skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“if the algorithms liked what they saw, the venture fund would back them...Similar tactics have brought promising results in other competitive fields. The most famous example comes from the 1970s, when five major orchestras began requiring musicians to stand behind a screen while auditioning.”

These things are in no way similar.

The article seems to pre-suppose that an algorithm can not be biased. The truth is, if the algorithm is trained on past deals then it could easily encode bias. More than this, it can give plausible deniability to biases/prejudiced behavior because “the algorithm did it”.
This is nice! And it supports backing up data in self hosted RemoteStorage.
Please forget Optane, just think about intel persistent memory. If you really care about performance /latency.
A pasteurisation machine for breast milk – Working mothers
Cell phone maps are utterly useless in too many situations. A lack of reception being one. Or equally as bad -- too much reception, as in competing GPS and cell triangulation signals bouncing off buildings in a dense urban environment.

People always make the excuse that you can just download the maps into the phone. But that wouldn't have helped me in the places I've been over the last two weeks when my phone repeatedly went into thermal shutdown because the ambient air temperature was too hot. (No, I don't have a case that traps the heat.)

If I relied on electronic maps, I'd be lost or dead or both by now.

(Even better than paper maps are maps printed on cloth, which you can get wet, roll into a ball and stuff into your jeans, etc... But those are kind of rare.)
I would really like to pick your brain a bit more if possible. We directly compete with both XRS and GeoTab, so getting insight into your fleet's decision making process would be super helpful if you're willing.

Also could potentially talk about our ELD offering (amongst a bunch of other stuff) if you're interested.

darrin [at] platformscience.com
Why is looking things up in a table sad?

For the purpose of astro nav:
NP303 is calculated for an epoch of 5 years (and it's only 3 books). Until its end of life, it has to be "updated" in the sense that corrections need to be applied as they are released.

I don't think the point of the books has ever been disaster proofing. For the most part, books were good enough for the job before computers and still are. They're cheap, come from trusted sources (and it's easy to verify that they're legitimate), and they're easy to correct should they have errata.

Windows PCs and excel spreadsheets are used in navigation all the time. Nobody's forcing navigators to use books. If they do, though, they probably have a good reason for it.
Sorry, but that's against the rules as explained at the top. The HN community feels really strongly about this.
Rather than "citizen", I think GDPR applies to any resident in the EU, that is, it would include an American citizen living in Germany.

Personally, my government - the US government - feels much more like a one world government than the EU.

Eg, look at all of the reporting requirements that foreign banks must do if they have a US citizen as a client. This may include a US/German dual national who lives in Germany and has an account in a German bank.

Then there's the US policy of extraordinary rendition, including to places where the kidnapped people were tortured.

And of course the active US military presence in, what, 70+ countries, and military operations in about 1/2 of the world's countries. https://www.thenation.com/article/us-special-forces-are-oper... .
On the surface, this is a good comparison of gender roles within Japanese culture. But peeling the onion reveals complications.

Some women will say they want to become housewives even if they don't. Some women will deliberately act dumb when they go on dates, because they'll get dumped on the spot if they show any signs of personal ambition. If you can cultivate some close friendships with educated Japanese women, you will start to discover some of this anguish hiding behind the smiling faces. (Use the power of your gaijin naivete role to solicit candid opinions.)

The majority of Japanese women probably do share the desires and motivations described in your write-up. But there's a large population of more...professionally willing...women who are kinda trapped by overwhelming social expectations. The whole point here is that those women who might otherwise desire a career (they exist!), and who might otherwise make great contributions to Japan, are instead severely limited in their options.
I use exactly that trick since years as a simple notepad. It's the first book back in my bar om all my browsers.
So we should let grown adults bypass our own ethical frameworks for minimum wage and worker protection and allow them to exploit foreign labor markets at the expense of local workers just because they're grown adults? Excuse me if I don't find that very compelling.

Look I generally agree with your C.S. Lewis quote, seriously.

But if it's tyrannical to maintain a baseline for workers, then we should abolish minimum wage and all worker protection laws and just let the adults go at it (I'm sure they'll eventually tap in cheap children too). Point being we've already agreed that workers need protection so you're arguing against the status quo (and calling it a tyranny nonetheless).
> The CaaS form already asks applicants for some personal information, such as LinkedIn profiles and educational background. Carroll is resistant to the idea of using such data to glean insights about businesses. Because well-educated white men have the easiest time raising money today, any model using demographics to predict success would favor them—the opposite of her intention. Still, Social Capital is experimenting with building personalized models anyway, though it hasn’t implemented any yet

They specifically talk about this risk, current data models only use business data and they discuss the dangers of using personal data. It seems to me that data like customer loyalty and cash on hand are perfectly fine to use and don’t come with any direct gender or ethnicity bias.
Thanks for engaging with me. This has been a fun thread!

> I think most Americans (including me) would still put Article 83 in the "fuzzy standards of reasonableness" category

Is it valid to say that you're not wrong, but I disagree? :)

I agree that article 83 will be hard to interpret if people act in bad faith. But, it provides a good framework for how to act in good faith.

I would argue that if you genuinely care about your users and their data, you'll likely be okay unless something fucked up happens. And when something fucked up happens, as long as you're transparent, respectful and helpful, you'll still likely be okay unless something really fucked up happens. And then, you'll have bigger things to worry about anyways, so fuck the GDPR. :)

> I agree that it probably works in practice, but I wouldn't see it as much of a constraint. Like, how closely would you expect the rulings of two independent judges each assessing a fine according to these guidelines to match?

I completely agree with you. Unfortunately, vast parts of the American/Canadian justice systems would also fail this test.

> Also: Doesn't the extraterritoriality bother you?

It sure does. The extraterritoriality is first class bullshit. But, if current European data protection laws are any guide, it will mostly be used as a tool to gently encourage compliance and actual punishments will be very rare.
Not really. Lambda CDM works very well in lots of separate situations with the same parameters and has predicted observations correctly.
Yet in international relations there is no monopoly on violence. So maybe it isn't a law of physics?
You are not wrong but you're also asking people who feel their immediate future is in jeopardy to look beyond the woes of their small town and consider the larger, interconnected global economy. I'm a Silicon Valley tech worker so my reality is far different than this scenario, but we've got to find a way to frame the conversation in terms that will engage the other half of the country who do feel this way. Who knows, we might even find out that they have some good points.
I hope so too. Countries that try to regulate Internet don't deserve Internet. I wish more websites had the balls to not give in to every ridiculous law passed around the globe (e.g. Github removing perfectly normal files because Roskomnadzor asked them too [1]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_GitHub#Russia
I was working in UBC's ATLAS lab last summer, and this appeared to be the main focus of nearly all the PhD student's research. Using ML models for track reconstruction.
From the facts reported, I don't see how they could come away with worthless equity and worthless debt. Whatever the tax implications, their liability should be limited--they could win the thing at the bankruptcy auction for $1, and then turn off all the lights and go home, only $1 poorer. So if someone wants to inject new money and keep running the business, then they should at least get some hostage value.

Maybe Birchbox has enough trade creditors with claims senior to the investors' debt to somehow wipe them out? That sounds pretty weird, though. If only all financial journalists were trained as securities lawyers...
And likewise, the Americans do their best to manipulate the public of dozens of other countries, daily.

The shocking thing to Americans is they thought they were too powerful to ever be on the receiving end.
The bullet cluster is famously an object which is very hard or impossible without having some dark matter like substance. We observe the mass and gas are offset from each other in a collision.
Ah, thank you for clearing up my misconception! That makes a lot more sense.
You should make this an electron app so I have a lightweight text editor at hand even when I'm offline.
I've had my mind on this exact point for a while. But I'm slowly realizing that I tend towards new shiny things, like many people. And sometimes that project I've been grinding on for a couple years starts to look less appealing. So I lean on the argument that, 'hey, I put a lot of time into this. I should continue.' Continuing to work on the long boring project for this reason alone technically qualifies as the sunken cost fallacy. Yet it helps me override my internal *human bug I'm experiencing. That is, we associate boredom with a lack of progress.
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// A member of the White House review panel on NSA surveillance said he was “absolutely” surprised when he discovered the agency’s lack of evidence that the bulk collection of telephone call records had thwarted any terrorist attacks.

“It was, ‘Huh, hello? What are we doing here?’” said Geoffrey Stone, a University of Chicago law professor, in an interview with NBC News. “The results were very thin.” //

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/nsa-program-stopped-no-te...

"U.S. Mass Surveillance Has No Record Of Thwarting Large Terror Attacks, Regardless Of Snowden Leaks"

https://theintercept.com/2015/11/17/u-s-mass-surveillance-ha...
Screw it, I’ll go against the grain. This is why it’s foolish for CS departments to invest so heavily into trendy areas - either the trend dies, and the faculty member is useless, or the trend is so hot that the faculty members will be hired away. So many schools are desperately hiring ML people to start their own data science stream, and they’re competing with major companies for the top talent.
Dictionaries are, can only be, historical records of word definitions.

Words mean what people intend them to mean when they use them.

At least one dictionary I have lists a definition:

'done with great effort or determination: you must make a concerted effort to curb this.'

Also, when I think of myself doing a concerted effort I think of all my faculties working together, if that helps.
Meanwhile, Professors in the humanities departments at the University of Washington worry about how they'll afford to pay rent with Seattle's skyrocketing housing costs and the University's lack of raises for folks in their fields.

(source: I know several.)
100%

We start at 100% of the starting value, by definition. We then go from there.

So if there were 256 robots, and that increased to 384 robots, the graph would start at 100 and end at 150.
If you think it's a bit odd. the reason maybe is :
Another PCM like memory killer application is Persistent memory(pmem). If you only use PCM like memory to implement pmem, the demand is rare and it maybe isn't economic. But if you also sell them as SSD or something block device caching, then them could contribute the demand for PCM to support another real killer application.
Yeah but "since the turn of the century" is a much more common phrase than "since the turn of the millennia".
On a serious note; I'm not sure why my comments get down voted? Are there guidelines against sarcasm, or is it just people with lots of karma that simply don't like that I like js?
PySide came to exist because Nokia failed to reach a commercial licensing agreement with Riverbank (the makers of PyQt). I guess one side or the other was asking for too much

https://wiki.qt.io/PySide_FAQ

> Initial research into Python bindings for Qt involved speaking with Riverbank Computing, the makers of PyQt. We had several discussions with them to see if it was possible to use PyQt to achieve our goals. Unfortunately, a common agreement could not be found , so in the end we decided to proceed with PySide.
Remixing as Learning in Creative Media
If I understand what you're saying, you're suggesting that a single self-tail-recursive function can be rewritten using an exception thrown and caught within the function.

That's something, but what about a set of mutually tail-recursive functions? Of course one can always use a trampoline, but then you have to pay the cost of consing thunks. It would still be worthwhile to have true tail-call instructions in the bytecode.
I'd love some kind of GPS mode that just gave the most important or trickiest directions, then was completely silent for the rest of the trip.

I know how to get out of my neighborhood and onto the northbound freeway. I'll never need directions to do this. I know I'll be driving for 30 minutes. I just need the exit to take when it's coming up, and a few tricky turns near the destination. Just give me that and I'll figure out the rest.
Just found the guidelines - I'd say the OP was wrong for posting flamebait and I was wrong for keeping that fire burning.

And now I'm wrong for having commented on the voting on comments. My bad, again.
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https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/enhancing-ublock-ori...
"the truth doesn't exist, that everything we call "reality" is a lie on some level"

Wait so does this truth exist, or is it also a lie on some level?
Or, alternatively, schools could actually act like academic institutions and quit wasting exorbitant amounts of money on bullshit like sports and unnecessary construction projects which drive low-quality student enrollment.
Convertibility of the U.S. dollar to gold ended on August 15, 1971.

The divergence could be attributed to the devaluation that has been happening since.

See 'Figure A': https://www.epi.org/publication/understanding-the-historic-d...
There is a bit difference between Optane and ordinary NAND SSD. Optane is PCM like memory, it is a byte addressable flash. So the sellman said it maybe have longer wearout time than normal NAND SSD. They cooperate with Micron to implement this economic system . They can use optane demand to help persistent memory to thrive too.
Will there be need of QT runtime for this?
So... someone doesn't like Notepad because it has search-and-replace, and preferred something kind of like notepad but without all those pesky features?
If we are to go much further on the technological side of this, I have to wonder: rather than just using a calculator rather than a table, what could be done with just a phone that could combine software with a clock, an accelerometer, and a camera?
more examples in this thread https://coderwall.com/p/lhsrcq/one-line-browser-notepad
Exactly! The name of the speaker helps to find what I was looking for https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/fosdem/2017/Janson/hello_world.vp...
How to run a successful crowdfunding campaign?
This is the reason I hate writing on these topics :-). I'm trying my best to describe the situation without judging it. Yes, there are women who wish a career in Japan. Some of my best friends here fit that description. One of my friends works in the same company as her husband and has been promoted higher than him (they started at the same time). They'll have a difficult decision to make if they have children. I haven't talked to her about it, but I suspect that career will heavily impact their decision about whether or not they will even have children.

The situation is slowly changing over time. Women are taking more professional roles. As in the example of my friend, the glass ceilings are slowly disappearing. Her company, a traditional Japanese company, seems to have no trouble recognising her ability and putting her in appropriate positions. There is still a long way to go, though.

Let's not pretend that it's all unicorns and rainbows in the west, though. In nearly 30 years as a programmer, I could chop off all my fingers and still count the number of women colleagues who have returned from maternity leave in my groups on one hand. It's never happened! Every single one of them swears up and down that they are coming back, but every single time when their maternity leave is over: "My husband's salary is enough for us to live on. Child care costs a huge proportion of my salary and I can't find anyone I trust anyway. Plus after a year of looking after my baby I don't want to hand them over to anyone". I'm completely sick of it. We need paternity leave laws (so that the stay at home father is a viable alternative) and we need them now.

Late Edit: I really should point out that there is just as much of a problem for men as there is for women in Japanese society. Men just don't get access to their children because they are expected to devote their lives to work. It is not uncommon for wives to push men to work harder so that the family can have more money. Some men thrive in that environment, but some would really like to be spending time with their families. To a great extent, the government has recognised this problem and it legislates ever more national holidays, forces public officers to take 5 days off at Obon, etc, etc. But the culture is very slow to react. This is Japan. Nobody moves until there is consensus and then everything happens overnight. With all it's problems, Japan is still the place where I feel people are all aligned with the idea of making society a better place. I don't agree with everything here, but I respect the slow but inevitable progress that society makes here. YMMV (and probably will -- my natural attitude was always very close to Japanese ideas even before I knew anything about them. It's one of the reasons I find it so easy to live here).
I've taught this exact concept to a non-technical audience before. I simply told them it was like scrambling an egg--you can't "unscramble" it and then explained with hashing, you could scramble an identical egg and get identical results and compare the two scrambled eggs to see if they were identical before being scrambled.

That said, I do wonder how well they understood that explanation.
I'm glad that I'm not the only one puzzled by this.

But as I said, I'm naive.
Can I just get a permalink I can bookmark to the latest article?
A classic book is "Cross Country Navigation" by Neil Phillips and Rod Phillips (1989), aimed at the sport of Rogaining. It emphasises navigation by using the surrounding landscape and its features, rather than trying to impose a rigid coordinate system on the landscape. In this way, one works with the landscape, continually adapting to follow the (quickest) path of least effort, rather than trying to blast through on a preconceived "best" course. The philosophy is the same, whether one is inside or outside a city. It's sort of like Parkour on a large scale.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/cross-country-navigation/oclc...
wow, I liked your point on video games and 'optimist' escapism. Living in Japan right now for a bit and your comment helped me understand more than the article did!
That is exactly what it does
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> Second, there is no moral difference between the welfare of a human being in China and one in the U.S. or any other country; there is no reason the American deserves to be more wealthy.

Lol. If even a tiny percentage humans followed this morality globalism wouldn't be necessary in the first place.
For me grids are way better for mental mapping!

Each street and intersection has different buildings, stores and vibe.
I appreciate the chance to get (what I presume is) a European perspective on this. I think Americans are just generally less trustful of government, domestic or foreign, and therefore less trustful of regulatory discretion. There are vague American laws too, like "honest services fraud"; but

1. We complain about those too.

2. The dangers of extraterritoriality and vagueness seem synergistic. A major check on regulators' discretion is political will, and screwing foreigners tends to be a lot more popular than screwing your own citizens. The ideal tax is one on foreigners living abroad...

I think the GDPR will probably be fine, and have net positive effects even as it pushes small, essentially-compliant but risk-averse operators out of the EU. I find its legal basis troubling.
yep but Optane DIMM /NVDIMM is not for client product. It is on data center product list. Persistent Memory isn't just a concept on the textbook. It be realized now.
These things are fun to compare for leisure, but no arguments or prescriptions can be made from a comparison like this. Business opportunities, including those represented by listed public companies, provide the majority of motivation for higher education. Furthermore, unlike the stock market, there is no direct way to inject funds into higher education and expect returns: each student is unique, and their reasons for taking on debt or working toward scholarships are related to the returns they expect when they reenter the market.

Taken to the extreme, treatment of higher education as a commodity investment will encourage diminishing returns.
Are they factoring in the rent seeking aspects of the stockmarket? This is only a relevant comparison if the implied effort is similar for both ROIs
Yeah, the manager's job is to do 'nothing'. If there's nobody assigned to doing 'nothing', then it's the team that spends all their time doing 'nothing'.
I disagree with others here --- I wasn't a huge fan of the class.

If you took the class, you definitely had to get used to coding in python, and getting used to manipulating data in python.

However, when it came time to do anything more interesting than plotting data, the course was very shallow --- many homework assignments boiled down to "fill in this space with a function that takes this as input and outputs that". While, again, that would totally be useful to someone learning basic scientific python, you don't get a good understanding of the statistics.

As someone who already had a background in python, I didn't feel I learned as much.
im actually bummed that ur comment got so mamy downvotes, and i don't disagree with u.
> With a more complete understanding of the state and its origins, it seems far more likely that the NSA is about protecting the state than the people. If it is protecting people, it is the people the state is there to protect.

Yes, indeed.
Same request, I have enough emails every day already.