skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tell me if I've got this right:

Say you have some businesses in industry X that all rely on advertising.

Say one of those businesses also happens to own the dominant advertising platform that businesses in industry X need to use, in order to effectively find customers. (Special note for those subset of HN readers who tend not to read: Yes there may be other platforms, but before you present that as an objection, note I just said let's say they need to use this one in order to effectively find customers.)

In this setup, the business that owns the advertising platform has an advantage over all other businesses in industry X, because it pays itself advertising revenue, where the other companies have to pay their competitor. So money is always being siphoned off to pay the advertising platform, with a cost to most businesses but a (near) zero cost to the business owning the platform. We can assume the platform is already paid for out of profits made from advertisers in industries A, B, C, X, Y, and Z.

It seems to me this is a fundamentally rigged game (rigged in fact, not necessarily by intent) in which all other things being equal, the owner of the advertising platform always has the upper hand. Even if the bidding process is made "fair."
To be fair, the older Odysseys were really damn ugly. Newer ones are slightly better, but not amazing.

Of course, interior wins over exterior every time, but I do admit to some confusion as to why anyone bought the old ones.
The problem isn't solely the level of pressure, it's also the time it takes to reach that pressure. If you are running a little electric pump to get a truck tire to 60 PSI, it's going to take a long time even if the pump doesn't overheat and burn out.
Thanks for this great contribution.

I would like to be able to read the math in DL papers.
(sorry I'm asking for something that it's too broad)

1) How much does this document cover the notations in those papers.
2) When I read a paper and if I am not sure what the math means, does that mean that I did not grok the subject yet, or the math presented in that paper goes beyond the math given in this Matrix Calculus document (assuming I studied well this document).
I'm not walking around saying that because I'm not trying to provoke people, but thanks for the unwarranted judgment.
You know they state in their TOS that they're under no obligation to do so, right?
This was really good to know, had no idea.
I really appreciated your post.

There is a trend I notice where current generations use the strategy of the last generation in order to live their lives.

In a sense, they’re using strategies / ways of thinking that are often 30 years out of date.

Since narcissism is such a well known issue now, I wonder if in the future there will be a “crisis of conformity” like there was in the 50’s? Maybe going to Law School will be considered a sound investment, or the mid-west will once again be the place to live. It makes you wonder if it’s all an endless cycle of old trend, new trend, countertrend, and so on.
I'll sure take a closer look at how it feels and works. Thank you. Feel free to join the waiting list - I'd love to hear a feedback from you on the first version.
> Yes I did, in a broader context, which it is commonly assumed the reader is following.

What does "Almost nothing is a free market" means "in a broader context"?
Unwillingness to deliver bad news. It starts out as a design flaw, and someone doesn't want to give the bad news, so it goes to production. Now it's even worse news, so the higher up doesn't want to say anything either. It keeps getting further and further and worse and worse until there's a lawsuit.
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Great. For one, I was initially confused because I thought you were the author of the post I replied to you. Next, yes. I think we should do that.
I can't help but feel narcissism is a requirement to participate in any subreddit devoted to making fun of people.
Is it too much to ask that my health care isn't beholden to the whims of a bunch of billionaires?
Here, you can have your cake (electron) and eat it too (xi-core) https://github.com/acheronfail/xi-electron
Pragmatically speaking the issue with switching editors is the fact that if it is not emacs or vi it is not a default install on whatever you sit down at.

I have tried tons of editors, and I always come back to vim. Heck, I have even moved my .vimrc to be the simplest possible with the smallest number of plugins.
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Tether being printed out of thin air if they're not backed by USD?
these news sent the bitcoin charts below the magical $10000, a second time after the "crash that wasn't", two weeks ago

will we finally see a real dramatic crash, or will it just fade away?

as much as I feel sorry for those that were duped, some part of me is urging for the drama.
Ok, so they printed billions of Tethers and bought BTC with them, I get this part.

What I don't get is: This means somebody sold BTC for billions of USDT (instead USD!). Who is doing this? Why would you sell for USDT instead USD?

Maybe there some daytraders on the exchanges that go in and out the Tether every day, yeah. But that should not account for that much. Who is hodling that giant pile of USDT? And why?
Technological progress makes us more vulnerable to catastrophe
Victimhood is becoming fetishized in our culture. To the extent it's fetishized, it results in the objectification of people, shifts attention away from substantive issues, and can provide cover for outright avoiding necessary change.

It's similar to how conservative Christians have fetishized Jews and Israel, which is partly a result of conservatives latching onto this victimhood trend--victimhood by proxy. I used to work for a pro-Israel non-profit foreign policy think tank. Much of the staff was Jewish, and a significant portion (though by no means the majority) of operating funds came from Christian Evangelical donors.

My manager once recounted a trip to a Christian Evangelical conference. One of the booths had a Shofar, a ram's horn traditionally used in Jewish religious services. People were lining up to blow it. The whole scene in full context came across to him as very... let's say crass and awkward and perhaps borderline racist. He wasn't personally offended and wouldn't have considered it "wrong", per se, but I think it suffices as an example of how fetishization of status and identity can result in recapitulating the same sins that ostensibly drew attention, interest, and sympathy.

I think the previous poster's point was that because our culture fetishizes victimhood, our culture incentivizes people to identify with victimized groups who really have no understanding of either the historical or, especially, modern persecution of the group, and especially the most worse off in the group (no group is homogenous). They co-opt the identity and then purport to opine on social and political issues from a privileged position, often to the detriment of the most worse off individuals in the group. Eventually self-appointed supporters and defenders begin to do the same thing.

There's a fine line between drawing attention to legitimate social issues by popularizing group identity, and the broader culture wresting the autonomy and self-determination of a group. Native Americans, perhaps more than any other minority group in this country, should be aware of this phenomenon, as every red-blooded American with a 5th grade education purports to understand the mistreatment of Native American tribes, and yet our laws to this day often continue to get worse!

It's great that many, say, victims of sexual assault and sexual harassment can now find _empowerment_ in open association with other similarly harmed individuals. But make no mistake, the broader culture (of both men and women) has already begun co-opting this particular trend. It's always two steps forward, one step back.
I don't really find this usage offensive, so much as confusing.

Indians are people from India.

I read the headline and imagined an immigrant from India who is exploited by an employer or visa sponsor.
Thanks! This should be the canonical URL posted here.
In the same way as with physically hidden (e.g. buried) loot.
One way to do that is to monitor you and your contacts until someone attempts to spend any of that wealth, and then put them in jail for that.
Getting a kubernetes cluster up and managing it is still tough for my company so this looks really cool! Are there any plans to make cluster launches easier?
With Tesla's there's something weird about the line where the hood meets the windshield that you don't see in other sports cars
You'd be surprised. And what makes you think that the only person coming through a store in the largest mall in the city of Houston is necessarily a Tesla shopper. But largely, just repeated entry and exit into these showroom vehicles probably simulates 5 years of wear for every year they sit.
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I know you're just trying to get attention for some good work, but promotional voting and—especially—promotional commenting are the sort of thing that drive HN readers crazy and cause them to use unkind words like 'shill' and 'spam'. The HN community smells these things like a truffle pig smells truffles and they regard it as manipulating the system here. So it's definitely not in your interests to do this! In practice that means you should get your friends and team-mates to not vote and especially not to post booster comments in the thread.

Since it looks like the underlying work here is good, I suggest waiting a week or two and then reposting it, and make the title less buzzwordy and more neutral. If you email us at hn@ycombinator.com when the post is up, we can make sure it doesn't get flagged.
I've had a number of apple devices made unusable by an update to an OS version that it _clearly_ should not be running. That last time was a dumb thumb not thinking. It has burned me enough that I'm not even updating my iPad Mini 4 (the newest mini) to iOS 11.
Yes, art works this way, too. Everything is a reaction to a reaction. We're constantly trying to find balance - rarely achieving it on an individual level, likely never achieving it on a societal level.

*perfect balance
I said Watson had a biased perspective.

I'm not trying to lay down any sort of narrative, I'm just presenting facts in a neutral light.

The quote you selected is found in the link I provided.
We also have an older build Model S. Though I didn't experience any squeaks with the S, the Model 3 does seem much more solid and very well built.

Here's a pretty good review comparing the S with the 3: http://teslaweekly.com/my-initial-impressions-on-the-model-3...
Unkeyed literals wont produce a compiler error if fields of the same type and position are replaced. Or if a field is “renamed” to something semantically distinct.
> Lots wrong with your comment

Such as?

> in particular note that we are discussing public sectors, not just social services

Sure, let's discuss government-owned companies. And let's discuss infrastructure investment. And research spending. Oh, education too.

Pick one. The US is far less efficient than most of its peers in healthcare spending, government-owned companies, infrastructure investment, military spending, education, taxing, etc.

Please, tell me, where is the US government so efficient?
It would have to if they would wear out during manufacturer's warranty.
Here’s why we often hate new stuff. (2016)
It's pretty difficult for anyone else to seriously enter the marketplace
There's a reason there are hundreds of text editors and only a handful of remaining general-purpose desktop operating system and only a handful of remaining microprocessor ISAs.

In the 1980s and 1990s the i386 ISA had tremendous velocity, which is why it still exists whereas DEC Alpha does not. In contrast, to the situation with microprocessor ISAs, it is practical to use a text editor without a lot of velocity -- or at least it is practical for me because of the way I use my text editor: basically, I just want something with a clean internal architecture that is as easy for me to learn how to modify as Emacs currently is.

Modifying or customizing vscode has a low barrier to entry only if you already know web technologies. if you do not, then it has a very high barrier to entry compared to most other text editors.
I've had good enough experiences with inter-cryptocurrency trading on Kraken, but I've never actually been able to get their site to let me wire USD in or out of it to a bank account. Always just site errors when I try to do that.
KYC comes into effect on account opening, not withdrawal.
Banks likely comply with regulations 99.9% of the time (doesn't mean the regulations work well enough though). They have teams of lawyers and have worked with the SEC for years.

Contrast that with crypto where fraud is commonplace, and people constantly flaunt regulations, claim they aren't securities or banks so regulations don't apply, etc. Crypto is a new ballgame and the SEC is trying to figure out how to regulate it appropriately so of course there's a lot of activity there.
Having worked with agencies through a client, I have seen their billing process. They might not have inflated hours.

Assuming you have a creative, a project manager, delivery manager, and a sales manager in the agency, each task/project has to go through each of their hands.

That's an hour each for the managers and how ever many hours for the actual work itself as the base delivery price. Then the internal back and forth between the delivery manager and the creative to insure that everything is "to spec". Then the project manager to report on status each day and the sales manager to take you to lunch and discuss the how amazing everything is with the project, and that the BEST people are working on it.

So 3-4 hours of work can turn into 20 hours of billing (plus expenses).
As an Indian, from India, I do find it offensive and am sure that a lot of Native Americans would also find it offensive as it takes away from them their American heritage and ancestry.
> Does Facebook currently ban advertisements for commodities like gold?

I don't think the problem is Bitcoin per se as much as the rancid industry of scams and frauds pumping and dumping alt coins and ICOs.
I would say try to get as much of the intuition behind the math as you can. Knowing what an equation means rather than fully understanding the Greek notation is what it matters for practice. If you want to substantially contribute to the theoretical CS literature, you will need to have a good handle of the notation (for obvious reasons).

Note: I come from math and Econ, so the split between practitioner and theorists might be different for CS/ML.
> don't use a service that gobbles your data up, no matter how free it is

we've conceded that option by living in a world where phones add GPS location data to cameras, you use pay-by-phone over cash, oystercards for public transport. I felt I was in control until I discovered a paragraph in the manual of the used BMW we'd bought about how to turn flash off.

Think about that: we are building cars with flash embedded in a browser wired op to a 3G+ modem and a car network bus whose vehicle motor data would be sufficient to identify where you are driving round Bristol (speed, time sitting at junctions, hill climbs inferred by RPM:speed), where you live, which school you drive you children to...
Nobody ever got promoted for delivering bad news, delaying projects or recalling products.
Apparently when there are issues with a belt, they just cut it off and reattach the clip. So belts can vary fairly widely (see what I did there?) in terms of size, and sometimes you have a relatively medium-sized person who runs into a really short belt and needs an extender.
That's surprising. The white is not a leather, but a synthetic material. I heard it wears really well with minimal to no staining. I guess in a showroom, it gets more wear than normal.
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I know they fund similar companies all the time, so I wouldn't think that's an issue.
I think there's an implicit assumption of cultural superiority in such case.

This mirrors the pattern of imperialist "civilization" of "savages" that drove the European world to commandeer undeveloped nations over the last few hundred years at least. Sure, we believe that we have discovered certain truths through this concept that we call science, and, our ideas seem objectively correct; but does that justify our interference, and replacement of parts or all of their cultures with our own?

There are parallels here to government sponsored gentrification, I think.
I think it's at the very least equally likely that the PR beating they were taking as a result of the Apollo video led them to make the decision rather than Robert's guidance.
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Neat! Got a link to some examples?
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building one now, called Ethertain

will be publishing details in a week or two on http://www.ethertain.org/

not a social network though - more like "paypal for video", where you can send/request content, with proper verification
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I think we need to get much more specific in our definition of "culture" if we are going to fight to protect it.

If "culture" includes every single belief or practice a community might have, regardless of whether it is factually true or if it has benefits to the community, we are going to have problems.

Under the broadest possible definition you would want to protect rape culture, because that is a specific culture.

A more narrow definition would allow us to keep certain untrue beliefs that didn't cause harm (i.e. Santa Claus), but eliminate destructive inaccurate beliefs. (i.e. Human Sacrifice guarantees good crop yields).

It might feel arrogant to presume what beliefs are harmful, and this is where we have to be careful. But if there is anything that should be clearly immune from criticism of racism or imperialism it is the pursuit of scientific approaches to medicine.
Yes, but you know that in reality, you can go do it right now, right?
These days it's probably easier to find a developer who'll work for equity than it is to get in to a decent accelerator without any traction.
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Unkeyed literals are definitely useful. But the counterargument is that by making keyless field order part of the type, you're creating an implicit protocol, one that can easily be broken, and so it comes with downsides.

The odd thing is that Go permits fields to be omitted for the keyed literals, but not for the unkeyed ones. So keyed literals are less strict, as you point out, from the point of view that a caller should know what they're initializing, which is not possible when the evolution of a program mandates that new mandatory fields be added to a struct. I've been bitten by this so many times.†

One solution to your desired functionality would to let types declare a constructor that can accept ordered arguments. Then the key order could be part of that signature, and you could support it for all time. I can imagine a bunch of possible syntaxes that could work here.

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† As an aside, Rust is super strict here: A struct literal must have keys, and all keys are mandatory, although its literal syntax supports splatting, so you can merge in a default empty version:

let foo = Foo { something: 42, ..emptyFoo }

That gives you the best of both worlds, in my opinion.
> Who is doing this? Why would you sell for USDT instead USD?

On many international exchanges, USDT are the easiest way to convert BTC to a (supposedly) USD-backed asset.
Thanks so much for this. I have no interest in deep learning (at the moment) but I was working through some papers about the Lucas Kanade tracker and this paper explains some of the underlying math in just the right amount of detail. The authors usually show the beginning and end point and just say something like "using the chain rule" we arrive at ... It took me a while to understand what they were saying and this paper helps a lot.

The math is super easy but keeping all the notation s and conventions in my head is hard, I've never seen it laid out this nicely before. Thanks!
On a mid-range or long-range trip with the family I don't really care about the exterior unless we're talking Aztek level ugly. Minivans are super useful and they've been focusing on family oriented interiors for a long time. I can take the seats out and haul a ton of stuff back there too. They also beat SUVs for the utility aspect in most situations.
For some years now the average YC batch size has been 100+ companies. With so many companies, it's inevitable to select and support competitors. My experience is that conflict of interest is not a thing at that stage.

If you feel like you're competing with other companies at seed/A stage, maybe your market is too small?

In short: Yes, they'll select you.
You just did on here, what does "walking around" have to do with it? And if you want me to take you by your words, take me by mine. I also said "If you say...".

If you don't say those things, and the judgement doesn't apply, then don't get offended.
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index notation isn't useful for calculation it's useful for algebra i.e. if you want closed form solution to tensor equations. my distinct impression is that in ML no one cares about that because eventually everything gets a numerical treatment.
Sounds like you have a crappy library in your town. My town's library is linked with all of the other libraries in my county. Books can be requested and shipped to my home library within a couple of days. This has lead to librarians working together and "specializing" in certain materials. All of the libraries have a good selection of popular material.

My library tends to have a larger non-fiction section than most. Another town houses a huge collection of movies. Yet another hosts a tremendous audiobook collection. A simple online request will deliver any of these materials nearby or I can wander in and browse if I'm looking for something more mainstream.

Perhaps you should consider getting more involved if your library isn't meeting your needs.
My impression from watching financial crimes play out in the news is this: there's a long, slow period of investigations, interviews, etc. and then suddenly people get dragged out in the middle of the night in handcuffs.
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> the linux IDE is not there yet

If you're a Linux person using Unity, double-check if your version of Unity has fixed the VSync bug.

99% of all Unity games max out one core for me all the time, even if they are static sprite games like Desktop Dungeons, due to that really dumb bug of theirs. Unity games are basically a no-go on my laptop, draining the battery like crazy and heating it up tremendously.
I must have a short attention span today. Apologies!
In the last two years I hired 6 college graduating seniors.

None of them knew how to address an envelope... and only one thought to google for the answer.

We had to throw out a ton of (customer conference) literature packets because the labels and stamps were just randomly (and unattractively) slapped on.