skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The measles vaccine is pretty safe and vaccinating your kid is probably good for the individual (it's definitely good for the society).

There are more interesting cases where the vaccine is harmful or risky, like the smallpox vaccine. You can construct a scenario where the rational thing for any individual is to opt out of the vaccine if enough of his peers are vaccinated to reduce the risk of an epidemic, but the herd immunity is valuable enough that on the whole, vaccinating everyone improves public health.

In that case, should researchers play down the downsides of the vaccine? Should the state play them down? Should doctors recommend vaccination even if statistically speaking it is bad for the health of the individual?

Note I don't believe this is the situation with any diseases right now: the measles vaccine is safe enough that vaccination is good for the individual, smallpox vaccination would no longer be good for the herd. However, it's an important hypothetical.
Through my 20years of typing and texting with terrible posture and exercise habits, and bouts of debilitating RSI where I immobilized my arm, and experimenting with Dvorak, I found that the main way to reduce my RSI symptoms was to stop hanging out in areas where people talked about RSI.

Even now, just getting into the thread makes my wrists tingle
It seems that most non US keyboard layouts suck really hard for programming, because the special symbols are in hard to reach places. Neo really fixes this by having a layer 3 that gives easy access to all important programming symbols. And with the layout it is also reasonably simple to write texts in various western languages beyond German and English.

Because Neo repurposes CAPS LOCK it is adviseable to have a ISO keyboard with 105 keys and not a ANSI keyboard without the second CAPS LOCK key. But I've also used Neo with ANSI keyboards in the past...
They seem to be knocking down a strawman. Almost no one talks about cutting out all carbohydrates. Rather, it's the refined, processed stuff that is being eliminated.
Why would it be wrong for you to name packages? The maintainers of the list surely would appreciate objective criticism. Fwiw, Ive used many of the libs on the list and I wouldn't call any of them rubbish.
Fun times, can't wait to have these in the Cortex M line. Of course the chips start to look more and more like the Pentium line of old.
I have observed many others who complained about their hands hurting after typing for a short time, and the one thing that stands out is they all seem to have an unusually "tense" posture and almost "attack" the keyboard whenever they type, striking the keys much harder than they need to and making excessively abrupt movements. They also wonder why they can't type very fast and tire quickly, while others like me can type all day at 130WPM on a standard QWERTY board without getting tired.

What I've found to be most important is to relax. Press the keys smoothly and deliberately, without tensing your fingers and trying to maintain a stiff posture. Use a softer keyboard if you can. Your comfort and speed will go up.
>>I think the hashes could take some work.
Any suggestions or thing that are not clear?

Thanks for your feedback. I shall update the post accordingly.
UK cyber centre concludes Huawei risk can be mitigated: report
Can't you via `docker exec` or do I misunderstand the ask?
Ah, yeah, that happens with or without customer B unfortunately. (And of course drunk people are easier to trick with cards, but then they are easy to simply rob of cash too.)
I've been using Colemak for about 3.5 years. I think I was at 80wpm with qwerty and within 2 weeks I was up to 40wpm with colemak. Probably within a month or two I was back to 80wpm. I started using it for RSI reasons, but I'm not sure if it helped; I don't have RSI issues much anymore though. Biggest thing preventing me from switching again is VIM, I learned VIM right after I switched.

It took a really long time before my spelling adapted to colemak, I think 2-3years.

One of the nice things about colemak is that cxv are in the same position as qwerty so cut/copy/paste work the same, and the only special key that's moved is the semicolon.
> It will cost you 10x what you’re paying now, it will be much more brittle and harder to fix.

I say this as someone who's done a lot of freelance work: No, you can't bullshit your clients like this. You may be able to tell them that if it's not an actual lie, but in your case, if you actually would endure such costs and fragility, it speaks volumes about your agency's skill levels.

If you're in the business of selling websites, maybe it's time to actually learn how to write a good SPA rather than bury your head in the sand, because yeah, clients do actually want those.
So it says that Tridactyl is built on WebExtensions API, which is kind of W3C draft, which is kind of supported by Chrome. So.... Can Tridactyl be built for Chrome?
You can decline overdraft "protection".
Yes, you can create confidence estimates for both large neural networks and gradient boosting (see for instance the thesis of Yarin Gal). This covers the majority of commercial and academic applications.

ML is actually a field with very high standards for replication, in part because emperical results are currently the focus. If certain methods don't generalize to other datasets, then all bets are off: you are dealing with data that violates the IID assumption. No statistics, bean counting, or ML is going to help you get significant results.
Yes it's clickbait. Holy shit you're really smartie...
It's already figured out, USA has the first mover's disadvantage, maintaining compatibility with an older system when you have many users.
Other responses are sceptical but this really works. I used to keep my AI locked up in a cage, never let it sleep, constant training...but I came to senses. I now have a small paddock in my back yard, I keep all my AI there, this is AI like nature intended, grass-fed AI, organic AI, the best kind of AI, no additives, no adulterants, my AI is the best kind of AI, number one AI, all-time highs AI, and the liberal media...forget about it...they don't want to talk about how good our AI is, never been better, huge hands AI, my AI Uncle went to Harvard Business School, Wharton and I remember he told me: "Always treat your AI like you would want your AI to be treated"...great advice, it really works AI.
> I am not sure what the Angular or React solutions are but with vue just use the vue router.

For React there's a couple, but most of them boil down to the same basic idea that you've got switch statements that decide which components to render based on router state (rather than there being anything "special" about routing entry points), and then something like a <Link> component that just acts like an <a> tag but triggers the client routing change instead.
Most Common 3D File Formats in 2019
Wow it's really good. I'll add this list to repo, thx
This is a link to published evidence?
It updates position and transmits once per second. I wonder if that makes it useful as a homing signal for a missile. Or perhaps the position resolution isn't close enough for that?
Next step should be regulating currency exchange rates. Not sure about rest of Europe, but banks here have such a high spread they effectively add 2 to 4 % fee to every transaction. And it's even worse than normal fees, because it's hidden from the clients.

If you know about it, you can do something about it (like using Revolut or some credit cards with better exchange rates), but most people just get stolen from.
Transferwise is maybe the real reason why this law is created. It gives bad reputation to the banking system.
I've recently started to use them for my freelance income as well (I'm not in the EU), and it's amazing how much I was paying for regular SWIFT transfers.

I don't know if there's any relationship to this news, but TransferWise is putting their fees slightly up next month.
> I'm thinking that my simplest option is to just write a single page of JS that writes HTML to the DOM directly and works with data entirely locally, synchronizing it with a server API (.NET) when available.

I don't know what your requirements are, but you've just described an SPA framework. Do you think it will be easier to implement your own instead of using something like vue or react? Also, localStorage is supported by all browsers and all you need to do is de/serialize your data to JSON when your data changes.
This where technology like graphql can really shine.
The success story of vaccination means that people don't know the symptoms of these crippling diseases anymore. Even the hospital had trouble identifying the disease. Parents worry about vaccination shots because they don't know what it means to lose relatives to those diseases. The good news in this case was that the interviewed parent acknowledged his ignorance. He didn't try to spin it as if the children benefitted from his mistake.

We live very sheltered lifes but we can't know it. Tracking all that is being done to protect us is now beyond individual understanding. We have to trust the experts. And some people end up trusting sham experts.
This reminds me a bit of the container image builder "Kubler" (https://github.com/edannenberg/kubler) which is also configured with Bash scripts.

Just creating a cross-reference for the interested here :)
> * quality decline of Google search results

I don't think that's necessarily true, Google is really good at answering questions, it's not so good at "give me a good set of recommended resources on this topic" which requires human input.
> It becomes a problem when people suggest that you set up babel, webpack and hot module reloading for a site with a couple of forms.

I've found that parcel-bundler "just works" for stuff like that without needing extra configuration, including the Babel part.
Agreed - it wasn't produced by "grinding beef" so it is not "ground beef". Processed, recovered, etc. would be fine. "Lean, Finely Textured Beef" was fine.

I wouldn't call "almonds steeped in water and filtered with vitamins added" "almond milk" either.
Two of the most under-appreciated insights in software engineering: concurrent work in progress has a productivity cost, and team size has a productivity cost (The Mythical Man Month).

If you ever want to see cognitive dissonance in action, try talking about this with engineering managers at a hypergrowth company. They will smile and nod and agree and go right back to pushing for ever increasing scope + headcount and and acting surprised when they don’t get linear-plus returns. There’s a really persistent belief that you can just grow the team faster than the backlog and everything will be fine.
A moderator changed it because of the tendentious use of the word 'censors'. Initially we changed it to the title of this issue that addresses the topic: https://github.com/deepfakes/faceswap/issues/392, but it turns out that wording was a bit unclear, so we modified it to be clearer.
Back in the 90s when our family went on a big vacation abroad we were always advised to never agree to have our card carbon copied for exactly that reason. Though I think there was one gas station where we had to, because we were out of cash. (Back then ATMs were new, and POS was only for the rich foreigners. Strange that nowadays we run around with everything RFID/NFC and multiple cards. And yeah, this was before smart phones. Those were simpler times :) )
> Some sites only require re-entering the card when shipping to a new address.

This is what Amazon does, in my experience.
In the US, you do have to confirm the details on your card when you change your shipping address in Amazon, or you need to make any updates to it (i.e. cvv / exiry date). Otherwise, not so much.

Edit: Oops, just noticed that point was also posted twice in sibling comments. Oh well, third time's the charm I guess?
They're probably not going to lose sleep over it - their borderless account gives you accounts in any currency, you get the transfers very fast and can just withdraw to a cash machine, or transfer to your local bank account. I love it so far. Plus still the best outside EU.

The first time I saw TW I thought they were a scam with those fees for EU-non EU payments. SWIFT and even Western Union were a ripoff.
I agree with the points you made. However, the trend society appears to be heading is non-ownership of things and specialization.

People are not owning cars, they're Ubering. People are not buying movies, they're using Netflix. People are not owning homes, they're renting and using Airbnb. People are not cleaning their spaces, they're using Task Rabbit. etc etc..
The uptick in nomad lifestyle also means not being able to carry all the tools around. People are becoming mobile and specialists; being really good at something that pays decently well but knowing less of how to do a little bit of everything because it doesn't further their career. Jack of all trades are the minority and generally curious people that love learning new things which isn't for everyone.
Well, I for one hate large phones. I consider my smartphone as a tool for trivial things, using it almost exclusively with one hand, and it starts hurting after a while. Especially when reaching to the top section of the screen. Buying a smaller phone would usually mean to go with the lower end specs or older generation, which kind of bugs me. I don't play games with it or something, but it must be fast and responsive at all times and have a good camera, too. That's really hard to find these days though. I'm still using a Samsung S7 currently which kind of balances these requirements, but I'm afraid I'll have to move on to one of those giant slabs once it breaks...
It's hard to explain. I'm quite possibly the last of my circle to stick with the smaller smart phones, but it seems so comfortable to me being able to easily pull it out of my pocket, type something with one hand and put it back, all while being able to do what I was doing in parallel.
.. or a small war. https://yorksranter.wordpress.com/2007/07/27/ex-viktor-bout-...
That's a fair point. I've modified it again to make it clearer that it's Github that did the restriction.
Thanks for the pointers.

From my personal experience, Auto-encoders are amazing for dense input (images, audio etc), more specifically, when the input feature space is not large. However, in many real-world problems such as recommendation, ranking etc. the feature space is generally very sparse for eg clicks, purchase of items (say 100M items). In such cases, scaling can be challenging with neural models esp Autoencoder.
With regards to the headline, the actual paper uses the same terms so it's not just journalists making things up to humanize AI. The paper introduces an "awake regime" and a "sleep regime", and "Dreaming neural networks" is literally its title. Whether that's an appropriately non-clickbaity name is a different matter, but they do try to justify the naming (they reference things like REM sleep as inspirations for the unlearning & consolidation components of the model) and it was accepted as-is into a legitimate peer-reviewed journal.
There's nothing stopping most people from learning, except interest and impulse control.
Of course on the other hand the time you spent learning will come back to you the next time you have a problem. You only have to learn how to solder pipe once.

For me I've found once I accumulated the skill, just doing it myself was often faster and easier.

I understand the value of free time and all that, but I bet even in your day job you gradually cultivate side skills that are not your core work function, you just use them every now and again in the process of your work.
I do think that's possible, and that is one of the confounding factors we spend a lot of time worrying about and trying to control for when we do the data science on this. One of the ways we do this is by licensing data about all the startups in the world and then normalizing our own data against the market overall.

Getting a true apples-to-apples comparison is difficult because the world doesn't stay the same. The funding market has changed dramatically since YC started, and the companies we're funding have changed a lot too - they're much more diverse now. We've tried to control for this but you are right that when building a complicated model, you can never be 100% certain and need to stay humble about your ability to correctly control for all these factors. We won't know for sure for many years; for now all I can say is that we've looked at this from many angles and the early indicators look good.
If Gmail is taking 10 seconds to load it might be worth your time to consider a faster computer for your own sake. It can be like 3-4 seconds on a faster computer.
I can type at 120 WPM, and it's not all that useful. I'd gladly halve my typing speed if it meant avoiding the occasional bout of RSI.
Excellent, but now I realise there are repeated lines, and I need to de-duplicate. So I use sort -u to do that

I would just pipe it to uniq, the ultimate solution proposed --- because that seems to make more sense to me. I have not ever used the '-u' option of sort before, nor would I have expected it to have such an option (sort is for sorting, not removing duplicate lines.) Maybe because I'm more used to the "UNIX philosophy" instead of the GNU one?
SEPA solved the high fees that were common before... in some countries :/
I thought this was about World Models paper. There maybe you can give them a little leeway: AI has more slack equating humans and machines.

This paper reeks of antromorphization for the hype of it. It gets you headlines like this, but is probably detrimental to the field as a whole.

Part of the Troubling Trends in Machine Learning Scholarship

> In the first avenue, a new technical term is coined that has a suggestive colloquial meaning, thus sneaking in connotations without the need to argue for them. This often manifests in anthropomorphic characterizations of tasks (reading comprehension [31] and music composition [59]) and techniques (curiosity [66] and fear [48]). A number of papers name components of proposed models in a manner suggestive of human cognition, e.g. “thought vectors” [36] and the “consciousness prior” [4]. Our goal is not to rid the academic literature of all such language; when properly qualified, these connections might communicate a fruitful source of inspiration. However, when a suggestive term is assigned technical meaning, each subsequent paper has no choice but to confuse its readers, either by embracing the term or by replacing it.

http://approximatelycorrect.com/2018/07/10/troubling-trends-...
Not all standards are for the good, sometimes it's just part of the anti-competitive measures

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel
I’ve spent more years of my life now typing in Colemak than I ever did typing in QWERTY: I switched in about 2004 or so when I was touch-typing full sentences in the dark playing video games and my fingers started hurting even with a natural keyboard. After the switch, the hurt went away and hasn’t returned. I can still touch-type in QWERTY, but oddly enough it depends on the keyboard make and model and my familiarity with it. I often use Mac so on a Apple keyboard my brain expects Colemak, but on touch screens and Dell/OEM keyboards I expect QWERTY. It helps that if I’m having trouble remembering the QWERTY layout I can just look at the keys to remind myself, then I can pick it up again. As FYI, Colemak is now natively supported on Mac, Linux, mobile, but... strangely has never made it to Windows almost two decades later...
> That said, there are better researched layouts that DVORAK, with actual modern research behind them.

Any references? I'm curious.
Building the Next Generation of Configuration Management Tooling
My thoughts given that outline would be:

- Redux with a middleware that saves the whole state to localstorage automatically

- Some simple background timer stuff that uses ononline and onoffline events to know when to poll for updates, then dumps the JSON contents from the polling into the Redux store

- Some React components that act as one-way output of the stuff in the Redux store, optionally with a basic routing lib if some menus/navigation are necessary

Then stick some Progresssive Web App stuff in there so the whole bundle can work offline entirely from browser cache.
This seems possible. Make more pauses and excercise.
A good physiotherapist can do wonders.
There is a big range between 40wpm and 200wpm.

Typing is a cost, a waste.
After spending an hour thinking, I don't want to be stalled out by delays typing. I need to rewrite my code several times to get that clean bugfree 100 lines for the day.
I want to write documentation, not just code.
I need to write emails and chats too.

Just like I spend 22hours a day not commuting but still want my commute to be twice as fast
I'm of course no Pinker himself, nor a tenured prof at Hardvard, or even friends with him, but based on what I read from him and about him, he is very much in support of change toward new, more inclusive, more fair, more egalitarian and more rational institutions. And argues that trade and good old classic liberal ideas are slowly but surely bringing forth these changes (through the work of many hundreds of millions of slightly altruistic people), despite the efforts of our demons (innate or cultural/contextual xenophobia, ignorance, extreme greed/selfishness, etc).
How complex were the applications that used those production-grade React setups?

As the number of possible states increases, your vanilla JS solution explodes in complexity when you have to manually define every state transition. The declarative nature of SPA frameworks means all you need to worry about is presentation of your data. If all you need to do is some form validation, then writing an SPA is a terrible idea. If you need to build a UI that functions more like a desktop app with long-lived sessions and complex workflows, trying to manage all of your DOM updates will be a monstrously difficult task. You'll basically end up implementing a slow, buggy version of react.
It's not just about typing speed, it's about comfort. Touch typing on Colemak (and presumably Dvorak) feels much better and is less tiring than pecking.

What you mention is indeed the biggest advantage of touch typing: your hands are in a known position relative to the keyboard, so you don't have to look or think to type. How do you keep your hands in a fixed position if you only use 2-3 fingers?
I manage a team that do what could broadly be described as data science, here is one thing I feel unsure about and I'd like others' opinion on:

How much should I tell my team about what's going on above me? If my manager tells me about a customer meeting where they request a demo with certain broad requirements by a certain deadline. Should I go into the details of the overall business goal of the client and the exact deadline for the final demo? Or should I just delegate specific subtasks and keep the information structure within my team somewhat modular/encapsualted?
Those fees look very high for intra-EU transfer, I think they carried over from the old SWIFT system?

SEPA fixed that, but obviously some countries need to be forced to remove the high fees -_-

Also, you may be happy for about a month heh
> So having read the article, why does limiting work-in-progress work?

I imagine his models are those code blocks just above the images.

A reference to the language those are written on would be great, and would let we check if the code is really realistic. But it's lacking, so I can't explain why the article claims this.

Limiting WIP happens to work on practice, and is the basis of the kanban process (both the one we use in software development, that doesn't even have a kanban, and the industrial one). Scrum does give you some tools you can repurpose into managing WIP, but those are not as robust.