skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you give some examples?

My impression is that animal work is literally never the cheap or fast option. It's slow, it's labor-intensive, and it's expensive, while career incentives favor doing things that are quick and cheap.

It's certainly true that someone could have run a version of this study where patients with depression were "prescribed" different doses of caffeine and asked to fill out rating scales to quantify its effects on their symptoms. This experiment could reveal its effect on symptoms, the headline of this article, but it wouldn't suffice for understanding the pharmacological mechanisms (see Table 4). I don't think there are PET ligands available for any of those metabolites, and even if there were (and ignoring the animal work needed to develop them), injecting people with radioactive tracers also raises ethical questions.
whereas if you had any street smarts at all, hustle means

... Something relevant to street culture rather than middle-class culture?
Once you've finished Walden, don't miss the thrilling sequel, Walden II!
Yep, I was there earlier this year and I never had anyone offer to help me with directions, but that was probably because I never had a map, and was using my cellphone to get around, and never looked lost. It's so easy with a SIM card and Google Maps.

But when I had a problem using an automated bikeshare machine in Kanazawa, some guy and his girlfriend were more than helpful, even calling the bikeshare place on his phone to work out the problem.
Whenever something about social systems in the EU comes up it's just the other way around. Strange...
I can easily imagine a workplace where a perpetually drunk boss and stone-cold sober workers functions just fine, because the sober floor manager controls all the decisions that require judgment and restraint, and the drunk boss handles all the social networking and business development.

Wealthy people can hire people to do sober-required tasks for them, while they do the gladhanding and back-slapping and the strategic disinhibition of potential customers, suppliers, or partners.
What do you guys think -- Pay to post an article, on the blockchain.
>What this and the article is pointing towards, is that we need to get better at assessing when it's time to move from curative medicine to palliative care.

From personal experience, the healthcare system is also bad at determining when it's time to move from curative medicine to palliative care.

We need to get better at elderly healthcare in general.
Nowhere in OPs comment did he state, or even imply, that he got urine on his hands... The point he was making, which you seem to have missed entirely, is that he ISN'T in fact trying to wash away urine but rather any other nastiness he may have touched throughout the day.
They were also cashflow positive for a very long time. Indicating that they could become profitable, but chose not to so they could reinvest in the business. This is something that I don't think yet applies to Uber, as they are still subsidizing the service itself.
I should add that not all scholars of the humanities operate this way but that these individuals are becoming increasingly rare. The problem is ultimately economic and external.

For a long time, the academy used tenure as a means of shielding scholars from external economic pressure. Now, as the education arms race accelerates, more and more people are attempting to crowd their way into the academy. The epithet of “publish or perish” has become a mantra among the aspirants. Obscurantism is only one of many tools for separating the grain from the chaff.
> Total revenue was less than a couple million dollars.

I think you mean that the revenue of a 2 guy company was over a million dollars.
AR and VR Predictions for 2020
It's great. I was surprised by how well written it was, it was very easy to read and had some good insights.
Okay that is seriously bad. Looking at https://github.com/snapcrafters/discord/issues they have several unresolved issues like that, seems this is unmaintained.

Ubuntu needs to more clearly explain whether the app is confined, and force apps to use an API to change the system environment to allow rollback, multiple packages of the same function etc.
Zero reliance isn't currently feasible unless you're ok with constant outages. If you're connected to the grid you're using electricity from fossil fuel at some point.
But as others have pointed out, you're ignoring those of us in group A who like to talk about our kids, but also about films and hobbies and interests and all the other stuff you like.

I mean, look, it's possible your world is populated by a discernable "Group B" who "only" talk about kids and "never" hang out after work. But that's not a representative sample. Most of us parents have both lives and kids, and express both in our public lives.

I think if you look harder at your B subjects, you'd probably find that they do the same thing. I bet they talk about their new Teslas, and kitchen renovations, and vacations, and other stuff that you'd be presumptively interested in even as a single person. But because those are "family" activities I'm guessing you're lumping them in with the "kids" bucket and... maybe just refusing to engage a little?

Again, it doesn't make you a bad person to hate kids. But if you do, at least recognize that it is you that is doing the isolation here. Parents are more interesting than you might think.
I sometimes joke that the NIMH[0] is actually the National Institute for Mouse Health.

[0] Yes, like the rats! It's a real institute (National Institute for Mental Health).
Playing snake in Christmas tree where the apples are Christmas Balls
This is not shocking at all. Anyone surprised by it has not been paying much attention to Uber and or Kalanick over the past 18 months (I am not saying that's a BAD thing!).
Google and YouTube moderators speak out on the work that gave them PTSD
I read about 25 books this year, here are the top 10 I look forward to reading in 2020, many of them informed by my favorites of 2019:

Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari - I read Sapiens this year and really enjoyed it. I just started this today one so I may finish that before the end of the year.

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman - I like books that make me think and from what I've heard, this will definitely do the trick. I read Factfulness this year and this was a suggested follow-up.

The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker - I've gotten really into natural languages since I've lived outside my country of origin for the last 2 and a half years and I've heard good things about this book being an entry point into linguistics.

Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski - With the new Witcher show coming out on Netflix I finally went back and beat The Witcher 3 then read the first book, The Last Wish. It was enjoyable enough that I want to keep going with the series.

Educated by Tara Westover - Was convinced by Bill Gate's blog this is worthwhile. I'm a teacher so it wasn't hard to convince me.

Robot Builder's Bonanza by Gordon McComb - I've been asked to teach a robotics course next year and this one seems to be The Book everyone recommends to dive into robotics.

Divided by Partition: United by Resilience by Mallika Ahluwalia - I recently visited the Partition Museum in Amritsar, Punjab, India and purchased this book there to learn about more stories about people impacted by this event.

The Elements of Computing Systems by Noam Nisan and Shimon Shocken - I just read Code by Petzold and it was one of my favorite books. Even though I studied Computer Science in University and most of the concepts weren't new to me, it was such a fun experience mentally "building" a computer from relays/transistors to logic gates and up to assemblers, compilers, and interpreters. I want to keep going with this and jump into the Nand2Tetris online course.

The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold - Again, I loved Petzold's Code so I looked up other books he wrote and this one looks great. I've never actually read Turing's work so I'm excited to have some background and explanation to help me not just read the words but grasp their significance.

ZACH-LIKE by Zachtronics - I played through several Zachtronics games this year (TIS-100, Shenzhen I/O and Opus Magnum) so I can't wait to dive into some of the thinking behind creating these and similar games.
CERN Announces Schedule for the LHC and Its Successor
Hi the PRO version is $20(or $15 now), as it is a one time fee for a limited license, eg. 1/5/10. Meanwhile the education is $99/month as it gives you Unlimited Licence.
Yeah, Player of Games is the most detailed portrayal of the "the Culture" and everyday life in the Culture Series. Also interesting use of soft power to destroy another civilization.
My problem with "all time highs" and "biggest single day drop" is that, historically, this is true for every latest date. Of course it's an all time high; 2% growth year on year is compound growth on an ever larger pile of capital! Ditto for biggest single day drops, you can't compare raw number drops of a given index today with the 2001 or 2008, there are so many more bits of capital today than 10 years ago.

It is less the assumption that the market always goes up (eventually) and more the lack of mathematical comprehension.
What would be the only one reason for executives to buy?
I would too. I can spend money, I can't spend shares.
They did not publish publicly but did report their findings to the true crypt foundation so that it could be fixed (but they in return didn't agree that those were flaws worth thinking)
Intel Acquires Artificial Intelligence Chipmaker Habana Labs
Well, from the pure GAN theory perspective, it is theoretically possible for a perfect generator to exist which generates samples that perfectly match the 'source data distribution' (the only question is how do we obtain one or close to it), and thus a perfect discriminator can't exist - a fake image could be realistic and indistinguishable in all aspects.

And it does seem that the human-visible weaknesses of many currently published deepfake examples are those that would be hard for the current discriminator architectures to detect, not those which would be harder to generate than any other part of the fake.
AI for standard machine learning is definitely widely used in most industries
Philosophical errors impede freedom (1999) [pdf]
Uber has positive unit economics.

Uber gets ~20% of what you spend on a ride and their per-unit expenses are basically moving a few bits around and having someone in a Filipino call center present to provide customer support.
Ah i see. Ok, will consider changing the example soon. But if you are using the plugin, you could cuztomize everything (fonts/background/width/colors etc.), and also you could turn the date, author and original url on/off.
They think the stock will go up.
Dune is great. Really great, especially the first part. While many books get a lot of praise/hype, Dune is one of the few that lives up to expectations.
Key insight: Apple event IPC is not OOP, it is RPC + simple first-class queries. It is far more closely related to SQL and relational databases than to DOM.

Unfortunately, programmers look at AppleScript syntax, which is superficially OO-like, and assume it is OOP. Which causes huge confusion and frustration when it behaves in completely non-OO ways.

The confusion is confounded by AppleScript’s fondness for “magical” behaviors—including overloading native language operators and automatically dispatching remote calls (aka “implicit gets”) without obvious rhyme or reason—plus enough syntactic sugar to rot anyone’s brain to mush.

Ironically, non-programmers don’t struggle nearly so much because they are operating on simple ignorance rather than outright misunderstanding, so they accept what it’s doing on face value, rather than trying to map everything they see onto completely the wrong mental model and getting utterly honked that prediction and observation refuse to match up.

In fact there are hard rules behind all of AS’s behavior, but they are utterly opaque and never adequately explained anywhere, so are largely indistinguishable from “What the F* is Going On?”. Hell, I rewrote most of the early chapters for the last edition of Apress’s AppleScript book, and even I bottled it as “too hard to explain to anyone else”.

..

Things might’ve turned out differently had AppleScript’s original designers not quit in disgust at Apple [mis]management shortly after AppleScript 1.1 went out, but when they walked out much of the expert insight and knowledge went with them, not to mention the ability to fix it once users’ feedback was pointing all its flaws out. But “coulda, woulda, shoulda” is the Mac Automation story throughout (my own failed contributions included).

Dr William Cook’s paper on the early history of AppleScript and its design and ambitions is well worth a read:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/Drafts/2006/ashopl.pdf
Wait until you hear about this other even more potent solvent that humans are practically marinating in!
What Is My Data Worth?
Show HN: I'm building a robot that performs haircuts [video]
I'm not quite sure why, but I love relay logic. I think it's because it's kind of a manifestation of the underlying logic in a very physical way. Like, we use switches as an analogy for transistor, and they're literally switches.

I don't know why, I just love them to bits.
Seems to happen pretty regularly! The “More on this story” links below the article list two other similar incidents, in November 2019 and September 2017.
Sleeping Brain Waves Draw a Healthy Bath for Neurons
Writing a Go Interpreter

Writing a Go Compiler

No One Cares about Crazy People

I Heard You Paint Houses

UNIX: A History and a Memoir

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

How Asia Works

The Dream Machine

Black Earth

The Fabric of Reality

Behave (tried twice, maybe third times a charm?)

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Genius: The Life and Science Richard Feynman

Super Thinking

Man's Search for Meaning

The Cooking Gene

The Vital Question: Why is Life The Way it Is (re-read)

The Case Against Sugar

The 15 Decisive Battles of the World

The History of the Peloponnesian War

The Beginning of Infinity

The Book of Why
Minimum Viable Practice: A starter pack for optimum health and longevity
There's not a whole lot of evidence for an impending recession.
"why not AppleScript?!"

Rhetorical, shurely!?
Wet Bias
It mostly saves time for washing clothes.

Changing clothes weekly was societal norm before washing machines became common. With washing machines Jevons paradox takes effect - instead of just accepting more free personal time with less time taken by washing clothes, we ramped up societal expectations for clean clothes.
Validating “Sign in with Apple” Authorization Code
Excessive air freshener use can’t be healthy even if it doesn’t “blow up”. Inhaling all that propellant and volatile compounds.
I strongly prefer a good old coffee pot to some ridiculous espresso making contraption. Most of the machines you refer to (so far as I'm aware) won't do "big ol' cuppa joe" but you can get about 3 watered down "large" espressos if you want (I don't recommend it).

Lately I just use a French press.
Age to purchase all tobacco products, including e-cigs, to be raised to 21
I've been hearing about this impending recession for the better part of a decade now, is this just something people repeat so that when there is an inevitable downturn they can say "look I was right!"?
I'm going to suggest some alternate translations for some of these where it really matters.

Virgil's Aeneid, the best I know if is CS Lewis's partial translation. I'm unaware of a complete translation that has any of the magic of the original.

Dante's Divine Comedy, read the Clive James translation. This is the first one that captures some of the luminous quality of the Tuscan.

Beowulf, get Seamus Heaney's translation.

I don't read Spanish and cannot offer any insights on Cervantes, but maybe someone else can chime in. Likewise, do some research on translations of the Buddhist writings in volume 45.

One volume a week of this material is steep. A lot of this has its own pace and forcing your way through it faster loses the reason to bother. Milton's Paradise Lost, for example, is an awesome poem, but it implies a cadence, and it's a much slower cadence than modern readers are used to for nontechnical prose.
5 packs is a 100 cigarettes. About one cigarette every 10 minutes if you account for 8 hours of sleep. I have seen some obsessive smokers, people who smoke 2-3 packs a day, but I have never seen a 5 pack a day person or anywhere even close.
Just use Emacs with evil mode, much better editing experience and you have all these features already. For ones you don't, just code it up in a few functions.
Oh, I'm on "Y Combinator", eh?

Look sonny, I've been on HN since 2008. I guarantee you that people in the early days would have been nice about this topic.

My options here are to sit quietly and let people take turns kicking me in the stomach merely for asking a question, or to exit the conversation. I'll do the latter.

Have a good week.
Both. Companies are certainly building bigger and bigger clusters for training.

At the same time though, consumer GPUs have gotten significantly faster (compare e.g. an Nvidia 2080TI to a 980TI), and learning algorithms keep improving / better learning algorithms become more widely used (e.g. Adam instead of stochastic gradient descent).
My comment was an invite to monetize, regardless of the motivations he could have, right now.
Interesting but note the article is from 2016.
That reminds me of the local bus/train commuting service. When you searched for a trip in their app, they'd put red warning triangles on delayed departures. Delayed departures are so common here that they eventually started using green warning triangles, to signal that the bus would (probably) be on time.
Actually it’s quite analogous.

When nanotech became a hot concept, the goal posts were moved so that companies could claim they were nanotech companies even though they were using pretty basic chemistry. No nanobots required.

And now we’re seeing a lot of statistics being rebranded as AI because the latter attracts investors and journalists.
BBC isn't a tabloid but it's also not particularly high quality either, especially the output of the BBC Worldwide service (BBC.com) which has different editorial guidelines.
I love this and I will try to make our product, yazz Pilot abide by these principles
They make nuclear fuel :)
I've made that and its why I know beer was safer in times past. Probably still is in a lot of places.
Principles - Ray Dalio
Jay Z: Made in America - Michael Eric Dysson
The Design of Web APIs - Arnaud Lauret
Right, but if I were to make baseballs and use their trademark to brand the balls, or start a league named after the trademark...

Just using their bats with their name visible isn't the problem, of course.
I'd say if the goal is to maximize engineering knowledge, less might be more. Especially if you don't plan to apply it on a day to day basis as an engineer.

For example, I'm currently reading Clean Architecture by Martin that is on your list. While the words on the pages are not hard to understand and it doesn't rely on any advanced computer science/engineering concepts, actually comprehending the posed principles, their implications, how to reason about them and how to pull them off well in a real world scenario is absolutely non-trivial.

I have met many people in tech that devoured douzends of books and conference talks, hundreds of podcast, blog posts, articles and that were an endless source of catchy quotes found in them. But they weren't able to actually apply all this "knowledge" to anything beyond the most basic. And in cases where these people where in leadership/management positions this often had negative impact on the project/product.

To finish with a catchy quote from Clean Architecture:

"The more haste, the less speed."
Yes you are right. It is one of the few news source still trying to be as independent as possible. This despite being paid for by the Government.
Exercise is stressful for the body too, but that doesn't mean it's bad for you.

(I'm not equating these two)
It is very lethal. I don't want to overstate the facts but it's present in over 70% of all people who have died.

https://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
Sure, but in that case most current films would never have been made... or at least I got that distinct impression from MPAA.
these notes are typeset using mathematica. does anyone have a guide for typesetting mathematica notebooks this way? they're the best example of using mathematica to typeset i've ever seen
There are realms of wealth. Even 100m is not enough to comfortably afford a private jet. Several ultra wealthy like Bill Gates diversified a billion dollars from their company which seems to be about the limit where more money mostly becomes an abstraction.

One example is people who actually own mansions generally live in a relatively small space inside. You can only really use one room at a time and walking around takes time.
It's unreadable to you.

The whole book is a play with other philophical concepts (from Marx and Hegel among others) which are most of the time not explicitly quoted, with a lot of détournements on top of it.

As for the importance (or not) of the situationist movement (their members refuted the term situationist) it needs to be recontextualized with its time and the place it took in the art and politic to judge if it is just a hack, as you assume.
I don't agree with this logic: you can be confident but prudent. Self-confidence leads to bias, I wouldn't consider it a bad sign that the co-founder stays prudent.

However, going from 75% to 20% means that something changed, and that's not a good sign
> For ones you don't, just code it up in a few functions.

why waste that time instead of using vim?
> Methamphetamines were used legally long time before they became illegal

Methamphetamine was invented in 20th century. So "long time" is a few decades max.
Isn't Veracrypt just a container, like a hard disk? Why should Veracrypt care about what filesystem you store inside of a container, and whatever you do with its permissions?
This kind of "gaming" (ha!) the system has been around for a while now - another channel (Internet Comment Ettiquette) had a video called the "Copyright Claim Olympics" which featured a whole bunch of different types of content from many different copyright holders (olympic footage, movie footage, music videos, distorted audio/video, etc. etc. even mixed and dubbed over each other in order to make it even more difficult for content ID) to the tune of "if I can't have my ad revenue for my other videos that were clearly fair use/parody, nobody can have any ad revenue, fuck you Youtube content ID claim abusers!"

Unfortunately it was taken down (probably 20+ copyright holders complaining about a single video forced Youtube to do something about it) but can still be found on Vimeo with a simple Google search.
The title of this submission, reminds me of certain animal, which is very unknown, said animal has a shell, better check it out yourself, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle
Uses of Reflect with Object Properties JavaScript ES6
I'm not one to reread books, but I have read that one three times. My father recommended it to me when I was young and I have treasured it ever since. Be sure to read the author's Afterward, which is available online.
Would be great if cloud providers added how much energy a service/server/etc is consuming and where that energy comes from in the dashboard.
Some people do overcorrect and push back on any claim that something could be unique or interesting about Japan. But I think it’s right to maintain intense skepticism of anyone saying “oh, this Japanese term is very deep and complex, learning about it will explain so much”. Psychology professors are good at drawing lines between behavior, but would the average Japanese person actually identify Jerry Seinfeld using someone else’s refrigerator as amae?