skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep on reading these complaints about virtue signalling, yet I rarely come across it myself, at least on the internet. Perhaps things are different in America, where people are much more talkative. In Prague people don't talk about themselves to nearly the degree that people do in America. However, you're speaking in an international environment, and you're really "throwing the dirt around" (to use a Czech phrase) at those who try to be ethical.

I know, you're probably jumping at the edge of your seat wanting to protest that there is nothing unethical about watching TV. But those who don't own a TV often have ethical reasons, such as not wanting to be entrenched in consumerism promoting advertisements and product placement, or not wanting to have their political views overly influenced by sensationalist mainstream-ism.
Wow, it's like the Voltron of bad ideas.
the last truly great episode of the simpsons was season 9, episode 21, "girly edition," but its rapid decline began in season 8.
I think the #1 rule is: Just write, and keep writing.

The same goes for coding. The more you do it, the better you'll become because you'll constantly be put into new situations where you can practice and apply your craft.
Do it then!
Machine learning practical project ideas
What I want to do is make a project that uses a machine learning algorithm.My main concern is that the project has a purpose instead of just a beginner project that walks you through the algorithm.
So basically, if I were to use Cosine Similarity, I would make a plagiarism detection system that makes use of that.
Regardless of the algorithm used, I can't seem to come up with a good reason to use one or another.
Another example was creating a Neural Network that predicts what programming language a snippet of code is written in.
Or a recommending system that matches best jobs to candidates.

Anyone that can give me suggestions of something practical of that sort ? Thank you
In my observation, Docker skills is a modern day ability to type "make", without being able to actually write a Makefile or debug a Makefile.
> Ok, but how long did it take to find a polynomial algorithm for primality checking

Proving P=NP doesn't require finding a polynomial time algorithm to solve NP-complete problems. Finding such an algorithm is a much greater challenge than proving that one can exist.
We have been building cars for quite some time now, and yet there are still millions of recalls year after year. The idea that IT can solve physical problems is so pervasive on this site.

> autopilot cause fewer crashes than pilots

How often do pilots really cause crashes, though? In the sense that it's the pilots fault-more often than not, it isn't. Most crashes are not the result of pilot failure in normal operation-but pilot failure in situations out of their control.

It's hard to blame a pilot when an engine cuts out (a mechanical failure).

my point is not that automated cars are never going to work. But it's just a utopia on here, about how all of our problems will be solved. Computers can't beat physics.
This is a legitimate concern - I've built some production lisp services that handled JSON back and forth, and you need to address this specifically. My solution was to hook custom encoders and decoders to `cl-json`, converting null to :null, false to :false, and [] to nil.

Other conversions are possible of course. This scheme has the advantage of allowing you to naturally iterate over JSON arrays as lists in application code, but you have to take care of the fact that :false evaluates to T, by for example writing your own macros for "if".

This might read like a nightmare, but Lisp makes it really easy to customize everything about it self, which can be beautiful, if you're into that.
Just to clarify: most of NY state has inexpensive housing (at least compared to NYC). Also, much of it is turn-of-the-century houses, not necessarily the 50s+ auto-oriented suburban tract houses, although it does have its share of those, also.
It seems you've misunderstood the problem.
I didn't really stop, in the sense that almost everyday I'll still visit a bunch of websites, possibly more than once, but I got rid of the obsessiveness: I don't check the same sites again and again every 30 minutes (or worse). I also won't turn on my pc just for it. I don't really know how I did it. Combination of recognizing my own behaviour, seeing it is total waste of time (it literally doesn't have any benefit whatsoever for me), figuring out it is actually a relatively simple addiction to break (especially compared to other addictions) and last but not least a saner state of mind in general in comparision with e.g. a couple of years ago. So one day I just told myself 'ok enough with this, from now on I'll just stop hitting F5 repeatedly, I'll visit HN and the others only a couple of times a day and never to escape hard to fix problems at work'. Am I still addicted? Possibly. Yes here I am posting on HN. But it's not an obsession anymore. Also there are never any signs of withdrawal when I don't visit the sites for days. Actually what typically happens is after some days without checking everything I come back, check everything, and am left with a 'yup, didn't miss a thing, same shit as usual' feeling.
If I understand correctly, this forgoes Lucene entirely. I would really like something that can be integrated into Lucene/Solr due to the availability of all the infrastructure build around it.

> works faster than grep

I didn't quite get the connection to grep.
You can compile a statically linked PHP interpreter. Probably a bit of messing around with configure and makefiles, but doable.
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Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8265509
Reminds me of this

http://www.lbatalha.com/blog/feynman-on-fermats-last-theorem
Transactions do not occur in vacuo. Your question must take into account who is buying, who is selling, and what the alternatives are for both parties.

If the government is offering a loan at 1% it's probably because it's a better option than offering a loan at 3% and losing the partner who would otherwise be a net positive for the country.
The only way to get good at something is to suck at it for a long time. Also, according to my 10th grade teacher, don't put 'I think or I believe before a sentence. Of course, you think it and you believe it, you wrote it.' That is very profound.
I work in film distribution, and we have similar rules as well for unreleased movies. The important thing is that this is really nothing personal - for all intents and purposes the firing is a clear and automatic decision by a HR robot. The question is, who on the iPhone team should have stood up and advocated having him stay? Presumably all the other people on the team have families as well, and they all went to great lengths to make sure this didn’t happen with their pieces. If this happened to someone on my team I would wish them well and make introductions as much as possible, but it would be very unfair to the rest of the team to try to hold on to them.
Its "couldn't care less".
The one regression I've been experiencing is the wifi. I have pretty much unlimited 4G, but a very bad wifi connection in my bedroom.

Because of Apple's silly disabled-but-not-really wifi and bluetooth, my wifi keeps switching to on, seemingly randomly, but probably whenever it loses and then reacquires my home wifi.

As a result I have to keep turning wifi off in settings, which is a bit too rigorous, or I have to keep remembering to turn off wifi in the bedroom.

I can't help but feel there's a use-case myopia at Apple that, for whatever reason, is starting to become problematic. For me, at least, and I think I'm pretty much their ideal customer (aside from not having a wife and kids).
Awesome the iconic font and sass toolkit (fontisto)
Some papers showing direct connections between senescent cells and specific aspects of aging, in many cases turning back that aspect by removing the senescent cells.

Osteoporosis: https://doi.org/10.1038/nm.4385

Fatty liver disease: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15691

Disruption of platelet formation: https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2017.00188

Osteoarthritis: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nm.4324

Disruption of regeneration: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2017.00049

Lung fibrosis: https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.02367-2016

Pulmonary function in general, including tissue elasticity: https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.87732

Atherosclerosis: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf6659

Vascular calcification: http://dx.doi.org/10.18632/aging.101191

Chronic kidney disease: https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.17327

Cardiac hypertrophy: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182668

Cardiac fibrosis and function in general: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehx454
Maybe exercising increases activity in the inmune system which contributes to killing more senescent cells?
Technology is wonderful. When it isn't in the way.
>It's healthy for people to discuss this and similar topics such as unplugging.

I agree that people should discuss it as long as it's genuine conversation. The negatives of tv have been discussed for a long time. Neil Postman's 1985 "Amusing Ourselfs to Death" talks about unplugging from tv. The 1953 Ray Bradbury book "Fahrenheit 451" has been often analyzed for its themes of censorship and burning books but the author has stated the larger theme was television and its effect on dumbing down society. Yes, it's healthy to have an ongoing dialogue about this subject.

>People should be able to do so without fear of being ridiculed and accused of "Virtue Signalling.

The "Virtual Signaling" is a good label because it helps separate the meaningful from the superficial. Many people who don't watch tv (or have other strong beliefs such as "not eating meat", etc) lack self-awareness as to how it's perceived by others when it comes to advertising their positions. They think it enhances their appeal when in fact, the opposite happens: the people roll their eyes at the smugness. If "virtue signaling" as a meme helps people become more self-aware, that's a good thing.

>Openly seeking some validation

This is reasonable and possible, but in my observations, I've never seen it.

>Why be so quick to judge?

I'm not judging. I was clarifying to the poster (odiroot) that it's not about the "owning" -- it's the "signaling".
They need to ban coal really, or find some way to capture the pollutants.
It depends. How about, do not use one step to verify/authenticate/authorise/etc - Period.

Biometrics is not a password, so it should not be treated as one. There are many good advantages of using fingerprint to do something where passwords would not be great.
Take for example a public place - do you really want to enter your password/pin when somebody is looking? And with current levels of video surveillance somebody is always looking.
I'd rather place my finger on my phone and unlock it. This goes with any method of authorisation - we should focus on making sure people are aware of their strengths/weaknesses, instead of using scare tactics saying something just doesn't work.
I often write "I think" in order to communicate my awareness that something is just my opinion.
I don't think that's the most generous paraphrasing. I think the framing the article is putting forward (right or wrong) is:

The "first generation" of US antitrust rules were built around emergent giant of those times. Oil and it's transportation. Shiping. Infrastructure. Big, megalithic chunks of a maturing manufacturing economy, especially bottlenecks.

New era of commerce, new "trusts." New concentrations of influence that change the rules of the game in a corrupting way.

IDK if I'd frame it exactly the same way. Personally, I don't think we did the best job on the last generation of trusts. Data is referred to a bit to vaguely for my taste. I agree with you that working with a concept (trusts) that's nt ideal in the first place. But it's not a nonsense argument.
I think nostalgia-based makes sense ... but I just decided to watch later Simpson episodes and their jokes just suck. I watched a few episodes and didn't laugh once.

The video everyone is referencing in this thread has an example of the possible "pattern" that you reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqFNbCcyFkk&feature=youtu.be...
One thing to remember with these is that they don't show the speed of the sorting algorithms because the movement of numbers is animated. If they are written further away, the square of that color travels further, which takes time.
Blocking audio means blocking visually impaired people from accessing websites with reCAPTCHA.

Hacking reCAPTCHA is not only for bad people. There are several use cases where solving reCAPTCHA automatically is needed.
Yeah, I get that now, thanks.
Alternatively to tf-idf, there's an interesting property in word embeddings generated by word2vec : they're sorted by rarity (the most common words being on top of the list).

So if you insert them in the same order in a database, you can just use their primary key as weight for a word. This also has the advantage of filtering out stop words without any additional processing.
Narendra Modi plans to build over 83,000 km of road
If a company has existing in-house systems that are working well, why should they care about "valuable experience that would be usable outside the company"? Unless you think it's their responsibility to train people so those people can then leave and take the benefit of that training to some other, possibly competing, business?
I never liked this answer because doing something over and over again doesn't lead to mastery, and there are many writers who keep writing and writing and never attain success, either due to poor technique or other factors.
Which European country did you settle in?
Or perhaps based upon a kernel of truth?

https://www.wired.com/2000/08/rocketcar/
It pushes thinking up to the app/middleware stack and away from server instances.
Sloppy use of language. The by far most probable case given all the priors available. And, in the same spirit of clarity, I'd throw a small bet on P/=NP precisely because of the very long odds, and insist on being paid in gold because in the case of a constructive proof I wouldn't expect to find anything in my bank account for long. Or anyone's.
Non Serviam [1970, pdf]
No, it is a very significant difference and is not just semantics. The transaction is clearing in dollars and those dollars are moving from buyer to seller. There is no other currency involved in the transaction. The fact that dollars are constant and the seller could be exchanging bread, milk, cars, or bars of gold for the dollars tells you what the medium of exchange is here.

Once the transaction has cleared the seller can convert the dollars into euros, yen, ruble, pesos, or bitcoin and it has nothing to do with the actual transaction.
Contact those sources directly and tell them this. Direct feedback matters.

I'd also strongly recommend a fair bit of (even-handed) public commentary.

I've had fairly good results with this. A CBC programme ("Ideas" with Paul Kennedy) had blocked "commercial" podcast apps from using it. I groused, got a few Canadian news outlets to pick this up, and the feeds were restored after a few months. I'm working with the creator of the Online Etymology Dictionary over some recent site redesign, and that looks like it may be positive.

Not all sites are similarly responsive, and I've also ... on occasion ... been somewhat less than gentle in my criticisms (most especially with Google).

But really, do make the mention.
very valid analysis, but how do you identify "countries that have really bad money" ? it doesn't happen overnight so which countries are going to face monetary issues in next 5-10 years, hard to tell? and unfortunately general public doesn't proactively monitor(and it is too complicated for public to understand because for some reason most of the primary schools don't educate about personal finance and monetary system) so most people realize after crisis had already taken place (mainstream news is their only validation).
Mmm, rather I think we should strap in for lots more of the same. This is the world we built.

FB is worth half a trillion dollars. That’s a lot of investor commitment to keeping this show on the road. Who is going to shut it down?

It is perhaps unsavory, but consider that maybe Tylenol would have been just fine without the overreaction.
I have a large set of sites blocked at the router via dnsmasq, which scales well.

(It also means my unrooted mobile device ... doesn't have such protections when it's outside the Mothership.)
>Counterpoint: I do own my data, including my data about the people who visited my website.

You're not actually refuting his point about this being data feudalism. What you're saying is that you're the lord of this website and in exchange for letting serfs onto it you have a right to their data. It's the same thing as traditional land/labor feudalism with just a few words exchanged.
Our eyes are much, much better at handling color balance "in person" than on a screen. Normally, we have the entire surrounding environment to compare colors to and make a guess.
True. "Also he's an ass" is severable.
> PW + random salt protects you against reused passwords.

That only protects you if every other site does it. If you salt your passwords and some other site which doesn't is compromised, you are hosed too if your users reused passwords.

> If your application is able to compare other passwords to the current password, not only did the othe site fuck up, but you did too.

Sorry, don't follow. How is it a mistake to compare a password your user is entering to a known blacklist of compromised passwords?
Yes it does. By default it is case-preserving, case-insensitive but there is a registry key to enable case-sensitivity.

https://superuser.com/q/266110
>, and you're really "throwing the dirt around" (to use a Czech phrase) at those who try to be ethical.

I have no idea how you extracted that from my comment.

>I know, you're probably jumping at the edge of your seat wanting to protest that there is nothing unethical about watching TV.

I don't own or watch any tv so you're preaching to the choir. My point is that I understand exactly _why_ The Onion wrote the sarcastic article and _why_ they're called "hipsters". Many people who "don't watch tv" are ignorant of how their pronouncements are perceived.
That company is incredibly stupid in how they treat their people. Dad gave a tour and showed the product on the video to her daughter? JAIL TIME, mofo. JAIL! FFS, they could've turned this into their own family-friendly image or whatever, yet they opted to turn it into a shitfest.
> Sure, if you entirely change the definition of fiat currency.

It's worth noting that the definition of "fiat" in economics depends on which economist you ask. From Famous Myths of "Fiat Money", Dror Goldberg (2005):

> Monetary economics has an ideal construct of its own. It is what economists call "fiat money." This is an object that has no intrinsic value and is not convertible into anything. An implicit assumption in the definition is that no one is forced to use such money and that the money has no other legal status such as legal tender. Acceptance of such money is entirely discretionary and based exclusively on the expectation that others would accept it too, even though no one else is forced to accept it (Wallace 1980).

> Interestingly, monetary economists do not claim that their "fiat money" concept is fictional. On the contrary, they identify it with the modem money we use in reality. Legal scholars and laypersons call the money we actually use by the same name since "fiat" refers to its status as legal tender. Monetary economists usually ignore this status.

I personally prefer the definition you use, because it fits nicely with the non-monetary definition of "fiat", but it seems arguments over what constitutes fiat often devolve into arguments of semantics given the term's ambiguous history.
> So basically, abolish private communication.

Not private communication. You and I should be able to talk privately all we want. Just anonymous communication.

And really our ability to communicate privately would be pointless if we weren't sure about one another's identity.

But you wouldn't event have to abolish anonymity online entirely... Just on major social influences.

The other option, imo, is that people become more skeptical and approach all content as though it could be politibots and/or advertisement. Then the notion of using the internet to "sample the crowd" is lost entirely because the crowd is tainted by bots and skepticism.

This seems difficult because people seem to have built in systems for relying on peer samples to establish norms.
Is pyinstaller a sufficient solution for creating fat binaries in python? I'm not interested in using go, and I also have C++ binary dependencies that need to be deployed but which come to me already built.

EDIT: "Or rather, if the problem is resource and dependency and configuration management, we should solve the problem by moving to those languages that support fat binaries."

Oh, so this article is really just an advertisement for Go. That sure spoils it.
Ripple is not decentralized at all. They've zero intention to
bring decentralization, all they're trying to do is give banks a technology that can speed up remittances. Why do you need blockchain for that specially if you will be using banks anyways? Why can't banks speed up remittances on their own.
Just do some basic search on the guy who created it, stellar lumens, mt gox, 70% tokens held by a few company individuals(although they say it is locked etc)
Everything is good, except the bad things.
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The difference is physicists don't try to change the behavior of apples unlike the quote that claims economic actors are irrational because they don't fit the models.
In languages where parameter names are optional, you can say

foo(1, 1, create = true)

This is the best of both worlds, allowing you to only name parameters when there can be ambiguity (for example when the function takes two int parameters and both mean very different things).

Smalltalk forces you to always name your parameters, which leads to overly verbose source files.
How do the snakes cause power outages?
I don't think it is immune. Like with neural nets, human sensory processing is dependent on previous input data to generate generalized models of sensory input to prioritize and cluster data so that we can understand how things are similar. In psychology, this phenomena goes by different names depending on the circumstances; sensory priming and sensory habituation are two fairly well documented examples of sense/memory integration.

Obviously, humans aren't going to have to have this amount of error from small, small changes like these (except for maybe in very autistic people who have dramatic reactions to changes in their environment, but I may also be wrong; I'm not autistic, and I'm not a psychologist), but our innate perceptual biases do play heavily into how stimuli are processed and reacted to.
That's exactly how I see it too.

"I think" is more like a suggestion. It makes you come off as less confrontational.

If I wrote "The #1 rule is to write more" then suddenly my tone switches to: "I'm an authority on the subject and this is a fact". That is not what I wanted to say here.

This is why communication is so interesting. Very subtle changes can completely change the tone of a message.
As an outsider, those are exactly the things I associate with WV (I'm from Texas). Additionally, there are plenty of similar things I associate with Texas. While I dislike those qualities, that doesn't make them less true or offensive. I suppose, those observations made about where I live could be seen as the first definition of offensive, "causing someone to feel deeply hurt, upset, or angry". However, that doesn't automatically qualify them as fitting the second definition of offensive, "actively aggressive; attacking".