skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I might be getting your question wrong here but have a listen to this podcast: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/10/06/556212654/epis...

I'll give you a quick summary version based on this though.

Business owners were looking for a way to tell if the person standing in front of them will likely pay them back. So Businesses go to companies like Equifax that try build credit reports on people and basically ask "can I trust john smith?". Essentially they're big time data brokers.

The thing is that when you created and owned accounts with banks and established credit cards, the whole time those banks were funneling your activities to companies like Equifax, who then build these credit reports against you. So even if you never interacted with them, your banks likely told them everything about you.

This kind of thing is something you only really find out about if you go looking for it.
I'm in the opposite boat. I don't care to learn all the "magic" cli tools that frontend frameworks provide. This looks great to me, even if it does little.
OP didn't say anything about human senses. I don't see how your reply fits in, I think you may have misread the comment.
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Perhaps it is useful to the policy-making folks to not change these policies? There is very few morality-based decision-making in the upper ranks of power.
I think this is about trading storage for computation - you replace terabytes of model/texture data with a compute heavy NN.
Let me download mp3 files from the internet and run them through a completely new and untested parser and decoder. That sounds like a great plan.
Ask HN: Resources to learn “modern” Python?
Python was the first programming language I experimented with back in the late 90s. While most of my professional career has been in the C# / SQL Server space, I have a nostalgic urge to pick Python back up. Any suggestions on where to start?
I think it's relevant because it's about discovering truth:

"Sorenson, the Republican state senator and Tea Party superstar with a clear path to Congress, had heard about disparities in sentencing. He had read about the statistical inequalities and crooked economics that are foundational to the American prison system. He had watched the demonstrators on television chanting about the devastation wreaked on minority communities by mass incarceration. And he didn’t buy any of it."

This, in microcosm, is one of the biggest problems we face: large numbers of citizens who believe in things that are not true, and the subsequent normalization of conspiracy theories and the disparagement of defending truth as mere political disagreement. Sooner or later, the truth will win, whether it's about the conditions of our prisons, or the laws of economics, or the consequences of climate change. The longer we try to deny this the less pleasant it will be when it happens.
In my experience, YouTube-dl needs to be updated quite frequently, as YouTube changes their design.

How is this handled here? Is periodically kill / restart the container enough?
No it's not the beginning of asteroid mining. What in the world gave you that impression? There have been several other sample return missions in the past, this isn't the first one.
> Gosh,there is so much half assed redundancy in js world that no wonder that so many beginners feel lost.

Beginners feel lost because the JavaScript world has learned nothing from Java's ant. These insane build/asset pipelines that take forever to run are the bane of the JS world.

It's like nobody remembers you can just write a JavaScript,then link it to an HTML without 35 compilation steps.
I've been doing a lot of research on political polarization. I think the story can be described by two simple statistics:

1. 68% of Americans say that insulting political opponents is "never fair game."[1]

2. "The Facebook audience of congressional candidates engaged with oppositional posts more than with ones that didn’t take sides"[2]

I think this is just the fundamental struggle of being human - what's fun now vs. what's good in the long term. Political takedowns, cable news, tweetstorms - these are all fun. But they are in no way nuanced, and they in no way lead to good democracy.

At the same time, I don't think political polarization is an existential threat to democracy. We're allowed to be polarized because we don't have any huge issues to face. If you look at George W. Bush's approval ratings after 9/11, they skyrocket, because we had a lot more important things to worry about all of the sudden.

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/01/few-american...
[2] http://www.people-press.org/2018/07/18/how-the-facebook-audi...
There are some especially in the city finance and some engineering firms do pay six figures for non managerial engineering talent and while the pound has dropped it’s still possible to get a $130-150k base salary in the city and unlike the US you get a very good pension and benefits on top of that.

But if you compare the averages then yes you’ll be lucky breaking $70K in the EU.
Thanks for this info :) I swipe my card at 7/11 for a piece of gum 10 times per mont hahaa. I trust 7/11s infosec I guess, and I use my credit card for everything else.

I don't want to reveal my bank account balance but the interest generated per month pays my phone bill :)
I don't think this is right. Measuring a photons position to the plank length or below (probably not possible) would just mean the photon has a very large uncertainty in momentum.

But that's no different than saying if you take a single slice of a 44.1khz PWM data stream you'd have 100% certainty of amplitude and 100% uncertainty of frequency.
> Certainly, there were major logistical challenges to moving materials on an island a thousand miles away from the U.S. mainland. Yet such obstacles did not prevent the deployment of the 82nd Airborne Division across the 7,000 miles from Fort Bragg, South Carolina to Saudi Arabia in August 1990...

Ok, first off, Fort Bragg is in North Carolina.

Secondly, the 82nd Airborne Division's job was/is to be ready to deploy halfway around the world on a moments (OK, two hours) notice and I can say that we weren't ready to do much of anything once we landed in Saudi Arabia other than be "speed bumps in the sand". Also, as was seen in Haiti (I believe), it isn't such a good idea to send combat troops off on missions like this since they are war makers and not peace keepers -- bad things happen because up to that point you are trained to fight the enemy and not much else.

So, yeah, they could've had the 82nd on the ground pretty quickly but doing so wouldn't have been a very good idea unless the Cubans were invading or something.
Last time I tried to download the win10 iso while on windows, their site proposed me the download of something along the lines of an installation tool. Shortly after that I tried the same webpage while running Ubuntu and the site proposed me the download of the full win10 iso.
I believe that the webpage checks few alternatives prior to passing you the ISO .
Compared to a perfect society where we always try to understand others before acting towards them.
But said "nope" a couple of years after. They are now on standard time year round.
> MINERVA-II1 is the world’s first rover (mobile exploration robot) to land on the surface of an asteroid.

http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20180922e/

If the other missions took samples and returned without a rover, I wonder how.
The way that the author uses pure Excel formulas (no VBA or macros) to compute a QR Code from scratch is similar to how I used pure Excel to compute ciphers:

* AES cipher internals in Excel: https://www.nayuki.io/page/aes-cipher-internals-in-excel

* DES cipher internals in Excel: https://www.nayuki.io/page/des-cipher-internals-in-excel
The hypothesis is that raising rates slows the economy. That might be false, because one has to account for what happens when speculative bubbles burst.
That's most DSP code. Take a look at FFTW or SOKit.
So, the same problem that the poor(er) states in the US have. And yet, they seem to be content to stay within the union - so I think there may be a little more to it than a single variable? I'm open to the argument, it just seems a little... well, short. Especially in a reply to a comment that said "The problems are more complex" :-) (now it's simple after all? I doubt it)
Let's say Europe against all odds succeeds in creating the seeds of some promising AI scale-ups. How will they prevent the US, Korea and China from cherry-picking and buying those out just like in all the previous IT-tech waves?
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The sunk cost fallacy
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Apologies, I thought past missions were sent to comets not asteroids but you are correct, the original Hayabusa mission tried to return a sample from an asteroid but incinerated on the reentry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa
There are two sides to this -- AI used a marketing buzzword to attract customers and AI used as a buzzword to attract investors.

For the customers, they need to be sure that the company is actually capable of solving the problem they are claiming to solve (before signing some sort of long term contract that doesn't actually make the claims the sales people put forward.) The customer's evaluation, however is distinct from that of an investors.

It is the job of an investor to determine if the startup is actually capable of having reasonable odds of successfully pursuing whatever they are claiming to be doing. If an investor is not, then for an actual startup doing machine learning, probably this is not they type of investor you want.

During the ICO pump and dump cycle one thing stuck out to me - nearly all of the ICOs were being run by people without any cryptography experience. Most had little to no software development experience. I'd suggest investors take their first step in evaluating "AI" startups similarly.
Touring is expensive and has a certain number of fixed costs.

While popular artists indeed can make a killing touring, it costs money for those playing smaller venues, or god forbid, playing as an opening act.

Labels have a tour marketing budget to cover the expense of building a following on the road.
> But for analytics and prediction it’s been extremely useless compared to actual people.

Usually the problem is that companies are going to sell you an AI solution for your data, but these companies are not going to tell you that with your current data there is very little an AI system can do. I say this because I saw companies who wanted a prediction system with 2 years of data (40 datapoints per year). Any AI expert will see there is no way this will work but still the system is sold to the company. This is much worse in the public sector.
Other humans I suppose. If most humans espoused more empathy it would be a global benifit.
Nobody is talking about double buffering. We’re talking about non-animated page scroll, which instantly replaces content with other content, a preference that you share with very few people.
These types of encoders are very useful, and I hope to see something in this style emerge for AV1 (an encoder which produces reasonable quality in real time on commodity CPUs, using the appropriate subset of bitstream tools for that job).
That's excellent - thank you.

Assume I'm not a complete numpty, but are there directions for:

* Download

* Install

* Invoke

... anywhere? I'm not at all familiar with retrieving and installing libraries from git, nor with NIM and how/where to install code. All assistance gratefully received. Pointers to existing detailed instructions also very welcome. I can investigate all this myself with trial-and-error, but if someone's done it before it saves me the time and effort of making all the mistakes again.

Thanks.
I just wonder how many people have heard of say, Secure Multi-Party Computation, before they come to the conclusion that they need to print their own money. Yao pioneered many interesting concepts which have basically been swept under the rug because nobody is interested in something that isn't "blockchain."

All blockchains are valuable to someone - the creator. They're cash cows. They start with the premise that they need a blockchain (so they can print money), and work backwards - what can we apply the blockchain to in order to convince people to buy our token. How many cycles of pump and dumps we can go through before people realize that it isn't going to work.

If everyone can and does print their own tokens, what are your tokens going to be worth?
The list bans laptops because they are general computing devices where you install a huge multitude of programms willy-nilly from all kinds of sources.

Chromebooks are exempted, because they are basically a web browser and little more.
I thought they ended up doing that because the bodies were piling up uncounted and the governor admitted that that the civilian infrastructure required to keep track of the dead had itself failed and so asked for outside help from academics on the mainland. They didn't go with the highest academic figure either.

If they were actually trying for high figures, as you suggest, why not go with the Harvard study placing it at around 4600 dead?
GNU true/false in particular is like one of those jokes that takes two minutes to build up to a cheesy pun at the end:

Overly elaborate setup: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/true....

Snappy punchline: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/false...
I've add screenshot of first intra frame and x264.264 to compare in players.
It looks like it's fast because it makes use of x86 and arm SIMD extensions, but you could probably get the scalar version to run on an arduino with some effort. It would likely be slow, though.

If you are looking at arduino audio applications, I would suggest either using a MP3 codec asic or pre-decoding to wav and compensating by using larger storage.
This is the problem with a lot of political activists that get into the media . They get famous not because of their well thought out positions but because of their charisma. There are way too many people who have a huge following on TV, Twitter or elsewhere who espouse positions that make no sense. They never need to examine their beliefs because they have a lot of followers who affirm them without thinking.

There are quite a few stories about people who publicly had a strong opinion about something and quickly changed their view once they got first hand experience with that matter.
>The success of recent years in the machine learning field will likely allow us to determine outcomes of past events from indirect sources with acceptable accuracy.

probably not
There is significant scepticism[0][1] surrounding this, and many, many submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18044050

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042687

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042513

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042116

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18041616

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18039613

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18038790

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18036367

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18032207

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18029551

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18029459

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[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/9hl35w/sir_michael_at...

[1] https://mathoverflow.net/questions/311062/sir-michael-atiyah...
Yes, if someone has physical access to an unlocked iphone or mac you're screwed. The author's idea might rather be about the OS, the main difference between an iphone and a mac (or pc for that matter) is the os. Hence the recommandation for a chromebook.

I suppose the author assumes that on ios a random website is less likely to have access to your files (articles).

So this might be more about protection from attackers who don't have physical access to the device.
In high-assurance fields, the mindset is all code is malicious, buggy garbage until proven otherwise by rigorous analysis. That means everything we include will cost us. If we don't use it, we don't include it by default to save us work.
There is significant scepticism[0][1] surrounding this, and many, many submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042687

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042513

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042116

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18041616

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18039613

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18038790

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18036367

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18032207

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18029551

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18029459

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[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/9hl35w/sir_michael_at...

[1] https://mathoverflow.net/questions/311062/sir-michael-atiyah...
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Color profiles are making my brain hurt. Could you help me figure out what color the image on this page is?

https://output.jsbin.com/damigaw/quiet
It's not been my experience, but it is changed often enough that if you don't use it often, then yes it might give that impression.

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/commits/master/youtube_dl/...
There is significant scepticism[0][1] surrounding this, and many, many submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18044050

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042687

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042513

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042116

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18041616

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18038790

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18036367

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18032207

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18029551

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18029459

=============================================

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/9hl35w/sir_michael_at...

[1] https://mathoverflow.net/questions/311062/sir-michael-atiyah...
You should add:

6. Get lucky with whatever you pick to that effort into. It's hard to predict that your idea is actually a good one.
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The hierarchy of countries winning Nobels in the sciences is shifting
First, they now have about 300 employees. The “500+” number is just something you made up, just like you made up your $10mm revenue number.

Second, I’m highly skeptical that the CEO is making fraudulent financial claims in his letter to the employees. Unlike you, he: a) actually knows the facts, and b) is liable for his false statements.

Finally, it’s clear you have some kind of bizarre axe to grind against Evernote, hence the baseless speculation and outright lies over the years. No idea why, but it’s pretty sad.

You can respond if you want but I won’t be reading or replying.
The gaps are massive in several electrical/silicon CAD verticals and simulation. Due to IP secrecy, no OSS Verilog/VHDL synthesis alternative exists for Vivado/ISE/Quartus and the Intel/Xilinx line of FPGAs. I don't think any practical alternatives exist for Mentor Graphics' line of silicon design or simulation software, nor have I seen any OS software capable of complex mixed domain simulations like COMSOL or Ansys - many of the pieces exist, but it takes a lot of work to verify that algorithmic physical models actually work together.
America has accepted massive, permanent subsidies from high productivity states to low ones. It’s one country, after all.

Do the rich countries of the EU have the same appetite?
and i don't want any of them, because i don't trust xiaomi with any of the personal data these things store
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Citation of a UI study showing that preference? And was it with inexperienced or experienced users?

There are many other people in this HN discussion expressing a preference for fast interfaces over animated interfaces.
In times of funding plenty the valley is awash with companies that are basically faking it. This was very common in the previous valley bubbles, the Real-Intelligence-Masquerading-As-Artificial thing is just one in a long line of semi-frauds that the valley tends to accumulate. In the 90s the flood of B2B companies was as crazy as the current flood of AI companies.

This will pass when funding gets tight again and/or the economy enters a recession. A very sharp recession is actually good for the valley because it helps clean out the fakers; it's no different than the first cold snap in the winter helping clear away certain pests.

(One takeaway from this is that if one wants to found a startup, and one is not a fraud, it's actually better in almost every way to do so in the first part of a recession: lower salaries, less grass-is-greener attrition, lower real estate costs, etc.)
Your gut is directly connected to your brain by a neuron circuit
One year working remotely
Shouldnt really be a problem unless those mp3s have malicious code for that particular decoder
Thank you for your work op. I share the sentiment about reading tutorials, making them yet never feeling ready to take things to production. Maybe more tutorials should follow your approach.
#FF00C4
My biggest worry would not be about today or even next year, but rather ten years from now.

In 2010, I could have said "women do not have a penis" and faced zero criticism. But if I say the same thing today in the ultra SJW woke society of 2018, it's grounds for instant allegations of transphobia, sexism, and a whole bunch of accusations that result in social and professional ostracizing without any sort of verification or context. All it takes for this is one person who dislikes me enough to dig through $age years of online history and finds that one statement that does not hold to this instant's ultra progressive intersectional social justice standards.

Put simply: I do not trust society at large to remain rational enough to want to attach my real name to anything but the most mundane of statements.
Honest question: Why? Why do things twice? Ansible already promises me to install a specific version of a program, check a certain port (wait_for), make sure a file is owned by someone, etc, etc. If Ansible can't make it happen: it will quit.

Why add goss to the equation?
The thing with US salaries is that they're only higher in small circumstances, often what you'll find is someone is earning 100k USD and has an offer for 35-40k GBP will end up living a similar quality life. It sounds like it would be but that's not actually a pay cut. It comes from the fact that a lot of taxes are already given to the UK Govt, along with some strong protections for things like: private pensions, which doesn't happen in the US.

If you are very clever with applying taxes, and you don't pay into a private pension then you might be better off- but it's a good thought exercise to apply the costs of living differences and then work out what level of flexible income you have left, and then what buying power you have with that money.

The quality of life is generally comparable for jobs which technically pay 2x a UK salary in the USA.
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