skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are of-course assuming that a) anyone will care to wage a world war over whales, b) the 'right' side will win such a world war and c) A victory in such a war will be any better than defeat with irradiated lands and oceans.

But yes, in principle you are right - a common world government will need a world war. Such a government will also, by necessity, need to be a un-elected tyranny in order to exist as a common world government.
Makes sense to me. In Germany you sometimes can get a few weeks at a spa ("Kur") to recharge your batteries. We often forget that in order to be healthy we need something to feed our souls and for most of us that work doesn't do this.
> In 2018 it is fully possible to use authentication libraries

So — getting back to the OP — which libraries?
I've read in the past Unix Hater's handbook, but I'm to young to have ever used LispM... I only see very few demos and feel Emacs like a poor's man remnant of them. I do not really know how much we lost.

However, for a rare circumstance my first computer was a decommissioned SGI O₂ donated by family friend so I have the privilege of having use SGI CDE as my first desktop environment and growing up I see how much we lost, even in PC case vs what I call "normal" well designed case with easy access and proper components and cables pass layout...
I thought there were a few required proteins that were very hard to supply in the body without an animal source
some plants would kill the planet as well.
let's take almonds for example, they need a huge amount of water. and still more and more products will include them.

if everybody eats plants we would also need a huge amount of water/field sizes to feed everybody. guess the best thing is a healthy mix of everything.
Reminds me a little of the outrage in CA about horse meat. There are plenty of people who think eating horse meat is morally wrong while at the same time they eat some salad with bacon on top

There was of course an extensive horse meat scandal in the UK as well, but I didn’t encounter anybody at that time describing the consumption of horse meat as “morally wrong”. Mislabelling of products, fraud, and food safety - those were the problems.
It's a good goal, but this is a very complex system.

For example, if published prices were brought down to slightly-above-insurance rates, fewer people would buy insurance.

Consequently, insurers would have less bargaining power, further erroding their price advantage (and financial solvency).

As an end result, absent regulatory mandate, non-high deductible plans would cease to be market viable.

Providers, insurers, and patients are in a zero-sum competition for the same dollars.

The ultimate question is -- do we want the US medical system to look like the US air travel system?

On the whole, it seems like it would be better than what we've got. But I think we could do better (specifically: smooth boom/bust cycles, increase healthy competition)
with climate change, the jokes on them
Last I checked, public school teacher compensation varied radically from state to state. Some states do pay pretty well (though I have a hard time calling $54k "handsome" for a position requiring a college degree), while other states pay peanuts.
No, because they are free to mix and match from their cultural heritage, and keep some parts while developing others (and adding new stuff to it).

When we're talking about "cultural heritage", we mean respecting their choices regarding their cultural heritage (including abandoning parts of it). Not that they should absolutely stick to older practices on every aspect of life.
Yeesh. Pretty far leap from my observation that someone literally stated they welcome this technology because it allows them to commit crimes (They said this, it's in the thread, go look it up) and my lack of identifying information.

I'll take it that I may have misconstrued the OP intent. Might have clutched my pearls a bit too quickly. However...

I think it's naive to think that certain technology doesn't enable criminal behavior. Cash currency is one such technology. It's much more difficult to trace than online money, and is thus preferred by certain criminal elements. It's also perfectly reasonable to say that we shouldn't outlaw cash because it's used by criminals. There's tons of legitimate reasons why people would want and prefer cash. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater and all that.

I accept that crimes will be committed. But it's a horrible marketing choice to list it as a selling point/advantage to your technology. I'm fine with this facial amalgam stuff. I think being anon is great! But maybe hyping the "Finally I can do all this illegal shit I've been held back from due to evil oversight" isn't the right choice?
In theory none. But in practice, a lot more can go wrong when writing to a database.
Arch enemy itself in a way is also a businesses, so you let them use your photo for free but not their sponsor? Legality wise you might be right but not it's not surprising that you got backlashes from the band. In the
this case I support the band.
To second this... If there is any chance you have obstructive sleep apnea (big neck? snore a lot? have trouble staying awake during movies?) get a sleep study ASAP. Treating that can be life changing.
There are already plenty of blog posts explaining the same topic
(eg : 2013 post - https://janav.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/tf-idf-and-cosine-sim...).
I don't know why people have the urge to write a blog post about simple things. I don't think there is anything new in the post that I can not find already.

This is just stupid, people writing about stuff that has been there for some time as if it is new.
I Can't believe this link is there on the front page of HN.
Sorry if it seemed harsh, but somebody had to say it.
This matches my experience as well. I've worked at places that were boring because everyone was checked out and didn't care about the work. I've also worked at more interesting jobs where the people were far more engaged. The latter type of job tends to be more challenging, better paying, and more conducive to learning.

It's possible that OP's problem is largely that he has worked for bad companies/managers.
I like to think about ways we might disrupt traditional advertising models.
I am not too sure about how to get there, but I think the best place we could end up is with some trustworthy bodies acting as intermediaries between companies who have products & services to advertise and the consuming audience. Some ideas about how this might work:

1) Take some small cut of commerce from would-be advertisers and/or subscribers. Use a not-for-profit model.

2) Provide curated searchable catalogs with aggregated subscriber feedback, 3rd party and internal reviews. Subscribers drive the discovery, and aren't indiscriminately sold to when they're not interested in buying.

3) Maintain some secondary and unobtrusive method(s) of random discovery, i.e. trending products, latest additions, or true-random exposure in some limited format to help underdogs and potential new markets get traction.

4) Help subscribers discriminate by disclosing which products/services are themselves advertising-subsidized and what their overall funding model looks like whenever possible. (Generally, help subscribers know who they're dealing with.)

It almost sounds like Amazon or a similar web store with important differences being they don't engage in advertising products themselves and they don't have a profit motive so much as solvency. If such an organization were to be democratically controlled by its subscribership that might also prove to be a good thing.

As for the Why of supplanting advertising as we know it, if that's not something clear:

1) The coupling of content/speech to advertising interests has bad effects on the trustworthiness of the content. It's a corrupting force.

2) Advertisements are wasteful of time (and money), and low on useful information. The targeting is awful and not voluntary or transparent. I like to think of ads as wasting mental space, though that's not a real quantifiable thing by any means I know of.

3) They incentivize some of the worst microeconomic behaviors and general human qualities (which have macro scale effects in aggregate) and do it through exploitative means, using psychology against people.
>I feel so invasive attending as an English native

Why that. They actually try to be as open as possible. Volunteers type translations for the subtitles while the talk is ongoing. At least afterwards it is possible to understand what's going.
EF (Efficient Functional) or (Extended FaLSE?) Scripting Language
You're running up against the issue of identity management. The schiboleth sso technology of colleges and research institutions solved this by letting institutions manage accounts. To reset your login, go to you it department with photo ID and request a reset.

Obviously not very convenient. But one approach is to simply let a third party, like Google, do the identity management. Have only third party sso login, and don't do any identity management - only authorization.

I'm not aware of any frictionless, convenient and secure method. That was the reasoning behind Mozilla's web auth/sso project (I forget the name); access to email equals access to account recovery - so why not just allow proof of email account access be proof of identity?
This announcement makes sense to me, having done something similar before personally (1). The difference between a screenshot of a photo saved as a PNG and a JPG is huge, usually over 1MB, and I'm sure Twitter gets plenty of these.

Publishing their thresholds for the JPG vs PNG size comparison instead of referring to it just an internal metric would clear up some disconnect. Plus, I'd love to improve the static values I chose if there is better data available. I doubt the people working on this project wanted to change any PNG unless it's clear cut but the line has to go somewhere. These will be better handled by JPG.

Numbers about avg file size would be awesome too, how much data will this save in a typical user session?

1 - https://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2017/06/making-photos-small... (Section: Large PNG Detection)
This would make too much sense
More-or-less related: https://youtu.be/IeLGP2dsjME?t=126

Recreation is a drug; it makes perfect sense for a GP to prescribe it.
Caveat: All hospitals not managed identically.

I'm sure there's a lot of varying billing policy, hospital to hospital. And varying ability to financially write off care.

As a gut guess, I'd expect rural hospitals to be the worst about this and suburban the best.
What is Computer Vision and why is it becoming important?
I never used LispM either, and the newsgroup I mentioned had messages from people that weren't even lispers but got their hands on one lisp machine and they had to admit there was something.

That's the way of the world, things wave off, we follow along, unix won, wintel won, but that doesn't mean they were absolutely better, nor that we can't bring other good stuff from the past. We just have to keep an open mind.
It really wasn't! I'll fully admit I may have gone a bit ad absurdum but that's not bad faith. A lack of other people willing to jump in on this doesn't mean anything other than people aren't jumping in.

I'll admit that I may have been inferring something that wasn't there for OP. I still feel the points I'm bringing up are valid, but attempting to place these feelings on OP involves a bit of a stretch of his phrasing.
Just recently I learned that Japan is not the only country that hunts whales. It seems Norway also does it and to a larger scale.

This isn't an excuse for Japan, just sharing this info for others that might unaware that Japan isn't alone in this.
Sure legality wise, that might be the case but nothing is ever black and white. Like in this case, no wonder the photographer received adverse reaction from the band.
I was curious at what determines medical prices after recent stay in hospital, my bill was bizarre and it seemed that different hospitals charge substantially different amounts. So I wrote a medical pricing app to explore hospital bills and medicare reimbursement

I still don't understand why pricing so different throughout the country, but at least there is a pretty app to visualize it

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/u-s-medical-prices/id1376580...
Silicon Valley May Rue the Day It Called for Government Intervention
I don’t think OP wants to be an instagram star. They want a change in career and have only a nebulous sense of what exactly they want. “Suck it up” is not only a mean spirited response, it is beside the point.
Best Practices for Open Source Software Contributions
Yep. Photoshop's PNG library however does not, it's palleted PNG support doesn't handle Alpha for some reason.
How I used 98840 commands less and saved 4 seconds
> Where's Google thing that they showed last I/O where an AI would call a business to schedule an appointment? Vaporware.

It's being rolled out at right now: https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/5/18123785/google-duplex-ho...
In all likelihood an entirely new product will be a better fit in that case, anyway. Especially if whichever direction you do pick completely precludes what you decide not to do.

In practice (and with some experience) most decisions do not prevent revisiting them later.
Actually, real debate is about responding to the other debaters arguments and countering them. Thus this IBM marketing show was not really a debate.

This was a demo that IBM could synthesize a plausible argument that supports or refutes a given assertion. That's interesting and a bit impressive (presuming its argument isn't simply a regurgitation of some position paper it found online). But without understanding cause and effect, its arguments will remain very superficial, probably driven by a small catalog of argument 'frames' (templates) that adaptively fill a handful of slots like [needs] [means] [goal] [conflicts] and [emotional hooks]. Using such simple recipes it can produce verbiage that plausibly sounds humanlike, but isn't actually reasoning. It's likely that the system couldn't even diagnose help desk problems using basic logic, e.g. backtracking to thise dependencies that might have caused the given outcome, thereby identifying only the possible and plausible causes.
Are you suggesting that pigs or cows can't feel anything (pain or pleasure) because they don't understand how a mirror works?
Are you this pedantic about the non-marginal costs of all government services?

This public school is free at the point of delivery or calling the police is free at the point of delivery ?
Seeing this with the Google Assitance "scandel" of claims that alot of the demos didn't add up. How do we know this is really working. Most startup that say they are doing "ML/AI" tech are just exporting the data to factories of workers in developing countries to shift the data. Besides in research papers, I have yet to see these claims be palpable in reality.
That comes from (among others) Sidney Dekker, who recommends focusing on understanding the systemic reasons for failure: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8B5dChCifjA

For example, Jeff Harbers, who gets savaged on page 4, seems to have had some very perverse incentives imposed on him. What was it about the organisation that caused that? Considering that Microsoft was earning orders of magnitude more from each product than it was costing to build it, why did he treat the schedule as "a contract between the development team and himself"? So far, the answer to that is not in the document.
> photo ID with address that matches billing address

Please don't do this. There are people who move often to not have their current address on their photo id.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/19/google-duplex-restaurant-res...

Sounds like they are gearing up for a launch.
Ask HN: How to efficiently learn a codebase  new job that has no documentation?
So I'm in a bit of a pickle, I've started a new job and am trying to get "familiar" with the code over the holidays while most people are away. Unfortunately there is absolutely zero documentation. The codebase is massive and spanning across multiple repositories. I want to dive in and be productive as soon as I possibly can. Outside of code pairing with the the other developers (which is currently impractical due to most people being on vacation), what is the best way to approach learning the codebase at a high level (and eventually granular) so that I can make an impact ASAP?
>The "tradition" argument is interesting: We'll keep on doing this, because we've been doing it for a while, so let's not consider whether it's appropriate.

No, it's more like:

"We do this for a long time, and we consider this part of who we are, and we like it, and want to keep doing it. We're not idiots to just do it because we did it in the past, and in fact, we have opted to drop tons of things that we did in the past that we don't like anymore, we're not stuck like that".
> Finally, you end with "All we are doing is making the earth more suitable for humans to live, that’s it." What?? Tell that to the billions of people that live along the coast, or say anyone that lives in Bangladesh.

I think you misunderstood the meaning of that sentence. I mean "the effort to counter global warming" is to make the earth more suitable for humans to live, not the lack of effort.
I very much want to believe this. But I can't. This is a sad state of affairs.
8-bit PNG's can do alpha. A lot of popular tools like Photoshop however don't want to output alpha enabled 8-bit PNGs.
Oops, did we just close an airport over a UFO sighting?
> you have given your users the "design a language" problem instead of solving it for them

This is an interesting observation that reminds me of

> In Lisp, you don't just write your program down toward the language, you also build the language up toward your program.

from Paul Graham's "Programming Bottom-Up". Some people would consider it an advantage being allowed to fold the "design a language problem" into the overall problem.

More, I think this is just a matter of degree, not kind.

As soon as you have something as apparently simple as named procedures, you're really writing a DSL, albeit very coarsely, for your business problem. Add named record types. Add textual macros. Add operator overloading. Add Lisp-style macros. At every point where the language allows a word on the screen to stand in for something larger, you're giving the programmer the power to design a language for their problem domain.
To be fair, is that not everybody's ideal life? To not have to truly "work", just to do things they find enjoyable? Feeling entitled would be demanding that from every job, being realistic would be understand that normal jobs can help motivate you to get to that "ideal" life.
Three methods and no idea how I would choose between the three of them aside randomly trying each one and measuring performance.

(Not for winning kaggle but for an actual problem)
One of the most important books I ever read, changed my life.

Procastination is created by anxiety emotion, if you want to get deeper it is easily explained in this animated movie:

https://archive.org/details/understandingstressesandstrains

Anxiety makes impossible for you to concentrate as it makes your attention to focus on the thread, like an herbivorous animal will stop eating for focusing on the lion.

It is an emotional block equivalent to pushing the brakes while the accelerator pedal. A car that could go to 200, will only go to 10. If you push harder, you break the car. If you know what procastination is,and know how not to block, you can at 200, and enjoy it!!

Anxiety is extremely useful for humans, this baby has none of it. Without the glass wall it will be a good idea that parents have it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSlrDi9So9w

Nowadays, the more relevant cause of anxiety is other humans, as we have exterminated most of the other predators, in circumstances like war. E.g Recently in Syria, you(or your family members) could die every single day, beheaded after being raped.

It in interesting that in the modern world, in peace, when most problems are not death threats, we increase the sensibility of anxiety making abstract things like not entering University, losing a job or a partner or just being humiliated while giving a speech or rejection, as "live threatening", causing procastination.
Kaggle is a pretty serious natural-selection environment for machine learning algorithms. Basically, if bag-of-words worked better, the contest winners would still use it.
Don't use email or SMS as it weakens the security to that of their email or - yuck - phone company customer service.

Manual review with proof of ID is the only way. Anything else will just have people not following instructions and requesting manual review anyway.

If anybody asks for higher security you can add a profile option to disallow manual review for their account. This should be visible on the settings screen but I would suggest making them write a request to turn it on. This can then open into a conversation about security if you are interested. And prevents people who don't understand it from turning it on to "increase security".
Low-level web programming in Racket
Yes, there's a plot at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling#Greenland comparing Japan to Scandinavia.

Japan used to whale way more than any other country though (pre 80's), so hopefully this move doesn't signal returning to those levels.
Hot tub hack reveals washed-up security protection
Hacker News has been going downhill for some time now, and articles like this are perfect examples. This article:

- Lacks a snippet of the data in question

- Lacks proper notation ("Vector(A) = [5, 0, 2]"? never seen anything like this)

- Has grammar and formatting mistakes everywhere, even failing to properly copy-paste Wikipedia's end quotes

- Uses a batteries-included sklearn implementation which doesn't go into any interesting details
Sometimes you just need to rent 3 separate EC2 instances and try precisely that.
Why? Why should life be that way? What’s the point of doing unfulfilling things that make you die sooner?
Encouragement is not a bad idea, and there’s nothing stopping doctors from doing that today.

But the idea of “prescribing” an activity that is meant to be intrinsically motivated seems misguided.

It reminds me of those kids growing up who’s parents forced them to do every extra-curricular activity. They ended up -hating- everything they were made to do. And from my anecdotal evidence, kind of miserable.

Creative activities require a real intrinsic desire to participate in them in order to be joyful. Forcing them spoils them, and can make the participant feel even more down on themselves (I’m practicing, why don’t I like it?).

I think the better alternative is for the dr to flesh out what things the person really wants to do already, and continuously encourage them to go for it.

Maybe what I’m missing is that by making it a prescription, medical insurance will cover it? I guess that would be pretty great, as long as the person has an intrinsic desire to do the thing.
What exactly are the practical consequences of being spied on by GMAF, compared to law enforcement?

You'll see a targeted advertisement, in place of an untargeted one?

The problem with being spied upon by law enforcement is that it's not you who decides whether or not you're an interesting person. They do.
To be fair, there are problems with the mirror test.[0] Not being able to replicate, reading into animal's behaviors that isn't there.

[0]: https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-self-aware-fish-raises-doub...
Here’s what 2019 holds for Paint.NET
From the article:

"Today, whale stocks are carefully monitored, and while many species are still endangered, others - like the minke whale that Japan primarily hunts - are not."
I have struggled to come up with a way of asking this neutrally, and I believe in a right to privacy and think "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" is nonsense, but seriously... wtf are people doing that they are "sincerely concerned about stingray devices"?