skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of subtle points to make here. There is a tendency to throw data at models that don't capture parts of a distribution, and it is definitely true that many of the tail events in a challenging domain will not occur again no matter how long we observe the domain. Successful machine learning systems are able to predict these outcomes without having seen the data previously because they have captured the theory that creates them. Unfortunately it is very difficult to determine when a model is capturing the domain theory and when it is just modelling a distribution - often the only way is to "know" that it's a bit fishy. In many domains this difference doesn't matter, vision in animals seems to work in this way - it's all approximations and sameasis, and we and machines get tricked by optical illusions and so on. Other domains (many in physics) are modelled by observing data and inferring a higher level theory. Early days physics didn't work this way - Chomsky is right, but the method of Galileo is not the only method. Modern scientists do organise data and do look for exceptions and regularities which then drives the search for explanatory systems with predictive power.
Yep I agreee.

This is the nature of complex systems. you cannot possibly see all permutations of your decisions/actions.

However one should at least think them through and then have a feedback or monitoring system in place to recognise when you are having unintended consequences and then react.

You iterate to a solution by constant monitoring and feedback, then reacting. Put another way it is not “I implement this and I am done”
It's the US embargo on Iran. It doesn't automatically extend to any other country that remains in the Iran nuclear accord. The US can pressure these countries to reinstate the embargo, but the "script" is still US-centric.
Shit at this point I’d rather get a used iPad and keyboard if I wanted something like a Chromebook.

Or just a used thinkpad.

But I guess I’m not part of the normal demographic anyway, so....
You’ve rediscovered eternalism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternalism_(philosophy_of_ti...
A pipe dream delivered into production around 2000, for a distributed CRM platform running across Aix, Solaris, HP-UX, Red-Hat Linux, Windows NT/2000.
> all Wirthian languages have garbage collection,

Not Pascal at least and I don't think Modula has it either.
Video from Making C Less Dangerous – Kees Cook, Google
It reminds me Tempest (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename) ).

This time they are exploiting information leak that goes to unshielded speakers and can be recorded and replayed easily.

Very clever.
I think I read somewhere, that the heaps of ecommerce website applications can be very huge, because of the loaded strings.
I think that was in the time of the java update (9?) where reduced string size was added
I don't know why this is downvoted, even if someone disagrees with the opinions, there is a rich vein of ideas to explore. I think we are talking about objectification, in which everything becomes subject to a mental algebra necessarily devoid of empathy. The whole modality of sitting down at a computer and consuming information creates a bias to objectify what you see.

Anyway, on the original topic, as an American living in Germany, I really appreciate how relaxed people are here regarding nudity. I agree with a point other posters have made: the drumbeat of the fears and predilections of the dominant culture finally overwhelm the native one. Germans are pretty stubborn though, and carve out better lives in the diminishing yet still robust delta between their own ideas and imported ones.
actually you just need passive signal switches for this, rather simple.
I own a 2009 MBP and still use it for the few apps that aren't available on my other systems.

My workhorse system is a desktop lotsa RAM, SSD + TBs of HD, triple monitors - and running Ubuntu on it is far better experience than the MBP ever was.

When on the road, I use a ChromeBook or a Lenovo tablet (depending on whether I expect to type much).

Gave up on iPad and iPhone years ago. I used to be an Apple fan, but since Steve Job's passing, the company has become yet another mega-corp chasing profits. The magic is no more.
I wonder if the asteroid brought any rare materials.
That’s exactly my point
At power output produced by APU of a large airliner, electric deicing looks to be almost free.

For smaller planes, things are different. Pneumatics is an acceptable compromise, and piezoelectric that is soon to come to the market will have almost no flaws besides the upfront cost.
For Online Daters, Women Peak at 18 While Men Peak at 50, Study Finds.
There was a show HN this week with something called Madoko which sounded like exactly that.
Right now the whole AI/ML is basically just a buzz word everyone uses because it is popular to use.

In reality, a true AI/ML company is basically just using AI/ML to create services/solutions for existing issues.

Case in point: google is using ai/ml to improve their speech to text and text to speech services.
You can do it step by step when you need it, we had about 5% Typescript in the biggest project in my company when I started, now it's about 70%.
A year ago, the original blog post [1] (it was just recently updated, which is now the one linked here on HN) helped me on a semester thesis, where I quite successfully used LSTM for short-term electricity load forecasting, which also has very strong daily, weekly and seasonal patterns. I used multiple features/variables such as calendar and weather data and found the LSTM models to easily beat ARIMA/TBATS forecasts.

You can find the code repo on my Github link [2], but please bear with the code quality. I only have an economics background, so my coding experience is fairly limited :)

[1] http://www.jakob-aungiers.com/articles/a/LSTM-Neural-Network...

[2] https://github.com/dafrie/lstm-load-forecasting
skytorrents.lol still working for me friend
Contrary to everyone else here: hell yes, every single time.

GUIs are discoverable, and have lower friction for first time users. Example : a video codec GUI will always be easier to use than ffmpeg. I still Google how to use ffmpeg after 10years , and I have to read the entire man page because I don’t know what I don’t know! Is there a newer, better option to this flag available? Like lame for mp3s (another great example), a man page which (used to?) start off with bitrate options, but at the end says; forget all that, just use --preset. Or imagemagick, which decides to go for undiscoverability gold and split their entire program up over multiple binaries so you now get to read multiple man pages! After you guess what the names of those programs are, of course.

Hell. Give me a gui for any unfamiliar task, any time.

Of course, were I encodig movies every day, I’d be singing a very different tune.

Edit: another example: I resize images about once a week and I still have to google imagemagick’s convert. I keep forgetting how to resize to known width, keeping height ratio. It’s so frustrating that I’ve just given up and sort of guess with % instead, until it’s close enough. Not to mention resizing to a desired file size (is that even possible? With a gui, at least I’d know if it were at all. Now I’m just tired of reading the man page. I give up. Imagemagick wins.)
>I treat Facebook as a combination blog and forum. It works for me.

I believe that the problem is that facebook is more than that, you have:

* User timelines -> Blog (with photo and video support)

* User groups -> Forum

* Messenger -> Chat

* Events -> Calendar

Using federation, this will probably be solved not by a "faccebook alternative", but multiple alternatives to each small service.
I don't see how you can blame a user for repeated kernel panic issues.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Declines Invite to Testify in Senate
I hesitate to disagree with Penrose, who has forgotten more about relativity than I'll ever know, but... I'm not seeing the paradox.

There is no absolute simultaneity in relativity. So the Andromeda Paradox only becomes a problem if you invent a magical FTL chronovisor that allows you to bypass causality and see what's happening anywhere in the universe at your idea of the present time.

There's no reason to believe such a device could ever exist. So I don't see why there's any confusion.

Both hypothetical observers discover events that happened in the past when the light cone of the events intersects their position in space time. Events in the past aren't uncertain, they're simply unknown in the reference frames of the observers.

And because the observers have no causal influence on distant events, they have to watch them unfold passively.

It's no different to an incredibly laggy online game. If you're well behind the action, events happen before you can influence them. The fact that someone may suffer twice the lag you do doesn't make the events any more philosophically ambiguous, mysterious, or acausal.
Towards Battery-Free HD Video Streaming [pdf]
> Want a number? Then call your argument numWhatever and check your input.

Oh no, please not the ugly Microsoft naming syntax again... I thought that died a long time ago.
Hopefully people making policy have access to subject matter experts with deep domain knowledge.
Google to Abandon Its Attempt to Patent Use of Public Domain Algorithm
can you explain how this works ? this is very interesting to us. We have a large react app (created using create-react-app) in ES6 and have been considering adopting TS gradually.

This seems a great first step.
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My MacBook Air has a DVD player app preloaded - despite having no DVD slot. It also has a chess game. And iTunes. And I can't remove any of them.
My experience is that applying the ML to a domain is 99/100ths of the job; once you've got some traction with well known methods it's time to develop techniques that address their failings. But, any company that's done the hard yards of getting something working is definitely adding value. A good example is NLP, there's no rocket science in building embeddings, but any company that can build a specialist embedding for an important domain (medicine, engineering, finance) has an interesting and useful artefact that might be worth paying for (probably not as much as they would like though).
The first unmanned sailing boat crossed the Atlantic
I wonder how this would have played out differently if Wil Wheaton had chosen a different Mastodon instance like https://tenforward.social/about
After reading the list of recommended instances to ban I am officially turned off of Mastodon. Some of the sites banned are for good reason but many/most(?) seem to be vague personal grievances from people overly concerned about how people say things. This language politicization will not make many English-second-language people comfortable as one mistake could potentially ruin them. Meanwhile, the "do gooder" moralists are the only ones who can truly say what they think and all they do is produce lists of people they hate. Sorry. Not getting on the Mastodon bandwagon!
I used these every week. It works great. https://www.ubitricity.com/en/
He was terrible IMHO.
> I think it’s inferior because it allows you to rewrite only parts

That's exactly why it's superior, your project just becomes better step by step without an expensive and complicated full rewrite.
South Korea, West Germany are two examples. Compare that with North Korea and East Germany
That doesn't seem like a fair comparison to me. On all those other systems the built-in browser has to be replaced with Chrome as the first step to any utility while on chromeOS you can use a primary user and a guest user with a working browser having never done a single setup task.
Let us help you protect yourself, your brand
I found a free speech instance but you have convinced me to stop using Mastodon. What a joke. This list has some reasonable things in it but a lot of attacking other users/instances on flimsy allegations.
let us help
you protect yourself, your brand and others by both listing what e-mails
are okay from your domain
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The most interesting thing to me is how Wil's antagonists seem to have successfully taken advantage of Wil's mythos (consciously or not) to create cognitive dissonance.

I'm not sure Wil gets that he's never going to have any inner peace while holding on to a mythos that regards him as subhuman because of things he can't control like his race or sex.

Some of the thoughts in that post feel like they're from another century. Almost ike reading Jonathan Edwards' diary, where any time he catches himself feeling happy he has to go off an meditate on how he is but a lowly worm deserving of death.

In both cases it's actually pretty self-absorbed, but at least Edwards had the good sense not to complain to other people (or even to himself in his diary) that the metaphorical hair shirt he'd put on was uncomfortable. In that sort of mythos, the only peace the righteous can expect is a life of suffering, since happiness and success are signs of worldliness (or, in Wil's case privilege).
Wow seriously? By what metrics?
"Intelligence is merely pattern matching and goal oriented planning" > ok you can talk about (parts) of cognition in that way, but it boils down to "we're all Turing machines" which is fine fine fine apart from the issue that what kind of turing machine doing what we do can fit into the soggy stuff in between our ears (as opposed to being able to model a conversation and yet the size of Jupiter with a run time of 2/3 the history of the universe). And there are parts that aren't covered by pattern matching and goal orientated planning such as goal generation and selection (accepting that if a pattern matcher is doing that -somehow - we have to explain how the pattern matcher "knows" to do it)
I don't think that's really it.

Some misbehaviours result in PR disasters, but for whatever reason, no-one ever calls-out a company specifically for putting PR over customers' interests.
There was a demand for the internal combustion engine because it was a massive step-change from horses. Electric vehicles represent a marginal gain for people who aren't primarily concerned about the environment.

To be clear, I would like an electric vehicle, but I lack off-road parking so I don't see myself getting one for a decade.
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- Read this (and even if it's just for a peace of mind to feel prepared): https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Grow...

- make sure this is something you want
> Because shadow banning, for example, works. Having someone's voice lost while they don't know about it (keep living in their bubble) works.

Shadow banning is evil and intransparent. It may work, but at what cost?
> The EV infrastructure should be mostly complete by 2025.

All the people witgout off-road parking will have charging points outside their house?
Yes they do, it's generally smoke and mirrors. But by being buzzword complient, party like it is 1999. Ai/ml is a cute way to fleece clients for 99.999 percent of the time. Ml/ai from the consumer side is a joke.
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Electric vehicles use roughly a third of the energy so that 30 PWh only needs to be an extra 10 PWh for the grid. We need to increase overall capcity by 50%.
They care about education, social services and care for the vulnerable more.
The original cars were electric and gas won out as a better solution because it was more portable and less dangerous in the event of an accident. Those things are still true today.

Edit: why the downvote? Sources cited below. HN, you judge too fast.
So, I have to check that libraries don't do this if I am to rely on the idea that Julia offers safety?
my path was toshiba > 3 vaios > 2 thinkpads, sure premium laptops are pricey new but they last well, most of my laptops have managed at least 4 years of useful life, im hoping the x1 extreme will last me the next five years (notice i typed five as the five key died this morning)

my only current questions are of the screen and cpu, i was thinking of getting the i7 model but there are 2 on offer the higher model is only 30 quid more, its slightly faster but im unsure if its a better bet to go with the lower tier one for thermal reasons

then theres the screen, sure a 4k HDR screen could be nice but itll also hammer battery life compared to the fhd model and as capable as the gpu is its not likely to be pumping out games in 4k so the fhd is seeming like the better option for me.

which machine did you go with? an X or a T?
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"Generics" (which should allow higher kinded types) work well with monads, who containers are among many others.
> My employer has a whole bunch of of plugs in our parking garage

An employer with a parking garage. That's a very funny concept.
For the default props side of things, as of typescript 3 and the latest @types/react it should work as you would expect:

https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/What%27s-new-in...
I really like using the terminal when it makes my workflow faster, using git etc. But checking email and YouTube? No thanks.
I recently started using Markor for that purpose. While it wasn't built as a vimwiki client, it is good enough for my purposes. Some info at https://github.com/gsantner/markor/issues/317.
Pointer swizzling
While I disagree with the law as well, I can't disagree with the problem the law is trying to address. Ivy league schools actively develop alma mater networks (that's the old boy's network everyone speaks about). It's not the case that board members from the Ivies see this as a problem; this is something they actively work to foster, encourage, and support. Most would never consider affirmative outreach; they actively do the opposite.

The only reason a law like this can pass is the Ivy League is now pretty evenly split on gender. It doesn't break the network.

I'll mention a lot of policies are this ham-fisted as a compromise -- allow a particular demographic (women, African Americans, etc.) into seats of power, without fundamentally breaking the power dynamics. A lot of racial issues you see are due to e.g. aggressive outreach to a very small number of African American who fit a certain cultural mould, rather than a broader outreach to poor people.

The Harvard crowd would never want to let poor people attend the school (unless they're e.g. poor but politically connected, or otherwise likely to end up in a seat of power).
You are incredibly correct. If you are pitching the tech vs the product it's game over.
Source? I'm curious, as I don't know much about the state of rechargeable battery technology in the late-1800's.
Was thinking more in machine readable format. Could write a script for this thought I would check if it has been done before
I find it interesting that Computer Scientists are basically rediscovering statistics.

Now when predicting time series, an issue is that most model (like ARIMA, GARCH etc.) are short-memory processes. When you look at the full-series prediction of LSTMs, you observe the same thing.

So in terms of Time Series, Machine Learning is currently in the mid to late 80's compared to Financial Econometrics.

So if you are a CS, you should now probably take a look at fractional GARCH models and incorporate this into the LSTM logic. If the statistic issues are the same, then this may give you that hot new paper.
I predict any large shift in the EV market will be tempered by the growth of the electric grid as a whole.

The grid is already strained. It can barely handle new AC units in the summer. The large 500KV lines that connect cities to plants are near or over capacity already. Upgrading is a delicate balance of income vs cost. Upgrade or run them hotter.

They won't upgrade the backbone due to cost, now imagine the cost of trying to upgrade the substations and last mile connections. We seriously need better power distribution for EV to take over the market. Not everybody in the neighborhood can upgrade their meter to 300A+ without upgrading the network too.
I use the latest 2018 one for work. It's ok but just ok. Personally I will not be buying a MacBook pro as the current models stand.

Not a fan of the touchbar. I accidentally hit buttons on it as i rest the tips of my fingers on the top row, the siri button on the top right above delete was the biggest problem. Likewise I hate the context of the keys switching between apps, the escape key dispersing or volume buttons diapering. I've configured the touchbar to be a fixed constant layout now so the keys do not change however I've had a few instances where it's gone completely blank and had to restart. The lack of tactile feel is a big loss.

I've also had a few times where I thought I hit the famous keyboard issue with dust in the keys. Luckily after a few keypresses whatever was in the keys worked it's way out.

The size etc is nice especially comparing to my 2011 MBP however I feel it's now form over function. The 2011 I pimped out with upgraded memory and SSD, that's no longer possible and you have to spec it up front at cost. The 2015 model I have is probably the best model for form/function however that's still a 2015 model 3 years out of date.

Most of my work is in the terminal, Emacs or tools that run on Linux, the only Mac software I really love and will be hard to loose is 1Password. I've got a 2018 IMac as a desktop which I considered ok value for an all in one with good screen but feel if I need to buy a personal laptop instead of using works, as it stands I'll likely get a Dell XPS or similar and go back to Linux on the desktop. Based on the Surface Book Go being able to run Linux the next gen versions of Surface Book could also be interesting if they also follow the Go.

For me to buy a MBP now they'd have to loose the touchbar, fix the keyboard, come down in price for memory/disk as no longer up-gradable. All unlikely to happen.
Metafilter charges a one-time $5 fee to post. It also has extensive human moderation. It’s worked well for them but they’ve never tried to scale up.
Nope. The draft explicitly states that the design allows the compiler to use a run-time implementation.
"In 1884, over 20 years before the Ford Model T, Thomas Parker built the first practical production electric car in London in 1884, using his own specially designed high-capacity rechargeable batteries."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car
Some people never learn how self-selection into your convenience sample affects results.

Also, here is the NY Times article on which this click-bait is based: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/style/dating-apps-online-...
Yeah I've written some systems type stuff in it as well such as a UNIX shell and FUSE file systems. So Ive played around with syscalls and the sort in Go and frankly I'm inclined to agree with you there. I mean sure you can use Go as a systems language (as we have proven) but that doesn't mean it's the best suited language for that particular type of application.

However I don't think that's so much an issue with the lack of generics nor Java-esk exceptions but rather it's memory management and green threads. You may disagree with me though - the stuff you work on is definitely a level or two up from anything I've attempted in Go.
I suppose the real Julia trick used to make this nice is the generated function. There isn’t really anything like this in C without code generation.

Other languages with macros can do this sort of thing but one then needs to “derive blob” or something like that.

In Haskell one could probably do it with Generic (ie the compiler generates a data representation of the type; you write a function to go from this representation to your deserialisation function; and then the compiler does a crazy amount of inlining)

An alternative way to do this in an object oriented language is with a different metaclass that does the appropriate dereferencing. But this risks being slow if not compiled well
If you feel your laptop has made you a permanently angry person, why not sell it and cut your loses?