jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
However if we accept the definition, then it is surely meaningless (pointless?) to discuss AI progress in those terms.

EDIT: what i really mean is that I reject the strong/weak AI dichotomy. I really need to resist the urge to play pointless semantic games. Guess thats an occupational hazard of programming all day long.
As someone who has long had an interest (my wife would call it an obsession) with transforming the basic stats of sports into something more useful and meaningful, this is fascinating stuff. I think anyone that reads the game previews and recaps on NBA.com, NFL.com or any other major league site can see where things could be automated. That writing IS largely formulaic and forgettable. It would be very interesting if instead of just doing the same thing through automation, it produced innovative stats and interpreted them in ways that gave the reader insight into the outcome of the game.

My current pet project is taking NBA data and transforming it into something beyond points per game, etc. I think that's where the future of sports related AI resides.
This debate has been going on for years in advertising. There is a cultural gulf between direct response advertising people and general advertising people. Direct response people know to the penny how well different adverts work because it is intrinsic to their medium. As a result, there exists a set of near-inviolable laws on how to run a direct response campaign that works. Long TV slots always work better than short ones, long copy in print works better than short copy, simple illustrations work better than clever art and so on. These rules almost directly contradict what is considered good by general advertising people, who rarely ever try to measure the effect of their advertising on the bottom line.

As business people, we have two choices. We can trust the taste and intuition of designers and hope that their vision is what the market demands. Or, we can test and measure relentlessly, seeking always to measure what matters - whether a decision will be profitable or not. It is entirely plausible that a test-driven environment may miss out on sparks of creative genius that happen to be utterly untestable. It is also possible that there is an invisible teapot orbiting the sun. I factor neither possibility into my decisions because I cannot possibly make rational decisions on that basis.

It has never been cheaper or easier to test. Rapid prototyping means that even complex hardware can be produced for testing at a cost which pales in comparison to the tooling for a mass-production run. Just In Time techniques and electronic point of sale systems allow brick-and-mortar retailers to test endless permutations of merchandising. A business without systematic testing is a ship with no compass. Gut instinct is valuable and laudable, but to fail to confirm it empirically is utterly foolish when the costs of testing are so small relative to the costs of even the most minor failure.
> Their spokesperson spoke to users like they were kindergarten children

This would probably be effective in America: "Trump speaks at level of 8-year-old, new analysis finds" [0]

[0]: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
Your claim to authority here is helping out claimants on a tobacco case, a situation where the companies were unquestionably guilty.

With Monsanto, you have to look at the context. They have been repeatedly sued and lost jury trials, with absurd damages into the hundreds of millions awarded to individual claimants. With any jury trial, the chance of Monsanto losing is (empirically) well above 90%. If you can settle 100k claims at a cost on the order of one percent of what individual claimants are making in their lawsuits against you, it's not unreasonable to take that.

As others have repeatedly said, the question has nothing to do with whether or not the science is on Monsanto's side. Expecting a corporation to act on the basis of moral integrity is pretty laughable, as I'd expect you agree. They're acting on the basis of what they think they can get a jury to accept. If it turns out that juries are particularly awful at interpreting and respecting scientific research, you have to take that into account. If it turns out that settling a class action for way less than claimants have been making in individual lawsuits solves a lot of problems for you, it's reasonable to do that.

Note that I'm not claiming that glyphosate is safe. I'm only claiming that you can't act as if the results of jury trials (or settlements made to avoid jury trials) settle the scientific question.
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Yes this is the natural end to "individual responsibility" morality.

Put tremendous immiserating conditions on as many people as possible and then you can blame them for the harms they cause to each other to survive it.

You can even use the evidence of those harms as propaganda about why poor people are inferior in some way, or to blame for their own conditions! It's a very efficient system.
Population density absolutely matters for airborne infectious disease spread.
While this issue is too rare to alter the current vaccine strategy - it does raise an interesting ethical question. What should we do if, for a specific segment of the population, the vaccine poses a greater risk than contracting the virus? Would interesting to try and model this. How would we would/could we chose between the rights of two different population segments?
To let the public known they are making progress and get/keep them excited so that they can keep getting funding. Also to attract the students and staff they want.
I always wish stuff like this happened to me on the internet.
Explain something to me: why would I pay for a Blue Ray player if I am downloading all my content?

As a developer the platform is exciting to me but I'd like to see Google get more deals with content providers first. Besides everyone knows that Samsung makes the best big screen TV's.
Unfortunately, this is just the way it'll always work. Take land, for example: It's all claimed by someone already. And a lot of it isn't even being used. It'd be really sweet to use a bunch of it... but there are squatters. :/
The only sane answer is to increase the registration price for domains so that it relates more to the market worth of that domain.
Because a large percentage of the electronics stores selling grey market stuff out of Brooklyn are run by Hasidic jews. Obviously not all Hasidic jews selling cameras in Brooklyn are criminals, but it's generally easier just to avoid them. Similarly, just because I wouldn't pay $5000 for a Rolex on the streets of chinatown doesn't mean I'm racist against asians.

In general I have no evidence that Hasidic jews are any less ethical than any other group of people. At the same time there appears to be an ongoing problem of the ones in Brooklyn using their appearance of religiosity as a cover for committing crimes, especially related to selling stolen electronics and drug dealing. (Jesse Eisenberg was recently in a movie called Holy Rollers, which was about the latter problem.) Sure there are some people who are losing business due to being falsely stereotyped, but it's like 200 people as opposed to 200 million so the social consequences are fairly limited.
I don't think the checkerboard is for interference, it's in his single kinect videos too. Probably for aligning his texture maps from the video camera on the the depth map from the ir camera.

Edit- Oops, I'm wrong. It's not in the single kinect vids. I still think it's for mapping video to depth though.
> If we were to take a typical pirate and transport them to a hypothetical world where piracy was physically impossible, I think you'd generally find that they're not actually priced out of the market for many of the goods that they currently pirate. They'd likely cut down their consumption in a major way, but I strongly suspect that they'd still be willing to pay for a significant portion of the goods they currently pirate.

I really doubt that.

First your last sentence. Which one is it? Either you cut down on consumption in a major way, or you still pay for a significant portion of your current consumption.

Then, questions about this hypothetical world. Does free music (net.labels, ektoplazm.com etc) still exist in this world? If not then I'd expect music culture to become a rather elitist hobby, if it even still exists in any meaningful form at all.

If free music still exists then I expect it to flourish much more than it does in the real world. I'd probably mostly listen to that, because that's where the innovation will happen. I'd probably buy a tiny number of some classic genre-definers that happened to end up on the "paid" side of the fence.

The latter situation is where we're moving with piracy as well.
Can you not contact the site owner? Or ask Leaseweb to forward your request to the owner? Besides that, I would assume the next course of action would seek legal advice.
If it's anything other than no reply/boilerplate I'd be incredibly surprised, one rule for us, another for the security services.
This is why you "leak" it and find a scapegoat.
The take-away from the article should be "…because now I understand the issues", and not "…because Google says so"
That depends on the potential audience of the docs I guess.
I think the people who hope to be as still and dead as a rock will have a bit of a rude shock waiting for them once they actually dive into meditating. It takes a lot of practice to reach those states.

Anyway, as you mentioned, meditation has multiple definitions. There are many forms that are about much more than just focus. Concentrative practices (e.g., samatha jhanas) are all about one-pointed focus, but mindfulness practice (vipassana) also includes awareness of whatever flits about in the mind. In this sense, it's about being aware of all the distractions... Metta practice is one-pointed focus, but directed to cultivation of joyous feelings.
How else could you then search for the criminal history of Guyanese citizens? Did the Guyanese government push all their data to the US?
One of the ideas mentioned is that code that's readily understood by humans is code that will be efficient for computers. I'm not sure I agree with this.
I hate this so much -- I'll search for some topic, and start getting ads all over the internet related to that topic. Case in point -- a few weeks ago I clicked on an article regarding "Computer Scientist Barbie", and clicked through the Amazon link. Guess how many Barbie advertisements I'm getting now.
Yeah the spammers call themselves geniuses and justify themselves as well. I for one, avoid ever clicking on those links that say something like "You won't believe what this guy's girlfriend did" or similar. Fool me once.. etc. Eventually people will catch on.
The US has a long history with "toxic identity politics" - much of it very consequential. I dare say, there wasn't a time when America didn't care for "identity politics" - if there was, please let me know when.
> It's bizarre how much Prop 13 appeals to folks, even those who don't benefit from it.

It should appeals to anyone who buys a house at any age.

Without Prop 13, home owners tax rates rise just because nearby businesses are successful, which is absurdly regressive.

Prop 13 appeals to and benefits people who don’t own real-estate yet, because it means that when they can do so, they know that their costs will be predictable, and they won’t be forced out of their homes by the next wave of IPOs or whatever else beyond their control (such as government money printing) pushes prices up.
If you don't mind, which motion-detecting sleep mat did you wind up going with?
This is basically Silicon Valley mentality broadening its influence. I would guess - just a guess - that a corporation like Coca-cola sees this kind of stuff heralded in Silicon Valley and things "hey we can be hip too!"
Similar experience here.

AWS has had many years to build and polish their sales process, and it shows.

GCP felt like the engineers built a good platform and then tossed it over the wall to some old school VP of sales type people to pitch it in whatever way maximizes their commission checks.

Azure feels like a finely honed enterprise sales org that understands what they need to do as underdogs in this market.
A shithole country being one forced to accept cheap, poor quality American or Chinese products at the expense of local industry?
Haha, you’re right. I was so annoyed by other people’s project photos being low-res so I couldn’t zoom that I vowed to upload the highest-resolution photos I could get away with. I’ll find a Jekyll plugin for thumbnails!
Less regulation has generally led to more public harm. Toxic waste in rivers, siphoning of pensions and retirement plans, ponzi schemes, and on and on and on. There is always a balance to strike and then a constant rebalancing. We must guard against regulatory capture and many other ways the system can go wrong. This means we should favor the election of informed lawmakers that understand complex systems and then oversee them. This is a very technocratic position, but also a balanced position.
Another good package to look at is Etsy's Skyline - https://github.com/etsy/skyline

Their introduction of the Kale stack (which includes Skyline) is a great read - https://codeascraft.com/2013/06/11/introducing-kale/

I spent a month or so evaluating anomaly detection systems and I can tell you a few things the twitter post fails to mention

1. You can get a long way with an ensemble of simple techniques. And it's always better than any single technique.

I wouldn't recommend trying to install skyline but re-implementing the ensemble of anomaly classifiers they have might take you a day or two and it will get you 90% of the way there.

2. The False Positive rate is probably your most important metric.

Detecting anomalies is good, but your ops team already has plenty of alerts to deal with. If you throw false positives at them from a new system they will hate you and ignore the new system. Most papers report ROC curve data as the metric for classification, that can be ok too.

3. Don't build something complex when a threshold will do.

If a point anomaly is obvious to a human, you absolutely should not build a complex system to detect it, just use thresholds. It's only when you want to detect anomalies before they cross a threshold that you should start on this kind of task. That leads me to

4. Almost all anomalies have a temporal component.

If your detector isn't ultimately looking at multiple sources of data and finding patterns that initially look like normal behavior (or odd behavior over time like a change in frequency) then its not adding as much value as it could. Slow trends, increased predictability, absent spikes which are still within threshold, those are the kind of anomalies your simple systems will miss and which will add a lot of value.

Ultimately anything that makes ops life easier and alerts them sooner to real problems is good. But in anomaly detection it is easy to fool yourself into thinking you need something complex to start out with, and when you've built a complex thing that it is "working" because it finds 95% of the obvious outliers.
Passwords are the worst form of authentication except for all the others.
Maybe Github or Docco?
Thanks Paul! So you're saying it's all a SMOP :)

Another thing that I think might be a critical (or at least interesting) characteristic is back-filling optimization, i.e. when you need to load a trillion data points of historical data - this y/t explains it pretty well and talks about how OpenTSDB addresses it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgD3RD2Shg4

Anyhow - keep up the good work, I very much believe that in the next couple of years "Time Series" is going to become a resume-must-include buzzword :)
I didn't think you did and I apologize for not phrasing it better.

Berkeley DB is an old piece of software that has changed a lot over time, as have the environments it has to run in. I think the big change in robustness happened from 3.x to 4.x.

Edit: grammar.
* technical writing. There is a night and day difference between people who can balance brevity and precision and those who can’t. It’s like separating the adults from the children in the room.

* data structures. Some developers can grasp that data facets are composed into groups called structures internally divisible by something called relationships. Other developers don’t ever grasp that and simply view the world as a stream of search queries.
It isn't lacking humanity. I grew up poor as well. And what the poster says does indeed happen a lot. This is not to say I don't think the poor should be helped. I was helped with school grants and loans to get me to where I am today, Medicaid, and also welfare for my parents and I. So personally I know how it was, and I know how it is to have to fight that. It is hard and the poor need help for sure.

The problem of poverty can come multiple ways. One way is lack of opportunity or being in a hole you can't get out of (kids and nobody to care for them, no home, nobody to look up to, mental illness, drug addiction, health problems). But there's also people that just aren't going to do their part to help themselves either. So what we need to do is help people get out of holes to get on their feet. There's a substantial portion of people that will take that money and do exactly what the OP said.
I agree, but can you enumerate a bit more what specifically is painful?
When we actually use antitrust laws to limit these massive private companies I may be more on board with letting them do as they please with censor. As it is right now, they’re the lifeline and public square for much of modern life. As you clearly point out, the government can and should hold these companies accountable for their size and actions.

The left has plenty of respect for the dangers of both private and public power, but our system doesn’t listen to them because it requires a reflection on the bad parts of capitalism.

Twitter and Facebook profit off of speech on their platforms, and actively drive users to content that increase engagement. Furthermore they have no accountability when they cancel people and businesses, which again, the left knows about. We can change the incentives and repercussions without encouraging them to censor speech they unilaterally don’t like.
That's pretty cool, it's just that 5 minutes into that website my screen filled with chaos. It could be nicer if you could animate anything other than those lines
Hi Lukas! We use JOOQ at our company and it has been a great experience. Thanks for all your hard work.
I'm curious as to why you decided to look into purchasing a clearcut in order to better understand if this is popular amongst a demographic such as tech workers with growing wealth--is there a market for this specifically in consulting forestry with a tech focus. Check out the Society of American Foresters if you want to pay for a forest management plan. Or as noted try the local forestry extension and the Forest Service's State and Private Forestry contacts.

https://www.eforester.org/Main/Certification_Education/Certi...

https://www.forestry.oregonstate.edu/forestry-and-natural-re...

https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/communityforests/?cid=fsbd...
Did it go away on its own?
I’m not sure what the point you’re making is?
Oh, I tried that app! Didn't like it! Personally, I use http://movie-creator.com/ editing tool. It is a high performance video editing software which is suitable for both home users and professionals.
Everyone has a budget.
Is this data aggregated or just pseudonymised? Because I don't mind if it's the first, and the second isn't actually possible...
> Besides addressing carjacking, the bill also changes the definition of a “violent video game” to one in which players “control a character within the video game that is encouraged to perpetuate human-on-human violence in which the player kills or otherwise causes serious physical or psychological harm to another human or an animal.”

Unless I'm totally misreading that, it sounds like GTA isn't even the tip of the iceberg. That's... a lot of games?

I mean, besides all the obvious (every FPS, arguably many RTSs, etc) I'm pretty sure this would even ban Minecraft?
It's more complicated than how you're presenting it.

The comments on the bug report point out that the new behavior makes Firefox on Linux different from other Linux applications, including some browsers. The devs said they want Firefox to be consistent across platforms, whereas the Linux users want Firefox to be consistent with the rest of their system.

The new behavior is also different from the behavior of text boxes rendered by Firefox.
> The "knock it off" calls after are to indicate that they're not fighting anymore. As I understand, that's not slang, that's the actual terminology used.

Yeah, AIUI that is essentially the safe word (phrase) that anyone can call at any point that says "everyone involved stop now".

You hear SULLY1 call "SULLY knock it off" (command) and then call out his own confirmation/the now conscious pilot calls the confirmation as well.
I use mostly Firefox, but that behavior change didn't trigger me.

However I can relate: When I tried to use chromium I got really annoyed that clicking and dragging the selection with the mouse up or down would not automatically select the complete text in front or behind the cursor in the url bar.

Firefox still allows to do that under Linux. Hopefully they will not change that as well.
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