skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Plus what rate of weight loss do you think is acceptable.

Great question, I estimated the math before the last post but let me unpack it so people can correct me.

If a man is avg US height of 5'9" with an obese BMI of 35 and weight of 240, then 0.5% to 2% each week would fit standard medical guidelines for effective dieting.

At that weight you can easily fluctuate by 1% each day.

So we have an eight week effect that is in total less than 1% over sham, a difference on par with standard daily noise and reasonable weekly goal. This is why there's a replication crisis in health research.

Also, sham is a misleading control here if we're actually interested in weight loss. Why not control for any diet at all? Even use the same time each day going for a walk, or probably even meditating on weight loss strategies, at this improvement rate the advantage will melt away. Sham is defensible if you don't actually care about weight loss, but in that case weight shouldn't be your metric. Best case is it's a horribly misleading study design.
LinkedIn and Github didn't go away.
N=1 story of great childhood cat: he was a Russian blue, which I later came to understand as a particularly smart and affectionate breed.

He would come like a dog, knew many words like "peanut butter," was very clever at opening and closing all manner of doors, and was very affectionate, if you were the only one around.

Literally would grab your ankles and try to restrain you from leaving. But only if you were the only one around.

Incredible sense of spatial awareness and time of day, too. Both seem common traits to cats.
There's a relevant article on the HN front page now. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2019-gore-artificial-corn...
Is there really a Windows native look anymore? Every application seems to have a completely different UI style now. The old days of dialog boxes all having the same Winforms controls are gone and now they're a random mixture, even within Windows itself. The tabs in Chrome are not like the tabs in Excel which are not like the tabs in Paint3D. It's all over the place.
I assume it is because you can use it on iOS/OSX.

And people are still doing a lot of Data Science work in R and Scala so I wouldn't say it is at all Python centric.
The spec is currently in the editor’s queue for publication. I believe that means that no further changes are anticipated.
sure but honestly how much traction does it have?
WebKit has pointer events in active development, so I expect setPointerCapture in safari soon.
You don't even have to look at recent languages... probably the best example of (a) is SQL. SQL arrived a couple of years after Prolog in the 70's, but over the decades SQL has absolutely dominated. Unfortunately for Prolog, SQL provides much of the same functionality while also having the advantage of being a more natural fit for business applications which drove adoption. (and quite likely directly hurt Prolog's prospects)
All of these are priority and value judgements.

The author sees all that very differently from how you do.

Additionally, there are numerous others, myself included, who see it differently.

Frankly, I am quite happy to take it however an author feels they can share it. Often, that brings context of value to me as well.

Not all of us care about optimal when reading. It is just reading. No big.
Hacker News ranks at #959 in the US. It didn’t get that rank from just being geared toward startups with Tier 1 engineers.

Look on the front page right now and see how many stories are about startups. That didn’t change in the last five years. It’s always been about technology in general.

HN’s front page 10 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-05-10

HN’s front page 5 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2014-05-10
How the Hell Has Danielle Steel Managed to Write 179 Books?
We use fluentMigrator for .Net, but basically the workflow is similar to Rails migration. It is working fine and did not slow us down.

What slows us down and related to this topic is cross-database migrations. We have a bunch of microservices in different codebases. Sometimes we need to adjust bound contexts which move the responsibilities from services to services, we found it's much harder to migrate between different databases behind those services. It's either hard to keep track in the same repo and/or too slow to migrate large volume of data across hosts. In the end we wrote some optimized SQL to do that. Maybe monorepo could help but this doesn't happen too much, and we haven't start trying it yet.
Why don't you use yours? I would love to be able to just carry a plastic tube over lugging the vacuum around the house.
From what I have learned the most important cause of aging is cancer defense. As we get older DNA gets more and more damaged and cancer a bigger and bigger risk. To prevent cancer, the body slows down cell division. But cell division is very important. It's through cell division that our body renews itself and heals. With a slower division rate we become frail.

So if we could strike at the root cause, and heal DNA damage, then we wouldn't have to worry about cancer, and we would be able to turn cell division up and become more youthful. Or alternatively if we could develop better cancer cures, we could turn cell division up and deal with problems as they arise.

Now DNA damage isn't the only thing we would have to fix. For instance some poisons and junk cannot be eliminated by the body and stay with us permanently. We would need to find ways to clean them up.
It matters a ton. You get your rsu grant sized based on the stock price at the time of the grant, just like options. If that price goes up, you make money... Just like options.
One could make another movie about all that transpired during the consumption of the original made this way.
If you’re not a fan of big brother you probably should be logging to bare metal instead of Amazon S3.
My wife lived in Korea as a child for 3 years, and has a perfect korean accent to this day (we visited korean recently, people were surprised she was actually American)
I honestly think the days of the cohesive desktop platform are done. It arguably reached its peak with OS X (perhaps circa Snow Leopard), but the idea has been falling into disrepair even on the mac. It's hard to see any strong force moving us back to it, but given the current situation, if I were a desktop app developer I don't think it's something I would consider it worth investing too much effort in.
I don’t even like Java but I can tell you it had nothing to do with Java vs. the new and shiny.
While this fee is outrageous, I think EV specific fees are inevitable as gas tax revenue dwindles.

The fairest would be use-based but most people seem fundamentally opposed to tracking through tags or mileage (some people are okay with it when it results in lower insurance rates though). Trucks have the most impact on the roads so it may be possible to impose mandatory mileage or tracking via tags.

So instead I think we will end up with a flat tax per vehicle.

Edit: fairest as in people who use the most pay the most. However, exclusionary housing policies end up shifting that burden in a way that results in fairly regressive policies.
Just look at the Bay Area which happily passed high bridge tolls but is much slower to build housing on the peninsula.
I am dumb -- I test at the function level. I have a theory that the likelihood of catching a bug depends on the number of lines being tested, if each can be assumed to do its job. This implies that if a line calls a function that I wrote, I need to test that function. There is some work based on Kolmogorov complexity that seems to support this but didn't go very far (I did not see any follow up papers). Maybe it's all wrong. I am biased: I wrote quickcheck for R. (by the way, fuzz testing and randomized testing are two separate things).
Biophillic Vision – Experiment 1
Even if it works you would do it only if it would make enough money. If market changes for some reason and it is not profitable anymore than Planet is screwed up again.
There is no easy fix. Only just stop polluting CO2.
My top four reasons: 1) the eventual MLIR for LLVM will empower new algorithms; 2) Lattner and team have a track record; 3) vast community of swift application developers; 4) fastai.
WinUI is just a new name for the UWP UI stack now that it is open source and decoupled from the OS, React Native is a wrapper on top of UWP/WinUI, and WPF isn't really getting significant new features other than being taken open source and ported to .net core. So really already there's just one forward-looking native UI stack, which is WinUI.
I respectfully disagree that my comment was unrelated. I want the community of programmers and technology enthusiasts to be as diverse as possible. While maybe not his fault, Mr. Davis said some things that were very much not welcoming to a diverse audience. My fear is that venerating him with comments like "RIP brother" sends a negative message about what is acceptable in the community.
Good to hear, and can't wait. It had been so long that I thought that they decided that they wouldn't bother.
Why do the emails go out every 2 weeks? Why not send an email once per year, and give people a year to respond? Maybe send a second email or a text if the final month approaches and the person hasn’t responded yet.

And 3 days seems a little hasty. What’s the rush, after all? If someone is dead for 3 days they’ll surely be dead for another 300.

Clicking an email link every 2 weeks for the rest of my life is going to feel like a chore after a few months.
It makes it tricky to even search for terms. I was trying to google something about Pocket a while back and man I nearly threw my computer at the wall trying to dig for a relevant result. I think a lot of companies unintentionally shoot themselves in the foot pulling their single word product name out of the dictionary.
Just copy tweets to post?
I'm not. I'm thinking about Gitlab. There is a long history of Gitlab shamelessly copying things from GitHub, and GitHub taking the high road. I would be so much more likely to support them if they didn't act like complete tools any time GitHub releases a new feature, especially considering their history.

> Now they're well in the dust and still don't have an open source version.

GitHub is massively larger than Gitlab. It's not even close. You're focussing on one relatively unimportant thing, and missing the bigger picture. I would wager a year from now, GitHub's lead in the market will have increased, not decreased.
I think that’s a shallow analysis.

The difference is that college students expect to make more money in the future so they don’t put any thought into stretching their dollar. Retirees are the opposite. They may have bigger bank accounts, but for most of them, they know that’s all they’ll ever get.
Are you implying Amazon harvests S3 objects for info?
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Congrats to everyone!
I'd almost argue that we need to find a new word for it but at this point there's not much to it.
I've had the discussion a few times about how Big Bang Theory is basically a minstrel show about smart people instead of your choice of minority group and while some folks get the comparison, most just glaze over.
They do offer a lot of features for free, absolutely. Still doesn't change the fact that the features we are discussing aren't on that list.
As far as i know, Swift is the only one embedding the graph flow of the TensorFlow directly in its compiler, so those idioms can translante from IR to machine code with paralelism and a fine-tuned machine code.

As its very common to target this sort of code to GPU´s, and LLVM can target them as output, i think is mostly because you can design and shape the langage right on its high level representation and tune for high performant code in the low level.

The why, i think, its about opportunity.. Chris Lattner going to Google, and people from the language and the compiler side of the fence being open about bake this right into the compiler when necessary.
Right. It's something that can't be observed, and clearly acts like mass, so let's call it "Dark Matter".

It's really not much more than that.
Perhaps language-hostile would better describe it. Sure you can use it from any language that has some sort of ffi, but without compiler support it will not be pleasant.
On my team we use numbered sql scripts. We restore a production db on our local boxes. This is the starting point. The numbered scripts are executed against this. So the actual deployment is getting tested out locally all the time. This is dead reliable, and handles tricky data transformation that would fail under a declarative/calculate approach.
Same. Was hoping this would be an alternative to NPM, but it just builds on top of it
> Obviously with log parsing you don’t get as much information as a JavaScript-heavy, Google Analytics-style system. There’s no screen sizes, no time-on-page metrics, etc. But that’s okay for me!

This also bypasses Ad blocker. In the case you have a large percentage of technical audience (who presumably would have Ad blocker installed) this log can be way more accurate than GA.

However this still requires setting up the image on a third-party server. I would really love it if GitHub pages or Netlify can provide some simple server-side tracking. It doesn't match GA but in some cases that's all I need.
Maybe they're looking for companies to list there who are trying to build value in the long term instead of the norm, which is short term vesting cashouts.
Figures for aliexpress are even more shocking.
The way I see it. The technical points have been explained on their GitHub page. One might not agree with it. From an organisation's perspective it makes total sense. You need in house expertise and you need a free hand. Not many languages would have fit both of these things. I mean if it were you or me, wouldn't you pick what you are most comfortable with given it fit the constraints?

Linux support for this can't be sub par since the whole stuff will run on linux like 99.99% of the time.
Finally. It was a massive mistake from the get-go.
Hesitant to criticize because the world badly needs companies like e and refurbishing is noble, but this feels like bad optics for a company trying to lure people away from the giants.
Refurb screams unprofessional ebay tier seller to me.

Why not something like Xiaomi brand new, the process to degoogle them is incredibly painless while anything new in the Samsung line is horrendous to flash if not impossible.
We evidently aren't living in the same reality so it doesn't seem like discussion will get anywhere.
They were against the pointer events spec when it was proposed I guess they changed their mind.
> 1% is significant if it trains long term behaviour.

Or maybe it can be added to other effects, or maybe the techniques can be refined from here.

You're absolutely right there are a dozen reasons small effects can still be important.

Sometimes it's just p-hacking though, or otherwise unreplicable studies. That's worth considering too.

I think we'd both welcome more research, maybe especially over longer terms.
I have been hearing announcements about how Microsoft was working to make .NET code portable ever since Mono was first started in 2001.

Microsoft didn’t have anything to do with Mono until 2016.

If you start from scratch with a greenfield .Net Core project there aren’t really any issues getting it to work cross platform.
I take strong exception to your characterization of my comment as "hateful". I don't hate Terry Davis. He was brilliant. Fostering a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming environment is really important to me. Some of the things that Mr. Davis said did the opposite of encouraging that goal. And that may not have been his fault. But, he did say those things and if we venerate his abilities while not also acknowledging his faults, I think that sends a negative message about what the community is willing to tolerate.
In Lisp macros you have access to the Lisp language... Which means Lisp macros are insanely powerful.

Code is data.
Where did you read about the slow vesting schedule
This sounds like the major plot in WALL.E
Microsoft Blazor – Build client webapps with C# and .Net ecosystem
Syntax is ultimately a fairly minor aspect of languages. The reference and value semantics, the memory management, the type system, the language runtime, these are what really create a development experience in a particular language. And they are on nearly opposite sides of the spectrum between Swift and JavaScript. If you are only superficially doing something in the language, a somewhat trivial project or just experimenting, then they might seem more similar than they really are.
Hosting a Python package index is much simpler, just dump the files in a web accessible directory with a directory listing and specify it with `--find-links`.

https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/reference/pip_wheel/#find-link...

You can also link directly to a package with `--find-links` if you specify an egg fragment, e.g. 'https://github.com/project/reponame/tarball/version#egg=pack.... (The version must match that in setup.py.)
I think the design was Inspinia [1] which can be licensed for commercial use.

[1] https://wrapbootstrap.com/theme/inspinia-responsive-admin-th...
Yeah associating their brand with Samsung phones will lead to great confusion down the line, newer models are completely locked down.
Even if third party hacks are discovered your warranty is voided out of the box.
I'm a technology enthusiast in my 40s. Even I lose my patience, to say nothing of people of my parents' generation, when I try to travel to a new country which has a different set of showers, cooking ranges and washing machines/dryers.

To say nothing of older people I've seen on flights who struggle to turn on their entertainment consoles.

Turning on a device should not be a puzzle-solving exercise. As Alan Kay said, "Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible." Too often, the user interfaces make complex things doable, and simple things possible, with great effort.

(Also I don't know if this is a thing in design methodologies : I prefer if designers avoid having basic functionalities as a result of a sequence of steps, rather, I like to have them as separate top-level buttons)
The only serious solution to climate change is leaving carbon fossil in the ground. You are trying to create an incentive to have even more CO2 in the air just for the sake of profit.
No that's still private ownership. Amazon, for example, is not collectively owned, even though it's owned by more than just Jeff Bezos.
Ok, but when they print unlimited amounts of money I'm not exactly getting the return on value that I expected because of inflation.
My theory on this is that it is easier for designers to empathize with users who are the same age or younger, since in these situations they've had the experience of the user's age, whereas very few designers have had the experience of being old (save for the author of TFA).
I’m not sure how open source would solve the continuity problem. If people sign up for the service on your site, and then your site goes down before they need the notifications to fire, the fact that other people have the source code doesn’t really seem to help?
Wish I could learn more about their box. But when I go to the web site I get a giant "Get updates and news from Helm" pop-up that blocks all other content except a sliver of an animation on one side of the screen.

How do I know if I want news and updates from Helm if I can't even find out what Helm does?
What would you like to wager? I'll wager GitLab will be even further integrated into Kubernetes and the go to for open source CI/CD.
Of course NYT would call it "an historic" rather than "a historic" due to the east coast H dropping. I'll show myself out :P
Stupid Git commit-tree tricks, Part 1: Building a commit manually out of a tree
The MS app store and UWP died with the death of Windows Mobile. UWP was MS' strategy to have a united mobile and desktop experience (just like Apple is trying to do now with OSX + iOS). No mobile == no incentive to develop UWP. There were already hacks for Win32 to use the non-UI APIs from UWP (that's a lot of acronyms) so you could already do most or the UWP stuff with Win32. The new strategy starting with UWP islands is just how they are staring to integrate the UWP offerings with WPF/Winforms officially. I like the UWP UI, but developing the apps is a pain due to the sandboxing (as compared with old Win32).
This is terrible!

puts thinkpad into the back of his VW bug, unbottons Hugo Boss jacket, and drives away
It's been terrible for years, the last time I went a major automaker had taken over a huge swath of parking lot and was giving test drives, I think it was Chevrolet IIRC.

Long ago it was full of grassroots makers showing off their DIY stuff but it quickly became a commercialized trade show targeting these folks and their audience as consumers instead of hosting them.
>Software development is 99% using Google+StackOverflow.

If you have no idea what you’re doing and are mindlessly copying code samples from the web, then sure, 99% could be google and stackoverflow.
> The only thing I would add is: Never reduce your hourly rate for any client. ... Never devalue your time.

I generally agree with this, but there are some exceptions:

1. For large, repeat clients that have demonstrated loyalty, it's okay to offer a modest discount, no more than 10%. You still cite your rack rate on the invoice, but at the end add a "Loyalty Discount" so they know they are getting this discount for a reason.

2. While you should not reduce your rate, it can be okay to write off your time. If it takes you 20 hours to do something, but you're afraid the client will balk at the bill and run away, rather than lowering your rate, invoice them for 10 hours, or whatever seems reasonable.

3. When you're just starting out, and have limited understanding of the value of your skills compared to the competition, you may not know what your rate should be. In these cases, you may want to consider flat rate arrangements.
>I'm not persuaded by some of the ideas they have (like adding diversity to their governing board, seems designed to be exclusive to tech-startups that already have a bias toward that "value").

What on Earth does this mean?
My partner's mom, age 94, got new hearing aids and the app that can control them (adjust focus on front/side/back, high/low/midrange, etc), runs only on iOS. We got her an iPad mini and I set it up so she can (A) read the Washington Post, (B) read a poetry app, (C) control her hearing aids, and (D) not much else (so as not to be confusing).

Much to my surprise, the hearing aid app does not adjust it's font size per the iOS system settings, and it does not have any font adjustment of it's own. It also has a background picture that interferes with focusing on controls. I'm boggled that a company producing a product for those with hearing-impairment doesn't recognize that many of it's users may be in age-related decline, and that can include vision and cognitive impairment.
Why Google believes machine learning is its future