skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not post-processing, it's just processing :P
Have you ever been to Russia? Every Russian under age 35 is on their smart phone looking at Instagram 24-7. The older generation is on vkontakte via their smart phones sharing cat videos (Russians love cats). I'd go as far as saying that it's getting out of hand...
My admittedly anecdotal evidence is that you won't be taught to restrain yourself but to deceive certain individuals such as your parents regarding your behavior while acting without restraint behind their backs.
This scenario is so common and the list of disputed territories is so long that it should be a standard.

It could be a bit like the timezones, the locale, or the decimal point separator, or other things like that. It should be an option at the OS level that you can configure, not be forced into.

There should be a common database that you can integrate in your map, a bit like timezone historical records, and the user should be able to see the map as claimed by any given country/territory. By default this could depend on your location or locale but it should definitely be possible to always see the map as the other side of the dispute has it, and to configure your device so that it shows maps (for all map software on the device), from a given perspective.
Interesting. Are you looking around just to see what's out there, or are there things you don't like about Inoreader?
I worked as a teacher in, state funded, education for 15 years.

Value added measurements of student achievement will always fail.

In affluent areas, where student achievement is already high, schools can afford to hire the best teachers, but they will realistically only be able to boost achievement by a small fraction, given the child's prior attainment.

In deprived areas, where student achievement is lower, schools can only afford to hire less qualified teachers, and the boost to achievement will be a small fraction of previous attainment.

Either way, the measured effect that the teacher has will be marginal, while common standards and common testing are the only measured outcomes. This does not equate to the teachers not being invested in student outcomes, or trying their best for their students.

Value added measures were only introduced as a form of target setting, for teacher performance. I'd encourage everyone to watch Adam Curtis' The Trap[1] to see the effects of target setting.

Teachers in early years education set a target, then primary school teachers need to show value added so game the system to show improvement. This trickles up the system, and the net result is unrealistic targets for almost every child as they exit formal education.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trap_(TV_series)
You are being absurdly pedantic. For example

>A "range from 0.10 to 0.30σ" doesn't make sense.

Out loud, you might read it as "oh point one to oh point three sigma." And it's fine. Ever written a phrase like "it's very expensive, costing somewhere around $3-4M" with one "$" and one "M" but two numbers?
School districts are not always subsets of cities. Sometimes they even cross town, county, parish, or township lines.
It certainly reads just like one.
The major downside to KDE Neon for me is that, although it's Ubuntu-based, because it ships its own Qt, it breaks PPAs for Qt-based applications such as FreeCAD or QGIS.
> By that logic, all areas of Russia where the non-Russian ethnicity is dominant (of which there are a lot) should all be written out in their respective languages.

Why not? Use the most common local language as well as Russian.
Or set tight resource limits.

Setting resource requests also enables the use of HorizontalPodAutoscalers.
Burning Tesla extinguished with 11 tons of water (German) https://tirol.orf.at/stories/3015765/
I'm not sure I follow? If a centralized service only presented "one truth" then it would alienate other markets which would then cause those markets to be lost. Imagine Russia and China capture Google and Apple, they can certainly agree to the history they want written and presented to the world; how quickly or likely or able is the rest of the world to stop funnelling money to the bad actors in control of these organizations and nations - we're quite lousy, unmotivated, incompetent at it currently.
Ask HN: What do you wish you'd known to get your first 100 customers?
For those under 100 customers:

What do you feel would be helpful to know right now to get your first 100 customers?

For those with 100+ customers:

Was it important to know who your competitors are? Or did you ignore them?

Did you do a product launch? Where/how did you launch (e.g. did a press release + outreach, Hacker News, Reddit, Product Hunt)? Did you consider it successful? Or a flop?

How did you determine your price point? Did you have any pricing strategy?

What was your go-to-market strategy after the launch?
What people are trying to say is that if this is your definition of post processing then there doesn't exist any digital camera system that produces photos without post processing. Indeed such a camera cannot exist.
Is this the author?

I would love to know how this fared recently in the large sell-off.

What he says about some markets possibly being predicable rings true to me. But the article was far from convincing that the BTC market is actually predicable.

The natural assumption should be that the author was in the right place at the right time. Although he went through great lengths, I'm not convinced this is anything other than luck.
lol `roughness: 20`
This looks nice, but even if I was wasted I could probably draw some straighter bar graphs than that.
It's very dose dependent.

"At a dosage of 1.6 grams in a therapeutic clinical environment, we might expect 0% of people to experience some extreme fear, for an average of around 1 minute of strong anxiety, and we might expect around ~45% to report a persisting positive increase in mood from this dosage assuming they had first tried 0.8 grams, and then 1.6 grams5"

Via https://tripsafe.org/how-to-take-shrooms/#start-small

Based on studies:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27578767
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3308357/table/T...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3308357/
Scribit Lets You Expertly Draw on Walls
We used to get virtually all packages via USPS, with the occasional one via UPS. Maybe one late package a year.

Amazon's logistics system now delivers probably 25% of orders late to us. I used to complain and get a month's extension on Prime each time, but it happens enough now it's not worth the argument.
To be clear, what I'm saying here is that this claim maps into our model of neurology as the equivalent of a claim like "the earth isn't a triangle." Whether or not it's supported by any evidence, what it actually is is a positively-phrased restatement of part of our set of axiomatic priors.

We know that the Earth can only be one shape; we know there are an infinite variety of shapes that something can be; and so our priors contain a set of all the claims like "the Earth is potato-shaped" and "the Earth is a doughnut" all with extremely low probability, before we encounter any evidence at all, just because the probability-mass has to get spread out among all those infinitely-many claims.

Assuming continued lack of evidence either way, a claim like "the Earth is not [one particular shape]", then, doesn't require argumentative support to be taken as a default assumption (as you might in e.g. the opening of a journal paper.) The probability of it being any particular shape started very low, and we've never encountered any evidence to raise that probability, so it's stayed very low.

(Yes, that even applies to the specific claim that "the Earth is not an oblate spheroid." If we never encountered any evidence to suggest that claim, then it'd have just as low a default confidence as any of the other claims it competes with.)

For claims with no evidence either for or against them, the analytical priors derived from the facts about the classes of claims to which the claim belongs, determine where the burden of proof lays. Low-confidence priors? Burden to prove. High-confidence priors? Burden to disprove.

In this case, we already know that neurons can do several things, and AFAIK we've never encountered any evidence of neurons having specialized functionality, or any evidence that neurons don't have specialized functionality. Our tools just aren't up to telling us whether they do or not. But, because one claim actually factors out to several claims (neuron specialization → lots of different ways neurons could specialize) while the other claim doesn't (neuron generality → just neuron generality), the probability-mass ends up on the neuron-generality side. (This is another way to state Occam's Razor.)

Mind you, this might be entirely down to our inability to study neuronal dynamics in vivo in fine-enough detail. In this case, our lack of evidence doesn't imply a lack of facts to be found, because we have no evidence for or against this hypothesis. Instead, it just determines what our model should be in the absence of such evidence, until such time as we can gather evidence that does directly prove or disprove the specific hypothesis.

Or, to put that another way: if humans only ever studied bees from a distance, the default hypothesis should be that all bees do all bee jobs. The burden of proof is on the claim that bees specialize. Later, when we get up-close to a beehive, we'd learn that bees do specialize. But that doesn't mean that we were incorrect to believe the opposite before. Both our belief before the evidence, and our belief after the evidence, were the "correct" belief given our knowledge.
Show HN: UV Radiation Exposure in the US. Check Your County's Exposure in Wh/M²
That implies that students don‘t stop listening as soon as anyone mentions command line.

Those who desperately need a debugger to learn are the first ones to not use it because of no GUI.
Playing Go differs severely from a sport where the point is to maximize your physical output.

A Professional Go player is an explorer of truth in a millenarian board, spelunking in a vast universe of possibilities. The purpose of playing is attacked when there is an automated, effortless way to do that exploring faster and better. Why look for new things when a computer can find 100 in a minute?

The professional mindset of a Go player differs vastly from the amateur mindset.
SBD Potato: Peg Repair Community Initiative
I always thought Kasparov was granted a tremendous opportunity by the advent of computer chess.

He spent his life honing his skills, becoming better and better at chess until he was the very best. And then, when noone could challenge him, technology emerged that would allow him to continue being challenged and improving his chess game. Something no other human could allow him to do.

Granted, I'm pretty ignorant about competitive chess and how to get better at it. But if my way of looking at it is valid then it probably applies to Lee Se-dol too.
tl;dr: Annual 22-mile race with both pedestrian and equestrian competitors. Out of the 40 times it's been held, the winner was a human twice, and a horse 38 times. Typically the spread between the fastest human and the fastest horse has been less than 10 minutes.
Eugene V. Debs
>CIA whistleblower

So we're giving the benefit of the doubt to members of the most notoriously cut throat agency in the American government now?
The pen is mightier than the sword.

Guns themselves are pretty useless except as ways to make a few people rich. The "revolution" against the powerful nation state are the tools of propaganda and discord. Enemies can manipulate our political system and the powerful forces of self-interest and partisanship fog the battlefield.

The aura of power associated with guns is literal bread and circus that keeps people angry and ignorant. There's a fantasy that some sort of popular revolt is a viable thing. It's not, and that's been demonstrated time and time again.

This sort of thing is a big part of the limits of US power today... there's nobody to blow up. We're equipped to fight the ultimate WW2, but that arsenal cannot be directly focused on a nuclear power. The United States has the most powerful and capable military that has ever existed, but like any tool, it isn't so effective in solving problems outside of it's scope.
Learning from Incidents in Software
I don't think you're wrong per se. But people aren't "claiming" the brain works this way. People are simply stating that maybe the brain functions like this and we could adopt similar designs based on our perceived impressions of how the brain may function.

We could totally botch it though and end up with an even worse computer and turns out it works nothing like the brain. Who knows. But right now many people "believe" the brain may function in the manner described.
But concepts like "Russian" and "Ukrainian" are time period specific. I think GP is saying that the area has been Russian-majority every since when the distinction between Russian and Ukrainian came into existence.
> An AI that generates text which humans believe more beautiful than any other poetry created - An AI which creates classical arrangements the likes of which we compare to Mozart

Hrm, I do think that AI would be able to create narratives that humans find more enjoyable than the work of other humans, and I agree that AI would be able to create pictures and sound that humans find to be more enjoyable to look at or hear than the raw work of humans. AI can master the technical feats of composition and art.

But what I doubt AI will ever be able to do is create art that speaks to us. It wont ever be able to create a Guernica. It wont be able to create a Crime and Punishment. It wont understand what it is to be human and mortal, what suffering is, and it wont be able to look within itself and find what those things mean to it and then share that with us, because in the end it's just a bunch of code running statistical computations. It wont fear death, it wont have children it cares about or a family history to look on and tell us about. It has nothing of emotive value to share.
“Arduinos can seriously damage your startup and your investors” (2015)
I would be far more concerned with the acceleration of the fire. If I have plenty of notice to get away from the vehicle and to keep others away, who cares how vigorous it is? Either way, the car will burn down. I don't think it matters how long that will take.

Have there been any deaths in these EV fires?
Tracker does run in the background. I disabled some of the things it indexes. I don't experience any slowdowns.

Nautilus is there, it's the file manager. I installed Nemo because I want to keep using type ahead in the local folder. I still get Nautilus in the file dialogs and tracker in the full screen modal opened by the super key (is it the dash?)

Baloo, no idea what it is.

Overall 19.10 it's faster than 16.04 on the same laptop. It's 3 years of work and a clean install (dual booting for now, two different SSDs.)
WebSockets vs. Server-Sent Events
I don't normally try non-LTS, I decided to give 19.10 a go, and I noticed the performance boost. What was a real pleasant surprise was that my NVidia GPU drivers were automatically installed, something I've always had to do myself before.
Disclaimer: I do not submit this link because I believe and agree with everything it says; that is, I do not see it as absolute truth.

Rather, I submit this link as a viewpoint, which if properly understood and considered, can lead to more thoughtful, more circumspect, software engineering as a result of that consideration...

It is well worth reading if one wishes to consider all diverse viewpoints in their own software engineering pursuits...
They say if you whip the data hard enough, they will confess to anything.
Very cool. I'd like to see a horse vs human ultramarathon, more like the 24 hour time the parent suggested. I was surprised human and horse competitors were so close at that distance!
My main work machine runs i3 with KDE. I'd avoided kde in the early 2000s because it seemed clunky at the time. Then used Macs for a while before switching back to linux. KDE plasma is great.
>This is why school choice is a key social justice issue of our time

And it's one I have the least hope to see changed, for exactly this reason:

>a ton of parents in Baltimore would love to send their kids to Montgomery County schools, but can’t afford $700k+ for a starter home.

Changing things would require middle/upper-middle class voters to destroy the very thing responsible for half the value of their biggest asset. It's a self-reinforcing problem.
You answered your own question with your previous objections you know. You complained about the supposed lack of capacity factor - now you complain about the distance of the preorder? Well that shows the utility of the preorder with lower production capacity, doesn't it?

A $100 deposit is large enough that people wouldn't feel overtly locked in while confirming a rough number for scaling. As opposed to other "probably want it" who decide not to preorder for $1000.

The function is mostly marketting in the "business intelligence" sense and the assumption that preorder fall throughs would be matched by non-preorder purchase demand is reasonable for anything which isn't a massive stinker.
If the "hand-drawn diagram" look appeals to you and you're a Visio user, you can get this look in Visio 2016. Design tab > Themes > Hand-drawn.
It's not intellect, it's the capacity to explore the board. Go can be fun still to practice and exercise the mind, its just not sensible to dedicate your life to find novelty in it. That is what hardest, not the power of Alpha, but its capacity to innovate better than humans.
Model 3 was a $1000 deposit. They dropped it to $100 for the Cybertruck despite it being more expensive.

So they expect to convert fewer people than the Model 3. Likely far fewer.

So if Elon knows few people will convert then why call it a "pre order" and why does he keep announcing the numbers on Twitter every few hours?

Either way despite the frothy market investors don't appear to be biting at the preorder numbers anyway, but the whole preorder song and dance feels like the world's biggest Kickstarter whose main function is raising a bunch of interest free loans.
"Your password is too similar to one of your previous 24 passwords" -- an actual error message I've gotten before.
Corbyn reveals secret documents that “confirm Tory plot to sell off NHS”
Ask HN: Loyalty to Company, Loyalty to Employees
I work at a company which has a history of capricious-seeming firings / layoffs / terminations. Recently, an entire business unit was closed down without warning; where the board demanded "drastic" action and a single executive determined what that would mean. Multiple highly valued people who straddled the line between that business unit and the rest of the company have quit because of the new roles they were given. Morale has fallen across the company, and deadlines have been slipping.

Our executive castigated a large group, complaining that we aren't so dedicated to the company as to skip our December vacations just to meet arbitrarily-chosen deadlines. Which makes me wonder. The company is clearly not dedicated to its people. Why should we be dedicated to the company? That's a rhetorical question, and what I really wonder is, how can we get through to this executive before he chases away the few remaining skilled employees?
Well so are you. None of you exists from ten years ago. Are you still you?
I've gone back and forth between thinking of switching to KDE Plasma and sticking with gnome. Moving DEs comes with a significant time commitment and my old experiences with KDE were just too jarring.
Ex-FAANG here. Specifically about 'what the problem is'...Quite often people work to support their lives--in the sense of food on the table/retirement and in the sense of having space and money for intellectual or passion pursuits. You seem to have the food-on-table thing figured out. Do you have an actual fulfilling life outside work that helps create meaning to your work? This meaning may even be "I love work", but feedback loops giving meaning to what we do are key to feeling fulfilled.

What I can tell you is that people more successfully attempt to understand the nature of their crisis _after_ they get out, because the daily grind occupies most of their brain and life. If you can figure out _before_ leaving, however, you can use a few months of work time to appropriately gear yourself to a new endeavour. This may mean leaving your FAANG or changing jobs within it.

Other things to consider: shorter work week, sabbatical, work rotation, shoot the sh*t with an EAP therapist if your FAANG offers HIPAA-compliant services or your own outside person, make your side coding project a new company (your FAANG may have policies about that though).
Brutal truth, that's also assuming 100% success rate. Lots of brains turn out to be shitty brains after 15+ years too...
> There is also the possible issue of rapid exit when electrics are dead.

This is not an issue with Tesla design, all of that is handled by a traditional car battery that every car has, not the main battery. Those batteries are completely separate and in different parts of the car, I think specifically because of this safety issue.
Mozilla knows their products are falling behind and will probably continue to do so as long as they maintain their current trajectory. The only other strategy is to compete via PR.
How to make sure your business computers are in good conditions (techbizztip)
Well there are many people in the world who can compose like Mozart. I recall a college professor remarking that he's one of the top 5 "Mozart composers" in the works.

Of course, for a music academic, copying someone's style like this war pointless and his compositions were more modern/contemporary.

This leads us to a useful distinction between pursuits with one end goal (be the best/strongest/fastest), and those with naturally many endpoints and expressions.
It is a growing threat when that reach starts extending outside their boarders.
Can you add a bit more detail why you did not like the start up?
I’m impressed with this system, but I’m even more impressed with the author’s writing style. I’d love to see more technical posts written with this level of clarity.
That's true, but "IT" can still be paid pretty well. It's sort of like being a SRE at a FAANG. They won't respect you, but they need you anyway. Someone has to clean up the messes devs make. :-)
It's not small change, but when it is ~10% of the claimed figure I think "only" is the proper adjective.

It's what upsets me about these sorts of papers- "civilian" climate change skeptics/deniers point to them as evidence of the dishonesty of consensus community. They are able to take away the wrong message- that consensus community is stretching and manipulating the data, rather than there are $300-600B of subsidies for fossil fuels out there.
You do realize that with 2 floats to store the position of a star on a sphere, that's like 8 MB per million of star?
With compression you can almost certainly get away with something like 2 bytes per stars.

And an other solution is to simply store a bitmap of the sphere around earth.