skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are yourself a filter as is every useful aspect of human civilization. A tiny fraction of the sensory data around you becomes your perceptions a microscopic portion thereof is communicated to other people. We filter for quality and 90% of everything is crap or noise.

One wouldn't learn physics by seeing what the entire human race had to say on the subject because virtually the whole of humanity knows next to nothing on the topic. We instead filter it by people that are known to be knowledgeable on the topic. People that are paid to teach it, people that work in relevant fields, people that have published papers in journals that themselves act as filters.

When people say they prefer twitter it is because given the entire population of users its trivial for any person to find people who reinforce what they already think no matter how silly. If you believe the flat world was farted out by a goat there are fellow goat worshipers that will by happy to make you feel good by expounding on the topic.
I really wish we had transparent pricing, it's maddening, outrageous and needs to be required by law.
So many businesses rely on one-off payments. It's a lot easier to get people to pay once than it is to convince them to pay every month.
> The syntax is quite similar to the rest of the ML family, which dates back to 1973.

How close is it to say something Like F# then? I've toyed with F# a bit and was able to pick it up pretty decently, but a lot of Haskell still looks foreign to me
My thinking on this is basically, hypotheses don't have to be falsifiable, but they aren't very useful if they aren't, because you can't design an experiment to test them.

Neither the determinism nor nondeterminism hypotheses are falsifiable, so there's no reason to prefer one over the other right now.

However, non-determinism will never be falsifiable, whereas determinism is only currently non-falsifiable because a plausible, testable mechanism has not yet been hypothesized. So while there's no reason to favor determinism as something we believe, there's reason to favor it in research, because research has the potential to yield further information.
If you're interested in reading about AI goal theory further, I suggest Superintelligence, orthogonality and CEV as books/topics you could explore.
Watch this be downvoted and people post comments like
"DuckDuckGo way better", "I want an offline smart speaker", "Google doesn't know technology".
It was interesting, thank you for mentioning it!
We have our own pen testing team in addition to the 3rd parties who also do it. There’s a big DR test this weekend for our 2 largest data centers as well to make sure backups and fail overs happen. Plus multiple networks for different products that’s completely different from the regular employee network. You even have to sign in if you plug into our Ethernet.
Yet the photos from the article clearly show it running on a laptop.
From the conclusion

> the FSF needs to focus on the algorithms that change people behavior

Is this satire or does the author really want the FSF to engage in mind control? This is such low-effort tripe and obvious personal attack.
Well, the headline poses a question in binary terms about something that's a trade-off.

People choose a job for some combination of motives: is the money good? Can you get the job? Do you like the work? Do you think it's important?

When money is no longer a consideration, you might want to do different work, or consider volunteer work. Or do less work. It's a rare person who is doing the same thing they would do if they didn't need a paycheck.
Language designers and enthusiats will forever be disappointed at how many social and human factors are at play, which coincidentally, is a large part of the motivation for programming languages
I don't know which community does, but I suspect there's no large public internet forum that does. The topic is too activating.

To get substantive discussion of religion, you probably need smaller groups that have a certain amount of cohesion. A group can be cohesive even if it disagrees. But a large group with weak cohesion discussing a provocative topic is probably always going to plummet to lowest-common-denominator quickly.
As opposed to a partial chest X-ray?
I'm not personally religious, but it always struck me as odd that modern churches don't take more of an socially progressive activism role. The historical Jesus was quite the rabble-rouser, activist, and not conservative in the least.

From my personal observations, the religious groups that seem to be activists tend to be activists with puritanical and conservative motivations (i.e., yell at people who they perceive are doing ungodly things even though modern society has deemed those things to be acceptable)

The other side is religious groups that are socially progressive (be kind and open, pray for people, provide services to those who need it, etc) but tend to be more of a passive supporter of equality.

Churches have had their "brand" tarnished because a few extremist religious groups wrapped up bigotry and social conservatism in a cloth of "religious freedom" and were really loud about it. The more progressive churches didn't speak up to fight back and counter it, and now the whole religious community is tainted. The "abusive priest" controversies didn't help matters either.

If there were churches that supported and encouraged the social justice that actually resonates with today's population, especially the young population, they would find a far more receptive audience.

I would consider going to a church if it was leading Extinction Rebellion marches, organizing protests against businesses that were bigoted, pushing their members to support the community and vote for new libraries, citizen investigation boards in police departments, fair elections, progressive drug treatment diversions instead of prosecution, etc.
To them, I would suggest that they remember back to when they learned their first imperative language like Java or C. For me, that was really difficult to wrap my mind around at the time, but now those languages are second nature to me. I kind of suspect that if everyone were exposed to a functional language first, there would be a lot fewer people who think they are extremely hard to learn.
Very interested in testing out your product as it seems like it solves some real painpoints of ours. Is there someone we can reach out to directly and provide detailed feedback to after we have a chance to try it out?
Thanks for clarifying. I'm not sure if there was a specific incident where he changed, but he does seem well aware any company with millions in revenue isn't without blame. He also recognizes that preserving the environment is in the best interest of Patagonia.

In the book he contrasts the culture of US climbers with European ones back then; Europeans focused on conquering nature (climbing tall mountains), while the US had advocates like John Muir, Ansel Adams, and Robert Frost focusing on being in nature.

It does seem like his awareness of the long-term damage has been long-standing. Patagonia started with importing rugby shirts because of their durability, environmental tithing started in the 80s, and the push for more sustainable materials in the 90s (with the realization it takes heavy involvement in the supply chain to carry out and enforce). Along the way he talks about repurposing old buildings instead (and adopting their quirks) of building new and actively encouraging repairs instead of replacing garments.
You should try cross-dressing. If they reject you, you can claim discrimination.
I wish there was a little more to the article. I'm not a C-level, but that physical feeling of a big project possibly going south is real. Gut wrenching, sleep losing, fear.
Oh very possibly.

Wikipedia reckons HTML DB (the original package) was released in 2004, but the APEX website clear claims to being 19 years old, which would put it circa 2000.

But in the meantime if you're doing late-90s CGI with Perl, why not `SELECT my_amazing_function()`?
Most SaaS is enterprise facing, not consumer, so I don't know how much procrastination fits into it as the momentum behind decision making in a business.
This is true on Pixel as well. It would be too slow otherwise.
Python at Scale: Strict Modules
"Voice Match", the always-listening functionality of Google Assistant, also needs to be enabled. It requires training to your particular voice in order to make it more difficult for someone else to try to access your information using the feature. When being enabled a warning regarding the potential security implications of doing so is presented.
Dupe of

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21270861
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21279720

What I don't get is why this needs to be tied to making the home dir a LUKS container.

Like why can't we just implement the part that doesn't involve solving the SSH issues and then add on the SSH fixes (which I don't believe are issues anyway?)
Phones solve many more problems though.

I'm willing to make some sacrifice so that I can get GPS/maps anywhere I go, ability to make emergency phone calls, etc.

Smart speakers really don't have the same value add.
> When most people speak of health care “prices,” they often have in mind point-of-service prices one pays when picking up a prescription, being hospitalized, having a baby, or seeing a doctor.

This reminds me of the infuriating pattern in some health care conversations when discussing consumer discounts and rebates for prescription drugs. The pharma company will say, "we give pricing relief to our customers, and ensure that no patient will pay more than $20 for a monthly supply!" That's all well and good, but it elides over the fact that the insurance company is still paying $1000+/month for their share of the prescription, and that money eventually comes out of the patient or the employers pocket, which means it eventually comes out of our pockets as their consumers.

> However, when economists refer to “health care prices,” they mean the overall payments for a service—not just what the patient pays to the provider in the form of a copay or deductible, but what the insurer pays to the provider on behalf of the patient...But the distinction between these two ways of thinking about prices leads me to the second problem with the emerging price consensus: the failure to consider what is baked into the payments that payers (whether public or private) make to providers.

Fundamentally, if we were able to reduce our spend as a percentage of GDP to that of the average OECD country, it would remove $1 Trillion in annual revenue from our health care system. The existing health care industry is going to fight that tooth and nail. That doesn't mean we shouldn't do it.
When have a duty of care to them, refuse surgery with the specific intention of causing their death, and prevent others from assisting them, then yes it is.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21270861
Since this is a puzzle that will certainly nerd-snipe a number of us, could someone who already watched the video tell us if there is a "spoiler" moment in it or if we could watch it bit by bit in case that we get stuck?
Using what programming language? - this is important.
Technology: The Cybernated Generation (1965)
I would pay Apple a monthly fee to get Apple Maps on Android.
Nice! I've been enjoying the work from skullcat recently: https://twitter.com/mrmrs_/status/1159339640459059200
USPS requires Congressional approval to set rates (as well as pension funding requirements). Your complaint is with your representatives, not USPS itself.
Marvin Minsky's Vision of the Future (1981)
Baltimore county, Howard, Harford and everywhere not Baltimore city is good living. High paying IT work is readily available and you can work at many well known Govt agencies. Cost of living isn't too bad as well you can get nice inexpensive new single homes near the MD/PA line and commute in (30 to 40 minute commute).
This comment hits the nail on the head. The few billionaires I know love what they do. They are way beyond the retirement age and are still spinning up new businesses all the time.
> To make things easy for new parents, the team made a system that could run on a smart speaker that replicates the hardware in an Amazon Echo.

> "Smart speakers are becoming more and more prevalent, and these devices already have the ability to play white noise," said co-author Shyam Gollakota, an associate professor in the UW's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering and the director of the UW computing for health group. "If we could use this white noise feature as a contactless way to monitor infants' hand and leg movements, breathing and crying, then the smart speaker becomes a device that can do it all, which is really exciting."

They are clearly aiming to get this running on smart speakers.
In this context, prints mean "original prints" which doesn't translate to junk or reproductions. Some original prints are worth in excess of half a million dollars.
Data driven applications are cool, I think I'd use Datomic over Postgres but it didn't exist 20 years ago
Video link to the very second it happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_mmWMN6K40&feature=youtu.be...
Stuff like this is why docker alternatives exist.
Definitely. Look at all the people pursuing "make money fast" scams. Some people will happily do anything they think might make them a buck. Not paying out will help, of course, but it doesn't eliminate the problem.
Trying to boycott any service that uses reCAPTCHA is pretty impractical, as well. Lots of stuff also uses the Google hosted AJAX libraries.
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I feel like there are more alternatives to a 30M lease. Maybe a a second, smaller site? Maybe allowing everyone/some-group/rotate-people to work from home?

There should be an executive other than the CEO who can solve the problem with the given constraint ("don't spend too much")
You're correct, they aren't issues. What's scary to me is someone is proposing to rewrite how home directories work in unix, and doesn't even know about AuthorizedKeysCommand in OpenSSH and is planning massive workarounds because of that.
I wish people like you would stop spreading this fud.
US has been regulating activity outside of its borders for a loooooooong time. Look at the restrictions placed on the US financial system to combat money laundering. You can be indicted for "mis-using" the US financial system even if you are sitting in a place where we have no formal jurisdiction, but a legal assistance treaty does exist.
The Quotes by Greta Thunberg That Inspired Millions to Strike for the Climate
If I'm not mistaken FAANG is more about the Silicon Valley (and the people that might be interested in living/working there). Meanwhile GAFAM is more from the point of view of the users, also Netflix#, as a non-US online presence is pretty new, and let's face it, is only about a specific kind of entertainment - one might then add Valve/Steam as well !

It does bother me when politicians say GAFA and leave out Microsoft (but not Apple??)

#Netflix did play an important part in adding DRM to the Web specifications...
The $10m Engineering Problem
I was about 2 years into professional development when I started getting into Elixir. Recursion was a week or two of "err what?" then I got it. Functional composition is way easier to reason about than OOP design patterns (and should be since OOP design patterns are just over-complicated Category Theory).

The tooling gets out of the way, so a newbie is less likely to run into roadblocks. IEX is the best REPL I've worked with. Phoenix is much simpler to reason about than similar frameworks like Rails. And the docs are clean and consistent (+ dark mode). It was really easy to navigate through the docs, try things out in IEX, and get things working. It's just modules and functions. There's no classes, base-classes, abstract-classes, inheritance, instantiations and what-not. Just modules and functions. I doubt there's a better way to learn back-end development (DBs, Queues, Concurrency, PubSub, Distributed Systems, etc.) than Elixir.

A buddy of mine has been getting into Elixir recently while going to school for CS. The school's curriculum is mostly C#, Java, PHP, and what-not. He says Elixir demotivates him from some of the homework because everything in Elixir would be way easier.
I would think that many churches sell the property. I know people who live in an apartment building that used to be a church.

While churches do provide services and outreach to the poor, I've always wondered about what happens when they're serving the opposite effect by not paying property taxes. Property taxes are the public education base in the USA, and quality education is the way out of poverty.

Churches' outreach programs will also discriminate against causes they don't agree with based on their own teachings - i.e., Christian churches might not recommend that someone use contraception or get an abortion even if those options are the best logical course of action.
A lot of bickering falls to the bottom because moderators downweight it. I wish that weren't so, because it's a lot of work.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg defends allowing politicians to lie in ads
That's all more or less true. But what part of dark matter, the name of the conjecture, as you say, or the leading hypothesis, as I say, runs against this description? It does not imply that it's the only hypothesis, it does not imply that we discovered dark matter. Btw, stuff which interacts matter-like /is/ matter.
I use 4chan on a regular basis and haven't seen anything I'd constitute as a raid in nearly half a decade.

But, that aside, why the need for hostility?
- option (3) to find a way to profit in either scenario. Just like with hedging and shorting stock.
This was hardware raid. There were two parity disks per stripe as I recall. This was about 20 years ago and I didn't work on that system: my memory of the details is probably wrong.
Also transaction times + volatility. Because it takes so long to confirm, the underlying exchange rates were shifting out from under customers, so even though you'd paid the right amount, by the time the transaction cleared, they either needed to refund you or you needed to pay extra. The whole system was so asinine nobody wanted to use it, and it created tons of customer service headaches.
That's a really strong opinion to present with absolutely no evidence.
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For starters your health insurance is a contract between the insurer and the insured. Obama is a lawyer, he knew or should have known he has no right to make such a statement to the public. At anytime the insurer had the right to discontinue those plans. So it seems pretty clear he made that statement solely for political purposes to push his party's bill through.
Not sure, but I wouldn't be surprised. I don't understand much of how radar works, but my understanding at a really basic level is that you're sending out some known modulated signal and then extracting some information from the magnitude and delay of that returned signal.

In that case, this is the same idea, but in the adaptive filtering case, it's actually the errors in the received modulated signal that you care about, because the error contains all the signals you didn't originally transmit - things like room sounds, or audio multipath.

I will admit, however, that I don't know enough about radar to know that we're not talking past one another. XD
Why would they do nothing?

With all the money they made they can do whatever the hell they choose to.
These are fantastic recommendations, thanks!
According to Google [1], IPv6 is now about 30% of their traffic.

[1] https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
Oh heck yes, at least IME. I work in DBs and in a company I worked for were renting 16GB machines for the hosted service for their clients. I almost literally armtwisted them into upgrading to a 64GB dev machine. When they saw how that ran, within 3 days they'd started rolling out 64GB machines to their clients. Perf difference was huuuge because the hot dataset could fit into ram at last.

As ever, it depends on one's needs, but most often that need is greater for memory. IME. YMMV. Measure first as always.
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There's maybe a step or two's worth of that, then the answer. The video is not explicitly structured as a set of clues, it only accidentally half-does that because it builds up to the answer mathematically, but I would not say the steps are "even" in size.
It’s probably not a lot easier and lifetime value is probably a lot lower.
> Perhaps before every meal I could be forced to calculate the number of calories in each item, total them up and submit them.

That's called Weight Watchers. The general principle was pretty effective for me. Most people don't keep a log of wear and tear on their car, but we definitely operate airplanes that way. That also seems pretty productive to me.

But yeah, it's not the only way to operate. I don't really like the idea of putting more responsibility on people in order to "raise awareness". I take that to really mean someone would like everyone to be more upset about taxes, and would like to make them less convenient to increase upsetness.
You said it yourself: smartphones are already capable of it. So what difference does it make if you add an Alexa or Google Home? At least those aren't going everywhere with you. This is the defeatist attitude, but this tech is probably here to stay. We just need to do our best to make sure companies do the right thing.
as a city? probably status quo: continued grift and unaccountability as a once proud manufacturing town decays.

it's somewhat attractive price wise simply because it's a very affordable urban east coast city. there's a vibrant/edgy art scene (to include drama, etc.) that's attractive to younger artists, sort of like what detroit is going through (as i understand it)
Work burnout is one of the main problems in the tech industry of the Bay Area
Given that open-source has given tough competition to every area of business software what, in your opinion, is the reason for a lack of open-source options to prepare taxes?
I'm not surprised - you probably didn't even look into the living donor programs available in the US.

Many hospitals will cover most if not all of these costs, including your wages, health maintenance, checkups, etc. If the hospital near you won't cover these things, the National Living Donor Assistance Program will help.

> And it remove a source of cash from an entire population, with all that entails

There's something like 100,000 people on the kidney donor list right now (UNOS). Maybe 20,000 of these get a kidney donation per year. It's not really that much of lost productivity, and as we have already explained these costs are usually covered by programs for living donors.

You're acting like this isn't a solved problem, when it is except that people are attached to their own body parts. I for one don't really want to give my kidney away unless I'm already dead. Maybe we should argue for opt-out deceased organ donation programs nationally, instead of this asinine idea that we should allow poor people to sell their kidneys.