skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the basic difference in approach was to switch the earlier approach of

if (conditionA && conditionB && !conditionC) cache_it()

to

hey look, an item with featureset X is cacheable while one with featureset Y is not.

This reflects in the API which is just two calls predict() and feedback()

this simplifies the integration code and is easily debuggable even in the face of changes.
I don't find it "easy" to read that, but it's not impossible. And depending on personal levels of experience, eliminating vowels might take more effort than just writing full words.
From my limited experience with calling MEPs, they don't always get the entire picture. Who could blame them for not being experts in web, nuclear energy, agricultural policies and more all at the same time? One way to help them is by calling them up and explaining our views on topics we care about. Mass emailing doesn't seem to do more than clog their spam filters, but a phone call actually seems to at least be listened to, if not acted on.
I'd recommend Teeline. It was developed for British journalists. I've used it off and on when I was a scrum-master to keep notes on standups
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teeline_Shorthand
Sure, I agree with you, I too have spend a few dollars here and there trying to find the perfect writing utility.
I know your question isn't specifically about the exact example, but are you aware that they added the @ operator for matmul in 3.5?

I think anything general would probably be considered as cluttering up the grammar or non-pythonic. Completely custom unicode operators was something I loved about Swift (open to abuse, but really useful in moderation).
i sure wouldn't mind some vc-subsidized underground trains.

maybe if they became competitive rapid transit operators as well, the world could become a better place
Is a “dented universe” an admirable goal? Seems vague, and selfish. I get people want to make some sort of impact while they are here, but let’s also admit that that is driven by the ego.
Maybe you already know, but the @ operator already exists for matrix multiplication.
Yep.

I don't know anything about that cave, but it's quite common for cave divers to remove their equipment (and put it in front of them) because a passage is so small that the diver and a gas tank won't fit at the same time. What's the chance of a robot doing the same?
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totally untrue. fq_codel manages normal torrents just fine in the presence of gamer-style traffic. We tested against torrents in fixing bufferbloat a lot! Pure aqm systems like pie (in docsis 3.1) do pretty well also. cake (per host fq) can make even insane amounts of torrenting (or slashdotting!) bearable.
'The researchers will present their novel approach at two upcoming conferences: the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), June 25-29 and International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July 10 -15.' I couldn't find anything with some googling so I'm assuming this quote describes the first showing of the paper.
Being a little cynical the reason for the "unthinkable" thing may be in the article:

> “The government and the pharmaceutical industry have invested almost all their resources, and some of the brightest people have been in the amyloid area,” he says

Not so much unthinkable but if you speak that thought those invested may attack you in the political "grant applications have negative feedback" sense.

You see that quite a lot that when people have built careers based on hypothesis A they do not take kindly to the idea of A being wrong.
Making a fluidized sand bed
I worked at Microsoft on what would have been the next gen system after Ford SYNC and MyFord Touch. Our design team put a HUGE effort into making the UI usable at arms reach and at a glance. They had all this research about button sizes and how accurate a person could be with their outstretched arm. They built a full car simulator and we had modified cars in our parking garage we could actually test on.

Ford decided to go a different direction and I left the project shortly before it was ultimately scrapped. The ideas were awesome, but for various reasons, we never really built anything.
The Gloves We’ll Wear on Mars – Future Human – Medium
My bias is towards letting the cream rise. I don't care what color my surgeon is or what is/isn't between their legs. I want the surgeon who got in based on merit alone and is one of the best people in the world for this job. I don't want a diversity candidate who barely got by and got passed along by people who were afraid to be labeled racist because of PC culture.

Immutable traits should never be considered, only merit.
Hacking GitHub to build your own wiki
I'm not sure what you're asking. It says multiple times in this press release that they're trying to increase diversity. It leads with the first sentence "The mission of Carnegie Mellon University includes the cultivation of a diverse community." and then follows with "The goal is to provide a more equitable, level playing field where all segments of our applicant population have the same opportunity in the admission process."

They want diverse students, which includes poorer students, but also includes underrepresented demographics (looks like male/female split is 55/45, and hispanic/latino and black numbers are small).
>I just found it exhausting being teased over and over.

Umm, RTFA
That is better... but does the shifter really glow blue?
Be careful with the word "meritocracy". Perhaps all you mean by "meritocracy" is picking the people who are best at X when hiring people to do X, but the suffix -cracy has a well established meaning so "meritocracy" will often be understood as a sinister alternative to democracy.

I tend to think that diversity should not be a "goal" except perhaps in the case of political representation. However, diversity is generally a good thing and if there is a lack of diversity in some field then this should be seen as a potential symptom of something being wrong. People just need to make sure that they correctly identify and fix the underlying problem rather than just "fix" the symptom.
More like the South Sea Company. No actual revenue stream, just a self-perpetuating mania that carries on until suddenly it doesn't.
Artificial Intelligence in eCommerce
I think the problem with custom operators is they have custom associativity and precedence. Not saying this is a deal breaker, just the biggest issue you'll run into.

In toy examples, you can see all that because they'll show the declarations.

Here's a case[1] trying to explain monads by showing a simpler example:

parseP5_take2 s =
matchHeader (L8.pack "P5") s >>?
\s -> skipSpace ((), s) >>?
(getNat . snd) >>?
skipSpace >>?
\(width, s) -> getNat s >>?
skipSpace >>?
\(height, s) -> getNat s >>?
\(maxGrey, s) -> getBytes 1 s >>?
(getBytes (width * height) . snd) >>?
\(bitmap, s) -> Just (Greymap width height maxGrey bitmap, s)

Is all that left or right associative?

Generally, to read an expression when you have custom operators, you have to dig up the associativity and precedence. That's why I see many newer libraries avoiding custom operators, [2] vs [3].

I think you can do custom operators in a language, you just need to require that the associativity and precedence be declared in import. I'd also have named levels of associativity, so maybe:

import MyModule.Foo.Bar (op(!$!, additive, right), ...)

Now, that's some boilerplate in your imports, but for readability, it'd be huge. And automated tools can tweak stuff like this.

[1] http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/monads.html

[2] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pretty-1.1.3.6/docs/Text-...

[3] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/prettyprinter-1.2.1/docs...
Would limiting the bit-depth returned by that function help?
> This is an oft-repeated falsehood

Inflation is a measure between real goods and services on one hand and a single unit of a currency on the other. It is not a measure of money supply. (For that we say “money supply”.)

Money supply increases tend to be inflationary. But that’s not a hard and fast rule. Bitcoin’s money supply is increasing, but on average it’s been deflating.
It lowers the barrier to entry for remittance competitors significantly. Had planned to build a proof of concept for a hackathon back in march but ran into issues with nobody on the team having foreign bank accounts that we could pair with crypto exchanges. We planned to use Bitstamp -> Bitso to change USD to MXN via moving XRP between the exchanges. All the API documentation is there to make it happen but unfortunately we couldn't open real accounts and one or both of the exchanges didn't have a sandbox API. However the cost to make a transfer would effectively be less than 1% and take roughly a day, which is essentially the time it takes to deposit money from a crypto exchange to a bank account.
I think the original intent was to take notes quickly and later transcribe them to be read as normal text. I've wanted to learn shorthand for writing into my tablet and have it transcribe automatically, but I haven't put in the research to know if a translation app exists.
Does this mean that I can write

with file := open('filename'):
data = file.read()

instead of

with open('filename') as file:
data = file.read()

I don't know how I feel about this.
Vague laws are clearly and obviously tyranny because then you are subject to laws that nobody can clearly define and the only remaining question is if you are on the right parties good side and the usual way of remaining so is political favors.
They're pseudoscience that businesses continue to pay to bring into their offices for questionable benefits. They may as well simply hire fortune tellers.
Next-gen lithium-ion technology will triumph in the future battery market
From the PEP

# Share a subexpression between a comprehension filter clause and its output
filtered_data = [y for x in data if (y := f(x)) is not None]

What about

filtered_data = [(y := f(x)) for x in data if y is not None]

will that work also?

Attempted guess at answer: no, because the "gathering" part of the comprehension is downstream of the "sequence construction" part of the comprehension in the language implementation. But if that's so, I'm a bit concerned that this will be confusing to users.
As far as I understand there are tax incentives for being able to add another floor to a house, as opposed to expanding another way. So the rebar out the top is due to tax.

I am fairly sure that you are not exempt from tax if you have an unfinished roof.
I don't think the industry in general knows about fuzzying.

I first learned of fuzzers here on HN, and between my current and previous job, I didn't meet a person that would recognize the term (or method) when I mentioned it. From this small sample I conclude people simply aren't aware of these methods.
A C++ that broke backward compatibility would force many developers to go through the "weird mess" of their code base making corrections. I think that C++ standards committee should not break working code and that people who value a cleaner language should try another language or decide on a subset of C++ that they will use.
Would a Stylus work on these screens? Granted that is probably more dangerous while driving than a finger.
This ones great, thanks for sharing.
Building Touch Bar Support for MacOS in Electron with React
Not just American. I saw this taken to an art form in Japan.

While part is showing effort when individual output is hard to measure, the roots come from more than impressing the boss. It’s also respect to company and peers, and being available in case you’re needed by someone whose time is more scarce and expensive.

But FaceTime as the end result in a corporate culture is awful.
That the censorship rules only apply to services like youtube
>You can travel worldwide for a year for about $10k to $20k.

Or take shorter vacations for very little money. I’ve recently discovered the world of “travel hacking”. There are many blogs[1] that outline ways to optimize travel reward points programs and greatly reduce travel costs.

1- http://travelisfree.com
China lacks a property tax, which is a big reason for their huge housing bubble.
That's exactly it. Metric is on every single food item. Food is like a modern 64 bit system. Meanwhile, the roads are still in miles per hour and all temperatures are in Fahrenheit, so I need an 8 bit subsystem to run it.

I would have to convert back to feet and miles if the article didn't have it because I'm not used to those units since I never have an opportunity to use them in my daily life. Metric is not as intuitive as its promoters insist. Intuition is developed through use.

Civilization-scale issues require civilization-scale solutions. I can't unilaterally convert to metric in every context because it would be terribly impractical. I would spend my days doing conversions. That's a huge waste of finite time and energy.
You didn't think the section "MANSARD ROOFS IN PARIS" would explain the picture of a Paris roof? And you looked at the three short paragraphs in the section and decided that's too much to read, the one sentence caption was exhausting enough.
This is key. I suspect one could start a really effective startup (while paying significantly below market for good talent) with a policy like "work six hours from 10-4 and then leave to do something that recharges you."

In practice that's what many engineers (and some non-engineers) would be doing anyway whether or not they're physically in the office.
CMU alum (CIT '17) here.

During orientation there's a 1-2 hour ceremony where you're effectively welcomed in to the college- think like a graduation but the inverse of it (the exact phrase is slipping my mind right now), where the president speaks along with a few students.

The one point that stuck out to me from that was the then-president, Subra Suresh, mentioning that they hadn't admitted a single student who had gotten a 2400 on the SAT, though some had applied. It was implied that they weren't looking for test scores, but rather for people who had potential beyond checking statistical boxes.

My main question from reading this is "if your applicants are consistently getting 700+ SATs by category, and you don't want them to demonstrate the things they do in their field that demonstrates their passion, then how do you differentiate them?"
Pretty much everything that has an if statement would break, besides there already exists an if expression:

'foo' if foo else 'bar'
I don't think there is anything wrong in being driven by the ego.

Being ego driven is not pathological alone and in itself and I think is necessary for achieving most great things.

What would 'non-ego driven' achievement look like? Are there any concrete well known examples of such a thing?
I made it about 2/3 of the way through Wasp Factory, first book I've tried by this author. I just couldn't find a reason to keep going, the book didn't do it for me. I think I quit shortly after he killed the little girl by tying her to a kite and letting her go over the ocean - too absurd for me I guess.
The Most Hated UI and UX Pattern of 2018
On-Chain Vote Buying and the Rise of Dark DAOs
from toolz import compose
Quoting from the first photo example:

"In the early 17th century, buildings were taxed by the number of floors leading up to the cornice of the roof.

Architect François Mansart ingeniously responded to this rule by hiding an additional story or two under the roof for additional living space, rendering it exempt from taxation."

...and hence the "distinctive architecture of Paris, with its mansard roofs".

You have to read the article, not just look at the pictures.
Incremental Adoption of Terraform (2017)
Nope: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/27662/do-greeks...
The problem with such an academic (pun!) view is it misses the politicization of gender and race in society. That's why you get the "oh look they think they need more of a certain gender or ethnicity".

Additionally, you're casting an individual who happens to have certain characteristics as a member of a group of people who share those characteristics (and more often than not it's a concentration on a very particular characteristic as opposed to the individual as a whole). "We need more black women in the student body" is not a valid reason to take on a specific black woman as a student. Of course, dismissing that woman based on those characteristics is also ridiculous.

Like you've said, this is a very complex topic that definitely requires further research. The pity is that operational regulations (and in a few cases even laws) are being changed before this research has had a chance to take place.
Funny anecdote about that: I briefly worked in one of those "startup inside a megacorp" companies, which had the typical trendy NYC startup look, open floor plan, free snacks and lunch, etc. Fairly often, you would see upper management types from the headquarters walking investors around. One of my coworkers, who worked for the company for many years, believed that we were basically just a zoo to look exciting for the investors compared to the stuffy corporate office. Good developer, here's a banana!

Of course I don't think that's necessarily 100% true, but it always stuck with me.
Obligatory Shakespeare wants to talk to you.
Western Union made a bunch of press by announcing they would be leveraging Ripple to streamline their international payments and reduce costs.

Last month they announce that they are parting ways as the Ripple hype did not deliver:
http://fortune.com/2018/06/13/ripple-xrp-cryptocurrency-west...
I wonder how Lyft and Uber have avoided ADA requirements.
Living in Germany, I've discovered such lovely organisations such as "VG-Wort". Apparently we have to pay this lovely organisation 334.40 euros for each copier and 300.9 euros for each printer per year to print out copyrighted information. This seems to include copyrighted documents we have paid for via subscriptions. Seems like these rentier organisations propagate like crazy in Germany (also see GEMA). Of course VG-Wort's homepage says "yes to the European copyright reform proposal".
> Won't Be Happy

Why so negative. I like how Europeans/Chinese/Everyone stands behind their companies and expect them to succeed globally. USA on other hand is bent on destroying/defaming their own.
I'm going to echo my previous comment elsewhere in the thread, when talking about diversity in HE, they're not just talking about BAME, gender, or religion, but background.

This is socioeconomic factors, this is high school value-add, this is location, this is previous family members attending an HE institution, this is performance in the face of adversity.

Diversity isn't a box-ticking exercise to make the front of the brochure have different sorts of people on it, but recognising that there are a wealth of different barriers and paths to "equality of opportunity".

To boil it down to "only the best people who are in the position to be best at it should be able to do it" completely ignores the fact that there are groups of people (through circumstance, or through no fault of their own birth) who would never have access to the same opportunity to succeed. To not only accept that, but to make some allowances (and in HE, the amount we're talking about is exceptionally minor in the vast majority of cases) so that outweighted performance proportional to background (contextual) rather than absolute performance is the factor you're looking at to consider giving someone the opportunity, seems innately fair to me.
Current and silt, I imagine
If you click on the example image to view it in a new tab, you can select the text there. It could be improved, afaict you can only select a single line of text at a time and if you select the current line being typed then the selection is cleared when that line is modified.
I am not sure I agree it is a symptom of something wrong. Merit has been the major factor in these decisions which is why Jews and Asians have been so overly represented with respect to their population size. This is how things should be in terms of who to let in, and there is significant evidence that these immutable characteristics DO have a bearing on the quality of the candidate.

However, we should NEVER consider these characteristics. Instead we should considered the merit of the candidate. I don't care if my surgeon is an African refugee who escaped a crazed warlord and has an incredible story. I care that they are one of the best possible people in the world to be performing this surgery because not everyone is equipped to perform it and I don't want to die because they aren't able to handle this position.
You're thinking of swift from a banking customer perspective.

The banks don't pay high fees to Swift, they just charge you high fees.

But, if you can avoid that with crypto then good on you.
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Man, Adrien Chen has done some really interesting pieces while at the New Yorker. I'm constantly impressed by his ability to cover niche parts of web culture and technology in a way that is always engaging and at least close to topical.

Other recommended reads:

A "Daily Show" style satirical program tries to get off the ground in Nigeria: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/22/using-comedy-t...

Making ironic, absurd art and gaining an internet following: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/brad-troemel-t...

Lessons from the radio era for the "fake news" era: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/04/the-fake-news-...
Is that speed increase still there if you use Postgres' JSON(B) storage?
In your system, one might not even be compelled to finish any book at all. Instead, read as much as you want, at any pace you want, and drop the book once you don't see any need to read it further - maybe you got bored or felt you've extracted everything meaningful out of it.
When deciding whether to buy a book at a book store, I do not usually have a luxury of reading the first fifty pages; at least, I seem to be able to discern whether I would not like the book by simply opening the book on a random page and giving it a quick look. If, for example, the book consists mostly of conversations, I see it as a "talking heads" book and lose interest; there may also be other things that could immediately put me off, like "hither and thither".
> Every car I've ever owned had km on the speedometer.

Same here. (Although, I've driven a couple cars that only had a single scale of digits on the gauge. Pressing a button would toggle the meaning of the numbers from mph to km/h and swing the needle around to point at whatever was correct.)
No, what I'm describing is a deep interest in something. Obsession is the pathological end of this spectrum but 'being driven' in and itself is not a negative thing.
I think this is pretty close to being 100% true. Expensive tech workers function more like office furniture in most companies, where the executives don’t actually care about productivity anyway, beyond a few senior engineers who decide everything anyway.
Airbnb tests earlier payouts for hosts
They can't. Their 60% is in escrow. 1 billion XRP is released each month and the remainder of the unused XRP is put back into escrow after that month. https://ripple.com/xrp/market-performance/
"OneTab" is another popular extension with the same issue. Switched to ff+"tabs aside" since then.
It has absolutely nothing to do with taxation.

It's simply easier (and cheaper) to add floors in the future that way.
Thanks for the heads up - I'll check them out!