skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What were the numbers like 10 years ago? 30 years ago?

Bloomberg isn’t claiming Sachin’s has surpassed the US completely. They’re making a comment based on trends.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_GPS
Depends on your definition of harmless. I only have anecdotal evidence, of course, but I'd argue marijuana is more harmful than LSD. So until that's legalized, there will be ultra-safe illegal drugs to experiment with.
I enjoyed this sort of thing when I was a bit younger, but all the forced social stuff sounds horrible now
Yeah but so is Ford (https://qz.com/1262815/fords-move-to-stop-making-cars-was-en...) and GM ($49.5 Billion US govt. bailout), they would have been crushed by the Japanese and European auto companies a long time ago but nobody cares, it's the winners that matter in the world so saying govt. sanctioned is pretty random chance of probability, I wish I was a govt. sanctioned company person in China but that is never gonna happen.
Nope. Human nature is to do what is possible within the confines of actual and perceived external and internal limitations to increase our partner value in order to procreate and propagate our genes. The increase in partner value as a motivation is often not conscious, and is evaluated via our emotional system based on proxy variables like social status among our peers, and appreciation and attention from others. There are different ways to increase status and attention, and in optimal conditions, people tend to learn early on what they are naturally better at, for example sports (signals physical health), music, art, poetry (signals intelligence), administrative work (signals intelligence and reliability) etc.
People are naturally inclined to be productive, not for money, but to be valued and appreciated in their social context for the reaons above.
Our society is not a natural or optimal (in evolutionary terms) environment for humans, and many of the incentives that drive our behaviors in it are set up with the goal of maximizing economic productivity of the system (or a subset of it with more political and ideological influence), but have a negative impact on the wellbeing and functioning of the people in it. When someone becomes trapped in a situation where they are unhappy – unemployment, or a terrible job that they can’t realistically leave – he or she is likely to sink into depression and a state of learned helplessness. When you’ve learned that nothing you do has any effect on your situation, you give up, do what you have to do to survive and no more, and self-medicate through food, alcohol, drugs, media consumption or whatever else gives you some relief from feelings of hopelessness, shame and guilt. From outside, this may look like: Laziness
Then we should legalize it so that teen usage will drop.

Because IIRC that's the result from the history of societies doing that.
Last few years I've been working for a company I already knew, by myself, on a codebase I built from scratch. Telecommuting. Customer-facing, when stuff is done, I hand it over to their ops team. Don't think I've ever been more productive.
I cannot get the example code to work, tried it with Browserify and Webpack.
I can't argue with any of that, and of course these things are all fuzzy. But if plants have anything resembling consciousness, it seems to be so different than what we experience, as to be worth distinguishing.
Hi, most of this is shorthand for either several functions or functions with longer names.
For example, [rs:10;\s] is the same as [rep:10][sep:\s].

The last example is used to synchronize results between dictionary queries. This particular one is short for "output the same word as any other query to this table with the match ID 'a'."

In retrospect it was a poor decision to use shorthand forms in prominent example snippets, and I'll consider revising them.
I wouldn't put the very reasonable proposal of legalizing marijuana on the same level as the current political twitter trash.
I've seen several of these but I find it's not terribly useful to try to cast "influence of programming language X on programming language Y" to a boolean.

What I'd really like to see is how features travel between languages.
Not having "turned" it into anything may be his greatest achievement, and no little one either.
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> "You Should Only Have Two Phases In Your Career: Finding What You Love and Doing What You Love"

This is much too simplistic. People's interests change over time, so something that I love in my 20s may no longer interest me after I've been doing it for 20 years. So my career may have several iterations of finding and doing.

Also, not everyone may not be able to make a living doing what they love. For example, if I love acting, I may have to work as a waiter to pay the rent between acting jobs, and there's no guarantee that I'll ever get a role in a Broadway play or a Hollywood movie - there's a lot of competition for a small number of jobs.
Windows collects even less data, yet people mention telemetry in almost every post related to Microsoft.
Is there a body to go with this death?
You mean the War On Some Drugs
If you think the majority of business owners don't want their businesses to grow....you're in for a rude awakening.

The allure of technology in general and silicon valley in particular is the amount of sheer wealth that you can create very quickly.
Cell networks can just ask the device for it. It’s used for legitimate purposes then the not so legitimate purposes
I worked at a national laboratory. There were 125 staff to one group leader and one assistant group leader, and they had their own projects too. Everybody who worked together was in the same hallway. Real offices, two people each. Zero remote. Core hours. Gym, cafe, and doctor on site. There were no meetings, just presentations you could go to. I didn’t use my calendar. Project matching was a natural process; you just had to report a rough fraction of time for each thing you were working on. Performance conversations 1:1 once a quarter with group leader based on feedback collected from project leads. 1-page writeup once a year. Projects always require senior staff to work with junior staff. Constant in-house education in scientific computing. Full access to journals and site licenses for just about any software. In general, you knew everybody that controlled any resource you might want access to.

Really didn’t value that place enough.
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And the two 27" displays are filled with enticing distractions.
> I'd argue marijuana is more harmful than LSD.

What's your argument?
> useful non "tech" things like escooters, air filters, vaccuums.

Since when scooters, air filters, and vacuums turned "not a tech?"
Absolutely.

My own daughter is too young, by my nieces danced around screaming when the robot they made spun in a circle, or when they got an LCD to flash 'HELLO'/'GOODBYE'.

Micropython opened a new world for them.
That's not what's being discussed here. We're talking about when the word 'meme' was repurposed to refer to "Internet trend".
This is no more absurd than asking how many golf balls fit into a bus. It seems impossible but with a few assumptions you can get a good enough ballpark.
Don't Xiaomi sell their brand to other manufacturers? So devices are designed by Xiaomi with decent quality, while others fall short?
The article mentions it's aGPS which uses tower triangulation. But this would be requiring a data link back to the network provider I'd assume.

In airplane mode it _shouldn't_ be sending that data.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS
You have to take the good with the bad in the case of 4chan. Consider that any thread can be bumped to the front page with a reply, and consider that when a new thread is created, one is pushed off page 10 and then disappeared/archived. 90 seconds after first opening 4chan or any similar imageboard do not tell you anything. Yes, if you randomly go on the front page of any board, it is not exactly weird to see low quality threads that were either just recently made or have been freshly bumped. And you do not know why the thread was bumped without going into it. It may have been a poster who came in to complain, or to shitpost inside of it because it was a shit thread anyway. This is just part of imageboard culture unlike other sites which actively hide all the bad from you. Unless a thread explicitly breaks rules, is completely unrelated to the respective board, or is cancerous in its own right, it won't be deleted right away unless it has some backlash either by live feedback from anons or reports. On 4chan, you see all the bad that comes along with the good. Or no good at all sometimes. Depends on whoever's posting that day and how they feel. It's free(as in freedom) and pretty great usually.
That study also cited a previous study that found no statistically significant increase.

And since this increase was so small, I'd be very sceptical until more research is done, particularly because of the amount of variables that need to be controlled for when comparing crash rates between states. We're only talking about 3 states and a few years here.

Not to mention changes caused by selective legalization that wouldn't be the case if it was legal everywhere (higher risk drivers moving to legal states, because of legalization for instance).

Also the study was police reported crashes not fatal crashes. If legal pot causes a 6% increase in fatal crashes that's worth serious consideration, if it's a 6% increase in fender benders, not so much.
So, I block Spotify ads by adding entries in the hosts file on Linux, Mac, and Windows... will Spotify still ban me since I'm not using an ad blocker or a modified app?
I had an interior office with a solid door, walls covered in whiteboards, excellent monitors, good hardware, and a fast net connection. If I needed to ask someone something, I could send an email. If it was urgent, I could knock on someone's door. If I wanted, I could work outside on a patio or in an office with a giant window. There was an excellent BBQ joint on the same block.
To begin with, money in China are super duper cheap to begin with. I guess, even "super duper cheap" was not enough for Xiaomi
That’s a feature not a bug. Evan Microsoft wants users off ActiveX, if only to promote Azure.
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People forget this has already happened, more or less. In 2011 Google blackholed Belgium's newspapers when they got uppity. Pretty sure it happened a few times before that as well.

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/16/0028255/belgian-new...

Also, many years ago, Google ghosted CNET because they didn't like their reporting. They didn't blacklist them from results, but it was an option.

https://money.cnn.com/2005/08/05/technology/google_cnet/
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It seems like both political leaning and age are about equally significant:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/243908/two-three-americans-supp...

Support levels (October 2018):

Democrats: 75%

Republicans: 53%

Under 35: 78%

Over 55: 59%

Also note that now even older Americans are majority in support.
None of these deals ever come with enforcement imposed on the economic projections used to justify them, whether for corporate headquarters or sports stadiums. If these things are so profitable for the taxpayers, why doesn't Amazon guarantee the projected numbers, paying any eventual shortfall directly to the state and city? (Yes, there would need to be a way to measure whatever metrics are used.)

For most of these deals, companies make promises that are used to make the deal politically palatable, but since they are not penalized for failing to meet them, and therefore frequently do so.
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Why can’t something just be what it is? Does everything have to be a temporary stop along the way to something bigger?
We are 100% remote with an optional co-working space that is available if you ever want to work at an “office” environment.

Project is managed mostly through airtable with quarterly goals with weekly’s and daily’s (not standup) to check on progress. Then we have a company/team wide call every tues for the weekly brief.

All the above enabled me to have the best environment by then investing in my home office. A space that has a good desk (multitable sit/stand), chair (aeron), and good lighting, not to mention a beautiful machine (iMac Pro).

The issues that followed were more of the focus issues when doing work at home, so I got a pomodoro clock which then made everything seamless.
This is a better one, and even includes questions on how people feel about subsidies:

https://poll.qu.edu/new-york-city/release-detail?ReleaseID=2...
Congratulations for being the last straw. I'm getting out of this site for good.
As far as I can tell, xpra uses the X protocol, which is laggy over links under 10 Mb/s.

X2go uses the NX protocol, which is designed for slower links, so it works better across the internet.
Apple, Google accused of helping enforce gender apartheid by hosting Saudi app
Tencent and Alibaba are like those... and in many ways better.
Oregon trail?
Under drug IPR rules no market price can exist for many drugs because they are single source. If you want to admit a market permit Indian generics into the USA and watch prices tumble.
By the way, China is the one and only foreign market where GM ever managed to sell their bad cars.
If you've paid attention to Facebook's most recent quarterly, you'll realize that people don't really care about the things they claim to care about. Facebook's recent privacy breaches haven't really affected their bottom line. Likewise, a couple days of Google flexing it's power over France may not really cause a widespread exodus.
Stochastic and mini-batch gradient descent work as well as they do in supervised learning because the function you're trying to minimize is a sum or other loosely coupled aggregation of losses over individual training samples, so you can update based on one sample or mini-batch at a time. That is, you're trying to do model fitting to a data set rather than minimizing the error of some arbitrary function with a ton of parameters; I'm oversimplifying a bit.

A critical feature of model fitting problems is that the data can be normalized across the training set prior to training. Without something like that, first-order methods are almost unusable as black-box methods; you have to do a ton of custom initialization and normalization work for each problem class. They don't have affine invariance although momentum methods can help. If you don't normalize your data or your model doesn't respond well to the usual forms of random weight initialization, you'll blow up or slow to a crawl on even trivial problems like linear least-squares. It's quite shocking that SGD and variants like coordinate descent work as well as they do, but it's important not to draw undue conclusions about its general applicability by understanding what properties of supervised learning problems contribute to its success.

I'm curious if ML experts reading this would strongly disagree with this general assessment. It's not my own area, but I've done a good deal of experimentation and working through things from scratch. If my conclusions are totally off, I'd want them to be corrected.

Anyway, yes, AD is valuable even if you don't use it for optimization. It has many applications in scientific computing and engineering; it was considered one of the great inventions in scientific computing long before deep learning made it mainstream. I have my own reverse-mode AD library and I recently used it for computing the constraint Jacobians for a multi-body simulator and for deriving the discrete Euler-Lagrange equations of motion for a given Lagrangian that's written as a complex expression across several coordinate systems. The Euler-Lagrange equations are then fed to a symplectic integrator to simulate the system. In a problem like that, traditionally you'd symbolically derive and then hard-code the expressions for the derivatives, but they get very gnarly to the point where you need specialized software just to derive the symbolic expressions. AD is great for rapid prototyping and experimentation in applications like that, and once things are settled you can use code generation to lock it down for efficiency and stand-alone use without the AD library.
Yes. A lot of the work could have been badly paid but great for one's portfolio.
> Nobody these days has a genuine argument ...

There are real dangers for some. eg. In people predisposed to mental illness, THC can trigger psychotic episodes (there is lots written on this topic, just google "thc psychosis"). I witnessed this happen in somebody, and it's scary stuff with real negative consequences.

That's not an argument against legalization but I do think the culture needs to not see it as totally harmless.
"Whatever works" is his best work imo.
I'm not religious so not sure what god has to do with this.

Yes there are no true answer, its open for debate. Andrew Yang, 2020 candidate, for example propose $12000 a year. Its a start.

>…But everyone is forced to pay taxes.

Not if you are not working. No income (other than basic income) -> no tax.

>If I choose not to work, the government still takes your money by force and gives it to me.

sure, fine by me. I'll just treat the tax as cost of doing business. I still get to make more money.

> Other people will.

For example me, I will still continue to work even if basic income enough to cover my needs. Why? because I enjoy it and fulfilling or maybe I just simply want to earn more money for luxury or whatever.
1. Characterizing support for the affordable housing project as "screeching YIMBYs" is incredibly unfair. Much of the advocacy for this project is coming from local support organizations for seniors and the homeless, such as the Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness and Housing, or LiveOn NY. Not to mention the heart-wrenching individual accounts of the elderly who are currently in old affordable housing units that are not accessible (think five floor walkup), thus trapping these people in their homes.

2. The ESG property is not some decades old staple of the neighborhood. It actually ALREADY WAS earmarked to be built as affordable housing in 1983. In 1991 the city decided to lease it out to Allan Reiver for his art gallery on a month to month basis while awaiting development. At this point it was not open to the public. It became semi-sort of public in 2005, but you still had to go through the private gallery. Only in 2013(!!!) did the site become completely open. And even now, the hours are extremely limited so most people can't take advantage of it (to be fair, this is something Friends of ESG are trying to change). So I just want to point out that the site is finally being used for it's intended purpose, and it hasn't really been open to the public for very long anyway.

3. Sarah Roosevelt, a much larger park, is LITERALLY two blocks away. http://imgur.com/gallery/CbYszsu

4. As you noted, some green space will remain, and will be ACTUALLY open to the public this time (it will be enshrined into law as part of a land disposition agreement). Residents of the area should feel free to adorn the area with statues as they see fit.

Is anything I've said rhetoric?? I don't think so, of course I'm biased. To me, this is rhetoric: "Elizabeth Street Garden is unique in the continent, and is irreplaceable." That is an exact quote I heard at one of the CB2 hearings on ESG.

In any case, CM Chin is probably going to support the project, so unless the rest of the city council votes against her all this hubub doesn't really matter. But I just think it's not accurate to say that the rhetoric is anywhere close to being equal on both sides of this issue. One side of the argument has considerably more support than the other.

EDIT: I forgot to address your point about another affordable housing development nearby. ESG is located in an extremely desirable, high opportunity economic area. The fact of the matter is, the city just doesn't have that much land left to dedicate to affordable housing. And most of what it does have is out in the sticks of NYC. A site like this is a great chance to significantly improve the lives of people who really need it. There's a wait list of 200,000 for affordable housing, and that's just seniors. This is a relatively small four story building that is contextual with the neighborhood. Given all that background, the limited resources, etc, I don't think there's anything wrong with having two affordable housing projects within relatively close proximity.
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Quite interesting discussion on trolling at NetHUI in NZ a few years back. I don't have links but remember the judge involved in the kim dotcom case was there and said injudicious things and then was suddenly recused from the trial. (Unrelated to trolling as a topic but memorable)
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I'm greatly simplifying here, but basically there is an API between the telco network and the chipset on the UE (User Equipment). This API is primarily a control interface for general telco signalling, roaming between towers, receiving an SMS, etc.

As part of this API, is an endpoint that can be made by 911 operators in order to request the position of the phone. It's meant to be part of the E911 services, and is generally linked into the E911 system, but I think can also operate independently.

One of my regrets for the brief period I was working on these systems, is to trigger this API outside of a 911 call, and see if it still works, and whether it would operate without notifying a user. So that's the part I'm missing, I don't know if the API I'm describing can be activated silently from the UE perspective.

As others have pointed out, there are a class of location based services that use non-GPS methods for assisting device location, that may also be at play here, and can be mistaken as GPS by someone who isn't intimately familiar with the technology.

As for a backdoor into the OS, this is totally unnecessary, generally things like GPS and radio's are all wired through the baseband processor, so it's possible for the baseband to process requests without OS involvement. It's a CPU and code for all the network communications, that's runs independent of the rest of the phone, that is doing all the complicated wireless protocols. It depends on the way the standards are written, on what information the OS gets to see from the baseband, and then the way the OS is written on whether that information is actually displayed.

Sorry, I'm also a bit rusty on my telco standards, it's been a few years since I've been working in the telco industry. If you want to dig in and research, I believe LPP (LTE Positioning Protocol) is the spec/standards to dig into.
In places like EU, this may be illegal cartel behaviour.

In Australia, the Big Four banks applied to the consumer watchdog for permission to team together and negotiate as a block - form a cartel - to Apple over Apple Pay and NFC access. The banks were denied, and just last month the biggest bank added Apple Pay support (after a number of the 'smaller' ones added it).
Stamos sometimes has a guest spot on the Risky Business podcast. He's incredibly insightful and candid. Other than Dan Geer, I can't think of anyone else that can articulate the current state of infosec as well as he can.
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Presumably the government would pay the fee... and immediately begin building their own competing services...
The reason for US' paranoia about Huawei is a scenario where the network (built with Huawei gear) could not only triangulate locations in real time, but also transmit voice and data via backdoors to China.
Their pro devices are excellent, though, and support a lot of commercial drone markets from law enforcement, to search and rescue to film to surveying. Why would they not sell those devices?