skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion this became a problem when Facebook/Twitter/Youtube decided to try to create a "top stories" type of algorithmic content selection, in an attempt to try to increase engagement. What happens when they put that white nationalist content in the top stories, because their uncontrolled algorithms have decided you might be interested in that type of content?

In my opinion it should go back to the old days of chronological content from only the entities I've decided to listen to. (I.E. followed/friends/subscribed.) That way, if the WN want to push their mess, they can, and I'll never be exposed to it because I'm not at all interested in following someone who would ever share that.

If I'm researching a topic about them, then I can search using a standard searching algorithm, and find the relevant content.

Maybe a naive point of view in today's age, but that's what I think is simplest. It also just happens to be how it used to be.
Really you just need 52-58g per day of protein for men if I recall correctly.
Have a look[1]. Observe how they all kind of look like each other regardless of the country: shoulder pads, head cover, belt, uniform colour, formal attire, etc. Once the model knows the baseline, that is "a uniformed individual waving characteristically in front of the car", don't you think it would be quite easy to teach it with a mere few hundred pictures how local police officers look like in the current region?

1: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-different-police-uniforms...
Can you remember who you would've been in touch with in 2007? For me, I would simply email my friends from that era, and ask them to find the earliest correspondence from that address. That should give you the month you opened your account.
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The European Commission is polling citizens if DST should be abolished
Yes, GP even specifically referred to them as "old tricks". But even though the strategy is old, many people do not perceive the process that way so it's worth pointing out.
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not trolling. I don't think you know Brooks well enough, i've been following him since the 90s. Rodney Brooks is famous for his subsumption architecture and disregard of statistical methods. Because of the failures of Marvin Minsky GOFAI, the previous director of MIT AI, he went in the opposite direction completely and became highly skeptical of AI while serving as MIT AI head. This was the AI winter days of the 90s.
Could you please put a little more thought into your comments here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> The taste of insects simply does not compare to meat and poultry.

Poultry, especially the meat of chicken and turkeys is close to tasteless. I would argue the opposite, the average consumer doesn't really care for the taste of the meat itself as long as the marinade is delicious.
When I was a teenager, I listened to "Everybody's Free (to wear sunscreen)," which prompted me to read the essay "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young." Probably one of the only real bits of advice I listened to in my teens, thought about, and then attempted to follow.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-schmich-su...

I'm actually old enough to write a 20-30 column. My only advice is to know the different between wanting something and how you want something to happen. In my 20s, I despised the idea of luck, but I've learned so much of what happens in life is outside your control. The only thing reliably in your control is your attitude.
Partly radiation shielding, partly planning orbits to avoid it as much as possible. If you’re on a moon you don’t have the luxury of avoiding anything.
What is the makeup of that 75% number?

Does that number reflect an analysis of the cost of the actual human work of driving the car only, or is that just the number for average actual remittances from Uber to the driver?

If so it includes assumption of capital risks, auto depreciation, gas, tire wear, broken glass, vandalism and cleaning, traffic tickets, maintenance, towing, and every other expense of physically delivering the ride.

Getting rid of the human driver only saves real money on driving labor. The payments to drivers have much more to them.
How about womens' suffrage?

Who was the enemy in that movement? Did making lists of enemies help? Or was it more battle of ideas where people's minds were changed pver time?
...did you create a fake Sam Altman account to astroturf?
Cool! Here are a few ways to get the interactive visualizations elsewhere (outside of the notebook).

1) You can save them to a standalone, self-contained, html file: See https://community.plot.ly/t/proper-way-to-save-a-plot-to-htm...

2) You can save them to an html <div> element and embed them in another web page: See https://stackoverflow.com/a/38032952/4551895

3) You can upload them to plot.ly and share the link
I think three team soccer would really take off in United States. If Americans really do love reality TV and drama, then it might just be a match made in heaven.
How mature a system is and whether it's morally responsible (or imperative) to release it are different questions.

> The "clones" are deliberately less good because the manufacturers offering them care more about safety and reliability than about marketing beta products.

When I say "maturity," I'm not talking about holding back features. I'm saying that Tesla's system works better in situations where other manufacturers offer similar features. For example, how many other manufacturer's TACC will slow down (below the set limit) when a turn is coming up and then accelerate through the turn as a human is taught to do? How many autosteering systems will sense an adjacent car drifting from its lane and "creep" away from it to avoid a possible collision? These are the sorts of mature behaviors that put Autopilot ahead of the pack and make it much more real-world useful than its competitors.

On irresponsibility, I passionately disagree. But rather than rehash a bunch of old discussions I'll just link to prior comments explaining why I feel the way I do, and we can debate it further in those comments if you're interested.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17302164

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17233845

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16773903

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17236608
Was glad to look up his CV and see that he's still around.. I'm not sure that 90s grumpy nerd humor has aged well into 2018, but I do appreciate the throwback to a different time
Agreed. I'm quite happily pedestrian, and I've met too many people who "went deep" only on a few subjects but were very boring people unless you talked to them about their chosen subjects. Some of my best friends are boring from an economic standpoint because they're poor. But they're wonderful people and I wouldn't trade them for any of the learning I could get from someone who makes more money.

I think Hunter S. Thompson's advice for young people is much better, because in it he makes the point that anyone seeking to give you advice can't possibly know enough about your situation to give good advice.

https://fs.blog/2014/05/hunter-s-thompson-to-hume-logan/

If who you are is pedestrian, don't hesitate to be the most pedestrian you can be.
Sure, but we don't typically do sophisticated machine learning on them. The vast majority of modern CPUs have vector instructions. Even a Raspberry Pi's ARM has NEON.
Perhaps--but that wasn't the claim in the comment I was responding to.

And if that's the case, they should be comfortable saying openly that they're intentionally discriminating against Asian Americans for the good of the diversity of the student body.
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In fact, most of the Chinese take-out restaurants still prefer cash payments than cards; for the rare ones that do take cards, they require a minimum charge of $10-$15.
Languages are just ...tools, instruments. So desire to learn a language (or framework, whatever tool-kit) for the sake of learning .. isnt going to hold far. BUT.. once u have that half-tool, and the half-transparent-new-window that comes with it, u can use it (and bunch of others) to be able to desire to learn something completely different... AND then use that as a stepping stone for the next.. (repeat..) until u find what u want to do, and all those stones either become the polished fundaments or just mark your steps searching around for the way.

There's saying.. if u fall on your face, dont forget to take something as a souvenir...

have fun
Have you SEEN human history? Human beings are not good at what you propose. Human society tends towards domination and enslavement over caring for each other.
Half the people believe there's an invisible Man in the sky that grants you wishes if you pray hard enough and that their invisible Man is the only correct invisible man. We're primitive and we have nuclear weapons.

I think we need an alternative.to this planet as fast as possible.
> So put them on the road. Let's give it a try. Maybe it works. Maybe it doesn't and people die and they sue. That's been part of driving since day one. Roll the dice. I'm sick of the endless debates.

Well I'd certainly hope that there is a high level of confidence that they don't kill people BEFORE they're put on the road with other people.
This is relieving to read, I hope it works. Thanks for the reply and the wish, will definitely update as soon as I have some news!
NoiseAware captures noise data and sends the information to property managers
Hmm..next elections for the European Parliament are in May 2019.
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> Maybe it works. Maybe it doesn't and people die and they sue.

Jesus... Let's kill people because you're sick of the debate on whether self driving cars will work.
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I want to use plotly so badly but I don't want to sink an investment into another sticky commercial ecosystem -- I've had to do that with Mathematica and Matlab, I don't want to do it again. How good/bad is plotly in comparison?

Obviously python itself is open, I mean the API :-)
Sounds reasonable. So, what's the timeline on solving those problems? Ten years? Fifteen?

[1] https://xkcd.com/1232/
Nah, just saw nobody copped the username and seized the opportunity
output = if (input > locally_stored_threshold) input * locally_stored_weight else 0

This is not very complex and accurately models neurotransmission. What's missing here is the vastness of connections from a particular neuron towards thousands or more other neurons, but the inherent function is definitely not complex.

* weight being either 1 if you adopt a continous modelization (multiple serial input provide multiple serial output) or a float if you prefer the discrete modelization (sum of input to sum of output)
Depends on which way you go with skin color.
Isn't Munich the German equivalent of London? The expensive but well paid part?
If they are just ground up anyways, I'm not sure I see why they would be better than vegetable protein sources...in fact, wouldn't they almost certainly be less efficient?
I generally agree with this, but here is a counterpoint regarding graduate studies.

From my first hand experience as a graduate student at MIT, a lot of the research produced at MIT generates a disproportionate amount of buzz - essentially identical work (in terms of quality) produced by a student in a "tier 3" school will not generate the same kind of recognition. The reasons for this lie in the network effects; people read and cite people who they can attest to with less effort and scrutiny.

The points regarding the instructors and student body are definitely valid and should not be ignored.
Harvard wouldn't be in this mess if they just give up the bullshit myth that it is at all a meritocracy. They should just have a fixed admissions ratios:

- X% of seats for children of wealthy alumni, to maintain their alumni and donor network.

- Y% of seats based on academic or artistic merit: to maintain their brand. Sure, throw sports in there if you insist.

- Z% of seats by pure lottery. This helps Harvard mitigate any population skew introduced by X% and Y%.

They can tell anybody who doesn't like it to go fuck themselves. No more pretending to be fair and all that bullshit.
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Advanced + nuclear sounds scary to me.
If you have any assets (401k, savings, stocks, car, etc) you should consider renter's insurance because it will offer liability protection. If a visitor is injured in your home and you are found legally responsible you could lose everything.
You mean "factory farmed poultry" ...wild bird meat is amazing, and free-range chicken (and their eggs) has a nice flavor too. When they eat a lot of insects and other foods they find in nature it makes a huge difference.
Global warming may be twice what climate models predict
I've tried a couple of different months in 2007 but none turned out to be the correct one.
Is part of the context translating from one language to another, vs producing it directly? (e.g. is the front of your card "cat" and the back "gato"?) Or do you use pictures (google image search[1] for "gato" and see what comes up, use one of the pictures for the front of the card, and "gato" on the back). For example, being able to speak the new language without having to think of the words in your first language and then mentally translating it?

As mentioned in the book and website "Fluent Forever" (a language learning method which also recommends Anki), it's better to translate from a picture to the new language rather than learning to translate from your first language.

https://fluent-forever.com/

"No Translation"

"Use pictures when learning new vocabulary and grammar rules. You'll discover that you can actually remember what you've learned."

[1] "Fluent Forever" suggests trying google image search in your target language because many words are not direct translations, and you'll notice differences in what types of images come up for words. gato/cat is not a great example of this though
People are expensive. Very expensive. Covering 24h/day requires 4.7 regular week workers, which in the UK will cost (for workers over 25) a minimum of £80k. That's just raw salary and basic taxes, other things push it up (as well as the fact that you can't get people to work exact hours consistently so well and people are I'll, etc). So per "baseload" taxi, that's likely £100k/year minimum in human costs in the UK. If the tech has only a few year lifespan you've still got north of a quarter of a million to spend on the self driving things alone.

The number of hours per day the car needs cleaning will be drastically lower than the hours it needs driving.
And let them do so. Marriage and kids have downsides as well as upsides. Don't be looking at the downsides so much that you miss enjoying the upsides.
Who 'gets it' more? ABC or HBO?

(This is not a rhetorical question.)
Your precision is noted. I was indulging in a bit of satire.
It limits the applicability of the concept, sure. But I would not call that openness. It is not like there is a proprietary element or something that hides information from clients, it is just an enhancement that works only in a specific situation.
If someone is caught out in a wild area with endangered animals and has poaching equipment on them (i.e., a large rifle), I don't see how you can argue that they're innocent.

We're not talking about a murder in a first-world urban area where you didn't catch the suspect red-handed.
Ask HN: What you wish you'd known before getting into JavaScript?
I want to learn JavaScript as my next language. I have been observing JS community for some time and it seems like there is too much noise out there with dozens of frameworks and language variations (e.g. CoffeeScript, TypeScript, JSX, etc). I plan to go through Mozilla's JS docs and Vue tutorial, but not sure if it is enough to get up to speed with the modern JS ecosystem. Which resources would you recommend? Which framework should I stick with? What are some things that you wish you had known before getting into JS? Note: I am comfortable with Python (including Flask/Django), Java, HTML and CSS, so picking up JS as a language won't be a problem. Interested in your thoughts.
Hear, hear. Having experienced a similar transition, the improved quality of instruction and the impressive caliber of my cohort was shockingly apparent in my very first class. I liken the transition to switching from the minor leagues to the pros.
> All of these tools are just frontends around a scheduling and container engine ...

Well, that's a gross simplification of what Kubernetes is. (I don't know about Marathon.)

Kubernetes is a "choreographer" of cluster operations. At its core it's a consistent object store that contains a description of the state you want your cluster to be in. Various controllers monitor this store and try to "reconcile" the real world with the desired state. Operations include things like creating persistent volumes, setting up networking rules, and, of course, running applications. To say that it's a frontend for a container engine is a bit misleading, since Kubernetes can control so much more.

It's a nicely layered system — a "pod" describes the desired state of a single instance of an app, a "replica set" describes the desired state of a set of pods, a "deployment" describes the desired incremental rollout of a replica set, and so on. It's also a design that scales down to a single node (hence the popularity of Minikube as well as Docker for Mac, which includes Kubernetes), as well as up.

It's also a design that means that with a few exceptions, your configuration can target any Kubernetes cluster, not a specific cloud vendor. Without a single modification, I can deploy my app to the local Kubernetes on my laptop, or to our production cluster on Google Cloud. While migrating to Docker/Kubernetes took nearly a year, migrating away from GCP would take us probably less than a week (most of it involving pointing DNS to new load balancers, and moving persistent volumes over).

Beyond Google Kubernetes Engine and various other clouds (Azure is apparently very good), there's a bunch of tools now that do the heavy lifting of creating a cluster somewhere. Kubeadm and Kops are both popular.
You might be thinking of OS/400 aka IBM i, which indeed uses 520 byte sectors. Sun used 512.
Doesn't renter's insurance only cover the stuff you have inside your residence, not the actual unit itself? Why would the landlord care if you had that coverage?
As a side note, I've often pondered what would have the outcome if Subway had 'leaned in' and actually promoted its "50% chicken-50% soy but tastes the same as 100% chicken" as an environmentally sustainable and healthier option instead of trying to hide it and then getting caught.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/food-scientists-weig...
Well, it's a very old trick. Probably several thousand years, as long as people have traded. Don't give credit to Caldini just because he wrote a popular book!
The only reason "genocide" doesn't technically apply here is because these creatures are not humans.

But unlike human genocide where only some group of humans gets wiped out in large numbers, leaving plenty of other humans walking the planet, here it's much worse: an entire species is being wiped out to complete extinction. It's demonstrably far, far worse.
I cannot find the text of article 15 anywhere online.
This is implausible. The gag about having a story trail off into badly-written nonsense was used in that dialogue, but clearly doesn't refer to the book as a whole.

The last dialogue of GEB is an excellent example of something he's been doing for the whole book, aligning a dialogue with a Bach canon. The six speakers line up very well with the Ricercar a 6, including in details such as the midpoint where the conversation changes topic and drops down to only three speakers, and everyone rejoins on a new theme.

The topic of the dialogue is Hofstadter's philosophy of consciousness, the thing which he wishes more people understood (which I don't personally believe, btw), and which he wrote most of I Am A Strange Loop to emphasize. He wanted people to read and understand that part.

It also ends with a signature "strange loop" flourish, introducing the "Author" as a speaker, who begins a quotation, the content of which (as implied by the page layout and the label "Author:" at the start of the introduction) is the entire book.

If that's not the true end of GEB, what is?
But being well payed means the prices go up for everything consummately for the area you live in.

So any gains in living improvements are offset.
I think the whole 512 byte sector CD-ROM thing was common to all the 90's-era "Real UNIX" machines. They generally all wanted to treat CDs like a hard drive, for booting purposes. (PCs, on the other hand, did a different weird hack where they'd embed a floppy image at the state of the CD and the BIOS knew how to handle that.)
We need liquid democracy. This current system is broken.
Actually, you don't need to sink any investment into a commercial ecosystem here!

plotly.py and the plotly.js rendering library are both MIT licensed, developed in the open on GitHub, and totally self-contained.

Everything in the technology stack used in the announcement post is free, open source, self-contained, usable offline, and doesn't require an account. The plot.ly cloud integration is totally optional.
For those who've never looked at the POSIX docs, bookmark this:

http://shellhaters.org

...which is a great jumping off point to casually read a bit of them now and again.
> Every city they hope to deploy in has differing signage, differing driving habits, and many funky intersections and road anomalies that need specific attention.

The very fact that those things do need specific attention tells me they don't have true autonomy yet; they just have a way to fake it using detailed maps of known areas.

I don't see how an autonomous vehicle can handle all the corner cases of real-world driving (construction zones, etc.) until it can also work reliably using only available sensor data, so that detailed mapping is no longer necessary.
Probably not beyond norm...most college graduates don't know what to do when they graduate!
But can you play Doom on it?
The Trump Pruitt agenda is actually not unique, it's just more of the same Republican classism: everything is a product, and wealthy people can buy better versions. Clean water, clean public lands, and even clean air in your backyard, is not a right. It's a product. If you're wealthy you can afford clean versions. If you can't afford it, you don't deserve it, you're not a better person. Rich people are better than you. And the proof of this is the productization of everything: justice, education, environment, infrastructure, health care. These things are not rights in Conservatism. Higher classes get them, because they can afford them, they can afford them because they're wealthy, they're wealthy because they're superior humans.

Until people understand the difference between conservative Liberalism, and Conservatism which is protect and preserve the classes, we continue to see these kinds of politicians and these kinds of policies and these kinds of outcomes.
> roads where we can keep pedestrians out.

Aren't major roads pedestrian free in the US? Motorways and major roads are in the UK.
The EU are masters at this. See: the Lisbon treaty.
What most techies tend to do is put devices like that (Smart TV, IP cameras, etc) into their own VLAN with zero ability to "dial home".

Frankly, the Internet of Shit scares me.
perhaps it just means that you have to pay in equity.
Well considering that poaching is going to result in species extinction, while there's absolutely no danger of humans going extinct any time soon, I don't see the problem.