skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I urge you to stop believing in recycling.

Here's some things to think about:

The "packaging" industry, is in fact a nice way of saying the "garbage manufacturing" industry.

At least in Australia, the "recycling industry" is owned by the "packaging industry". Hmmm.. why is that? It put it to you that the garbage manufacturing industry has in fact worked out how to "own" the environmental movement by pushing "recycling" as the "balance" to the spewing forth of garbage from the packaging industry. The packaging industry must be laughing so hard at how easily it has owned the environmental movement.

Have you ever wondered if all that packaging you put in your recycle bin gets recycled? It's a question worth thinking about.

I have come to believe that recycling, which environmentalists embrace deeply as a core value, is in fact just a smokescreen that allows everyone to feel OK about the garbage manufacturing industry creating an unending quantity of plastics that have made their way into every nook and cranny of our ecosystem.

Please, stop believing in recycling.... if you recycle, then you do not question the unbelievable, and unrecyclable, quantity of plastic packaging that you consume.

One you stop believing in recycling, you start to ask the question, "why the heck do we permit the packaging industry to create this unstoppable flow of garbage"

Seems to me that world MUST eventually move to a solution which is a set of standardised containers for all products, which are durable, washable, have a refund value attached, and may have paper corporate brand stuck on them after being washed.

Another strategy worth bringing forward is the idea of "garbage brands"..... showing off all those precious brands but in their true context... as garbage in our creeks, rivers and oceans, drains and footpaths. Once brands start to become associated with garbage, they might rethinkg whether they want their names and logos on the digusting mess destroying our environment.

Please, stop believing in recycling and the smokescreen will clear and you will start to ask questions about the packaging industry and our community/commercial system that supports it.

Asbestos, tobacco, sugary foods, packaging - all industries that have fooled us into believing things that are wrong but served their own ends. The packaging industry has fooled us into thinking that it is OK because recycling exists.
I don't doubt for a minute that these budget cuts are awful but I was struck by the following passage and I'm hoping someone can answer my questions:

>"Universities perform more than half of all basic research in America, and public research universities in particular account for nearly 60 percent of the $63.7 billion allocated annually by the federal government for research. That spending, in turn, produces more than 2,600 patents and 400 companies a year, according to the National Science Board."

The US Federal Government allocated funding that produces "2,600 patents and 400 companies a year"?
Does revenue from those patents and companies not funnel into the University's endowments?

Or is this a case of where its the public's money when it comes to funding but private money when that funding produces successful patents and companies and profits? For instance the article mentions Gore-Tex and references, presumably the Mosaic Web Browser. Did profits from those not flow back into the schools? Is there something in their charger that prevents that?
They don't have to find out they just have to employ someone who can do so because they aren't beholden to california. You contract out to me wanting only to know how much you should offer. I give you a number. You offer your applicant that number.

I'm not a lawyer but that doesn't seem to be illegal or even a loophole its out of scope.
Mozilla response: ignore problem.[1]

Component:▸ Security
Importance: P3 normal
Status: NEW
Reported: 6 months ago

This wouldn't be hard to fix. Filter the signal down to about 0.5Hz, which is comparable to how fast most displays auto-adjust for brightness.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1357733
I think it comes down to the fact that for all the « conversational » publicity stunt, the current implementations insist on the voice assistants to be non-modal. When you think about it, every vocal interaction you have with people is explicitly (through voice) or implicitly (through body language) modal. How hard would it be for the mode to have to end with « thank you Siri » or a sensible time-out, or now with the iPhone X, loss of directed attention (and even activated again with return of directed attention within a reasonable timeframe)
If your coworkers know it, everybody knows it. Not only are there blabbermouths and gossips everywhere, a coworker may have an axe to grind against you and will surreptitiously leak the information.
Arimaa was a chess inspired game intended to be difficult for computers. It "fell" in 2015.
You don't need to be honest in your applications, just consistent. The data you enter becomes "the truth" in their system.
I was wondering about my experiences of not seeing bugs I'd see as a kid. Not sure if I just didn't go hunting like I used to or if there was an absolute decrease. I remember spotting these many times and catching a few http://www.mappingmegan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/1-90-..., now I mainly see their hairier cousins http://www.suttonmass.org/animals/spiders/orbweavercrucifera...

Various little butterflies would be abundant seem much less now. I wish I knew their names.
You can find them here : http://www.alphago-games.com
This kind of data should be collected on multiple places in the world. Given such findings we should thoroughly watch our ecosystems.

I have been in Japan during summer this year and (gotten used to the central-European ecosystems where the data for this paper has been collected) was surprised by the amount of insects and especially butterflies, which I had rarely seen for years. Is this just the climate (which also grows some giant insects) or could there be something different at play?
Retyped now supports Chrome API, so you can easily write your own Chrome Extension using Bridge.NET compiler and Retyped.chrome NuGet package:

http://bridge.net/

https://retyped.com/?q=chrome#search
> In addition, if it was so easy to obtain how come my credit card bank still constantly begs me to update my income information?

While they may have that information, federal laws require them to have you self-report income in regards to credit offers.
It happened to a close relative of mine. These things DO happen.
Doesn’t seem like a new theory so much as a description of a possible lemma (...real soon now) for behavioral economics.
Wake me up when you have a readily available libraries to implement this in multiple programming languages.
The physical thing.

If living in something the size of a large car could be made comfortable, easy and inconspicuous, I suspect the market would be large with your prototypical cash poor/experience rich millennials who might (aspire to) use it as an alternative to renting for a significant fraction of the year.

A car is excessive and unnecessary- but a mini camper/"millennial convertable" is aspirational. True freedom. Nothing will stop you taking that trip up north/down south/out west/back east when accommodation is always free.

I can see the ads now. And they're coming straight from the mouths of my friends.
And he would have still said that deep learning lacks any sort of common sense understanding that's necessary to get close to human level intelligence.
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The tools we have developed so far are limited, but that's different from "there's no way". Many academics are working hard right now to better understand deep neural networks.
It's worth noting that this technique only works if the target user is using a mobile app (not web) that's been granted persistent location sharing permissions. The app also has to support one of the ad networks allowing the targeting they used in the paper. They tested this with the Talkaphone app, which requires (not requests) persistent location sharing.

I'm not sure, but iOS's anti-ad tracking function(s) may have an effect as well (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202074)
Pixel perfection, are we still striving for that?
There's a story (urban legend?) in Ireland that the Mars company forced a pub to changed it's name from "Mahr's Bar" to another name.

I've always wondered if that was true, or even possible.
I think there are plenty of ways to tell person A that they should learn from person B without pitting them against one another.

Normally I talk about this in terms of rubrics for roles and levels. E.g., it's not about Amy versus Betty; it's about how Amy can get from SWE 1 to SWE 2. In the course of that discussion I am totally willing to say, "Pay more attention to the code Betty submits for a code review. She's a solid SWE 2 and you could learn from the way she does X, Y, and Z."
The examples series given have seasonal/periodic effects. An MA seems like the wrong tool and the data should be deseasoned first. The MA in these cases isn't removing noise it would seem.
Yeah, I was responding to someone who'd know which they I meant. My bad.

I live outside of the tourist area, I'm really remote. But, the village is a tourist area. They go from 1200 to 12000 people at times.

There are camps and parks to accommodate them, hotels, and things like that. They have municipal services, which I do not have.

Also, that's the nearest village for me. It's the only group of people for miles.
I suspect a dollar store would do well, actually.
> they're high end because they have more features or more expensive finishes, but have more complexity to go wrong

Sigh, this describes my recent tech purchases to a T. New wireless headphones? More trouble than I had with wired cans in five years, at 3.5x the cost. My first laptop with a dedicated GPU? More glitches than my Intel-only MacBook Air ever had, at 2x the cost. €120 speakers? Their wired "desktop remote" was so dumb that I returned them and bought used €11 speakers on a craigslist clone. (I actually think they sound better.)

I spent at least a day reading reviews for each purchase, too.

On the upside, I will save lots of money by never treating myself to "nice tech" again.
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they blacklisted /identicon.ico as goto value in their redirect url.
It still works with /y18.gif though.
but what's the alternative? I doubt that mom and pop have the cash to do research. And I sure as hell won't trust any mom and pop research about pharmacology.

You basically just answered your own question. You hate it when Big (Whatever) does the research, but you are actually more distrusting of a small operation.

I have spent a lot of years getting myself healthier. I have gone through something like 5 iterations of a health blog to try to talk about that and share information completely for free with people who desperately need a better answer than society is giving them currently.

I kept redoing the blog in part because it was such a total and complete shit show. I got all kinds of open hatred from people for trying to say "X, y and z were helpful for me. I think thus and such is why. Here is supporting research I found that fits with my experience." and making that information available absolutely for free.

I don't know an answer for you. But maybe think about how you are part of the problem here. Ask yourself: What would it take for you to trust a small operation? You are simply dismissing them out of hand. What if a small operation could be useful? What would they need to do to be useful and get taken seriously?
Yeah, can't understand it over here either. All the supermarkets in the UK sell virtually the same products, at least as far as major brands are concerned. Why pay say, £3 for something if the exact same product is available for £1.50 or so in another supermarket down the road?
The good thing seems to be that you can run air conditioning the whole night thanks to the huge battery.

Many RVs don't even have air conditioning when the engine is not running.

The Tesla Model S also has non-exclusive advantages such as being large enough to lie down comfortably and being a good regular car.

If you are looking for a good camper that you can also use as an everyday car, the entire categories of MPV (larger) and LAV (smaller) are for you.
Yeah, I read too much.
You can train Assistant on your phone to a custom word, I have to imagine it's on the roadmap for Google Home at some point
Lasers don't make sound in space.

The uncanny valley isn't about making things realistic, it is about making things feel natural. Things flying by make sounds, so it's natural to assume lasers in space zipping by to make sounds. Same with all sorts of visuals rendering situations we are highly unfamiliar with.
If we had more equality, which would be a result of forcing all salary info to be public, you wouldn't have to worry as much about being robbed.
Thanks!

Update: Hi Jeff!
My favorite line was this:

One of our guiding principles in developing Microsoft Edge is that end users should never have to worry about which sites work in which browsers. This philosophy—”the Web should just work for everyone“—led to our choice to target the “interoperable intersection” of web APIs in our browser engineering.

It wasn't favorite because I agree with it. It was favorite for the humor value of Microsoft accepting a principle that flies so strongly in the face of how the company established itself, managed its battles with competitors, and tried to sabotage existing web standards for most of my professional life.

I'm glad they are finally claiming to be on board. I'll trust them as far as I can throw them. (Guess how far I can throw 120k people...)
I had read some brief stories before (or seen them read out in a documentary) but this one I had not yet read. Thank you.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15486707
The massive use of neonicotinoides would not surprise me given the research of its impact on bee colony collapse.
Besides representing value, they have value (to us). Anything that is trivially available has its value (to us) diminished compared to when it was scarce (unless new uses once again make it scarce). In any case, you're quite right that there's a lot of "precious" metals out there just waiting for us to go harvest it. The Oort cloud and the asteroid belts should prove a useful source of such materials.
We're in that weird in-between period where the land of equal opportunity is quickly slipping away, but people still believe it exists.

It's no different from a caste system or any other class system that justifies our lot in life as deserved. It just has its own uniquely American flavor to it that is based on America's own fundamentalist religion (individuality and the belief in equal opportunity for all). The fundamentalist belief that America "is fair to all" can't be broken, so we develop rationalizations to bridge the gap between expectations and reality.
Activision patents system to upsell microtransations by frustrating new players
Why are you so hostile to someone wanting to know the most basic parameters of the job?
There are libraries for SVD in any language you'd want to use.
Well, we were naming axes, weren't we? Government bias is a different axis from corporate bias from left/right political bias. It's odd to classify the first two as valid but not the last. If the problem is media distortion, it seems to me that progressive distortion is far greater than pro-business or pro-government distortion. I think we can agree that this much is true regardless of our opinions about how harmful each of these biases are.
VirtualBox 5.2 released
> Redis is single-threaded, probably one of fastest,has data different structures, can handle high loads, code is easy to reason, something that just works.

Redis probably isn't a great example here. I've worked on projects where a single Redis instance was not enough (would easily peg its single CPU to 100% and have query latency in the multi-second range). In the end, sharding the data among several Redis instances was successful, but also brought its own problems. The ideal is that we just have languages, runtimes, data stores, etc. that abstract these details away from us so we can focus on our application logic, not on how to make it faster.
This is a halfway decent article from Business Insider.

I find myself 50/50 on this issue. When I need cutting edge info, or niche info, I typically read it on a screen.

When I need offline info, or low power info, or simply a different aesthetic for some reason, I love a nice book. Especially for older info.

Surprisingly, discovery of info is pretty boundless and fun at a large University library, because books are sorted by topics. I don't need to endlessly query Google for the most authoritative resources.

Personally I really feel we need both sources of info. Both types of print have pros and cons.

I don't know if I "perform" better with one type of print though.

"Better" is very subjective, and when I was in college in 2010-13, all of my tests were written paragraphs/essays. Totally subjective.
I doubt this will work as intended. Candidates who have been well paid and know it will volunteer this information. Candidates who do not, one could assume, have a lower salary history.

Not having salary history increases the risk of a bad hire. Hence, I expect offers in general to be lower under such a law to compensate for the extra risk.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Astro/fried.html#...

> What’s important is that this variable increases in value over time, meaning it must have been smaller in the past.

No? The point of the variable is to (basically, meaning it's so tightly correlated it might as well mean it can...) describe expansion rate of the universe. It must have been larger in the past given a big-bang origin model is used.
Because robbers tend to rob wealthy people? You get looted or shot more likely, because the robbers don't know this guy lives a humble life. They think this guy must have cash and big TV.
I saw a modern monastery once. It had a great contemporary design and the place was built to encourage contemplation and inner peace. I bet working there is amazing.
I have had similar thoughts, but it's also worth considering the products that all that garbage protects, whether that's to prevent manufactured goods from being broken in storage and transport, or foodstuffs from spoilage. In either case, not protecting things also wastes huge amounts of resources - which isn't to say that there aren't other options for packaging than plastics.
That's why part of this law states that the employer has to provide the salary range upon request.
Nice work.

I already had Privacy Badger and had disabled third-party cookies, but it's good to have confirmation that it's working. I'm showing up as not logged into anything, even though I am, in fact, logged into six of those services (including HN, obviously).
It’s mostly just branches of biology that have the worst problems. Medical research, specifically.

And the bloated costs mostly originate from the preservation of baseline ethical standards and safety practices applied to operating procedures.

Trying to squeeze bogus statistics out of in vivo blinded placebo trials has always been this brute force hack of russian roulette with terminal diseases, and an effort to guesstimate someone’s best hunch, without knowing what’s really happening, and praying for something obvious to jump out of the woodwork. What a clueless hack. But then again, how else to approach mysterious phenomena when left with nothing to go on but instinct and intuition?

Even more bogus is how we pin all our hopes on pills. How many pills can you really take? And with the entire world bathed in a bizarre cocktail of industrial chemicals, why is the only solution to medicate after the fact?

Wouldn’t it make sense to solve the modern problems we see, by controlling for the miasma of industrial chemical pollutants adulterating our bodies from cradle to grave? Or is that what’s wrong with science? That we pretend that everything we study is a spherical cow in a vacuum?
Depends on how widely you define system. So far in all previous mass extinctions the system resets to a new normal and repopulates the various gaps with new choices. The cynic in me would imagine the 'system' is working to kill off humanity so that it can re-balance.
My post suggests that we need a set of standardised, reusable, washable containers. These containers have a refund value attached to ensure they are returned.

Say for example maybe 150 different sizes and types of containers.

Companies would be legally required to ship their products in these standardised containers, or pay some penalty somehow that is a strong disincentive not to make products that do not fit the standard packages.
Or people who value their time at 0, which seems to be a lot of developers.
The problem is that I see a lot of projects written in languages with single-threaded runtimes (python more often than node) that become difficult/expensive to scale and extend down the road. I loathe the idea of a rewrite, but sometimes the initial language choice lacked forethought to the point where it makes sense to rewrite in something that actually can make use of all of a machine's processing resources.

Things like greenlet and gevent (and likely napa.js) are band-aids over the underlying problem.
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Back in my day, they called this sleeping in your car.
The fourth reason is that some things can't be measured? That seems suspect. I can think of two seemingly obvious inferences from this study that were not mentioned.

1. Digital devices offer more distractions because unlike a book, you also get a slew of other apps (and the internet) at the touch of a button to distract you. Even if you are iron-willed, an OS update will pop up and break your concentration from time to time, a physical book will never present anything other than what it has already printed for you.

2. Books can be written on. I have a Kindle and I can't imagine reading something like Skiena's Algorithms book on it because the effort to take any kind of useful notes far exceeds that of a physical book. You can write in the margins, comment, highlight, all of which helps solidify your understanding. Kindles and iPads may have those things, but they are likely limited in fashion and not nearly as low of an effort to produce as with a book (unless of course it's rented for the semester and you're prohibited from writing in it).
This is now the 4th distributed deep learning solution built on AllReduce/MPI (after Baidu, Facebook, and IBM). There seems to be convergence on AllReduce/MPI/Inifiniband and synchronous distributed SGD as the way to scale-out distributed deep learning. Interesting.