skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could have no chance of hitting someone by using fences along track like in the U.K. plus platform edge doors (so that nobody is ever exposed to the railway in any legitimate circumstance), or raised/tunnelled track where maintained fences aren’t a possibility. You could even use drones to monitor your fence, for another cool factor.

People would have similar concerns about the visual pollution of Hyperloop vs fencing, and auditory pollution can be solved by correctly maintained sound barriers (even trees!).
Actually, it turns oout the MAOIs are the addictive part
The reason you don't expect to see a deep fundamental theory of drawing a line through a few points is because you can always do it. ML doesn't always work, and sometimes it is harder to get working than other times. What's going on?
> why don't men have the same options as women, and why can't we change that?

what exactly are you seeking to change? What makes you think that men and women should have the exact same options? What specific options are you talking about?

Who fought the wars? Who invented contraception? Who leads the world? Men.

If women demands the same options, then they need to start choosing the same options that man have.

but seems to me like the Feminist pov is to have the cake and eat it too.

The world doesn't work this way because we are not children.
Can someone give a concrete example of the kind of theoretical properties they desire of ``new-style'' machine learning? The kinds of properties that ``old-style'' learning methods guaranteed?

People often complain about interpretability: in what sense is an SVM interpretable that a deep neural network is not?

Or is the worry about gradient descent not finding global optima? But why is the global optimum a satisfactory place to be, if the theory does not also provide a satisfactory connection between the space of models and underlying reality?

The arbiter of good theory is ultimately its ability to guide and explain practical phenomena. Which machine learning phenomena are currently most in need of theoretical elucidation?
Is it racism? If we were to assume that the electric cars were of similar quality to the petrol and diesel cars, then it’s very clear that Chinese automakers aren’t very good. And that isn’t the worst assumption to be making.

Consider that Albuquerque, NM already had to reject BYD electric buses because they were not performing as advertised. https://insideevs.com/albuquerque-reject-and-return-byd-elec...
enjoy not getting security updates and getting hit by RCEs that were patched months ago.
I experienced none of the resistance he assumes. As someoone who smoked cigarettes and looked at tobacco, wood is just similar stuff, but bigger, give or take. And the smoke bites in the lungs in an even worse way (though I would assume cigarettes have additional stuff that make the smoke seem easier on the lungs while making it even more toxic). So why should I have a problem believing that? And I always loved fire, I love the smell from a distance at least, but hey, gasoline also smells nice, and I'm not sniffing that either.

I just haven't thought about it actively, but if you had asked me "what do you think is more harmful, cigarette smoke or wood fire smoke", I would say "I have no clue, and I suspect it may also depend on wood type, but the way you're asking makes me suspect wood is worse".

So thanks for the PSA, but I'm not sure what the point is in regards to religious believers.

> that should give you some sense of what we are up against whenever we confront religion.

What does that mean? It should give me an idea, but it doesn't, so spell it out. All this teached me is that I am vastly different from personal friends of Sam Harris. I could have guessed that, too.

edit: You could shorten it all to "Wood fire smoke is very toxic, yet most people refuse to believe that because they find it very comfy, despite any evidence you present them with. That should give you some sense of what we are up against whenever we confront religion.", and it would be obvious that the actual point is just left as exercise to the reader.
> It's not, and never was, a solution for copyright law

Of course you're right. But it's a solution for YouTube because it means they have to do absolutely nothing, and don't get in trouble.
Santa Claus Is a Mushroom Trip
We do understand how it works most of the time, but can't predict if certain changes will be beneficial or detrimental. After the fact it's pretty clear what e.g. CNNs do (find manifold transforms which, coupled with nonlinearities minimize error in the layer-wise output distributions when backpropagating loss of the minibatches of the training set). But you can't reliably say "if I add e.g. a bottleneck branch over here my accuracy will go up/down X%".

Fundamentally we have to contend with the fact that human ability to understand complex systems is fairly limited, and at some point it will become an impediment to further progress. Arguably in a number of fields we're past that point already.
Good advice. Funny thing is, from May I'm working on a big project, where we use ant extensively. We pushed the limits of almost all the available components, found several issues, enhanced it in our custom wrappers. In that time, I was going through the sources of components several times, not only of the ant itself but also through sources of react-components on which the ant is built.

YET I HAVEN'T EVER INSPECTED THE BUTTON COMPONENT. Would be super funny if I would have found that christmas egg this summer...

Now as I'm thinking about it, we have EnhancedButton, which gets 'block' boolean prop to make it full-width. I was used to that from react-bootstrap and even had the idea to open feature request on antd... In that case I would certainly open the button.tsx...

Anyway, great episode in the frontend world.
Why didn't he print some New Drachma when he was Finance Minister of Greece then?
I remember reading an article on neuroplasticity into old age. And people with extremely high neuroplasticity had better cognitive function throughout their lives however were much more likely to have dementia in old age. It's probably similar I'd guess.
I agree, the whole website seems to have no medical grounding and is just selling snake oil.
>Did they enable Turkey to listen in?

why would they need an Apple backdoor to do so? AFAIK carrier equipment already have "lawful intercept" mechanisms built in (which is no surprise because it's not e2e encrypted).
That’s the same as from the American playbook. Just read “Confessions of an Economic Hitman”.

Why is it ok for America to use these tactics on Latin America yet reprehensible when China does the same? Isn’t this just the pot calling the kettle black?
I chose STEM because it's a constant strawman argument from feminist as evidence of patriarchial oppression or some other ideological theology.

Boys are raised differently from girls, and that certainly influences preferences, and for most girls there is a glass floor that isn't present for men. Likewise there is a glass ceiling that is present for women.

My point is that the whole argument that because we have inequality between both genders, there must exist a casual relationship, that social hierarchy itself is artificial.

Yet hierarchy exists all throughout the animal kingdom in which the strongest and the fittest claim their power.

What feminists want is a future that is exclusive of men's rights which is very dangerous. Feminism is also exclusive of men who become women.

There should be no gender attached when you are trying to fight for individual equality. Yet, here we are.
I don't know if performance was ever much of a problem with AVIDA

What if interesting things only start happening when you run billions of organisms for billions of generations? Kinda like what's been happening in neural networks field since GPUs enabled training of huge models on huge datasets. Even small scale experiments, if you can run them 100 times faster, you can explore 100 times more configurations.

I also played with Avida a while back. It feels like the key people behind it just lost interest and moved on to other things, and there have been no others determined and talented enough to push it forward.
First and third world country refers to cold war alegiences not development status, the first world is The US and it's allies, second world is USSR and it's allies, and the rest of countries are third world.
http://dwitter.net has rad minimalist christmas trees every year. best bit is it’s easy to remix them!
Solving Clasical AI Planning Problems with Fast Downward and Haskell
As in, she likes the other bits about cello?
This is a long-standing feature of VLC which I enjoy (the santa hat on the icon), but is similarly not enjoyed by everyone: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=96539

My opinion about people who demand professional perfection from software they neither pay for nor can be bothered to review the source of are probably well-indicated by the tone of this sentence.
The Next Wave of Dev Tools Catalyzing IoT
That's what you said

> "Once you have started believing that religion is the root of all evil, you do not have to travel very far at all to find yourself persecuting the religious. "
There’s a number of larger channels which have banned Matrix users, and various smaller channels I’m in have been considering banning them due to the privacy concerns of Matrix.org (based in the U.K., iirc, and potentially subject to an easy court order requiring them to release their data) keeping a full, eternal log of all communications in any irc channel where a Matrix user has joined.

Freenode is also not the entirety of IRC.
Adhering to whatever union contract is applicable is a requirement of labor law, but the contents of a particular union contract don't establish a claim about what is required under generally-applicable labor law.
It is most definitely censorship. It is not state censorship, and it is not prohibited by the law, but it's definitely an activity targeted to suppress expression of ideas Patreon censors do not like, and it is clearly fitting every reasonable definition of censorship.

The fact that it's not state censorship and thus not aided by state repressive apparatus makes it less abhorrent, but still harmful enough. Especially given that this censorship effort is not solely done by Patreon: most major providers - each of them enjoying near-monopoly in their field - are currently engaged in a concentrated effort to suppress speech they deem offensive. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google, Apple, Patreon, Paypal, Visa, Mastercard - they all take concerted and persistent effort to make views and expressions they dislike unavailable on the Internet, or at least very, very hard to reach.

The effect, while not as drastic as censorship in a totalitarian state - you won't get jailed or shot for sharing a spicy joke, though you could lose your business, your job and your career - is definitely of the same kind and direction as the efforts of any totalitarian state. The goal is to make only conformant expression possible and to make people who do not conform, who want to challenge the reigning dogmas, feel afraid and be excluded from any Internet platform of notice. And until we have viable alternative to censorship platforms, the effects of this would be similar - though, obviously, less drastic - to the effects of state censorship.

But the fact that we are not in North Korea yet is not the reason to continue on the road to this direction - it's a wakeup call to turn around and walk away from it. Including walking away - as much as possible - from censorship platforms.
Small engine repair, classic truck/car restoration, or used parts/salvage sales
>provide the evidence of the fuel cell industry making this possible

Hang on, so, you want fuel cells but dismiss someone building the world's largest battery using redox flow technology?

I take it that you don't know that redox flow batteries are a type of reversible fuel cell? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_battery#Redox
I've found out about it mid-December from social media contacts looking for hints.

I did the first few then life and work got in the way and I am finally catching up to it.

I also find that Python is an excellent choice for such ad hoc data explorations
Sure - perhaps alchemy in the sense that many practitioners are simply throwing things against the wall and seeing what sticks, but not in the sense that there isn't anything real behind all the math or engineering.

Many advancements in machine learning have significant backing in theoretical proofs that a given algorithm will result in unbiased estimates, or will converge to such and such value etc.

On some level, the high amount of experimentation necessary in machine learning is not so much a sign that the practice is faulty in any particular way, but rather, that the world is a complex place. This is especially true when attempting to predict anything that involves human behavior.

Long-story short - I'd cut ML some slack!
Jeez. This article really highlights the abuses on which Amazon (and other similar jobs, think Uber, Foodora or whatever) are built upon:

> feigning nonchalance as I handed a cup of urine to the attendant and bid him good day.

I consider mandatory drug tests a massive invasion of privacy that only persists because workers don't (really) have the ability to shop around employers who don't do them. Besides they're only screening for illegal drugs but don't care about the really dangerous things (a lack of decent sleep being the worst).

> An honest recounting of this job must include my sometimes frantic searches for a place to answer nature’s call.

This is dehumanizing. This could be easily solved by requiring employers to provide e.g. these tiny camping toilets in the van - they don't take up much space (one parcel, maybe), and a "seat" can easily be fitted by rearranging a couple of rack plates without losing storage space.

But the biggest issue is this:

> Before it was taken out of service for repairs, I was often stuck with a ProMaster that had issues: Side-view mirrors spiderwebbed; the left mirror held fast to the body of the van by several layers of shrink-wrap. The headlights didn’t work unless flicked into “bright” mode, which means that when delivering after dark, I was blinding and infuriating oncoming motorists. [...] That’s when I heard a thud-thud-thud from the area of my right front tire, which was so old and bald that it had begun to shed four- and five-inch strips of rubber, which were thumping against the wheel well.

This is illegal and dangerous, both for the driver and for all people, animals and property around them.

All the "cost cutting" of Amazon doing deliveries instead of UPS, Fedex etc. does have to come from somewhere, and here it is done on public safety. I'm fine with competition, but not if public safety and worker/human rights are sacrificed for short-term profits for Jeff Bezos.

And what's the biggest issue: as a consumer, you do not have a choice when it comes to shipping - I'd gladly pay 1€ more a package if that would ensure that the delivery of my parcel is at least not outright exploitation, but Amazon (or any other web shop, food delivery service or whatever) do not offer this option, and are thus limiting the consumer power over where to shop based on moral ground.
New Office Hours Aim for Well Rested, More Productive Workers
There is the mathematical logic that is deduced from axioms which is considered universally true unless the axioms are false.

Our everyday "folk" logic is always contextual and ambiguous. The deductions are probabilistic instead of being deterministic. They are sometimes true.
This holy war between emacs and vi(m) is toxic and HN is no such place for this.
In those counties, hierarchical management tends to be the norm. Managers have much more power, and there isn’t the equivalent of these rockstar 10x engineers we see in the US. Respecting the hierarchy and the process of governing employees can be much more important than delivering a brilliant feature.
> Although nobody knows whom he reveals when he discloses himself in deed or word, he must be willing to risk the disclosure.

-- Hannah Arendt
How awful for Ant.
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Are you talking IMF stuff or things the US did back way back when? Is it okay now because the US did it? Just because Stalin in the past starved millions, does that make it okay for the Ukraine, if it desired to do so, or anyone else? Your point is tangential.

Regardless, I was only pointing out that what Germany did to Greece was similar to what China does now to many countries. I'm simply comparing one policy to another. You're the one implying condemnation for China.
Why is that obvious?
It has to be able to reach the coasts from Colorado. The current one is a 70 kW transmitter. That's higher than the majority of commercial AM/FM radio broadcast stations. You do have to know your way around that stuff to not get cooked.
I have been a proponent of electric scooters nonstop since a recent trip to Prague, where they have Lyme. I had a first date riding them around to no particular destination.

Unfortunately, the stupid helmet laws in my city (Melbourne) mean no one will ever use them even if we construct more bike lanes.
I'm not sure why the quality I'm talking about is so "mystical", when hundreds of thousands of people on social media seem to have it just fine (given their reaction to the redesign), as well as pretty much anyone who talks about the Snapchat UI.

Maybe the problem isn't with my rant, but that somehow the people running that company do indeed not know what they're doing?
Good job! A lot of people wallow and believe that Real Work™ is beneath them, or lash out and make things up about their employer to gather pity. I have great respect for my brother, who (although he would obviously prefer to make a living some other way) gets up in the morning and does his job, and reserves his complaints for people who aren't holding up their end of the deal.

People will say all sorts of things about this; yeah it sucks to not know where and when to pee on the job, but I've had this problem even in office work. It is crappy, but it's not sheer indignity. Yeah, it sucks that they don't want you using weed at home except for a diagnosed medical purpose, but at the same time, it is no great indignity. Rail engineers and conductors here can't drink within 12 hours of a shift, and if they tested for that I don't think it would be insane. You'd be upset if somebody sparked a fat L before going to work, and then injured you while mishandling a forklift; heck, you'd probably sue Amazon (and you'd be right to), so you can surely understand why they want to nip that in the bud, even if their approach seems heavy-handed.

Of course, people here don't like talk like this. I'm not being hyperbolic enough about employment difficulties.
That's all very cool.

But for safety critical systems you have to understand how these systems work to understand their limitations. You have to know when these techniques succeed, when they fail, and how badly they fail.
I'm old enough to have played the embedded engineer using floppyfw on a spare 486 board screwed on a piece of wood along with a 1.44 fdd and a power supply cannibalized from somewhere. That was my embedded development system nearly 20 years back:)
A bit later I ditched the floppy in favor of a spanking new 4 or 8 MB (megs, not gigs) flash parallel ATA "diskonmodule".
Just checked, I'm surprised that the floppyfw page is still there.
https://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/

Speaking of small distros, I gave a try at both DietPI and TinyCoreLinux on virtual machines and was amazed at how good they perform.
I think there is (was?) one difference (at least for some) between Chinese and Indian developers: Indian developers sometimes aim to be managers as it confers more prestige when it comes to considering marriage, compared to a contributor. Perhaps it's changed.
Hurry up and fix my optic nerve too while you're at it :)
Folks here who are interested in SCPs might enjoy http://www.scp-wiki.net/antimemetics-division-hub specifically -- it's a really cool series that plays around with knowledge and memory. In particular I really love the "There Is No Antimemetics Division (2015)" and
"Five Five Five Five Five (2017–)" series.

An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people from spreading it.

Antimemes are real. Think of any piece of information which you wouldn't share with anybody, like passwords, taboos and dirty secrets. Or any piece of information which would be difficult to share even if you tried: complex equations, very boring passages of text, large blocks of random numbers, and dreams…

But anomalous antimemes are another matter entirely. How do you contain something you can't record or remember? How do you fight a war against an enemy with effortless, perfect camouflage, when you can never even know that you're at war?

Welcome to the Antimemetics Division.

No, this is not your first day.
Has anyone tried using Golem for rendering tasks?
https://golem.network/rendering/
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/420131-feds-received...
Salary Negotiation for Software Engineers
Is this phenomenon uniquely pronounced among hackers/computer types in your experience? In a sense, it kind of sounds like your comment could be summarized as "people often try to apply already-available concepts and reasoning to new problems areas". But it's uniquely funny when hackers do it.

On the flip side, how many philosophy, sociology and critical theory types reach for concepts from biology and physics? And how well do you think they grasp and employ those concept compared to specialists in those fields?

I think any specialist who believes their specialty will necessarily magically generalize is presuming too much.

FWIW, as a formerly deeply-invested philosophy/critical theory type for over a decade... I have to say I had to begrudgingly admit that math/hard science are unequivocally more rigorous than the soft ones. Each is suited to it's purpose, but it doesn't help to pretend that Zizek is as rigorous as Knuth.