skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never visited the US, so I'm curious about what you mean. Is it the fact that they are thin and have nothing above and under? Because that's how they are here in Italy as well, at least in certain train stations, on highways and other high usage places.
Hospitals expect doctors to have up to date skills, whether they learned them on the job or in their "free time". Doing medicine on a person and writing some code that will never be used in production are not really comparable.
I looked at MW, Outliers and Tailor Stitch. Outliers and TS currently don't have patterned shirts (stripes, checks, etc), but at least Outliers shows one piece of carelessness they don't match up the patterns on the yoke with the sleeve. (same with front pocket --things should line up).

Since most don't show a picture of the back of the shirt, also can't tell if they have split yoke. Most quality shirts will have split yoke, especially dress shirts, though it's mostly unnecessary.

One other tell of whether someone takes pride in their shirting is not using synthetic buttons.
$25k in prizes seems silly given this is a multi-billion dollar market to crack.
That was staggeringly non scientific, and the body of the article readily admits that he was not diagnosed with Lyme disease, AND that he's also not sure if it was lyme disease, basing it on the idea that getting bit by a tick = lyme disease
Initially, yes. You're supposed to eat only chicken and rice for a month or two, see how you feel, then add things back in. I was a broke college student at the time, so I did a deli meat and rice diet. I felt a lot better. In hindsight it was kind of stupid since deli meats have sodium nitrites which is a trigger for me, but I still felt scores better.

It took me about 5 years, from 23 to 28 to identify everything. It was a lot of "I got a headache, what did I eat, what were the ingredients", then correlating that over a long period, then testing what ingredient I isolated. For sugar and caffeine it was also a conscious choice to try cutting them out, I think those were more withdrawal situations than the other ones.

An example, I was eating at a gluten free restaurant regularly. No gluten means I'm good, yea? Still getting sinus headaches though. Maybe I'm going crazy, so I ask them what they think. He points out the sodium nitrite in the pepperoni. Correlated that with bacon, other deli meats, "uncured" things that have celery powder instead (contains sodium nitrite!). Then there is the sauce, tomato has glutamate, also tomato sauce often has sugar, these were a different time scale of headache though.

Cutting out sugar was by far the hardest. I went back and forth on it many times. I eventually got sick of the full withdrawal when cutting it out fully and decided to not start again.

Most people asking about this have digestion issues. These are usually caused by FODMAPs [1]. I had digestion issues with gluten and high fructose foods (fructose malabsorption). My brother is lactose intolerant. If that's what you're looking to isolate I would start with those.

Good luck! I highly recommend giving it a shot. Changing my diet changed my life. It's not true for everyone but all of my health issues were coming from what I was eating.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FODMAP#Sources_in_the_diet
To add to this topic: the fast hardware adder, patented by IBM in 1957, now in some forms present in all fast CPUs, was already invented by Charles Babbage between 1820 and 1830, before the middle of 19th (!) century as he designed his mechanical computing "difference" engine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry-lookahead_adder

Apparently, he was proud of that invention, only almost nobody was able to appreciate it then.

From "Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864)
by Charles Babbage"

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Passages_from_the_Life_of_a_P...

"The first idea was, naturally, to add each digit successively. This, however, would occupy much time if the numbers added together consisted of many places of figures.

The next step was to add all the digits of the two numbers each to each at the same instant, but reserving a certain mechanical memorandum, wherever a carriage became due. These carriages were then to be executed successively. "

A 3D model:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2EDE8Srdcw

by the author of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thrilling_Adventures_of_Lo...
Ask HN: How do such suspect (counterfeit?) apps survive on Google Play?
Looking for the McDonald's app, this is one of the first to come up in the search:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mcdonalds.mobileapp

It has over 10 million downloads, lacks official branding, and has a gmail address as its contact.

Another McD app is attributed to the actual McDonald's USA LLC, so this sure looks counterfeit to me.
I'm fine eating corn flour and corn chips.
You completely missed my point. It's not a quote
I doubt it's the character from Seinfeld, so should this name ring a bell or is it just you found the name funny?
The spreadsheet is not wrong. It's just named incorrectly. It should be called "Income Statement Generator" because that's exactly what it is.
They've coordinated it with us by email. I think it's working out great so far.
$.50 is already lower than the IRS rate ($.58 this year).

It may be a little conservative, but it's not crazy. You absolutely should be computing TCO of the vehicle and amortizing that if you are driving for a service like Lyft. What fixed costs do you think don't fully apply?
Those are games with rules and mechanics that are well-specified. A real-world battlefield environment is not nearly as well-specified. Sensors are noisy and can be tricked in all sorts of silly ways.

Also the goal isn't necessarily to beat the other player -- making their planning system crash or lose confidence in itself can be more than adequate.

I don't think these problems are comparable.
$0.58 per mile is the standard IRS deduction for business use of a car, meant to fully encompass gas, maintenance, etc., which would suggest a total expected cost of about $348 if you include more than just gas.
As that article mentions, there already is a vaccine (LYMERix). It hasn't been widely deployed, largely thanks to anti-vaccine paranoia.
I don't disagree, but I'd be careful with that statement.

A huge amount of landcover segmentation in remote sensing still relies on simple models - either linear regression (thresholds) or classical machine learning like random forests or SVMs. For a lot of cases, these techniques will get you 90% of the way and it's very rare to have ground truth data that is accurate enough that you can measure the difference with any real degree of confidence.

A big problem in the field is the lack of good (public) ground truth. There's so little hand labelled data to work with that without humans in the loop it's extremely difficult to validate the results meaningfully (unless you have an army of staff to do it). With something like roads you could also have heuristics about what a road looks like and where it goes (e.g. it's a continuous thin line), which can help condition things.

I've seen a lot of papers which are applying deep learning for semantic segmentation for satellite mapping, but they evaluate on very limited datasets, they attempt to regress to simpler models without realising it (e.g. trying to predict a linear model), or they leak train and test data and report amazing results because they randomly split data from the same region.

I'm not saying that convnets aren't better than simpler models, but particularly for satellite imaging I'd take them with a pinch of salt and see what the improvement from a baseline method is. If you look at a random sampling of papers from the DeepGlobe competition, almost none of them provide the results from e.g. a cheap linear SVM.

Fun side note - several existing "famous" datasets generalise poorly to the developing world because most of the imagery is from the developed world (and even more specifically the West) and infrastructure looks totally different.
I've seen semiconductor industry companies collaborate on grant-funding fundamental condensed-matter physics research. If it is a question of interest to all parties, and the work is too blue-sky to be immediately profitable, sometimes they'll fund the work.
20 days is the legal minimum in Germany. I think a lot of other countries have similar rules.

It's kind of sad that in the US and Canada, 4 weeks vacation is special, and 2 weeks vacation is legal.
This appears to be the official app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mcdonalds....
FB is far from the only big tech company which has sponsored OSM as a competitor to Google Maps (Microsoft/Facebook/DigitalGlobe/Telenav/FourSquare/Craigslist have all sponsored OSM to some degree; Apple, of course, went its own way and created Apple Maps).

It's a reaction to Google Maps: a monopoly on high-quality up-to-date global maps with business location is dangerous to everyone else, as a chokepoint on mobile applications. It's less about 'acquiring data' and more about not being extorted by GM. Classic 'commoditize your complement' dynamics: https://www.gwern.net/Complement
“There will be $25,000 in prizes, and we’ll be flying the top researchers to the NeurIPS Conference in December, as well as allowing the winners to interview with our team.”

I guess it’s a decent opportunity if you’re trying to break into DL?
Another example: MIT was granted a patent for a "Series Elastic Actuator" many years ago. The thing was a complete scam. The application should have been rejected outright.

I have robots, dating back to the early '80's and before, that use "series elastic" actuators. The idea of inserting an elastic element between a motor and a load to control force and dynamics predates that application by at least a few decades. Yet the USPTO accepted the application and granted it.

The world of technology patents is filled with these kinds of "inventions" that should have never been given USPTO protection. Sadly it can cost millions of dollars to do the right thing and invalidate even one of them.

Perhaps what should be done is to put in place a free patent challenge process. If you don't have a real invention it should cost you money to defend against people calling you out for filing fake inventions. One of the side effects of this might very well be that people and companies will think twice before engaging in patent application carpet bombing in order to gain a lock on a market based on a non-invention.

We all lose when bullshit patents are granted. We all win when patents (software or hardware) cover real invention, because it is likely someone invested real resources and found real insight with which to solve a real problem. They deserve to benefit from their efforts and insight for a reasonable amount of time, after which the new knowledge becomes public.
> The economy as a basic premise is expected to grow at least 3% a year or bad stuff starts happening.

That isn't really a thing. The 3% growth aligns closely with population growth (including immigration), and that's where it really comes from. If the average company makes widgets and the population grows by 3% then they hire 3% more people and sell 3% more widgets to 3% more customers, and the company is worth 3% more.

The unsustainable thing is really unlimited population growth, but steady state populations don't require some kind of cataclysm. They work a little differently, in particular people have to on average work longer before they retire because there are fewer working people to support them in retirement, but it's hardly mass starvation and nuclear war. And even the drawbacks are offset by things like automation -- not as good as both automation and population growth, but still probably not worse than your grandfather had it.

The real problem is that there is no iron law that says people have to spend their working hours on pie-growing activities like automation and honest medical research instead of pie-stealing activities like adtech and patent trolling, so if we have rules and institutions that make the latter more profitable, that's what we get.
> There's much more to science and technology than "tech" companies.

Specific observation of mine is actually important tech takes decades to make it's presence felt. That's a totally different world than "tech companies" that are mostly fronts for ad dollar scams, casino's for international crooks, and laundromats for central bank money.

Lets talk solar panels, first developed in the 1950's. Variable Frequency drives first developed in the 1980's. Lithium Ion batteries developed in the late 1970's. All this stuff is decades old and still working it's way through the day to day infrastructure.

I feel like there are a bunch of biological and agricultural science stuff is coming, massive changes in the energy sector are coming, but it's painfully slow.
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It sounds like Carnegie teaches similar lessons a book I read earlier this year. Marshall Rosenberg's "Nonviolent Communication: a Language of Life" was one of the most important things I've ever read. It's written by a clinical psychologist-turned-peacemaker. He prescribes a simple method for conducting conversations based on principles of empathy and compassion and gives many examples of its successful use in diffusing conflicts from interpersonal relationships to civil wars. The framework is also helpful for internal dialogues and coming to terms with personal issues.
I think it's important to clarify what you mean by "discriminatory". I think many people equate that term with "criminal" and I'm not sure if that's what you meant to imply.

After all, to discriminate can also mean to accurately select the good programmers from among the bad.

The law (which varies by country) says which things you are not allowed to discriminate based on, but after that it's up to the employer, is it not?
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> The risk, he said, was acceptable because “we are talking about consumer products and services such as messaging, smart phones, e-mail, and voice and data applications,” and “not talking about protecting the nation’s nuclear launch codes.”

When the government stops caring about my race, where my ancestors came from, my sexual orientation, my religion, my gender, my political leanings, and probably a few more I'm forgetting, and puts robust steps in place to ensure that it won't start caring about them again later, then maybe I'll consider entertaining the idea of allowing the government to peek at my messages.
I'm glad this exists - I was looking for a replacement for Moonbase (discontinued): https://www.theverge.com/2012/12/19/3783616/animate-your-mem...
Scala futures seem to offer all of this functionality as well, no? And you can do all the regular monad stuff on them as well, which is super nice.
On the bright side he didn't end up in Bradford (Yorkshire, UK) That might cost a bit more.
Or perhaps they just bet it all on Hillary.
Your comparison to the second amendment is not just "on the same level", but entirely accurate.

To this day the United States Munitions List, classifies cryptographic devices under Category XIII Materials and Miscellaneous Articles.

All the way back to the pre-constitution 1784 Virgina General Assembly, to some extent recognizes the need for secure communications channels in a militia. "There shall be a private muster of every company once in every three months", and setting forth those in charge of initiating and communicating the time and place of the muster.

People often focus on the first amendment right to encryption. But I at least feel that the second amendment right is equally strong, with the governments own position on arms control behind it, legal interpretation should if anything not tolerate it's own inconsistency.
In many years of having had accounting terms explained to me and glossaries listed, I have never seen such clean, concise and effective examples and explanations of the differences between oft-confused terms. Do you have a cheat-sheet glossary of (official) accounting terms in your own words somewhere?
I'm speaking generally, about large companies in the 80s and before (though I'm thinking of a film that 'documented' it and I saw on TV when younger... "The Secret of My Success" (1987)).

The outsourced / pigeonholed employee pattern you're speaking of is something that I recall learning about more in the early 2000s; so it's been around for a while but not widely known outside of the industry.
FPGA designs are usually created with high-level synthesis tools, where the input is not that much different from writing "software". See Chisel, and other such languages.
The designs for some RISC-V CPUs are available as open-source, so one could in theory take all that, and make it available as a library that you can compose as you wish. Slight downside is that now you have to be knowledgeable at FPGAs, Operating Systems and Programming Languages to build something coherent. If the components are well documented, simple and easy to use then perhaps the resulting system would be of less complexity than your typical system today.
It would be interesting to see how one could go in one direction to create a minimal self-contained system with such an architecture, i.e. the VPRI STEPS projects, but including FPGAs this time.

On the other hand there is tremendous value in using some well-defined standards along the way so you can benefit from all the debugging, analysis and verification tools that already exist, so such hardware/software co-design is always a balance.
The difference is that a government with more power has the right to take my liberty and my property....

You notice that there is no attempt to regulate Walmart which is much bigger than Amazon?
Is the medical profession unique in that way? Do lawyers not need to keep up with existing legislation and case law? I know research scientists that use alerting tools for getting notified about publications covering their subject.
Is this current knowledge? I used to pick up one way rental cars from the airport but the last few times I tried ~5 years ago the clerk wanted a flight number. I didn’t bother to lie.
I'd probably be willing to chop my salary in half if it meant having true autonomy.
> Why does it go without saying?

Mainly because their motivations for doing so (namely: tax avoidance) were spelled out by the companies and their accountants in a series of email leaks. That's the thread we're in right now.

Australia and Canada have DTAs with India too. Pretty stable countries by most people's reckoning, potentially moreso than Mauritius and both with solid legal systems. Yet we aren't seeing PwC recommend to Silicon Valley investment firms that they spin up Australian shell companies to facilitate Indian investment.

We could probably speculate as to why not, or we could look at what the companies and their accountants said in the aforementioned series of leaked emails.

It's tax avoidance. It's not illegal, but it's not simplification or stability.
And also when the things you're building (presumably) have Apple logos on them.
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So I see two possible explanations:

1) Moore law started at the seventies and its about to end within few years. It might be that we got too lazy?

2) The economy become much more market driven/competitive. I.e. management went from technical to financial. Hence when the goal of innovating is financial , it is much more short term.

The reason for optimism today are :

1) Moore law is ending, hence we should see many new hardware architectures and the software to follow.

2) Open source - companies can start innovating without the need to build basic staff.
I think there's too much backlash against big tech companies.

Yes FAANG companies have occasionally done bad things, but they contribute immense value. Gmail, Google Maps, Android, Amazon, AWS, etc. have provided immense value to billions of people.

I also think these companies are advancing state of the art software development, tons of open source software has been released Facebook, Google, etc. Google is doing cool things with AI, etc.

I suspect a lot of this action against big tech companies is the result of a politicized justice department that wants to take down "liberal elites". Why haven't we seen more action against other arguably even more harmful companies? (Larger companies, companies that destroy the environment, etc.)

I think people on HN are getting duped. In this case, their interests (enhanced consumer privacy) and Trump's interests (sticking it to the liberal elites), align on the surface, but the actual motivation of the Justice Department is much more insidious.
To me there's a difference between

* Keeping skills up to date and occasionally spending a bit of my own time on it. And I mean legit new and interesting things, not just some BS rehashing of an old idea or other churn.

* An emergency situation at work where some extra time and dedication are required. I'm not going to tell the company that I couldn't be bothered to fix the web site that's down because it's 1715 and I'm heading home.

* Professional conferences or learning that might take up some extra time outside of work.

* Doing some random BS over the weekend.
> The difference is that a government with more power has the right to take my liberty and my property....

I agree but that's not what this particular discussion is about.
Natural monopolies have high fixed costs and low marginal costs. Software has high fixed costs since you have to pay expensive developers to write the code first, and then low marginal costs to run it on relatively cheap servers. That fits the definition perfectly.

It's just that the market for cloud computing, mobile, search... Are so large they can support multiple companies so they tend to actually be natural oligopolies.
Perhaps Peter Thiel should allow his engineers to work on something other than “yet another spying tool” or financial transactions apps.

This is like Bezos saying he’s getting into space because the planet is going to hell.

“Look at these problems I helped create. Everyone better let me guide us elsewhere.”

Thiel won’t openly admit it’s self aggrandizing leaders like him that distract people with babysitting his wealth, instead of allowing them to chase their own novel ideas.
Anne gave a talk a few years back that was enjoyable and informative for the NSAs position 5 years ago http://longnow.org/seminars/02014/aug/06/inside-nsa/
I don't feel underutilized. In my area of research I am working on what I know very well. I am getting paid far more than I could hope to make running my own business (if you account for the fact that many businesses fail and very few become unicorns). People say we are just optimizing ad sell, but I work in security and am getting to work on very cool problems in the space. I know what being underutilized feels like and I do not feel that here.
Yes, it's kind of hard to get more fundamental than waves and circles.

Although, as I was just about to say what math could you do without them on second thought, the answer seems to be quite a lot.

For example I couldn't say without researching it but how much did Gödel or Turing rely on them, at least for their most influential work?

That question will probably come back to bite hard given their footprints.

Another conjecture, most software developers will never have to use them extensively. Yes gaming, computer graphics, and I guess all signal processing would become suddenly more challenging but corporate IT and devops ought to be pretty safe.

Maybe it depends on a personal definition of fundamental. I think you could make an argument that Newton's results were more fundamental than Einstein's, however staggeringly less complete they might seem hundreds of years in the future.
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