skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your question really made me curious so I looked it up, the NIH keeps extensive records about this sort of thing. This is America only of course, which looks to be in the top third or so worldwide based on the WHO lists ("Western" countries or those with colonization history there and Russia seem to be higher then southern Asian and African countries in general). But in America while a majority use it, it's still lower then I actually expected digging into the definitions. In the surveys apparently 56% of Americans reported consuming alcohol, any whatsoever, in the previous month, 70% in the previous year, and 86% tried it at some point in their lifetimes.

But it's hard to see "tried once in their life" or even "a few times a year" as really falling in an equivalent "junkie" category, so I looked for "heavy drinking" which they defined as "4-5 or more drinks in 2 hours" a few days in a month, where a "drink" is a standardized measurement of ~14 grams of pure alcohol, equivalent to a single 12 oz 5% beer = 5 oz of 12% wine = 1.5 oz of 40% spirits (etc, whatever the percentage is). Just 7% of Americans reported heavy drinking in the previous month.

Alcohol is regulated and taxed, but even so beer & wine at least is pretty trivial for adults to legally acquire in most of the country and relatively cheap spirits (like very low quality vodka) as well. I don't at all want to understate the harm of alcohol abuse, it's very real (and of course can extend beyond drinkers themselves due to their actions). Even so it seems like "make everyone into a junkie" would not be borne out by legalized alcohol. Based on popular culture it's easy to assume drinking is more prevalent to a higher degree then it is, at least personally I would not have guessed that heavy drinking was only single digit percentages here.

It looks like, as in other areas, there is a strongly non-linear curve function in the population where relatively small percentages form an inordinate part of consumption. If that's the case for marijuana as well then it'd suggest we could get far more efficient harm reduction by general legalization focusing limited resources on that smaller slice?
He's saying that when it comes to serving customers, there are critical concerns besides how good the burger is.

E.g. Low cost, made quickly, scalable (easy to train workers from any culture, uses ingredients that can be sourced at scale across the globe, etc), consistency (burger is always up to standard regardless of time or place).

Serving customers is not a contest of who can make the best burger.
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Could you point to a resource or a doc? Would it be possible to do something like that but in Go?
They're not and that's my point. Id following these publicized roadmaps then these items would be either completed already or completed next year. Realistically they'll be completed in roughly the next 2 years.
For me, it's less about number of files than it is "hoeany files do I have to open to figure out how something works? How many levels of indirection do I have to keep in my head?"

I started out writing low-ish level code. Motion control, image processing, digital imaging, and the application level code that coordinated it all. I've steadily moved up the abstraction tree over the last 13 years and there's one thing I hate about it; too many fundtions and classes which do far too little. Abstraction for abstraction's sake.

It's a bit subjective of course and not everyone has their own style, but there is a Starbucks difference in philosophy between the two types of groups.
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Straightforward concepts should be coded consisely and complex concepts should be coded verbosely. The commenting in this file slows down the thinking of the reader to an appropriate level.
tho I'm not familiar with swift: my guess here is that the first (for ... in) shares a closure / var, so stuff like this classic JS mistake can happen:

for i=0;i<10;i++ { setTimeout(() => console.log(i), 100); }

and you get 10 calls logging "9". (most languages I've touched do this, JS just makes it worse since `var x` in the loop will not fix it)

The second won't do that, since the "view" var isn't "mutated" between calls.
Another view kinda showing the source(?): https://twitter.com/prasad2011/status/1078474979883266048

Great image regardless
I prefer wires in almost every situation (just upgraded to a 16 port switch because I have enough wired devices in the house for it now), especially for audio... but in this case I’m in meetings a lot, I listen to songs sometimes in between, and I move around my office quite a bit. I struggled with a decent USB headset for a while, but after five or so times almost breaking my computer from moving my arm and catching the cord (thus yanking the computer off the desk), I started a journey down the path of many different Bluetooth options.
That's amazing, just started using pandas and never knew that you have excel functions in it too..Voila!!
> Then what's the random part for?

It's for multiple nodes, which is why this algorithm doesn't make any sense for their use case.
More on this, for the curious: https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/three/algebra-and-calcu...
It's not a matter of mere preference when using non-ergonomic devices results in debilitating injury (carpal tunnel syndrome) which prevents me from working.
I have so many questions, but will not ask them because I don't think I'll like the answers.
Similar to Pinterest, they pollute search results with pages that ask you to login or signup before you can view the content, despite offering the content to search engines without the login requirement.

I wish search engines would crack down on this and completely delist the entire domain if such behaviour is detected.

About the content itself, it’s often spam. There seems to be no moderation against people posting “answers” that promote their own solutions/companies which means a lot of answers about tech are simply “use <this> service which allows you to do <copy/paste of what you asked for>“.
These platforms also censor private person-to-person messaging, between people who don't complain about the content. That's willing-speaker-to-willing-listener, and being censored.

And, rather than trying to square-the-circle of global speech standards enforced by crude algorithms and rushed, underinformed low-wage moderators, they could make the remedy for unwanted speech simply unsubscribing/unfriending the source. And, for users who feel disturbed by broadcasts, FB could offer opt-in moderation circles – leaving all willing-listeners, with no grievances, unmolested by 3rd-party censorship.

Then, willing-speakers sending legal speech to willing-listeners wouldn't be collateral damage of their clumsy improvised censorship regimes.
How is his comment a shallow dismissal?
Universal basic income had a rough 2018
Haven't read the book. Goes to my Wish List. I completely agree about encapsulation of complexity inside the module.

Similar to UX design principles. Just like google or other successful sites present a very simple interface (in case of google the home page is quite clean) but behind it lies very complex code.

IMO, encapsulating complexity and handling all edge cases also lends to total functional programming [1] even without using pure functional languages.
[1]
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/334876/38285
Again, I'm not talking about Bitcoin. There are many other projects in the ecosystem. It's like using shortcomings with Windows to represent Linux,mac, and any other OS that's out there.
The astonishing statistic that results from this is that the US government spends more per-capita on healthcare period than universal healthcare countries, while not even covering everybody.

The government is on the hook for the old population and the poor population: the 2 most expensive subsets. Yet private insurance still isn't affordable despite only having to cover the lower-risk chunk of the pop. It's insane.
Nothing new..it's a simple feature of pandas.i think author is just re-iterating the same old stuff
This kind of feels like, "so we put a huge ice cube in the ocean and finally solved global warming."

Isn't it just yet another syntax for strings with another set of rules? What happens when my string includes """# ? Why not just make """ behave this new way and have one less type of string literal?

Why can't the solution be, "put the ASCII in a file to be read in." ?
If you are a licensed amateur radio operator, you can obtain an IP addresses through AMPRNet for packet radio type applications.

http://wiki.ampr.org/wiki/Requesting_a_block

Note, this is not for permanent use. From the above link: "You also must login every 3-6 months even if it's just to check in to keep your block active, you've been warned!"
The real support for violence is not hidden in the Facebook walls of morons, it's on broadcast news. Virtually every news channel came out against Trump ending our war in Syria. By comparison, I couldn't care less what some dumb racists say on Facebook.
PHP wore me out and depressed me learning software development. I only ever became a software developer because of the immense promise of how statically-typed languages can improve informatics. Java turned me off because of the lack of point-and-click interface, lack of solid "turnkey" web development, and lack of functional programming. So C# became the language of choice, and I've been able to develop without going crazy. In the last 6 years, Typescript's become highly appealing as well. I've advanced incredibly quickly by avoiding any Javascript bundling other than Typescript modules and runtime bundling. Websites are built page-first; single-page application design is used extremely sparingly.

Languages that insufficiently describe the flow of information or insufficiently model domains are dead ends.
Nope... for this reason

"I hate group X, I create an account and become part of X. I attack group Y until group X gets banned."
That's a real nice track, thanks for that.

Admittedly, in the music I posted there's definitely roots in dubstep, neuro hop, glitch, etc. So it's not necessarily a "new" genre, and those tracks could have feasibly been made five years ago, but IMO there's so much sonic territory to explore that I still hear plenty of new tracks that sound unlike anything else I've ever heard.

I'll throw out a few more tracks in the hopes you might find something new to like:

Chee - Bane of Our Species - some heavier neuro hop type stuff, lots of broken rhythms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MI1i20GCRI

Zebbler Encanti Experience w/ Woulg - Flesh Out - alternating between spacey ambience and some super intense glitches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6OOW9j3ZCM

COPYCATT - Sweet Soul - some lush, jazzy neuro hop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfnJ8s_AhP4

Mindex - Cluster Overload - very layered, psychedelic bass type stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir_tqgnStuU
You are showing the url from other sources. How's it different?
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That just means you have to increase costs to increase profits. It's NOT a solution, as a century of ballooning cost-plus government contracts have shown.
I'd be interested in the cite and context of the John Stuart Mill writing you're alluding to.

And I wonder if his reasoning applies to the kinds of speech policing Facebook is doing, or only to the same sorts of things modern US free-speech law makes illegal: direct threats & incitements to imminent violent acts. (Notably not illegal: 'hate speech', blasphemy, insults, abstract advocacy of most crimes, etc.)
"Nowadays you can ... easily outsource the first version".

Fine.

But doing it yourself is not a sign of "bad" entrepreneurism.

Many of my peers outsourced build, sunk a lot of cash/time/energy and went through various teams of developers and still dont have product.

Building yourself means you can continuously and efficiently adapt your product to user feedback, preserve cash and make sound recruitment decisions (through having an in-the-field understanding of skills gaps).
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Perhaps. Where are you getting the 5% administrative costs?

All numbers I've seen have been far higher than that.

* Canada 12%

* Britain 16%

* Netherlands 20%

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/sites/default/files/___medi...
Got a good guide for this? I have tomato firmware but just don't know enough on how to get this set up
Halide is generally good for pipelines that do math on multidimensional arrays, so quite possibly. It has a property that I think would make it hard to use for some applications in scientific computing though - while you can mutate in-place, you can't mutate an array ("Func" in Halide) after it has been used by another pipeline stage. This means that the dependency graph between your pipeline stages has no cycles except for self-cycles, which lets us do lots of clever stuff like bounds inference to guarantee the program is correct regardless of the schedule. I can imagine things like flow simulation having a hard time with that constraint. In the deep learning context this means that CNNs are ideal, but RNNs can be awkward or impossible.
I see there are browser plugins, enabling you to read Quora articles without logging in.

But are there any plugins that remove/filter all google search results from Quora?
A coworker and I sometimes work remotely from the local community college library, since they have private rooms that you can grab. You shouldn't feel guilty -- that's what it's there for after all. (You should feel guilty if you go on there and talk on the phone all the time though).
Governments should answer to people primarily. Facebook primarily answers to advertisers. This distinction is often forgotten.
I echo what @Rjevski said about consulting. His suggestion might be better than mine, but another option is to do Wordpress sites. As a PHP dev I imagine you can make some killer Wordpress sites pretty quickly. That's what most people and small businesses need.

Have you considered getting into the product side? Get some Scrum or Agile cert(s) and make the change. I work for ITPro.TV, we have a lot of content on the subject, for instance https://app.itpro.tv/course-library/agile-foundation/overvie....
In short: the advice is to learn how computers work, build an impressive demo on your own (probably with vacation time/paid unemployment benefits/time stolen from your employer), and apply for contract work everywhere you can find.

Finally, consider the ratio of openings to qualified job-seekers in specific disciplines, instead of the raw number of openings.
an active kaggler here.

I dont use NN because they simply don't have great accuracy, and most importantly they have a huge amount of variance. this is mostly because the data on kaggle is not very large. the gbm trifecta (xgboost, catboost, lgbm) also does really really well.

> "Kaggle prioritizes chasing a metric, but real-world data science has more considerations."

this is counter to your point. most real-world considerations need things like model explanability.

I notice that things dont make hacker news if they are doing anything other than NN. model with xgboost gets X% accuracy - crickets. model with X-Y% accuracy with DNN - headline news.

I also notice that teams in industry tend to throw a DNN at a problem and never try something more simpler like xgboost. I saw a team with an LSTM for text lament they had 80% accuracy on training/evaluation, but when pushed to prod dropped down to 50%. I saw the errors they were getting, I said: maybe its too complicated and not generalizing well, have you tried xgboost?

they retorted LSTM's w/ word2vec is very robust. I thought, obviously its not given your results. I tried to offer the idea that word2vec was trained on an entirely different kind of corpus (also a problem when trying to use word2vec in kaggle)
this.

> Too often people decide on the structure before they even understand the problem.
> The good news is that the vast majority of people with the necessary technical skills are not willing to commit mass murder.

This is the key point of the article. The truth is, you could build a drone capable of taking down an aircraft, or delivering explosives, or similarly nefarious thing even 10 years ago.

I looked into AeroQuad around 2009. The site seems to be dead now, but it was a community around building DIY drones. Everything needed to build a fully autonomous, remotely controlled (through mobile networking, so could be operated from anywhere in the world) drone was there already.
Obviously it’s not directly relevant. Think of it as a citation to persuasive authority.
That brings up a good possible solution...

Limit any/all state subsidies for cities/counties that ban pot.

If you want money for roads/schools/etc... you can get it out of the pot fund, but you have to allow retails sales in your county to benefit.
The kids look fine, but the older folks look pretty bad, I think. So many of the captions are of the form: So-and-so waiting. For what? Nothing much, I'd guess.
What if FB is performing censorship under various kinds of implicit pressure from the "Feds" (and other governments)?

Then it's just state censorship, laundered to look like it's "only a private party's decision within their narrow domain".
How was I trolling? (Note that I didn’t say Facebook couldn’t regulate speech—just that it shouldn’t.)
I didn’t say that FB can’t do this. I said it shouldn’t.
It’s different because with Tesla you can’t negotiate. The price is the price, take it or leave it. With a traditional dealership, you can refrain from negotiating, but then you’re leaving money on the table, potentially thousands of dollars.
I use my AirPods everyday for input and output on macOS and it works fine for me.
Chronotype does have a significant heritable component. Studies have even identified specific markers near genes known to affect circadian rhythm.

Most people can shift their schedule up to an hour without too much trouble. They can also force themselves onto almost any schedule with strict habits and/or medication. That doesn't mean they adapt. One illness can wipe out months of routine.

Sleeping later is easier than sleeping earlier for most people. Bright light delays your sleep cycle.

Intuitively, it makes sense that people would have different sleep cycles. A pack of animals is more likely to survive if one is awake or sleeping lightly.
This list is a reminder that the work done by researchers and the work done in industry have profoundly little overlap, outside of a handful of high-profile examples.

If the giants would like to do us all a massive favour: pay the IEEE and ACM for worldwide, perpetual, ongoing rights to their libraries. Because right now that vast ocean of literature is basically invisible to practitioners.
Home Data is great! Right now, I collect signal, noise, and connected AP of every wifi device in my home (~35 devices). I record at the second interval. I found that with a few algos, I’ve been successfully able to “map” my home and know the location of devices. I am able to use this data to infer location. I am at the point of using HA combined with my location system to turn lights on and off as I walk through the house. I am super excited to see HA adding features to manage and access data.
Dear my. Have you considered smoking saffron, truffles, beluga caviar, or Hewlett-Packard color inkjet cartridges? You're paying 2 to 10 times as much.
> Haiku, Inc. publishes yearly financial reports detailing financial transactions

One draft report for 2017, misfiled in the hopelessly mismanaged Haiku Inc. "website" after many years since the last one (in 2010) does not count as "yearly financial reports" and since this is a one page summary it can't be said to be "detailing financial transactions" either.

Mostly decisions aren't made at all, anywhere. That financial report you're calling "yearly" took months for the Haiku Inc. board not to agree. That's right, months, not for an agreement, but for the _lack_ of any response whatsoever to be taken as tacit permission to just publish it anyway.
> "Nobody cares how long it takes to train a model."

In kaggle some competitions it takes over 7 hours to train a model, and I can generally think of 10 things a day to try. prediction only takes about a minute.

> "especially with pre-trained models"
if the corpus are different, pre-trained models do not help much, if not hurt.
We can barely agree on what constitutes hate speech in the U.S.; fb is expecting to define and police hate speech globally?
There was an erroneous stick shaker that captured the crew's attention and diverted attention from the trim stuffing the nose down. The NYT graphics show a miniscule part of the problem. Most likely the FDR data has been played through a full motion simulator - it would be a hairy ride, but the crews have to keep it confidential until the Indonesian authorities release the data.
I used Typora to keep a to-do list almost every week (I planed to do it everyday, but failed). The to-do list history showed what I did, where I was and what to do. It makes me don't forget to finish assignments. It makes me do things in priority. It turned out to be valuable when my leader asked me to feedback what I did in this year. I cannot recall that many things I did without the journal I kept.
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Good. A lot of meme accounts are just spam, reposting the same crap over and over again with no attribution or credit to the original author.

I also can’t feel bad for the people that lost their main source of income from this. If your main source of income is reposting shit (that you haven’t even created yourself) on the internet then that’s the main problem right there and this is a good wake-up call.

Nothing wrong with memes per se and there is a place for them (subreddits, Imgur, 9Gag, etc) but I feel like they are just noise as far as social media is concerned. I was definitely annoyed by the constant stream of them and other “funny” (but not really) content back when I had a Facebook account.

I wish social media platforms make an actual set of rules they enforce about only posting your own, original content instead of reposting shit. This is what I miss about forums - there’s always been a list of rules and a moderation team that dictates what’s appropriate and not and deletes inappropriate content. I was in fact surprised when I realised modern social media has none of that and you can pretty much get away with anything (even if it gets reported) as long as it doesn’t blow up in popularity
Changing the behavior of """ would cause compatability issues, especially considering it's not unreasonable to want a multiline string that employs escape codes. There are plenty of cases where you want a large string literal embedded in the binary as opposed to reading a file at runtime (hard-coded OpenGL shaders are one case I can think of).
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That largely depends on supply and demand in the particular locality. Primary value of McD is that they are global enough that such effects are mostly averaged out and the core products are essentially same globally and the pricing is consistent at least on country level. One thing that recently surprised me is that KFC does not work in the same way and the menu is totally different across not only EU countries, but even franchise holders in same country.
Buyers are literally warning each other to look for specific things that should be caught by QA, because if you leave the lot, Tesla won't fix it. This isn't "make sure there are no marks!", it's "make sure all the bolts are there!".

Unheard of. Again, look for yourself, the information is public.
If you have an argument to make about why this line of thinking is worrisome or lacking in understanding you ought to make it. As it stands your comment is just patronizing.
Please, do not be those people who squat all the seats in coffee houses.