skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a simple matter of how frequently it occurs, the fundamental question is one of rigor. The principal difference between craftsmanship and engineering is also rigor. Historically, the ability to prove your code was free of classes of error required sacrifices that few practicing software developers could or would accept (e.g., formal proofs, use of "niche" languages, uncomfortable toolchains, etc.).

What's got people excited is the evolution of these systems which have a rich intersection between rigor and usability (to include ecosystem, tooling, etc.). The ability to statically eliminate classes of error with good (or maybe good enough) ergonomics means these questions of "how frequently does this occur" are not relevant - you can drive such occurrences to zero and doing so should become table stakes. This is a proper engineering mindset.

None of this is to dismiss craftsmanship, which definitely has its place. And before the ability to practically apply rigor, that's all there was. After all, people have been building complex systems for centuries without the benefit of modern mathematical foundations. But none of those are good reasons to eschew rigor when it is within reach and when the systems you develop are big/complex/widely-used enough.
Doctors don't know the prices, and neither do the customers (not without doing a lot of homework that can't be done during emergencies). Even when you know the list prices, the actual prices your insurance negotiates are almost certainly different, so asking for list prices isn't enough.

Basically, in the U.S. the healthcare system is not exactly a free market as pricing signals are unclear, and most consumers have no idea how or inclination to price shop as they have been trained for decades to not bother. The problem is now not just a matter of how insurance is structured, but cultural.
One source, albeit a little bit old (2012): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/933082...
Yeah I did say “terminal emulators” else where in that comment. Not really sure why I said “shells” in the first line. Must have been having a senior moment....
"What exactly are the practical consequences of being spied on by GMAF, compared to law enforcement?"

Should law enforcement order them to relinquish all data about someone wrapped in a gag order, they get all information they need without that someone even noticing.
This doesn’t really conflict with the claim that the vast majority of value comes from the band. Yes, it would be possible for a less skilled photographer to take a worse picture of the band from that spot. But the amount of skill and gear required to take that photo is possessed by tens of thousands of people.
Ask HN: Best business advice for entrepreneurs
For those of you who made the jump to entrepreneurship, what is the one thing you wish you knew before starting out ?
The UK Arts Council does indeed already subsidise such medication
Is this just a roundabout way to get paid for finding the bug ;)
Million of dollars.

I am not even joking.

Here i read about Lambda Serverless and started exploring it and switched an entire ad network to Lambda.

I also read about Rust and put it to practise.

One key thing is here is you absorb the info selectively which helps you in your area of work otherwise it's wastful knowledge which you might never end up using.
fwiw https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Some of those Ruby 2.6 programs are faster with --jit and others are faster without --jit

faster or similar: nbody #2, fasta #6, fannkuchredux #2, spectralnorm #4

slower with --jit: binarytrees #5, pidigits #5, regexredux #3, revcomp #5, mandelbrot #2, knucleotide #1
Nobody cares how long it takes to train a model. What matters is prediction speeds, which are comparable (and NLP less likely to require high frequency, where a few more milliseconds matters).

Besides that, the accuracy gains are not marginal anymore (BoW can't compete like it used to, especially with pre-trained models).
If i'm not mistaken you should refrigerate it once open.
In my opinion, the people who constantly bring up the point you are responding to know full well. Read the rest of the comments here: It's repeated over and over. "Why do we care about whales if we don't care about cows?"

And then people like me and you respond with this same response: "Cows are not going extinct." They don't want to hear an answer, they want to shill veganism.

I've made the same reply a few times in this thread, and both times my comments were down-voted and flagged less than a minute after posting.

edit: Am I saying these people are coordinated? Yeah. Absolutely I am.
A photographer has to deal with publicity rights as well.
For a few years I have been predicting the advent of a kind of cognitive weapon of mass destruction, a "propaganda doomsday weapon."

This would be a dishonest/manipulative debate AI paired with big data and microtargeting. It's like pairing a trained and primed con artist with every single human being in parallel and having it shadow and work on them 24/7. Big data and cross agent "fleet wide learning" would allow it to get smarter very rapidly.

I consider this scenario to be as much of an existential threat as atomic and biological weapons.
My biggest frustration with building accessible web sites is that what looks good to a boss, or manager, or marketing department is not always what works well for building a semantic, accessible web page. It's often a struggle to make the two work together, especially years after a site is completed and new features have to be bolted on because of the whims of someone higher in the food chain.

I often wonder if it would be easier to push out a second, accessibility-friendly version of the site on a subdomain. Something like acc.example.com that screen readers and other accessibility tools would check for when they access example.com.

We used to do this back in the WAP days: wap.example.com, and even in the early iPhone days with i.example.com, mobile.example.com, or m.example.com.

I believe it would save time on some projects.
Historical interest is fine, but if you just want to learn math I wouldn’t bother.
If migrant fruit pickers were claiming to have legal rights over digital representations of specific fruits, then I think people would have similar reactions.
What long term editable “master” format do you use for videos? Most of mine have become unviewable over the years as video formats changed and support faded away, except some that were edited and the edits exported into crappy mpegs. I can export now into the hopefully longer-lived h.264 but is that reasonable for source files?

This is both a container and codec problem which just makes life even more complicated.
Here is a picture from the Reddit thread [0].

Absolutely unacceptable design not to account for something like that when programming software. There should be an explicit notice of where the message is coming from. I see people blaming users for trusting a new GitHub repository, but the fault rests solely on the contributors to the project responsible for this.

[0] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/29142493/50359293-...
Just like the modern layer hen, which produces 2 orders of magnitude more eggs than its original wild ancestor (and all the added strain and suffering), or the modern broiler chicken which has been so evolved by humans so that it's feet can't even adequately carry it's grotesquely overweight body. We have evolved those animals for increased profit at the cost of vastly more suffering by sentient beings that experience pain, fear etc
What are prices like? I suspect they are much lower than the equivalents in the U.S. Thesis: transparent pricing tends to keep prices down.
Couldn't they store both versions and return the better version if a tweet became popular?
Yes, there is a gap, but that will be closing quickly. What I hate to see is people using this gap as a reason against crypto/ blockchain as if every new technology is ideally perfect and meets every demand. This is the type of mindset that would have prevented us from having computers, laptops, and cell phones because computers the size of record courts don't make sense, computers take too much energy to be portable, and nobody wants to carry around a suitcase all day to make a phone call.

It's all part of technological maturation.
If you really wanted to accomplish this, have a conservation organization buy fishing days for the EEZ that hosts the species you want to protect.

If you wanted to fix this for all time, the US should buy the entire island nation of Kiribati, resettle the current occupants someplace where they can continue with a similar culture (maybe somewhere on the Texas coast), and then turn the Kiribati EEZ into an MOA for the US Navy. Tell the Chinese and Taiwanese that subs will be letting of torpedos there, or that there are mines to keep them out. That would give highly migratory species like tuna a safe area to rebuild their numbers.
WordPerfect had stagnated and lacked features. That’s why it died.
You believe you are not of interest to LE, and therefore have no need to protect yourself from a Stingray.

I disagree, but if we were to accept that premise, then you shouldn't really concern yourself with NSLs, either.

So, besides LE taking an interest in you, what are the actual consequences of FAMG spying on you?
I dont have "a number", Im a VoIP provider with thousands of clients, pinky promise!

"your number" doesnt exist, my clients port their existing numbers thru my system, so I just let them pass those for convenience, all automated!

Are you saying my customer doesnt own the same area and prefix number as you, receiver of a spam call from India? Bad bad customer, must've been a glitch/fraud, I promise to take care of it.
I doubt that heat pumps could be more efficient than direct exchange of cold air?
UHT is subject to Maillard Browning. Can change taste and smell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-temperature_process...
Well, the argument agains killing animals seems to be "you wouldn't kill humans" (I don't consider "animals suffer" a valid argument, because there are viable killing methods that don't cause suffering), so then you can use the same argument "you wouldn't enslave humans" with any kind of farm-raising. Like, the only possibly moral alternative would be foraging - picking unfertilized eggs of wild birds - but I don't think that would scale...
Let me ask the experts before i lose my 2000 bitcoins.

Before this, i was about to store them in electrum wallet, glad i didn't do that.

Where would you store your bitcoins to avoid being hacked?

I store those coins somewhere and i haven't been looking at them since i think accessing them again and again get them hacked.

So where should we store bitcoins?
> Calculat[ing] the height of a line of text...is a very complicat[ed] operation.

So true. And width, and how many characters fit on a line. The list goes on.
You're right, and Electrum actually has a history of severe security bugs. I think there was one a while back where any website you visit could use JS to connect to Electrum's RPC interface and do things on your behalf.
write.pub not found?
”The problem is American football is played on artificial grass, and Association football is played on real grass.”

Not necessarily. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_National_Foo... shows about half of current NFL stadiums use natural grass or hybrid surfaces.

Also, association football is played on artificial surfaces, but not, I think, in the Premier League. Tottenham seems to play on a hybrid surface, though (http://www.dessosports.com/sports/football/football-projects...)

A big reason to have multiple surfaces is that one wants to use the stadium frequently. A NFL match would cause too much wear and tear on a grass surface to have a quality surface for a soccer match a week later, for example. It also takes weeks to remove the NFL logo from a natural surface.
> Ulrich announced that Metallica had spent the last year “trying to apply Salesforce products into everything that Metallica does.”

https://qz.com/1500717/what-is-salesforce-four-days-170000-p...

External confirmation.
One can generate an informal spec from a formal spec.

One can NOT generate a formal spec from an informal spec (or else that “informal” spec would actually be formal, after all).

So, a formal spec is strictly better than an informal one — it enables all the benefits of an informal spec, via the ability to generate any number of informal specs from it in many human languages, cultures, levels of detail, etc., and of course enables things like compiler reproducibility (which you cannot do at all without a formal spec).

That being said, any spec is probably better than no spec.
Where is it actually being used in "real world settings"? Other than opening a Coinbase account and doing some speculative trading, I don't see any of these "real world settings".
pyg doesn’t say anything you hadn’t and he had the replies saying the same comments that I made. So I’m not really sure what you’re trying to argue about ls being inconsistent aside it hiding files that are widely recognised as hidden by other tools systemwide anyway.

Perhaps the GUI file managers are also inconsistent because they hide hidden files by default too?
Amazon Go store - https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2018/01/amazon-go-ai-po...

Perhaps we’ll see more of the tech you mention in Whole Foods and other brick and mortar businesses that Amazon is getting into.
A tattoo artist doing this seems to me to be a good way to damage that artist's reputation. Why get a tattoo from an artist who has demonstrated willingness to sue over representations of you??
> Whale and dolphin meat is also often loaded with mercury. In 2011, the EIA purchased whale meat in Japan and found that one sample contained 21 parts per million of the toxic metal, 50 times above Japanese safety limits
>when I complain about stolen karma I get more downvotes

Nobody gives a fuck about who gets Internet points. Sometimes things reposted and take off when they didn't the first time and there's not a lot you can do about it.
s/Nine/None/

#if there are 9 i'd like to know of them :-)
Pluto explorer ushering in new year at more distant world
A hardware wallet like Trezor or Ledger. I use both and both are great. Nothing is fool-proof but an offline hardware wallet is your best bet.
Pigs are incredible intelligent. Yet even for sentient beings that aren't at the same level, that doesn't mean they should be exploited (think through the ethical consequences of that world view)
The Curse of the Black Lotus (2015)
Thank you! Must've forgotten the url while posting. Made a new one instead, see below! Is there some way I can delete this one or is it perhaps okay to leave it be?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18771124 or sigma.eruditenow.com/theory.html
Your argument doesn’t make sense. The fact that they chose some specific photograph doesn’t disprove that photographers are largely substitutable. Of course some specific photograph had to be chosen. If you chose no photograph then the issue wouldn’t exist. Choosing a bunch of photographs and blending them together is nonsensical. So yes, one photograph was chosen. But that doesn’t mean they couldn’t have chosen a different photograph. The only difference would be that a different photographer would be writing the same article about their interactions with the band and sponsor.
Why the hell would you allow automatic playing video ads that crash the mobile browser? What a shitty site
Basically all of your comment is false. Humans can synthesize many amino acids. That is the defining difference between non-essential vs. essential amino acids.

And there are lots of plant sources that are missing or insufficient in essential amino acids. Beans, for example, are lacking in methionine, which is why corn and beans are eaten together in some traditional diets.
tptacek's point is that JWT is not simple at all:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13866983

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14292223
I think you misunderstood: anyone who uses private would do so while also paying for a full public health insurance. That is, the public system is fully funded regardless of whether anyone wants to operate private hospitals.
The distinction you're looking for doesn't exist. The two sentences would be considered equivalent by anyone who isn't wildly over-attuned to political correctness issues.
Chatbot intent would be a good use case for a linear model, as a single word/ngram would have a high impact on the result (in contrast to advanced architectures which try to account for ambiguity/contradictions in documents)
There is no staying out of the weeds when it comes to security. The weeds are where the threats hide.
Yeah... HIPAA is definitely tough. I'd check out https://www.aptible.com if you haven't already. It will at least help out with the infrastructure side of things. Although it does seem like Heroku is offering some services that help too (https://blog.heroku.com/announcing-heroku-shield).

It's definitely not enough alone, but at least gets you going on the security & compliance aspects.
> slavery and diet have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

No one is talking about diet. The part where you eat the animal isn't relevant morally. The part where the animal's freedom is restricted and is treated as an object purely for the pleasure of humans is.

What you're experiencing is cognitive dissonance. You're not a bad person for being raised in a culture that encourages you to not think about these things. You should try to look into where your food comes from even though our cultural biases that will make us try to avoid doing so or justify the atrocities when we do see them.
Another way to look at is is to channel William Blake:

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour

Almost anything turns out to have interesting hidden depths that normally only specialists have access to. The world is super amazing.
This quote:

"Watching the debate, I figured the answer was that it didn’t quite get it, but I wasn’t positive. I couldn’t tell the difference between an AI not being as smart as it could be and an AI being way smarter than I’ve seen an AI be before. It was a pretty cognitively dissonant moment. Like I said, unsettling."

... reminds me of when Kasparov lost to Deep Blue, when it made a strange move. He thought the move was too sophisticated for a computer. Fifteen years later, one of Big Blue's designers said the move was the result of a bug in Deep Blue's software.

IBM is a marketing machine.
At that time I was a young curious teenager, I discover "computers" later due to my parents choices, what I can really tell is that when I start to suffer the fact that my shiny, noisy, big workstation can't play enough game (after years of "use") and I finally obtain my first PC with the newly exited Windows XP well... It was a traumatic change... In few months I decide to try FreeBSD to have a "modern usable OS" and it was another shock. After I tried with the help of a high school teacher Red Hat 9, I do not really like it so much but start to be an usable replacement for Irix for my needs and desire... After Debian potatoes, Sarge, Gentoo, back again to FreeBSD when 2.6 linux start to came to life, after SUN with Solaris 9 etc...

Well I still feel the miss of Irix TODAY even if I never really know it nor really used it. When I first arrive to Solaris (CDE) I feel the same stability and power sensation that I was feeling on Irix and I lost this sensation with OpenSolaris. I still miss it. really.

Even now with EXWM and NixOS as bootloader I still miss "a damn usable OS"...
I'm not sure this is the case. Since medical insurance companies are heavily regulated on margins, their primary way of making money is investing the "pool" that's used to pay out claims. The size of this pool is determined by actuaries, so it can't be increased arbitrarily. But it grows in two ways: more patients, or more required reserve per-patient. In this way, insurance companies actually benefit from higher hospital prices.
Thanks. Let me take a look.
Most hilarious computer science sentence you've read in 2018?
> This is one reason why every winter the National Health Service runs campaigns telling people "do you really need to see your doctor?" and poor people in particular go "yes we do".

The other reason (At least in the US and Canada) for why poor/'poor' people go and see their doctor when they have a cold, is because their boss expects a doctor's note for a sick-with-the-cold day.

Such campaigns are as much targeted at the patient, as it is at their employers. Doctors don't want to deal with non-serious seasonal infections, and they don't want patients seeking a doctor's note to get their other patients sick.
This was the very first computer I ever got to write a program for.

Was a neighbor up the road. They had it, and found out a friend and I were interested. To their credit, they gave us a good enough introduction to write some BASIC programs that would calculate radio related things.

It was all serious and magical at the same time.
Because they tend to get promoted by feminists, and then used to attack and shut down project members who aren't. Look at the NodeJS incident for an example.
Just because someone writes a lot doesn’t mean it’s substantive.
I think you are correct, but agreeing with you on the lack of moral consistency does not drive me to cut meat out of my diet. I've never tried dog, but I certainly would. I keep dogs as pets and I would never eat my own dogs. They have emotional value to me, by my own design, as that's the purpose I've given them in my life.

There are many reasons to why we wouldn't eat certain animals. Cats hunt rodents, dogs are protective, horses provide transportation. Cows don't do any of those things well, and they also taste wonderful.
I think that was an intentionally terrible response meant to illustrate the efficacy of the list.
It doesn't have anything to do with capitalism, except if capitalism is to blame for low infant death rates by medical progress.
I suspect that desire for prestige is less of a factor in why jobs are created and kept than the article suggests, but I'm quite willing to accept that it may be a significant factor — a notion that I hadn't considered before (naievely, perhaps). Love the quip about governments being inefficient financially but efficient in terms of providing prestige.
Photo ID is not used for authenticating that the person lives at the address. That's why voting registration or driver's license requires proof of residency [1]:

> A few examples of acceptable documents to prove California residency are:

> Rental or lease agreement with the signature of the owner/landlord and the tenant/resident

> Deed or title to residential real property

> Mortgage bill

> Home utility bills (including cellular phone)

> Medical documents

> Employee documents

[1] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/pubs/newsrel/newsre...
ne obliviscaris and wolves in the throne room are 2 other fantastic atmospheric black metal bands.
Okay, but you realize that most people want insurance, right? In this case, it wasn't even the guy's fault that Electrum displayed the hacker's message as something official. Do you really want a society where some other person's stupid mistakes can destroy your life?
IBM and Intel's Blockchain Tug of War
It's seems obvious that if you are raised to not eat meat then you will be very unlikely to introduce it into your diet later on, especially if it is socially frowned upon. People who have been vegetarians for a long time often are unable to stomach meat. Also, it's clear that some kinds of meat are already not eaten: do you think the reason people don't eat dog in the US is because it doesn't taste good?

So, while it's certainly likely that people alive today will always eat meat, generational turn-over could result in a world without meat eaters.

(I eat meat but do not eat mammals.)
That’s not at all the same.