skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Likely, when the author gets to the inevitable stage in his life, he will change his mind, and he won’t be a different person

He likely will have a different opinion because he's a different person. The person living in the old folks' home is simply a different person, and is satisfied with different things in life.
My grandmother was fairly irate that she recovered from pneumonia and grandfather did not. She kept asking when she was going to die and was very straightforward about the entire ordeal. She said something along the lines of 'all my friends are dead and I've lived long enough.'
That is worrying. How do you know that the voter could vote freely and didn't sell their vote? Corruption around vote-selling is a concern in certain ethnic enclaves in Britain, and there were even elections annulled over that. The foremost concern shouldn't be convenience, it should be that the vote is safe and secret.
Yes “computer” here means “digital electronic computer” and yes the storage, retrieval, and processing all happens very differently in the brain than digital computers are capable of.

You may think these are dumb points for the author to make, but it’s not clear to me at all that the media or the VCs who buy the hype about machine learning, AI, and self-driving cars realize just how different they are.
But still higher than they were Dec 24th 2018. Actually higher than they were at any point prior to April 2018. Because the market knows that major security breaches that will have long-lasting impact on the victims involved will ultimately have no impact on the company that was breached.
They were doing that some time ago. Then they went back to offering large number of deals every day. I'm not sure if it's a seasonal thing or do they really want to transitiom to such a small number of deals.
I paid for a Pro account for a long time, but moved to Google Photos after noticing that Flickr was left to rot. Not going back.
To an extent, CART.

But more classically, any structured statistical model with (eg) terms for variable interactions, measurement noise, and hierarchy.
I have a hard time believing this, as a linear combination of features doesn’t add any information for linear models. c(f527 - f528) = cf527 - cf528 which is a constrained version of a linear model af527 + b*f528. If they saw their std err of the feature shoot way down thats very different than improving model performance.

For explanations, key is having the input features be as intuitive as possible. So if a subtraction of features is more intuitive than the two feature separately then the explanations will be more intuitive as a whole
Thanks for a detailed explanation.

That seems pretty radical. I mean, because of technology progress (mainly crypto improvements, but also cheaper hardware development) I only see two outcomes in the future: (it's a global issue, not just related to Russia)

1. We have a complete freedom of information exchange. It's a powerful thing. It's not only free speech, but also easily available all illegal digital content and ability to transfer money anonymously. In such scenario, it's inevitable that governments role will diminish. Well, they are huge and powerful, they can still retain a huge influence (and already do * ) by manipulating people, the software they use etc.

2. The Internet as we know it today ceases to exist. Basically what you wrote above and much more. Pretty dark scenario. I always hoped that enough big players (who are able to influence gov) depend enough on the way the Internet currently works, that it would be very hard push this. Maybe not as hard as I thought. Because note that most people, majority of users, simply don't care. Leave top 100 websites working (power law traffic distribution) and most people won't notice the difference.

*. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOTYgcdNrXE&feature=youtu.be...
Isn't this directly contradicted by the grid cells? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_cell

It sounds like because the author doesn't understand how neurons create a representation of reality, they're splitting hairs and saying it doesn't.
Am I reading this right that a build farm is slower than your local development computer? Shouldn't that launch a re-evaluation of the build farm?
One thing that I learnt from e-commerce is that there’s a segment of customers who will delight in “beating you” to get a discount. It’s valuable to allow them to think they’ve won.

Tactics include: seeding “secret” coupons, discount rules that are more lenient than advertised, price matching against yourself, selling items that are more expensive but ship free, allowing them to contact customer service for better discounts, and so on.
If the goal was to pick one person to run for office, then Bruce would be a good candidate.

But that’s not the goal. He’s advocating for lots of candidates, many of whom will likely need to start running at local levels first.

If Bruce were to run for candidacy it could signal to other technologists that they don’t need to do anything — which is the opposite of what’s needed.

Instead, I’d like to see Bruce offer to act in an advisory/mentoring role for the technologists/engineers who do run.
> I think the popularity of Flickr has died off with Instagram

For me it was because uploading a photo to Instagram was a trivial process (launch app, pick photo, type words, done) in an app that felt nice - Flickr's iOS app was awful. That combined with Flickr's incessant need to dick around with the UI/UX and break things lost me pretty quickly. This year I won't be renewing my Pro.
Lol, you lost. Get over it.
Sure. I will send a draft soon.
Despite what the dates, and the image at the top of the page may lead you to believe, this is about process containers, not the ones that carry our widgets around the world.
I legitimately thought this was going to be an "exotic skin" for the atom text editor.
I'm not sure we have the whole story. If it's true that there was marijuana smoking going on, then you really can't permit that in a hospital. Not only because of the many sources of pure oxygen but also potentially sensitive patients with allergies, or respiratory conditions. I can't imagine anyone would know or care if it was just thc oil pills.
I tried to use it for search stuff in France, as an English speaker, and Google works way better especially when I’m using the wrong words
The post shares several pain points with Debian's slow, aging change-process and integration-infrastructure.

Open question: If Debian contributors feel the need to drop out and move on due to these pain points, are there less-painful Linux-distribution projects out there that are getting more of these pain points right they can flock to? Is this a sign that Debian needs to reform, or that other, newer distributions are outpacing it?
I love the idea, but many of the intrinsic rewards for technologists in tech, don’t exist in politics. Many issues can be solved fairly easily if we calm down, take a look at experiences and data, and apply solutions that have been shown effective. Technologists like solving problems; problem solved. Politics however have so many other, non-solution/problem based variables, that are very, very hard to overcome. While I agree with Bruce, we first need to recapture our politics for the people in the country, not politicians.
Lawmakers are elected so yeah good luck.
I'm actually super familiar with Bazel :) And Buck and Pants.

Been following it since the presentation at 2015 @Scale conference, attended 2017 Bazel Conf, introduced it at Lucid Software, helped write a bunch of OSS rules.

Bazel is mostly great. Besides a few pre-1.0 polish items, I'm mostly frustrated by the expectation that users write build rules in Skylark, while the real rules (including C++) have to be written and compiled into Bazel itself to take advantage of features that Skylark lacks and aren't even on the roadmap. [1]

So while I'm disappointed Bazel's not quite a general-purpose build system a la Make, it's awesome for C++ and Java.

[1] "Why Skylark is a 2nd class citizen" https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/bazel-discuss/8eAMN3Wh...
The dollar bill thing seems silly. The fact you can draw anything without looking at a dollar bill means something is being stored, right? That means the brain stores information. There's no way out of that. And that fact that you can draw the dollar bill on cue means something is being retrieved. No way around that either. It doesn't matter how the information is represented. The brain as a computer analogy doesn't specify that "neurons are bits" or whatever.

I don't expect the brain to work like any computer we've ever built (which seems to be the point of view this writer is attacking), but I do expect that it has the capacity to store, retrieve, and process information and so the computer analogy seems useful.
I'm sure Captain Cook in 1778 just plugged the coordinates for Hawaiian islands into his GPS and let autopilot navigate him there.
Sorry, didn't notice :( This time i relied on HN's mechanism to automatically redirect one to old posts with the same URL.

Usually i check.
10 years ago I was diagnosed with a progressive neurological condition. I knew that it would put me in a wheelchair, take my ability to type, strip one by one every physical function, and eventually, but definitely not quickly, kill me.

I knew I couldn't go through that. So I decided I would take my life at the appropriate time. I still hold to that decision. I did the planning, I have the means.

But something happened that I didn't expect. As I have got worse, it's never quite felt the right time. I am much worse now than I thought I could ever stand to be, for a long time I have been reconciled to death, but life is still worth living enough to live.

I wonder if I will ever take that step. I absolutely reserve the right to. But I am constantly surprised at the value of my own life, even stuck essentially in two rooms, and requiring constant care.

The very black-and-white, all-or-nothing, I know how it's going to be 100%, attitude in this post struck me as naive. I strongly believe that it's his life and it should be his choice. But it did feel naive to me.
Wonder if many airlines just made a habit of flying with broken AoA sensors, which until the 737 MAX was easy to get away with.
The practical application would be the example I posted about Redis replication.

Any application complex enough to need geo-replication is also likely not just writing a single key per user. There will be shared keys and data structures like tables/lists/hashes that all need to be synced.
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Part of the article calls out how the alternatives (like CRI-O) are shipping docker compatible CLIs, so that users can keep going `docker build` but with a completely different runtime.
The first bit ain't attacking the author, though; it's saying the article reeks of those things. That's a very common and reasonable way of expressing that opinion, and it falls short of being ad hominem. Also, at the risk of focusing too much on semantics, "reeks" is an adjective, not namecalling; it's a colorful adjective, but - again - one very commonly used even here on HN (at least in my observation; I'm sure you've got better data on that front).

The last bit is indeed directed at the author, but in the context of the comment's overall point ("Vice journalists earn a living by twisting pure things to make them easier to ridicule") it's spot on and doesn't really cross any lines IMO.

In other words: pulling those bits into isolation and judging them on their own is disingenuous to the commenter's point. Same goes for the remainder of the comment being evaluated without those two bits. The whole comment is a single unified whole, and ought to be treated as indivisible; failure to do so leads to these sorts of misinterpretations.
OP is correct actually, it could be part of the process by which we exert our free will.
I used debian for over 10 years and never managed to contribute anything.

10 Minutes after using homebrew for the first time I sent in a PR to update a package to the latest version and update the built dependencies.
Which is the story in many transitions in life, not just the next to last.
A lot of these proposed solutions in first sight look like solutions, but I've yet to find a "blockchain" (or any other buzzword) system that offers clear advantages. In practice most of the times it's plain old ploutocracy or founderocracy disguised under the veil of a new tech (with the help of an "innocent non-profit foundation")
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'planets we've found' is a huge sampling bias because of our current methods. We can't even look for Jupiters, it's unsurprising they are 'rare'.

What else are we talking about?

I mean this thread was not about how we search for life. It's about an estimate of the prevalence of intelligent life - an 'explanation' for the Fermi paradox. I'm saying it's basically a story.
DC is far wetter than the populous places in California so I don’t think we are susceptible to this problem.
They are still doing whatever the article says they'll do. But at least my messages (FB /WhatsApp are used widely) are off limits. No one expected shareholder-owned FB to commit suicide
I'm pretty sure the extra CO2 to transport would be worth the tradeoff for a decrease in physical pollution.
> I don't think any serious practitioners were out there thinking in this manner.

But a lot of thought pieces / YouTubers are pushing it, which is a problem.
I think there is also this misconception that politics is about being smart or being right. That is far from the case. Politics is the art of compromise and selling others on what you believe in. As such the wrong type of personality and approach can fail miserably. And the right approach and personality can win big time even if they have no clue or the wrong or bad ideas. You also have to be willing to go along and made deals that on the surface seem like bad ideas to do. If just so that others politicians will pay you back when you want to get something done. Know how to play the game.
Ask HN: How do you start working on a new project?
Let's say you have a new idea you want to work or a new contract to develop a product from scratch. How do you get started? Normally what I do is I start coding right away, come up with an MVP of sorts and keep improving stuff till I can. But this, to be honest, feels very hectic and disorganized. So I am just curious about what workflow people prefer when working on a small, one-person project.
Personally, I'm annoyed at Debian still not having a Web frontend for bug filing. Practically all other distros have some kind of issue tracker site that allows filing bugs through it.

Using reportbug or e-mail feels way less comfortable in comparison.
The author's notion of computer does not serve him well. It is too grounded in his experience of digital computing devices rather than an understanding of computing as a kind of process. Furthermore, the field of computational neuroscience is doing quite well, thank you. Tempral difference learning is both an algorithm and instantiated in brains in some form.
It’s amazing just how incredibly mislead voters were by the arguments for Brexit.
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I've found that musician earplugs under ear defenders essentially cancels all sound, including human voice.

It's not something I would recommend. It makes me feel uneasy. A dozen people could walk up behind you and watch you work, and you'd never know until they tapped you on the shoulder. If you have any anxiety at all about this, true silence will make it far, far worse.

Noise isn't the only problem with open office layouts. It's just a convenient way to describe it to people who don't understand. If you think it's hard to talk to business people about the problems caused by excessive sound levels, imagine how difficult it is to talk to them about how you feel.

At some level, though, they do know this. Your CEO doesn't have his desk facing the door of his office because that position is the quietest. Try do-si-do'ing his desk one day and see how long that lasts.
I switched all my servers to Ubuntu years ago when people were telling me "Ubuntu is no server distribution". I honestly never looked back.
You don't. Which is why this should definitely not be used for important votes like these. It may work fine at first but the attack surface on your election (and thus on your democracy) has just increased massively.
What is it with all this tech bashing lately? Certainly they aren't perfect, but silicon valley is far down on my list on things we need to fix. What about ISP monopolies that have required massive amounts of regulation just to let small ISPs ask for a bit of dark fiber? What about the gambling house that is wall street? Or our crumbling rail infrastructure? What about our exceedingly ineffective health care system full of insurance middle men and price gouging?

The difference between Google and those other issues, is that Google actually has a mission, and they use their money to generally do good things. In fact, I'd say it's a small miracle that Google isn't 10x evil. If Google was as evil as the big TelCos or some of the other scummy businesses out there, we would absolutely be having a bad day.

Part of that is google's culture. Not every company can afford to hire the best, and put them in an environment where work is fun and people feel compelled to do good. Break up Google and you get 1000x more companies all gathering the same data, except each one of them is staffed by idiots that leak data every day. Google is working as hard as possible and it's still a challenge to keep nation state attackers at bay with unlimited sums of money.

Let's get real here. The journalists are mad because they work for tech illiterate companies who gave in to shilling fear stories in the 90s. Now they have the jester-as-king calling them out as fake news, and the irony is that it's true. Maybe 5-10% of each story as some nugget of truth to it. The politicians of course have to lap those stories up so they can virtue signal to their ignorant constituents who barely understand tech any better than the politicians too.
Is this possible technically? The story is about trying to block Telegram and finding out that is impossible because of VPNs, IP changes(tech details) why do you think you can prevent Russian trolls to post on social media with a law? You block eh innocent people that are not technically sophisticated at best
I don't understand what it can possibly be without statistics expertise. If you take away that, what's left? a
A not-very-good programmer?

I always took data scientist to be a rebranding of statistician. (To be clear there's nothing wrong with rebranding.)
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Exactly, when will Silicon valley investors understand that Open Source:

1. Doesn't grow revenue at the speeds they want returns
2. Isn't "free marketing" (dear God I have seen this one too many times, CTOs even write it out in blogs sometimes)
3. Only really makes sense when you get out more than you put in, aka is community drive . Community driven open source is really the only profitable open source.
Haha yeah I felt the same weird cult-like vibe.

The thing about table-topics is you can't simulate it. People think they can do it until they get up in front of an audience of strangers. It's like that Mike Tyson quote: "everyone has a plan until they get punthed in the face" (couldn't resist)
Off course, it is not the case that a 3yr+ gap means no bonding, but I think each year gap makes a massive difference when they are young.
Relevant (about the first crash):

https://www.21stcentech.com/bad-software-boeing-737-max-comm...

"Those 189 who died were victims of Boeing’s redesign of its successful 737 aircraft, all about putting a bigger engine on it and trying to come up with a solution to correct the airplane’s changed aerodynamics. Boeing realized the redesign could lead to potential stalls. MCAS was the answer"

"Software combined with sensors would ensure the airplane would not tilt upward at an unsafe rate. The combination of the two would keep the nose at the precise right angle during all aspects of flight to prevent a potential stall.

Was this, in the end, a good design decision? No based on what occurred to this nearly brand new aircraft"

"Pilots can manually override the MCAS but cannot switch it off without switching off the flight computer. This fact in and of itself proved fatal to Flight 610, its crew, and passengers."

"Since the crash Boeing has sent out a safety warning with a procedure for cutting off MCAS in the event of an AOA sensor malfunction. A description of what a pilot would experience should the MCAS receive false data has been included so that he or she would know when to disengage the flight computer and manually take over flying the plane."

Moreover, bad software effectively working against the pilots, again connected to the stalls, was also the cause of this famous accident some 10 years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447

"In an article in Vanity Fair, William Langewiesche noted that once the angle of attack was so extreme, the system rejected the data as invalid and temporarily stopped the stall warnings. However, "this led to a perverse reversal that lasted nearly to the impact: each time Bonin happened to lower the nose, rendering the angle of attack marginally less severe, the stall warning sounded again—a negative reinforcement that may have locked him into his pattern of pitching up", which increased the angle of attack and thus prevented the aircraft from getting out of its stall.[25]"
That's fair. Explainable yet, but making sure the regression follows statistical assumptions is another can of worms, and one ignored by the rise of "easier" ML/DL.
I live in DC and am unaware of anyone here needing to pack gas-powered tools in order to build huts in the wilderness.
What's amazing is that people spend a fortune on "fashion" without thinking twice while at the time are wont to tell others to deprive themselves of things like eating meat. One should wonder if this is modern religion in action.
How do you know they don't change your physical ballots?
Wouldn't that be the third derivative, change in changes, heteroscedasticity?