skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It looks a lot like a fanboy ranting.

Well it's not. He's the one who has to do the work, and if I were in his position, I wouldn't do it either. Like if you ordered a coca cola machine compatible syrup pack, and instead received a pepsi co. one, and the manufacturer tells the court that they fulfilled your order even though you are left to accommodate something other than what they claimed to provide.

What NVIDIA has done is claim to support something, while in reality supporting something entirely different and ancillary which everyone else has to do work to accommodate. SirCmpwn isn't "fanboy ranting", he is talking about how ridiculous it is that NVIDIA has pushed the onus for supporting something which is effectively their own proprietary API on the rest of the ecosystem, for apparently no technical reason, and with either no consideration, or malice of intent.
Reading this again, I cannot miss the irony that Alan is accusing our culture of the very thing he has done - retreat from the complexities of conflicts in our modern culture. Racism and sexual violence are at the top of that list. FWIW, discussing either of those topics as a white, middle-class, middle-aged male doesn't come with a lot of natural/implied moral authority. For the philosophically inclined among that group, in which I'll include myself, we are used to starting these kinds of discussions with the premise of our natural-born right to contribute (as he argues for - i.e. otherwise all identity politics excludes those without the identity, effectively killing the concept of political discourse). For my part, I've come to the conclusion that the greatest good we can do is support the voice of those who clearly have a natural right to speak about those issues by virtue of experience. One way to do that is to be the listener as they take the pulpit. Not because what they have to say is inherently the correct view, or ours is inherently not, but because they do deserve the forum to figure out an answer to these problems that can work for them and society- a forum they have been denied. I share Thomas Jefferson's view that the principles we cherish, that were developed over millennia, were formed through vigorous debate amongst those with a natural-born right to the outcome. I'm more curious to learn what is invented when we support the forum vs. position ourselves as a group being victimized by the vehement demand for our silence. While the vehemence is off-putting, it may also be a signal of how great a wrong has been done. We cannot exclude the later if we are unwilling to be patient with the former. I'm reminded of my gratitude for how many second chances society has given me. It seems common decency to pay it forward.
maybe if your blood didn't boil you could make some rational arguments.
Although many of the issues are still relevant, note that this paper is 14 years old.
thanks. have an upvote.

I was mostly interested in learning why they have such atrocious publications/content organization though... i write on that subject internally for my employer.

if OWASP goal is to inform the public, and not look like a mega-corporation, they are doing things very wrong. Their press releases are less parseable than the worse our legal department can produce.
Uber's entitlement was always 'public'. Facebook doesn't hold any private entitlements that would allow it to record audio in the background without notifying the user.
It's exporting the function with the name unicode name "(heart character here)"

let (heart) x y = x + " loves " + y

EDIT: I guess Hacker News doesn't support unicode characters. (Not a bad thing)
I suppose technically it would have been Vacuum Tube Valley back when HP was founded.
I think degrees of hearsay is getting up there, but that's for everyone to decide.
What kind of thinking is that? TV was equally bad in our times (if not far worse). You realize how horribly authoritarian is what you propose?
UK tax authorities won't take action against Uber
I was thinking along the lines of a practical and novel solution to another problem built on top of the assumption p≠np

But fair point, that is usually why I say such confidence in those technologies is disconcerting
this:

> Some elderly people are content with a bicycle. Does that make a bicycle a car?
The vast majority of the adversarial work on DNN’s is about using small input perturbations to push the system from one stable output state to a different stable output state, mostly because work is mostly done on images rather than video so repeatedly re-classifying the same image isn’t very interesting. That doesn’t mean stable state to stable state is the only form of adversarial input that can be found, it just means that’s all that has been looked for so far.

The odds that there are adversarial perturbations that reliably push the system into an unstable state between two or more output states is probably quite high. It just hasnt hit the threshold at which it becomes interesting for postdocs to look for yet.
"Not everyone can afford steak. Therefore they should starve"
UWP is the primary Windows client application platform going forward.

https://np.reddit.com/r/csharp/comments/75mc1m/announcing_uw...

All this FUD and hostility from the F# community (including the Fable devs) towards UWP, or anything that's of interest to most Windows and C# developers making the switch, is why F# will never be popular.

And for most people who need to have their code running on anything else than Windows, F# and .NET wouldn't be their first choice anyway, given that there are plenty of better alternatives around, like Haskell, Scala, ReasonML, OCaml etc.
Some clarifying questions:

1) Do words in a generic corpus (such as Wikipedia) actually form well-separated clusters?

2) Is it correct that you find word clusters in the corpus as a preprocessing step (as opposed to at indexing or query time)?

3) Do I understand correctly that you use all words in clusters as synonyms and pass them to Solr at query/indexing time? Is it query time, index time or both?

4) Given a language where words have many syntactic forms (e.g. buy-bought-buying), how does it work with clusters? Do both syntactic forms and synonyms end up in the same cluster? Wouldn't it be beneficial to treat many of these different forms as the same word (i.e. perform stemming) and only list truly different, but closely related concepts as synonyms?
ISTM the F-35 will be the undoing of the U.S. military. The program seems to be eating all available time and funding but without delivering on essential core capabilities.
How airplanes fly those huge banner ads [video]
In those days, it was called "The valley of heart's delight." There used to be bus tours along Blossom Hill Road to look out at the vista of fruit trees in blossom.
> What got us wasn't anything on the top ten list.

From my PoV nothing got to you. Yes, you may have got some bad publicity, but the fault lies with users who have poor (non-existent?) OPSEC.

Just as there are 2 types of people: those who don't have backups and those who will make backups, there are those who don't have password compartmentalization and those who will have it.
You are mistaken on all points. All EU states have a legal drinking age, and it is usually 18 or 16.

Almost all countries, including Germany, also impose an excise duty (harm tax) on beverages like beer, but the amount of tax varies considerably by member state.

It might be possible to order beer from some EU countries to others, but for example certain Nordic countries still maintain a state alcohol monopoly which practically makes it illegal for private consumers to buy alcohol online even from another EU country (more precisely, it makes the bureaucracy for selling alcohol so complex for the foreign retailer, that they just refuse delivery to these countries ..)
> in a thousand years, when Superman and Wolverine are aged and in the public domain

Are we sure Congress won't just keep extending the term of copyright for the next thousand years?
Nobody disagrees with you.
Looks like I started 2017/02/08
I was surprised when I started working at aol a few years ago how much of the legacy infrastructure runs on tcl. They had a configuration management and process load balancing system that was written in the 90s that as far as I know is still being used to push out updates to stuff like AIM to this day.

It might be interesting to hear one of the old school aol guys talk about it now that they’re decomming a lot of that finally. There was a lot of interesting stuff there that should have been open sourced decades ago and never was.
Do you believe one of the uses of mythology and epic cultural sagas in earlier ages wasn't "a kind of escapism"?
Facebook’s Problems Abroad Are Far More Disturbing
Ergonomics changes your design decisions. When some idiom of code or data or both is awkward to express, you'll lean naturally to something else, which may have drawbacks not related to ergonomics, like coupling or over-abstraction or duplication, etc.

Ergonomics goes into the mix of tradeoffs for design. Something like LINQ's expression trees, for example; not easy to do in Java not because ASTs can't be constructed, but because their construction isn't as ergonomic.
IIUC, apps that use the microphone in iOS make a red bar appear at the top (as if you were in a phone call) when you’re not in the app. For this not to be the case with Messenger, Apple would have to collude with Facebook.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight
> You can write a TCL list to a file? You mean a TCL string to a file?

No - and I think this is entirely what the comment about Lisp was about.

In tcl, there is no distinction.
Do you have any insights as to why random forests are better (are they better?) in this context (or any context?) than boosted decision trees?
>> It's mythically important that a Nazi piece of shit gets punched in the face
by Just a Kid from Brooklyn.

But is it as mythically important that a sandal-wearing goatsherd from Helmand
province (AK-47-totting or not) gets punched in the face by Just a Kid from
Brooklyn?

What about Captain America punching civilians in Sarajevo, as the Sarajevo TV
building is being bombed in the background?

Iraqi soldiers confronting the invasion of their country by the US army, being
punched in the face by Cap?

Cap punching little Vietnamese women and children in My Lai?

What I mean is that the world itself has changed quite a bit since the time of
the Nazis. In terms of dramatic evil, no modern "bad guys" can do unambiguous,
demented evil as well as the Nazis used to. And the good guys don't look that
unambiguously, selflessly good themselves anymore, either. In fact, if you ask
me (and I'm a westerner) they look more and more like the bad guys themselves.

Maybe comics can't just go on pretending the world is all black and white,
when most of us can see around us that this is not the case.
> ...most modern action heroes are 100% righteous, which is a similar thing...

That's too postmodern for my taste, but it's a perspective I hadn't considered yet. Thanks for the elaboration.

In my mind, this should be contrasted with Superman battling a scenery-chewing mad scientist who unleashes Destruct-o-bot to enslave Metropolis. All of golden-age Superman villains were clearly in the wrong and Superman invariably did an admirable job of cleaning things up. The narrative wasn't about how hard it is to do the right thing, how cleaning up messes made more messes, or the tension between vigilantism and justice.
You have a pattern in this thread of answering questions other than the ones asked.
I emailed oneplus support and complained about their data collection and their lack of documentation about what is collected. Let them know actual paying customers care about this. It's not much but it's not nothing.
> On the contrary, high verbosity means less information per token, making it easier in my opinion to read

See I think this is actually backwards thinking. The more boilerplate you have to sift through, the more you're trying to retain before getting to what the program is actually doing.

> A good example is the anonymous class. They are portly and wasteful of vertical space, often costing 5 lines when one would due. But, the amount thinking per line is greatly reduced

Same applies for this statement. You're trying to absorb so much more code before knowing what is actually happening.
Perhaps not a great thing to admit but I was under the impression that if its something you can fake-it-till-you-make-it you just say "yeah, I can do that"
Price discrimination works and if NVidia didn't use it they'd probably jack up prices on GeForces instead.
Here's a link to that thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15574409
Slow response from me due to an intervening weekend... this was quite the epic post, and I enjoyed your elaboration.
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You cannot predict human behavior, but on a long enough time frame...You could get global results.

Everything is local at the moment. You would need Quantum computers to foretell ‘favorite selection’ at that scale - A parallel MapReduce - or other atomically non-blocking aspect of Fuzzy Stream Processing.
Interesting photo of the burned down buildings considering the trees/bush plants immediately surrounding the two buildings are completely intact.
Actually, the first mistake is saying the NBN was Rudd's idea.

The problem was created by the Libs in 1997, when they privatised a government monopoly, Telstra. Telstra promptly morphed into natural shape of private monopolies everywhere: a bloody great rent seeker, beholden to no one. They sat on the existing copper network assets, milking them for all their were worth and showing not the slightest interest investing to upgrade the asset when new technologies arrived. (The contrast with their actions in the mobile sector, where they didn't have a monopoly could not be more stark. We have a world class mobile network, and were the first to phase out 2G.)

10 years later, the prime minster who created this mess was still in power. It was only 10 years later, but by then it was obvious even to him something had to be done because we had this headline: “Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Monday announced a 2.0 billion dollar (1.68 billion US) plan to provide fast and affordable Internet access across the vast country”. http://www.smh.com.au/news/Technology/n/2007/06/18/118201899... Notice this was several years before Rudd "had" the same idea.

Turned out 1.68 billion was a bit of an underestimate, so it went nowhere. We've are now spending 20 times that amount to extract ourselves from the mess he created. I do hope the $14B they earned from the sale of Telstra (which is several times less than the cost of the fix) was worth it at the time.
practical engineering youtube channels talked about swell pressure under buildings, I find this kind of "osmotic" work interesting. Extremely interesting.
Hewlett Packard archives not being digitised would be a very cruel kind of irony.

Shouldn't this kind of stuff be in a museum?
https://github.com/aolserver
Postgrest does the same thing for Postgres https://postgrest.com/
I believe that nerve agent disposal sites you can find pictures of are all on-site setups at the depots where the weapons were manufactured and stored. In many cases they were disposing of stockpiles of deployment-ready munitions. Care there was not a matter of safety and surety, it was a matter of arms control and international treaty. Field-expedient disposal in an ongoing military situation, on the other hand:

It can be, though not without some problems. Mauroni describes a
process used in Iraq in 1991. "We'd come across a bunch of
rockets, and you suspect there might be some chemicals in them,"
he says. "The field expedient way, if you're in a hurry, is to
blow it up in place." Army Explosive Ordinance Demolition teams
would use a 10-to-1 ratio of explosives to suspected chemical
weapons.

https://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-09/fyi-chemic...

And yes, there are radiologicals that need to be dealt with more carefully than others. I'm not denying that. 90Sr is about the worst I can think of - its half-life is just short enough for it to be immediately dangerous but also just long enough that you can't stuff it in a box and come back in a year. And I agree that you'd have to treat it with the same immediate care that you would dimethylmercury or VX.

The thing is, 90Sr is the worst radiological I can think of. US regulations partition radioactive waste into either low-level or high-level, low-level being things like the gloves the doctor wears when handling the radiotherapy drugs and everything else being high-level. And guess how you have to handle high-level waste? That's right, you have to treat every single kilogram of marginally neutron-activated steel like it's made of 90Sr. That's insane.

(that and, well, if you had a lump of 90Sr, burying it in a hole for a million years is a stupid way to deal with it. 30-year half-life; throw it in a shed on a military base, if the US government collapses mail it to another government to stick on their military base. repeat for 300 years and done. if there're no stable governments to mail it to, you have bigger problems.)
You need a new kernel to support a GPU? What ass-backwards garbage is this? With Windows, it's install a new driver; not update the core of the OS and possibly introduce horrible bugs.
> But if there were a monopoly on vehicles, and the company built in equipment to all their vehicles that would only allow the vehicle to travel on routes that the rider had specifically paid the vehicle company for a subscription to, I would consider that to be a very bad thing.

Yet you do it all the time, especially with the firmware in all your devices. Apple blatantly blocks you from using an FM chip that you bought. Everywhere in the world you find cellphones locked to specific networks. People buy restricted versions of all kinds of things because they are cheaper. Is there a single moral standard here?
I'm guessing the argument is that some significant portion of the demand for NVDA parts is due to crypto mining (I don't know how significant). If you imagine that demand dying down then NVDA doesn't look as good I suppose. Their products are still good though and there was plenty of demand for them before crypto mining and speculation became a factor.
For those new to the subject, here is a nice visual primer to Evolution Strategies.

http://blog.otoro.net/2017/10/29/visual-evolution-strategies...
"A storage facility in Columbus, Ohio"

At the time known as Consolidated Stores, now known as Big Lots Stores.
See also spaghetti westerns. They were low cost but obviously if you crank out many hundred films of a genre there’s obviously a demand for them.
The German one for beer is nugatory th uk beer duty is 14 times the German one
I haven't used it myself but the Ionide plugin for VSCode, which creates a full featured IDE experience for F#, is done in F# transpiled to javascript. The maintainers seems to enjoy it.
> A couple of hours outside Yangon, the country’s largest city, U Aye Swe, an administrator for Sin Ma Kaw village, said he was proud to oversee one of Myanmar’s “Muslim-free” villages, which bar Muslims from spending the night, among other restrictions.

> “Kalar are not welcome here because they are violent and they multiply like crazy, with so many wives and children,” he said.

> Mr. Aye Swe admitted he had never met a Muslim before, adding, “I have to thank Facebook because it is giving me the true information in Myanmar.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/world/asia/myanmar-rohing...

I found this chilling when I saw it on Twitter.
I guess the question is, do you treat "bad" content on Facebook (fake news and so on) like spam email, where you expect the provider to block it, or like an email from your racist Grandma, which you expect to be allowed through even though it's got the same link to a fake article?

Really in the end, if it's your Facebook "friends" who are posting this stuff, it seems to me like the responsibility is more on the users than the provider. People need to learn to be skeptical of everything, and how to check other sources before sharing. Even if you can "fix" Facebook, something else will come along.
For what it's worth, they were authored before digitization was feasible, and they were collected before it was cheap. I can see why, but it's sad to see.
And sometimes also because it can cut away reality, help people see the crux of a situation or debate and take that perspective back into the real world.
Often, plants will survive wildfires (especially in CA, where wildfires are somewhat normal and plants have evolved to survive them) because they have moisture inside them. Buildings do not usually have moisture inside of them, and when embers land on common cladding materials or rubberized roofs with wood beneath them... well.
Yeah but the boilerplate is basically invisible to anyone with experience in the language
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I mean I think the government should exercise its discretion to prevent injustice in situations like this. But it’s not some crazy Kafkaesque situation. The government forgives tens of thousands of dollars of loans to you, and all you have to do is meet a handful of requirements.
It's interesting the way films like the original superman had a very clear hero "doing good". And now we have superheroes with clear flaws, wresting with their conscience and shades of gray. This mirrors the USA fall from hegemony.
The decentralized society of future
It's simpler for a compiler at least
The Marines are bringing back Harriers (ancient and not very effective) because the Hornets are wearing out.* The UK has a carrier in service that has no planes. The original plan was to have the JSF in service in 2010. Plans keep getting pushed back, more money is spent, and the state of the art is not standing still.

The problem with this is that the US is spending insane amounts of money for what will not be a very effective plane in any particular role. Defenders will say that the JSF can do more things than any other plane, but what is the point if in combat the plane is not the best at the role it is sent to perform?

It's hard to know what to do at this point, perhaps just keep the JSF as a VTOL replacement (there is no other) and keep some for the Air Force. At the ranges our navy will need to engage in Asia, they should think about drones and planes that are built to work very well with drones.

*https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/u-s-marines-will-keep-the-...
Kotlin is an officially supported Android development language. I'm sure some people get paid to work with it
It's worth noting that for a finite number of bets (the number being known to the bettor) the Kelly Criterion is not the optimal strategy. Intuitively, the closer you are to the end the less worried you should be about going bust (as you won't be missing out on more of these great odds).

Gwern details this extensively here: https://www.gwern.net/Coin-flip well worth checking out.
When interpreting a text, and it appears that two statements appear to be in conflict, the more specific statement is to be followed.

The interstate commerce clause gives Congress the power to regulate (make normal) commerce between the states, removing the power of states to impose tarrifs or other barriers to trade. This was a big problem at the time. The 21st amendment specifically makes an exception to this general clause in the case of intoxicating spirits.