skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what we are really arguing about at this point.

I'm claiming that the government would increase deficit spending to pay for Medicare For All.

If you want to discuss the impact of having a larger government deficit, I would agree with you that inflation is the potential risk. We can have that discussion. I'm probably more optimistic about the risk of inflation and the effectiveness of mechanisms for controlling inflation.

If you want to discuss government debt default risk for a country that prints its own currency, MMT and many mainstream economists says it is zero.

If you want to discuss technical constraints on the size of the deficit for a country that prints its own currency (through mechanisms like bond vigilantes, etc) MMT would say there is no constraint. There is plenty of evidence to support this. Just look at what's happening with the US federal government deficit right now.

If you want to discuss what fraction of GDP is appropriate for government spending, that's an interesting conversation and would be curious to hear your thoughts.

Central banks are a necessary mechanism, as you point out, and need to do their job well. But the main questions in this debate are around fiscal policy, not monetary policy.
It would make more sense for the manufacturers to just have test-drive centres.
I feel like OpenSCAD is extremely good for generative art (where its programming language is useful), but sorely lacking for designing functional hardware. It doesn't even have a measure tool! It's vastly too slow at previewing and rendering, and building everything out of various intersections of basic solids is cool at first and rapidly becomes infuriating. While not FOSS - but still suitable for tinkerers - Fusion 360 and SolidWorks both have maker-friendly licensing and are dramatically superior tools.
Emily Lakdawalla wrote a great timeline here. http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2018/what-to...

The best shots won't be for a while, but hopefully the team received some informative images today or tonight and will be able to share them at tomorrow's press conference. As she notes, there is a chance that the first downloads will miss Ultima Thule entirely. The encounter was just that difficult.

As for LORRI and Ralph, can't we call them both "primary?" Only Ralph produces color images, so most color shots of Pluto are Ralph's (https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/639/the-frozen-canyon...).

LORRI has higher resolution, which is why some of the most stunning shots of Pluto are black and white (https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/652/plutos-majestic-m...).

Some images were produced by "painting" Ralph's colors onto LORRI's high resolution features (https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/699/pluto-dazzles-in-...).
The static typing makes mocking harder (Java, C#). Working in Javascript makes mocking so easy you don’t need a mocking framework. TDD is an awesome practice in all languages, strongly types or not.
Maybe explicit branding differentiation, in the style of "Disney's ____" already used to make for distinct branding from other public domain retelling. "Marvel's Superman", that kind of thing.
John August also talks about it in episode 74 of his podcast with Craig Mazin called Scriptnotes: http://johnaugust.com/2013/three-hole-punchdrunk

Although you need to pay to access archived podcasts they have all of them transcribed: http://johnaugust.com/2013/scriptnotes-ep-74-three-hole-punc...

I highly recommend the podcast to anyone even remotely interested in the movie industry. I've been listening for around 6 months now and can't stop.
About the one difference between people who live in NYC and people who live elsewhere is that the former always prefix their questions with "As someone who lives in NYC,". They're sort of like college mothers, members of the armed forces attending university, or vegans.

I'm somewhat of the opinion that the people you're talking about will have considered answers to the so-called proper questions you have. It may be that they need to think to answer some.

Constructing some fictional individual who's bullshitting on LinkedIn and then tearing them down is top-shelf insecure behaviour.
Thanks for the succinct explanation & video!
/r/MachineLearning comments on the same paper from April 2018:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/89yp8g/r_t...
> “When you walk out here in the central park, if it’s a warm day, they’re sitting around on benches out here. I mean, it’s like Europe. They don’t stay in their apartments. They come out in the street, and they sit around and talk, and it’s all in Spanish. I don’t hear any English.” This bugs him...why don’t they embrace Mount Pleasant?

Sounds like they are embracing it — in fact they are using the parks rather than hiding in their apartments. What’s his real issue?
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Just two weeks ago Bunnie also posted a good article on test jigs for electronic equipment: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5450

Echos many of the important lessons learned in this piece.
I think the point is that if you want to optimize your child, you should reward them for making the most of what they have, rather than rewarding them for something that profoundly have no control over.

Just talk to your kids, teach them what you can, explain the things that you can't teach, and tell them the truth about the things you can't explain (i.e. that you can't explain them)
Another one that's been around for decades at this point is the Inform[1] platform. There's still an active group of people who produce all sorts of interactive fiction books in the vein of CYOA books that are of surprisingly great quality.

[1]: http://inform7.com/
I think we have all seen comedians shoehorn their version of values into their routine and come off unfunny and preachy. It turns out comedians write about what they think about. Even Carlin childed comedians who put their politics first. Its more a matter of You have to be funny First.
When the super-geniuses of Redmond devised WinRT which was supposed to be the savior of it all, they tried to fix this problem with a new string type, HSTRING. It had some additional quirks around NULL that the other types didn't have.
> Rust doesn't need silver bullets; it needs lots of lead bullets.

It needs steel bullets. Lead only oxidizes at high temperatures.
Free to rant and picket is not free. If your government does not represent its people, holding signs and yelling is not recourse.
Keep in mind that that 40% is at a level where you still have to take the bus everywhere, live with roommates in a bad part of town, and not eat healthy. The middle class always spends and can save, being poor means you can’t.
Do you restrict the distribution of sets of trained hyperparameters? Do you restrict models for training? Do you restrict the datasets? Do you prevent journal publication of new developments? The fundamental algorithms are pretty well developed. Like Bernoulli's principle was well understood before the first airplane.

If you want to restrict something, you would restrict the tooling. Like we restrict the tooling to make advanced aircraft wings. In the case of ML that means you restrict ... migration of certain groups of engineers? Sale of GPUs?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States
Right......

I get that it was an all encompassing term, but it hasnt been colloquially this entire century

But to be fair, the Pedantic News wouldnt be a misnomer
Trump is not "far" right. He's not even really a conservative.

Sanders is a socialist, he says as much himself.
reading the Wikipedia article, it says that scientific consensus among surveyed psychologists and educational researchers is that IQ is a valid and accurate mesaure of the important components of intelligence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Reliabil...

If you're going to challenge that scientific consensus you better have something better to bring to the table than "it's being used by racists" and anecdotal tidbits suggesting a causation correlation fallacy between academic performance and IQ.
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Most of what any of us believe is trust in some other source. Few things that we believe admit to the scientific method, and even those things that do very few of us reproduce on our own. When is comes to social science, the "science" is pretty weak anyway. Most folks just believe what is popular or what they want to believe. I tend to look for consistency and track record -- most useful tests for truth in practice.
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1. Energy to downvote < Energy to explain.

2. Discouraging bad behaviour != Echo chamber

3. Rest of my points: specific refutals of your mistakes.

4. I didn't even disagree with your opinion, and I'm telling you this for the third time now. I didn't even downvote you, though I want to, especially now.

The very first site guideline about comments says "Be civil". You break that, complain about downvotes (which breaks another site guideline), and when someone tries to reason with you, you up the snark (which breaks the first guideline), and refuse to see/read anyone's point of view except your own.

Forget your misguided ideas that all you presented here is an opinion, and that every one who disagreed with your comment is fragile, thin-skinned, and thin-skilled, and examine just your behaviour here. Are you really, truly, surprised anyone wants to discourage such behaviour around here?
Not all software came out of the Win32.dll (or earlier, or later) worlds.

Having worked on a number of platforms (MVS, CMS, VMS, Unix, plus the usual desktop kit), I'd come to recognise signatures of those platforms. Under Unix, recognising the original X11 Xt, Athena, Motif, Tcl/Tk, gtk, Qt, Java, and Gnome toolkits is largely second nature.

No, all applications don't look and behave the same. (Xt scrollbars FTFW!!!).

But: if you do recognise the toolkits, you've got a pretty good idea of the provenance of the application, and how it's going to behave and what quirks it will have. At least up to a point.

I do still prefer button-resembling-buttons.
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If free speech means 'going to shit', by all means, pour it on.
Thank you!! I am not enamoured with that kind of lifestyle. I love living in the Bay Area and especially Silicon Valley..love the weather here. I like sci fi and going to opera in the city ..I like hiking and still be able to slink back into my cave or just spend time needing out on soil and gardening by myself. Where else can we find a place like Silicon Valley..the hype is so spot on. That’s why I fret when it keeps getting close to not so positive changes. I love that electric feeling and the new ideas buzzing around here. Of course, family too.

There is also a lot of hostility to technology in Ag. Even amongst the young people(and I am not young myself). I like robotics and really do believe we can check out Mars in our lifetimes. I make non PC jokes and can be embarrassing company for people who are into this with a deep abiding purpose. Maybe it’s my delusion but it’s too late for me to give that up.

I also find that the farming community is allergic to money. I don’t know why. I like money. If it’s not making money to support the business, it’s a hobby. The younger generation is always looking for all forms of justice and resisting something or other. I am an immigrant myself and I am VERY grateful to be here in the United States. And Bay Area. I love it here and can’t get myself worked up too much. Because I have seen worse. No matter how bad things gets here, it’s still better here than most other parts of the world and I appreciate that.

I only end up irritating them when I try to share my dreams and visions. I have been told that I don’t have a farmer’s work ethic because I want robots to do the work instead of ‘dirt under my nails’ or because I think food must be at least 4x more expensive given the manual work that goes into organic speciality foods. I also think standing in a farmers market and hawking tomatoes for $2/lb is an utter waste of my time. I guess it’s a good thing I didn’t jump into farming and sell the house to buy a farm!! I just realized after all these years that I don’t fit in..just like I don’t fit in as the tech worker in Silicon Valley...and I am relieved. Now..I can look for something else but not before I put it to sleep after giving it a final shot for the next 12 more months.

I would be happy even if I can make a prototype or even a low hanging fruit of a white paper of a sustainable full automation of small acreages. It will be worth the 5+ years I tried farming. To me, anyways.

But if there a tech friendly ecological minded natural farming community, I might fit in! That the community you mentioned is into automation makes me want to look them up and perhaps I can hope for a west coast chapter? I appreciate your response!
While I really enjoyed working with OpenScad, I find ImplicitCad[0] to be far more functional (excuse the pun), the language is just more easy to reason about.

[0] http://www.implicitcad.org/
In shutdown, national parks transform into the Wild West
A 100kg person (so 220lb) would require 80gr protein with this RDA; so 1gr/lb would be 3 times RDA (whereas 0.5g would be 110g protein so only 1.4 RDA)

The 1g/kg is easy to remember, as is 0.5g/lb ; they are 120-140% of recommended for a sedantry lifestyle, but only 60-80% of what’s recommended for an athlete - so I use them as an easy to remember back-of-the-envelope numbers.

RDA is much less precise and scientific than one would think; it basically means “we know there are no serious defincies or overdoses if you keep this forever” - but they are not optimized for anything else; e.g. higher dose vitamin C was shown to shorten common cold recovery, and higher dose vitamin D with generally better everything.
Flat design was a mistake. I correctly called this out years ago. It's a horrible choice Johny Ive was only able to poison the world with once Steve Jobs wasn't there to force good design guidance on him. Everyone followed suit and the pendulum has swung _hard_ towards the objective failure of flat design. It's slowly swinging back. Look now at how you reacted to it and analyze your choices. This is a good exercise in realizing an industry trend was a terrible idea and making sure you learn from it if you ever thought flat design was a positive move.
> The one time he tried running a hedge fund, it failed ruinously.

Source? Taleb AFAIK does not publish his track record in a verifiable manner, so we're left to wondering if his bragging about himself really matches his record.
USS is only applied to US Navy ships in active service, so the ships name is just the Essex. An interesting parallel for sure.
Blockchain RSS. Checkmate.
Well hello there Animats, how are you today? What can I help you with?
This is one of those seemingly innocuous posts that are made to lay the ground for spam comments.
Mozart was a genius.

Ryo Fukui started playing the piano at 22 (accordion at 18), he did alright for himself.

Mozart’s dad was a great student and his mother’s father was highly educated too. So my guess is, he’d be able to handle Java.

It’s actually easy (in principle) to measure the programming facet of intelligence: CS programs do this with weed-out classes.
My point is that that angry hungry hordes don't occur anywhere.

The galaxy brain trading commodity from the prepper forums is "balistic wampum", which is just a fancy way of saying "bullets", specifically bullets in common calibers. It's galaxy brain because these same forums are talking about how you need 5 different guns to protect yourself from the ravenous cannibal that used to be your neighbor. So who are you going to trade with? That's right, the ravenous cannibal that used to be your neighbor!
I can't recommend Fusion 360 enough (it's free for non-industrial use and cross-platform) for non-professionals looking to model 3D CAD for prototypes, POCs, hobbyist consumption, etc.
I think there are two big issues there.

The first is softball and obvious. Things can work on a small scale and collapse on a large scale. We started with around 30,000 citizens per congressional district (and thus per representative). And there was a strong urging to push it lower by some. This number was envisioned as remaining as a constant, for if you dilute the power and "connection" of the average voter too much, you risk exposing yourself to politicians too far detached from their constituency which can breed tyranny, corruption, and so on. And indeed 30,000 is already pretty far up there. Today we have more than 700,000 citizens per congressional district.

The second is a more contentious issue, but perhaps even more relevant. Today we've become an increasingly divided and polarized society where nuance is increasingly a lost art. Democracy does not work in such situations. Iraq is an extreme example. Iraq is fundamentally broken up into three major groups - Shiite, Sunni, and Kurds. And these groups tend to be extremely intolerant of one another with members of each group generally adopting wholesale all views of their own group and only their own group. It just turns into a tyranny of the majority.

Somehow the United States has started trending towards this exact behavior. This wasn't always the case. While we may have had vice president engage in a duel to the death with a secretary of the treasury, these were personal conflicts. Today people are engaging more in group conflicts. Democracy works when people are willing to work together, not when they view politics as a team sport where the idea is for your side to "win" and the other side to "lose."
talking doctors into giving me certain antibiotics

a former homemaker can't possibly understand anything
about health that doctors and scientists can't figure
out, no.

sigh.

Publish a case study. Please. I beg you.

The people that went into the "people don't get better from this" statistic did not just all lay down and die. I guarantee you they went home and searched for a cure the same way you did. But they aren't here and you are.

Normally I'd say you were lucky, but you claim a testable hypothesis that made sense to an MD and then worked. And you seem rational enough that I don't think you'd be giving "specific therapies" so much credit if they hadn't made the difference.

And you know what we call alternative medicine with testable hypotheses that made sense to an MD and were then proven to work? "Medicine". We went back to leeches and maggots and poop transplants because someone proved that they work. But someone had to prove it. Someone had to brainstorm the principled explanation, someone had to write it down, someone had to add it to the standard, indexed, well-known and searchable body of knowledge. Because there are not enough doctors in the world for them to spend hundreds of hours researching each edge case when they're already massively overworked by the hour per kid it takes to stave off MMR and tetanus and pertussis. It needs to be indexed and searchable, it needs to be in the knowledge base, it needs to be standard.

Getting better from things that "people don't get better from" is by definition novel. Solving something that's common enough to have statistics is similarly valuable. A doctor friend's name will get you past the bigots and a publication will be worth his time. You claim a hypothesis, a principled explanation, and a measure of peer review, so you're good on the fundamentals. If you lead with a technical root-cause analysis and reveal your "specific therapies" with a dramatic flourish you'll even turn the "tall tales" into bonus points for creativity and some word-of-mouth publicity. Your case is entirely publishable.

So prove me wrong. Please. "That which can be destroyed by the truth should be destroyed by the truth." Publish it. Save the lives of all the future people that'll get something that "people don't get better from". If you're right about cinnamon and oregano, contribute some good hard evidence and help bring general beliefs into better alignment with reality, which'll save more lives than just the people that share your exact epidemiology. Strike that "alternative" off the medicine that healed you. I'd damn sure like to live forever and any claim that reproduces can help me do that. Bring everyone up to your level instead of sneering down your nose while handing the antivaxxers ammunition.
ComputerGuru My goal was to gain feedback. I'm pretty new to HN and thought to prefix the link with Ask HN: would lead to a discussion about how we use machine learning to calculate pricing and timelines for app development.
Would seem to me pretty simple to interlock the switch with the starter so that it would be impossible to start the car with the switch in the wrong position.
>> Almost all of the last near-decade of work in UIs has been a mistake.

> You keep saying this, and it's just not true.

You saying it's not true doesn't make it so.

> The extreme skeuomorphism in the older iOS versions was just as maligned as flat design is today.

Citation needed. As I remember, most pundits simply had some beef with a few extreme cases of skeuomorphism in iOS 6. Nobody advocated that Apple throw the baby out with the bath water as they did in iOS 7.

> It's important to remember that the move away from pull-down menus was informed by a good deal of end-user research

Again, citation needed. Windows 95, now that's informed by a good deal of research. Everything Microsoft did starting with Windows XP? Not so much.
Would love to know your rates and timelines. The estimates are calculated using ML based on historical product timelines and prices. It would be awesome to jump on an email thread or slack channel and discuss if you are interested.
Should have used jbweld, it fixes everything.
Would you mind saying a little more about the tools you like? I have a problem that I'm hoping might be tractable, but it's a little odd, so I'm looking for things to check out.

(The specific problem is having a lot of tuples of (lat, lon, placename) and I want to build something that can canonicalize all of the placenames. It's different enough from common ML problems that I'm not sure where to start.)
Science, Statistics and Lies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statist...
Are there any GitLab/GitHub repos or wikis our there people can help edit to document design for electronics manufacturing?
Oh sorry, in this case, I have misunderstood your reasoning, and Yes, I agree entirely with your point. I have never heard about the term "exceptionalism" in this context before, but it is a true fact, and I myself usually just call it 'American Hipocrisy'. Not that other countries' don't do that too, but the americans can be really good at keeping a straight wooden hard face.
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http://homepages.gac.edu/~jwotton2/PSY225/rosenthal66.pdf

https://sites.google.com/site/7arosenthal/

Per: Rosenthal & Jacobson, 1966 study, which deserves wider appreciation?

I want to emphasise 1966 was when this was published so it isn't overlooked as we all read pretty fast with these things.

edit:

Found a link to the original paper:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.488...

More recent criticism of the original:

https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2018/04/03/weve-been-here-...
Ask HN: Any interesting books/papers on the psychology behind social networks?
After reading Daniel Khaneman's "Thinking Fast and Slow" I have been thinking about the implications of mental heuristics in social network/online interaction. It would be interesting to read material on how popular social networks use cognitive biases/ "psychological tricks" such as loss aversion in their designs. Are there any good texts about to the general psychology of online interaction, or related topics such as UI design psychology?
Maybe, but I think in this case they may have gotten ripped of by Atari, it looks like they sold IP that had expired. Stardock should have done more homework. But I can see how they would feel hard done by in this case.