skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because it would be very unusual to see myopic changes from emmetropization (eye remodeling) occurring in adults.

What makes you think it's unusual?
And Rucker's "The Hacker and the Ants"
Marketing idea...embrace it, offer free branded earplugs!
I'm building https://histre.com/ and I use it everyday. Most apps like Evernote and Notion end up being dumping grounds for notes and bookmarks. You put something there so you can relax that it is there if you need it later, but you never look at that again. Histre on the other hand helps you directly with the "collect -> filter -> decide" loop that we do all the time.
That looks like a lot of fun. I wonder if they would let me do a 1 year residency with that team. HP Enterprise was doing something as well with "the machine" (very large memory systems) which generated some interesting papers.

I feel like we do not yet have a calculus for analyzing the mix of "entanglement" of data across transactional expressions. It is a problem I've puzzled over since about 2001 when Steve Kleiman asked me to scale file systems without speeding up the processor.
Wrongly Convicted, They Had to Choose: Freedom or Restitution
The Problem with the Trolley Problem
They could price discriminate if they wanted to, the fact that they wouldn't (In ways they already do) I think illustrates that they intuitively understand that in the long run doing so wouldn't be a profit maximizing strategy.
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1. So you just contradicted yourself. Cocaine is not a naturally occurring compound but one extracted through a synthetic process specifically to inhibit re-uptake of certain neurotransmitters.

2. On the other hand, sugars have a very important purpose in the body and is present in fruits/vegetables.

3. Like my comment states, prolonged abuse of sugars certainly have negative effects, but as evident from the comment chain, people argue that any and all use of sugar is bad. That's the kind of coarse thinking that I think is harmful.
New PDFex attack can exfiltrate data from encrypted PDF files
DMT is. Should we consume DMT in the same way we consume sugar?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N,N-Dimethyltryptamine
Glucose is the main source of energy for the brain. So corn syrup, the Karo kind, being pure glucose produced by depolymerizing corn starch, is fine for the brain.

High fructose corn syrup, made by enzymatic conversion of about half the glucose to fructose, or cane sugar, which is a disaccharide consisting of paired molecules of glucose and fuctose, are not so fine. The fructose has to be processed by the liver before it can be used.
> that gave them startling insights like "people tend to drink more coffee in the mornings".

To play devil's advocate a bit, isn't this how science works? If you're not checking the obvious, you won't discover that people actually drink more coffee on the afternoon, or what have you.
Fundamental Units
Is “Planet 9” a primordial black hole in our solar system?
That's in environments where forests exist. I would agree with you there. In the U.S. the Great Plains were not forests in any recent millenia. I'm comparing corn and soy fields to grasslands.
Author here. I don't want to copy/paste my entire postmortem in here, so I'll link to the thread from a few days ago which has some extra context into why I started this series, and why I stopped it, as well as future projects I've since moved on to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21041340
Thanks for pointing out this paper.
Humans are von Neumann Probes. We are just refining tech until it can become a reality.
The mask is as follows: firstly in a particular ideological and political conception of freedom as the freedom to buy and sell whatever you want (including your own labour), along with some things given by the liberal egalitarian state, secondly in the liberal construction of "free will" as the opposite of coercion. Marx criticized liberalism for its narrow conception of what it means to be free, and before that, Spinoza outlined why it is meaningless to talk of "coercion" and "consent" as proponents of negative liberties tend to talk about them.

It is not enough to be free, freedom lies, as Zizek says, in the freedom to define your own idea of freedom outside of the ideological context in which it is given to you, whether that's a Western capitalist ideology or one given to you by the CCP.
As far as I understand, Rancid just means it doesn't taste as good as it should but generally doesn't otherwise result in less-healthy or less-nutritious food. Am I incorrect?
The body doesn't need carbohydrates to function. If you consume exclusively fats and protein (with very low levels of carbohydrates: less than 25g/day), the process of ketosis will kick in: your body will start converting fats to ketone bodies, specifically beta-hydroxy-butyrate, which as used as energy in the brain, heart, etc. instead of glucose.
> On one side you've got the industry groups promoting their food and giving out grants to scientists to get the right results.

The worst part is, that's not really "one" side. Many of those groups are actively fighting each other, particularly now that organic foods, supplements, and superfood-of-the-week are big business.
I think a large part of it is that regardless of the politics behind it or who is funding it, doing a proper scientific experiment is impossible with our current tools due to the complexity of the human body, food, and issues with control groups and accurate data.

In this type of scenario, I would expect frequent changes in what is considered “true” and I would consider that a good sign assuming the proper procedures are resulting in iterative improvements to our field of knowledge.
Why has this been flagged? The article by itself is an interesting nuanced take. Was it flagged due to the extremely poor quality of comments here or due to people down voting the article?
Part of the reason could be that the stakes are just much higher in a single country of the size of the US and the lobbying takes less effort. Even with the EU, Europe is just much more fragmented and there's less chance for some business oligarch or parasite corporation to have good relations with all the different governments across all ~50 countries of Europe, each with their own slightly different systems.
Off topic but you may find this interesting:
https://www.jsx.com/destinations

I hope we see more of this type of alternative options...opt-out of TSA (until its so big it gets attention), P2P, nimble, small-scale.
Adopt a Panama Rainforest - http://adoptabosque.org/
I met the guy behind the project, nice person
If you can’t tell, why does it matter whether it’s rancid or not?
Source? They don't come off especially muted on the USA. On this one page they mention:

* civilian drone-strike killings

* suspension of travel from Muslim-major countries

* attacks on rights of women & girls

* new Guantánamo Bay transfers

* gun violence

* death sentences

https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/americas/united-states-...
To answer your second question. Taken from their FAQ.

Q: Do you plan to open-source it?

A: We'll open source everything (server, interface, etc...), except from the C Library. Reason being that the library is what gives us our technical competitive advantage (being that you get the full private cloud experience with no need for a server). It's also important to note that you can't patent your code/algorithm in Europe, so there's no other way to protect it. But everything else expect from the library will be open-source.
As a software engineer and non-data scientist, I hate Anaconda because it feels like it's a tool that tries to be the be-all, end-all package management tool for everyone in the data science field, yet it feels like a sloppily built, bloated whale. It's even managed to overwrite PATH on some of my Linux machines, which is where I drew the line.

I vastly prefer creating hermetic environments with either venv or Docker. They're much cleaner and easier to work with. I wish data scientists would adopt these tools instead.

Sadly, many of the ML models I investigate on Github don't even have their package requirements frozen. It's an uphill battle...
that's just what we need ... an enormous expansion of LITERALLY the most inefficient method of transportation.
Nothing is "objectively unethical". That doesn't mean conversations about ethics can't and don't take place.
I don’t understand why the Black Scholes model is broken for negative interest rates.

There is no such assumption about positivity of the interest rate in BS.

The CIR model is broken yes because of the square root, and people started to use the old Vasicek model instead.

Nothing in the HJM framework forbids negative interest rates neither.

Edit: ah they meant model the IR directly with BS like SDE?
This is pretty neat about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12429393.
The reason we use "deterrent" instead of "prevention" is that we understand that punishment cannot prevent all the crime. Some people will not be deterred by a threat of punishment.

If you entertain such a possibility then it is easy to see that the system with ideal deterrence (i.e. it detters everyone who could possibly be deterred) will also have 100% recidivism as the only people who get punished are the ones who cannot be deterred and will keep committing crimes no matter what.
I think one part is finding the right domain for innovative UI. I often see a weird UI on a tool I use once a year for a couple minutes. I would very much prefer it use the OS default, clunky UI everything else has even if it's less efficient. Going off the trodden path usually means things like shortcut-keys or scripting breaks.

We give a lot more latitude for "professional" apps (where we spend hours every day using). Often, those UIs are built up historically. I was watching an iPad thinking how much of a mess it would be to show them all of this on day 1.

A car infotainment system would be an interesting place to innovate. I don't know if it's because car companies have squandered goodwill or if I rent/borrow too many cars, but now I just want to use my phone to plug in and prefer knobs over touch screens.
McDonald's used to fry fries in beef tallow, but caved to the settled health science of the day in 1983.

Here's the recipe to fry your own.
https://grannysvitalvittles.com/stovetop-beef-tallow-french-...
So if you want to work in deep learning should you learn pytorch and tensorflow? Or just one, which one?
About half was through the article:

"Dr. Allison has received research funding from the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, a lobbying group for meat producers."
List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events
> In a frenzied effort to secure the roughly $100 million in fees for representing WeWork’s IPO, the world’s biggest banks had fallen over themselves to convince Neumann they understood the grandiosity of his vision.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/what-happened-at-we-w...
Sheesh, how does that even happen? Does Hg just spontaneously appear?

Sorry, can't watch video at work.
Highly recommend it! I love pytorch so much, it's basically numpy with automatic backprop and CUDA support. It evaluates eagerly by default, which makes debugging a lot easier since you can just print your tensors, and IMO it's much simpler to jump between high-level and low-level details in pytorch than in tensorflow+keras. Just as one example, activation functions in pytorch are applied by calling a python function on your layer, instead of passing a string argument with the function name to the layer constructor, so you write

layer = F.relu(Linear()(input))

instead of

layer = Dense(activation_fn='relu')(input)

As a result, it's a lot more straightforward to try out custom activation functions in PyTorch.
I'm not an expert. But in my experience, that line has been the solution to 100% of any viewport issue I've ever had on mobile, and has made webpages "just work" and render how I'd expect them to on mobile, as opposed to weird issues with font size and scrolling.

I've never had that line do something I didn't want. Is there a reason mobile browsers don't automatically just do whatever that line does? Seems like the opt-in behavior should be "yes, render me like I'm a desktop site on a tiny monitor" rather than opt-out.
Sound Open Firmware – open-source audio DSP firmware and development tools
Yep, we tell people that all the time.

We do our fries like McDonalds did in the fifties.
If you need to ask... you are attempting to gather information to make a rational decision. I really dislike that [gatekeeping] meme. People who rely on "if you need to ask..." canards are most likely not in your interest.
A few years back I was so frustrated with trains being late, not turning up or skipping my station that I tackled it the hacker news way. I built a Twitter bot that read the live train arrivals / departures data stream and tweet mentioned the train company with details every time a train failed to show up on time. This was accompanied by a website which was collecting the stats and showing graphs of their performance.
I think they realised they weren't going to be able to lie on their end of year reports any more, they panicked and tried to invite me in for some kind of tour of their offices. Not long after that they lost their license to operate on that line.

Edit: Here's a tweet from the bot https://twitter.com/fccoff/status/402239733608505344
One thing the site could do is extend the "periodic table" metaphor to at least "color" the differences between the types of fallacies involved and give slightly different styling to formal debate fallacies versus probability fallacies.
Has DMT been shown to be vital for the healthy functioning of the human body? And does it necessarily have to be consumed to have ample levels in the body? I won't comment on your loaded phrasing of "the same way we consume sugar", but I think its obvious you're trying really hard to strawman my argument.
Ask HN: What was the last ambiguous problem you worked on?
I see and hear a lot around that a good value you should have is working towards ambiguous problems and finding your way to the solution, often with no guidance from above.

I am trying to understand the line between ambiguous statements and obvious problems with no clear solution or specifications.
They can!

If you're on iOS, have you tried Pythonista? It's $8 on the app store, uses Python as the programming language, features an IDE, and a UI library so budding programmers can write video games.

For those on Android and the technically minded, a rooted Android tablet offers far more options for on-device programming. There's likely an equivalent to Pythonista in the Google app store as well.

(No affiliation; I'm sure there are other apps that are similar, that's just the one I know of.)
How did I contradict myself - I pointed out to you that cocaine is a naturally occurring compound, which it is.

"Cocaine is not a naturally occurring compound but one generated through a synthetic process specifically to inhibit re-uptake of certain neurotransmitters"

No, cocaine is extracted from coca leaves, it is not synthesized. Refined sugar is also extracted from plants - same thing.
What are the mature libraries? Use PyCall and whatever your heart desires.
how many kids had computers? when I was in HS I was using 3.5" floppy and there were only a handful of us that had computers...
They didn't build their own. The just forked Mattermost and skinned it a bit. Also invested/spent/donated $10k to have a say in Mattermost's roadmap.

Why not slack TL;DR - Uber, surprisingly, is cheap about off-the-shelf solutions. Cheaper than they are about balloons anyway.

Slack was trialed twice. Once in late 2015, and there were some bumps. Rather than stick with it, Uber ditched it citing it "couldn't handle their scale". Maybe that was true at the time, but I had a distinct impression that that's what the group in tech services at the time _wanted_ as well. Their lead on it was very much the type of person that would argue that there's no difference between hipchat and slack. If you asked the right person, you'd get the real answer: slack costs more than hipchat. Besides, the only person they had to convince was directors that didn't use chat anyway. All the executive leadership used Hangouts too. So they just needed to show the price graph comparison to justify, but as far as I know no qualitative productivity cost/savings/improvements measurement was made or factored into this.

Fast forward to the second try, late 2017. Supposedly when Dara came in he asked the same "why not Slack?" question. The UChat team was pretty intent on doubling down justifying their product, but a Slack pilot was done anyway. The pilot was a massive success by all accounts and basically everyone that made the switch was quite happy with it. Then tech services ended the pilot, sent out a survey, and were never heard from again. Would frequently give spiky answers when people asked for the results of the survey as well. Again - ask privately, and the answer you'll get is that Slack was just deemed as too expensive.

In both cases - tech services claimed that Slack was too expensive because of a price that was linearly extrapolated from their website. A lot of people didn't buy this, because that's just not really how enterprise contracts work. But tech services isn't accountable to UChat users, just the eng leadership they report up to.

In any case - everyone* else is still paying the productivity cost of using UChat/mattermost. It's more reliable than hipchat, sure. But is's miles away from being as useful as Slack. Especially the mobile apps - mattermost is a low quality, utilitarian react native app.

*Except ATG. ATG uses Slack because they actually don't fall under the CTO's jurisdiction. And executive leadership all still presumably use hangouts, because the UChat mobile apps are too crap.
MIT PhD. This is currently happening to me at the moment. From what my old labmates tell me, it is par for the course.
> I'm not sure what you are getting at here.

I think I was very clear - the article's phrasing of "until the nation confronts and acknowledges this history" would have to be re-written as "until the nation examines this history in even greater detail". As it stands, it is at best highly misleading.

And I never said to stop talking about it - but you cannot simultaneously saturate the media with it, and claim it is unacknowledged. Do I really deserve to be compared to Nazis for noticing this?

For contrast, living in the EU, I hear far more about US slavery and the civil rights movement, than the Holodomor, with an estimated 4 million dead, that was much more recent and practically next-door. That held true even when Russia invaded Ukraine to take Crimea. To relate this to your Nazi comparison, imagine if Germany invaded Israel, and somehow the Holocaust wouldn't get mentioned.

Let me put it this way - which historical atrocities get more coverage than US mistreatment of blacks? How short would that list have to get, before you would take issue with "until the nation confronts and acknowledges this history"?
I don't understand how what you've answered changes the fact that Stallman openly implied with his opinion that absence of consent (rape) makes a sexual relation unethical and bad.
Stallman is against rape, and arguing that criticizing the ambiguous use of a term in a certain context (sexual assault) makes he somehow pro-rape seems unreasonable (but I'm open to explanations I didn't consider, if you wish to try).

In general, if you have any sources for your claims feel free to share them (I can't find any sources quoting stallman saying anything that vaguely resembles a pro-rape argument, and I've gone through most comments in the section).

More specifically, Stallman didn't ever say that raping children doesn't harm them, if your definition of rape is sex without consent (that's the legal definition in my country). He said that if you have consensual sex with a minor then that may not be harmful for him/her (the fact that this is not "raping children" follows from the very definition of rape).

I'm trying to leave my feelings aside but you really seem to be misquoting Stallman to try to make a point. I really hope I'm wrong about this so I'm genuinely curious about what did you mean when you said he stated that "raping children doesn't harm them".
But even then, you would think lobbying inside Germany would be crazy.

But it isn't. Why? Because people (rich people included) see society as something to be shared. Not something to be taken from others by hook or crook.

US used to be more sharing, like under FDR. But it is more and more like flawed democracies.
Is advertising immoral: A deep dive into the ethics of advertising
How does this compare to package managers such as Maven (Java) or CPAN (Perl)?

What is the vetting process for other package managers?
it's incredibly slow.
And in order to achieve that, you want partner to be helpless, vulnerable and trapped?
https://outline.com/ZNWx2n
Nope I am not sure.

Not going to lie: I do place a significant level of trust in Apple's statements regarding their security architecture / model.
No One Is Born in ‘The Wrong Body’
Is this of interest (so far) only to mathematicians, or does it have applications in other fields (crypto?).
"Colossus: The Forbin Project" by DF Jones.

https://www.amazon.com/Colossus-The-Forbin-Project/dp/B0018S...

Made into a fine movie of the same name.

"The Two Faces of Tomorrow" by Hogan.

https://www.amazon.com/The-Two-Faces-of-Tomorrow/dp/B00BC0P5...
Such arbitrary limits won't work, especially now. For ex: WhatsApp has about ~50 employes[0]. The kind of wealth and value you can create with few people in software is very dissimilar to other sectors which (at least for now) requires a large number of people involved to be viable.

Another issue is what do you consider as part of a company? In the case of uber, would it include all the drivers or are they there on individual companies?

I guess all this comes down to what you are optimizing for: Quality of life for a median human or overall inequality. I think right now it is optimized for the former.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp
> The reason we use "deterrent" instead of "prevention" is that we understand that punishment cannot prevent all the crime.

No, the reason is because of the four main theories of criminal punishment, deterrence, rehabilitation (also known as reformation), and incapacitation—that is, all but retribution—are all forms of prevention, and so “prevention” lacks specificity.

> If you entertain such a possibility then it is easy to see that the system with ideal deterrence (i.e. it detters everyone who could possibly be deterred) will also have 100% recidivism as the only people who get punished are the ones who cannot be deterred and will keep committing crimes no matter what.

This assumes that the system not only has ideal deterrence, but entirely lacks both rehabilitation and incapacitation.