skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does slathering deep learning onto something make it less of a black magic?
> everything

Article is just about CorePower Yoga and grad school.
> I'd say that taking peoples' stuff in the name of social justice is inherently unjust.

You have people like Buffett, Gates even Andrew Carnegie and many other billionaires saying that their wealth should go back to society instead of their kids, are they all wrong?
Well i sure as hell hope so. I would love the money being taken from us actually fund something i care about and that will benefit everyone, instead of wasting it on stupid crap.
Is it really free given the labor they get from you? Say your labor could get you $100k from a tech company but you're getting a $20k stipend + $20k fee remission from a university to do coding instead, aren't they benefitting from underpaying you by $60k?
Atleast in Germany it is free for international students in many states. In some states where it is not completely free for international students, the fees is still pretty low.
It's much sexier if you add some deep learning
Given that this is an organized attack with possible strategy, I would suspect it's to create a narrative that the current government is weak.
Well, I guess filtering out the idiots that use '123456' is at least ONE reason to use a '8 characters or more' password rule.
Ahah, the comment I wrote was the result of the algorithm on its own title.. Guess it's working great :-)
The tricky bit is that human social connections, our greatest psychological need, are both the lowest cost source of value (friendship, conversion, and sex are free) and source of highest expenses (social pressure to spend money to maintain relationships and status).
All the CO2 they exhale got the carbon from plants, which recently pulled it from the air. Humans are carbon neutral.
> why are there so many build systems?

Perhaps because the incumbent/popular build systems are far from being the best solution for the job, particularly when compared with build systems available for other technologies.

For instance, in C and C++ land the incumbents are still hand-written Makefiles, autotools, or cmake, which leave much to be desired.
Actually no, that would be folly. But I do expect at some point the planet will self correct.

I think that because I remember the scare of the ozone layer back in the 80s, early 90s.

Now according this article [0], in 2060 it will be completely healed.

Why can't it be said for climate change? I personally don't understand any negative connotations. I can only think it will be a positive outcome.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/05/ozone-la...
How an I apologising for the Nazis? Is it necessary to always preface any remarks in which Nazi Germany and another country may both be referenced with some kind of explanation or risk being called a Nazi apologist?
Can we not let the actual arguments speak for themselves?
America has tortured people. It has also destroyed Nations it regarded as Savage. How is that an apology for the Nazis?
A bunch of nonsense.

I stink at tackling climate change because I don't care about fake news. Climate change that can be economically effectively addressed does not exist. Until that changes please go ahead and fight it at your own expense.
And how much did you pay in tuition fees and housing costs?
We went all-in on the enterprise version, admittely it's better then what we were doing for managing and sharing passwords but it's probably the buggiest product that I tolerate.
> Just seeing the word "tux" reminds me of a lot of really sub-par quality games and applications of ~2003 that people would talk about as if they were just as good as the commercial offerings.

How is that relevant to this game? The developers have put a lot of work into this game and you're posting about your experiences 16 years ago about things "people" said about games back then.

> If the best thing the platform has to offer is ports and rip-offs of other games it's not a viable platform and it's insulting to people's intelligence to try to claim otherwise.

It's hard to see any logic behind this argument. If you don't like like it, that's your choice, but it's ironic that you seem to think Mario Kart was an original game. There were only like a million racing games that came before.
Yeah, I doubt anybody in real life (as opposed in an academic setting, or after having read this) ever actually knew more than 2 or 3 of those contrived definitions of buffalo (basically the animal and the place) needed to make this work...
I started https://www.seektable.com as a side project 2 years ago - originally this was demo of technology (totally free tool). Last 9 months I'm trying to convert it into profitable SaaS app; have first paid customers however MRR is still low.

Depending on your SaaS app niche and your marketing capabilities it might take some time to get stable and good-enough cash flow.
Tech companies have more leverage. And the still obviously profit from employing you. Sure some jobs pay better than others, but that doesn't make every non-highest-paying job a pyramid scheme. The claim has no logic to it.
What does exploitation mean exactly in this context? What does it mean to be exploited by an employer?
I think SpaceX is great. But how are they “pushing the limits of spaceflight technology?” The SpaceX Merlin engine uses the same basic RP-1/LOX cycle as the Saturn V’s first stage engine, which is more than half a century old now. Rocketdyne’s engine produced about 7-8 times as much thrust (which is why SpaceX needs 27 engines on three boosters for a Falcon 9 Heavy, versus 5 for a Saturn V.)

(Here is the computing equivalent of what SpaceX is doing: creating a PDP-11 with modern technology, that’s maybe 75% as fast, but at a fifth to a tenth of the cost.)

A more accurate summary is SpaceX is retreading well-worm ground that was trod before many of us reading this article were born, bringing modern materials and manufacturing capabilities to bear improving the same basic designs. That’s cool. But that’s not pushing the boundaries of space flight technology.
> They are choosing to buy these new technologies because they want to.

So do I, I have no issues with that. I bought a Tesla Model S 2 years ago because I don't like noise and pollution and it's a cool car. This has nothing to do with buying "to save the planet" or mandated CO2 reductions and EV quotas though, which is what is coming soon and I oppose.

> I noticed you didn't really address my core assumption that you don't believe in climate change.

Why do you make such assumptions? To discredit and offend someone you are discussing with?

> It's so rare nowadays to hear someone straight up deny climate change

It can't be so rare if you accuse people of doing this all the time.
> If I’ve been paying taxes over my income all my life, and I’ve chosen to do nothing with what remains

The problem is your small money has no power, rich people with their big money can buy governments and pass laws that benefit just the rich.
Why would they care for the Geneva Convention? The whole point of the war was to ignore and bypass all kinds of previous signed conventions (regarding WWI, borders, alliances, etc).
PhD isn't exclusively for academic careers. Industry has scientist jobs.
What are they using as source then? Please let us know more?
I'm just fine reading them on an iPad, though. I typically download the epub from their site and upload it to Google Play Books, so I can access it from all my devices.

The latest book "C#, In Depth", Fourth Edition is really readable, even the code, on the iPad (9.7"). I even occasionally read some on my Android phone and while the code samples fold on themselves, they still make sense at atleast (nothing getting cut off by invisible scrolling or anything).

I don't know how people would expect to read a tech book on a 6" screen of a Kindle, there's a reason print versions of tech books aren't the same size of a mass market genre paperback.
I was not only about the land anymore, the massive industry [1] and agriculture [2] needed a lot of free stuff. Mistreatment of civilians was an implication, and we overestimate the destructiveness of hate - until the unification of Germany their fragmented principalities had been trembling from hate.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monowitz_concentration_camp#Bu...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostarbeiter
Ask HN: What are cheap hacks to launch an MVP?
Domain registrar, hosting provider, designing pages, static vs dynamic page... What are the cheapest options available?
I can see this working on a perfectly flat surface, but the real world isn't flat. There's still some explanation left to do.
I had considered that, but as someone else else pointed out, what have I got to lose if it's taken down?

At least with links to my blog I can use the access logs for an idea of which articles people find interesting (I don't do other metrics/analytics due to my philosophy).

At the moment I'm trying to build a new box to host this on but it seems Caddy has broken source builds (again) and I need plugins for my Git hooks and Hugo build.

Searching around for an alternative.

Edit: and thanks for the compliment.
How VMware IT Used VMware Cloud on AWS for Jira Disaster Recovery
First, there's about a 30-year lag between emissions and their full heating effect, much like it takes time for water to boil after you turn on the stove.

More importantly, if we go beyond about +2 degrees C, it's likely that positive feedbacks will take over and add several more degrees, with no more help from us. Feedbacks include ice cap melt (so less sunlight is reflected away), CO2 and methane emissions from melting permafrost, and forest fires brought on by drought.

We know this is likely, because you're right about those cycles. In geological history, there have been times when orbital variations caused a small initial heating, and shortly after we see a big rise in greenhouse gases and temperature.

That's why we're worried about fixing things really soon, before that kicks in.

(We are not currently in one of those natural warming cycles, btw.)
In the video they show him moving a large shed over a dirt path.

He used a pivot sitting on top of wooden shoring boards, I can imagine the process for any weight would be similar.
>Think of the Nazis as a gang of uneducated mobsters

Actually lots of highly educated people were Nazis, including Nazi leaders and apologists.

Including people considered by their (even Jewish, even post WWII) academic peers, as the "biggest thinkers" of the 20th century.

Heck, Mengele had 2 Ph.Ds (anthopology and medicine).
Compared to the most known ...Kart games? It's playable outside of a single closed platform. For those of us who are not console fans/owners, most ...Kart games simply don't exist. (In a completely legal way, anyway)
One of the first mascots I thought of was the lizard from Open Suse. I'm surprised that's not in there. Any reason why?
> Any decent grad department will give the grad students a tuition waiver and stipend so it's actually the opposite of a pyramid scheme.

If you're interested, UChicago just released a report [1] on graduate education that highlights large numbers of areas that need improvement. It is unlikely that all of these problems are specific to them. The actual report is available [2] and is about 100 pages with an additional 200 pages of appendixes that contain a LOT of data.

[1] https://csl.uchicago.edu/announcement/daniel-diermeier-repor...
[2] https://provost.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/documents/r...
The reason the ozone layer is healing is because "the scare" led to enactment of laws prohibiting the widespread usage of the chemicals that were destroying it. This is like saying Y2K was nothing but fear mongering.
I agree with independence of thought, courage, and high principles, but is it moral? An militant anti-semite in present-day Germany is might be just as independent, principled, and courageous.
...and these days, most VPN logins require 2FA themselves...
Doing things at a Harbor Freight price point that have never been done at that price point before basically always winds up being uncharted engineering territory. Anyone can build something that works when you don't care about cost.
> I'm not a denier/skeptic.

> If at this point, the planet still keeps warming? What are "they" going to blame it on then?

Who is "they"? I think you are a troll.
Why Ford and Other American Cars Don’t Sell in Japan [video]
I too was asked to be a teacher after maybe a couple months of classes at Core Power. Keep in mind there were a great many ordinary poses I could not do properly because of my back injuries (one of the reasons I was going in the first place). I was flattered that someone noticed my dedication. Now I feel like a fool.
>Another “clever” solution is to use a software off switch, like this (for Windows). But it simply turns your webcam’s driver on and off.

The OpenBSD people have recently made microphone off the default at the kernel level. You need to have root access to turn it on again and you need to take an explicit action to have it come on at boot. That is actually sort of secure as people don't run as root in *nix environments when they are doing things that can get them cracked (i.e. run web browsers). Turning the microphone on should really be an admin level thing...

Perhaps what we want isn't a switch but a button. You can activate it but it is off by default. There really needs to be a obvious light as well...
I think this comment is being unfairly downvoted. I believe a lot of so-called environmentalists are actually opposed to civilization, and would prefer if humanity reverted to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. This is more "natural", and humans are generally happier living like that, so it's not a totally ridiculous idea. The main drawback is that it would require the deaths of billions, but by their revealed preferences, it seems a lot of environmentalists are actually okay with this. Why else would they oppose the only proven solution that could bring CO2 emissions to zero in time to limit the damage to something survivable?: nuclear power.

I think climate change is the biggest current threat to humanity, and almost nobody is taking it as seriously as they should. Even the ongoing protests in London are a massive under-reaction. But how many of those environmentalists actually support a solution that isn't "wind down the economy?" Germany began a complete shutdown their nuclear power plants in response to a reactor containment failure in Japan that killed nobody directly, and even with the worst case assumptions, statistically caused few hundred excess cancer deaths at most. This is 0% of the deaths that will be caused when one of the alternative "wind down the economy" or "uncontrolled temperature rise" plans triggers World War 3.
I would think, in absence of other evidence, that investing in microoptimizing sleep and stress would have more benefits than any language or tool choice.

So it's not just 8 hours, it's also midday naps, circadian rhythms, it's letting people sleep when they need to.

And you didn't even mention stress and there are of course myriad ways to improve mood levels and reduce stress.

And obviously some of that stress will come from your choice of tools and methods, but again, we have little evidence as to which tools and methods produce the least amount of stress.

It's not what you do, or even how you do it, it's the circumstances in which you do it that have the greatest impact on your ability to do it well.

Work 80 hours, work 5, play 50, dig ditches, cure cancer - doesn't matter, fix sleep and stress before worrying about the little things.
I think the actual reason is that most of the countries hardest hit (due to concievable first order effects) have mostly very low GDP. Hence the incumbents have very little immediate financial incentive to pull their weight.
Title: What is the worst language?

hncynic 1 minute ago

> The most difficult languages to learn are C, Java, C++, and C, which in their implementation would have helped prevent them from becoming "worse" languages

Nope, but still more challenging than "easier".

> Lisp

No, because that's not so hard...

> Ruby, Python, and even Haskell

Nope, but Lisp is the least painful language to learn.

> PHP

Lets say I want to program on a Mac. I want to program on a Mac. The only reason I need to do that is that the code base sucks and you can't use PHP.

hncynic 1 minute ago

I don't think this guy is wrong. I think that's the best language to write web applications. I personally have spent a fair amount of time building web applications. I think people have a hard time focusing on web apps. If you can use Java or PHP or Python, you can do web applications too.
It’s Sunday morning and my Airbnb account has been hacked
> And I have found that presenting such views to less informed friends makes them more motivated to take action and limit their consumption rather than the doom and gloom perspective.

I dunno. I for one is getting a little tired of all these optimistic endings. It almost sounds like - hey, nothing to worry about, the problem will solve itself. Renewables are getting cheaper and if you just skip one day a week of eating meat then everything will be just fine.

And then you look at the PPM chart and it just keeps going up.

Social science is saying that scaring people doesn't work and I don't understand why. Don't we have the loss aversion? [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
The internet showed what value is produced by ramping up communications orders of magnitude in bandwidth beyond what was previously possible. At this point our bottleneck for value is energy, not communication

Solar energy doesn't have to worry about entropy: energy from the sun is beating down on us whether we tap it or not. The money will come from the fact that energy produces value. Renewables have been progressing over the past decades to compete with existing carbon infrastructure. To suggest renewables are only hoisted up by policy is to disregard that the oil industry is heavily subsidized & the states currently has a president who will claim "clean beautiful coal"
It's more so a case of the law of averages, white people are the majority of people in these countries after all.
Training time for a NN is not O(n), it is a function of the dataset size and the complexity of NN to approximate a given function. Similarly the memory cost is also a function of the size of the network required. The same is true for prediction time and memory costs. If you data are big enough, all the O(1) lies we tell ourselves start breaking down.
Heavier bodied and more complex beers do better with warmer temperatures. Eg a lager is best drunk cold, a stout (or lambic) should be a bit warmer.

Whether that should go all the way to room temperature depends on how warm your room is. (And how you like your beer.)

Eg https://belgium.beertourism.com/belgian-beers/duchesse-de-bo... suggests you drink the Duchesse de Bourgogne at 8-12C. If you start at 8C and let it warm up as you sip, you'll notice the taste change over time and the flavours and aromas develop.

If you sip your lager slowly, you are just going to have an insipid drink. Especially if you started with something as bland as Heineken.
Yes. Most of the growth is immigration. People don't immigrate to retire. They immigrate to work.
Hilarious!

Musk's companies are so pointless, eventually all of them will go bust.
> What’s wrong with us? Not us Democrats, Republicans, or Americans

But really, Republicans, though.

> Earth is warming mostly due to human activity

> Republicans (Boomer/GenX/Millennial): 18/2x/36

> Democrats: 75

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/14/many-republ...
The Milgram Experiment[1] shows that most people do go along with what an authority figure tells them. It’s one of the more depressing experiments in social psychology.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
Can't tell if you're being pejorative or not, but I make it a point (as a regional director) to take naps when I'm tired in full view of anyone who wants to see.

Yo don't always have the luxury of waiting till you're in a nice cool bed with the environment and time of your choosing.

People need sleep when they need it. Pretending otherwise is foolish.
The Milgram experiment shows people will role-play if you put them in a role play situation.

It doesn't tell you anything about what people do in the real world in real situations.
Oskar Dirlewanger had a PhD in political science, and commanded a unit so brutal that an SS court was convened to investigate.

Imagine how horrific someone's actions must be when even the SS think they might be going too far.
You are assuming that the economy can smoothly scale down with energy restriction. In reality, everything is highly optimized, with "just in time" supply chains with little safety margin. Once energy demand greatly exceeds supply, the whole system collapses.

And most transport and heating does not use electricity, so the problem is actually worse than 27.6% of normal supply.
> In towns and cities you often cannot buy a freehold. Is all 100 year leases.

Are you talking about England?

I'd bet quite heavily that in every city in England outside of London 99% of people would have no trouble finding an adequate freehold home
These statistics are always completely flawed. They attribute all the CO2 produced by children (and their children, ad infinitum) to their parents. If the replacement rate matches exactly the fertility rate then I will produce an infinite amount of CO2 by having two children assuming they don't die before they have two children too. Currently the fertility rate is below the death rate so in the statistics the number ends up being finite and therefore looks "reasonable". Except the per capita co2 footprint in the UK is around 10 tons per citizen per year. It is impossible to save 60 tons per year.

Even if we accept this as a "reasonable" assumption there is another huge flaw with this statistic. The assumption is that your children will be average polluters. So no matter how much you reduce your own CO2 footprint your children will always produce more CO2 than you. Except if you teach your children to reduce their CO2 footprint by not driving a car you reduce your CO2 footprint by 25% and the CO2 footprint of your children too. Your footprint including descendants goes down from 70 tons to 52.5. A 17.5 ton decrease!

If you do everything in this chart except not having children (assuming an electric car) your CO2 footprint goes down by 38% down from 70 tons to 44 tons. Notably this requires almost no changes in lifestyle. Just switching to renewables is enough.

This chart is harmful, it only serves to make people feel helpless and not take action against climate change.
This is a good point - there's very little objectivity in "quality" when it comes to flavour, as theoretically some group of individuals could prefer a bitterer/sweeter/sharper tea than others. It's often cited that the taste of chocolate favoured throughout the world is very regional e.g., but clearly in some places this could be due to the quantity of some cheap ingredient such as sugar. Quality of inputs, or the method of growing etc. are probably more quantifiable.