skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I respect anyone who is willing to point out when they were wrong before.

In regard to China, I think that they (like the Soviet Union before them) were very good at playing catch-up, because command economies are very good at getting everybody on board to do the thing which everyone knows needs to be done. "Do this, or we will put you in prison or worse."

However, once you have (mostly) caught up, it becomes less obvious what the next thing to do is. Literal moonshot? Fiberoptic internet to every house in the nation? Particle accelerator that can hit energies never before reached? Every student gets a spot in a university?

Some of these might be good ideas, some might be boondoggles. It's hard to know, when you're nearing the front of the pack. The Soviet Union was great at playing catch-up until, sometime in the mid 60's, they were too close to the forefront to be able to clearly see what needed to be done next.

China's Communist Party is great at getting everyone to do what they have decided to do. I think it is going to be harder for them to figure out what an economy, of their size and relatively advanced state, should be doing next. If they guess wrong, it will be ugly.
This isn't just a design principle for .NET libraries, it's a SOLID design principle. All classes should be inextensible unless they are explicitly designed to be extended.
A bigger problem for many readers might be that this is a new post, mainly summarizing research from 2012. So it's not really appropriate to say "(2012)", but it also doesn't announce new discoveries since that time.
Generally this type of stuff is used as collateral for illegal transactions. Everyone knows it really isn't going to be sold, or even can be. It's a sign of good faith and legitimacy in the underworld.

They are generally not ending up in some rich guys mansion.
For some definition of usually I guess. Whenever I tried this there was enough moon to make it work.
Good hotel still have pools, can be located outside of downtown, and sometimes even in-room kitchens (if that's what you want). They also have maid service, room service, and a front desk.

The only advantage you get from an AirBnB is a unique facade, paired with having to clean up after yourself and possible fire and health code violations.
It’s not contested unless maybe someone is getting paid to contest it. Slavery and capitalism are a match made in heaven. The US prison system displaces a massive portion of our labor pool which, of course, lowers our wages. Immigration has always been an opponent of unions. The history here is bottomless. There’s no grounds for contest.
Apple needs it's own search engine. This is step 1.
It looks like the future. Thanks for the hard work on this. Great job!
Not really, closest thing is https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/image-rende...
Your writing example does not jive at all with my experience, having recently seen very intelligent kids struggle with the required (no skipping via AP) basic university writing seminars at Ivy League schools.

Further, there's a difference between 'getting by' and actually gleaning the value of the education. People who took analysis and university level linear algebra got much more out of discrete math than I did, even though I scraped out a decent grade.

I've seen similar situations in community college. It's possible to barely pay attention and glide through the whole thing, but there's often a decent education for the taking if you put some work in and engage.
I think bicubic is here to stay since so many responsive websites depend on the browser to scale images smoothly.
I can't stand the keyboard, but do like the Touch Bar. Out of FUD, I have keyboard cover on my 2017 MacBook Pro.

Similarly thinking, I have been trolling the Thinkpad Subreddit and constantly check the Lenovo Corporate Perks prices with a fully loaded P52 sitting in my cart. Can't pull the trigger. I'm too entrenched and spoiled by the Apple conveniences and ecosystem.
You can sell your shares if you think Apple is spending money that is not good for making its shareholders more money. You selling shares will have non zero impact on the market price of Apple shares.
It's not a murderer's responsibility to stop themselves from murdering people. Full stop.
Do you have kids?

There's something really nice about being able to cook in an AirBnB, after the kids have taken their showers and are in their PJs, and all sit around the table as a family, and then have them do the bed routine shortly after, perhaps after watching a bit of TV.

At a hotel, you generally have to at least exit your room to go to the restaurant in the hotel... which breaks the whole "family groove" and makes it harder to keep the kids "in the zone" (everybody has to change clothes, etc . I find it much more difficult to manage because the hotel is essentially a bedroom/bathroom, nothing more.
My limited opinion: The Right Data is better than Big Data, if you can get it.

There was a push to get data out of app dbs and into big data repositories. But then no one could use the big data because it made no sense. So then ML?

But if you already know what it means in the app db, just make it available in a sensible format.
I'm going to build a community from scratch
I just bought two 2015 refurbs on Amazon. They actually came in very good shape and are working well. In addition to the better keyboard and ports, the 2015 MacBook Pro also has a straightforward way to update the storage. I just increased my wife's from 256 GB to 480GB for $160.
Would you agree to spend your entire life in a prison for no reason? Zoos are incredibly horrible place for animals to live in, and any animal found only in zoo is as good as extinct, since they are no longer able to sustain themselves outside, should they escape the prison.
The paper is here:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.00641.pdf
Personally, I doubt I would get along well with an assistant that was keeping score of all the times I was wrong, and always questioning my abilities based on that.

"Dave, you have lost your wallet exactly 19 times in the previous 29 years. It was underneath your car's seat exactly 17 of those times. Why are you checking the couch for the third time? You are showing signs of dementia. Should I call your brother for assistance?"

...

You know, I typed the first part out with an honest oposition to the idea of an "assumed failure" state, but the situation I came up with just makes it look more appropriate. Expecting the software to tell the difference between all my normal insane things and genuine dementia seems impossible.
I use modanifil.

Understand sometimes motivation is lost due to low level of dopamine feedback loop.

I tried to motivate myself by thinking about negative scenarios like loss of job due to low performance etc...but it made motivation worse.

You can take DRIs like Modanifil or Armodanifil to setup a stronger Dopamine feedback loop.

Some people have this naturally so they are lot more driven, focused and motivation..

Some people suffer from low level of these due to lifestyle, diet or genetic reasons.

So far it has helped me, some day I work 20hours+ and don't feel drag.
Don't bother with bulliesdon't “dirty your hands”
Just to clarify a bunch of questions below:
The idea is more like : start from a full embedding layer train the network, after the training stabilizes break the first layer into two using the SVD formulation in an online fashion and continue training - after only a few more epochs you gain back all accuracy almost. This is particulary interesting and efficient compared to quantization / pruning methods as there is no way to regain lost accuracy in those methods... quantized distillation can be an option but too slow as pointed out by the authors, offline embedding compression like FastText.zip compresses embedding matrix offline and seems to be less information preserving than this method leading to worse performance. Another important thing to note: this method shows significant improvement over quantization/ pruning/ hashing when the network is deep. Deeper the network more is the quantization error due to more FLOPs in low precision - whereas this algorithm being principled from an information theoretic perspective maintains steady performance irrespective of network depth actually deeper nets will give better gains. In many of our experiments on smaller tasks this method actually acts as a cheap regularization as well leading to boosted performance. Also i guess we need to appreciate the mathematical elegance and ease of implementation. Also look at the Numerical Analysis that guarantees and provides bounds compared to Quantization methods.
> The Brexit promise is something nobody can deliver on. It was a lie, you cannot force the EU to accept an unfavorable trade deal. If only for the reason that it would set an exceptionally bad precedent and everybody would want their own deal, to pick and choose the parts of EU membership that are favorable to them, leading the EU to implode.

The EU is not being asked to accept any trade deal at all (hence no deal). A no-deal outcome is actually just fine, under the standard rules, the cost of food and other commodities is likely to decrease for consumers, and the EU is not going to blockade the UK. The UK hosts a considerable number of financial institutions which are crucial to the EU, so if they know what's good for them, they won't mess around with that too much either.

Altogether it seems that the downsides are acceptable, and the upsides are the same as they were when it was called to a vote. I don't really see what the problem is. The UK is going to do just fine, and so are the EU member states (whether they're in or out). I don't get why people have to make it out to be a catastrophe.
Notably, though, just a few months before they launched as a commercial operation.
Company would have to own the batteries, users have no incentive to treat them well. Tragedy of the commons.
Very cool idea. How does fine tuning the SVD initialization compare to training from random initialization using the same architecture? I couldn't find this in the paper.
>To all the downvoters, what is the maximum number of humans eaten by tigers per year you'd be willing to accept in exchange for allowing them to roam free?

All of them.
prevent people from posting news articles? you know that facebook doesnt post or promote news itself... right?
An interview about modern version control, it’s influence and approach to
After I collect a dataset I save duplicate entries with the text reversed. More data is good data. Except now my machine learning robot is dyslexic.
> This is more a fan-fiction homage from a fanboy than a collection of realistic opportunities for Apple.

Well said.
"We think we can make advertising great" - every ad tech company for the last 20 years.

And yet adevrtising isn't great, and for that matter never has been. Ads are never the amazing assistant who knows just what will make your day better, they're a distraction stealing your precious attention to try to make you want something you were perfectly happy without a moment ago. That said, I respect Brave for letting me run uBlock Origin on my phone.
I would agree that a developing economy can copy the best practices and latest technology from the leading economies to, relatively, quickly catch up.

You say that the USSR got close to the leading economies in the mid 60's. But that does not explain why they fell so far behind afterwards. How come they did not continue to be just behind for the succeeding decades?
Can you back that up instead of repeating a slogan? I happen to largely agree with you but just saying “X is good” leaves out a lot of details with regard to what is X, how is good defined, etc
Shouldn't matter, since you're throwing at that particular location of the executing function, so the runtime still has to have a way of knowing that the code was part of an inline function along with its name.
Yep, I stand corrected about the legality of whole-unit rentals less than 30 days. Looks like I was mixing up NYC and SF laws on that point.
It looks like something that's implemented in China, and we don't have problem with Ice drivers spitefully taking out multiple spots. What we have problem with is Ice drivers parking in Tesla Charging Spots (and this applies to other EV spots as well), just because they need a space to park. This system would solve that problem pretty well.

I drive a BYD in Hong Kong and we see Tesla drivers taking up charging spots just because it's marked "EV only", but they can't use BYD chargers <shrug>
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I agree, a change like this probably should be 2/3 - and the significant amount of people like 30÷ didnt vote at all. I still doubt Brexit will happen. It just doesnt seem to make much sense in the grand scheme of things...
All of the services with no lock in

Elastic Cache - hosted Redis and Memcached

Aurora - compatible with MySQL and Postgres

RDS - hosted versions of Mysql, MariaDB, Sql Server, and Oracle.

Redshift - yes it uses a proprietary/columnar store engine but it is compatible with Postgres.

Etc.

But the bigger point is that you’re always locked into your infrastructure, do you think your CTO is going to move from their million dollar Oracle infrastructure because you used the Repository Pattern?
My mother came to live with us in the early stages of dementia. She had a laptop and was competent browsing the web, so she stumbled onto a pay-for-your-horoscope site, but fumbled with the credit card payment process.

I ended up blackholing the site via the router, just to be sure. She lost interest later that day.
The problem I see with it, is the parent is claiming their app store access was entirely bricked.

The physical storage company holds your stuff - and eventually liquidates it - because you're paying to rent that space and your stuff is inside of their physical property. You aren't paying monthly rent to access the app store when you buy an iPhone, that's supposedly free to access (the parent mentions not being able to even update free apps). Apple bricking access to the app store changes that equation, they're proclaiming by doing that that the app store isn't always free to access as a baseline.

Apple is certainly within their rights to go that direction as a business. However, I'm certain that's a very different value proposition than what nearly all iPhone buyers think they're getting when they buy their very expensive phone (ie they expect free, unencumbered access to the app store as a minimum offering whether they buy any other Apple services or not).
“Certainly”? I doubt the deservedness of that certainty.

DDG satisfies most of my searches on the first go, and I’ve never had success with !g after a failed DDG query.

Furthermore, the Google results has a cluttered design with sparse information, so it takes much longer to figure out that I haven’t found what I’m looking for.

I’d say Google is the one failing to compete on search quality. At one point they did, but now Google’s consumer products compete on brand awareness and price, which they can only do because of their conquests in the advertising industry. Most people are not Google’s customer, they are part of Google’s enterprise product: the attention of people whose data profiles meet various requirements.
Fair editorial suggestion, no doubt. Will change to 'yelling "terrorists!" on a busy day at Disneyland'.

H/e, that the example was used to uphold an immoral conviction does not make it an "immoral standard"; it makes the jury immoral people; "...fire!" is basically a metaphor at this point, an easy-to-abstract notion for when the first amendment will not defend you.
Sure, capitalists will always say "I'm providing liquidity", and I'm fine with that, there is some value in that.

But I'm still gambling on an outcome in a zero sum game. What is the purpose of anti-gambling laws? To protect the common man? But the state is okay with you losing everything on stocks? The point is its an unjust hypocrisy.
This form of condescension is a major part of why remainers have utterly failed to make their case. Remainers clearly believe they are better than brexiters, but do not address the issues which matter (lack of control on political matters which affect the lives of average people: trade, standards, communications, intellectual property, immigration) to the people they are ostensibly trying to convince.

The Brexit referendum had among the highest turnouts of all British votes in history, there was a considerable amount of media produced to explain each side (and many more remain arguments and endorsements were aired on radio, television, and through social media advertising campaigns), and the opinion was nonetheless trending further toward Brexit on the eve of the vote. It is just about as democratic as it could possibly be.

I honestly don't know where this theme of regret is coming from, because among the people I know who supported Brexit, none of them have expressed anything other than ongoing support, and a desire to see the original intent of the referendum respected by the parliament (as it clearly wasn't respected by the Prime Minister).
And I have a responsive layout template to convert those doodles into a book if needed… :)
I think the example alludes to the fact that the Atlantic slave trade was grown mainly by companies, not government.
This is something that I've been pondering since reviewing the number of languages and frameworks I sampled in 2018. Time to pick winners.

Back-end:

- backendless if possible (e.g. use GraphQL, Firebase, etc)
- minimal (1:1 with document store):
PostgreSQL/JSONB, FoundationDB, MongoDB, RethinkDB, CouchDB(mobile-sync)
- relational: PostgreSQL(master/replica), MySQL(multi-master), CockroachDB/TiDB (sharded)
languages: Elixir(Phoenix), Kotlin/Java(Javalin), Clojure(Liberator), Go, Kemal(Crystal)

Front-end:

- HTML+JS using Phoenix/LiveView (or Vaadin?)
- Vue.js (possibly Elm) for SPA

Runners-up:

Spring - slow startup, JPA/Hibernate quirks, latency spikes (gc? of JPA/Hibernate)
Micronaut - could be the next big thing (too much like Spring, learning curve)
Ktor - coroutine support potential interesting, prefer a Kotlin+Java ecosystem
SparkJava - too bare (used with Sql2o), Javalin is a spiritual successor
DropWizard - older, poor documentation. But JDBI is sweet to use with other microframeworks
Amber (Crystal) - Kemal has a much faster edit/compile/run cycle
Rails/Sinatra/Web2py/Django/Flask/etc - prefer static typing and faster/smaller runtime

This is obviously still too long a list. Continue testing and culling.
Gogoro has been quite successful with this model.

The difference, of course, is that a scooter takes batteries small enough to swap by hand.
Command economies are macro efficient, micro inefficient, as opposed to pure capitalism, which is generally micro efficient, macro inefficient
We should probably quantify "long", I know it's been a few years at least because I added a couple of businesses myself. But I guess it's already been well over 6 years since Apple Maps' initial launch (how time flies!), and there have been plenty of changes since then, so you could well argue even a few years isn't that long in the scale of the thing. And the 1.0 launch sure was rough a heck, not many such things where there has to be a public apology given let alone from Apple. Some of their initial ideas for how it would develop (with heavy 3rd party dev involvement for example) never really seemed to work out, and they've become more, "traditional" I guess over time in terms of data sources and doing the grunt work themselves (IIRC they started doing their own sensor vans for example like in 2015/2016?). At any rate though it's there now and has been for a bit, it's in the Mac version as well and I can see it even in older ones.

Having said all that, I just checked some of the entries I made way back when, which I did with full write ups, my source, photos, and in one case I was in fact the business head of IT and provided that from my work email and a device on our business Apple ID even. And I'm positive those were accepted and on the map for at least 6 months while I was still there. Yet now I look and nothing, and they definitely are still in business at the same location. That's kind of a crappy. If Apple accepts user submissions but then blows them away from time to time during map source fusion say it could explain some of their paucity of data and would discourage more submissions from those few who bothered in the first place.
How and where data gets scrubbed will have significant consequences. While clean data is more valuable than dirty data (the mass of raw data collected by sensors), there is hidden value in those large masses of data. They can show broad trends and patterns that are not obvious in clean data, which is the modern equivalent of not seeing the forest for the trees https://semiengineering.com/data-vs-physics/
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It should be in Google Play & iTunes shortly
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Another possibility is that they deploy feature branches in dev, so for a given service there are more versions running simultaneously.
> when you start talking about 'dangerous' or 'causes cancer' or 'harms children' etc there is a wide berth for rational disagreement

That doesn't matter as long as the meaning of words remains the same throughout the argument.
Not to make light of a serious situation but if this is some kind of viral marketing I’m actually impressed. It’s captivating.
How is this being downvoted? The "Chicken Little" sky is falling approach is beyond ridiculous. The atmosphere has had a lot more CO2 than current levels in previous eras, like 5 times as much in the Jurassic era, for example.

https://www.livescience.com/44330-jurassic-dinosaur-carbon-d...

In fact it's the plant matter from this very era that created oil in the first place...
Why Do Rhododendron Leaves Droop and Curl in the Winter?
I might want to join as well! Lmk if there are open spots.
Isn’t that the very definition of diminishing returns?
> you can often find multiple studies supporting its use and multiple studies saying it's harmful.

While true and I get your point, there isn't anything inherently wrong with that. We should expect and welcome research with the awareness of vested interests.

Afterall it's not surprising for a substance to be beneficial in certain ways yet harmful in other ways. Research from opposing groups will help identify all interesting attributes of a substance. Until we learn all there is to learn, you should approach these papers more as additional clues pointing to a certain direction and not anything conclusive about the substance in question.
Here’s my version:

On the surface the media is about keeping us informed.

But the incentive structure of media companies means that media’s real product is fear, write headlines and sell sensationalism in order to hook readers and sell subscriptions.

When co-opted by governments they sell control of the zeitgeist, sometimes we call that propaganda.
That’s true - my first gen MacBook a couple of years ago was replaced three times.

My MBA is only a few weeks old, and I’ve noticed the space bar feels different already on the right hand side. Not sure if it’s real or imagined yet, but based on past experience, I’m concerned it may very well be dodgy.

I really do want to think they’ve ironed these issues out, but I admit I wouldn’t be surprised to find myself at the Genius Bar a few times with this new one getting it replaced as well.
The risk with having a reset mentality, "after all it's only dev" (edit: not intending to imply you said this), is that the opportunity to learn is lost. If they took the reset tack, then this occurred in production and they didn't have that option available, choosing the reset path would suddenly be seen in hindsight as a lost opportunity.
Your Wikipedia link says that the Phantom is a myth and the DNA was contamination from the kit factory.