skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As for over-fitting, I am not in my 50s, and I knew what over-fitting was from my undergrad (or highschool?). The idea is very commonplace in engineering. Numerous times, when encountering a "new term" in a different field, such as overfitting in machine learning, I have found myself thinking in overly complicated ways, because I never thought that what I considered so simple could be the central point of discussion. Perhaps the physicists who could not describe what over-fitting was, were in the same shoes. The other unfortunate scenario is that the interviewers expect certain responses that are just not the generalized things one knows of.

But regarding other matters, I hardly doubt that the sentiment you are suggesting is lost on all.

One point of view is that the self affirmation bias is easy to come these days. The material on basics of machine learning are beyond trivial, but the hype makes money. Even traditional engineering does that to some extent, at least that's what I saw in my education. Same goes for basic finance. I see hype attempts in non-"computer science" engineering research, which amounts to noise. Some writers are oblivious, some are doing it for money. The problem is these days every noise is amplified, and at first I was confusing noise for signal. Particularly at a period when I was practically doing solo research despite having colleagues.

All being said, and I could be too quick or too short on this, large scale computation may automate many aspects of our lives, and funding goes for automation whereas mathematical modeling does not automate things in and of itself.

As for new mathematics, I doubt serious researchers would disagree on looking for more.

I came across this today, you might recognize one of the names, haven't read it and doubt will find the time for a while, but perhaps it could be of interest to you. https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08225
You can say that, but from the beginning, governments have put limits to speech based on "harm" from speech. Slander, libel, threats are all illegal due to the contention they cause harm. Taking no side is also similar to this, taking no side in a conflict as long as they are civil requires one to decide what is "civil" in the first place. Are comments about race considered "threats" if one person is of the race targeted? How about coarse comments like telling someone to "kill themselves." It isn't so simple and even being neutral is a stance of a kind.

BTW, I don't think being neutral in a conflict like censoring or not is the wrong stance, but it IS a stance with its own value judgements.
Maybe there is a niche for "license free" radio communications as a hobby? It could operate at two levels.

The first level is to operate completely inside the rules. The rules don't say that a device can't radiate, just that it has to be within very strict "unintentional radiator" limits which are judged to produce negligible interference. How far can communications be pushed within these limits?

The second (more risky) level is to operate on the basis of living within the spirit of the law, but not the letter. The spirit of the law is that you shouldn't cause any interference. At this level, you transmit, but in such a manner that you never interfere with anyone else. How do you do it? That's why it would be an interesting hobby, as it would be truly state-of-the-art. (Think cognitive radio on steroids.) The fact that you don't get caught would be a metric of success: in the best case that your transmissions have never been detected, or in the worst that you haven't interfered with someone and prompted a complaint. Of course if you mess up you're in it big time.
Case in point for UX: new gmail, hover over an email address, select add contact. Works for me about half the time. Edit contact fails for me 100% of the time. Been like this for months.
Published 2013.
Godaddy domain name scam
I searched for a domain name (muddadhaba.com) on godaddy and no other search engine or domain search website. In a couple of hours when I went back to buy it, it was already booked!

The most umbelievable part is that the domain name I was trying to book made no word sense (muddadhaba.com), so it definitely can not be a coincidence and that too within a couple of hours.

Even the registrar of the domain is Godaddy and Owner is "DomainsByProxy.com". Is that a way to make more money out of people who search for a domain on godaddy? Has anyone else faced this?
Deplatforming Alex Jones gave him a slight bump in popularity after it occurred, followed by it falling off a cliff shortly after.

Also in your example of responding to flat-earthers what other alternative is there when they refuse to listen to reason? When you can't engage with them on any level?

Why is it my responsibility for example to be the one to engage with people who might view me as being a lesser human being due to my skin color or sexual preferences?
Why does nearly everything that Google makes look like it was designed by an engineer? They have top-notch engineering talent, but seem completely clueless when it comes to designing slick and beautiful experiences. There's a very thin line between cool and cringy.
Invest in co2 scrubbers and nuclear power.

But they also said ten years ago that ten years would be the absolutely longest time we had to prevent catastrophic climate change.

They also said the world would be overpopulated and we wouldn't be able to feed everybody by the end of the sixties so who knows.
This is the answer to the Fermi Paradox.
"It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine."

Y2K was supposed to be a global catastrophe. It got quietly fixed. No one (but me) wakes up today and goes "Oh. Thank. God. We aren't living in the Y2K post apocalypse!"

In fact, I have been told that most people laugh at the idea that we ever worried about it because it turned out fine, so we must not have been in real danger.

The Kuwait oil wells were supposed to burn for years and be a global catastrophe. Crack teams converged on the country and put them out in a mere 6 months. No one is saying "Hallelujah!" about that either. It is also forgotten while we are on to bellyaching about our next catastrophe.

Don't get me wrong. I'm an environmental studies major and I have lived without a car for more than a decade and I would like to do more to mitigate this problem. But I'm pretty damn sure that if I actually fixed it, A. I would likely get zero credit and B. The very next morning the entire world would be focused on some new problem rather than dancing in the streets to celebrate this triumph.

In the mean time,let me recommend that you pee on a tree. (Website possibly coming soon.)
What to grads typically do with all that money. I started on about $30k and it was more than enough. Is it all squirreled away for the future? I'd hope so!
This guy has the right idea. Do you think it's worth it to send a PR because it's a cool project? Submit a PR. Maybe because you submit a PR more people submit PRs. Keep your fork and pull the changes that you like while giving back things you think are useful. I've never really understood why people actually want to deal with the people on the other side of the code. I just want your code, not you. I really don't care about you. I can hardly expect you to care about me. Your code and what I can do with it are more interesting than you in nearly all circumstances. So, I contribute to the codebase and I take what I want. Your opinions and thoughts are usually useless.

OpenBSD has the proper motto for this: "Shut up and hack". If more oss devs followed the motto then they would be happier as a whole.
Fire and forget open source can be fun if you truly forget about it, because then you can be surprised by coming across it in the wild.

I wrote something in the early '90s, entirely for my own use. I thought others might find it useful, so tossed it up on my public FTP space at school, added a notice saying it was public domain, posted a single message to the appropriate Usenet group saying it was available in case anyone might find it useful, but that since it fully satisfied my needs I was not going to do any further work on it nor was I interested in any enhancements, and stopped reading that Usenet group.

I few years later I noticed Red Hat included a package with the same name ("suck"). Curious, I looked to see what it did--and found it was a descendant of mine! Someone looking for something like it found mine, which did a good chunk of what they were looking for, added the parts missing for their needs, and had been maintaining and distributing it.

(And I just checked...it's still in some Linux distros! It's in Debian 9, package name "suck". Too bad I've long since lost my original code. It would be interesting to see if anything of mine has survived in it).
Well those look like something made for the original Twilight Zone. Or a parody of them.

The British equivalents frequently look dated and anachronistic but without the disturbing vibe. One or two of the WW2 Brit posters had a slightly Soviet feel - mainly from the art style.
“Are you really” => “Is one really”

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/pro...

https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/one-vers...
What central authority would that be? Because I'm pretty sure I can find speech along those line on the top five sites on the internet with little effort.

I always ask this but do you believe that was a mistake? Do you think people have that specific right to exercise their freedom of speech?

I think I'm unclear on what you're asking, but as an American who sees a great deal of value in that approach, and seeing the fruits of the opposite approach (my go-to example being the UK, where libel laws are significantly more open for abuse), then, yes, I do think people have that specific right - on the level of human rights, even.

Do you believe that to be a mistake, that they don't have the right to exercise their own beliefs?

That is a different question - speech and action are two different things.
Her friends are really joking
EDIT: downvoters, feel free to add your opinion, what seps we can take in 12 years to prevent climate change. I will gladly hear any opinion, especially if it is not as drastic as mine.

1. Drop coal and gas as energy sources immediately. Use renewable and nuclear energy as main power sources. Phase out nuclear after couple decades, when we hopefully can get all our energy needs from renewables. EDIT: forgot to add in fusion.

2. Eat less meat. I am not saying to go full radical vegan, just have less of it. Most people I know have meat for every main meal of the day (breakfast, lunch, dinner). We can definitely eat less of it. Meat production generates extreme amounts of CO2 and consumes too much of valuable land.

3. "Global one child policy". Sounds extreme - but we must lessen global population of humans. I know that western countries have negative growth already, problem is how to solve overpopulation in non-western countries and do it fast (ideally in one generation). Even with technological advances, IMO having 10-12+ billion people on Earth won't do any good for anyone.
Are you sure that the Espionage Act (1917) doesn't cover this? In Australia we have many recent laws that completely restrict our ability to whistleblow on any government issue (though it's not illegal if we ensure that non-Australian nationals know about it -- which is obviously an impossible and stupid standard).
I think it would be better to go with char* instead of void*. A much better solution is to use a hashtable for your blocks, but I understand this is just a toy example.

I think he also forgot to implement memalign(3) and posix_memalign(3).
And yet, with zero moderation boards also very quickly turn into fetid cesspools. One just has to take a look at Voat to see what I mean.

Moderation, like many things, has to be taken in moderation.
"You also can't allocate a new buffer to do the copy into because you are the allocator."

You can use the stack in this case.
Exactly... it can be a lot more than just 'communicating' with some appliance you bought.

As a ham experimenter/hacker, there are so many -challenges- you can try to meet. Line-of-sight is way too easy.

Say you're in the US; think you can talk to someone in Europe or Australia with 3 watts? You can, maybe, after you learn a bunch. If you're good enough. Or not. Might that be easier with data? Maybe. How sharp will your filters need to go? How far down in the noise your chip? Nobody else will know, but you will.

Or, if you own a farm, and miles of wire, try that at 475kHz. Be careful, you might get pulled into radio astronomy.
This presentation briefly mentions but then seems to mostly forget about "Elsagate" which they call the "Peppa Pig scandal".

James Bridle argues convincingly that the genre of bizarre YouTube videos which appeals to the toddler reptilian brain ( https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-in... ) is not created by hostile or evil actors but instead has evolved orgnically based on what stuff toddlers want to click on. Kids' click patterns reward more video themes like "Elsa tied up on train tracks kissing Spiderman", so the content industry crams more of that stuff into its new content.

The result, after a few iterations, would not have passed editorial controls at 1990s Nickelodeon (!), which would normally have halted the feedback loop, but with no one at the helm -- to "censor" or otherwise exert editorial control -- YouTube's kid-targeted videos are just a whole forest of weird.

Does YouTube want to allow their platform to become a laboratory for rapidly discovering local maxima in very young children's fantasy worlds? Do they have any choice? Should they step in and publish rules for what children's content is allowed? Should they hire some kind of human curator or editor to enforce those rules for child-focused videos? Should Web platforms act in loco parentis?

In this cases, in "the Peppa Pig scandal" style situation, the producers are machine-generating content that gets clicks and the consumers are children.

When the issue is the viral proliferation of "fake news" and hate speech, the content producers are people or state propaganda apparatuses, and the consumers & re-sharers are grown adults.

It seems like it's a different topic with maybe different guiding principles to decide how & whether to censor these different groups of consumers & producers.
A fascinating piece of computer history. Thank you for the post and the link. (I miss USENET too...)
This is cool! Nice approach letting users build up sites from components, akin to Lego bricks, driven by a table. Was not familiar with Airtable but I'll look into it now.
We actually have a good word for this: McCarthyism. If I don't like your opinion, you are a Soviet agent!
وظائف تنقيب الخليج وظائف شاغرة في الامارات
Gives new meaning to the old expression "Moderation in all things, including moderation."
> The Arab Spring was the the high point of this positivity - a visceral example of the power of digitalised free speech.

Yes, millions of refugees is obviously not the consequence at all.
>How about coarse comments like telling someone to "kill themselves.

I think a few conservatives were directly told to do just that due to the SCOTUS appointment furore --have there been significant calls to censor those opinions?

It's like everyone is for Censorship unless they are the targets of Censorship. And in this case they are not calling out their own lot very vehemently.
I've heard of this in other posts before, but can not personally say I've ever encountered this. I've searched domains on numerous occasions, gotten sidetracked, and when I returned a few weeks later to actually register them, they were still available.

Now, if you wanted to talk about getting spammed/scammed after registering a domain with Godaddy...
Project X Open Source (PXOS.org)
The best ones have been auto complete scripts for more mundane ones like in this tutorial: https://iridakos.com/tutorials/2018/03/01/bash-programmable-... .

One example I deal with often is interacting with third party systems. I had scripts to simulate them for ages but had to copy the values to generate the correct files from the UI/database. Now the auto-complete scripts look up the values in the database directly so I can usually just use tab completion.
Nobody has said anything about hurt feelings. They are speaking about the families of children killed at Sandy Hook, and the maleficent antagonists who harass them with lies.
Does anyone have any views on buying carbon offsets through services like TerraPass and Carbonfund? I drive a pickup truck so I'd like to reduce my impact, but don't know if the efficacy of carbon offsets have really been evaluated.
Event-driven investing: How I made 33x my money in two weeks
I read this title as "Iran's monads..." - time for sleep!
The article is really over the top hostile. 'Flatkill', 'Fakepak', 'Red Hat does not care about security'. What intentions could the author possibly have?
What was wrong with evil ‘ol Plantir? Thiel had been waiting for his reward since he wagged his tail for Trump.
This is such a beautiful and fresh perspective. Too often there is a cheap optimism that doesn't quite feel genuine - laziness and ignorance feels like the easy alternative route.

But sometimes a brand of pragmatic, disciplined optimism serves to inspire without diminishing the urgency or importance of the matter at hand. This hit that mark pretty well.
You’d be surprised at the kind of biases you can stuff into a “term of service”.
So "think of the children" when it comes to censorship. Got it.
My favorite is when they demand you write tests for a three-line change to code that has no tests.
Yes, but my point was that after a "routine" fire the building might be declared weakened and require big overhauls or teardown, whereas a traditional apt building can stroll through many small/moderate fires. Because eg a 50 apartemnt building over 100 years is likely to experience many fires. This may impact investoe expected roi and/or insurance costs.
I think the concern here is the security implications. Suppose commit X contains some family of configuration files F1, F2, ... that lock down security. Someone, intentionally or otherwise, retroactively destroys F23 in commit X using your proposed feature. Now the security configuration at commit X could have an exploitable loophole. Later on, a serious problem is discovered in the production deployment and the deployed version is rolled back to commit X, but without crucial file F23.

Git's current design makes this sort of scenario impossible. Any tampering with commit X after the fact is immediately detectable, and Git will raise an alarm and refuse to check out the commit.
Kids' videos on YouTube Kids and Censoring the internet are very different things.
It's like saying, we don't wanna sell alcohol, because if we did, we would have to sell alcohol to kids.
I believe I saw a headline today or yesterday regarding someone being fired due to remarks along those lines. Perhaps not "kill yourself" per se. I think the remark was characterized as a call for assassination.
That's exactly why they do it.
> Netflix has a right to rent physical discs, but streaming is different than lending.

I’m curious about this. I mean it’s different in terms of implementation and law, but conceptually it’s pretty similar.

Side-note-thought-experiment: in places where it is legal to “pirate” content you own, could Netflix get around this by renting a DVD to you (but holding in in escrow for you at their location) then providing you streaming access to that DVD?
> She is the only woman that I'm aware of who blogs about programming

While I cannot speak to your awareness, I can say for a fact that there are many women who blog about programming.

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=women+w...

Maybe programming blogs aren't that interesting to you so you don't have much exposure to them? I'm struggling to understand how you would not be aware that there are more such blogs beyond Rachel's.
> Yet that's clearly not the case.

Ugh...yes, it is. Our people are just too stupid to find the dissenting opinions.
Slander and libel are not illegal, as far as I am aware.
The google head of design told Repubs to all go F* themselves to Hell (not even qualified it like, "oh, the bad ones, I don't like, nope ALL). I guess that's not so bad (for an EXEC at the very company considering Censorship). But anyway, calling for assassination is different from asking someone to off themselves.

[See if here]: https://yournewswire.com/senior-google-employee-wants-republ...
Until they find out and kill your account.
At least it’s easy to find a YouTube video on virtually every problem these days.

I’ve been able to fix a washing machine (why is the filter cleanout behind an access panel with 3 difficult to remove screws?), a flat panel TV (flex cable came loose), a gas water heater (just had to sand the thermocouple), another water heater in a hard water area (thank you SharkBites!) and a garage door opener (you should open them up and re-grease them every 10 years).
The sad thing is even the top end machines and brands are made no better, just more features.

While we're here. How about appliances that don't combine every simple part into modules that make many simple repairs uneconomic?
“procrastination is a bad thing. It comes from a fear of getting started“

Is it really from fear?

I believe it comes from a basic human need for constant changes, or often called ‘news value’.
You can and absolutely should take a side.
Any tips on moving a Node.js based Ghost blog to Netlify. I am open to moving to static blog generators.
I wonder how hard that would be to make work on a bench. Would be nice for messing with postmarketOS, especially if I could get serial out working. I think these still have to be "authorised" by Xiaomi to have their bootloader unlocked though...
It's very simple to configure url rewriting and pre-rendering for SPAs. CxJS website (https://cxjs.io) and documentation is hosted on Netlify and it has been an amazing experience so far. We were on their single user $9 paid plan, but they switched us on the free tier with the pricing change some time ago.
> Kids' click patterns reward more video themes like "Elsa tied up on train tracks kissing Spiderman", so the content industry crams more of that stuff into its new content.

To be fair many of the Tex Avery and Tom and Jerry cartoons with which almost everyone grew up with were a lot more wild than that, thankfully they weren’t censored back when we were kids.
>If you mean specifying the concrete types (e.g. `Integer` and `List[Integer]`, then I'd agree.

Yep, that's exactly what I mean (since that's the only example in the article that seems to imply any kind of compile-time safety).

re dependent types: interesting! yeah, it does seem like normal generics could be a type-dependent type in a case like this - I hadn't really thought about that before. though that also seems like a "shadow type" tho, which the article is trying to eliminate... so we're back at the starting point :|
I realize its an often misused excuse for passing various bogus regulations. But your dismissive one liner is disparaging the comment while completely ignoring the massive context and reasoning provided; this is not the kind of conversation we expect of here.
Censored for what?

Being bots? Bots are programmed by humans. Humans have a right to free speech.

Being Russian? Russians are also humans. Humans have a right to free speech.
Sure! It was the least untruthful thing he could say.
I don’t think the result would be good. All that would do is destabilise the world crash our economies and set back our green tech.