skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really wish Go's select had guard clauses. The need to nil channels feels like a hack. However I haven't actually had much need for them but haven't written many things that would need them.

I do miss PAR's synchronization semantics, which Go programmers know as the "sync.WaitGroup" idiom. Given the number of times I see Go developers asking about synchronizing goroutine termination perhaps having some form of concurrent control structure atop 'go' could help. Or maybe not - they'd just start asking about their inability to terminate :) At least PAR is easy enough to simulate (I wrote myself a little 'par' package to hide the WaitGroup manipulations with functions/closures as the [CSP] process bodies).
Hesitating if it makes sense to reply to every skeptical comment, but the legal background here is actually pretty interesting:

There are actually no more class action suits against most big companies that you've signed a contract with:

Thanks to Supreme Court decisions over the last decade your only option is typically to go through an opaque individual arbitration process – https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/12/decade-class-act...

And very few people actually do this – https://myradvocate.com/press/2019-q3-consumer-arbitration-c...

Our mission is to give people more access to this consumer arbitration process. And our business model is that when they win we will receive a commission.

Most of our business to-date has been helping people take on telcos over issues they've experienced as individuals (like when a company promises to buy out your old contract if you sign up, and then after you've signed up tells you "sorry, no")
I've gotten those too, it's usually a little slip of paper or something that says you can get X if you review the product and email them a link.

It makes me pretty suspicious of the thing I just bought.
Microsoft’s Phil Spencer Says Amazon and Google Are Xbox’s Real Competition
" though probably not disappear entirely as the womb thing does still remain."

The implication that gender, family, and children begin and end with mechanical differences like 'womb' is really reductionist. That we are trying to make things fairer for people is a good thing, but it's become so dogmatic we can't consider other ways of looking at it ... is bad.

My prediction is that in 500 years, no matter what we do, we will still see quite substantial gender differentiation, particularly with respect to early childhood.
Here in NZ, we already see issues where storms and 'king tides' cause significantly worse outcomes when they coincide. As those king tides rise and penetrate further inland, these increased weather events are going to be much worse at the coast.

Also, Miami and Venice are on borrowed time.
> The physical models we have are causal ones.

The physical laws are correlational, not causal. F=ma doesn't tell you if acceleration causes force or vice versa. Causation is a humanly imposed concept . That's why we need to invent things like the Chronology protection conjecture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality#Physics
it is https://devguard.io/ which is being rewritten from rust to ZZ in this branch https://github.com/devguardio/carrier/tree/zz
Yes, I'm aware of that aspect of Hotjar. What I meant was that I don't know what Hotjar does with the collected data (beyond what they offer to the sites that use it).
This seems to only be factoring in oceans. Won't the sea level rising have a huge impact on the rivers and floodplains in the middle of the country that this predicts will see a big influx of people? There is plenty of high elevation coastal land that I would expect to be safer than land on the banks of the Mississippi River.
Well, I don't believe in "consensus" [insert field] science because that's an oxymoron.

If you still believed what was once the consensus, you would believe in some crazy stuff. Science is skeptism of the consensus, not the other way around.
If that's the kind of behavioural information they want, they can pay for it just like anyone else. That's the kind of data that should absolutely not be expected to be free.
The Iowa App-Tastrophe: Plenty of Blame to Go Around
It will cost an arm and a leg when you eventually grow though.
80% of the personality is formed in the first 5 years of development.

There's just a huge difference between a 3-month-old baby, who can't recognize faces yet and spends most of the day sleeping and eating, and a 3-year-old child who is running, jumping, telling stories, making friends, and learning to read. For a 3-month-old baby, I doubt that parents do much more than a random babysitter. For a 3-year-old child, there is a clear difference.
Millions flee from Miami to Buffalo, and yet Venice and the Netherlands plod on.
I get that you genuinely care about the issue, but please don't take a thread like this veering into generic political flamebait. Parenting and child-rearing are emotional topics to begin with, so this pretty much guarantees a toxic cocktail.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22247563.
This was bothering me too. I couldn’t find numbers anywhere. Even though no one is likely to see this as the post didn’t get big and this is over a day old. Parent comment was continuing the hypothetical 40% CAH ownership of grandparent.
Ok, so you seem to think that landlords cooperate on pricing. My reply was to the person above who seemed to think that prices may deviate from the market rate without any cooperation.

Regardless, do you have a source on the claim that housing prices never go down, even with a declining population? I'd be curious to see if they adjusted for inflation or not.
Also, from Canada: Phoenix pay system based on PeopleSoft. Budget of $310M turned into $2.2B.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_pay_system
The problem is that there really isn’t any data the stock trades on. Like — imagine if you were an insider trader. What number from inside the company would you consider the most valuable? Units sold? Revenue? I honestly wouldn’t even know what to ask that I could be certain would move the stock one way or the other.
I was in Stockholm a few months ago and visited the Viking Museum. One of the most fascinating things were the maps. They highlighted where they knew vikings visited (and rampaged) and where they think they visited (and rampaged). Vikings may have visited Egypt.

It's feasible there were Arabic scripts in relics found in viking graves but asserting they were Muslim is radically different than realizing it could have been pillaged just as easily.
Even allowing that, why does it make sense for the government to hand them the very data they're trying to obscure? Unless you're arguing that they were somehow given the numbers in error, and then erroneously published.
Mint appeals to me a lot. The two bits that have stopped me from diving in past times it's cropped up are:

- No way to render a page outside of a browser. It'd suffice to be able to run a CLI tool or import Mint as a library and generate static HTML for a given component and input data.

- The fact that two record types can't coexist with the same key names and type signatures. I worry this will lead to all kinds of headache dealing with dependency compatibility: any change to a record definition, even an internal one, becomes a breaking API change, and some libraries may not be usable together due to coincidental naming. I would much rather the compiler require that I annotate record literals with explicit type names to disambiguate, ie:

record Todo {
label : String,
done : Bool
}
...
foo = Todo { label = ..., done = ... }

Haskell dealt with a similar problem for a long time and it meant that best-practice code gave all its data type keys unwieldy prefixes to disambiguate between data types that were imported together (todoLabel and todoDone vs issueLabel and issueDone). In Mint I guess you'd also want to stick the project name in, too (so myLibTodoLabel).
How or what do you know about the two companies knowing one another through the local comedy scene?
I really, really wish that I had the source code I wrote back before Github was a thing. Most of that, though, was never in version control, and I have long since lost the floppies it was stored on.

This post is inspiring me to go clean up my old repos on Github, and perhaps wax nostalgic about my previous works, even the awful ones.
Real shady devs already don't do this. All signs here point to "salaried employees being asked to implement a feature, and just following the ticket to the letter".
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I especially love that it explains why each regex snippet works. Super useful reference - thanks for making it.
Submitter here. I'm a British chap living in the Netherlands. You might want to read my comment [1] about what happens after you have a baby over here; it triggered quite a lot of discussion...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20884787
>The NSA is already selecting people with "Linux" [...] in their search histories for added scrutiny.

Source for this? If it's true it would be both sad and hilarious.
It occurs to me I should consider the following.

The author is a lawyer arguing to expand the field
of defendants in a lawsuit. Most of those defendants
would be likely to settle rather than be dragged into
court. Who would be the beneficiary in that scenario?

(I am not a lawyer.)
For starters impact is a noun and affect is a verb.

It's probably textbook risk analysis lingo, an impact is measurable but an affect is not.

Usually an impact scale is created to define what impact level 5 would involve versus impact 1. It's still arbitrary but more configurable than affect.

Just my two cents, no guarantee.
Funny, I see just as many attempts at proving the opposite points, often twisting current news and historical events to fit the narrative.

As a sibling comment pointed out, it would by no means be impossible for Arabic cultural items to have found their way into Viking possessions, given the vast trade networks. And even so, how in the world does 1000-year old interactions threaten your world view of Swedish cultural/racial purity and its relevance in modern times? Getting triggered like this indicates the opposite of the trend you're pointing out (not that they are mutually exclusive).

Also, in Sweden today I could be in actual danger if I made this comment publicly in my own name, for whatever that's worth.
And an actually free (automatic sync with no limit on data capacity) alternative: https://standardnotes.org/
Ah thank you, sorry I thought that all Nordic countries had oil drilling. I stand by my statements on tax policy though.
That 22% isn’t exactly capital that can easily be margin called. So much of it is quant funds, where it’s one of 100 short positions, and even the massive shorts like Chanos/Einhorn only have a few percentage of their funds in it
The 2:30am tech bus from Salida
Yann is undoubtedly a pillar of the deep learning era of AI. But, I strongly disagree with what he is saying.

Firstly, the Navier-stokes equations existed before mechanized flight was discovered. It was not explicitly invented to reason about flight, in that way that some of the deep learning "theory" is being projected. It also worked perfectly (in sub-sonic speeds) for almost every situation involving flight.

ML has time and again proven to not be internally consistent, with contradictions on nearly every corner.

Batch norm was "theoretically" thought to be an essential part of neural networks, until suddenly it wasn't. Drop out was considered essential to avoid overfitting, until it wasn't. We still do not know if an information bottle neck is good or bad. ADAM's whole formula was incorrect and no one realized that for 6 years.

> The mechanism of action of many drugs (if not most of them).
> An example? How does lithium treat bipolar disorder?

This example does more to disapprove his point that approve of it. Medical and nutritional sciences are among the least understood fields out there, with some of their "fundamentals" flipping on their head over the last 50 years. The only reason these "sciences" continue being used is because medicine is essential. A reasonably effective solution with side effects is still better than dead people. It is a begrudging compromise, not a example to be emulated.

AI is not essential. AI imposes on your life without consent. AI will soon be ingrained into every single aspect of your life.

Yann seems to be conflating explainability with causality. Explanaibility can also mean fully observed correlation. Explainbility can mean predictable and reproducible behavior of ML models given a hypothesis. Explanability can mean the ability to ascertain if the change in model performance was because of the hypothesis or a way to exploit an unintended aspect of the data/model architecture.

Explainability fundamentally allows ML researchers to make strides in the field in a meaningful way, and not blindly throw different computational structures at thousands of GPUs and let luck of the draw decide what works and when.

Looking back at ideas such as Transformers and ResNets, there was literally no way for the authors to guess that this new computational structure would revolutionize the field. It could easily have been an idea someone else tried or rotted in someone's TO-TRY list. Explainbility and some theoretical logic around NN development would allow for a systematic way to go about research in the ML community as whole. That's unlikely to happen, but I would rather see people strive for it than not.
Anyone building a technology business should be aware of the risks to that business. Don't waste your time creating something that will ultimately be eroded by competitive forces.

The 'Zero To One' chapter on monopoly should be required reading for entrepreneurship. I guess the problem is some people will still indulge in mental gymnastics and find a way to convince themselves they have a monopoly. My favorite example is this gem from back in the day: https://i0.wp.com/25iq.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/uber-n....
I don't think anyone would make the argument that a PiHole is a replacement for following best practices in terms of computer and network security. I'm just pointing out that a PiHole can block google analytics and other common violators of privacy. Its not a security tool and isn't advertised as such.
The number of captchas for the "I am not a robot" checkbox you have to solve is decided by Google's algorithms -- not really a Cloudflare choice other than them allowing their users to show that Captcha page in the first place.
How to Make Your Website Accessible to People Who Use a Screen Magnifier
Obama only ran the country for 8 years, but hfdh434535 knows better.

Real estate is about the closest thing to putting your money where your mouth is as far as climate change goes and the people have spoken - the coasts are still the most valuable and desirable places to live.
Weather Warning: Earth Could Be Hit by MINI ICE-Age as Sun ‘Hibernates’
There is a lot more than the language/compiler what influences the results, but at least these benchmarks are closer to real world than solving math puzzles in micro benchmarks.

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
>This time the gunners waited until the birds were in close proximity before opening fire. The gun jammed after only twelve birds were killed and the remainder scattered before any more could be shot

Reading this account almost seemed like the real life version of "Star Trek Crew Meets the Road Runner" https://boards.fool.com/star-trek-crew-meets-the-road-runner...
> check for VOIP numbers, too, so no fakes

Ah yes, continuing the fiction that anyone who uses a VoIP service must be a fraudster with a faked phone number.

Just another in the long list of if you are not using Google or Microsoft e-mail and AT&T or Verizon or T-Mobile or Sprint postpaid mobile phone service, you're obviously up to no good and deserve whatever "anti-fraud" you get.
This is typically an incident where it is useful to apply Hanlon's razor [1] in order to understand this person's motivations: "Never attribute to malice that which can be explained bu stupidity"

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
Please cite the studies on breastfeeding. Most show very little long term benefit (meaning, excluding upset stomachs in the first year of life and similar).

Example article:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jun/20/is-brea...
any idea of how expensive they are?
Crossing into personal attack like that will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong or provocative another comment is. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting to HN, we'd be grateful.
I worked with Michael Slaby in 2008 and 2012. He's an incredible technology manager. He's great at punching up and fighting for his engineer's perspectives and helping upper management understand limitations and then getting out of the way.

Since that time he's probably had his own epiphanies from working in industry but one of mine was that we did shockingly little QA and everything was built as fast as humanly possible. Everything was building the airplane in the air and it was largely due to constraints of the political or legal kind. Timeline management and allocating resources to testing was always an afterthought.

Testing usually comes from a feedback loop of launching broken features, incident response, manager gets in hot water, engineer gets in hot water, engineer proposes testing plan, manager uses incident as primary source reference to secure additional budget, testing implemented.

In politics no service, company, initiative, or team lasts long enough to complete the cycle.
Can you provide some details? I'm in Boulder Colorado where Cornell Wieman created the first condensate and won a nifty prize for it.
For me too. Asus are really go to laptops for linux. Works perfectly with dual boot windows and linux.
I'm a graduate student finishing up my Master's @ the University of Houston with a focus on data analytics. Looking for SWE (specifically full-stack/back-end but okay with anything else), data analyst, data engineering positions. I interned at a startup as a full stack dev over the summer (Django, Docker, GCP) and worked for more than a year part-time on campus as a developer (ASP.NET, SQL Server). I've dabbled in various things like data visualization (GLTK, OpenGL), high performance computing (OpenMP, MPI, CUDA), ML (TensorFlow, keras), analytics (Hadoop, SQL, pandas, numpy - can do R but prefer not to) and generally enjoy learning things, trying something new and just solve problems (even those that don't exist ‾\\_(ツ)_/‾

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When a person’s claim to fame and research is dependent on ignoring explainability and causality in research, he will ignore it to the best of his means.

To him, all the precursors to clinical trials (selection of a molecule from restricted set of molecules which satisfy certain causal criteria) then followed by extensive multi million dollar experiments to safeguard the last 1-2% of uncertainty is equivalent to a barely preprocessed neural network.

I mean let’s ignore the basic principles of pharmacology and medicine and just run every possible molecule through humans since that is a valid approach according to him.
Please edit out swipes like "What are you on about" from your comments here. They poison discussion badly.

The rest of your comment is fine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Richard Alpert (Baba Ram Dass) Is Dead at 88
> This little jab is probably why you got downvoted. Please don't make up nonsense about medical conditions or use the autistic spectrum as your synonym for dysfunction. It's not only unfair and uncivil, it's factually incorrect.

I suggest that you take a much more careful read through the DSM 5.A section of Autism diagnostic criteria. Not that I care about downvoting.

> people who support broader definitions of women's rights are sexual deviants likely to molest your children

In my experience, at least, grown men who support broader definitions of women's rights very often have selfish motives for it, and are often willing to have sex with women outside of a deep commitment for or even normal human concern for her, or to take things to the very edge of legal consent, without worry about the consequences to her. That is not a person that I wish to have around my daughters, but rather, I want them to date men who respect and protect women.
The thing is, I would claim that causality, explainability and interpretability are all mixed together in human informal discussions of various phenomena. As others on the thread have pointed out, Pearl's causality isn't everyone's causality. A tension structure can disrupt our "common sense" idea of what's holding up what but tensions structure doesn't seem at all like a black-box, unexplainable item. The way the article mixes the range of these issues seems definitely wrong but I don't think that means the line between all things is normally crystal clear.
If that's your concern then Nix might be your thing, because that's what is targeting. It approaches the problem slightly differently. Instead of generating an image, it is used to describe all dependencies for your project down to glibc. Of course you're not expected to define full dependencies of your project, so you (and most people) will use nixpkgs. As long as nixpkgs is fixed to specific version (it's literally a github repo) you can get identical result every time.

Once you have that then you want to deploy it in whatever way you like it. Nixpkgs has functions to for example generate a docker image that contains only your app + essential dependencies. You could deploy it using nix package manager as you would install a typical app in the OS. You could also describe configuration of NixOS that has your application included and it could generate an image of it.

Community also came up with other generators [1].

[1] https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators
Not entirely they're also trying to report far more information out this year than last. Previously there was only the State Delegate Equivalent count recorded and reported and there was no paper trail of the counts at each stage. This year they're tracking the first and second alignments along with the final SDE count.

All of those papers have to be hand recounted because they're not setup to be machine counted.
lol, progressives.
He will never in a billion years run as independent. You're patently wrong. He hates Trump more than his supporters do.
A translation of the first statement of the shahada into most languages would be "there is no god but God", or "there is no deity but God" - it's not objectionable in any Christian church unless you refuse to translate only the last word. It could've be made by Syrian Christians.

(The remainder of the shahada would be more surprising.)