skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is decent, but I see two mistakes: the author assumes that AI/ML can’t produce unique insights from public data; and she conflates AI/ML with automation. While it’s true that you won’t find anything that your competitors haven’t if you use the same data and the same AI/ML techniques, there’s nothing stopping companies from differentiating on the techniques in addition to (or even instead of) the data. If you just use plug-and-play AI, then sure, you’ll need a unique data set if you want unique results.

The section about finding faster, less error-prone ways to apply existing insights sounds more like automation than AI. There’s certainly overlap, but they’re two different things.
It wouldn't surprise me if unbalanced load on the left and right also causes additional wear and tear.
FF57+ combines the refresh and stop buttons, the addon makes them separate again.
Thanks for the nice write-up, please keep us posted when you get time to expand your notes into blog posts.
The Best Test of General Relativity (by 2 Misplaced Satellites)
Also there were things like the "Clean Up Britannia" event, where players were encouraged to cull their item collection in exchange for neon hair dye and other goodies: http://www.uoguide.com/Clean_Up_Britannia_(1999)
It's exactly why later MMOs had PvP rules. Even WoW's PvP servers didn't allow PvP in the starting areas.
I taught retired people how to use computers for 5 years, I met and saw around 100 retirees interacting with a computer and talked with them about it. It's a very good proxy. You could see it immediately - they can handle good UX with good defaults, but a computer literally scares them and definitely NOT just lightly, I had people that nearly started crying when they thought they broke it - and the failure was that wallpaper was black but they expected a picture; I saw people literally screaming because a popup window or a dialog opened and they (in case of error) thought the computer is broken forever - I wish you saw their surprise when I clicked OK. Teaching them what is a button took at least 3 lessons - and that was in Windows 2000 to Windows XP times when a button actually looked like a button.

They are seriously afraid to even use it normally. Expecting them to change configuration is utter bullshit.
Most visualizations that can be done in Tableau is possible in R, especially with ggplot2 and the various plug-ins published.

I steer my team away from using Tableau because it is bloated software. Anyone who is serious about working in data science or data visualization should steer clear of it.
Their are plenty of experts for other things. But being an expert requires more than simply running an experiment.

Each experiment is more like a clue than definitive proof. So, having a mix of positive and negative results is not some major contradiction, it’s just part of gathering knowledge.
Eh I feel like a talk should tell you one thing that only the speaker knows in the first 20 minutes.
I just did a little benchmarking of my own. Here's how the three perform on 100 compilations of an ES5 version of Parser.js from the webpack source code:

sucrase: 900.720ms
swc: 4514.190ms
babel: 16126.752ms

Sucrase had the jsx and imports transforms enabled, swc had all transforms enabled (they're not configurable), and Babel had @babel/preset-env enabled. So I'm a little skeptical of swc's 20x speedup claim, but certainly depends on a lot of details.
That works with KD? Fking unitymedia removed bridge mode from their firmware. :(
Do I Offend?
This is congruent with "What You Can't Say:" http://paulgraham.com/say.html.
Serverless. I started playing around with some of the open source frameworks that exist (mainly OpenFaaS and Openwhisk) and found the experience pretty cool. Certainly, serverless doesn't work for everything and might be a bit overhyped, but it's a very pleasant development experience at times, especially with OpenFaaS imo. I also added a crystal template for OpenFaaS (https://github.com/TPei/crystal_openfaas)
Training on the test set? An analysis of Spampinato et al
Both are true until they are very, very not.

I can understand and agree with he downvotes if that was the bulk your stance. Although a more nuanced opinion would be great. Its good to understand why people feel this way.
[ICLR Oral] Pay Less Attention with Lightweight and Dynamic Convolutions
I got back into Rust this year via WebAssembly! It was really fun to make this little A* pathfinding demo: https://github.com/jakedeichert/wasm-astar

After that little project, I got started on an api service in Crystal. Crystal was interesting to try out, but I decided to switch to Rust after a few weeks since the ecosystem/community is much larger. I first chose to use the Rocket framework [0] but switched to actix-web [1] after a few weeks so I didn't have to use nightly anymore. So far actix-web has been great, but I'll be keeping my eye on Rocket going stable hopefully sometime in 2019, and also another library called warp [2].

I've also got another wasm project in the works... hoping to finish that off soon and publish sometime next month.

[0]: https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Rocket

[1]: https://github.com/actix/actix-web

[2]: https://github.com/seanmonstar/warp
It is "only a minute of your life" start to become critical when the next train leave one hour later. It does improve throughput a lot in public transportation situations, not so much in shopping malls.
> Why the distrust for Workers' Rights?

As somebody who spent part of my life in a socialist country, there are millions of reasons to distrust socialists. The Party's (under socialism, you always know which one is The Party because all others are banned) press is usually a non-ending stream of lies. Of course, the fact that all socialist press I've had experience with were complete liars does not mean that this one, which I never read before, is, but at least there's a cause for caution.

Especially as we didn't hear the other side at all - once, in the press, there was a rule to try and get opposite's site take on the matter, but of course the revolutionaries don't have much need for rules, do they?
Safe from what exactly?
Fates and Furies - Lauren Groff
Brilliant. It's considered "literary fiction" but I found this book to be an absolute page-turner, much more so than what is usually described as a "page-turner". The summaries / back-cover marketing copy can't do it justice.

Florida - Lauren Groff
Sublime, poetic, haunting collection of short stories.

Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang
Exhalation - Ted Chiang
Being released in May 2019 (I got an advance copy), but many of the stories are previously published and/or available online. "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" is just wonderful. Ted Chiang's work is the definition of economy in storytelling. Absolutely quality over quantity.

The Three Body Problem, The Dark Forest, Death's End - Liu Cixin
I’m not sure how fulfilling it would be to just read the first one. They really feel like a single (big) novel. Worth it.

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O - Neal Stephenson, Nicole Galland
Kind of Stephenson-light(?). Smart, entertaining and seems destined to be a TV series.

The Secret History - Donna Tartt
A bit slow to get going. Lots of Greek, snow, and booze at a private liberal-arts college in Vermont.

The Grownup - Gillian Flynn (short story)
People who climb the stairs one step at the time should kindly stay to the right. Leave the left side open for those of us who climb two steps at a time.
seems to be a blogspam of https://torrentfreak.com/canada-prohibits-piracy-settlement-...
Meet the fake shill. A sad byproduct of consumerism.

Sometimes I'm suprised at society. Then I'm annoyed at my surprise. Then I tell myself not everybody is like this.
The article doesn’t belong on hn at all, but if people are going to upvote it, then I think it’s fair game to trash it. I mean it’s got nothing to do with technology and it’s not news.
Question: what happens if Chipotle never pays the arbitration fees?
The psychological reason it is difficult to get people to stand on both sides of the escalator is that when the station is not busy, it's obvious that it is not saving anyone time to stand on the escalator, so people walk. At some point during the day it makes sense to change the rule so people just stand on the escalator, but people are already walking down one side and it isn't obvious that they are wrong.

> As reported by Japan Times, a study by the Japan Elevator Association in Tokyo found that of the 1,475 escalator accidents in the city between 2013 and 2014, more than 880 were a result of people riding improperly (that includes walking or running on an escalator).

This is written poorly. Just because someone was walking does not mean it caused the accident. At the very least it could be only partially contributory. Also, how many percent of the time are people walking on the escalator there?

You could also flip the logic on its head in circumstances in which someone was not walking and was bumped from behind. Had they been walking, they likely would not have been bumped from behind.
Why Vue.js over Angular/React?
I started http://pullreminders.com earlier this year and it has been slowly but steadily generating revenue
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar hell. That's the worst way to respond to a bad comment, and it breaks more than one of the site guidelines. Please review them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18746788 and marked it off-topic.
I've heard this called "outside-in" testing.
Direct link to actual source (includes transcript if you prefer reading): https://video.arstechnica.com/watch/war-stories-ultima-onlin...
Imagine a country where the police arrest people and they vanish in the middle of the night, with no way to determine what their status is.
> I’m just not connecting the dots on what’s so special about this.

It's not. binctr is not special. Singularity is not special either. They are both tools that do similar things.
What do you use Go for? Python is my go to language, but I'm increasingly seeing things supporting Go too.

When would you pick one over the other, do you think it's working learning Go or just focusing on python?
> A common pattern was that players would have mountains of skullcaps due to building their tailoring skill, but were then upset when no shop would buy 3000 skullcaps from them.

That's not really a problem with the shopkeepers. It's a gross mismatch in how difficult they made it to progress in skill versus the artificial aggregate demand for those products. If your game design requires that your players craft 3,000 of something, it's probably a good idea to think about what they're going to do with 3,000 of that especially if your players are going to expect to make a profit or if they have limited inventory.
By "similar hacks" I meant something like embedding a custom loader into a fully static binary that runs the interpreter and loads its libraries from the embedded filesystem while patching libc calls.
LOL, the Steve Jobs argument. He's the goto scapegoat whenever someone wants to spread falsehood on raw foods, fruits in particular.

He wasn't fruitarian. In his early years (20s) perhaps more so, but in the years before his cancer was discovered he was known to consume lots of vegan junk food and processed foods, oils and salt - his body was massively acidic. In the couple years before his death he ended up consuming a lot of dairy and excess protein - both killers and horrible to the human body.

So one semi-fruitarian dies, fruits are evil.

Millions of people die from diets that consist heavily of processed meat, soda, dairy, excess protein, processed sugar and other garbage - nothing to see here.
Why react is such a powerful framework
Yes you have ample time, but it cannot be "an ample time". I'm a native speaker so I can't explain why, but trust me!

You probably want to say something like "What an apt time.." or "What a fitting time..."
Have you looked into why the Sentry Django app takes so long to boot? Are you doing queries on app init or something?
See the point is, going for pure modem means you have to deal with all the VoIP crap too. I'm on VDSL currently and after checking the prices of VDSL modems and reading up on what I'd need to get VoIP running with my DECT phone I went like "screw this" and decided to rent their shitty device for two bucks a month.
Yeah it can, but I don’t believe it generates much more revenue for the publisher.
80/20 sounds good as long as the 20 is 'get in the flow' kind of work rather than stressful work.
Not exactly. Land is owned by organizations, governments are just who is running the organizations — a chess club is not the same as its president and secretary.

When Walt Disney World purchased land, it could actually administer an entire city there.

What you are talking about is called Sovereign Ownership (alloidal title). Like the Royal Family in England has a bunch of grounds where there is no higher landlord. Theoretically they can murder people there and the police can’t do anything about it. States on the other hand don’t own land in the way that you’re saying. There are overlapping jurisdictions and laws, and compacts, in practice. Many of the states were commonwealths (eg Virginia) of cities before they joined the union. The history of states is just people and organizations joining forces into larger legal organizations.
I think you are saying in essence, data quality trumps data quantity, which in turn trumps modeling and algorithmics.

This seems to hold fairly well, with a few caveats. For example, without enough data you ar wasting your t8me with some techniques. Also “data quality” most often needs to include quality labeling in practice (but you may have meant that inclusively).
Tis the Season to Count Calories Managing Weight
> "At some point during the day it makes sense to change the rule so people just stand on the escalator, but people are already walking down one side and it isn't obvious that they are wrong."

They aren't wrong. The people who intend on standing and therefore avoid the left side are wrong. Standers should use both sides. Walkers should be free to walk on either side when the opportunity permits. This scheme gives you an identical throughput to everybody standing, and a greater mean speed.
Honestly, if you're running a Mac, your rationale seems to point to using Safari as your browser. I had a similar thought process as you, and Apple's incentives as a company seem to align best with mine. Apple's incentive with Safari is to make your user experience of running on Apple products better, to keep you in the ecosystem. Apple has taken a hard stance on exposing, collecting, and sharing user data, and although some of their AI suffers from this (i.e. Siri), their stance is something I can get behind.

Apple seems like the only company that builds a browser that is not incentivized to collect ad revenue. I've been using Safari for everything for the past few weeks, and really liking it. The performance on Apple hardware seems better too, and there are some cool Apple ecosystem features built in. I'm a web developer so there are certain things I still need Chrome for, but in those cases I fire up a single Chrome tab and use Safari for everything else.
I was wondering the same thing. Given the amount of press this generated, I still haven’t seen a photo of one of the drones which seems odd. Has anyone seen a photo?
This is a nice series, but the background music is too loud.
This was honestly part of the fun for me. I played a miner/smith often. To be as light weight as possible so I could carry more ore I had to run around naked. I carried nothing but my pick, a llama and sometimes a smiths apron. The way the screen works I don't think there's really any possible way for someone to see you but you can't see them (not including hiding). I'd basically stand around mining for hours and spamming All-Names (this shows the names of everything on the screen) and as soon as I saw a guy with a red name, or really any name walk into my screen, I'd stop and get ready to bolt and hide.

It was far more dangerous to go get high value ore outside of the cities than it was to get low value ore. To get Valorite I had to actually pay people to guard me or kill monsters for me. Usually I'd give them discounts on armor or just free armor for doing so.

We all had that "walk out of the city and get mowed down" experience. It taught us to run through the woods and constantly hide and be ready to bolt. If you saw a dead body you knew to turn around and run.

Every city has different routes and the forks outside of most major cities were the dangerous parts. You had to go around them and dodge the animals that might be in the woods.
That would explain the killer rabbits in FF Online.
Why, is she trying to bring the Empire back? That ship sailed a looong time ago.
I assume it's due to firefox, i.e./edge, opera, and so on.
I’m really curious about the teams that need this. To me it seems like a non issue, and a symptom of disorganization.
Hope you don’t take this the wrong way, kudos to you, I can see from testimonials that it helped a lot of people.
That is an interesting choice. Most people try to go from Employee to Business.
These are some of my favorite tales from the early UO days. I also had a blacksmith friend. He never went adventuring, he spent his time in the town square doing blacksmithing jobs for folks. I had another friend who was an interior decorator who would decorate your home for a fee. So much more room to explore than your typical CRPG style game.
Just a warning: this will make your machine unusable by opening a bunch of pop-ups, download images, and playing annoying audio while flashing the screen.
The reason GCC is designed like that and LLVM isn't has nothing to do with the number of target architectures that either support.
> * Perl is set up for really terse one-liners. You can basically emulate or surpass most Unix tools with only a cursory knowledge of the syntax

This definitely interests me. How does perl surpass Unix tools? I guess perl has the benefit of handling the equivalent of sed and awk.
It's great, if troubling. I wasn't taking some of the cultural shifts very seriously until reading it. Very few books shift my thinking on current events so significantly.
Decentrealised Ad – fraud Solution
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Solution -https://spruiknet.github.io/website/
ReasonML and ReasonReact.

To be frank I've used OCaml before and I use Haskell almost daily. So with this caveat, I'd like to say ReasonML and ReasonReact are generally easy to learn and make web apps in. The only bit of difficulty was when React wasn't enough for my use case and I had to drop down to raw DOM manipulation. That was quite a bit of trial and error and Obj.magic involved. I still don't fully understand how it maps DOM types (HTMLElement, etc) to OCaml types but I already feel productive enough that I want to use the tech again.
Give me a break, we all know that there are much more places in Chicago where white people will be afraid to go to than places where black people should worry about. Also, what it got to do with the discussion? this is a whole other issue
No.

I use Messenger daily, and Feed weekly.
Almost. I started the process—downloaded all my data, etc. Unfortunately, I couldn’t go through with it for reasons I’m embarrassed to admit:

1. One entire side of my extended family relies on it for all familial communications. I was forced to use Facebook Messenger recently to help with wedding planning, for example. These people are addicted to it an have invested everything in it—Facebook knows their entire lives.

2. People post pictures of me on Facebook despite my objections. Continuously. They tag me—despite my objections. With an account, I can make it difficult for an average person to find photos of me.

3. I have zero faith that Facebook will stop tracking me, storing my data, or doing stuff I don’t want them to do if I delete my account. I have zero faith that they’d stop even if I got a court order.

I know several people who work at various positions in Facebook. Every time they talk about the company, it sounds worse and worse. I’m slowly transitioning from, “They’re just another big data miner,” to, “They’re a truly evil company that goes out of their way to be deceptive and would sell their soul—no, my soul—for a cheeseburger.”
Where did you see I'm comfortable with that? Please read elsewhere in this thread about how I run my company.
Not entirely pertinent to the discussion of city boundaries but Mark Stein wrote an interesting book a few years ago called "How the States Got their Shapes" [0]. It was apparently also made into a show on the History Channel.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/How-States-Got-Their-Shapes/dp/006143...
That one is even "better"

How my video with 47 million views was stolen on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4AeoAWGJBw
Weird article. Gives the impression that a conservative operative sunk a perfectly reasonable initiative for political reasons, and yet has absolutely zero analysis of how the feature would have worked.
Sugar is sugar.

Having said that, as fruit also contain fiber and other things it would be hard to ingest an unhealthy amount if that was your primary source of sugar. It's also why all-natural fruit juices are as bad (or worse) for you as soft-drinks.
Part of the issue is that it was a half-complete migration. Eg you were still gaining skill by generating 3k skullcaps, which leads to the problem of them existing. In order to have a proper economy, you need degredation of supplies (else everything inflates indefinitely, as supply is unconstrained). 3k skullcaps should be unwieldy (and players will naturally trash what they can’t hold), or naturally degrades, in which case they have to sell in much smaller batches, or be heavily used in other processes.

Otherwise they’re really just worthless sludge you get as a side-effect from normal play, and suddenly the dump for them vanished (the always accepting, infinite cash merchants).., and you’ve just got a massive pile of shit to deal with
I don't know of any screencasts that use Doom Emacs.

You can hop into the Doom Emacs discord server if you have questions.

Doom isnalso similar to Spacemacs, if you need a crash course in using Emacs with evil-mode.
Oh man, what was it, Ghostspeak? Then you could ask a ghost who had killed them and if they were near you..
Well I'm doing a PWA with LIGHT as default theme, but a dark-to-light flash doesn't bother anyone who wants light, but a light-to-dark flash means a lot to someone who prefers dark.
Part of that is there is no vendor trash in EVE. Everything is valuable to someone. Items aren't leveled or quality ranked, they have upsides and downsides that you can balance, there are practically no "strictly better" item relationships, even the noobie ships and guns are useful in the late game for low risk travel ships. This item structure, plus PLEX and insurance for money sinks, lets them control inflation and keep the economy healthy.
While he's likely in ketosis, pretty much any keto advocate would be shocked at his (again, alleged) diet.
How the First Popular Video Game, Spacewar, Kicked Off Virtual Adventure
It would be extremely helpful if the government data used the same Solid protocol (Linked Data Platform) which will likely be getting widespread use starting next year. (See Tim Berner Lee's Inrupt.com Solid startup)
‘The man I think I know’ by Mark Gayle. No kingdoms at war or cyborgs. Just a good read about male friendship with an interesting starting point.
23 comments so far and few if any seemed to be troubled by the fact the game players we're so willing to kill __everything__. Untethered?
Yes. I no longer had a need for it after leaving the private group I joined for.