skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The constitutional issue is that the president lied about some caravan overtaking the US. Once the elections were over, he was asked about his chosen words. He didn’t like it and made it personal. He clearly walks away from the podium if you watch the interaction. Now the administration is using their position to ban a journalist from the White House. That’s not free speech. That’s a constitutionally crisis. And they are lying about it by pushing a manipulated video.
>Software grows until it exceeds our capacity to understand it.

This point is well taken, and I think that many organization would benefit from having a CGR role ("chief grim reaper"), who's job would be not to enhance the codebase or its functionality, but to do the opposite: to kill/simplify code and prevent the codebase from exceeding a certain net complexity over time. Simplicity itself need to be treated as a core feature, and the success of the CGR need to be defined by whether that core feature is maintained.
And another step? - one suggested in 1968 in John Brunner's 'Stand on Zanzibar' [0] which has the viewers inserted into the very programmes they are themselves watching. Truly an awesome book, and still amazingly fresh today.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_on_Zanzibar
Microservices vs. spaghetti code are not your only options
As you mentioned, one way is to quickly ingest earnings announcements from press wires/company websites. As soon as the earnings report hits the wire, they want to immediately known how big a miss/beat was it, and whether they should immediately dump it or buy more.

Other examples include analyzing the words/sentiments in earning calls, to see if certain words indicate a bearish or bullish signal. For example if a CEO mentions the word "headwinds", does that historically lead to a much better quarter next time?

Some other companies do analysis with public/private data. For example, you can use a weather dataset to calculate the average temperature for all cities where there are restaurants owned by Cheesecake Factory in a quarter, and see if it will negatively or positively impact sales.
Some metrics use quality of life instead of survival at 5 years.
I saw some guys present who did this with currency trading. They had to retrain the model every night and it didn't trade for the first four hours after the market opened.
Signal/noise on the market is extremely low, and determining whether you’re predicting something or just data snooping your way to a function that looks like it predicts something is a serious competitive advantage in itself (... because all you need then is novel functions to try).

Working out a function that passes a split test is inevitable and easy tbh. That function then making money is highly unlikely. This is especially true if your data sources are public.
Could you elaborate on what the definition of free will you're going by is? And how it's possibly supported by quantum non-locality?
A website shouldn't be a book.
We at Meltwater have some custom plugins for Elasticsearch that make a number of modifications to how queries are executed, and completely replace some low level Elasticsearch query implementations. We're also running a custom ES 1.7 version with some features backported from version 2+. The end result is something like 5-10x lower GC pressure and radically increased performance and query throughput for our particular workload. Without these changes we'd not be able to sustain our workload without a massive amount of more hardware and cost, just like you say.

Our flavor of Elasticsearch 1.7 is faster than vanilla 2.* for our workload, though still slower than ES 2.* with our customizations applied.

Recent Elasticsearch versions still use the same basic shard allocation algorithms as far as we know. Our workload is very imbalanced towards recent data, but it's not a binary hot-cold matter, rather a more exponential decay in workload for older indexes. We fully expect to need Shardonnay to balance the workload even with ES 7+.

We're also in early conversations with Elastic about shard placement optimization. They seem to be interested in applying linear optimization in a similar way, with a goal of solving the fundamental problems with shard allocation based on observed workload.
Braille’s somewhat dying off as screenreaders become more integrated into computer systems - a system reading to you (usually at 3x speed as well) has massively more information density than a Braille display, to the point that it’s becoming less usual to learn Braille in the first place.
> The only advancement for large scale is fly wheel storage. But the record is only 40 MWh for a duration of 4 hours. Waw. Not even close.

Flow batteries have already reached 60 MWh storage, and their capacity scales linearly with the volume of electrolytes, so it's effectively unlimited, unlike flywheels, which can only get so massive before their mechanical systems would fail.

They also have extremely fast response times, and unlike Lithium Ion batteries, are capable of charging to 100% and total depletion to 0% without damage to the battery.

Therefore they are already being deployed in grid-scale renewable energy applications to smooth out supply and demand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanadium_redox_battery#Largest...

The only thing they don't do well at is energy density, but for grid storage applications, that's not an issue.
It's a joke, sheesh.
> I wrote my own financial advisor (not directly utilizing deep learning, that functions relatively well)

I do not see enough data to backup the claims of how well it works. And if you can't provide that - what good is it as a tool?
Interesting you say this as I had heard similar stories of underfunded mail crime investigations in the past. However, where I live is a very seasonal location. Population goes from 10000+ over the summer to under 1000 during the winter months.

Several years ago a couple people in the community noticed problems with their mail (mail seemingly missing, receiving wrongly addressed items, etc..). They called the postal service and an investigator was out in days. Within two weeks there were hidden cameras mounted in various locations around town pointed at mailboxes. A few more weeks and they apprehended an individual going through mailboxes based on the photos from those cameras. I don't know the final outcome, but the total turnaround from notification to arrest was less than 3 months.
This isn't a case of "identity theft" at least the modern sense of the term, this is a case of impersonation, which has been a problem since humanity existed.
Well, I'm only on mobile. But the problem with stock prices is often that you don't have good data, unless you are working for the big four or whatever. And even then, they are apparently still working on integrating external data in real time.

Imagine having the whole Twitter stream, maybe categorized by some network in an automatic way.

Also prequential evaluation.
Could you give more info on how this is better (or when this is better) than an ordinary notebook like evernote. I read through the homepage and found this:

> which lets you directly model your workflow and document your reasoning without the mental overhead of a folder structure.

but honestly i still don't understand what the main value prop is.

thanks.
I've taken an electric train to work every day for the past year and a half...

Most of the new light rail and subway lines in the US are electric trains.
That doesn't "fully support" the WH's version of events.

> It was only when he attempted his third question - or possibly fourth depending on how you define the follow-ups - that the president got angry and asked him to sit down.
There ensued a tussle with the mic. And weirdly ridiculous words from the president about him being a rude and terrible person.
I'm pretty sure Acosta never intended to "mistouch" the young female intern. He was just trying to hold on to the mic.
You are not alone. With time series that is the easiest solution for any model. That is why you need a lot of work creating your datasets and the experiment setup with time series. To avoid the easy solution and obtain something useful.
Simulating the Mandelbrot set is also awfully computationally expensive. Unless you know the trick.
Informed Delivery is just them offering a service based on infrastructure that was already there -- the mail scanning was put into place during the 90's anthrax in the mail scares, and that's really it's purpose.
Ethically questionable is a very low bar. Virtually all economic and technological progress made in since the industrial revolution has been "ethically questionable" in some way or another. In the end, almost everyone agrees that we've moved in the right direction. It's up to each individual to decide where they draw the line of what is or isn't OK. I don't think most people cross that line because like you said, it isn't too difficult to find a job that you're OK with. Who are you to decide for other people whether obesity outweighs the enjoyment people get from soda, for example?
Does mica talk? That's the hard part right?
I think he's advocating (with a "grain of salt") for _minimizing_ software development, because it's so hard to keep it from turning terrible. If we could spend more time on less of it, maybe we could keep it better.

I don't think he's advocating for ugly code.
Let's assume that progress picks up after many many many years of stagnant research.

What are the directions that can improve construction costs for nuclear? The reason that they went to massive huge scales in the first place was cost, because giant steam turbines work better on bigger scales.

Lets assume that the thermal energy could be taken completely free, without any cost to get it. This is the best case possible situation of improvements in advancing nuclear technology.

In that scenario, thermal energy still needs to be converted to electricity. And then we're in the situation of geothermal, or solar thermal, and we're in a situation where we are at one of the most optimized engineering areas that's ever been explored, and where our skills have plateaued. I'm not even sure if massively improved costs on materials will improve that area much.

Natural gas is winning among thermally-related tech because of combined cycle technology, where you get energy through two different ways. I don't see how thermal plants alone can compete with the cost trajectory of solar and wind.

I mean, I could be wrong, I'm not "100% sure" as you strawman me. But the chances that nuclear can 1) make the thermal generation part super cheap, and 2) make the thermal to electric conversion cheaper, or 3) come out of left field with some sort of direct energy conversion or whatever, are just such loooooong bets that when someone makes them I'm guessing they're just being a contrarian, or just haven't paid attention to the field in a long long time. I'd not sure which camp to put Myhrvold in, since he invested a while back it could be either or neither or just one.
All the carriers say straight on their website they are throttling you. Want HD video? Have to pay for the upgraded super version or whatever.
This seems like it unnecessarily couples the JSON representation to the language types. JSON numbers are already arbitrarily precise. How you represent the type is up to the parser.

JSON.stringify(5n) === "5"

JSON.parse("5") === Number(5)

JSON.parse("5000000000000000000") => Error

JSON.parse({ use_bignum: true }) === 5000000000000000000n

A project that does something like this:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/json-bignum
> cherry-pick the single version from the various transcodings of a video that happens to portray an inaccurate version of the event

Where is the evidence that this happened?
A website whose purpose is to convey textual information and to be readable should resemble a book, or more likely, a magazine, because it has a similar function to the printed page.
I also recommend the author's follow up article "Balancing Creativity and Usability" [0].

[0]: https://medium.com/@borism/balancing-creativity-and-usabilit...
Well, are you aware of how death by rabies happens? Way better for you and your family if you die in a coma, then to have to watch you going through it consciously. If I had rabies in a stage where death is certain, the options I would be looking at would be either the Milwaukee protocol or euthanasia. The other option (doing nothing) doesn't just means death, it means painfully, awful death.
Eh, I've heard worse. Fatal Familial Insomnia[0], for instance. At least rabies is relatively quick once it becomes symptomatic. I'm sure anyone with a half decent imagination can easily think of even worse fates. I guess what I'm saying is that just having read about this sort of thing shouldn't keep you up at night and if it does then it might be healthy for you to spend some more time contemplating your mortality.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_insomnia
This one too:

> Neural nets evolved to classify edible and poisonous mushrooms took advantage of the data being presented in alternating order, and didn't actually learn any features of the input images
So does the iPhone XS Max. When has that ever stopped them? :)
Querying data against facts - isn't that a job for Prolog?
You're comparing scientific research to for-profit industry.

Solar City, Tesla, The Boring Company, and Space X aren't releasing public research, it's all private IP and manufacturing.

You literally could not benefit from their progress if you wanted to. You'd be sued. Their employees can't even work in related industries due to somewhat spurious non-competes.
I almost want to sign back up for Netflix just so I can cancel the first time they show me an ad.
I noticed this as well.

Many data science thought pieces don't quantify the results, and it's suspicious that they're not included in detail (typically, the R^2 of a simple stock market prediction model is super low, making it impractical putting actual money on the line as it's barely better than guessing randomly: https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/1021885939361042432 )
TBH I worked in high stress environments (gambling and finance). Management didn't care that I would work to 7-8pm most evenings (9pm start) and do a few all nighters. A few times I was like 30 minutes late twice in a row I would get called in for a talk about "tardiness". I was younger at the time and I thought they would cut me a bit of slack after delivering the impossible on time!!

After a while you realise that it isn't worth the effort and just get a contract job where you earn twice as much and have none of the bullshit.
Interesting, but the problem is I don't have time to read some random code from an open source project. I wonder if anyone does that.
Correct or not, "abnormal behaviors begets abnormal responses" is a circular justification. You could justify Acosta's abnormal response as a consequence of abnormal behavior by the administration.
Your statement doesn't agree with the OP. They are claiming the WH is in the right here.
Regardless of whether or not this would make anyone money, it's a really nice introduction to forecasting time series using LSTMs. Thanks for the post!
> But the best way to map an integer range is still a plain array.

Eh, only if you know in advance that:

1. Your integer keys can only ever come from a contiguous range of values

2. Once populated, your map will have values for at least 25-50% of the integers in that range.

If either of these assumptions are false, using an array will force you to allocate way more memory than you need to hold the elements in your map, and the resulting map will be sparse, and therefore cache-unfriendly.

Arrays are not better than hash maps that use integer keys in the general case.
It's only a mistake if you think the president is royalty.

This kind of public disagreement is normally handled with subtlety and finesse from the public servant who is speaking to the citizenry through the media.
I would tend to agree on those points but I also want to believe that websites are an art form. While content strategy and user experience are now in a pre-thought context rather than an after thought, it obviously is about displaying something useful. But it almost stagnates new ideas from coming to the forefront it leads to us all getting swept into the game of 'creating the same layout,' all sites become a boring shell with different words.
Specialized code is... not generic code, right?

Furthermore template specialization is usually a bad idea. Think how we just LOVE std::vector<bool> (/s). Also std::unordered_map<int> is not specialized to an array implementation. Because you can't tell from the type whether it will map a contiguous range.

I've done my homework. Your turn.
> it's just that some people/business are not ok with that condition

The point is that if people/businesses are not okay with using it, then that hurts the survival of that thing.
It's always been easy to commit crime, it's just harder to get away with them, and luckily most people don't want to commit crimes (and then another percentage don't think the risk is worth the reward -- hence deterrence) . In this case, anything related to stealing someone else's mail is an insta-felony.
of course the video to gif conversion process has some distortion. but this video we just watched clearly shows slowing down and then speeding up at just the right times to fit a made up narrative. those "distortions" aren't explained away by "oh, it's just the gif process".

and of course the original video shows contact between the two. although, she initiated the agression, not acosta. there is zero question about that. but should he have given up the mic? probably. but he did not initiate or put his hands on her as issinuated by the white house. his hands remain in his personal space and simply removes her hands from there.

i would even wager that the white house specifically sent her, a young female staffer, instead of security to provoke this exact situation. the way she grabs it and turns her body in such a way that any retention of the mic by acosta causes her body to yank around is either coldly calculated or up to her inexperience. either way gets the result the white house wanted.
Since I see meltwater folks in this discussion, can you say a bit about the distribution of your queries? In the other blog post about routing [1], you mention that most are a few ms but others are minutes and more.

What’s the rough break down? Are most users performing queries “scoped” to a fairly small subset?

[1] https://underthehood.meltwater.com/blog/2018/09/28/using-mac...
In one instance I watched the craft at low altitude go around several buildings in a way that it would have been literally impossible to draw a straight line to ANY point without going through one of the buildings. That's the only instance I'm 100% sure.

In other instances me and several members of our community literally went around trying to find who the hell was operating some drones over their properties (because they were dangerously close to some fragile things), and no one could find them. So possibly had some line of sight, but were pretty darn sneaky.
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The objective of most websites is not and should not be cool and interesting design, unless it happens to be a site about design.

At the end of the day a site is there to serve a purpose. And, generally speaking, that demands familiarity with the UI and ease of use. If every site demanded increased cognitive load from the user the internet would be a horrible place.

I get that designers want to design cool stuff. Love it. But when all the smoke and bull clears out the mission is to sell a widget, deliver a service or provide information. Craigslist and good black and white movies prove that good and useful content is what people are after, not award-winning design and cool web tricks.
Productivity inside 13 inches
AWS Object2Vec: Deep Learning for objects such as customers, products, sentences
It's hilarious, because:

"1" + 1 === "11"
"1" - 1 === 0
"1" + 1n === "11"
"1" - 1n: Exception
You are getting relativity wrong. The layman phrase being used here 'time come to a halt and disappear' encodes what would happen from a relativity perspective. Everything that you would be seeing relative to you, would appear as if time had stopped if you were traveling at c.
Which is my point. Compilers can't help here.
As you said, it makes no difference either way.
It's a business that exploits workers. We've seen this time and time again with Tesla.
I agree Acosta hogs the mic a bit. And his questions are inarticulate and badgering. The two men interrupt each other. There's no decorum. Both sides are basically ridiculous and embarrassing, which is unfortunately par for the course these days. But if you're at the podium there are ways of handling this. You can simply stop answering questions until the guy realizes it's futile and yields the mic. If that takes a bit of time, then while it's happening you can articulately explain that everybody deserves a chance to speak, thereby demonstrating your sense of fairness and equity, and winning points with everyone. But Trump doesn't believe that (if he even thinks about it at all... I mean heck he's only the president, not someone who should be concerned with principles of governance, right?), and doesn't have the wherewithal. It's like apes jibber-jabbering.
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I think that makes the point about why avant-garde style can be difficult to comprehend, no?

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Except educating users on how to install their overlay network of choice.

And how many will they need to install? Will everyone install a generic one that all software just works with? Kinda sounds like IPv6, just with the added network in network overheads, and a competitor (IPv6) that's years ahead in terms of real world deployment.

And then there's the suggestion ISPs could run these popular overlay network nodes, that customers don't even need IP. I'll pass on slicing up the internet into walled gardens that's ISPs get to choose which overlay networks you can access!
"Let's converse, maybe I'll be able to make you waste your time..."
especially politicians.
This thread is quickly devolving into political discourse and should be removed, in my opinion.
>Amazon inked a similar partnership with Nike last year that allowed both companies to reduce counterfeits on Amazon and gain stronger control over unauthorized third-party sales of Nike products.

I still find it absurd that brands need to make direct deals with Amazon for them to police fakes.
Should work now. Please update and try again.
I don't think you need AI for that, though. There are news feeds that are specifically designed to be machine readable. All you need to do is parse it and compare the actual numbers to the expected ones, then calculate the delta for your pricing model. All of this is pretty simple. The real challenge is being faster with this than the competition.
It's easy to grab an .iso and run with Virtual Box. Every five years or so I do that with Haiku and ReactOS to see how they are progressing.
It doesn't quite do what I'm looking for since it only allows you to transform data after it's already been mapped to a type. So if my integer can't fit into the Number type without loss of precision then my reviver function is going to get the lossy number so it's already to late to do a conversion to BigInt.

I need to actually hook into the parser so I can say, "hey when you're about to parse a number pass the token to me and I'll take it from here."
I have to ask... has nobody thought of cutting off microphones? It sounds like an easy solution that's efficiency-minded yet civil? Or do people want more grabbing microphones out of hands?

Don't people run over their microphone time on presidential TV debates too? So surely at least the reaction shouldn't be, "Oh God, what do we do? We've never seen this before. Quick, run and snatch the microphone."