skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to give an example why a "domain specific" language like Julia is more appealing then a "general purpose" language like Swift: I would like to demonstrate this on the old and classy Fortran vs C++ discussion in numerical computing.

In Fortran, you can write linear algebra on n-dimensional arrays (similar as in numpy and julia) very compactly, i.e.

d(i) = TRANSPOSE(MATMUL(B(i,:),c))

Writing something like this in C++ is absolutely possible and elegant with modern templates libraries such as `eigen`. However, the compilation will be slower, the compiler errors will be hard to read and it is hard to beat Fortrans runtime efficiency of such code.

But it get's more interesting. Think of tensor contractions. This is something where you probably want to implement your own algebra (say for relativistic quantum mechanics or for general relativity) -- or you just stick to the n-dimensional array again and use index-wise loops:

DO i=1,4
DO j=1,4
DO k=1,4
DO l=1,4
A(i,j) = B(k,l)*C(i,k)*D(l,j) ! note: compe up with better examples
END DO
END DO
END DO
END DO

I maintain a templated C++ library to write such expressions in one line instead of 4 loops. But contrary to this Fortran code, in order to understand my code, you first have to learn this library. Means you need to learn C++, then the library. In Fortran, it is just Fortran. Nothing more.

Believe it or not: Many scientists are no good programmers. Cut-down domain specific languages are perfect to avoid them to loose time on weird compiler features such as "const", templates and all that overhead which is hard to regain in time.
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I disagree. I fully support using GPS to sterilize inferior people.

Here's the full process:

-Sequence the genome of everyone

-Identify eugenics supporters

-Select a set of GPS parameters such as the eugenics supporters score below the threshold

-Eugenics supporters are now sterilized

-Problem solved (after all it's just PC and a liberal deception to say eugenics support doesn't have a genetic origin, man isn't tabula rasa after all, eh?)
Annoying af. From my understanding, it's a mix of:

- GDPR rolling out in Europe
- Cambridge Analytica & Facebook issues and learnings.
What are you doing between 10 and 4?
"One dimensional" aka one you don't like. It is a failure to reproduce, whether you like it or not.
Intelligence researchers don't use normalized IQ for anything serious (they are not comparable across countries, for example). They use raw test data to generate the real distribution.

I tried to avoid using the 'IQ' and use g-factor or intelligence, but I slipped at the end. I'm sorry about that.

>. So the high intelligence tail is heavy

Yes. Intelligence seems to have fat tails on both directions and it's also right skewed.
Slower speeds can reduce the chances of death on impact.
As a child in the sixties I had many colourful pictures in my Scottish bedroom, including a 'visit sunny jugoslavia' sign.. covered in happy smiling folkloric people.. if you'd told me they'd be strafing each other and destroying the mostar bridge I couldn't have fathomed it: why would anyone want to do that?

I think Yugoslavia summed up everything we wanted to be right in a postwar world but couldn't admit was doomed to fail. It was just waiting for Tito to die so it could unravel.
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Audio is much easier to stream though. You need nearly no data to start streaming audio, and it's likely you're internet will keep up.

The video is very different, the overhead is a lot more, 128kbit vs 2Mbps for example. On top of that, a video player will try to buffer ahead enough video to make sure you won't get and buffering later on, which means it needs to measure your bandwidth and try to guess how much.

UDP can be nearly instant except in for b-frames, however if it's over UDP is probably over transport stream which has it's own buffering levels built in to make sure the decoder has a large enough buffer.
Has anyone here who wears glasses tried prescription blue-light-filtering lenses? I can't really use the orange glasses lots of people recommend in the evenings because they don't fit well over my glasses--even the clip-ons I bought don't sit right. I've read a bit about prescription lenses that filter blue light, but haven't tried it. I'm curious if anyone else has an what their experience was like.
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But cars cost A LOT more than phones...
The point is that your experience in a society that privileges automobile driving has left you with misleading impressions of how other societies function. In other places poor drivers are held responsible for their poor driving, and the sky has not fallen.
You touched a nerve on some people. And rightly so. Perception and context awareness is not instantaneous.

Here's a quick improvement on testing for the learning agent: watch the driver while he is driving, watch the road, AI predicts what do in the same situation, diff that with the driver; diff it offline if necessary. Bang! massive improvement in learning data, time and pinpointing blunders.
If they are not already doing this, they should.
Many of those things can be done without an (internet-facing) CMS. You could for example use an internal CMS that generates static HTML which is then pushed to a simple webserver with no option to execute code. This is certainly not a panacea, but it will prevent 0-day automated attacks from random botnets.
One of the main uses cases for these scooters is to connect to Caltrain, which doesn't have anywhere close to 1:1 bike racks:seats.
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My point was that what people aren't giving their info to Facebook for free, Facebook has to spend money on their employees to create something which people then want to use resulting in them getting information.
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> "Well it is known that criminals don't care about the laws, right?"

Please enlighten us to your alternate proposal to having a functioning society that is not based in a concept of a Code of Laws.
Try taking lowest dose melatonin like 5 hours before your bedtime, in addition to minimizing brightness and color temp of light sources. Don't worry if you wake up in the night for a while; read a paper book.
You can have the benefits of a CMS with static sites too.
Just have a internal CMS and export it as static pages whenever you have changes. This is fast and secure but breaks interactivity with the CMS
Would this make you and all participants in your plan supporters of Eugenics, thus sterilized? So the plan would die out after a year or two.
Through all the years media effects research had consistently trouble identifying effects at all. Finding any evidence for opinion change through media consumption has always been especially hard, so that a lot of media effect theories are squarely focused on effects other than opinion change like agenda setting or framing (etc.).

Given the current state of media effects research it is not at all clear and obvious that any arguments can influence opinions. As such results to the contrary are surprising (and should be examined closely).
Not so much an upgrade, as moving away from Lloyds system (they were previously merged with Lloyds as Lloyds TSB) and jumping onto a completely new system built for them.
Would that count as "false or fraudulent pretenses"? It seems like the fact that it's a commercial serves as an indicator that the consumer displayed is a constructed example, rather than an actual person.
More farmland is lost to desert than gained to warmth. Pastureland in particular is affected, making cattle more expensive to raise. Also farming is energy-intensive and a rise in costs of fuel will pass on to food prices.
Tesla tried to throw MobilEye under the bus and MonileEye basically said that they’ve used their platform out of spec and out of its functional domain, there were also some cheeky remarks by Amnon who was making statements like “if you have big balls like Tesla you can only use a single sensor type with no redundancy”.

Currently MobilEye seems to be the only vendor who doesn’t oversells their capabilities like crazy and has a solid evolutionary roadmap on all 3 landscapes - technology, regulation, and business model.
Shopify lied to me while I was evaluating it and said if I signed up for a subscription then they'd allow me to fix the colour of the checkout button. They host the checkout process on their own site and automatically swapped the text colour to the opposite of the rest of my site.

After I signed up they basically said tough sh!t, they don't actually have a way to change the button text colour.
The enterprise market is a huge one for all involved in the chain.

Drupal loves it because their tools get used on large-scale websites, and it differentiates them from the likes of WordPress. Agencies love it because the enterprise market usually means a larger budget than what you would get for a standard site. Clients love it because they feel they are paying for quality.

Of course, there's nothing stopping a development team from using a standard CMS or framework to build this site. In fact, I've had far more success with the likes of Umbraco than with enterprise-level systems like Sitecore, and we've delivered the same marketing features the enterprise systems use as a selling point. The problem is that a lot of clients explicitly say they want a site built in Drupal, Sitecore, Episerver, etc, and in an agency or in-house environment it's often not the developers making the tech decisions...
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I mostly agree with the idea. Many F2P apps prey on people and something should be done.

That said I'm curious what happened and why these things are so addictive. As a kid I collected Wacky Packages. They were parody stickers that came in a pack of like 3 or 5 with a stick of gum just like Baseball Cards. While I probably owned 150 stickers or so I would never have considered myself addicted nor my friends. We were into them for a couple of months, probably spent no more than $20 total each.

Compare to my nephew who was into Pokemon Cards and spent hundreds of dollars. Of course I new a few kids that seriously into baseball cards but they were the exception. With Pokemon cards it seemed much much better. Also before that a large percentage of my adult friend spent hundreds on Magic the Gathering cards. Some spent thousands.

Now we have IAP in apps and some people are spending like crazy.

What happened? What made Magic the Gathering and Pokemon so big compared to Baseball Cards? What made IAP so big? I can only guess 2 things about IAP. One that it's super each to buy being connected directly to your account. Two that being a video game they can more easily use psychological techniques to manipulate people. That might explain the IAP issues. Not sure it explains Pokemon + Magic the Gathering vs Baseball Cards.

Any ideas?
And higher income. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016028960...
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all of its multi faceted glory with a single number

Think of this number as the first principal component, generated from all these different things. Talking about it doesn't imply that other directions don't exist. But it's not so strange to work on the leading effect before worrying about sub-leading ones.
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>What exactly can genetics determine that can't be determined by direct tests of ability?

The article says[1] it can help determine an early intervention or optimal method of teaching before the ability is tested. By the time you test the child, it may be too late.

I'm not agreeing/disagreeing with the article. I'm just trying to extract the part of the article that seems relevant to your question.

[1] half way down the article: “At the moment we are detecting ‘problems’ only when they are visible, and at that point they can be detrimental for the child and hard to treat,” says Smith-Woolley. “Genetics offers the potential for predicting and preventing. For example, from birth we might be able to tell if a child has many genetic variants associated with having dyslexia. So why not intervene straight away, with proven strategies, before a problem emerges?” Whether such a scheme could work for more subtle aspects of intelligence and learning – whether we could realistically and reliably use genes alone to predict them, and then tailor learning strategies to have an impact – remains far from clear.
Similarly, if you use Composer, it can cache things for up to 10-15 minutes. Also, Drupal.org’s subtree split process takes 5-10 minutes to push out a new core update to Packagist, so if you wait for the update using Composer it could be 20-30 minutes.

The most reliable method is to use Git, Drush, or the patch plugin with Composer to apply the patch immediately, and push it out to your servers. Then update to the latest core version and push that out to your servers once it’s ready.

The security team usually links to the raw patch file for each new version in the CVE.
Read the why section, still makes no sense. So many other ways to archive tweets without cluttering the bc blockchain.

It just sounds like it would be cool to do without actually value.
I wonder if people will just engage far less (or not at all anymore), which is less obvious on these graphs.

Say, if I check my FB twice a month to stay informed about events I might participate in, I'm still counted as a monthly active user, but I'm not active in a meaningful sense.

Similarly, many people might stop interacting with FB (which, if nothing else, takes time to register: at least a month).

Personally, I logged in for the last time in (I believe) 2012, but I won't delete my account just so my name stays "reserved".
> Are toys in cereal boxes gambling? Are fortune cookies gambling? Are mystery flavor candy gambling?

Do the surprises have varying value? Are some worth 50c/trash while other 50USD/premium? Do they develop an addiction? Do you pay for the cereal or for an empty box with a toy inside? Are kids spending lots of money on them in the hopes of getting that special toy, or that specific fortune message?

Don't pretend like there's no difference.

I'd argue loot boxes are more similar to magic the gathering booster packs, but that's another discussion.
> Did you know that eating chips could contribute to numerous health and financial issues? Ban chips effective immediately!

Not sure about wherever you are from, but in Europe there is an expectation that food you can buy in stores is reasonably safe (milk is pasteurized, etc). It wouldn't be much of a stretch to regulate unhealthy ingredients. In fact, they do regulate stuff like this, it just takes time, see trans-fats.
> gambling tendencies in children

I believe adults are the real whales they're after. Most children have no way to pay for virtual goods. It's adults who even know they are gambling, but they enjoy it just like adults enjoy gambling in a casino.
8? When did they double it? And since when can I use anything but digits? /s
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What is bistable disorder, if you don't mind my asking? I couldn't find anything about it on google.
> and the fully fledged gambling lunacy that are loot crates

Help me understand, because I don't, with some cursory Googling. Specifically, where does the line start and end here, and where on a scale are we with:

* Kinder Eggs / Happy Meal Toys

* MtG / Pokemon Card boxes

* Loot Boxes

Are all gambling? Are all "fully fledged gambling lunacy"? Genuine question asked in good faith.
the one that did it much faster is the better candidate

Translated: "the one that did it much faster is a more recent graduate and exploitable for 100-hour weeks at below-par pay, hire that one".

Congratulations, now you know how to hire at a tech company!
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Essentially Volvo's approach: "Here is an extraordinary statistic: since the Volvo XC90 went on sale in the UK in 2002 it has sold over 50,000 vehicles, yet not a single person has been killed while driving it, or as a passenger."

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-43752226
The elephant in the room here is ethnicity. Which is what eugenics usually equates to.

Sure, I'm wary of the determinism, but I'm more wary of the prejudgement of a person based on their ethnicity, and the scientific pretense that could be stacked onto that prejudice.

> They surveyed almost 2,000 primary school teachers and parents about their perceptions of genetic influence on a number of traits, including intelligence, and found that on the whole, both teachers and parents rated genetics as being just as important as the environment

This is precisely the kind of "begging the question" that makes me doubt the whole enterprise. What do grade school teachers know of the scientific literature? Isn't it more likely that they just see a minority kid in the class underperforming and think, "well, that's minorities for you"? And isn't it possible that a more rarefied form of this commonsensical stupidity is getting fed into such purely statistical pursuits as genetic research?
I share the sentiment. They do have some lessons to learn.... One being "test how long fully restoring databases from catastrophic scenarios will take and consider if you can afford it to take that long; if not take corrective action". People constantly seem to forget just how slow restores or syncing a new database replica can get, or assume they'll never need to.
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Yes I agree, I don't think this helps us make better decisions about any one child.

But I wonder for instance if we might do a lot better at judging schools, and learning what works. Right now the default position appears to be that the input to schools is uniform and thus that good/bad exam results are a measure of the school. But they aren't. If we become a bit less blank-slate about the children, maybe we can do better at figuring out what kinds of schooling work better or worse. This doesn't directly need genetic tests of anyone, but it does need a change of mindset.
RMS should be the focus here. If the forward-writer is the focus, for whatever reason, it's not a good forward.
There are various things you could do with the headless Drupal: you could put it behind a Firewall or enable access control where only your front-end Gatsby.js app can have access to.
And that's actually kind of half the point.
Hire someone to do it. Cheaper than an enterprise CMS is to run and/or commission.
I fully agree with you, except to the Lidar argument. It holds currently, because Lidars are relatively new (compared to cameras). Considering the progress cameras have made, and apply a similar progress to Lidar. It's ultimately a race between learning enough on mostly-visual input, and developing cheaper and better hardware. It's a race, and I think it's brave to make claims on what tech will develop faster.

Also, I don't think a "restart from scratch" is required when moving away from Lidar - I don't have any hard evidence to make that claim and am happy to change my mind, but I haven't found any argument for doing so yet.
"A players hire A players and B players hire C players"
- Steve Jobs (Maybe?)

If you don't encourage a culture where everyone is asked to hire people better than themselves, it can easily degrade where each progressive hire is slightly worse.
The Hyperledger Fabric, which IBM is using, is explained here: https://www.hyperledger.org/projects/fabric

There is a video that offers a high level view of farm to fork (agriculture products to consumers) using the block chain ideas in Hyperledger Fabric.

From Nigel Gopie, an IBM Food Trust speaker, says "The permissioned blockchains we rely upon (hyperledger fabric) don’t use don't use proof-of-work or "mining" — unlike some other Blockchains like bitcoin — which is what consumes huge amounts of energy. " (from a tweet conversation after a presentation he gave in Denver April 2018: https://twitter.com/analyticsbytes/status/984140954834632704)
Is there a game you can play with baseball cards? If not, then I'd say this is the reason. People like to win.
My biggest gripe with tools like Drupal (& WP and other FOSS CMS like things) is that updating them often seems to break things. You have a custom layout and upgrade? Shit breaks. Have some custom plugins? Shit breaks. After the first couple of updates, your client no longer wants to pay you to fix things after an upgrade, so you stop upgrading. Inevitably a remotely executable flaw is found, and you're now fucked.
I wonder if Belgium in recent history had censorship of either language or if students were made to wear shame plates "today I spoke French/Dutch"...

If you want to imply that even mentally ill people can switch languages, but ex-USSR people can't... Plenty of them could. Many of them do that with English. Or is refusing to speak certain language in certain cases worse than mental illness?
Except they don't just want a solution, they want a solution with certain performance characteristics. And they want it to be the solution with the best performance.

Which means what they're really saying is not "we want problem solvers". What they're really saying is "the bare minimum for entry level work here is being able to, in 30 minutes and on the spot, out-perform top-tier theoretical CS researchers".

Which in turn really boils down to "be a recent CS graduate who memorized this algorithm in advance so as to 'derive' it later on command".
Tesla is doing this. Comparing driver vs autopilot, all information from the fleet, is sent back to Tesla and used as learning data. Thats one of the reasons why all the cars have free internet access.