skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Arabian Babbler is a bird, for anyone else who was imagining a babbling Arabian human.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_babbler#Behaviour - interesting
mouse click is much faster than brain signal. i also clicked to read about postscript language.
I understand your/TFA's argument but I think falls dangerously wide of the mark. I'm sure that the feedback process you describe is real, but I'm also sure that judicial prejudice is far from the only thing feeding the cycle of poverty and crime that plagues black communities. Even if we were to succeed at eliminating judicial prejudice from our training data, the other factors maintaining the cycle would once again lead the ML algorithm right back to p(criminal|black)>p(criminal).

The way to fight the prejudice is not to pretend that math would work out differently if only we had better data / more sophisticated models / etc, it's is to realize that it's OK to discard the result of bayesian reasoning due to factors out of the calculation's scope. Courts discard evidence all the time for a million sundry reasons. Racism / double standards can be another.
Looks really cool.

I recently hit a roadblock when trying to implement the original DeepMind Atari algorithm [0] with TensorFlow. They don't mention this in the paper, but the network wasn't trained to convergence at each training step (maybe this would be obvious to people more well-versed in deep learning, but it wasn't to me coming from a classical RL background).

As it turns out, TensorFlow's optimizers don't have a way to manually terminate training before convergence. That meant I was getting through several orders of magnitude fewer training steps than the DeepMind team did, even when accounting for my inferior hardware. This might not be a problem in some learning cases, where training more on certain examples lets you extract more information from them, but in games with sparse rewards it's bad.

Of course, TensorFlow does let you do the gradient calculations and updates by hand, but I wasn't prepared to go that far at the time. Maybe in the next few weeks I'll dive back into it.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.5602.pdf
I'm very interested in this. My own intuition says basic income won't work, but it'd sure be nice if it did.
Seconded. Terrible airlines aren't a problem unique to the US, but my experience of travel with major Australian and Asian airlines is consistently good, whilst with US carriers almost universally dismal as given in the GP.
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Not as bleak as you imply. Just don't give the model race or strong indicators of race as an input.
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Well, first of all it looked kinda forced in there...

Didn't find a lot of UX meat...
I have to agree. And it's a similar experience in Europe and South East Asia.

Maybe this is a generational thing? I've only been traveling for the past 3 years and to me everything seems normal.

Edit: There is one thing that really bugs me: The insecticide spray they release into the cabin on some routes. What's next? Barnaby Joyce personally raiding the cabin looking for traces of Pistol and Boo?
To be clear, I can see why coding it purely recursively would be a bad idea. Same for using linked structures, if that was the concern with the quad tree.

However, it seems that you could use the general recursive definition to find some optimizations that one could do. For example, define a recursive structure to break down a problem until it is small enough that a more traditional method works. (So, don't drop down to the size of a pixel, but do drop down till you have things at cache line size?)

Perusing the wikipedia for Strassen, I see that it scoffs at a ~10% benefit for large matrices. Curious how that holds in light of "deep learning" environments. Especially since 1k x 1k matrices are probably not that uncommon nowdays. Seems like every little bit would help.

Edit to add: THinking of the context of the original post. Yeah... probably not needed for anything in a "snappy" user application. I was thinking more for very large data sets.
Most people working full time would have their taxes adjusted so it made little difference.
Yes, the basics of MDPs, value/policy iteration, etc. are covered in the undergraduate Artificial Intelligence class (CS 188).
For domestic travel within the US, first class -- especially booked well in advance -- is often surprisingly cheap, and cheap buy-ups are routinely offered, too (for example, I'm looking at a round-trip for about four months from now for a conference I'll attend, and I'm seeing first class offered for about $250 round-trip).

International business class is expensive, yes, typically on the order of $8,000 to $10,000 for a round-trip ticket. But international is the only place airlines can get away with charging that kind of fare and have people pay it, so that's what they'll continue to do. And when compared to other things people in software-developer income brackets often spend money on, even that isn't particularly gigantic; it's just all in one go instead of spread out over many small purchases the way, say, use of Uber and Lyft would be.
Please spell out 'Oregon'. You can't search for 'OR'.
What unlistenable music are you referring to? This sounds interesting
Last I checked KDE was still working on HiDPI support. Has that changed? What plasma based distribution would you recommend?
The Pearl Automation story, which 'logicallee refers to, doesn't have a paidpost subdomain. The Cole Haan paid post which 'achompas linked to does.
On most US domestic airlines, so-called "first class" gives me what other airlines call at most a premium economy seat, and does not improve the overall quality of customer service.
I didn't downvote, but maybe some recruiters here are jerks and people didn't like their experience interviewing. The one I spoke to promised to get back with a date for phone screening and vanished, then lied that she emailed me about it.

It's unfair on Jacques imo, he was polite with me, is open about getting a referral bonus, and always has informative comments in technical threads.
Thank you. I was too focused on the paper aspect of bookbinding to see the potential in the other parts.
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Much of the discussion in this thread is worryingly callous and dismissive.

This is a first person account of an activist starving themselves to death in the service of a selfless and unviolent cause.
Kindness is a poor word choice, except in its most literal sense. Care is much more apt. Mammals' key evolutionary advantage over reptiles is that they care for each other, forming social groups which enable greater fitness. Likewise with primates > mammals, and humans > apes.

(One could argue that intelligence and brain size have more to do with evolutionary fitness, but I would speculate that intelligence is a result of increased care, not the other way around. Give a thing more time, space, and resources to grow, and it will.)

As a species, the more we collectively care for each other--through actions, not feelings--, the greater chance we have for survival and growth.
The New Zealand Treasury did a basic analysis on a Guaranteed Minimum Income a while ago (2010) that's a good read, with a lot of actual numbers crunched: http://igps.victoria.ac.nz/WelfareWorkingGroup/Downloads/Wor...
This was one of the main takeaways from a delightful interview about depression with Peter Sagal (https://www.apmpodcasts.org/thwod/2016/12/peter-sagal-opens-...)

"Avoiders" who push themselves into social situations and work they care about will fare better than ruminators.
> Corporations don't have the ability to fund pensions any longer. Margins and benefits have thinned out.

That's true. Interesting then that executive pay, golden parachutes etc keep climbing...
Interesting! I assume there's some requirement to at least vaguely reflect the actual cost of fuel, so they can't just charge $1 for the "fare" and put the rest as a tax-free "fuel surcharge"?
As humans, we are inherently Lazy.

What's the incentive to start looking for work if there are no strings attached on how you can spend money? Is Finland the only country in the world that has 0 junkies, 0 prescription addicts, 0 dads paying child support?

I agree with @aswanson, this is headed for inflation, or an even worse financial disaster.

Side Note: Is it easy to immigrate to and naturalize as a Citizen? I'm buying my ticket.
United has not announced plans that I know of to add premium economy, but both United and AA nowadays tend to copy Delta, since Delta's been making a lot of money.

Of the big three legacy carriers, Delta is currently the best combination of price and reliability. You know they want a bit of extra money for the slightly nicer experiences, and you know what you're going to get out of it.

For international travel, though, I've been starting to avoid US carriers entirely in favor of flying the other country's airline (which is something you can do when living near a major international hub -- SFO, in my case). Often it's another small step up, and sometimes it's a big step up, compared to the US airlines.
Australia has some of the most liberal welfare payments in the world - anyone that isn't earning much (or doesn't have a job, or has never had one) can get around $250 per week. Forever. Very few strings attached. More money if you have kids, etc.

It's known there are tens of thousands (hundreds? millions?) of people who just don't want to work and sit around on it for their entire lives. A few friends did it for a decade after highschool, just surfed all day every day.

Despite all the naysayers and doomsayers about this kind of thing, Australia's economy and workforce is perfectly healthy, and has been this way for decades....
The way you undo autocorrect in iOS is backspace once. The black suggestion tip will appear with your original spelling and tapping it will revert the change.
I was about to mention AustLII http://www.austlii.edu.au/ which has been around for about 20 years. I hadn't heard of WorldLII and CanLII; seems they're part of a network.

And it looks like AustLII was where it started; the WorldLII contacts are all AustLII people.
I have been upgraded to 1st class only once in my life. Are free upgrades more common in the US than other countries?
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To sum this up, dude DoS'ed a hospital, got in trouble for it, feels that getting in trouble for breaking the law is something that doesn't apply to him and thus refuses to eat food for a while, and tries to make the lives of everyone else around him difficult (except for his special little African friend).

He also tries to leverage someone else's suicide to his advantage which is always a classy look.
I was thinking it might be a sub group of Arabians I'd never heard of, like berbers.
No one is going to explain how they're wrong, if he was ticketed the officer involved had a perspective that included him not being in the right.
Australia has an extremely high cost of living, $1,000/month doesn't seem high enough to cover the cost of rent, food and a cell phone, let alone enjoy a surfers lifestyle.
The people already earning a living are the ones paying for it. You'd be taking their own money from them only to give it back, less overhead.
All the companies I've worked for have had travel policies where more than N hours airborne meant an automatic upgrade. I don't know how normal it is, but it's not crazy.
haha, i can't believe you found a screenshot. That's hilarious, i was pretty sure it was Jobs but memory is hazy. Thanks!
I believe the article is indeed trying to educate that the phrase re."fittest" is a poor framing, and further that
survival of the best fitted to their environment does not automatically degenerate into survival of the strongest and/or most ruthless.
Well, I would rather call it organization rather than just care. While the highest level of animal organization is called eusociality, humans are not hardwired to be eusocial but can display very advanced division of labor.

Now, I would not really say advantage or disadvantage. Each species have a specific role in the ecosystem and sometimes they're related in very unexpected ways. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q
> 1. Facebook, Skype and WhatsApp solved problems others didn't and became big. Now it's too late to fight.

Facebook was at least the third widely adopted social network. It made it largely by targeting its marketing towards college kids. and expanding strategically and somewhat methodically. Other than its marketing, the only other reason Facebook did well was by becoming a programmer friendly platform. It was no better for users than the other ones.
I don't think anything in Denver or Boulder stacks up to astronomical prices of the Bay Area. You can easily get a nice house 20 minutes from Denver for $300K. If you're looking in Denver proper, you're looking at $500K-$1M+ (Cherry Creek or similar). But you get much much more bang for your buck (we're talking a nice house). A $1M property in SF is like, what, some land with a dilapidated property? Boulder's housing market is going to be significantly more expensive. I'm only familiar with rent prices there. Maybe somebody else can comment on the housing market. But again, I don't think it's anywhere close to the Bay Area prices. At least not in terms of what you get for the same money.

Boulder has more tech jobs. There are big guys like Twitter, Google and a gazillion of startups like VictorOps and SendGrid. Denver's lacking but I don't think it's too far behind. The fun stuff is pretty much all in Boulder though. Maybe the current construction boom will change that a bit.

I can't comment on salaries. I work remotely for a company that isn't in Denver, but I can just say you can live lavishly here if you make $120K+. And if you have some money to burn, it's a perfect time to invest in some property. The entire Denver area is under construction right now.
The funny thing is that I never even thought about it, it was my first real email account. But ever since then i've been a vigilant anti-read-receipt person and to this day disable clients from replying to them whenever possible.
Russian government hackers do not appear to have targeted Vermont utility
> What's the incentive to start looking for work if there are no strings attached on how you can spend money?

More money?

> I agree with @aswanson, this is headed for inflation, or an even worse financial disaster.

Why would distributing money per se cause inflation? Does inflation go up any time money goes from one entity to several?
What offended you? I read the whole article and could only find one even mildly controversial comment:

"He was certain that racism wouldn’t die until the racists did, and so was I. What I didn’t tell him was that I hoped it would be soon and that if I could help them along, I would be delighted. I wasn’t quite ready to pick up the gun, but I was intimate with the impulse."

But that strikes me more as someone being honest about the hateful impulses that were instilled in him through repeated mistreatment. I see no evidence from the article that Kareem thinks anything negative about white men in general.
still, no reason to downvote. if someone is hot, that is hard to change. age well - shouldn't we all?
You must have him confused with someone else. His name is Roger Murdock. He's the co-pilot.
These threads area always fun. I'll give my "eng/arch/social" bad-decision-eigenvectors.

- Deleted /etc on a live cluster, due to interpolation in a CMS script which tried to pretend that solaris wasn't a thing.

- Overengineered _everything_ as opposed to recognizing that 90% of the time the needs really demanded something that would just work and people could forget about.

- Let myself identify too much with my work. I made choices in work life balance and in letting myself feel shitty about things out of my control that you can't let bother you if you're going to keep smiling and moving forward.
There is a thoughtful book on this topic called "Love is the Killer App" that makes the argument that in a commodity based economy the most ruthless prevail (think 20th century steel industry), but in an information based community the most altruistic prevail (the internet). I didn't agree with all of it but it was a good read and a helpful counterpoint to the widely held view that being ruthless is good for business.
Don't upgrade MYSQL on production without backups! Fortunately I was able to pull the database files into a old version and export them, but that was a really tense conversation with my boss.

Thinking back on it, they put a LOT of trust in me at 16. I was the only web dev at a small GIS shop for a summer. They hired me on to rebuild their PHP websites. I didn't know PHP at the beginning of the summer.
I have very similar background after playing with both decided to focus on Elixir very pleasant language and all the power of BEAM/OTP.
Ask HN: Are there any laptops which offer HDMI input?
All gaming and professional laptops include HDMI out, but what I'm looking to do is connect a gaming console to my laptop to use the screen while I'm visiting relatives, etc. This way I won't have to bring a TV screen.
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> For computers and calculators.

Aw, I wish they made an edition to be read by humans.
So basically the law is Brainfuck?
How about advertising for candy crush soda saga/minecraft, right on my start menu. Or the crazy invasive privacy settings on first boot. Destroy windows spying fixes most of this, but it's easier to just uninstall bill's shitty OS and use ubuntu.
Typically x8 can be used with near zero performance loss in many/most workloads, and withGen3 x4 should be fine again.
Eh, 30% of all income is capital gains income, so passive income does work for the top 1% without problems.
I assume by surfers lifestyle he doesn't mean a beachfront property in Manly.
these are curated lists, here's one for nosql: https://github.com/showcases/nosql-databases

edit: big list of lists: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
The UK joining the EEC in the 70s had a huge effect on the New Zealand economy.
Yeah, like I thought, it's a little subjective. I'm just hanging out at the wrong places with folks there :)
They used not to include it in the price and surprise you about it later. They knew that UA was being compared to DL to AA. Each of those companies had different prices that they paid for fuel. The other bit about that, when the fuel markets fall.. you rarely see the airfares fall as well. Right now it's incredibly low, but that's really rare. (Seeing 200/400$ fares of US->EUR flights)
I've wondered the same thing about WIC/Food stamps. What if everyone had a card for $x worth of food per month?
The employee already caries investment risk, although they have no control over the investments. If the employer chooses poor investments for their pension fund, it can lead to the pension being terminated. If the plan is insured by the PBGC, then some benefits are guaranteed, but the PBGC itself is underfunded: as of the 2015 annual report, it has $164 B in liabilities and $88 B in assets; if your employer can't pay its pension obligations, and teh PBGC can't either, that's going to be pretty complex too.

If the plan has any decent target date funds, it takes about five minutes to guesstimate your retirement age and pick that. It's probably not the best choice, but it's a reasonable one.
Since it's designed to study the disincentives to work, by the end of the study it's likely to include many employed people.

But true, it would be a better experimental setup to include all kinds of initial circumstances in the study population.
The anti gridlock law is actually a great law that DOES stop gridlock. The problem is you need to get people to actually follow it and in california for some reason no one does. In chicago we all know about this law and I had never seen gridlock the whole time I lived there (23 years). crazy right? not really. But to the people in LA it seems crazy to them. within a year of moving to LA, I saw gridlock. I had no idea this was still a problem in the united states. I thought it was only a 3rd world problem. But nope. In LA they have it. And it's becuase people block intersections here ALL THE FUCKING TIME. It's crazy.

Why? I don't get it. Do LA drives really not know it causes gridlock? Or do they just not care. I remember talking to an uber driver who didn't even know what gridlock was, or why blocking intersectinos was bad. As someone from chicago, I was amazed. And even on HN, OP doesn't know that blocking intersections causes gridlock, it amazes me. I thought this was common knowledge. For some reason people in these gridlocked towns are skeptical that the law doesn't work.

for example, in downtown LA they blocked one street for a festival and the entire downtown became gridlocked. Ive never seen traffic this bad IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. All because of people blocking intersections. I was able to walk 10 blocks faster than cars did. I saw cars sitting in place for an hour and more. It was crazy. I've never seen anything like it. And when the lights turned green people still blocked the intersection. THEY WERE SITTING IN GRIDLOCK AND STILL DIDN"T STOP BLOCKING INTERSECTINOS. Like wow. I was dumbfounded. How are LA drivers so bad at driving?? I was so glad to be on foot.

It's a completely fair law; it's easy to follow, and it benefits everyone. blocking intersections DOES CAUSE GRIDLOCK. IF YOU STOP BLOCKING INTERSECTIONS, GRIDLOCK WILL GO AWAY. Get this through your head!

the problem is people dont know about the law in california, and don't have the common sense to figure out themselves. it needs to be enforced more. LA has some of the worst gridlock problems ive ever seen.
Is the cost of living still that high outside of urban areas?

And remember: there are 4 weeks and some change in the average month, so more like $1083/mo. Not that that's much more :)
Republicans would have a heart attack, a stroke and a brain aneurysm at the same time.
"dotnet new -t web" is my favorite lazy command I didn't see mentioned in the article (I think you need to install the cli .net core thing).
A while ago I wrote a batch script that assembled a project with csc instead of using Visual Studio. This was so easy and refreshing to work with. Source control worked, build times were incredibly fast and the result was independent of Visual Studio settings.

I really want my good old makefiles back for C#. For build management Visual Studio adds a lot of complexity and weird behaviors.
I think 'responsibility' is a better word.

We are 'responsible' for one another, but in far more than just 'caring' ways. We take out the trash, we try to get along, we do all sorts of things every day that really fall into the category of 'acting responsibly' that in some ways could be described as 'caring' in a more general sense, but it wouldn't be apt.

'Conscientiousness' could be an even better word.
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