skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have a feeling that if one used something deeper than just lasso regression, much better results could have been obtained. This is very similar to a recommender system, or a text classification problem, and there much better than lasso can be done. The data is sort of open, in principle, btw.

But nevermind what can be predicted from the likes. They say that coworkers have r=0.27, while spouse has r=0.58. This looks like a serious problem with the test more than anything else.

This may be interpreted as "cowokers don't know you (and don't care...)" kind of stuff. But coworkers often have a comparable amount of contact with a person vs spouse.
Alternatively, one could also interpret this as there is no "the one true personality", but different personalities in different environments (at least when we define personality as a result of a test). And so coworkers are not wrong, they just see a different picture.

And there might be other possibilities.

In fact, one should try to predict the coworker's (and spuse's, ect...) scores of a person from person's likes, in addition to trying to predict person's own assessment.
Even for Google — when I was on the Chrome team a few years ago (to pick a nice open example, in case anyone wants to stalk my commit history) my most important collaborators were three and twelve time zones away.

What many projects don't discover until too late is that the practices that let you work effectively across ∆x are the same ones you need to work effectively across ∆t, and no airline can fly the new hires to last year's face-to-face.
> Unfortunately instead of sticking to ethics, morality, and other hazy constructs, too often philosophers think they have something useful to say about everything.

They do have something useful to say about people who, due to not having studied philosophy of science, think science has something useful to say about everything. Sam Harris's The Moral Landscape is one notable recent example.
Just use an incredibly strong password you couldn't possibly ever forget and use it for email. Then use password reset with a randomly generated string every time you have to login somewhere.

Because really, email is effectively the only password which matters.
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While they are at it please remove LinkedIn. You can't actually view anything on any page without logging in. Why is it listed at all? Seems pretty deceptive to me.
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> People want images, they don't care where they're from.

Right, which doesn't align with the incentives which push Google to follow copyright law.
Author here. Sorry that it's giving you a hard time. Can you say what OS X version you're running or provide any other details so I can try and reproduce/fix?
(You can email me privately at finda@keminglabs.com)

I tested with a dozen folks before releasing and this issue never came up.
No, sorry.

[...] Nexus, also called “sufficient physical presence,” is a legal term that refers to the requirement for companies doing business in a state to collect and pay tax on sales in that state. [....]

https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/taxes/what-is-nexus-and-how-...
The gross profit of about $200K would be about $500K in today's dollars. And that statement covers only three months.
Plus things like: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/16/nyregion/police-unit-that...

Not to mention historical corruption on a grand scale.
Perhaps not but already I'm wondering if it could enhance the effect of conventional HRT for transgender patients. Certainly something worth further investigation.
https://www.worldcat.org/title/how-many-people-can-the-earth...
If they spread good news about a bad company (ie, spreading sentiment in bad faith, as you called it), after acquiring a long position for that company - it means they are pushing resources into that company. Those resources are not endless. There is only a limited amount of capital flowing out there. If the capital goes to a bad company, it means that a good company somewhere did not get the capital that they would have otherwise gotten. It's just as bad.

The issue here is spreading sentiment in bad faith. If someone is doing it, they are affecting the market and enterprises in it, in a bad way. The good guys make less (and go out of business sometimes), and the bad guys make more money and get more attention, stealing it from the ones who truly deserve it.

The downside is not that some naive investors lose money. The downside is that a better project will not get the money it really needs, and instead that money will go to a worse project with better false marketing - thus slowing down the overall progress.

Whether this happens while going long or short positions - doesn't make much difference.
But we're not talking about how stressful a job is. You said being a CEO would be fun.

For starters, unless you've got a lot of executive experience, if you had to turn up to work tomorrow and be the CEO, you'd be awful at it. So would I, so would anybody else that doesn't have that experience. I guess this wouldn't evenly apply to early stage start-ups, but they tend to not have much executive leadership anyway, regardless of whether they have a "CEO".

Being the CEO is all responsibility. There's very little room for error, and you unavoidably have to deal with a myriad of issues that you will have no personal interest in whatsoever. It is absolutely the most high pressure and difficult job in an organisation. If it weren't, then anybody could do it, when obviously that's not true. Also, if you're measuring who is the most stressed in an organisation, then you're going to come up against a lot of selection bias. You'd expect CEOs to have a better responsibility to stress ratio, because you'd expect CEOs to be better at managing stress.
Many issues of the magazine referred to in the article are available on the Internet archive: https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Adventure+...

How cool is that.
I don't think he wants a copy. I think he wants it deleted.
> And honestly I don't think any significant amount of people search Google images wanting Pinterest results.

My guess is, Since search is Google's wheel house, they had this discussion, looked at the data, and found that many users do want it in their results.

Anecdotally, I myself dont care. Most of my image searches are to get an understanding what I am looking for. Some number north of 90% of the time, I dont click the images
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On the other hand, you'd need a public prosecutor who's willing to go to bat against the really good lawyers of Netflix and T-Mobile, combined.
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Geoffrey Hinton's idea of "capsules", which I don't really know anything concrete about, tries to address the recognition of objects subject to rotations, etc. That's a topological/structural strategy within the neural network, though, so quite removed from an idea like quaternions.

It's worth observing that what distinguishes complex numbers from 2-vectors like (x,y) is that there's a multiplication rule that corresponds to rotation around the origin. Similarly with quaternions. But you can also just use them as glorified vectors of 2 or 4 elements.

See this https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610278/why-even-a-moths-b... for a recent interesting finding on dimensionality.
Wouldn't it be ideal if Docker (and other independent platform vendors) added function support? In my mind "cloud functions" are easily implemented on top of containers. Then we would get the best of both worlds.
Sounds like this is a reminder that you're sharing your location history. People who just have it on (which means, "just" sharing with Google), do not get these notices.
Finding such an ignorant comment at the top of HN is quite disappointing.

Obviously, you are still in the first stage of competence https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Four_stages_of_competence and you don't know what you don't know.
That’s exactly what op was saying.
I'm super happy you brought up the infinite border aspect of the top menu, because that is the best aspect of it, and whenever I go back to Windows, that required fine touch control drives me nuts.

But WRT hot corners, the best part of hot corners is being able to assign a modifier key to them.
Without using the modifier, it's crazy annoying, but having a modal aspect that requires active engagement seems to me the best of both.

Then again, I haven't actually engaged a hot corner in years. I find Keyboard Maestro the best option of all.

(P.S. just for anyone who doesn't know how to add a modifier to the hot corners, just hold down Ctrl, shift, option or CMD when selecting the setting).
Probably doesn't hurt having grown up with parents and grandparents who remember first-hand where nationalism and racism can take a society, either.
This is cool, though reducing dependencies is hard to do once, and even harder to do in perpetuity, which makes me wonder what the numbers would look like if they had started with caching and lazy loading, rather than trimming, and looking at how much that would help.
The text to speech demos google was doing are relatively computationally expensive.

They couldn't afford for everyone to be text-to-speaking every web page...
Are you saying that you believe Richard Feynman didn’t have a working grasp of the issues at hand? Or are you saying that “philosophers of science” don’t know anything about the science they philosophize about? I’d guess that Feynman was more familiar with the philosophy of science, than the philosophers were with path integral formulations.

As for science, it’s a method, and it can be applied to anything. What it says may often be, “don’t know” which imo is better than 100 pages saying “don’t know, but I’ll give it a go anyway, because no one can prove me wrong yet.”
Sample size of 3?!
San Francisco is officially $10B in the hole
Most terrorist are fine with sacrificing themselves though. So why would they try to get off?
I'm a hobbyist woodworker.

I was recently searching for an unusual wood-joint, and I had to give up because the google search results were absolutely polluted with pinterest.
What's your take on brain simulation?
A bunch of arduino and other small easy beginner hardware is stuff that comes to mind. Since pintrest is about cataloguing project type things it can actually be quite relevant. Unfortunately.
I have no affiliation with them. I don't like Pinterest more than anyone else here. I just don't see how Google is doing anything wrong. By the way, I'm not affiliated with Google either. I shouldn't have to say that.
Most people have Android, it has an 85% global market share. And yes, this is how Android works. Play Services, which includes "Google Location Services" is preinstalled on essentially every phone that isn't an iPhone, and runs in the background by default. Doesn't matter if you have any apps open or not, Google's collecting location unless you explicitly go in and shut it off.
>only existing in the mind of the observer, e.g. the Chinese speaker outside the room.

Why do you think this? Each component of the system has physical embodiment and causal efficacy. It's just as "real" as the man himself.

>You seem to be arguing that consciousness arises whenever information is processed by whatever means

The Chinese room experiment isn't about consciousness specifically, its about semantics (meaning) vs syntax. Whether or not something that understands is conscious is a different question.
I'd more say that it gets rid of the need for officially-supported client libraries, but such libraries can still be a nice convenience for idiomatically mapping your service's higher-level concepts to what makes sense for a given language.

Still, it's a big win to automatically make your API available in all gRPC-supported languages, since most companies can't justify the business cost of a hand-crafted library in even one of those languages, let alone all.
Plants have phytosterols instead of cholesterol. If anything, predation chose for plants that had some population controlling affects on predators. But I’ve read those same compounds are completely ignored by our bodies.

I’m going to suggest there’s more going on than we know here. Ie there are toxic compounds leaching into food from plastic containers, possibly water supply, and definitely cooking utensils.
> That really doesn't feel like it's inherent to Lambda at all. You could say the same thing about EC2.

The major difference is that Lambda hooks into your developer tooling, and source code, in a way that EC2 doesn't.

Sure, you can use Lambda without calling AWS APIs from your app... But you'll be using SDKs, tools and documentation that push you to do so, every day. It will require conscious thought and effort in your development to avoid lock-in, and over time the required effort will increase, because more and more third-party tools and libraries will switch to proprietary dependencies, dragging you along with them.
It was a qualification, of sorts, meant to suggest “regardless of principle or viewpoint”. I.e., the tasks mentioned generally required less skill than most minimum wage jobs ostensibly require.

Admittedly, I was working from anecdotal evidence off the top of my head (e.g., banners on fast food chains proclaiming “starting at $XX/hr”) and not hard data.

Personally I believe paying less than livable wages is criminal in most instances.
Or better, just demote them to the very end of the search results. Occasionally there might be images from Pinterest that are not found elsewhere on the internet. If someone wants to scroll the image SERP down to page 6 (or whatever) it doesn’t hurt to show them there.
And how would that work? Let’s say I’m a company that can choose to buy advertising from Facebook for 99 plus 25% VAT or from someone else for 100 plus 20% VAT. If I can deduct the VAT paid I get a better deal going with Facebook.
Author here, and happy that you're interested in the software itself rather than the implementation =)

I'll probably write a detailed post about file indexing, since it's pretty interesting from a technical standpoint.

I looked into spotlight (via `mdfind`) but it was too slow and I wanted to port to Windows/Linux later, so your speculation is correct: Finda has its own file walking and indexing mechanism.

It walks a user-configurable set of directories, but not in the background --- it's actually done every time you open Finda, so you only pay the CPU cost when you are actually using the program.

The index is stored in memory, and size is proportional to the number of files/folders walked.
However, Finda does respect .gitignore files, so you can exclude things you don't want to show up in the search results (or consume memory).
The "large salaries and golden parachutes are necessary to attract top-notch talent" is just typical b.s to justify awarding even more compensation within the boys (and girls) club. In reality, you could easily find at least several equally qualified executives to fill the position.
Agreed - without a control it's definitely not super reliable, with that said he does mention he's using spring water to test it (I'm assuming shop bought - if that had lead it'll be a whole other scandal).

On the other hand, maybe he's just in Flint..
Pinterest shouldn't need to be removed specifically — the fact that they (or any aggregator, including say Reddit) reference some image should be a signal that the referenced source is a more valuable search result. (I think there used to be search engine that used a method like that.)
Comparing fields this way is a bit apples to oranges (getting "very far" in CS is quite different than in English Lit, which is quite different than Philosophy, etc.) -- these fields all have very different goals.

That said, in philosophy I often have the feeling that some "common sense" view I hold is more accurate than the rigorous, less clear views that I'm studying. Almost always, there turn out to be problems with my common sense view that weren't obvious to me at the outset, and necessitate the extra rigor and abstraction.

The unfortunate bit is that if you don't "study" (as you put it), you'll never notice these little flaws, and go on thinking that people are intentionally overcomplicating things. (Made worse by the fact that certain people actually are overcomplicating things -- but that's not evidence against the fact that many things are, in fact, complicated)
'...the originals would surface easier'

Yes, exactly. Try and find the original version of most images these days and you'll just go around in circles.

If Google really think Pinterest need to be in search results (I'm talking text based queries here) why on Earth do they need to return 3 results on page one, all leading to a Pinterest log-in page?
Sadly, this can be read as a parody of the idealism that's baked into a lot of governmental policy... :-)
People need confidence, entitlement, or experience to ask for their worth. Employers know this. Companies brag about taking advantage of information asymmetry to pay us less and we applaud them for it?
I would say that conversations that need an incentive to retweet are worthless.
a lot of people deserve to paid more than what they make but it doesn't mean that it's a good idea.

Why should that benefit be only extended to CEO when it is his or her job to set long term vision and make large bets?
"Are those improvements sustainable?"

Available evidence suggests yes.

http://plantsci.missouri.edu/grains/corn/graphs/USA-corn-yie...

"Agriculture that is generating high yields from converting very fertile natural ecosystems into deserts"

Iowa didn't look much like a desert the last time I was there.

"Failure ecosystems that have been farmed out of existence in antiquity are still as barren as thousand years ago"

Yeah, that's why you don't want to rely on "organic" farming. Good thing we don't do that any more.
Because YCombinator hates Jews. They are obsessed with them, and will always criticize Jews whenever they can.
Yes, that's me. I decompiled it. And it is the most fun reverse engineering project you can imagine. Expect the unexpected. There is a Forth interpreter hidden in the code and some of word names are still in the code. So you can produce almost readable code.

When I started I had not even a clue what Forth is about. I read the first articles about Forth long after I started the decompilation project.

I still have to write a long text in the README, why the code of Starflight is almost as awesome as the game itself. Then it is ready for publish :-)
I do not understand the focus on memory corruption, it is not the major problem in embedded development. In my experience, the vast majority of problems were due to logic failures. Sometimes there was a buffer overflow which was detected in an old function when something new was implemented somewhere else..

For me the way to go are tools like matlab simulink to better figure out a complex program, and not yet another language trying to catch memory corruption bugs.
> Every time this happens,

I love these comments, you seem them all the time (Everytime this happens if you will). And they are phrased as though they are above questioning.
Absolutely it is successful.

But the original goal of Linux was to create a personal free OS that had feature parity with Unix. It wasn't solving a previously unsolved problem, because the requirements were already given by Unix.

The stage of software that benefits the most from close collaboration defining the requirements in the first place. That's very hard to do in isolation, unless the requirement is trivial/obvious.

No doubt, later on, Linux developers came up with innovative new-to-the-world features for the OS, but a lot of these were developed by collaborative institutions like universities, companies, and governments.
How confident are you that the Internet's infrastructure at the lower level isn't well centrally controlled? A handful of companies own most of the Internet backbone. All of them are optimized to working with Google and Amazon traffic (aka, most of their traffic). Datacenters also make up a pretty big portion of the Internet's physical network, and a handful of companies also own most of that as well. Even though there's a number of companies involved, they all benefit from the status quo.

How is your little startup going to compete with the economies of scale Amazon or Google can leverage? They can't, which is why a lot of startups build right on top of Google or Amazon's infrastructure.
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Also, location data has a history of getting many people convicted innocently: https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21615622-junk-s...
> (Or all newspapers behind a paywall would be blocked).

I was under the impression that the current X-Articles-Free implementation of newspaper paywalls everywhere was a Google-friendly compromise.
"the fact is that the Earth is becoming a worse place for each of those days

There is absolutely no evidence of this.

The average person today, whether in the First World or the Third, lives a life that is better than almost every respect than a comparable person a hundred years ago.

At the same time, environmental quality in the First World has improved dramatically.
That's not one of Google's rules, as far as I can tell. Here are some of Google's rules: https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/mission/open-we...

Some might say that Pinterest's behavior is covered under the "Spam and Malware" section on that page, but clearly Google does not agree with that interpretation of Google's rules or else the search results would have been removed by now.

There are other sites requiring logins that appear in Google results, e.g. LinkedIn, and Google clearly doesn't see that as a rule violation either. If that was really a rule, Google would need to block a lot of major news sites as well, e.g. NY Times, WSJ, FT, Economist, etc. I'll believe Google's interpretation of their own rules, rather than someone's interpretation on Reddit.
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This is true for fanatic terrorism. But there are other threats, from more politically based terrorism, where suicide bombings are less common, to things like extortion.
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My point isn't really about a distinction between information and knowledge. While high quality notes might witness the existence, or creation, of knowledge, that knowledge is not contingent on the notes' continued existence. Put another way: If the note-taking process results in the creation of knowledge inside my head, why should I keep the physical notes any more than I should keep the book?

Edit: I should say I thought your article was interesting and useful in general, and I don't think my disagreement takes away from the general message that owning things is pointless, what matters is engaging with the world.