skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, there's lots of trial and error. But consider something like Universal Sentence Encoders (USE) versus facebooks InferSent. USE is superior, mostly because its new, but still under performs infersent in a few areas. This is the kind of thing where actually building a more specialized model for question answering or textual similarity could see huge performance boosts for companies, but nobody is doing it. If they are, its under lock and key. Anyone looking to perform these tasks is mostly just pulling the code, tweaking the data, messing with the heads of the networks, and then calling it a day.

EDIT:

copying and pasting this from another answer:

I think its way different than that, those would just be precursors, and in cases like real analysis, superfluous. Instead it would look something like, I have a Universal Sentence Encoder architecture, but its not performing well on my data, aside from tweaking the training set, how can I take this architecture and change it to work better with my individual problem? The number of people on the planet that can do this successfully, without wasting months of time messing around with tensorflow is extremely small. But this is where the value is. These massive catch all models only work for the people creating them, just jamming them into any NLP model will always produce sub par and probably unusable results
> Target based metrics, be it budget targets or output targets, are too fragile to be useful in my opinion.

The reported target in the 737 MAX case was that Boeing had promised Southwest a $1 million penalty per plane if retraining was required.

So both Boeing and Southwest created a perverse incentive to make the plane less safe. One or two airline accidents can close an airline, so I guarantee nobody at Southwest really wanted to make that deal in retrospect.

Although Southwest didn't have any 737 MAX accidents and they paid for the deluxe MCAS instrument package, they were horrified to find out that what was delivered, what it was supposed to do, and what was documented were 3 different things.

Source: commercially-rated pilot, followed MCAS fiasco daily. Search for "simulators" in the following link:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2019/03/28/did-airbu...
How does chemo brain affected your software engineering job?
Hello HN, I've been recently diagnosed with blood cancer lymphoma left me wondering if I'll ever be able to do my software engineering job like usual or the effect of chemo on my brain will be an obstacle.

Any cancer survivors that can share their experience of going back to work post chemo?
That's a good point, but it assumes the only audience for this conversation is developers already emotionally attached to C, which I don't think is true.
I usually am skeptical of redesigns that look like this because it typically signals that literally hundreds of 1MB JS dependencies are to be downloaded to display simple text.

The new pubmed, much like the old pubmed, is speedy! Pages are ~800kb on first visit, subsequent pages visits avg 30kb transferred data in my very unscientific tests.

Congratulations on making a great resource greater :)
stop tinkering emacs and vim and instead do some actual coding
No, but it does mean that as a parent, if (in this canned example) you are paying $18k/year- while the number initially sounds crazy- nearly all of it is going directly to caretaker compensation, not bloat & largess.
Well, if you think that showing many many examples of democratic governments wronging individuals and then not being held accountable for those wrongs (including many examples of long-standing systematic wrongs, not just one-off extreme cases) is NOT sufficient evidence for the claim “democratic governments are not accountable to you,” then I don’t know what evidence would satisfy you.
I don't know a canonical answer to your question, but one possible idea that comes to mind is making a simple "coming soon" landing page (and domain) with the stereotypical email address box on it, and an extra field to let people say what they'd do with it. Thus you could crowdfund an answer to this question for just the costs of hosting (and the time taken to put the page together).
"Also, there are no community-entered foods. This is a feature in most cases."

For me this is the only thing keeping me on MFP (also I don't live in the US so it's a big time saver). The barcode scanner is a godsend. There are a lot of people dissatisfied with the stagnation of MFP though, I think with the right value proposition they're ripe for displacement.
> Just because someone loses weight when they start cardio does not imply the cardio led to weight loss.

I think this is one instance where correlation is good enough for most people - who cares about causation?
I was expecting the attached video to actually demonstrate VTOL with self-attached cargo. It does not. It doesn't really demonstrate anything other than (unstable looking) low altitude cargoless flight, and a cargo self-loading mechanism. In the previous TC article, it states that the drone is actually manually piloted as well. How far along is this project really?
I think its way different than that, those would just be precursors, and in cases like real analysis, superfluous. Instead it would look something like, I have a Universal Sentence Encoder architecture, but its not performing well on my data, aside from tweaking the training set, how can I take this architecture and change it to work better with my individual problem? Assume here that the problem one is trying to solve is very similar to the models original use case. The number of people on the planet that can do this successfully, without wasting months of time messing around with tensorflow is extremely small. But this is where the value is. These massive catch all models only work for the people creating them, just jamming them into any NLP model will always produce sub par and probably unusable results
> What technical problems must be solved for blockchain to be fundamental?

It's not fundamental because it doesn't solve fundamental problems.

I don't think that's particularly a technical issue.
The following link has been posted here before but is an excellent dive into the 95 UI for those looking for more to read:

Designing Windows 95's User Interface (2018)

https://socket3.wordpress.com/2018/02/03/designing-windows-9...
I don't. Care to expand on that?
> renaissance of quality story telling TV right now

Not on broadcast television, which is what OP was referring to. It’s all monster of the week procedurals, low effort sitcoms, and reality garbage.
I watched some of your other videos, I'm curious what drew you to hacker news (I see the account is since 2011 and you started your road trips in 2009), were you a programmer before starting your travels? Or just interested in tech?

I'm going to check out your book. as the hardcore road trip thing is something I was really close to doing at one point in my life. Although in terms of pure perspective I'd probably take less of a 'chimps are just like us' view of it, which is just my more skeptical scientific but also cynical nature - but also because I've found this is a common tendency in humans to find such patterns which don't really fit as cleanly as they seem (upon closer analysis).

But I haven't played with chimps in person so I should probably not talk without experiencing it.
This is interesting; I just investigated SAC for the first time about seven hours ago (I actually posted a license-fragment from it on my social media account: https://blob.cat/notice/9qMowPTjR9F7fjid3Q), finding it technically impressive but unfortunately proprietary.

Was there news about it, or something? It came to mind because something I was wanting to try depended on it, and it doesn't get posted to HN very often, so I'm really curious as to how you found it.
pubmed.gov redirects to the full URL :)
My pick would be:

- Social Media Platform for local ecosystems
: Most people have gotten off FB; Insta, Snap don't fulfill all utilities of Facebook; opportunity to enter

- Airpods app stack
: More than a third of US has Airpods plugged in most of their waking day; can reimagine music listening, social, search

- Cloud OS
: Stadia made a lot of noise, US households have enough bandwidth; infinite memory and process can allow reimagining native apps for a desktop. Maybe even mobile.
It's nonetheless a good story if viewed from the perspective of a complete couch potato. As a way of getting started, doing 20 minute walks is great! As long as it leads to higher intensity after adaptation, which it should allow.
“Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter CubeSat” [Might] See Rainbows in Clouds
Fuel cell
25 years later, we still don't have good, standardized, robust Ui controls for browsers.

Why is there no HTML tag for creating menu bar and nested dropdown menu?

Instead we have to search through thousands of libraries or plugins with mixed bag of accessibility.

Just that control alone will probably save companies globally billions of dollars in wasted labor searching, building, and maintaining.
Does watching Netflix, HBO, or Hulu count as watching TV? That's how I usually watch television shows and none has commercials.

If I watch broadcast TV it's through my DVR and I skip commercials.

Pretty much the only live TV I watch is sports and there's a lot of advertising there.

I'd argue that TV isn't trash though. There's an unbelievable amount of stuff being made and it isn't hard to find something great to watch. My to-watch list still has Sopranos, The Wire, Breaking Bad, Mr Robot, Westworld S2, Game of Thrones, and about 20 other series on it.
The Early History of Usenet, Part IX: The Great Renaming
I've been using WeTransfer for years. It's great.
what does "watching tv" mean nowadays? I only watch videos through a phone, laptop, or desktop, and when I watch I'm not fidgeting on a 2nd screen unless it's related to what I'm watching on my first screen. I guess I don't watch things that don't require some form of actual thought (e.g. sports). Don't get me wrong I love soccer, but I only watch highlights!
It was a crossroad of limited computing affordance and abstraction necessity.

I grew up in CGI land, basically high end CGI programs were what the latest web app is. Reactive redrawing of free form geometries. I wanted this to be mainstream so bad. I got old and it became slightly true. Not keeping aside the drift of website content and pop overs.. something hit me. My brain doesn't want real time and free floating. I want abstraction, solid, and patient. It even contradicts my love for lisp repls (another form of low latency feedback). I look at 90s desktop GUIs with a bit more love and appreciation. They were limited just enough, the limitation forced abstraction and organization. And most of the time it was just right (you could remove spooky side effects, and add a bit of genericity it wouldn't hurt).
Did you "get billed" that much in that this is what you now owe?

Or did you get a "bill" that listed before-insurance numbers which nobody pays and might as well be spit out by a random number generator?
Bindgen is very nice for getting the C header into Rust, but it’s very much direct FFI.

What I got from this post is that c2rust wants to take it a step further and try to produce more idiomatic Rust, which is a very cool goal.
UI is different on the web and mobile devices but if you fire up the Win 10 file explorer, almost all of the items shown are still there or arguably better. Maybe resize (which you can now do from any window edge) is a little more finicky.
>The ellipsis hints that this button opens a dialog, instead of immediately executing an action.

Can't believe I never noticed this.
Probably not since AFAIK Dropbox uses deltas to transfer file changes. It's entirely possible they worked on a totally new tech for this, but I doubt it.
Finding Tim Sweeney's voice really soothing. Alan Watts meets Spock. Get the sense you could throw out any topic. "QC" "Mars" "Dark Matter" "Crispr" "The Dynamics of an Asteroid". And the answer would be perfectly lucid and on-the-money.

One possible inspiration for a universal metaverse protocol is video itself. Every node is essentially a Stadia edge server. Live streams would then interact with each other using scene understanding.
Ah yes. Thanks! Fixed.
>>>>>>One other thing that the article dangerously omits is the fact that food hygiene and/or safety testing is still pretty much non-existent even in the richest parts of Vietnam.

>>>I've also spent about 6 months in Vietnam, cumulatively over 6 six trips. I've gotten brutally sick on 5 of those 6 visits. The lack of sanitation is the #1 reason I don't think I could EVER live there, no matter how much money I had. You can't escape the E.Coli in every ice cube and tap water supply, the open-sewer streets, and the choking air pollution.

You will get used to it, eventually. Would be faster if you have a local to tell you what's safe and what isn't. I rarely get food poisoning, not even during that time I had to eat shit, literally (google 'thắng cố', 'nậm pịa' if you are curious). Surely half of Vietnamese street food won't meet western hygiene standards, but then your digestive system will adapt to it.
Are you uninsured?

Get checked. Think about it. If you're worried about money you will spend less if you catch and manage something early than if you're late and whatever you have doesn't kill you but makes you very sick.

If you're not insured, get insured. Financial planning via expecting death is just foolish.
Do not worry for the market is ready for this. Iphone started with fixed backgrounds, then later they demonstrated the oh so amazing feature of custom backgrounds. In some 80s computer chronicles episode you can find the ex-act-same-speech from a windows sales rep explaining how win 1.0 was limited, but now you can set up your own background pattern. iOS 15 will introduce ML generated computer vision trained custom themed that fits the most seen colours in your rooms.
Background sound. Usually reruns of The Office, which is a bit absurd but it helps me fall asleep. It’s now a conditioned response.
Dropbox did a design facelift a couple of years ago and everyone on the internet hated it. It was a big thing when it happened.

It think they have moderated it gradually and come back to their blue/white/black branding.
Be a kinder and more patient person.
Windows 95 had an obvious UI, but was rather cluttered.

The original Macintosh up through System 7 was perhaps peak of OS UI design, the simplicity and obviousness is a marvel. The modern Mac experience is no where near that simple, particularly since the Yosemite UI overhaul.

The original iPad had pretty great UI design too, until the iOS 7 redesign. Now I think it's probably the most confusing UI that exists on a modern OS. Nothing is obvious. Multitasking and copy/paste on iPad is befuddling to even the smartest and most technical people I know.

UI design that was perfected 30+ years ago has been completely shelved and lost by designers who are designing for other designers and their portfolios, rather than for users.
"Flat UI" is the bane of my existence.
Let me guess: you're thinking of civil foreiture and qualified immunity in the US?

I don't dispute the US is non ideal, I do dispute that as a whole the government is unaccountable. For example, what do you think would happen if Gavin Newsome (governor of California) had someone killed for disrespecting him? That's the kind of thing really unaccountable governments get away with.

So I'm asking you to not only show that bad things have happened and not been adequately punished, but that the government is fundamentally as unaccountable as a reference unaccountable government, like the U.S.S.R under Stalin or Britain under Oliver Cromwell.

Yes, that's an extreme requirement. But you made an extreme claim when you said not just that democracies are insufficiently accountable to be completely just but that they are unaccountable.
> Who _wants_ to live in the shitty part of town? You've deconstructed your own argument in a sentence.

Let's say you just quit your job to live your dream of creating an indie video game. You'll probably want as much runway as possible while you build.

Startups tend to need rapid iteration and experimentation unless they're highly technical, which is why this plan is probably better for things you can do solo and completely cut off.

On the other hand, maybe someone just wants to spend a few years playing video games and reading books? Why not do it cheaply?
This article quotes Perlis' famous saying that "a programming language is low-level when it calls attention to the irrelevant", and I am reminded of another Perlis aphorism :

« Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones. »
Amazon wants to patent technology that could identify shoppers by their hands
I’ve been doing small fasts: typically in the morning, I don’t eat anything until after I work out. So, these usually end up being twelve to 16 hour fasts.

I would actually like to try to fast for 24 hours, starting after an evening meal.

My problem is I do a lot of cycling. If I don’t eat, I bonk hard and lose energy. So, I would need to time this after a day of resting after a ride.
And what happened with the ending of game of thrones? Shouldn’t professional writers be smarter than the average viewer? I didn’t seem like that was the case.
Also the services that the US Government provides to even their overseas expats is pretty remarkable. I’m not sure there’s another country in the world that can bail you out of a dicey situation within hours in almost any spot on earth.
Some other word than ethics? When it's not an ethical problem that you're describing.

What you seem to be saying (without actually saying it, so I have to guess) is that, because it's a failure of a group rather than an individual, it isn't ethical any more - it's something else. But if the group structure pushes individuals into unethical actions, isn't the group structure an ethical problem?

Or, for the snarky answer: If companies are corporate persons, then of course they can have ethical issues.
I agree with the advice here to start slowly. I am not fasting right now because I am on the Dr. Fuhrman Eat to Live anti inflammatory diet, but usually I try to eat all my food on a given day in 8 to 9 hours, which leaves 16 to 15 hours a day fasting. Every few weeks, I like to get a one day fast in, but I am not always consistent with that.

By starting slowly, and by eating plenty of food during the eating periods, it is fairly easy to maintain energy during fasting.
> The research always shows that humans who expend extra calories during one activity will, over the course of the rest of the day, expend fewer calories to, on average, expend essentially the same amount of energy as those who did not engage in the strenuous activity.

It's quite possible to adopt an exercise regime where one, on average (even taking into account rest days), expends more in strenuous activity per day than one would expend in total per day without strenuous activity, in which case it is physically impossible to offset the additional calorie expenditure in activity with reduced calorie expenditure at rest (and since the body does actually have irreducible needs at rest—and since exercise, by creating microinjuries that require repair, increases that minimum, even if it also increases resting efficiency) the actual limit where this becomes impossible is a much lower active expenditure.

It's possible that there is a range in which additional strenuous activity is offset, and it's possible most practical attempts to boost strenuous activity for weight loss end up within that range. But it's also certainly possible to get outside of the range where that effect can operate.
Exactly this. To be more precise with your analogy, given a finite alphabet and a finite length for any novel, then in fact the set of all novels is countable (and computable) - but when novels can have (countably) infinite length (or are written using an infinite alphabet?), then the set of novels is uncountable (and indeed by construction correspond to the reals, if my understanding is correct).
Ya. It’s almost enough to give the researchers the benefit of the doubt. Nah.
Well, anyone who has stood up a service on the cloud is probably a layperson with respect to designing airplanes...
Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (Concept)
Just wait a little. Soon there will be a movement for UI consistency and they will reinvent a lot of stuff Apple and MS did about UI in the 90s. Just give it a fancy new name. You can see this on the iPad. Suddenly you have multiple windows, keyboard, just in slightly different form.
I care, a lot. I'm lazy and I very much want an ideal body but I very much loathe the effort many people put into getting an ideal body. I've had great success with extended fasts and the more research I do, the more I believe that is the optimal path to achieving my ideal body, both for losing fat and gaining muscle.

I'll tl;dr; this comment by saying I'm a longer term fasting fan boy now so I can stay on topic and say that it very much matters to me what cause and effect are because I don't want to do cardio.
There's certainly a lot of boring, formulaic content out there. I recently watched Easy Rider and season 4 of Rick and Morty and in both cases my phone was left on a shelf and forgotten for hours. Yesterday I tried to watch the first episode of Witcher and it just wasn't my thing, I was fiddling with my phone after 10 minutes. (YMMV obviously)
Thanks for replying!

Another question is, what motivated you to start this effort in the first place? And why do you think it's useful. I haven't read the book, so not really sure
This is all very subjective but I, for one, agree with every word you wrote.
Anecdote:

I tried intermittent fasting for 11 months with very, very little to show for it. I did the 18 hours off and 6 hours of eating plan. I have also tried a strict vegetarian diet for 6 months with no real changes in blood work. My Cholesterol didn't move to the dismay of my PCP and myself quite frankly.

Biology: I am a professional Firefighter that ran 1000 miles and bicycled 250 miles during this time frame. My sleep isn't always consistent which may have played a role due to my profession. I also drink two beers (Karmeliet, Chimay are stocked in my house) with dinner when I am off. So I drink roughly 8 - 10 beers a week. I probably could do better with calorie counting, but frankly it seems futile so long as I like the way I look naked, lol.
My father does this too. He codes with the radio on and has been doing it for decades.
This is exactly the resources I've been looking for to advance my understanding of how to accomplish certain things in FP before trying to learn it wholesale.

I have his book Domain Modelling Made Functional as it comes very highly recommended. I haven't gotten to it yet, but I'm even more excited for it now after watching this.
Can't tell if sarcastic. I'm not a professional photographer but for me the time to pick up a better camera takes a couple seconds... :)
The only state of mind it identifies is in those who use the term. It’s childish, offensive, and often used in an unintentionally ironic way.
Agreed. I am going on my 4th year living in Vietnam, it is significantly less common here.

Of course you see a lot of sexpats, but Vietnamese culture is definitely less sexualized than in other SE Asia countries. It certainly exists literally everywhere, but it is just harder to find outside of the STD infected backpacker areas. The women are pretty adamant about having a bf.

For a long time, it was also more difficult and expensive to get a visa... so the guys looking to just get laid went to the easier countries. That is changing though as Vietnam now has an e-visa.