skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I need something like this for math. i moved to engineering for my bachelors but would love to do a self-learning math curriculum.
I wonder if 2019 will be the first year when the flagship iphone gets cheaper than last year’s...
No the rich and powerful have choices of how to act, while the poor have very little. Additionally, the rich and powerful are the ones who have structured the system in such a way that the proletariat have very little choice in the matter.
Wow. This article got punished for some reason. I’d love to see the algorithm behind this if it wasn’t done by a moderator.

35 points in 34 minutes was #1 now #17.
Cops work is often refered to as duty or service, obviously inflated terms but no one would accuse you of being an ideological zealot for using them. Agenda seems neutral by comparison.
WOW! This is perfect and much cheaper than i thought it would be. Thanks for the recommendation!
You can, and that should be sufficient.
This is just my suspicion, but I figure many people don't boycott because they feel it doesn't make a difference, that they are giving up something useful to them and nothing at all will come of it. That feels unfair in addition to being unproductive.

I'm constantly reminded of a short blurb/study-abstract I read a little while back that found the chief determinant of whether people perceived the taxes they paid were 'fair' was perceived compliance of everyone else. That is, it was more important that everyone else was paying whatever their fair share was, than exactly what my own particular rate is.

Thus you can get people to vote for things that might hurt them a little, that they wouldn't do on their own, as long as they know that everybody else will fairly share in the burden.
Also worth noting this is a dataset that fits comfortably in-memory
I mean, with climate change the thing to be afraid of is that the populace remains complacent and human beings fail to address and properly respond to an existential threat.

If you want persuasive arguments, check out potholer54's channel on YouTube. He's demolished just about the entire corpus of anti-climate change propaganda.
> The idea in pare-mutuel betting is not to pick the winner. The favorite usually wins, but the house cut makes betting the favorite a net lose.

Isn't this a misstatement in the other direction? Favourites can be underrated too.

They're probably not, or at least not enough for you to beat the house cut, but that's true of every bet -- they're all likely to be net losers unless you have special information, or a special way of using it.
So everyone has got a phone then. They had a good run.

This should be good news. Less people have to slave away making iPhones because everyone has got one and less people have to slave away paying for getting themselves a phone that does everything they wish for in a phone. Yet with the wonders of capitalist growth this is met by the people that write for the media as a concern. Every curve has to be exponential.
I’m pretty comfortable tipping via credit card because I understand that the card company and a bank is taking a cut. I am _not_ comfortable with something like this, where it’s not immediately clear what’s happening.
It is important to be tipping in cash to begin with. Anyone doing unskilled labor and getting tips is not likely in a position to be able to afford the income tax on those tips. Always tip in cash.
Not sure if it is related, but the safelink service (the thing that wraps a link with a jump) is down at my school's mail service (that uses MS suite).
(While this is almost certainly the case for Office, a well-known leader in its category, it should be noted that this logic is not accurate for all products - Increased opportunity cost to the legal consumer and lack of piracy externalities such as network effects mean "always-online" requirements may be detrimental.)
If that, been an enterprise customer with a company that is a gold partner and been using Office365 for 7 years now - it's down so often we stopped monitoring it, easily the most flaky, unreliable, slow and poorly managed online service I've personally used. (Words are my own, not necessarily those of my employeer(s) etc...)
That's a wonderfully optimistic view to take, unfortunately most of the population of America doesn't subject information placed in front of them to close scrutiny, in part because we're all bombarded with some much information that we simply can't try and make expert assessments on it.

Additionally, click-bait is a thing, just pushing a headline with "based on a scientific paper" out there can be dangerous - there is the old adage that a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
> Google in general doesn't like anything that intersperses an additional page between the searcher and their destination.

Unless it's an AMP page of course!
Well it should start with you right? Are you willing to never tip again in your entire life? If so, let us know how it goes (or maybe is going?)

Or, alternatively, maybe you don't live in a country with a tipping culture. And if so, then tipping doesn't really affect you.

People like to tip. I like to tip. Waiters and waitresses like to be tipped. My wife used to work as a waitress and would clear over $300 a night in tips alone. It's only a small minority of people who are against it.
Apparently it is, at most, Office 356.
Perhaps it does but my opinion is it should not.
IIUC the intent behind AMP is that the AMP page is the destination.
No correlation between top tax rates and growth rates
Incredible story. Richard "Harry" Harris and Craig Challen were jointly awarded Australian of the Year on the weekend for their efforts in the cave rescue. Absolutely deserved.
That might be true and still not contradict what I said. A lot of the systemd critics still seem to not see what it actually did for most people using it. You're free to hate it and some of that is certainly justified, but don't assume that the contrary opinion is based on uneducated or misguided opinions.

Most of what I see/use of systemd I like. Some of it I don't, and some of it is a dumpsterfire. I think I could say the same or worse for any ambitious software project.

As for the security issues I certainly place those in the dumpsterfire category and I'd like for the systemd team to handle them better.
Know that I really don't intend to upset anybody or attack people unjustly for their ideologies when I say this: I think your point probably has legs, but could be made much more convincingly with other examples - it's hard to use a MAGA hat as an example of an innocent thing when it's so closely associated with, and so frequently used to implicitly express, a vicious hatred of liberals. I understand that to many people who wear it, that's not part of the message, but there are many examples of people expressing themselves in ways that are not so muddied by the hatred of broader groups, and you could probably find one of those more clear-cut examples if you tried.
Yup, Waze works as well and supports confirming and pinning reports.
At SQream (a GPU-accelerated data warehouse) we use the GPU for many operations, including sorting, aggregating, joining, transformations, projections, etc.

We augment the GPU algorithms with external CPU algorithms when the GPU implementations aren't ideal or can't run due to memory constraints.

We recently talked about this at a session at CMU's Database Group, if you're interested - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSYFwd50EcU
I think it’s as simple as: the general public will consume this because they’ve heard about the data breach and it’s something that will get their attention. I think it will last for a few more months and then they will find something else to write about as people will become agnostic towards anything Facebook related
What if the 99% want to take away the right of the 1% to own over a certain amount of wealth?

That seems like an even mobbier mob than a 51%. At some point, though, you'd figure the numbers alone grant the political fiat to turn the "mob" into the "people". Otherwise, that's one quite "limited" democracy. But, if so, I wonder what the magical ratio is.
> Surely the best measure of whether a politician speaks for the people is whether he or she is elected

If you have a free and fair ballot, whether they get a majority, a plurality, or just a not-first-place minority of the ballots cast does tell something about the degree of popular support, by definition.

Not all balloting is free and fair, and not all electoral systems choose a winner the candidate with the most support as measured at the polls, such as systems that incorporate anti-democratic features designed to give certain voters more power per voter than others, like the US electoral college.
I asked a colleague about this, and he said that he plans to create documentation like what you suggested.
FB employees and/or "reputation managers" abusing the flag button, I'm guessing.
Startup Logo Design for Impact
Since you need an Apple ID to access their services, I'm sure it's easy to deduplicate users.
Given the option between letting the trolley run over five people or taking action so the trolley only runs over three people, you chose letting the trolley kill five people.
Intrigued, I fed your site into a couple of CI tools. Some initial thoughts....

- Keyword targeting: seems like you're targeting a lot of product based keywords; these tend to be hotly contested, generally favoring brands and top retailers for top slots
- Not quite enough content on the pages, in terms of word count...
- As you mentioned, Google is probably seeing the Amazon links on your landing pages and penalizing your rankings

So - potential thoughts on how to change it up...

- Switch from talking about products to problems... probably can get rankings a lot easier for those keywords, especially if you're willing to target long tail traffic.
- Move amazon links off the landing pages; at a minimum, cloak the link but better yet try having a page or two that discussed the problem then make the user click to get to another page which recommends specific products
- Also getting the vibe you might need more content density for each topic; more pages addressing a single area, with a higher word count.
Unfortunately, it's pretty easy to simply attack whatever outlet one wishes and label them as such (tabloid, fake news, pick your insult).
At the bottom of the screenshot attached to this post you can see her extortion attempt:
https://twitter.com/mgt7500/status/1090079031666438144?s=21

I am willing to give details and provide a home video
that I to ok to show you the flaw, but would like to
discuss this with someone prior to doing so...
It is unclear whether Apple provides a reward program
for non-... [cut off]

I'm not surprised Apple didn't respond to this message.
> Some of us have seen wages lowered by 30–40% overall.

I think this a danger of contracting for VC-backed "gig economy" services like Instacart and Uber. They often subsidize the cost of the service using funding (billions, in the case of Instacart and Uber) in order to quickly attract customers and workers, then reduce the subsidies once they are established.

It's not right, but at this point gig economy workers should expect it and plan accordingly.
I can't help but feel every time someone says "people don't understand the free market" its people who can't understand anything past the most simplistic explanation.

I'm going to leave you with a quote from Adam Smith who most would say founded the field of Economics.

> The interest of the dealers ... in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public... [They] have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public ... We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor above their actual rate ... It is not, however, difficult to foresee which of the two parties must, upon all ordinary occasions, have the advantage in the dispute, and force the other into a compliance with their terms.
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Adding GPU support to an existing database is incredibly hard, and usually doesn't pay off very well.

We were considering doing that some years ago, but opted for writing our own (GPU accelerated) database too.

We talked about it recently at a CMU Database Group talk (relevant parts start at around 17:00 - https://youtu.be/bSYFwd50EcU?t=1028)
There are 2 underlying implications: one due to the submission format and the other due to the framing of the questions. Answering self-promoting questions on video is more conducive to Type A personalities over Type B. This is not necessarily a bad thing. However, it is ironic for a convention where network strengthening is the primary goal since Type As generally don't need as much help networking as Type Bs.
I've used it a half dozen times. The quality of has gone way down. The first time was amazing with the shopper suggesting a combo that was not only better but cheaper. And it was delivered an hour and a half later.

Now it seems they skip items, replace it without asking and the earliest delivery is tomorrow. And the produce has a lot to be desired. It'll last two days and already looks crappy on delivery. I think they are in such a rush they just grab whatever.

The best thing for any app service, keep 20 in singles and just tip cash. I honestly don't know how the app tipping works but I have a feeling the full amount isn't going to the person.
I posted about this before and I think it's relevant here again. Automated personalization (Predominant existing implementation of AI) and privacy are incompatible [1].

That's the case that Zuckerburg is making. However he goes further and effectively says "...and this level of personalization is what people have told us they want."

Now this NYT piece says that, in fact, people have explicitly said they don't want that.

Doubly so when they understand what it takes to get that level of personalization. So the conversation is important, and I think people need to make it with clear eyes.

[1] https://medium.com/@andrewkemendo/artificial-intelligence-an...
It's clear that there's a difference between an active and a passive attacker here. Closing port 80 protects against the passive attacker, but not against the active attacker (with regard to SSL stripping, insecure submission of old forms, and cookies not flagged as secure). Both kinds of attackers are real.
An aspect that I feel is often ignored, or at least forgotten, is the law of leaky abstraction.

The whole point of visual programming seems to be to abstract more, but inevitably they always hit the exact same problem. The abstraction leaks, and now you have to implement an ugly hack.

The only case I see for visual programming is as a standing for a DSL. If you have a very specific domain where you need a nontechnical person to be able to rewire some things often and autonomously, you might need visual programming (although you might be better off with a 50 line text file)
I can't down vote your snarky comment, but yes I'd be absolutely happy to stop tipping, if the country I lived in paid fair wages to the people working in the service industry. The idea of rewarding high performers can be similarly achieved with incentive plans and at least guarantees people working in the service industry the minimum wage allowable by law. So for now, I'm going to continue tipping the culturally appropriate amount to ensure my server gets a fair wage and I will also support any activist initiative to abolish tipping.
I haven't had a good experience with those pick-up services either. For the amount of time I've waited in my car for the "ready" groceries, I could have just done my shopping.

And fuck the whole substitution thing. Now I have to make all the goddamn decisions I would have had to in the store anyway. Plus, if they don't have X, I'd get Y, but you're offering Cherry-X instead. So after my shopping, I still have to go shopping.
> Ubuntu 16.04, which is an LTS version, has an even older version of the letsencrypt software (before it was called certbot) and Ubunbtu doesn't seem to care.

Ubuntu Server developer involved with Certbot here. We do care.

Updating letsencrypt/certbot in 16.04 is monumentally difficult because, from a Certbot perspective, February 2016 is prehistoric, and users of an Ubuntu stable release expect not to be regressed for all the different use cases they may have, not all of which we even know about. Updating a stable release is difficult for these reasons normally. Now add in the complication of five different interacting source packages, an upstream project rename, and the need to not regress the behaviour of a key library which must be updated but users may be depending on directly, and hopefully you can see the difficulty of this task. We are working on it though, and you can follow progress here: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1640978. I'm still hopeful that this will land in time.

In the meantime, if you can't wait, are using 16.04 and must have it now, then you have a number of options:

1) Use certbot-auto as recommended by upstream.

2) Use 18.04, which isn't affected as it shipped with a new-enough certbot package.

3) Try the (experimental) snap: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/call-for-testing-certbot-lets-e... (though I don't recommend this for production). Relative to the deb packaging, the snap has been trivial to develop and maintain and the edge channel keeps up with upstream master automatically as long as CI passes (and keeping it passing has been a relative breeze).
There's a reason so many people buy up expired domains, it's common to either start a new site with an aged domain or 301 redirect them to your site for the extra boost
What do you think a company wants to hire you to do?

In a world where both Google and Knuth exist, they aren't hiring you to be an algorithm reference book. They're hiring you to create working software. Your task when interviewing is to convince them that you can do that.

The reason they (at least the reasonable places) ask algorithm questions is because they want to see you think through something you don't know. They also want to see you write some code for something small, just to make sure you can.

If it's a place that is going to judge you negatively for not knowing every algorithm they ask you about, that says more about them than about you. Be grateful such places eliminate themselves from consideration in such a straightforward manner.
Author here. This was an extremely hard topic to write about. Happy to answer questions but really hoping those from sig-cli and sig-architecture chime in here. Is this Kerfuffle the root of the sudden resurgence of KEPs?
In Sydney, the public transport trains refer to all of their passengers as "customers" as well.

Every single time I am referred to by that name over the PA it weirds me out. Maybe if this was a private system, but for public transport? Customer is just the wrong word.
many software companies choose to upload "cracked" versions of their own software ...
What about buying an expired domain for a relative site and redirecting it to your existing one?
The poor do not, as a group, usually have much power in society, so it’s hard for them to be at fault for much.
Surely the best measure of whether a politician speaks for the people is whether he or she is elected.

I disagree.

With electoral systems in which a candidate can win with ten percent of the vote (because nobody else scored more than ten percent), or where a party can win 12% of the vote and end up with 0.15% of the seats (as a specific example from recent western history), a politician being elected is simply not a measure of speaking for the people.
"The win would be a scientific publication that takes science seriously."

The articles in question are editorials, there are quite a number of them on Inference.

So this is not a situation of Journal passing of pseudoscientific research as science i.e. publishing crazy papers. It's really a fuss about some lengthy and interesting bits of logical diatribes that possibly only a few have read in the first place.

Thanks to the commenter below, here is the offending article: [1]

Have a quick gander.

And now you might wonder what all the fuss is about and that the 'real story' seems this might be some tawdry logic by motherjones trying to take a piece out of Thiel?

The author of the article seems to be making a genuinely thoughtful case, for god's sake man if this kind of discussion cannot be had the world will end. Most science comes from meandering and most of our meandering is wrong.

It doesn't seem to me there is any 'anti science' here really (I don't have enough background in this area to be fully certain), this whole thing could be ridiculous. Nobody is claiming 'flat earth' or pushing crazy propaganda. Frankly, it's enjoyable to read left-field ideas, so long as they are not passed of as 'truth', and I don't think they are in this case, it'll be fine.

[1] https://inference-review.com/article/evolution-a-theory-in-c...
This isn't just startup culture though, it's capitalism in general. Startup culture is really just the embodiment of everything wrong with capitalism.
Ubuntu Server developer involved with Certbot here. I have posted elsewhere in this discussion with details.
ESC > 4WD
It's a bit of a bummer they didn't choose to use a common language like some flavour of SQL, but opted to create another proprietary API
Apparently they were too loud, because they depended on a gasoline motor to be able to go long enough distances.
A friend of mine once pointed out that "Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers users." I don't think he was attempting to disparage the practice and I don't sit on one side or the other with the term. I do think it's interesting though. Drugs and software and their usage are kind of similar in their human interaction. It's very personal with a short hop from the provider to consumer's brain.
I think many people just haven't traveled to for e.g. many European countries where tipping culture is mostly non-existent because over there people the service industry receive appropriate wages and the prices of things are adjusted accordingly. The quality of service is good, and the people working seem much happier. They have a guaranteed income for their time.
L2 Regularization and Batch Norm
If Instacart can't afford to pay their employees, then they should not operate. They are stealing tips from their employees to make profit. It is unethical to use their service. Stop using it and write them an e-mail explaining why. Feel free to resume using it if they stop this practice and apologize.
From that which is given much, much is expected.
Sanders and Trump were both (accurately, too) described as populist, Clinton and Bush both not.

If one had to align them left to right, they would look like:

Sanders -> Clinton -> Bush -> Trump .

> I fail to see the difference between Populism and Democracy on the "people" side of the equation

Democracy is a system of government, Populism is a manner in which a hopeful leader (often a candidate for leadership position in a democracy) attempts to appeal to the public. They aren't even in the same domain.
Oddly, in Ireland, we often still use feet, inches, and stone, but mostly only for measuring _people_.
systemd disables the magic sysrq keys by default.
They will have a full desktop version of the Office suite for a very long time so that makes no difference.
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