skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HUD Secretary at the time was Julian Castro.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Castro
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Console log has them listed
Isn't making concrete a large emitter of co2 as well?
This is very small money to be invested to dismantle all the protections organized labor achieved in the last hundred plus years. I must congratulate the investors. Maybe it didn't start that way but certainly now this is now what it is.
I've spent many hours reading https://yarchive.net/
Making $25k/month selling chocolate dicks
Seconded. Have run thousands of participants over eight years. Ya there's crap, but that's true whenever you ask any random sample of people about anything.
Did you expect them to run you over instead?
> 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?

If I understand correctly, your argument is that optimizing cost goes against making fairness for all its citizens. So, it is a matter of priority. What is more important "fairness and justice" or "cost reduction"?
I think it's a lousy article with a poor title. It's poorly written. It leads with the wrong info. It's framing sucks.

But just as I was thinking "The fact that Twitter is a business is a feature, not a bug" they mentioned they are funded by Patreon. So, they are a business, and one that possibly has a more sustainable business model than Twitter. They just don't call themselves a business for some reason.

I've done a lot of volunteer work over the years. Volunteers tend to be unreliable because they aren't being paid. They are often bitter people because they aren't being paid, so they want you to damn well be grateful as all hell that they do this out of the goodness of their hearts. Etc.

So, I'm less of a fan of open source than I used to be. If you want to do a thing sustainably, creating a business you are passionate about that can also pay your bills makes more sense than doing it for free. Getting the incentives right matters. Doing it for free means either you are independently wealthy, you are a bored homemaker or you actually do something full-time to pay your bills and this gets what little time and energy you have left over.

Maybe I need to look up the info on the guy who said he would answer my questions patiently if I had any and make "trying Mastodon" my new hobby for a bit.
Compare...

// with connect
import { connect } from 'react-redux'
import { defaultSomething } from 'src/store/ducks/something'

const Whatever = ({ something }) => <div>{something}</div>;

export default connect(state => ({
something: state.something || defaultSomething
}))(Whatever);

...to...

// with consumer
import { identity } from 'ramda';
import { SomethingConsumer } from 'src/store/consumers'

const Whatever = () => <div><SomethingConsumer>{identity}</SomethingConsumer></div>;
export default Whatever;

One more line in the second also goes away if the consumer defaults to an identity function if not given a suitable child.

// with consumer
import { SomethingConsumer } from 'src/store/consumers'

const Whatever = () => <div><SomethingConsumer /></div>;
export default Whatever;

The boilerplate in the first case also gets much, much worse if you're using Typescript, as type inference gets wobbly at best with HOCs and so for even simple usage you have to also define out your "inner" and "outer" props for each component you want to use connect with.
and water is a rather precious resource in many localities.
Hope they can last the couple of decades it will need for self-driving cars to be viable.
Doubtful, as that surveillance was likely authorized by law.
True, but the self-driving unit was only 200 million out of the total 891 million.

Also, in my opinion, they pretty much have to go all-in investing in self driving cars because any market waymo launches in can easily outprice uber/lyft especially considering that while uber has a lot of cash, google literally has an order of magnitude more on hand + they still rake in gobs full of profits from search.

And for the eventual "waymo cannot handle rain or snow and probably won't be able to handle it for years" argument: almost all of the taxi driving market is under normal conditions. It will almost certainly be profitable to just service customers when weather conditions are fine and then park their cars in bad weather.
Yes, I wish Netflix would hide things I’ve watched more. Obviously if it’s still in My List it should remain, having a Watch it Again section is fine but they should basically disappear from New Releases or lists based on what I liked and be at the end of the list in genre categories.
And most other vendors sell significantly fewer units across many more SKUs. Thus you would expect with a smaller product portfolio you'd have greater engineering resources to work out the kinks.
End to end rest API static typing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_and_Grichka_Bogdanoff

tl;dr: two brothers fake their way to a PhD and became TV celebrities and book authors in France. A lot of people have no idea about this and still respect them.
I read this passage as calling out the hypocrisy of the English intellectuals who benefit from colonialism in India while flippantly call out its moral faults. It is not making a statement that imperialism is better than its alternative.

Indeed Orwell himself calls out the overbearing attitude of the British "flabby" and "boneless"
Very nice. Seems a bit finicky with all the cranes though, but what do I know. If the cost of concrete is a problem, why not put a huge sheet-like structure below a landfill and very slowly rise it up or down ... same principle, but now you're just moving waste and there's no shortage of that!
Kerala, thousands await rescue as flooding continues
Well, effectively pedestrians always have the right of way because nobody wants to hit a pedestrian with their vehicle. This is the kind of calculus that will disappear with self-driving cars IMO.
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While I understand your point, I think this guy really needs a chill pill. Give Apple some slack to fix a bug. There was, there is and there will always be bugs in software. Just report it. If one does not fix the problem on time, then it's fine to get angry. But overreacting like that won't help anything.
> Want a strong country? Let anyone who puts 50,000 of your currency in a local bank and has a college degree stay there.

Lord drugs, third world genociders, sucessfull scammers and high standing criminals. Everybody loves them...
You should take into consideration that for both IdeaPad (the superfish one) and ThinkPad Lenovo is not much more than brand. These two lines are designed and manufactured by completely separate corporations. What is somewhat funny in this regard is that the real maker of modern ThinkPads (probably at least since introduction of the letter-number nomenclature) is Acer/Wistron with Acer as a brand being mostly known for having sub-par quality. IdeaPads are AFAIK mostly made by Compal.
You can actually set a variable to `undefined` in Javascript. You can't set a value to an uninhabited type─there is no value that represents the type.
I'm not a physicist so I can't elaborate much on the subject. From a few articles I've read at the time of the LIGO discovery they mentioned that the signals lasted for a very short period. Other than that I might be totally wrong so don't take for granted my assumption.
I'm also a grad student.

We do know what good research looks like, that's not the problem, at least not directly. We're both told "go do good research" and then we go and each write one paper. The government then says "okay this is fine, but next year, I can only fund one of you, so, now whoever brings me the most papers next year will keep their job, and the other will hit the bricks." This is where the problem starts.
That was my thought too, but I think the point is subtler. The kind of person who notices those things is good at noticing a lot of things.

I like this relevant scene: https://youtu.be/IjrWOZby8s8?t=47s
Yes, specially since class actions are needed just to make them acknowledge the problem (talking about their keyboards now).
I just can't stand Celery as a project. It takes ages to stay up to date and I have had a few issues with it which just should not happen for such a large project
The thing is, most people are actually good at generating ideas. It's really not the hard part. The fact that your great idea has probably already been done by someone before you is a testament to this fact. Sit me down for an hour and I could probably come up with 10 good business ideas, and I bet if I Google each idea, someone's already doing it. That's not a reason to be disheartened though. What you're looking for is an arbitrage opportunity in execution. Do you back yourself to execute better than the other guy that got there first? If yes, then press on. Nothing is more saturated than the market I chose (accounting/business management app). But the incumbents are cocky and out of date, and I felt my execution could win me a good share of customers. A definite gamble, but it's working out alright :)
I've also bought into JSX. I use JSX in all my Mithril projects.

Advantages over React: Routing built in. Smaller/faster. You don't get numb to the word "dangerously" being used routinely for data that you trust.

Debatable: Mithril does not wrap native browser events. This is an advantage because what you learn about events applies outside the framework. It may also be a disadvantage; debatable.

Disadvantage: React is a more attractive keyword on your resume and in job listings.

EDIT: Forgot my example - https://medium.com/front-end-hacking/how-it-feels-to-learn-j...
I get it, so the concept is closer to declaring a variable and that's it, nothing further happens.

Thanks.
> As a gay person, I see this all over the web. Smiling happy gay people buying cars or real estate or whatever.

Good lord. Does that mean that so many advertisers track your activities so thoroughly that they figured out you're gay?
I suggest to anyone considering M4 seriously to have a look at its substitution behaviour and syntax rules.

Not only the default newline handling causes rules to become cluttered the more complex your macros get but the resubstitution of already parsed tokens recursively and the quoting that needs to be considered to avoid this can cause surprises - specially as the number of macros grows bigger.

Maybe for config files or configuring source files m4 is great, but for anything more complex that need to be easier to read and understood, I'd avoid m4.
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> Think of it as a VERY slow, VERY large TV screen. With red, green, and blue blocks, they could advertise almost anything!

I don’t think that works if the blocks are reflecting light rather than emitting it.
Well technically it’s a side project that generates more than $500 a month. Though I really should focus on this business or sell it.
I have a special place in my impaled heart for the work Satanic Temple does.
It's clearly what happened to Netflix. Do you remember when Netflix was the infamous leader in movie recommendations? Do you remember the Netflix prize?
If they're so successful they've cleared the market for construction junk, I think they're well past the viable stage.
Uh, it’s a pretty huge difference. Millions of people live in that kind of wage in the US. It’s the difference between drivers being completely irrational or maybe the gig being worth their while.
> you'd be stuck at two without the relays.

You mean if you had two ants walking side-by-side? If it's two ants wide you can have one lane in each direction and use all the ants you like.
My experience seems to be very different. I have used redux extensively for two years and love it. It is well thought out and solved a problem in a brilliant way. I have however, been ripping redux out of all of my projects, one by one and replacing them with the Context API. I remove file after file of actions, reducers et al and replace them with one context Provider.

Someone commented that the power of redux should not be underestimated and that is absolutely true. It is also true that the complexity of redux should not be underestimated. My code bases have been greatly simplified.

In my limited experience the Context API covers 80% of the use cases that required redux, with 80% less complexity. I am sure I will use redux in the future, and I am a better coder for having learned it, but my experience with Context has been very positive.
You mean cause everyone thinks they're the good guys right? Cause the US is definitely not the good guys.
Help for those who are stuck: Hacking Serverless Runtimes - Profiling Lambda, Azure, and more.

https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/wednesday/us-17-Krug-Hac...
Enjoy your ban, dalit bitch!
You're missing the point, though, which is not that the advertisers can target the models in the ads, but so they can choose _not_ to show ads to "undesireable" people, like people with kids, or of a certain ethnicity or religion. This sort of practice is an extremely pervasive problem that has led to enormous amounts of systemic inequality.
No mention of Jupyter notebooks — I think that's a critical part of this change, in that it provides a sharable human-readable analysis format.

Also for the original poster (whose psycholinguistics work I am familiar with), it's easy to move data between R and Python using the rpy packages (which works in notebooks!)
Imagine that, it even has all the ports one would expect on a professional's computer. It's going to be hard to give up macOS but Apple is too obsessed with aesthetics. Design can only ever be as good as function and if you sacrifice function for design then it's a failed design.
Ditto in Australia.
I should apologize, I am probably, hopefully wrong. I'm still skeptical but clearly more work has been put into this than I realized and I shouldn't have been so quick to condemn it.
Blocked for me.

web.uconn.edu uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate is only valid for the following names: web2.uconn.edu, phonebook.uconn.edu, testsite.uconn.edu

Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN
>> I've studied machine learning a fair amount, and the algorithms are fancier, but it's still all model fitting by minimizing error.

That's only true if you define machine learning as "model fitting", however there are many algorithms and techniques that have nothing to do with fitting a curve to data points and are very commonly considered to be machine learning.

E.g. decision tree learners, nearest-neighbour algorithms, Bayesian inference algorithms, Expectation-maximisation (and friends), clustering algorithms- none of these really um fit under "curve fitting", although of course you can broaden the scope of what is meant by "model fitting" to include potentially anything that looks kinda like it from a few steps away.

Then of course there is the very broad family of logic-based machine learning systems, pioneered by Ryszard Michalski and others in the '70s and Inductive Logic Programming, that learn logic theories from relational data and do not perform optimisation or model fitting (they tend to be greedy).

Basically, it's mostly the gradient-descent based algorithms that do curve fitting (linear regression, perceptrons, SVMs and, er, that; oh, and gradient boosting). These approaches are currently dominant but that's all.

There is much more to machine learning than curve fitting.
just thought it strange since I often read HN comments when an article is just posted and rarely see longish, wholly inoffensive comments such as the one in question here get downvoted to [dead] within eight minutes; usually that's reserved for politics etc.
Yup. Used to be that the Ubuntu forums were awesome, but there was something about the Arch forums that weeded all the crap out, i've no idea what. I need to add them to the OSS projects I contribute to this year.
Yes, but Sherlock Holmes also always magically knows which trivia is important, because he's written that way. He doesn't bother with the count of stairs on every staircase he's ever walked on. And he lives in a world where the trivia he notices always reflects accurately on hidden truths, instead of being simply useless details that reveal nothing of consequence.
Honest question. Is there a reason to use a crane rarther than digging a hole? It seems all that needs to happen is for a weight to be lifted and then allowed to fall. If that was done below ground, that would cut out the weather issues and I feel like the structure itself would be a lot more robust.
I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_affair is a better reference.
Thanks! For anyone else interested, this specific crash report for Bridge OS is listed under System Reports > ProxiedDevice-Bridge.
Let the market decide. Psychologically, "grown in a lab" is problematic. When people imagine that, they think of Frankenstein. When they imagine actual cattle, they think of green pastures.

Neither fantasy is reflecting reality, but that's secondary. Mock plant-based beef is good middle-ground.
OpenSSH user enumeration
That's what they'd do in suburban Philly.
It’s still not a living wage.
Well, there was also their identity theft for legal paperwork, shell companies owned by unborn children, and other false statements to courts about just about anything.
I got them in Vietnam where you can get them over the counter. By the way if anyone's using them for that I've found you can often use a half or quarter and it's less side effecty that way.
HUD wouldn't be the ones to go after them. Per how the US Government works, the Department of Justice[1] would be the ones to go after the individuals involved. If you go to the DoJ website they have some very recent press releases on redlining prosecution, but I get the feeling it would take a while to figure out if any are related to Facebook ads (there search sucks).

1) https://www.justice.gov/usao/about-offices-united-states-att...
I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is that inclusionary targeting is legal whereas exclusionary targeting is not, and exclusionary targeting is what's happening. Inclusionary targeting uses logic of the form, "This user corresponds to subgroup A; load content specialized for subgroup A." Exclusionary targeting is of the form, "This user corresponds to subgroup A; do not load any content for this user."

If you'd like to target a specific demographic you can do so using either inclusionary or exclusionary targeting. Only one of those systems also allows you to explicitly exclude one or more groups rather than just target a subset of groups. Your example seems to be a very charitable interpretation of how exclusionary targeting could be used. There's (probably) nothing wrong with it if it's used that way. But you could just as easily use the system you described to prevent a variety of protected demographics from being able to see the advertisement whatsoever.
This is incorrect. Amplitude decays as 1/distance, but energy (and power) decays as 1/distance^2. This is the same as electromagnetic radiation.
> gravitational wave amplitude decays only as 1/distance

Wait, what? How? The wavefront still spreads out over the quadratically increasing surface of a sphere, right, just like EM waves?
Would you mind sharing what kind of work that is? Getting $150/h on small projects is no small achievement.
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I lived in Shanghai for 6 months and the internet sucked more then the air and thats when its hurting to take in a deep breath in winter. After returning to Germany I was more happy about the free internet (and freedom of speech and so on..) then about the clean air.

To me comparing China to the NSA (USA) is weak. As you wrote this, the current top result on Reddit is this: https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/98el62/un_says_i...

I dont see the USA getting these kinds of headlines anytime soon. Moreover China has earned critique for partially rolling out their citizen scoring.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/chinese-government-social-cr...

I am not the biggest fan of the GDPR and its also tragic to me that Europe has no real innovative internet companies. And as far as I know Brazil has some big challenges with corruption so I wouldn't take its policies as a shining example (not implying that you did though).

I kind of see the internet as my home and culture in many ways. I have met Egyptians, Brazilians and Koreans that shared the same internet culture as me. In contrast I have made much fewer friends in mainland China due to them not using the same internet as me (and thus not having even remotely something in common). They instead consume their own entertainment such as Chinese soap operas which my mainland friends have told me are vastly inferior to their western counterparts (not soap operas but entertainment and culture in general). Finally the restricted access inhibits the development of better English skills which further divides

I dont care much for visas or nation-sovereignty. I hope that we one day have universal human right centered values based on an free internet and open borders so that I am not limited in my pursuit of happiness by some arbitrary political rule.
Einstein wrote something along the lines of: "The physically real in the universe of events (in contrast to that which is dependent upon the choice of a reference system) consists in spatiotemporal coincidences."

Everything is a "coincidence", and it seems to me that any coincidence involves an interface, so I conclude that interfaces being sources of lethality is sort of tautological...

But anyway, I used to own Tog On Software Design, seemed like a good book.

Some of the writing here seems sloppy - "The aviation community, on the contrary, from the beginning made safety their primary goal" - well, no, this very article is about general aviation which is not that safe, and commercial aviation wasn't so safe at the beginning...but I figure he knows that.
I think OP could have found a better way to word it which wouldn’t seem so hostile and accusatory, if they spent another few seconds before clicking ‘reply’.
A local company [1] is taking a similar approach to the extreme and is developing a concept which involves cutting a 100-250m (328-820ft) diameter piston out of solid rock and then pumping water underneath to store up to 8GWh of energy.

Sounds quite crazy at first but actually looks quite reasonable after looking at it a little closer [2].

[1] https://heindl-energy.com/
[2] https://heindl-energy.com/technical-concept/engineering-chal...
They can't just jettison the self-driving unit because that torpedos their long-time valuation strategy. Of course, their car doesn't work so they will eventually have to shut it down. That leaves them in the same place I've always said that Uber would end up: a radically smaller company retrenched in existing, profitable markets. Softbank will take a bath and the smart money already exited.
In 2015, Lenovo (who currently owns the Thinkpad brand) got caught installing adware and certificates into the Windows root certificate store. This is known as Superfish:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish
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I'm guessing my comment was construed as being patronising. I can't imagine anyone would downvote a recommendation to read Russel & Norvig. It's a good book.
I always get this wheezy feeling like a little bit of fluid is building up in my lungs after I eat the impossible burger. I don't know what causes it; the only thing I can think of is maybe the unusually high iron content (at least compared to anything else in a plant-based diet).