skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your comment and suggestion. I understand that math makes it far less approachable, but I did it like that based on my experience. I understand the concept easy but I was missing the explanation of backprop and all those formulas. However, I would reconsider putting more about the intuition of NN (for broader audience) and maybe making the math part more like "optional" or "bonus" part of the post.
> Wouldn't that make it a derivative work, legally speaking?

IANAL, but:

I think not, facts are not under copyright. If you only copy facts (and avoid copying style), then you are not creating derivative work.

Furthermore, works created by federal employees in the course of their duties are not eligible for copyright in the U.S. [0] The U.S. does not have an equivalent of crown copyright. The U.S. government can only own copyrights transferred to them by private individuals or organizations, or state and local governments which may or may not hold copyrights on their works.

[0]: https://www.usa.gov/government-works
Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die (2015)
Some of the HN content can be sketchy on the weekend when there are less people around and it falls outside the traditional HN fields of expertise. For example, I remember an article that claimed philosophy had "proved" the one true method of parenting. Few people took issue with this absurd premise.
Trump to Support DACA Protections for More Wall Funding
That doesn’t work, unfortunately: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14926189/creating-a-grad...
Discussion elsewhere in this thread doesn't corroborate your assertion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18946801

I also wasn't at any point suggesting it was okay. I posted several clarifications concerning that detail while new comments to the same effect continued to pour in, some of them snarky one liners.

I don't know what's going on here, but it's probably not what you and others are claiming is going on.
Pown Recon: open-source intelligence framework powered by graph theory
> There are plenty of alternatives to social media - email, SMS, phone calls, and even decentralized options.

I suggest watching Moxie Marlinspike's keynote for Defcon 18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG0KrT6pBPk
"Shoshana Zuboff" complaining about capitalism... let me rub my hands
Nutritional yeast on popcorn is quite tasty, add some aminos and you have a great alternative to salt and butter.
Is this a case at FB throwing money and resources at a problem as a hedge-bet to keep capturing the young impressionable minds of the internet?
Duh? How is this HN-worthy?
I meant the test itself being poorly factored. But, even in that case, I'm not sure realizing that square(inp) == square(inp) is silly would direct you to go to manual input/output lists and not something like square(inp) == inp ^ 2.

This is of course a bit of a contrived, very simple example, so it might seem silly, but I think you can imagine more complex functions where it's less clear that "computing" the expected output in some way "cheats" the test.
I don’t know how you expect that happen ‘organically’ when nearly nobody outside most of our little bubbles don’t even know that this is a problem. Regulation is pretty much the only way to really stop user data misuse, with the minor problem that the regulators don’t know what they’re doing (or don’t care).
sure, I didn't intend the summary of the mechanism as a sweeping clarification at all.

even within just the Great Lakes, this does not mean the invasive fish were necessarily the cause, in turn they may have been the result, perhaps the native fish were more dependent on thiamine than the invasive fish, and the thiamine deficiency maybe present at a lower level still say due to perhaps a change in whatever food is available to fish like plankton, plants, etc

but it does suggest a relatively cheap test for those studying the other populations: try administering B1 or other nutrients since substantial improvement by essential nutrients is hard to explain by a more complicated poisoning mechanism. I.e. if for some other species a similarly significant effect is observed in controlled correlation to some vitamin, then it's probably more significant than poisoning, i.e. we can't cure poisoning by administering vitamins. One could think that by feeding them in a new environment the animals were unknowingly spared from continuing poisoning, but that does not explain why the control group died (unless they claim Balk & co intentionally poisoned the control group of course)
It depends. I don't pursue the business but sometimes I end up taking a side-job, I just made a website, took me about 5 hours and I made about a thousand bucks. I did do a quickie logo design too. I didn't even really "build" the site, I used a static site generator and a template and made some tweaks for the client. The value to him is that he doesn't have to worry about any of the details, even if I am using a template, something he could probably do.
No, it's a scientifically accurate description of the absurd usage of the term "AI" by modern media, VC and just about everyone else.

Source: I make goofy statistical models for a living.
I'm pretty frustrated lately, I've got one client and looking to replace them or at least fill my pipeline with higher paying ones and back burner the other client unless we can renegotiate rates (current is $40/hr -- all parties live in USA), I would kill for a $100/hr contract, but I have no clue how to land/pitch one.

My primary stack: Laravel / Vue, though I've been playing with node (Feathers/express backends) as well a lot lately. I've also been playing around w/ react quite a bit. I think if I had $100/hr I could put more in the bank... this feast/famine cycle is killing my sanity.
This Jupyter integration seems really cool. Since I'm targeting educational environments it would open even more options for automated evaluation. Thanks!
Thanks for these great answers. The only point where I would disagree is your comparison with bioinformatics software. The difference there is that installing a bioinformatics package and learning to use it takes far less time than crafting an instrument, especially considering tasks like finding the right suppliers of components, and calibrating and testing the device (for which you might need other instruments). But on the other hand, perhaps building these self-made instruments can become a task for specialized, facilitating instrument-makers that are already part of many institutions.
If you recommend SquareSpace and Wix, why not Wordpress.com?
Question wasn't for me, but I charge $50 hourly and I know I'm undercharging because my clients end up being surprised at how cheap the invoice is.
What sort of work are you in?
If you are US based, you can charge more than that, even in a low cost of living area. There is currently quite a bit more work than devs.
OP was asking a genuine question that you not only did not answer, but that you then tried to cast some kind of judgment. Sometimes we need more information before jumping into the typical fray.
Just found what seems to be a solid source [1] on the origin of the phrase. And it delivers. It was a sarcastic condemnation of the media pointing out the hypocrisy, misinformation, and so forth regularly printed in papers. It comes from one of his writings of Finley Peter Dunne. The whole book ("Observations by Mr. Dooley") is available here. [2]

"Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce

an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, conthrols th' ligislachure,

baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted,

afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.

They ain't annything it don't turn its hand to fr'm explaining

th' docthrine iv thransubstantiation to composin' saleratus biskit.

Ye can get anny kind iv information ye want to in ye'er fav'rite

newspaper about ye'ersilf or annywan else. What th' Czar whispered

to th' Imp'ror Willum whin they were alone, how to make a silk

hat out iv a wire matthress, how to settle th' coal sthrike, who

to marry, how to get on with ye'er wife whin ye're married, what

to feed th' babies, what doctor to call whin ye've fed thim as

directed,--all iv that ye'll find in th' pa-apers."

Dated 1893. It's so interesting that our problems with media feel so new and even seem attributable to the digital era, yet they are literally centuries old. The digital era just brought everything to an extreme since there's more media than ever before and more people consuming it than ever before. That somebody would take a self contradictory piece of rhetoric and state it as genuine advice... well, who needs critical thinking when you have critical theory.

[1] - https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2014/today-in-medi...

[2] - https://ia802302.us.archive.org/24/items/observationsbymr047...
Do you have a portfolio of what you have built?

You can apply to some of the HN: Whos Hiring companies - I have seen people respond to ads on those threads as teams.

Where are you based? You don't sound like you're based in the US.

Do you have a consulting page setup, detailing skills and experience?
Maskless photolithographic system using low-cost projector and microscope (2005) [pdf]
Clearly. I think it varies a lot by subreddit. I used to be active on quite a few subreddits, and I've witnessed their evolution as reddit becomes more mainstream. My personal opinion is that the limit seems to be about 100k subscribers on a sub before it starts becoming garbage.
How much of this growth is from "financial engineering"?
Outstanding. A 1992 documentary that describes fb and all modern media down to a T.
Or Weebly.com
Hackers Bypass Gmail 2FA at Scale
Yes it would be: but I used the Russian nuclear testing site as my address, so they may not apply GDPR to it.
If you are self-employed in the US, you pay an additional tax before you even start your regular taxes, and this tax isn't affected by your personal deductions.

You also need to pay for your own computers, SAAS services you use, etc. The more you make, the less this becomes an issue.
Reddit is much like the internet in general. Certain corners, like HN or certain subreddits are great.
The application here is professional sports. In that context every tiny bit of weight matters. And they're not really "on the go" - they could just keep the machine on the sidelines.
Code mistakes, especially when it comes to firmware and drivers generally don't get fixed the same way hardware issues often don't. Neither is acceptable and I don't see why you're trying to argue Apple is worse when they're both terrible companies with terrible behavior.
> Regulating this space without allowing people to realize its harmful effects and make the decision for themselves will only further polarize our society.

I find that you can't make people adopt better habits and views on things (nevermind the fact that "better" is in the eye of the beholder). The best thing you can do is educate the person looking to be educated, because they'd be not only the ones looking for ways to improve, but also the ones far more open to new information. Otherwise, people remain stubborn, sometimes counteroffensively so.

That impulse – to be willing to learn of better ways to handle the world – gotta start somewhere. I reckon schools ought to have some sort of modern technology education, swift and fleeting as it currently is. Not learning the apps in itself, but navigating the nature of the Internet as a cultural phenomenon, in the way that people use it.

One thing they better learn early is that sharing personal information online might be harmful, and the effects may last well into their adulthood, whether they realize it or not. That it's not all bad, but they may want to remain careful about what, where, and when they share — not just for themselves, but for others, as well.
I have been thinking about this problem for a while. I would like a cheap, open source, commercially available kit for xyz gantry systems. That's essentially what desktop CNC machines and 3D printers are and people hack them for all kinds of purposes.

Unfortunately my current conclusion is that there is no solution that satisfies all 3 at the moment. Your best bet for building such a system is looking at cheap 3D printers and CNC machines, but it'll always be a little bit of a hack and extra work because you'll have to remove parts (hot end, drill bit..) and adapt something that was not designed with the intent of being entirely re-purposed.

If anyone here knows of a xyz gantry system kit that satisfies all 3 (cheap, open source, commercially available) please let me know.
I designed my own. You can read about it here.

https://goo.gl/Zmdoit

It has become integral part of our daily routine.
The pattern I noticed was that my behavior of eating alone in public as a woman was, in fact, unusual as other people seemed to think. I haven't noticed enough other women eating alone to notice any patterns concerning characteristics of women who eat alone. It really seems rather rare and my interest in the phenomenon was limited in scope to wondering why it got such weird reactions from other people and paying enough attention to verify that, yea, verily, it's genuinely unusual. People aren't merely making that part up.

I didn't pay attention beyond that. It's not some formal study with records, etc.
Kinda neat but it looks extremely limited in ways that I think would frustrate a beginner:

E.g. the following doesn't do anything

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int get7() { return 7; }
int main() { return get7(); }

but if you manually inline the get7() it displays 7, so returning the value from another function doesn't work which seems quite odd and I think would preclude playing with recursion. (You can assign the get7() return value to a local var and return that and it works so there is a workaround but it's awkward.)

Similarly, if there are compiler errors it gives no indication as to what the error might be. C++ compiler errors are always pretty terrible but not showing anything about where even a parse went wrong could really get in the way of fixing typos etc that can really get in the way of learning the concepts.
easier to make fine adjustments to

Experienced the same. Boa is pretty good, but it seems to tighten almost uniformly along the length of the cable. Which is probably ideal if your boot has a perfect fit to your foot, but otherwise becomes a pain in the, eh, foot. I have problems with pressure on the top of my feet and with the boa system it seems there's either too much pressure there or not tight enough around the legs. Might be resolved by finding the proper fit but laces are really more forgiving when it comes to that.
I use an addon to always redirect to the old.reddit.com and ublock to aggressively block divs that are for advertiser's benefit rather than mine. Along with RES, it makes for a pretty nice experience. The only real downside is that once subs get large enough they invariably turn to shit.
r/spacex is now 300k and still quite good I think
If you haven't yet, try both vitamin D3 and magnesium supplements. They're correlated with generalized mental health issues and some deficiency in both is common.
Amazing that the idea was first suggested in a PhD thesis, even before we could observe the rings directly!
Would also be interested.
At this point, sadly yes. I'm just experimenting to see if the live visualization is useful.
I agree that with _a lot_ of effort Dell could have invested $15B in the stock market in 2013 and done well for himself.

My objection is to the claim that he's somehow incompetent because he didn't outperform the market with his activity. He basically got the same returns for himself as he would have "in the market", and created economic opportunity for tens of thousands of people in the process. To me, that's a great success.
Almost every Bank in the world?
When security is the top and only goal, you'll end up with a dystopian prison society controlled by authoritarian governments and corporations. IMHO that's an even worse alternative.
Difference being there really are literelly thousands of alternative comments, whereas there are definitely not thousands of alternative electronic autolacing systems :)
Windows 10 Mobile Is Dead Dead
Anytime an article about "climate change" use words like "could" "might" "potentially" and this one "risks" we are in speculation, not demonstration land.

If the science was demonstrated there would be no need to use these qualifiers. As always read these things with a grain of salt.

Yes, there will be consequences from climate change but it's not something we can't deal with and some of them are at least partially good such as added vegetation.
Russian troll spotted? Maybe that's why Facebook "reactivated" the account so easily.
maybe you should be a little less critical about someone who actually built something extremely useful and spend some time investigating the topic of "incremental reading" -- reading info and retaining info are two different things

https://www.supermemo.com/help/read.htm
Lobbying just means trying to influence someone’s opinion. Corporate lobbiests are lobbying corrupt officials. Lobbying isn’t the problem; corruption is
IBM has a long history of this.
Let me rephrase your question, which should make the answer clear:

> It's interesting how dissent in these round earth threads is downvoted to death. I wonder what sort of effect this has on the undecided?
Ask HN: What strategies do you use to become more open minded?
Due to the efficiency that close-mindedness offers, it's in our nature to gravitate towards it. However, business, cultural, and societal opportunities are realized by those who don't take the easy path of always going along with the herd's current assumptions about the world.

Peter Thiel's now-famous interview question of "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?" seeks, at least in part, to tease out whether the interviewee possesses an open-mindedness allowing her to see things differently from the herd.

---

To offer this question more focus, let's define being "open minded" to manifest itself in the following ways:

- regularly doubting one's understanding of the world while simultaneously taking positions and acting based off of that current, imperfect understanding.
- grateful when new knowledge or understanding leads to changing one's worldview to be more accurate.

---

Thanks for any strategies or thoughts you can give here, HN. I mull over this one often :)
> The man who became famous selling computers more cheaply over a newish thing called the internet

As is well known Dell started this out of a dorm room in 1984 and was successful and famous well before the Internet ...
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I disagree. I don’t know based on what you are making claims, but based on my anecdotical experience knowing fundamentals help low level coders to pass interview but has little to do with performing well. Based on my experience (currently responsible for a huge chunk of a major gaming platform, with hundreds millions users), inflexibility, emotional immaturity, inability to think outside of the box, inability to listen and admit failures, lack of emphaty, not understanding basics of sales(to sell own ideas) are major things that contribute to a bad performance reviews.
Our strongest engineers will not pass google interview without preparation (me included) and it is telling. Especially given the fact that we have higher profits per employee than google (we know what we are doing)
>There are plenty of alternatives to social media - email, SMS, phone calls, and even decentralized options.

Someone didn't see the video[0] where the Facebook SDK, packaged into other apps, was sending all of the information plausible/possible back to Facebook - before the Terms and Conditions of the application could even be accepted.

The problem is far greater than you've perceived it to be.

[0] - https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9941-how_facebook_tracks_you_on_...
Good work, pleasing UI (when it works). Please also compare with the excellent pythontutor.com website (it works with C++ too: http://pythontutor.com/cpp.html ).

Examples of differences I can see:

* pythontutor requires a backend and does not run entirely in the browser.

* pythontutor supports much more of C++ (i.e., has fewer limitations)

* shows pointers, heap and stack better.

But there are probably many more differences; would like to see a comparison among similar resources. Anyway, I think this sort of live visualization is indeed very useful; great work and please continue.
Why Do We Hurt Robots?
What’s the TL;DW?
Are molecules people now? As long as we can agree on what "people" means then there really isn't any contradiction here.

There's some contention whether animals are people (yes, in my opinion) but most of us can agree that stealing energy from lifeless matter is ethically fine.
Have you been a reader of HN comments for very long?

A common trend in mutating discussion is to resort to oblique rhetoric, such that the reader is forced into a mindset of doubt, before participating.

Example: Open Source Politics

Rhetoric: Is it really a good thing that distributing free, open sourced software promotes innovation in the manner it does? What if this removes the incentive to profit from true innovation? Wouldn’t the best innovators be smart enough to accept payment and restrict distribution and reverse engineering on their best work? What if open source stifles the best software preventing it from ever seeing the light of day, because the best inventors cannot earn a living?

And so on.
So my last reply on this and the nesting is not going further, as it is really very off topic. But your first example sentence is in past tense and implies that the law already has passed (at least that is my interpretation) and the second example sentence is in future tense, not present tense.

But it might also be a cultural difference and not language difference I don't know.
You want running shoes to be as light as possible. The book the sports gene went over how slender ankles (less weight on the feet) is a significant factor in running performance and potential. I don't think adding a motor and batteries to a runner's shoes will help them, unless they're looking to get more of a workout over the same period of time.
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I don’t deny that these companies do some good, but we should look at the totality of their output, not focus on the few good things they do. I am having a hard time objectively saying these companies are a net good for society.

The existence of other communication mediums does not absolve Facebook and others of their role in consolidating the major communication mediums into their portfolio. A bunch of (mostly) white, male millennial Americans should not be controlling the worlds communication. And I say this as a millennial.

I don’t quite understand why people’s concern over Facebook centralizing and controlling communication for the entire world (and censoring it) is somehow hysteria or an overreaction.
"Data is the new oil" is such a concise phrase to provide context regarding the recent controversies of big tech.

If anything, I'd say data is more valuable than oil. For one it's "renewable", but also the insight that can be gathered from data gives it a level of reach that even surpasses oil (which is very versatile in its own right).

Data breeches are the new oil spills, the destabilizing by-product of burning fossil fuels has a lot of similarity to how the largest data brokers can disrupt entire industries, political systems, and neighborhoods.

Data is a target for geo-political actors, whether it be slipping spyware into network infrastructure or tracking your own citizens.

When we look back 100 years from now, I won't be surprised if the events that occurred during the mass commercialization of oil (anti-trust, regulation, military action, productivity gains, facilitation of developing economies) also occur due to data.