skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of something from a really great piece about schizophrenia that I read:

> In 2007, they announced a startling discovery. Stevens was trying to identify the proteins that recognized and eliminated neuronal synapses during visual development. “The strangest finding was that a protein that usually tags and removes pieces of dead cells, bacterial remnants, or cellular debris was also being reworked to tag and remove the synapses,” she said. Mice designed to lack tagging proteins—called complement proteins—had problems both in clearing cellular debris and in tagging and pruning their synapses.

> The Stevens and Barres study, published in the journal Cell in 2007, documented one of the most arresting instances of repurposing in biology: a protein designed to ticket germs and junk for destruction had been co-opted by the nervous system to ticket synapses for destruction. “It reinforces an old intuition,” my psychiatrist friend Hans, in Boston, told me. “The secret of learning is the systematic elimination of excess. We grow, mostly, by dying.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/28/the-genetics-o...
I'd love to see someone with social media skills ramp up a campaign in "solidarity" with these residents and "help" them hit 10x their stated goal.
Debit cards have no fraud protections.
It depends on the application of course, but some of them do end up sprouting a bunch of little "quality of life" JS functions. Writing these is happily a much simpler experience than it was in 2012! The most complex app I run also has the deepest browser support requirements, back to IE11. That said, I still have document.querySelector in all my target browsers so I find I don't even need jQuery.

For autocompletion, datepickers, etc I use drop-in components. These tend to be jQuery based but it's not the end of the world.

When I do have a particular view or flow that outgrows the "bits and pieces of JS" phase it's actually pretty straightforward to use a modern UI library like React or Elm on that view alone. Reducing the scope of the area you're using the framework in rather than writing the entire app in it simplifies things pretty dramatically. The JS doesn't need to worry about routing, pushState, etc etc etc. It just deals with its own little patch of DOM and state.
The Marriage of Silicon Valley and the Pentagon Is Happening
Lots of work is being done on .NET, not just Unity. Also, it's the second most popular server side web language: https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_langua...
> Rails was the first "language" I learned so I was its best case subject. It was able to indoctrinate me in the beauty of metaprogramming and things like that. Yet that still wasn't enough to keep the light from shining through the veneer when working on a real world projects where you just want to know how something works by reading application or glue code

I think the hidden magic is the worst part, but after a while I got pretty good at simply diving into various gems to see where the magic's happening (or failing to happen) and I don't mind that aspect now.

pry is an awesome tool. Put a `binding.pry` breakpoint in your code, do a `show-source Foo.borked_method` and explore from there.

Also, popular Rails-related gems tend to have good tests. I learned that those tests often demonstrate things that the docs don't.
Great reply. Thanks for spreading knowledge.
Eh, with cars you can only be driving one at a time so it doesn't make sense for insurance to double or triple just because you now have two or three cars.

With family members, they are all absolutely living in parallel and at the same time.
Sadly, this problem will only get exponentially worse. Those phones were from 30 years ago. Considering how much the population and consumerism has grown since then, I imagine in 30 years this will be a relatively common type of manmade disaster.
>how we value the capital

Who is "we"? The founders are who agreed to those terms. It's how they valued the capital.
For all your moralizing, you're suggesting people forgo the sizeable benefits of using a credit card for day-to-day purchases because some people are foolish enough to use it as a long-term loan?

> When will people understand that buying something now without the money is not freedom

I would imagine the vast majority of people worldwide who have a mortgage are happy with the end-result of that leverage.
The more I read about Boeing's malfeasance here, the more certain I am that I will refuse to fly in the 737 MAX if and when it's ever recertified, unless the airframe is substantially redesigned and substantial retraining of pilots occurs. A software patch is not going to cut it for me to trust the aircraft going forward.
Elixir/Erlang's emphasis on uptime/fault-tolerance/scalability/concurrency (admittedly at the cost of performance and the abstraction of a VM) is perfectly suited to web/mobile use-cases.

On paper, Pheonix should be the default choice for large and small web/mobile MVC applications. I think the question of if that becomes the case is directly tied to adoption of Elixir.
What does that actually mean, though?

And "there's no reason you can't, if you wanted" is a far cry from "sure, the work is already done."

For example, something as simple as having a server-side rendered forum built with your favorite back-end language and now you want to build a client for it (web, iOS, Android).

That basically means massive duplication as you create a json interface boundary.

Yeah, you were already passing a { user, topic, posts } object to the template, so you can just serialize it your json api, right? But you can't because when you wrote that code, you knew the data never left the process. You didn't need to scrub the user.password_digest. Adding an api on top of an existing system is a lot of work no matter how much you hand wave about "well architected software."

But forget over the air network boundary. How about just wanting to implement the view layer of your Rails app with Go one day? How exactly would a "well architected" Rails app help you out?

The truth is that one reason that SSRs are simpler is because they are monoliths which spares you from certain classes of concerns. That's the trade-off you have to pay for if you want to cleave the monolith one day.
Andrew Godwin (the main hand behind the push) burnt out and halted all development until he can find someone someone is willing to help.
To add to your point,

Twitter's current stock price sits at ~75% of their IPO and their number of active users peaked at Q1 2018 (most likely boosted by Trump) and have been decreasing since.
Twitter's situation may be worse than people think.

Hardly a success.
They clearly don't give a fuck about the tech industry. They sell coal and talk about stopping boats, throwing the word "pedophile" in there every now and then.

That's what passes for leadership these days.
NIMBYism in its purest form.

Navigation Centers are far more than homeless shelters. They take people in as they are (pets, belongings, partners, etc.) and provide on-site services. Unlike traditional shelters, occupants are not forced back on the streets in the morning just to wait in line for a bed that night.

I have one in my neighborhood. I took a tour with a few other neighbors last year. I can’t imagine how you can argue that it would be better for the people I saw to be living outside on the streets.

Every district in San Francisco should have at least one Navigation Center.
Why couldn't they have dropped the magstripe completely and forced the card to use online chip mode only and then declined all transactions unless temporarily unlocked within app? Would be a lot simpler than pairing card to phone.
I don't remember the last time I carried a balance on a credit card, or paid any fee at all for the short-term credit I get on a card. I do remember a 10 night stay in the Maldives I got for free from using credit card points effectively though.

Help me understand how I've been tricked, please?
That's absolutely insane.
Great video, thanks for sharing. That simulator work at the end was a fantastic demonstration of team work. Crew Resource Management.[1] I still remember DAM CLAS from the Navy.[2] Numerous examples in the video. Sad and terrifying thinking about what it must have been like for the pilots and passengers of the crashed airlines. If the issue was MCAS, the slowly worsening situation, never disabling the trim, just one step to remedy the situation that’s never taken, and the intuitive solution of pulling back hard on the yoke not working, because Boeing removed it in the latest version--a sad example of awful decision making on the ground.[3]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_resource_management

2. https://quizlet.com/45297265/crew-resource-management-crm-th...

3. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/u-s-p...
Totally. I'm not the bad guy but the alarm is. Putting on the cleanup song helps cleaning up go faster.
Apple is acting as though their rewards is the most generous reward system ever, period. In reality, it is not even close. For instance, you can trivially get 2% cashback on all purchases (regardless of whether you're using Apple Pay or not) without annual fees:

- Citi Double Cash: unlimited 2% back on everything; regardless of payment method; no annual fee

- Fidelity Rewards: unlimited 2% back on everything; regardless of payment method; no annual fee

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2% is the minimum you should earn on any credit card purchase. There are a bunch of generous rewards cards that offer special cashback rates on certain categories. For instance, the US Bank Cash+ card [0] lets you pick two categories to get 5% cashback on, albeit you're limited to $2,000 in spending per quarter. After that $2,000, you only accrue 1% back. One of the categories is 'Electronics Stores', which includes Apple. In other words, you can get 5% back on Apple purchases (on up to $2,000/quarter in purchases) while the Apple Card offers unlimited 3% back on Apple purchases. There is no annual fee for this card.

The Uber Visa card [1] gets you 4% back on dining and 3% back on hotels/flights with no annual fee.

The Chase Freedom and Discover it cards both have rotating 5% categories (subject to a $1,500 per quarter maximum spend) without annual fees. Meaning, you get 5% back on specific categories on each card which change every quarter. In 2018, the Chase Freedom card had gas stations, internet/cable/phone, Google/Apple Pay, grocery stores, PayPal, gas stations, Lyft, Walgreens, department stores, and wholesale clubs as some of their rotating categories [2]. Also in 2018, Discover had gas stations, wholesale clubs, grocery stores, restaurants, and Amazon as their categories [3].

Admittedly, I believe most of the banks named above charge the "normal" fees that Apple has stated they will not be charging (i.e. penalty APR rates, late fees, etc.). But in reality, responsible users of credit cards were never going to pay those kinds of fees anyway.

[0]: https://cashplus.usbank.com/merchants/index

[1]: https://www.uber.com/c/uber-credit-card/

[2]: https://thetravelsisters.com/chase-freedom-categories-2018-c...

[3]: https://awardwallet.com/blog/discover-5-categories-calendar-...
Technology is the worst and most-commonly used form of therapy
Ignorant question: in India, how can a stranger know your caste? These days I assume there is some mobility, so is it possible to say move to Mumbai, dress the part, and rebrand yourself as a higher caste?

I’m in US, race is the thing here and it’s fairly identifiable.
The thing that was the most chilling to me was the fact that the last item on the memory checklist is to try and prevent the trim wheel from moving using physical force. At that point it almost seems like "well, you are probably going to die, but you might as well keep yourself busy in the process."

I thought the communication was really interesting. Air France Flight 447[1] crashed due to the pilot flying pulling back on the stick for over a minute while in a stall, overriding the command inputs of the pilot monitoring. The other pilots realized that the pilot flying had been pulling the stick back the entire time only a few seconds before impact, and at that point it was too late to recover. The transcripts from the cockpit voice recorder are pretty chilling.

That exact situation isn't exactly possible in a Boeing because the sticks are linked, but there were a several crashes in the modern era that occurred because of communication issues in the cockpit. Of course, in addition to better communication, we have systems like MCAS which are designed to prevent pilots from repeating the mistakes of AF447. In this case it obviously didn't work out that well.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447
The irony is that the BBC is a government _mandate_ funded organization, if you want to talk about monopolies. Oy, m8 you got a license for that?
I have no bias against "web people", I have a bias against using the wrong tool for the job.

This REEKS of developers who are psyched about WASM and want to create solutions where no problem exists.

If they want performant code outside of the browser, use any one of the 2-3 dozen languages that already do this! WHY is a new runtime, with the inevitable serious security issues that will be exposed throughout it's life, needed for this?
I think we're working with different definitions of social liberalism. My understanding is that people are socially liberal when they are in varying degrees okay with lifestyle choices of others that differ from their own, as long as those choices don't impede on their own lives (too much).
There are different types of homelessness, and different levels of visibility and effects on the community.

On one end of the spectrum, temporary homelessness typically garners the most sympathy, and brings the least trouble in terms of drug use and other petty crime.

On the other end, the chronic homeless are harder to deal with. My ex who worked with the local metro homeless population was frustrated by these, who through mental illness and / or drug use were simply not capable of dealing with the responsibilities needed to maintain a home or apartment; things like getting a job and not getting evicted for various bad behavior reasons. The hardest to deal with were those who refused to get help; no medicine, no job training program, no finance management couse, nothing accepted but food and cash.

These are the ones who are often the most visible- defecating on sidewalks, drugs, harassing people who are just going about their day.

You can have the biggest heart in the world, and you still won't be able to help them short of bringing back forced institutionalization, which no one wants either.
This strikes me as an exceptionally difficult problem to solve. I'll be impressed if someone brings a workable solution to market in any reasonable time-frame. I guess if you can retrain people in how they use their toilet, you might be able to simplify some of the challenges, but many people use their toilet as a generalized soft/liquid garbage can.
> I think "IJASDO" would be way easier to memorize than person.guards.gangs

Completely disagree. No way 6 arbitrary letters is easier to remember than 3 arbitrary words.
Clicker Heroes was my first exposure. It sounded ridiculous but people kept playing these games so I gave it a try.

Ended up deep enough to install AutoHotkey. Steam says over 500 hours played. Oops.

Universal Paperclips is great, and I like that I can "win" in a few hours. It wasn't really difficult, except once the drifters started killing me off. The balance of resources into my drone army was confusing and I needed the wiki for that.
> A toilet that monitored urine and stool samples

The nation of Germany?
'A Dark Room' is what we'd call an _incremental_ game, because it's not as much about clicking as most 'clicker' games tend to be - it's a game that unfolds, shifting mechanics and goals over time.

Most clicker games don't do much unfolding, and instead just become time management toys, trying to maximize rate of growth between extended periods of idleness. And - this is key - most clicker games aren't incremental games. Incremental games at least have some interesting draw: the game isn't what it at first appears to be. Clickers, on the other hand, are exactly what they appear to be.
Taiwan and Macao appear to be majority other.
You can define methods on structs which is not unlike classes.

You can define an interface with methods that allow objects to be processed in a more generic fashion.

I think that more than anything it would require a change of mindset that people understandably don't want to deal with.
You aren't done until every atom in the universe is part of a paperclip. Even then, there may be other universes out there.
When compared to health insurance almost anywhere else in the world, it's dire value for money.
There are implicit agreements that society has to itself and the entities that coalesce in it. A major event tends to have a disproportionate impact on the population's perception of its institutions. It is in human nature to search for something to blame, it helps people rationalize the issues at hand. I don't think people realize how many incidents are resolved before it even reaches the TV and that is a good thing.

Even if society was willing to exchange more privacy for a higher number of unpredictable 'negative' incidents, the question changes from what, to how many. For example, how many incidents of X magnitude would be required for people to change their minds? What if you only need 1 incident of Y magnitude to change the shape of your society in a negative way, potentially rocking its very core? Would you take the risk for your individual's privacy? You have to remember that an event can be come in different ways such as a terror attack, a semi-natural disaster, a cyber attack, an espionage that rocks the foundation of a key industry in your country, etc.

I think some of the questions society should be asking are: What is an acceptable degree of personal privacy that we should strive for? What are the blockers to ensure the material is not used for nefarious reasons? Are the right institutions in place and are they solid enough? How can society engage more and have a better understanding of the issues at hand?
"...peninsula cities crack down on homeless people by buying a bus ticket to SF or SJ, whichever is cheaper, and police escorting them to the bus"

You have evidence of this?
You don’t think her followers are fake too? I’m sure the fraud and lies go deeper than what we know.
Expedia isn't a growth company, Lyft is. The question at this point becomes whether or not Lyft can make money, and at a scale to be worth that valuation now.
For my work it's all React + React-Native shared codebase for web and mobile.

I've also heard that graph dbs are better for social data than relational dbs, though I don't know the details. So I guess another use case is you are Facebook.
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It took me a long time to learn rails, it's very magical and makes many decisions for you. If you constantly find yourself disagreeing or fighting these decisions, rails will never be fun. Maybe this is why so many people are against it, but I loved having a framework teach me about why it made these decisions. To me, nothing comes close to vanilla rails app, after you learn where and when to apply certain patterns it's extremely productive and fun to use. You can get so much farther than you probably think if you haven't used it in a while.
> The watchOS 5.2 update expands the availability of the ECG app to Hong Kong and 19 European countries, including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK
Capitalism is the only solution to address famine and genocide? Or do you mean that famine and genocide aren't possible under capitalism?
Oh wow that's interesting. Thanks for the comparisons. I'm now wondering why some of these countries are having quick declines in religion and the US isn't.
I've been using Django since I started 10 years ago. I argue that it was a great choice back then and it's _still_ the right choice even with the advent of the modern everything. If you are writing a website for a business, I see nearly no actual business case for using Node+SPA for nearly any kind of website you'd want to build. Especially in a business context, unless you are building a super ultra real time thing (and then use Elixir not Node), Django will do just fine and be several times faster to develop and easier to pull off. And you can get pretty far into the dynamicness camp before it becomes untenable. s/Django/Rails.
Ben Rich's "Skunk Works" book has lots about Kelly Johnson. Rich worked with him and eventually succeeded him.
I bet. After doing the Kotlin Koans I'm itching to get away from Java.

There is a JHipster Kotlin blueprint that generates the backend code with Kotlin instead of Java. Can't wait to use it.
Yeah the negativity struck me as well. After being in Afib for a month, he was at high risk for having a stroke. I guarantee you that insurance would have been appreciated then.

Just to add to the discussion, I've been self employed and on ACA plans for several years now (with my family). I'm grateful to have the option, and it's miles ahead of what we had prior to the ACA.
Why do these articles always try to imply that AI has an individual consciousness? Are journalists seriously this dry for content nowadays?

It's funny how it's always about the negative side with these articles, too. Like, couldn't AI outsmart us by showing the Human race that the answer is Love and not War?

Why does AI has to be this terminator-like mazohist every time?

Makes me wonder if these writers take time to reflect on the garbage they are writing.
This is a really awesome framework. Working on a generative chord progression project right now using it (Also my first foray into typescript -- looks like the type definitions for Tone.js are a bit out of date).
TONE.JS is really fun. My hobby project uses RNNs to generate MIDI parts and play them back through TONE.js : http://treblemaker.ai
Worth inquiring about the add-on price for it, then. I also add a skin-cancer check with a dermatologist to my yearly check-up as I'm very high risk.
That’s also a problem when mapping a circle to a straight line. The band Rush sang “you can’t have something for nothing...”
“Machine Learning and Continuous Integration” Might Be a Culture Conflict
The idea that linear models are linear in the parameters and not the data is a bit confusing. I know the effect of this is that you fit curves with "linear" models, but I don't feel like I fully understand this. Can you explain further or link to some good resources?
Hopefully not a Theranos lol

What if on major airports (or other similar venues) there were paid toilets where you could do whatever business you want to do there and exit, only to receive a test result later on if something weird showed up?

Could this be doable?

Perhaps by taking a photo of the solid & liquid expelled from your body and trying to eliminate or reduce water contamination from the solid parts, and collecting it as you usually do in a lab?

Sorry if this all sounds stupid. My experience with biology is close to zero, and I have no clue about what I'm talking about — just thinking out loud.
How is anything online trusted? The most common way to establish trust, for anything, is through hashing. Online locations apply hashing via certificates issued by a trusted certificate authority. Those certificates can be spoofed just as a destination domain can be spoofed. The strength of security is that it takes extra work to spoof two unrelated things and that the issuing CA is trusted by other CAs and applications. On the web exposure to risk is limited by usually only applying those certificates to the key exchange of TLS. These certificates can be used for more though, like digital signatures on documents.