skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You have to look at the effect of the noise on the statistics of the bits,

Yes. Soft combining (in systems designed for it) isn't even done on bits, it's done on the actual analog (well, a digitised version of the analog value, sometimes termed a "log likelihood ratio") values of the signal in question -- before any quantisation happens.

This isn't to say that you can't apply the techniques here (where stuff obviously gets quantised unless you can find a way to get the raw signal from the photodiodes), but you need access to bits with the least amount of error-correction involved (or find a way to infer what the statistics of the original raw bits are from what the decoding machinery outputs).
I've actually very interested in finding a solution to this problem as well. I think the issue is that regular users who are more likely to give honest reviews currently don't have an incentive to write one as there's nothing to gain, but potentially something to lose. If everyone is rewarded instead of just the ones who give positive reviews (i.e ones who receive free stuff, getting paid for etc,), then the ratio of fake/legit reviews might balance out. And we just need a better UI to show the most relevant + recent reviews for each star rating. For example, in https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DNTWTKH#customerReviews someone mentioned "All the reviews are non verified!! 5 starts with 100+ reviews...... something is fishy!!". It also shows that 54 people found it helpful. So think that's a neat feature.

I think blockchain might be a good use case for this. Cencorship resistant, decentralized review, not controlled by a single company, and anyone can contribute, and see the reviews (i.e via browser extension). And everyone is rewarded by currency when they provide a review. Just not sure how to prevent spam, and deal with people gaming the system. Perhaps a staking system could be introduced wherein a user would lose their stake if the review proved to be inauthentic (proving it comes with its own problems). Anyway, these are just some of things I've been pondering about before.
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It's pretty ubiquitous. Union membership in Australia has been in a continuous decline since I arrived in 1987 and there are huge residual resentments to the union movement which I think are overplayed, but alas real.

In ICT, I think the 'somebody elses problem' syndrome is pretty huge. Amazon ICT staff get really good pay and conditions and don't appear to feel strong solidarity with the warehouse workers. Google smart people get huge fringe benefits, the gardeners and food and cleaning staff are on contract and somehow 'don't count' but even worse, some ICT staff in Google are indirect hires through third companies, and even they get shat on (from what i read) and nobody much cares.

TL;DR I think a lot of people have forgotten what solidarity means.
You sound like the tsar of the Bureau of Censorship. I stated my point clearly and backed it up with links. Banning my account only confirms the censorship and intolerance of different opinions.
The last time I needed headphones, I turned this on its head and bought AmazonBasics brand. Any chance of commingling there? Anyway they were great. I went back to buy more, but they were sadly discontinued.
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See if you can get it in liquid form. I have a bottle with a dropper; each drop contains 120 micrograms. (So 8.5 drops is 1mg.) I don't use it very often, but if I have to wake up unusually early I'll take 2-3 drops around 20 minutes before bed, and it definitely helps make me sleepy when I'd normally still be awake.
Do You Realize? https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06VX1QQHX/ref=oh_aui_d_de...

It was only 99 cents, but I wasted at least a couple of hours on it, which is what really annoys me.
Britain's first attempt to get into the EU was vetoed by de Gaulle; a strange was of repaying the UK's effort in getting France a permanent seat on the UN security council in 1945.
Touhou! I dont see that everyday on hackernews.
For something like hiking poles, I really recommend REI. It may cost a bit more but you get higher quality materials and great customer support.
Meriton is run by Harry Triguboff who is one of a generation of migrant financiers, industrialists and corporate heads who defined postwar Australia. He has a pretty strong involvement in the Australian housing bubble and some people have said online he's propping up the price boom, as Chinese investors duck out of the market.

I've also read that he retains substantive control of the apartment complex body corporate, to milk it for post-construction fee income, which can be a long, long tail of money. And, he can stop the BC voting to reduce management fees, or stop it forcing the developer to fix post-construction minor slipups.
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HNCute is my personal favorite, I don't use a non-browser or mobile client.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hncute%C2%A0a-pret...
There is some etiquette involved. You don't want to be the first person there, just as you should avoid being the 'lingerer' who stays too long or even worse needs to be asked to leave explicitly.
> The full depth of applied understanding comes from personal interest & experience. Whether or not a person with such interest pursues a CS degree is completely orthogonal.

It's not orthogonal, but rather highly correlated. Combinatorics, graph theory, computer architecture, etc., will all be part of a university CS curriculum. Someone who has a CS degree will probably know those things (or at least recall them after a brief refresher).
"Boba lovers can also choose to do what Supervisor Tang suggests: carry a metal straw just for bubble tea."

Great idea... And, if someone attacks you at night, do what Jon Snow suggests: "stick em with the pointy end"...
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Amazon accepts returns for 30 days and pays for shipping if you select "Item defective or doesn't work" for your return reason. However, that kind of con may still be very profitable for merchant since many buyers won't bother returning.
1. Pay for couple hundred 5-star reviews before Christmas
2. Get tens of thousands of orders
3. Send people cheap defective items that costs 1/10 of price to manufacture
4. Profit! Even if 80% of buyers return, it could still be profitable.
> Not only that but you can expect to get better performance from the JIT than AOT because the JIT can perform optimisations which are impossible for the compiler.

I can’t help myself, but the JVM performs at par with managed AOT languages (Go, Haskell, OCaml, etc) and strictly slower than the unmanaged AOT languages (C, C++, Rust). The JVM does outperform various AOT Java compilers, but that’s probably an artifact of the decades of optimizations that went into the JVM; the same investment in an AOT compiler would close the gap to within the margin of error. Anyway, sorry for my compulsive nitpicking; hopefully it was interesting.
It seems that you have built the IO type and it's monadic properties into the language? I am talking about the concrete type of IO has and how using it, without the monads as abstraction would be so cumbersome that haskell "needed" monads.

You can't change the semantics but you can emulate the desired semantics, which is what i argue IO type does.
Uh, how is oracle a dying organization?
Well, I like it, but I have obvious bias.
Why would you need to build a railgun? Nuking Ceres a bunch of times at the correct angle should achieve the same thing.

But - there's a non-zero chance that this collision, whether by railgun or nuke, endangers life on earth. Problematic, but I love the idea otherwise.
It's just unicode.

And I think it's good browsers will change it into the the dashed version.

Because: www.аррlе.com/
And even with nuclear winter, super-volcano, giant meteorite or other extinction-level event, the least hospitable places on Earth still beat Mars.

Sure, an extra backup on Mars helps... but let's keep the backups we can do now, first.

Also: spaceships... and tunnels. Next Elon enterprises should include underwater, Antartica or mountain-top habitats... and good practice for a Mars colony.
Well, a computer playing chess is simply enumerating all possible boards. Which is the same way that a GAN produced “art”. Humans do it creatively because that’s how you do it if you lack exhaustive computing power and memory. In neither case is a computer mimicking that process of a human, they simply arrive at the same outcome by a brute force means.
For cabs, driver overhead is about 49 cents a dollar while for truck its 38 cents a dollar [1]. However average transportation cost for retail goods is only 2-3% of total revenue [2]. So the net increase in revenue is actually about 1% for retailers - although its significant savings for trucking companies.

Now consider the fact that each truck carries 100s of thousands of dollars of goods. The wages you pay to driver can easily compensate for the insurance benefits because insurance companies may cover for human mistake but not for the algorithms mistake. Even if autonomous algorithm was 10X better than human, when it takes on responsibility of driving 1000 trucks, it would commit 100X more accidents than an average human. If a truck driver gets in to serious accident every 20 years, an algorithms will be blamed for a serious truck accident every 2.4 months - even if it was 100X better than human! It's an inescapable law of large numbers. (PS: this doesn't mean there are more accidents in total. It means number of blames assigned to same entity is much higher even though overall accident count is smaller).

The autonomous trucking had been attractive only for one reason really: You can avoid last mile. Highways are much more easier for autonomous driving where you rarely have to deal with crossing peds, traffic lights, round abouts etc.

[1] http://atri-online.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ATRI-Opera...

[2] https://www.supplychainconsortium.com/Leadership-Forum/2009/...
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This only works if your brand is well know already, so it's unlikely for this to be a major trend.
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How would it create extra work for him, unless he's manually entering emails and password into the usual email sites?

In all likelihood he tries every single entry he gets against the top 100 juiciest sites (banking, email, etc), and records all successful hits.
Not including a sample of the audio he/she ripped in an article such as this should be considered a type of crime.
Depends on the culture. Historically if you told a German 5:00, that meant 5:00 - nor 4:59, not 5:01. "Fashionably late" is an American thing.
I genuinely do appreciate the qualification. Too often does the internet feel like it's by Americans for Americans. Then I'm left there with "b-b-but you make it sound like the whole world works that way!" moments.
If there is a gym close to you, I recommend rock climbing if you are looking for something both mentally and physically stimulating. It’s like solving a puzzle (figuring out how to do the climb) and then executing by having the strength and technique to do it. It’s an absolute blast. Been doing it for a couple years and it brings me a lot of happiness. Plus the community is so open and welcoming! Slowly all my friends have become people I’ve met from those communities.
As I understand it, an enormous percentage of global trade sails through the South China Sea. From a pragmatic standpoint, it behooves American interests to support the Vietnamese and Philippine territorial claims so that one nation (China) does not militarily and/or politically dominate such a vital trade route.

From an idealistic standpoint, America supports the notions of state sovereignty and the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea simply out of principle. Like Apple’s stance on customer data privacy, the U.S. government defends freedom as a matter of pragmatism first, and then talks up the altruistic angle :)
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+1 pro move.
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Theobromine is theorized to be what causes some people (I'm one of them) to get migraines from chocolate.

Although the research in this area is very inconclusive afaik, it could even be placebo.
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Yeah, I'm hoping there was just some info missing from the article, but this decision seems all sorts of fucked up.

All Trip Advisor Review Express really does automate the process of requesting reviews on Trip Advisor. It's not much harder to just email out requests to guests yourself. So is this decision saying if you only emailed requests to people who thought would give you a good review, but not a bad review, that you are guilty of something?

If so, literally 99% of businesses would be guilty of this. When someone calls to complain, every business tries to handle it in house. It's not like they say "Oh, I'm sorry you had a bad experience, let me get you the contact info for BBB so you can complain to them, and be sure to post a bad review on our Facebook page!"

What about all those apps that pop up a dialog that says "Do you love our app?" and if you say yes it takes you to the app store, and if you say no it shows an internal complaint dialog?
I think it's basically impossible to prepare for. Finding jobs for these folks can't be done effectively in a top down manner. Retraining programs haven't been found to be very effective. We might extend additional unemployment benefits to people, but that will be a purely political issue when it comes around, not something that really requires planning/infrastructure. And making any transitional moves for truckers is going to be hard because there is currently a shortage of truckers already.
The sad thing is he didn’t use open in context manager....
This is just scraping JSON, I'm surprised it made it to the front page. The only thing worth noting is that Reddit is is able to serve that much JSON
Dart anybody?
My gut feel on this, is that if you use a metric to infer if you will get a positive review and only show the popup in those cases, you might be in conflict of this ruling
So how long does it take to change the mindset and behavior of a complete country?
~80 years?
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Your evidence seems to contradict what you are saying. From your second link:

"A total of 3,986 people died in large truck crashes in 2016. Seventeen percent of these deaths were truck occupants, 66 percent were occupants of cars and other passenger vehicles, and 16 percent were pedestrians, bicyclists or motorcyclists. The number of people who died in large truck crashes was 27 percent higher in 2016 than in 2009, when it was the lowest it has been since the collection of fatal crash data began in 1975. The number of truck occupants who died was 47 percent higher than in 2009."
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It’s often argued here that the purpose of a CS degree is “not to get you a job” but to “become a better citizen of the world” and if you just wanted to learn something to get a job “you should go to a trade school”.
> Then we choose to use `IO` (i.e. a monad) to implement that solution.

Yes, we are in agreement, however i am arguing that haskell had to use monads here otherwise it would be very difficult to use.

> As long as we teach monads as if they have anything to do with IO we're confusing people.

Sure, but the introduction of monads in haskell came out of a real necessity is my point. Category theory is powerful tool for abstraction and useful in any language.

> But monads don't control order of evaluation. They've got nothing to do with order of evaluation.

Right, but they can hide the trick and make it all seem transparent, which imho is very important point to keep in mind.
$1500/mo would cover most basics besides rent.
This is why we can't have nice things -- it is just destroying the value of stars for no good reason. Hopefully, it is not popular.

I wish there was a list of Gitstarred users, so I know which projects have the fake stars, and thus should be avoided.
Completely agree.

And it's worth adding that both of these proposed design options are great work in isolation; separate from any existing market concerns, these would make for great logo systems.

But the biggest problem for any redesign is that the current Firefox globe is just so damn good. It has been refined numerous times over the past decade but iconographically—when viewed at a small size for short bursts of time—it has barely changed since the original in 2003. Each refinement has simplified the design to a point where further simplification is simply not justifiable for reasons of aesthetics or utility.

Look at the progressive simplification of the QANTAS flying kangaroo logo over the years. [0] The third-most recent logo is utterly iconic and timeless. The second-most recent iteration teetered on the edge of a cliff of oversimplification and gave the kangaroo clown feet. The current logo? The only reason that it isn't an obvious trainwreck, the only reason isn't immediately obvious that they've fallen off the cliff is because it evokes memories of the older logos when the kangaroo actually looked like a kangaroo. They've doubled down on the clown feet and given it a gradient that makes zero sense. The overall shape is so abstract that it might as well be a boomerang-like throwing or slicing implement. But it does look super modern.

[0] http://mascola.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/line-up-1200x8...
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He should've also used load instead of loads, although in this case is not such a big problem (if he closed the file) because everything is getting loaded in memory anyway.
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It might cover rent. Very low-income people typically have Section 8 housing, which is subsidized.
Letsencrypt needs a backup domain and a better registrar
Firefox is used by people that had it installed by friends/family/techsupport in place of IE. With exception where Google has managed to scam Chrome on them.
Out of curiosity, what are the major advantages Ruby has to offer over JavaScript?
> Even if autonomous algorithm was 10X better than human, when it takes on responsibility of driving 100 trucks, it would commit 10X more accidents than an average human. It's an inescapable law of probability.

Could you explain this? Are you comparing an algorithm driving 100 trucks to 1 human driving 1 truck?

The single algorithm will not outperform the individual driver if it drives more trucks, but it will outperform the aggregate group of drivers needed to drive the same amount of trucks.
Nice. Rent was $300/mo in my time, 15 yrs ago.

I still have $8k in student loan debt held by Edu secretary Betsy DeVos’ Navient (aka Mom Corp).
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>not dumb
>never understood why they couldn't just take a test two hours late.

I see a contradiction here.
Maybe if you're constraining 'general purpose manipulation' to mean 'rearranging blocks'.

I'm thinking more along the lines of "can build a PC" or "repair a machine." I don't think we'll need to lap flint spearheads in 2018 and beyond. I don't think we need to have repair bots play the fiddle so much on the surface of Mars. I do think that the manipulation tasks useful to a 21st century civilization are "within the grasp" of simpler manipulators than the human hand. The human hand is freakishly complex. If we can get 80% of the functionality for 25% the cost, that will be a win. (For the most difficult 20%, there are still humans.)

That complexity (and especially the extra brain power to run it) costs energy. If it wasn't useful, we wouldn't have it.

Of course it's useful! No one disputes that! It doesn't matter. You're fallacious in supposing that 1) all of the complexity and capability is absolutely essential in current and future contexts and 2) that evolution had bought it with maximal possible efficiency. What we understand about evolution tells us that the 1st isn't necessarily true, and that the 2nd is probably not!

Yes, there will be a place for human hands. But some huge fraction of the current uses of human hands will probably be replaced by very capable but much simpler manipulators -- simply due to economics!
If 100% of the stocks were passive invested, then the game for banks would be to list companies as fast as possible, with as high capitalization possible. Who cares if its overvalued? nobody is looking. As soon as a stock is publicly listed it gets bought.

IT would not work. Not poorly, it just wouldn't work at all. This tells me that there is a balance on how much active/passive investment can there be, and at some point they will be balance by some criteria.
It's not really a desktop podcast manager, in that it does not run as a native application nor does it actually download podcasts, but I use the Pocket Casts web interface to listen to podcasts on my desktop/laptop.

I use Pocket Casts on my Android device, so the fact that the web client syncs both my list of podcasts and played status is nice. I can be listening to something in the car, get home, walk inside, and pick up where I left off on my desktop without having to do anything other than open the site and click play.
I don't like Javascript as a language. Everything from OOP to imports feel hacked in rather than having been supported by the language itself. One can't even add 0.1 and 0.2 together and get what you'd expect. Variable definitions are global scoped by default, semicolons can randomly be omitted, etc. There are just so many things about the language that feel hacky or unpolished.

So it's fast these days... great? There's more that I seek for in a language than just speed. PHP7 and Pypy also do a pretty good job, and one can always offload the heavy lifting to some compiled code if it's really that important to squeeze the last few percent of performance out.

The only thing unique to JS (afaik) that I really like is addressing dictionary keys as object properties (`a={'test':512}; console.log(a.test);` instead of having to do `console.log(a['test']);`). I'm not sure why that is so oddly satisfying, but it is.
Apologies that the article is behind a paywall, but I think there is interesting information in the abstract.
The seller can also just hit and run leaving Amazon with the losses.
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Regarding your last point, Crystal has the same features as go in that regard, while at the same time being vastly more expressive. This mostly due to the standard library in Crystal being so nice for work with collections (which perhaps isn't surprising as the APIs are heavily influenced by Ruby). Blocks being overhead free is another necessary part for this to work well.
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Can you parse the owl grammar with owl?
> in order to block progress

This is your subjective interpretation of the facts. Learn how they complain (in the end, they only can complain about technical facts: learn them, and be correct next time), and you will not receive complaints anymore.

I'm guessing you're new to code reviews right?
The Bible makes no mention of humans living on other planets. Mars is also named after a Greek god. It would be a good bet you'd be out of His jurisdiction.
What I'm keen for is a decentralized google docs clone, supporting collaboration and syncing.

Of course, I'd like the ability to have my notes be private as well.

Is there anything like that on the horizon?
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