skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The problem is that learning "useless things," which is rooted in a form play, turns into something more--that is a self-centered approach of securing yourself in a social hierarchy."

Social signaling and play aren't the only thing that learning useless skills can turn into.

When I started learning to program, it was useless because all I knew how to write were toy programs. But at some point I got good enough at writing toy programs that people could actually use my useful work.

Right now, the fact that I've spent the last couple of months re-learning calculus is totally useless to my careers as a CRUD programmer, IT admin dude, or musician. But I started the MITx 6.002 class on electrical engineering, and that math learning has helped immensely with the first part of that course...

In itself me knowing how to design electronics is useless. And I am profoundly grateful to be , as you correctly phrase it "wealthy in time, energy and cognitive power". I can learn just because I find it playful.

But eventually I have some product ideas that I'd like to build (just for my own fun and enjoyment). And that doesn't sound useless at all. It sounds fun and interesting (which have some utility in themselves) and it could be monetarily profitable given the depth of my domain knowledge.

Similarly, when I started learning to play upright bass, it was just useless play... I didn't play well enough to do anything with it. At this point, I've done it enough that it's useful to the musicians I gigged and recorded with in the last week.

Similarly, I have a pretty good domain knowledge with IT skills, and at some point I want to turn my attention to the various methods of working with machine learning / statistics / AI / whatever. When I start to do that, it will be useless because I won't know enough to do anything other than play with it. But maybe eventually I will have enough facility to do some useful things with it... I am assuming that when I'm in my late 60s and 70s that will be a very useful skill to have for helping with political activism.

So I somewhat agree with you. Without actually doing anything, all knowledge acquisition is useless. I have most of a PhD in English and I totally agree that there is a lot of social signaling that goes on in education.

But the possibility of that use for education doesn't imply that social climbing and play are the only uses for "useless" knowledge.
I agree. When parsing speech, we humans listen for many cues all at once. Spoken language even has intentional redundancy so we can identify and disregard inconsistent cues. For example, a child or foreign speaker might replace "peanut" with "peanuts" and most people would still have no problem understanding "peanuts butter" as long as the rest of the cues are consistent.
I think you're spot on with that last assessment. Generally those ingredients I mentioned I'm sure don't make a big difference over some other reasonable substitution.

For me, it makes for a nice change of pace anyways and as I've mentioned in another comment the BA meals tend to be quicker/easier to prepare than my normal cooking so that's also a nice change of pace. I tend to order one shipment ever 2 months or so on average I'd guess.
I think you'd have better luck phrasing the question earnestly and thoughtfully, refraining from complaining about voting, and without dodging responsibility for the quality of your comment by invoking “thought police”.
It's trailing behind C# (as always), but the plan is to support F# in CoreRT, which will get you your native builds.
Arm Announces Cortex-A65AE for Automotive: First SMT CPU Core
Hi! Thanks for sharing and I have a few questions.

- How does your WER compare to other engines? https://medium.com/descript/which-automatic-transcription-se...

- How do you gather data?

- Where do you see your long-term differentiation? Is it the features you build on top of other engines or is it the engine itself?

Disclaimer: I led engineering for temi.com (a competitor of your's) but am no longer affiliated with it.
A porterhouse alone is typically 8 to 10 dollars, so no you're meal you listed there is more like 20. Sure Blue Apron is expensive but don't go making it sound like you can have a big nice steak, a baked potato, an expensive dessert, some butter and vegetables for near the same cost.
So much of navigating being upper management / senior is in the learning of the language of politics.

I wasn't there of course, but I can speculate on why Jean-Louis felt the way he did. I did have a number of friends at Apple at that time, some of them quite senior, who talked about the politics of the organization. Based on their input, my own experiences, and what Jean-Louis wrote, I'm guessing it went down like this.

At that exact moment in time, that response from Sullivan would tell Jean-Louis that he had been played.

My friends worked at Apple during the "Scully years" remarked that Scully had two things which were really hurting his effectiveness. The first was that he was trying to apply brand marketing to a market that was still technology and feature driven, and second was that he was not good at taking feedback that didn't agree with his world view. The senior people who were perceived as successful at that time, were similarly perceived as "yes" people. When people disagreed with Scully they ended up leaving the company. When they brought up their disagreement to Scully directly, they left more quickly.

So put yourselves in the shoes of the VP of HR. You have a senior leader who you know is not doing well, you need to give them feedback that they are screwing up but you also know that this person has a tendency to fire anyone who does so. How do you both give this person feedback and leave yourself with a way to talk to them about it without putting yourself at risk? Answer, find someone who is willing to give them that feedback who isn't you.

After the dinner when Sullivan says "I'm proud of you," I am guessing that Jean-Louis realized he had done exactly what Sullivan wanted, gave Scully the negative feedback that Sullivan wanted to give but was unwilling to pay the cost for doing so. Like the test subject who volunteered to test the vaccine for the fatal disease, and ends up becoming terminally ill because the vaccine didn't work. "I'm proud of you, you did this thing and everyone will be better off because of it." What is left unspoken is "Too bad about the dying part."

Its not life or death of course, its just a job, but Jean-Louis is aware enough of the dynamic to know, at that moment, what has transpired and what it will cost him.
Turns out those middlemen served a legitimate purpose, and most of the people advocating for their removal had absolutely no idea what they were talking about.
Invitation to Amplenote
I once worked for their biggest competitor - HelloFresh - as a door-to-door salesperson and I have to say... the way we were told to pitch to potential customers was terrible. We were told to sign up the customer and then then opt-out of delivery for a period of 5 weeks so the customer forgets that they’re still subscribed. The salespeople - mostly ~20 year olds - were also heavily exploited and the wages and commissions not paid. I’m lucky I got out quick because otherwise they pressure you to stay because most of your colleagues become your friends and they then peer pressure you...

I’ll assume it’s quite similar to BlueApron... but I don’t know for sure...
Lightning is never going to happen.

It's happening right now:

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/progress-report-lightni...
Mariano's in Chicagoland also sell meal kits now, as do the Amazon Go stores, one of which is conveniently next to a major train station.
One time UPS left a 2ft x 3ft x 1ft box under my doormat. I appreciated the effort, but the package was not inconspicuous.
Actually scratch that. Youre right wring company.

Mckinsey had a scandal at Eskom (state power Co) while Bain was the SARS one.
>"are you going to eat all that chicken?" For £5 extra would you like to add some bacon, creme-fraiche, tarragon, frozen-pastry & peas to enable you to make a lovely pie on Monday? Or asks "what's in your fridge" - here are some recipes and prices for things to use it up?

The fact that Blue Apron doesn't really do that is why I cancelled my subscription. I hated the way they would send all these tiny single-use things. Too much plastic and too much food waste.

Rather than sending me kits, I would prefer if they would essentially do my shopping for me. Planning meals and ensuring I have the right ingredients on hand is annoying and I would love some help with it. But I don't need all the ingredients in one box.
I am trying to understand the mentality of someone who can say Like a massive HOA while thinking that this is a good thing.

Have you never dealt with an HOA in your life? Have you never known someone who has?
Either we agree and elaborate, or disagree and eloborate (which is hard when you simply don't have additional knowledge). If we just agree, we upvote, because there is nothing to say, right? So that itself shifts the "pattern" some more.

I remember it also being like that in the small forums I remember fondly. We didn't have upvotes, but I still noticed that agreement is shorter than disagreement. But that was fine, since we kept talking through the months and years, we actually learned a lot. The flamewars very never so bad because we were few and close enough to be able to not "stop" them, but simply throw all fuel into the fire right away, and then cleared out the air after it was all burned. I remember a guy thanking us when he finally got around to not being a bit of a racist anymore.. We ribbed on him occasionally for several years, but never in a mean way, and he ended up writing us a thank you letter style post. I forgot all the details, but I'll never forget that actually happened. Still proud of that guy whatever the nick was ^^ That really can only happen in small, long-term communities, I think. Maybe it's simply not possible to "scale" that indefinitely, because it's about human capacity.
Don't tell me blue apron doesn't have fish sticks ;)

I usually use fish sticks or other frozen fish for making fish sandwiches. 10 mins of cook time vs 60+ for fresh breaded baked fish. But to each their own!
https://www.supermemo.com/en/blog/did-ebbinghaus-invent-spac...
Board members have a different level of culpability than the management at the firms which they help govern, due to the kinds of decisions they are commissioned to make and the information they have access to. Board members may also find themselves misled by management.

As part of the governance process, Walt Mossberg does bear a certain amount of responsibility for what Facebook management has allowed to happen on their network, and I interpret his action here is part of his taking that responsibility.
That is from A Few Good Men.
I thought Jack was the one shouting, "You can't handle the truth," at Tom.

I just watched the scene. It was Jack's character shouting that.
My grandpa has pomegranate trees on his property that have been stolen from a few times. It's heartbreaking cause of the amount of work he puts into caring for them. And these trees are picked CLEAN with nothing left behind which is just cruel.
> Apple is still about tech, to a degree. But not like the days when Apple was a great tech company. Now Apple seems to be more about fashion.

I don't think that's true. Apple is a lot more mass market than they used to be, but the tech that goes into their products is quite advanced. For example, the iPad Pro benchmarks that put Apple's CPU in the same class as the Intel CPU used in MacBook Pros is pure tech. There's nothing fashionable about a CPU.

Apple's Face ID recently passed a hacking test that other facial recognition systems failed. The latest Apple Watch has an ECG. Perhaps health is fashionable, but that's also tech built into a tiny product.

Apple's camera tech consistently scores near the top of the pack.

I'm not arguing their products are perfect or anything of that sort. I just don't think it's fair to characterize Apple as being more about fashion than tech, because I think they're quite busy pushing tech forward on mass market products.
There are many obscure systems out there (yes, UML is obscure). If you try to consider conflicts with all of them you cannot do anything.
Skip unveils scooters with cameras and locks
There are multiple answers, the simplest one is that the federal government has an interest in economic growth, and the more our innovation hubs strain under unaffordable housing the more it will impact american economic growth.

> their own myopic local politics

Well yes, but when every locality simultaneously experiences the same issues with local politics it hints to a systemic issue. The federal government can help overcome systemic issues by lining up incentives for local communities to act in a way that's beneficial to the economy, rather than beneficial to their home prices.
>The Python manual says that you can use any number of spaces or tabs for defining the scope.

But it doesn't. In Python only modules, classes and functions make a new scope. A block doesn't. (And that's because it "forces" you to write small self-contained functions.)

It's funny that he also links to a documentation page that clearly doesn't talk about scope at all.

Personal reflection: I rarely rant publicly about something, but when I do I make sure that I'm not saying something stupid that a quick google search can refute.
You make a good point that Blue Apron only teaches you how to assemble ingredients, but not to shop for them. They are two separate skills. But most people who don't know how to cook are bad at both, and Blue Apron gets rid of one of the highest friction parts and lets people dive right into the actual cooking part of, well, cooking.

Getting people unafraid of assembling ingredients and heating food and cleaning after is a good first step. If you didn't grow up cooking and shopping and cleaning, there's a lot to mentally unpack before you make a meal. If you have no basis for how to plan anything ("Would you like to add extra meat for $5") extra options quickly get confusing.
Microsoft Clarity, a free alternative to Hotjar and Fullstory
The training set is 17GB if I remember correctly. It would be interesting to find the closest images in the training set to a generated one.
> Most programs don't spend a noticeable amount time in sorting at all.

I think a more important point is that most programs that depend on sorting data will use a data structure which can sort itself rather than trying to sort lists/arrays of such large numbers (especially when exceeding a certain threshold of data records). Consider if you're getting millions of records and need them in some order (potentially different from how they arrive), it makes more sense (especially with the IO delays) to spend the extra time on inserting into a sorted structure while waiting for the next piece of data to arrive. Interleaving the two activities, rather than waiting for all IO to finish and then sorting a massive list (forcing them to be serialized). The concurrent version can benefit from the inherent parallel nature of dealing with IO-bound and CPU-bound activities.
> you can use it to make a list using one market's superior app, then do your actual shopping at another market

This critique makes no sense to me. Should amazon not recommend items online because you might purchase them from alibaba or walmart instead?

Whichever markets choose to make such a system would surely do so with the assumption that they are the best choice, and they will recommend their items. I doubt many consumers would go through the friction of comparison-shopping a whole list to find other things that are suitable substitutes.

Your comment to me seems akin to the silly statement "shoe stores should not display their wares in the window because consumers then might go buy them at other shoe shops for cheaper"
Your main account is rate limited because you start and stoke flamewars. Please stop.
I had a similar experience with various other peer-to-peer networks: I2P (except the I2P torrent scene is pretty good), Zeronet, GNUnet. Tor stands out as the only one to have caught on.
I wouldn't be surprised if they start working on an expander cycle engine while keeping the electrics as a starter/regulator.
Using 8-bit quantization to speed up inference on mobile with TensorFlow Lite
One can be a great person without being a good person. Something I feel people forget all to often.

We like to idealize those that accomplish much, but we also like to ignore that those accomplishments come with sacrifices that many aren't willing to make and a focus and drive that inverts many peoples optimal live balance on its head.
Read other materials on the same subject. That has the benefit of giving you similar things, differently. Maybe another author is more illuminating. But both will introduce the same vocabulary, so there will be overlap. Plus you'll have to think about what you agree with.
I wonder what happens when you order 101 Dalmatians.
And you assume it will be similar? No, it will be higher. The goal of the think tank like that one is to increase profit for the landlords.
Especially when you start really planning meals around whatever is on sale that week and carrying ingredients from one meal to another, $10 per person per meal is definitely a lot. Also, pantry items where that $10 can get you a 5# bag of rice that lasts for many meals.

One of my favorite personal discoveries is to buy the whole broccoli, use the florets as a vegetable side, and the stems in a soup. The sturdier stems hold up better with the same flavor.
This is how most object-oriented languages work, people just don't realize it. Here's some Java code:

class Base {
private int field;

Base() {
this.field = 1;
}

void baseMethod() {
System.out.println("Base.field = " + field);
}
}

class Derived extends Base {
private int field;

Derived() {
this.field = 2;
}

void derivedMethod() {
System.out.println("Derived.field = " + field);
}
}

public static void main(String[ ] args) {
Derived d = new Derived();
d.baseMethod();
d.derivedMethod();
}

It prints:

Base.field = 1
Derived.field = 2
When I spend a lot on food I don’t hope there’ll be a ton of it - I hope it’s high quality. I think BlueApron aims at higher quality rather than massive portions designed to be too much.
For something that’s supposed to compete with Visa, $1m isn’t exactly “happening”.

Edit: supposedly there is $62 billion worth of BTC sloshing around out there. If you take that number at face value, then close to .0016% of BTC has been committed to the lightning network. This is not “happening” by any stretch of the imagination.
yeah, but which way? `Add custard powdered sugar to my shopping list` is is powdered custard, or powdered sugar?
I'm unaware of any common restaurant (i.e. not fast food) where you can get a full meal for much below $10. Factor in the additional cost of a non-water beverage (soda or beer, for instance) as well as a tip, and it's likely you're spending $15 or more.

This article from BusinessInsider (2015) indicates that the average cost per meal at common "chain restaurants" starts at $12.17. Over half of the restaurants on the list have average meal prices in excess of $15. [1]

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-it-costs-to-eat-at-...
The thing is flattering egos of PHBs gives short term job security - success ensures the company will survive and no matter how much the PHB likes you he can't save you from the company facing bankruptcy.

Results are what matter and also build your value. Being known as the guy, gal or nonbinary who did X is way better than "just went along with using a massive spreadsheet as a database because the boss doesn't trust software he hasn't paid for and won't spend money on sonething he doesn't know how to use."
It was available for $250k minimum previously via crowdfunding. Look up SpaceX on this page:

https://fundnel.com/investor/deal-feed/funded
Or get a nice big kiss on the lips only to remember halfway through that your boss doesn't typically kiss you on the lips
> we are able to support economically many more people having mansions than we used to

I don't think that's true... the environmental cost of supporting this is huge and already unsustainable. Air conditioning is a great example of this.
Fair enough.

import re
import sys
import collections

c = collections.Counter()
for line in sys.stdin:
words = re.findall('[a-z]+', line.lower())
c.update(words)
for word, count in c.most_common(int(sys.argv[1])):
print(f'{count:>7} {word}')
Surprisingly we have laws about divorce that are a bit more involved than "You. Leave. Now."

We even make ex-spouses pay support. Or let them live in the common house for a bit.
It's a fairly new feature.
"I'm selling it all because I have it on authority that Lightning's never going to happen."

"Oh really? Who'd you hear that from?"

"Village-Idiot" :facepalm:
.NET integration is probably the biggest killer feature, because that unlocks official support for most important platforms that you'll need to use. Using AWS or Azure or GCP because your business is moving stuff to a butt provider? You have access to fully-supported SDKs maintained by teams who do that stuff for a living. And so on. .NET also has a spectacular standard library, and with .NET Core, runs _very_ well in any environemnt.

But from a language standpoint, here are three unique features

* Type Providers, which let you generate types based on a data source, and tie compilation to the use of that data being correct

* Active Patterns, which are similar to Haskell's View Patterns, and let you tie some arbitrary functionality that ultimately returns an Option into a pattern for neat pattern matching

* Computation Expressions, which let you express, compose, sequence, etc. monadic and monoidal computations in a convenient syntax that's super easy for newcomers to grok. There is also an RFC and WIP implementation that expands these to support applicative constructs

There's more (Units of Measure, universal quantification via Interfaces, etc.) but these three tend to be something people like a lot.
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How will automation tools change data science?
These are good questions, it's just my go-to line of thinking when I see surreptitious recording devices. Is this legal and is there liability?

Recording audio without two-party consent in my state is illegal and only just recently were there any court cases where recording police officers without their knowledge wasn't prosecuted as wiretapping.
Someone I interviewed some years back did their interview in F#. I didn't know F# and tried to make that abundantly clear to them, but they persisted nonetheless. I had messed around with O'Caml back in college and so at least had a passing familiarity with functional language concepts, but I really had no idea if what the candidate produced could be considered quality production code. That didn't help their chances of getting the job.
The .Net ecosystem is definitely a killer feature. Everything you want, and it 'just works', as well as everything being seamlessly integrated with each other. This is only possible with the backing of a huge amount of funding, and there are probably millions of man hours spent on it at this point.
Yeah Pichai came across as sneakily dishonest in in the recent congressional hearing. He implied they weren't currently planning to enter Chinese search with a filtered search tool but then admitted they had 100 engineers working on dragonfly. Okay sleazebag so you're not currently planning to enter but you are building the systems that will allow a future plan to happen. Him saying they have no plans to enter prior to that admission indicates that he has flexible morals. Why wouldn't a sleazebag like that continue 'not planning' until the time is right for him to reap his profits?
Putting a note on the inside of the bench with the bench lid already open seems like a pretty good idea. having a bench with a liftable top is also pretty good since having a bench outdoors is pretty nice too.