, _huge_ mental health effects, etc. Our entire society would improve if we decided to change things instead of giving up.