skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol. You accuse me of "lowering the bar of intellectual discourse", and when when I do the same to you, it's "increasingly personal"? More hypocrisy. That's two instances of hypocrisy in as many comments. Perhaps you should be a bit more thoughtful and try to avoid such mistakes.
Hiding hand principle
Sweet, PyCall looks awesome and exactly what I was hoping for. Full interop with no copying; I look forward to learning how it was implemented. Thanks!

Is there a mature option for calling Julia from Python?
This makes another argument for Haskell, because the language allows you to isolate the non-pure code into a thin top layer. That makes debugging much easier than it would be if the complexity of IO extended all the way down through your app's subfunctions.
> Valve was great 10 years ago, but they are now facing competition from GoG, Discord, independent distribution, bigger gaming companies, mobile gaming, etc.

"Facing competition" as in they are now taking in only 90% of the revenue as opposed to 100%? That's just healthy.

> Is this why Valve hasn't released anything but mediocre hardware and steam updates?

Valve is still supporting and updating successful titles like TF2, DOTA2 and CS:GO.

>Where's the vision? What are they actually trying to do as a company? Are they just a place where people come and go and do whatever they want?

If you read the handbook, the idea is that you allocate yourself to what you perceive to be the most valuable thing for the company. It's supposed to be self-organizing, just like the economy in the real word, which doesn't have a "vision" either.

The thing with games studios is that a lot of projects get canned (preferably early) before anybody ever hears about it. It's the same for Valve. They're not actually that big. Other publishers have dozens of studios working for them, going in and out of business all the time. Nobody really pays attention to that, but when the guys at Valve don't release anything for years, people notice.

> Don't get me wrong, I do most of my gaming through Steam. But I don't play Valve games. And I sometimes chat on steam, but mostly Discord. And my favorite games, Factorio and Rimworld, can all be purchased independently (minus Steam's cut I might add!). With cloud computing in full swing, indie developers don't need a store to distribute with.

Discord is irrelevant to Valve's business, that's not where the money comes from. Valve is a store front, no indie can afford to just self-publish on PC without being on Steam. Factorio and Rimworld got popular through Steam.
Mozilla is optimizing for a weighted sum of privacy and revenues from Google (who still account for >90% of Mozillas income).

Therefore manually removing all Google partner tracking features in about:config is a very sane choice.
They bought Campo Santo to work on In The Valley of the Gods, so they are still a publisher.
The research is on a small sample however. The interesting part it that measuring at the output end is not the same as measuring in the gut.
This is so hilarious to me. I don't think there is an instance of him saying he's a genius. Regardless, you're inferring a person whose ran/started several multi billion dollar companies, in a variety of fields, as well as teaching himself to design literal rockets, is just like a slightly above average guy.

There are many, many people with close relations to him who would call him a genius, but yes, I'm sure you know the 'truth'.

'I think Elon Musk is a genius and I don't use that word lightly. I think he's also one of the boldest men that ever came down the pike. Put me down as saying I've always been afraid of the guy whose IQ is 190 and he thinks it's 250. I like to think there’s a little of that risk with Elon. He is a certified genius.' - Charlie Munger.
If pay was more equal, at least opportunities to stay in your local area would be more equal. I don’t think it’s the price as an absolute that makes people angry, it’s the feeling of being unable to compete for a beloved space.
Note with Firefox supporting only one NPAPI plugin now (Flash), as of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269807, the enumeration case is identical to the probe case.
Malcolm Gladwell discussed in the New Yorker:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/06/24/the-gift-of-do...
Neural network intuition
> New housing tends to be higher rent

Yes, much like new cars tend to be more expensive than old cars. Is this...surprising to anyone? That used things are generally cheaper than new things?

> if you want to increase affordable housing stock, mowing down older, lower-rent buildings isn't the way to do it.

It actually can be, at least if you're increasing the total housing stock: http://cityobservatory.org/urban-myth-busting-high-income2/

Granted, for Berlin perhaps not always the case, and I think policies to that effect, that push for redevelopment to mean more total housing, would be a good idea.

And again, please don't ignore SF as a cautionary tale. SF tried the whole "let's not knock down buildings" thing, as hard as they could, in the face of overwhelming demand. Now: did it work?
A short overview of why DL is taking off and why neural networks kick ass
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that's what FF Dev edition is for: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/
He showed me pictures. The panel issues were really bad. It wasn't something you had to squint to see. It was visible from a distance. There was also a clearly visible scratch on the delivered vehicle.

Maybe he got a "lemon," but in that case Tesla should have been much more ready to fix or exchange the vehicle instead of dragging their feet and arguing over minutia.

I also question what's happening at Tesla when they even ship a vehicle with such obvious defects to a customer.
It's changed a lot since I used it (and Uber China - https://medium.com/@usaar33/using-uber-in-china-a-case-study...) two years ago.

They now have a txt message system that should be relied on:

1. It has translation built in.

2. It has pre-canned responses

In practice, with #2, the most common pre-canned response you give is "follow navigation" and my drivers tended to just respond with the pre-canned "ok". Drivers don't call me -- their app even tells them I'm not using a Chinese language app.

Never had any trouble.
This should have been an opt-in feature. And if enough people opted in, only then do you make it the default, and when you do that, alert all users to that change.

Hiding the protocol was understandable. For web pages it was 99% http or https, and they could convey which with an icon. (iOS Chrome still shows it for some strange reason). Then mobile Safari dropped everything but the domain name and everyone freaked out. But you can get everything back in Safari by clicking on it, but not on Chrome. Such a simple thing to implement.

If anything they could have just hid the query string, unless it's fairly simple like HN comments pages (item?id=17927972). But with pushstate, you could just hide the ugly bits (tracking, language, etc.) from the user. Take this Chrome promo URL:

https://www.google.com/chrome/whatsnew/?hl=en&brand=CHZQ&utm_source=google.com&utm_medium=homepagepromo&utm_campaign=m69-whatsnew

Using JavaScript, before anything is displayed, simplify it to:

www.google.com/chrome/whatsnew

And if you don't like www., don't host at or link to that subdomain!
I think you meant to say psychologists.
They have had some huge successes though, Counter-Strike and Dota 2 which provide ongoing incoming alongside the store.

And they are releasing a DOTA 2 card game this year?
There’s some evidence that the Little Ice Age was caused by a sudden decrease in farm acreage cause by sudden depopulation during the Black Death.

I hesitate to call it anthropogenic because it’s the opposite of that. I suppose the delay of the cold period counts, though.
> I'm not sure it makes sense to worry about whether
> it's been quarantined, Haskell-style, or not.
> It's still there

True, but the quarantine makes the bug much easier to find.
I was doing this in Ft Greene/Bed-Stuy. They don't know what color you are on the phone.
Paywalled partial article.
Maple and Mathematica are not open, and it's important that not only the resources be open-source, but also the underlying technology stack, because we're trying to not only teach students mathematics but the most engaged students need to "look under the hood" and learn how the technology works.

So we do support SageMath for more complicated answer validation. This depends on the public SageMath cell servers, which provides cloud-hosted SageMath and enables things like \sage{derivative(x*x,x)}. It's also more performant to rely on JavaScript.

For developmental math, answer validation is somewhat harder than for calculus, because often you want to distinguish between say (x+1)^2 and x^2 + 2x + 1.

We run workshops on how to use Ximera. The next one is at UFlorida in October. If you're interested, there is some travel support available. Contact us at ximera@math.osu.edu
Seriously, again?

Applying all of the changes at this list will harm users and increase the chances of threats compromising the browser.

Don’t be shortsighted and use this blindly. Especially do not punish some poor unwary non-tech user by altering these settings on their behalf.
Stabbing yourself with a fork() in a Python multiprocessing.Pool full of sharks
> most programmers don't know what generic programming even is.

Where do you get this from? You’re coming off far too aggressive. Metaclasses or AST rewriting decorators are parts of Python. I know they don’t fit your use case but you don’t need to set fire to multiple ecosystems because they don’t invoke a full blown compiler for every line of code.
Am I supposed to intuit from that discussion that they have different incentives and/or goals, or that they haven't found time to get it done? Because even though I think it is somewhat poor wording, I think it's the latter.

Also, although I also think the proposed "upload" is poor wording, as many people seeing that will be confused because buttons that say that usually then request what to upload (e.g. "hmm, maybe it's asking for a local image to upload to the cloud for storage?"). You actually are saveing in both cases, in one case to the cloud, inthe other case to the disk. Thus, "Save to cloud" and "Save to disk" (or "Save locally") are much better options in my mind.
What I take away from this article is that once antibiotics disturb the gut biome, restoring it to the original condition is nontrivial.
If you want to make it as a standard library so it can compile once and others link to it, then you have this issue. You need to compile on use in order to only add the function signatures based on use, so if you're doing this from types the user is giving you (say, a generic differential equation solver where the state can be any type with the right overloads) then you're out of luck. If you know of a big set of types the user might want to give you, then you can compile those ahead of time, but for the diffeq example you can have different types for the dependent and independent variable, so you'd want each combination. The solution here of course is just to make people statically compile against it if you want to use all of these features, but you need to compile as a shared library if you want to build an easy interface to a high level scripting language (Julia, Python, R, MATLAB, etc.). So what tends to happen is that libraries which do make some extra features possible are constrained when used from a scripting language and they compile a bunch of choices to mitigate that a bit (see SUNDIALS and its built-in NVector compilations). The true solution here of course is to compile on demand based on the new types you see from the user codes, and this is what Julia does automatically.

As for boxing, boxing works but it's slow. The developer of LightGraphs.jl tried using Swift for awhile but went back to Julia when he realized that actually using generics in Swift is really really slow because they do this boxing (your code is generic! But...). To finish the story, he tried Go a bit but generics in Go... he went to C++ but templates but they were difficult to use and the compile times were too long to be anything close to interactive, and has done extremely well over the last few years in Julia (though it is admittedly missing some tools for (partial) AOT compilation and building binaries, but these tools are in development).
He means you can’t do full specialization on all possible combinations of types AOT.
There's pyjulia. We used it to build the diffeqpy package. It's not too mature yet.
It may vary with scale. Similar to how swarming populations (cicadas) can saturate the local predators.
> part of an escalating war between government officials and Silicon Valley over access to people’s private data

Who is missing from that competition?

I'm purposely misconstruing the meaning, but it makes an ironic point. Remember that most of these tech companies make money by collecting and using the same data they claim to protect, and some provide it to the government.
> You’ll need to provide a good reference for that because this is completely wrong as far as I know (AI doesn’t mention it, for instance [1]).

Since 1978, it's been illegal in France to collect census information on race. This is done under the guise of providing "equality under the law". In practice, as pretty much any minority could predict, all it does is make it impossible to actually talk about the systemic discrimination which happens[0].

You say you lived in France for several years, and yet you're not aware that it's impossible to legally collect data on anything related to racial, ethnic, or religious minorities (including police brutality and incarceration rates). Which, in a way, is my exact point: making it impossible to talk about these issues in France doesn't mean that they don't happen; it just means that people who aren't affected by them aren't aware of them, and so they can continue believing the illusion that this racism somehow doesn't exist, or isn't as bad as it really is.

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/how-french...
Telling angry people that they're irrational and not entitled to their anger is not a good answer, either.
If anyone has any question, please feel free to ask.
Wow, this looks quite thorough. Thank you!
On NPR this morning, they said that USA manufacturing jobs have decreased this 1/4, despite total number of jobs increasing.
This research needs to be conducted in conjunction with the effects of prebiotics (ie certain fibrous foods). From what I understand, populating your gut with bacteria but failing to provide those bacteria with the right food is likely to fail.
This definitely looks interesting, have you considered an option to use rsync instead of scp?
If you joined Google to make the world a better place, it's time to look for greener pastures.
why don't you just use f#?
Well obviously automation is to blame, that's why the economy shifted to buying real goods made in China and Mexico, two nations that at the dawn of the 21st century were at the forefront of robotics. Also places like Bangladesh and Vietnam. It also explains why imports from places like Japan and South Korea, clearly laggards in robotics, declined over the last couple decades.

Oh, wait...
This is a great line:

“The Google Campus is intended to be a magnet for annoying young entrepreneurs whose IT-sweatshops (“start-ups”) promise to deliver new ideas to Google’s company business.”
I'm not sure what you were getting at with this correction, but at least in most states in the US, psychologists don't prescribe -- they're not MDs. I suppose probiotics are available over the counter so psychologists could recommend that a patient take them, but if it's "prescribing" in the sense of "writing a prescription," psychiatrists would be the ones to do it.
Assigning each polygon its own color to identify the bad one via color picker is brilliant. I'd love to see more posts like these here.
You should consider using qualifications / simplifying the requests.

The error rate I get for data entry tasks is around 0.5%-1% discrepancy between double entry. If you use prior reliability of the worker to tie break between who's right it drops to <0.1% error rate.
Calibration of the Sensors
A failed big-budget video game title would be far more expensive than these little hardware experiments.

Steam machines weren't expensive either, OEM PC costs are nothing compared to a "real" console rollout, with custom hardware contracts, permanent production lines and a whole advertising campaign.
If you type it so often, just make a single character keyword for it, /goddamit/. Or gesture. Or global hotkey. And delete the wrong protocol and/or port entries from history. If you visit that site so often, I bet your URL Bar will suggest / autofill it for you just after typing 'l' or 'lo'.
Ok, Right, I haven’t been following that. It’s still not at Betahaus since they didn’t move there, I’d know if they were our neighbors.
... which you're using to get an interview:

> If my bots could get an interview, I would then attend and reveal my true identity.

So you'd be hijacking the interview of your fictitious persona. I'm not even sure which is worse, but IMO it's a dick move, and I'd show you the door before anything of value was discussed.

Although any place that's doing in-person interviews w/o a phone-call sanity check, and maybe more, isn't a place I'd want to work anyway, because that's un-sustainable.
Eating fiber, that's un-American!

It really is horrible how much fiber is processed out of our food and fed back to animals.
Understanding Decentralized Identity
I think you meant to say psychiatrists.
Sure, please point to some that pay equally well and offer equally interesting coworkers and tasks.
Nice! This reminds me a lot of "City" by David Macaulay (https://www.amazon.com/City-Story-Roman-Planning-Constructio...). Absolutely loved that book.
I think everyone ignores it because it's so far fetched (even if they go as far as assuming copyright == monetary compensation)
They used my openpgp key to setup my account. They link it on my profile as my key... I guess this gave me some crazy idea this was the key they actually use, not some silently created in memory keys that don't use the openpgp spec at all.
Ah, ok got it. Sorry for misspeaking.
A used car has no value when the engine blows up the next day.

A university degree has questionable utility when you spend $30,000 a year to make $30,000 a year, doing a job that previously didn't require a degree (sales).

I sent Bitcoin to someone in Uzbekistan. Foreign currency and even gold importe are banned there.
That's interesting, Perl is in much more demand in SV than nationally. That does make sense to me, as nationally I expect demand to be driven by more recent trends, while in SV you will more likely experience both industry veterans with experience with it that acknowledge it's utility, and older tech companies with infrastructure built using it that need people.

Although, another way to look at it is that Perl is in slightly more demand in SV, but also C#, PHP and XML experience are in much less demand.
500 users in 4 days – how we launched Remote Circle
Didi drivers will very, very often call you. I deal with this problem by having a pre-baked message explaining that I don't speak chinese, and where do I want to go. As soon as didi assigns me a driver, I quickly send this message through the messaging feature of the didi app, then I use one of the predefined messages of the app (which appear in english on my end) to determine if my pickup location is correct, or if I want him to follow my GPS bead instead. Should the driver call me anyway, I just send him the aforementioned message through sms a couple times.

It is not perfect, but this method allows me to move around easily with didi without speaking chinese. I had no urban mapping problems, but I do test whatever address I want to go in baidu maps first, or any other chinese map app. That way, in case of problems, I can just show him the location or use whatever voice guidance, but I rarely needed this.
> Most of the time I comment, its more to get my ideas clarified

As others have noted in this thread, the unceasing torrent of negativity around Tesla has made it practically impossible to tell trolls and haters apart from regular folk. So how can I tell from your writing which one you are? Honest question here. Does your writing express doubt, pose questions, use qualifications? Or is it judgemental and prescriptive?

After all, commenting takes time, why would you expect others to invest their time in responding throughtfully to you, when you come across as simply wanting validation for your negativity from the echo chamber?

> The China factory hasn't started yet, so I think I'm on strong footing with this.

You mean they're not building the physical building at the moment? No, but they've signed the agreement with the government, hired people, etc. So they've started on it, and it will make cars. But... that doesn't confirm your pre-existing views, so you have to discard it.

> Tesla has also been cash flow negative for not just two quarters, but almost its entire life

No, you said they have a one year of cash left. That's only at the rate they were spending when building their factory. If they're not spending at that scale, they have years left. You're trying to change your assumptions, while keeping your original views.

> I'm not convinced of that:)

Yes, but have you actually purchased on EV in the last year? I mean, it's really easy to hold any opinion you want when it costs you nothing (actually, here it gets you internet points, because negative denouncements are rewarded handsomely). But what would happen if you had to actually pay tens of thousands of dollars based on your opinion?

I mean, you said they'll have to compete with GM, completely ignoring the reality that they are competing with GM today
https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/9dm0i2/the_tes...

> I'm looking for actual thoughtful dissent to change my mind

I don't see that at all. I think you just want the echo chamber to confirm your views. How else would you explain looking at the above graph and thinking "oh boy, Tesla's gonna be in big trouble because of GM"?
That's the same approach as with Portal 2, isn't it?

And I guess that's not completely fair - I'm sure they keep making hats for TF2.
TSMC founder Chang warns of Chinese dominance in chips
> People aren't hurt by less data-selling

You're doing the intent thing where you are saying what you think is the case or the intent instead of the reality. People are hurt by the money they spend applying reasonable compliance risk avoidance measures when new laws come out. People running companies, employees of those companies, customers of those companies, and society as a whole. Maybe you feel the harm is worth it, but please stop pretending it doesn't exist.

And it didn't come out of nowhere, data protection laws had existed before, didn't work before, so they doubled down on the already-failed legislative approach with the same not-working institutions instead of taking more practical or incremental approaches.