skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some reason we need small (relatively inefficient) family farms as opposed to large corporate farms. Not too sure why other than purely political reasons, farm states vote first in the primarys for this specific reason.
You don’t need goodwill until you need it, and then it’s almost impossible to garner. How does that saying go? When you’re on top of the world you can do no wrong, when you’re down you can do no right? A lot of giant companies have to learn this the hard way, probably due to institutional inertia, apathy, lack of foresight, and the reality that today’s C-levels will probably be gone before that shit hits the fan.
I thought they "wouldn't go there," hence the hullabaloo when Yahoo "went there?"
Interestingly enough the futures contract was invented by agricultural commodities traders to hedge against inclement weather.

But consider that many farmers only have a high school education, and are managing operations with millions in assets/debt, hundreds of thousands in revenue per year, and razor thin margins. A lot can go wrong.

Many understand the benefits and dangers of financing, but many don't.
It's amazing that the myth was only "formally" debunked in 1847 did historians back then not know about the neanderthals or our earlier states and if so, then ancient history has really come a far ways.

This quote also stuck with me

> Michael Mercati tried to prove that the "thunder-stones" were weapons or implements of early races of men

Makes you wonder what other marvels of history that we've simply misidentified and what information we're still missing.
People who casually read conspiracy and alternative news (e.g. not hardcore conspiracy theorists who read David Icke), might believe some crazy crap (that doesn't hurt anyone, just discredits themselves)

I think we agree that isn’t true.

Both the harasser and the person encouraging it can be at fault.

You can throw in all the strawmen you like.
More than a billion people use Gmail, and it continues to serve as the gateway for many people to the Google ecosystem. I, for one, doubt they would sunset it any time soon.
Last year they said they were going to suspend the practice of scanning the content of consumer emails

https://www.blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-tractio...
Everyone scans emails. Google was just a high profile example and there was some backlash because they used for ads, not for "spam prevention", or "anti-virus".
There's a number of things to disentangle in that post.

1). The domain you posted is for sale and appears to be broken or slow. Given it uses aspx and a Microsoft stack that's ten years out of date I'd say it's perfectly representative of the state of the larger finance industry.

2). What is a quant. Depends on the job. I was hired as a quant for risk management then got switched to algos when the pm found out I have a lot of hard real time experience with Linux. The first job was all discrete math, the second was optimizing x86 assembly.

3). Credential inflation is real. The application of the maths you talked about was something I saw first hand. The assumptions under which the formal models would work were so thread bare a stiff breeze would tear them down quote Keynes:

>The object of our analysis is, not to provide a machine, or method of blind manipulation, which will furnish an infallible answer, but to provide ourselves with an organised and orderly method of thinking out particular problems; and, after we have reached a provisional conclusion by isolating the complicating factors one by one, we then have to go back on ourselves and allow, as well as we can, for the probable interactions of the factors amongst themselves. This is the nature of economic thinking. Any other way of applying our formal principles of thought (without which, however, we shall be lost in the wood) will lead us into error. It is a great fault of symbolic pseudo-mathematical methods of formalising a system of economic analysis, such as we shall set down in section vi of this chapter, that they expressly assume strict independence between the factors involved and lose all their cogency and authority if this hypothesis is disallowed; whereas, in ordinary discourse, where we are not blindly manipulating but know all the time what we are doing and what the words mean, we can keep 'at the back of our heads' the necessary reserves and qualifications and the adjustments which we shall have to make later on, in a way in which we cannot keep complicated partial differentials 'at the back' of several pages of algebra which assume that they all vanish. Too large a proportion of recent 'mathematical' economics are merely concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a maze of pretentious and unhelpful symbols.

The above is still excellent advice, most often never followed. Of course the lunch talks we had were very interesting, completely divorced from reality, but very interesting.

4). Most undergrads will never see the mathematics. True. But some will. My numerical methods 4th year project was a symplectic integrator for the gravitational interaction between Jupiter, Mars, the Sun and the asteroid belt. It wasn't new research, the results were known 50 years ago, but it was on par with the state of the art in industry in terms of complexity of implementation (cleanness of implementation was a completely different thing, while not spaghetti code it's rightly never seen the light of day).
And you still haven’t said what the issues are. If you are having random issues with built in Mail client, are you having those same issues with the Outlook app for iOS?
Have a look at this HN thread called Alternatives to Google Products: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17280558
Bingo. And it's this dynamic that requires a continual turnover of institutions.

> You don't just phase that sort of thing out

Things that "just can't be done" end up being perfectly feasible in the hands of a leader with some boldness and tolerance for organizational pushback. Often, all that's required to achieve the politically impossible is for an absolute authority to say "do it".
Definitely. Been meaning to learn Elixir. How's the GraphQL support? Part of the reason I'm still on Rails is the nice integration between GraphQL and ActiveRecord.
Out of the fire and into the flames with choices like that though, eh.
If they would only open source it... At least then someone can hack away on it.
Congrats! You also made my “Top 50k worst ways to organically self-promote yourself online” list
California is ‘launching our own damn satellite’ to track pollution
I was really hoping it would be something more like, because there's a mechanical flaw that causes the clock to run slow, and it takes three minutes reach the belfry of the clock tower from, the street. This means that when the clock master notices that the clock is running on time, he has three minutes to reach the belfry, and set the clock forward three minutes, so that it never runs slow enough to make people late.

Or something like that.
User data is a business model that a significant portion of tech workers are now vested in, this constant stream of conversation and hand waving among insiders who are designing and implementing these systems without protest, dissent or advocating any course of corrective action has normalized it, like state and private surveillance.

Now it just serves as signalling to outsiders by those vested in the system to pretend they are not responsible and somehow equally shocked. That also explains why inspite of so much 'hand wringing' and 'concern' Google, Facebook and others continue to enjoy respectability in tech circles with no shortage of people eager to work for them.

But here is the problem, we expect even the poor and desperate to behave ethically, for highly educated privileged individuals to behave unethically means there is now no basis for expecting any ethical behavior from others in society and you create the conditions for your children and others to live in damaging environments.
This is pretty awesome to see since I did something related to this to simulate gravitational lensing around black holes back in 2000 under the guidance of Ronen Plesser at Duke University. Back then however, the computing resources I had available were far more primitive and I can't even imagine how long it would have taken me to render something like this back then. That said, this is way more advanced than what I was doing as well.
and the historic basis of patents is “Strong protection for 20 years, but you gotta share your invention”.
Even in San Francisco a gallon of milk at Trader Joe's is under $3/gallon.
WebSDR
Your suggestion reminds me of Eve [1]. I remember when I first read the design/explainers, the closest analogy I could make was "all variables are backed by a database, and all manipulations are SQL". Not a very accurate statement, but it's how I wrapped my head around it.

[1] http://witheve.com/
This used to be the case, but these days many fundamental Google tools are open.

Borg is Kubernetes, flume is externally available as Google Cloud Dataflow (it's basically Apache Beam), Tensorflow is open source, many of Google's internal java libraries and tools are available externally (Guava, Guice, Dagger), and absl (c++ common libraries) are also available externally.

More importantly, assuming you land on a team with strong software engineering culture (this is likely, but admittedly not guaranteed, even at Google), the general skills you pick up for software design, planning, testing, etc. are transferable anywhere.

That said, all of this applies mostly to software engineers. If you're applying for an SRE position, then I've heard the experience is less transferable, but it's not something I could comment on first hand.
I'd think it would be more exciting in a 'oh the horror, what have we done' kind of perspective. Those things seem scary as hell.
Say I am enrolled in a CS PhD program but want to get hired as a quant. What math courses should I take to get the required background? Would I even be looked at if I had a CS PhD instead of a Math PhD?
Soverin sounds like a good project. What do you make of the fact that the warrant canary hasn't been updated since May, though?

https://soverin.net/warrant-canary
Kuiperbelt – The proxy server that converts WebSocket to HTTP/1.x
The Next Financial Calamity Is Coming
TL;DR:

From the article's conclusion:

"Instead, the evidence points overwhelmingly
to the conclusion that all three buildings were destroyed
by controlled demolition."
Google Inbox did one evil thing. To delete an item in iOS's Inbox, you swipe left to right, whereas pretty much every other app in iOS you swipe right to left. This has thrown me into such confusion now in all apps that I'm happy to see Inbox go away.
The history of racial slurs is pretty interesting, too.

For instance, “Nip” is generally considered to be a slur, but it seems to have come to English from the word “Nippon” or “Nihon”. “Nipponese” in English would be “Nihonjin” as best I can tell in Japanese. “Nipponese” was used as far back at the early 19th Century (1), but “Nip”, as a slur, seems to have arisen after WW2.

Given the changing nature of language, I guess it’s not surprising to see random unrelated words come to be viewed as slurs. In this case, there’s even misleading “evidence”, given that Nambu pistols in the later years of WW2 were absolutely terrible firearms, due to time and resource constraints as Imperial Japan lost access to imported resources.

1: https://books.google.com/books?id=WiEYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA584&dq=N...
Did they fix it?
The insight that made it possible for me to grasp VAEs was digging into the probabilistic setup that leads to this formulation. The neural networks are "just" a powerful function approximators applied on top of this probabilistic framework.
> Auto-encoders are overplayed, mostly because they're a pretty easy intro ML project.

I think you mean "normal" autoencoders, like denoising autoencoders or the identity autoencoder that are used for feature learning. Note that variational autoencoders are not really autoencoders in that sense. They are called “autoencoders” only because the final training objective that derives from the probabilistic setup does have an encoder and a decoder, and resembles a traditional autoencoder.

Traditional autoencoders are the common intro projects used for representation learning and to bootstrap other networks, not variational autoencoders.
Code Rush – The Beginnings of Netscape and Mozilla (2000) [video]
All of the worst famines are political, because the combination of political and natural factors push the death tolls beyond what nature itself is capable of.
I’m with you. Inbox is really nice and mailbox has been killed by Dropbox. The new gmail just isn’t the same thing.
That is how they got al Capone
Gmail itself was in beta, until recently. Everything was in beta.
My sentiment wasn't really to pit "matlab people" against "python people". Tools are tools, with different aspects and uses, and people and their abilities aren't tied to their tools for the most part.

I don't use matlab but I don't consider "matlab people" as bad scientists or limited in terms of what they can potentially do due to their tool. The limit of access for matlab due to licensing and expensive external modules such is the problem in my view. That isn't a critique at all of matlab's actual numerical and scientific utility, of course it's apt in that arena otherwise people wouldn't use it.
What makes you think the set is 100%? People can both be wrong and derail, like you did just now.
Inside the remedial customer service class for deactivated Uber drivers
Why did you use Inbox if you're happier without it?
The quality of a website hardly has anything to do with the state of the quantitative finance industry.
question for people who know the subject (from someone who doesn't) : is this paper legit or written by conspiracy minded individuals? I didn't want to say 'nuts'.
You can run triplet learning as unsupervised representation learning. Take let aug(X) be an augmentation of X (noise, translation, etc), and form the triple (X, aug(X), Y). Let f be your neural network (or whatevs). Then reduce the distance d(f(X), f(aug(X))) while increasing d(f(X), f(Y)). No labels needed.
Remote != work from home.

I work remotely from a shared office with other people. We socialize all the time and go for lunches together, just as I did when I worked at the office.

Before I did that, I did work from home. And it’s definitely isolating.
Best of luck. I've found azure far more difficult to manage even simple things with than on AWS. Even spinning up a single simple development server feels far more complicated.
If you like this kind of content I heavily recommend Halt and Catch Fire. It's fiction on the personal computing business of the 80s, online gaming/communities and the race for search engines and browsers in the 90s . It makes a lot of nudges to current industry leaders.
Good thing there are many major American cities closer to New York than LA, such as nearly every single one.
Can't remember the name of it but apparently there's a short-barrel shotgun on the market that's legal simply because they asked the ATF if their interpretation of the law meant it wasn't technically a short-barrel shotgun but merely a firearm and they were like "yep". Think the thing has a 14" barrel.

Also out here in the Wild, Wild West (aka Arizona) one can make pretty much any firearm they wish as long as it isn't full-auto or has (IIRC) a barrel over a 1/2" thanks to the last governor.

Anyhoo, the point is it varies on the gun laws depending on where you live.
Both of the chemists you mention were already wildly professionally successful before they got their MacArthur Grant. The MacArthur Grant was not encouraging success, it was rewarding it.

If they’re typical recipients of MacArthur Grants then the Emergent Ventures grantees will definitely look worse on average. Some of them will try and fail. None of the MacArthur grant awards are going to fail and drop into obscurity. They’ve all already reached some level of success.

Whatever about Peterson Satoshi Nakamoto developed a financial technology on a par with at least international wire transfers and possibly fiat money. Even if BitCoin as such is insecure and collapses, worthless some altcoun is going to be traded in 100 years. The technology is a big deal.
They'll just keep moving the target, it would be indistinguishable from regular content.
This was inevitable. Moviepass was the dumbest startup idea I’ve ever seen.
While I agree with this in practice, with the culture wars of the past few years, HN has recently received its fair share of people who downvote due to disagreement. It used to be that downvotes were generally reserved for poor quality comments and upvotes were given for substantive well-considered comments even when one disagreed. Eternal september and culture wars are a bad combination. It's no longer innocent ignorance in this eternal september.

I don't have a solution to offer here, but I increasingly sympathize with those that create throwaway accounts, especially now that intent is not longer considered when interpreting comments. People have been losing their jobs not for what they meant, but due to how their words were interpreted by someone else. The fact that HN doesn't allow one to delete their comments, makes these cultural changes increasingly concerning. Who knows which of our past comments will come back to bite us as society becomes less tolerant of ideas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
What happens when you revert to the old Gmail? I'm wondering if you get the speed of the old Gmail back or if it instead just reverts to the non-industrial design elements of the previous version of Gmail. Today a friend told me he reverted all the way back to HTML Gmail because he was so annoyed with the non-responsiveness.
By a train that averages 55 mph. That is a national embarrassment.
Agree entirely. They don't launch products with the hope of having a long term product. They launch products to experiment and learn more about ad delivery. The core ad system is the main priority. As such, falling in love with any product that isnt their ad tech means understanding the product may disappear for no decent reason.
"The trust must be restored."

Playing devil's advocate, what happens when the trust doesn't become restored?

The company loses ad revenue?

Developers flee in mass droves to...Yahoo and Microsoft?

Look what happened when people "lost trust" in Facebook. Shares are down 4% relative to a year ago. Is the company permanently crippled? Are people revolting and moving to alternate forms of social media? Fewer of the people immediately connected to your local graph are probably using Facebook. But that local loss of users gets completely offset by the new users they grow internationally.

Ultimately, these companies are beholden to their boards and shareholders.

Unless Inbox users clicked enough ads to make a dent in revenue, the organization has every reason to deprioritze competing products, and continue down the path of creating free A/B tests, and then merging the winner into a hybrid/better product.

Take a look at Fuchsia.

Or Dart and Flutter.

Or Hangouts and Talk.

An easy heuristic here might be, "Lose trust in the few in order to benefit the many." It sounds really sad, but it is the reality numerous companies live by.
"Capitalism is the most efficient method of allocating resources" lol
If you are banking on B2C-related "goodwill" to save a company whose revenue model is basically all B2B, then you're already dead.

Google fairly obviously is not doing that.
wasn't gmail in beta for like 5 years?
I think a lot of the scare comes from assuming you can easily 3D-print something functionally identical to a handgun you'd buy at a store. There's also the legitimate concern that 3D printing will one day be much easier.
The 2nd option you mention, submitting honeypot credentials and then watching for login attempts, is helpful with a comprehensive defense.
I remember reading earlier this year a commencement speech at West Point in 2010 by William Deresiewicz. [0]

I think the skill of being alone with one's thoughts has become rarer and more valuable with each passing year.

[0] https://theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/
TL;DR: two (edit: four) 9/11 Truthers wrote a paper. Can't be bothered to see if what they claim about the NIST investigation being un-transparent and sloppy is valid.
Google doesn't care about the opinion of outsiders. It's one of the primary features of their culture.
I will join the chorus in saying thanks. It’s not perfect, and for me it was complementary to Mathematica, but I defended my dissertation in 2013 and need to revisit.

It attacks a hard, hard problem and I’m super happy that it will eventually replace Mathematica so that anyone who wishes can see how the black box works.
Ctrl + f “flask” no results - what gives
Eh. I just refuse to work on stuff involving Google APIs unless I really have no other choice. It's not as annoying to set up as, say AWS, but it's much less predictable. Not worth it. A focused alternative is usually more responsive. Though sometimes they get acquired so there really is no winning.
It easier to keep my work account separate from my personal by using two apps (the majority of my work uses Inbox as well so I like to keep on the same).
Please donate. I just donated $50 to start things out.
I bet you're thinking of the Mossberg Shockwave. It's considered a "firearm" under the National Firearms Act of 1934. There's also the Franklin Armory "Reformation", that exploits a similar legal loophole by being smoothbore, and therefore has a barrel under the legal limit for rifles. It's silly :)

> Also out here in the Wild, Wild West (aka Arizona) one can make pretty much any firearm they wish as long as it isn't full-auto or has (IIRC) a barrel over a 1/2" thanks to the last governor.

Federal laws still apply, and the NFA in particular is what makes DIY firearms complicated. I'm in Arkansas, and it's about the same here as Arizona.
My favorite feature of Inbox was the organization of Trips. Thankfully there's still TripIt.
There's no real reason Apple wouldn't use your data if they thought they could do so without getting caught. Anyway I thought this was all moot since Snowden happened?
Real money vs potential ad money.
Further on this point: It's common for PCBs (Printed Circuit Boards) to have Easter eggs in either the copper or silkscreen layers. They're also often in the photolithography masks used for making silicon chips: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/index.html
Snopes has some nice commentary on this. Key takeaway-- this is not a peer reviewed journal. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/journal-endorses-911-consp...
Can you cite sources for your numbers? It's well known that Warsaw Pact forces considerably outnumbered NATO at the German border. (See https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/declassified_138256.htm for typical estimates.)

I was assigned to a unit in HQ US Air Forces Europe from 1981 to 1984. It was a fairly common view that the Russians + Warsaw Pact allies would be at the Rhine in 3 days at which point the conflict would go nuclear. The latter development was the subject of exercises like Able Archer.
Awesome! Couldn't win yet, but I'll keep trying :)

On a more technical note, I wonder if you could use a Lattice-Boltzman-based flow simulation instead of classical CFD. Could be faster depending on "grid" size.

Great, great job!
The benefits of xonsh are more than just the quick math, but I'm glad fish is getting something like this. I've had a Python script that does math for me, something like this [0]

I do think something like a Python shell is the best solution (for me), however, simply because of the ease of use with modifying the current state of the shell (environment variables, etc).

[0] https://gist.github.com/wackywendell/919042f19ab6932447df