skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a hand-wave. It's acknowledging that where you fall in your own cost-benefit analysis is a personal distinction that you're capable of changing. It's a self-development issue, a process that we hopefully continue until we die.

For example, some men never approach women our of fear of rejection or lukewarm reception. Any man that wants success with women and dating will have to challenge his self-limiting beliefs.

So what if they are reminded of it in an HN comment? Whether that's useless to them only indicates how unwilling they are to change. But it's a prerequisite for the advice in my post.

You know, one of the biggest parts of the warmup of an improv class I once took was to stand up and make noise. Like pretend you are a dinosaur. Embarrass yourself. Without fail, it would snap you right into the headspace of what it took to do improv -- being able to look past yourself and perform.
Just about every internet provider has shitty service. Time Warner Cable - the only option in many parts of New York City - is the bane of our existence.

Literally, literally every time we move, we've tried to cancel the internet at our old apartment and set it up at our new apartment - and had them end up canceling the internet at the new place. (What happens with the old internet is different every time; either it gets cancelled as well, or it remains an active account that we get billed for, or some other egregious customer service failure.)
True. Although Renjin seems like it provides a bit of a nicer interface in some cases. (Disclaimer: not an R developer)
This is why nuclear non-proliferation is important. Its difficult enough for a super power to safely store and control its WMD. Each new nuclear state magnifies the risks, and all the more so because they lack the after action experience that a half century of mishaps delivers.
I went to libraries, Starbuck's and public parks to plug in. I got internet access at libraries and Starbuck's. Initially, I had internet via Verizon, so I only needed to access electricity somehow. I did freelance writing, blogging and resume work (all online) to help cover expenses.

Sleeping in a tent did several things for me.

It got me out of cheap rentals with wall to wall carpeting and hidden mold problems.

It helped me keep my possessions to a minimum. Because I was so sick, everything I touched got infected. The more stuff I had, the harder it was to exercise good germ control.

It allowed me to sleep amidst oxygen producing plants, some of which were aromatic, so they sometimes had mild medicinal effects.

It helped enforce a social quarantine. Being homeless makes it hard to make social connections and people are prejudiced. This helped with germ control, among other things.

It meant I could throw my home out every one to three months and get a new one that wasn't gross from being exposed to me and my germs. Initially, I tried to replace the tent and bedding and my clothes all in one fell swoop every month.

Being unplugged from society made it easier to eat what worked for my health. I was exposed to a lot less social pressure to consume foods at social events to be polite to somebody.

There is probably more, but I think that's probably about all the obvious, easily explained things.
Random, but she's also the central character in Trentemøller's video for Moan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZPxvO1ftY
Does it play nicely with most popular themes? Anything to be aware of?
also ICOs seem to be the newest fraud on the block, thats not ETHs problem, just like darknet market use wasnt BTC's problem, but the 2 use cases you have provided are not shining examples.

I agree it has some potential uses but its main uses have to date been quite flawed. It would need to restore confidence in its uses before it attracts some serious interest.
Neither can I.
I've always tried to live close to where I work, or to find a job close to where I want to live.
I think the gist of your claim is accurate.

Said more clearly, I am all but certain that the logical/mathematical process of correlating identifiable and measurable attributes through iterative search is the correct approach to reach general intelligence goals.

There are many improvements in efficiency, both in data acquisition, labeling, processing etc... that will need to happen make it tractable computationally, but fundamentally I think it's the correct approach.

Where I differ from Hinton is that he seems to think that human level processing requires less data than I believe it does. It's a subtle point actually.
This is the blessed post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15619533
I don't know - a guy on InfoWars was talking about how Hitler is still alive (sorry can't find the link). Getting rid of conspiracy type stuff like that would be a good start.
I wonder what would happen if you heavily shielded the walls, but ran a heat exchanger through. Free baseboard heating?
I don't have the same feeling. Different brands have different UI's, and some are as simple as "Press then numbered button for how many minutes of full power cooking you want"
Allow me to reassure you it is a lot of fun, I have shared it with a bunch of other folks.
CLIs are (or can/should be) composable. This is what really makes functional programming languages so powerful -- they give you a few connective frameworks, and a box of components that can be glued into them, and one can compose great things from simple things.

Or, in other words, "|" in the shell is "." in Haskell (with operands reversed).
I honestly don't think it would be possible for a 5 year old to learn or even grasp the concept of probabilistic programming. So maybe wait until high school or if very gifted middle school where you have a more solid mathematical foundation. It's the process of inferring the parameters of a Bayesian probabilistic model from data and then making predictions with that model.

A probabilistic programming language lets you express the model in code, and then it performs inference automatically using various methods. Note doing it manually may produce better results but it is a very involved and time consuming process.
If you removed that perk those high functioning team members may not be able to produce at the same level at the office. Those leadership points may not go as far because you have to deal with a host of other issues. There are less sexual assaults and unwanted touching in purely remote teams. Less conflicts with culture, race and gender. Issues like Jim's lunch smells and is making Jan sick or Bob talk too loudly to clients on the phone beside Jim can he stopped.

Working from home can make a manager feel less control. It takes a different type of leadership. But requires less leadership points.
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I never used twitter before the 2016 election. I don't use twitter to communicate with people I know in real life, but I know my father and I both started using it as a place we can put on a pseudoname and talk about politics openly, without having to worry about bothering friends & family like on facebook.

Both my own and my father's accounts were classified as "exhibit patterns conducive to a political bot or highly moderated account tweeting political propaganda.", which is in a sense kinda accurate because they are solely political outlets for us. I think this is a feature, not a bug, and probably the only use case the service has provided for me.

I feel like twitter, tumblr, and other semi-anonymous networks have always been pretty political. I think the only thing that has changed is that people see twitter as news - stations actively report about what's going on on twitter - and that online political discussions are no longer dominated by liberal / social justice voices.
Charge 2c per tweet and the issue will go away. The reason bots exists is because there's zero friction to them.
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> The most obvious examples are ML and its derivatives.

I'm reasonably familiar with F# but I know that's strayed quite far from its ML roots and its generics are constrained to some degree by what the CLI supports. For the kinds of generic programming that C++ does well it's not clear to me where the ML style is superior. Can you give some specifics?

> If C++ had an actual notion of abstract types, then templates could be type-checked against ADT specifications (so-called “concepts”), rather than having to wait until instantiation time.

Yep, that's why everyone wants Concepts to be standardized.

> You can't encapsulate a single abstraction providing two or more ADTs without using `friend`. That's a fact.

I'm still not clear what the issue is here. A C++ class can implement multiple interfaces for dynamic polymorphism without using friend and can implement more than one 'concept' for static polymorphism without using friend. Can you explain what you mean in more detail?

> This is a reply to the wrong thing. Concepts are ADT specifications, not object specifications.

Are you talking about something like Go interfaces? For my use cases static polymorphism is generally preferable to dynamic polymorphism and in those cases where dynamic polymorphism is desirable C++ style interfaces are often sufficient. When the need arises for something like a Go interface in C++ people usually use type erasure but implementing that currently requires a bit more boilerplate than would be ideal (though there are libraries that help). That's something that could be solved in the future by something like Herb Sutter's metaclass proposal. Perhaps I'm still not understanding your point though.
The room temperatures could drop all the way to 16C (60F) during the night

That's what you call cold up in the arctic? That's definitely how cold my NYC apartment is every night from November through March. Heat is expensive!
Do you mean using LISTEN/NOTIFY, or some other method?
Perhaps. I heard about it in a podcast awhile ago. The store was about a women who twitted something, got on a place and during the flight her tweet went viral. I can't remember the details for the life of me, but she can't escape that incident since it's the first thing that appears when people Google her name. So the idea was to create better news about her and push those results down to page 2 (where no one goes).
To be honest, I think this is the wrong solution, but the telco industry can't reingratiate themselves fast enough to keep the market open, and it seems like they don't want to, because they know they have so much bad blood with the public.
I dislike Comcast as much as the next guy, but are we really betting on a government project to stay within budget as well as provide a high quality of service? Just digging a tunnel in Seattle took us $2 billion dollars! Instead of setting this up as the "government internet" - which is going to make it super political, why not just have the public own the 'last mile', and then let private companies plug into the grid?
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This sounds pretty ideal. I think 1-2 days of remote work per weeks is ideal. Still leaves enough days in office to have the face to face contact with colleagues and communicate directly.
Can you trust random procedures of company xyz to secure their private key store?

I don't. Not even Microsoft themselves. There were embarrassing slips.
I just noticed that while phones were never a target, it looks awful on a phone. Will need to scale the font.
I’ve heard even the most accomplished mathematicians build concrete visualizations in their head, they work with non-symbolic models when solving problems. I think that these mental models is what we should try to capture in the computer. So I guess it is a matter of what mental model is being used to make the derivation, and this would probably involve why the derivation is being made.

Anyways, I don’t want to discourage you, your work is definitely interesting. It’s just something you might want to keep in mind.
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Maybe I'm just unlucky but the vast majority of all 'awesome lists' that I've seen are just massive dumps of links, of extremely varying quality (I mean the links themselves), which isn't that helpful.
With internet needing to be classified as a necessary service I have no issue with local government running it.
The most recent eminent domain case I'm familiar with was the school board wanted to build a new elementary school. They managed to get 90% of the lot except 1 owner. Everyone else was fairly compensated except he wanted 10x market rate because why not. This guy assumed taxpayers had unlimited amounts of money to pay his price. And this is when cases of eminent domain are usually invoked.

The road you travel to work on, the school you went to, the park you play in if you ask enough questions you'll find out someone was an unwilling seller when it came to building it.
The problem (if you want to call it that) with democracy is that it reflects societal problems at the government level.
They made a ML model to identify twitter bots.

To get their training data, they identified 100 accounts that appeared to be bots, and then assumed that all their followers were also bots. They used verified accounts as their sample of non-bot accounts.

They claim they "identify bots 93.5 percent of the time." No data is given about false positives.
It promotes YCombinator startups, which in turn makes them money.
I wonder what the population of Africa was in 1920-1950, specifically North Africa, the area that was intended to be affected by this.

I also wonder if the cultural divide between Europe and North Africa was less pronounced when most/all of those areas were under some level of European control.
Sure, but that doesn't argue against "giving them enough information to say no". If the customer doesn't need what you're selling, knows they don't need what you're selling, and are never going to buy what you're selling, then you're wasting your time with the phone call and in-person meeting. That time would be better spent working on a prospect who saw your information and didn't disqualify themselves right from the jump.
"It doesn't make sense to speculate on the price of ETH, because it's never going to be scarce."

This is totally not true. I hate seeing people post FUD like this about ETH. It does not grow unbounded.

Here's a post from Vitalik himself describing it in more detail

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/5izcf5/lets_talk_...
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"Delivering interoperability"

My god.
Edward: like Edward, Pyro is a deep probabilistic programming language that focuses on variational inference but supports composable inference algorithms. Pyro aims to be more dynamic (by using PyTorch) and universal (allowing recursion).

PyMC, Stan: Pyro embraces deep neural nets and currently focuses on variational inference. Pyro doesn't do MCMC yet. Whereas Stan models are written in the Stan language, Pyro models are just python programs with pyro.sample() statements.

One unique feature of Pyro is the probabilistic effect library that we use to build inference algorithms: http://docs.pyro.ai/advanced.html
Six months later: People of Turkey still denied access to Wikipedia
Isn't SQL Turing complete?

Even if it is -- "turing complete" != "expressive".

They're rather different beasties, in fact.
Some communities aren't profitable to serve with broadband. The first municipal broadband efforts I was aware of were created because no commercial ISPs wanted to compete in an area.

Broadband, like water and electricity, is a natural monopoly - there's only so much room on the poles, and there's significant economies of scale by having everyone in a neighborhood connected to the same infrastructure.

I hope that Municipal broadband becomes more available and more common. On average, the service provided by the municipalities is much better, and much cheaper than the commercial alternatives.
Maybe I'm being dramatic but I think Comcast's value would tank if accessible broadband alternatives existed in markets they dominate. They are one of the most hated companies that I know of. When I heard corporations were funding opposition to Philly's compensation history law I correctly assumed Comcast was leading it. They are just unlikable on so many levels.
Did you tell her that you move you body when you're really engaged and generate additional heat by burning your calories? That might swing the balance to your favor.
Wait, isn’t Beryllium toxic? I was under the impression that you don’t want to be around it.
https://curecoin.net
I always look forward to the overclocking bump I get in the winter :) It's a bit odd having a seasonal clock speed though .
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The emperor has the best clothes.
There's a LOT of cold war history up there in the central plains. The Strategic Air Command museum just outside of Omaha Nebraska has really incredible displays and a surprisingly large aircraft collection (to me at least). Including an SR-71. Highly recommended for anyone interested in that kind of thing.

http://sacmuseum.org/
I like this idea. For many off grid situations energy density and weight is not that big of an issue compared to cost. If instead of the size of a 'Powerwall' you had to have something the size of a coal bunker or compost bin, that wouldn't really be an issue at all if the materials were very low cost and I could build it myself.
Does sharding still let you know the "whole truth"?
> FWIW, I am an end user not a developer

Well now I'm really curious about your actual software use-cases here. Because regardless of whatever "end user not dev" use-case I can think of, out of the many multiple dozens that instantly spring to mind, I cannot name a single one that has not had for 1-2 decades multiple well-known, widely-used-daily, best-in-class apps or suites on the market that are fully GUI-no-CLI and are at the very least evidently "reliable enough". Whatever GUI app I have used in the past 10 years, we can talk GIMP/Paint/VS/Sublime/VLC/Photoshop/Lighttable/LuminanceHDR/Blender/Unity/Unreal/VScode/Thunderbird/Firefox/Chromium/archival-tools/file-explorers/countless-others --- not only have they been utterly reliable and predictably delivered as was demandedd, their CLI alternatives hovered between non-existent and underfeatured.

So "end user not a dev" to me sounds like you must be a sys-admin or maybe, "author of man pages" ;)
Reification of abstract concepts is an important technique in thinking. Few of us, if any, are pure abstract thinkers, and we will form examples in our head when presented with an abstraction (e.g. we will see an some kind of real apple when we hear the word apple).
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I thought the book was pretty good- might just be me.
I honestly think this postmodernist take that equates TheHill with the New York Times, and Breitbart with the Wall Street Journal is toxic.

There is a such thing as journalistic integrity, it is possessed in wildly different amounts by different news sources and it matters. A lot.
The "Allen Lab" YouTube channel is teeny-tiny, and has bare-bones presentation, but it has some of the best actual science content -- especially if you actually paid attention in science classes in school and are a bit tired of the "Mr. Wizard" level gee-whiz YouTube science stuff that covers material you already know. (That said, if you find those videos informative and fun, then knock yourself out! Each to their own.) (His channel's name is actually just "Peter Allen.")
I think most workers factor in the commute when they are looking for and choosing a job (I know I do). Now, we can argue that workers undervalue the time and money they spend commuting, but it is still not 'free' for the employer.

Also, not all of the commute cost is the fault of the employer. For example, my commute is a lot shorter than many of my coworkers, because I place more importance on a short commute than a cheaper, bigger house further away. My coworkers value having a bigger house more, so they live where the housing is cheaper but the commute longer.

How would your price this in? Would the people who commute further get to work shorter hours, just because I chose to sacrifice for a closer commute?
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Making Pillow-SIMD, optimizing image processing in Python
Who decides what's a conspiracy and what's an uncomfortable truth that powerful lobbies are effectively covering up? e.g. the broadest NSA SIG INT collection efforts, sub-concussive hits from football causing CTE, and sugar-rich "low fat" diets causing rampant diabetes were all at one point in time called baseless conspiracies by experts in these fields.
Graphical interfaces are useful to me personally because unlike a CLI, there is substantially less in the way of functionality that I have to remember, especially for programs which I rarely use. It is painful to input -h args and read through pages and pages of options to find a handful of the options that I need, especially when I am using something new.

I've given light thought to the possibility of writing some kind of hybrid which acts as a general purpose terminal, but can somehow provide more information in a graphical manner-even something like directory traversal would be drastically simpler, IMO. Of course, this is not a trivial problem.

Are there any existing shells which hybridize GUI and CLI?
There is plenty of discussion about it out there (search for "postgres cte optimisation fence") including official word.

Note though that simply replacing CTE references with appropriate sub-queries simply won't work in the recursive case, and in some cases where a CTE is referred to multiple times the result may be an even less optimal query plan.
What makes one a "FOSS" shop? I use tons of FOSS in my products but I prefer SQL Server and ASP.NET for my backend. I also do most of my code editing from Windows and sometimes I use my Mac. I rarely use Linux to edit code or do anything desktop-related, but I still use it to run Redis instances.

I'm still a FOSS shop. The people developing all their FOSS on Macbooks using a proprietary OS are still FOSS shops too.

The world isn't black and white.

Anyway, the thing I like about Azure over AWS is that it's more organized and simpler to deal with. Azure is focused on high-quality while AWS pretty much throws spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. That's why AWS has 3 of every type of service.
minimizing the chance of leaving a bad impression from trying pressure tactics on someone who wont buy.

This, so very much this. I love what Jeff Thull says about this... "always be leaving" (as opposed to "always be closing"). Make it clear to the prospect that you are not going to be the stereotypical sales-person who grabs onto them like a little pit-bull grabbing onto your leg, and who won't let go until they've been beaten over the head with a stick. Show them that you respect them, and leave as soon as it's clear that there isn't a good fit. Leave a good impression and later, when they do need your "thing" they're more likely to call you up (or take your call when you call again in a year).
Free, if you're lucky or inspector is your buddy.
This comes up on HN every few months (I've commented on it before)and that documentary is shocking and terrifying. The Arkansas one was crazy. We almost lost a rather sizeable area and the radiation zone is out to Memphis.
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