skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see that the article mentions the Impossible Burger though the study does not. This does still apply to the Impossible Burger though right?

In the study, they used traditional vegan burgers made of tofu (soy). While Impossible Burgers also have soy technically it's not something derived from a whole bean - and there's also potato protein, coconut oil, and wheat in there. Everything is still plant based though...
> eliminating all violent crime

You mean, if it’s real and even if it does work that well, besides the state sponsored kind?

China has millions of people in internment and retraining camps...

Regarding your “new ideological movement” comment. It’s not really... we saw the same ideology (to a less effective level) in all dictatorships and communist countries. Secret police, thought police, etc.
SMS does still help to mitigate a common attack...folks trying out password dumps on other sites. But, I don’t disagree we need to move on when we have more options to choose from. Right now the best looking option is webauthn with platform authenticators.
Yeah I have become painfully aware of the downside to be found in being the only developer at a company: no finger on the pulse of where the industry is moving and no experience with working with a group of people, which probably yields better results. I was always interested in teaching myself things and continue to do so - my current personal project uses kubernetes, which I am finding is nice enough to work with - but my algorithm skills do need some work. I practiced at hackerrank for a certain period of time last year. I found that I could not think up solutions for the hard problems off the top of my head. Medium problems were hit and miss. That isn't to say I couldn't understand an answer if it were presented to me.

Thank you for the suggestion. I will keep your offer of a referral in mind thank you. Where would these companies be based out of curiosity?
I am not advocating for a pure statistical approach.

The parent of my first comment was making broad claims about the effects of boredom without justification. I dont think the assertion has any value without some good evidence. I was therefore providing the parent comment an opportunity to Contribute something more substantive than armchair speculation.
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Well said. I also hate when someone shows something on HN and everyone just replies with links to another similar project...the author almost never says they are trying to beat some other project or one-up anyone!
>So how might we approach idea generation around knowledge work without idealizing the knowledge worker?

Editing tip: you can delete sentences like this without loosing much. The following text should do a good enough job of making a point without an introduction helping it along. The trick to editing is to backspace as many words as you can.
> there's really only so long you can make an aqueduct

This doesn't make any sense. Oil pipelines cross continents.
This text (or link) should be on the site's homepage.
This is a nice change to consider, and would help. But it won't be a massive improvement. Public housing isn't much of the housing stock and this won't change that. If we even built another 20K units in SF or Oakland in the next 10 years I'd be shocked.

The real ones to watch (and support) are things which require local governments to approve housing. Like SB 50, which defaults to approval for buildings up to 35-45 feet near transit. That's Paris / North Beach / Haight style density approved quickly enough to keep costs low. Then you can look at every existing 1 story retail building along bart and imagine 3 stories of apartments on top of them.

http://www.oaklandpost.org/2018/12/20/wiener-revamps-bill-de...

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/7/18125644/s...

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
Same reaction, there’s a point buried extremely deep in all of the stream of consciousness
If you're the sole owner of a corporation and also an employee, you can move money from the corporation to your own pocket by either paying yourself a salary or paying a dividend out of corporate profits.

At least prior to the recent corporate tax rate cut, the tax you'd pay on the salary would typically be less than the sum of corporate income tax and tax on the dividend, so people would pay themselves unreasonably large salaries to save on taxes, and the IRS would object to this.

Here's an article that goes into more detail:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonynitti/2016/05/13/reasona...
They weren't in violation of Reg T. They were in violation of Reg U and Reg X. You are right that there is no law saying you can't use more than x leverage, but there are absolutely regulations governing loans in margin accounts and using securities as collateral for leverage. And The government believes Rentech was in violation of them.
I learned programming faster when I had no clue how awful I was doing it. I just kept going and bumping into things a lot.

Now learning a new language is hard because I'm trapped in thus mindset of, "surely this isn't the most time efficient way to learn this..."

Only recently have I made some progress by not looking back and coding myself into a wall even if I think I can see the wall coming.
I'm not convinced OCR is as good as humans. I recent did a project making an unauthorized copy of a rare ($2000) book from a university library. I scanned in every page, but tesseract OCR really struggled with pages that started off straight but curved off. I tried lots of preprocessing techniques with limited success. My options were to type it in by hand or rescan that page so the lines were straight.
What’s hard about going into settings and then

General -> VPN -> add configuration and entering

- Server

- remote ID

- Username

- Password

This is less setup than adding an email account.
You can do that all online with most cards. It's also likely extremely rare that your card number is stolen this way (it's never happened to me as far as I'm aware).
The article is a stream-of-consciousness about distractions and multitasking. The author does not reach a conclusion, instead hoping only to inspire further thought.
Real life tale of a witch hunt that inspired new witchcraft novel the Familiars
My favorite game to restart constantly, second only to Civ itself.
Hah, same story here. Stephen King books totally made middle school and high school bearable for me.

The fact that every public library and used bookstore usually had over a dozen to pick from sure helped too.
If you believe that The Atlantic is not left leaning, you must be very far left.
I got the 'pick all the storefronts' one just this week.

Was mildly infuriating because what constitutes a storefront seems pretty culture specific, and I got shown a bunch of buildings, where half of them i had to go 'well, that MIGHT be a storefront, it looks kind of commercial, but it doesn't appear to have much explicit signage...god dammit..."
That page seems like it used a lot of fancy language to say something that could be said in two sentences.
I could spend $10B retiring shared and also trim an underperforming $6B investment. They can both happen without it being a sinister equality gap event.
I know they are popular in a variety of places, but I think transit options that are disproportionately popular with tourists compared to the locals are a glaring indicator of being long-term inefficient (and potentially harmful to the development of the better options already present in the city). To me SF's tendency to celebrate random experimental transit is the main reason public transit is so underdeveloped here. Do you think there are potentially better solutions for the niche filled by scooters in Paris that could integrate more fluidly with existing transit or are scooters the global maxima with existing tech?
And the macros?

If you’re substituting carbs in place of proteins and fats, then I’m not surprised by this result, but if you are trying to avoid unnecessary carbs, then vegan burgers usually don’t replace beef very well. Which is also a shame because I actually like a number of the plant based patties I’ve had, but they don’t fit within my requirements.
I work hard because I enjoy my job enormously, and because I can work 14+ hours a day on mathematical/analytical/programming work, day after day, without feeling the slightest bit tired. I have always worked like that since I was a kid.

> you’re probably not as good as you think you are

Here is one reference point for you... Check out the 1992 winners of the ACM Programming Competition here. I'm second from the right in the photo.

https://icpc.baylor.edu/community/history-early-years
What about the American mind makes electric scooters so alluring? That statement sounds ridiculous.
Furthermore. transformer xl extends the convolutional architecture to use some recurrence. I think that claims that RNNs have been wholesale replaced by convolutions are premature.
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That's another good point. Then the only way I could see it working universally is if you assign a price to the water consumed, where it's costlier in CA than VA.

Then you can say that a single almond grown in CA uses $.001 H2O, but in VA it's $.0001 H2O, or something like that.

It's just a thought experiment, of course. But it seems like a worthwhile one, if only to introduce the idea of accountability for the cost of water consumption in various foods.
Because it is the standard browser that comes with OEM Android. Google phone, Google browser.
Electric scooters are a fruiting body of the electric car industry (brushless hub motors, batteries etc wouldn't have gotten so developed just for scooters)

Maybe the scooter rentals are propping up another of the vc's concerns?
Can we please get parked scooters off the sidewalk where they present a safety hazard to visually and mobility impaired people?
That is why you need to teach them how to do something. If kids are expected to know something teach them it.
It falls under the "nominative use" defense to an assertion of trademark infringement. Free speech has nothing to do with it.

Trademarks are intended to provide consumers with the confidence that the products they're buying really come from the producer they claim to come from. As such, you're prohibited from assembling your own computer and branding it Apple; you've never been prohibited from referring to Apple.
And which other thing will you de prioritise or will you increase taxes
There are really two options here.

You can mix low-income housing into larger complexes, creating mixed income communities. This does a lot to help create role models and show what life options are available and possible. It helps, in some ways, to break the cycle of poverty. This comes with the cost of utterly destroying the concentrated, focused support networks often found in less well off areas - they do not survive the dispersion.

The alternative is to prioritize existing communities. To focus on preserving the social ties and mutual support networks they know and trust. The downside is that while this improves the immediate circumstances, it preserves the concentration of poverty.

There's no ideal solution here. It's just a question of where your policy priorities lie.
You're right in a sense. But the only reason is that the governments subsidize the production.

People bitch about farmer subsidies but without them, farming would be a much more volatile business and farmers would be much more unlikely to be in the business. Thus cutting supply and making food much more expensive.

I wouldn't classify it as being naturally oversupplied. It's a result of the way governments manage the food production.
What’s wrong with an introductory question?

Also, losing not loosing.
Yeah, I just love the Mid-West and Mississippi fresh fruit and fresh vegetables in the middle of Winter. Who knew they had a harvest of Lettuce in January.
Another messed up thing with CA -- it takes a 2/3 vote, very difficult, raise any kind of tax. Yet, only 50 percent to change the constitution. Wtf.
Juicers I would read as drug addicts given its an Australian
It's clear that your college course in game design is of less value, in the context of this conversation, than having actually done lots of gaming. Minecraft has a Creative Mode where all you do is build. Or explore. Or whatever you want, at your own pace.
It's incredibly popular -- spend some time on YouTube looking up people's creations.

Let's remember the context. This is the quote we're talking about:

Because a video game move forward at it's speed, setting, since it keeps things going regardless, it's own agenda. A book only moves forward at the speed of a child's own thinking.

There are games that push you through like watching a movie. But even the most linear games let you make choices. Some games are slow, some are fast, some require quick thinking, some require slow calculated thinking. Some involve creativity, some involve math.

Talking about games as if they're just push you through some rigid narrative like a movie is just incredibly ignorant.
Do you think riding a scooter that can go 20mph shouldn't require a driving licence - which is a very low bar in the states I believe.
Good luck watering your fields with a 1m diam pipeline...
Do you think the cost of living in those areas are not too high. If not how do you propose lowering housing costs without building more?
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Linux now has a number of tools that can do this just fine. strace was the only tool LOONG ago. For the issue described in the article sysdig would be the tool I'd use, but that's just one option.
> So before all the privacy activists are up in arms, this is pretty incredible and it looks like they're getting pretty close to eliminating all violent crime.

To be fair, Chinese people anywhere in the world have exceptionally low rates of committing violent crime, and this has been true since long before anyone started a facial recognition program.
Perhaps a different way of looking at it, is to consider the cost relative to how much we use. For instance, I use one or two gallons of water every time I flush the toilet, and I could certainly look up my water bill to see how much I use overall. But I rarely go through a gallon of gasoline per day in my car.

The main cost of water is probably energy, so the two are probably tied together. Water is less dense in energy terms, thus harder to transport if it can't be obtained locally.

This makes me think that depleting local water sources will have more of an effect on geographic distribution of populations, than oil.
It's not the same. It's certainly relevant.
Because the issue is flood control. Simply lowering Georgia's water table doesn't change the fact that there's variable input.

Also places with less water can still flood. See Arizona.
Have you installed the make-info (https://packages.debian.org/jessie/make-doc) package? It adds info documentation as well as pdf and html formats.
Yes. Since the different steps are executing in different sandboxes, you can be confident that there are no race conditions between them.
Yes, like the IE memory leaks (and early Mozilla leaks) where DOM and JavaScript objects are collected in a different way, so can easily get stuck in unfreeable reference cycles.

Old Frameworks have to do perverse things to break those cycles, and if they don't, the browsers leaked memory over time.

It would be sad if that came back to modern browsers, due to WASM and DOM using separate collectors. Or worse, multiple WASM components, (perhaps in different languages, perhaps not, but all different collectors), holding indirect, accidental references to each other because someone decided to use the components in the same DOM.
They would if I agreed, but I don't. Consumers have every right to demand better meat alternatives, but I think that's more because they're tasty and cheaper if anything. But they should understand that their consumption doesn't really matter and is a red herring. If you care about help solve climate change, the first step is understanding the largest contributors to it. For what it's worth, I do think that industrial agriculture is heavily flawed and unsustainable. But that cross cuts across meat and plant based agriculture, and I think it has more to do with how we turn arable land into monocultures that deplete the soil and destroy biodiversity. That's a problem, for sure, but it's not the biggest problem as far as climate change is concerned.

The biggest problem with respect to climate change is sustainable industrial infrastructure. It is not enough to consume sustainable products. We must demand and politically organize for sustainable infrastructure globally -- demand the allocation of resources, the stewardship of research and infrastructural development that will require. I think moralizing about the choices of what people eat suffers from a bit of tunnel vision. I'm also skeptical of any study that draws conclusions about climate change based on 9% of something's contribution to it. What is expected to happen with the other 91%?
This reminds me of a detail from the plot of the original Deus Ex. Part way through the game, there is an optional dialogue with a benevolent AI. If you question it enough, it reveals that it is the rejected prototype for an anti-corruption/terrorism AI which was turned off for being too effective: eventually classifying its own masters as a criminal organisation.
The scooters must be lowering someones land value.
I don't know about Georgia, but a problem that I've heard of is that dry land is worse at absorbing water than wet land, so if you dry land out too much and then it rains you are more prone to flooding.
You can ride a bike much faster with no license.
Just came to post this link as well. Progress in machine translation has truly been amazing. Also check out the recent work from Google on Transformer-XL

https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/01/transformer-xl-unleashing-...

And for deep background, these recent sets of notes from Stanford's Deep Learning NLP class:

http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224n/

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3FW7Lu3i5Jsnh1rnUwq_...
There is a strong correlation between the increased usage of social media by young people and an increase in suicide rate, that being said the US went through an economic depression at the same time so maybe it has more to do with young peoples guardians economic stability.
The #1 priority for Google is to sell ads. That's it. Anything else is marketing/nice to haves.
Hooks beyond React
The Flynn countereffect is rife with speculation and motivated reasoning.

It's quite possible that the Flynn effect was "gaming" IQ scores by introducing education and basic nutrition to society at large. And the reduction of average IQ stores (reported in Norway and Denmark) was caused by immigration of less healthy refugees and people downplaying their own IQ to avoid military service.

Finally, high IQ is in no way required for reproduction, as the thousands of years of survival before the Flynn countereffect clearly shows
Any game design course worth its salt would cover Myst.

Tell me, in what way does Myst force an agenda in a way that a book does not?
Ultron! This is the browser that Google uses, right?
The false negative rate may be very low, this doesn't speak to the false postive rate. Considering the goal was supposed to be "telling humans and computers apart" both kinds of errors are important to consider. Google predicates their captcha primarily on the logged-in user's activity around the web, failing that they use the ip. A human being not logged in and using an open proxy is likely to get shut out completely. It ceases to be a captcha, in the traditional sense, at that point. This may be a good thing, depending on your standpoint.
From Wikipedia:

The breadbasket of a country is a region which, because of the richness of the soil and/or advantageous climate, produces large quantities of wheat or other grain.

note: Your smugness is nauseating!

note2: can some one explain flagging rules on HN.
I would use, Datomic for revisioning, horizontal scaling, and flexible schema (whilst still being relational)

Clojure(Script) for the ability to use same language front and back, for it's very good interoperability CSP and expressions

Datascript for my client side database, I'd probably try and achieve a real time app based on something like hyperfiddle
Well, it's something that works. HN uses it, too. Try to create an account over Tor.

It sucks that abuse exists, but it's a real problem and it's only getting easier to do and harder to avoid.

After all, what also bones users is having a platform that's trivial to attack because the developer thought abuse wasn't going to be a problem.
Claudius : Can you advise me?

Laertes : I am lost in it, my lord.
> So before all the privacy activists are up in arms, this is pretty incredible and it looks like they're getting pretty close to eliminating all violent crime.

Even if it's successful, it will only be used to eliminate the crimes committed by people without connections. Powerful and connected people will be allowed to get away with crimes.
I have never seen 10 year olds "teabagging faggots" at Little League soccer.
Seems likely the origin of the parable is Charles Proteus Steinmetz:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charles-proteus-stein...

From the article:

"""
Ford, whose electrical engineers couldn’t solve some problems they were having with a gigantic generator, called Steinmetz in to the plant. Upon arriving, Steinmetz rejected all assistance and asked only for a notebook, pencil and cot. According to Scott, Steinmetz listened to the generator and scribbled computations on the notepad for two straight days and nights. On the second night, he asked for a ladder, climbed up the generator and made a chalk mark on its side. Then he told Ford’s skeptical engineers to remove a plate at the mark and replace sixteen windings from the field coil. They did, and the generator performed to perfection.

Henry Ford was thrilled until he got an invoice from General Electric in the amount of $10,000. Ford acknowledged Steinmetz’s success but balked at the figure. He asked for an itemized bill.

Steinmetz, Scott wrote, responded personally to Ford’s request with the following:

Making chalk mark on generator $1.

Knowing where to make mark $9,999.
"""
Are there jurisdictions that require a speedometer, vs requiring people to obey speed limits?
Well it's a given bike riders should be licensed and plated. It's insane that in many places bike riders using the public roads don't require 3rd party insurance.
I see these scooters as somewhat good for the society if it'd be accompanied by enforcement- proper docks or allotted areas and no riding on the sidewalk and following the rules of traffic flow.

As it is right now it's a mobility issue for the disabled. I come from a country with no sidewalks with the disabled forever left to the mercy of their caretakers. I was simply amazed by the level of planning to accommodate them in the US. But now these scooters are blocking the sidewalks everywhere. What are the disabled going to do? Get up and move the scooter?
Most rainfall (77% according to this [0]) falls over the ocean. So we suck fresh water out of the ground and then turn it into salt water.

[0] https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/233/what-is...
Sometimes with progress, you gotta break a few legs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19060985

170+ points
I have played that game many many times and never came across this conversation.

Time to play again I guess.
When I was a kid (in the Jurassic era) kids did stupid stunts to be popular and overreacted to everything too.