skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Got any recommendation for those other intro ones with rigorous proofs? Teaching maths and looking to move from a physics background to more pure maths one.
CA voted in an effective freeze to property taxes back in the 1970s, with property tax increases being capped at 1% per year and the rate being transferable to your children. This has created a landed aristocracy in CA cities of those paying well less than the normal rate in taxes, badly distorting the market and local economies (no property tax, no services), resulting in lots of silly policy choices.
Does CBD have the same kind of high and anxiety and paranoia as marijuana?

What exactly did the psych recommend it for? Depression?
> ...giving a path to legal immigration for illegal immigrants would help things.

I would rather consider paying anyone below minimum wage a form of wage theft and prosecutable as a criminal offense. Dunno why embezzlement is a felony but breaking the law to underpay people is just grounds for a lawsuit.
How does Beavis and Butthead fit into your model
Yes.

Climate change has brought difficulties in weather forecasting and dam management. Major rivers in Portugal have their sources in Spain, which gives this country a relative position of power in water storage in times of need. In the past, Portugal did make the case that Spain did not respect the law regarding water usage. Weather extremes are also important because of damage and insurance coverage.

Irrigation based in artificial reservoirs creates the risk of salination, which is already being monitored. I get regular reports on the quality of the water I use.
I wouldn't count out the company just yet: Zuck invested really smartly in Whatsapp, VR, and Instagram.
Maybe they should rename the company to de-emphasize the relation to a product that will not be their golden goose for ever.
> It reaffirms the right of publishers to decide how they wish to profit from their work -- if they choose to make it available for the aggregator at no cost, that is their right as well.

That's exactly what the Spanish law has forbidden, with disastrous effects for local media when Google withdrew. I'm not familiar with the text of the Article 11 proposals, but I doubt it includes provisions excluding such a transposition into national law; it's obviously the only way for any implementation of the directive to have any teeth.

Of course, the immediate effect is that the aggregators would refuse to pick any local content and would display only 3rd party sites, from outside the countries afflicted with the toxic link syndrome.
Never heard of Stand Alone Complex. Thanks! I had heard of TINC, having been active on Usenet at the time. I remember it a bit differently, more like "it doesn't matter if there's a cabal" perhaps, but then I probably hung out in different cliques and every one had its own flavor.
It seems like the GP is arguing that REST is insufficiently generic and you’re responding with “That’s not true, because REST isn’t generic”. Why is it desirable to write the same boilerplate code for every resource and now (presumably) every combination of resources that are operated on by every kind of transaction? Or are you making a different argument?
Ok, I am still clueless. What does file storage have to do with currency or coinage?
Supply/demand is not the only thing driving the difference between the salaries of a middle-school teacher and a Google software engineer.
I like using a different plugin manager with OMZ.
https://github.com/tarjoilija/zgen

If you use a lot of addons, this can load up prompts faster without losing any OMZ goodness.
X causes Y if surgical (or randomized controlled) manipulations in X are correlated with changes in Y

X causes Y if it doesn't obviously not cause Y.

This seems to conveniently overlook the decades of quantitative social science built on "I controlled for a couple things, and p is less than .05, so X causes Y."

But I'm not clear on the community context here. Is this just good-natured ribbing?
https://csytan.com
California Governor Brown's Veto of Wildfire Bill Faces Scrutiny
Ruby taken off the rails by deserialization exploit
+1

This is really true. I made amazing friends at my first 2 jobs and since then, nothing but work. The culture has changed as well for the last 10 years. Colleagues don't even say "hi" anymore. When you're already established in your life you usually don't have time to make friends at work.
Artifical Intellegence of Art
No, that's interesting, but that's not it. I was thinking of how turbofans have at least 3 sets of moving blades: the fan, the compressor, and the turbine. The turbine blades are behind the combustion chambers and they are pushed by the thrusting exhaust in order to power the fan at the front of the engine. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbofan)

The general theory behind this is called the Brayton Cycle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brayton_cycle), and you can see if you read about it that they are all some form of blowing on your own sails, it's a basic design principle that increases the engine efficiency by capturing some of the output. And it still seems to defy intuition to me, I find it hard to understand how reducing the output and putting it back through something that is less than 100% efficient can end up saving energy or increasing output... it's counter-intuitive.

Anyway, I wonder if installing a fan on your sailboat technically makes it a Brayton Cycle engine... mmm maybe not since the sail doesn't power the fan...
I created SkillUpper because I was thinking about how Computer Science learning could be more interactive.

Codecademy pioneered a more interactive REPL style of learning for basic programming.

I felt that this interactive step-by-step approach could be used to learn other parts of Computer Science more efficiently.

Because of algorithms being highly represented in software engineering interviews, it seemed like a good place to start. But this step-by-step format could also be used to teach other parts of Computer Science.
OT: something you are doing on that page makes it not work with Edge. On my SP4 in landscape mode, I can scroll down to past the "Installation" section and just into "Basic Usage", and then the visible page goes blank white.

In portrait mode, it gets down to just showing the "const expr = new Matcher()" line in the first code sample before going blank white.

If I've got the zoom set to 125%, then portrait is blank white everywhere below the "Github" and "Get Started" buttons.

Reducing zoom to 50% in portrait allows all the page content to be scrolled into view, although continuing to attempt to scroll blanks it out.

This isn't some quirk of my SP4. I tried it with the same results on Microsoft's Win 10 MSEdge VM running under VMWare, available here: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/v...

Edit: it seems to happen when the class for <body> is changed from "ready-transition ready ready-spinner ready-fix" to "ready-transition ready ready-spinner ready-fix sticky", which seems to happen when it is changing the thingy on the left from scrolling with the page to sticking in place.

When on the blank white page, removing "sticky" from the <body> class via the inspector makes the missing material materialize.
Most people who obsess over celebrities, or fall for every ad they see, or whatever else Idiocracy thinks is the downfall of society, aren't mentally impaired. They were raised in a society that discourages critical thinking skills and devalues education. They're ignorant, in other words. You don't fix ignorance with eugenics. You fix it with education.
Essentials of Metaheuristics (2015) [pdf]
You are right -- I live in a low CoL area. 55 dollars an hour is astronomical. I would expect it to be double as well.
> The rapid growth of jobs in renewable energy is a temporary excursion, mostly an artifact of current rapid expansion.

Nonetheless, the expansion may continue for decades -- long enough for someone who needs a job now to make it all the way to retirement.

And, significantly, long enough for renewables to replace less labor-efficient and generally worse generation methods throughout the power grid. By the time the new construction jobs run out, the lobby for the legacy generation methods will be gone.
I wrote up a bit reply to clarify, but now I'm looking and thinking about it for the first time in a few years, with four years of job experience instead of four days, and realizing that I probably need to be showing this to a lawyer. The "learn to SQL" exercises directed me to manually inspect individual rows in the prod customer database. Even with the managers and senior devs all assuring me that it was okay and the company having survived for twenty years without being fined into oblivion, this is just... unbelievable. :/
Comparison of Metaheuristics [pdf]
Given that you don’t know what would occur without reagonimics, even that much isn’t safe to say. It’s quite possible that reagonimics is in fact helpful, just not enough to overcome other negatives in the environment (so in sum, a loss). Removal may very well increase the rate of inequality.

In other words, with just the evidence provided, you can’t safely say much of anything beyond “it started getting worse in the 80’s”
Do you see the new VSCode features as being a threat to this? (Notwithstanding they are both MS offerings)
Yeah. I feel Apple and Google are a large part of the wave that destroyed this behavior. They both took major kudos for their rapid release cycle.

I almost think people thought it was fun to constantly update, for a while. To their credit, it used to be somewhat safe to do.
> Rust, checking a connection out is a single function call on the pool

Still a pain in the arse when you are making function calls inside a transaction and dealing with the the connection reference lifetime.

> Go, the connection pooling is all handled transparently behind the scenes

This actually has a few nasty properties. Firstly, executing two simple queries in seemingly sequential Go code actually execute in parallel. Secondly, it's possible for Go's connection pooling to cause some very nasty failures. Rather than timing out at the first of a bunch of normally fast but now unusually slow queries (because of a lock etc), Go will keep spawning new connections and parking running but not yet timed out queryies until everything is on fire. Max connections is definitely a good idea.

> It's easy enough to increase the number

Only if you can restart your DB. Which, if you're trying to scale up under load, is the last thing you want to do.

> automatically scale down the connection pool when connections are idle for a given period of time

PgBouncer has supported this since release.

> PgBouncer doesn't work with prepared statements

Prepared statements themselves work fine. The problem is many ORMs do fragile, non-deterministic things with caching named prepared statements to improve throughput in simple scenarios.

Using named prepared statements can also cause other issues because it signals to PG that it's OK to use a generic query in some cases. It might not be!
I outsource some of my side project work where possible
I thought that collections of facts are still under copyright so things like Google Maps data is copyrighted even if the things in it are facts. You can create an identical copy as long as you verify and collect the facts yourself and if a mistake on google maps is found on another map then its obvious it was copied.
This is an odd question. If you can think of reasons where they're non-equivalent, why not state those reasons in your comment?

You're asking me to give counter-examples to examples/explanations you haven't given.
Really happy to see tig in your list and so high in the list of comments. Definitely one of my favorites too.
I’ve only seen one episode of the show a couple years ago, and I basically found it boring. Keep in mind I’ve never been to Silicon Valley.

All the comments here make it sound like a depressing place to be
“People gave credit for”

What should the standard of proof be for accusing an organization of “helping to kill”? Have we met that with Facebook?
Facebook Testing Auto-Responses for Live Video, Some Suggestions Are Offending
Economist: British Raj siphoned out $45T from India
Even more recent and relevant: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/05/how-to-read-in...
Require a login/invite then
I imagine Netflix working that way in an opaque way.

Of the 3rd-party produced works, I assume netflix pays them some fraction of my $x.xx/month based on my viewing time.
Thanks for the suggestions. I've used Graphviz before and found it super useful for automated graph generation for sure.

The tool you built also looks like it's close to what I'm looking for. I guess what I'm really looking for is a super slick and simple graph generator app, sort of like what https://mindnode.com/ is for mind maps/outlines. If I had more time, it's something I would like to build.
The point of the article was to provide something for the clickbait title to link to. Standing desks have been popular for long enough now that it's apparently time to start writing contrarian articles about them for clicks.
How about "Give working people more money"? Maybe if they had some capital they could allocate it for something useful too. When I look at the money that's being thrown around in SV I have my doubts that the professional allocators are doing a good job.
Historical Fiction Serial about the SAGE Computer
Chinese hackers: Lul

Seriously the commerce department better try and spearhead security initiatives
Yes, it does. IP has value.

You create IP to generate value from it. When someone steals IP you lose value that you should have derived from it.

Theft is theft, whether of IP or otherwise. And a thief is a thief, whether of tangible product or IP.
I thought this article was going to be about Muslim re-education camps.
"Sure, but they had to get rich in the first place."

That can be achieved by being born with the right parents, not necessarily by doing intelligent things.
It doesnt even need to be lower cost, if they understand the business. We compete with a lot of startups (im not at a startup) that build their entire case on 'you are our entire client base, whatever you want, we can build' where our approach has to weigh up all client requests and build towards what we think the best overall solution is going to be.

For those clients its beneficial to them to go to someone new that will cater to their exact wants
> Without their content what will Google search? Wikipedia, blogs?

I hope so. The internet was better when news was an afterthought.

> Without news content google search users will not get news context about their search queries so the search engine will lack a critical perspective and become lower quality,

News content is low quality content. It's toxic information pollution.

I wish google/youtube, facebook, reddit, etc would simply ban news company links. It would go a long way to increase quality content and lower toxicity.
Man, you need to get better co-founders! I agree that Silicon Valley often hits painfully close to home, but that's precisely what makes it so fantastic.

My own startup has been mostly outside of America, but we get enough brushes with Silicon Valley culture -- or, worse, wannabe Silicon Valley culture -- to make the show really resonate.

Even closer to home, for me personally, is the Australian comedy "Utopia" (or "Dreamland", depending on the market). It's about a municipal urban development corporation, which is basically my startup's customer group. One episode features a sendup of what my own startup does (online collaborative infrastructure planning and stakeholder engagement) -- or, more to the point, what some of our would-be customers want it to do. You can tell that the writers know what they're talking about. Damn near killed me to watch it. Highly, highly recommended!
Is it just me or is it so slow?
I have noticed that automated bots always scrape and repost my blog posts on a variety of websites. I don't really care but something to keep in mind. No copyright notice will stop a script that can't understand them.
Should be able. Yugabyte is doing something similar.
A good book to read about this is Lost Connections. It was a really eye-opening look at other methods to treating depression (and really views the increasing rates as an over-diagnosis, such as if grief of a death lasts over a year, as well as a cultural issue). He talks about how over-prescribed anti-depressants are, especially to younger people, as well as withdrawal effects and the fact they barely beat out placebo in clinical trials.
Moving to source-available licensing
I spent an impressive amount of time with a biostats PhD (who had veto power on my IRB protocol) working this sort of stuff out. In the end it became clear he really didn't care about the machine's training process at all, and he was only interested in validation as a way to get to talk about comparitive statistics to evaluate the results of many machines with each other.

I drew many, many tables on the whiteboard that day.
Not yet. As the last country to go to war with China, we know full well that they won't hesitate bombing former allies should the circumstance calls for it.
Have you tried https://weworkremotely.com ?
You can fork the pen and implement them. Have fun!
Detroit enjoyed ~3 generations of prosperity before declining. It would be silly to deny the opportunities provided by the tech industry and the wealth it generates to millions of people just because the area might eventually decline.
> The FDA is willing to approve drugs for depression with much weaker data than say, cancer, because if they held them to the same standard, no drugs would be approved at all.

Then maybe we don't need drugs approved?
I've seen a number of comments about http/2 and http/3 being driven by Google. The ideas originated there (SPDY and QUIC respectively) but in both cases many different entities backed the ideas and formulated specifications in IETF settings. I'm not sure I buy that somehow Google managed to hoodwink the people that toiled on these specifications in a non-Google environment and managed to influence them in such a way that the output was beneficial to their nefarious goals.

There are already quite a number of http/3 implementations from non-Google companies and projects [0]. Cloudflare seem to be big backers of http/3 [1]. There were some other articles today that are generally positive on the http/3 approach. One was from Tim Bray at AWS [2] and the other from @ErrataRob [3].

0. https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/wiki/Implementations

1. https://cloudflare-quic.com/

2. https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2018/11/18/Post-REST...

3. https://blog.erratasec.com/2018/11/some-notes-about-http3.ht...
Some people learn fast, very very fast, and they might get so fascinated by something that they have no choice but to try to learn certain things. It can feel like suffocating not to try to learn that amazing looking something, and it can be so much fun when the learning is so fast. So for some people its less about time and more about accidentally learning multiple subjects.
Thanks for reminding people be aware. Fundraising wasn't the point of my original comment, so I took out the donation link. My focus primarily has been to teach students, so I haven't had time to update any of the social media or the landing page.

I lost the pw to my original account on HN, but here's my username: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=songzme
I think Simpsons managed to trick the powers that be into classifying it as a cartoon instead of a sitcom. Different rules.
We talked a lot about how many founders that somewhat found success, try to be Gavins or Russ Hannemans. But the show doesn't portray these people as the visionaries they think they are. In fact it makes fun of them.
There are more dimensions to life than race and gender in which to find breadth.
The analogy is quite difficult. A television station is a well defined legal and technical object with a licensing regime, a standardized image format etc. A cable network is, by definition a transmission infrastructure designed to carry a number of such signals.

A "news website" and "news agregator" are... what exactly? Since search traffic is so valuable, publishers would modify their sites readily to fall just under the legal threshold for news sites in order to get picked up by Google's non-aggregator of non-news sites. It's virtually impossible to craft definitions that are simultaneously not trivial to circumvent by Google and also have no impact on established, unrelated internet content.
Aqua’s ‘Guardrails’ for Securing Serverless Containers, Functions
Much less audio is potentially needed for TTS than ASR, however the spread and quality of the TTS dataset is critical which is one reason why just training on ASR datasets "in reverse" hasn't worked great. For example, commercial databases run ~25 to 50 hours, but the "coverage" of the language is usually very different from e.g. audiobooks, and focuses specifically on covering edge cases of the language. You can think of it like a 25 hour "support set" which covers as many cases as possible, and can also grow over time as users run into cases where the system fails.

This all gets worse if you want multi-speaker output of course - getting even a few speakers who all read the same large corpus is difficult. The two datasets I've gotten the most out of so far are "LJSpeech" (a subset of the LibriVox corpus), and the "Nancy Corpus / Blizzard 2013" dataset [0][1].

There's a pretty interesting corpus here that I hope to start using soon [2].

To me, the biggest issue / gap between commercial interests and publically available data is curation - TTS really hinges on well curated, clean data at least for now. And if that dataset has a very balanced coverage of triphones, that's even better.

I'd like to try on the voice.mozilla data, but given current stuggles on even 1 speaker, a truly "in the wild" set of many speakers seems pretty difficult if training from scratch. For voice cloning using pretrained weights it may be a different story.

[0] https://keithito.com/LJ-Speech-Dataset/

[1] https://www.synsig.org/index.php/Blizzard_Challenge_2013

[2] http://www.m-ailabs.bayern/en/the-mailabs-speech-dataset/
Sure but most people don't live in the middle of the Pacific, so is an optimised system possible for them?
That's what I thought... Most people assumed the verdict earlier this year was an automatic win, and they keep citing it. But it wasn't the final verdict, which is what I'm interested in. Hope it comes out soon.
sure, just did.
I realize I got lucky with my GP here in the States, but he did talk about things with me when I went on phentermine to help with weight loss. All the withdrawal symptoms, why I must stop taking it every three months, etc. He even went over every result in my blood work and thoroughly explained each. I think I was in that appointment for two hours, and it was amazing. I wish more physicians were like him, though I also realize they're pressed for time a lot of times and such, which doesn't help.
We have a revised Polymer, two in fact.

First is Polymer 3, which is Polymer available as standard JS modules and on npm for the first time ever. Dropping the huge barriers to usage of Bower and HTML Imports should have a large impact all on their own.

The other is lit-html and LitELement. lit-html is a template system that's much better suited to being embedded in JavaScript, and allows a very similar style and expressiveness of JSX without the VDOM overhead or a compiler. We've seen a lot of excitement and uptake of lit-html independent even of our other projects. LitElement is a Web Components base class that does async rendering with lit-html.

Given what we've seen with lit-html early adopters, I think trends will look a lot different in future surveys (even as flawed as this survey is).