skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
profundity is relative to the mind that creates the experience of the profound; it's all with respect to some other ideal. what you may consider as trite and lacking substance or meaning, from another perspective may be perceived to be extremely in depth with several layers of indirection and connection to other ideals and with networks of influence going back and forth between said ideals. it's all in how you look at a thing. i certainly agree that some people can be quite cringe inducing with their perception of the profundity of things, but that being said, that cringe is an experience that I am creating within my own mind based on my reaction to their behaviors and expression, not an intrinsic feature of said behaviors and expression. i just think it's important to remember that whatever we say and think, it really truly does define how we actually perceive reality around us and frame the way we interact with the world.
So not getting stolen from by politicians and city officials is now "unfair"

The Statism is strong with this one.
It's our custom tool. NixOS has testing infrastructure built on top of QEMU, and you can use Perl scripts like this in order to automate aspects of testing inside that environment by talking to the QEMU monitor -- for example, you can not only wait for a window, but click a button in that window, then also wait for a service to start afterwords, for example. (If you were testing GUI functionality).

Tests are written in a mix of Nix and Perl automation scripts like this; the Perl scripts control QEMU, but the Nix code describes what is put into the disk images. It's fairly bespoke and tuned to our own needs. The source code for the Perl driver is here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/f148c5c4a1ffa353836bfd...

It can even do multi-machine test setups as another comment pointed out, and it's pretty fun for writing functional demonstrations; for example I've been meaning to use these tools to write examples of doing PostgreSQL replication and failover, etc.
It’s not like they have to make concrete all the time, you would amatorize the concrete capital and environmental costs over the lifetime of the tower.
When I graduated from undergrad, Mechanical Turk was just starting to make inroads in social psych research. One of my friends was actually one of the first students to manage a survey for the social psych professor using MTurk. It's been promoted relatively heavily at conferences since.

It's been discussed here [0] as well, but it's important to highlight that prior to MTurk social psychology studies were (and actually probably still are to a great extent) widely susceptible to the "college sophomore problem" wherein a sample meant to provide conclusions that would generalize to the wider population of the human race was composed almost exclusively of college age children. This meant that a large number of conclusions in social psychology have historically been based on non-representative samples. Methodologically, MTurk can be seen as a major improvement over the status quo in this regard.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17789595
How did they not see this coming. Are they not familiar with another dotcom called Craigslist who had to deal with this very same regulation years ago.

I guess "move fast and break things" applies both to code and the law.
> Let's hope we don't end up with an even more
> pedestrian hostile world than what we have already.

Unless there's a cultural sea change, you can bet on it worsening. If you take presentism out of the equation, what we have now - ie: most roads off limits to humans due to giant metal death machines - is insane.

https://youtu.be/8Q5Nur642BU
Let's investigate this!

For reference, a common electricity mix currently generates about 0.5 tons of CO2 per MWh [0][1].

Now, for the device in question:
Creating 1 ton of cement releases about 1 ton of CO2 [2]. A common ratio of cement per mass of concrete is maybe 1/5 [4]. The article says they found a way to reduce that to a sixth, so we are at about 1/30 of the concrete mass in cement. From the article, each block weighs 35 tons. So we'll just assume 1 ton of cement (and CO2) per block.

The graphic in the article shows ~40 layers of no more than 20x6 concrete blocks can be stacked around the tower, each weighing 35 tons. Therefore, each such installation would cost about 5000 tons of cement or CO2.

So its building cost in cement alone is the equivalent of 10000 MWh. Fully "charged", it stores 20 MWh. It would therefore have to complete 500 full cycles of taking energy available for free (and otherwise lost) and feed it back. Roughly assuming it can do that every week (no idea, really depends), that would be ten years to become CO2 neutral, just in terms of cement. So there's your reference value.

However, I haven't seen this kind of calculation for other energy sources. That would be interesting.

Edit: Here is a review of CO2 from lithium-ion batteries:
https://www.ivl.se/download/18.5922281715bdaebede9559/149604...

They say 150-200 tons of CO2-equivalent (!) per MWh stored, which is very close to the device in the article (in the above estimate it would be 250 tons of CO2 per MWh, although I did not check whether that is pure or CO2 equivalent).

[0] https://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/ (randomly sampled some states)

[1] https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/37... (German statistics)

[2] https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/09/emissions-from-the-...

[3] https://sans10400.co.za/concrete-mixes-by-weight/
Was Legal just sleeping at the wheel? This is a very well known piece of history.

I wonder how this conversation went when they were drawing up this feature.
As it stands, nearly all problems in collecting data on MTurk can be solved by 1) using proper qualifications 2) paying enough.

If anyone is having trouble, feel free to reach out.

Source: Working with MTurk since 2013, including a 3 month internship in the belly of the beast. Starting a related PhD this fall.
The interesting fact is that hawaiian pizza was invented in Canada. You might have guessed from the name Hawaiian Pizza came from Hawaii.

Another similar is Danish bread which was not invented in Denmark but in Vienna.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_pastry
For some reasons it looks so catchy to me. I really like the synergy of minimalism and old retro things like this one. I may used it a template for mine!
It's a form of discrimination though admittedly not the most egregious form of discrimination. The HUD has explicit regulations and guidelines involving "Selective use of advertising media or content" and "Selective geographic advertisements".

The legal threshold for discrimination is set a lot lower for housing than it is in other scenarios For good reason too -- the consequences of discriminated, for example, at a coffee shop are far less impactful than being discriminated for what housing you can find and obtain.
On average, men pick up on visual motion significantly faster than women do
Knives have legal uses.

In the context of housing ads (or employment) these tools DO NOT have legal uses.

Thus they are illegal.
I think you’ve piqued everyone’s curiosity now.
I spent an hour looking and gave up. They all either get banned, don't take registrations, or they ban content too aggressively, especially under categories like racism/sexism/xenophobia/nationalism/socialism/etc, wherein the SJWs leave the terms undefined so that they can ban any opinion they disagree with. I'd love to find a server that is committed to the Chicago Principles.
Wow this is a despicable practice, thanks for sharing.
I don't think many people are going to share their idea unless they are sure it's not something that can be hacked together in a week.

It would be interesting to also see people simply saying "I do" and maybe the "space" it's in?

That too would be encouraging I think.
Aside from mass density, the problem here would be structural integrity. How high can you stack buckets of water before the tower collapses? Probably not 120 meters. It comes as no surprise to me that this would use the same kind of material as a 120 m tall "normal" building.
Makes sense to test the inner unconnected component when you want a focused unit test on the component. FWIW, I greatly prefer integration tests (using JSDOM and enzyme) when working with React/Redux, since they're often easier to write than unit tests and give me much more confidence in the software, and they don't have the speed or reliability downsides that some people talk about with integration tests. Unit tests certainly have their place, though.

As one (admittedly extreme) example, a while back I hit an issue where a refactor caused a very simple crash: just load the app, click a particular button, and it immediately crashes. All relevant components, actions, stores etc had extensive unit tests, but there was no test to make sure that the component dispatched an action that was compatible with what the store wants. I wrote an integration test for it, "load the app and click this button, and assert the intended effect", and it ended up being about 5 lines. It exercised the same code paths as the hundreds of lines of unit tests, and gives me much more confidence in the overall correctness of the system.
”In experimental fields, one just pulls data out of thin air or one just discards observations that are contrary to the hypothesis being tested. This attitude is so rampant in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and disciplines that use statistics.”

Please cite direct evidence that this is “rampant”.

Articles making claims of “replication crisis” without direct evidence of fraud do not count. There’s a huge gap between failure to replicate and fraud, and quite frankly, most of the replication crisis media tends to repeat the same stories, providing little additional proof to back up the claims of “crisis”.
http://omgenomics.com/circa
Circa is an easy-to-use tool for building circos plots with genomics data. I built the visualization piece (and most of the UI) with D3.js and made it into a desktop app with Electron. Initially sold it for $25 per user (one-time cost), which made about $750 a month. Then some professors told me it was way too cheap, so I increased the price to $100. Since then, it has made about $1,500 every month for the last year. This week I started to add some new features and will soon make some more demo videos to see if I can increase that number. :)
I think it has worked this well so far because building circos plots is a well-known painful problem in the genomics field. And it was one that I had experienced myself during my PhD work. I was surprised at how many academics actually are willing to pay for software, but still unsure how big that market actually is and how much of it I am already covering. The nice thing about a tiny niche like this is that when you Google "circos", Circa's tutorial and demo videos show up on the first page.
And they’re free to take that position and face the consequences.
2.5m is 8 foot 2.4 inches according to Google (decimals in measurement that are in inches is a thing? I’m metric so don’t know).
The standard ceiling distance between floors must be 8 feet in the U.K..
They already don't last.
That's poor consolation when a car mows down your dog... or toddler.
Stacking flywheels reminds me of that NES robot attachment. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.O.B.
I had an X1 Carbon and had so many issues I returned it for a refund after 2 months. I had two replacements and they both had quality control issues. Then the engineer who came to fix it broke the screen, twice! How you ask? Unfortunately with the X1 being so thin the display bezel is a piece of sticky plastic which is a nightmare to align on-site (really should be done in a factory with an alignment machine) and when the engineer tried to remove it to align it again he pulled the polarising film off the screen. Shocking.

Thank god for strong EU consumer laws that I got my money back.

Also the fact Lenovo refuse to offer an option to switch between S3 and S0i3 sleep in the BIOS is very frustrating on a business laptop. They only support S0i3 which doesn't even play well with Microsoft's own Modern Standby so is almost pointless for me. Almost daily I would open my bag up to a super hot laptop and almost zero battery as it didn't actually go to sleep like expected.
> Most of your time is wasted walking back and forth

If the tunnel is two ants wide then the relay is basically the same as a long circuit. Every bit of dirt needs to be carried the entire length of the tunnel, so it doesn't really matter if one and carries it the whole way or if n ants do -- the number of ant-miles full and empty are the same, it's just the relative cost of passing manoeuvres and handoffs that matter (or nonlinear carrying costs -- maybe it's easier on the ants to have shorter, more frequent changes between carrying and not carrying.)
> Facebook isn't discriminating

This feels like a technicality - Facebook is overtly enabling, perhaps even encouraging discrimination.
I think "the people who adopt a low-card diet" would do well to pay attention to a study that reports increased mortality for people who reduced their carbohydrate intake less than they have.

If a moderate reduction of carbohydrates in your diet is bad for you, almost entirely eliminating them does not look very promising.
I thought it had improved with the military operation? Which neighborhoods are so bad as to have to leave the country?
Blink Estimation (2013)
This is very true. I happily discuss my ideas publicly for feedback. Helps with failing faster. Execution and luck are more important than the idea itself. In fact, I would say most ideas aren't really worth much (some are, but those are one in a million).
The telecom industry is already 40 years down this path, the level of regulations, state, county and city E911 fees and operating regulations is impressive. If scrappy, insolvent players like Sprint can write code to comply with onerous, numerous and varying regulations across 7000 different LATAs, Facebook can handle writing code to comply with national laws in 200 odd countries.
If you use Windows, Netflix has a native Windows app that uses hardware decoding and DRM so you get both less CPU/battery usage and higher resolution.
They weren't the kind of visionary founders that we know the names of.
No, it implies that they at least appeared to be trying, even if it wasn’t very effective.

As it is they don’t seem to have put in the smallest possible effort to comply and decided to ignore the law completely.
My question stands.

It's easy in current ad targeting setups to limit an ad to running on particular sites or to prohibit an ad from running on certain sites.

If someone were to run an ad and configure the campaign such that it appeared on the Wall Street Journal website and not the Teen Vogue website, would this action have any different moral or legal character from deciding to run a print at in the Wall Street Journal instead of Teen Vogue?

Why or why not?
More generally, housing discrimination will happen at the individual level in all sorts of subtle and not so subtle ways that can’t be generally stopped. That doesn’t mean you throw your hands up and say that we might as allow any sort of discrimination.
Facebook isn't a party to a potential rental contract or contract to sale. They aren't in a position to deny someone housing.
Clear and cogent communication of my own thoughts lead to me having lower grades. Lower grades lead to fewer opportunities - less chances of getting a scholarship, recommendation, access to certain programs, etc.

It depends on what you seek from university. Unfortunately
at the undergraduate level, its role has largely shifted from a place of learning into a provider of credentials that act as a signal to employers. With the high cost of tuition (especially in the USA), you want a good return on your investment, not waste your time engaging with the material at the detriment of your chances of success.

It seems a far better strategy to maximize your GPA while spending the least possible amount of time on the assigned material, in order to have time to pursue your own interests and be able to more effectively learn the things you want to learn.
Of course Facebook should allow racial filtering. Not understanding this is a fundamental failure to understand minority businesses.

This isn't about makeup, or placing ads in a targeted magazine like Ebony. It's about real estate and housing, and the laws governing that kind of advertising are well-established and very clear.

I worked briefly in large multi-unit housing, and got some of the training related to this sort of thing (though not specifically to advertising).

We were taught that if you're showing an apartment building to someone, you can't ask their age. You can't ask if they have children. You can't ask if they're pregnant.

You can't even do seemingly innocent things like ask a woman who is pregnant or visiting with children if she'd prefer a unit near the playground. Or suggest a ground-floor unit to a person in a wheelchair, even if the building doesn't have an elevator.

Maybe it was just this company's lawyer's overreactions to the law, or perhaps the company had previous bad experiences in this area. But we were given dozens of similar scenarios and those who answered even one incorrectly had to go through enhanced training.
How is it responsible, medically, to sit on a report of scientific fraud without action for two years, selling and profiting off bad data.
Australia has 'Stan'. It's good for content. It feels like the old Netflix.
Remids me metal based life forms[0] - mind-blowing.

[0] https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20906-life-like-cells...
Yeah it is horrible how you can't repair or replace anything but it does work so damn well and I have had so much hassle with other laptops that I just thought fuck it and went with the MBP.

I had a Surface Book 2 which was one of the worst laptop experiences I have had in the past decade and it was close to the MBP in price. Microsoft waaaay over-engineered the Surface Book just to be unique yet still don't have the software experience good enough to be totally reliable.

I have never had my MBP fail to wake from sleep like my Surface Book for example. Or the daily need to detach/reattach from the base so that the backlight for the keys works properly, etc. So many weird quirks with that thing.
It might seem unlikely to you, but I would be surprised if it wasn't the most common action. Many people will watch the same thing over and over.

To that end, training the model in their users, it would not surprise me to have that be an emergent recommendation.
Yep I agree! In fact, about 50% of the people who take the CSPA, do it more for self-evaluation than for employment purposes.

You're right, so far most of the test takers are entry-level or changing careers. To accurately assess specialities like ops/IT, we'll need separate, dedicated subject tests (or adaptive tests).

That said, no one has yet gotten a perfect 1600 :) . The highest is something like 1380.
Well, sometimes. But a lot of industries suffer from too many people poorly executing ideas. Makes it even harder for the "good guys" to catch a break, acquire, and keep customers.

Some examples are SEO, entertainment, and mobile games.
Sounds like somebody participated in an accelerator :)
The deployment git shouldn't be making commits and should only ever be a slave to wherever it pulls from. Production git clone shouldn't be pushing commits upstream.

So while it's running the previous version, you just `git pull` again to get the latest fixes for whatever broke at a later time. No history is rewritten as it fasts forward to the latest commit. I hope that clears up how it's used. As far as I know this is a common pattern of usage for deployment scenarios.
The county literally offers this data for free in a weekly dump, as do most counties in the US. OpenStreetMaps is the only group to download those weekly dumps, every couple years one of large database providers that Google & Apple buy from will download it. But that right there is why they're both so far behind, with Google having the advantage of nagging their smartphone users to make their maps less shitty (which is why they're good in dense urban areas).
If only FB had an insane amount of data that could trivially be used to figure out if a given criteria would have a disparate impact.

I can’t imag them fighting this, theyvseem so unlikely to win.

But then again, I’m surprised corporate counsel wasn’t screaming about this. It’s not the first time I’ve read about this and I don’t work there.
A list of validated-but-under-exploited ideas definitely has a lot of value.
You checked the Windows Platform Binary Table in the BIOS/UEFI? That was how they delivered their crapware before. Even a clean install with your own media would inject a Lenovo exe into Windows directly from the BIOS with no way to disable it. Scary stuff.
:) Never ever.
Also cell towers that look like trees: https://www.vox.com/2015/4/19/8445213/cell-phone-towers-tree...
The Hunt for the Red October was Tom Clancy's side project and look where that took him.
If you want to communicate with an alien civilization you'd have to emit some kind of signal for a long period of time in order to ensure that they will receive it. Gravitational waves last for an instant and then you've missed them.

Even if you've established communication with another civilization, using gravitational waves to carry on chatting seems like an awful waste of resources. The only scenario that seems plausible for using them is some kind of an SOS signal in which case you ensure that it will reach the vastness of the universe and hope that one of the receiving folks would be able to decode it. But then again that would take billion of years.
A question if you run ads and tune your ad buy to focus on those people with the highest conversion rate. To reduce the amount you're spending by targeting the ads, does this mean that's not allowed?

It looks like this is to ensure advertisement reaches all protected categories. Can this mean that one would be forced to advertise in magazines that cater to different audiences? To guarantee a certain subset of the population is covered?

Thinking of facebook like traditional media doesn't really work. If we allow people to choose where they're advertising, by definition they're targeting. It'd be like randomly buying ads in magazines and papers.

At the end of the day, it seems more like landlords intent for targeting is more important than anything and that is where the fault lies.

If you had a building in an area that catered to people speaking a minority language (5%) of the population; can you target speakers of that language or do you have to spend 20x?
It's Bismarck pizza: margherita with open egg in the middle (not fried, but cooked in the oven)
It's because there are 4 "w" in the link - try https://www.cronote.com/
That’s a straw man.

This case isn’t “no one can discriminate with ads”. It’s “no one can discriminate ILLEGALY with THIS TYPE of ad”.
Why is Facebook in trouble for this and not the persons who actually placed the ads?

Wait for it.
If the intent of policy X is to achieve goal Y and X does not in fact achieve Y, what is the point of continuing to pay the costs of X instead of proposing some X' that actually does achieve Y? Continuing to advocate X when X doesn't achieve Y suggests that the proponents of X don't really care about Y, but instead some unstated Z.
How did you get to that place in Google? Luck ? Or some serious seo work ?
Well since then my TV broke and I haven't bothered replacing it, so nothing. We haven't really missed it but that might change when summer is over, we'll see.
How does Uber even lose that much money while paying their drivers on average $3.5 per hour and offering no benefits or safety nets?

I wonder if a downturn will be what it takes for Uber to finally die.
Here's a much better one: mandatory melted cheese in their fruit salad (due to their criminal misuse of pineapple)