skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Computational models are ubiquitous, and using them involves mainly two things: fitting/inferring parameters, and making predictions using model+parameters. Probabilistic programming languages (PPLs) aim to provide a rich set of tools to make both these actions easy, given a model. To really exploit this to the fullest, the framework needs to also be able to handle uncertain parameters (rather than just "best fit" values), which goes over into the regime of "hierarchical" models i.e. probabilistic models for parameters in a probabilistic model.

If we were to delve into details a little further, being able to make predictions from a generative stochastic model would call for efficient samplers, and being able to infer parameters might call for good variational optimization schemes (and various other methods on the landscale of Bayesian inference).
Nah you're fine. I'm getting serious "ideological/political argument" vibes off the other commenter.

I recognize the other commenters tactics as the same "throw a bunch of dubious claims at the wall, force your opponent to spend way more time refuting each one than it took you to make them, and as soon as they look like they're climbing out move the goalposts again" thing that I see in political arguments with half drunk friends and strangers on political subreddits :P

I'm sure I've seen a great webcomic that describes this somewhere but I can't find it...
Google actually had/has an interesting micropayment-esque solution to this that neatly solves almost all of the problems with micropayments. It's called "Google Contributor"[0].

Here's how it used to work: You'd pay Google Contributor $5-$15 per month. When visiting a page with ads, Google Contributor would bid for the ad spot on your behalf and show a non-ad when it won. This has the benefit of paying each site what they're "worth" based upon the bids for the ad space, so it entirely sidesteps the problem of valuation. Additionally, there's an easy out for people who can't afford it as well - view the ads.

Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end... I only learned about Contributor right before it was reworked. After the rework, it now only works with a list of sites that have opted-in, and the list is disappointingly short[1]. It basically seems dead now.

[0]: https://contributor.google.com/v/beta
[1]: https://support.google.com/contributor/answer/7324995
And the files. Other VCS UIs show other things first. I don't care about commits or branches first. I care about the README and the top-level files (e.g., LICENSE).
Part of starting a project is in understanding the scope, commitment and time you will need to dedicate to finishing it. Ideas are easy, execution is hard. If there are people depending on you, don't start what you can't finish -- it will just leave tons of people sad and disappointed.
How Stitch Fix turned personal style into a data science business
I have a commuter stop within 500ft of my apartment to ride in and out of NYC. I rarely use it because I can beat the train by driving, it's unreliable, I don't have to plan around the schedule, and it's cheaper to drive. On street parking is not a problem for the time and place that I go into the city.
Looks like: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18109800
Republicans dominated California in federal elections for most of its history until 1992; it was one of the most solid of Republican strongholds.

Republicans have been trashing Hollywood and San Francisco/Berkeley for a long time, though.
It looks like there are several versions of this book. Would you recommend the 3rd edition of this book, or could I get away with an older one and buy it used?
Ah yes, no one could possibly like driving of their own accord, they must be brainwashed.
Did the order that killed net neutrality move them back to being Title I "information services"?

There have already been court rulings that states cannot regulate Title I information services. There was one just decided a few weeks ago in the 8th Circuit, Charter Advanced Services (MN), LLC v. Lange [1].

Pai immediately praised that decision [2].

That, in this suit coming so soon after that, suggests that is going to be the approach.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=162444264794194...

[2] https://www.fcc.gov/document/court-preempts-state-regulation...
I find it hard to maintain motivation and attention if I'm not getting at least ~30%. This applies to both movies and real-life conversations in another language. And, now I think about it, it also applies to English-language materials that require specific technical background, e.g. academic papers.
Google crawls the open web non stop. They definitely have this data. It's just not exposed to the (legal) team dealing with DMCA takedown requests..

EDIT: Or as to the example above: whatever application is responsible for picking the main article to show somewhere.
Meet the new NAFTA, almost the same as the old NAFTA but with a different name
I think I broke it...

http://laktoz.yogurtcultures.org/?subject=Abbas&case=possesi...
Very curious to see a book on food show up here. What did you like about the book and did it change the way you think about food or life?
Pet Adopter:  app to adopt pets or find someone to adopt a pet
Great connection. Here's one way of looking at it: when you add stochasticity to your program, you make it easier to search the space of possible solutions (and you also relax the criteria for what it means to be "a solution").

In (deterministic) logic programming, the default search strategy is backtracking. We search the space of "inputs that could have produced this output" exhaustively. Each set of inputs we try either works or doesn't, and doesn't tell us anything about whether similar inputs will behave similarly.

In probabilistic programming, we can use the information we have about probability densities to tell whether we're on the right track; as we search, we can tell if we're getting "warmer" or "colder." Suppose I have the simple probabilistic program:

def f():
a = normal(0, 1) # mean 0, stddev 1
b = normal(0, 1)
c = normal(a+b, 0.1)
return c

In this generative model, I choose two random numbers, add them together, and then pick a third number very close to their sum. This could be thought of as a probabilistic version of the deterministic program f(a, b) = a+b. If I want to "invert" it, and condition on c=2, say, I can walk around the space of a priori likely (a, b) values, "scoring" them based on how likely "c=2" would have been given the particular (a, b) under consideration. The tight bell curve around the value c=2 can be seen as an implicit "loss function," telling us how good or bad the current solution is. This is very different from a logic programming approach, which would be able to exactly invert the + operation; but as you pointed out, it's nontrivial to formulate `+` correctly as a logic program, whereas here, we are free to use an imperative implementation of `+` (or much more complex deterministic operations, like a 3D renderer).

There is research in probabilistic logic programming languages, which can be seen as combining some of the strengths of both paradigms, though that's not covered by the introduction linked in the OP.
> It doesn't explain the lack of transit inside the metros.

That is because whites moved out and systematically starved the cities of a tax base and state funding for infrastructure projects that would benefit minorities.
Ignorant of what, precisely?
There are some benchmarks[1] in the molten repo as well as instructions for running them yourself. On my machine it ends up being faster than Flask and nearly as fast as Falcon.

[1]: https://github.com/Bogdanp/molten/tree/master/benchmarks
Mark's Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, and AREMA.
I guess with Vue I just don't feel in control any more, and that's a big no for me.

I understand your feeling, even though I don’t work in React.

I worked for a company that brought in a new guy who was all hung-ho on Vue as the new hotness. He managed to convince the project manager that we had to convert the entire site to Vue.

I was never able to wrap my brain around the fact that so much of it was opaque. You just had to trust that A would lead to B would lead to C. And when it didn’t, even the Vue evangelist couldn’t untangle it.

As I’ve explored more and more languages and frameworks over the years, some I immediately grok, and others just never make sense. I think some programmers, brains are just wired differently than others. It’s too bad that there’s this undercurrent of tribalism and brand loyalty in the industry.
How hard is it to intercept SMS (two-factor authentication)?
I'm sure you think that shows bias, but you could also say that his track record of being right means he should be considered extra credible. :)
Note that one important thing with Spotify is that musicians can choose whether or not they're available on it. We can't adopt the same model for ISPs unless we're comfortable with different portions of the web being available via different ISPs, which IMO would be a net negative.

So whatever pricing model exists has to be a completely universal standard. ISPs can't decide not to pay it, and websites can't negotiate with ISPs for higher profit models.

Well, OK, if a model like that exists, then sure, we can just all adopt it. But, the existence of a universal way to value content online and to measure engagement is not a problem that can be just glossed over. People like me would argue that formula probably isn't even possible to create.

Brave is trying to create something like this with its attention token. I think they're incredibly naive, but they do have the huge advantage that they are only one company and you can decide whether or not you want to engage with them. Building it into the browser is... eh, problematic-ish. But it's a far cry from legislating it. Other people who disagree with Brave can iterate on their model, or go off and do something completely different.

It's kind of like the Open Source philosophy. I'm allowed to do stupid things because it's easy for you to repurpose my work and then ignore me. ;) But when it's a standard, then I can't be stupid anymore. Then it needs to be right the first time.

So in theory, if there exists a standard that everyone can agree on, I guess we could put that at the ISP level? But that feels like putting the cart before the horse to me.
But I thought gender was a social construct. So why include quotas based on gender?
That's probably because in every Youtube video ever, there's always someone asking what's the song in the background. I think it should be recognized as law akin to Godwin's law, the Darud Sandstorm's law.
When penicillin was first used to treat syphilis, thousands of cured schizophrenics were released from mental asylums.

https://www.newsweek.com/diseases-mind-133263

I've apparently submitted this article three times, the last time 18 days ago. It's never gotten traction.

I have a long history of viewing mood issues and the like as somatopsychic side effects of medical issues. I tend to ask my sciency son to "Look up X" when I'm having an issue. I'm talented at asking the right questions. He's talented at getting back to me within an hour with the info I need, plus supporting links. Then I typically go eat a thing and stop being such a fruitcake.

Some things I've done:

Consumed foods containing rosemary or sage to calm extreme anxiety because I was clear it was brought on by withdrawal.

Consumed beef with potatoes to mediate the salt-lithium connection and prevent both woke bi-polar like mood swings and suicidal tendencies.

Consumed oranges for the vitamin c to put a stop to out of the blue rage.

See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16607422#16608139

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16140867
Asset stores allow you to have placeholder mechanics like you used to have placeholder art. So placeholder camera, controller, collision detection, and a placeholder level. Then you get to rig what you want to test on top of that, or just sell it as is which is called an "asset flip".
It's amazing how many "conservatives" I've run into who've never been to San Francisco, but somehow "know" that it's a liberal hellhole that everyone hates.
> […] there's a ton of Golang that won't run on anything but Linux.

Please give examples so I can fix them.

Go code is highly portable to the supported platforms. In all my 5+ years developing code on Mac and cross-compiling for Linux servers, I can count with one hand the number of broken packages due to compatibility issues with the target operating system.

With my experience I am sure that I can fix the cross-compatibility issues in the code that you have had problems with, but I need names and/or links, please point me to them.
If it's a primitive type, yes. Throw in a union, a generic, or a conditional and everything blows up.
I’ve got almost 25% IE11 and XP to support. I feel your pain.
One always ends up going through a library or framework's source code at one point or another while trying to track down bugs. Using Typescript makes this a lot harder.

For example, I was going to contribute to the Visual Studio Code project with a simple tweak: A setting that would make global find key-command happen without have to click the search icon after. After asking online and then wading through the TS source code trying to get something to work, I finally just gave up. Typescript isn't JavaScript.
Promoting a game isn't enough on it's own. To succeed today a game needs to have quality, market fit, promotion, luck, and probably a number of other factors as well.
No, the question is: do we want more and more content concentrated into the hands of big players, eliminating little, independent publishers? Do we want this?

If the answer is no then there must be a feasible, scalable alternative for small players before we eliminate the current ad based model, otherwise the little guys will die and all we have will be huge media sites pushing their own agendas without small, independent publishers having a chance of standing up to them.

That is the dilemma.
How does the law prevent the founders from putting some of their wives to the board?
> He was attempting to make a game engine completely from scratch ... The project never seemed to evolve beyond engine work. The most recent updates are months and months of rewriting things back and fourth from lua to C++, infinitely tweaking to make the framerate perfect.

Re-inventing the wheel and premature optimization are red flags in software development. I can't say I'm surprised they never got around to building a game. Based on their approach, it looks like they suffered from an XY problem. Was inventing a new game engine really the right approach from the start? In hindsight, looks like it wasn't, and I'm surprised they continued that approach for so long.

It's mildly infuriating when the wrong team gets backed to build something. This is why the founders matter so much. Anyone can have a great idea, but it takes the right people to execute on something. Looks like this team was unprepared to build what they imagined, taking funding for X and then spending all of their time on Y, where they thought Y was a precursor to X, when it actually wasn't. If I was a backer, I'd be incredibly disappointed.
Decent question, I'm not sure how to calculate that and a cursory Google didn't find me an answer.

Household power is AC, I'm sure that will have an impact. For example, switching on the circuit when the voltage is instantaneous 0V would surely result in no change in the flow of current. All you'd have in that scenario would be the rate of change of AC, which would be 10A at 50Hz = 2000 A/s in Australia (1Hz = +240 to -240 and back in 1s).

I'm sure this is hopelessly simplistic though, nothing happens instantaneously - there will be some period of high-resistance arking, etc.
I'm more surprised that they continued this (clearly wrong) approach for 6 years, leaving all of those people waiting, eagerly. This was irresponsible. The lesson here is, don't bite off more than you can chew, especially if you don't know what it is you are eating.
NY Times: “As part of the deal, Canada will ease protections on its dairy market and provide access that is greater than what the United States would have gained through the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade treaty that Mr. Trump withdrew from last year.”

The New Republic: “But, as The New York Times notes, this opening “is similar to what the United States would have gained through the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade treaty that President Trump withdrew from last year.” In other words, the most significant concession Canada made was one that it had already been prepared to make.”

Either NY Times changed the article, or The New Republic does not have any fact checking whatsoever.
I used to participate in an alternative medicine community. Their explanation would be your illness "settled in the brain" and has never been fully cleared.
It's forced labor in that the state takes the proceeds of some of your labor in order to pay those doctors to treat others. I.e. Taxes. No one is saying that doctors are put into work-camps or threatened into working.
It doesn't. Looking the other members of the board in the eye and telling them you couldn't find anyone in the world more qualified for one of the most important jobs at YOUR company - responsible for hiring and firing the CEO - than your girlfriend or wife based on no other parameters should stop you from doing that. I'd imagine you'd have a difficult time raising money too - let alone the publicity.

The law doesn't stop me from running each board meeting in the form of interpretive dance, either. As a board member, I would likely seek to fire that founder immediately in either case.
>Ever tried walking from a house to a strip mall to run errands?

Absolutely. Mostly the problem is the absurd amount of space between houses, because "not everyone wants to live packed in like sardines on top of each other" (quote from a zoning meeting where the outlawed ADUs).
You can easily induce a 102 degree fever with a very hot bath.
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> No, the question is: do we want more and more content concentrated into the hands of big players, eliminating little, independent publishers? Do we want this?

Herein lies the catch: you have correctly and properly identified a potential side-effect.

The question, I think, is this: how many users and how much privacy are we willing to sacrifice for this precious, wonderful, beloved, amazing side-effect? I know my answer, and I see no dilemma at all.

The horrific outcome you so rightly point to is not an ideal outcome, in isolation. At the same time, there's never a guarantee that there must be some convenient alternative. The wish for a thing does not conjure it into being, or even prove that it is possible. And in this case, some might decide that our beloved side-effect isn't as important as some other things.

Though I understand if some prefer to see the security and privacy of users as something to be traded off against for financial convenience.
Honestly, I don't think there is a person alive that could single-handedly develop a game of this scope without getting burnt out.

That's the first problem. The subsequent problem, once you've realized that, is that many people that want to pursue solo development of a game are unlikely to be good PMs once they bring on others.
C++ Telltales Pt.4: Forward Declarations And
The version for OS X is just a rebranded Xamarin Studio, nothing like the real visual studio at all. I’m surprised the former doesn’t run under Linux already, there is no good reason it couldn’t.

For the real professional apps, the app is more important than the OS, so you choose whatever OS will run your app. Need to use Adobe CS, well, OS X or Windows is it, it could have been Linux and graphic artists would just swallow and use it, since they need to use CS. Likewise, a tool targeted at Windows app development would be fairly weird running on non-Windows.
It was always like that though. Game programming had always been the worst field for programmers, and the industry had and is exploiting the fact that some people like games enough to work on them under horrible conditions.

I don’t think it’s the equivalent to writing the great American novel though, because programming is just a minor part of game creating and arguably one of the least important. Design I’d the most important.

The author of this article rants about the swarm of unity games, but some of those unity games are better than what the author made exactly because they took design seriously.
Speed is the advantage. It's very fast for a self-hosted system and probably only beaten by BigQuery for throughput.

You're right though that most people don't need it and can get 90% of the speed with better usability with the other options.
I might be abnormal, but I've bought Asesprite, Tayasui Sketches and Ableton Live just to get better at making games for free for Ludum Dare.
RAD Game Tools has people with ferraris
Not for half an hour, unless you have someone patient with a kettle.

I have seen one journal abstract where that that was used, but I don't know the details. There are better methods though, if you have the budget of a hospital or research center, such as IR lights filtered through water. There's also a article outlining various methods of inducing hyperthermia.
This is really awesome. I think I played with your source a few years ago, trying to adapt it to work with Google Cardboard. My initial attempt failed, because my eyes would lose focus during each word transition. I decided I'd need to add a lightly textured background, which would be shown all the time, and which would fix the distance my eyes were focusing, and then lay the text on top of that. IIRC I gave up because I realised the 'right' way to do this was to use the Cardboard SDK, but that would mean also writing something to render the text into pixels (as the SDK only supported graphics).

BTW - The Google Play link in the repo doesn't work for me, and I don't see Glance in F-Droid. What's the easiest way for non-developers to get the APK?
Russian strategic nuclear forces
And Democrats argue states’ rights when it suits them.
Yes, but not with Google. This can be done with the Bitcoin blockchain. Before you groan, hear me out. You can submit a transaction which contains a hash of your content. Once it's on the blockchain you can prove that the content was created no later than the date of the transaction.
It does support updates and deletes now, but still limited.
Same .. but Keybase has replaced Dropbox for me for these purposes. The encrypted git repositories are awesome!
Oh, I see - so are you suggesting the interstate system, the fire department, the post office, the public school system, the water pipes, electricity, gas, medicare, medicaid, the army, every regulatory body, and so on are all forced labor? If so, great, count me in. It feels like an entirely arbitrary place to draw the line to say you support public education and the fire department but not public health. If you support neither, well, the dark ages are that way. Literally because the power grid is socialized.

Either way, nobody's forced to work. Neither you, nor your doctor.
Bloom's 2 sigma problem
They should have went all the way: 50% women, 10% african-americans, 5% asian, 5% choose-some-other-race, of which 5% must be LGBT, 20% catholic, 50% christian, 25% none/agnostic/atheist, 5% "other" and 99% should NOT be in the 1% :-)

I suspect a working-class Lesbian Asian Hindu is gonna find themselves in demand!