skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Granted, I didn't read the whole article, but I didn't really get how the author went from "authors write about advanced Nazi societies that are clearly oppressive and evil" to "authors want Nazi societies". Can someone explain? Right now it seems to me that the article has some gaping holes (the average alt-right is a 20-something male working in IT, but so is the average libertarian).
What do you mean "stop"?

I've been drinking coffee for some decades. And taking modafinil for at least one decade.
As someone who has seen enough of the math, I strongly feel that probability just makes ideas seem "sexier" in ML; often you don't really need probability, or you only need it to use Jensen. Worse, using probabilities generally masks deeper ideas from surfacing. Bayesian-ism, has become another cargo-cult, in many ways.
Eh, they might have an eye to "graduate" to journalism. Ego can get involved. Plus, clickbait might not work forever.
I actually would argue that a single number alone is always random. This is because a pattern is a recognizable arrangement of elements. A single number is a single element and cannot be arranged, and so it has no pattern. Since the definition of randomness is the lack of a pattern, and a single number can never have a pattern then a single number is always random.
Should the terrorist watchlist(TSDB) be public record?
Currently only five government agencies have access to the Database. The TSC (admin by FBI) is the sole arbiter of who is in the database. It seems that double secret probation is not ideal or all that effective. A database that is filled with incomplete, incorrect, or false information is more detrimental that it is useful. In a civil procedure for restraining orders a judge makes the call and both parties make a case for why/or why not an injunction be made. At the very lest, any US citizen should have the right to be notified, contest classification, or be given the opportunity to avoid classification by ceasing activities with probation or other corrective actions if they have not become criminal.
He's made some very strong anti-gay statements, which is usually a sign of a repressed homosexual. There was also a lot of homoeroticism in Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, made especially troubling by the fact that those characters were prepubescent children.
I don't think the concern is Joe Smith. The concern is high level people who can easily be blackmailed. Or even just someone who works in a classified setting. The value of blackmailing a few political elites is extremely powerful and profitable. Or even people in big companies like FAANG.
So the author quotes Judea Pearl, whose causal calculus led to PGMs playing a critical in computer science and science as a whole, and somehow uses that to support the idea that probability theory is useless? That is absurd and out of context.

Take a look at Kaldi or any state of the art platform for sound to speech and NLP analysis, or take a look at deep belief machines/networks. They all roughly extend probabilistic graphical models with deep architectures and some nonlinearity to do what couldn't be done before. (See also the Neural Hawkes Process [https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.09328].)

The article seems to primarily be about promoting his book instead of having a cohesive argument.

Yes, nonlinearity matters, but I'm not remotely convinced that tossing probability is a good thing.
The modafinil page didn't have AdSense during the experiment, and if it had, I think the content would have not involved modafinil; Google was burned badly years ago by mega-fines for allowing greymarket pharmacies to advertise and I assume it's totally filtered them out, so any served ads would be targeted at other personal characteristics, presumably. (I also vaguely recollect trying to buy some adwords once while experimenting with advertising gwern.net pages, and the drug categories being totally out of bounds.)

During the experiment, roughly, the most popular pages were a mix: https://www.gwern.net/About#january-2017---july-2017 The top 5 were modafinil (excluded from AdSense), spaced repetition (psychology), LSD microdosing, DNB FAQ (also psychology), and "Story Of Your Life" (physics/literary criticism).
Mobile users note: autoloads a video.
>It also feels very personally insulting to me as it dismisses my competence as a mother based on the fact that I failed to marry a millionaire.

How exactly does it "dismisses your competence" as a mother?

Parent commenter merely said (and that in jest) that Bezos' wife managing to snatch a millionaire proves she's resourceful.

So, even if the parent had said it seriously, at worst it would only imply that your failing to marry a millionaire means you've failed to prove you're resourceful in THAT particular way. You could still be resourceful in millions of other ways. It says absolutely nothing about anybody's general resourcefulness or competence "as a mother".

Nor it implies that women should do that (snatch a millionaire). If anything, even if the whole thing is obviously said jokingly, it implicitly would seem to condemn the practice.

>I really can't manage to express how completely inappropriate I feel the remark is.

Well, surely you can't seem to be able to express it in a coherent manner.

>To the assholes downvoting this: you are sexist pigs. May you burn in hell.

Or you know, they simply disagree with what you wrote. And your added swearing doesn't help your case either. Language.
I'm 100% against new tracks being laid or any more capital expenditures to the MBTA (anyone who goes on the Red Line during rush hour, or the commuter rail during the winter knows it sucks). The current system needs better maintenance, first.

Here's one solution: create a new express lane on existing highways by removing a lane or repurposing the existing HOV lane. Make this new lane have a 80mph speed limit. Only allow buses. There you go.

This would have a higher average speed than all existing public transportation systems in the United States. No need to build any rail.

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As long as "undesirables" can easily go to your town via public transportation, NIMBYs will shut it down. See the Red Line extension to Arlington. Those folks are regretting that now.

Disclaimer: I live in Massachusetts -- both the above, and the OP will never happen. It's just too hard to justify the capital expenses. In the case of improved service you would think it's easy, but once you consider the commuter rail is already underutilized it's hard to imagine.

Heck, they were even going to end weekend service for the commuter rail.

http://www.wbur.org/news/2017/03/13/mbta-weekend-commuter-ra...
That seems to require you to host your own server and doesn't look much better in terms of complexity.
I thought everyone knew this... a lot of retail stores do this.. sometimes it's more expensive in the store than online. I know target and walgreens like to charge more in the store than online.
If you liked this article, I recommend his book, Chaos Monkeys, about his time at Facebook as an Ads product manager.
Amazon sets their prices to match prices of online retailers automatically. Others do too. WM would defeat this by setting online prices higher, making their in store the lowest price.
What is anti-facist about Ender's Game? From my perspective, they come out as the massive winners in that book. The caricature of a sociopath even ends up emperor.
Perhaps you interpreted the title backwards?
Also, some stores, like Target, will not price-match their own website. The operations are apparently far enough apart that they won't sell that item on the same sale schedule or price ever.
I think it just depends on retailer and the item, time of year etc.
I would love for MA to improve the Worcester-Framingham commuter rail line, too. The infrastructure feels so dated. The trains are slow, infrequent, and are late or broken too often, so I just drive in the terrible Boston traffic instead. I would love to take the train if I could. Even the fastest train from Worcester to Boston, a single express train, takes an hour. But most likely your schedule can't align with that train (I wouldn't get on at the terminal station so I can't ride it) so you have to take an even slower one.
They also include free shipping, so, maybe it's not that much more in the end?
That’s one hell of a diversion.
No, I've been to bed bath and beyond, target, and bestbuy and found things cheaper in the store than online.

My point was, the two aren't tied together.. they're usually completely separate operations.
Silt – a fast, dependently typed language written in Swift
Viral Stars of the Internet: Where Are They Now?
Ah, thanks!

Finance is one of those things I find interesting and would like to learn more about for "fun" and general knowledge purposes but (un?)fortunately, I'm not looking to invest. Maybe after a few years, who knows, haha.
How is peer-to-peer misinformation any worse than centralized misinformation?

I've seen a lot of hand wringing from the Legacy media over every other source's misinformation but I've yet to see a story from the NY Times calling bullshit on their own bullshit.
> average alt-right is a 20-something male working in IT

How so? Or is it just because "alt-right" is an internet construct, normal people just call them "far-right"?
This isn't exactly surprising to me. On Amazon especially, some common items like school supplies are priced way higher than equivalent items in brick and mortar stores. I always figured it had to do with the cost of shipping and supply chain logistics.
Free shipping if your order is over a certain amount (I think $25). And it's really not free shipping if you pay for it indirectly. In my opinion it's actually worse because they use "free shipping" as a selling point, even though it's not free at all.

In fact, if they add x% to most products, requiring it to be over $25 is just a way of guaranteeing that you are actually paying for shipping in full, just not as an itemized option.
I'm struggling with the takeaway here. Most of the people on the planet have grown up watching blatant misinformation being broadcast on TV, radio, and print. Specifically, during every single government election of note, anyone recall John Kerry and the swiftboats? Social networks now present a new tool to amplify a message, in addition to TV, Radio, Print. So is this a movement to police the messages? And where does this lead, marketing companies can't do business with international organizations during elections? And who decides what messages are allowed and disallowed? Seems this line or reasoning only leads to infringement of freedom of speech.
The point is that the rail is already there, and the rail line is already pretty much the best in the US, and already has electrification, that the commuter rail trains don't use for entirely stupid reasons. And sure, buses are great, but one comumter rail train carries the same number of passengers as literally 20 buses. Given that the tracks to Providence are already there, some relatively minor improvements can make the trains suck much less. Your bus idea on the other hand seems like a good alternative to the South Coast Rail boondoggle.
Can't comment on the respondent's actual attitude to women.

As far as painters vs hackers goes, this is a topic which really lends itself to generalisations. They are fundamentally different kinds of person. Here's another attempted refutation of PG, just off the cuff:

Painters (artists in general) need charisma to succeed. It's rare for them to become deeply involved in complex bodies of knowledge -- this doesn't pay off because the audience for art resembles the general public: it's not specialized. Among artists, painters in particular think visually and spatially, but the most technical ideas they are involved with are usually to do with the practical chemistry of artists' materials.

Hackers are generally all about gaining knowledge of complex systems. They like to improvise and work in a self reliant way -- so, like painters, they are individualists. Do hackers pursue charisma? In a way, yes. The Unix hacker stereotype is a charismatic in a crude way (elitist, beard, sandals). But hackers are charismatic members only within a culture of technicians, and relative to that culture. Technicians are stereotypically not charismatic, or, at least, any charisma that they have is irrelevant to their effectiveness as technicians. This is essentially the cultural definition of a technician: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TechnicianVersusP...

Charismatics, with their Reality Distortion Fields, are sometimes mistrusted in the technical domain. Part of this has to do with the typically narcissistic or otherwise non-normative personality of charismatic individuals. That same pattern is absolutely expected and tolerated in the arts, painting especially.

So, the overlap between hackers and painters is quite minimal. The most painter-like hackers are the ones with the worrying large egos. The most hacker-like painters don't succeed as big name artists and end up teaching and pottering around with art materials.
They ran out of things to write about it seems.
This sounds similar to Milo.
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/milo

They were acquired by eBay, but it seems the service no longer exists.
http://www.ebay.com/local/
Yes I agree, and he’s a great contributor choice for Wired which has been going downhill lately
>Of course service to a collective is part of a facist state, but it's also part of a democratic state. Well, a healthy one, anyway.

In fact "service to the collective" is also part of the first, and the most complete [1] democracy, the ancient Athenian one.

[1] complete in its depth of participation to decision making by those it included, not by it's breath, as it didn't include many categories of people. Then again, poor white males didn't vote in the US until 1820s, blacks until 1869 (and/or more depending on state), and women until 1920. So we can excuse Ancient Greeks for not letting slaves and women vote -- they did let the poor.
It’s amazing how popular starving to death is
As far as I can tell, you're arguing the same thing I am.

There are a bunch of people like him who are pretty successful people; quite a few who are very successful, but what separates him from them is probably due to some good luck on his part.
But deep learning is terrible at learning nonlinear systems which are easy to model with things like stochastic differential equations... this is just another case of machine learning being pushed too far.
I seem to be the most prominent woman here. I got there in part by biting my tongue a lot in the face of a lot of less than respectful stuff driven by sexist social norms. I generally go to pains to not cuss "at" people, even though I tend to swear like a sailor and use the F word like other people use very.

But this whole thing is simply beyond the pale. If I joked that Paul Graham married well and this clearly is evidence of his resourcefulness/his biggest accomplishment, that would get flagged to death so fast your head would spin.

There is absolutely nothing that makes his or your comment fit the guidelines of engaging in a generally respectful fashion. I am essentially being called a cheap whore and told to get a sense of humor for finding that incredibly inappropriate.
"He's made some very strong anti-gay statements, which is usually a sign of a repressed homosexual."

You know, I've heard many people make that claim over the years, but I've never seen any evidence for it (there are anecdotal cases where someone who was extremely anti-gay was later outed as gay, yes, sure, but I've seen no evidence that this is always, or even often, the case).

People can be racists without being "secretly black", and misogynist without being "secretly women", right?
The sky is blue and the sun is yellow. Subtract the sun and you are left with only blue light from the sky.

...which explains why indoors, shadows /do/ tend to be colorless: http://www.camilleprzewodek.com/uploads/1/5/9/2/15923552/639...
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I suspect it is a NXP/Freescale T-series, 2x64-bit DDR4 and PCIe3.0 lanes lines up with the T4240.

https://www.nxp.com/products/microcontrollers-and-processors...

These are popular CPU's in the networking world, but Freescale halted further PowerPC core development in favour of licensing cores from ARM.
There is no silver bullet.

Things work until they don't.
that jet website Walmart is running saved me like 30 bucks when I upgraded my GPU, allowing me to get a much better GPU. (budgetary restrictions)

they had a 15% off your first three purchases sale, saved me some money again when I had to get a new HDD around the same time.

it got me to pull the trigger on their site over newegg, and I liked the little discounts you can get by paying with debit or forfieting free returns. it's a novel approach, and at least tries to appear consumer-friendly. I hope it does well.
Walmart does both.

(Source: have been to Walmart and have browsed their website)
Well, at least they don't try to bad porn over there.
> it takes a week of planning, a full day or two of cooking

not to mention the cleaning up is a good 3-4h after (or the next morning)

respect for those who can fit it in their schedule. i know i have no excuse because the author of the article is a restaurateur in NY which surely means a 365-day-a-year commitment to her business. where she finds time, i don't know. i sometimes feel like i can't do it and i definitely don't work every day.
1 year experience or maybe less if the candidate can demonstrate his/her knowledge and pass the tests.
What courses (starting from pre-calculus) should one take to do what you listed above? I want to match your recommendations to course titles starting with pre-calculus. List book recommendations as well if you would. Thanks!
That person approaches the issue as his personal problem. However, there are likely many other students around him with the same problem. It is a problem of the whole field recently.

One solution would be simply to a arrange a local seminar,
and understand a couple of papers in full detail. It would help to invite a couple of mathematically aware students, from mathematics, physics, or the part of cs
faculty where they prove stuff. They should be able to explain and answer questions immediately, which is way more effective than reading whole books or taking courses.
Those can be read for details later.

If the papers for the seminar are deep learning papers, part of the outcome of the seminar is likely to be an understanding that the authors of these papers do not necessarily understand the mathematics themselves.
Wrong. More like two-fifths.
>but Ender's Game's themes, while religious, are downright anti-fascist.

Is it though?

https://fabiusmaximus.com/2010/09/12/21238/
Yeah, Ender was actually devastated by the outcome of his involvement and he works hard to undo his crime in the Speaker For The Dead book.
No, it doesn't.

http://solotheamericas.org/wp-content/gallery/finish-line/ma...

Are you saying Matt Rutherford is a drug smuggler as well? Do some research before commenting with wild speculations. The fouling is perfectly normal.
Understanding the chemistry and physics makes it a lot easier to figure out when something is going wrong and how to fix it. This is particularly true when adjusting temperatures and cooking times.
I think this isn't a great article, but..

Here's the Thiel quote[1]:

Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron.

and his clarification:

It would be absurd to suggest that women’s votes will be taken away or that this would solve the political problems that vex us. While I don’t think any class of people should be disenfranchised, I have little hope that voting will make things better. (published at the bottom of that article)

So how do I read that and not read something essentially the same as "capitalism is undermined by women being allowed to vote"? Is it merely that he thinks that the right shouldn't be withdrawn?

[1] https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is the only novel I've read which deeply explores the cultural impact of pervasive social media coupled with machine learning and post-scarcity. I found it far more thought-provoking than the usual "oh lookie robots errywhere".
> But these visions of a Nazi tech utopia aren’t just provocative settings for pop sci-fi. In fact, such science fiction and anti-fascist alternative histories reveal how those who imagine our future are deeply attracted to fascism.

Wait, what?

> Some of science fiction’s most beloved, canonical writers – Robert Heinlein (Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land), Jerry Pournelle (Lucifer’s Hammer) and, more recently, Orson Scott Card (Ender’s Game) — wove their worlds with far-right, reactionary, and even outright fascistic themes and heroes.

False. It may be true that t he later Ender's Game's book have fascistic themes (I haven't read them), and it might even be true that Card has some fascistic beliefs (I'm not familiar with his personal philosophy). But I have read Heinlein and Pournelle in general, those books in specific, and am familiar with their philosophies, and that's simply an incorrect claim to make about Pournelle, and a bizarrely wrong claim to make about Heinlein.
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I'll give a second vote for the book 1493 - it's full of fascinating history. The preceding book, 1491, is also well worth reading.
> How about they just pay enough for full time employees to actually live where they work, without taking overtime, a second job and a roommate just to make ends meet? Pay in proportion to the standard of living?

I'd argue that they do. The market decides, and clearly people are still willing to accept the positions at the offered salary. Would you rather they be unemployed, or have a job at Amazon? This is at-will employment, nobody is forcing anybody to work at these positions.
There are other apps for youtube. E.g. newpipe.
In the original essay, he seems to imply causality (emphasis mine):

> the extension of the franchise to women .... have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron."

On the other hand, in the update, he seems to suggest that voting doesn't matter. I find that confusing. Why even establish causality in the original essay if there is no such causality as seemingly described in the edit?

> It may be more confusing if you're one of those people who thinks that government intervention is the One True Solution to every single problem that troubles the human race.

It might be helpful to not assume too many things from one sentence :)
When this event occurred in late 1861 it was not at all clear that the North would prevail. The South won an initial encounter with the Union army at Bull Run near Washington DC in July 1861 that illustrated the poor organization of both sides and also made it clear the war would not be won swiftly by either.

It was really only after Grant's victory at Vicksburg in 1863 that it became apparent to informed observers that the Union would prevail. Even so a substantial fraction of the North was in favor of a negotiated peace. George McClellan ran against Lincoln in 1864 on a peace platform. Bloody slaughters like the Union defeat at Cold Harbor in June 1864 made his platform very strong. McClellan lost but by most accounts Lincoln's campaign was saved by late victories in Georgia.
Heinlein's "I Will Fear No Evil" is a mind-bending read on transgenderism.

The quality of this article is just terrible, is the author not aware that Nazi super scientist's new employers after the war weren't corporations but the US government?