skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be smart for all professional people to not allow themselves to be managed by outsiders, top down or otherwise.

The current intellectual climate at today's US universities is one of near total ideological "purity"--the kind of purity Adolf Hitler and Stalin would be proud of, mind you.

I understand how academic people allowed it to happen. It has to do with being poor but proud. Collectivism is like a drug to these kinds of people because they just want to enjoy their research, live in a bubble, have no profit motive, and generally get along in life attempting to not offend others. They extrapolate that lifestyle like a template for all. After all, it works for them, why would anyone disagree? They crave consensus. Those who don't go along are cast out, but usually "gently" and with as little conflict as possible. Never mind that some of those cast out are destroyed by it, that isn't the concern of these elite minds. They judge who is unworthy.

Honestly, if you can't change a flat tire on your car yourself, how smart are you really?
I'm well aware of history. But constitutional checks and balances falling apart, or NATO losing credibility, or Britain retreating, are not things to "stop worrying about". To the contrary, they're everything to worry about.

You're implying that it's more important who rules ("the next group") rather than which institutions constrain them. I would suggest that this is deeply misguided. Institutions are what we have to protect us. Worrying about them is incredibly important, because they're what determines who the next group will be.
Seems just as likely that sicker patients tend to take more supplements.
I guess games are doing this or at least something similar with the DLC packs. You buy the game once, keep paying for the new variants(?) and specials. And you get bug fixes for these for free.
By providing a quality service wrapped in a layer of sleaze they get both the savvy self interested and the gullible markets at the cost of the ethically conscious one.

I'd make that play in a heartbeat.
Except we're not witnessing that rebalancing of power. I don't know where you would even get that hope from. There are literally zero signs of any rebalancing currently. The Senate claiming to conduct a sham trial is a new low, not a pendulum swinging back.
Programming will never be 'liberated' from the von Neumann style because the most successful programs will always be written in that style.

That's like asking if dentistry can be liberated from the toothbrush because we have dental floss.
Applications like Pixelmator are likely depending on the growing userbase of the Apple ecosystem for their own growth. Should they ever see that growth stall out, expect them to move to subscriptions as well. Also, they have 'disabled' their (pre-app store) apps at least once in the past: I got the original Pixelmator as part of one of the old 'good forever' Humble Bundles and it stopped functioning when they (i.e. Pixelmator) turned off their old license validation server.

That's not to pick on them exclusively: everyone who wants to make a living writing software needs a recurring revenue stream. Even open source developers are starting to get tired of leeches (though it's more on the corporate side in that situation. But barring corporate sponsorship, the revenue is going to have to come from somewhere...)
The workers chose to work there and chose to kill themselves.

Do we not expect people to have agency anymore?
Here are some HN discussions on commit messages:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18663032

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19704486

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21835874

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13491879
Peter Attia talks about this indirectly, where he’s been to some chemo floors and observed patients taking “healthy” drinks and supplements that are mixed as a milkshake of sugar and carbs.

Problem is a number of the cancer cells can only live on glucose. The other pathways for energy are broken/nonexistent, and so consumption of sugary drinks directly feeds fuel to these type of cells.

Strange how the field hasn’t connected the dots yet.

1. Prove the cancer cells of X type can only feed on glucose

2. If so, don’t ingest glucose.

Radical science here folks
I'm still not sure how a state law in California can be used against a business in another state.

Many sanctuary cities in California are violating federal immigration laws with impunity...so they are going to have a hell of a time enforcing their own state laws across state lines.
This is not to take anything away from the level of pettiness from Cerberus in the way they're handling it but there’s a couple of ways that this happens with companies:

1. Severe miscalculation where the costs of lifetime users become significant. This speaks to a business problem, that you have dedicated users but only at a skewed low cost.

2. It becomes a political thing that new leaders can use to “make a statement”. This happens when a lifetime tier doesn’t really cost anything at the end of the day, but killing it sends internal messages about thriftiness or just general statements that it’s a new day.

3. Preceding a downsizing of a business that has fixed costs, like x number of human beings need to support y number of users. Chasing away users to reduce y so you can reduce x as well, and getting the lower paid users out is where you want to bleed userbase.

All of that said — these are all functions of poorly conceived lifetime plans. Lifetime plans where the rest of your model is based on monthly recurring revenue should be treated for what they are, which is marketing. Don’t run them for long periods of time, cap them at a reasonable number of users for the spend, etc. And then if you screw that up, whatever you do as a correction, don’t blame the users and be very upfront.
One of Amazon’s first employees says the company should be broken up
Resources are a choice. Nobody ever did a cost-benefit assessment for the trillion dollars of Iraq war.

(Arguably the space programme worked as a proxy war with the Soviet Union; America didn't want to let the Russians ""invade"" the moon first.)
We have some dataflow jobs written in Kotlin (we blogged about that in June 2018[1]). We also have an internal service written in Kotlin.

We ideally want one language. But Apache Beam (which is behind Google Dataflow) doesn't yet have production support for Go. More importantly, though, we have no time pressure on switching the Kotlin code over, so that's a long way out.

[1]: https://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/kotlin-adoption.ht...
Those are exceedingly unlikely to 1) create variances over time or 2) company-specific clusters.

The broader concept is itself well-addressed in Durkheim's book in terms of regional and cultural variances in base rates.
> a lot of homeless people navigate to California from elsewhere

That’s a common misconception. According to this study [0] 70% of people who were homeless in SF in 2019 lived in the city before they became homeless.

[0] http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/FINAL-PIT-Report-201...
I'm guessing their tactics aren't _technically_ illegal, hence their quote:

>'ultimately Booking believes in clear legislation and standards that apply to everyone in the industry'
Thanks - I hadn’t come across the exclusion ranges in postgresql before - I’d need to take a look at how it works in practice.
That does sound pretty similar (though our services all have the luxury of serving nothing other than GraphQL!).

Our current plan for local development is to continue cloning the monorepo and firing up all of the services. Go services don't take a whole lot of resources, so we think this plan will work fine for quite a while.
Devon Tread 1 Steampunk Watch (2012) [video]
I truly wish Gene Roddenberry could be alive today to see how far we have come.
The lasers aren't generating the sound waves per se, your body is. The laser heats up your body, causing things to expand, then the laser is turned off, causing things to contract. It's the expanding and contracting of your body that is creating the sound waves. These sound waves are then detected by something stuck to your body that converts the wave into an electrical signal.

This is different than ultrasound, which generates its own sound waves that are then reflected by the body back to the device.

It's novel, but it doesn't solve the problem of being "non-invasive"; you still need a sensor stuck to the body to pick up the sound waves.
I think it's obvious that lifetime subscriptions probably shouldn't exist if the app requires a server side component. Unless the company treats this like early investment and honours it.

What really annoys me is when a company converts an offline app to subscription, like Ulysses. That was super annoying. At $40/y it's a complete ripoff for just an offline note taking app.

It's also annoying when a company doesn't need a server-side component and adds it anyway (like 1Password - possibly to justify the higher price or subscription). I much prefer enpass which just uses your own Dropbox or Google Drive.
Interesting addition of Conan support right into GitLab.

> For any development organization, having an easy and secure way to manage dependencies is critical. Package management tools, such as Conan for C/C++ developers, provide a standardized way to share and version control these libraries across projects.

> In GitLab 12.6, we are proud to offer Conan repositories built directly into GitLab. Developers can now publish their packaged libraries to their project’s Conan repository. Simply set the Conan remote to the GitLab Package Registry and start uploading, installing, and deleting packages today.
Thank you! MBSR is typically done in a group so to loop in some social aspect would be a solid feature but nothing planned atm, thanks for the feedback.
Another news show you may want to check out is Democracy Now. I always watch or listen to the first ~10 minutes, where they do headlines.
Really? How? I learned LISP back in college, enjoyed programming in it and got into Clojure for a bit around 2014.

But there's no jobs doing it, so other than having a bit better understanding of Functional Programming, there's not much there.

I think the problem is the quality of the average software developer is pretty pathetic right now. Not only can most of them not understand FP, they have never even heard of LISP.
Are you saying school is an adequate substitute for a father?
You could make a PR, it looks like the language doesn’t have environment variable access!
This reminds me of Von Neumann's quote "Young man, in mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them".

I agree completely with the author's point – beyond a few innate skills that we are born with, what we consider "intuitive" is really just familiarity.
That will be added when they do a unit testing framework
I've made around 50 reservations in last couple of years through them and I really like it for the uniform experience across chains, cities and countries. They've been helpful and I've never run and into actual problems. I also probably ignore their dark patterns subconsciously.. I dont have proper incentives to try other platforms, agoda, trivago etc. seem worse (without trying).
It's using a laser to read the reflections contact-free.

>The researchers tested this idea with a laser setup, using one pulsed laser set at 1,550 nanometers to generate sound waves, and a second continuous laser, tuned to the same wavelength, to remotely detect reflected sound waves.
Thanks for answering! That was the specific article I remember reading.
I wrote something similar years ago in Go, and settled on writing the data to a WARC file on disk (you can gzip the individual requests and concatenate to get random access), and also concatenating to a warc index file. The working index was kept in memory, while the warc index was read at startup.

My version acted as a proxy and would serve the latest entry from cache if a copy was cached. I had a special X-Skip-Cache header for when I wanted to go around the cache. (I can't remember if it handled https or if sites just didn't use https back then.)

My use-case was web scraping, particularly recipe and blog sites. I wanted to be able to develop my scraping code without re-hitting the sites all the time. Structuring it as a proxy allowed me to just write my python scraping code as if I was talking to the server.

Previously I'd written a layer on top of the python requests library to consult a cache stored in a directory (raw dumps of content / headers, with v2 involving git). But I found that required extra care when more than one script was running at once, and I liked the idea of storing it in a standardized format (WARC) that could be manipulated by other tools.
Depends on your goals.

If your only concern is investor return then banking regs are pointless, it’s no different than the privacy laws impeding Facebook and Google. Fuck over the consumer, fuck over the public.

I’ve worked at a very large financial institution, I helped to start their credit card division, I helped to start their banking division, and I’ve been recruited to a number of “innovative” fintech startups. The only “innovation” I ever saw was how they interpreted regulations so they could exploit their customers and transfer the firm’s financial risk in the short term so that the principles could make as much money as possible in the shortest amount of time.
Beautiful! A really important article about how we’re about to start mining these regions on an unprecedented scale: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/01/20000-f...
Demystifying BERT: A Comprehensive Guide to the Groundbreaking NLP Framework
That's a very bad way of justifying killing 150k people every single day. But anyway here's a good response to your concern: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20094281
Christ this community is pedantic, its a joke!
Not that Q. The Q that is part of KDB. See https://code.kx.com/q4m3/ for the manual.
Because higher-ups are incentivized to show metrics improve and get their bonus, and so called new data-driven business culture has a bias to measure whats is easy to measure, but not necessarily what’s important.

E.g. we cut 50% of the cost of training this year vs. we improved the training and pilots are more efficient.
Or a spreadsheet.
Your comment isn't relevant to this article. The study was about vitamins and antioxidants, not carbohydrates.
Does "I'll be back" equate to a do-while loop? :)
I think Otto Warburg might have beaten you to it
Huawei can’t explain how it is regulated?
"Wood pellets are the most common type of pellet fuel and are generally made from compacted sawdust and related industrial wastes from the milling of lumber, manufacture of wood products and furniture, and construction. Other industrial waste sources include empty fruit bunches, palm kernel shells, coconut shells, and tree tops and branches discarded during logging operations."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellet_fuel?wprov=sfla1

Interesting. I wonder how much power is available from that.
I've been automated out of a software development job before..
> I wonder how much of this is a direct result of the massive regulation around the banking industry.

How much of what? Regulations aren't forcing pseudobanks to repackage shitty loans, nor are they causing massive overvaluation.
Ghosts of the Future
Very strange commit message format... they all seem too formal with capitalization and periods, yet are frustratingly ambiguous many times (e.g. "Sources.")
Do you work in oncology or medicine?
This is really important.
Fata Morgana: The Strange Mirages at Sea
At least in my few months in fintech I would say yeah thats what it felt like. Some of it was overkill and there were vendors with awful APIs so of course we were the make up for their pig APIs as well.
The Independent is simply rehashing an article in New York Magazine: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/tic-tac-ufo-video-q-a...

Would be better to link to the source, surely?
I thought "NASA will have a spec for this", and sure enough a bit of Googling finds this from 1973: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/197300... which references "Teledyne 422" relays. That is https://www.teledynerelays.com/Datasheets/420422.pdf , which claims 30g at 3000Hz. Apparently by using strong fields over short distances.

(The first PDF is worth scrolling to the end for a full set of neat hand-drawn mechanical and circuit diagrams. No CAD back then!)
I keep wondering about this. In your mother's era, surely there were "hucksters" or snake-oil salesmen. But now, it seems like almost everyone (on the Internet) is one. Why?

Is it the only way to succeed? Or profit >> reputation? Or the faceless-ness of online selling? Or the global economy?

What fundamentally changed since, say, 1980?
Do you have evidence beyond indirect second hand anecdotes that might support your hypothesis?
What I meant by "the whole org is on board" isn't that there weren't other opinions. There have been multiple opinions on almost every decision we make (and we have an open process and document our decisions in a style very much like this one[1]). In the end, it's not about "shooting down" alternatives, since that's loaded language. It's about making what we think is the best choice we can with the information available to us.

Even in this thread, there's a chorus of voices sounding caution based on their limited information of what our situation looks like, but there are others who see why we're doing this, based on the same limited information.

We absolutely do know the risks of this project, which is why we're doing this as incrementally as possible.

[1]: http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/2011/11/15/documenting-archit...
Here's an explanation by a rating company about their headphone comfort scoring: https://www.rtings.com/headphones/tests/design/comfort

It seems the padding matters a lot more than the weight, but lighter headphones need less padding, so for a given price point the lighter headphones are more likely to be comfortable.
So wordy they must have name it CONAN.
I was thinking the same thing! Great book, highly recommend
Kokainum!

should generate exception, I would guess
> go look at a hotel in the middle of nothing in the most off-peak season, and it will still tell you that several rooms have been booked in the last few days

I live in the middle of nowhere where all mostly empty hotels are listed as at least 50% booked because hotel owners mark rooms as booked themselves to not look empty.. it's not all booking.com's fault.
Paper (Open Access): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-019-0229-8
Oh I must have misread, I got hung up on their description of the previous iteration of this technology, where they needed transducers stuck to the body to detect the sound waves.
If it's the sheer number you care about, not the proportion, then the problem is clear: Human reproduction. Eliminate that, and the sheer number of incidents of oppression and suffering will go down.
On the contrary, without legal intervention the market collapses into everyone lying all of the time. The famous economics paper on this is Akerloff's "Market For Lemons".
IBM charged, yes, but UNIX shipped with online manpages (printed out in full as a bindered reference in the terminal labs at my uni), which documented not only userland commands, but system calls, library functions, device drivers, games!, file formats, and other information.

Access to Unix, a remote (shared) compute resource (sit down at any terminal and log in), "write" and "talk" (after the first three-digit phone bill on a long-distance relationship), FTP sites, Usenet, and the online computerised library catalogue (backed by a paper resource rather than webpages) was a 10-20 year future timewarp for me in the mid-1980s. Little of this was accessible to anyone outside a limited (though at the time fairly substantial) number of universities and a handful of tech companies and government offices, nor would it be for another decade or more for the most part.

In terms of online access to published information, it's only been the emergence of Sci-Hub and Library Genesis, in the past 5 years or so, that's matched the earlier access I'd had. Access, I'll note, which I didn't make up for by paying academic-publishing highway-robbery rates, but simply went without (or satisficed with very occasional author-dropped copies on academic homepages).

Quality of documentation has of course varied. But the tradition of freely-available online information does date to the 1970s, and was very well established by the 1980s.
There is a workaround if you use IAPs for the upgrade rather than pre-download purchase, although you have to release the new version as its own product, not as a simple version bump of the existing app. The newer version can check whether the older version is installed and offer different purchase options.

Apple introduced app bundles a few years ago, and those can now be used, with the same caveat of putting up the new version as its own app. In this case the App Store itself can do the check for the original version and change the price of the bundle.

It's certainly not ideal, but it is possible. Pythonista and GoodNotes are two that I know of that have used each of these workarounds.
This study mentions antioxidants rather than glucose.
One of the best stories this year. Thanks for sharing
Pressure on FAA to approve its 737 Max jets backfires for Boeing
https://www.businessinsider.com/ray-dalio-ocean-exploration-...
I doubt it just because there would be so much noise.
Well, antioxidants prevent damage to cells, so while that's normally helpful, it directly works against things like Chemotherapy which are actively trying to kill cells.

If I understand correctly, it looks like this is just evidence corroborating the existing stance?
Given that this is mostly about our backend systems, we've got one big interface in front: our GraphQL schema.

Our system isn't perfect, but a couple of years ago we spent a good deal of effort detangling our monolith. This plan wouldn't have been an option had we not done that.
That's just a guess. I don't have a cat to test it with and I like my russet potatoes too much to try and flush one.
Stanford Law Course: Redesigning the Venezuelan Judiciary
Thanks for sharing.
What is the background of the author ? Not very clear from the /About page
What do they mean by a ratio of 0.7?
Bar-headed goose flies alongside its human foster parent
Bad title (lumping together all supplements) when they are specifically talking about antioxidant supplements.
This reply was downvoted, and I am a bit surprised:

I would expect that making a strong claim of naivete of an entire field of people dedicating their life to a problem (oncology) should be at least put in context of the commentator's expertise and evidence (see the other Metformin related comment).

I hope this is seen as a constructive comment: let's not abandon the respect for expertise.
> I think the question asked is rather important if we want to know where we should get to. Maybe it is not easy to answer - but then you can rather ask how do we know it is too rapidly now - and then really you can answer the question by saying we know if X happens it is too rapidly, so we can only use it at a rate below what would cause X to happen.

I don't think the question asked is important, because it's not even specific enough to be coherent. For starters, what is X? If X is "oil", the answer is a lot different from if X is "sunlight", and asking about "resources" as if that broad category is a coherent entity is not going to yield any useful information.

> Also, correct me if I'm wrong, global warming is not caused by the rate at which we are using natural resources but by the amount of CO2 we are putting in the atmosphere.

Well, yes. But they're related questions: consuming fossil fuels and meat produces a lot of our carbon emissions.
what about PRM: personal relationship manager