skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the current recommender/ML systems model the past as identical to the future as a matter of structural equivalence (There is a profound assumption of linearity between past and future e.g. in time, and linearity in space). They must assume the world is a stable & stationary distribution. Which doesn't leave a lot of room for modeling change.

This actually makes recommender systems things that train humans, that render them more predictable, by grouping them into categories base on 'latent variables'.

It makes everyone more boring by reducing diversity instead of encouraging it.

You can easily see this in your youtube recommendations.

Jaron Larnier calls these kinds of algorithms manipulative - they train people to optimize engagement metrics, rather than sometime qualitative like quality.

https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/cybercon/videos/1662...
How to prevent that tho? Everything seems to be at the risk of either the first or the second...
I think the better solution is to change your alarm cocks for what fits your schedule, instead of changing all the clocks in the country for all uses.
2018 midterm elections on pace to be most expensive ever
Somewhat off-topic: This reminds me of some compelling argument I've read about how the "Florida Man” meme is the result of Florida’s strong freedom of information laws. It’s interesting how the free flow of information/reporting can easily distort public perception when compared to places with more barriers.
I'm pretty good at what I do, and when people tell me they're jealous of my talent, and kind of hint that it's innate, I get a bit insulted. I had to work a shitton to get where I am, and comments like that makes it sound like I had it easy.
I believe they mean "limited in a good way", as in it doesn't have a bunch of unnecessary syntax that increases the number of characters entered, but does not add value to the language.

No pun intended, by "value" I mean "things that are worthwhile". Clojure is totally into "values". :-D
No youre managing a team of software engineers, one skill they have is writing.

The product isnt the text. The product is the entire system designed to keep the text alive, functional, reasonably error free all in a relatively unpredictable environment.

We definitely need to keep considering how other professions manage the unpredictable nature of their work so we can learn. Im just not sure this narrative suits that goal.
You should not manage anything unless you yourself did that job successfully for 10 years.
“cemetery associations often are required to establish and fund perpetual or maintenance trust funds”

Graveyards are hardly subsidized, they are for-profit businesses, and even if they run out of space, could survive through two major depressions before bankruptcy.
But magnetic cores are resistant to the M in EMP?
Is it being rebuilt as pure CRUD? I've been working on an app lately where the major entities in the relational db won't be updated. They'll will just be superseded by the next record.
The biggest irony in all of this is that the European carmakers have lobbied and continue to lobby the EU against too strict of a mandate for EVs or too large subsidies for EVs, while also lobbying against stricter emissions controls (which indirectly means they don't have to build as many EVs for their fleets either).

Meanwhile, the same European automakers seem very willing to adopt China's super-strict schedule for EV adoption over the next few years in the country.

The European auto-makers should count their lucky stars that on one hand Tesla is pushing them to go into EVs from the consumer side, and on the other China is doing the same through those strict regulations I mentioned.

Without these two, the European carmakers would have probably gone bankrupt one by one (or purchased by multi-billion dollar Chinese companies in the future). At least now they have a role in the future of cars. But losing their leadership in car-making is pretty much guaranteed already. They just don't know it yet.
Ideally, but it might not be reversible: if the same bytes that make up an ANSI escape + red color code just happen to already be in initrd, then the strip would remove those as well.

I think the best solution here is probably to avoid `sudo -E`, and for `stderred` to be patched to not perform any monkeypatching when `uid == 0`.
There's a reason why "The Mentor"'s Hacker Manifesto has disdain for schools. I've had similar things happen at high school. Still, anecdote.

Unless your parents can and will sue, the public schools (SPIT) will do as they choose.
That would make sense if urban planners were the ones telling people not to live near transit stations, but it's generally existing residents opposing new housing.

Though, perhaps to your point, I also am not a fan of almost all planning. The nicest places to live, walk, etc. tend to be ones that arose before planning was widespread. Of course, they existed before the car, too.
> Combination spreadsheet

I'm curious about that, never heard of it. Can you elaborate or if you have a spreadsheet to share, my address is thomas@budget-fox.com (yes, I'm working on a household budget app)

How do you measure "success" in your budgeting? Is it a short-term monthly basis or a longer one?
Thank you for your advice. I am not going to do that. I have talked to many professors over the past decade who are successful in teaching the class.
There is no technical debt in TV production. That alone changes many things. You don't need to care how you arrived at the result or how "maintainable" it is.
If I recall correctly the BSE outbreak was due to using brains in feed.

I agree with your general point about extra genuine health concerns.
I'm sure there are, but those aren't the examples that were just provided!
Extra points if you spill that coffee on your new clothes
When it comes down to ad-based revenue versus subscription-based revenue, I'll choose the subscription (almost) every time. I'd much rather pay (some amount) for a high-quality product than not pay for a subpar product (assuming, as I do, that ads detract from an app's experience in most cases).

I'd also prefer that service be the one "mining" my data (to provide a better service to me) than being a middleman ferrying my data off to advertisers and third parties. Honestly, if the app/service can really make use of my data, I'd usually prefer handing it all over to them so they can do their job better over having some kind of offline experience for the misguided sake of trying to protect my privacy. Give me the option to give you data and show/tell me what you're going to do with it, and I'll happily give it to you 9 out of 10 times.

My ideal price is somewhere between a subscription and a one-off payment for something for most things, with no ads in either and some kind of cloud-based storage/backup/assistance in both. Obviously there's a lot of context left out here like how one-off payments don't work when you're paying server fees each month, etc.
You need to figure out why you want money. The thing about money is that it stands for everything else (almost), because it can be used to get almost everything else. What do you really want?

Most of us don't want money for money. We want money so that we can get something else - a house, a car, a vacation, retirement, or an identity. From what you said, I suspect that you're in the last category - you want money because having money is going to make you someone - that is, someone special, not just some random schmuck. And money is just the way you think is easiest to get there.

The next question is, why do you want that? I mean, you could just say "Oh, I see why I'm obsessed with money. But there's better ways of being somebody than just getting a pile of money. Maybe I should go cure cancer or something." But the problem is, you won't be chasing a cure for cancer in order to find a cure for cancer; you'll be doing it to make an identity for yourself. And if you fail to find a cure, you'll still be a nobody, and it will eat away at you.

Why do you want an identity? I don't know you at all, but I do know a bit about people. I think that we're looking to love and accept ourselves. I suspect that you're looking for an identity because you don't really love and accept yourself. (And even if you don't want money in order to get an identity, I suspect that loving and accepting yourself is ultimately what you're looking for in whatever lies behind your desire for money.)

Why do we want that? As a Christian, I believe that we were made to know God's love and acceptance of us. If we don't have that, it leaves a hole that nothing else can fill. But the thing that comes closest to filling it is our love and acceptance of ourselves. The ultimate answer is to return to God, to know His love and acceptance of us.

Whether or not you buy the previous paragraph, I suspect that what you're really after is loving and accepting yourself, and that money is just a disguise (perhaps more than one layer of disguise). You need to address the real issue, or you'll quit money only to start obsessively chasing something else.
I like what Uber (currently) does to people. Gets passengers from point A to point B efficiently while saving them significant money in the process over alternatives. Metaphorically puts dinner on the table of hundreds of thousands of drivers. Literally puts dinner on the table of millions (UberEats). Has a business model that doesn't rely exposing more eyeballs to more ads, corrupting the press, media, and privacy in the process. Reduces car ownership and dependence. Moving towards encouraging people to ride green vehicles. Literally saves lives (reducing DUI). Yeah, I'm okay with the Uber of 2018.*

*Disclaimer: I work at Uber, and my opinions are solely my own. We're hiring.
I do event sourcing in my company and we had a look at this when we started out 4 years ago.
What I don't understand is why build a database? Why not build something in the application layer that uses your fav database as a storage mechanism instead?
Aren't the existing databases more mature and better to use?
Possibly. Of course, there is little evidence that the HtDP curriculum "does it right" while all others fail to do so. It seems to have a strong cult following, with little evidence to back up its touted advantages over other approaches.
Neat! We were actually considering doing something like this with custom CSI sequences. Glad to see someone else has already picked some sensible ones.
You often pay much less upfront for a subscription than you do e.g. purchasing an app "full price".

You might pay more over the lifetime of your subscription than you would paying full price for something, but in terms of your parent's comment, that is why a subscription is seen as preferred over paying for something upfront.

For example, $7/mo is a lot more palatable than buying some software for $80, especially when you're in the stage of "I don't know if I'll use this or not".
Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Your example is part of what we are offering. You would be able to validate the accuracy of our predictions.

Additionally, we continue to improve our model to increase our accuracy.

Is there a particular strategy or use case you would use the tool for?
Just a heads up that any kind of a "manager" position in FAANG that goes through a "recruiter" and not directly through your network is very likely a bait-and-switch for a regular SDE.
Of course, for that you have to tell people about your immediate plan. If you simply "disappear", this will likely trigger a very expensive rescue expedition that will find your freshly dead corpse, and it will ruin your Viking funeral.
I think it is occupational ease more than anything else in marketing. Having to deal with the actual details is 'boring' even if it is relevant and advertising is all about what sounds good instead of actually being good. That is a widespread issue with society in itself and trend following. And metric-itis operates based upon things like 'was the ad or brand remembered' as opposed to 'did it actually improve sales'? You get what you measure for.

As for being okay with it the whole thing falls into tautology logic - it works because it works until it doesn't. If people actually cared enough about relevance than the problem would take care of itself by being absolutely useless.
I guess London has a similar problem but not this serious.

Living Wage Foundation calculates yearly the living wage for London and there are around 4k companies that pay it voluntarily.

Maybe a similar solution would be useful.

I'm struggling to understand why the these people living below the poverty line don't just move to a place where rent doesn't eat all their salary. They must be trapped in one way or another.
Because it's a lot fewer measurements that need to be changed. It's just one. It's so easy.
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That's not a sociological explanation. I want something "elephant in the brain"[1]-esque, something that shines light on poor incentive equilibrium on the game theoretic/social plane.

[1] http://elephantinthebrain.com/
unencrypted if you want to. firefox always allowed a password so it is encrypted at rest. you will have to pry it out of the process memory after the user type the password.
Sure it’s a horrible waste of resources, but saying it’s bad has little to do with why it’s spread.
You'd think that the OCR process would somehow call attention to words that have a high probability of being wrong and especially of being wrong in a problematic way. You don't want to require humans to read and sign off on everything, but with something like that, it shouldn't be that hard to have something that is very quick for a human to see the scanned image and compare it to the transcription, simply on the basis of the word "anus" being in there.
Is this the same breach? People are talking like this is separate from the one you linked to.
One point of clarification, when you say, "a lot." What does that mean on a monthly basis?

Also, as it relates to the clarification, how often do you trade per month?
I think complaining about housing prices is in vogue because saying "we just hate your politics" is very much not in vogue.
Of course I have a problem with capitalism! But I don't believe that society chose all those things (branded cereal madness, etc), I think it was more or less thrust on them.

That people seem more interested in getting ahead and pleasing their egos, instead of trying to repair or escape, is a kind of syndrome—the syndrome of being trapped in an idealogy.

DGMW, I would love to berate parenting, childcare, and education in the US; I mean, I would just beat it about the brow for being so retarding, if I could

Like, how do you trade middling entertainment and financial reward for terrible, indoctrinating, media and education for your offspring? You must be some kind of real selfish idiotic shitbrain to send your children to grade C- public school, while you go off and sit at a desk for peanut pay so you can afford, what?, convenient foodstuffs and the trappings of dignified success in a system that yr suspicions suggest doesn't care about you? FOH!

But no, I can only suppose a syndrome, and blame no one. The majority are being used by capitalists, and if they grow in that mold, knowingly or not, successful or not, it's not their fault; there's no obvious, non-serious, way out of capitalist subjugation, except for the American Dream, which is ofc to become one of them.

So, I think it tactical to treat this kind of spectre—invasive media campaigns aimed at children—as an outside, enemy, force; (today, all parents of young people, were themselves targeted by these forces, so they have the right to be pissed about it); If nothing else, people can get behind anti-child-predation, even if they aren't ready to stop the military industrial complex, or capitalism.
Wage distribution certainly does not resemble a bell-curve. It's a long-tail distribution. This is observed consistently across different economies. This US figure is from 2015, however it should give the right idea:

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2015/demo/dist...
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Open source software and hardware could be a solution for these problems me thinks. Or at least a requirement for shared source of both
I didn't critisize Haskell. I only criticized a statement about its type system.

> You're also forgetting that signature includes the name of the function.

That's what I wanted to point out. The name of a function is even more important than its types. Types alone seldomly give you the complete picture of what's going on in a function.

Of course the name can be wrong whereas types can't, but the name is less likely to be wrong than a comment.
I wish they do not develop an inhibitor drug but try to find the cause of the inflammation. The big question is "what triggers the NLRP3 inflammasome?" Is that a combination of toxins? Or maybe Aluminum?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18624356 states "These results indicate that alum induces IL-1beta via the Nlrp3 inflammasome but this activity is dispensable for alum-mediated adjuvant activity." So the root cause could even be vaccines with Aluminum.
https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/webform/950...
> Huh? Science is the quintessence of iterating "until something works"

It is not enough in science to prove that something works, you must also prove that it is correct. That is why in mathematics, even though we believe something to be true through intuition, it is still simply conjecture until we have a rigorous proof. We may even call it a theory if we can observe it with a high degree of certainty. Science is effective because we pay attention to correctness at every level, slowly building understanding in an iterative fashion. The only assumptions we make are at the level of axioms.

The current state of programming makes no claims about the overall correctness of a program. We may write tests about various subsystems, and increase our chances that a system will behave as we expect, but a rigorous proof of correctness, or even something close to a proof of correctness, is still a fantasy.

> Science is exactly the turning away from a "first principles" approach

Science is a from first principles approach. Invention is not necessarily scientific.

> And of course in Software, the "first principles" approach was what we successfully overcame with agile approaches that stress quick feedback loops

Agile has nothing to do with software correctness. It's a methodology for gathering and executing on requirements and constraints. What I'm talking about is ensuring a program behaves in a way we can reason about mathmatically.
I thought that "the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs." was the very definition of tehnical debt - which took 40 years to finally resolve.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jvchamary/2018/05/30/solo-star-...
Just make sure you properly update and secure wordpress, keep and eye on the plugins, etc. I would not advise ppl not well versed in security to avoid wordpress and PHP apps in general if possible.
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In Common Lisp, you have following streams defined in the spec:

*debug-io* - bidirectional, for interactive debugging
*error-output* - output, for warnings and non-interactive error messages
*query-io* - bidirectional, for asking user questions and reading answers
*standard-input* - stdin
*standard-output* - stdout
*trace-output* - for tracing functions and timing execution

You can redefine each of them independently. I think this granularity is much better than our usual stdin/stdout/stderr split we're used to. Note e.g. the query-io being separate from stdin/stdout, which means a properly defined way for a program to handle interactivity while simultaneously having data piped into stdin and out of stdout.

It was IMO a good idea, and I wonder how the world ended up adopting just three standards streams in the end.
The reality is probably a mix of both.
> The customer gets to have their body float through space for millennia. Cool!

We are floating through space. In a huge spacecraft called earth. Aren't we?
Plot debt? I could actually see that describing some shows...
A designer at my former workplace had a full-zip hoodie. To one side of the zipper: "Ker", to the other: "ning".
For these low numbers, Postgres will do full text search just fine. So as mentioned, just use Rails or Django with Postgres.
On my FF, it just opens a small window with:

XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
Location: chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
Line Number 2483, Column 29: flex="1">&trackingProtection.on;</label>
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I think that is a pitfall of specialization and fiefdoms actually. To focus on finer and finer details they must start to disregard or abstract away the other portions because otherwise they aren't specialists by definition. While needed at times it comes with disadvantages of focusing on the 'art' as it were as opposed to the end result and it crops up in all sorts of large projects. The car actually being controllable gets in the way of making it more powerful.
A few notes on why this is so:

- Keywords (i.e. `:vehicles`) can be used as getter functions, as covered in the OP.

- mapcat (like most collection functions in clojure) treats `nil` as an empty sequence
Best not build anything that didn't exist ten years ago then.
I was reading “Creative Selection” by Ken Kocienda last week. Goes behind the scenes of him designing the iPhone keyboard early in its development (good read)

In any case he mentioned there is a hate word dictionary specifically so that the autocorrect never suggests such words even if they seem to be a close match. You basically have to type those words perfectly.

In another related bug Xerox document centres which weren’t even technically doing OCR were changing numbers from 1 thing to another in scanned IMAGES due to high level compression substituting numbers - much more dangerous! https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/06/xerox_copier_flaw_m...
And arron swartz is dead. Not sure how many of the docs made public are ones that we was trying to hack in to. That incident will always leave a bitter taste in my mouth.
What you say is true for long distance relocation, not short ones. Being a farmer is not made easier by moving a couple hundred more miles west. What moving a couple hundred miles will do is put you in a substantially more rural area where a bunch of people you don't like have a lot less, if any, power over your day to day life. The people who were relocating to California to chase some dream of riches were not motivated by politics. The people moving from somewhere outside NYC to somewhere outside of Buffalo were doing it for politics.
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excuse me? down from?
They aren't a hoax, some type of recommendation engines works really well especially the collaborative filtering types.

The reallity is that once you have a subset of items that matches your behavior recsys are learning to rank problems in the broad sense, and any kind of algorithmic feed (fb, Instagram, news, Twitter) is essentially a recsys.

There is a whole conference around these subjects with very good papers and competitions, look at the different kind of approaches to the recsys18 challenge by Spotify at the ACM site
The Stargate SG-1 writers regretted the "3 shots from a zat-gun disintegrates" thing, and had zat guns only ever hit stuff twice for the rest of the show after they realized the mistake they'd made.

The problem was introduced to solve a plot issue in one episode - they needed a way for the team to get rid of the bodies they were leaving behind on a spaceship in one episode.
They should make this more prominent, now I get what it does

Edit: Is a backup mechanism implemented? It's for persistent data, right?
rewrites are really the on thing all programers enjoy doing. If it works dont touch it, should have caught it sooner. Make the next project better and move on.