skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a couple of reasons:

- It's uncomfortable. You are typically so excited about an idea that the thought of learning it doesn't have mass appeal is uncomfortable. People avoid uncomfortable realities. In other words: "I KNOW this is a great idea, I just KNOW it. If I don't build this NOW, someone else will beat me to it. I don't have time to waste talking to customers. If Henry Ford would've asked people what they wanted, they would've said a faster horse."

- People are proud, if they're going to show a product to their friends/family, they want to make sure it's well-built, fully featured, etc... The idea of "just getting something in front of customers that works" aka an MVP is embarrassing for some people. They think that if they release a "amateur" product, people will think they're amateur.

- People are irrational. They think that their idea is so special that asking people about it, getting validation, etc... could make them a target for idea theft. So they isolate themselves, validate with a few close friends (who are unlikely to give honest, brutal feedback) and build a huge product so that when they launch, they'll be far ahead of their competitors. The problem with this is that you'll likely build the wrong product the first time around.
Even the simile they used is based on incorrect information.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfish#Cognitive_abilities
So opacity justifies fake news?
Apple antitrust documents: Amazon Prime Video pays only 15% App Store comission
Well, like it or not it helps a lot with web first exp. and also with collaboration.
Sounds interesting. Can you create a video showing how it works with a couple different examples?
No, it would just have really small microdonations to each project.
This is a massive understatement. No daycare is going to care for your child like you will.
I agree, but I'd say your missing a zero.
There's no actual technical reason. People fell into this as typesafe = "code must safe & secure". Its also a difficult language to understand unless you've trained under it compared to others. There's an innate obfuscation as a result.
Depends on the data and from whom you want to keep from knowing it.

You'll never have full privacy due to government surveillance programs. Even if you use E2E encryption, they will keep your data indefinitely until they can crack it. The NSA does this and I assume the other members Five Eyes do too.

Companies also collect your data. If buy stuff online you need to provide a company some basic data, at least stuff like an address to ship too.

You probably share data with individuals, such as HN posts or comments, Ebay, etc. This is probably the most benign data. It's probably also the most likely to be an explicitly hostile actor aside from dictatorships. Individuals could also intercept your data or access it from companies or governments that have it stored.

So you aren't going to have privacy from governments unless you stop using digital systems and stop using other places that use digital systems over the internet (think doctor's office, work, etc).

You could stop using online companies for things to prevent some of your data from being collected. But you still have places that digitize your info and connect it to or transmit it over the internet (insurance, banks, healthcare, etc).

As for individuals, you have the most control over who you explicitly send it to. You mostly have to worry about attackers in-transit or at-rest.
Its interesting, we think of the building blocks as atoms and we almost always represent atoms as being spherical. Everything breaks down to cubes made of spheres?
No one thinks "research on drivers' working conditions" is science. Manifestly self-interested nonsense like that is relatively easily ignored. And if that's the trade we make to get Bell Labs, Xerox Parc and IBM Research, I'll take it.
You should see ginger in the ingredients list. However, the recipe search is based on postgres full text search, so it's possible something is being missed. I need to update the recipe search for flavor pairings to ensure there is an exact match for the given ingredients.

And thanks for testing it out!
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I wouldn’t tell such things to anyone I’m “friendly” with at work. Don’t get me wrong: I like these people, but would I want another team’s manager to know that I’m deeply in debt or fighting bitterly with my spouse? I’d think not. This is America: land of dog eat dog. People will use such information against me without hesitation. Corporate politics are real here.
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That's a shame - you should be able to get some closer friends from a work environment and not have to consider or contend with this. Definitely a difference between 'colleagues' and 'friends'. It still makes sense to keep most private things at a private level. Being cautious always applies, with some work environments, far more caution clearly is needed
Can you provide some evidence for this? Your argument, by extension, would mean that anything that increases a person's income is effectively pointless. Increased minimum wage? Prices increase and eat the income increase. Collective bargaining? Prices increase and eat the income increase. Taken to the extreme, any action to improve the lot of the poor/low-income is wasted effort, because rent seekers will always collect the maximum rent.

I'm willing to concede UBI (or other unrestricted cash grants) could impact specific segments of a market. But, I can't find good evidence one way or the other that those negative pricing impacts offset increases in productivity, wellness, etc.
>But the behavior you observed is still pathological, dependent on fine tuning of the model parameters, and has nothing to do with the relationship between the model and reality.

Basically, a mirror of modern DNN approaches: data driven correlations and hyperparemter tuning. Main difference are that with MAS, humans are usually tuning (this is changing though) vs DNN approaches, the tuning is algorithmically driven.

The one benefit I would claim is that with these MAS, you at least know which base assumptions you're really tweaking to converge on states of interest. The question is (as always) if you've accurately: reduced the problem and represented principle interactions in the model. Given the complexity of real world systems MAS try to model, I think this is optimistically incredibly challenging and more realistically, nearly impossible to achieve currently. I think it's still a useful modeling approach that should be explored though I feel it's still in it's infancy compared to numeric, analytic, statistical, etc. models. I think if its taken the surge of computing infrastructure to drive the current successes we're seeing in DNN, it may take an equally larger surge to see improvements in MAS.
It's an election year with a despised president.
all budgets are passed by congress.. the best is when congress is opposed to the president. It would be interesting to look at that as a metric.
You know that chart is wrong the second you notice a single color for US
Errrr no
Early identification allows you to better plan what the remainder of your life looks like for you and your loved ones, even if a protocol is not available.

As someone who has had to coordinate end of life care more than I’d like to have had to, this is invaluable.
Past discussion with author's comment at top, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13948966
I concur with all the points you already mentioned and will add "stray too far off-topic into bikeshedding".

It only takes a handful of comments to go from meaningful discussions about the article to talking about vim vs. emacs etc.
There’s a deep connection between Types and Logical Proofs (Curry Howard Correspondence). Haskell has a rich type system that allows you to “prove” (i.e. typecheck) many properties of your program. This is valuable when getting right the first time is important such as smart contracts. I put prove in quotations because all type systems of Turing complete languages are unsound, but this doesn’t matter too much in practice. If you wanted to be really sure, you’d use a total language like Idris or Coq.
More circulating money means the value of money is less. If everyone’s a millionaire, then no one feels like one.
New approach refines the Hubble's constant and age of universe
I like to think that the proliferation of different kind of editors reflects the incredible diversity that exists in what people want from an editor.
It's almost like there was some incentive for someone to spread false information about a company's practices on the eve of a congressional testimony about the company's practices.
Lol I won't.
While true, it's not a good argument, humans would require much more equipment, the rover is limited by the amount of weight we can put on Mars, if you use the same weight allowance that even modest manned missions to mars would require on rovers you'll get a very different coverage.

Humans are important because they can think and be in the loop where it matters most, but it's not that they'll be able to cover that much more ground. We don't have the technology to allow for a human to trek 23km on mars yet, even when we will I don't see NASA or anyone approving such a mission so now you need a vehicle capable of transporting humans, providing emergency shelter and life support, the longest single manned trip we've taken on a celestial body was about 7km on lunar roving vehicles.

Yes those covered usually around 30KM in a single mission but not in a single trip, all trips were well within visual range and well within recovery distance if need be.
No. The amount you donate, the majority goes to the primary project, since that's directly what you the user are receiving the value from, even if it's for the sake of the author pulling those dependencies together in a usable convenient fashion for you. The discussion simply becomes how much goes to the primary and how many goes downstream. I think 51% to the primary dependency at minimum as a starting point for debate.
Markov Localization for Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments (1999)
As many here have noted, UBI still leaves in place a power structure, or material relation of dependency. I just think there are a lot more nuanced and interesting approaches to this problem.

For instance, what would it take to devolve ownership of essential infrastructure for social reproduction (practically: hospitals, farms, housing, schools, etc) at the local level? How could we blend small forms of cooperative ownership into an economy that still has room for entrepreneurship? What's the right amount of state capacity to safeguard against disaster? IMO, these question of ownership were thoroughly excised from US political discourse for a mixture of reasons, some understandable (revulsion to Soviet totalitarianism) and some frustrating (lack of information because the conversation threatens entrenched power).

US political culture has an emphasis on personal liberty that I would never want to lose, but I'd love to see more Americans engage their capacity for invention toward resolving the tensions between individual freedom and collective wellbeing. In my opinion, Gar Alperovitz's work around the concept of a "Pluralist Commonwealth"[1] is a really interesting stab at this problem.

1. https://thenextsystem.org/principles-introduction
One Mystery of Stonehenge’s Origins Has Finally Been Solved
After reading this article, my mind simplified the findings as: organizations that have more money get more press than those that have less. Seems pretty obvious when framed in this manner.
Good question. I imagine that communication infrastructure would have to be taken into consideration, but I don't know much of the details. The rover has the following capabilities for comms, but I don't know what the limits are in Mars orbit for relays:

- UHF up to 2 Mbps

- X-band High Gain 160/500 bits per second

- X-band Low Gain about 10 bits per second

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/communicatio...
I downvote comments that I think are bad. Comments that are useless, unhelpful, non-constructive, etc.

For example, a few from the ruby post that was on the front page recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23990533

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23995632

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23991570
I don't have the option to downvote yet but I don't feel it detracts from the experience.
That post that blew up about Apple keeping their 30% cut after a refund was 100% made up. It was, sorry to say, "fake news". But my comment got downvoted. You idiots here on HN would rather read "news" that agrees with your already held opinions, that is why the downvote button is here, so idiots don't have to think too much.
Is that really the point of that code? It seems like the point is to generate code to map real numbers from math.random to letters in a probability distribution in the smallest number of branches.
Sweden’s economy took a worse hit than any of neighbors because it took them far longer, in the end, to get it under control. Infections and death are obviously terrible, at 10x per capita compared to neighboring Finland, Denmark, and Norway. They are not going to achieve herd immunity, and the infections were all massed at the start of the pandemic, where far less was known and, for example, death rates on respirators were 80%, compared to 25% now.

So at this point Sweden is in worse shape than comparable countries along any conceivable dimension. They might somehow end up better than others a year from now by pure chance, or because of smart choices from now on. They have recently diverged from their earlier eerie parallel track with the US, proving that they are, fundamentally, a functioning society capable of rational action.

But, right now, they are behind with nothing to show for it.

So, yeah, I can see why he’d want to delay judgement.
> what else is there to do?

If things are tight enough, you spend all that useless "free time" hunting for more work. You feel you can't afford to just enjoy the time.

More gigs. More waiting for an Uber request. More time polishing your resume, or your profile on Fiverr. Or improving your "Github is the new resume" look.

Then it's not really free time. It's a job, but you're not paid every hour you're working on it.

It can even resemble socialising, because in some lines of work you have to keep socialising for people to think of you when they have a gig.
I just checked the documentation of lisps implementation and it is different from my code. If the input lists have a different size, the shortest list decides the result length and everything else is discarded.
This is of course possible to implement in Scala too, but I think it is a very bad thing to do that which can lead to bugs quite easy. I prefer my solution in that case.
We usually refer to it as three pillars:

1. AOW, the state pension

2. Private pension system regulated by pension law

3. Individual private pension

Slight nitpick on the AOW, you don't need to live in the Netherlands for at least 40 years. It's by rate, so if you lived 20 of the 40 working age years in the Netherlands you will receive 50% of the AOW (even if you leave the Netherlands).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensions_in_the_Netherlands
> Where is the money for UBI going to come from? What incentive would there be for people to work?

Ideally the money should come from the elite class that is accumulating the capital thanks to automation and monopolization. A huge part of this capital is currently spent in non-productive ways like speculation, lobbying and luxuries. This is what some socialists and social democrats are proposing, though most agree we have not reached the needed level of automation and advancement yet.

Neoliberals don't really want the UBI anytime soon, they just hijacked the term and are now bastardizing it just like they did with many other good leftist ideas because they found them either threatening to their interests or useful for their power games.

As other posters here have already noticed, "neoliberal UBI" will most likely be used to incite conflict and division between the lower and middle class. They will make the middle class pay the bill while promoting victim mentality and degeneracy among the lower class. This should produce a shitshow that will help keep the wage slaves distracted for the next decade or two until a true UBI becomes a possibility.
NASA Has Launched Most Ambitious Mars Rover Ever Built Heres What Happens Next
> It's amazing that the MLB has the smallest home field advantage

And given that, relative to the other sports, there's an actual difference in the rules and play of the game based on which team is at home (less so now hat the DH is in both leagues).
It's a good example of the importance of using respect/a large platform appropriately. If I was in your position I also don't think I'd have really fact checked it, since that level of scrutiny on everything would be nearly impossible to maintain if I tried to fact check before posting any given titbit. And even then, I might have fact checked by checking in with a developer of respected apps that would have experience. A significant amount of the burden of getting this right is in the hands of the original twitter poster IMO. If you are originating, rather than sharing, a piece of information like apple keeping the refund, then the burden of fact checking should definitely be on you at that point.
> When I was in high school and used my first Linux machine (a Raspberry Pi)...

Thanks for making me feel old! My first experience with editing text on a *nix system was vi on my older borther's AT&T SVR4 workstation in the 1980s when I was junior high (my apologies if that reference makes anyone else feel old!).
We Need to Talk About Ventilation
A couple of years ago, Prof. Michael Stonebreaker gave a talk in ICDE (IEEE Intl. Conference on Data Engineering) 2018 in Paris on the problems of the pursuit of the "LPU", least publishable unit of work; and his impression that few people pursue deeper and more significant work because of this and other factors. If you can find a summary or a recording of that somehow, it's worthwhile to listen IMHO.
For the individual yes it would still be bad news and folks likely won't want to get the screening. For the potential development of a therapy, identifying it early would let you have a pool of candidates to be tested.
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It's misleading either way.

The fact that Apple reserves the right to keep the commission is very old news:

https://www.imore.com/apple-charging-developers-100-app-refu...

I have heard anecdotes that, at least in some instances, Apple did keep the commission:

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/50181

That might of course be an assumption, not based on proper accounting.
"He's got no tone!"

Picking up Seinfeld vibes.
It does, for sure! Culture is one of the facets that can contribute to your management style along with a ton of socioeconomic factors.

My point is that this often works negatively against Asians, especially in management in a way that it doesn't for other racial groups.

Like you're way more likely to see people being okay with casually saying “Jerry Yang is Asian, therefore he overworks his employees” than say “Marvin Ellison is Black, therefore <some other negative characteristic>” in a conversation. That comment was up for more than five hours before I said something about it.

I think this is a problem. It's nowhere on the same scale as some of the problems that other minorities face across America. But in my opinion, it's important enough to call out occasionally.
Plants Have Hormones, Too, and Tweaking Them Could Improve Food Supply
It seems that it's common practice on phoronix to list the employer of the person submitting the patch. I found a few examples where Intel, Google, and Amazon are all mentioned

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Bu...

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-Z...

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=L1d-Cach...
It seems to me, still, that a lot of these problems you bring up can be addressed by universities changing their hiring policies. Which makes sense: academics ultimately rely on universities for their income, and so it is the hiring policies which are setting the perverse incentives. And I don’t think changing hiring policies would be an incremental change, it would be a huge change (and not likely to be made by any university any time soon, since students rank universities on similar metrics to how universities hire staff — a prestigious university will lose prestige even if it changes its hiring policies for the better).
This editor is my daily driver. Has been for years and years. Glad it's still kicking!
That angers me so much. In university I owned an Epson inkjet printer that refused one night to print out my paper in b&w because the cyan cartridge was empty.

Never bought an Epson cartridge after that, only counterfeits on eBay.
Donald Trump suggests delay to 2020 US presidential election
Yes the Apple cult may have always been here but has grown more aggressive and defensive the last 5 years or so. Check any Apple thread and you will see similar results. You cannot utter a word of criticism towards the company without mass downvotes.
New Building Game Townscaper Allows Users to Build Their Own City
If it's in the agreement but they don't do it then it is misinformation to claim that they do it.
It depends on how UBI would play out. For example, let's say UBI gives everyone $40,000 a year. In much of the non-coastal US, that's enough to live on. But, pricing might still be based on everyone having a job. So prices now reflect the assumption people have 40k + whatever their salary is. I could see the rent-seekers adjusting their charges accordingly. A slumlord could now price their rents on a poor person making $60k a year (40k + 20k from their job) instead of just on the $20k alone. Doubling or tripling the rent. Consumer goods would possibly follow the same pattern.

Maybe UBI would come with some sort of rent or price controls. Or maybe the fear of massive inflation would temper the greed of the rent-seekers. I don't know how it would play out. And I have to say I'm generally in favor of UBI. Just thinking out loud about how it might not be as helpful as it could be.
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It's cyclic.

Where I live, when I was too young to buy, mortgage was cheaper.

When I was old enough to buy, rent was cheaper and prices had already risen enormously, so I stuck with rent, and hoped prices would stabilise or fall. In retrospect this was a mistake, as prices continued to rise.

Now mortgages are cheaper than rent again.
A job is just a job. That doesn't mean you have to stop being professional at it. Socializing at work in a corporate environment is majorly an US phenomenon because hours tend to be longer, paid vacation close to non-existing, leaving no other chance to socialize.
I think they mean something like UBI: non- or less-competitive grants that would fund modest-sized projects (or pilot studies for larger ones).

Tenure doesn't really help with this problem in the lab sciences. While it lets faculty members keep their jobs, it usually doesn't come with enough funding to do experimental work. In fact, while you can "keep" a tenured position without grants, many places find ways to...discourage that (move your office to a shoebox in the sub-basement, crappy teaching and service assignments).
At a glance, I thought that it was a medical app due to the MD in the name. Don't know if it's too late to change the name, but I'd consider it.