skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I can't spend 30 minutes fixing my clothes because my 30 minutes is more valuable than a tshirt's cost.

I think it's a mistake that we value our own time like this. There's satisfaction that can be derived from spending time mending some of your own clothing, and that contributes to wellbeing. That wellbeing is not something that you can put a dollar value on.
Stanford requires such a course!
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cum

First entry:

> : along with being : AND —used to form usually hyphenated phrases
At some point adblockers will run a browser in a headless mode and use ML algorithms to show ad-filteret result to the user.
I’m pretty sure the clause at the end of the questionnaire is just their default. They say “no, your contact information will not be published” right before the questionnaire, which I’d take to mean that no, they aren’t going to include your name.
We've outlawed dueling yet we've also dismantled the traditional institution of marriage. These are very strange times.
> What I've done recently is charge for X days/week, with a written agreement specifying what constitutes a "work day" for me. Clients normally don't care/micro-manage (there's enough mutual trust), and when we meet to show/discuss progress, I let them know how how "on schedule" we are (so at "based on how quickly I'm working at the current clip of 3 days/week, it looks like everything will be done in 4 weeks"). This formula would be wrong according to the usual HN advice though -- it's way too easy to translate X days/week w/ a set amount of hours that constitute a work day to X-per-hour billing.

Why do you need that "written agreement specifying what constitutes a "work day" for me."? That sounds like it's just encouraging the client to micromanage; you don't want a client that doesn't trust that you'll do a decent week's work in a billed week. And it gives you the disadvantages of a conventional job: you're now tied to working X hours/day Y days/week rather than taking a long lunch some days, working late some days, stopping early some days, and trusting that it'll all average out.
What 401k were “wiped out”? The selling price for the assets in the 401k was only down for a few years, and then they were reinflated and tripled within 10 years.

And defined benefit pensions and 401k are invested into the same assets, the government doesn’t have a secret stash of risk free 8% return investments. What they do have is the ability to fudge the numbers by setting inappropriate assumptions and buying government employee votes with crazy promises 30 years into the future, backed by the power to tax everyone into oblivion.
Wave Capital’s Sara Adler on How to Get Your Startup Acquired
I think in this case it’s probably because the person in question is simply mistaken. The other possibility is that they are some kind of Rust evangelist and they are actively trying to deceive people. I doubt it. Could we please approach each other with the benefit of the doubt? Could we please gently, constructively correct errors? I see no need to be so aggressive, especially in our current social/political climate.
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make...
One good application of this tech is old movies with poor frame rates. The WW1 documentary They Shall Not Grow Old uses a technique like this.
Tech savvy is a misnomer a lot of the time. Because it is not technology that is hard to learn as such, but the flaws. It always annoyed me when I was younger that people would think you are smart because you could brute force a printer setup. When in reality it is because I probably had nothing else to do so I could "learn" by banging my head against the wall.
Fails to touch on the perverse incentives in academia, "publish or perish" etc. Torturing a dataset to find a p value that a journal will like (or equivalent stat measure) is better for your career than not publishing a paper that will be discredited in time. You have no incentive at all to decide "my results are unconvincing at this point, I'm not going to submit them" and every reason to write them up as a useful contribution to human understanding even if you kind of know, deep down, it really isn't. Especially if you're not senior...
> But of course big pharma can't make any money from these...

Also lazy people (like me) can't make much use of these, because effect/effort ratio is not very good.
Rust is slower than C++. Firefox got faster because it got optimized, not because of Rust.
Stallman was right all along.
If you use or threaten to use such a torture device on somebody, that would be immoral. Your use of it immoral, not the device itself. If you create this torture device and put it on display as a novelty, then it's not being used for anything immoral. So yes, even your hypothetical torture device is amoral.

In fact, it's not so hypothetical. The vast majority of iron maidens ever created have only ever been used as novelties, not for torture.
Not with a Google referrer. Simple way to get it is to search for the FT article title. FT is nice enough to include it on their paywall. Subscribe to the FT to read: "Data leak reveals China is tracking almost 2.6m people in Xinjiang".
An undergrad to his supervisor in our office talking about publishing a paper: I've fixed the data, now the plots look ok. I (undergrad too) am sitting there thinking - well, you are using ML as a regression blackbox to plot a line, I can do that too w/o ML if I'm fixing the data. Supervisor: ok, that's really great. Me cringing...

I'm not hammering the ML-keyword above my work (and thus am getting considerably less academic attention), but it's nice to hear from people who made it in academia that they support my theory. 50% off the people are just showoffs throwing buzzwords and positivity around while they produce a load of sh...
What makes you think US will give you the same? U.S supports dicators and criminals as well(i.e in Saudi Arabia). It gives them weapons and inteligence. I think it's already clear that it's America First and democracy, freedom and the good stuff somewhere on the 2nd, 3rd or 4th place.

If North Korea would become U.S's ally against China, Kim would be presented(by US) as a strong man and the rightfull leader for NK people(i.e like MBS in SA)

You better make sure you don't have to choose between any of them (U.S or China). Get better relations with your neighbours and try to rely less on super powers(i.e US, China, Russia)
> you are probably not important enough to be their target.

So why are they hoovering it all up? Every last piece of digital dust they can get.

You're not important until you stumble across evidence of a Five Eye nation committing war crimes or try to whistleblow on the IC breaking laws or run for political office trying to limit military budgets or just about anything that goes against the narrative of faceless people in faceless buildings who can and do maintain their power using the tools they have available. When was the last time the Intelligence Community said the world was getting safer and they needed less funding?

Has a single person been prosecuted for the blatant crimes revealed by Edward Snowden? How about MKUltra, did even one person go to trial for the deranged human experiments conducted on American citizens by the American Government?

Everyday people need protection from these lawless organisations more than ever to be able to shine a light on injustices without fear. Society won't advance without it, the Western World world will start spinning it's wheels like authoritarian China and friends where everyone keeps their heads down in passive obedience and liberties go backwards.
A dishonest scientist can mine a dataset for statistically significant hypotheses and for a long time no institutional protection against it was in place:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging

https://www.xkcd.com/882/

Machine learning makes it easier to test great many hypothesis, but even going fully "by hand" it is very easy to deviate from what the statistical framework of hypothesis testing would demand. There are now some discussions about counter-measures, e.g. about preregistration of studies:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/09/more-and-more-scienti...

You can see this as another chapter in the long debate about the correct way to test scientific hypotheses:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_hypothesis_testing...
One example?
It's definitely pushing an agenda, with a whiff of product placement, too. It's a bit of an absurd conclusion they're drawing. Sure, continuing to use a centerfold picture is sexist, but the picture was only a tool and - unlike the article implies - there is no 'spirit' of Lena inside my family photos.
Hopefully machine learning helps with confidence and making predictions out of experiments as opposed to the limited capability of "understanding" from the way things are done now (as if an experiment with slightly higher p values are ignored or with smaller values might have hidden biases, etc).
I definitely noticed in these videos some color artifacts where red and blue colors bleed for short bursts. Are these inherent to butterflow or specific to this channel?
How does the output compare to running a video with mpv and vapoursynth to increase the frame rate? e.g., this recipe: https://gist.github.com/phiresky/4bfcfbbd05b3c2ed8645
> 3 times a week is enough to become buff as hell.

True. I wasn't talking about only being buff. I view working out as something I do to be mentally and physically healthy for life. I think some physical activity every day is key for physical and mental well being.

> The rule is if it doesn't ache for a couple days after, you need to go harder/heavier.

I disagree here. I've done many programs (used the 5x5 you mentioned for years to max out at a #525 deadlift), and rarely get sore from a weight workout. The only time I get sore now is if I take time off and come back.
Perhaps a stupid question: is this like photovoltaic cells, but in the thermal part of the spectrum?
Any number should be fine if we actually had proper standards. Why are graphics so special that we can't have x86 of graphics? I think all of this is a problem of this klepto capitalism. Also, you need 4 to have competition
Chromecast allows casting any tab, with any URL, not just Google properties.
Most people who look 'buff' are really just lean. A decent diet and some IF and many people can look buff.
DoD Cloud Strategy [pdf]
I’m afraid I can’t go to very specific details on what it’s about, but it’s a web service. In my country, there’s only one firm offering the same kind of service and they make a lot of money out of it. I think there is room for competition; I’m going to offer an equal-or-higher quality service with cheaper pricing.
As your number of samples increase the chance that a hidden variable that explains the phenomenon but correlates with the thing you're testing also increases.

All experiments have a limit it seems
In the current climate of low trust in the US, how would you come up with ethics that everybody can agree to?
yeah, it wasn't recommended because for treating epilepsy they were using a powdered meal replacement (like soylent) and were missing some essential ingredients like phosphorus.

it's absolutely a diet that can work for anybody, it does require a fair amount of reading though.
Sorry, second language English here. I thought it was obvious what I meant. é is very close in appearance and sound to e compared to some Hebrew(?) or Chinese.
I think Rust adoption has more to do with developer productivity than speed:

- People preferring the compiler to yell at them to fix their Type mistakes before they hit the "run tests" button.

- Getting a better IR for better error messages.

Amongst others...
You should never ever invent your own TLD for internal use. There TLD defined for that purpose. Look at RFC2606.

[RFC2606] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606
"and possibly see prison time".

You will see jail time. US family debtors [child support, wife support, etc] are a large portion of the US jail system. Sentences are particularly cruel since it is often not your fault: loss of employment, serious housing crises, etc. Ironically, once you enter into the jail system for non payment (non-employement) - you will probably lose any FUTURE job opportunities.

Here is a guy explaining why he can't 'work' - applied for 50 jobs - off to jail says the judge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvOIdhJg1As
Right, sure. For truly unpredictable events like suffering a loss or becoming disabled, the argument for a government funded safety net makes a bit more sense. At what point should personal responsibility come into play? IMO it should for something as predictable as “one day you will need to retire.”
Oral history interview with George H. Heilmeier (1991)
Your examples are technologies for decentralizing power. Those have very clear up and downsides (more freedom, but less enforcement).

These technologies are to the detriment of enforcement. Because enforcement is far from a universal good, these technologies are far from a universal bad.
Contrast this with faceswapping, where the upside is far less clear. Same goes for e.g. Stuxnet. It is a beautiful piece of technology, but not really a force for good given that it is widely available.
To be honest, it's hard to confront, and I don't even really know where or how to begin to get help.
ML is statistics with a different name using a computer, that should always be mentioned in articles for the general public.

On the other hand AI is fantasy BS hype boosting off the fact that ML sounds similar to AI to people who aren't aware Machine Learning is stats.

Maybe AI one day but today it is utterly ridiculous. No really. Every single article should mention both of those things at least in passing. Downvote away all you AI hype Surfers but you know it's true.
What if the agreement was that both parties would work, then one of the parties lost their job, never finds a new one and after a while completely stopped looking? Even if the other party really wanted them to and hated having to work full time? What if eventually that was the cause for the marriage breakdown?
There aren't any offers, sure, but you can still negotiate for this and get it—it's harder than doing it at your current job, but it's still possible. And once you've done it at one job it's easier to say "and I did this successfully at last job and it worked out fine" and that reduces their worry somewhat.

Still means a longer job search, but it's definitely possible.

Key trick: ask for shorter workweek only _after_ you have the job offer. That way they don't just filter you out in advance, and they're already in a mental state of wanting you.

I've negotiated for shorter workweek at three jobs so far, and did it this way at last two. And people who have read my book on negotiating a 3-day weekend (https://codewithoutrules.com/3dayweekend/) or that I've interviewed about their independent experience doing this (https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/01/08/part-time-programmer...) have done it as well.
> but a blue house is still a house.

This was a bad analogy – a better one would be 'a houseboat is still a house (and a boat)' (two things coming together and still being identified with each rather than something modifying another thing) – in coding terms: multiple inheritance versus single inheritance plus an interface?
This is a fairly intimate interview with the man who developed the Heilmeier Catechism, the foundation of DARPA’s proposal evaluation process. Regardless of your opinion of the DoD, you would benefit from learning about this process.
Interesting! I had always considered in the back of my head that there might be a way to reduce memory fragmentation by basically passing that cost on to virtual memory, but the meshing approach used here is a pretty cool implementation of this. Here’s the implementation, it looks like: https://github.com/plasma-umass/mesh
You need to find some type of exercise you like to do. You mention that you like creative activities. Many studies show creativity spikes during and after physical activity. At worst, look at the end goal of being healthy physically and mentally and derive joy from exercising.

For me, exercising is like breathing. It is not about liking/disliking, it's about doing because it is how the body works.
What if there are other activities that OP considers more valuable and rewarding? Spending time with friends or family? Starting a new business? Working on that programming project? Learning how to play an instrument? Exercising? Meditating? Cooking?

I'm not sure such a blanket statement is helpful. This isn't just about money, it's about opportunity cost. The time that he sinks into mending that Tshirt is time he could have put into any other potentially more worthy endeavor.
This is the unfortunate truth. Furthermore, those who take more time to find a general, robust and theoretically sound result (beyond just the p-optimized publishable result), get filtered out of te tenure positions as not have a high impact factor, despite their papers in fact having a higher impact.
>>> So far, I haven't heard of intensive drone usage by the Chinese to bomb weddings half way around the world.

But you surely heard of "missing people" in China after speaking against the government. What if this very comment would put you in prison for the rest of your life or worse, get you a death penalty(with or without trial) ?
I'm pretty sure China would do some atrocious things given the chance to fight a foreign enemy. There is no real rule of law in China. That's the issue with all the communist/dictatorship system.
Any time someone mentions a new book that sounds interesting, I put it on a list. Then next time when I want something to read, I pick it from the list based on what still sounds interesting & overall score others have given it.

For Netflix, well maybe it isn't too crazy to spend a bit of time to choose, especially if it's a TV series as you might end up spending hours on it? I find analysis paralysis and setting my bar too high also a useful method to just avoid wasting time watching anything at all.
chasing upstream is a lot easier than chasing web standards and chromes performance, especially if you are only interested in providing more powerful extension api and better ui
>the only solution is to not get married

You will pay whether you’re married or not: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-law_marriage
And are wealthy enough to make this choice.

I can't speak for the US, so maybe it is different, but here in the UK even the cheapest steak will set you back far more per kilo than minced beef.
The traditional institution of marriage is less changed than you might assume. Historically, it’s varied quite a bit from any given norm, the largest change is simply longer lifespans and less cheating.
To be clear, I've known DBAs who act exactly like you described in your original comment. Very annoying.

The best I've seen it work is to have a DBA on the team building the application.
Ask HN: Why can't I work many hours?
Relevant: I am in my 30s. I do have chronic health issues related to digestion and I am usually a bit fatigued and somewhat sleep deprived.

I find that I can only seem to do 2-3 hours of work before needing a large break. My work is all software-related. I run some servers for clients, manage their web apps, and do their IT. I occasionally write automation software. It sounds routine, but it's actually intellectually challenging, because the people I work with always have exotic and highly situational demands.

I bill hourly, but the granularity is minutes, so I make sure my brain is firing on all cylinders whenever I'm on a task in order not to shirk while on the clock. I am an intense person, and while I don't rush, I do make an effort to "keep my eyes on the prize" and not waste time.

Is what I am experiencing relatively normal, or does it seem my work-stamina could be so far below average because of other factors (such as my health)?

I would love to hear from a self-described "normal" person whether they can actually work 8 full hours in a day, and how many hours of intense intellectual work they can stomach before burnout - and whether they could return to do another 2-4 hours on the same day after a long break. Personally, a 1-hour break does not recharge me enough.

Come to think of it, I do feel I could do 6-8 hours of moderate non-intellectually-challenging work in a day.
It's a real mess, isn't it? The Mac Pro hasn't been updated since 2013, though apparently a dramatic re-think is due this year; obviously the iMac Pro is the better machine, but it's drastically expensive and probably not to the taste of every professional given the all-in-one design. The Mac Mini has been updated quite recently, but even the cheapest model is a lot more expensive than they used to be. And the laptop product lines are just totally confusing - I guess if I'm a professional I should just focus on the MacBook Pro, but for non-professional users, differentiating between the MacBook and the Air seems very, very complicated (I believe the newest MacBooks are thinner than the newest Airs, which seems bizarre given the name).

It really seems like they just don't care all that much.
Fair point. How about a decade off raising kids?
Ask HN: What is your favorite news source?
The other day someone lamented that you can't get published as an honest ML researcher, because other scientists are rendering whole professions obsolete all the time...
I had an ethics course as a part of my curriculum. It was an extremely interesting course, but completely inapplicable to my professional career.

The main problem is there is not a certifying organization that standardizes ethics (and includes licensing). A single developer refusing something on ethics is pretty meaningless. A company will just find someone else who will do it.
Frankly I think it’s so overstated that it’s edging toward self-parody.

Of course a straight male won’t ever be able to compute the monstrosity of Patriarchy - ironically, it makes me a lesser human - but seriously, I’m not sure all this vitriol helps.

Believe me, I’m relieved when I see a normal woman work at software. It raises my hope that we’re not inevitability stuck living in a Mad Men episode. A normal woman, not some edgy, fringe individual, just a plain female, not ugly nor beautiful, loud extrovert of not. Just plain average.

And the next thought is how little there still are, and how all this punitive, calvinist moral panic might be focusing so much on castigation and not enough at making it chill for anyone to just pick up this job if they feel it’s their thing.

I wonder how many walk away and do something else rather than become a walking flame-bait.
The most important change in the last 50 years compared to any time before is that women now have the option to be self sufficient.
I've eaten a lot of raw potato as the base for gluten free muesli: grated raw potatoes + grated raw apple + nuts and seeds + dried fruit.

Delicious.

I don't find raw potatoes particularly offensive, though rather boring by themselves.
Liquidating is the rational action, but people are not always rational. Consider the two outcomes from selling stock early:

- The company tanks. You maybe retained some of the value of your stock, but you're still on a sinking ship.

- The company takes off. Thanks to loss aversion you feel like you lost money that is rightfully yours. And your idiot co-worker who held just turned up for work in a supercar.
Someone pointed out that every Chrome user got that way because a techie got them off Internet Explorer... and those same people can just as easily get them onto Firefox.
It's doing wonders in Venezuela.