skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a good metaphor.

It's interesting that they would characterize Americans (at least those of an "international" style that study abroad or socialize with Brazilians) as peaches, though. My first impression with an American is typically "this is a very very honest person that will hold me to a high standard".

This is maybe where the coconuts/peaches idea breaks: you can be someone who is "open" in the sense of having a Bayesian prior that people are generally good; but also be very quick to change their minds (unforgiving) and very literal (which is a kind of reactionary take on the ambiguity of superficial relationships).

So the spectrum I want to draw is more like ambivalence-judgementalness. (I want to keep ranting about Joao Gilberto vs. Chet Baker as jazz-pop singers and how one uses dissonant x/9/11/13 chords as a way to open up interpretation on the underlying basic harmonic structure while the other uses the same extended chord-color palette to create smoother but definite harmonic structures.)
Ryu fast number to string
Facebook's motivations are profit. Nothing more and nothing less.
Fair. I take what I think is a reasonable and respectful approach, though: it takes only a partial IP address (which I don't look at), it respects Do Not Track, it anonymizes as much as possible, and it's basically a glorified hit counter. It's pretty lightweight, it's the only analytics script I use, and it's localized rather than sending users' data to a giant company.

This article should not be seen as an all-or-nothing approach. It's more the amount and type that concerns me.
Anyone play their mining game where you are a drill?
I'm really surprised by this. When it comes to Customer Feedback (as opposed to Product Reviews), Amazon institutes an all-or-nothing policy. If any part of a Customer Feedback is out of policy, the entire feedback will be removed (if a seller reports it, that is). So it's quite surprising to me that they'd treat Product Reviews differently and actually edit the reviews.
Scientists endorse billion-dollar collider to look inside protons and neutrons
This is where I admit that I have bookmarks for over a dozen HN users' comment pages.
Possible Church Built on the Site of Constantine’s Conversion to Christianity
Oh woops, I accidentally duplicated that question without realizing it a few weeks ago: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/458034/fullscreen-m...

Took me ages to figure out it was virtual box that was the issue, not gnome or vscode. A shame, I liked my VM in Windows set up. Now I had to suffer through installing Ubuntu natively on a gen3 Thinkpad x1 yoga which has been a new class of nightmare thanks to Lenovo nuking critical sleep functionality:https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion/X1-Carbon-Gen-...

Getting my tools just like I like them always has such an exhausting spin-up time.
I have the previous model, the 9360, and my only real complaint is the touch pad. Palm rejection is just terrible, so much so that I've considered just turning off the touch pad and using a mouse.

One nice feature of the touch pad is that the scrolling direction for the mouse is independent of that for the touch pad. This means I can set the mouse to work like mice always have, before Apple invented "natural" scrolling, but have the touch pad use "natural" mode. For some reason, this actually feels right to me. I wish my Macbook Pro could do this.
Any info on when paid rides are going to roll out?
Mentorship?

Da Vinci wasn't looking for mentorship from Messer Fazio, Brera Friar, Giannino the Bombardier, Benedetto Potinari, Maestro Antonio, master of hydraulics or Maestro Giovanni Francese.

For each one he had a very specific topic on which he wanted to download their expertise: "how to repair a lock, canal and mill in the Lombard manner", "the means by which the tower of Ferrara is walled without loopholes" etc

That's what I've seen in practice. Find the expert. Be respectful of their time. Be specific. Do the same when it's your turn.
I'm currently overcoming this fear myself after putting off flying for several years. It sounds like it might help you to learn more about how flying works.

Although it seems dangerous, turbulence is really nothing to be afraid of. I would recommend reading either Flying with Confidence [0] or SOAR [1] to learn more.

Think about how often pilots and flight attendants fly and how routine every flight is for them. Commercial aviation is incredibly safe. Even in the very unlikely event that you experience a plane crash, it's quite likely that you survive that crash.

Consider these statistics[2]:

> "In 2016 there were about 163 aviation 'accidents' worldwide, including those involving business jets and military transports as well as jet and propeller airliners.

A grand total of 24 resulted in fatalities, meaning only about 15 per cent of all accidents in this grouping - which themselves are extremely rare events - actually resulted in lives being lost."

I wouldn't recommend avoiding flying since that won't do anything to help your phobia. In the past 3 months I've gone on 11 flights and have 3 more planned next month. I'm actively working on getting over my phobia by flying often so that my brain gets desensitized to flying and doesn't perceive it as a threat.

You can also talk to your physician about your fear of flying and they'll most likely prescribe you something like Xanax to help. There are lots of tools out there to help you get over your fear and I'm confident you'll find something to help you :)

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Flying-Confidence-proven-programme-fl...
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Soar-Breakthrough-Treatment-Fear-Flyi...
[2] https://www.thesun.co.uk/travel/2535002/plane-crash-survival...
WTF is going on with that URL? I get and endless loop of what appear to be redirects.

P.S. Update: It appears to be something in my browser configuration, perhaps a bad extension update.
I would have much more respect for the Republicans if they had actually come up with some reality based proposals how to improve things for not wealthy patients instead of pretending that getting rid of Obamacare is the only thing needed to fix the "best healthcare system in the world".
I wonder if this is getting easier as certain genres of English writing transition to using non-gendered pronouns.
In my experience the only difference with left-handed writing is that our letters aren't as clean because we are typically taught by right-handed teachers in a right-handed classroom so we have to figure out how to draw the letter-forms ourselves, and I don't recall any of my teachers actually telling us this or showing us how to do it left-handed.
> Serious question: When does having 10,000 full time FB employee "moderators" to content expressed via their platform cross into the literal definition of Thought Police?

When FB moderators can impose penalties outside the context of Facebook, like jailing people.

Other than that, Facebook's control of content on its own site may be a good or bad decision, but it's nothing like police power of any kind, “Thought Police" or otherwise.

> When will be the first time a person is (if not having happened already) killed for their postings to FB?

It has probably happened already, but not because of Facebook exerting moderation.
I don't think you're wrong, but you may be overestimating how quickly they converge on an optimal balance, and what fraction of the bloat is necessary for business purposes. I frequently see sites that slow down my browser and mobile sites that become near unusable, and I doubt that is all necessary for making it pretty and having the right analytics. I've also frequently reviewed the work of front-end devs who just didn't see the easy optimizations they could make.

The bloat persists until there's a clear relationship between some unit of bloat and some concrete loss, but that might not be easy to see, because you don't see the people who long since gave up on your site.

Edit: One illustrative example is disability access accommodations. A lot of them are a net loss to the business, but some of them were obvious improvements no one had thought to do: "Oh, crap, it really does help to have a lip on the curb so you can roll stuff up!"
Based on the category ranking on Amazon of the Carbage Can it looks like he sells ~250 a month which at $20 equates to $5k a month in sales. This could easily equate to the $15k he claims in November/December. Total yearly sales could be around the $80k mark.

Assuming he makes $8, 40% margin, on each unit then that's $32k of profit each year. Capital costs for manufacturing are around $20k. Assuming the capital costs are amortised over 3 years, that's $25k of income each year which isn't great but you can live off it. If you were designing a new product like this every year, then it could make a healthy business.
Skipped 4th through 6th grades. Impressive. Is this innate or did his parents do something to make this happen? Is there anything I'm supposed to be doing with my own kids? How/when do you know when your child has this potential?
Salesforce uses a large quantity of DNS indirection, more than even the large CDNs. I measure the amount of lookups that sites and apps require, and the delay it causes. Most sites on the www only require two lookups.

This is perhaps an example of "... the benefits primarily accrue to the developers of the app and not to the customer."
I used Linux for 10 years (mainly on Lenovos and some early Dell XPS back in the days), then I switched to MacOS about 3-4 years ago and over the last couple weeks I have been trying to go back to Linux because I am sick having to use MacOS everyday. It is a great OS for an everyday user, but not for a developer.

Here is what I tried so far:

1) Dell XPS 9370 Developer edition: This comes preloaded with Ubuntu and it is actually amazing that everything works out of the box. It was too small for me though, and the fan made a rattling noise so I decided to return it. The 4K screen is probably overkill on such a small display. Based on the review people recommend taking the normal screen, it saves a lot of battery and there is not that much difference.

2) Lenovo X1: I didn't like the feel of the Keyboard, and the screen was not that good. Installing Linux (Arch) was easy, but decided to return it.

3) Dell XPS 9570: I have this one for the last two weeks and so far I love it on the hardware level. I would even put it as somehow superior to my MacBook Pro. The downside is that Linux is not well supported at all. I have installed Arch so far and spent all my evenings trying to fix all the drivers. So far: The Nvidia drivers are barely working, ACPI needs a lot of tweaks (but it seems I got it working and got my 7 hours of battery). I still need to work on the Touchpad, and couple other things.

So far, the Dell XPS 9570 is a good challenger to the MBP, but installing Linux is still going to be a small challenge
Why Conspiracists Think MH370 and MH17 Were the Same Plane (2016)
They have found a way to bottle prestige which is extremely profitable. It has negative marginal cost and only you can distribute it.
Other than its weird webcam location, it looks great.
Does anyone actually access articles on a per-article basis? I would bet the lion share of downloads (and revenues) are institutional subscriptions.
" I wish my Macbook Pro could do this."

What you describe is a feature of the OS, not the hardware, right?
Everyone does not, in fact, have a book in them
Here in the UK, several airlines run fear of flying courses. They involve a seminar with a psychologist and a pilot, followed by a short exposure flight. They report very high success rates. Is there anything similar in your country?

https://flyingwithconfidence.com/

https://www.flyingwithoutfear.co.uk/
Maybe you'd prefer comparing the code of a website to the amount of useful content on the website, which OP also did. Taking "I'm downloading 100mb worth of stuff (83 Moby-Dicks) to read 72kb worth of plaintext" at face value, we could also say that 0.072% of the data transferred is useful, or, equivalently, that 99.928% of it is crap.
Weaver birds, beavers, bees, ants, termites, etc... Hell, we could even call shelled animals like snails and turtles mobile buildings :P
I don't know if this is researchable but I think the animated Superman TV show shows a human infant going through space before arriving in Kansas. It sounds very close if not identical to what you have here.
Or go to Antarctica. A lot of "normal" web pages don't load.
LHC accelerates its first “atoms”
Some good tips in here and I'll add my own as well. My fear came about like yours did, after a particularly terrifying experience on a flight. Here's what has helped me:

1. I picture what will happen as soon as I land: who will pick me up or where I will go. Rental car? Hotel? Meeting? Dinner? I just keep picturing what happens after the flight.

2. Reading and podcasts don't help me much as my anxiety will just make me not pay attention. What does work is focused work (writing, programming) with loud music.

3. I always watch the flight attendants for signs of fear. Not once have I seen any, even through pretty rough turbulence. I just focus on their faces to look for anything that might make me nervous (this could, of course, backfire).

4. One strange thing that really helped me was flying in a small plane through bumpy weather. I could see out of the front window in the cockpit from where I was sitting and, for some reason, it was much more fun than it was scary. We weren't heading for a mountain, we weren't that high up, all was OK.

5. I've been told that if the plane rips open for some reason, you immediately pass out from the low pressure so all of the things you're fearing - falling from the sky, hanging on for dear life - won't actually be experienced, worst case. Other crashes are just straight into a mountain or water, in which case you're unlikely to survive. You mentioned not being afraid of dying, which is my feeling as well, so those are comforting thoughts, in a morbid sense.

6. I overheard a pilot talking to a woman on one of my flights and he said that the absolute best way to overcome this fear is to go take a flight lesson or some kind of class that lets you pilot a plane, even for a few minutes. I have not tried this but I'd like to.
A significant number of interesting Haskell libraries I found are thin abstractions over some C api. It makes sense that these would be readable.
Is there something for Haskell which serve a similar role as boost to C++? If that is readable, I will be convinced.
I have a fear of heights and also a level of social anxiety. For both meditation has helped me a lot. The fear isn't gone but I can see it for what it is and live with it. This works with a lot of unpleasant things. They are still unpleasant but I accept them and ride with them.
Before you leave the car, do you just leave your trash on the seat or something? Certainly a bag or receptacle is desirable for food waste at the very minimum, and you don't want to gunk up your cupholders or door pockets with such things.

Being in the car for a few hours with an exposed banana peel isn't the greatest, regardless of what happens to it at the destination.
You can't mimic being poor. Enduring whatever isn't that hard when you know it's just a temporary game. At the very least, you don't get the psychological effect.

Despite that, it would still be useful.
Absolutely, but I think with the case of political subversion, it has a much less clear practical impact on their every day users. I could easily see an older person who isn't as technically inclined seeing that this FBI location has a facebook page and just assuming they are legitimate.
Simon Peyton Jones: Linear Haskell (Curry On, Amsterdam)
Mars at Its Closest to Earth Today Until 2287
And I'm going to mark it 'unhelpful', because I don't care about your bad delivery experience. The only people who need to hear about your bad delivery experience work for Amazon customer support.
Yeah, because cross-platform is a PITA. The reason web apps are popular is they're thin-terminals. You write your business logic on your mainframe/terminal server (linux vps) and the web app just handles the user interface. You maintain less portable code, deployment and upgrade is easier, and it simplifies the user experience a bit. The downside being network issues and supporting the server.
Keep in mind that the only reason for why non-utility deployment of solar makes economic sense was due to extremely generous subsidies, and net meter billing.

Which are not going to stick around forever.
He runs this blog:

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/
Yes but it some respects you're comparing apples to oranges. The US political system is perpetually focused on the short term because of the ~4 year election cycle. China has a president for life and single-party rule. They are able to make and execute long term plans, which is why they are currently succeeding at reshaping the global trade landscape. (all roads lead to China, and all that)

It's not just that the government takes over management of the companies, they also manage the population. Where in the US consumers may choose to avoid an entity being mismanaged by the government, in China they may not exactly have that option.
If you want to use NixOs: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Ortuna/b6e95d6baefd2a1683...

-- with the latest kernel, even the webcam is working now (the only thing that didn't).
Writing a book about contemporary occultism.
> They [..] seem to still support him.

With Putin controlling the media and, well, much of public life, what else did you expect? It's not like you can just go do an anti-Putin demonstration without fear for your future.

Don't forget that in all of Russia's history, they've never been a functioning democracy, never had proper free speech for a decent stretch of time. Putin is just the next one in a long line of, well, czars. If, for millennia, an entire country's ethos includes "well, the boss is the boss, innit? what are we gonna do about it?" then reelection is a self-fulfilling prophecy. That does not make the Russians bad people. It just makes them stoic pessimists :-)
I have two thoughts after reading your description of the turbulence.

One is that, flight attendants develop reflexes in response to turbulence, so for it to send 2 of them to the floor it must have been some extremely intense and sudden turbulence.

My second thought is that perhaps one of the greatest sources of your anxiety in that situation was seeing them hit the floor. They’re in a position of authority, part of their job is to make passengers feel safe and to protect them if anything goes wrong. And you just saw the people in that role hit the floor and become vulnerable in a moment of extreme duress.

I would suggest letting the airline know during check-in that you have an irrational fear of flying due to this incident. This will cause the attendants in your class to be debriefed on your condition (this is a daily occurrence for them), and they’ll often give you some extra attention during turbulence, or have the pilot make longer or more frequent announcements reassuring passengers during turbulence.

Another thing I might suggest is meeting up with current or former flight attendants in person. Let them know you’re trying to overcome an irrational fear of flying, and they’ll probably have some stories to tell, and I think you might find that reassuring.

You may have already seen most of the world, but your daughter likely hasn’t, and you likewise have yet to see most of it together with her. So I hope you’re able to overcome this fear, because the world’s cities and topography may not have changed much, but there’s still a whole world of new experiences out there. :) good luck!
Looking at the paper, I think the fact that this is a recommendation algorithm is fairly important.

The big thing is that broadly "the recommendation algorithm" is not some single problem in combinatorics. Rather, it a initially ill-posed problem that yields concrete problems based on simplifying assumptions. IE, sure, the FINAL, SOLVED problem is as Aaronson put it but because different researchers make different simplifying assumptions, that final problem actually hadn't studied that much - half the achievement of the paper is finding simplifying assumptions that are real world-plausible and yield tractable problems ("Obviously, without any restrictions on what T looks like, this problem is ill-posed. We make this problem tractable through the standard assumption that T is close to a matrix of small rank k (constant or logarithmic in m and n). This reflects the intuition that users tend to fall into a small number of classes based on their preferences. With this assumption, it becomes possible to infer information from subsampled data. We can determine the classes a user lies in, and use information about those classes to give a likely-to-be-good recommendation")

The original quantum recommendation algorithm paper involved both a simplifying assumption about the sorts of consumers one was models and a system of sampling to get a good approximation ("The literature on theoretical recommendation systems is fairly scant, because such algorithms quickly run up against the limits of their model, despite them being somewhat far from the results seen in practice.")

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.04271.pdf
>But, her choice to work hard, and do well in those things was her choice. In life she got dealt a straight flush but she played it well.

Yes but the other girl gets dealt a shit hand and still plays it well. The two girls are equally meritorious yet only one will get admitted.

>If we don't focus the cause of that difference

... I am focusing on the cause of that difference. I think the opposite here, that it is you who is failing to consider the cause of that difference.

>I completely agree but you were advocating for Harvard to try and correct for that difference which I do not think they should do because it requires treating someone different because of their race.

Yes, Harvard should correct for that difference because it is unfair to hold someone accountable for a culture they did not choose.

>Example 2: Person A goes to an elite private high school and gets a 4.0. Person B goes to a very poorly ranked public high school and gets a 4.0. It is almost guaranteed that person A learned more. Thus as an college administrator if you only have one acceptance letter to send and want to decide on personal ability, person A gets the letter.

>In my understanding, both example are a merit-based system. In example 2, person B had the deck stacked against them from the start. When we measure personal ability person A has a greater ability and thus more merit. Yet, I feel like you will disagree about this being merit-based.

>Would you be willing to explain why you think the quality of school is irrelevant to merit? It would really help my understanding if you were able to put a working definition to your concept of merit.

To me merit is something that comes from within, not from without. So take a feudal example. It's best to have a king who understands the duties of being a king. Most people in a kingdom will grow up with no real understanding of what is it to be a king. The king's firstborn son however, grows up in an entirely different culture. He will be cultivated from birth and given every advantage in order to turn him into the best king possible. Does that make bloodline aristocracy a merit-based system? After all, at the time of the king's death it is obvious that his son has received the best preparation.

Now, I think if you're a normal person something about that will bother you, it doesn't quite seem like merit. It seems like inherited privilege which has been converted into knowledge, but that knowledge isn't itself merit. I feel the same way about our current system. It is based on inherited privilege which takes place in the realm of knowledge and test scores but it doesn't really strike me as being 'merit.'
All of the anti counterfeiting US currency code in PS probably slows it down.
This is a silly question. It just passed through the FCC and is launching next week.