skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The algorithm's accuracy is known. From the wiki[1]:

The HyperLogLog algorithm is able to estimate
cardinalities of > 10^9 with a typical error rate of 2%

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperLogLog
This has been quite routine knowledge in India. My parents' families have routinely been using Copper vessels to store water. The ones who are better off actually use Silver utensils to eat & drink food / water.
Yes, I am aware. But this hack didn't existed when Aadhar was provisioned, and many institutions in the world use Iris recognition. Does this mean everyone in the world will stop using Iris recognition or push a patch to fix the vulnerability?
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Indeed it can easily be deleted, that's why I said to put the spam detection before the counter.

I assume most of the visits are from normal users, not spammers, so if a normal user has the cookie for the post set then it means it's a page refresh, so don't increase the counter.

Identifying sophisticated spammers accurately is more complicated though. You can't rely on any client side info (user agent, cookies, browser history, screen resolution, OS, etc) because they can all be modified. You can't rely on IP address either, because there are public hotspots used by genuine users also. I think their spam detector is more complicated than this and they have to use it for HLL also.

So, for the genuine users, a counter increased based on the cookie mechanism would've worked just fine.
transit (the company) has some really nice blog posts about the difficulty of making transit maps

https://medium.com/transit-app/transit-maps-apple-vs-google-...

https://medium.com/transit-app/how-we-built-the-worlds-prett...
Ultimately we have to live somewhere in the physical world, and facing large fines or imprisonment is unattractive. The real surprise to me is that hard-line intellectual property protection has remained the political status-quo throughout the world. You'd think there'd be at least one or two countries willing to try alternatives, and give sites like Pirate Bay a place to operate in peace.

Edit: Legalize Marijuana, vote the likes of Trump into power, leave the EU, threaten to nuke the US, fine, but some things, like intellectual property, are sacred.
As someone that used to do kernel and RTOS development for many years and then migrated into web and app dev for a living because it allowed a more flexible lifestyle for paying the bills - this equivocation is disingenuous.

There is some room for disagreement, but I agree with most of the following. https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Da...

Kernel development, similar to algorithmic trading (incl HFT), some types of games, various embedded, actual production compilers etc requires a higher level of rigorous understanding from a variety of areas compared to the vast majority of webapps (often CRUD) and most software that IT professional work on. Kernel dev similar to other performance critical or safety critical systems has a much reduced set of tradeoffs and more numerous constraints, for one.

Of course, most applications require knowledge in disciplines such as design and domain specific knowledge that kernel development does not require, but that is besides the point. It requires a different type of thinking overall (one that is more unforgiving to lack of rigor and not as open to subjectivity cf. design) that low-level systems development/engineering and most app development are virtually unrelated disciplines outside of trivial similarities relating to them both targeting computers.

I don't say this to discourage anyone. But these reductions are unhelpful and outright condescending to those that might struggle to learn (oh it's just a slightly different domain than your JS TODO app....um no it's not.. it's harder for you to learn because it is actually harder and more complex).
I wish I were like you! Before salt tabs, I'd cramp up and be useless after a pretty short time on the bike - maybe 2 hours / 2000 ft of climbing on a mountain bike. Now that I add two of those nuun tablets to my 3 L of water I sweat less and never cramp up anymore.

My sweat has always been very salty my whole life. I wish I didn't need to supplement for longer rides but time has shown me that it is unrealistic for me to skip it for anything over around 1.5 hours. Under that, I don't bother, though.
Never heard of lead being used in India for storing food stuff.
LIDAR is quite interesting. If there's anyone who has more information about automotive lidar, I'd love to chat with them, my email is visible on my tag :)

It'll be interesting to see how SDC makers handle the computational complexity of deep nets operating on these massive point clouds generated from LIDAR. It seems like these aren't getting any easier with Luminar claiming ~10 million points. Running that through a hefty 3D ConvNet could easily soak up a petaflop...
If you're imagining a student driving to class, you're imagining a very different kind of environment.

In the schools where these kinds of demands are made, the university provides your housing, food, utilities, medical care, the centers of your social life (both in terms of facilities and student organizations), local police department, credit union, etc. Even if you live off campus, the entire neighborhood is an (unofficial) extension of the university community. Even if you're at a private business, the university probably owns the building and leases to that business. Private apartment building, your neighbors are all students and faculty.

This typically happens in a small, walkable enclave where it would be very strange for a student to have a car or commute in from outside the enclave. The university owns every part of a student's life in this case, and it's reasonable to think it has some responsibility to keep its community healthy, within reasonable limits.

Your criticism seems more applicable to a commuter/community college, not a residential one.
AFAIK, this is usually not to relieve thirst, but to compensate for the minerals lost by perspiration.
The Trump Budget is aggressively anti-science.
NSF and most other science related programs have significant funding cuts.

Where is fundamental research and development to be done? and who will fund it? Federal research and development funds have a disproportionate impact on economic growth. Research and development is a great investment.

What does the Administration expect to gain from their war on science?
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'average' and 'what factor off 10% of US earners' contain some assumptions about distributions that make this a less informative comparison than it might seem. You probably also want 'censor'.
"I think the first mistake that people make is looking at the European tech scene as one large, monolithic block. It isn’t. Rather, it’s a collection of regions and cities, each with their own strengths and weaknesses."

That's exactly the problem. If it were one large block, like Silicon Valley for the USA - there would be a much more vibrant tech community.
Can Lidar distinquish between an empty plastic white bag dancing on the wind in the middle of the highway, and a baby that fell out of a stroller?

In both scenarios whether it can or cannot, its a distaster.
I mistrust a list that rates C++ as more concise than Common Lisp (in which one can create domain-specific languages), and Visual C++ as somehow 50% more concise than both.
wow. this is disturbing when you consider the original intent of the WWW, the evolution throughout the 90's and 00's. Only to end up with Facebook being the gateway for potentially billions of people from developing nations.
> - A lot of big companies have satellite offices around Austin, like Apple, Intel, IBM, etc. You aren't necessarily locked into working for an "Austin company", if you don't want to.

Sounds good to me! I just want to avoid anything government-contractor related after my experience in the DC metro.
Practically speaking, how do you separate perspectives from opinions?
I agree with you. I don't think it's right but we're in a shitty situation now. You have the following choices:

1. Choose to fire the now reasonably well off employees forcing them to go back to a previous lines of employment that were less lucrative
2. Force companies to stop outsourcing labor which will in turn make it more likely for other countries to create similar sanctions like this against you.
3. Make companies pay foreign employees a "reasonable" rate based on local offering thereby making these jobs infinitely more lucrative then even well-educated professions and ultimately tilting their economy in an unwanted direction.

We live in times where economic action is also foreign policy. How would you like it if a country richer then yours started offering jobs for 100x the average wage that you are used to? Would you try and get one of those jobs? Would people start expecting that wage in other places? Would this change the way the market behaves?

> The destitute, desperately grasping at the crumbs dropped on the floor by the rich, is not a positive thing

I wouldn't call the Philippines destitute. I know a few people who'd be offended by that characterization. I'd also ask: why are these people doing these jobs if it's not better then what they were doing before? Better either being higher pay, easier labor, or more enjoyable work environment.
This is why the English salt tax was such a big deal to the Indians.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but to layman's cryptoanalyst like me, TPB and torrents in general seem like the easiest things to move entirely into blockchain-like network. Just embed it into torrent clients, done, right? Torrents are far more real, stable and necessary than some ethereal entities.

Btw, afaik, entire tpb/kat archive is around few gigabytes.
That is its best hope for economic growth, but I don't think anyone in the area would refer to Pueblo as "thriving."
Cassandra as it's often used can imply eventual consistency (e.g. counter incrs with CL.ONE) but "eventual" in this case would be in the range of 10's of ms

That said, reddit's upvote counters in particular are stored in Postgres, not Cassandra
I think your anger is misguided and ignorant.

(a) They do receive reasonable wages. Better than the average in fact as the parent articulated. If you paid them US wages you would be completely distorting the local economy as suddenly you've created a community of millionaires. Do you really want medical/law students etc dropping out to become Facebook moderators because the money is so much better ?

(b) There is universal health care in Phillipines. Companies paying for health care is a US concept that doesn't apply in many other countries.

(c) They are employees of Accenture not Facebook. And not sure where you get the idea that all employees get stock options. That's something that again is a foreign concept in most places in the world.
> contain some assumptions about distributions that make this a less informative comparison

I feel the same about this information. If anyone has plots they can through up I'd love to take a look.

> You probably also want 'censor'.

You are correct. I'll leave that unchanged because it doesn't effect the meaning of the post.
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Many humans also won't be able to distinguish between inanimate objects and babies/animals on the road. When there isn't sufficient data, there isn't sufficient data. Machine learning is not magic.
Of course there will be DOS attacks on the currency protocol too... unless we design it just so.
Nice write-up. I've been popping my head on over to their project every few months to check out their progress. Something that's pretty cool is that they're using Flutter to write Fuchsia's UI [0].

My favorite thing about Flutter is that it looks like they took some heavy inspiration from React. If anyone reading this isn't familiarized with React, or they don't really "get it", I'd highly suggest reading the Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome [1].

One of the big problems with implementing a UI toolkit is having to re-implement everything relating to accessibility. Although it's totally understandable that they're still focusing on the core.

Something I'd be interested in seeing is how Dart and Flutter might affect battery life. I'd expect the stock UIs to be pretty well optimized by now, but I have no idea how Dart stacks up in performance.

[0] https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/sysui

[1] http://jlongster.com/Removing-User-Interface-Complexity,-or-...
Not sure if you've been to Phillipines but it's a pretty unusual country. According to Wikipedia there are over 2000 inhabited islands so the regional differences are quite stark.

Blanket statements like this don't make much sense.
Can thirst be related to salt deficiency?
[disclaimer: I work on the Flutter project]

We're adding more Cupertino (iOS-flavor) widgets. A few that we already have: spinner, toggle slider, button, alert. Check out the library (https://docs.flutter.io/flutter/cupertino/cupertino-library....) and let us know which ones you'd like to see next! https://flutter.io/issues

Thanks!
yes, it definitely can. deep learning is what is used in these things, and identifies objects and their properties
There's some evidence in software engineering research that offshoring isn't the problem but that the distance between team members on an organizational chart, however, is much more important. It's ok if an external party comes in as long as the resources are treated somewhat like equals to existing engineers. But when they become "that team" you will lose collaboration and things will fall apart partly because that team's manager may have different priorities than the local team.

When it comes specifically to IT, however, we're looking at almost a race to the bottom to save money immediately, sometimes to make more budget for software engineers that are revenue centers. Furthermore, a lot of IT folks want to stay current on technologies just like many developers do, but IT constraints are oftentimes even more than what their developer peers in the same company would have. This has led to a concentration of lower performers staying for a long time (not indicating skill necessarily - their environment is hostile to professional growth) and more ambitious technical folks move elsewhere.

It's been puzzling for me why IT orgs don't focus upon automation obsessively like most industries trying hard to cut costs have. The US coal industry automated a lot of labor and it's not like coal miners were making handsome salaries like most sysadmins did in the late 90s. The low performers all seem to have a strange obsession with creating as much manual processes as possible instead of, I dunno, writing some orchestration in Rundeck jobs or Ansible playbooks maybe. One decent automation engineer can replace dozens of lower skilled junior and mid level sysadmins even in bare metal environments.
Instead of Institutional Review Boards approving experiments we could have Algorithm Validation Boards. Hold out a portion of your dataset for validation, and have the algorithm designers examine the outcomes in communication with ethicists, lawyers, and business strategists.

I don't think the two hands can properly "validate" algorithms without communicating. The algorithm designer can maximize AUC, but what if one <group>'s class is 95% label A; the designer always predicts A for <group>. How bad is ALWAYS missing 5% for label B? If you can put a price on it, then the developer can build it into the algorithm. But if the price is difficult to accurately estimate, or non-monetary qualities are desirable, it may be hard to build them into the classifier ahead of time. On the other hand if the cost of perfect <hard to quantify criterion> reduces AUC significantly, algorithm designers need to communicate that...
[disclaimer: I work on the Flutter project]

One of the reasons we picked Dart was that is compiles to ARM (native) code. Dart has been pretty efficient for the project so far, but we haven't yet looked very deeply at battery life. Something to keep an eye on!
Are you referring to cookie onboarding companies like LiveRamp?
That's like reading this thread [1] and coming to the conclusion that America is a hellhole.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/26mhbl/americans...
Codename One (https://www.codenameone.com/) runs circles around fluttr.
>> why are these people doing these jobs

The only question is "why are rich American companies outsourcing to the poor?". There's no reason why they have to. They can entirely afford paying full market wage in the US. If it's acceptable to outsource, then it should be legal to hire within the US for the same salary. Let Americans make $2/hour if that is the acceptable rate.
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Lots of AI/ML floating across the world. Is it really worth to invest in AI/ML technologies at the level of production ? Does the ROI and effort worth it ? Any real world examples would help me out.
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>If it's acceptable to outsource, then it should be legal to hire within the US for the same salary.

That's not how economies work.

> Let Americans make $2/hour if that is the acceptable rate.

I see no reason what that should be disallowed in my moral structure​. If you don't think that's a reasonable​ wage don't take that job. You won't see any takers.
The major activities of the individual must directly satisfy his own creative and emotional impulses, must always be something more than means to an end. The great cultural fallacy of industrialism, as developed up to the present time, is that in harnessing machines to our uses it has not known how to avoid the harnessing of the majority of mankind to its machines.

The telephone girl who lends her capacities, during the greater part of the living day, to the manipulation of a technical routine that has an eventually high efficiency value but that answers to no spiritual needs of her own is an appalling sacrifice to civilisation. As a solution of the problem of culture she is a failure — the more dismal the greater her natural endowment. As with the telephone girl, so, it is to be feared, with the great majority of us, slave-stokers to fires that burn for demons we would destroy, were it not that they appear in the guise of our benefactors.

The American Indian who solves the economic problem with salmon-spear and rabbit-snare operates on a relatively low level of civilisation, but he represents an incomparably higher solution than our telephone girl of the questions that culture has to ask of economics. There is here no question of the immediate utility, of the effective directness, of economic effort, nor of any sentimentalizing regrets as to the passing of the "natural man."

The Indian's salmon-spearing is a culturally higher type of activity than that of the telephone girl or mill hand simply because there is normally no sense of spiritual frustration during its prosecution, no feeling of subservience to tyrannous yet largely inchoate demands, because it works in naturally with all the rest of the Indian's activities instead of standing out as a desert patch of merely economic effort in the whole of life.

A genuine culture cannot be defined as a sum of abstractly desirable ends, as a mechanism. It must be looked upon as a sturdy plant growth, each remotest leaf and twig of which is organically fed by the sap at the core. And this growth is not here meant as a metaphor for the group only; it is meant to apply as well to the individual.

A culture that does not build itself out of the central interests and desires of its bearers, that works from general ends to the individual, is an external culture. The word "external," which is so often instinctively chosen to describe such a culture, is well chosen. The genuine culture is internal, it works from the individual to ends.

-Edward Sapir
From the comments: "It has been brought to my attention, that some of these clips may be fake. A new video has been made that eliminates the fake clips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rphN3R6KKyU ".
Your view seems to be pretty shallow on why Nero was alive for so long while being a monster. One doesn't simply kill Nero and continue to rule TRE. Easy manipulation of "docile" public is an inseparable part of democracy, actually. Most people have little to no political education, not to mention the understanding of methods and processes. Most of us simply believe, because politics is boring, bread and circuses is fun. And today almost everyone can get fun without going into boring details.
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Does any of this work in rain or snow?
That's interesting what you said about your sweat being salty; is be interested in seeing how much electrolytes you're excreting that way. Conversely, my sweat isn't salty hardly at all, I've noticed. I wonder if there is any correlation, because I ride 50 to 60 miles, single speed on street tires, up and down elevation no problem with just regular water, never have had a cramp as far as I can remember. I don't consider myself a very fit person, and neither would a dietician, fwiw, so I'm not just some type of anomaly, just your typical desk dweller who hits the bike path hard on weekends when time allows.
These theories were ultimately settled by trial by combat between the champions representing each: Linux and BSD. Linux has clearly won this battle, and thus, the gods have spoken. ~
Economists have various ways of comparing purchasing power, where a particular income fits in a given distribution, etc, etc. It's probably more sensible to dig up one of their metrics - the chances you're going to come up with a good one on a napkin seem low.
Cecum removal.
It's in the app layer, we dont need a "fifth" layer.
Google makes money from place entries (booking ads, place ads) but not from geographic place names, this alone explains the move. Think of the places selected as ads at the top of your search results.
I agree, but I'd take it one step further actually. For me it doesn't cut it if the widgets just LOOK correct. I want them to BE correct. So, native widgets only please, no mimicking.
I guess what you are pointing out (it being a problem) is the conventional view, while the author tries to frame it as a strength. In the end, it can be both, depending on the situation. Maybe akin to the centralized vs decentralized structure of web services?
Also I've read of some studies that less than 1500mg sodium intake for day has increased cardiovascular risks.
Booking a place from the place entry is done via ads
Google hires in the top echelons of talent for software engineering. Due to forces of society or biology most of that talent is male.

By forcing the company to first hire more women it follows that you have to find women who are not in the top. To pay them the same is then just downright naive.

tldr Should we not be solving this at the bottom rather than top down, by placing the burden unfairly on the companies?
Your parents and grandparents worked hard to put you in the situation you are in now. If anything the expectations for you are much higher than everyone else.

Are you sure you're not self-sabotaging because you're subconsciously afraid of failure and by not trying you always have a good excuse when things don't go well?

You have to stop with the guilt. You're the carrier of your family legacy; take responsibility and apply yourself.

If that doesn't work, hurry up and get married and have kids. You may not have a problem sabotaging yourself but surely you wouldn't do that if you were responsible for children.
That's already happening. Can't remember which article to link to, but machine learning algorithms make decisions that reflect pre-existing biases (e.g. harsher sentences for black people).

Humans produce the data that the ML algorithms train on, so without whitening the data somehow (and there's another contentious issue) we should expect the result to be biased as well.