skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The goals for a mouse are also set in stone and simple: maximize brain dopamine. Almost everything a mouse does can be described in terms of maximizing that 'reward', and that can lead to a host of other emergent behavior.

I don't see much difference between that and Open AI's engine: https://openai.com/five/. Watch some of those games and you definitely see the same dynamic formulation and complex decision-making, none of which was directly programmed.
Politiscope, an app to track Congressional voting records and bills
Modern languages should simply support the actual characters, e.g. ≤ ≠ ≥ ← → etc.
Don't do this. MySQL removed result caching because it caused problems. https://mysqlserverteam.com/mysql-8-0-retiring-support-for-t...
The irony and tragedy of modern capitalism.

Everyone wants to get paid, but no one wants to pay.

Since ones in power have more control, the top end up keep getting paid more, while the lower ends keep getting paid less.

One example would be equity firms.

They buy a firm with borrowed money, and in order to pay back the loan, interest on the loan, AND make a profit, they apply the expensive knowledge learned from fancy MBA schools (that charge bucks) and lower cost and increase profit. And lowering cost always means paying less to employees. And increasing profit means charging more.

Little do the super rich realize, that soon enough there will be no middle class to buy their stuff/services. And eventually the rich/superrich can only sell stuff to each other, while us peasants watch on smartphones from our slums using youtube service and enduring all the ads since we can't afford the $20/month to hide the ads...
Meanwhile in Paris, you might be having a double masters in International Law, but still be earning 25% less than an entry-level Software Developer with just a Bachelor's degree. In most organisations, simply sort the employees in increasing order of age, and qualifications; and decreasing order of salary; and you're likely to find software developers top the charts.

Of course, the precondition is that you should be worth your salt, but finally I have come to realise that salaries are dictated by market dynamics. Your compensation is based on how difficult it is to replace you.
> ...but why not create a public utility that creates essential medication for the lowest possible price?

One possible reason I can think of is then nobody would develop new essential medications because they know the government will just nationalize it after they spend the billions getting it approved through the FDA.

And everyone + dog would be calling their medication "essential" in order to get the benefits of governmental production.
There are ETFs tracking corporate debt.
https://politiscope.io
"To get a quick idea of what this looks like, check out the latest movie. In this movie you can see a simulated 3D C. elegans being activated in an environment. Its muscles are located around the outside of its body, and as they contract, they exert forces on the surrounding fluid, propelling the body forward via undulutory thrust. In this model, the neural system is not considered and patterns of muscle contraction are explicitly defined"

http://docs.openworm.org/en/0.9/projects/
You can see when you run "apt-get install ..." or "apt-get upgrade" that it opens multiple connections to download packages...

And the Debian contributor who wrote TFA says it's possible, and I'm sure he knows a lot more about it than I do.
To the extent that the taxes impose a deadweight loss, competing tax incentives are a positive sum game, not a zero sum game.
So would my cat, yet feral cats survive the winter.
You can add filters on the blower to clean up the air. Especially important in cities.
You know how most people don’t read on the internet? Most people don’t click on links either, on Reddit or Hacker News. When I posted the article text the story was 50 minutes old and about to drop off the front page. I wanted to make it more obvious who aren’t into this specific field what’s going on. Half an hour later when I checked again the article had 50 points and was near the top of the page. Posting the article text got Reich’s response to the hit piece much more visibility than it otherwise would have. That’s a good thing.
Nothing in two million years of evolution programmed us to do programming. There is no common abstraction between it, and ape-on-the-savanna type problems.

Yet, nearly every human being can be taught how to program... But we aren't anywhere close to building an AI that can.
Keybase adds support for Stellar wallets
ah my bad, sorry. haven't really tested much outside of my setup. I'll put in some fixes, thanks!
Executor was released under an open source license in 2008. I wonder if any of its code was used in Advanced Mac Substitute.
You can try something like facebook's flow which can be done as comments so no transpiler is needed.
That doesn't mean we lack agency, it just means agency is complicated by other factors. It's not an either-or thing.
Last question: do you use Gandi as a forwarder? If yes, I truly can't understand how it is possible that the forwarded emails (non POP3) can pass the spf on the google side, since your mail server acts as a forwarder and most definitely is not allowed to do so, according to the SPF records.

Thanks for engaging!
That's a good point. It's true that societies can lapse briefly (relatively) to intolerance, but on the whole, we seem to be constantly improving and moving towards a stable tolerance. People forget how brutal life has been historically, compared to now.
To be fair to the apt developers/maintainers - the security _is_ automatic when using their tool to talk to their repos.

It's not their responsibility to automate security for people using their repos via different tools.

If the solution was just "install certbot on the server and use a free https cert" then perhaps you could make an argument saying maybe they should just do it. But when the problem space includes aggressively using a global (largely volunteer) mirror network and supporting local caching proxies, I can completely understand why they'd say "Nope. Not our problem, not our responsibility to provide a solution. We've got other more productive ways to spend our and our mirror volunteers time and effort".
Ask HN: What are the recipe websites to beat?
What Type of Computer to Get for Your Business #InHomeComputerHelpHonolulu
> And as many others in this thread have pointed out, the "sign on bonus" she appears to reference apparently vests over 4 years, which is not that uncommon.

Its also prevalent, that you receive accelerated vesting in case the company terminates the worker(such as layoff or merger)
I found that going cold turkey never really worked for me.

What I did find worked was tracking my usage and reporting on it each week. Most of my mindless usage happens on my phone, so I used the built-in Google Wellbeing app.

Every week I'd write down my hours on key problem apps (reddit, facebook, youtube) and then comment on it. Perhaps I spent more time than usual on youtube this week, or I was able to cut things down.

Recording this metric allows for several benefits:

1. Create correlations. For example, I found that I was weakest during weekends when I didn't have any plans to start my day. I then fixed this by ensuring I always had some kind of task/event first thing in the morning.

2. Allow for non-internalised judgement. Since everything is reflected on after the fact, you can judge your performance without beating yourself up. The bit of perspective really helps.

3. Allows for celebration. When you do improve, you are able to celebrate and feel proud of your achievement. I've found this boost to be really motivating.
The github page: https://github.com/kousun12/eternal
I'll just list some that come to mind:

- The front end can do whatever it wants. The back end is where all important data integrity and security logic should go.

- Sessions. No one has mentioned sessions? Sessions are somewhat important.
If we want the equivalent of 1987 Aeroflot, then sure, let’s do that. If the products are all bad, what’s stopping you from making a good one? You’d be a billionaire overnight, assuming the market agrees that they are all bad. I’ve used France’s government sponsored taxi app and it doesn’t come close to Uber’s. I’ve ridden in public buses and they don’t come close to the private FAANG shuttles in Silicon Valley. If you build technology optimized for everyone, that means it’s necessarily optimized for no one.

As far as messaging apps, iMessage benefits me greatly. The premise that apps don’t benefit the user is flawed: if they didn’t benefit the user, nobody would use it — except government, we have no choice on using government or not. If the government meets 99 people’s needs, but doesn’t meet my needs, I’m stuck. I can’t switch to an alternative. If an app meets 99 people’s needs but not mine, I can switch to an alternative or build my own. Nothing is stopping you and your friends from building the most amazing messaging app ever. From someone who grew up remember Lada and Yugo, my faith in collectivism in product development is admittedly thin. Very few products from Soviet era factories were any good, I have no expectation that a government built Messaging service would be any better.
I think this is a better image for the Pythagorean theorem:

https://i.imgur.com/UxZ3fQR.png
>Believing something is wrong does not mean the adherents are out to kill people or use force against them.

Most of human history disagrees, especially in the case of gay rights.
LOL, yes, so much fun ;) But meh, patents smachents, the important thing, in my view, is that whatever is keeping you from being creative, find a way to break out. For me, I grew up on a farm in a rural area and it ways moving to San Fran then Seattle and being exposed to all kinds of different and new things.

Funny story, my Mom (who was amazing) came to visit me and I took her to a cool food festival. She commented (and I will never forget this) "Wow there are a lot of different kinds of people here" for my Mom seeing so many people of different colors and forms was mind blowing, but bless her heart, she just sat back and took it all in.

Keep in mind, she was a second generation German immigrant. Anyhow, she saw this amazing thing and immediately understood what I was experiencing. So, for each person, I think, there is something different that will click you out of the trench you might be in and let you see something different. Not sure how to explain it any better.
Interesting, do you have an explanation for this?
Google: Please Stop Telling Lies About Me
Cardi B did a video on Instagram about the government shutdown that got a lot of attention. I wouldn't count it out for Snapchat. Besides, no one thought Facebook was going to become a tool for politics when it first came out.
I appreciate your insight and I even agree on most of it, but the imperative (even bossy) tone of your comment feels offputting to me.
That's what seems apparent to me, so far anyway. AI is more about augmenting human intelligence than it is about smart machines. All that impressive DL stuff is ultimately providing more tools for humans to be more productive.
Thank you for the compliment. I wrote the beginning of it (B&W graphics (QuickDraw), filesystem, port to Sun3/60, port to NeXT), although people smarter than I did some of the heavy lifting (port to DOS, port to Windows, color graphics (QuickDraw), synthetic CPU.
You are spot on. Most of these tech rounds are a mix of coding, behavioral and design rounds (even the lunch interview matters). But when judging on coding ability, I'd be cautious of rejecting candidates with real world experience but may not be able to afford a good month of dedicated leetcode practise.
Read about these nonsense hoaxes here:

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/01/15/taking-down-the-lates...
Calling it a ‘war on science’ has consequences
> If you are having trouble, get the SQL working first, and then figure out how to make your ORM generate that SQL.

This, specifically, is very good advice: using the ORM as a tool to implement a SQL-first solution. And not just good advice for beginners.
https://scoot.co/san-francisco/
When biology comes into play, you can see how weak our understanding and abilities are. We can barely simulate small proteins of a few thousand atoms. Accurately simulating an entire cell is (at the moment) in the realm of science fiction. Only inaccurate abstractions can be used to model it.

However I have to object in a way about the brain.
To me, there's an unanswered question: Is the rest of the human brain as simple and "generic" as the convolutional neural networks we made inspired by the vision system? Or is each networks' architecture and "algorithms" developed specifically for a task? In the latter case we might still be a very long way from anything resembling AGI.

However my personal estimation is that most of the things we do can be modeled using existing tools when scaled and modified appropriately (ie RNNs). There's also the ugly job of stitching those systems together, but it's not that different from what happens in nature.
Most plants actually use oxygen at night and will increase the level of CO2 while you sleep. The exceptions will be plants that use the CAM pathway [0] - succulents mostly.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crassulacean_acid_metabolism
Facebook has a limited amount of mitigation that they can do because of the nature of WhatsApp. Trying to suppress Fake News is hard when you can't even read the content
You'll recall the financial crisis in 2008, where many of us taxpayers paid massively to bail out these private investors using their own money.
I guess that explains why I have install ca-certificates, and ubuntu doesn't ship with them.
There's your ubiquitous singularity lurking somewhere near. Symbiosis between CPU and a Human advancing CPU's evolution. Not exactly what we were promised!
I read and thought about your comment for a while because I am also a white male, mid 30's, low end of the socioeconomic status in my childhood, and at one time had a lot of the same thoughts as you.

Here's what changed my mind. I'm speaking just about my own experiences, it may or may not be useful to you.

1. I realized that survivorship bias was clouding my judgement. This was tough to accept because I first had to philosophically accept that life isn't fair and random chance plays a meaningful factor in everyday life.

2. I realized that this movement isn't about me. When I get defensive over a statement that is statistically true about white men, I'm trying to find a place for myself in a movement that has very little to do with me. I realized that there is and will continue to be a wide gulf between what is true in general and true statistically. Both are important, but in different contexts.

3. I discovered that I had a very poor idea of what non-male and non-white people experience on a day-to-day basis. Even after hearing it I didn't understand until I found myself quitting a job over what were essentially microaggressions towards something I cared a lot about.

For example, when I was in high school there were several different ways to go through school. You could be college-bound by taking the right courses to meet entry requirements. Or you could take a more vocational track through high school, and so on. My guidance counselor assume I would go to college -- it was just treated as fact. A female friend of mine that had a similar GPA to myself had to threaten to sue to get her counselor to schedule the right courses for her. She was successful in college.

One instance of that is trivial, a lifetime of that bullshit weighs you down.

4. I understood that I cannot call for fairness in my own life because I'm way beyond what's fair already. Life isn't fair. It isn't fair that people die of cancer. It isn't fair that people can work themselves to the bone all their life and remain destitute. If I want to yell about fairness for myself, it only makes sense if I'm willing to yell about fairness for everyone else (because if life is "fair" for me, but not anyone else, it isn't really "fair" is it?). If we were to make the world a fair place in socioeconomic terms, given that there are 7 billion people on the planet, is is exceedingly likely that I would lose some privilege. Thus, if I lose some privilege over the course of my life, I choose to be thankful for the extra privilege I had when I was younger, rather than fretting about how much I can accumulate for the future.

5. I stopped engaging with people that were very angry or very toxic about the subject. Though I have a much better understanding now of where that anger comes from, I realized it was subtly affecting my own perceptions and thinking. There's value in limiting the noise a bit.
Ok, but can you translate this line of thought to a fine at the scale of an individual, for example a speeding ticket?
Do they have the 2018 model? I have the 2016 and the 2018 seems quieter.
It has been available for a couple of years already: https://investor.lilly.com/news-releases/news-release-detail...

More competion may be coming (or maybe not): https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/mylan-pressing-forward-l...
That’s ice cold
I called this when we moved from basel 2->3 . It changed the reserve requirements to 0 for these type of loans.
This episode of Odd Lots entitled "Why the Eurodollar Might Be Ground Zero for De-Globalization" is a great listen:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/odd-lots/id1056200096?mt...
I loved my 2016 MacBook except that I had to have the keyboard replaced twice. But I have a 2018 MBP TB and the keyboard is, IMHO, great. I use the built in kbd exclusively about 70+ hours/week and have had zero problems (except I can't remove the escape key from the touchbar -- but that's another topic).

I wrote and debugged about 60,000 lines of C++ on the supposedly non-"pro" MacBook and it was fine.
They're everyones' property.
Anybody using TiDB and care to share why? Especially if you migrated from MariaDB / MySQL. I'm curious about the use cases compared to just using MariaDB.
Yeah, no.

nQUIC is maybe an interesting approach for some specialist applications but more likely a dead end.

The idea you can replace QUIC with nQUIC is like when Coiners used to show up telling us we're going to be using Bitcoin to buy a morning newspaper. Remember newspapers?

nQUIC doesn't have a way for Bob to prove to Alice that he's Bob beyond "Fortunately Alice already knew that" which is the assumption in that ACM paper. So that's a non-starter for the web.

nQUIC also doesn't have a 0-RTT mode. Noise proponents can say "That's a good thing, 0-RTT is a terrible idea". Maybe so, but you don't have one and TLS does. If society decides it hates 0-RTT modes because they're a terrible idea, we just don't use the TLS 0-RTT mode and nothing is lost. But if as seems far more likely we end up liking how fast it is, Noise can't match that. Doesn't want to.

Noise is a very applicable framework for some problems, and I can see why you might think APT fits but it doesn't.
What I learned from reading over 100 weight loss studies
Buy credit-default swaps on said debt. The swaps can even be found bundled conveniently in ETFs. Not recommended; good luck.
Very interesting. Did you get feedback from NYT on this page?
It's actually _hard_ to explain why, I have tried several times (IRL) and it's really hard to get to the point. Funnily enough, soon after reading it I happened to be at an unconference where there was a Thinking in Systems session. And the speaker likewise tried his best to get us (I was in the audience, and tried to give a hand as well when I saw issues) to get the point, but didn't succeed either. I suspect I would need to read it 4 or 5 times before I can get to that point, but it's a book I'm actually looking forward to re-reading soon.

There's a way to the analysis of a system or a model that you can get on an intuitive level (or even, on a formal level, given where most of the HN readership works or has interests), but the exposition in TiS goes further, and tries to make you think not only on all the sources acting on a system, but how you could get to build or adapt a system for a specific objective.

See? What I wrote above makes just marginal sense. It's not a complicated book, it's an enjoyable read but the concepts inside go deeper than what I could get into something that makes much sense.
From your link:

> The design is simple so that it can be easily read by a machine, but it is more difficult for the human eye to read

So, unless your plane is piloted by a robot from the 60s, quite favorably.
Exactly. 5 degrees of Kevin Bacon.
Yeah, I remember the iPhone was 2G only and didn't even support MMS.
This is probably the wrong way to be thinking about this, admittedly, but... would investing in land in Greenland be pretty smart. Well, I suppose if you knew you would live to be 100. But still...
https://www.quora.com/How-much-money-do-you-think-it-would-t...
$100M, Some billionaire (Musk, Bezos, Gat etc.) could buy it maybe.
I some guy like Peter Theil waved $1B in Denmark's nose, just an interesting thought.
the libraries have grown nicely over the years, though I am surprised they still lack some basic stuff.

why in 2019 is there no good way to visualize a decision tree? having to install, configure, and get working graphviz feels very hoaky.

I prefer python, but R still does some things really well that the python libraries are just not up to par

1) anything geospatial, including drawing maps. here is a list of projects my students did to give examples:
https://pennmusa.github.io/MUSA_801.io/

2) time series

3) linear models, is it so hard to give me a good summary?

If anyone knows of any packages that do these >= R, I'd love to see them :)
Monorepos and monoliths are completely separate concepts. There are monoliths that import hundreds of separately versioned components from separate repos. And there are monorepos from which hundreds of different services are deployed, which do not directly link against each other at all. Monorepos are about library versioning, not architecture.
I added a comment below, but I find it very hard to describe. Some of the points in the book, and the way of analysing/deconstructing systems was different to how I approach problems (I'm a "trained mathematician"), and that was enough to make me see the world in a very slightly different shade. That's enough for me to make it a great book.
>> "the US has become where nearly 50% of the population either doesn't pay any taxes and/or are primarily subsidized by government entitlements."

I don't know if this is true (probably not), but let's pretend it is.

Framing is everything.

Try this: "50% of the population is too poor to be taxed."

The judgement shifts from those with the least to those with the most.
You can have a blacklist of message texts that are sent to the apps as hashes
How JPMorgan moved $57B in 6 hours so Bayer could pay for Monsanto
I discovered last week that my best friend, who's in her 20's, has lung cancer and a 36% chance of survival. That's only 3 months after being in a car crash where the doctors said she might never walk again, yet she made a full recovery.

It's really put things into perspective for me. There's no point in spending time and effort doing things we don't like, there's no point in staying in a job you hate, or spending time with people you don't like. I might get hit by a car and killed tomorrow and it would be fucking awful if my final thought was how I wasn't looking forward to going to work in the morning.

Obviously I understand that I'm privileged that I'm in this position. There's so many people out there who need to work shit jobs to feed themselves or their family. But most of us here on HN are in the same position as me. Why spend time working working some shit corporate job in the valley, paying a fucking fortune for rent, just so that you can get a job somewhere else earning more money? I earn enough money to be comfortable, I'd rather direct my efforts towards making meaningful human connections and enjoying life.

Work to live, don't live to work.