skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And they probably need medical and mental health care more than jail.

If they dont want help and keep repeating then the second is absolutely needed. The problem isnt that they are addicts and self destructive, but that they carelessly endanger other peoples lives. One would imagine what an apocalyptic outcry it would be if any other drug, that large parts of society consume daily, was found responsible for people starting to kill people in their surroundings. Do you all remember the PCP scare? Or the Spice Horror stories?
Keeping the elderly working is not an absolute negative.
You sound paranoid. There’s nothing wrong with a 20-something admitting they need a bit of a rest after working really hard for a few years.

I’ve had an employee tell me they’re exhausted and need time out and I definitely didn’t “propagate need to my network” about them. That would be a serious breach of trust. I’ve also hired an engineer who told me they just came off a burnout and they were great.

This fear of vulnerability is part of the problem - it’s ok to be burned out and need a bit of a rest.
I'm surprised at how much better Tasnet and especially Demucs are than Spleeter at pulling the bass guitar out.

Overall, it's obvious that there is a long ways to go in this technology. But it makes me wonder how close all this gets to how we (humans) can narrow in on a single voice in a crowd so clearly.
We can produce more of it by distilling it out of the atmosphere, it is just rather expensive.

This is exclusively how neon is produced (as far as I can find) so it is obviously economically viable at a certain price.

I did a calculation once about nuclear production of helium and found that the heat from the nuclear reactors producing enough helium to match current usage would be on the same order of magnitude as the power received from the sun across the whole planet.
> they simply don't match the quality of PAP's candidates.

Is that by design?
Keeping It Quiet: Suppressor Use by Jihadis, Militants and More (2018)
Wouldn't placing a notice on content deemed fake be more like what we do with slander/libel. Court reports create a record of the lie which aids the public in deciding who to deal with and creates an additional motivation not to lie. It also allows a person to disagree with the judgement.

"This content has been determined to be fake: [evidence or link to evidence]"

That would be my preference.

So
> And I would tell you Singapore is very well integrated with western values
[..]
> I've not known a self-declared Left that could stand staying in Singapore for more than a week

Weird combination of statements. It gives the impression (though you probably mean something different that anyone not liking it is 1) "left" 2) not part of Western values

Left vs right is pretty useless distinction anyway. Someone who is considered "left" in US is IMO very much "right" in Netherlands. Plus some parties on the right or left differ greatly on how they see things. E.g. not every "left" party will align with what someone agrees with; else there wouldn't be multiple parties. Those parties differ more greatly than "a little bit left" vs "a lot left" (with some exceptions).

Further, I reject the notion that someone who is left wouldn't be able to stand staying in Singapore for more than a week. Though biggest problem is that after a week there's not much to do (for anyone reading along, all the Singaporean colleagues completely agree with me on this!) :-P
Lots of startups in SG yet the way the system runs seem to be stifling innovation.
I've kind of intuitively gravitated towards this ever since energy efficient bulbs started becoming popular. Instead of buying light bulbs to save energy per se, I've been buying the highest lumen efficient light bulbs in a given form factor and color temperature. I prefer 3000K light indoors, and daylight for working lights. My desk lamps have 100W equivalent daylight "high CRI" light bulbs. My house lights are basically the highest lumen lights available in each form factor be it candelabra, "regular" or "fake luminescent". The light fixtures that do not have light bulbs per se are the highest possible lumen rating as well. I figure I'm spending less money anyway, might as well have more light. Unfortunately R30 flood lights aren't generally available in power rating equivalents beyond 75W incandescent. If some marketing person from e.g. Osram, Cree or Philips is reading this, could you guys make 150W equivalent R30 flood light? Charge pretty penny for it, too. I'll pay. I want punishing light levels in my kitchen/bar area.
Is anybody using TLA+ in production outside of academia? What for? I've always wanted to, but I'm not familiar enough with it to always recognize when it'd be the right tool to reach for.

I primarily code in Elixir and Erlang, and have used property testing to perform some level of model checking when working with state machines, and I suspect TLA+ could be helpful for formalizing that a little bit, but it isn't a theory I've ever put into practise.
I love how this comment received a few upvotes in the beginning and there came the downvotes. HN as I've known it have certainly changed to be more reddit-like now.
We've asked you several times to stop breaking the site guidelines. If you keep doing it, we're going to have to ban you. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this?
Public SSH keys can leak your private infrastructure
A Terrible Year for Cars
I have a friend who is a lawyer. He seems to believe that rhetoric and logic are the same thing. Links like this bring me bad memories.
I’d lean towards practically-useful skills that computers can help with:

— Collaboration tools: how to effectively use shared spreadsheets, documents, and online communication to organize a large project

— Spaced repetition to aid memory

— Organizing / cataloguing personal collections

— Learning how to do something new from online resources (finding and applying video or written tutorials)
The site guidelines explicitly ask you not to post like this. Would you please review them and stick to the rules when commenting here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> At most, working-class voters can cast their ballots for an “un­acceptable” candidate, but they can exercise no influence on policy formation or agency personnel, much less on governance areas that have been transferred to technocratic bodies.

The problem here is that we don't have direct democracy. I've noticed that citizens in countries with direct democracy elements like Switzerland seem to feel significantly better represented by their governments.

It blows my mind how little is spoken about direct democracy and concepts like delogative/liquid democracy. There's absolutely no reason we must confine ourselves to a representative democracy conceived in a time when direct democracy was literally impossible because messages were delivered on horseback.
As opposed to having Chrome, which contributes to Google's ownership of the whole internet? Google does what it wants and developers write for Chrome. Users of Firefox find websites that won't work because someone used some Chrome extension to the spec.

People writing software are no match for behemoth.
I'd like to chime in that Variational Autoencoder's theoretical framework is also quite useful in unsupervised learning tasks. It bridges variational inference methods (a powerful classical ML technique) with neural networks, thus allow very efficient representation, generalization and disentanglement.
I would like to know what an actual Tibetan monk or Zen master thinks about this. Westerners have a tainted "Gentle Jesus meek and mild" conception of spiritual practice that seriously impairs our judgement on these matters
The high hourly pay of a software engineer is not significant when that high cost is spread over hundreds of thousands of units sold.

A corrolary of this is that when it is not spread over a high number of units, in a niche product, it will be very expensive so we will see even less niche products as software takes over more functions.
Agreed! A possible solution in this style are Wing-In-Ground effect aircraft (WIGs) such as the Pelican.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Pelican

Having said that, hydrogen airships are probably the way to go due to abundant gas, high lift, ability to compress as per airlander.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Air_Vehicles_HAV_304/...
Philosophical logic.
I bought a Panasonic 1080P dumb TV a few years ago. Turns on instantly, no apps, no ads, no updates, no tracking. I have no idea what I'll do when it finally dies.

For streaming and playing media from my NAS I use an Nvidia SHIELD TV. It's based on the Tegra X1 so performance is on par with the Nintendo Switch. Really great bit of kit, and of course I can just chuck it out (or repurpose it as an emulator box) if it gets too annoying.
Maybe you are an exception, but most companies run on dominance hierarchy and once you are labelled as "weak", you are done. In general, my advice is much more solid and understanding of reality than yours, but I'd likely want to work for/with a person like you much more.
Critical thinking as well as private and secure usage of the internet and smart devices.
Not exactly. They bred an aggressive population alongside the tame one, and it's now 60 years: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/08/fox-dogs-...

"Researchers have bred more than 40 generations of friendly and aggressive foxes."

I read a really interesting article mainly about the aggressive ones, but I just spent a few minutes looking for it unsuccessfully.
Vizio is doing those things because the FTC is making them. (See @sologoub's comment) Before that they didn't even ask or tell you about it.
Thank you for your comment, you have just saved me from taking in fake news. Any tone you take is fine when you're preventing the spread of misinformation, so keep being you.
It is possible to recycle old LCD monitors into articficial windows that have a very real feel to them. The diffraction lenses for the backlight direct the light in a way that makes it appear sun like. Of course this is only about the direction and not about the spectrum, but it might be possible to find LED strips with a high CRI. Any feedback would be appreciated.

DIY directions on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JrqH2oOTK4
You joke, but we already have this type of mess with Keurig, Nespresso Vertuo and that Silicon Valley juicer whose name I forgot.
And if it doesn't and they accept that by genuine choice, that's fine, it's an informed decision.

But equally, maybe some people wouldn't be comfortable with, "This device contains a camera and microphone that are always on and an independent Internet connection that you cannot block. We cannot guarantee that the software in this device is 100% secure and we only guarantee to update that software for 12 months after the date of purchase. We do not control some online services used by this device and Internet-connected features of this device might break at any time with no way to fix them. There is a {regulator-imposed description/statistic} chance that someone will be able to hack your device, watch and listen to the area around it including other nearby rooms, and provide hackers with access to any other devices and activity on your home network. This device will upload information about what you watch and when to {names of business(es)}, which will use the data to profile you including guessing your family make-up, wealth, interests and vulnerability to advertising, and this information will be sold to {list of recipients} who may use it to {purposes}."
A few parts per billion, about one gram of helium-3 per 150 tons of regolith. For comparison, economical gold mining on Earth typically requires a deposit of at least 500 ppb or so. And there are no 3He "deposits" on the moon; it's all fairly uniformly distributed across the 38 million square kilometers of lunar surface!
Is there anything you said that is specific to JS?

> the love for instant feedback

What languages can you not get this with?

> And I also use automatic regression tests before pushing to prod.

That's 100% language agnostic...

> Node.js is infamously known to use small modules, it however gives you battle tested code run by thousand in production

Many other languages have extensive packages pulled in, but that says nothing about how battle tested the code is unless all of the packages have high use. Python has plenty of packages with the same use level. Java has tons as well. The list goes on.
> I conjecture if/when e-ink displays match conventional LCDs in response time and resolution there will be a movement towards “outdoor offices”.

I think you're right. Working outdoors with a laptop is already better than indoors. It'd be easier with e-ink.
I certainly wouldn't call GP's comment friendly, but I found it informative. Especially when you're trying to discuss things scientifically, I care much more about truth than kindness (not that you shouldn't try to be nice). I think replies criticizing flaws in comments are some of the most underappreciated tidbits of HN, because they are drilling into the details which are what really matters.
The subreddit is pretty great. Tons of good discussion, feedback in the (very rare) cases when something's pear-shaped about the day's puzzle, and a helpful vibe.
That's the most Oracle thing I've read this month.
Cinematic video with a consumer drone and ND filter set
> Just use a cookie or something.

Someone downloads their input, clears their cookies before submitting solution & then their solution is "wrong" because they're using an outdated input.

Seems like tying you to something more persistent i.e. a google/twitter/reddit/github acocunt is a more reliable strategy
I am serious and that is what I am saying. Nature has plenty of errors,the benefits of gene editing do not justify even one person being harmed as a result if human added error. If selective human breeding is unethical (eugenics) then so is selective human gene editing!
I'm thankful for being born in a first world country with parents who could care for me.

I'm thankful to work in an industry where I can take a multi-year sabbatical and still find employment within a couple weeks, where I can work remotely and pay my month's rent in only a couple days of work.

I'm thankful for all the good people I've met in my life.

And I'm thankful for my health.
My theory is people who want to join politics, do it for power, for money, for status. Put yourself in their shoes, which party would you affiliate with to set yourself up? PAP also have an extensive network of grassroot organizations to recruit any young talents who want to join. It's very hard to change the status quo unless PAP leadership makes a series of catastrophic mistakes.
A practical ML implementation which runs fine on standard computers can be found here: https://github.com/modern-fortran/neural-fortran
It does mention that it is very preliminary:

Some studies suggest a link between exposure to light at night, such as working the night shift, to some types of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and obesity. That's not proof that nighttime light exposure causes these conditions; nor is it clear why it could be bad for us. But we do know that exposure to light suppresses the secretion of melatonin, a hormone that influences circadian rhythms, and there's some experimental evidence (it's very preliminary) that lower melatonin levels might explain the association with cancer.
Not yet. In comparison with other phones, this one will be getting better with time, not worse.
It doesn't, really, I guess they were trying to say that Hawking's predictions don't give us a clue what's going on with the information – if the black hole radiates like a black body it can't really push the information out through it.
Many of your later concerns could be handled with stub functions and unit tests.

Have a test where a specific pin on the processor is set to a 500 kHz and have tests for certain conditions, emissions below a certain level, interference with some other trace, etc.

Everything with hardware development seems to be at the stage of a neglected codebase with manual testing, poor test coverage, and slow process. We're just at the point where many of those problems are solvable now with pretty good actual EM simulation.

Lots of features need to be added but it all just seems very possible at this point.
I don't get to code much in the day job, so having a bite-sized puzzle is great entertainment.
FWIW - I discovered recently that Hisense is actually owned by the Chinese state government, if that kind of thing matters to you.
Just a nitpick: Property testing is nowhere near the level of assurance that model checking provides.
Injectors and ignition coils are effectively wear parts however on an ICE engine.

Injector drivers and ignition drivers are part of the control unit.
We seem on track to avoid the jump to the left in the UK, alas we've already stepped to the right several times
There's plenty of math still. In order to not waste GPU-hours, you gotta have some intution as to what _not_ to do, because otherwise you'll be trying for a very long time and relying entirely on luck, which is combinatorially unfavorable and frustrating. That intuition is often grounded in math, mostly differential calculus and statistics. That said, there are a good number of techniques which nobody is sure why they work. I.e. batchnorm, which is used all the time. People have some theories and intuitions as to why it works, but nobody is sure why, nor is there any rigorous way to pick hyperparameters for it.
Getting hit by a car can be a death penalty, and drunk driving greatly increases the risk of causing an accident [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driving_under_the_influence#Ri...
I would say it's a positive feedback loop. PAP is the main party, so young talents are more likely to join, which in turn makes PAP stronger.
> Most likely because Singapore is not also putting huge amount of people in detention camps and harvesting their organs.

To be fair, the chinese call it de-radicalization/re-education centers, which they set up after a few extremist separatist attacks which killed hundreds of people. And as for the organs, much of the west ( especially in europe ) take people's organs without their explicit consent (it's called opt-out organ "donation".

> Maybe if they had the scale to do so they would, but that's not really the question when it comes to public opinion.

Nonsense. It's called political expediency and the trade war. A decade ago, when china was our "friend", we were talking about "chimerica" and praising their handling of muslim extremists in xinjiang and china's help with our war on "muslim terrorists". A decade later and we are in the midst of a trade war and the propaganda changes.
> They often couched their arguments in terms of Christian doctrine, but this is just the incidental result of the dominance of the Christian religion in society at that time.

I wouldn't say that it's entirely incidental. Christianity is compatible with individualism in a way that some other religions are not.
Found it in 2016 and have done it ever since (and in the early days of December 2016 I went back and did the 2015 puzzles I'd missed).

I was one of the 271 people who had all 200 stars (i.e. completed all puzzles) when Eric tweeted out that stat.

Usually takes anything from 5 minutes to an hour do most puzzles, quickly hacked together in perl. Very occasionally there's one that takes longer than that. Sometimes I redo them in different languages (Go to try that out, C to remind me how bare bones the base language is, etc).

Can't wait for it to start this year.
Helium is light enough to escape Earth's atmosphere though. Eventually the atmosphere will run out of it.
problems are quite interesting (after initial days, those are usually trivial)

e.g. once in 2017 you had problem1: implement an interpreter for this asm-like language. ok, 5 instructions, super easy.
...problem2, run this asm-like program. You couldn't, it was 10^n iterations, would take days. You had to read, understand and optimize the asm-like code.

last year I was amazed writing a function to check if two rectangles intersect (you can do it in like 2 lines)

so, TLDR, you get a lot of "hey that's cool! I never thought about it"
I think you and the person you're responding to might have slightly different expectations behind what level of rigor counts as "math", just like how physicists and theoretical mathematicians often have somewhat different ideas about rigor.

My impression is that obviously ML is guided by math and people want to have an understanding of why some things converge and others don't. But "in the field" many people just mess around with different set-ups and see what works (especially in deep learning). Maybe theory follows to explain why it worked. I think you're right that a lot of progress in the field is based on intuition and some reasoning (e.g. trying something like an inception network) more than derivations that show that a particular set-up should be successful. I get the impression that most low-level components are pretty well understood, but when they are stacked and combined it gets more complicated.

I would be very curious to see a video of your cat solving MNIST in 1 hour!
Rooms can even be brighter than the outdoors you know.
I'm currently at home visiting family. I'm grateful for how much love we have at home for each other and for how supportive my parents have been my entire life.
Of course we need selective breeding. How else are we going to achieve the golden path?
I can accept that. Living things have a natural process of eliminating incompatible variants. I think of it as a coder binary patching bugs without understanding how the patched piece affects every other variable essentially creating more problems as opposed to readinf the code and rebuilding the app after understanding it slowly and properly. What is the rush??

I honestly think scientists and science enthusiasts do not understand the most basic principle of justice: you cannot wrong even one innocent person evem if it means saving the entire planet as a whole! If you don't belive that please stay away from any profession that requires ethical decision making.
There are maths and proves behind Neural Networks, but Machine Learning is an umbrella term. There are areas within it, maybe not that mainstream, that are also based on solid maths foundations.

One of the most interesting and elegant examples , Topological Data Analysis that is based on Topology and utilises tools like persistent homology. They can be applied to image processing, classification, etc.
Probably don't want tabloid newspapers just checking everyones status regularly
It's going to be outsourced to Ive's company anyway.
I am not sure why he was down-voted. It is clearly a sarcastic post.