skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few months ago another cancerous spot popped up. The oncologist wanted to hold off a bit and see how it was reacting to my current medication. I wasn't thrilled about this since your urge is to just get in there and kill it. But he probably knows best. But about a week ago he said that since it isn't spreading they might as well go in and zap it with some radiation.

This is ideal since I can deal with a bit more radiation and I was worried I was looking at more chemo. I'm really sick of chemo, but as long as it it isn't neck/mouth radiation it is easy.

So next week I go in for a "simulation" where I get put in a person-sized beanbag and they put in a IV to inject contrast and then they stick me in a CT machine to map out exactly where they need to radiate. And then they suck the air out of the beanbag and mold it around you. A "Han Solo frozen in carbonite" situation. That way you can't move when they actually administer the radiation. That and they shove a tube in your mouth and turn off your breathing for a while so your abdomen doesn't move. The first time having my breathing turned off was a problem. But I have hitting the cardio hard for the last six months so it should be a breeze.

Hopefully radiation will start the week after that. And it is only five treatments (20 minutes) spread out over two weeks. Chemo would have been months of significant discomfort. It is all horrible but this is a lot less horrible. But now that there is a real plan to deal with this I am in a much better head-space. I was a bit of a grump until a few days ago. Now I am happy working on stuff around the house instead of just sitting and bitching about everything.
Helium can escape Earth's atmosphere though.
Statism eventually turns into fascism.

No doubt whoever made this happen is happy to get state-coerced customers-for-life.

Breathalyzer as a Service
Let's consider a simple image classifier: 64x64 grayscale input, 10x1 output that detects 10 classes of images. The model: y=tanh(Ax+b). You'd probably say that there is no way this will work because this model is too simple. But can you explain why this won't work? Can you tell what the maximum accuracy this model can reach? What kind of datasets this model would work better on?

[Edit] Whether this model works is question. Sure, it can't recognize dogs or cats, but what if the dataset is 0-9 digits? Now it suddenly works, right? And works really well. But what's changed? Can we describe in mathematical terms what makes the 0-9 dataset so special? It'll probably work with A-J letters too, but what about hieroglyphs?

The math I'm looking for would tell that E(T) is the error and on such model and such dataset, E(T)=exp(-T^2)+O(exp(-T^3)), according to such and such theorem; and according to another theorem, if the dataset is isomorphic to that manifold, E(T) can be improved to O(exp(-3T^2)).
Thankfully the majority of people use their TV indoors.
Looks like this service has business hours as well. Very strange.
A couple days ago I found this link [0] to a Reddit post on HN about the software engineering practices at Tesla. Don't know how accurate the story is, hard to tell, but it sure was worrisome.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/99sbwa/form...
Ask HN: De-identifying data without destroying quality
We are exploring how to aggregate significant amount of data from different clients to use in a machine learning model.

The output of the model will be shared with all clients.

The clients require the model to see data that has been stripped of sensitive information. We could crudely just remove columns that we felt were sensitive but this would impact performance of the model.

Has anyone got experience or thoughts on how to approach this?

Any software / open-source on not that could help?

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In response to this part of your comment, f. Lux allows you to specify programs like Netflix, VLC, Photoshop where it will automatically turn off
'you're paying $13/mo for Netflix to watch shows with multi-million dollar budgets and dedicated colorists, and you start watching Orange is the New Black and you make it yellow,'
That's interesting. Thanks of making me aware.
Amazon uses it, even made publications for it.
I think the length of the warranty is kind of a distraction. Say Teslas had a particularly generous 6-year full warranty, but this part was guaranteed to fail 100% of the time after 6.5 years and cost thousands to fix. People would be justifiably upset.
I suspect ‘humanrebar is thinking about bookkeeping more than accounting. It’s largely mechanical, often computer-assisted, and the first necessary step to put any of that theoretical knowledge to use in practice.
<i> it's unknown to me if they have a legal or regulatory responsibility too</i>

Depends on the regulatory environment. In the main though people can expect cars to last for a good long while with maintenance, so a part that was guaranteed to fail well before then no matter how good care the consumer took of it would be a regulatory no no.
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The Guacamole server needs to be reachable from the internet, but the desktops you're connecting to only need to be reachable from the Guacamole server. That helps with some but not all of the situations where desktops aren't reachable with a public IP.
Off topic, but is Domain Driven Design suddenly coming into vogue? I just heard of it for the first time this week and went into a rabbit hole of research. I see that the books are not new by any means. I've heard and seen it pop up so many times just this week, including from your comment!
I Interviewed David Ngo, Head of Product and Eng. Metallic at CommvaultGO 2019
Having dated a graphic designer who ran her own firm...biz people don't seem to respect design. It's an slight hassle afterthought to many biz people. It's a cost center that they don't really understand...but don't realize they don't understand... because they think it's easy.

Steve Jobs was actually different. He put design first and foremost and did great things.

Hopefully the COO recognizes he's out of his element and doesn't try to half-ass design going forward.
It is also constantly being emitted by radioactive elements decaying on Earth, that's how it got in the natural gas deposits in the first place and also the atmosphere. Alpha decay makes helium, or more accurately is helium. An alpha particle is just a helium-4 nucleus.
Hi, HN!

Author here. A friend mentioned this was on the front page so I wanted to stop by and make explicit that this advice is OUT OF DATE as far as I'm concerned. It's way too much hassle (I work in a much larger team now than I did then!) and doesn't play well with rebase etc.

These days I either recommend the jupytext approach (not tried it but seems sensible) or personally I just use Sphinx-gallery.

Advantages:

* Plain python files play well with IDE refactoring, Black formatter, etc etc.

* You now have a readymade 'tutorial' page for your docs.

* Files are run with every docs build, so you can configure things to alert you when they're broken.

Disadvantages:

* You end up editing a throwaway notebook file. If you forget to copy-paste your edits back to the source, and rebuild, you have lost your edits. However, this forces me to keep the 'temporary, exploratory' nature at the front of my mind and not allow the notebook code to grow too large before performing some clean-up.
The book by Golub (RIP) and Van Loan goes way beyond what's discussed here (SVD, QR decomposition, eigenvalue computations, iterative solvers, error analysis, etc.), and it's focused more on (numeric) linear algebra rather than calculus.
How about giving the students a quiz first, one that doesn't count towards the students' grades, just to see where they stand in terms of CS/IT knowledge? You don't want to be developing a syllabus, only to realize that it's either much too hard or much too easy.

I call it ... Test Driven Syllabus Development. #badumtss
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“I don't think/worry about guns - ever.”
As an example I assume you're familiar with the treatment family of Sandy Hook victims have gotten? Where they have to deal with constant harassment and threats from people that believe it is a hoax and those that encourage them?

If you were to slap a content disclaimer saying 'this content is fake', they would just use that as fuel and proof that the government doesn't want you to know the truth. The lie directly harms people by simply existing even if you add a disclaimer.
Quora is now working fine for me on mobile Firefox, but it was completely broken a week ago. Twitter refuses to show any content at all half of the time.

Some of this could of course be related to privacy settings in Firefox.
That was a good breakdown I give you that. Would be interesting to see how it changes in the next decade indeed.
>>"Nobody cares about freedom of the press because they are well paid and comfortable. They have truly figured out how to placate the masses."

Could this not equally be applied to America?
> The Bay Area and its relatively fantastic weather would be fully realized as a perk to tech workers.

I built a Linux box with an rpi3 I had lying around and a boox max3 I got. So far working out doors:

+ Insects: you have no idea how many seem to come out of no where just to annoy you.

+ Sun: you need sun screen even on overcast days. I look like an overripe tomato.

+ Rain: when you least expect it one tiny cloud will go past and drop enough rain to soak you and any exposed electronics.

+ Children: loud and obnoxious, seem to be everywhere at any time.

+ Homeless: turns out they really like parks and assume you're one of them if you're there for more than 30 minutes.

There's probably more but those are the things I had to deal with yesterday. Today I just sat on my balcony instead. Sunlight is nice, but there's a reason why people have been building shelters for millennia.
Oh... thats where you are going wrong, when reheating pizza it is best to use a pan, although the base may get crispy. The oven works quite well too. Sure they take longer but tastes so much better!
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Unfortunately if you're looking for a mid- to high-end EV that isn't an SUV or crossover, your choices are still pretty limited, for now. There's the Taycan now, but it's not really in the same price point as the Model S, let alone the Model 3. Maybe the Audi e-tron sedan when it comes out will be a bit more reasonable (relatively speaking).
I wouldn't say "1-2 minutes" but definitely within 1-2 hours even for the harder problems.

This guy finished in the top 10 last year and streamed(not live) his solutions so you can see how fast you need to be to be competitive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgv6d6rrQxo&list=PLZhotmgEsC...
Singapore government must realise human error also a security breach
> "uniformly random" implies "no information"

You can have something that when observed appears to be uniformly random but can be transformed into something that is not. Consider a Hadamard transform applied to |+>.
Nothing, but you can check if it does that in its source code. Did you, or did you simply assume that it does?
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> Any figures to back that up?

A simple Google search will show you Singapore and Tokyo are regarded as the 2 safest cities on Earth, which one is first depends on which report you read.
cores are definitely networked at the hardware level, what I meant is that they do not look like one at the software level.
Everything. My life, my great job, my relationships, my vehicle,apartment,health,security and much more.

Above all things, I am grateful to my God's grace,blessings and Mercy through which I have all these things and many more.

Which of us can fail to find something to complain about in this short life? I can tell you I can find plenty with minimal effort. It is so easy to forget the things you're thankful for when you complain. And when you forget those things hope fleets away and without hope you have nothing to look forward to, no reason to endure another today, no ability to enjoy today as you wait for "some day". Here is to appreciating our beliefs,hopes and posessions so that we may forge a tomorrow that is better than today.
I think you've hit the heart of the issue here. Looks like there's currently a power struggle going on, OP probably doesn't realize it and is currently positioned for the losing end of it.

There's a possibility for taking this fight. Would be a great learning experience in politics regardless of outcome, if they want to subject themselves to the pressure and discomfort. But might not be worth it. Would require navigating both political conflict and a proper negotiation of terms afterwards, if successful, to ensure they get recognition for their work and also monetary rewards. Important to try to disconnect feeling of self-worth from the outcome and try to treat it as a high-stakes game. The default is quitting or getting fired, unlikely to do worse than that regardless.

OP's technical accomplishments remains on their CV, and this has probably been a great learning experience from that perspective regardless. There's something to be said for standing up for one's self-respect in taking a fight like this rather than be pushed out without trying to defend oneself, but it's a rough process and might or might not be worth the pain. Depending on circumstances and motivation.
"Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed" --Friedrich
Does anyone have book suggestions on leadership and management which aren't just pop-business BS?
I trust them in the sense that they're going to _mostly_ keep the data they steal to themselves and are capable of doing so.
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Sounds like you should be the team lead, just ask the founder and/or leave
This is what I want as well.

I feel as if this is the kind of thing Google might still be able to get right; "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" is still the company's mission, after all, although it's been diluted by ten years in the wilderness of developing products in what seems like all directions.

If Google had not strayed Keep would be this. Assistant would be this. Honestly Assistant and Keep would be one and the same thing, perhaps: a single Assistant that is about remembering what you need to remember, finding what you need to find, helping you do what you need to do. This parallel universe Assistant has an open API that nerds like you and me can really use to set up complex workflows. We then are able to share our workflows with each other, and eventually perhaps even build products (apps) on this platform for the less technical users. Split the revenue in an Assistant Store. It could smoothly diversify into Mechanical Turk territory, but with more and better automation.

While Google is asleep, startups can revolt.

Disclaimer: I work for Google but the opinions expressed here are personal and not those of my employer.
I'm in Japan :-)
Are you sure you're burned out? It sounds to me like you just don't like working with your team lead, and he, apparently, doesn't like you too much, either.

Sometimes people feel threatened. Maybe you're getting a lot of praise from the founders that you're not aware of but the team lead is. Maybe your team lead resents that you fixed X and feels his own position is in danager so he's driving you out?

You say you won't go to the founders because you can't see how they could resolve it, but you don't seems to consider that if you really did single-handedly solve X, then the founders might move the team lead on rather than risk losing you. Founders aren't stupid, they know who the value players are. They might be well aware of what's going on, but not to the extent that they risk losing you. If they are made aware of such a thing, you might find things change for the better.

In short, the problem is the team lead, and if the founders are made aware of it, things might change. If they don't, find another job.
That is so rare that an extended family like that gets along that well, I'm so happy to hear that it's actually possible, kudos to you all!
I don't really need this, but if I did, the fan would probably be a deal-breaker for me. Instead, I'd spread this out of multiple weaker light sources. That would spread the light out more, spread the heat of course, and probably also make it easier to tune it to exactly the light level you want.

I do understand the desire to have daylight-level lighting in your house. It's a shame it takes so much power.
Yeah I think he was only half joking when he tweeted:

“Tesla Cybertruck (pressurized edition) will be official truck of Mars.”
I've come across this repo which use TLA+ to validate data migrations.
https://github.com/Shopify/ghostferry
iterally DDG'ing "tla industry" gets you stuff eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLA%2B#Industry_use.

Another 20 seconds gets you https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/industrial-use.html
It's a matter of perspective. It is certainly not flat from the perspecticve of our 5 basic senses.
Just like I imaged it would happen in C&C when I was a kid
I've seen it used in RabbitMq, but I also wonder if this is used in the real world or just in academia/few technologies.
>>I'm Singaporean, and completely not surprised to see this appear on HN....Civilisation is the surrender of varying degrees of civil liberty for security and safety

...We're just debating the word "varying" and might not agree with your conclusion.
Do the problems require familiarity with say more serious algorithmic techniques such as graphs?
My guess would be the distribution companies provide them a hash table of MD5s that maps popular torrents to places where they can be purchased. The company that makes the TV sells this services to the distribution company and/or gets a cut of the sales. Furthermore, it probably logs the IP of the person watching the pirated file and sells that data also.
I rate 'High output management' by Andrew Grove (founder & CEO of Intel). He has clearly lived a lot of the experiences he wrote about and the advice was pretty timeless.
Yeah I guess I had mistakenly used left vs right as a synonym for the more liberal-ish vs the more conservative-ish and that is indeed probably an oversimplification.

Anyway I was talking more about the "liveable" aspects of Singapore. Maybe not a week as a tourist but say living longer than a month there. The night life is pretty boring, the underground scene had dissipated in the 2000s and the art scene is not at all vibrant (though things are gradually improving). I would say it doesn't enjoy lots of things liberal-ish cities (like Berlin, NY, etc) enjoy. But there is stability and comfort. It's just that people that is more liberal-ish would ultimately leave the country and live overseas, or if circumstances allow they would start an NGO or something and try to improve things to have more freedom of expressions, more social acceptance for LGBT, etc. But ultimately it is a very conservative place with things like homophobia and an embedded racism. And that's the point I'm trying to make.
I tried AoC in Rust two years ago, and you really don't need anything beyond the excellent standard library. Rust has lots of nice features that make working with the type of input AoC gives trivial.

By limiting yourself to the standard library at first, I find that you can get a good feel for the language itself.

You could look up some of the published solutions from last year to get a feel for what is possible.

Example: https://github.com/bertptrs/adventofcode/tree/master/2018/sr...

This person kept a minimal common library for recurring functionality and a small wrapper application that launches the code for each puzzle. It looks like a really clean approach.
As an early employee you have a lot of credit with the founding team, if you aggregate the concerns of others and go talk with them that the team lead is overtly negative and weighing down team morale then they will probably listen to you.

Keeping, motivating and retaining key employees is a core task of a manager, if the founders of the company realize this then they should also see that they have to take corrective action against the team lead (which can range from a conversation to outright firing).

In the unlikely case that the founding team doesn't see your value then you're better off leaving but always be very open about the reason why you are leaving so they can change their mind.

Also keep in mind, that if the founders are assholes you might find yourself without a job for being very open. So you might want to line up another job before initiating this process.

edit: Probably having an open conversation with your team lead first is a good idea; even though it might not help anything at least you can tell the founders that you tried to talk with him
Have a look at Wildcard API[1], it's similar to what you are building.

I'm the author. I'm glad to see that RPC is getting more and more traction.

[1] https://github.com/reframejs/wildcard-api
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>Remember to include Excel.

I don't understand why you would force your children to depend on an unethical for-profit corporation. Why not LibreOffice? 99% of what normal people need is covered in it.
I feel like articles like this quickly devolve into pseudo physics nonsense in attempting to explain such higher level, poorly understood, abstract ideas to laymen, as they're barely just skimming the surface of ideas that only really exist as high level math.

Not necessarily a fault of the journalist, it's just that words really cannot capture the breadth of information or the inquisitive power of what the physicists derived without some understanding of the symbolic system involved.
Maybe Raku would also be a nice language to try things out :-) https://raku.org
"An elegant puzzle" is also a book with a lot of meat on it.
I identify with the parent, and I've always been fine with "jet lag" to the point where I often don't even notice it or it only lasts until I go to bed the first night.

(IE; Sweden->Los Angeles, the inverse is harder but not as hard as most people seem to have it, it knocks some colleagues out for an entire week)
> Flask is very easy and simple. It's fun to put a few endpoints in a single file. However when your application starts growing into an endless of endpoints, tons of models and views, or your team is having more people, it is very necessary to have some sort of structure in your application.

How is this different than the typical Blueprints setup? My Flask applications are split into modules, each with its own Blueprint; this helps organize large projects.
Can't help myself, since I was today deeply disappointed to find out my son's expensive private school didn't reward him for developing (with my help) an electromechanical solution to an ostensibly mechanical STEM contest. A solution that was well within the rules but not thought of by anyone else.

What pre-college and high school kids should be taught:

1. School is nothing like the real world. The real world rewards innovation.

2. The conformal tyranny of the mediocre exists only in schools (and, to a degree, in large orgs) and will not impede you in the real world. Ignore it or fight it.

3. There are no grades in the real world, only degrees of success.

4. The only meaningful outside validation is your reward for your hard work. Not just money, as success can be measured otherwise, but reward.

5. There are no rewards for following the rules, being agreeable or staying with the herd. In this sense, school will be more damaging than helpful. School is something you'll have to get through and then undo.

6. The amount of money spent on school or the school's reputation doesn't alleviate these fundamental issues.

How the F can you have a STEM contest that doesn't reward the most innovative solution? What kind of lesson is that teaching.