skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I stuck with it and found some gems but it comes across as a nasty case of naval gazing (similar to the navel version but you have to spit out the bits of rope stuck in your teeth, or choke)

The initial paras are quite fun parodies and explained soon after.

"English, unlike French, has no academy to protect its virtue": thank goodness - English has no virtue and no morals. It takes what it needs and returns the favour in flexibility. However, English spoken by a French person does sound rather lovely.

"guerrilla outfits of Berks and Wankers" - I've never read Amis but it seems I might have to:

"Berks ... Left to them the English language would die of impurity, like late Latin."

"Wankers ... Left to them the language would die of purity, like medieval Latin."

I too was educated at a posh prep. school (but in Devon, UK) and a posh public school in Oxon (public schools in the UK are private schools - we are a bit odd). I too was taught "correct" use of the language, except that I was taught en_GB rather than en_US. I still have my copy of "Use and abuse of the English language" somewhere. I should probably recycle its materials.

English does not require an Academy of Immortals to look after it. There are a few good reasons why it is a good first and second choice for a Frankish Language, one of which is that you can use and abuse it and still be understood.
Yea, you know, if I'm doing work that requires 18+ cores of CPU and gobs of RAM, I'm going to pack that beast into a rack (bet I could build a sweet epyc based system with more capability for less than $10k) and connect to it from a laptop/small desktop.

Besides, that thing is going to get hot, and Apple doesn't exactly have the best track record when it comes to thermal design (see: apple ///)
I was looking for a twice a week office in Berkeley and tried out the WeWork. Unless you get the all access package with assigned seat, their offering is absurd. I literally could only hang out in the cafe, which had diner seating or some other awkward arrangements.

Seemed all hip and no utility.
I agree, they're in a bit of a drought with respect to what their core consumers wants.

I'm still using my 2010 15" MPB (i5 duo core). When I was browsing for a computer at the time it was a product I could see myself using for a decade. I hope that turns out to be true--it works great for what I need to do. Their recent updates have made me shrug and think, "meh, I can wait." If I'm going to shell out $2k+ for a new computer it better be damn near perfect.
It wasn't until relatively recently that software engineers took the opinions of artists and designers seriously. Apple was probably the original and first to do so, with Jobs' own background in artistry. It's why Mac OS looked above and beyond better than anything else in 1984, an era still typified by command-line interfaces and overwhelming GUIs that simply vomited everything at you.
Most recently I have found whois a good way to validate the age of domains of certain competing companies. This is a very vague thing to look up but it sure is useful, I am sure that it also adds a dimension to trust metrics in search engine and antispam land. I don't want it to die.
> Youtube’s ‘related videos’ algorithm has given rise to a generation of Flat Earth believers.

That's nonsense. There have been flat earthers long before youtube and there will be flat earthers long after. Also, the amount of flat earthers is so insignificant, but of course the media has to exploit that to push their agenda.

The guardian and the news media caused far more damage with their fake campus rape culture nonsense than silly flat earth videos.

> Despite that, I gotta say, I'm uncomfortable about the series of media 'hits' on Youtube over the past year.

The media has been attacking youtube, facebook and social media because it is marginalizing their effectiveness.

The news industry was used to having a captive audience to whom it force fed propaganda. What to read, what to think, how to vote, who to believe, etc were their domain.

Social media is allowing people to co-opt that system and seek out what they want to read, watch, etc.

I'm awestruck at how coordinated the supposed "independent" and disparate news companies are working together in this propaganda campaign. And how british media and our media are working in tandem.

Also, if anyone has the time, it would be interesting to see how many "anti social media" stories have been on HN. I'm guessing we've had an anti social media story on the frontpage of HN everyday for the past year.

It's ridiculous.
"If we want our society to be less prone to fictitious nonsense, education that encourages critical thinking and a rudimentary of statistics should be encouraged,"

That's the chicken right there. The egg is: the more people look at this stuff, the less critical thinking they are going to do.
Discussed at the time (a bit): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2738195
The problem here is NOT people taking too long in the restroom.

The problem here is not enough restrooms.
Say a German user’s chosen name is spaß (“fun”). In all uppercase, that name is equivalent to SPASS or perhaps SPASZ and as of last year[0] SPAẞ.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_ẞ
Viewed from far enough away, all of rocketry is an optimization problem.
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I've been in casinos where the bathrooms had mirrors on the ceilings. I'm not talking about in-room bathrooms, either.

It's very weird that someone would design something like that.
I don't think the big US automakers have any in-house EV battery capacity. Conventional car batteries are not a differentiating component and so have always been supplied by outside contract providers.

Chevy Volt batteries are made by LG, originally in Korea but I think they now have a plant in Michigan.
Here in the USA we have an entire congress, whitehouse staffed by religious fanatics.. Our President is a womanizing fool who treats nobody with respect at all, and is probably going to start world war 3....

I'll take boring any day of the week... Germany also seems to have better quality of life for low to middle class people than USA...
It'll happen, when someone finds the right way to market it to the masses. That's always been the challenge for decentralised services and cryptocurrency, they're neat technology ideas with reasons for their hardcore fans to use them, but they lack obvious use cases for the general public, or at least said use cases haven't been communicated properly.

When someone figures out how to sell the general public on these ideas though (and the walled gardens end up stuck against an idea they can't replicate due to their structure), then these things will become huge.
> It seemed like a genius idea,

... What genius thought of the idea to automatically unlock bathroom stalls?
Wait.. is that an option? We can pawn him off on other countries?
For me this is great demonstration of how SSDs have changed the performance landscape. Exactly this idea was discussed on P2D2 10 or so years ago and generally dismissed as too much work for negligible performace gain because the disk IO will still dominate. Today I believe that this makes sense.

Edit: and probably it is not only about SSDs, but also about cheap DRAM as today in most deployments I know about most queries only touch indices and tuples that are in RAM (and in fact often the whole pg_base is smaller on disk than RAM of the server).
I wouldn't say I'm throwing shade as much as reporting on a real trend to be wary of, unless you disagree that there is a set of activists jumping on epigenetic explanations to further their ideological causes: https://www.acsh.org/news/2016/06/10/epigenetics-lamarcks-re...
I'm a french native (from Quebec) and to me, there is no mistake. We'd often say "Ma professeure" for the feminine. Maybe in France or other countries they are more formal. Either way, this isn't a good example of Google Translate limitation.
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Very true at this time. Progress is very incremental until someone comes up with a fundamentally new method.
> "[Intuit] regularly lobbies to keep the complicated U.S. tax code in place, and opposes proposals that would radically simplify it."

Nice.
RDAP is going to happen.

1) its UTF-8 clean
2) its JSON
3) its getting Oauth, so LEA requirements can be met while keeping personal data private
4) it uses web protocol underneath so 302 redirect works
5) its fully deployed in the RIR system for numbers, and has a global directory at the root in IANA.

RDAP is going to happen to WHOIS. Its long overdue.

(bias: I work on RDAP)
"Apple outperformed nearly every PC maker in 2017 as Mac sales remain steady" (The MBP redesign that's been so controversial was introduced mid-2016.) http://bgr.com/2018/01/14/mac-sales-2017-marketshare-pc-decl...

Which isn't to say that the Mac business is as good as it could be—surely it isn't, and they have several models they need to address with updates. I don't really like the Touch Bar. But the Mac is doing fine.
>> It was well established that the future of teaching computers came from statistics and not rules in the 80s/90s by researchers like Michael Jordan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_I._Jordan) and his students.

As a counterpoint, one of the most successful (classes of) machine learning algorithms are Decision Tree learners, whose models are decidedly symbolic.

There's also plenty of work on learning first-order logic theories with neural nets (see for instance the work of Artur D'Avilla Garcez).

The problem with rules is that it's hard to develop and maintain large rule-bases. However, it's perfectly possible to do machine learning for rules -and logic-based machine learning is totally a thing (full disclosure: it's the thing I'm doing a PhD on). You probably haven't heard of it though because data scientists tend to be good with statistics but bad with symbolic logic.
I like HexoNet (https://www.hexonet.net/) and NameCheap (https://www.namecheap.com/) and pick the one that has the lower price for the TLD that I'm interested in.

In this case, HexoNet has .ai for $80/year, and NameCheap has the .io TLD for $32.88/year.
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Don't all DB servers "JIT" and then cache query plan?
It sparked my interest Snurk Snurk Snurk I read what you did there...
Yea.. click to type. Like.. why. This is why a bunch of us stuck to uwm -> twm -> tvtwm
I would personally get both: you want the .ai, because that's your niche, and add on the .io given that it isn't very expensive at $32.88/year.
I don't think very many people think their products have improved. I still buy Apple but am increasingly frustrated by their design choices in the last few years.
I dislike CDE. IMO, Motif was sabotaged by Microsoft's involvement. This is a very minor point, but I will never accept ALT+F4 as a sensible hotkey for exiting apps. I think macOS picked the best hotkey defaults.

Anyone interested in this should also check out OpenStep [0]. I've been researching this area heavily during the past year and I'm constantly amazed by all the revolutionary work that got done at NeXT and Sun. It's a damn shame they didn't win bigger mindshare.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStep
I have massage bed with infra-red lights for more than 10 years, full set. I use it a lot when I sick. AFAIK, it doesn't work against bacterial infections, but it helps to fight viruses and to recover after sickness, _if used properly_. YMMV.
I would say that we should start by critiquing the implicit claim by Google, Facebook, Waymo, and others that new means of computational statistical analysis can serve as a reasonable replacement for human intuition and judgment. Turns out some of the world’s most valuable companies are betting on lots of poor assumptions and easily-gamed algorithms, and we’re just starting to see the fallout of our failure to call BS on the ever-louder hype machine.

I certainly agree that deep learning has delivered some impressive results, but the acceptance by VCs and the media that his new wave of AI will bring a revolution in Internet time to established real-world infrastructure and processes is a major failure of basic critical thinking on a broad scale.
I was rear ended last week. First accident I've been in. I suddenly have a photo of a 17 year old's driver's license. Name. Date of birth. Photo. Home address. Jeez...
Not really, especially for nonlinear systems. It's like how just knowing the rules of chess doesn't mean you're a good player.
You beat me to it: The red poppy is not the white poppy.
Yeah, I was going to chime in. I've had an accurate whois for my domains since the early 2000s and at most I get a couple pieces of junk mail around renewal time. No idea if I get any spam from it, the spam filter seems to do a good enough job of junking that.

The idea of hiding the contact information never quite made sense to me. If you're a business, then you already have to provide an address of record to the state for certified mail to go to.

If, as a private citizen, I am running a controversial website then there are already institutes in place that will receive, process, and provide anonymity for your physical mailing address.
Several people suggested to buy both, in that case, which one you will make primary and other for redirect?
This is surprisingly lower quality than what you'd expect from Google.

> Your service should instead store a cryptographically strong hash of the password that cannot be reversed — created with, for example, PBKDF2, SHA3, Scrypt, or Bcrypt.

Not distinguishing between plain cryptographic hashing and password hashing is a newbie mistake.

> With that in mind, you should allow your users to use literally any characters they wish in their password.

You can't just say this without making sure people understand Unicode normalization, or they're going to get bitten later.

I realize this post is from GCP evangelism, but it's still the "Google" brand, which has a good reputation for security so a lot of people are going to trust it. I wonder if an internal product security person even reviewed it.
Choose some activity/study/? that lies totally outside your expected life course. Pursue it diligently but gently in your spare time for the rest of your life. Use it as a minor relief from stress. At some point in your life it will become hugely valuable and rewarding. Choose it now or your never will.
This, 1,000 times this. I have gotten access to other folks' accounts who think they're using their email address, but they're actually using my email address. Car loans, job applications, doctor appointments, etc.
You just quoted an article of IDC predictions. Apple released its actual results on Thursday:

Mac sales and revenue were both down 5% from last year.

Mac sales down ~200,000 units.

Q1-2018 numbers, reported 02 Feb 18: https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/apple/apple-financial-result...
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very rare, but my longest movie was 15 minutes.
>> At that point it was already clear that logic based inference was only so powerful, and different methods were necessary.

Er, logic inference is "only so powerful"? The first order predicate calculus (first order logic) is Turing-complete and there is plenty of maths that prove the soundess and completeness of various logic inference rules. In other words, if you can compute a function, you can compute it with first order logic.

The switch from symbolic to statistical AI happened partly because of the AI winter that cut the funding to all AI, which at the time was primarily symbolic AI, partly because it became evident that developing and maintaining huge databases of logic rules was inefficient. Some of the early work in machine learning focused on overcoming this inefficiency by inducing rules from data.
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That's probably Hinton's words.
I have used Regus. Very economical, clean, and professional with small private offices. Given the price, for our needs it was perfect.
Well, like Da Vinci, it is a professional grade tool that has a free version. Since it is a English company, it isn't very well known in USA.
For a clever intern, or at least one who knows a little python, it probably wasn't that bad. Or maybe I am missing something.
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So the intention is to give people a way to remove annoying ads.

I'd say that's obviously a good intention.

The fact that Google also can gain from it doesn't change that to me, but I realize others have different moral philosophies.
It's to some extent self-destructive for YouTube - the I've noticed that when looking for entertainment I wind up being rapidly bored by the recommendations because they're only ever a mirror of exactly what I've seen before - they're not an attempt to challenge or expand on my preferences.

Which of course is what you get from blind correlation driven user feedback - "did you like this?" - if I'm not sure because I'm now exploring outside my comfort zone then that goes back into the algorithm as "no".
Interesting how the concept of randomness can only exist in contrast to the recognition of order, but who notices order other than a mind that defines it as such? But this mind could not have been created in the first place were it not for some intrinsic order, some consistency in reality. Makes my head spin...
And the market is saturated exactly because the consumerist need to continuously renew the mobile phone is gone, beyond a few percent that always need to show they own the latest gizmos.
Some people like it to play on difficulty level “hard”.
John Sorenson ( Professor of Anthropology at BYU) addresses most of your speculations in this article. I found his responses very well written: https://www.fairmormon.org/archive/publications/an-open-lett...
For the first, any situation where there isn't a 1:1 coupling of capital and lowercase letters would result in collision or ambiguity upon a .tolower()

For the second, one OS, locale, and input method may result in Unicode fully-composed forms, and another in fully-decomposed forms.

Is ø one code point or two? The answer is: it depends on your software environment. If you don't normalize your input, you could have a situation where an account created on, say, Win XP, might be inaccessible for the average user from iOS.

There's actually a pretty good StackOverflow post on dealing with this issue in Python: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/319426/how-do-i-do-a-cas...
> The world before complex algorithms generating clicks on the Internet was pretty biased and stupid

The way the news has been ranting about social media, you'd think it was responsible for all the world's ill. The hyperbole and just pathetic nonsense from the media the past few years has been ridiculous. From the pewdiepie nonsense to the insane coverage of trump to the current hysteria over facebook. I wish we could go back to a time when the news media didn't have such obvious agenda. It would be nice if the news industry pushed out news instead of their agenda.

> but that's often not interesting enough to write about for many journalists

If everyone was educated, thought critically and understood stats, where would news companies get their journalists from?
Pride in the past or present is a personal choice. Facts about the past/present should not be twisted or ignored for that sake.
You may find the responses in this article intriguing: https://www.fairmormon.org/archive/publications/an-open-lett...
Or like, a Navy contracted weapons developer...
The fact that we’re all so easily influenced in ways we don’t even realize makes me believe AI deities are only a matter of time. I’m legit terrified of a future where some programmer creates a cult AI figure that will direct people to either harm themselves or others.
> "Free climbers, astronauts and political dissidents must also be insane"

Wait, when did I accuse anyone of insanity?

> "I wouldn't smoke, ride without a helmet, etc, but who am I to say you are wrong for doing so?"

I never said anyone was wrong for anything. I think you meant to reply to person I replied to above; you and I seem to agree more or less.
Password restrictions are the worst.

Office365 doesn't support passwords > 16 characters in length. WTF.
The drive for novelty and exploration is deeply rooted in the human psyche. So it really isn't that surprising at all.

As a plus, tons of beneficial technology and research directly resulted from previous efforts in space. It seems highly likely this would also be the case for efforts to get to Mars or any other space exploration programs.

I think the strongest case against Mars is simply that we should do it, but not now, and instead in several decades. However, my guess is that we have capability to do it now, in an effective manner and for a reasonable cost.

Someone has to pave the way for humanity to spread out into solar system. It will certainly happen in the coming centuries, one way or another. The incredibly rich energy sources available are by themselves such a compelling reason that I think it is inevitable.

Of course, assuming some sort of terrible catastrophe of our own making doesn't set us back a few thousand years...
In my ideal world, data should go to the vendor by default.
As you said, it helps the product improve by feeding it more data, and it's simpler for most users.

With that being said, privacy concious people should have the ability to opt out, and either not have their data stored permanently at all, or allow them to store it on a personal server. If you chose to do that, it's on you to make sure your server is setup in a way to ingest the data, so no additional work for the vendor.

I suspect in reality most vendors would not provide that option, because data is so valuable, which is why it's important to have laws that allow us to protect it.
I wouldn't know and I don't actually care. I thought this piece was solid in part because it admits to uncertainty. The fact that other groups might use this study for some end of theirs is no reason to cast aspersions on the motives of these scientists.

If you have something more solid and specific than "it's a trend, man!" it would be fine to bring that up. But the essence of prejudice is to make unfounded assumptions about a specific case because of general trends. It is a thing I think is highly corrosive and should be guarded against.