skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forgive me if I missed it, but what's the evidence the plant's operations actually caused cancer cases? I work for a state cancer registry, and in my experience, reports of potential cancer clusters are rarely shown true. Going by a presentation and the audience's reactions at this year's NAACCR conference, most registries have similar experiences.

That's not to say the claims are disproven, but a cancer diagnosis is a rare event, and childhood cancer is an order of magnitude rarer.

This is one of those times where "small and biased sample" is a valid criticism.
Does anyone know anything about what sort of fan that is? Seems like it could be pretty interesting to play around with.
And how much of that production is going to actually produce it?
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Remember to account for the implicit subsidy of being allowed to pollute without paying for the damage it causes.
Wow... Deep diving the archives.
I like how your parent comment has positive karma for saying that "it's fake; who cares," but I'm downvoted into negative for saying "it's fake; I care" : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18735972
yea but there are 0 emissions when it's off
That's handled by the system on both Android and iOS. I remain unconvinced.
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Sorry for my ignorance, but didn’t we have Stubby ad the latest DNSCrypt for the same purpose? In what is this project different?
When I had the freedom to set my own schedule, I found my max productivity came by doing 2-3 days of 14-16 hours grinding, followed by 1-3 days of break where I didn't "work" at all. This corresponded to just how complex an idea I could fit in my mind at a sufficiently fine-grained level of detail to do real work on it.

Cal Newport's "Deep Work" is another approach to this, turning maximum productivity into a daily, scheduled system. I've also been influenced by "Four Disciplines of Execution", specifically the first discipline - pick no more than three Wildly Important Goals, and do not work on anything else. If it's not a Wildly Important Goal (and it's not an actual emergency), it deserves zero attention.

I've been lucky at my current gig to be able to speak this language, to talk about the cost of interruption. When you have one job, you can focus 100%. When you have two, you don't get 50/50, but more like 40/40, with the remaining 20 lost to context switching. And the more often you context switch (or "multitask", hahaha), the more focus and momentum you lose. I'm sure a lot of knowledge workers lose north of 50% of their available productivity to the thermal losses of context switching.
Argh! now I must...
I wouldn't necessarily say "playing god", but we do vaccinate ourselves right? I mean I think the real issue is inflicting a change to a being that will become "Sentient" or "Conscious". When we genetically alter that which has potential for "life", do we know, beyond a doubt, that the change we inflict will be positive for the individual AND positive our species as a whole? If we cannot say for certain, then genetically altering sentient life (who have no choice), is not a good idea.
I've been using containers for some time now (probably since not long after it was announced) to keep my twitter accounts separate, and I've never had to reset or update my preferences.
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People on Patreon intentionally wish to accept donations, while you hide their Patreon ads, links to their other sites, and replace it with your unwanted platform? You can't compare yourself with a service that _someone particularly opted into and wants and set up themselves_ with _misusing someone's brand to take money as an unauthorised third party, while at the same time blocking that person's intended messaging to collect money for themselves_
The article completely disregards an important benefit of keeping mines open: national security. Germany has basically said it will forfeit its coal technology and rely instead on the US and Russia.

In the US I want to see these industries kept alive even with skeleton crews. A few billion in subsidies (tax breaks) is a pittance compared to allowing a local fuel source to atrophy.
That narrative is only applicable retrospectively. It doesn't say anything about the future. Whichever way the arc of the universe bends, we call justice.
Voice – Mozilla's initiative to help teach machines how real people speak
But unhealthy and dying people DO consume a lot of health services. Not to mention the fact that unhealthy levels of pollution can lower the quality of life for a great many citizens, something most people think that governments should care about.
To compare the stats across countries, it's helpful to factor in mobile OS market share and population size.
http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide

Also, transparency report for USA:
https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html
I love SQLiteStudio. On my machine it starts up in < 2s. Version 3.2.1 takes 99MB disk space and is built against QT5. I just ran some queries and the memory usage is only 80MB for a not too large database.

Another self-contained application I like is racket/drracket.
The best developer experience I have ever had was Zeit Now v1 - their serverless containers product. I would absolutely love for AWS to offer something similar (serverless Docker containers where I only pay for the periods during which they are serving traffic), ideally with a similar developer experience.

Nothing puts me off faster than having to click through dozens of web UI screens (or read a hundred pages of API docs) just to get a container launched and accessible via a URL. The Zeit Now v1 model, with everything configured from a single (optional) JSON config file and deployed with a single "now" CLI command, was absolutely ideal for me.
It's tough to close your accounts if your account is a mortgage. Mortgage account closing requires either lots of money or refinance, and a refinance depends on interest rates of the present day being lower than when you took the original. Finally, it costs thousands to refinance. Add to that, WF gives an interest rate discount for opening a checking account and setting up direct crediting of the mortgage monthly premium.
It found a solution. Not an optimal solution.
I'm not too worried about bugs TBH as long as the underlying game.mechanism is sound. For example, Subnautica have had severe FPS issues from the beginning yet it never became a gamebreaking issue.

Last time I looked into SC (a few months ago), the only gameplay loop consisted of picking up cargo and dropping it off with no failure conditions attached. What else has been added since?
Is the implication here that "fellow nerds" should always be given the benefit of the doubt for some reason?

I've seen some "very nerdy" people engage in some "incredibly selfish and shady" activities, so I can't help but laugh at that idea.
It is vote pandering. The people the GoP actually serves are too few to win anything on their own via democratic vote. Their platform is constructed to appeal to the disenfranchised by singing them a song that never rings true.
Does anyone know ho this compares with Mozilla's DeepSpeech? https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech
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Re “walled-garden”: there's also Workplace by Facebook (http://work.facebook.com) tailored for enterprise.
Given the value of open source training data (or scarcity of it), has anybody attempted to use LibriVox for training?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibriVox

https://librivox.org/

The recordings are public domain audio books of public domain books, so the licensing should be fine. The audio isn't annotated, but given the value involved I think it would be worth attempting to use forced alignment to annotate the recordings with their public domain source texts. Forced alignment using the sort of speech recognizer you're trying to train in the first place may be a bit "chicken and the egg", but from some experiments I've run myself existing open source speech recognizers can do it reasonably well. Humans could manually tune up the alignment to improve the quality if necessary.

As for motivating people to actually do that mundane work... well these are audio books so maybe the work isn't so mundane after all! The LibriVox recording of Tom Sawyer (read by John Greenman: https://librivox.org/tom-sawyer-by-mark-twain/) is pretty great and has been listened to by millions of people. If somebody created a "read along" web app that showed you the text of the book from Project Gutenberg getting highlighted as the audiobook from LibriVox was played, users who have an interest in reading/hearing the book could have their attention held by Mark Twain and with the right UI provide fine tuning for the forced alignment at the same time.
I thought we were computing the question, since the answer is known to be 42.
You have very well phrased the jist of arguments against basic income that I have heard from relatives. Essentially, that people MUST work to derive value from their life. What would you do if you didn't work? How would you be fulfilled? These are non-ironic questions I have gotten from people.
Those aren't police forces. From my reading of the articles, they do not have the power to arrest people, serve search warrants, evict people, etc. They do do detective work and security work.
idk,

a lot of the internships that people get in college are functionally job shadowing opportunities,

I think most of the advice given in this thread would be excellent advice to a person starting college internship,

Depending on the field, who you're shadowing, they're willingness to share, and your ability to receive what they're sharing

I suspect that can be valuable for a certain period of time

(I suspect that you're correct that returns on that experience can often diminish quickly)
No need to worry about it getting political because it is a political rather than a judicial act. Otherwise, imagine private citizen board members or executives of HSBC being arrested or extradited (US-UK have extradition) for actually 'violating sanctions' with Iran, Libya, Sudan, Burma and Cuba in 2012.

The sanction itself is purely political as well. The US overthrows the Iranian democratically elected government to maintain BP's regional dominance because the government threatened to use their country's natural resources' profits to benefit its people. Installs puppet and helps the puppet plan to build 23 nuclear reactors (and the secret police Savak among other things). Puppet gets overthrown by the people and now Iran has 'nuclear ambitions'. And that's after getting the other puppet Saddam to go to war with Iran and then getting rid of the other puppet because now he's US armed like ISIS. And now Iran has a sanction and the sanction is used against other countries.

This is a pyramid scheme of imperialism.
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I was just having a discussion yesterday with a co-worker on Go. He deals with security and encryption and does not do development work.

While I enjoy Go for its strengths, it was his opinion that Go did not offer anything above and beyond other languages.
Perhaps because the plan is that, once the cryptocurrency is actually used for cash with a stable value, they won't prop it up?

That's basically what happened when the USD was no longer backed by gold.
From what I understand, running a power plant off oil is done by roughly no one because it is super cost-ineffective compared to existing alternatives. Coal and natural gas are the main fossil fuels for electric plants.

The space where oil is competitive is transportation. We are seeing massive gains in efficiency in that space.
There are different aspects in this, some which come to mind:

* Coal is the main local energy source. Other sources have to be imported. Having coal mining gives some degree of independence from Arab Oil, Russian gas and Nigerian Uranium.
* By subsadies over some time the economic change can be controlled to see degree instead of setting free about half a million mine workers, of which many had low qualifications, and a bunch of people in dependent industries free at once. The Ruhr area was fully dependent on coal mines as reason for the area's growth and hand hardly any non-coal related industry.
Their mobile app most likely records everything being said and transmits it encrypted to their servers, so that they can improve ad targeting.
... huh, it looks like that fargate CLI project gets much closer to what I'm looking for: http://somanymachines.com/fargate/

I do wish AWS would build experiences like this without me having to turn to the wider developer ecosystem.
But that implies you _only_ run Slack.
> This kind of breathless reaction is what makes people skeptical of the entire concept.

That's your opinion. There are people who believe we need to curb the carbon based energy consumption and try to reverse the negative impact of greenhouse gas. Others don't.

> Please explain to me how this means the end of civilization.

Try google? There are loads of resources if you do and pay attention to the topic on HN. We're just scratching the surface of unknowns in how much worse it could get on the path of an accelerated climate change. For example: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/02/11/there...

Oh, I said "coastal civilization" and hoping it doesn't get to "entire civilization".
Venmo lets you easily recover the money though, and probably automatically returns it after a while.

Paypal does the same, and automatically returns the money to the sender if it's not claimed for a while.
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I quit smoking daily (at least half a pack per day) for 3 years straight,and it was "cold turkey" as they say.

Once I quit,I felt a bit uncomfortable like a very mild headache(almost background annoyance) for about two weeks and that was all there was to it. Now,I've never been addicted to caffeine even though I drink espresso shots daily for weeks and for a few more weeks might not drink any caffeine,so I have no frame of reference for comparison.

Stress does still cause me to be tempted but it's no worse than being tempted to eat fast food.
So you disagree with solar energy subsidies, then?

Nations have other motives than economic efficiency. The state should lead the market to meet national goals like clean energy infrastructure.

Coal subsidies are a way to increase military strength, or at least they used to be. War needs steel needs coal. That may no longer be the case with more advanced ways of creating steel without coal.
Spoiler, this is not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba_(operating_system)
I guess you mean alternate proposals for the origin/dating of various tales.

The cell.com article says:

"Fourteen of the 76 tales, including Beauty and the Beast, were assigned a 50% or greater chance of having been present in the common ancestor of the entire western branch of the Indo-European languages. This group includes all of the Celtic, Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages, and might have originated between around 6,800 years ago"

This makes no sense as Beauty and the Beast is known to be literary in origin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_and_the_Beast

I have been following the work of Finnish folklorist and professor emerita Satu Apo, who has recently released a 400 page tome on the history of fairy tales. I have to get my hands on it as it apparently includes a section called "The rise or belly landing of phylogenetic fairy tale research?".

I can translate some bits from the press release: https://www.epressi.com/tiedotteet/tiede-ja-tutkimus/mista-s...

The oldest known variant of Cinderella is fantasy literature from 9th century China ("Ye Xian").

Sleeping Beauty comes from Perrault's Tales of Mother Goose (17th century).

Snow White ("Richilde") comes from Johann Musäus's Volksmärchen der Deutschen (18th century).
Generics came to C# in version 2.0. Although it was done well, there is no doubt that some things would have been different if there were generics in Version 1.
wouldn't that be O(N^2) because it takes longer to sweep your hand over the spaghetti if there is more spaghetti?
> 1) Nobody really thinks any system is perfect.

You should have stopped there.

Basic democracy is so ambiguous really anything qualifies, and by all accounts, China has basic democracy. In fact, they have infinitely more democracy pre-revolution France did.

And the fact that even in the world of today, more than 2000 years after the Greeks, democracy is not universal prove your second point is not such a sure thing as you wanted it to be.
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Why not?

Facebook as research arm dedicated to play Go/Starcraft also, what do you think their reason is for doing that?

They can use a speech recognition system to transcribe videos, just like what Youtube is doing to improve ad targeting and recommendation. Why is this hard to understand?
1. Say "government is inefficient" and refuse to allocate resource to fix it.

2. Be angry that government is inefficient.

3. Goto step 1.

Have you been to (the equivalent of) DMV in other countries?
The queen does nothing. She's just there for appearances.
I have such fond memories of playing the melee mode at a friend's house, with a shared keyboard -- he would always pick the little alien that shouted insults. "Jerk! Idiot! Fool!" And the soundtrack, the soundtrack was so good you could just let it spin while you did other things.
"Will be" or "are"?
I primarily use this in three areas:

Command line tools: if any part of the command fails, you usually don't want to continue, unless it is a long-running batch process. In that case, I usually also write a logOnError() function to keep track of problematic work items.

Servers: during server initialization, there are many circumstances where it doesn't make sense to continue, such as template compilation failure or failing to open the socket.

Other: I use dieOnError anywhere it would otherwise make sense to use panic() - situations where continuing the program would mean running in an unknown state, like out-of-memory conditions.

I've built systems with complex error handling before, but my teams have always run into the problem of trying to reason about complex, unpredictable program state. If the requirements can allow for the program to fail fast (as you say, "punting the whole problem"), then the code itself can be kept much simpler and easier to reason about. When errors do crop up, it is easier to look at logs to debug a simple program (or infrastructure issue) than to debug a complex program where you aren't sure how earlier errors affected state.

In languages with exceptions, this is sort of the default - if you don't handle an exception, the program will crash. Often there will be a main level exception handler that logs otherwise uncaught errors. But a problem in Go is that programs are default-alive on errors. If you don't check the error status of every single function call that returns errors, then the program can get into unknown state. So in production code, especially code that just combines a few libraries, every function call ends up taking 3 or 4 lines (1 line of call and/or 3 lines of error checking).

Regarding the number of return values, my dieOnError/logOnError only handles functions that return error and nothing else. If the function returns multiple values, I first call it, then call dieOnError with the err:

foo, bar, err := baz()
dieOnErr(err)
//assume foo and bar are valid

I suspect I could write a variadic error checking function that assumes the last parameter is error:

func dieOnError(a ...interface{}) {
//do some reflection magic?
}
func foo() (bar int, baz int, err error) {
...
}
//maybe needs some type assertions or something?
bar, baz := dieOnError(foo())
Facebook delivers software on many other platforms than just iOS and Android.

There’s also the new Portal hardware.
Potential Oculus control option?
The problem is that we really can't do anything to fix it; it's much too late. And there's zero possibility we're going to convince enough people and leaders to change things to alleviate the problem, so we might as well just sit back and watch it burn. The wise course of action is to get yourself out of the house and let the rest of the inhabitants suffer the consequences of their own making.
I don't assume they wouldn't commit a crime. I just assume they're going to hell. ;)
That’s a nonsense conspiracy theory. Thousands of people have internal access to the full source code for the mobile app.

“Ah, but there’s an undetectable binary blob that gets linked in and called without being detected by anyone working on the code,” you say. In that case consider the battery life impact. The power consumption of the Facebook app compares favorably to its social media peers. Is everybody else also recording, encoding and encrypting all the time?
>simply because you have to think about error handling.

until you write

x, _ := some_code ()

Besides, Go errors are used in pair with the return value, so you have to check 4 possible combinations of value/nil and error/nil instead of 2 due to the absence of sum types.

Oh, and no generics, so your errors are either string or you have to check the interface in runtime which and can't statically check which exact errors could your code return.

Oh, and no monadic chains/exception mechanism, so feel free to write

x, err :=
if (err != nil) {
return err
}

y, err = ...
if (err != nil) {
return err
}

instead of

do x <- fun1 ()
y <- fun2 ()
...

and then just check the proper subset of possible errors, carefully inferred by the type system.

There are a bunch of different possible approaches for error handling: exceptions, monads, erlnags failures as possible case, Go crowd had just invented the worst and least error-prone one.
For developers/tech-savvy people it is more or less perfect. I love the fact that it is based on git giving you a history and great control over synchronization. I use it to store all kinds of things such as passwords and files containing environment variables that can be sourced directly from the output of pass (source <(pass dotenv/project)). It even exists a great open-source iOS client: https://github.com/mssun/passforios
Have you been to France?
Having multiple conveniently-located branches, at potentially broader operating hours, where you can talk to a real person is one significant reason.
I don't see how the Wikipedia page contradicts what I said
I buy whatever I can at Costco solely for this! And Costco generally also hires older generations. I love seeing a mix of people working there. It’s an experience. So I’ll keep throwing my money at them as long as they keep this up.
Government spending > 50% of GDP. Is it efficient?
I am curious why they didn't lean into the poison hypothesis and explain that if this rock had brought poison then by removing it and taking it away they would take away the source of the poison.

That said, these kinds of situations get oddly weird. When visiting a friend in Brazil they recounted a story of being on a tour boat that took tourists to coastal features. At some point the pilot offered to let the friend steer the boat at which point the captain came out and accused him of trying to steal his boat. Its a pretty transparent scam but oddly effective. We both remarked at how the 'everything is a scam' mindset can take hold and you have to be really really careful about everything you do in order to avoid giving advantage to another person who will try to defraud you in some way.