skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's awesome, it's a real problem that I have to deal with. In my case Blizzard Entertainment refused to delete my information. They wanted me to actually send a copy of my passport to them in a physical letter to "verify" me. Crazy right? The entire idea of deleting my information is so that they do not possess even more information of mine. I might use this to contact them.
This is the third time im seeing them messing up- the news yesterday about trump was something
Well, all the agencies I worked with in the past are still in business, and hundreds of such companies come up in Google when I search for 'web design agency in [place name]', so there definitely must still be at least some money in it.

Either way, I think there's definitely still interest there. Yes, you can make some types of basic sites through stuff like SquareSpace and Wix. But a lot of business owners don't want to do things themselves. They're not design like, often not too tech savvy and just don't feel being the one responsible for their entire website.

For them, they'll go to an agency or development company for the same reason you may go to a restaurant or cafe; because they'd rather someone who knows more about the topic build in than play designer/developer themself.

They also often like having support in a place that's easier to reach. If the company who built the site is local, they can phone them, send an email without worrying about time zones or pop down the office when something breaks rather than having to deal with a multinational corporation via support tickets or live chat.

There's also (as said) the many types of sites that are a bit too complex than can be done via a site builder but too simple to require an in house development team; those are often things these small web design/dev businesses take care of too.

So yeah, overall the market is certainly a bit smaller than it used to be, but it's still there, either because people want a professional to do the job rather than doing it themselves or because their needs are a bit more complex than can be achieved with a site builder.
Also, what happened between 2009 and 2012?
What's the steepest decline you've walked with that setup? Did your toes touch the end of your boot?
The internet escaped the impending doom because it didn't pass. It didn't pass because people acted. And People acted because of the numerous alarms about the impending doom.
Federal Court Orders That Patent Troll Can’t Hide Its Machinations
Autolacing is a fundamentally bad idea. It means that each step will be weighed down by a motor, battery, and radio that are used only for a second when you put on the shoe. It's like everyone forgot that Nike has been marketing lighter shoes since their inception.
I don't want to be the person with a metric house in a country of imperial builders.

But I digress it's 80 past 45 and still haven't had breakfast :-)
I always had the suspicion (which may be wrong) that in questions like "which is a more likely outcome of 6 coin tosses, HHHHHH or HTHHTT", people tend to understand this question as: "which is a more likely outcome of 6 coin tosses, a sequence of 6 heads, or another sequence without any obvious regularity in it", in which case the latter is clearly the correct answer.

I have an additional suspicion: in my experience, people with slight autistic tendencies often have problems with sorting their impressions into broad, general categories, but instead always analyze (even remember) the exact impression (or "special case") they are confronted with. For people like this, the question "HHHHHH or HTHHTT" is a completely different question than for the majority of the population. So, the problem to me does not seem to be a problem with human intuition for probability (or with System 1, in Kahneman's words), but just one of semantics. If you go further and assume that scientists have a higher percentage of people with autistic tendencies than the general population, then the problem simply becomes one of communication between the researcher and the subject.

I read Thinking: Fast and Slow a few years ago and remember many experiments where it was clear to me that the subjects just answered a different question than the one the researcher asked them. And I do not mean that they "anchored" their answers on something else or they replaced the question with a different question because they had no answer to the original question - they just had a completely different understanding of the question itself, and their answers to this question were correct, even in System 2.
Transparency in politics has actually been shown to help rather than hinder lobbyists:

http://www.congressionalresearch.org/TransparencyProblem.htm...
Disclaimer: I'm not an accountant, so my answer here is paraphrasing what I've read from others and may not be the best, is not advice, etc. Since the tax code is always changing, the techniques available will change over time. I always recommend having an accountant or financial advisor.

That said, there are several ways to save money on taxes in the situations that exist around early retirement.

1 - One example is the 0% long-term capital gains tax rate accessible to a low income bracket, which one can put themselves in for a given year when they are living off investments and in control of their withdrawals (vs a normal salary that would exclude you from this bracket).

https://www.physicianonfire.com/the-taxman-leaveth-taxes-in-...

2 - A second strategy to consider is "Backdoor Roth" and Roth IRA conversions.

https://www.physicianonfire.com/backdoor/

https://www.gocurrycracker.com/never-pay-taxes-again/

https://www.madfientist.com/how-to-access-retirement-funds-e...

http://www.mymoneydesign.com/personal-finance-2/retirement/b...

3 - One more is maximizing contributions to an HSA as it combines the tax benefits of a Roth IRA (tax-free withdrawals) and a Traditional IRA (tax-deductible contributions) in one account.

https://www.madfientist.com/ultimate-retirement-account/

https://jlcollinsnh.com/2014/08/18/stocks-part-xxv-hsas-more...

4 - Avoid short-term capital gains tax rates. (Compare the percentages in the 2 tables here.)

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/10151...

5 - One last one to keep in mind is tax-loss harvesting and less commonly tax-gain harvesting.

https://www.madfientist.com/tax-loss-harvesting/

https://www.madfientist.com/tax-gain-harvesting/

If you're curious for more FIRE related info, some good subreddits to check out are:

- r/leanfire

- r/financialindependence

- r/personalfinance
> Old people often make fact-free claims about how things used to be.

It's fun, because if there is something that is really a cliché is people complaining that the weather is not what it used to be.
This has been going on for far longer than there has been any talk of climate change. So every time I hear someone saying that you can see climate change is happening because the weather is not what it used to be, I take it with a double pinch of salt.

Alternatively, the existence of the cliche might suggest that (some) climate change is always happening, just on a timescale that makes old people complain, and everybody else just be incredulous.
I hope it's OK to piggyback on this question and ask: are there any opportunities in designing (and selling) website themes, particulalrly non-Wordpress themes?

Many replies here say don't offer design. But presumably, even when you're developing the backend, you need to reach for a front-end design or template - either free or for sale. The market for HTML/CSS themes is completely saturated though - is it fruitless to pursue this avenue?
Do you have a link to go with that reference to mistakes? Thanks
Imagine your train goes away and the only way to get to work is by bus. Takes twice as long, less comfortable, and the buses are overflowing because everyone is in the same situation.

Would 4 hours of commute instead of 2 infringe upon your quality of life?
> I would argue that pair programming

Google allows you to write code on a Chromebook instead of a whiteboard (don't know if it's for everyone or some people). Is that pair programming? Or do you mean actually working with your preferred IDE/text editor, terminal, browser to look stuff up?
Thank you for the comment. This is new to me, will try this out. Are you a freelancer too? Is this how you got started?
As long as it is not Jupiter's Europa, because, as we know, we should leave it alone.
I wrote a similar style guide introducing neural networks from embeddings, data splitting, to MLPs, RNNs, and CNNs and event basic hyperparameter tuning:

https://austingwalters.com/neural-networks-to-production-fro...

I think what generally makes articles unapproachable is their insistence on jumping right into the math. Even this on one section in... I understand the math, but it makes it far less approachable. In reality, at least today, utilizing neural networks doesn’t even require that much understanding of the math. It’s mostly intuition about how they work.

I do like the article and think it’s good (upvoted). I just wish they focused more on the intuition than math of it.
You can only go so far with this imo. You're better off learning how to deal with what life throws at you than "being in control".
Adversarial AI is mostly about warfare, not business. The focus on adversarial research is to avoid starting a war over an adversarial attack.
What are you willing to give up in exchange? If the employer can't end the relationship because they got a better offer, are you willing to offer the same in return? If you get better hours and more money, can we decide you're not allowed to take that offer?
Many modern snowboard boots have a pretty impressive ratchet system with steel laces that allows me to get a very tight fit easily (no yanking on laces required), with instant push-button release.

https://www.burton.com/us/en/p/mens-burton-photon-boa-snowbo...

It's unclear to me whether basketball shoes lack this system for good ergonomic/structural reasons or because of marketing/style/tradition.
I mean, there are broad areas where automation can improve things. For example, ML analyses of submitted resumes are just as crappy as human analyses of submitted resumes. On the other hand, replacing the resume pre-screen with an automated coding quiz / challenge (or at least providing the automated coding quiz / challenge to people whose resume is filtered out in the human pre-screen) greatly improves the quality of the pre-phone-call screening step.
Right now they think they are playing the game "who loses more, politically", in which the president is losing bigly.

Or at least they act as if they believe the president cares about his reelection chances. But as more and more time passes, and he loses more and more support, it will become obvious to even some of his supporters, that he will burn down the country to get his way. And at that point he may get his wall, but he loses everything else.
Of course they'll try again. Next time, they'll probably claim copyright violations cause economic down turns and bankrupt firms

Same way the three lettered guys capitalized on terrorism and child porn to disregard everyone's privacy.
I don't think its very clear that they messed up the Trump story, special counsels office called it inaccurate but I don't really see any reason to blindly believe them.
Humans unquestionably respond to "stories", especially those with personal impact, more than just statistics. But statistics and fair/scientific data analysis are the correct form of analysis.

Maybe the right thing is some process to analyze the data fairly and then pick verifiably representative instances for deep-dive stories about the change.

(I'm pretty sold on climate change, and increasingly so on CO2/human activity as a major factor, and likely large impact, but I think the costs of brutal CO2 reduction are probably far higher than the costs of alternative remediations. Including costs on other environmental issues -- as diesel fuel in cities vs. gasoline has shown, with one having lower carbon emissions due to efficiency, but the other being cleaner in other emissions...)
That is very good advise.

The junior marketing person you are working with at one company a few years later may be head of marketing at a much larger company.

It can also work in reverse when your contact moves on and their replacement comes in with a pre-existing relationship with a competitor. Then it's nothing but work to keep them - same can happen when a small business sells and you have a new owner to build a new relationship with.

Have a client that is in the process of selling to what will be the fourth owner since I built their management software 12 or so years ago.
Because it will fly around.
Had Microsoft actually improved the POSIX personality on Windows NT, instead of having it as bullet point to win contracts in some areas, I doubt many would have cared that much about GNU/Linux.

Many of us installed Slackware and friends during the early days so that we could do university work on our home computers.

As proven by those that use macOS to deploy on GNU/Linux, a large majority is happy with having access to a POSIX userspace.

It just happens that how things have evolved, Linux syscall compatibility is now more relevant than plain POSIX.
Nice try, Angelina Fabbro
We didn’t.

This is a multicopter design that would be able to fly and hover in Titan’s thick atmosphere.
Sell an online course for $49 that helps small business owners create their own site for their business, using no-code tools, thus saving them thousands of dollars, hours of their time, and the potential embarrassment from doing it wrong.

Start writing Medium articles dumping everything a small business owner should know before creating their own site, about running their own site, about hiring a consultant like yourself, about marketing themselves online, etc...

Record 2min YouTube videos summarizing each of your articles.

Put the videos and articles on your site with a CTA to buy your course. Explain how, after they take your course, how their life/business will be different and better.

Profit
Ask HN: What tools do you use to manage your personal projects?
I tend to work on a lot of small personal projects and want to know what I could use to manage all my tasks, timelines, links to related articles, information, etc.
Yep. Understand conversion. Figure out what the business needs the website for and how you can deliver that. 90% of templates cover the generic business needs. Make your money by explaining the difference between warm and cold leads, how 98% of the website traffic will be warm leads (unless they are blogging/content generating all the time, which they probably aren't if Squarespace etc is an option) and how creating a set of specific lead pages can be used with AdWords etc etc., which could be built in to your offering.

I don't know how relevant "field of dreams" is for a bunch of people here, but "if you build it they will come" absolutely does not apply to the web anymore. Explain that to your client, explain that a Squarespace site or WordPress template relies on pretty much that - and you'll make something that they can a tally generate leads from.

Of course, if it's just brochureware you'll need to tailor this a little better - "what are they looking for, should this be all on the homepage? Do we need lead gen pages?" etc - this is the custom solution.
Its funny to me because for a lot of R users programming has very little to do with their use of R i.e. hypothesis testing using libraries like lme4 for mixed models.
God donut.

GNU doesn't define the Linux kernel API. The kernel defines the kernel API. Applications (GNU whatever) use the API. Now Windows implements the API. The Linux kernel API. It doesn't implement GNU API because there is no such thing. See?

Linux kernel is the implementation of the kernel API. You can run Linux applications as long as you have the implementation of the API. Windows has it. Linux kernel has it. GNU doesn't have it. See?
You do not need white box access to a target model anymore. You can find adversarial samples for an ensemble of similar networks and it will fool the target network.

The parlor trick becomes dangerous to the powers that that be, when you start fooling surveillance and smart gun turrets or drones. This is already happening in the background. That is where the funding comes from, not a SV company fearing that their face filter does not work, but governments afraid their deep net border security will be rendered moot.

If anything the article is countering hype by citing researchers saying we don't really know how deep learning learns and represent objects, and that deep nets are a very weak copy of the human brain.
> On the flip side, I'm not sure how important choking it off completely really is to facebook, why get rid of ad revenue if you can pretend to chase the bad guys and keep everyone happy?

It's pretty important. In short, there is no incentive for FB to really keep "bad" ads, "fake" accounts, "spammy" pages and so on, as it creates crappy experience for user. If Facebook would be full of fake accounts, the there would be less people using it, and ads would be less effective (that means less money for FB). If there would be shitty ads, people would use more ad-blockers...

Disclaimer: I worked in Facebook's anti-spam team for couple of years.
This is more or less my experience in bioinformatics, computer vision, and machine learning. MATLAB is much better than people without MATLAB experience believe. It’s also much worse than people with _only_ MATLAB experience believe. From a robust package perspective, MATLAB is probably more complete than non-statistical R, but in recent years it’s lagged far behind the scientific Python ecosystem. It’s difficult to imagine it catching up to an alternative that’s free and better (from a completeness, performance, or user experience perspective).
Maybe there’s a problem with which computer science is being taught if it’s so difficult for so many people to derive those solutions from fundamentals, and instead have to resort to brute force pattern memorization through Cracking the Coding Interview and Leetcoding.
UTC adds little of value on top of TAI, except some headache for clock synchronization. So I argue for basing timezones directly on TAI, as I see TAI as the least impractical reference.
I have cats!
How do you find clients? Can your mantra work from someone outside US trying to offer exceptional services? :)
American culture is innumerate, you have to use words they understand.
Except all of these questions can be grouped into a category of the same kinds of problem and it is in fact spending time to find out that pattern and which category from sliding window, nested intervals, recursion and dynamic programming it belongs to
> ... the driver already had a taxi license. What was the point?

The article came to a pretty clear and definite conclusion, did you read to the end? The point made is that she realized the company bore no responsibility and no damage in her accident, and these companies need to bear some of the responsibility and some of the liability for the system they’re creating. She realized the driver isn’t wholly responsible and the driver suffered some pretty big consequences himself.

“Me: left vertebral artery.
Driver: livelihood + S$3,700 in fines and expenses.
Grab: S$20, the refund they’d given me after the accident.”

“I’m also more aware of the profound compromises we’ve made in giving tech companies, even those with well-intentioned CEOs, so much power over our daily lives. Tan showed me kindness in the months that followed my accident. But we deserve more than expressions of remorse from companies such as Grab. Detailed safety records would be a good place to start.”
Neural networks used to generate HQ textures for older games
I believe this is just another example of a well-known rule of thumb, which is that people will adjust their commute until it's just barely tolerable. In a short term disruption like this, they probably put off any trip which can be postponed for a few weeks. I wonder whether visits to downtown locations like museums are down, for example.

In longer term situations, people move where they live, or change jobs, until their commute is just barely tolerable. Moving away from the core gets you more space for the same money, working near the core often is required to get your best salary, so the compromise results in a perpetual state of annoyance-but-not-catastrophe.
I remember browsing the web on my old Nokia N900 phone and watching everything get progressively slower as javascript started getting more and more memory intensive. Eventually I stopped receiving updates, and the entire web became unusable because lots and lots of websites break without javascript now.
First playable demo of the ROYGBIV engine
But they can still have lunch with members of the general public (including lobbyists) in secret and make secret arrangement then present another argument for their motives in public.

If it was impossible to contact a politician in secret the amount of legal (you get a nice consultant position after the political career) and illegal bribes would hopefully go down.

This does not stop a politician from doing something in the hopes that it will be rewarded later without prior contact though.

Also to add, this is a pipe dream, something that the current crop of politicians would never accept as it would reduce them to merely being a spokesperson for the people they represent.
No:

Absence of Ancient DNA in Sub-Fossil Insect Inclusions Preserved in ‘Anthropocene’ Colombian Copal
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
I found "Trello" to be helpful. One can create multiple lists. Personally, I create lists as "To do", "Doing" and "Done" and move the cards under those lists from "To do" to "Doing" when done and so on.
That’s a nice theory but conflicts strongly with how this has actually worked in the real world.
"Fernandes explains that self-driving cars use multiple sensors and algorithms and don't make decisions on any single machine-learning model."
For now, maybe, but, from what I have heard, there is push from the car manufacturers to consolidate on one type of sensor feed as much as possible, to minimize costs. Which implies just that - that the wanted state is one type of sensor, as cheap as possible + one model that is expected to tell the absolute truth. Which is stupid of course, but I assume that the cost-cutting guys are not aware / willfully ignorant of the pitfalls.
On another note, the article conflates machine learning / neural networks with AI, I expected better of Wired...
Totally. Julia (and NumPy) made a savvy decision adopting MATLAB semantics (and occssiaonally syntax) for many multi-dimensional array creation and manipulation operations. It usually takes me an afternoon or less to port complex methods written in MATLAB to NumPy.
The headline says they’ll land it though.
One thing I notice is she says the ride app GPS took the driver through local roads instead of the highway.

I had a similar experience with Uber recently.

There is a road that goes pretty much straight from the airport to my house, though it's a busy, slow road. Instead the uber gps had us going all over the place, through many intersections and left turns. It might have saved 1 or 2 minutes, but surely cost way more in gas (and CO2) and was much more likely to result in an accident. I felt bad for the driver, having to drive such a confusing and stressful route.

I'm not sure if it made my route more expensive. The cost is set before we leave, so any route has the same cost. But the drivers are paid more the farther they go, so it costs uber more to pay him, when he could have gone a way that's much shorter and doesn't take any longer.
Look I'm a liberal and all but at this point im beginning to wonder if my side is really stupid or just doesn't want to believe in reality?
Probably less water during summer as that came from meltwater. I would assume more water during winter then.