skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Number of views in the video" was an actual problem for youtube because people gamed the algorithm by inflating views. Now "time spent watching the video" is added to confirm the view.

I understand this data is not easily accessible to a third party but it would certainly improve this algorithm.

Edit 1: If I open YouTube and the Fair trending videos were presented to me, I would probably never use YouTube again.

Edit 2: I realize that I never click on the trending tab on youtube. I take back Edit 1, I'll just never click on the trending tab again.
Counterfactual Regret Minimization – The Core of Poker AI (2018)
I think it's meaningless.

Employees with "equity" options will:

1. Get diluted with every VC round (oh, but value of our company is increased so you potentially own more in dollars!)

2. Left in a dark about preferred shares schedules and conditions that every VC gets. Preferred shares allows VC's to get paid first and in multiples of their original investments in case of an exit. This effectively can and most often will leave exactly $0 for employees with every exit regardless is employee owns 1% 5% or 25% of options.

Upon hiring - request disclosure of preferred shares schedules - before and during employment - and you'll quickly be given some excuse or shown the door if you insist.

If you're lucky and given equity right before IPO or given RSU (actual shares with vesting schedule) of publicly traded company - then it could make a world of difference.
I think this problem can be solved by place/people specific subscription rates rather than fixed ones.
What can people do to be effective actors against the societal inertia that inevitably throws well-off, as tptacek put it, "engaged residents" (they're always instant experts in the next arena of material advantage, eh?) against fair zoning due to fear of poor people/non-whites? What are historic models of activism? Book recommendations? I get the feeling zoning and housing is one of those unsexy problems less broadcast within mainstream liberal and left politics, like gerrymandering or campaign finance.
Try Startpage. It proxies Google search results -- basically Google without the tracking.
I know this is exactly what you're trying to avoid, but could you upload an example unsigned extension? I'll try to figure it out, could be a bug somewhere.
Marketing is in charge, of course. This has been abundantly clear for years if not from the outset.
Yep this is actually a killer feature for development and more than makes up for the polish difference in dev tools imo.
If you don't undestand where the name "softmax" came from, you don't really understand what it is. Softmax is a differentiable approximation of the max function.

Plot max(0, x) and softmax(0, x) functions, and it should become clear.
There is also Freetrade.
The key thing with TSB was that none of their thousands of employees could fix the problems for weeks in end, so it appears many customers have come to the realisation that they should not be with a bank that cannot rectify issues, and thus they are looking elsewhere.

You seem to be trying to signal that you're conservative. Thus in this scenario, you would leave TSB and go to another established bank with thousands of employees - and maybe, despite their legacy systems, you'd be fine.

The original person in the example though has reached the point where they're leaving and they're willing to try something new. They won't actually be at greater risk of loss, since there's a well established ombudsman and UK banks have a guarantee (FSCS), so then it becomes a matter of inconvenience from any bank mistakes (until they're rectified) and the level of features - with modern systems, it's entirely likely the startup app-only bank will do better on both these points. So it's not the sort of gamble you seem to think it is after all...
No. If I'm ready to forgive someone I do it. If I'm not, I don't. I'm not going to put someone through some stupid kind of eloquence litmus test when I decide whether to accept their apology.
After they dropped inbox, I'm actively trying to leave google products but it is definitely hard. The band-aid is fused with the skin. It also made me realize that tying oneself to a single product/company is definitely to avoid.
Apps like YouTube Music need to add Siri Shortcuts so I can say play my youtube mix or whatever on YouTube Music. I know Pandora just enabled this similar Siri Shortcut and that's where I think Siri Shortcuts will be the most useful. ALlowing to interface with 3rd party apps.
This may have been the case when this article was written but I don’t think it’s the case now. Many universities have graduate and undergraduate computational science programs now.

https://www.siam.org/Students-Education/Resources/For-Underg...
I use Firefox exclusively to browse, I use Chromium for local development.

It is true the Firefox's dev tools are a lot better now than they used to be - I use them regularly when I test sites cross browser. But they lack critical features like source editing and stack rewinding, and the tiny visual/layout improvements they've made are not enough to get over that. In Chromium, if I pause a script, I can edit a line code earlier in the function, resume, and Chromium will rewind the stack to that point and replay it forward with my changes.

It is insanely useful, hands down the single tool that I use most often. Stuff like that blows Firefox's dev tools out of the water, because it turns out that I debug Javascript more often than I debug Grid layouts.

A while back I looked into whether or not anyone at Mozilla was working on something comparable, and there was somebody. But then everything went silent and I don't know the status anymore. I've been wondering for multiple years now why this kind of stuff isn't higher priority than new Grid tools or color selectors or whatever.

Firefox's dev tools are way behind Chrome's in basic functionality, even if the user experience is otherwise excellent. You can't even set breakpoints on DOM elements. I would disagree with anyone who claims that they're even remotely comparable tools at this point.
> I wish the video player wasn't as large as the whole screen so that controls are partially covered by the scroll bar(on chrome) and you basically cannot zoom out, it's a bit frustrating.

I've made the video player fill the webpage so I that resizing the window would resize the video as well. I want to emulate the feeling of using i3[0] on my mac.

My use case isn't yours though. So I've added the ability to set your own video player size :)

0: https://i3wm.org
Do you have something we could try out? Otherwise, I don't think this is a very good use of show HN.

Crap, I missed this link my first read.

https://github.com/HealthHackAu2018/auslan-party
Genuine question: what are you advocating should be done? Give up on privacy? Or something else?
I'm reading about your Allgau microgrid, and it looks like it may have been chosen as a pilot because some feed-in tariffs are expiring. Is the idea here to effectively bypass the utility company (even though there is a partnership for this pilot) so that energy consumers end up directly paying each other through the blockchain ledger?
That is definitely a cool direction to take it!
I’ve kept budgies (parakeets) all my life, and occasionally I’ll post a picture on social media and get the inevitable “keeping birds in cages is cruel” backlash. It invariably comes from people who do not keep birds.

Budgies love their cages. They clean them, they rearrange them, they make them into a perfect environment in any way they can. Introduce something they don’t like and it’ll end up on the floor. Introduce something they do like and they’ll probably move it because they weren’t happy with the placement.

With the pair I have currently, the whole front of their cage opens up and I open it every day. Usually the male has a five minute fly around the room, lands on the cage, then climbs back in. The female usually doesn’t even bother because she’s far too occupied with housekeeping and making angry noises because he’s not with her.

I can’t speak for the larger parrots having never looked after any, but budgies love their cages.
You mean it couldn't possibly be to make it more interesting, immersive and relatable?
The chronic homeless are a different group than the normal homeless person.

Most homeless people just couldn't make ends meet, then saw their resources cut off like dominoes falling. They haven't given up on the capitalist dream, and they will purchase shelter again from the free market, once ends do meet.
> World without alcohol is a better world.

Not for me. I truly enjoy a good drink with or without friends. It's possible to drink in moderation and enjoy yourself.

> Media brainwashing has done its job well.

Again, heavy drinking was extremely common well before mass media. I don't think you can pin this particular issue on them.
thank you for sharing! great information on this site

https://www.datapunk.net/
Speeding Up AWS CodeBuild with Custom Build Environments
Standing up to Google by using Chromium is akin to standing up to Ford by buying an F-150 and removing the blue Ford nameplate. Google's investment in Chrome exists to give them leverage over the web platform, which is opposed by the marketshare of all non-Chrome-compatible browsers, which is not increased by using Chromium.

To reiterate, there are plenty of good reasons to use Chromium or forks thereof, but that only continues to further, not oppose, Google's stranglehold on the web.
If someone doesn't have an iOS or Android device they have the freedom to bank with a traditional bank.
> The next thing Europe needs is a Robinhood-like app for fee-free trading.

Would it give a percentage of every transaction to assorted charities instead? Steal from the rich, give to the poor, after all.
Thank you for offering to help! I actually just figured out how to fix it right now myself. The solution is to delete the following lines in prefs.js, then restart unbranded-Firefox twice:

user_pref("extensions.databaseSchema", 27);
user_pref("extensions.e10s.rollout.policy", "50allmpc");

The first start takes longer, so I can tell it's resetting something internally (not sure what). However, the second restart is what makes it start working. Not sure why.

Edit:

For anyone else trying to auto-obtain the latest stable Firefox nightly, here's a hacky command (change for your OS as needed):

curl -s "https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing" | sed -n "0,/Windows 64-bit Installer/{s/.*href=\"\\(https:[^\"]*\\.zip\\)\">Windows 64-bit Installer<.*/\\1/p}"
i switched to firefox after quantum. didn't like memory hogs.
Not advocating browsers either way, but as someone working a lot with css grids lately, chrome does have this tool. Hovering over any element that has a grid-area style, or a grid-template-* style will display the full grid on the page.
I don't work for Google, but in my shop, my code has to have 2 ship-its or I can't even get it into the build stage of the pipeline.
Agree. It speaks to the broader point that studies in fields like this- with so many degrees of freedom, are hard.
You can also have a "generalist" model, trained to differentiate major object classes (e.g. furniture from animals), and multiple "specialist" models, each trained to differentiate between variants of the same object category (e.g. breeds of dogs). That approach was described in Hinton's knowledge distillation paper.
I'm building HuggyList. Our mission is to provide condensed knowledge for busy professionals.

It truly matters because it makes learning much easier for people who lack of time.
This helps everyone to make better decisions and have a greater impact.

As an example, here is some YC startup knowledge summarized in bullet points: https://huggylist.com/channel_lists/1537220271873x5642096565...
> I know I don't need Alexa, but when you've got grocery bags in both hands and it's dark, being able to turn on the lights by voice is handy even though it's far from "needed".

A simple motion/heat detecting light does what you need here, and is probably more reliable...
Interesting idea. Being able to navigate the massive amounts of information on the Internet is a skill in itself. Sounds like your group creating a sort of Driver's Ed to absorb quicker.
On holy wars, and a plea for peace
Well I wrote "sounds like", so the comment was sort of in jest.

But now I've gotten negative feedback (-2 ?!) I'm thinking that sensitivity training is oppressive. Any criticism of such training appears to be vehemently opposed and I'm now not so sure such training should be seen as without agenda.

So. No. Now I'm not joking. This appears to be an interesting discovery. What was seemingly a throwaway comment that should have passed unnoticed looks like it has revealed some form of censorship of anything even slightly critical (even a joke).

Perhaps "Re-education camps" wasn't far off the mark.
I use bing as my main search engine mainly for the rewards. I've gotten quite a few $5 amazon gift cards that way over the years.

However, it frequently doesn't return the results I need so I often go over to google.
A real apology is an expression of regret and an appeal to mercy. It is not transactional or representative, it's an acknowledgement of a personal, transgression, and demonstrates a new understanding.

A lot of people aren't worth apologizing to, as the offense they took can often be attributed to a lack of charitable sentiment on their part.

An apology must be given freely, with no expectation, but also don't waste them on people without a track record of magnanimity. I've found people forgive honesty and honest mistakes. If you make a real mistake, people forgive you when you prevail over it, but bending a knee for posterity or to acknowledge authority is worse than not owning it because it rewards sanctimony and cant from bad people.

An apology is for accepting consequences you are prepared to accept, not for avoiding them or mollifying others. I don't agree with the professors approach.
And it does have a built-in ad blocker.
I've never understood why this is an issue.

If I'm god, and I'm creating a planet for humans, and I made humans the curious beings that they are, would I:

a) Create an earth that is boring with no history to dig into and explore

b) Create a rich and storied history with things for them to wonder at

Now, I mean, if I was god I would chose option b. Even in the alternate reality where I would personally chose option a I don't see any reason to think that the actual god couldn't have chosen option b.

I'm not religious or well versed in Christianity, but I'm not aware of any reason why option b is inconsistent with the bible (the one possible exception is the flood story, but that is easily explained away by god fixing the earth afterwards).
This thought is addressed in the submission: Google wouldn't be doing it if they didn't think they'd be getting value out of it.
I remember in Streeterville there was a big kerfuffle against construction of a Ronald McDonald house. I'd like to think people felt guilty when it turned out that the house would be a place for families of cancer patients to stay while their kids were getting treated at the children's hospital...
Most compilers will optimize this to whatever is faster even if you use the clearer version.
recommendations for items they particularly like?
You could physically steal plans, drawings, or documentation describing inventions or technology. Infringe isn’t necessarily the best term here when the technology in question isn’t necessarily covered by copyright, but likely a mixture of patents or trade secrets.

In these areas of, shall we say, ‘loose’ IP enforcement, I don’t think you’ve seen any instances of really transformational increases in technology, but rather incremental improvements. Evolution rather than revolution, if you will. I don’t think you’d see major changes without strong IP law enforcement. While there can be some rapid improvements in existing tech, with lax IP enforcement, how much new tech could you really expect? We’d end up stuck in a local minima.
Note that all the companies he mentions are B2C.

I see a strong connection between the importance of "timing" mentioned in this talk with the importance of riding a consumer "wave" mentioned by Justin Kan in his article "Why I Love B2B over B2C". In short, it's difficult to succeed without riding a huge wave. It's difficult to pinpoint waves in the first place because waves are only obvious in retrospect (i.e. when another company has had substantial success already).
Last year I read a book on combinatorics [1], and did a fair number of exercises each chapter. Normally, worked on it for an hour in the morning, and then 4 - 8 hours a week spread over nights / weekends.

Looking back, it was pretty taxing--I think if I'd been meeting with a tutor once a week it would have been a lot easier!

[1]: Basic Techniques of Combinatorial Theory, by Daniel Cohen
Safety training ins't about saving lives. It's about eliminating the company's liability when a safety incident inevitably occurs.

edit: downvoters have never worked in an HR department...
A minority view: I do care about privacy but this behaviour is what I expect from Chrome.

We have a number of profiles on our shared family PC and people expect logging into chrome or gmail will also log into the other.

For me it's the price of entry for using the google ecosystem. I was already using gmail/gdocs/chrome sync daily, so it just makes life easier.

If I really need privacy I go to incognito or another browser.
My grandfather, an owner of an African Grey Parrot, died in his early 80s. His final years were marked by lung disease and a hacking cough.

After he died, it was always a bit weird to visit my grandmother as, for the remainder of his life, the parrot (whose name I cannot recall) would hack away in precise imitation of the cough which killed our old grandpa.

Parrots truly are unlike any other pet.
People point out that getting your data stored on ipfs is not guaranteed unless you pay for it. But there is a huge amount of unused storage space out there on people hd's. That means that once the market gets going, storage is going to be really cheap.
if they transparently list out the changes (rather than force someone to diff the source), then it's OK.
Yes, you are right, dark matter,and the big bang are just the leading theories explaining an observed feature of our universe:

- What is holding the galaxies together, given they are rotating faster than gravity from observable matter can cope with?

- Why is the Universe so uniform, given parts of it we can see are outside of each others light cones?

I read the OP as using the names of these theories as a handle for the effects they account for, which is fairly standard practice. Even physicists investigating other explanations do this.

I'm not sure dark energy or black holes fit that description. "Dark energy" is a reference to something that is causing distance objects to accelerate away from us faster than near objects. Obviously that takes energy. Dark energy is just a place holder name for that energy given we don't have a clue what it is or where it comes from. A black hole is a name for enormously heavy, small (smaller than the schwartz radius) and very dark objects whose existence is inferred from the their gravitational effects. They are found at the centre of galaxies, among other places.
but it only needs to work on _your_ computer (or whoever you're making the recommendation to).
The issue is that if a == b, &s[a] == &s[b]; i.e. you're writing to the same address.
What do you recommend an employee do to protect themselves before signing? Are there any special clauses you recommend be on there to maximize profits from an exit or any red flags to look out for? Is it typical to ask for additional options during every fundraising round?
My point is that the word homeless has become more ambiguous than ever.

Even your post is conflating what I was describing as "homeless" for people living out of vehicles/tents as living rough on the street.

But the general vocabulary everyone uses does not distinguish between the two, it's all just homeless. And this is how we arrive at people being surprised by the quality of people they find as technically homeless.

There are many people who technically qualify as homeless who are simply not paying expensive ass rent, but living out of vehicles in desirable areas where the rent is expensive, and doing so quite comfortably and connectedly thanks largely to the smartphone.

We need a different word to describe this class of homeless people. They're more willfully homeless than the classical meaning of homeless, because their homeless option doesn't really suck as much as it used to.

I've lived out of a car quite a bit throughout the bay area, and talked to a bunch of people doing the same thing along the coast in the process. There are numerous folks living out of vans waking up to million dollar views every day without paying any rent or mortgage. They're living the dream, should we still call them homeless?
Have you looked at the front page of youtube after clearing your cookies? Its not more high brow than fairtrending. The point is that media corperations are paying Youtube for placement and Youtube is hiding non-advertiser friendly content.
I think the only thing that's missing is allowing the containers to sync with Firefox Sync with a client-side passphrase. I don't want to lose all of that "work" I've put into carefully separating websites into their own containers when I switch to another machine or re-install the OS, etc.

Also, it should be easy to "reset and switch" a website from one container into another while leaving no traces that it's been in another container. I often load a website in no container or in another container, and then I use another plugin to switched it to where it should be. This should be a default feature.
You are a good person. A better peson than myself.
> befriend people who are going through hard times and serve our immediate communities more directly.

Makes me think of the insurance policy of the Amish - if someone's home burns down, it is a guarantee that everyone in the community will come together to build a new house for them.
My calculus teacher used to say that you learn calculus through your wrists, when you read the theory you get a grasp of how to solve some problems, when you learn to solve the problems is when you really can start to understand the theory.

The same is valid for writing software, reading code is great, but you need to write a lot to learn how to program.
You really have to pick a category. For example, "News & Politics" is decent.

Of course, an alternate ranking does nothing to fix the problem of videos that have simply been banned by YouTube. Lots of good stuff is just missing now. Freedom of speech: tearing out a man's tongue doesn't prove him wrong, but it does prove that you fear his message and it strongly suggests that his message might be correct.
Hey, bro. Lua was my first programming language. I started making PSP homebrews before I learned it was actually made here in Brazil.

How is compilation-time execution handled in Pallene? Does it have templating or maybe can it run its functions during compilation with a special token (so it doesn't need a metaprogramming language)?