skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only do it when i can place both of my hands for support and if my hands can slide on it.

It's not dangerous i think though, wooden stairs works best indeed :p
I’m the CTO at an MTurk competitor (Prolific.ac). We’ve written up some thoughts on this below. It’s unlikely that these accounts are ‘true’ bots but rather low effort workers hiding location with a VPN and providing pseudo random responses.

https://blog.prolific.ac/bots-and-data-quality-on-crowdsourc...
https://blog.prolific.ac/how-to-improve-your-data-quality/

We’ve done a lot of work on improving data quality on Prolific and filtering out these kind of accounts and heavily invest in making sure our pool are honest, attentive and engaged.

If anyone’s concerned about data quality in online samples please get feel free to get in touch.
I think ones of the design books I read years ago talked about a piece of building infrastructure that “could not fail” so they incorporated it directly into the concrete pour.

Of course it failed, and it was a royal pain to get to the bits that failed because they were embedded in concrete that was probably holding the building up.

You build for robustness because you might be wrong, the new guy might not understand, or a silicon isotope might decay at just the wrong time and flip a bit. Circuits are analog. They just pretend very very hard to be binary. Weird shit can happen that shouldn’t be possible.
You're proving his point, count all the techie words you used in your comment, regular people don't know-care about all that.
Except that the established big-name corps probably don't have an interest in running a Mastodon instance. (And if they do, they'll do it in the similar way that Google Talk and Slack used to support XMPP: Once they have a significant-enough userbase, they burn down the bridges ^W federation.)
hahahahahahah.... classic mafia extortion techniques. Create a problem, then demand people pay you to remove it.
Self-taught is better when they have more good experience, yes.
Happy to hear that, since I am not exactly in joy of using ancient languages.

However, from plans to actual usage takes years; specially for completely new projects using new languages, compilers, libraries, etc. in safety-critical stuff, that takes months just to validate.

Stating anything else is just either lying (marketing) or ignorance. Please do not do a disservice to your language by creating vacuous hype.
Yes, that's the point I'm making. The west maintains the status quo because it's of benefit to them, they just don't want any of the side-effects (including increased migration). Colonization hasn't gone away, it's just changed form.
Spot on. I left Twitter (well left an auto bot behind) and took my live posts to Mastodon. It's so much more relaxing with masto.
While I appreciate how the article brings up the history of the use of roads, times do change. Despite their dire last sentence, humans have always altered their behavior for the sake of their created machines. This is a trade-off with progress. This is why we have rules to allow shared use of the road.

Automated cars are simply a new addition to this. Travel to countries where there are no enforced road rules and see how efficiently traffic flows. It's horrible. The idea that we don't want to change behaviors for new tools is silly. If that's really their assertion, they need to stop posting in the internet and only share their news in the public square, that they walked too.
Streamers are on the other side of the contract.

A shareholder of a record company thinks those are in the better position. This advantage is completely negated if you can't get exposure only to the record company.
Wow, what a massive total waste, shame on netflix. In the early days people relied heavily on those reviews, and spent hours writing those reviews. I understand them wanting to keep that data for data analysis purposes, and I understand them wanting to not share it, but to delete it?

At least make it rate limited tied to a paid Netflix account or something, not wipe it away for ever. What a shame.
Except that because humans are wired for intentionality and causality they naturally are going to try to use existing phenomenon to "explain" their unknown issue.

When Encounters of the 3rd Kind was released with aliens as little grey men with big heads suddenly most of the subsequent reports of alien abduction switched to grey aliens with big heads.

It's human nature. It's not evidence that the phenomenon is real just because people say it's like a phenomenon that exists.
I use Notability especially since the latest major update to add OCR to handwriting.
That page made my eyes bleed.
I wonder if there were NUMA effects at play since the Intel server was dual-socket and the EPYC was not. It's not entirely surprising that a CPU-heavy workload reading from filesystem cache (i.e. memory) could cause a substantial amount of nonlocal reads that the single-socket server wouldn't have to deal with.

That said, that's just the first thing that popped into my head to explain the result. Either way, the results here are extremely encouraging!
Says the guy who started an overvalued ad network trying to divert attention to himself. Just because no one cares if an ad-tech CEO burns out doesn't mean people don't care about Musk burning out. Musk is a symbol for entrepreneurship and will power in an age where most people are whiny victims. Almost no one could handle that level of stress and he does it by choice. Drive the gas car you deserve, Nick.
If you're a "bit OCD" and about to embark on code reviewing your developers work, might I suggest you think about what your standards are and document/communicate them before bombarding devs with change requests? That makes the whole process less frustrating IME. Also, to begin with, you might want to ask yourself "Would i go and ask the person to change this after it was committed" as a self check as to whether stuff needs changed - just to ease people in, until those guidelines are fleshed out. You could well say you plan to tighten it up - and eventually rely on developers to review each others work.

Another process is a mini show and tell, where before each user story / feature is committed its shown in action to the person who requested it / QAs etc at the developers desk. Problems seen here may not even be the developers fault. A tendency towards reactionary defensiveness, and the recent goings on, might be best considered before doing this right now though. (It may well be you don't give the leeway you would a non family member for this as well.)
I like the idea of Grabb-It but it also does seem like it would very distracting to have those ads playing all around me on the road.
Let's be real. They didn't delete the user reviews. They just stopped showing the reviews to the user.
Unless your buying top of the line Intel parts AMD is going to have more performance at most price points. It's the only logical decision unless you use AVX-512 or your workload is single threaded.
By that logic, what did Facebook offer that MySpace didn't? What did MySpace offer that a forum didn't? What did all of these provide that a lot newspaper didn't? A lot of these platforms brought things to the table that weren't direct product features. People are motivated by more than features, though a lot of tech people seem to feel otherwise.
But thats just Numpy. As I mentioned the logic flows through other components too. I am guessing your nnzs are medium sized and hasnt hit 2 billion yet.

Quick question, when you create a scipy.csr how do you ensure the subsequent multiplication operator falls back to C code that uses int64 to index the internals and not int32. I thought if indices array was a int64 array it would do the job. I was wrong. Anyway, even if that had worked it would still have fallen short of ensuring. If it worked, it just happened to work -- thats an anecdote.

If one had static typechecks one would not have to read through all the layers to be sure. Compile error, if any, would have told me.

We also cant directly use scipy.sparse because we dont have that much RAM on these machines. We do use scipy.sparse but they operate internally with memory mapped arrays. Now, depending on the platform memory mapped arrays can be limited to an index of 1<<31. So we have to be extra careful what type is used for indexing in the native libraries that these layers are a wrappers over.

BTW its far from a one off benefit. This was just one of the examples fresh in my memory. It directly affects real money. There you dont want to ship code that could have bugs that can cost you. Static types help rule out these cases once for all. With run time checks it is very hard to be sure that you have caught all of the code paths that can have these mismatches.

I agree that in grad school its different :) One can play fast and loose. Even more, if research is not expected to be reproducible -- that would be pure science.
How is it a shame if nobody uses the reviews and they're basically useless? Sounds like they're just deleting an unmaintained and unused feature.
I understand, but then wouldn't you reach 5x more people if you handed out $1000 instead?

I'm not against the idea, I'm wondering where the $5k is coming from. It just seems arbitrary and not very much without a proper justification.
I think the problem size is too small. Dialling up the max requests and setting thread count to 64 yields the per thread in multi thread to 1104. (I am guessing the the scheduler will take a while to bring all 64 threads up, so on small problems one might not see the full benefit of available parallelism, but this is just an armchair hypothesis).

[dman@epyc ~]$ sysbench --test=cpu run --max-requests=2000000 --num-threads=64
WARNING: the --test option is deprecated. You can pass a script name or path on the command line without any options.
WARNING: --num-threads is deprecated, use --threads instead
WARNING: --max-requests is deprecated, use --events instead
sysbench 1.0.14 (using bundled LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta2)

Running the test with following options:
Number of threads: 64
Initializing random number generator from current time

Prime numbers limit: 10000

Initializing worker threads...

Threads started!

CPU speed:
events per second: 70704.31

General statistics:
total time: 10.0014s
total number of events: 707263

Latency (ms):
min: 0.68
avg: 0.90
max: 25.23
95th percentile: 1.50
sum: 638330.33

Threads fairness:
events (avg/stddev): 11050.9844/1635.68
execution time (avg/stddev): 9.9739/0.02
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I have attempted to address this in the vision & internal structure of a tool I wrote (AGPL): a work in progress which is planned to meet most of the requirements mentioned in the article. I wrote it (after trying org-mode, collapsible outlines in other tools, etc). It uses postgres, and I hope that "sharing" data exchange features between multiple instances are coming (though it already does export to org-mode-like text, to readable outlines in the latest dev code, and to html). The best code is that in github, though an older and useful downloadable .jar is available. Currently, it is keyboard and desktop-only (text-oriented). It also is the most efficient/effective thing I have found for organizing notes/lists/details of all kinds, and should be easy to learn to use, as all the essentials are on the screen. There is a tutorial.

It makes an internal knowledge graph as one uses the product (stored in postgres, runs fast). It builds an object model on the fly as a side-effect of using the product, using relationships, numbers, etc as knowledge at an atomic level where words are secondary. The best info organizer (for my style at least) that I know of, though (so far) less feature-rich than many products. I hope the About page at that link explains the present and future well.

(Part of the eventual purpose of the tool is to help individuals and mentors via maturity models that apply more generally to life before getting into any particular topic. That could easily be misunderstood, and there is more about that at the web site (below). Part of the idea is to help in the development/growth of self and others -- skills, knowledge, positive character traits, anything good -- in any area of life that one chooses, so we can have good goals instead of trying to make life seem fulfilling with empty searching for more pleasure/power/attention.

And by marking things done or "archived", it also provides a journal feature or personal log, of entries created or archived in any date range (defaulting to "yesterday and so far, today", to help with daily standup reporting).)

http://onemodel.org (And yes I plan to move to https fairly soon :) ...as well as adding anki-like and other features someday.)

Candid feedback welcome, especially via the site (2 mailing lists; direct email in footer). Thanks.
> It seems most psychogenic illnesses over time prove to be real

Does it? Really? Should I be worried about Korean fan-death?
Even worse, according to the techcrunch article [0] the projection screen is mostly opaque, so passengers won't be able to see out the window.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/15/grabb-it-wants-to-turn-you...
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Me as well. I don't think a life in pens is complete without experiencing the world of fountain pens.
You don't understand Moore's Law. Moore's Law says nothing about software devs doing what they want or processor speed or even hardware capabilities or qualities. It's about the manufacturing capability and integration by semiconductor fabs. Specifically, "Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years.' [0]. Hardware engineers never gave up; they're the reason your bloated apps takes 60 secs to startup instead of 3600 secs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law
People often forget that at the beginning none of the current giants were "mainstream", in fact what made them attractive was the fact that they had a unique audience that formed a strong community amongst each other.

The idea of "mainstream" is dying, and will continue to do so. What we're seeing is a deep cultural fracture where communities, ideas, and people do not form the kind of stardom or centralized propagation of ideas that the previous decades were known by. As production gets cheaper, and getting an audience becomes easier, people will begin to form seamless self-sustained communities that support each other (think patreon).

If video killed the radio star, then the internet killed the star, and fractured it into infinite pieces.
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I take it as: “See the reviews which will skew your perception positively.” Doesn’t sound enticing as a consumer. I just want the facts.
As a matter of precedent, the Satanic Temple (a different group than the Church of Satan) is a religion in the US for purposes of 1st amendment protections.

More importantly, we do not have a clear standarn on what qualifies as a "religion". And for, I think obvious reasons, that is a line we don't really want to draw.

Even if we do draw that line, do we really want to deny people their rights to deeply held convictions just because those convuctions are not part of a "religion". Is that not religous discrimanation against the non religious?
How does that relate to what I said?
You can't really (usefully) regulate based on speed; any alternative transportation can potentially be really dang fast. I've seen motorized wheelchairs hitting 50km/h.

I think it makes the most sense to regulate based on maximum achievable momentum (maximum engine torque is used as a heuristic for this), or even maximum achievable collision force (momentum ÷ surface area of forward-travelling side) of the vehicle at any carrying capacity.

So a motorcycle is a lot more dangerous than a moped, not even because of the weight of the vehicle alone at speed, but because you can fit two people on there, the motorcycle has enough torque to get up to the same speed with those two people aboard, and so the whole vechicle-rider system will have more momentum (impart more collision force) at the same speed.

And some electric skateboards / hoverboards are also very dangerous, because if they manage to fully torque up while without a rider, they can shoot out and hit someone in the legs with a high momentum delivered across a very small front facing plane. Like a bullet!

(And, obviously, trucks are more dangerous than cars, simply because you can put a bunch of stuff in the bed and still get them up to the same speed as a car.)

Although the simple solution here is policy and divided roads, I could imagine a simple-ish technological solution: a torque governor hooked up to normal-force sensors on the suspension. So a motorcycle with one person on it would simply not be able to "work as hard" as the same motorcycle with two people on it [except when going up a hill, since normal forces would increase]; and a vehicle with no rider at all would immediately clutch to neutral and brake to bleed off the "above limit" torque.
Rotational Axis Theorem (JIM)
> Netflix said in a statement that “the reviews and our redesigned ratings system (thumbs up/down) never contributed to how we approach personalizing recommendations for members and writing a ‘bad’ review never had any bearing to whether a title was recommended to another viewer or not.”

THAT explains why Netflix keeps recommending me garbage quality content! I had a suspicion this was true, but couldn’t imagine anyone would make such a terrible design choice: 95% of content Netflix recommends me now is unwatchably bad in content quality (including Netflix originals too, of course).

IMO abolishing user ratings is quite probably the worst possible solution to losing user engagement due to low quality content.
I was thinking the same thing and came to post something similar: haven't we already come to the conclusion that throwing more bodies at a knowledge problem does not allow the problem to be solved any faster ?
WTF? We care what Arianna Huffington thinks of Elon Musk? Or vice versa?

What is going on?
Stop using Google's products. That's the only real choice you have. Besides, there are plenty of great podcast apps.
Because there are generic APIs that return results as part of the contract. A good example is FromStr.
Interesting concept. Triggers can get close to the same effect in a traditional DB.
Yes, I get that. And I agree with that.

Still, as much as I (and arguably, most of those reading this) agree with that claim, the fact remains that the Chinese government (and arguably, much if not most, of China's population) do not. And there are norms and laws there which are inconsistent with that claim. And furthermore, that situation is certainly not unique to China.

Also, there's the internationally recognized expectation that businesses are subject to at least the laws of places where they do business. And governments are not shy about enforcing their laws. So if Google wants to do business in China, it must accept Chinese jurisdiction. Just as Google must comply with EU regulations and court orders in order to do business there.

And yes, I get the argument that Google ought to stay out of China, on moral grounds. Back when South Africa practiced apartheid, I would have expected Google to shun that market.

However, I don't believe that Google has exited the Israeli market, in protest over human rights abuse against Palestinians. Or more generally, against a theocratic government that discriminates against all non Jews.

Also, Google is clearly cooperating with the EU regarding the "right to be forgotten". On its face, that violates the right to free speech. Although an exception could be justified by other enumerated human rights, that seems inconsistent with libel precedents in the US.

Finally, if we expect Google to stay out of China on moral grounds, what about all of the other firms that have invested in Chinese businesses, buy products from them, and otherwise participate in the Chinese economy? Why isn't there pressure to divest and sanction, as there has been regarding North Korea, Iran, Russia, and so on? As there was regarding South Africa, during apartheid? Why isn't there pressure for Apple etc to source components elsewhere?

What's so special about Google, in this regard?
I am not surprised at all. When they switched to this percent system, it was clear from then that they want to ensure that there's no chance you'll be turned away from watching something on account of some random human who doesn't have netflix's interests in their heart.

Their new system is clearly based on the data they have on you, and really feels like netflix picking for us rather than helping the user pick on their own. It does not provide much value to me at all.
> Scientists optimizing for what is likely to be published (read: what is likely to earn money), sacrificing elsewhere. Maybe if we payed them enough so that they don't have to do this to survive, then we wouldn't have this issue.

How do you do this in a society with scarce resources? With scarcity, you need to have a measure of success, otherwise everyone could just say they were a scientist and get a six figure salary to do nothing. Any metric you choose will be gamed.

This worked hundreds of years ago because the only people that could get educated were the wealthy, so we didn't need to worry about supporting scientists with public funds, they supported themselves.
Coming up on 20 years at a FAANG.
I can see why they would do it. When I cancelled them 2 years ago their selection was kind of limited. Lots B movies and average or below titles. A lot of reviews were the same. Reading made me not watch a lot of them. Deleting the reviews hides the below average movie selection under the carpet in a way.
Sure, but rendering tiles isn't anywhere near as costly as what Google charges. Google is using their mindshare as having the best maps to help them charge high rates for baseline service.

On that note, Google Maps's quality seems to be significantly dropping. They're missing most of the 300k addresses that have been renumbered in the past decade in Kitsap County (just across the water from Seattle), and when I go much outside Seattle proper, their maps are spotty compared to OpenStreetMaps.
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I miss the old internet when we trusted each other enough to trade star wars cards by posting on forums and exchanging mailing addresses. If I tried to do that on today's internet I'd have a SWAT team show up to murder me. And not even because my star wars trades are bad, but because of my support of women's rights. When you have One Thing For Everything, all the wires get crossed. It sucks.

The place where the people AREN'T and the kylie jenners AREN'T is a perk of mastodon to some, not a flaw. It's like the tech nerd version of kids not using facebook because it's their parents' social network.

I just want to share cool pictures of my modular origami and not constantly be two degrees of separation from Trump's latest outrage
Yeah I remember a page-long review of Caillou that proposed an elaborate theory that the entire show was actually a flashback of the parents after Caillou's passing, having died of terminal cancer (evidenced by his baldness as a result of chemotherapy). This was the ostensible explanation for their limitless patience and coddling as Caillou whines and pouts his way through every episode with no boundaries, discipline or consequences of any form.

That review truly was lemons-to-lemonade as all other aspects of that show I wish I could expunge from my memory.
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