skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you already know the query logic or the logic is easy to derive - use SQL if you can. For more complex stuff ML may work as your rule derivation mechanism.
Plenty of Mormons feel the same way. :)
That problem was caused by taci regulation as well. Governments forbade ride hailing services to be hailed off the street.
That's a really great point, but I there's no reason that this legislation would 'create' such an outcome, rather it's an influencer.

'Canada Day' has never been a huge deal, which is just fine, but it's definitely 'something'.
> 50% expectation for either

Incorrect. Not getting hanged is also a solution, which doesn't allow induction.
A correct machine learning solution for a non-trivial problem is very likely to have higher complexity than a traditional approach known to work. For a toy or hobby problem, all's fair, but for a business application the added complexity can have significant impact on cost, time to market, etc.
Computer and Applications in Bellevue on NE 8th, by the old John Dantz theater. I was there from 1985 to 1986, then I went back to the UW to get my EE degree. I had all types of people, and the the occasional Microsofter, as customers.

We sold IBM and Compaq gray market. We tried to go legit with Acorn (GEM) and Multitech, which turned into Acer. However, as I understand it, the owner was selling so much gray IBM offered him a dealership after I left.

I got my EE degree, already had a degree in accounting and finance, and eventually went to work for the IBM PC company, which was very strange considering I started off selling them gray market.

I started before the 386 and the PS-2, so I was probably back in school when you were buying.
>Government transportation does have a monopoly but not necessarily private companies. If private companies set up new transportation lines, it doesn't prevent government from adding more.

Are we talking about the same thing (monopolies on public transport) here? The whole point of granting the transit authority an monopoly is so they can exercise that monopoly to transfer funds from the more profitable routes to the less/not profitable routes. If private companies are allowed to run their own buses, they can undercut the transit authority's fares, because their fares don't include the "subsidy" to the other routes.

>Also, it's short sited to shut down bus routes that don't go directly to your house. Just because it doesn't go to your specific neighborhood (yet) doesn't mean you can't benefit. Increasing bus service, decreases pollution for everyone (c02) and may even reduce the amount of traffic on your commute.

Obviously having some buses is better than no buses, but what the monopoly is trying to ensure is that everybody can ride the bus, regardless if they live in the outskirts or downtown. You can disagree with whether or not it's the government's job to guarantee public transit for everybody, but that's the logic for why the laws were enacted.
Yes.

A few years ago I was called into save a dying project. They had built some big Hadoop cluster, had consultants on site, etc.

End of the day, they were doing something similar to assessing fines on library books. I wrote a prototype in about 3 hours.
I've seen two recent posts that mention 'exponentially faster '. Does this have a precise meaning? I could imagine it to mean making a non-exponential algorithm for a problem which only had exponential ones. Another interpretation could be making an algorithm with 2^n steps where previous ones took 2^(2n) steps making the improvement factor 2^n, but still resulting in an exponential time algorithm. Should we just accept this a la 'literally'.
>Taxis used to have laws that required them to go to any destination requested, and stop for any person hailing a ride

Laws that in my experience the taxi drivers completely ignored with no consequences. At least with Uber they pick you up before they find out the destination.
I have indeed! HN user "CyberDildonics" commented with a link to it in the original post. Would be useful if I ever move from bilinear interpolation to determine surface intersection to tessellation.
Don't read your page. Expect your students to read the page. Then go deep and discuss concepts in-class. Keep homework interesting, but don't ask for more than 1/wk or expect hours to be willingly ground out on make-work problems.
Have you tried freelancing? Try creating a profile on freelancer, upwork, etc. You can try it in the meantime because at least that may help you out with things like paying for uber. Good luck
I don't follow. Can you please explain? I am very aware of that line.
I had a friend who was in promotions. She promoted parties mostly for gay women. Nothing sexual or explicit. She found it hard to get payment processors - this was around 2011....

I thought this was ridiculous.
Crow vending machine skills 'redefine intelligence'
I am very aware of that line. I've reworded most of the OP, to explain more clearly!
Is kaios going to take off? It hard to say, but if we're going to get a third way in mobile, this is how it will happen. This is how Microsoft was making progress, and one of the ways they lost when they changed strategy for Windows mobile 10.

Get people on low end devices; either sell something for less than a low end Android, or sell something that does noticably better than a low end Android for about the same money. Sell a better device every year (os improvements, better CPU, more memory, whatever; just make sure people have something to upgrade too). You can sell some nicer models too, but push the low end ones. Price constrained users are a lot less picky, but can drive user numbers needed to gather developers, and developers are needed to get higher end users. Don't throw away the apis for every release, unless you really have to; especially don't call the new api 'universal' when it doesn't target older versions (which actually have users).

It's easier to go upmarket when you have adoption than to bring things down market (I think we're on Google's third try at Android for bargain basement phones, but it's hard to use mainstream apps unless you have multiple gigs of RAM)
Wow, note to self, double check autocorrect when commenting after just waking up.
Yes, the hype is strong and people want to stick ML or Data Science on their resume. They'll try to do anything that seems like it might touch statistics with ML first and not even consider whether it's necessary.

Kafka, Kubernetes, and things like Spark and machine learning are basically the next stage of the "data is King" hype cycle that Hadoop was a few years ago.
Baffling why Vermont's population is aging rapidly, given its "charming village centers and idyllic surrounding farms and forests in four historic towns." This is what young people crave. Millenials just can't get enough charm/farms.
The rise? It seems many have existed for some time, in one form or another. Maybe there has been an expansion, but not the rise.

Sometimes I agree with the sentiment of "bullshit jobs" but other times, I think without them, the world would be a duller place. That's not to say I like SEOs, or telemarketers or inefficient charities, but they help at the margin and without that I think you get stagnation.

Author also puts down compliance folks. I would disagree with that being bullshit. It ensures people follow the letter of the law --and if they don't AND they get audited, then there can be trouble. And that's the point. It's like saying firefighters are "bullshit jobs".
he will either be surprised to find he is to be hanged on Thursday, or surprised to find it will be Friday

The judge says the prisoner would be surprised exactly when the knock on the door happens (not before). As a consequence, the prisoner is right to believe he won't be hanged at all (following his reasoning), but as a consequence of that, he is surprised when the knock happens. In turn, as a consequence of that, the judge is right. Therefore, both the prisoner, and the judge are correct. Thus the paradox.
What about think democracy and statism coexist ? And authoritarianism with proper consideration for harmony of outcomes maybe viable path to stable eudomia
There is value in curation but this doesn’t seem to be playing well with the HN crowd.
Well, I know I don't need to install GPUs on servers I install Postgres on, so there's that cost.
I like this article's focus on technology as a way of helping skilled people do their job more effectively. Why shouldn't a business owner be able to use Bash and SQL to run their business? Maybe the solution isn't new technology, but training people to use the old stuff.
It really was fantastic! If it wasn't for the massive crowds constantly pushing you towards the Sistine Chapel, it would be a great place to spend an hour or two just admiring the small details in each map.
Most of the world. Also your thieves just amalgamated into banks and fucked with your interest rate to rob all
Millennial here. More interested in unfettered wilderness, safe bike routes, and good places to eat than charm/farms.
Why? What problem do they solve that RE can't, other than putting the "consuming service" data structure into the database, instead of putting the data into the database and selecting appropriately? I've not seen a good justification for these things yet, other than "convenience" so the client "needs less code to structure the data", which is almost always a false saving.
This shows the benefits of local government. I think this is a bad policy. Fortunately, I also don’t live in San Jose. If I did, I’d try to elect new local politicians.
Turns out that people are actually kinda smart - toss in some raw cycles to handle the mind-numbing bits and you can have a solid system that does smart things en masse.
That Quora post is wonderful - thanks for sharing. Glad you were able to rise above the attacks made on your character :)
There aren't very many DBAs practicing in modern shops and devs don't seem to be too into SQL and delivering excellent SQL queries and schemas. It's its own skillset.

I would also call out the NoSQL hype train here.

NoSQL has its place, and largely its place is when SQL can not tolerate the intensity of traffic or the size of the dataset. You can look at the Dynamo paper for an example of the engineering rationale.

Postgres can take enormous amounts of data at quite decent rates - without spending too much time on tuning even.
Op bloviates/ they probably hate / those United States
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The judge says the prisoner would be surprised exactly when the knock on the door happens (not before). As a consequence, the prisoner is right to believe he won't be hanged at all (following his reasoning), but as a consequence of that, he is surprised when the knock happens. In turn, as a consequence of that, the judge turns out to be right. Therefore, both the prisoner, and the judge are correct. Thus the paradox.
Ask HN: Things I should know before starting an Adult site/app
Curious to know what I should keep in mind before I can start a site/app in the adult industry. For the purposes of this discussion, lets assume its a porn site.

Some topics that I would like to know more about(but not restricted to) are regulation, legal issues, maintaining anonymity(or not, given the amount of stigma associated around it), charging users, etc.
I'll be sure to put it on my list! The American west's landscape is just incomparable to anywhere else in the country. I'm an east coaster myself, but nothing out here compares to the beauty and grandeur of the canyons, mountains, and gorges you find out west.
Honestly, the things it sounds like you're doing are great. I'd rather have my lecturer be dry and provide all the resources it sounds like you do than the opposite.

Really, the biggest thing for me is making sure the lecture is properly contextualized. I can get the big picture of the lecture but I never can really pay attention for the full thing, so I tend to learn best from reading the material from my own. My favorite courses have been where the professor gives a good intuition as to why the content matters and how it relates to the greater body of work for that reason. Details can happen on my own time.
This has happened to me. Google's billing system had a glitch, and all of a sudden, an old bill which was paid years ago became unpaid. Google immediately tore down everything in my account without notice due to non-payment.

If something like this ever happens in AWS, they email you, call you, give you a grace period, and generally, do their best to avoid affecting your infrastructure.

GCP is getting better, but it's not ready for anything other than science fair experiments.
Piracy was mainstream in the early 90s/2000s. It was only when iTunes came out and the RIAA lawsuits successfully killed the p2p clients that it tamed back down.
I have no problems with the current one apart from the s and t connecting like that.
But you don't gain ML/AI know-how by doing SQL, nor you discover previously unknown potential about your product buy sticking to your usual toolset.

If current ML/AI is the future and reveals more than anything else could, then it's logical for everyone to be piling onto it whether it's an applicable at the moment or not.

If current ML/AI is just another tool, then it's reasonable to use if and only it's applicable. Sure, not doing ML means you don't get ML insights but doing SQL means you get SQL insights. Back in the day, I recall clever queries could reveal interesting things, find outliner data and so-forth. Certainly, you don't get the powerful ad-hoc statistics power that ML give. But I suspect that power requires extremely large datasets.
Because we already do, in some places – e.g. Amazon.de takes wire transfers, so does PayPal in Germany, and so do many/most German online shops.

And even for offline payments, we have in Germany an entirely separate card system based on that.

But you know, network effects and all. Internationally, it’s incredibly hard to buy anything online without a CC. So Germans who order lots online still often have a CC.
Turning this clause off in your style sheet turns off that awful st ligature:

font-feature-settings: "liga", "dlig";

So just remove that clause from your stylesheet and you'll be rid of that ligature.
Kind of what I was getting at. Car culture isn’t going away any time soon. It’s a lot easier to regulate something new than something that’s been a part of American society for nearly a hundred years.
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Where? Lots of rent w/ furnished appliances in Montreal.
This was exactly the point I was making. Thank you.
I'm joking. this is clearly the agenda of retirees and busybodies trying to keep things just the way they are, to the detriment of young people.
The title is often true, but it doesn't mean too much or anything. And the same argument is brought up again and again in the past as well.

What OP suggests, the so called SQL, is basically a heuristic based system. When done probably and carefully, it could of course work very well, and is indeed often used as baseline model to bootstrap a ML system. However, eventually the rule-based system will hit the wall, and ML be the savior of the day to push the metric further for a margin of 20-30%.

So yes, when you are small and has little data, ML is irrelevant. But same thing could be said to too many things in software industry, you probably won't need Docker/Big Data/Fancy JS as well, if you are building a small scale online store.

Choose wisely your tech stack based on your problem, but the title is needlessly sensationalized.
OK, now I'm out of excuses for having not read Quantum Computing since Democritus ;-) (and The Theoretical Minimum as well, why not both?).

Thanks for the enlightening response!
In Montreal, people line up in a neat straight long single file to board a bus, or for other kinds of queues. In many other parts of Canada/US, people either huddle around the entrance ready to push in or reluctantly make a disorganized line.

Switching to Brazil, I have a long list of things that people from the US or Canada would think of as normal, but don't exist in Brazil or are very rare (like garburators, limousines, and bathtubs -- not kidding about bathtubs!):

http://brazilsense.com/index.php?title=Common_in_the_USA_and...
Or maybe you can do ML with SQL.... Postgres can do basic linear regression, I did this a couple of times for an analysis and found it pretty handy.
Yes. The judge's statement is only valid because of the prisoner's short-sightedness (i.e., it is a prediction, not a logical statement). If the prisoner knows the punch line of the joke, the judge's pronouncement becomes undecidable and therefore meaningless.

It's no different than if the judge said, "you will be hung, and this statement is false", and the prisoner was surprised that they got hung.

Heck, even if the prisoner doesn't know the punch line, the judge's statement is invalid if they incorrectly judge the depth of the prisoner's thought. The prisoner could stop their logical reasoning after 2 days instead of 5, and be sure that they're being hanged Wednesday, making the judge's prediction false.

In summary: the judge made (intentionally or not) a prediction; the prisoner interpreted the prediction as a logical statement; the prisoner failed to see that the statement is undecidable, and drew a logical conclusion from it; the conclusion the prisoner drew happened to make the prediction true.
Netflix seems to be creating original content all over the world, which is great. I've seen Netflix original movies and shows offered from Spain, Brazil and many other countries; the quality is much higher when you take the best from many places, and it's enriching and challenging to see other cultures - even via an LCD display.

One odd and disappointing thing we've noticed: Unless required by the script, almost all the protagonists are white-skinned (or very pale), no matter what the country. Even in the U.S., that's only ~66% of the population; in Brazil?

It's bizarre to see and very troubling to me. I'm not sure I want to support that, but there aren't a large number of options that are better. Looking at Amazon, it's pretty similar. Here's a trick to gain some perspective as you go through your day: When you look at a group of Americans - Senators, SV people, faces on movie icons on Amazon, etc, - remember that they come from a country that is only 1/3 white guys. It's striking to see.
Please stick to a font already in my browser. My network is slow and webpages sometimes get stuck loading; the resources in your page took 40 seconds to load and your font didn't even load yet.
I am about to go put myself at risk right now with a casual partner. I believe in a another simulation where porn did not exist I’d be snuggled up and listening to some snores of my beautiful wife and newborn. But it exists and grows.
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How else do you handle natural monopolies? Obviously the best solution would be if the city does it, the only thing that kills it is the political opposition (inefficiency, corruptions, "communism", budget, etc.). The other possibility is a free-for-all, in which companies overbuild (house is serviced by multiple cables from multiple companies) in the densest areas, and the sparse areas get no service at all. When you consider the other options, government granted monopolies is the least bad option. Of course, you need to keep the monopoly in check, eg. regulating the price and/or forcing unbundling.
There's another gain for DJVU here: the speed gain. For scanned documents, my DJVU viewer lets me page much faster through a DJVU document than a PDF viewer does through a PDF. At least that's been my experience on my old, slow laptop, where speed really matters.

Also, I don't always scan myself. Sometimes I'll get a PDF generated by someone else, which contains scanned images. Then I'll often convert it to DJVU for speed and space savings.
I would prefer that dense cities allow the scooters and instead prohibit cars. Granted, we would need to solve some issues with accommodating those with disabilities in a way that is more effective than using a car, but I think it could be done.

In the meantime, levy huge fines on anyone who uses the scooters irresponsibly so we can quickly set the precedent of socially acceptable scooter usage.
Downvotes here on HN often don't make sense. You can be exactly 100% correct about something and still get downvoted to hell.

The best thing to do is to simply ignore them as asking about downvotes just invites more of them.
FWIW, this is what I'm seeing:
https://imgur.com/a/pbR0SCH
Previous post/discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16898827
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So the copyright claim was legitimate?
> Preferably, don't use your GCP credit card at dodgy online retailers too...

Or at gas stations, ATMs, or any other place where someone can install a skimmer.
I broke my lease last year. All I had to do was find a replacement tenant. I basically incurred no fees except the new tenant moved in slightly later than I moved out.
I use mupdf all the time for PDFs. It's much faster than PDF.js, but still much, much slower than djvu for scanned documents.
The paradox is because the prisoner does indeed disprove the statement "I will be hanged, and it will be a surprise no matter which day it happens", but the statement turns out to be true (he is both hanged, and surprised no matter what day he's hanged).
Reading this gave me goosebumps. Bravo Jessica, you should be increbily proud of your work and what you’ve helped others achieve.

Photo of Alexis Ohanian at dinner in first batch is classic!
It's obvious why, nobody will process them. /s
AWS Billing support is Free. And it's also equally awesome.

Paid support tiers (as far as I know) are for deeper system level diagnostics.
It gets a bit complicated when the soft skill in question is dealing with technical people and making sure they're as productive as possible, because this has historically been an area where non-technical managers struggle.
Please don't post shallow dismissals to Hacker News. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I think the OP just meant that you can get a lot done with databases queries and a bit of automation. There's no need to call that ML/AI.
> Aside from sanctions/trade wars and legal litigation, the other alternative would be a legitimate war

This isn't true at all. There are many, many levers of diplomatic power, and the U.S. has far more of them than anyone (or they did before they started withdrawing from a world leadership position). There are many, many things that China wants and needs, economically, politically, in trade, in finance, in agriculture, in tech, etc. etc. The U.S. can make them pay a price in many ways without starting a trade war.

That's the essential art of diplomacy: Act without escalating to a bigger problem.
> Perhaps the unreplicable advantage of YC in its early years.

I think PG had said she was their secret weapon for many years, when there were other accelerators copying them left and right.
> Nobody ever reads these reports, they’re just there to flash around. It’s the equivalent of a feudal lord — I have some guy whose job is just to tweeze my mustache, and another guy who’s polishing my stirrups, and so forth. Just to show that I can do that.

I imagine that there are some poorly-run larger companies that have elements of this, but this seems cartoonish for the most part.
Most nations are not optimal, and cede all kinds of economic growth to other nations. Why is this a problem?
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