skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A much cooler problem of this nature is: why are musical notes generated by powers of the 12th root of 2?

That one isn't especially difficult. Humans like the combination of fundamental tone and first harmonic (I'm not aware that there's a culture with a musical system that doesn't respect the octave). In the western culture, we found the similarity between those tones so notable that we classify them as harmonically indistinguishable; thus, A3 (220 Hz) is harmonically tied to A4 (440 Hz). Many cultures, our western predecessors included, also appreciated the 2nd harmonic (f3, or, since octaves are now identical, f1.5) as consonant with the fundamental.

Following on to that, they developed a pattern of notes at f(1.5^2), f(1.5^3) etc. Here it can be noted that the first 12 exponents of 1.5 are (renormalized to the [1:2] space as necessary): 1 , 1.5, 1.125, 1.6875, 1.265625, 1.8984375, 1.423828125, 1.06787109375, 1.601806640625, 1.20135498046875, 1.802032470703125, 1.3515243530273438 and 1.0136432647705078.

Note how infuriatingly close that last is to 1; on a violin string (~.328m) that would be a 4mm difference. Human societies have wrestled with that discrepancy as far back as the Pythagoreans. Musicians and composers in western society didn't come to a compromise for the issue until ~late 16th century, when they DEFINED a semitone as the 12th root of two. This adds a little bit of error to every interval besides the octave in favor of consistency across every key.
Right? As if those of us who haven't used facebook for years are living these inhospitably inconvenient lives? I have friends all over the world and we keep in touch...we don't really need a central platform to do so either. I can honestly say that I could really easily drop any of the platforms that I do use (telegram, snapchat, flickr, hackernews) in an instant and it would probably have such a minimal impact in my life that I could care less. Is it these companies' impetus to trick its users into thinking they can't live without them? I think so.
Submissions can't have both urls and text, so you need to pick one. If you keep the url, you can always post your text as a comment in the thread. https://www.thingiverse.com/gabriela171/about
What's the point of the withgoogle.com domain?
Okay, can you say how you would reasonably catch the typo in my second example with types?

Obviously you have to be willing to use types to express intent, but even if you're willing, types are limited in what kinds of intent they can express.
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> I am no believer but I think it's the closest I can feel to God.

It's a shared sentiment:

"Mathematics is the language with which God wrote the universe." -- Galileo
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I think the terms of the loans matter a little bit.

If the money is coming from investors that are getting bad advice, that's a problem. If Warren Buffett wants to risk $4 billion on some Bain scheme, meh.
Their abhorrent aka non-existent return policies too. I am not a serial returner, but the inability to do so doesn't help in their favor when I am making a decision on where to buy.
No, that rate is still quite evil. That is also unsustainable, and there is absolutely no excuse for any management that decides that their company is more important than an employee being able to live their life outside of work.
I used Google News for a long time. I have since blackholed it on all of my machines. By tailoring the news articles presented to be based on the interests that Google data mined from my Google profile, it became an echo chamber even worse than Facebook.

It became a very bad source of news: all of the articles were self-reinforcing each other with very very little actual diversity of sources.
> What data was being protected?

Personally-identifiable information [1]. Many states require notification in the event this data is found to have been accessed improperly. The definition of a "breach" is not limited to technical malfunctions.

[1] http://www.ncsl.org/research/telecommunications-and-informat...
I regularly see comments on YC about Signal-to-Noise ratio, and how YC votes are meant to distinguish the "signal" from the "noise", but in this case, it's clear that this isn't what they're being used for. They're being used to enforce a preconceived bias.

Of the two comments that addressed the moral indignity of the treatment (that it requires the death (murder, in most cases) of an innocent human person for its success) they were considered to be "noise".
The NYTimes article you link to doesn't contain the word "threat". This piece appears to contain a new bit of information about the ethically challenged behavior of FB and CA. It deserves a separate conversation.
FWIW having worked at Google, I can tell you they take these issues pretty seriously there. This is largely because of a few self inflicted wounds early in the company’s life.
What about this situation makes you think there is a "bigger play" that requires a conspiracy?
Disclaimer: At my previous job, I was several degrees disconnected from SCA/radio contracts (worked on test sets for those radio systems).

Being over budget, late, and not meeting requirements seems to be an infectious quality. However, it's not like many companies are set up to deal with winning these contracts. Do you choose the company that's more likely to have a more complete product but possibly be unable to support it in a couple of years? Or the one that can do decades of support (including replacing obsoleted hardware) but has a reputation for being late, overbudget, and half done?
> utterly horrifying

This has been common knowledge for years. Is the general population not aware of Facebook’s business model?
anything with *GPL as its license

AGPL is obviously even stricter than the GPL, but I don't see the problem with LGPL in libraries? Worst case you end up making some improvements to the library that are applicable outside your application and have to publish the source for your changes to the library, but that seems only fair. In the vast majority of cases you don't modify library code, leaving you with no obligation.

You might run the risk of somebody copy-pasting code from a LGPL library into your production system, but I don't think that risk is greater than the risk of them copy-pasting from the first google result without checking the license.
>What country survives (or is stupid enough to) give up its IP on a monumental scale and survive?

What does that mean? Which IP are you talking about?
Check on the Therac-25 case, whis is particularly scary for me, having worked for 10 years on medical software (on the sysadmin side).

A race condition which killed people:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

> It was involved in at least six accidents between 1985 and 1987, in which patients were given massive overdoses of radiation. Because of concurrent programming errors, it sometimes gave its patients radiation doses that were hundreds of times greater than normal, resulting in death or serious injury.
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AvE did a teardown and review of an older (non-rugged) version of this in 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JyhWhgNXSc
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Great, but how can other engines benefit from it?
At that point, you exercise your power as boss and tell them to go home.
There's some interesting analysis waiting to be done on the preference for words from a certain category to be used as expletives in different languages. Let's start with English, a language most here seem to be familiar with. English seems to prefer sexual acts (fuck), sexual organs (cunt, dick, bollocks), excrement (shit, piss), the combination of the two (fucking asshole/cunt/...), religion (damn, goddamn, etc) and more.

In Dutch, my native language, one is more likely to use diseases (kanker (=cancer), tering (=tuberculosis), typhus (=typhoid fever), etc)), hardly any sexual acts or organs (only 'lul (=dick)' really although 'mierenneuker' (=ant fucker) is also a common mild swear word), excrement (schijt (=shit), zeiken/zeikert/zeikstraal (=to piss/someone who pisses/jet of piss)), religion (verdomme (=damn), godverdomme (=goddammit).

Swedish, my second language, is not a good language for swearing as it uses rather silly, powerless words of sometimes dubious origin, mostly related to religion (fan (=the devil), satan, (i) helvete (=(what the) hell)), sexual organs (kuk (=dick), fitta (=cunt)), excrement (skit (=shit)) and what seem to be random words (sjutton (=the number seventeen...?)), weird combinations (jävla skitstövel (=devilish shit boot)).

German is the most proficient swearing language I know, both due to its rich vocabulary as well as the satisfying vocalisation offered by the language, using words from just about all categories except for diseases (wherein it differs from the related Dutch language). I also know French but my knowledge of French swear words is lacking beyond the basics.
I love your high school so much better than my high school.
We do the same in web ergonomics. Testing you Ui on 3 people is enough to see the biggest flaws of the tool and engaging in more expenses. See the excellent book "don't make me think" for a quick and efficient write up on the topuc.
Keep in mind that, even with these vulnerabilities, the Ledger is still the safest you can get for cryptocurrency storage.
Why is Google putting $300 million of their own money into this?

Does anyone have greater than zero trust in what Google is trying to do in this space?
Would that be a strong effect on an uncontrolled basis? (I.e., fast irregular shallow and/or interrupted breaths tending to reinforce anxiety etc.?)
The GDPR basically states that a company have a relashionship with you if they have data about you.
Yes, I know that he rejects the idea that the system understands Chinese. I didn't say otherwise.
He said he would impose tariffs to protect workers, and hes doing it now. The question is, will they work?
Oohhhh rabbit hole.
It so happens that we live in a world where terms of service can be restricted by law through established processes.

If a country passed a law most of its citizens didn’t like, would you tell them to grin and bear it because “if you don’t like it you can just move?”
Based on the blog article, it seems like the main thing they're trying to solve is the payment system (use Google payment to easily subscribe). If that's true, it's a much different and less exciting offer than the OP's linked page which seemed like a much larger initiative.
Strict quoting procedures that don't allow incremental learning while building new things, warring factions continually changing requirements on the client side and unlimited money mean that the projects almost can't be delivered, they are doomed to be overpriced and underdelivered before the development even starts.
It’s important for the public discourse that someone point this sort of stuff out occasionally. Even if this was not even the most egregious example I’ve seen this week.

Once in a while I reread http://www.derailingfordummies.com and review the definition of “horizontal aggression”. Sometimes it saves me from engaging with people who are derailing the conversation. Accidentally or willfully.
Are the companies that are writing these massive debts actually making money at the end of the day though? If that stops then the whole industry and practice will stop.
There's a huge difference between having a wall around your home so your neighbors/peeping toms can't look at you and having a wall on the border to keep immigrants out.

These things aren't even comparable, I have no idea where you think the irony lies.
From the story:
> They seemed to be entirely focused on limiting their liability and exposure rather than helping the country address a national security issue.

This is a national security issue. That seems like the most pertinent issue, and yet there is no mention of it in the discussions here. Facebook has amassed huge amounts of data about all citizens, and adversary nations are leveraging this data to manipulate the nation, including by helping elect a president who will be friendlier towards them.

Facebook is Russia's biggest cyberweapon. Just as private companies would not be allowed to stockpile WMDs, private companies should not be allowed to stockpile so much digital information either. This is a national security issue.
The book "Devil in the White City" goes in-depth into both Holmes' story as well as Daniel Burnham's, comparing & contrasting two lives intertwining at the same event (World's Fair), more so contrasting since the two lives / characters could not be more different.

Highly recommend.
That seems like a feature, not a problem.
Ha - I don't "use" Safari, just have it installed on my PC for those random times I try (and fail) to replicate a client's website issue. I should probably uninstall, and use an emulator.
Whole Foods me.

As a parent, put a craft beer/craft coffee in my hand (mark that up too, I'll pay) and give my kids and myself an experience, more than just a static display.

Blicks, a store for art supplies has done this with wine nights, painting lessons (with wine), etc.

Ignoring all the damn alcohol, it's brands that will compete by creating an experience that may stand a chance (IMO)
Yes, in the words of the ICO:

> A personal data breach means a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data. This includes breaches that are the result of both accidental and deliberate causes.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...

Most of the breaches I'm familiar with are accidental - people putting their research on thumb drives and losing them, etc etc.

Whether the fox gets into the chicken shed, or you let the chicken out of the safety of the shed, it's a breach of the chicken's security.
Given the bias inside of Google and the fact they have already demonstrated that they are not a neutral arbitrator, the last thing I want to have is them being the arbitrator of who or what news is seen. This is more of an attempt to consolidate their power, what you can and cannot see etc.. Hard pass.
I'd love to know if similar work is being done for loss of hearing/deafness. Is there an auditory equivalent to retinal pigment epithelium that nourishes the hair cell stereocilia?
US historically had very high tariffs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariffs_in_United_States_histo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_industry_argument
why not just support the open source Highfidelity.io platform instead?
Is it likely the Facebook UK CEO will be able to tell them anything useful?

The UK Parliament can decide it has jurisdiction over whatever it likes. You're right that they won't be able to enforce it. But the question Zuckerberg has to ask himself is whether his testimony or his failure to appear will make MPs more predisposed against him and Facebook. Whether or not it's a good idea to snub a parliamentary inquiry in any given country will vary greatly, but generally it will at least be a good idea to give it some serious thought before turning them down.
Figuring out? What's there to figure out? it's a computer that captures live footage of its surrounding events. I'm pretty sure it will store at least the last 3 minutes before an unknown event or collision. Similar to a black box in an airplane. It's a matter of requiring them legally to provide such footage.
They aren't going to struggle, their currently spectacular profits are just going to get somewhat more modest.

This is what happened to the banking industry after the 2008 financial crisis.
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FWIW American Girl is owned by Mattel and Mattel is not doing well at all, in large part because American Girl is dying.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mattel-shares-plunge-as-no...
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It gives a partnership vibe, in contrast to the default "we are using you" one.
I've been so fortunate to work at two companies in a row where this "psychological safety" is ingrained deeply in the culture. It's something I care so deeply about as a person who saw themselves learning and growing less directly as a result of not having this "safety" inherent to the organization. I think it's useful in all areas of a company but especially important for engineers. I would much rather have a junior engineer hit a roadblock and throw up the white flag asking for help than for them to sit there for a full day stuck, banging their head, and feeling dumb. It's so easy to course-correct when you explain the culture up front: "We're all wrong all the time, if you get stuck or have a question, or someone says something that doesn't make sense, ask them. No one here is smarter or better than you just because they have the answers to questions you haven't even had a chance to ask before."

I would bail so quickly it would make my head spin if I had to work at a place where people are ever shot down for not knowing things and asking questions. The punchline is a lot of those people would tell you they're working on "the most interesting thing" and yet if you're working in a space where everyone is supposed to know all the answers... then there's nothing to learn. That doesn't sound very interesting to me.
Private equity deals where a major employer is loaded with debts on purchase usually cripple the company and turn it into an also ran. You'd think politicians would insert themselves at this point particularly when companies collapse. TRU is by no means the first company this has happened to.

Manchester United in the UK were bought and loaded up with debt. They are ok now as the team is doing well, but if they stumble there is a colossal mountain of debt that still needs servicing regardless.

The whole concept of being allowed to financialize delicate businesses needs more regulation IMO
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Just wanted to say "hi" and that this is a great read! If you are interested, there is a Neon slack where some of us hang out. For example, you might be interested in neon-serde which could clean-up some of the argument parsing and match logic.

https://crates.io/crates/neon-serde
There is no bias.
I expect it's the combination of ruggedized maintainable components, maintenance spares and kit, and a lot of rechargeable cells.
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Which is why Google collects location data even when location services are disabled, right?

Let’s not pretend Google is holier-than-Facebook.

https://qz.com/1131515/google-collects-android-users-locatio...
I'm sure they have their reasons, but it seems a bit odd to do it there instead of in Brownsville TX, where they already have facilities, and its on the same side of the continent as Florida, meaning they don't have to ship them across the Panama Canal.

Its possible that their rocket-building expertise resides in LA and they want to keep it close to home, and shipping the rockets isn't as much a concern.
I was about to mention the Great Auk [0] but realized while reading up on it that scientists have started asking questions about the previously official sad story that I heard as a child.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_auk
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The focus of this scandal is curious. Does anyone seriously expect privacy for information that they willingly share with hundreds of people (their facebook friends)?

If you think this kind of information floating around is damaging to society, then you're making an argument against the very idea of FB. Fine; it's at least worth thinking about how social media is changing our society. But to really be upset that this data is out there and being used, after willingly sharing it with many people, is kind of ridiculous. What did you expect? You should assume that anything you do on FB, short of private messages, is part of the public record.

Everyone is targeting you based on information you put out in the world. Every major political campaign in the US works with a database of voters that includes party affiliation, past turnout, name, age, etc. They can also fold in the same data that advertisers use. Being a good citizen of a republic—and a savvy consumer—in the modern world means thinking critically about who is trying to persuade you and what their agenda is. The government cannot protect you from persuasion.
If you want them to be meaningful without changing the model...

Couldn't you rotate the basis to minimize the distance between each basis vector and it's nearest neighbor?
IIRC, if you remove the 'uh' and 'hmm' from audio samples to train for speech recognition, you get lesser performance than if you leave them in. So it is not that easy to differentiate a-priori between actual data and noise. If you look at the history of NLP we went from 'sentences are instances of a well defined grammar' to 'sentences are a bunch of statistically related tokens'. Embracing the mess is how we got better results !

And as for de-biasing gender terms, It makes the assumption that the gender differences in language only have nefarious purposes, but without an actual proof that this is the case, you may very well throw the baby with the bathwater.

A good example of this is when the french government mandated that Resumes must be anonymous and not mention sex, gender, etc. It actually resulted in worse outcome for people from lower socio-economic background. It turned out that on average people were more forgiving of bad Resumes if it came from people who could be expected to be disadvantaged.
it's been a couple of years since I went into a toys r us, but the reason why I stopped going wasn't the very messy store, nor the lack of inventory, but the prices being about 20% above MSRP, especially when I can go to a specialty store a couple of blocks away and pay MSRP for a lot more inventory.

I think that the idea of a "destination store" has been dying a slow death, and making them a lot more unattractive is accelerating this.

as for toys, I found myself paying a little over MSRP (not 20%) at my local walking-distance boutique store, but mostly because it was in my neighborhood.
Misleading comment. You're talking about murder but this only involved embryos. Many/most people don't consider that murder any more than the spilling of seed is. If you want to push a political view don't couch it as a systemic complaint.
Ask HN: How do I completely block Facebook?
Which domains do I need to blacklist, which subnets do I need to block? Blocking should include WhatsApp, Instagram and any service provided by Facebook.
I think there are two senses in which it is "impossible" to leave Facebook:

1) Even if you actively decide to deactivate or delete your account, nothing guarantees that Facebook won't retain the data. Nothing guarantees that they don't continue to build a profile of you by scanning photos your friends share. It's a Hotel California of personal data.

2) Even if you personally decide to leave, the rest of society may be using it for passing essential information that forces you to re-engate with facebook. Until you can convince your cohort to stop using FB to organize or converse, you might still be forced to use the service.
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The "geographic resiliency" chart is pretty inaccurate for the major providers, especially folks like Google cloud that have multi regional offerings with 99.95% availability & a lot more than "1" for redundancy.

I'd also add - unless you are going to include a median/mean latency number many options will look absurdly good even though we know they're a horrible idea, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GmailFS. I also think "unknown" availability looks a lot like a durability issue..
I don't think anybody is arguing against using data science in elections. What people are talking about is data theft, stealing private info(like emails, photos, etc) and stuff like that.

Its a bit like comparing withdrawing money from your bank account and robbing a bank.