skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but this seems like a poor example

In fact this is a perfect example of how NOT to do purchase-history-based suggestions, which unfortunately also seems to be how most companies do it. They see a big purchase (or search terms relating to one) and spam you with options for that purchase. But if I just bought a car, or a drone, or a laptop, then the last thing I want to see is ads for other cars or drones or laptops.

Even applying just a little intelligence and showing ads for accessories (floor mats? spare batteries? bluetooth mice?) would make things substantially more useful.
Funnily enough, “cheese hotpot” is exactly how many Chinese call fondues.
The most normal, borderline tech-inept people I know were all torrenting stuff 15 years ago. People I know here in Asia were torrenting American music that they couldn't easily/cheaply find here, and Americans I know were pirating anime subs years before they'd ever get legally released in America.
I had a professor in my undergraduate degree who had a very dry delivery -- just part of his personality, nothing he could do. He started shaking things up in my junior year by working in very funny cs jokes, but with his dry delivery, and the result was everyone began listening to every word he said in case there was some hidden punchline. This could backfire badly though if the jokes aren't truly hilarious, but maybe something to try if you have the knack for it. I say this because some people are just so monotone that this is really their only shot.
Great bit. Someone already posted (1) Harvard classic book collection which already contains a bit of philosophy from Marcus Aurelius, Plato etc. If someone is interested there's an epub version. That you can turn them in audiobooks using Google tts app (3).

(1)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17160518
(2)https://archive.org/details/Harvard-Classics
(3) eReader Prestigio is a great app. Has reading features.
Speaking of their examples, and given they send promotional letters not too frequently, I'm sure there are many people around me who will buy many sunglasses, shoes, or clothes for different styles. I just don't want to be advertised toaster and bathroom stuffs together. IMO you have to do research on items those can be matched together for each group of users.
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More ecofriendly than spreading them around, but less ecofriendly than not having those residents at all. So it depends what the alternatives are.

And also, they never claimed to be concerned with the global environment. Only with the character of their immediate locale.
Is this still going on? I just discovered this post today and signed up, but didn't see any mention of the AWS/Doordash/Instacart benefits.
Yeah but tor is Soo.... Slow
What the hell is a gravel bike?
Good post, but I couldn't disagree more. Regardless of your business size, it will always be valuable to know information such as:

* How does every additional coupon-dollar affect the total amount a customer buys?

* What is the relationship between customer age and retention for my store?

* Does giving a customer more purchase options help or hurt their chances of making a purchase?

My experience is that each of these questions can be solved, in part, using 3 lines of Python code:

from sklearn.linear_model import LinearRegression
lr = LinearRegression()
lr.fit(X,y)

Then look at the beta coefficients of the model, and you have a rough idea of how different features are correlated. Doing something like this in SQL sounds difficult. If you have data to interpret, it makes sense to use similar methods. I can't think of an example where you have data but refuse to look at it until your company is "bigger".
There's a recent example of programmers publishing a paper on how to better prove some mathematics by implementing and discussing the phenomenon in a programming language:
What’s the Difference?
A Functional Pearl on Subtracting Bijections https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2018/06/23/new-icfp-functional...
THIS +1000000000000

Don't care about cashback cards under 5%. Earning miles and points is much more meaningful and attractive.
Well I only moved across the country (NH to CA), so the biggest differences I’ve noticed have been in dialect and food.

People think I’m quaint for using “wicked” as an adverb here, but the local “hella” is both less emphatic and used slightly differently. And my accent probably comes off as “old-fashioned”.

Part of it is just moving from a rural area to a suburban one, but at least among my friends & family back home, it was pretty normal to make a whole meal, or a substantial part of it, from home-grown, homemade, wild-caught, or foraged foods. I would’ve expected to see more of that here in CA considering its agricultural fertility, but I have to go out of my way to visit farmer’s markets or “localvore” restaurants. In New England it was just around—my family would grow/make/catch/find/harvest stuff and swap it with friends, neighbors, and coworkers. You knew someone who kept chickens, so you’d take some eggs off their hands so they wouldn’t go to waste; your garden produced far too many green beans, so you’d give them away—that sort of thing.
That sounds crazy. Can you bring kitchen cabinets with you, or are they re-installed brand new each time you move?

If the latter, sounds like good business for installers!

Is there a rationale or just habit?
What is the reasoning given for the ban on hot drinks?
The 2257 is the law requiring proof of age paperwork be kept for adult performers IIRC.

It's the "custodian of record" you MAY see at the beginning of a FakeTaxi or Hospital.
If you are truly excited about the material, you shouldn't shy away from sharing why you find it exciting and why relational algebra and data modeling is the best thing since sliced bread. Dryness is often just another word for "why do I need this" syndrome. Relational databases are the bedrock foundation for some incredibly cool technology platforms, and have been for decades. Just figure out how to translate the technical merit of your material -- potential benefit to society, complexity, interesting theoretical properties -- into genuine excitement and a contagious feeling of "this is why this thing is so cool and you should devote your time to it". I had some professors like that in college who got me very excited about data structures and compilers, and I could see someone doing it effectively with a databases course. It's the difference between going through the motions of teaching, and using this one hour period as your chance to impress upon a room of people how databases matter and are fascinating and worth studying and developing.
It isn't about seeing x-rated stuff as art, but rather about the ability to be open about sex. Traditional-minded people are rarely as open about it in my experience.

I'm female. I watch porn. So does my spouse. There is no secret there. If either of us were going to a strip club for whatever reason or visited a prostitute somewhere legal, we can simply tell each other about it knowing the other won't be angry. We can openly discuss folks we are attracted to. We understand that finding others attractive is normal human behavior, and would rather not lie about it.

On the other hand, I've known plenty of women that get angry about men watching porn. I have known plenty of men that won't admit to their wife - this person they claim to trust - that they watch porn or have visited a strip club. There are others that actively protest against porn for whatever reason. In general, you find more "porn is morally wrong!" arguements in conservative environments.
> I'm curious what side you think I fall on

That abortion is not murder, as you made the example of the presentation of such an argument in opposition to the presentation of something "useful". I realize, of course, that the word could have been meant more narrowly (such as "strictly pragmatic"), but that tends be less likely, even on here.

> legitimately and understandably very upsetting for some people; in other cases we demand equal representation.
[...]
> errs to the safer side of excluding results?

That's the the thing, though, I don't believe in a "right not to be offended" or a "right not to be upset" (legitimately, understandably, or otherwise). As such, I don't believe that these divisive cases ought to be treated any differently than the other cases you mention.

None of this is to say that controversial topics don't attract a distinct problem. They do: trolls (for various definitions of the term). However, I believe that's more an issue with the quality of the content rather than the content itself, since a troll could (sometimes just as easily) take either side.
They are, and they are getting VC funds to do it. They may just be on the bandwagon to get the funding, but they still need to 'do AI' in order to satisfy their investors.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17434254

The comment lists at least two "questions" that can be answered easily with SQL and a graph and even in ways that give more nuance than linear regression can capture.
Almost all "mainstream" porn studios are owned by one company. And they own all the "tube" sites too BTW.

Just a FYI.
I absolutely grant that Livingston was crucial to YC's success but it would be wrong to ignore the reality of what holds most people back: lack of opportunity.

The opportunity that Paul Graham gave Jessica Livingston is being massively underplayed here. He would not have chosen to start YC without her but he could have. It very well might've failed without her. That's entirely possible. But she absolutely could not have started YC without him and his money. She would have had no opportunity to become the great success story she has become.

YC partners fund ~3% of the founders that ask them for opportunity. That leaves ~97% of people out in the cold, desperate for the same kind of opportunity that made them successful.

The reason YC funds so few founders used to be their limited resources. Now they have all the resources they could possibly want and they've consciously chosen not to scale. YC has become a VC firm that is perpetuating exactly the problem they were founded to fix. It's an exclusive club for the chosen few and a mark against anyone that is not granted membership. Just like the old elitist VCs they were supposed to replace.

I don't begrudge YC or any of its partners their personal success. I do think YC has gone from being a potentially great force for good to probably a net negative for society.
It's laid back easy living in summer, but brutal winter if you're not into it.

Quebecois are not mean, but they are insular if you're not Quebecois or actually French. 'They eat at their own table in the cafetaria' kind of thing.

The economy is iffy and weak, and there's very few good jobs, even the good one's pay absurdly low.

If you're any good, you can move to the US and double your salary, which is why it's a kind of economic trap - young, good talent leaves and it's nary impossible to convince people to come even if the net standard of living is good.

You almost need a reason: like super choice job, spouse, contract job, family etc. etc..
> But how would you know if DjVu munged a 3 into an 8?

By comparing it with the original, surely.
Yeah, I think in most cases if an organization says they are doing AI then their user base is probably rather unsophisticated in regards to tech.
Oni is my current text editor, and even though it's pre-1.0, it's been a fantastic experience. It starts fast, looks great, works perfectly as a Vim (it supports standard Vim plugins), and requires almost no configuration (I don't know why the built-in Prettier code formatting is shipped disabled, but you should turn it on).
And more recently, since the book came out:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17162935

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17074058

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16995389
> Before class, we were assigned to read a chapter from the textbook, understand the material, and complete two or three homework problems from the material we had just self-learned. [Emphasis mine.]

Grade the students on this?
Dynamic C++ expressions
I overall agree that ML is needed over 'just SQL' in a lot of cases (though SQL + good visualizations / exploratory analysis can answer a lot of those questions qualitatively). I would also be careful with the linear model approach. Multicollinearity can hide how important a feature is (or reverse sign of a feature) when trying to use coefficients to interpret importance, so using a linear model like that isn't as straightforward as it seems.

As a workaround, you could look for high VIF to detection multicollinearity, use some sort of stepwise selection / penalized regression, or use something like relaimpo (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/relaimpo/index.html) - not sure of a Python equivalent - to judge overall feature importance in the model.
In the modern age Latin script, the only acceptable ligature is "fi" in a proportional type, because the top curve of the F usually comes very close to the dot of the I already. For the rest, they're totally useless because we don't use moveable type anymore.
> "The idea that there's tons of people out there doing unnecessary work is incredibly misguided."

Lol. Go to Thailand (3% unemployment) or China and watch the meaningless jobs.

Where the cost of labour is cheaper than the cost of capital and where there's government incentives to present zero unemployment, you will find groups of people waving cars out of condos, gangs of old ladies sweeping up nothing all day, and people acting as human signs.

Much of this is unnecessary, or can be replaced, at least, with more efficient methods.
Neat! One thing to mention, I would remove most of the benchmarks, and include only clisp, sbcl (I guarantee you this one is the fastest), clozure cl (ccl), and abcl.
San Francisco has a place like that, but upscale: Delancy Street Restaurant, in South Beach.[1] It's a retraining facility for ex-cons, operating since 1991. It's also an excellent restaurant. I recommend the chicken.

[1] http://www.delanceystreetfoundation.org/enterrestaurant.php
That's a good phrase I haven't heard before. A good example of this is economists (not all) who continually make public predictions on TV, but are never held accountable for the results.
Is every article supposed to contain the entire history of a topic?

This particular one did not feel like a smear to me as much as a presentation of an opposing perspective, one given in a calm respectful tone which contradicts your obvious tone in trying to smear the article itself.
Wasn't that the main idea behind Google plus also?
the children sacrificed by the aztecs were captives, prisoners of war, etc. there is zero evidence suggesting anyone voluntarily sacrificed themselves. it was a demonstration of power and terror by the state dressed up in religious garb.
i highly recommend looking into UK Garage / 2step if you're into swung dance music. It's essentially the best qualities of 90's and early 00's R&B and D&B put through a dance lens. To me, nothing else in music is more authentically and beautifully 90s-early 00s. Pioneers of the genre such as El-B took the concept of swing and ran with it from a modern electronically produced perspective.

As an electronic musician I also have to say that UK garage producers are absolute masters. It's very, very hard to make swung music that has the qualities of "bump" and "flex" - the prerequisites to a song that viscerally makes you dance - on a computer. "Flex" refers to the way the swing-level expands and contracts throughout a drum phrase. "Bump" refers to the way the flex propels you into the kick and snare.

here's an example of a song by el-b with super tight swing. it's hard to explain without having tried, how hard it is to produce something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ3KM5E8wl8

another example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlNNrXzi60o

and finally, a 2step song, much straighter, but it encapsulates the sound of an era and genre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVycT8k0tjM
I've eaten there. Good food at a good price. Friendly ambience.
That's the meme, but my experience with the business support for G Suite does match it at all: I can easily call the phone support, get a competent human quickly, and they are very helpful.
Must say, as a Netflix user I'm continually impressed with the breadth of and progressive nature of their original content. It's a bit selling point.
"The primary target of Aron’s polemic was fanaticism."

I believe this is as relevant to our current social/political divisiveness as it ever has been. I'd like to read more of what he wrote about that.
Obviously ML can add a lot of value here, but its questionable to me if its trivial to build such a model with available data, keep said model up to date, or train variations on it easily, cheaply and quickly enough to A/B test the result and ensure you’re actually making any tangible difference.

So you know... I don’t think it’s unfair to say that for smaller vendors, the cost/effort of setting up a ML model may dwarf the fractional improvement it offers over just having one person doing human generated SQL queries.

The point is this isn’t like machine vision or voice, where its almost expontentionally better than traditional approaches.

It’s just... a bit better. Which is worth it only if the fractional improvement pays for the setup cost.
that is quite a leap to call SQL a rule-based system. SQL is a standard query language that you can use to discover how attributes and values relate to one another within data.
That's been done for ages. The point of AI is to adapt to the world instead of having humans spend time understanding the problem set.

SQL can apply a human understood model to data points. AI lets us develop new models and adapt them.

AI lets us solve problems that have abstraction, or problems that change over time. You can't have SQL detect cats in an image or drive a car.
Conversely it's alienating me more and more each quarter with it's "progressive" nature.
Whoever "owns" the SD is about to realize they dont actually own the value. It's a dynamic thing. Readers, writers, community with norms, culture, etc...

If I were them, I would work with the people who value TSD to find a successor and carry on a good thing.
This post is downright bonkers. “We don’t need ML/AI! Proof: list of things you wouldn’t use ML for”

There are so many problems you can solve with a neural network. Should Waymo ETL sensor data and do a WHERE NOT IN for bicyclists?

This is blog post is pretty dismissive. Statistics software has been in use since the beginning; see SAS. Financial institutions, actuaries, etc, have been using these methods with SQL data as the input and it’s the only reason they’re still in business.

If this blog post simply suggested hiring a BI Analyst in your startup, I wouldn’t disagree.
Sooooo... what exactly is it? All I'm seeing is an endless barrage of buzzwords.
> Yet their support didn't ever solve a problem within their SLA's

What does this mean?
Could you please not use HN for political and ideological flamewar? It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16995389

This was the huge, recent discussion (470 comments) I remembered but couldn't find instantly due to 'bullshit jobs' -> 'pointless jobs'. Thanks.
I did some performance testing comparing pfsense and opnsense on idential hardware, and out-of-the-box configuration. On my Atom 1.6ghz dual Intel nic router I was able to get near line-speed gigabit NAT from pfsense, while opnsense maxed out around 825mbps. I spent only a couple of hours with the test, and quickly decided switching off pfsense wasn't worth it for me.
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> 50 years from now, you are not going to have any trouble finding a .PDF viewer

That is a very bold statement. 50 years is a long time even in human years. It's an eternity in technology years.
Hard wood, tiles... Anything until you reach the concrete.
“We could buy all the gallons of milk out of the grocery store, bring them home to our bulk tank, pour it in there and sell it back to them and make more money,”

In Finance that is literally called arbitrage and opportunities like that are deeply coveted. I'm a little surprised hedge funds aren't buying these dairy farms to do just that.
(notice the funny user name, and google the quote ;)

Cooling Off Hotseattle:
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,31486,0...

Mr. Famous Comes Home:
https://www.forbes.com/asap/1997/1201/144.html
Please don't do political flamewars on HN. It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please stop doing political flamewars on HN. That's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think that https://github.com/simeji/winresizer is a good tool.
we'll able to become windows resize easier.
No, it would not have been a surprise if he were hanged on Friday. The prisoner disproves the existence of a strategy for the judge that guarantees surprise, but does not disprove the existence of a strategy that gives the possibility of surprise.
It's not unheard of to see +10-30% in revenue when adding a recommender system [0]; The system described by the author is arguably more complex than a recommender system, since he has to develop, maintain and evaluate a set of rules that are not based on real data, but only on his intuition of what users want. GP gave good examples of how this would easily fail (do you always want to recommend items from the same category; if not, how do you know which other category to recommend?)

[0] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.895...
Yeah, Cloud9 is billed as an IDE, but it's really more useful as a terminal inside your cloud environment that happens to have a text editor. Workspaces has been great for a cloud-based development environment, and the new Linux Workspaces will be more useful than the Web-based "cloud IDEs".
I'm not sure about this article, but there is certainly scope for an article named "You don't need Blockchain, you need SQL/a Database"
So he mischaracterized one misunderstood job. Does that invalidate the whole theory? Has every administrator role this critic encountered been useful and worthwhile?

Also, this criticism only really addresses the first, taxonomic part of the book, which was by far the least interesting.
Please don't respond by breaking the site guidelines and making the thread still worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
or the prisoner could spread his expectations over the five days so that they sum to 1, and then lose 1 minus the expectation for the day of hanging
And there are currently heat warnings... Won't be fun!

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/alerts/high-alert/quebe...
Population isn't very relevant when we're speaking specifically of things that relate to land area like topological maps.
It's not inefficiency in systems design. Some jobs are simply bullshit to begin with, and what actually enables us to have them around are the very efficient systems we have.
sure.

http://www.montrealinternational.com/en/blog/montreal-is-the...
This doesn't sound related to the post, no? The post doesn't argue for general AI that learns like humans do, it only discusses the merits of AI as a whole vs hard-coded SQL queries and heuristics.
The vast majority of people who get 'moved for jobs' are regular professionals - and especially in Europe, they look the part.

I walked into a store once in Ottawa, and bought some expensive kids stuff, the owner said: "Are you a software developer" and I said 'how'd you know'? ... Because almost everyone who can afford her stuff is a lawyer, government exec, banker, or otherwise professional.

So I'd say the bulk of it is to the people you tell ... it's an anomaly, that's all.