skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody else has a problem with the mix up of 'Machine Learning' and 'Deep Learning' here?

Last time I heard of those terms, 'Machine Learning' was a much broader category than 'Deep Learning'. Its like someone says 'Next years Porsches will be illegal' and the next person calls 'Next year cars will be illegal'?!?
Why does it matter that they were in the picture?
The IBM 1130 was a great little machine. I wrote a high school course scheduling program on it in 1969 at the Universidad de San Andres in La Paz, Bolivia. Highest university in the World (12,000 ft).
No, but I am wondering why you feel two Jews in the same crowd at a school in Brooklyn is even worth mentioning.
Could anyone who's used HIP comment on how it compares to programming in raw CUDA?

I considered using it for a project recently, but ultimately decided against it because I didn't need to be able to run on AMD systems.
My guess is that absorption via the mouth (and via saliva by swallowing after brushing) is going to be higher than absorption via the skin. Wrong?
And then there are the poor souls who have a useful comment to make, but can't because you need reputation points to make comments. So they leave an answer instead, which is completely inappropriate and just leads to more discouragement.
Did you read the article? It's political.

"n October, Twitter’s general counsel told a Senate committee investigating disinformation that Russian bots tweeted 1.4 million times during the run-up to the last presidential election, and such bots would later be implicated in hundreds of tweets that followed a school shooting in Florida."

some of these bots, were not bots btw
Do you need significant legal effects(no quite sure what that means)?
>The specific argument suggests a tiny homunculus who lives in your head and and understands English.

I don't see how you are getting that from anything Searle says.

> The biologist argument requires something special in organic chemistry, something unknown, that is incompatible with other physics?

We can't know at our present level of understanding whether or not it will be compatible with current physics. But anyway, perhaps current physics will need some revision before we can understand consciousness. It's hard to rule out any possibility at present.
> On Star Trek though the computer runs on free energy and is just a tool. Google has to make money.

Right. As I think ahead, though, the only tools we're essentially getting are from commercial companies. Even our own governments (worldwide) are running these tools from the same commercial sources.

I'm not aware of any solutions being built now for the kind of interconnected future (smart homes, smart cars, smart "news", etc) that isn't centralized and also coming from commercial sources (Google, Amazon, etal).

The Star Trek/2001 analogy is about an OS system that isn't too dissimilar to our own connected future. Instead of handling a Star Ship, these systems would be running smart homes, managing our lives. That's a lot of profiling in the hands of a few companies (and their "partners") who may not have the best intentions.
> What would happen to you in the workplace if you behaved like a Westerner and looked for opportunities to contribute to others' priorities, praised others' work, and shared your productivity enhancers?

I curently work in a large Western Europe organization (30k employees), which does a lot of its software development in Poland. I'd say the work is in many ways organized in a terrible way (courtesy of the higher-up geniuses in the HQ). My observation is that the rank-and-file employees in the Western Europe branches tend to more often eat shit and smile about it than people in Poland. That may be because I don't know them as well as my Polish collegues though.
Many of the weirder-looking lineages (e.g., Tully monsters) from that era went extinct, root and branch, and most of the surviving "weird" animals live in niches that don't overlap with humans very much (e.g., extreme ocean depths).

I think it's likely that non-weird (to us) body forms are those that are better at surviving in non-weird (again, to us) environments.

You see this kind of thing in human activities, too. Most all planes look similar today compared to the bizarre variety of planes that were used in the early days of aviation (you don't see many triplanes around nowadays).

There again, the exceptions tend to be planes that operate in some kind of weird modality (e.g., stealth bombers, or the Gossamer X series of pedal-powered aircraft).
It would be a lot easier for executives to defend massive salaries if they weren’t also making money hand over fist when they fail spectacularly. What’s worse is that it seems like there are an awful lot of executives that don’t execute perfectly.

While I don’t personally believe there is any job in the world worth one hundred million or more per year (I mean, these people aren’t even physically in harm’s way!!!), why on earth aren’t companies making sure that money swings far in the other direction too? If you want a chance at $100M a year, the company should be able to FINE you millions and millions of dollars when you make costly mistakes, for example.
Hi, thanks, I know it's well-intended, but I can't find Cutler's work on PubMed, so I'm still wondering how legitimate this work is.
> What makes you think the source file can only be XCF? You can easily open any image format with GIMP.

Nothing. But if I'm opening a not-XCF I probably don't want to SAVE it as an XCF.

> Wrong and wrong. XCF is necessary to save your work in GIMP, so most GIMP users use it.

So basically the only reason anyone uses XCF is that GIMP forces them to? That's some sound design logic there. Used to be you could save your work in not-XCF.

> Who the hell needs CMYK support these days? Print is dead (well, it's getting there anyway).

The professional users GIMP is chasing after.

> You can easily export your project to any image format that exists.

Would be easier to save.

> The tool should be optimized for people who spend the most time using the tool.

So chasing after the non-existent professional GIMP users would be a bad optimization then? Ok.

> GIMP is for long edits, where saving (actually saving) your intermediate progress is a part of the workflow, whether you're a hobbyist or pro.

You know, I'd love to find an open source alternative to Lightroom and Photoshop. Turns out things like darktable and GIMP are far more archaic. That's the reason I still buy and use the Adobe tools. Dicking about with the one workflow where GIMP actually works is a poor move and doesn't do anything beneficial for more involved workflows.
Don’t you get the oil when you drink tea?
It's not just reversing you should be able to explain how it arrived to that decision in the first place.
When I find questions with a poorly placed close vote, I try to immediately leave a comment why I disagree in the hopes that others will see it before too many votes are cast.
Which is still a small fraction of the wealth of Bill Gates and Buffet
I'm not the original commenter, but I could find it by getting your name from Github, then googling it. Your LinkedIn was the first result, and there was LA.
Try https://www.khanacademy.org/math/precalculus for an alternative explanation, especially when traditional teaching methods don’t click.
I’ve found it faster.
> and hire 3 iOS + 3 Android devs

The usual fallacy. What you can do with 2 cross platform developers + 1 iOS + 1 Android, you can achieve with 1 iOS expert, 1 Android expert and one who can do both iOS and Android well enough.

> but who will do this

Anyone who wants quality apps. So basically not most start ups, I guess.

> can have 95% of the same with 2 flutter devs

False. Just like it's false with Electron and React Native. At most you have 75%, and that's the most simplest apps. At least with React Native, you can somewhat easily integrate native components. It's ridiculously hard with Flutter. (For example, see how long it took to integrate with MapKit.)
Since when are search results personal data?
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This line of thinking is similar to: "I never took an academic/theoretical computer science course, but I'm able to write code that solves most problems just by thinking, discussing, and occasionally StackOverflow."

That might very well be true -- and of course you can (and plenty do) argue that academic CS isn't worthwhile either --
but in both cases it isn't obvious the nuance is useful/justified until you dive into the weeds yourself.

I'm in no place to defend the whole field, but I do think it takes a special kind of cynicism to claim that one of the (if not, the) longest running academic projects on Earth "could be summarized on one page with little information loss."
If hypothetically their position is that the thing that will fail is bad (based on a bad technology, bad management, bad presuppositions, etc.) - then what's so bad about shorting it? They are hoping that the bad thing will fail so that more resources (money, news, workers, scientists, mind-space of the public) will go to other projects that better deserve it? If they can make some money at the same time - then why not? Is the same as going long (investing in) some other projects that they predict will succeed.
(Not saying Tesla is a "bad" company, the comment was about shorting.)
Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering
If getting off the plane early while it's on the ground is valuable, why not charge for it? That way people who really do want to get off can? It's hard to say that deboarding early is a right, because that would imply your rights change if you were in the air or not.

I think gp's concerns would be addressed by making this transaction legal and letting passengers and airlines arrive at a fair price.
>AFAIK there is almost no OC on Pinterest anyway.

And this is the key point.
By removing Pinterest from the search results the user doesn't lose almost anything.
I've asked auto insurance how they arrived at that number, they always give me some vague generic answer.
It’s also related to Jagd, hunt in German. Depending on your taste in references, you can think of Jagermeister or Liszt’s Wilde Jagd.
I think it's a misnomer to say the mind is material.

From my limited understanding of the brain, my concept of the mind is this:

- The brain is a computer and the computer is material
- The brain executes software, and the software is grown/encoded as neural networks
- The state of the running instance(s) of the software is the current action potential of every neuron
- Both the software and the state encode information
- The information can represent things that are real, unreal, consistent, inconsistent, etc.
- The information is abstract and immaterial, but stored in a physical and dynamic system
- The flow of information is tolerant of faults and noise in the underlying physical neural network. A failure of a small percentage of connections does not prevent the information from flowing through the system
- The information is not dependent on the precise physical network, but rather on the virtual network composed of many redundant connections

Therefore, I think the mind is:

- information
- encoded in a virtual network
- built on many redundant physical neural connections
- produced and supported by the brain
> Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO. They clutter the images results and do not allow users to obtain what they search for.

Sounds like they are to me.

It's not explicitly stated either way, but when people talk about "image results" it seems safe to assume they are taking about Google Image Search.
Some species of shrews (including at least one found in North America) have venom as well. They use it to paralyze larger prey, which they can then eat at their leisure.
They can still follow you, comment, like and retweet your posts. You can block them but if you are popular enough it might be a problem. They also make search a lot worse and the hashtag system for some tags completely useless since all the posts you'll find under that tag are spam posts.
Almost all the images on Pinterest are available elsewhere. If Pinterest results were not polluting Google images, the originals would surface easier.

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I don't really see a problem with targeting the biggest worst abuser. Not everything has to be a one-shot solution to grand problems.
The ICO Model
CSU LA has had one of the most notable campus free speech problems. California's public universities try to discriminate by race but are hindered by Prop 209.
China still scores near the top of the international maths olympiads. These competitions are designed to force you to require creativity and not just memorise formulas So even if the system doesn't produce high average creativity, it seems to produce high creativity at the top level.
Why should I spend my valuable time to help you when you literally spend no time to help yourself and instead blame tools for your inability to use them? Reread your posts in this thread and your blog post and show me where there’s any sign that wouldn’t be a lost cause effort.
I don't blame him for trying, the number of times I've seen someone pop into the comments of a submission saying "Hi I'm ________ and I wrote/made/did/worked on this" is pretty high on this website.
Have you seen the "closed" messages? From the bottom of here:

https://stackoverflow.com/help/closed-questions

Closed "low quality" questions are marked "on hold" for five days, when they can be commented on and edited to be improved upon, and go into a review queue. From memory that message is in the big yellow close box on the question - that it is on hold pending improvement and review - but I can't google any to see.

What you describe sounds like that, but in a separate area and without downvotes. Or, it sounds like they've tried to implement what you describe.

Would it work if downvotes were reset when it got put on hold?
These are essentially fancy golf carts.

Electric golf carts went through a total revolution in design in the late 90's early 2000's, replacing old DC motors with high performance brushless dc motors with solid state controls. And then adding regenerative braking.

Same time phasing out simple 2 cycle gasoline powered golf carts for 4 cycles resulted in increased costs which favors switching to simpler and lower maintenance electrics. Two cycles use a simple centrifugal clutch and run the motor backwards for reverse. Can't do that with a 4 stroke, so you need a gear box for forward/reverse.
That's only meaningful if they can assure in writing that they have not approved for anyone with x,y,z reasons.
Fine as long as you realise that this is taking a philosophical position. The grain of truth is that most published philosophy is bunk.
> a sizable percentage of engineers are not comfortable in social collaboration

There's some upper limit on what you can accomplish as a sequestered lone-wolf genius. I don't deny that people with such working styles have made impressive contributions, but the bar for "innovation" is rapidly climbing and will soon surpass what anyone can do in isolation. That's a pretty normal thing to happen as a field matures.

The detached, contractor-like model where you only need to communicate to receive well-defined tasks and deliver well-defined output has substantial benefits for fulfilling many business needs. If I worked on a software assembly line, there would be no need for communication outside the ticketing system. But when you're doing something new, not yet understood, and bigger than one person, you're going to need to talk about it. (Obviously you can still do that with phone/videoconferencing, but the friction it imposes on conversation is real).
I was actually just about to say that. There seems to be fair bit of overlap in graphql and grpc from the Codegen and Schema POV. Graphql is more intended to be a data query language and grpc more generic function calls.

But they’re both essentially solving the dev problem of having ‘typed contracts’ right?

Very interesting evolution! SOAP to REST to graphql more popular on the ‘frontend’ side and grpc on the ‘backend’ side.
Do you manually manage the infrastructure (keeping instances hot/cold, updates, scaling, etc.)? If so that's a lot to consider.
> Whenever I looked into what most philosophers publish

Oh, most philosophers even? So you have taken a good look at the field and have a grasp of the philosophical community and their methods of inquiry and communication?

> vagueness

If there is one thing I have learned because I switched from studying physics to studying contemporary art, is that when I consider something "vague", it often boils down to my own assumptions and premises. By the standard of what is considered the right way to acquire knowledge in physics, most art is "vague". But the problem is me insisting on judging it by those terms.

> poor thinking

To elaborate on my previous point: you cannot apply the lines of thinking of one field to the other and judge it by that without also putting in the effort of understanding the lines of thinking of that other field. I have my doubts as to whether you are not mistaken an unfamiliar way of thinking for poor thinking.

> little value

Well given the two before it, there is indeed little value for you. Then again, I don't read or speak Chinese, so even the most beautiful poetry bundle written in simplified Chinese would hold little value for me too.
Taxman to provide service via WeChat to attract Chinese investment
I agree with you in principal but AWS and Lambda feels significantly more complex than that. At least when I was FTP'ing my code up to some shared host I still had a lot of control over my environment (ini overrides, htaccess, etc...) With Lambda I feel like I have very little control. There is a black box running this stuff that I have no insight into. Even worse; when things break the resulting error is often unrelated to the actual problem.
I’m talking about political survival, not legal.
> "I'm searching for a specific piece of technical hardware "

What specific piece of technical hardware shows up anywhere near the first page of results in Google that's from pintrest? I can't think of a single time I've seen pintrest in the search results and I search for various technical things all the time? Just curious since this surprises me. I thought pintrest was non technical stuff usually.
I think one of the reasons that we have a higher standard for algorithmic decision making is the fact that algorithms are used at scale:

For example, for a classification task we usually train an algorithm on labeled data (i.e. good debtor vs. bad debtor). When trained, we apply the algorithms to ALL future decisions on whom to give a credit. This makes algorithms so dangerous as compared to humans, because if 10 out of 1000 bankers are racist and discriminate against certain groups of people we still have 990 that don't. If our algorithm is trained on data that contains racism it will discriminate in every single case if it has the data to do so.
Mmmhhh I would say "foresaw" ;-)
It would be if you had to be involved, but I'm suggesting algorithms could have some sort of instrumentation so such "explanations" could be automatically generated and thrown into a data warehouse for possible future use. (This is all a cynical attempt to meet legal requirements rather than anything actually useful for the user, of course.)
Despite the name, tea is not made from the tea tree.
A Vision for Local Ownership of the Boulder Daily Camera
In days of old it was pretty easy to ban a site from your Google search results. It looks like they have removed that function.

I wonder why? I know I liked having certain low value (to me) sites not clutter up my results.

A little article about the feature, sorry it is going to try to throw an interrupting DIV at you– https://searchengineland.com/google-block-sites-feature-1464...
Extensive discussion of the stories from The Guardian:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16606924

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16611766

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16610704
Much better term is to call it what it is: a domain-specific API, instead of
bending the term that was not supposed to be used like this.
Please don't respond by degrading the discussion even further, regardless of how right you are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Check out dbup (in c# land) for a strategy and tools , and check the migrations into your repo along with your side.
This is dumb. It completely ignores things like information and computation.
Protectionism is certainly a factor but you don't seem to understand how much airlift is required to sustain an expeditionary military in the field. Current transport capacity has been stretched for years with the ongoing conflicts. At any given time many of those aircraft are out of service for maintenance.
> The core ideas in philosophy could be summarized on one page with little information loss. This probably seems horribly arrogant, but that's just how I honestly see things.

I think academic philosphy aims to be more rigourous, so while such a summary might capture the broad points, it will miss the nuance.

A comparison could be made with a game of Chess. On the surface, you could describe a game in terms of the moves played, but to understand why those moves were played, you need to know about the potential moves that weren't played.

I can understand why some people criticise academic philosophy for exploring seemingly pointless details extensively, but such exploration always gives someone a richer understanding, and sometimes uncovers flaws in things that previously seemed unquestionable. I think this is what people don't appreciate: understanding the moves played doesn't mean you understand why those moves were played, the ocean of possiblities underneath. No one page summary will do that, for Chess or philosophy.
Over 20 percent of kernel contributions come from Intel and Red Hat. Over 90 percent of patches are written by people who work for corporations. Linux wouldn't be 10 percent of what it is now if it relied solely on volunteers communicating on the LKML.
All very nice but according to Circular B 65 you will also need Permit A39.
Linux Raw Sockets
Town deems land as surplus, takes it. Cryptominers approach to buy the parcel of land to build a mine. Town is delaying meeting so they can either 1. figure out how much they can milk from the Cryptominers. That or 2. if they want to disallow all mining in shipping containers. The article doesn't say. I'm betting on #1.
Because then every single functionality will scale independently as needed. No need for orchestration.
I've personally worked at different times as a carpenter (residential projects) and structural engineer (long-span bridges, tall buildings). I mean it quite literally.
"Our citizens are too stupid to have a personal opinion and distinguish between a bot and a real person"
I kept waiting for the author to say, "Surprise, it's a jar file. Jars are just zips, and lambda supports Java." Then I realized author really was reinventing wheels for the reader who probably doesn't know what Java is.
Take a look at Fitbit's website and see just how many product variations they sell... For their single category of product which is a fitness tracker.

Apple sells one watch and we know what it does.

The story of Job's and his four-quadrant diagram come to mind.
The EU rules [1] give compensation of €250, €400 or €600 for flights of <1500km, <3500km, >3500km, with a delay of over 3 hours.

For example, a 9 hour late departure due to a "technical problem" led to me missing a once-daily connection, and an eventual 24 hour delay in arrival. The distance was 3000km, so I got €400 compensation. Also, a meal voucher at the departure airport, and a hotel overnight + breakfast at the connection airport.

The rules apply on all flights within the EU, all flights originating in the EU, and flights into the EU operated by EU airlines.

[1] https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/passenger-right...