skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even simple linear models can outperform "experts" in numerous fields, especially in those where the feedback loop (for learning) is very long (as is the case in the criminal justice system).

An amazing paper that touches on this topic: In Praise of Epistemic Irresponsibility: How lazy and ignorant can you be? by Michael A. Bishop

You can find the PDF easily. Here's a ref: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1005228312224
Just wanted to update this to say that YouTube for kids has the functionality that I desired. I can only show approved content only when I want to! Thanks everyone.
The problem you are always going to have is that the inhabitants of each planet will want their 'days' to line up with their day/night cycles. So even without relativity, you aren't going to get a unified date system that works for everyone.

If that's the case Unix time then becomes a decent option, because it's equally human unreadable to everyone. Each planet can then have their own calendar based on that, and computers can deal with the nitty gritty
Google Sheets with Google Forms (or whatever it may be called) for some users. Or, without internet, Excel.

The spreadsheet is sort of one of those insane breakthroughs where it really makes programming (functional at that) really easy to grasp. And you can iteratively and intuitively add hundreds of variables and logic gates.
That IS the end game of VR, in some capacity.
Bro,don't feel sad,you are not alone......
find THE MEANING OF LIFE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d16CpWp-ok
Reinforcement Learning Recruits Somata and Apical Dendrites in Sensory Cortex
There is a lot more that AWS does for you than host a bunch of VMs...
https://thispersondoesnotexist.com

https://thisrentaldoesnotexist.com

https://thisvaginadoesnotexist.com
To be fair, there aren't "banner ads" on either the Google homepage or the search results pages. Neither are there "crazy, flashy, graphical doodads flying and popping up". There are definitely ads on the search results pages, and they take too much vertical space IMO, but they're text and small images, not flashing and tacky stuff.
For those who don't understand: https://awesomewm.org
The power of preconceptions...

I once worked with someone doing stats for a UN program. They used to say that the two most reliable statistics, in any country, are life expectancy and the murder rate. Because it’s quite hard to systematically hide murders or change the age in death certificates. In the Western Hemisphere, you can get a pretty good estimate just by taking a stroll of any cemetery.

Having been to Cuba, I can also assure you that despite all its shortcomings, starvation just isn’t a thing. Unless you’re allergic to rice and/or chicken. I even got to experience the health system (yeay climbing). And while „bare bones“ was the motto of the day, all the essential parts seemed to be working quite well.
You get free food in the US as well as Cuba if you are poor.

I literally just bought 20lbs of pork for $20 and 20lbs of rice and 10lbs of beans for another $20. You can beg and easily make more than $20 a day.

But even then the US gives out food coupons and there are tons of soup kitchens.
Drug abuse.
In the Uber case, this seems like a self-correcting problem. Because Uber's so easy to replicate, Uber competitors will lower the amount Uber's management can take for themselves to the lowest sustainable amount.
> They can see a doctor in minutes, get open heart surgery, and go home for <$8000 within a week, with a high chance of survival. The only requirement is insurance, which the vast majority of people have.

See, that's one of the problems I have with the American system right there. Why do you have to pay for life-saving surgery when you already have insurance? That's absurd.
Funny, I hear often that "WASM is just javascript" whenever I compare it to Flash and Java, as a defense for why it is different this time and totally won't have any of the problems of those other runtimes.
Right, my point is essentially that I don't think it's realistic to try and block first-party trackers. They're indistinguishable from page content. The closest you could get would be the 'disable javascript' hammer but there are non-script-based ways to do first party tracking pretty well, I'm sure.

I get why people would want or expect tracking blockers to work on reverse proxying but it seems silly to try. On the bright side, if the tracking is being done first-party it makes it much clearer who's taking your data and who's responsible for where it goes - it's going through them even if they're just bouncing it to another server.
Take a relatively grey-filled topic like: One person has caused the death of another.

Now show me the simple law covering that?

People claiming "the law can be simple" are exactly the same as luddites who claim "why cant you just make computers work?!" - each side has no appreciation of the inherent complexities involved.
This is a very important point. The graphs in the original article -- especially when taking into account those from other countries -- essentially shows that at some point the increase of productivity is due to automation, and that the human component in the workplace is becoming less relevant.
Not sure about US - but for the UK:
Number of UK start-ups rises to new record | Financial Times (2017)
https://www.ft.com/content/cb56d86c-88d6-11e7-afd2-74b8ecd34...

Also:
https://www2.gov.scot/About/Performance/scotPerforms/indicat...
> It's less than fake. You can't actually pinpoint it. There is no little you sitting in your head over the dashboard and making decisions. You don't decide when to decide to move your hand. It just comes to you. If we disconnect your hemispheres which one is going to be you?

The way I see it, your perception of there being "a little you" is basically a self-referential part of your brain taking a bunch of status readings from all over your brain and using them to generate the sensation of the little you doing whatever it is that you're doing.

The homunculus is there in your head, but he's just a picture on the screen in your Cartesian theatre.
"Kwigen is like Twitter but for Communication"

There's some deep truth in that.
FYI: Press the refresh button. It generates a different fake compay every time you refresh it.

Looks like it is kinda an AI research but I cannot get any detail behind it.
Anyone else get the sense this is more of a Mad-Libs style fill-in as opposed to the sort of AI-generated content found in other thisXdoesnotexist sites?
As a first approximation, let’s say I am my physical body. If you’re sitting in the chair across from me you can see me. If I wave, what you see is me waving. I’m a body in space with some peculiar characteristics called “life.”

Fine, but what happens when I die? My body is still there but it’s not really me anymore. I’m gone. The body left behind is just a husk. So it seems that I am not just a hunk of matter, but at least a hunk of matter imbued with a dynamic pattern of activity: breathing, perceiving, reacting, speaking, and so on.

Fine, but what about sleepwalking? In some sense it’s me who’s doing the things the sleepwalker does, but in some crucial sense it’s not really me. That’s a subtle and strange distinction, but we make this distinction in everyday life. I don’t blame someone for snoring, and when I feel annoyed I recognize I am being irrational.

And so on until you start to refine a picture of the person’s self as something like that body’s everyday nexus of thoughts, emotions, and decisions, being the result of socialization and growing to adulthood, especially within a narratively coherent life.

There’s no need for a homunculus ego in some infinite regress of ultimate causality—that is indeed a nonreal, fantastical kind of self, the kind of self that early Buddhists criticized the brahmins of their time for promoting as the true self.

Real selves are just developed, cultivated, socialized entities that arise as psychological realities. There might be more complex, nuanced structures than just “one body, one self.” But the insistence that selves are just nonexistent delusions seems to me like an unnecessarily provocative way of formulating something.
It's a running joke in archaeology that any artifact of unknown usage has "religious" purposes, whatever that might mean. The whole druids thing (as it's presented today) is a recent invention, basically the 19th century so there is no guarantee that they have any clearer understanding of the stones' purpose than the rest of us do. Regrettably, pre-Roman Britain did not preserve anything in writing.

As you say, for anyone visiting that area: skip Stonehenge which is noisy, crowded and fenced off, and go to West Kennet Long Barrow or Avebury (about 20 miles down the road?) where you can actually walk amongst and touch the stones. Avebury is literally a village built in and around an ancient monument, it's quite something.

https://goo.gl/maps/mHUyxecZ4EE2
And that’s just the point. AWS lets you not only cut down on “dedicated” staff. You can also share a lot of the staff you do need by using a Managed Service Provider.
"Accidentally picked up"
Somehow they must have fed it with some JavaScript and some php, right ?
The US has the highest healthcare expenditure and the most privatization. I think I’m seeing a pattern.
https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com
Since that's down, my favorite related parody is https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com
Don't know about Spain, but in some countries privatization means basically that functions that used to be handled by government employees or such are now handled by private enterprises, however the money still comes from public expenditure. The idea is that private enterprises are so much more efficient than government that they can do the same job cheaper while making profit at the same time. Not many success stories for the public in those cases.
Isn't this "everything that's new is bad, let's get back to old days" rather tiresome?

Not trying to be the hater here. I'd just like to know what's so appealing about stuff where all the improvements we've had since the 80s aren't noticeable, like HiDPI displays, easy access to embedded 4k HDR video without requiring stuff like Flash or Silverlight.
Not sure what's better.

The google response was a bit spineless. 'whoops' we got caught, guess we will have to cave. Most of their gender-scandal responses have been similarly reactive (see James DeMore).

I'm not sure I agree with Nadella's reasoning, but it's nice to have a predictable vision.
The unscalable deadlock-prone thread pool
'Easily' in terms of labor. But it was only possible to create an opening for that labor with the use of law - i.e. collective action. Just like how FAT32 is also easily replaced, yet Microsoft reaped patent profits from it for decades. There are countless other such parasites.
My guess is that it goes the other way: many people insist there must be something to our minds beyond what could result from physical processes in a physical brain that has evolved from much simpler predecessors, because of the profound and disturbing implications it has for what we are and what will become of us.

To be clear: the mystery is there - no-one has yet shown how minds do work - it is the assumption that it must be forever so that is a matter of faith (as is the opposite view; the issue is why a person would lean one way or the other.)
Yea, perhaps I'll snag the .com version of me .la - I'm keeping my .la for naming reasons, but I just don't know if I want to bet email on it. Appreciate the comments, thanks.
With sloppy scraping I guess JS was picked up besides text.

PHP should be intentionally used as training material.
Especially the phone home of ZoneAlarm, that blew up quite big. And to think that's what basically every application does nowadays.
> I mean, desktop usage is meant for people who work with computers

Practically everyone works with computers.

> They spend several hours a day in front of them and therefore require ergonomic chairs and the like.

That includes almost everybody.

> like decrypting compilers errors etc

I do that on my couch.

Desktop setup is a computer set up for desktop use, AKA, _for regular people everyday use_, that come bundled at most with some productivity suite (usually Office or Office clones).

Xmonad is not desktop ready, on the contrary, it harms Linux penetration on the desktop segment.

Ubuntu is a desktop setup, Fedora is a desktop setup, ElementaryOS is a desktop setup (etc. etc. etc.)

If you are compiling, you are already a pro user.

A desktop user doesn't fight with the default configuration, a desktop user adapt to the default configuration.

They might change the desktop background and WM theme, and that's all.
I remember in the 90s there were all these neat and wonky 4/5GL databases like Clarion, Foxpro, Powerbuilder, etc.

They were neat because they were ways for data users to design all the workflow around their subject. They had downsides, of course, that are apparent if you ever had to debug or support one. But a cloud dev front end that recreates the freedom and flexibility of these dB tools has massive potential.

Airtable srrms the closest to this dream.
>But then if we simplified the law to make it comprehensible to mortals again, who would need any algorithms at all?

Because automating simple systems is what software is great at. Why wouldn't you?
My 8 year old Samsung Series 9 Ultraportable. I still far prefer it to my much newer ASUS. Best laptop I've ever owned. (essentially a macbook pro spec machine... and beautifully designed)

It'd be my regular travel lappy if I could bother getting a new battery for it. Still great to code on, and the screen is far far better than the ASUS. Lighter too. (although no discrete graphics)

But battery life is a killer. ASUS lasts up to ten hours, and the Samsung barely does 2 hours now. With a power point, that's not an issue, but it's nice to have something with a bit more go.
Yes. But that's the sort of hype that seems to be desired. "OMG zombies, we accidentally put some bad samples in the training data"
That’s why I use tmux
> I almost feel like in the past there were more attempts at making this accessible to the end user, HyperCard, dbase etc, even just BASIC on your 8-bit machine.

Oh for sure, look at web: we transformed something simple and beautiful like html+css in a complete shit show.

Also, I don't feel like the new programming languages are easier then COBOL or BASIC, quite the contrary. We are making technology more complicated for no reason.

Or at least, at the time we had the very complicated stuff and stuff that simplified complexity. Think about S and SPSS.

Now we have complicated and very complicated. We are giving less creative possibilities to the end user: making them consumers, first of all.

Other example VB6.
I work for a fairly high traffic website, and we got a demonstration a few weeks ago from a company that is offering to install software for us that can force about 80% of our ads through, with minimal modification on our part. It is this proxy that dynamically recompiles our javascript and knits it into our content. But we were told we should only turn on ad-forcing for only for older demographics, who were far less likely to care. Management opted to pass, only because it wouldn't improve things enough.

This is what we get for letting companies like Google decide what technologies win and reshape the landscape. We have become so dependent on javascript blobs and server side rendering that blocking ads will be an uphill battle. Honestly I think Google could shove ads down our throats if they wanted to, but they are holding back, for now.

The bulwark against this encroachment was Mozilla Firefox, and the OSS community. Firefox was supposed to provide a legitimate alternative vision for the web. But Mozilla decided to let Google define what was normal, and what features a web browser should and should not have.

Can't people see that Google's vision is box canyon?
It just needs to be escalated to local MITM VPN-based (so it works on phones too) filtering.
>The only requirement is insurance, which the vast majority of people have.

However, the vast majority of people do not have access to $8000.
Because Go is owned and controlled by Google, the company famous for personal data collection and misuse.
So, Abavu is basically Amazon?
In my eyes, Google pioneered the commercial application of this approach. The advent of BigTable and it's underlying colossus storage engine they literally pushed the advent of HDFS and all the BigData tooling from a decade ago.
That plus a roughly 12% growth in population over that range.
There is an argument made towards "rampant privatisation", i.e. a transfer of a business from public to private control. However, data shows that government expenditure has increased above CPI, the driver of prices (not an output like "GDP per capita", which for some reason you refer too as an economic driver of sorts). I cannot observe, from official data the I link to, a slow down in public healthcare investment by the Spanish government, and definitely not an increase in expenses due to the Government paying private healthcare players. Feel free to dive into the data and indicate otherwise. I'm not here for armchair politics.
> you initialize your program, do all the dynamic stuff, then push the "OK, now I'm done being dynamic" button. After that, the program "freezes" into place, and calling a function with a new type of argument it has never seen before or something becomes an error.

We could even come up with names for those two phases. We could call the first phase "compile time" or "preprocessor/macro evaluation time", and the second phase "run time" :)
I especially like how the comments have absolutely nothing in common with the code they are supposedly commenting, just like in real life.
I’ve only heard of one or two breakages...
Lineage and other custom Android versions don't have such requirement.
Evolution made humans less aggressive
You’re both quite silly. Do you see your comments?
You can restrict access to a bucket so it only goes through a CloudFront url that you control.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Develope...
Your retort in no way actually counters that you are tracking without consent - this is not allowed.
> But if you ask an exam question where the deep structure answer differs from answer you’d guess looking at low order correlations, most students usually give the wrong answer.

Every kid knows about these. They're called trick questions, and they've been fooling students at all levels for centuries.
Do you have a link to their code?
10-15 years ago? I'd say yes.
Yeah. Oddly enough, this should be the easiest variation on the this-does-not-exist idea, but it's the least believable.

If I didn't know it was an experiment, I'd think it was a bot-driven ad-fraud popup site or something.
It’s called a co-pay and it’s because you’re expected to pay a portion along with all treatment. This is to make sure you aren’t going when you don’t need it.

$8000 for lift saving treatment is nothing really. I can go to the doctor for $20 - $40. However, if I need open heart surgery, $8k is fair.

In Ireland, Canada, etc you have to wait months to get treatment. People die on the list to get treatment. That’s my issue with that setup. I agree the US healthcare can be improved. However, don’t let the propaganda fool you (that’s for political campaigns), it’s expensive and we all want to fix that, but it’s very effective.
I rather have the AOT compile times from Java and CLR based toolchains.

As for LLVM as the underlying target for machine code, it is already a thing, nothing new here.

https://www.imsystech.com/high-level-languages/

https://www.infoq.com/articles/ios-9-bitcode
Is it infinite loopus? 4 debugging lessons from House M.D
For those who were as confused as I was: Every time you refresh the page, it comes up with a new startup, with new people and titles etc.
Refresh the page
Interestingly the submission from 35 minutes ago has gained a lot more traction than this one (it would've pointed to the same discussion page hadn't you added the "/hn" to the link):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19253829
That's probably because he uses vim
My first suspicion was seeing a company based out of Islamabad.
Oh, what a pity. Poor Go fanboys.
> there are also million-dollar businesses that have succeeded while only ever writing their SQL queries as naively as possible.

Citation needed. Given engineering staff sizes and the amount of performance problems RDBMSes have, that seems highly doubtful.
That's just Dwarf Fortress.
I'm not an economist but can imagine forcing the lowering of prices could have far more impact on the whole economy, not all good. Off the top of my head it would lead to shortages and thus to increased prices. You'd have to produce more while having less money available to invest in that. Possibly a whole lot more.

But reducing the work week only impacts the employer's profit via slightly decreased productivity. On the other hand with 3 free days per week you'd be more likely to put more money back into the economy.

The problem is today's balance of productivity vs. wage is only perfect for the employer and not much else is taken into consideration. What kind of bargaining power do employees have to change this?
What's not to get? It's telephone calling on demand which is going to be the next youtube! I have already signed up for $89/month and sent them my resume! What a great idea. They already have three CEOs so I don't think 1 more can hurt, frankly.
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> A baby babbles I guess for fun but also because it's part of the process of playing with the world to learn to cope with it and to become an effective person. So talking, walking, eating, etc, are all part of the same general activity of life, and they all have their own forms of "grammar."

Yeah, exactly. Almost everything a small child does is a directed attempt to generate training data, whether they're talking to you or talking to themselves or grabbing random things or trying to crawl into traffic.
Variations on a Utilitarian Theme
But flash was not an option for similar purposes because of its terrible security.
I've recently spent an evening with a guy, who when asked any sort of question, would go into a long-form, several-paragraph-wide explanation of the phenomena.

Except if you actually paid attention to what he was saying, you'd realize that he was simply quoting the definitions of things he had learned over a sufficient time. He had a great vocabulary as well, and would put it in a good, well-versed academic paragraph.

The fact is that, unless you seriously paid attention to what he was saying - you'd think he's making a really deep point about something you don't understand. In actuality - he was simply going from one definition to another.

The amount of effort required to refute him is way above it takes him to blab about anything. He'd go around the issue without ever answering the question.
Are the founder images also deep-fakes, or are they of real people?
I've been using Linux in some form for 15 years. Like you, it's been some pre-packaged usable out-of-the-box distro (Xubuntu, Crunchbang, Mint). I've never once compiled a kernel, as I never had to, or saw the need, and it doesn't seem like fun (neither would fixing the compile errors the inevitably come up when I try to compile anything from C/C++). I've never had audio problems that everyone else seems to have, and I don't get the uproar over systemd.

It all seems to work for me. Am I too much of a Linux noob to appreciate these problems?
1. If you process it in batches then you have to count the time it takes to send the data of each batch to and from the GPU.
2. It's fair to start out with small data sets, but then you don't compare against distributed frameworks like Spark, but rather against single-node solutions.

Also - Spark is very slow compared to analytic distributed DBMSes.
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