skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Test-driven programming workflows
Breaking news : the remaking of journalism and why it matters now – Rusbridger, Alan

From the editor of The Guardian for the last 20 years, a fascinating look at the move from traditional print to online news.

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The perfect weapon : war, sabotage, and fear in the cyber age – Sanger, David E.

The subtitle says it all. From that I’m now reading ‘Click Here to Kill Everybody’ by Schneier. Enjoying it so far.

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The world as it is : a memoir of the Obama White House
— Rhodes, Benjamin J.

Another obvious one based on the title.

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As a side note, join your local library, people. None of this cost me a penny. I hope you still have a library wherever you live. Ours (Melbourne City Library Service) is just magnificent.
We're shipping changes tomorrow that will fix the problems with these overlays to make it clear unverified creators are not part of Brave Rewards and won't be receiving tips directly. You can read about them here: https://brave.com/rewards-update/
My bank did that, maybe a decade ago. It was pretty inconvenient any time I wanted to access my bank account away from home. SMS is a godsend by comparison.
see also this review by freeman dyson(!):

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/05/10/the-key-to-every...

unpaywalled:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180420081837/https://www.nyboo...
There are probably signs people are looking to move somewhere, like an increase in retail/dining activity, so it might be more like predicting who's going to have a baby [1] than predicting the stock market.

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
FWIW my library account shows me as having loaned 28 books this year. I’d say I finished 80% of them.

Don’t watch too much television, don’t read too much crap online. There’s plenty of time in life to read.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lqC8fvIspY
If that's not what your Wikipedia page means, then it could hardly be more misleading.

"Brave Software has announced that it is developing a feature allowing users to opt in to receiving ads sold by the company in place of ads blocked by the browser.[8][9][10] Brave intends to pay content publishers 55% of the replaced ad revenue. Brave Software, ad partners, and browser users would each be allocated 15% of the revenue."
Here is an article about it. https://techvella.com/elgato-stream-deck/
YouTube has no incentive to enforce copyright laws correctly. As long as large rights holders can claim and takedown content on the platform YouTube gets to keep placing ads against videos regardless of who actually owns the copyright.
We don't publish pages for creators at all. We did ship bad UI in our browser that didn't make it clear to opted in users that non-verified creators like yourself aren't part of Brave Rewards.

We're pushing up fixes tomorrow that (we hope) make it a lot clearer: https://brave.com/rewards-update/

(Sidenote: Thank you for the Hedge Maze puzzles in the Keep. They were a gaming highlight for me last year.)
I mean, is dequeueing cells ever a bad idea, regardless of available power? In AppKit on macOS, NSTableView and NSCollectionView still dequeue even though computers have been exceedingly powerful for decades now. It’s slightly more tricky to work with as a developer, but it’s not that hard and saves resources that’d be better spent elsewhere.
The Myth of 100% Code Coverage
If the violin plots don't do it for you I recommend Georgia O'Keefe paintings as an alternative.
yeah i think this the most likely one as well, people wont like finding out theyre rubbing glitter into their hair/skin
Not our intent. We shipped some bad UI, got a bunch of deserved flack for it, and have hustled to fix things. Changes go live tomorrow and are detailed here: https://brave.com/rewards-update/

Thanks for caring about this done in a respectful, creator-first way.
The thing that is nutty is.. they PAY MONEY for the SMS method!
I do not understand why more sites don't support TOTP like Google Authenticator.
I and probably 90+% of people outside the area had no idea on what Hakuna Matata means before Lion King. But then it is an expression that belongs to everyone.

You can't use it in t-shirts, cups etc with Lion King figures already as they have their own protections. That should be enough for Disney...
Right now, it says "Tsunami triggered by volcano sweeps Indonesia beach; 62 dead", story age is "17 minutes ago", and it's on HN for over an hour, so I guess they updated it since.
Right but "good" itself is a moral/value judgement, so you wind up with the question "who is doing the defining?" And that descends into a disagreement. That is our M.O.

Actually looking at description of this book and some of the reviews it's basically what I'm saying. Though my thesis contains a large component centering around our complete inability to calculate the truth value of most truth claims a priori and our inability to recognize that leads us to being utterly convinced our erroneous conclusions are correct and getting angry at people who disagree with us. This coupled with all the literature on how dissenters are treated and how groupthink takes hold. We are a walking recipe for disaster.

This will make for a good read. Probably help me to expand on my own model even more.

I think a lot of turmoil and confusion could be avoided if we collectively upgraded our protocols for dealing with each other.
> Putting on my tinfoil hat, I'm concerned about the ratio of likes and comments as well.

Maybe I'm missing something, but what's unusual about the ratio of likes to comments for this article?

At the time I'm writing this, the article has 88 points and 20 comments, a ratio of 4.4. Was it significantly different when you wrote your comment?

Among the top 10 articles on HN right now, the average ratio of points to comments is 4.2 and varies from 1.2 to 6.7.
Pretty sure this is accurately described by the term "nothingburger."
And 24 hours later, All WhatsApp Added up to 1.2GB. So your figures were completely wrong.
> That kind of thing makes me wonder what sort of high caliber developers go into this field.

I read long ago that having a porn site on your resume was a pretty strong black mark with non-porn companies, even if you were a developer. Since there's so little crossover an experience sharing between mainstream developers and porn site developers, porn site engineering tended to be relatively sub par. My guess is few high caliber developers go into porn site engineering.
Really? I admired his accomplishments before I even read this book (which is an amazing read), but it kind of makes him seem like a sociopath.
The View from Flyover Country

Sarah Kendzior is my favorite political analyst today. She has called so much of what's happened over the past few years long before others, and she cuts right to the heart of what's happening. This book is a collection of essays she published about the changing economy and political scene over the past ~5 years.

https://www.amazon.com/View-Flyover-Country-Dispatches-Forgo...

https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior
Mostly true, but there's definitely vapes that contain the popcorn lung chemicals as well as who knows what yet. It's new, heated chemicals going into lungs. I imagine the jury is still out disregarding the combustion part
I don't think "public domain" means what you think it means, and that trademarks work the way you think they do.
For those among us who can handle our passwords and general security, 2FA is just a penalty we have to pay for those who can't. As far as possible, I ditch any company that wants to force it upon me. I've done my homework, I don't want to consult my telephone, my mailbox, or even worse, some pesky dongle to complicate my life and add to my expenses.
Brendan talked to a bunch of us on the team and we're rolling out a bunch of hotfixes tomorrow that address most of the valid concerns people have raised: https://brave.com/rewards-update/

As stated in the post, we're also going to talk about whether Brave users should be able to even try to send tips to unverified creators at all.
If you do not actually include an enforcement process in your bureaucratic monitoring system, then most of your data detailing what goes on in some of the most heavily regulated and dangerous professional environments in existence, will be utter fictions written up at the end of the month when the paperwork is due and is in a state far worse than useless. This often kills people and it sometimes kills industries - https://www.neimagazine.com/news/newsbnfl-staff-falsify-mox-...
This isn't what we're going after at all. We shipped some UI that didn't make it clear that non verified creators aren't actually participating in Brave Rewards and deservedly got a lot of flack for it. We're pushing up a bunch of fixes tomorrow that will (we hope) fix this: https://brave.com/rewards-update/
Absolutely. Point #4 offers a more sane alternative.
"in place of" is not correct. We're not replacing any ads in the browser. We are building a completely separate ad platform into Brave that will go live in 2019 but calling it a replacement for blocked ads is an inaccurate, weird construction. Not sure who wrote that wikipedia entry. The 55% number is not accurate either.
To anyone using t sne, consider giving UMAP a try.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.03426

Equally accessible as tsne in Python.
No, but it takes two of their popular words, and in a lot of ways gifts them to Disney. Print a t-shirt with, or name a company "Hakuna Matata" and Disney lawyers might threaten to bankrupt you. Why? These are common words like "It's all OK," "no problems." Why should anyone trademark them
I agree, it's awesome that we can now do targeted forward genetics on mammals. Weird phenotypes
in mutants are a classic path to biological insight.
Google authentication is great, until it's time to get a new phone.
> Isn't it fascinating how _little_ Paul refers to Jesus' own biographical life though?

This comes to mind. In my early school years, a bunch of us kids were really close. We did so many things together at school and all summer in our neighborhood. However it is fascinating to me now that we didn't share anything about our Moms, Dads or Grandparents, the people in our background we were closest to. All of that was implicit, there were no need to discuss the daily lives of ones we knew intimately and loved us so much. So with Paul, I'd think. After all Paul studied under Gamaliel and he would have known how to research and share with the world the biographical details of a subject beyond what people just knew from the Gospels, or word of mouth, at least (they must have known more as they all lived closer to the events). What I am getting at is, he just preached what that really mattered for him.
>I wonder if this guy is just a compulsive liar who happened to fake his way into a journalism career

That accurately describes one of the established ways to bookend a stint in politics. In the UK, this caliber of bullshit would either tip them for a future cabinet post should they ever stand for election, or indicate that they are a recently retired MP, fabricating scandal to preserve some remaining public relevance, which they know only how to measure in inches of print.
hah. i actually have this in my list of book I recommended to junior developers. it’s not about software but the way of thinking and approaching the problem will make you a better software developer.
I store my totp secrets in keepass with everything else and synchronise it to my other devices.

This probably undermines the idea - but phones get lost/destroyed/wiped regularly.
My credit union has almost everything a “real bank” offers. They have a network where you can do banking operations through many other credit union offices and ATMs are free to use across nationwide CUs. If I have to use a non CU ATM I get refunded the charge.

About the only thing I miss is the ability to send foreign wires. For that Discover bank online checking does that.

It’s honestly a much better experience that when I had my old WF account.
Sam Harris talks to leading AI theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky about why humanity will probably be killed off by AI (if not by something else first) https://youtu.be/AaNLX71Hl88
High level languages standardized assembly. Tools have increased the amount of knowledge you need to function as a programmer, but they also provide standard solutions to real problems. It’s not like CSS is nessisary for building a website, but it really does both help and replace a lot of custom code.

Plumbers still need to get things to work in your house, but tools and techniques have largely removed guesswork. The end point will be different than accounting, but I feel the trend is clear with knowledge replacing the need for extreme generic problem solving skills.

‘Design Patterns’ are of real though limited value, that’s a meta example of exactly what I am talking about.
I read over 40 nonfiction books this year. Here are some favorites.

Life-changing:
Why We Sleep

Page-turner:
How to Change Your Mind

Most useful:
The Consolations of Philosophy

On startups:
Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

Random but amazing:
Shadow Divers (true story about deep sea diving - think Into Thin Air)
you can't be bigoted against white conservatives

/s

believe me, the liberals and progressives I work with in the tech industry are just as bigoted if not worse than anyone I met growing up in the midwest. They outright dehumanize the "other" ie conservatives with complete blindness to the hypocrisy.
This is what happened plus personal relationships due to long years of work next to each other. He prepared the stuff ready for the fact checkers the way they liked it. And they believed him because he was a pro.

Humans at work
Why not either? For both the Christian and the Atheist, honest scholarship is inseparable from their beliefs. It's hard to imagine either changing their beliefs from the evidence they could find.

The consequences of being able to prove with certainty either that Jesus existed and is who Christians claim him to be, or did not exist or was not divine would have tremendous consequences on the lives of hundreds of millions people who do not ascribe to the proven belief.

They could say "I am intellectually honest and will change my beliefs depending on the evidence," but we both know that 1. Concrete evidence strong enough to convince someone to change their beliefs, beyond what is already known, likely does not exist. And 2. Their current beliefs already match their known evidence so any additional information is unlikely to radically change their beliefs, only be accounted for and integrated into their current belief system.

I'm not trying to say all scholarship is biased or we shouldn't believe anything. In all likelihood, most people are not deliberately lying or falsifying anything.

What does that mean about which scholarship to trust? I have no idea.
2FA is nice when you're working across devices - I.e. using a public PC but have your phone on you.
The very important reason these tiny robots are taking pictures of cats
Check out Authenticator Plus - its another TOTP app that lets you backup your (encypted) 2FA secrets and optionally syncs them across devices.

Thankfully Google Authenticator is just TOTP, so you can use whatever client you want.
How fast and often do you read?
This is all true, but I sometimes missed the nuance of less witty but more detail-oriented histories. Harari could seem flippant at times, which mostly amused me when I agreed with him, but left me worried when I didn't. In a book this short on a period so vast, there was no space to steelman anything.
Podcast: What the West Got Wrong About China
I would not necessarily make that assumption. See: https://cyberarms.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/the-weapon-that-d...

Something simple like chaff could have all sorts of interesting properties depending on shape, size, method of manufacturing, etc.
My intern, Vasu Agarwal, built FTC's official tensorflow detector for this year's competition. I was pretty impressed how quickly we were able to turn a model trained on a GPU into something that ran at reasonable FPS on Androids. We used TF Lite, I loved working with it. Heck, I enjoyed using it more than TF proper.
For accountability: DMCA claims require a sworn statement under penalty of perjury. The fact that it's a crime is a deterrent.

Unfortunately YouTube's Content ID system does not actually deal with DMCA claims directly and so false claims are not unlawful under that provision. YouTube has been fine with this because it keeps Viacom et al. off their back.
It's on par with Paris Hilton trying to trademark "that's hot".
Some I haven't seen mentioned yet:

The Monk of Mokha - Dave Eggers; This seems to have been mostly under the radar but it was immensely entertaining and gives a look inside Yemen that is hard to come by. Probably my favorite book of the year.

Tailspin - Steven Brill; A look at how the split and interaction between business and government became so dysfunctional over the last 50 years. This topic has been covered elsewhere but I thought was done well.

Behemoth - Joshua B. Freeman; A history of (very large) factories.

Live Work Work Work Die - Corey Pein; A very cynical but funny look at life/work in Silicon Valley.

Two Sisters - Asne Seierstad; A story about 2 young Somalian immigrants to Norway who move to Syria to join ISIS.

Also: Bad Blood

Read in 2018 but published earlier:
Black Edge - Sheelah Kolhatkar; The Solace of Open Spaces - Gretel Ehrlich; American Cornball - Christopher Miller
It's not difficult to push your agenda with it technically being "true". Just interview 100 people, focus on 1 or two, maybe take their quotes out of context, and congratulations you can portray an entire town or demographic in a negative light that fits with your readers preconceived notions
On my Debian box I notice I have pip2.7 and python2.7, but also pip3.4, python3.4, pip3.6, python3.6, etc... If I want to install something for python2.7 I just use pip2.7. It looks like on this system python and pip are just symlinks to python2.7 and pip2.7 while python3 and pip3 link to python3.8 and pip3.8

It never seemed that hard to keep track of the different versions.
Could you explain what you mean by "a completely separate ad platform"? My understanding is that Brave's model is to block all native ads with tracking, and in the place on the site where that ad would normally be shown, to show an ad from Brave's own network. Is that accurate? If so, I think "replacement" is a very accurate label.

And here's a bit from Ars Technica's initial review of Brave:

"In practice, Brave just sounds like a cash-grab. Brave isn't just a glorified adblocker: after removing ads from a webpage, Brave then inserts its own programmatic ads. It sounds like these ads will be filled by ad networks that work with Brave directly, and Brave will somehow police these ads to make sure they're less invasive/malevolent than the original ads that were stripped out. In exchange, Brave will take a 15 percent cut of the ad revenue. Instead of using tracking cookies that follow you around the Internet, Brave will use your local browsing history to target ads."

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/mozil...

Is that inaccurate? Was that accurate at some point in the past? I don't deny that I could be wrong and misunderstanding what Brave is trying to do, but I would posit that I have done due diligence here. This does seem to be the idea the neutral tech media has of Brave, like it or not.
I don't buy it. I've worked with very complicated systems (ads at google) and it was pretty straightforward- it's the distributed systems communicating at RPC interfaces that is hard to understand. I've also worked with quantum chemistry codes and large supercomputer codes. The ones that were difficult to maintain were just badly written.

There was an article recently about Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat- one of Sanjay's skills is to make APIs that let you build very complex systems from components such that the resulting system is still comprehensible. This had huge long term positive effects for Google.

I strongly recommend reconsidering that your position; I've been able to drop into codes in tens of different domains, whenever they are well-written, regardless of the complexity.
I think it became more about users and less about content. What was your first crush? What was the most scary film you watched? these kind of questions are more about users and users having a forum than about knowledge.

Fact based, impartial content by people knowledgeable about the topic gave way to perception based/ meme worthy answers and later on to questions as well.

Also I agree with a couple of comments here which site India/ users from India as a factor. (Particularly around 2014 election and later).

And I think later on Quora did not have a choice but to go with the flow.

(I know this comment is also a bit generalization and perception based. :))
What, then, is the consensus view among New Testament scholars and Near East historians of the historicity of Jesus?
My knowledge comes via osmosis from having grown up in the EU.

This seems to be a decent starting point into this culture around the world https://radford.aon.com/insights/articles/2017/13th-and-14th...
“A bear market is just money returning to its rightful owners”
I shuffled a full deck multiple times, no less than five, before using cards in order ignoring any but the 32. I know shuffling all the cards adds randomness vs just shuffling 32. I do want to know why you say two things:

1. 32 = 117 bits of entropy, not 150, after lots of shuffling.

2. It works if I randomly select a single card at a time but not in order from a randomized deck. In order from a randomized deck should give the entropy amount or close to it.

I'm not a probability expert. Just doing what I could with good, shuffling skills. Good enough that people refused to play Spades with decks I shuffled. So, I thought I had good entropy. I'm always up for improvements.
Influence by Robert Cialdini
Grit by Angela Duckworth
Firefox has largely been on this weird trend downwards since 4.x for me, at least. I don’t think it is necessarily the introduction of rust, but perhaps that’s exasperated the issue.
Oh yes,just please don't force me into it.
I actually use it in a few essntial places, but only as an opt-in.
Quitting caffeine cold-turkey is worse than quitting cigarettes cold turkey IMO - the headaches are awful. But aside from that, nicotine addiction is way worse. Even when I drank ~20 "cups" of coffee a day, I didn't have cravings or headaches unless I somehow managed to go several hours after waking up without having any at all. Nicotine cravings are frequent and sporadic and prevent you from focusing on anything else for more than a few seconds at a time.

With cigarettes, there's also the fact that you actually have to, well, smoke cigarettes. Sometimes that's great (if you're used to it), but when you have a sore throat, forcing yourself to smoke a cigarette one painful drag at a time is a horrible experience. Juul is a huge step up this way, though it comes with other issues.
Spark Dataframes Pivoting
Thanks for the tip, I only knew about authy before
And China pretty much stopped running train at 350km/h.

Steel-on-steel rail is realistically limited to top service speed of 320km/h, maybe 360 at most. The maintenance is just too high when you increase speed beyond that. Newer Japanese Shinkansen line only operate at 260km/h, for example.
The Thyroid Factor Review, Legit or a Scam?
Just mind blown. Stopped watching talks because I feel that the information delivery is lacking comparing to a book or a good blog post, but this one is just so mind expanding!
Yes, it does feel like a completely different language. The sample code in the article is nearly unreadable to this C++ veteran. And based on the verbosity of the result I'm not sure it's an improvement.