skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Luckily it looks like having it once confers immunity.

https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/ask-well-immune-to...

Also bodes well for our ability to make a vaccine.
While there's certainly mark-ups, the most popular modules are made by their manufacturers rather than outsourced to China. Doepfer in Germany, Make Noise in the US, Intellijel in Canada, ALM in the UK, Mutable Instruments is outsourced but only to another part of France. Long lead times on certain modules are par for the course when they're being made by one person. Of course, when it's one person making everything, the total output of stock is going to be low, and thus the economy of scale that something like a Raspberry Pi is able to take advantage of is reduced, especially with moving parts like potentiometers, which can cost more per unit than a micro-controller.

There are people making modules for dirt cheap with razor thin margins, mostly as a side job, and there's always the DIY route if you want to save a few pennies.
Borg isn't really low on developers, it has high churn, i.e. repels developers.
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Yes, what you describe is the classic doomsday disease.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4855500/facebook-10-year-challeng...

https://twitter.com/facebook/status/1085675097766031360?ref_...

and rebuttal.

I know that Facebook's actions mean that it no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt but this seems like a non story that someone really wants to be a story.

Thinking about it lest say 10,000 people respond, is that even enough data to move the needle? Which photo do you use for the old vs recent? There is alot of cleanup that manually needs to be done for this to be a decent data set. Basic common sense says this is a non story.

I did my post undergrad research in 2000 in neural nets and the data sets were our biggest limiting factor, second was computation time. 10,000 data points was a huge set back then and still wasn't enough for most tasks.
Alternatives: https://framework7.io/ and https://ionicframework.com/

Did anybody evaluate all of them? On iOS I experienced that most approaches have issues keeping the header in place when the keyboard shows up.
Can you think of other challenges from the past that might be good for training neural networks?

Also, is it hard to figure out the origins of a meme? Lots of them are categorized and researched pretty well already.
It's highly likely that the baseband is closed source, because IIRC basebands contain telco's industry secrets.

However, I'm more interested whether the WiFi stack is open source.
>Please don't take that as my personal opinion, just a point for a good argument. If you have a nice family, raised and supported kids well into their adulthood, that is all very nice on a personal level, but globally what have you done?

You don't have to do anything "globally". We're not pop culture superheroes out to save the world. The obsession with "making a dent"-porn has to stop.

If more people were "very nice on a personal level" we'd already be paradise.
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This is true for me... Windows for gaming.

There are a few other things I need it for (like FPGA/circuit tools, home theater programming, etc.) but those can be easily handled by a VM.

That said, I am thinking of switching back from Mac to Windows for a daily driver, or to Linux, because these new MBPs are so bad. I need another keyboard replacement and I do not want to be without my computer for a week. This time double keypresses instead of none. What a joke, and the TouchBar makes VI hard (and no, after 31 years of VI I am not switching to caps lock).
Technology is not the problem, people are the problem, even in the mentioned books people start the big event, people fail many time on solving it(by arrogance, naivety ...)

Sure we should not be paranoid but why should be naive, why risk more then you have to. We are resources for capitalist entities to exploit us.
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Powergrid is my favorite free for all game at the moment. If you have enough people together then Scotland Yard is a great 1 vs many game to play as well.
Amazon's solution to this is to create its own house brands and then promote those. I've had good luck with their brands. The quality and price are good.

Bath towel is a good example. I'll only buy softlines like that on Amazon if they have their own brand. When I go search on Amazon and get the piles of random stuff, I just don't buy anything. It's not worth the trouble to sort through it all.
There are others, but they are much worse: https://youtu.be/61sN42E2WbE
I was surprised that the Toyota Camry I rented from Avis had it too.
Pledge could only prevent this by effectively disabling the feature entirely. If you were to implement the necessary logic to determine which "LOCAL DATA" statements were legal and which weren't, it would be trivial from that point to block the illegal ones with or without pledge.

Pledge is meant to be used for stopping your software from doing unanticipated things, not anticipated things. In this case they anticipated this behavior and purposely kept it even though it's potentially dangerous.

EDIT: Sorry, perhaps you meant that the application which is embedding the MySQL client ought to use pledge. In that case, that does seem like a good defensive usage of pledge which would prevent this kind of attack, notwithstanding the need to fix the issue in the client itself.
The Star Realms expansions can be really fun. We don't use them all of the time, but the hero and event cards add some neat new gameplay mechanics.
i've been using Amaroq for a few months now and its really good (i find it better than the twitter app)
Also interesting:

"Substitutes: Japanese men woo silicone sex dolls to overcome loneliness" [RT, 26 min, 2018]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgbTrusgsqA
Photos and videos. All My email. I as a musician have about 40 gigabytes of personal recordings that I have used for auditions and pre selection rounds in competitions. All in all it is about 800gb and growing.

Since my son was born the amount of photos and shitty quality videos that I backup is staggering.
As lame as this is; it's done by many companies, as I understand it, including Amazon and Oracle, at least that's what I heard.
FDA threatens to pull e-cigarettes off the market
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This is one of the products which I have ordered frequently and with which I didn't expect any problems. Almost all the reviews are good, the price is good and I've been subscribing and saving for years.

So I'm genuinely curious why you thought Amazon wasn't good for this item.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000XEV9YE
Nextdoor does postcard based verification so you know people are in your neighborhood. There is still some name calling, but no bots or pure trolls.
I worked in one startup where the CEO worked in the open office "just like us" but he usually worked in a conference room (the nicest one!), not only for meetings. If he wanted the space, he got it.
I'm sure our kids will laugh at this and will spend much less times on their phones or in their rooms than we did.
The analogy in the title is very strained to start with, and by the time he throws in a Zork reference the metaphor totally collapses.

Setting aside the rhetorical style, I think the main argument is pretty weak. People claiming Facebook has hidden motives aren't skeptical of technology; they're skeptical of Facebook. People raise issues about AI reinforcing bias, but in the cases I've seen those are mostly people who work in tech.

Basically, I don't think the author establishes that people actually fear technology, and he doesn't really consider when technological skepticism is appropriate.
The government has already announced the paperwork checks will be suspended at the start.
Even if you speak only of shape, WGS 84 != EGM96 != EGM2008. The geometry handles increasingly more and more subtle details.
Sort of.

Earlier this year, the Tenth Circuit court upheld a preliminary injunction granted in favor of an electronics equipment manufacturer against a reseller of its goods in a trademark infringement action. In Beltronics v. Midwest Inventory Distribution, the reseller (Midwest) argued that it was able to resell the manufacturer’s goods based on the first sale doctrine. The court, however, disagreed with this assessment and ruled that the resellers violated the manufacturer’s trademark rights because Midwest’s sales caused consumer confusion.

https://www.theiplawblog.com/2009/12/articles/trademark-law/...
I feel this same thing with coding every day. Architects and Engineers design building/bridges that last lifetimes, Doctors cure people, Lawyers can advance our legal system.

We crank out code under deadlines for projects that get shuttered/replaced within a couple years due to changing tech business.
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I did not think that "geometry" meant only "is the earth flat or not".
Why does it feel like people comment on things without even a cursory exposure to the central ideas. And if there is exposure, there’s certainly no demonstrated comprehension.

That’s not why it works. It works because Kondo provides a robust algorithm that works pretty darn well for 99.9% of inputs.

She breaks things down into approachable steps.

She provides an order of operations rooted in an understanding of human psychology: start with the easy things first. Then, move to harder things. Don’t exhaust yourself mentally. Don’t burn up your willpower at the beginning of the project.

She provides routines and ways of making decision making that preserve willpower and help you to avoid the trap of overthinking things.

Marie Kondo is an architect and engineer and psychologist and artist. This is her power.
> It is what happens IN PRACTICE that matters.

Funny you should say that, because when you compile Rust programs in debug mode (e.g., how most tests are run), then overflow results in a panic. This isn't foolproof, but that's what "in practice" means. For me, overflow bugs tend to be caught in tests.

You're getting too hung up on one specific point (integer wrapping) and being too bombastic about it. Consider other facets of safety such as exception safety, data races and ownership.
I can see that 3 hour call being real - I’ve had similar experiences with amazon customer service that I could foresee becoming a long call, such as canceling Prime: they certainly made me wait about 15-20 minutes while trying to “procure permission” and it ended up being some kind of verbal guarantee that another depr would email me the confirmation. After a few hours I did get the confirmation and refund. The entire call did take about 45 minutes: quite a frustratingly long time.

Navigating amazon customer service itself has become a learning experience. Typically the fastest way when getting an annoying customer service agent who “just doesn’t get it” is to request a transfer to amazon USA customer service. You can also request speaking to a supervisot and continue escalating. Sometimes calls end up being 30-45 minutes regardless of method, since they do not always make transferring to amazon USA easy (and then once you get to amazon USA you play the same game over again).

It’s certainly nowhere as good as my original post made it sound, but it’s still better than most online shops.
NPR has an article on the Central African Republic's scouts who promote vaccination, relay messages about the Ebola outbreak, and domestic chores — https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/01/19/6808273...

Twitter thread from a MSW/JD with some more info regarding the Ebola outbreak and interactions between DRC, CAR, and South Sudan — https://twitter.com/geopoliticaljd/status/108699357731649945...
I think we used meat as species. But use with moderation, since we now can buy as much as we want and when we want.

Unless you have a special disease, exercise and be done. Moderate all kinds of foods. Don't eat late at night. You will die one day, regardless of diet.
Did the Cryptocurrency Revolution Fail?
(Why) the Universal Mother Is the Antidote to the Authoritarian Father
I had the same gripe about working at Twitter- the two main metrics were daily active users and user active minutes. User research was way understaffed so a lot of the side effects of optimizing metrics remained unchecked

Edit: I wrote “The vanity metric paradox” a while ago to express it more clearly http://dimitarsimeonov.com/2018/03/23/the-vanity-metric-para...
I would pay a lot for the internals of a 2018 15" MBP in a 2015 13" MBP shell, even with much more limited battery life and only TB-3 (and audio) ports.
Tech crunch is up its own behind on this one. The first potential reason is "resentment" people have toward the rich and glamorous San Jose lifestyle or because technology is "like magic" to the simple lay-folk. People are distrustful of things that have a track record of losing their trust, and tech is very high on this list.

The other day I was returning some umbrellas to a Target. I had bought them online and picked them up at a different store. When trying to return them the nice old woman at the customer service counter had issues receiving the inventory because Target's system was not accepting the return of inventory whith such circuitous provenance. We were both intelligent humans, I had a valid receipt, and in another era she could have just taken the umbrellas and the issue would have been resolved. But today we have software which contains all the rules, and often these rules extend out into the world and begin to govern our lives.

My example is silly, but think about how often tech restricts you versus how often is frees you. People reading this on HN might feel the answer is about even, but most people not in tech would probably have a very different answer.
I feel the opposite. I don't use twitter but Mastodon is kind of an echo chamber.

1. There's no way to discover content. Sure you can search for tag but that's absurdly inconvenient. The pinable UI is borked and awkward as it allows to subscribe only to one tag. The language filter is laughable at best.

2. There's just so much spam. Just take a look at public or local timeline - if you're not on a small isntance it's just people doing the same pointless messages like "umm spaghetti"

3. Only now proper moderetion tools are introduced - before you'd get suspended with a mysteri 403 error where you can't even log out lol. This was heavily abused by mastodon.social administrator and every github issue closed and purged.

I'm so sad to see Mastodon overtake actually well thought out social networks such as Diaspora*. I'm not even touching how much of a step back the whole Fediverse is to XMPP or Federation protocols.
I used Atom for a couple years and raved about it's features and package management but when it came to using it as an IDE, it fell short for one reason. It doesn't have a configurable way to debug across all languages. For example, try debugging python vs node. Python works well but node doesn't afaik.

OTOH vscode does have a way to do this using a `launch.json` file which is flexible enough to add custom debugging profiles for a single project and it can be stored directly in version control. I tried the editor out because of this one feature alone in order to debug node and haven't looked back.
Sorry, I'm not a Ray's person. Can you recap?
Three of the eight reviews on that page call out quality issues....
There are certain swaths of items that you literally can't buy anymore because they are completely overrun with counterfeiters. Perfume/cologne and board games are two big ones.

Amazon is, at this point, undoubtedly one of the largest enablers of open counterfeiting in the world. It needs to be met with a massive investigation and crippling fines. That probably won't happen until we have a federal government that is no longer slavish prostituted to business interests, unfortunately.
If you are worried, then continue to eat a small amount of meat. But be thoughtful about how it is sourced. And try to have respect for the animals you decide to consume. A few years ago, Zuck challenged himself to only eat animals he himself killed. There is something admirable and redemptive in that way of being. Not saying to copy... just saying...
The author stated the meaning of "dark forest":

> civilizations fear one another so much that they don’t dare to reveal themselves lest they immediately be considered a potential threat and destroyed

and then completely misuses the term, instead talking about how consumers of technology are suspicious of creators of technology.
Well established endocrinology of the brain. Hormones have demonstrable positive outcomes on memory, cognition, neuroplasticity. Despite recent trends for de-personalized and distance education. It will be exciting to see what light neuroscience can shed on learning.

Tangential to this is what I consider an absolutely extraordinary phenomenon. The unexpected explosion of creativity that occurs in a subject subsumed in the throes of new romantic love ;)
Is this the future of every society?
We need a breakthrough in package delivery. Over half of people’s online shopping complaints are due to items not arriving on time, being delivered to the wrong address, being stolen...
+1 for Carcassonne. Easy to learn and good balance between luck and skill. Good to bring while traveling.
Plants May Not Have Ears, but They Can 'Hear' Way Better Than We Thought
One thing I am optimizing for is health and specifically the rate at which I can absorb and retain information. Amongst other things like overall well being and capacity to do sports and other activities.

Ideally I want a diet that allowed me to maximize that without supporting the animal slaughterhouses built around the globe.

Until today, I thought I found this perfect diet (whole food plant based). But now with these two articles I mentioned, I am confused who is actually correct.

And sure, we all die one day, I just want to live a good life with least negative impact on other living beings and environment whilst still being the healthiest I can be. Hence this HN thread asking for opinions on how to achieve this.
Ah okay, fair enough! Guess I just don't really have that much personal data but it makes sense in your situation.
I... wow. That you think it's OK to leave a perfectly salvageable marriage (My wife and I get along great. I love her. We have fun together.) when you have (or are primary guardian of) children this attached to you is... Ask yourself, are you a man? Will you accept the responsibilities that have been placed upon you?

(I'm not completely unsympathetic, but I think you need to think harder about the full consequences of your actions on those around you.)
Congratulations, you got lucky and were directed to a non-counterfeit seller. But your anecdote is obviously not representative of everyone's experience.
https://www.wired.com/story/why-teens-arent-partying-anymore...
Analyzing papers in a glam journal for a year isn’t a very good way to judge what counts as science in terms of what is publishable. (“Just because it’s in Nature doesn’t mean it’s wrong!”)

That said, I agree that most of science is about becoming less wrong (choosing the least worst among available models for how observations arose), and that type of model selection problem is what Bayesian approaches excel at.

“Considering the evidence that preceded this study (or trial, or series), what explanatory model does the weight of the evidence best support?”

This need not be a binary decision (witness Bayes model averaging) and it need not be static (Bayesian updating explicitly evolves from a prior, whether flat or subjective). But it better matches the way most people approach research and probability, imho. Extraordinary claims must be supported by extraordinary weights of evidence, and frequentist testing in a vacuum doesn’t enforce this intuition.

Disclaimer: I am a statistician and a part-time Bayesian. Not a zealot, and not a jihadist against subjective inference. I use empirical Bayes procedures when they improve results on an ongoing basis, and I avoid them when the effort is more than the expected benefit can justify. The tipping point has moved over time, as more, faster, and better tools have decreased the cost (effort) to obtain a posterior distribution over complicated models.
It's two baskets - dropbox and local.
Yes, seriously. It's an experience that some depressed people have, but it's not universal by any means.
Don’t give them an expectation, first ask what range they are offering. Otherwise give an outrageous number and say it’s negotiable. If they refuse to interview you because you gave too high of a number up front (before any kind of negotiation happened), then you don’t want to work there anyway!
I love this. Thanks for sharing. I wonder if there is a way to make a true dual system on Windows, with full graphical support (even if it is the Linux console), where you can flip between Windows desktop, Linux Desktop (if desired), and Linux console with a "switch desktop" hotkey.

I think I will try this on one of my windows computers. I can't switch from Mac to Linux because I use too much non Linux software, but most of it is on Windows. Adobe suite, Ableton, Native Instruments, etc.

Does anyone know a way to virtualize Linux like the thought above please?
10,000 ?

It's probably many many more times that about three times the magnitude.

It might be a bit of a noisy dataset now that it's a meme.
Cleanup is standard work for any dataset. With enough money and a pile of Indians working for cheap hourly rates you can clean through A LOT of data. 10,000? Try a million!
How about you have 1.3+ billion subject?
I just don't like the Forbidden series, I'd try it at a friend's house before you buy.
Interesting! In some ways, you're describing the difference between art and craft, which might help explain why I often enjoy early albums more than later ones, or at least appreciate them for different reasons.

I've always loved programming, but whenever I'm asked why I don't switch from ops to development, my answer is that I don't want to destroy my hobby by becoming a professional. I've seen it happen, not only to photographers that shoot weddings and anything else that pays, but accomplished artists who can't afford to not spend their time and talent to "create new artwork for our HQ reception and conference rooms, since the old artwork doesn't match the new logo". It can be heartbreaking.
Andrew Gelman, a pioneer of the methodology of Bayesian statistics (cited in original article; he doesn't call himself a Bayesian in the philosophical sense) responded to the ASA statement so:

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/asa_...

His conclusion there is that scientific institutions are not accepting, as they need to be, of systematic uncertainty. Elsewhere he says that scientists who are not statisticians should concentrate on gathering quality data: noise in data often leads to spurious point estimates:

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2017/02/11/measuremen...

In the first link, Gelman talks of the "garden of forking paths": this is essentially a generalisation of the idea of p-hacking to recognise that perfectly honest researchers will not conduct unbiased analyses because of the myriad of parameters that estimates depend on. The solution is to move away from summarising results through point estimates to construct statistical models where you can explore the space of possible analyses; there has been a revolution in the techniques for doing so through the application of Monte-Carlo Markov-chain techniques to construct posterior distributions.