skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the reason most services started censoring was to appease payment providers / advertisers. i dont think they are separate
Some advertisers are quitting Facebook, chiding its 'despicable business model'
I wonder what position the investors prior to the IPO still have.
Note that this forgets the order of the arguments, which may not be desirable
Hire a project manager for your lab.
While I also wouldn't put Netflix on a pedestal, I think it is in a very different category than Facebook:

Netflix, you indeed lose your time but you don't have that feeling that everyone else is having a wonderful time while you are losing yours on the couch. Netflix (as TV) provides some healthy entertainment.

Facebook on the other hand provides entertainment by broadcasting how perfect other people's life are. And this is exactly what pushes people to depression and suicide.
Ask people you know and most of them will admit that after their daily visit on Facebook they feel a bit burned-out. This effect is also magnified because you now always keep in mind that you should post a "perfect picture" on Instagram to please your followers.
> (there are some exceptions, like the Beatles mono and stereo boxed sets that came out awhile ago)

Didn't the beatles famously create their music to be listenable on the terrible radios of the time?
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Is there a bug in there?
IIRC Notepad source code is in a Windows SDK. Probably an old one, but it only started to be actively maintained quite recently (and even then: only very lightly), so the source code you can get will likely cover most of its lifespan for now.

I'm not sure the source of notepad is that much interesting, though. I mean, yeah, nice to have out of curiosity, maybe, but I'm not sure I would get anything from looking at it. I'm even more interested by monstrosities like historical version of conhost, or of cmd, because it is both simultaneously horrendous and bizarrely not extremely buggy (probably was debugged by some kind of brute force effort, then... :p )

Although a version of the Notepad source under a free software licence would at least permit to strip it of the new ridiculous shits, like "Search with Bing" and maybe some spying features.
On the point about autograd tools, it’s unfortunately not always helpful for types of models that are not amenable to that type of framework, like gradient-free methods, custom Bayesian inference models, or modified versions of some traditional models (like bias-corrected logistic regression).

Here again, if you tie machine learning to a big system like Spark, which is typically a huge IT cost in a lot of companies, and if they commit to having an underlying data model suitable for Spark, it necessitates orienting everything around Spark (someone with the scale of Microsoft might not suffer this problem like everybody else)... all together it just renders Spark to be usually such a limiting choice as to make it totally impractical to standardize on it and give up all the other types of models or data storage and cluster computing techniques you might need on a project-by-project basis.
How many threads for a calculator? My Task Manager says 20.
Was really hoping to land on an app that would help you tune it.
The fit may have been easier for them, due to:

1. Shorter / thinner stature compared to today's explorers
2. The caves having compressed / become narrower, even slightly, in the last 1000 years
> if you are going to use an m.2 to PCIe adapter might as well dump the middle man and just plug in a PCIe GPU straight into the x4 slot since that would work just fine.

I did say that and even linked a video of someone trying to do just that (The part about using the M.2 port is about 5 mins into the video).

> And if you have a M.2 port with PCIe then might as well just hook the GPU directly to the M.2 <-> PCIe adaptor[1]). Either way you would be limited to 4 PCIe lanes.

It does depend on what bios settings you are running and if you bios allows you to change those settings to get the card seen by the laptop. Linus (from LTT not Linux) wasn't able to get it to work, but then again it is Linus and his projects often don't go to plan.
I'm not a big believer of audiophile stuff, but when I'm listening to 24k music I'm hearing new instruments, new sounds. It's not the case with everything though. Am I retarded ?
Do you think there is a class of players who don't want to feel clever for outsmarting a predictable AI?
>"Then explain this black swan"

It's not black, it is a very dark white, and you might be looking at it with the wrong lighting.
The problem with that is these kinds of simplified "how it works" neural net examples don't scale for real world problems - especially when using an interpreted language like Python.

Even a simple but useful scenario like the MNIST number recognition system would probably run "dog-slow" on such a neural network, given the number of input nodes, plus the size of the hidden layer - the combinatorial "explosion" of edges in the graph, all the processing needed during backprop and forwardprop...

It might be doable with C/C++ - but it still won't run as well as it could.

These examples are really just meant as teaching tools; they are the bare-bones-basics of neural networks, to get you to understand the underlying mechanisms at work (actually, the XOR network is the real bare-bones NN example, because it requires so few nodes, that it can be worked out by pencil and paper methods).

Real-world implementations are best done using more advanced libraries and tools, like Tensorflow and Keras, or similar (and moving to C/C++ and/or CUDA if even more processing power is needed).
Speaking as the engineering lead owning conhost.exe: I can't find anything in our code that would trace user input, or data effectively derived from user input, to even a local event stream.

There are a couple instances where we trace API call timings, but only that of API calls initiated by an attached console application.
Partial passwords are a terrible idea for a multitude of reasons but one in particular stands out to me. We have come to the general conclusion that humans shouldn't remember their passwords, they should remember one complicated pass key that is linked to a number of otherwise inaccessible secret keys used to interact with servers but, let's step back for a moment and assume people are remembering their passwords (which most people not on HN still do)...

A password has an entropy n, a higher n yields more security but comes at a cost in terms of memory power, I think it's reasonable to state that very high entropy passwords exhaust our memory quite quickly which is why password reuse is so common, this particular authentication is requiring the user to have a high entropy password n, and then is reducing it to an entropy m where m is at most as large as n (usually much smaller) and using that for authentication.

We, users and tech people, don't care about the cost to transmit bits over the wire or the cost to verify those bits on the far end (in this scenario) we care about the cost on the user's memory more than anything so why are we optimizing this puzzle to be least efficient for our most valuable resource.

When I first read this article I thought this practice was silly, now it strikes me as stupid... it is a transformation that simply discards some of the potential security of the system for no reason.

(Also, banks love ease of use, which is why up here in Canada they love to send out password dongles to customers that make it even easier to log in to a site than this while still requiring possession of a physical thing - and many of those dongles require additional authentication to activate whenever using, though not all)
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Reading through your post, it struck me that your skill set is very close to that of a CTO of a small startup (the missing part is around hiring and managing, and maybe you’ve done that as well). At least it sounds a lot like my first few months on the job: one day you’ll be setting up the company website, the next doing some hacky back-end scripting, then some “good enough” ML for a product prototype, and the next day you’ll be troubleshooting the O365 corporate account. So this might be an avenue to look into... perhaps as someone else mentioned by attending meetups where you’ll meet similar-minded individuals who’ll be more interested in what you can do than what your CV says.
I get that you have a fundamental disagreement with the opinions expressed by this commenter, but please don’t invalidate their experience like that. Saying, “Sorry but no” is a flippant way of dismissing their experience without actually being sorry for doing it.

It’s frankly not for you to say “what happened” when it comes to their opinion, which is based on what they’ve witnessed and experienced. Note that this entire thread does not concern facts, it concerns impressions and opinions. This isn’t the place to “Actually, ...” what someone else has said.

It strikes me as particularly condescending that you’re telling this person they only feel this way because of “free food and free toys.”
> The worst predictions of warming, which has basically been disproven already you can ignore the 8.5 black/red circles, have all been untrue to date.

Took me a while to realise you were talking about the other picture you linked to.

Those are RCP8.5, where “RCP” means “Representative concentration pathway”. We’re just below the mean estimate for that, but closer to that than to the RCP6.0.

A bigger problem is that you can’t simultaneously say that 8.5 F is a “worst” prediction and say that “10 C is great”.

As I’ve said on another thread, I don’t expect us to have long term climate problems, because I’m happy to project the current exponential growth of PV for another 20 years — but you don’t get to just pretend that world experts are wrong just because you don’t like the conclusions they bring to you. After all, plenty of civilisations have ended, and that’s what worries (other) people.
That was a (lame) joke.
Say you convert color of the sock in the drawer to a range [0,1] on your one and only coordinate. Then you convert dirtiness of the sock to a similar range and just add them together. Can you differentiate between a sock that is 0.4 on color and 0.6 on dirtiness from another sock which is 0.6 on color and 0.4 on dirtiness?

I suppose you could encode it all to one number so that structure is preserved, but dimensions themselves are not going anywhere, they are in your choice of encoding that must reside outside of your one coordinate.
The derive of sigmoid is exp(-x) / (1+exp(-x))² and not exp(x) / (1+exp(-x))²
The guest who speaks after Vijaya, Tim Pool, got my fight or flight reflex up just by listening to him talk. It's hard to engage with someone when it feels like an outlet for their aggression rather than a discussion.

His words were saying "by having twitter delete #learntocode tweets, you've muted a protest", but his tone was more like "I want to fight you".
I hope someone can help me. I was slowly tapered off Effexor (started at 225mg and then slowly to 125, 75, 25). I was overcome by an existential dread that colored every living moment. I landed up in the hospital - only to resume. Has anyone had experiences like this to share? I want to get rid of this medication again this year but am afraid to start. I am well-balanced and happy at work and life atm.
I had an album (albeit free) on bandcamp dissappear from my library.

Luckily it's on a backed up RAID6 array, in private server, streamable whenever I want.

I mirror all my purchases onto equipment I own, and so I guess I get the benefits of both.
Please resist the temptation of the hyperbolic title (which we've changed above). Comments on the shallowest thing in an article only lead to shallow discussion.

The article contains many subtleties and interesting observations. Comments on those, or ones of your own, will make for a much better thread.
Well, great web design doesn't pull you to engage in HN comments.
Interesting, I think some of these are quite valid. It's just important to know when to turn the switch at times.
I strongly recommend, if possible, to have a single homeowner and set everyone else up as renters. The only exception is married couples who already have shared finances.

Want to share a house with friends for twenty years and share childcare responsibilities? Great, have them sign an intent-to-lease agreement and take that to the mortgage company to help with qualification. Not having this kind of agreement can lead to all sorts of issues.

This should also extend to being jointly and severally liable for paying rent, not just mortgage. What happens when a tenant stops paying? If you've got joint and several liability, you basically have to pay the full amount while being unable to evict the deadbeat for nonpayment (since they're an owner or on the lease). It's slightly better in the case of the lease since you can negotiate a technical default and deadbeat-only eviction with your landlord, but it's still a mess that you should avoid if possible.

That all said, living in a house with friends is an excellent choice IMO. I think humans are built to have some non-blood relatives at that level of closeness and cooperation, and it seems good to raise a child with more than two adults that they interact with in their typical household setting.
Sometimes it's just Apple employees leaving them at a bar and journalists holding them for ransom.
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That's pretty cool, though, knowing me and Alexa I will send that drone to the first wall or tree around me lol.
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Which makes me wonder why even go with one story over the other. They both contain theft, so if you accept that there was theft, then it's illegal to buy them, and illegal for them to sell them knowing that. I guess maybe it's so they look less like a common criminal and more like a white-collar criminal that only steals from super rich companies?
> Bigger question is - why would anyone use yelp?

Because they're looking for a good place to eat, possibly in an unfamiliar area?
A lot of people think they are not susceptible, then close their MacBook, put on their Beats connected to their iPhone put on their Nike shoes go to nearby grocery store and buy a Coca Cola and pay with their Apple Watch.

Yes you might not use any of these products, but highly likely majority that you do is branded. Also you are more susceptible to purchase certain brans that others, that's why advertisers want to target items that you are more likely to purchase.

This is not necessarily bad, but we learned recently that this mechanism was weaponized and things like Brexit and 2016 election is prime example how dangerous this is.
For one, Google and Apple would remove an app from the App/Play Store if it was abusing those privileges. My Digital Life would never have passed App Store approval in the first place, since it in no way demonstrated why it needed the amount of personal information it requested. Facebook clearly had no such monitoring.

Not to mention the scale of data is radically different. I'm not over the moon about someone uploading my phone number to an unknown service, but it's mild compared to someone uploading my phone number, friend network, wall posts, photos shared, likes, etc. etc. etc.
honest question: should I trust the binary they provided? What reason should I have trusting it? Because I don't.
> not "unexpected 14.5kHz falloff"

And yet just yesterday I was reading an audiophile magazine review that discussed a pair of $4,000 headphones and how the "transition from midrange into treble had something of a falloff that was confirmed by their equipment".

Music lovers listen to stereo equipment to hear their music. Audiophiles listen to music to hear their stereo equipment.
A very solid 9/10.
Sex every morning when we wake up and sometimes in the evening before bed... Maybe 10 times a week on average.

Just do it before bed / when waking up. No need to bring work into it.

If you love eachother, it'll happen naturally.
This seems like a stretch to me and certainly diminishes the value of your opening original comment "... that end up spending so much time on your platform doing nothing instead of contributing in things that would benefit society".

Personally, I've just as well felt a bit burned-out by watching very popular TV shows on Netflix portraying the amazing lives of some people as I have with Facebook, and I would never say Netflix has caused negative value to my life, just as I wouldn't say that with Facebook, which in my personal experience has been one of the very best products of this decade.

Certainly agree to disagree.
Can only speak from the perspective of a long-term relationship. In my experience, one has to actively schedule it. Else it's one of the first things, which get sacrificed in the daily churn. As a ground rule: quantity over quality. You should do it even if you are too tired or not in the mood. Make an appointment, if necessary.
that's so high, it has been increasing here in Miami as well.

However, it is nowhere near that much. In Miami, that's about a 4-5 bedroom house.
> Imagine how effective an intelligence campaign would be against, say, Iran, if the NSA went to Microsoft, disclosed a vuln, and then told them to patch the vuln ONLY in specific markets.

Not very. Do you think Iran doesn't have a Windows VM somewhere within the US and is also incapable of reverse-engineering patches?
Cymbals specifically produce a lot of ultrasonic audio, and some high sample rate recordings actually capture it. If you slow them down enough you can hear the difference.
I know it's totally overkill, but I use Mathematica for even simple arithmetic computations. I assume that the developers have ironed most of the obvious bugs.
Maybe I don't know much about bitcoin, but can't you track the address where the bitcoins were being transferred to? Seems like it would be difficult to launder that volume of bitcoin all anonymously where it can be tracked, to a certain extent, through the public blockchain?
Because dimension is about the connectivity structure of a set of objects, not the size of the set of objects.

Sets with the same cardinality can have wildly different topologies, which describe the possible paths through the space, which in turn describes the nature of functions into and out of that space, as well as transformations and relationships within that space.

A line through the center of a sphere doesn't necessarily touch the sphere in a "4 dimensional" connectivity structure, must touch the sphere in a "3 dimensional" connectivity structure, while a sphere doesn't even exist in a "1 dimensional" connectivity structure.

The main reason that we use "4 dimensional" spacetimes for particle physics is that there are three independent components of motion with respect to time, and so it makes the math simpler to allow for independent variation of those parameters to functions, instead of compressing them into a single encoded number, eg, derivatives wouldn't function correctly (or likely even be defined) on a single parameter model. An additional reason that we don't use a "1 dimensional" spacetime is because the product of a "1 dimensional" time and a "1 dimensional" space is a "2 dimensional" spacetime -- and we don't have any models of reality that lack either space or time. (Which is good: any model needs to explain both, if only as an emergent feature.)

Topology is about connectivity, not scale; dimension is a topological fact.
>Average Joe and Susi have been for 3+ decades nicely programming lots of extensions to AutoCAD and its various clones in Lisp.

Ha ha, I read somewhere that years ago, in some org or the other, Emacs Lisp was programmed by secretaries to help them achieve their routine tasks. Apparently they were not told that it was "too difficult for them" :)
The greatest trick the SIGINT Enterprise ever pulled was convincing the world that its capabilities were in danger of being outclassed by the Chinese, Russians, Iranians, Israelis, etc. Nice to see they're still at it.
Current ownership doesn't expect additional upside for staying in so it's getting out while the getting's good.
All players want to win. The level of difficulty is equal to the level of accomplishment, but games have to be made for the average rather than the exceptional, so many better than average players won't be challenged by the difficulty.

Nobody is going to invest the resources into a real AI just for the hardest difficulty modes. If it cannot be used on Easy/Normal, it simply isn't happening.
It might be that Microsoft doesn't do testing/QA on Firefox, and thus they don't want to be responsible for any issues that occur.
Basically every Android and IOS app you use collects telemetry (which you usually cannot disable) for UX purposes but suddenly when Microsoft does it it's a Big Deal. I don't see the issue with refining UX using anonymous data if it improves the product for the end users. Every high quality commercial app does this.
Subscribed super fast! One piece of feedback: I'd love to learn about new stories as they come in via a Twitter account (I'm less likely to open them via email but if they're in my Twitter feed I'll almost always)
Switzerland’s neutrality is entirely self serving, and they seem to have no problems with taking stolen assets from monsters if it makes them money.

Switzerland: “We don’t violate human rights, but we’re the bankers for those that do.”
I apologize not adding anything new the discussion but just wanted to thank you both for a nice and reasoned discussion.

Wish everybody (including myself) talked like this.
I had no idea browsers already supported AV1
You don't have to imagine, you can view the data for yourself: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/diagnostic-...
So are Chevy Corvair engines (from the 60's)
At what dose did you start feeling that way? Or was it when you stopped completely after 25mg?
> I don't think that documentation and tooling is required to be provided currently by federal law.

It is, but they can charge some amount for it (not prohibitively though). The biggest problems in R2R generally in the U.S. seem to stem from misuse of the DMCA as a mechanism to prevent modification of physical goods by making those goods rely on what they can argue are copyright protection devices (and thus difficult to legally circumvent).
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If the property we want to achieve is "a | b == b | a" we necessarily have to forget the order of the arguments.
GDC (Game Developers Conference) publishes a lot of great talks on YouTube about game design. Here are some of their popular AI talks:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=GDC+AI
Just curious - you do you - but if you are well-balanced and happy on the meds why do you want to taper off?
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As a total amateur I found your post a very helpful introduction. Thanks!
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Would you apply that reasoning to watching porn, reading Harry Potter novels, bbq-ing etc?

Arguably, none of those are "contributing in things that would benefit society".
At 30 we're looking at typically 5db loss over 8khz, at 40 more than 10db. Sure, we're not talking about total hearing loss, but the reduced sensitivity is going to overwhelm any real artifacts from 16/44 that one might have genuinely detected at 20.

Imagined artifacts will probably remain or might even increase though, since people typically have much higher spending power at 40. :)
I wish the person who replied didnt delete their comment. They asked you if you felt the same way about netflix. Are products who want to keep people hooked, and have all their attention universally bad?
The deal here, though, is that these KGB files are full of the names of Latvians who informed on their neighbors. It's one thing to be spied on by the NSA (or Google), and another to be spied on by people you regard as friends.