skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a topsy turvy argument, ignoring the abject failure of the old school AI approaches in the Chomsky and MIT tradition and the stunning success of ML statistical approaches. One wonders how little background research the NYT did before they chose these authors.
Oh no, someone won't let you build on top of their work then claim the results as your own.

GLP recognizes we're standing on the shoulders of giants.
I know journalism is severely challenged these days, but I wonder if anyone has done or is doing investigations in other cities outside of that region? It would be a surprise if it was limited to just that (admittedly interesting, and yes we already know why) geographic area.
Ugh. Looking at their info:

- I can get same deals from Ally bank. No fees.

- Ally bank reimburses 100% of all ATM fees I pay.

- Ally bank savings account is 1.60% at the moment. It is no investment account but better than any other bank period.

- Ally's customer support is pretty darn good

I don't see ally going crying around about how hard banking is.

Simple was just sub-par.
Ha. If the car has a detailed map of every bump and pothole it can "stage" it's driving everywhere!
I'd love to respond substantively to this post, and in particular to your figures, but hn has threatened to ban me for discussing this topic. I suppose each of us can only make of that what we will. Best wishes!
Germany acts to clamp down on free speach, learning from its own history of clamping down on free speech under both the communists and the nazis.

They are even hiring former stasi people to do it.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/09/17/german-govt-hires...
True, but at least they have to ask in order to get your location. Rather than just getting the information 24/7 without asking you. Slight difference there.
G2p_en: A Simple Python Module for English Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion
The entire API is 1100 lines. https://github.com/andlabs/libui/blob/master/ui.h You don't need a separate documentation for that. In fact, most functions have sufficient docstrings if their names don't fully describe their function.

Your hostility toward an MIT licensed project is what is ruining the open-contribution model of developing software. In 2005, it was "Hey, this looks great, want me to write up a documentation?" Now it's "Not up to my standards, it's a joke." Absolutely disgusting behavior that is becoming gradually more common.
Yeah, great. Get a phone that secretly sends your text messages to a collection point in China.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/15/13636072/budget-android-...
> HN is particularly susceptible to it. Its method for dealing with bad information is that honest users will correct it with good information - the old, generally good idea that the answer to bad speech is more speech.

But remember with HN that "truth" is groupthink. There are many topics you cannot discuss here, even rationally. You will be punished with -1's, rate limiting, flagged/killed, shadowbanning, or other tools only those with more points (Read: positive groupthink) have.

I came to HN for the hard discussion about technology. I find that unless I agree with the elites in Silicon Valley, that my opinions and facts are not wanted or cared about.

And regarding the "the old, generally good idea that the answer to bad speech is more speech."....

You're commenting too fast. Slow down. (In other words, shut the fuck up and go away.)
Hmm, then you need a super-mega-amplifier tacked on to boost the signal over the cable (AFAIK, the frequencies used really like short antenna runs).

So that then means a super-thick faraday cage around the actual device, and probably somewhat noteworthy power consumption (a battery certainly wouldn't be enough).
I think a lot of computer vision problems seem like they should be “easy” because the human vision system has millions of years of ”development” behind it.
Ask HK: Why isnt there a cloud connected printer startup?
Consumers have been struggling with scammy practices of printer manufacturers regarding cartridge refills and annoying driver issues as well as never working wireless features.
why isnt there a startup that sells a chromebook of printers or a tesla of printers, if you will, that offers a reliable high quality printer that just works, for low upfront cost (say $49) and comes with optional cloud subscription model (for say $5/mo) where a copy everything you printed/scanned is kept and you can print from anywhere and if you are away from your printer but have to print and mail out something urgently, the startup will do it for you, using one of their partner printing stations located near your destination address to ensure quickest delivery.
Except that physicists do debate what measurement means, evidence is etc.

I studied science before philosophy and the cartoon-view of philosophy, even as it applied to science, that I was given in the sciences was 50-100 years out of date, backasswards and upside-down, and extremely brief to boot. Scientists for the most part don't understand philosophy of science, they are mostly confused about what makes science, science - and they have scant knowledge about the history of their own science, much less science in general.

Historically, philosophy was the pile of compost from which every science has grown. And many transplants of useful ideas since.

Sturgeon's law applies to both science and philosophy; both see the other's faults but not their own. Both are useful.
WASM targets the TurboFan backend the same one the JS bytecode now does. So the backend can perfectly deal with a typed language like TS or Dart.

I think even in the frontend, the compiler try to guess the type beforehand, and anotate the real type for the compiler to optimize for the right type.

The problem is that i didnt dive that deep to know if a language as Python would be a good fit, nor im a "compiler guy" myself, so..

But i would love to do this as a backside project. The problem is my time is currently all taken by a big project.

But i would love to try to do this plug.. Thats why im winking here on HN. Maybe others also find a interesting thing to try themselves.
Well, they think they should have more than their neighbors if the nine dashed line is any indication (we don't believe in 100 km, except for other countries so...). Note that those countries in the SCS are much more densely populated than China, and double especially where the conflicts occur (they have millions and millions of people living on the line, china has like a garrison on small artificially buffed islands).

If they do claim that as a rationalization, the cognitive dissonance to dismiss the hypocrisy must be amazing. However, I've never heard them make such a rationalization before, and I don't think they have.
Why would you need an entire whitepaper for wrapping OS widgets in a window? The API is the documentation, and the example code gives you everything you need to get going. Why would you need anything else?
Sciencism, yes. (And Sciencism is very popular amongst scientists.) Science, no - it is a destructive method (destructive of hypotheses or false belief) not knowledge.
There is no LGPL linking requirements if you buy Qt commercial license.
In our system, the biggest piece of PII is email addresses. I did not work on our GDPR solution, but my understanding is we have a system where data flows into our log aggregators and email addresses (or any other PII) are scrubbed and replaced with a hash. In our persisted logs (used for analytics and all that), there is only a hash and no email address. In the event that someone needs access to the pre-hashed value, first a request must be approved, and then access granted to a lookup table. If a user has requested we remove their information, the look up hash returns something to that effect.
I assume no one read this since it's behind a pay wall
lob.com?
Yes, and then prevents almost everyone else from standing on our shoulders.

I agree, a solution that solves both freeloading and doesn't grab others' quite separate property would be good - but that's not the GPL that was created, and GPL certainly hasn't prevented freeloading.
Oh, JzG is Guy Chapman! I remember him from usenet back in the day. I haven't interacted with him in almost a decade, but i remember that he was one of the good guys, even if he did take it a bit seriously.

Seeing a link to Meatball is also a blast from the past - i just about remember the drama when it split off from Ward's Wiki.

Reminiscences aside, i suppose these are both reminders that Wikipedia is a living fossil; it was started in the early days of the web (not the early early days, but early enough), drew its participants and culture from other places which existed at the time, and has been evolving on its own terms ever since.
I hope you remember to sanitize your keyboard daily. :)
Remix is hiring Software Engineers to build more livable cities
As I just said above, Google "implied patent license". Implied means not explicitly stated, obviously, but as it happens your very source does in the prelude (not license) state the patent grab:

"Contributors provide an express grant of patent rights. Licensed works, modifications, and larger works may be distributed under different terms and without source code."

I've read the license many times. Never helped my blood pressure to do so, though.

N.B. - this applies to hardware patents not just software patents. You get to build whatever hardware is needed or helpful in running the software regardless of patents if the owner was foolish enough to contribute to the software.
Is it good, though?
I'm all about reducing entropy about facts, but what about opinion or more delicate subject? The power on propaganda, on making a new truth, is so big.
Apologies, and thank you for the correction. My comments betray a lack of intellectual curiosity and I will strive to harmonize them going forward.
ISS sides against two Tesla directors, backs split of Musk's roles
Except exercise and seatbelts aren’t pseudoscience
Subjective probabilities are based on the model. Increasing observations won't help if you have the wrong model to begin with. So we need causal methods to ask if the model is correct. We also need methods to propose new models or rebuild if it is wrong as well.
That's not why they did it.

For example, they could've used maps:

find_by name: "foo"
AP FACT CHECK: Tesla safety claims aren't quite right
I'm not sure I understand your point - are you comparing the cleanliness of my keyboard to the horrible living conditions of a typical cow? I highly doubt the keys on my keyboard have manure on them.
The Surprising History and Future of Fingerprints
And there you have it: the New York Times will side with censorship and against free speech as long as it's to the detriment of a tech company.
Not directly related to creating an "anti-inflammatory environment," but I've suffered from GERD for years and have tried all of the AMA's recommended cures. None of them worked, some even caused internal bleeding.

A few years ago I was told to try a little baking soda solution when the reflux came on strong. It worked very well, and is now my go-to solution when I wake up with tasty hydrochloric acid in my mouth while sleeping. (Yes, I could go on and on about diet, exercise, chiropractic cures for hiatal hernias, etc., but if you suffer, you'll find your own path, and if you don't, undoubtedly I've already disgusted you with too-graphic language.)

It's simple: counter the overactive stomach acid with a weak base. It works. Not sure I agree with the idea of making an entire diet out of it, though.
Aren’t Stingrays basically fixed with LTE?
No, explicit personal attacks are generally frowned on, here.
> we don't know why anything exists
Yeah, neat. Maybe one day we will figure it out. Maybe it is an accident. Maybe it is on purpose. Maybe we don't get to know.

> life is meaningless
Depends on your definitions. Will I be remembered when the sun burns out? Nope. But I can and do enjoy existing. I enjoy my family and their existing. I can improve the existence of others. There is meaning in that at the micro level, if not the macro level.

> you will suffer greatly
It is the journey, not the destination. I enjoy my existing now. I might not enjoy it at the end. My grandma enjoyed over 90 years and had a rough last 4-6 months. Who knows what the future holds, but I hope for it to keep getting better for me and those I care about.

I really like this:
> “If you have a problem that can be fixed, then there is no use in worrying. If you have a problem that cannot be fixed, then there is no use in worrying.” – Buddhist proverb

I pretty much live by that. I don't worry. I just do what I can and don't do what I can't. This is not to say I don't have plans or dreams. I can influence those, so I do.

My life has gone from hard to very blessed. It could become hard again. I'll worry about that if that is the case again.
> The password can be used to locally decrypt a secret key that is stored on the server at registration time, and that is retrieved based on the username provided.

I'm not sure I understand the advantage here. You're still dependent on a password.

> you will have a strong authentication scheme that is as secure as your (salted and stretched) master password

So, as secure as we have now.

> where you are guaranteed that a compromise on one of the sites does not spill over to the rest

Why not? If I use the same password for all sites, the attacker can just use that password to authenticate to all other sites (by decrypting all the other secret keys with it).

> Unless you choose to reuse a username, your identities will be independent and unlinkable

They're independent and unlinkable with passwords now, too. The only improvement is that your password doesn't go over the wire, which, admittedly, is a moderate improvement.
This article feels very straw man to me.

First, the 5y I've learned and run in the last 10 years takes pains to identify a fix or mitigation at each step - not just the root.

In fact for small failures and big costs, the root cause is deliberately not worked on, because analysis says the finer grain fixes are better/cheaper.

Second, root cause trees have been quite common, because there's almost never just one chain, especially when you're running a system that has plugged all the easy holes and fixed all the obvious first level problems.

Straw man article IMO, but I can't figure out for what purpose.
For (ii) I'm guessing Pearl's do-calculus, and I agree with sjg007 regarding (iii).
Correct me if I'm wrong – are you saying that one doesn't need to understand something to be able to translate it? Because that'd be a strange argument to make, looking at the state of Google Translate.
You may also get hit by a car or get struck by lightning. Nothing is a guaranteed cure-all but what the GP describes is probably a good idea for a lot of people.
Doesn’t matter if it’s a $50 burner phone to detect snooping.
> You have to take a look at the whole dataset of people who make crusader efforts and then see if there's a pattern.

You'll never see the whole dataset, and understand exactly the motivation behind every edit. All you can go on is anectodes like this and adjust as you can. Its a social system, not an exact piece of engineering science.
The reality fact that it's a common mistake isn't a good reason to keep doing it.
> My first thought was email. I can just email him! But that’s boring.

> What about getting my article to the top of Hacker News?

> The problem is, I didn’t think my article would be interesting enough to a large crowd to make it to the top of HN.

Ha! He not only played Reddit's CEO with a Facebook ad…

He also got his blog post into the HN top-ten (today).

Well done my friend, well done.
Understanding Image Sharpness (2003)
Quantum mechanical calculations made easy
Great passage, thank you!

I think some of the umbrage between the STEMy folks and the philosophers comes from the educational differences. Namely, math. STEMy folks, especially physicists, take a LOT of math. In my limited experiences, most philosophers do not have the calculus, let alone the matrix algebra, diff. eqs., Lagrangians, or the stats background (anecdata, so please rebuke!). Not that those things are required to do philosophy, but the lack of them limits the philosopher a lot. This is especially true in today's world filled with matrix algebra and stats, err... Machine Learning and AI. We constantly hear about the ethics of a self driving car near a school-bus, but it's all so much jawing discussion and shows an infantile understanding of the machines that are doing the driving. The lack of rigorous high level logic (Godel, Escher, Bach comes to mind) hinders many modern philosophers and puts their discipline off at the separate table for kids at Thanksgiving. If they want to be relevant in the modern world, they need to speak one of the important languages: math.
Can't you buy upvotes? Bunch of accounts running with a script through Tor?
Presumably the name was of the person renting it, perhaps the producer.
I wonder how it compares to curcumin. Substantially cheaper no doubt
> are they supposed to carry several reusable bags on their person at all times?

I don't get it. Do you think going to the market, especially among poor people, is some spontaneous event?

I live in Mexico with its awful purchasing power and, yes, everyone -- especially those with less money -- are bringing their own bags.

Here's how that plays out:

1. I need to go to the market

2. I'll bring some money, reusable bags, and my shopping list

3. Oh, and I'll bring my sunglasses because it's sunny

Why is this such a surprise to you? Poor people are also likely to reuse other things like clothes (hand-me-downs) and containers (like yogurt containers) just like anybody else.

It's ridiculous when people like you assume poor people are so helpless and dumb that they can't even muster the foresight to bring a bag to the market.
A good 5y is run after all immediate damage has been patched and triaged, and preparation for the 5y is gathering all the evidence needed for the various theories.

5y is expensive to do right. It means that organizations with lots of failure must spend time reflecting and investigating and fixing, rather than shipping new features.

That is the point!
I deployed my first VoIP network using Sip I/O
Absolutely not. Condition 2 (bottom) insists any settlement of law NOT be undertaken, but "postponed" - indefinitely one assumes. Much less any new treaty for the law of the sea undertaken.
Just want to point out that in general it's a lot harder to recognize the correct direction, than to make a progress in a direction.
Honest question: does 'N' usually exclude the control group? Total human participants was 18, 6 for the control group.

I agree that N is too small to warrant such hubbub.
Is this really all I needed to start getting better error messages? (declaim (optimize (debug 3))) I'd come to the point after a project or two where I gave up thinking there's just no way to get good error messages on basic syntax errors in generic SLIME usage.
It is an amazing way and very growth-hackish (in the true way, not just marketing rebranded). As a long-term HN visitor, I really enjoyed the writeup and I'm not surprised at all it's in the front-page of HN.
You're confusing mid-level practitioners with scribes. Lawyers have paralegals. Physicians have PAs or NPs.

The existence of someone whose sole job is just following a clinician and documenting for them is absurd. Medicine in the past was fine with paper charts. Sure there was some inefficiency with collecting information. Medicine these days is actually less complex than in the past because answers are more readily available with diagnostic testing. Why is more documentation required today compared to the past?

We should all strive to simplify medicine, not facilitate ever increasing unnecessary complexity.
The first holographic smartphone will be released later this year
That is not true. Stingray's are cell towers and phones trust them. The device just downgrades to A5/2 (export grade) encryption, or broadcasts that it does not support encryption at all.
With that many digits, uiPi should definitely have an L suffix.
No sense for whom?

With private companies, it makes great sense for stockholders or corporate executives trying to extract as much current value from the company as is legally allowed (or can get away with). Future value is of much less consequence to them. That's exactly why they have done so historically and continue to do so.

With government agencies, the incentive is similar, in that prefunding means they have to public funds today. It's much more attractive to leave the problem for future politicians, literally decades later.

However, if the USPS actually has to prefund its retirement plans, then it's fair to say that's an onerous regulation, compared with private industry, which doesn't, no matter how many "should"s you throw at them.
This guy is so full of himself.
How do we know Britannica wouldn’t employ someone such as this to write parts of their encyclopedia?
The first quote that came to my mind when I read this was Frederick Jelinek's

"Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the speech recognizer goes up".

Hi NYT writers, "language is infinitely complex" and "statistical approach to ML isn't working. Let's replace it with logic/rules based AI" don't belong in the same article.
This is my wife's lot. Chronic refractory migraines.

We're looking into the recently FDA-approved monoclonal antibody (CGRP target) migraine drug. It would change her life if it even cut out 10% of her headaches.

To the topic, yes, I've seen how chronic pain changes decision outcome probabilities, most often for the worse. It shortens perspective and priorities to the very near term. Pain is a useful informant. Chronic pain is a disabling phenomenon.

I hope you can find relief from your migraines. Have you tried the triptan family (Sumitriptan, Frovatriptan, etc)? These are symptomatic treatments that work well for a significant portion of migraineurs.
Dense, not nec huge populations -but you're right re Indonesia, it has a huge population. But isn't much affected.
so he didn't get the job, how do we even know this is true at all? smells like fake news.

plus, a blog on tumblr?
Disclaimer: Annecdotal answer, your mileage may vary.

If it's a bigger decision. I assign two decisions to the flip of a coin. The actual outcome doesn't matter. Instead, pay attention to your reaction to the coin flip.
There are many good rational arguments in favor of veganism. "You eat death, you get death" is not one of them.
> an exclusively bilingual cast,

Not really. First off, most Germans seem to know English passably well. Even if one doesn't know English well, one can still memorize/recite dialog. There isn't that much dialog in a show. And lastly, one can always dub the ones who can't do it, as a last resort.

> dialog that works equally well in both languages,

A requirement anyway if it is being dubbed.

> and would drastically increase the production cost

Increase it, sure, not so sure about drastically. Why spend a lot of money on the production (as is obvious in Babylon Berlin) only to make it sound crappy to the biggest market (English speaking)? An English soundtrack makes it accessible to most of the world.
pretty sure my grandma has been doing this for 80 years lol, not news at all.