jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> I'm just calling out that health care coverage in Canada isn't all peaches and cream. I've experienced both systems so I know what the pros/cons of each are.

As have I.

The US system is also generally ranked below the Canadian system on every measure I've seen. That doesn't necessarily mean much, as being better than the worst isn't much to write home about.

One great example of this is the US is the only developed country in the world where mother's mortality rate is rising. It's 4X higher than any in Canada. There's real serious on-the-ground issues with US healthcare. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternal_mortality_in_the_Unit...
How much more brazen can you be? Turn on the goddamn news today. Show me a list of democratic congressmen who voted against certification in 2016. Show me when Obama pressured his VP to toss electors. Show me a barrage of completely bullshit lawsuits. Show a phone call from the incumbent asking to miraculously find votes.

This "both sides" bullshit needs to stop.
Right, even if they have implemented an accurate solver for non-linear problems, that doesn’t fundamentally get around the chaos problem for a lot of real world applications.

For instance, even if you could 100% accurately model the most complex turbulent flow models, your predictions are still limited in their applicability because any small inaccuracy in your initial data will cause the long term results to look completely different from what may really happen.
At that point don't have a computer. Don't have software. Native applications do significantly more hardware identification. It's not opt in and you're not told what's collected and for what purpose. People install applications all the time they don't know what they're doing.

You're not going to get browsers behind the idea of burning the ground they walk on. Many of the features that end up used for tracking are things people very much like having. Threading, webgl, webrtc, etc.

No doubt some sites will create barrages of opt in notifications - don't use these sites. Walmart, facebook, amazon, etc, are not going to make you complete opt in for everything to proceed. Even if they do - you know it exists and can spoof that data with your browser if you want.
is there a way to import all my google keep notes ?
> If you have any idea how google works you know this (two week advance notice of algo changes) is impossible.

You do have some idea, don't you? Enlighten us how it works and why algo change notices are impossible.

> some things are impossible, such as control over borders

Right, no country outside of EU has control over their borders.
You don't need skills to pass tests. Many tests can be passed by memorizing solutions and cheating is common.
> Apple has been Intel's client since for the last 15 years with no exceptions (on the Mac side).

There was a time when they didn't

> the snail ad feels a lot more tongue-in-cheek than the serious corporate-hate-infused materials that Intel is releasing now

Pentium II is the fastest processor in the World

... Not quite!

The chip inside every new Power Macintosh G3 is up to twice as fast

(it wasn't true... or, it was true that Altivec was "up to" twice as fast than MMX on some selected workloads, but the chip itself wasn't)

https://lowendmac.com/2006/twice-as-fast-did-apple-lie-or-ju...
My older laptops died quickly, with pretty bad hardware faults within 2-3 years. After those first few laptops, I have a 2011 MBA that's chugging along fine (manually replaced the battery), as well as a ~2016 XPS 13 9350 (also manually replaced the battery) and a 3 year old Gigabyte gaming laptop that are all working fine. So for me I'd say mean time to failure has been increasing.
Is there something in ARM that prevents booting from external disks? What about Raspberry Pi?
Anyone got a link to the proposed legislation?
That's some interesting product hacking in a way.

I've run into artist naming collisions enough to know it's a thing but I've never seen anyone (ab)use it intentionally..

Neat, but still annoying I'm sure. =)
As somebody who implemented a small user-space tcp long ago, I get always uneasy when people tell me they just put events into some message queue and never consider all the edge cases that can happen when either the MQ or the consuming servers choke up. The problems are pretty much the same as with TCP flow control. It is easy to build a software that only appears to be working well.
Oooh I'm gonna add that to everything. Thankyou!
Racket has hygienic macros.
One piece of information that helped me understand eigenvectors and values was to learn that eigen is a German word meaning own as in characteristic or distinct.
Yes, exactly the point I was trying to make. Reductio ad absurdum.
The remainder was in FB stock. Personally I think the amount of stock they paid points to FB's acknowledgement that they are overvalued, i.e. part of a bubble.
Any reason the python support was ripped out? I've got my suspicions about not wanting/not being able to properly release the python packaging method in use internally, but I'm curious if I'd be tilting at windmills to try and get it to output pexes.
I don't see his point. Doesn't renormalizing token counts essentially eliminate the effect of tokenization? The perplexity which then we get essentially is representative of how well a model compresses the test document. Isn't that the whole point? A better model compresses the document better, how does it matter if you model each character or each word or bigrams or even directly the bits?

The main disadvantage of word-level models is large vocabulary size, however, the tweet completely ignores the advantage--sequence length becomes shorter, it has to look only a few tokens back to find the reference to "Bob" and "Alice".

The same model at word level writes more sensible sentences than at character level. There's a tradeoff between larger vocabulary and modelling longer dependencies. A model which can encode a text document more effectively is better; tokenization is just a part of the modelling. You just need to take care of the "number of words" of "per word" part of "perplexity per word" and you can directly compare their performances.

The author is wrong that entropy collapses after "A" is given of "Alice". Entropy will only collapse if the model has really "understood" the context and modelled that "Bob" and "Alice" are the only options here. The entropy won't collapse for a sentencepice based bi-gram model, for example.

In his example, it is not clear if the wordpiece model is at an advantage. Suppose both the models "understand" that there are two options "Bob" and "Alice". Then the word-level model only has to predict one token which can be either of the names. Perplexity = 0.5. The sentence-piece model also has to choose between two tokens "B" and "A", the second token won't add to perplexity since it'll be known. Perplexity = 0.5.
Exactly. And heavy post-processing is necessary for even very simple things because a camera's sensors don't match the output picture all that well. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter#Demosaicing. The postprocessing has moved up the semantic stack and now cameras do things like face detection and smoothing, but there's always been some amount of postprocessing in digital photography.
There's nothing I can say to this that I haven't already said. "responsible disclosure" is a term of art. It means something you don't mean. You can redefine it for yourself, but people reading you will take its actual meaning, not yours.
Very interesting blog article. Thanks for sharing. Are you able to comment on how ML might be integrated to the payments and rewards system? Is it just a matter of APIs on top of Kubernetes/Docker? Or did you have to recreate models in Go?
Betfair gives you access to the order book and you can get historical data relatively cheaply. Pretty much any liquid market on Betfair will do (in-play sports events tend to be good). Betfair markets to tend to show a lot of the same patterns as "real markets', although obviously there are differences. But it's a decent place to learn the fundamentals.

You're right that potential returns are much higher on real markets, purely because there's far more money traded on real markets. On the other hand entry to "real markets" is much more expensive, Betfair is fairly cheap to enter and don't charge a per-trade commission. Plus there are more market inefficiency on Betfair that don't exist in more developed markets.
Thats slick. Gives me alot of ideas but also makes me regret passing by those milspec connectors on a pile of surplus.
It's not about syntax. It's about code being data and vice versa.

> Syntax, interestingly, complects meaning and order often in a very unidirectional way. Professor Sussman made the great point about data versus syntax, and it's super true. I don't care how many you really love the syntax of your favorite language. It's inferior to data in every way.

Rich Hickey
"It should be marked as disputed"

That's not how international law works. By all means maps may be tailored to suit the preferences of markets/countries, but military conquest of a territory doesn't convert it to a "disputed" status. Currently the internationally-recognised borders between Ukraine/Russia are well-defined.

> We - westerners - would all love [the UK invading and annexing Hong Kong] and accept it immediately.

What rot!
Oh no, another 'email is dead' posting.

How many of these have we had since 1995?

Is it really really dead now? Even deader? Just like the phone? like snailmail? Old, simple, technologies are really resilient.
Doesn't matter. Article IV of the Antarctica Treaty says "no new claims shall be asserted while the treaty is in force;", Signatories include pretty much everyone and it dates back to 1959. You can claim anything you want, but it won't matter unless everyone else recognizes and respects your claim.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Treaty_System
You know your brand is toxic when a generic/faceless version of your product would have been received better. Someone else here mentioned that it should have been "Instagram Portal", which I totally agree with, or maybe even better: "WhatsApp Portal". It seems like Facebook is trying to resuscitate its reputation by releasing this obviously invasive device and swearing on a stack of bibles that they won't touch the data. That's not how it works though. Once people realize you're an untrustworthy megacorp who's mining and selling data, there's nothing you can do to disprove it except get out of the data game altogether; the cat is already out of the bag.
So, in other words, Echo is always listening for that wake word?
"Meta could work without moving data to the USA"

They say they cannot - so current legislation is threat of a ban. And the imaginary poll would probably give very different results, depending on the wording:

"Should a exception for meta be made?"

vs.

"Should meta be banned fron operating in europe, for not following regulations"

People do not like exceptions for big companies, but they also do not like extra work and they usually do not like regulations from the EU, either
Wikipedia says

Amazon EC2 was developed mostly by a team in Cape Town, South Africa led by Chris Pinkham. Pinkham provided the initial architecture guidance for EC2 and then built the team and led the development of the project along with Willem van Biljon.

with links to a Register piece

https://www.theregister.com/2010/06/25/nimbula_cloud_os/

And

https://web.archive.org/web/20100621120705/http://itknowledg...
Freedom [it provides]
Sounds like lawsuits galore. The lawyers would love it.
I will block his account, but his followers will not, that's precisely the problem, and the whole point. They will commit violence and vandalize public property instead.
I recently realized that mmap was how good editors are able to open huge files without stalling like bad editors do. There are use cases for it but yes, you need to know what you are doing.
There is a huge difference between what the GP proposes and your interpretation: the GP talks about a structure that is not just a memory backed copy of the data in the file (which still requires an in memory structure pointing to the bits and pieces to make sense of it, or a painful parse step for every access and an impossibility to write back to it).

So the whole structure in its native form rather than the contents of the json file, for instance a graph would reside in memory and could be operated on directly.

Hence the 'serialized' in the part that you quoted. Once you serialize it the whole thing becomes hamburger and needs to be parsed again before you can operate on it.
Clearly not, judging by how my votes are doing. But I think their emotions are getting in the way, leading them to see things that aren't there.
Personal responsibility = the idea that human beings choose, instigate, or otherwise cause their own actions.

Stupidity = behavior that shows a lack of good sense or judgment.
I realize that's probably what he (or realistically, whoever told him that) meant, but that's not at all what he said.

He's talking to a broad, panicked audience and anyone doing so ought to choose their words carefully. Something like "Great news is that we've already had safety data for this stuff, so we're going straight to efficacy trials!" would convey plenty of optimism without encouraging yahoos to do dumb things.
More random stuff out + less random stuff in = more shelf space for essentials.
Even if this were approved for use, do you honestly think ODs won't happen? One of the most common drug deaths is from Tylenol.
For a week I've been wondering about Germany's numbers. Maybe they are doing something wrong, or maybe it is China and Italy that are giving us bad data.
It doesn't really go without saying. Otherwise pharmaceutical advertising wouldn't need copious safety warnings in every single commercial.

I don't think it's a good idea to take the President's happy talk at face value, but then I also didn't think it was ever a good idea to spend money on Trump University, or donating to Trump charities; on the other hand, enough people did that the matters ended up in court and the two branded entities mentioned above were both found to be liable for misinforming their customers/donors.

There are a lot of stupid folk among the public, and it is to them that scam artists like Jim Bakker or Alex Jones market quack cures. There's an appetite for quack cures because they seem affordable relative to the often-inaccessible costs of basic medical treatment, because we don't have a universal public health system in the USA. The sad fact is that people sell snake oil because there are fat profits to be made by doing so, even though most of us recognize such products as little better than placebos at best or dangerous at worst.

This is why we have product regulation, credentialing and so on; it's hard for people to personally assess the quality of every product or service and there are unscrupulous people who are willing to exploit that difficulty.
I’ve never launched an app. If you integrate directly with stripe do you still have to pay 30% to google?
FWIW, I've used redo and it seems to me to be the make-killer.
The tare would be reset each time a customer picks something up. The total bin weight doesn’t matter, just the delta between before and after the computer vision system identifies that a customer removed some of the bin’s contents.
From yesterday on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21606415

Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered in data leak

Fourth paragraph of the story:

For a very low price, data enrichment companies allow you to take a single piece of information on a person (such as a name or email address), and expand (or enrich) that user profile to include hundreds of additional new data points of information. As seen with the Exactis data breach, collected information on a single person can include information such as household sizes, finances and income, political and religious preferences, and even a person’s preferred social activities.

Each time a company chooses to “enrich” a user profile, they are also agreeing to provide what they know about the person to the enriching organization (thereby increasing the validity of the organization’s future results). Despite efforts from social media organizations like Facebook, the resulting data continues to be compounded, creating a situation with no oversight that ultimately allows all of a person’s social and personal information to be easily downloaded.

https://www.dataviper.io/blog/2019/pdl-data-exposure-billion...

Extrapolate present AI, facial-recognition, location tracking (cell phones), voice-recognition, and integrated databases. You're already 99% of the way there.
You don't mention your software stack but it's almost guaranteed to have good support for MySQL or PgSQL.

Re: SQLite, I haven't seen many production websites running on it but it's sure possible. Just make sure the place where you store it is reliable.
That's an ill-defined question. You can do the same thing with far less vague concepts than consciousness, and I could even ask you the same question about a brain and adding neurons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox
You also need a beryllium nuclei. It comes a nuclear physics experiment.
Honestly, even if the E8 lattice is nothing but imagination, it's so beautiful that we need to make a para-verse like that someday. You know, when we've mastered creating universes and stuff, at least when we're able to live in virtual fluff. The beings in such a simulated universe would be so in awe of 'everything' as they uncover the theory thereof.
We'll cross our fingers that benevolent general AI overlords are developed before we destroy ourselves.
I'm really not a serious guy... I thought it was a funny article too (I chuckled once or twice). My "serious" response was because it was a "serious" (non-satire) post... I would have had a funny response if it was from The Onion.
I'll do frameworks next, then. Any frameworks that people are particularly interested in seeing?
I think this raises the question: how much longer will the web still be indexable in the classical HTML sense?
Should i say: http://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Thinking-Learning-Refactor-P...

The book: http://pragprog.com/titles/ahptl/pragmatic-thinking-and-lear...

A mindmap that describes the contents pretty well: http://media.pragprog.com/titles/ahptl/MindMapWeb.png

The remainders of "The Greatest Secret in the World" replaced with exercices and pieces about being more aware of many essential skills. Through the exercises and losely coupled chapters, you can learn some core disciplines of the whole human race.

Let me explain.

It's like a manual for the simplest things in live like control about yourself, how the brain works, performance in any situation and so on. It makes a real difference for you, once you have understood and practiced for a while. But it is worth the effort.

Books are like a stream of knowledge, when they are really packed to the smallest possible pieces of text. The first read through is an enjoyment of well written text and assembled graphics, tips and exercises. But when you work while you read it gets even better.

Riding a bycycle is a pretty good metaphor on the whole thing.
You need to learn how to ride a bike. So you need a bike.

I assume you already have a brain, since you are reading this.

Then you probably want to know how it works and evolves, in many details and exercises? One chapter. Go for it.

It reads closely to the offense of structure of very well written code, but in human readable text.

This is my opinion and i'd like to hear from others what they think, by all means. :)
This seems really neat, but our servers are the un-cool kids on the block that run FreeBSD. Any hope of BSD support?
As others have said, practice is essential--especially in front of other people or at least a video camera.

Also, become comfortable with silence. Standing front-and-center in a crowded room and staying quiet for even a couple moments can be terrifying at first--much more difficult than actually speaking in public. As a result, many inexperienced speakers end up rushing through their entire speeches, reciting word for word what they practiced without emotion or even an awareness of what they are saying, too afraid of silence to stop for even a moment.

In reality, such pauses do wonders in not only breaking up the cadence of your speech to grab the audiences attention, but also allowing you the opportunity to collect your thoughts and contemplate what points you want to make on your next topic or what points you need to add before moving on. Try forcing yourself to pause for a couple seconds as you put up each new slide.

Although I usually like to have the first few sentences of a speech planned out verbatim to get the ball rolling smoothly, I still make a point of just standing quietly for about 10 seconds after the introduction. It's enough to get me comfortable with the feeling of silence so that I'll be able to pause and collect my thoughts later on, and just long enough to make the audience curious and attentive--ideally causing everyone to look up and be alert as your start into your speech.
"a very narrow Western view"

Claiming that the swastika is associated with Nazis isn't a "narrow view" if it IS associated with Nazis for half the fucking planet.
It's simple.

If you want the job,

And you're smart,

You'll keep your goddamn mouth shut.
What problems do you have with 7 pounds for airmail and 20 pounds for tracked airmail? I've used the airmail option to the US for the first edition of The Book of Shen without problem.

There's also online resources for learning that if you have enough functional programming background ought to be able to get you started: http://www.shenlanguage.org/learn-shen/index.html

Added: it's a 400 page print on demand book, I don't have a scale that's suitable for its weight range but the first edition, which has its form factor, is well over a pound.

(http://www.fast-print.net/bookshop/1506/the-book-of-shen-sec...)
"You are not so smart" by David McRane touches the same topic. It goes through the long list of ways we are fooling our selves or "not being as smart as we think we are". And for each case he is also referencing the studies proving this.

http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Not-So-Smart/dp/1592407366

He also has a blog with the same name as the book that covers the same topics (I believe the book came out of the blog):
http://youarenotsosmart.com
im curious what the % drop in # of commits is for the days its blocked.
"Prose authorship attribution that utilizes parse trees have been able to identify an anonymous text from 100,000 candidate authors 20% of the time."

Color me unimpressed
In the hypothesis Servo becomes Firefox's engine, this will be a blocker for Danish users. The government-mandated Nem-ID scheme uses a Java applet, and is used everywhere (taxes, banks, school system...).
>> Jobs didn't create technology, he sold it to people

> I don't understand what you are trying to say.

Okay, let me spell it out for you -- here's the remark I was replying to:

>>> If you can't acknowledge Steve Jobs massive contributions to technological progress

Really, "massive"? Invention of the transistor massive? Design of the first computer massive? Design of basic computer algorithms and/or languages massive? Or, to be more specific, design anything massive? Well, in point of fact, no -- none of the above.

> ... but the fact is that most developers would not have jobs if salespeople did not sell the products they created.

Yes, and people who actually develop technology wouldn't be comfortable without people to sweep the floors and empty the wastebaskets. The question you need to ask yourself is which role is irreplaceable -- the creator of technology or the person who sells it?