skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess the analogy is that there is someone later on snooping through the trash. Yeah, it's creepy. No two ways about it.
Optimizing CIFAR-10 Hyperparameters with W&B and SageMaker
Tangential: Reading this _really_ makes me appreciate the extremely stable system my team has build internally with GitLab and TeamCity. Azure DevOps sounds extremely frustrating (besides the point that I cannot stand the name they gave this product, and GitLab made that same mistake with the Auto DevOps feature name).
My Tj's has a single line at the front of the store (likely optimized for those taking public transport and purchasing fewer groceries). But in the back, where the parking lot is, it's a queue per register.
Donny and Marie: Entertaining Angels
I don't think it at all fanciful, or just about PR. More about future proofing, or to use a cliche, hard headed business.

We have to reduce meat consumption as we understand the impact on climate change, and as ever more of the world gains a developed life. Meat consumption needs to trend like smoking.

I'd happily dump most of my meat eating if decent alternatives were out there. Those that I have tried so far are a distinctly second rate experience. I haven't yet managed to try any of these new generation. No matter how good their meat free product who would switch meat supplier on the strength of it? They're separate, just brands in the portfolio.

If means small, sustainable, organic meat production as a rare luxury is all that's left, great. Just as it used to be. Perhaps just a goose at Christmas. One day even that won't be necessary.
Why should we all have more kids to subsidize social security? I doubt I'll receive any to begin with; I don't factor it into retirement projections at all.

With the continuing trend of politicians and businesses attacking American retirement options, there's no incentive. Who even says to themselves and their spouse, "Oh man, we should really have more kids, because 40 years from now, social safety nets are going to be compromised if we don't."

Kids are expensive.
But please, tell me more about that shiny new wall.
While I agree with all of these, one employee _ought_ to be able to add typescript incrementally, or write a Dockerfile... Those are pretty straight-forward, incremental changes. I've seen entire organizations sit and bite their nails when someone says "Hey, mind if I write a Dockerfile for this app?". Same thing with types - while I regularly get into debates about typescript versus flowtype - I very rarely add a type-comment (still valid JS!) without a lot of hand-wringing over "maybe one day we'll all sit down and do this RIGHT... until then, no progress on this, okay?".
Run SQL queries using Athena and a Dynamodb crawler in Glue. It's not that complicated.
From a PM perspective:

1) Developers who don't challenge mine or customer decisions and then complain afterwards that what we did was stupid and he had known better all along.

2) Related: Developers who answer every question with "no" or "that's impossible" even though with a slight variation it would be possible or attaining the goal would be possible in another way he knows about.
They did a massive sale push at the end of the year due to expiration of federal tax credit. A lot of people who considered ordering, ordered back then, so naturally now there should be a cool off.
They get taken hostage by seemingly attractive offers. Call it what you want but you're basically a slave to the corporation for the opportunity to get a VISA
Interesting... she has no issues with weight loss or GI issues, but gets migraines? Is this bread she’s eating, rye or otherwise, a brand name or is it made in a local bakery? If it’s the latter she might be reacting, not to gluten, but the yeast. Some people with migraines find that tyrosine is a potent trigger, and yeast is a rich source of tyrosine. Especially if the bread is sourdough, as opposed to off-the shelf white or wheat, you’d potentially see a difference
Yes, but variance is a thing you want to minimize too, since it forces entrants to be less efficient in allocating their own time since they have to block off more time to cover the n-standard deviations wait-time, which means they can’t be as efficient even if they get the fast queue since they didn’t schedule anything for that time.

It may or may not be worth the extra overhead.
You can't deny that there is a reduction in birth rates. Many policies combine to make this the case:

1. Supplementing housing prices or guaranteeing mortgages makes them unaffordable. People cannot afford to have kids

2. The severity of the divorce process makes people unlikely to want to marry. Marriage rates have declined. Less marriages, less kids.

3. Helicopter money keeps real wages down. Cannot afford to have kids.

You may say these are not explicitly "anti-natalist" but in effect they are.
ICQ did that. It changes the experience significatively
Because you are inundated with news/social media telling you about all the sex offenders in your area, human trafficking gangs abducting kids, and so on. Reality is these were all there before, and the probability of being a victim is exceptionally low, but most people suck at risk evaluation and understanding statistics...
Oh wow!

Yes, that's very easy! Let me count the ways. First of all, Obama's daughters are much more likely to be murdered, abused or falsely accused by police than they would be if they were white. Even iconically famous black people are sometimes mistreated by police officers who don't recognize them. I'd say being at a high risk of murder counts as a disadvantage! I don't even need to draw a line back to ancestral violence for that one—that's just regular old present day violence.

Second, although the Obama sisters enjoy substantial family wealth due to their parents' incredible achievements, the fact that they were born black means that, statistically speaking, they would have been far wealthier if they'd been born to a comparably wealthy white family. For example, if the Obama's are the X richest African American family, they'd be far richer if they were the X richest white American family. Bingo! Disadvantage! Why does that wealth gap exist? There are many recent crimes, many tied to violence, that exacerbated the situation. But we can start by looking at the fact that Black people, including Obama ancestors, were violently forced to build wealth for white people without any compensation.

There are many more ways in which contemporary American society puts extra pressure and psychological burden on African Americans, yes even rich African Americans, all of which can be traced back to historical violence in our history, and all of which clearly affect the outcomes we associate with "success."

Whether you admit it or not, you're arguing that the person who "deserves" to win in our economy is the person whose ancestors perpetrated horrific crimes against his competitor's ancestors and who doesn't have to face the constant daily effects of ongoing racism in our society.
I think the broader point was that buying something only because it's cheap is generating unnecessary waste.

I'm not saying this is the case here because the original pair of glasses can still be used, but isn't avoiding this kind of behaviour a good thing?
I have a 9360 with coil whine. So far I like everything about it (size, weight, power) except that noise. Luckily, FreeBSD powerd_flag="-a adaptive" seems to get rid of most of it. I find that it is silent when idle with low CPU freq, silent when under heavy load with high CPU freq, but noisy when idling with high CPU freq, so that a quickly dropping the speed make the problem mostly go away.

I don't use the Killer WIFI because my OS doesn't support it yet. Perhaps I'll be able to complain about that later in the year.

Sometimes I regret not picking up a Thinkpad X1 C6 (I have lifelong Thinkpad keyboard envy, since owning a T something many years ago), but they're way more expensive and I keep reading about disappointing manufacturing problems with those things, and I know that'd be a pain to deal with in my location.
You're not factoring the perception of the multiple shorter lines vs a long line. It's can be the difference between someone glancing who might/might not want popcorn and jumping in line (which ends up taking longer, but they're already committed) vs looking at a single LONG line, and deciding not to bother.
Population of Sweden: 9.995 million
Population of USA: 325.7 million

What makes people think any Swedish model can work large scale in the US?
> Kamal Meattle even claims that a handful of large plants are enough to sustain a person without any external input!

This is wishful thinking. If you run the numbers, it's clear that to produce enough oxygen for even just one person you need a lot more plants than anyone can reasonably grow inside their homes. You would need 8 lbs of new growth per day to match the amount that a person consumes.

> The average adult, when resting, inhales and exhales about 7 or 8 liters of air per minute. That totals about 11,000 liters of air per day.

> Inhaled air is about 20-percent oxygen. Exhaled air is about 15-percent oxygen. Therefore, about 5-percent of breathed air is consumed in each breath. That air is converted to carbon dioxide. So, as far as how much air is actually used, human beings take in about 550 liters of pure oxygen per day.

https://www.sharecare.com/health/air-quality/oxygen-person-c...

> Plants produce 22 L for every 150 g of growth. They would need to increase in weight by 3.75 Kg (8 pounds), each day, to produce the oxygen used by one person.

https://www.gardenmyths.com/houseplants-increase-oxygen-leve...
I don't think this contradicts what I wrote. Like I wrote in the previous comment, all I'm saying we need more nuance on whether equal opportunity or equal outcome is better, because it's situation-dependent, and often some combination of both. On this point you guys are agreeing and then analyzing the situation which is... exactly what I've been saying.
BuzzFeed to cut 15% of staff in new round of layoffs
I've seen companies low-ball employees on the order of tens of thousands of dollars. It's basically ancient news now (and the laws in Canada have changed, thank goodness), but when I worked at Corel 20 years ago they would regularly hold people hostage based on visa status (at the time if they were sponsoring the visa, the person couldn't change jobs without losing their visa). Back then, we were all making less than $100K, but educated, experienced immigrants on visa status would often be making less than $50K. As soon as they got permanent residence status, they would be gone -- finally able to negotiate properly. Like I said, Canadian laws have changed and so has Corel management -- I doubt they are doing it now.

We can argue that perhaps the visa was worth the extra money (and for those people, it certainly was), but it's still pretty crap. I'm sure wherever the rules allow it you will find companies (even well known ones) trying to save money in this way.
Nim GDB
At a guess - the various popular test runners are slow and bloaty.
‘The Dropout’: New Podcast Dives into Elizabeth Holmes’ Alleged Theranos Fraud
I've spent the last two years doing mostly PHP dev (small company doing web dev for other small companies in a small town), and while I've never personally used it PEAR is still included in cPanel Apache PHP builds, so I'd hazard a guess that there are a number of servers who are still using it (at least marginally) even if they don't realize.

That said, this would really only apply to someone who rebuilt their Apache instance in the last six months, or manually re-installed PEAR. It has the potential to effect big cPanel based hosting companies like GoDaddy, but only if they were deploying new server instances and not using an image to do it (for some reason).
You got my point correctly and I'm interested to know what you disagree with.
Sorry but this is not feasible in the US.

Previously on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16602151

We can't get our mayor de Blasio to commit to prevent people from stopping on the bus lane in the city (NYC). For example, in Jamaica, I would guess there is a bus every two minutes each way (peak) at Sutphin Blvd Hillside Avenue intersection. It isn't a particularly busy intersection, just an example.

Not just that there are cars parked in the bus lane, there are trucks unloading goods for the shops there, double parked.

The state of NJ says it is unlawful to idle your car for over three minutes. I've never seen anyone follow this rule. We might as well get rid of laws without enforcement. Who are we kidding?

Making a bus lane without enforcement is just wasting money to paint a lane. How do we enforce it? The only way I see viable is to allow bus drivers to write tickets to anyone blocking them (even for thirty seconds) in a bus lane (buses should definitely be equipped with multiple dash cams) and give the bus drivers the ticket money.
> What is a dollar "based on"?

Faith in the US government
You're right, that mitigates most of the risk.

Firefox seems to save passwords per domain name. This may not be specific enough in certain cases. E.g., if I have a password on domain.com, but domain.com offers web hosting at domain.com/username, then my understanding is it would be relatively easy to obtain my credentials for domain.com with the right phishing site at domain.com/username. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I completely agree. Not making a judgement on the model, it is what it is.
Microsoft signs huge deal with Walgreens, countering Amazon
I’d suggest you look into the details of the external forces (western governments) involvement in undermining the socialist efforts in Venezuela before concluding it failed on its own merits
you can't fix it with immigration. A greying white population supporting their lifestyle with the labor of poor, young, non-white workers? I can't think of a more reliable path to civil war.

Need to boost birth rate, increase automation, and change economic focus. Cut the welfare state down to poverty relief. Pay down the debt. Get a sovereign fund going.
Yeah exactly. Calling it Socialism is inaccurate.

Socialism is a giant umbrella of political philosophy.

More accurate term would be 'regulated calitalism' or a subtype of socialism called 'democratic socialism'. Both of which coexist alongside of capitalism just fine.

It's always extremes with people on both sides because most people from either side don't understand what they're talking about.
Even when physical copies aren't being manufactured, length constraints would still exist. Different publication venues serve different purposes and these purposes are best served by articles of a certain length.

The purpose of a short Nature article is very different than a journal with 100+ page submissions.
Sure. A ton of time and energy is wasted for no productive end or real learning outcomes chasing college credentials.

The issue is presenting companies HR departments real alternatives to college credentials that perform comparably. Especially for people first entering a career. Colleges credentials allow employers to outsource the problem of hiring employees that meet a broad comprehensive standard.

Of course employers care about skills and not credentials. The issue is not that employers don't value skill. The issue is how do you infer skill? Current solutions are evidently not adequete to displace the college credential system.
> No SIMD vector types

Huh? What architecture are you using that provides SIMD without corresponding vector types?
I don't think it's only this. People passively contribute to this with their shock at hearing that another parent has let their kids run free. It may have started from media-stocked paranoia, but it has now blossomed into society-nurtured paranoia.

---

Discussion about a six-year-old kid:

Grandparent: "Where is __?"

Parent: "Oh he's out on his bike with his friends."

Grandparent: "By himself?"

Parent: "No, with his friends."

Grandparent: (shocked silence)

---

I happily live in Japan, where this paranoia has yet to strike, so letting your kids run free from a young age is fairly normal. But I'm afraid that it soon will, and there will be no turning back.
That's a fair point I agree with.
"waaah, mathematically unbiased algorithms are racist"

you guys will never stop crying
Awesome-quantified-self
What about shifting to a more stable form of retirement instead of the DIY solutions (401ks, IRAs, etc.) pushed since the 80s? As great as they are, there's a lot of BS marketing around 401ks (unless you self manage) and while the market has consistent returns over time, the premise "past returns do not indicate future performance" still applies.

Before then there were pensions which seemed more stable. Only thing I wonder about them is what would happen to the pension if the company went out of business.
C'mon, we can do better: Phrozencrew
"Uncanny valley" is the effect at work, likely. But about your point on the brain not falling for it... there is evidence that it can be done for foods. Just take a look at how many drinks and sweets contain artificial flavors.
Us healthcare is insanely overpriced.
Despite the above comment being dead... I completely agree. That man has duped our whole country.
Yes, I've tried Impossible too at a couple of places and am a fan. My favorite was Umami Burger's Korean-style toppings.
By the way another comment he made was that he felt he had greater freedom of speech in Germany while in the US there was a much stronger conformist view and he was discouraged from speaking out.

Again, this is a teen ager speaking, so make of that what you will.
This isn't the precautionary principle, which is much more extreme. This is recognizing that "move fast and break things" is not a good idea in medicine.

One major foul up with human gene editing and the technology will be banned for at least a generation. Think about that.
Another more generic site that lets you look back on HN as well as other sites as they were a decade ago.

http://tenyearsago.io/

Sometimes it seems to get stuck on a certain date for a week.
I get that some people aren’t in a position to think about lofty ideals like inherent interest or intellectual curiosity, but there’s something truly banal and depressing about people squabbling over 6 figure salaries.
They will run, but of course the WinForms UI is not exactly optimized for mobile (even high DPI support is patchy).
The US rarely cares about antitrust action anymore. Otherwise a lot of American companies would be sweating bullets right now.

The US however slaps huge fines on foreign companies for breaching sanctions or bribery of foreign officials.
That brings back memories! One of my jobs as a teenager was to help a teacher at a school for disabled children with Bliss training software for an Epson HX-20 handheld computer.
> Products like Seitan and other "meat texture" items have always done poorly when compared to vegetarian/vegan offerings that simply omit any meat-like ingredients

Hm... do non-vegetarians/vegans actually prefer these newer "meat texture" items over the classic veggie ones?
Indeed. Not supporting 32GB is a disgrace for both Dell (“developer edition” LOL) and Apple. The main reason I’m skipping laptop upgrades this year...
All the other answers point about the rules of the english language and the correctness of the title, but nobody talks about the issue in itself. I think the title IS confusing at first glance.
New dataset that we just released is going to be a pretty challenging
No thanks. I suspect that the mass scale conversion from meat to plant based substitutes will go as well as our conversion to seed oils in the late 20th century: poorly.
I'm surprised that noone is blaming the health insurance and opticians for these prices.

In France when we need glasses we have to get a presciption and we can choose the glasses at the optician.
The thing is that the optician will not give you a price for a pair until you have given your health insurance details, which allows him to know how much you will get reimbursed. And surprise surprise, the pair of glasses you chose is coincidentally just 5€ cheaper than the max limit paid by your insurance.
I need these tax papers in docx format. Can I use PDF Converter for this? https://www.coolutils.com/TotalPDFConverter
> For 538, this just meant publishing numbers that were way too confident.

This isn't the case for the 2016 elections. 538 ended up having a much more robust forecast because they accounted for systematic polling error (bias).

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-fivethirtyeight-gav...
While you didn't explicitly claim Sweden is socialist, I think that may be your implication. Please excuse me if I interpreted you incorrectly.

Sweden (and other Nordic countries to varying extents) are not socialist. They are market economies first and foremost but offer social programs similar to our own that, at least from an outside perspective, appear for more successful in their goals.

Personal views aside (I favor personal freedom and responsibility and the consequences that come of it), the only way I feel you're ever going to achieve any of that here is by addressing human nature. Some subset of the population is only interested in gaining and exerting power over others, others want everything handed to them and don't intend to provide any contribution themselves, another subset wants only to be left alone, and so on. I don't personally see how such disparate views can be reconciled under such a system to avoid the authoritarianism that has always resulted.

[0]: https://fee.org/articles/the-myth-of-scandinavian-socialism/
[1]: https://www.quora.com/Is-Sweden-socialist
Perhaps we will have to increase the budget somehow. Or print some extra money, as we are already quite willing to do.

And is there any particular reason, aside from partisan ideology, to point at Venezuela, which is different in many important aspects from the U.S., instead of one of the very successful Western European nations?
> for example, have been found by MIT and Microsoft researchers to misidentify dark-skinned people at vastly higher rates than light-skinned people. That’s a near-perfect analogue of white people’s tendency to misidentify people of color, leading to higher rates of false arrest and conviction.
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> It’s hard to describe that as anything other than “a racist algorithm,”

Surely to be racist, some degree of malice or ignorance is required - face recognition from visible light flat imagery will always struggle with low-contrast images, which is sadly what you get from a poorly lit black person's face. It's neither intentionally racist nor inadvertantly - there is just not the same amount if information available
Venezuela is not socialist. It's a dictatorship run by one man.

Don't let the marketing fool you.

It just calls socialist just like North Korea calls itself a Republic.

The USA is a good example of a socialist country. Or 'democratic socialism' is a better term.
I don't have kids (yet) but I do understand the worry. Especially with more modern games-- they are designed to be addictive.

I'd have no problem letting my kid watch a movie they like because they'll probably watch it once, be done in 90 minutes, and move on. On the other hand, knowing how I can fall victim to 4 hours of YouTube without realizing makes me weary of letting my hypothetic future kids freely do so themselves too. These companies are optimizing for time spent and for fighting your self-control, which in a kid who is just developing his habits, I can only assume could potentially have negative consequences.

All things in moderation, I agree, but I can't blame parents for choosing to moderate certain things by simply disallowing them. CocaCola in moderation is not unhealthy, but I thank my parents for straight out forbidding it: it could've been a non issue, sure, but I also know plenty of people who crave a soda with every meal.
All the black-bean and beet burgers in town have been replaced by these things. Sometimes I feel like the only vegetarian who hates fake meat and wants recognizeable veggie products.

Fake meat creeps me out.