skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sri Ramakrishna said that all religions are just different path to the same divinity. Just like we call water by different names in different languages but ultimately they all mean the same liquid that quenches thirst , similarly different religions also lead to the same quenching of our spiritual thirst. Sri Ramakrishna not only said that but he practiced reaching enlightenment through different religions.
> When is this going to stop? It feels like we're going backwards in terms of people understanding science.

Who is there that is telling the public what the science says and that the public can trust?

Government agencies and their scientists?

They often have a tendency to make recommendations based on weak science, and if they are regulating an industry with a lot of political influence they may even make recommendations that go against what the science says.

For an example take a look at dietary recommendations in the US. Almost everything that has gone into them has not held up. The public followed them, reduced fats, eggs, and protein, and loaded up on carbs...and became fat and diabetic.

How about non-government advocacy groups?

They botch it too. Continuing with the dietary recommendations example, the American Heart Association, for example, jumped on the unscientific "fat and cholesterol bad" bandwagon, and spent decades giving people harmful advice.

Industry scientists?

Their employers often get to decide what they publish, which means that although the industry scientists might not outright lie about results, they may remain silent about results that would go against their employer's interests.

Academic scientists?

This is probably your best bet. The problem here is that academic research is often not directly on point for the particular issue that regulators or legislators are addressing. Academic researchers are more likely to be doing the basic research that industry, government, and NGO researchers should be building upon.
> Play Dota 2, but introduce a random variable that can't be known beforehand by anyone, like things in the real world, and the AI will always be beatable.

I wonder about a board game that randomizes the rules in simple ways. A human could understand the rule changes and adapt. To what extent can software be trained to do that?
You can use it for locks where std::lock_guard isn’t what you need, put the mutex.unlock in the scope_guard
I think it is all in the timing.

Consider this chart of the AUD to the USD over that time:

http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=AUD&to=USD&view=10Y

From the RBA interest rate chart linked earlier you get these maximum yearly numbers over the last decade:

Year Rate AUD
2008 7.25 0.69
2009 3.00 0.91
2010 4.75 0.98
2011 4.75 1.10
2012 4.25 1.51
2013 3.00 1.50
2014 2.50 0.94
2017 1.50 0.80

As the numbers show, before the GFC and even after the GFC through to 2014 (some 7 years) the RBA kept the rates very high.

Thanks to those high rates the carry trade kept the AUD high, but those high rates also put a dampener on the housing market.

Now during that time most of Australia was struggling, but two mining states (WA, QLD) where doing extremely.

China had created a commodities bubble that saw iron ore prices well over the $100 a tonne.

By 2014 the mining bubble had bursts, so much so that WA, the once booming state was on it's way to recession.

Only then does the RBA then decides to move on rates.

However those 7 years of high AUD has really hurt the local export industry, the tourist sector and the agricultural sector industry.

But even after 2014 the RBA is still slow to cut so the carry trade persists, keeping the AUD stubbornly high.

However, with the rate now at 2.50% and going even lower in the years to come, mortgages are now very cheap and only getting cheaper.

Say goodbye to the mining boom and welcome to the housing bubble.

Might point would be, if they had cut faster after the GFC they would have kept alive the other non mining sectors and then, if they had seen a problem developing in the housing market they could have raised rates to deal with the issue.

Over that time they did the exact opposite.
The problem with contexts is that can't just innocently enter one in some if branch where the rest of the code would be scoped.

I ended up an OnExit() context that does:

if conn is not None:
ctx.call(conn.close)
>Switzerland is not in the EU as OP asked

OP asked about EU/EEA. Switzerland is not in the EU but it could just as well be in EEA. Only reason it's not is because it has to be neutral on paper for historical reasons. De facto Switzerland is clearly EEA-like.
Did anyone else look at this subject line and wonder why credit card holders in Tennessee should have particular reason to be worried about something, as compared to those of us in other states here in the US.
> Should I must move into management role for this?

Do you want to be a manager? If not, you will be trading a life of misery for a modest pay raise.
Google definitely started invoking the "unfair advantage" policy when lots of people started buying Adwords ads for their own Dropbox referral codes.
It's not a word trick, I'm talking about actual trains that carry cars. They're pretty common in Europe: http://l450v.alamy.com/450v/d4pmtj/passengers-and-railroad-w...
That's a really interesting point. I never thought about knowledge like that.

I've always thought that the difference between knowledge (or knowing something) and being informed is when you can apply information gained in one realm to another.
Of course, the default is that no one can secede. There was an unpleasantness in the 1860s over that. But ultimately, if a geographical region won’t do what you want it to do, the alternative is to use force. For example, the Federal government used force to enforce voting rights in the 1960s. If asking nicely, threats, and sanctions don’t work, troops are mostly what you have left.
How do you profit from card counting without varying your bet size?
I agree that Python's `with` is nicer than Go's `defer` (and I use both languages almost daily). I'm not sure I agree that languages seem to need exceptions--stack traces in the presence of errors are certainly handy, and there's certainly a case for panicking, and it's arguably more ergonomic to have syntax or type-system support for eliminating error-handling boilerplate, but I still prefer the simplicity of returned errors. That said, I'm really interested to hear different view points.
No worries, it happens - and it's still some pretty impressive stats I wasn't aware of before :).
That's true! I can't get shit done on the shuttle.
> 3. If you're attending an expensive private university, networking is effectively what you're buying. Exploit ruthlessly.

Even if it's not an expensive school, email / talk to all your professors, classmates, lab partners, etc. I didn't start doing that until my 3rd year.

For me it was: My mentor's friend -> internship -> first job
I don't think the radiation heat transfer from microscopic bodies is the same as saying a human body emits infrared light on a macro scale.
How much does the road repair cost, compared to the tracks? My perception is that tracks last decades with minimal maintenance.

The manned stations are not a distinct factor, by the way. Tram stations are usually not manned either.
The Swift compiler uses this trick: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/include/swift/Bas...
On my Linux desktop, I run firefox with uMatrix and if a page isn't readable without javascript then I don't bother, except a very few handful of sites that are whitelisted. If it's content that I really feel like I need to see, then I run chromium with just an ad blocker. They are each run from separate chroot instances, though with firefox container tabs that won't be as necessary anymore maybe.

On my macbook, I run Safari with no loading of JS or images at all, and firefox with uMatrix again. And again, if a page isn't readable without JS, then I don't read it, or I wait until I can use chromium on my desktop, assuming that I'm not going to allow the scripts in uMatrix, which I usually don't.

On my phone, I run Safari with JS always disabled, which is actually perhaps surprisingly fine for the vast majority of mobile websites.

And I run firefox for iOS with JS enabled if I really really need to look at something that doesn't work on non-JS Safari.

You get used to it. Most JS on the web is junk anyway. I don't have any FOMO by avoiding JS almost entirely, but maybe that's just me (and people like me)?
I did not know that, and I appreciate your efforts. It's one of the few apps that I know fairly consistently works, even though it's an inherently chaotic system that deals with estimation.

Is the data behind that available anywhere as an api or anything? I was trying to find a way to parse out some stuff for a project at home, and access to the times in say, json, would be helpful.

Thanks!
I keenly pirate ebooks because I travel a great deal and I find a Kindle a handy, lightweight way to carry a large collection with me. However, I am still keenly buying paper books, too: eventually I will get tired of moving around so much, and it will be nice to have a home library to browse around in during my later years. Plus, there are certain genres like poetry that simply aren't enjoyable to read in ebook form. No reason people can't do both formats.
The share of book sales which are ebooks from major publishers has declined, largely because they're, yup, overpricing the ebooks to avoid cutting into print sales.

Indy is doing fine.
Why Has EPA Shifted on Toxic Chemicals? Industry Insider Helps Call the Shots
Nothing in there about money? Here's one I figured out a couple years too late...

You got average grades and nothing unusual about you that would lead to scholarships? If you go to school the "normal" way you're likely to end up in huge piles of debt. Even if you go to community college first.

An open secret is location. Find a place in the country, or even another country, where college is subsidized for residents. Instead of going to community college in your home town, prioritize moving to that location ASAP.

Get a part time job, a crappy apartment, and start community college there. Pay close attention to their residency requirements to make sure you meet them as quickly as possible. Then transfer to the college of your choice and save tons of money
So far so good. I have not installed Linux on the machine itself (I tend to run one or two Ubuntu VMs in VMWare), but I have not noticed any throttling as the other user mentions. The CPU does feature Intel turbo-boost like all modern Intel CPU's and seems to be working as intended. My only gripe is that the webcam is on the bottom of the screen. Its not very.. flattering.. as it looks up at your face.
Yeah that's total rubbish.
On my laptop, I block all images by default, while I don't on my desktop (like you, I load CSS and images there).

I find myself more and more liking to use my laptop for browsing, which makes me think I could block images by default on my desktop as well and rarely ever notice it anymore.
I haven't done it, actually. The only mention I have found on him online is a quick "thanks" in this PDF (mentioned as "Bill Fairing"): https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/dbf2/9a4eac990f8cfef7bcb781..., though I honestly haven't done much digging.

I'll look into it the representative route.
Soooooo fuck over the town for selfish, egotistical means. Got it.
I guess you could always count from the sidelines and bet only in advantage spots. Not very practical I suppose but card counting in general seems pretty implausible these days
Footnotes is one of my complaints about Kindle non-fiction. And personally I love using them. Not in the authoritative documentation sense but in the parenthetical commentary that you might be interested in but which I don’t really want to break the flow of writing to provide.

A lot of non-fiction works ok on Kindle but it can be a bit hit or miss. I do generally prefer ebooks though just to decrease clutter at home and because I do a lot of long form reading while traveling.
It didn't work out well for my grandparents. I don't think many relationships could make it through this much secrecy.
These big shot writers always have some excuse.
No mention of StarSpace (from FaceBook) ? It figures, with the rapid pace of innovation these days.

StarSpace can compute 6 types of entity embeddings, of which word embeddings are just one type. It's a whole family of algorithms.

https://github.com/facebookresearch/Starspace/
Your comment directly contradicts everything claimed in the article. Specifically, it makes the case that all calories are not created equal, and sugar in particular heavily impacts metabolism and fat accumulation.

Whether this is true is up for debate, but you haven't brought any evidence to the table.
Sorry, but this does not contain any special insights.
Reads like platitudes.

My luke warm insights:

- Stay fit, keep your back trained.

- Mitigate risks to your mental well being

- Socialize

- Do the work

- Take advantage of opportunities given to students (travel, discounts, university resources)
What's their main competitor? Oracle?
What companies would that be? If you could name few..
Purism disables Intel ME on its privacy-focused Librem laptops
Okay, you're right about the Wikipedia article not showing an increase in those statistics for mass transit. However, this paper does show a substitution effect for busses: http://clinlawell.dyson.cornell.edu/InTech_public_transit_ch...

However, there is an induced demand effect where because there are less cars, more people will drive. So in effect an extra lane appears, empty of the people riding the bus.
Upfront costs for a train vs bus have to be orders-of-magnitude apart.
You say you cut out sugars, but then mentioned using honey as a sweeter which is nearly 100% sugar and 40% fructose.

I assume you mean you cut out white sugar? Sucrose?
I am betting someone will bother to create a SWF to WebAssembly translator, maybe even Adobe.
Thanks.. but not an EU/GB citizen.. won't be possible contracting in U.K.
$500 a day programming?
> everyone seems to have assumed that engineers can now do all db work

Yes, everyone wants "full stack" and so you have a bunch of people haphazardly adorning themselves with the "full stack" label.
I fail to see how moving to a place with better benefits is either one of those things.

Isn't that the reason that pretty much everyone moves? Better jobs, better schools, less crime, etc...

I guess it can be seen as egotistical and selfish if you're the kind of person that doesn't like anyone to build housing that spoils your view. The NIMBY archetype
The downside of that strategy is you will frustrate your customers and they will trade/bet elsewhere.
I'm amused to be downvoted for stating the game theoretic nature of the problem.

Some good reading:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action#Collective...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superrationality

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium
I've heard that a lot.. but a) Swiss living cost is expensive b) Difficult to find job as non European
Yes, you open yourself up to counter party risk.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15510428
How Retailers Use Personalized Prices
> If so, they are doing a poor job: this makes Seattle look less interesting to me.

Perhaps not. It could be Portland doing it. :-)
Tax breaks for companies that implement 4 day work weeks / off peak commute times / WFH days?

If I ran a company I'd want my employees to have shorter commutes anyway. A stressful drive in the morning can't be great for productivity.
My apologies, I thought OP said 'Python' not 'DJango'. You're correct. Youtube has their own framework and IIRC reddit runs a few different Pyramid modules rather than a full-fat framework.

Reddit has some scattered Engineering blogs and my insight into youtube comes from a previous HN article by the author of GrumPy (who works on youtube at Google) in case you're curious.
I've worked for an online bookie. I've also worked for an outfit that bets (on horses mainly).

The online bookie will indeed ban or limit winning accounts or anyone they suspect of cheating or betting smartly. Anyone betting large amounts dumbly gets taken out to nice dinners etc.

The company that bets on horses bets using exchanges, because bookmakers would tend to kick them out. The abstract of this paper is pretty much 101 to those guys who do some advanced stuff I can't talk about to make predictions.

Good luck!
As disgusting as this story is, freedom of speech isn't a freedom if it magically disappears because a collection of people say it instead of a single person. I'd much rather have a raucous marketplace of ideas and opinions that let people choose for themselves, over having the government make their medical decisions.

For example, thousands of deaths have been attributed to the tough drug approval requirements in the US. How would you feel if you had a terminal condition and your government didn't allow you to even know of a possible treatment, or the choice of taking the risk that the treatment won't work?
Metro considers itself traditional fixed rail, not light rail.

a metro area that didn't experience such a boom

I was responding to the specific claim "Light rail will create demand to live near and locate businesses near the stations." The point isn't about whether a broad area benefits from rail (vs. no rail at all) but whether adding light rail to a fully built-out environment will drive more dense business development near the added rail and because of the addition of rail. I don't know of any USA data that supports that.
The point is that being "baked in" is something machines lack which biological intelligences possess. Animal brains don't learn those "baked in" abilities. We may need to "bake in" similar abilities into the AIs, since we recreating evolution is computationally prohibitive.
One other factor is sometimes you actually are willing to take principal risk -- like when there are hoards of people willing to place bad bets on the local team -- you're willing to run an unbalanced book.
Have you heard of / considered Matrix/Riot?
A couple of suggestions to improve on this method.

The authors' regression left an intercept or 'adjustment term' of 3.4% - 5.7%. For a perfect bookmaker, this intercept term would be equal to the overround. The number calculated unfortunately averages that overround between different bookmakers and at different times (overrounds often decrease over time). It might be more effective to adjust for the actual overround of each market sampled, i.e. divide each price by the sum of the inverse of the prospects.

They appear to use a flat betting strategy, and the threshold to bet or not was selected based on profitibility. I was simplifying in another comment when I said profitibility should be the goal. In reality it's utility you should be optimizing for. Nobody wants a ultimately profitable system that reads like an EKG, they want a high sharpe ratio. The paper's results are actually very good here, but the trend could be lifted and stabilized further by betting proportionally to expectation, or by explicitly optimizing for such.
> But if the argument is that AlphaGo is the right approach to creating an AGI, then we should at some point expect it to learn how to recognize the goal of various tasks without a huge amount of training.

I never said anything about AlphaGo or AGI. I said that humans are not as good at generalizing from few examples as people would like to believe.
Timeline of TempleOS
In the 15th century, Venice was the chief sugar refining and distribution centre in Europe.[6]

From Wikipedia.

Sugar has been around far longer than our very recent obesity epidemic.
The idea that the patient should be influencing their own treatment decisions is absurd?
I'm a non European expat based in Dublin but willing to relocate anywhere in EU. DS- Data Scientist, niche in the area of IR/NLP/ML with MS in AI.
In Arizona big pharma was the biggest contributor to the campaign to defeat marijuana legalization.
Definitely didn’t happen in Houston. There was a spike of enthusiasm but light rail proximity has almost no effect on property values.
Great idea! Thanks! :)
This is a neat C++ exercise, but when you're working daily with a language and intend to write maintainable code that's going to be around for a while, it's best to stay within common, boring conventions of that language. In C++'s case, just stick to explicit RAII-based guard wrappers and your life will be a lot easier. Macro-based emulations of other language features can lead to lots of unexpected behavior.

Sorry for pooh-poohing someone sharing some ideas, but being someone who has to maintain long lived code in quite a few languages, code like this immediately sets off my alarm bells.

Don't get me started on the dude who use #define magic to make C look like Pascal.
It does though, that's how infrared cameras work for one thing.
Are you saying patients should not have any say in their own treatment?
I do not think that local sovereignty exists in the US -- the states are the sovereign from which local authority stems IIUC.
Let’s say I want to read some new fantasy.

I go to /r/fantasy and ask for recommendations. I will probably get someone recommending goddamn Malazan* no matter how applicable it is to what I asked for. I will also get a lot of recs that are just a title, maybe a title and an author, with no further info. Some authors who hang out there will pimp their own books. Maybe someone recommends Name Of The Wind and a mini-flamewar about book 3 taking a decade and counting happens. I end up with a lot of unfiltered recommendations, and an overwhelming amount of research to do on them.

I go to a good bookstore. I can wander into the SF section and find a whole bunch of staff recommendation cards on the shelves next to things they’ve loved. Maybe there’s a list of Hugo and Nebula winners. Maybe some new stuff the average reader hasn’t heard of. Maybe a “if you liked THIS THING then try THIS OTHER THING” card on the shelf points me to something new. I’ve got a fairly small selection of recommendations, curated by people whose job is partially to keep up with new fiction and recommend the great new stuff. And maybe something outside my genre comfort zone catches my eye on the way to the SF/F section...

Also it is TONS easier to get an idea of just how long a book is when you’re picking one up off the shelves. One cover image and maybe a little tiny text note of how big the file is on Amazon’s page is a lot less information about the sheer size of the story I’m considering picking up.

* /r/fantasy loves this turgid-ass sprawling account of someone’s D&D campaign, I finally tried reading the first book and gave up after three chapters, then got told that “everyone knows it doesn’t pick up until book 3” and life is way too short for that IMHO...

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TL;DR: Reddit ain't gonna give you professional recommendations. Reddit will give you a bunch of recommendations of stuff twentysomething guys with a ton of free time on their hands like.
You are making the same semantic argument I was criticizing. In the context of this discussion we aren't talking about the literal measure of energy, but the package. I.e., is a quantity of sugar that has a calorie of energy the same to the body as a quantity of fat or fiber that contains a calorie of energy. That's what someone is claiming when they say a calorie is a calorie. And to that question, the evidence bears out that it the effects are not just psychological, and don't just affect desire to eat. If you took two twins, and fed one 2000 calories of cane sugar a day, and fed the other 2000 calories of raw broccoli, after a month, they wouldn't have the same weight.