skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> this might be a spent first stage, and the real spacecraft is currently decelerating as it approaches our solar system. That would explain the shape, tumbling, and trajectory

I'm believing this until proved otherwise. I figure that would probably have the real ship arriving probably sometime in my old age, which would be perfect. Live to see the aliens, but close enough to death anyway in case things get ugly.
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Everything is obvious once you know about it. But be honest--if you looked at that equation in the course of your daily work (rather than in a blog post about solutions that don't exist), would you immediately think "well that's gonna blow up real quick"? I sure wouldn't.
A supercomputer often won’t make your code run faster
We used it for a sales email classification problem--it significantly out-performed our conventional approaches (i.e. logistic regression + bag-of-words), but we were not PhDs and none of our job titles were "data scientist" so I guess that makes us charlatans ;)

That service offering among the rest of the business was marginal so it never became an offering that our sales team pitched our customers very aggressively, so in this particular case TensorFlow did not push the needle so-to-speak.
Journalism is as good as ever. It's easier than ever before to gather facts and verify sources. The problems faced are external to journalism: a losing business model, and government saying that journalists aren't trustworthy. But the integrity of the press is fine. There are less yellow outfits than there were a century ago, even.
How about schools not try to prepare compliant workers and instead try to teach children how to learn and think?

History, art, music, mathematics, science, literature... you know, an education, not training.
He’s putting some of his wealth into basic research:

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/flatiron/
Hi Dennis, a friend recommended you to me for Ethereum smart contract audit, are you open/available for a project?
The whole premise pf the article is that Russia _hacked_ the US election. But from what I can tell, most people are saying that they "influenced" the election by buying a couple hundred grand of advertising and did some good targeting and that turned the whole election.

That's hardly "hacking". It's like some people have an ambivalent relationship with Russia --they like some of the Soviet anti-capitalist "capital"/cachet, but hate that they are now trying to influence the world in their own little way --something they did more vigorously when they were soviet.

It reminds me of Gore complaining about Nader syphoning "his" votes away. You have to earn votes. They don't "belong" to you. You earn them, just as Clinton earned his (rather than Perot "syphoning" from GHWB".
What's funny in bitcoin, of course, is that none of those coins were sold, nor were they offered for sale.
Here comes the moral police. Deciding for you and me what we can consent to.
The DNS issue was the clincher for me, but I followed their instructions for disabling it and it reappeared when the router was rebooted (not reset).

Overall, I’m rather happy with my current setup. I bought the most recent SB modem available at he time, got an Edgerouter and a Unifi AP. Took a few minutes longer to set up than a netgear or whatnot, but was able to use POE to put the AP in a far better location (it’s actually under my sofa instead of the closet where all my wiring goes) and have had a far more reliable and customizable experience.
OTR?
Bad news for such people is, rich people in general happen to be smart with their money and they don't exactly like to waste their money this way.

All just to make up for somebody's bad investments?

If you want to know how stingy people are with their money, you have to only look at how they think about paying taxes.
I understand your argument, but specifically with Google, they now claim:

"100% renewable energy for our global operations — including both our data centers and offices." [1]

I'm not here to debate the merits of cat videos vs bitcoin mining, but to point out that the youtube cat videos are hosted on environmentally friendly data centers.

[1] https://environment.google/projects/announcement-100/
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Companies make charitable donations. I wonder if there's a charity that accepts donations for specific projects. If not, is there a good reason why?
Equating socialism to genocide is a pretty tired take.
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Are tobacco companies liable for all the harm their products cause?
Social Media has been terrible for society. I say this as someone who spends considerable time on social media. But it's full impact has only starting to unravel. We have seen nothing yet, the end result of social media, IMO, will be magnitudes of order more ghastly than what we have seen. In developing countries, social media is playing havoc in sowing division among very fragile social order. The kind of forwards, memes, jokes my dad receives from his Whatsapp community is shocking. And at age 75, he has no capacity to distinguish between real and completely made up propaganda. The effects are slowly been realized.
I think people could achieve that same feeling through buying actual consumables (in part). Going to the grocery store in search of comice pears has really fulfilled that desire for “unobtainium”. Plus they’re delicious.
Can't wait to tell my (future, 10-15 years from now or so) kids stories about the Internet from when I was a kid and have them ask, "daddy, is it really true that you could post on the internet without giving a blood sample, retinal scan, and fingerprints to your ISP and didn't have to tie your real name and address to all of your comments?".
>>A thing like this is the first off

Bubbles are generally about Human psychology not about the underlying asset. Tulips, student loans, homes, internet domains, websites etc etc.

The problem there is really Human psychology. For that matter people still continue to take student loans, buy homes, buy tulips or whatever. Its just not at the bubble prices.
I think you're talking past him. He's not saying that there aren't legitimate criticisms of the Talley nomination; he's saying that one particularly popular one happens not to be legitimate.
Since when do we need a career SV executive to validate our own observations and critical thinking?

The issue has been gotten plenty of attention without him.
But I don't lose the benefit by not paying taxes. Plus those are only tiny percentages, which could easily be afforded from only 1% of your current tax rate.
Jeff Bezos once asked Warren Buffett why people did not follow Buffett's model of investing, since it had made Buffett the third richest person in the US. Buffett replied, "no one wants to get rich slowly".
What TF model did you use?
Auto-dimming rear view mirrors are the greatest invention ever. They should come standard on all cars.
What definition is that?
Or that differing composition yields different albedo.
EDIT: it’s not easy, but also it’s not easy to become a doctor, professional athlete or a rock star either
If it took 6 months to build (!!), could we go fast enough to catch up to it in a reasonable time?
I've been to Automotive school, worked as a mechanic, and even got my vechicle resellers license in the nineties.

People don't have a clue to what they need in a vechicle, for the most part.

Yes--some need a truck, van, or car.

Most are dazzled by cup holders, color, and aesthetics.

I've pretty much given up vechicle shopping with relatives. I get too angry. They are about to spend the last 30 grand they saved, and they are worried about how it looks.

I'm getting angry just writing this.

Consumers need to be told what they need in a vechicle. Number one question should be, "Does this engine last? Is it a proven model?". Number two should be, "what's the transmission? Has it been around awhile. Is it a proven powertrain?"

I'll admit these questions are getting harder to find info on, but they are the important questions.

I stick with the two Japanese automakers, and that American truck. (I don't mention the names because we are all aware. The truck I would buy because of the resell factor. I don't know if it lasts.)

It's too bad, besides a house, the second biggest purchase we buy is filled with so much--what's the word--I guess marketing?

At this point in time, vechicle manufacturers should be guaranteeing the engine, and powertrain for at least 200,000 miles. Consumers should be demanding, but we just don't seem to care care?

Rant over.
Because "our own observations" are not everyone's observations.
The thing is tiny, and that is very far.
Ask HN: Are there any summer intern/full-time job for communication PhD student?
My wife is graduating as a inter-personal communication majored PhD student. Her site is here:
https://wenjingpan.github.io
She has done top-tier research and also projects related to Facebook UX as well as online news credibility. She also has strong statistical analysis and experimental design skills. However, under the current environment, it seems that she has to study a CS related degree to find an industrial job. I just want to help and ask all kind hacker friends here what are some relevant jobs/internships that she (a communication majored student) can consider applying? Thank you!
Far longer than old age, unless you plan on living a very long time. The thing was only moving a few 10’s of kilometers per second.
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Knuth's brilliance and eccentricity (or autism?) are a package deal. He's a guy who wanted to write mathematics papers, got side-tracked into creating a type-setting program (TeX), then got side-side-tracked into creating a font language (Metafont).
I'd be interested to hear what requirements it failed. Because on the surface (which is as deep as I've looked into Soylent) it seems pretty comprehensive, no?
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It is impossible to consistently apply a policy as subjective as sexual/mature content. Way bigger platforms than them have tried and routinely fail at it. You can keep trying to define what is or isn't acceptable, and people will keep coming up with more ambiguous content. The best anyone can do in this situation is look at user reports and make a judgement call.
You can trade millions, if you start selling your system, it will be arbitraged preaty soon... I make more than enough to not work a day in my life, so I don’t need investors or customers to take care of...
Long talk about superpositions of probabilities, but almost no explanation about how can that help in computing.

How can the probabilistic operations speedup computations? No explanation given.
Probably not, since most news is derivative.
Yeah they are trying to overthrow snapchat
GitLab removed TurboLinks from their site not that long ago. It was the source of a lot of bugs, crufty code, and flakey tests. If you have any JavaScript that modifies the DOM or ever plan to don’t use TurboLinks.
Nah, pretty sure I've disparaged their king at least once.
You're not wrong. I come in here knowing barely anything about Soylent and it's just full of people shitting on it without any further explanation :/

Not overly useful.
This is really true. I used to use grooveshark, which is very similar to spotify in terms of functionality, but what it had that spotify lacks is user generated playlists. I find spotify horrible for finding new music, however once you know who you want to listen to its great.
I can't tell if this is an intentional strawman but you are in no way addressing the question.

There is literally millions of hours of high quality content to distract children that is not commercial. In fact, young children will happily watch the same thing over and over again.

So why allow them to watch low quality commercial content?

Personally, I literally don't know of a single kid that's allowed to watch YouTube. Trust me, they don't run out of things to watch without it.
Because there would be no secondary market, no exchanges, no investors, etc. but if there existed such a market and issuers of these rights talked about how these can be resold for a higher price, then it's a different story
I went to such a school. Organizations really should focus on hiring non-compliant workers (or at least not filtering them out) as they will drive the organization forward.
We may know why younger brothers are more likely to be gay
Debate with Pink Sparkles - Twitch Boobie Streamers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7ZbIpT2PXg (24:00)

Twitch Booby Streamers - A Crisis of Culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySypTRw8AvY (50:06)

If you've got the time, the above two videos are a great rundown of the current 'sexual streaming' situation on twitch by one of the first ever professional streamers. He can be a bit edgy at times, and there's swearing in the video if that's not your thing, but he has a solid, well thought-out opinion when it comes to most things. The whole situation is a mess, with crazy misogynist incel types on one side and Twitch on the other just sort of ignoring complaints and being complicit in the mass harassment of some of the women on their platform.

If you want some examples of their inconsistent application of the rules, you could check out many of the things LegendaryLea was given short temporary bans for, then compare it to e.g. the stream IamSSunny was permanently banned for, which was later arbitrarily reduced to a temporary ban - driving home just how inconsistent they are with their own rules.
Mildly NSFW though, so I won't post any direct examples here.
I personally use bandcamp. You can see best sellers from basically any super niche or not so niche genre
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Maybe I am a bit old school, but am I the only one shocked by his bad language? This makes it hard for me to take him seriously.
Like everything else.

At some point in time. The price of one single coin will be bonkers to the point of disbelief. Round about the same time, there won't the next set of greater fools to drive the prices any more up.

Then a good deal of people will want out. Demands comes down, supply goes up and prices come crash down.

At the end people just sit down and realize along the way it generally never was a good idea to be playing this game at all.
My answer to most of your questions (which are good ones!) is "go look at the activitypub/ostatus world, especially Mastodon". Federation between smaller, user-supported social sites creates a very different world than ones built to put eyeballs in front of ads.

I may be biased by having pretty much ditched Twitter for a Mastodon instance that I run for myself, a few friends, and whoever else thinks it would be cool to be @username@dragon.style and have a Twitter-like thing that lets them emit 7k tweets if they want to.
I've actually been using this to take a break from Node and start learning Django. It's been fantastic thus far. It was even enjoyable reading how they described fundamental concepts like the client server relationship.

Well done, Mozilla.
It’s the VC money at work for you...
I'm surprised that, in all this time, no one has done better.

Here is our manifesto from our site (qbix.com)

The internet has given us opportunities to connect with one another like never before. Yet, most sites we use today have barely tapped that potential. We believe in the power of well-designed tools to improve people's lives and bring about positive social change. They are characterized by five main aspects:

Time: Instead of priding ourselves on how much time people spend in our apps, we want people to get in, get out, and get results.

Utility: Help people get things done in the real world, rather than building an online persona.

Notifications: Let people control which updates they receive about things happening in their life, instead of getting them addicted to notifications like a slot machine.

Organic: In every context, pre-compute useful information and present it to the user, enabling them to do more in less steps.

Business Model: Make money by helping people accomplish useful things as a group, not just by selling advertising.

These aren't just empty words. They are actionable goals to aim for in social apps.
https://twitter.com/xrd/status/940375296682762240?s=09
They do indeed - you can request a "no-action letter" confirming that an activity you have described to the SEC is okay.

https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answersnoactionhtm.html
It is disconcerting for an upstart like the New Yorker of co opt a dickens style. You’d think after 90 years they would realize it is just a fad.
That’s through Coursera or the university directly?

It looks interesting but I’d have to qualify for federal financial aid to do the program and trust the university more than Coursera.
The only thing going to the moon anytime soon is Bitcoin.
The Numberphile interview with Jim Simons is a good watch/listen

Numberphile video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjVDqfUhXOY

Full length: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNznD9hMEh0
Looks like great incremental progess. Have you seen the state of Japanese<->English translation? It’s almost completely useless.

I really don’t see this as a huge win for deep learning, anything else?
Regulatory body probably takes one look at the marketing and says "hmm..."
(1977!)

Only 13 signals.
Basis of The Expanse series.
i wonder how much companies that own and use robots pay annually to insure them
Seems unlikely. < 1% of the US population is engaged in agricultural pursuits. Distribution is about to get self driving cars.
Porsche's difference is that they don't lock things down to options packages (bundles, i.e. Mercedes' Premium Package I/II/III). If you want the digital instrument cluster on your new E-class, you get the fragrance system along with it in Premium Package II even if you're ordering a custom build. The limitations are really noticeable when you start looking at wheel options with most manufacturers.

Porsche just throws a massive options sheet at you and lets you go to town. You get the exact car you want on a granular level. On the other hand, that's also a disadvantage. If you have deviated stitching everywhere else and tick off the "Steering Column Casing in Leather" option instead of "Steering Column Casing in Leather with Stitching in Deviated Thread" the steering column, Porsche will accept the order but won't substitute the stitching for you. You get exactly what you order, good or bad. And there have been some pretty ugly combinations ordered in the past. Want a Miami Blue exterior, matching wheels in the same, a bright red leather with acid green stitching, wood trim, a carbon fiber shifter, etc.? You can order it. You really, really shouldn't. But you can. You'll also pay for it. The average customer will order something like $10-15k in options, and more Porsche buyers special order compared to other brands. Porsche dealers tend to have less inventory on hand as a result as well.
Nobody else goes for a nice sativa?
Why people jump red lights and what it says about startup failure
Social media are like tabloids on steroids. Just like with tabloids, possibly the only practical remedy is better education, but who is interested?
This is a really poorly-researched article.

Had the author taken time to research regular expressions, he would have discovered the difference between DFA-based and backtracking-based implementations. [1] He would have also discovered that the former (as implemented by, say, OCaml) not only gives performance independent of the number of words searched, but in fact creates and follows the exact same table as his bespoke algorithm, while covering a wider range of patterns.

(Yes, you can apply the DFA technique even when you need to query submatches. See Laurikari's thesis [2], which forms the basis of the OCaml regex implementation.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression#Implementat...

[2] https://laurikari.net/ville/regex-submatch.pdf
Whether progress is incremental is an ill defined question. I don't consider "super human translation" to be incremental. The key point here is that deep learning has produced significant results. I'm not sure why you care to argue semantics.
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Sega (and Nintendo) continued using schemes similar to the one at issue in Sega v. Accolade, but requiring the reproduction of the companies' respective logos. This is why the Nintendo logo on classic Game Boy systems is replaced with a solid block if you turn the system on without a cartridge; the displayed logo is read from the cartridge so that publishers would have to reproduce it. Nintendo also did a low-tech version with Famicom Disk System: there was a plate inside the drive embossed with "NINTENDO", (notionally) requiring a matching engraving in the disk's enclosure. In Sega's case they even devised a scheme of formatting bit patterns on CDs to produce a Sega logo visible to the naked eye, and then checking for the presence of those patterns to decide whether to boot a disc. I think the idea was less about making the compatibility token more copyright-worthy and instead making it a distinctive trademark so that Nintendo and Sega could go after bootleg manufacturers under various trademark laws.
In a post-scarcity environment where robots do essentially all the work, thus the marginal cost of goods approaches 0, the point of money will be as a signalling mechanism (more iPhones and t-shorts, please; less Kale and paperclips, please) rather than as a reservoir of wealth.

It's not at all clear to me what some weenies will try to use to signify wealth and status, but it need not be money.
But then what do I do with all the time and money I saved by not building it? ;)
If nothing else, the current bitcoin adventure is raising a general awareness of the nature of currency- that is, something that primary exists to be means of exchange, and not something that primarily exists to store value.

It seems obvious that ICOs should be treated as the sale of securities- its somewhat reassuring to see the SEC endorsing this view.
It didn't have enough carbs (seriously). Canada has very specific nutritional requirements for a "meal replacement".

The KetoChow guy gets around this by recommending to their Canadian customers, instead of mixing with cream, to mix KetoChow with maple syrup.

I kid not.
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> “The more I study this object, the more unusual it appears, making me wonder whether it might be an artificially made probe which was sent by an alien civilization,” Avi Loeb, the chair of Harvard’s astronomy department and one of Milner’s advisers on Breakthrough Listen, wrote in the email to Milner.

It may sound silly, but I find it fascinating that we're finally in a time when someone in such high position in science can say such a thing without fearing ridicule. I'm also grateful that there are people wealthy enough to sponsor these scientific efforts. What an amazing time!
Nothing in his description precluded those features.
The original 10 minute mail was my favorite, I forget which one it is among the clones, but a great service.
on that note, the job description should also be an accurate reflection of what to expect during the interview, which should be an accurate description of the position responsibilities (and not a catch-all wish list)
Yes, I would, that was the point I was trying to make, it looks like it has a singularity. In my comment I was trying to explain how one might be able to spot it in advance.
Former Facebook exec has sworn off social media, doesn’t want to be “programmed”
Holy shit! for real. What's up with that?? It's so hard to open now.
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