skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really miss simple old thermostats. For a few years, they used a simple combination of two manual controls - one for temperature and a couple more for start and end times for maintaining that temperature. Made it easy to turn off at night and while I was at work.

No worries about power outages. No worries about WiFi. No need to keep the user guide around. No need to worry about whether guests would be able to figure it out. No batteries to run down. No programming/re-programming hell. No dependency on updates being bug free. I can't believe how horrible thermostats have become - I think most people have forgotten how easy and effective they used to be.
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This makes me wonder about the possibilities of AI-based racing in the future. Can we make a truly competitive sport of it? Grand Prix style auto racing is a really complex thing, with the most sophisticated cars in the world, and a lot of judgment calls by the team as well as the drivers. Speeds are limited by human reflexes and safety. Theoretically, we could get even faster, more difficult racing with AI. But will AI flatten the curve to where it becomes uninteresting?
Also 38 (and also born in communist country, censorship was rampant there), for me this is censorship.

And arguments for it are similar to the usual "think of the children" way of thinking which eventually leads to harder censorship, more surveillance and generally poor place to live.
It is hard not to think there is a decent chance we are headed for a civil war, or rise of authorism.
Are there issues to resolve?
I wonder what percentage of Americans would say that "drone strikes in other countries against civilians suspected of being enemies of America can be justified"?
Ask HN: What do you consider the most annoying thing about computers today?
What do you consider to be the most annoying thing about computers today? Particularly interested in something you do daily with a computer and still annoys you every time.
Obviously I have no understanding what actually transpired, but I was reading through the thread, and it seemed like bad the sentiment was more around the behavior than the religious nature of the stuff (which definitely also faced some opposition, but less).

Sounds like this person just decided to set up shop without respecting other people's use of the same space, and with no efforts towards being non-disruptive. And then when people intervened and had conversations multiple times, they still refused to be respectful. So they got kicked out, and subsequently left an angry voicemail that misunderstands the constitution. The fact that this person already had two other temples they could use nearby made it seem even more like proselytizing, which just made it worse.

https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/20...

I think the reaction could have been quite different if the person had asked about using the space and fixed the space back to how it was afterwards, and had not proselytized. Doesn't seem like too much to ask for a free public space.
Nobody is assuming she's lying.

However, libel laws are in place for a reason. If all it takes is an accusation of impropriety for people to treat the accused as actually guilty, well, that's not justice.

And it's a hell of a leap from "sexual harassment" to "rape". And to bring any sort of culture into this is laughable. I don't see anybody rushing to the defense of Uber if these allegations are actually true.
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I second this. I work out a few times a week. Mostly martial arts and doing it during Ramadhan doesn't affect me in any noticeable way. The first 3 or 4 days of the month are a little hard but after that, the habit forms and I don't really notice it.
Regulations. You can't have fresh manure lying between crop rows. Cows and goats and pigs poop a lot. Many would also eat fruit from the trees. Altho re almonds, I am not sure but it could be toxic to them? The sheer logistics of running animals through thousands of acres is mind boggling.

Because most of our food comes from farms that are massive. With the exception of a few commodity crops, it makes more sense to have more urban farmland within cities than having a rural vs urban area. Mostly because the population is showing no signs of reducing and the demand for housing is only going to go up.

Having several hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland only concentrates pollution and stresses resources. Creates labour and wage inelasticities. Meanwhile urban areas are becoming crowded. City approves high density urban centers which instead of reducing carbon footprint(they only take into account very few parameters) actually end up increasing collective carbon footprints. We have seen this in every crowded city in the world from Shanghai to Mumbai to Paris to London. And everyone starts commuting to crowded centers making the problem worse and reducing even more farmable land. And meanwhile population keeps increasing. No one ever said that the air is pristine in high density urban central London. Ever. Smaller sized farms catering to local demand is more sustainable.

But I digress. Logistics and regulations.

Having said that..I speak only from what little I know about agriculture in California. Not sure about the rest of USA/world.

[..]iNerdier: One thing that sticks out though, why are almond farmers spraying pesticides to control weeds rather than letting someone with cattle graze under the trees and add in the bonus of free fertiliser?[..]
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I'm not a statistician, and have only studied frequentist statistics (I assume that's the standard taught in introductory stats courses in school).

Like the person at the root of this thread, I have struggled with explanations on why Bayesian is so great. The answers that worry me tend to be along the lines of "Well, suppose you want the probability for event X (typically a "one-off" event). Frequentist statistics cannot give you an answer (one-off events have no distribution to speak of). But with Bayesian statistics, I can compute a probability for it!"

Yes, but as someone else has pointed out, what the heck do you mean by "probability"? Frequentist statistics is fairly clear on the definition. The whole argument given above seems like he is happy he has some mechanism to get an answer, with little thought about whether he is asking a meaningful question.

Which is why your comment resonates with me:

>They preferred to differentiate clearly between a frequency of experimental outcomes, and what researchers think. They figured that Bayesian "priors" were subjective, biased, and untrustworthy.

I don't want an answer that's dependent on how the person thought. That definitely comes across as subjective to me.
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Maybe the reporter didn't read the blog post, because it was beyond his attention span. Honestly, it just sounds like an editor assigned him to report.

If he had read it he wouldn't have summarized it as "a lengthy post on her personal blog": he would have written that Fowler wrote about her experiences which began " On my first official day rotating on the team, my new manager sent me a string of messages over company chat. He was in an open relationship, he said, and his girlfriend was having an easy time finding new partners but he wasn't. He was trying to stay out of trouble at work, he said, but he couldn't help getting in trouble, because he was looking for women to have sex with." After she rightfully brought this to the attention of HR, she was told "I was then told that I had to make a choice: (i) I could either go and find another team and then never have to interact with this man again, or (ii) I could stay on the team, but I would have to understand that he would most likely give me a poor performance review when review time came around, and there was nothing they could do about that." with no further penalties or reprimand. That latter part is what's shocking, that she was told her performance would be reviewed poorly, even though she was very qualified (this team was the best fit for her and the work she wanted to do.)

She also wrote that HR told her regarding such complaints that they were first-time offenses, though she heard the same experience from multiple women.

In her account she didn't talk about harassment much (except the one incident) and instead said that she was given poor reviews (changed after she saw that the performance reviews were good) in order to keep from transferring. A lot of the blog post was about the lack of responsiveness by HR.

Her biggest issue was the way in which women were driven out. The important quote is "When I joined Uber, the organization I was part of was over 25% women. By the time I was trying to transfer to another eng organization, this number had dropped down to less than 6%" and then at the end that "Out of over 150 engineers in the SRE teams, only 3% were women."

Instead of reading her blog post and reporting on it, the reporter simply reported without reading, in a cookie-cutter way. (Or it certainly reads that way.)

Having read the source yesterday (along with everyone else here), I don't like the reporter's summary at all.
Nope, it wasn't.

Example: the was a State Department "dissent memo" against Obama's unwillingness to bomb/send ground troupes to Syria. Result: they got an answer (basically "this decision is hard, we share your concerns, but ultimately decided against a new war...") and that was it.

Same situation now: Spicer: "If you don't agree with us, you should quit. Diplomats should either get with the program or they can go.”
From your first link, quote:

* In 1975, the incidence rate for all cancers combined in the United States was 400 new cases for every 100,000 people in the population; the mortality rate was 199 deaths for every 100,000 persons.

* In 2007, the latest year for which we have updated statistics, the U.S. incidence rate for all cancers combined was 461 new cases diagnosed for every 100,000 people in the population; the mortality rate was 178 deaths for every 100,000 persons.

...

The improvements in survival seen since the mid-1970s reflect progress in diagnosing certain cancers, such as prostate cancer, at earlier stages and improvements in treatment.

/end quote

They're saying almost exactly what I was: Incidence hasn't changed much, and the survival rate improvement is just from early detection. Actual ability survive, treat or cure cancer _itself_ hasn't changed.
> MUJI 0.5mm gel ink pens

I'm not a gel ink pen fan myself, but I'm a big fan of the hex oil ballpoints, I'm using one right now actually. Creamy smooth writing.

MUJI has other awesome things: their spoons are so perfectly weighted (e.g. http://www.muji.us/store/table-spoon.html), the linens are soft, as are their towels...I just moved to LA and I'm sad there isn't a MUJI down the street (just Hollywood and Ventura beach).
If I understand the article, that problem is alleviated by illuminating the object with only a single color of light at a time in rapid succession, using the screen of the phone. Presumably, the camera would filter out ambient light from the result by sampling that first.

It is certainly not going to be precise, but it's quite an achievement if they can may it work within the limits of the device.
It's in their agreement, which is available publicly online. I managed to get 2 or 3 email responses, but they go dark for 2 months at a time.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wcd5z1itzu141ky/Screenshot%202017-...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/sbkhujxkpepadjw/Screenshot%202017-...
Sorry, would you care to explain what that has to do with the discussion at hand?
You're right, digital content can never be harmful. All the bomb blueprints are always on paper.
So you're good with just displaying porn / alcohol / drug / cigarette ads at the top then right? Kids use google too. And don't use blockers, because that's censorship.
One of the things you could do with Chessmaster was have it play itself and watch, this turned out to be pretty boring. I suspect that having robot cars race would be similarly boring for everyone except the engineers who were enjoying the technical challenges being overcome.
I frequented noisebridge for a few months, exactly when those events happened. i was a witness to that guy's actions several times, and attended a few weekly meetings that seriously went off the rails. This is why i just stopped going to noisebridge.

I also had thought of bringing my then girlfriend as it could have been interesting to her - i'm sure glad i didn't.
Everyone includes those who would destroy whatever you're trying to do, to subvert it, etc. so if you want thing for "everybody" you have to keep out the terminally toxic.

More gray, more of slippery slope are those who are hostile or even just annoying. Like do you exclude the lifers cause the feminists will fight or vice versa. You might feel neo nazis are right out (I'd argue 1. You must protect the freedoms of all to protect freedom of any 2. It is far better to have people like that out in open than hiding away). But what about wwii reenacters or war gamers. People think they are nazis for wearing the uniform or playing with toy tanks.
One of the things that I used to do with knew math ideas was to write a program that illustrates them, then tweak values in the program to get a better intuitive feel for how the math works.

I usually come to understand the concept through experimentation that way, and from that point the actual notation doesn't matter as much (although it's still like reading a foreign language, to a certain degree).
It seems you're mixing your arguments. From your education you are aware that the 'equivalence' between APS-C and full-frame extends beyond focal length and into aperture and ISO performance I presume?

That's the point the parent you're replying to is making.

It is physically impossible to achieve the kind of equivalence you mentioned in your first post because the 'crop factor' is also applied to aperture and the crop-factor squared is applied to the ISO.

That's a point that's not well known and often dismissed, so I'll repeat it: The crop factor is applied to aperture and the square of the crop factor is applied to the ISO.

If you are not aware of this/don't believe it, see here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtDotqLx6nA

Manufacturers like to gloss over that and constantly talk about 'equivalent' focal length whilst skirting the other equivalents, because they would clearly show the physical (as in physics) limitations of the smaller sensor.

It may well be that a 50mm f1.2 on a 300D would look 'nicer' than a cheaper 85mm f1.4, but that could be due to lens construction/coatings etc and it literally cannot be due to achieving the same focal length/aperture/ISO performance. You cannot physically achieve the same depth of field (let alone focal length) for instance with a 50mm f1.2 on APS-C as an 85mm f1.4 lens on a full frame.

That's the technicality you are being picked up on (albeit in a slightly imprecise manner), so save that trip to B&H because it'll be impossible to achieve what you are saying.

Source: Former pro photographer (and less important but I've used the lenses you mention).
For Linux users its gotta be the pipe. Works great.
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I myself am curious as to why you're not using let's encrypt.
Just because it's not provable or falsifiable doesn't make it nonsense - just a theory - albeit in this case a weak one.

Many untestable, unprovable theories in the past were considered nonsense and later proven true.
If you're comparing a lifespan to someone in developing areas, meal tempo is probably no more than a footnote compared to inaccessibility of medical care, safe birth, safe food and water, occupational hazards, destabilization and violence, etc.
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I really wish there were more companies like this. Interviewing in SF/Silicon Valley is an absolute nightmare and I've basically given up. I simply can't put myself through that ordeal of weeks of back and forth emailing and talking with recruiters, followed by multiple day long interviews, just to be rejected because I couldn't whip out an algorithm on your white board in front of five people while interviewing for a basic front end position.
There is a feature of HN that is sometimes called "flamewar detector" that tends to apply various countermeasures to threads that are getting a lot of replies and/or upvote/downvote churn. One of the observed effects is that the thread drops off the front page. For example, see this post from moderator dang: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7508443#7509979

You can see more discussion about these behaviors when you search HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=flamewar%20detector&type=comme...
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"Mistakes" may be a strong word. I don't think anyone could do what Noisebridge does without some unexpected challenges. It's an ongoing experiment, and I am astonished that it continues to be a thriving community even while the faces of its core membership change over the years. For all their "mistakes," I think they got the important stuff right.
Are you sure that graph shows what you're saying? Say overall lifespans increase, and several other causes of death decline (infectious diseases, preventable accidents), and most cancers hit people who are older. Then you'd have more people getting cancer, which means that stable death rates imply that people are surviving longer while they have cancer.

Am I confused?
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Yeah.

https://core.telegram.org/
If there's no crashing, what would be the point of watching?

Seriously, nothing would be more boring than watching 10 cars all driving perfectly in a line. The opportunity for aggressiveness, risk-taking and crashes without human lives ending is what makes this exciting.
Read the whole article... they have started to use it and will migrate more of the app there...
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We use Let’s Encrypt for the SSL certificates for both the marketing website and in.vc. Eventually, we’ll migrate our other SSL certificates to Let’s Encrypt. It’s free and easy.
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Yes, seems like you're right. I wasn't aware things had changed, thanks!
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Sounds like American doctors need a real union, then.
Were it not for the source, I would have called this a hoax.
>The Bayesian believes that probability represents our beliefs about the world.

But what if our beliefs differ?

On several occasions, while tutoring friends who were taking introductory probability, they'd be posed with a HW problem. They would compute the answer in two different ways, and occasionally get two different answers. Both methods seemed correct to them, but they were not - one was always wrong. I used to argue with them about their reasoning on the incorrect answer, but it didn't help much.

What did help? Just doing the homework problem in real life, with a reasonable number of samples. It could be literally in real life or through a computer simulation. The result would always closely agree with one of the answers.

That's why I like frequentist statistics. It gives me a way to settle the answer outside of my own belief system.
I think the point is that some people just have mutually exclusive desires, and it's not possible (or practical) to satisfy both parties.
You've just restated the popular explanation, right? You haven't addressed aetherson's question about how to square this explanation with X-inactivation in women.
Buddhism is an enormously diverse faith. Western preconceptions of Buddhism are wholly inaccurate, giving Buddhists both too much and too little credit.

Buddhism as a whole isn't the liberal, laissez-faire faith that many western seekers would like to believe. Many schools of Buddhism are highly dogmatic and hierarchical. By the same token, Buddhist thought is far more substantive than just being nice to people and doing a bit of meditation.

For instance, most westerners would be very surprised to read the Devadūta Sutta, which describes numerous realms of hell.

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.130.than.html

As nananonymous suggests, Buddhism tends to absorb ideas from whatever culture it encounters. There are influences from Hinduism, Taoism, Confucianism and a multitude of traditional belief systems. For better and for worse, the western understanding of Buddhism is filtered through the lens of our dominant ideologies.

Buddhism isn't better or worse than any other religion, just different. Buddhist monks are much more than just jovial caricatures in orange robes. Buddhism has a history of intolerance, oppression, discrimination and abuse, just like any other religion. Buddhism has odd sects, cults of personality and bitter divisions over issues like homosexuality and the status of women. Trying to define "real" Buddhism is just as futile as trying to define "real" Christianity or "real" Islam.
Let’s Encrypt wasn't around when we started, but we do use them for our marketing site and will migrate the app when we need to renew our current cert.
Because men receive worse medical treatment. Just compare how prostate and breast cancer are promoted. It also corresponds with other statistics like life expectancy, medical expenses, disposable income...
The real question I guess you are asking is whether the deep state has its own entirely separate objectives or even philosophical tenets and if so what are these.
You might check what the agreement between the utility and the public utility commission is to see if you can have the PUC lean on the utility to provide the data you need.

http://www.puc.pa.gov/
Some countries allow such content, so Google shouldn't remove it from results in such countries.

E.g. in Poland if you have bought a copy of given software, you can download if also from the site and use whichever version you prefer (but only one) - this is a fare use case.

Example would be if given software is in a poor way DRM protected and you would like to run it on an OS that doesn't support DRM.

Or in the days of games distributed on CDs, we were downloading those pirated versions (while owning a proper one) because they didn't require a CD to be always in the computer.
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The derivation is a pain -- there's a lot of notation and indexes to keep track of.

It might be an easier first step for someone starting out to derive the gradient terms for the cost function for logistic regression since it can be viewed as a classification neural net without the hidden layer(s).
When those "true facts" are the personal details of journalists and their families, researched and published specifically to make them fear for their safety.

If you think that maliciously doxing people is perfectly fine as long as the dox are true facts, then you are a being a troll. If I have misunderstood your point, then I apologise and would appreciate clarification.
What does machine learning look like?
This is wrong headed.

Just add everything one by one to a Disjoint set union.

My bad.