skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true. Thanks for reminding me! Next time I need to torture a graph store I'll try loading common crawl into it.
This is how my math classes in the early 2000s worked.

We show up to class. Teacher talked for maybe 5 minutes. Then we would sit down in groups of 4 and work on exercises. These exercises were very socratic method. Ex:

- Measure some right triangles

- calculate the squares of the lengths of the sides

- Do you notice anything?

- Here's some non-right triangles, does your hypothesis still stand?

Then some application of the introduced concepts.

Kids would help each other within the group, and a teacher would come in to help facilitate this.

This was all the math classes for about 3 years, and was great at helping kids learn to do math, explain solutions to others, and build basic social skills.

I've had a couple programming workshops like this as well, and they're invariably successful. Even the worst people can find help from either the teachers/coordinators or people who aren't having difficulties.
Battery systems still make sense on the Indian grid if they can replace backup generators.
I think the primary concern here is to first provide electricity to the quarter of the population who are not connected to the grid.

The population who are not having electricity in India is either because they live in a remote place where there is no connection or they are too poor to afford electricity. So what they need now is electricity, so their children can study in a better lit room.

Air conditioners and toasters are still considered a luxury by a majority of the population.

If executed properly, I think this initiative will really make a change.
Are Uranus, Neptune and Mercury getting significantly more attention? Personally I feel that Venus is getting more attention that any of them.
He also advocate not using underline to denote links. In his practical typography book he practically hides all hyperlinks.

I also find his redesigns of documentation pages uninviting to read.

I find Butterick to be a passionate, opinionated, hard working, but ultimately a poor designer.
> R has lazy evaluation, which means here that a function will not be evaluated when you define it, it will be evaluated when you call it.

It seems unlikely you meant this as stated. How is it possible to "evaluate a function" when you define it? Certainly you need to give it arguments, and that can only happen when you call it.
I gave you 5 examples of growing companies that are not radically reinventing anything. I could give you a hundred more. Everybody here thinks they are radically reinventing something, because they have to say that. The great majority of new companies don't.

You might think the distinction is arbitrary, but that is because you are not doing the work. I have started both kinds of companies, and had reasonable success at both kind of companies. I have mentored people in both categories. The techniques involved are different.
I've posted this quote a few times before, and I find it fully relevant to this discussion:

> He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion... Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them...he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.

― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

A few months back I read "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion", by Jonathan Haidt. I'd highly suggest reading it for anyone seeking to improve their understanding of the ideological landscape in modern America. From the publisher's summary: In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding.

The biggest problem I'm seeing with many online communities is the unwillingness to engage with others. There's no discussions, they just tell you that you're wrong and evil, and then they ban or block you. That's no way to change people's mind; it just makes people more likely to dig in their heels. If you want to change people's views you need to engage them calmly and with respect. One of the greatest example of this that I can think of is Daryl Davis, a black man who converted ~200 people from the KKK just by befriending them.
I've heard people talk about abortion is baby killing and Obama being a Muslim out loud. Weren't suppressed.
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It seemed more like a marketing stunt to me. The issue was about a single iPhone with a warrant to search it. Apple made it a very public debate about all iPhones.
Markdown to Latex (via pandoc) might be a better option if you don't want to write/compose in latex.
They mean traditional SQL databases like PostgreSQL, SQL Server, DB2, Oracle etc.

Not MySQL. MySQL has almost none of the important features of a real SQL database management system. Nobody should be using MySQL for anything.
Sorry, it wasn't my intention to misconstrue your comment.
Oh, it was a disaster both technically and economically and it turned out to be a humanitarian disaster in many rural areas. Made life hell and since it was not even half baked (it wasn't put in the oven at all) it affected people worse than anyone would have anticipated, if at all. It was a whimsical decision followed by distorted data floated around as facts, and then rumours, FUD being released, leaked and misrepresented from the Govt or related sources.

I have not really done any elaboration here. I would just link you to https://www.google.com/search?q=how+india%27s+demonetization.... I can answer follow up questions if any (or hopefully others might pitch in whether disagree or agree). I am assuming you are not from the place. I am not into finance and economics so I will try my best. I have one foot in an Indian metro and another in a village near a small town and I travel extensively during that time (in fact I happened to backpack across a fair portion of the country for 2 months during that period).

And yeah, a lot of initial tech coverage just limited themselves to the failed online transactions (and similar issues in the cities) and completely ignored what was happening to the rural people and people in the small towns where most of India lives and does business. It was far far far worse.
Note that the integration is in VS Code, the lightweight Editor++ which is cross-platform. In general most of the AI/ML related work has been & will likely be cross-plat.

[disclaimer - microsoft]
Just to point something out>
The total cost of India's Mars mission was only US$73 million compared to NASA's $671 million.
They'll only have log(n) of the pavement of a traditional suburb. Most human transit will be walking.
> Buyer Beware

Careful there.

The origins of that expression come from old Rome, "Caveat Emptor". A culture whose pantheon had a common deity for merchants and thieves.

And while we are on the topic of legalised robbery: every time you see someone discourage regulation in the name of "giving the consumer a choice", keep in mind that they are most likely thinking about a more elaborate Hobson's choice.[0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobson%27s_choice
This article from last week argues that a swamp cooler might be adequate and actually necessary in large parts of India as average temperatures rise, humidity allowing.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/14/16290934/india-air-condit...
It was finally fixed on Windows 10.
I am not trivializing anything. I don't like bad software any more than you. However.

You may have noticed that we are in the technology industry. That means the final measure of our work is economic. The final judges of our work are our customers.

If you believe that X is better in our industry, you must be able to demonstrate that betterness in terms of user economics, in terms of user experience. You haven't yet, and you seem unwilling to even grapple with my argument in those terms. Are you planning on trying?
Not far from mercantilism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantilism
Good to see you here (again) Prakhar! Didn't know you audited Prof. Stroustrup's class.

If I can recommend a project for the HN community to check out, it's krat0sprakhar's JSJS project. One of the prettiest projects I've seen in my time at college as well [0].

[0]: https://prakhar.me/projects/
Is there any indication that scientists predominantly use whatsapp, so this would block innovation? When you say "this is an extremely inefficient way to share data", what do you mean? It's not like China doesn't have its own messengers, and it's not like whatsapp is the only way for people to communicate over the Internet..
One framing that would avoid the implication:

"Even if you agree that the picture is crass (etc) due to being from Playboy, a much more likely and respectful explanation is that the asker simply did not know the history of it."

There may be others. It is incredibly hard to sidestep the wider cultural framing that women exist solely as sex objects, they are prey and men are predators. It is a problem space I have thought long and hard about. I think my statement that your statement implicitly agrees with certain things is accurate.

However, it wasn't intended to accuse you, personally, of anything. The degree to which it does so is an error on my part. It is late. I am tired. Etc.

I wholly agree with you that jumping to accusations was poor form. I did not witness that particular discussion of the Lena test photo, but I have seen such discussions before on HN. They tend to be incredibly uncharitable. This is really common when anything vaguely related to sex enters discussion.

I do my best to respectfully critique it. I am aware sex is a very sensitive subject. But the subtext of most such derails is that all heterosexual sex is inherently abusive of women. I really think that needs all the gentle, kind push back humanity can muster. I do what little I can.

Best.
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> Yes $2.5B is enough for multiple waves of nationwide ad campaigns

This is accurate. I am not talking about the figure. I think more money would be required for the ad campaigns and few "pilot" projects or releases for the follow up ad campaigns.

I am talking about madmax108 being accurate in stating the sole intention of the Govt and how things have been done here before this Govt and how this Govt has acted in last 3 years and how they are indicating they will act.
Disagree strongly. Apple pays a serious price for their privacy stance, which they would rather not pay. Doing machine learning on-device makes it less effective. Apple's directions aren't as good as they could be because Maps randomly segments trips and masks its users identity. Apple's App Store revenues are lower because they limit how apps can identify users.

This difference is deeper than business models. Compare Google's Hands Free with Apple Pay for example: the same business model (collecting interchange fees) but Apple's approach preserves user's privacy at the cost of some convenience, while Google's is arguably more convenient but informs both Google and the merchant as soon as you enter into the store.
Ask HN: Is there a need for anonymous cloud service?
Out of curiosity, is there a need for anonymous cloud service which trades bitcoin for usage like AWS?
uBlock Origin added some filters for miner scripts:

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/690
it's a basic set of patterns, i will add more in the upcoming weeks.
> This extremely energy efficient chip, which uses the data to learn and make inferences, gets smarter over time and does not need to be trained in the traditional way.

Does not need to be trained? The writer maybe wanted to say it does not need to be programmed in the traditional way.

If this was a news site, I'd understand - the same writers cover too many topics, they can't be experts in all. But when it comes straight from Intel, it's weird to see such mistakes from someone who signs as Dr. Michael Mayberry.

> Researchers have demonstrated learning at a rate that is a 1 million times improvement compared with other typical spiking neural nets as measured by total operations to achieve a given accuracy when solving MNIST digit recognition problems.

MNIST is a joke already, why don't they show off the ImageNet numbers? And spiking neural nets are less efficient compared to normal neural nets, so the 1 million speedup might not be as impressive as it appears at first hand. They don't compare with GPU run TensorFlow or CNTK here, but with other spiking neural nets which are seldom used, mostly as a proof of concept.

> A total of 130,000 neurons and 130 million synapses.

So the network size is medium - you can do a lot with 130 mil weights, but there are models on GPU that go up to 1 billion weights. Even the "cat detector" unsupervised neural net created by Google in 2011, had 1 billion weights, and that's ages ago in AI time.
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Oh, it's hardly scientific and only useful for speculation. I'm well aware of the inherent biases, though I have tried to ask people from every persuasion.

I don't think many changed their vote based on the propaganda. I strongly suspect that the dishonest media increased the resolve of those already going to vote Ina certain direction.

It wasn't exclusive to one side, though we're discussing the external influence. I saw quotes taken out of context and wild, untrue, accusations made by the internal media as well.

Now, as for me?

I can tell you that I'm 100% certain I was not influenced by the media - at all.

Really...

I voted Green. I didn't want Stein to win, no. No, she's insane. I voted for her because the Green Party needed a certain number of votes to remain on the ballot, as opposed to write-in, and to get matching funding. I voted Green because I want to encourage third party candidates to run in my State. I've held this position for years. In fact, I'm nearly sixty and I've only voted for one major party presidential candidate, ever.

It was also mathematically impossible for my vote to change the outcome. If every single third party voter had voted, in my entire Statem had voted for one candidate or the other, it would have not changed the outcome one iota.

On the other hand, Green is automatically eligible, assuming enough signatures, to be on the next ballot and to get some matching funding - though that applies only to local candidates.

So, the narrative and rhetoric changed my vote exactly zero. It's unlikely to change any of my future votes.

Either way, I'm still not sure that it had any meaningful effect. I do wish there were a way to find this out scientifically, but I'm not sure how we can rid the system of bias.

I get to claim some imperviousness to it all. I've never had anyone who represented my ideals as a serious candidate or elected at the national level. I default to third party, even if just to give encouragement. If third party isn't in the ballot, I research to see who is the write-in candidate. Man, I have voted for some lunatics over the years. I mean that, too. I've voted for people who probably shouldn't even be the dog catcher. But, at least I'm voting for something,
Exactly.
I think getting things done is really important, but getting the right things done is much more so.

And if your boss isn't demanding something and no one cares much about it, it is probably not worth doing it at all (unless you are running your own thing and can show how it is important).
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I learned assembly with an 8086 emulator, and I've had the pleasure of writing assembly for bare-metal ARM microcontrollers. But you're right, modern x86 assembly is a whole different beast. I've tried looking through their manuals, but as I recall their manuals are largely unapproachable +3000 page tomes.

My comment was written with the 8086 emulator in mind. It was great because you could view what was in each register, as well as the inspect any section of memory.
As interesting as it is to see some rough areas, most of the areas have not changed much. I looked at the streets where I used to live / currently live - they largely look the same. Some of the shops are still there.

Since someone mentioned popular culture references, one movie that I thought "got" the hyper nature of 80s NYC was "Crocodile Dundee". It is of course exaggerated, being a romantic comedy, but it got some parts of it very well.
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Discussion alone suffices to enable people to regularly change their views. The problem is that Twitter is specifically built to inhibit reasoned discussion. It's meant for one liners and zingers. This tiny post is now at 315 characters, well over twice as long as any thought capable of being expressed on Twitter.
It's standard (journalistic) practice to refer to trans people by their preferred pronouns even when referencing events before their transition.
these short descriptions I've read don't seem to answer this question for me - how is this different from orgmode + org-babel + HTML/PDF export? See like reinventing the wheel for one language, or am I missing something?
DDG has a long way to go on long tail queries.

In search industry, you can probably spend 1x time and resources to reach 90% Google's relevance score. However, to reach 95% or more, you probably need 100x in time and resources.

E.g., NLP in query understanding; Knowledge Graph in webpage understanding; Much larger corpus; Location awareness, etc.
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You might think the distinction is arbitrary, but that is because you are not doing the work

Or perhaps you are just not explaining yourself well. Telling me why I think something is a lousy argument tactic, especially when the framing looks so personally dismissive.
Not exactly. HN is a community that is relatively small and has a strong culture. This is one of HN's greatest strengths in preventing the same sort of issues that occur in reddit. Larger subreddits show the breakdown of the upvoting system quite dramatically. Subreddits that become heavily polarized also suffer from this. You can see HN having the same problem in heavily contentious topics or flagged posts. This is where the left leaning majority demonstrates it's influence the most. Comment quality hits the skids right off the bat and never really recovers.

Inevitably it is the culture of the posting community and the adherence to that culture that allows for this kind of thoughtful posting to occur. Moderation is a fundamental requirement as well. I've seen many instances in large subreddits that experiment with relying on the upvote system that end in total failure. For a time the community policing works, and then the front page is dominated by low effort content and shit posting.
Kaku mostly tells stories with cosmology and futuristic buzzwords these days. If you want to excite the imagination of a child and foster interest in science, I find his stuff potentially useful. However, the actual educational content is pretty poor.

I used to love Kaku as a kid. I read his book Hyperspace several times in elementary school and even ended up buying a string theory graduate text out of the induced enthusiasm. That book was scary impenetrable to me at the time. Lol

Now Kaku's videos and stuff just leave a bad taste in my mouth. It fells like he mostly sells science as some magical mysterious thing that is only accessible to the intelligentsia elite.
"All organizations which already have a Hadoop cluster are adopting Spark" is not a very interesting claim.

Here's how I would leverage Hadoop infrastructure to use Pandas: delete Hadoop so I've got more disk space to run Pandas.

I don't get to train ML on terabytes of data very often. I do NLP, so "terabytes" means training a background model on the entire Common Crawl. Usually I'm doing something more specific and interesting than learning about random web pages. But when I do deal with the Common Crawl, I deal with it on one computer. Terabytes are not scary.

How does distributed computing even help? ML models need memory locality, sometimes to the extreme of being localized within a GPU's memory. And the limiting factor is the ability to iterate over the data. Sending the data over a network during training would be the worst thing you can do there.
Quick, tell YouTube and Facebook they’ve been doing it wrong all along
BIP in Germany in 2007: 2.5 trillion Euro

BIP in Germany in 2016: 3.1 trillion Euro

https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/1251/umfrage/...

1.5% GDP growth in a country with a developed economy and a constant population number is actually okay. In such an economy GDP growth is linked to population growth...
That's bs, easily proven by it's absurd consequences: It would mean a biologist should talk to religious fundamentalists more often than their peers.
I like this idea, although I don't see how it would solve the problem of providers ejecting content they disagree with. All I think it would do is allow people to shield their real identities. Sites like the Daily Stormer (which I personally find disgusting) could still be shut down by a cloud provider who disagrees with the message.

What might be really interesting is a cloud service that allows anonymous accounts, and also has a free-speech-absolutist policy (and sticks to it even when it's hard).
Apart from the comment on personal information, which I totally agree with (came here to comment just that), no free demo will diminish the people who try.

Every product demo should have at the very least a demo account or other means to try the product without registering. Period.
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Losing money on a bad cryptocurrency or token investment is a rite of passage that provides an invaluable learning experience to a budding cryptocurrency investor.

On that note, children that are overly sheltered grow up to have problems as adults. The same applies to the investing public. And on top of that, they're not children. It's their right, as adults, to do with their own money what they wish.

Disclosure and false advertising regulations, like what applies to herbal supplements, are fine, as they directly address fraud. The centralization of the securities industry, with IPO-related registration requirements, and onerous and privacy-compromising regulations that have to be met for any securities purchase, is not fine. I understand that most tokens don't qualify as securities, and thus won't be affected by SEC regulations, but that doesn't change the fact that securities regulations have a direct and profound negative effect on personal rights, and set a dangerous precedent for far more of the same.
> I'm not sure how you took my remarks as a criticism of jQuery

I was replying to this statement:

"jQuery selectors were matched in native JS by `document.querySelector()` and `document.querySelectorAll()`"

> it's likely because of them that selectors were approached from said angle at all.

This is true :)

> This would produce similar results to jQuery selectors (minus backwards compatibility for older versions of IE).

It doesn't though. There are many more useful methods in jQuery, and you will eventually need to re-implement many of them. (Even such simple once as `.class()` or `.toggleClass()`, or `.attr()`, or `append()`, and many others).

It's easier to just go with jQuery :)
"It's standard (journalistic) practice"

I'm definitely not a journalist. I think it's reasonable to refer to someone as their actual gender during an actual event , it would seem rather more accurate, no? Also, as long as people are being reasonable I don't think we remotely need that level of language policing.