skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I like having a bit of daylight in the mornings in the winter, and I’ll miss it when it’s gone. As I’m sure a lot of people will when they realise that getting ‘rid’ of it makes the winter worse, not the summer better.

Considering that society is already built around morning larks and all the advantages they enjoy, this decision is a tiny, if pleasant victory for the night owls.

I can't recall the last time I was awake early enough to take advantage of that early sunlight hour. It was probably years ago.
You are showing your entitlement.
How do you screen calls / distractions on your smartphone?
Like many people, I get a lot of spam calls.

My original workaround was using "Do Not Disturb" mode in iOS, and a whitelist of people who could break through. This seemed to greatly reduce, but not eliminate the calls.

However, the whitelist also blocks recruiters, job interviewers, or people calling from a different line.

Also, I give out my Signal number to a lot of loose ties, and DND only applies to voice calls/SMS not Signal - so often when I intended to only be reachable by my close friends and family I'll instead be pinged by someone wanting to chat.

How does HN screen their mobile calls/messages? I love the utility of my smartphone, I'd never trade it for a dumb phone. But I wish there was a better way to set some kind of medium mode between "turned off" and "accessible to anyone who has my contact info".
> There are barriers to actually carrying out Slofstra’s experiment. For one thing, it’s impossible to certify any laboratory result as occurring 100 percent of the time.

Hmm, yeah, I thought there will be, like with all of those quantum tests trying to say if space is continuous.

> “In the real world you’re limited by your experimental setup,” Yuen said. “How do you distinguish between 100 percent and 99.9999 percent?”

And that is exactly the problem with idea of discrete space. Once you try to pin-down those pixels, it appears universe is blurry before you can go down to that resolution. "In the real world, you are limited by real world".
Yeah, agreed that this feels really bad. I also sympathize with the "this is how lists work" argument, but that tells me the list functionality here was a mistake.

In my mind `a += b` is syntactic sugar for `a = a + b`, nothing more. It certainly shouldn't have different semantics.
Ask HN: Is halontax trustworthy for preparing/filing business tax?
This year I'm planning to file Business tax myself. Found halontax.com online. Website looks good, but they are using letsencrypt certificate. Nothing wrong with the letsencrypt, but it would be more assuring if it was using a commercial cert, for a business dealing with a lot of sensitive data.

Also, is there any other online tax site that you would recommend? Apologies for the double question.
No, it's not. Others have suggested other great books for beginners, like Practical Common Lisp. You'll get the most from Let Over Lambda after you've already got a bit of experience with Lisp.
I think the watermark is not bigger than other similar apps. Thank you for the compliment:)
Well, you removed the word "Facebook" from the quote there, and the Business Insider article itself states that the practice is extremely unusual in the industry.

I'll agree that if Bloomberg was the sole reporter of a controversial story about Facebook that couldn't be proven I'd be very suspicious. But as far as I can tell, that hasn't happened.
Damn, sometimes reading comments can be soo expensive :-)
Basically the same. My reasons for leaving were not related to company/product ethics.
That may be true, but I've seen some vinyl mastering jobs that looked as bad as digital. I won't claim to be a mastering engineer or anything, but after comparing many vinyl releases and digital releases, it seems like there is something going on besides the physical limitations of the medium.
Considering the current environmental issues this is not absurd at all.
Even though it's theoretically possible to send over Bluetooth without reencoding, I wonder if it happens in practice. The audio pipeline has too many stages and each of them would have to retain the encoding.
> If we tell women their whole childhood that some jobs are for men and some are for women and vice versa for men then ask them when they turn 18 what job they want we'll get horrendously unequal outcomes even though people are completely free to choose.

This would make some sense if women had been in the workforce for centuries and were well-established in particular fields, but women have only been in the workforce for a relatively short period of time and the cultural influences that might direct them into one job over another are not even remotely strong enough to play the role you think they do. There is almost nothing except the non-stop message of "you can do anything you want to do" given to little girls today and they are electing to do what they want to do. To assume they are trapped by some sort of cultural force that prefers them to do medicine instead of engineering (neither of which existed as a female field prior to the 20th century) is nonsense. Today, most medical school and law school graduates are women. Most engineering graduates are men. Unless men are fiercely protecting engineering for some weird, inexplicable reason, it would seem like women have had their say and chosen what they want to do.
The baitiness comes from the over-use of the word in headlines. I don't disagree with you but unfortunately accuracy is not the only concern.

Re the GP comment, I was referring to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19299892, which was always upvoted and quickly reached a high positive score. When users are expressing an allergic reaction like that, we've learned that it's best to just yield. A modified title can be just as accurate and usually reduces inflammation.

That said, I think your argument is at least as persuasive. We did the standard moderation thing in this case because, as I said, it's proved to be globally optimal. But it doesn't seem to have been locally optimal here.
I said "most movie screens", not a theatre with the best equipment.

My point is that the difference between 2k/4k/8k is noticeable, but not significant. NTSC, at 480i, was a magnitude worse than film.
> can you read an article from https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/ with ease, aside from vocab?

Nope. Perhaps you are right.

> I went through a few beginner grammar books/websites

Would you mind telling which ones you went through?
If they click your link (that includes the `?cid` parameter) while they're on your website, I believe the `cid` value is cookied/stored with their Microsoft Store profile, and will be respected even if they buy later directly from the Store.

If they visit your website but don't click the link, then there's no way for the Store to attribute the sale to your website, so you'll probably be charged full freight (15%).
Tried looking for similar frameworks and offerings in Node.js, but no luck so far. That's too bad. Maybe I'll just pickup Rails ^^

Thanks!
I think this is primarily due to the immense effort that NVIDIA has put into CUDA. It works very well and it is extremely fast. The alternatives for AMD are OpenCL and ROCm which have seriously lagged behind CUDA in every respect.

EDIT: lots of theories and discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/7tf4da/d_w...
Most trivial? Not by a long shot. What about WINVER?
The people who raise up their cars also seem to never make the corresponding adjustments to the headlights, and end up blinding other drivers.
What drivers are you using?

I'm running Chrome 72 at 4K on a 50" monitor via KDE Plasma and Fedora 29 on Kernel 4.20, using only an AMD Ryzen 5 2400g ASIC, and it runs just fine (so it does work on the desktop in at least that configuration). I did however manually build the latest ROCm [1] and Vulkan [2]. I would check your flags and check your settings to make sure you have the right optimizations.

chrome://flags chrome://chrome-urls

BTW: For whatever reason, in certain builds under some combination of settings, the times I've experienced Chrome running at a crawl, it's usually been an issue with GPU rasterization. These are the settings I have disabled (everything else is set to hardware accelerated or enabled)...

chrome://gpu

Out-of-process Rasterization: Disabled
Hardware Protected Video Decode: Hardware accelerated
Rasterization: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
Skia Deferred Display List: Disabled
Skia Renderer: Disabled
Surface Control: Disabled

Here's my full Command Line:

/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds --enable-native-gpu-memory-buffers --force-device-scale-factor=1 --enable-accelerated-video --enable-accelerated-mjpeg-decode --flag-switches-begin --enable-audio-focus --enable-experimental-web-platform-features --enable-google-branded-context-menu --enable-oop-rasterization --enable-quic --enable-zero-copy --ignore-gpu-blacklist --enable-lcd-text --load-media-router-component-extension=1 --enable-hardware-overlays=single-fullscreen,single-on-top,underlay --enable-features=DrawOcclusion,ExperimentalProductivityFeatures,FontCacheScaling,InfiniteSessionRestore,LayeredAPI,NetworkService,OverlayScrollbar,OverlayScrollbarFlashAfterAnyScrollUpdate,OverlayScrollbarFlashWhenMouseEnter,PageAlmostIdle,ProactiveTabFreezeAndDiscard,SharedArrayBuffer,SiteCharacteristicsDatabase,UseSurfaceLayerForVideo,V8Orinoco,V8VmFuture,VizDisplayCompositor,VizHitTestDrawQuad,WebAssemblyBaseline,WebAssemblyThreads,WebRTC-H264WithOpenH264FFmpeg,enable-pixel-canvas-recording --flag-switches-end

[1] https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm

[2] https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK
I had a conversation the other day with two journalists on this subject and I was flabbergasted by how little they seem to know. They were under the pretext that when something is free you're the product, but they didn't seem to realize just how many shit Facebook knows about them or how far and deep the tracking goes. I've come to the realization that apart from our community no one else seems to understand what's at stake here.

The real issue is that most people can't make the correlation between personal data that are monitored and ways of exploitation. They don't know that any individual can target them specifically by using their e-mail or phone number. They have this abstract notion that somewhere a company is running a generic ad that shows shoes or cars to them and that's all there is.
Which is great ...for you...

but what if in the future you could hear the differences?
And now your entire collection is in MP3 V2 - now what?

No reason to not rip everything in uncompressed FLAC these days.

But if your happy with your audio now, great!
CUDA is one hell of a drug.

That said, I'm still surprised Apple gave up on NVIDIA support, especially since there's no it-just-works option for deep learning on a Mac.
Accelerating reinforcement learning with physics and differentiable programming
Amazon Escalates War on Counterfeits
> No point in bottlenecking my audio just because _other_ people are unable to appreciate it.

The entire point of the post is that _nobody_ can appreciate it. It is entirely a waste of space at best, and a cynical marketing ploy at worst.
Taking Ayahuasca while on antidepressants is a breathtakingly bad idea, even without an intent to use the experience to “quit” them. Don’t. Do. It.
Dynamic range is a solved problem if people cared.

You attach some metadata to the audio file that says certain
parts should be level boosted in a noisy environment and there you go.
Yes, every branch gets its own environment.
I've rarely had poor experiences with USPS, but not too long ago I filed a change of address after a move and... AFAICT, it did nothing. Some crucial pieces of mail got lost (thanks hostile former housemate!) and it resulted in things like health insurance coverage being interrupted.

I don't know if this is the common case, but with big negative impacts, it seems like a possibility worth accounting for.
I understand the UI is not to everyone's taste, but I think the idea of using machine learning to create an engaging "window" into large sets of public-domain images is a good one. It would be interesting to read more about the process used to tag and organize the content for this project.

There are lots of other repositories of high-quality free content (museum archives, Flickr, Wikimedia Commons, etc) that could benefit from this kind of machine-aided presentation.
Most people dont think War and Peace was even Tolstoys greatest novel. Anna Karenina is regarded as the greatest novel of all time by lots of authors and critics though of course there is no consensus and its sort of a silly notion.
If only my non-statistical peers would recognize that sampled=fast and fast=more checks and explorations. It's like they recognize that fast compile times are a great thing (I've had to wait in line with punchcards, and it sucks), but they are completely oblivious to the exact same argument when it comes to data.
I feel like given the circumstances, Microsoft should probably make distribution free and collect no revenue, at least until the platform becomes popular.

There are costs to targeting the Windows platform, especially if you're doing things their new preferred way (UWP). Primarily a slow, difficult to work with development kit. Lots of mysterious crashes that you can't do much about, lots of leaky abstractions over COM.

If anything, Microsoft should be paying developers to target their store. I do personally prefer modern apps and the experience of the store, I just know not to reach for it first. As a customer I would appreciate more apps, they need to figure out a way to make the platform more appealing for developers.
> But SARA doesn’t rely as much on “high-order” functions like AI since those are harder to certify. (“To be FAA certifiable, you need a certain level of determinism in the outcomes,” Van Buiten says.)

I wonder whether a hybrid approach is the future, since in some tasks neural networks are just far better than anything we have. If the only tasks of the neural network is to estimate/classify some sensor-input and is trained in a purely supervised setting, the "right thing" for the neural network is still pretty well defined and rigorous testing should be possible (simple tasks can be very complex to implement). Then, interpretable, high-level reasoning could be solved by old-school coding (and maybe verifying).

This is not possible with end-to-end training.

But I am not sure what they mean, normally neural network (and their training) is purely deterministic. It's not that they are just very good at rolling a dice.

I am not into this stuff (autonomous, "intelligent" systems, more the data-analysis guy), but I would use neural networks for simple to define, hard problems that involve a lot of noisy data (where some kind of accuracy on some test-set is a well-defined metric) and then build a higher-level reasing system by hand.
What was Microsoft's cut before?
Backdoors in your cell phone OS can be used to catch criminals. They can also be used to spy on innocents. Sometimes the cost isn't worth it.
It is not predatory to profit when both parties come out ahead, and we should not confuse organizational or financial structure of a company with the actual behavior of the company or its members.

The Surgery Center of Oklahoma[0][1], for instance, makes a profit while providing better, lower-cost treatments than traditional hospitals. And they actually have transparent pricing.

[0] https://surgerycenterok.com/
[1] https://reason.com/reasontv/2012/11/15/the-obamacare-revolt-...
I think I will resort to looking at the Apache access logs.

I just want to know the number of daily unique visitors and where they are located (geographically).
> They typically try to bypass security/privacy teams to avoid the hassle of dealing with them.

The PMs I worked with at FB definitely wouldn't do that. Having those teams find a problem after you've built a feature is much more of a hassle than getting their help to do it right in the first place.

On the other hand, product teams would often fail to get those reviews just because they didn't realize there could be a problem.
On Windows "foobar2000" is fantastic for playback and transcoding, looks pretty basic, but performs well and has lot's of plugins to modify look and feel as well as extra functionality.

On Mac, XLD is great for ripping and transcoding, but I'm not sure what's the hot favourite for playback these days.
I worked for Whole Foods for a while too, and can vouch that even prior to the Amazon acquisition this is how they rolled.

I was hired during a hiring freeze when they weren't hiring new outside FT people. My team leader needed me full time, so we learned that, internally at least, the constraints on PT/FT status weren't the weekly hours worked but the average weekly hours during a fiscal period. This led to a situation where I worked a couple 25-30 hour weeks, then went down to 8-16 other weeks.
30% on one-off purchases of apps and IAPs, and 15% of subscriptions.
GPS-Only No Longer Protects Your Privacy on Android 9 “Pie”, Huawei / Honor 10
If you use foobar2000, you can use ABX Comparator to compare between various bitrates and formats. Start with a lossless format and convert it.

[1] https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_abx
Tangential question, do you consider yourself an environmentalist? For example have you reduced your carbon output on principle in some way?
Thanks for the thoughtful response. I agree wholeheartedly with the thought the healing begins with self-understanding. There's a fantastic book about trauma called "The Body Keeps The Score" which explains how past traumas can be unconsciously embedded within the body in ways that talk therapy or pharmaceuticals cannot resolve alone. I bring this up because to your point, being without culture is similar to being disembodied and being traumatized - one needs to reclaim a sense of belonging our background so that one can feel at peace and resolved. For example, I strongly believe that years of slavery has left an indelible mark in African American culture, and we may not understand the scientific explanation until we further study epigenetics, etc.

My fear though is that this very real need to be seen, and heard is being coopted by factions trying to use that very real human need as fodder for power (hence the right's claims of "cultural Marxism").

The balance here lies in celebrating one's heritage, without using it as a token for victimization. Because we get nowhere by further victimizing others - eg. calling someone a colonizer or oppressor. Everyone has trauma, and healing begins with radical inclusion - of everyone. I think you have a huge potential for using The Juggernaut to take the greatest parts of South Asian heritage and sharing that with non South Asians. I think a great success example is western adoption of yoga and pranayama - these are tools that emerged from South Asian culture ages ago, that have a very real place and utility for anyone living in the modern era.

I'll send you a dm with my contact info so we can continue the conversation. Appreciate your openness!
If you're implementing your own derivatives, you should probably use numerical methods to check that the gradient is computed correctly, and pytorch comes with tools to help with that https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/autograd.html#numerical-grad...

If you're reimplementing something for learning purposes, you can just compare the output you get with the existing implementation.

But as soon as you're trying to do something novel, no automatic test can tell you whether the model architecture or your implementation of it is at fault when you don't get the results you'd like, because there's nothing you could use for comparison.
Most anxiolytics are benzodiazepines, and quitting cold turkey can quite literally kill you, especially if you’ve been on a significant dose over time. These drugs raise your seizure threshold, but rapidly quitting creates a backlash of lowered seizure threshold, and you can have far worse outcomes than just rebound anxiety.
Because land in high proximity to jobs is a zero-sum game.

Especially so when you consider incumbent NIMBYs.
Whoa, it appears to be written in C++/CLI. I wonder how much Windows code also is, and how it impacts maintainability.
The black box of a neural network
It is not surprising that in terms of develop engagement, Microsoft is at a huge disadvantage. They need some differentiation to attract developers.
Why should that constraint hold? It's not even true for simple vectors under the euclidean norm:

||<1,0>|| + ||<0,1>|| != ||<1,0> + <0,1>||
They've attempted to do that before: https://www.theverge.com/2013/3/19/4124548/microsoft-paying-...

All that lead to was a bunch of similar looking apps of questionable quality flooding the store.
> Sure there are issues but all companies have them, just like Google, Amazon, etc.

Ahhh, what-aboutism I love it.

> If the press took an interest in your company, or even you personally, no one would look good from their constant digging to make you look as bad as possible.

Unless they straight lied they'd find a middle age developer working for a small/medium sized manufacturing company that treats it's staff and customers well.

Facebook operates at a scale where even if it has good intentions it's outcomes can be the same as someone intent on doing negative things, it's the nature of the beast.
Do you recall the discussion last week about Facebook moderators turning from rational people into conspiracy theorists because they are exposed to that crap all day every day?

I would suspect that it is the folks who think they are less susceptible who are most at risk. In a way it makes me think of the misunderstanding around Dunning-Kruger (i.e. it's not an observation about dumb people, it is a warning to people who think they are smart).
The majority of people I've talked to about Cambridge Analytica think that Facebook just sent out a big pile of user data without asking anyone's permission. Which is a natural and reasonable interpretation of summaries like the one Vox provides in that article:

> Facebook exposed data on up to 87 million Facebook users to a researcher who worked at Cambridge Analytica, which worked for the Trump campaign.

What actually happened is that Facebook allowed a researcher to ask individual users to volunteer their data, and that researcher gave the data to Cambridge Analytica even though he promised he'd only use it for his research. There are ways Facebook could have prevented this, and I agree they should have - the UX implied a level of trust that Facebook wasn't properly vetting. But the popular narrative is almost entirely false.
So it’s worth 10% if someone uses the search bar in the store? Or if it’s on a top100 list? Those top100 are probably the apps that are most likely to push back against a 15% cut though.
Intel pleads for U.S. backup in the chip race
This argument sounds a lot like gaslighting. You can put this argument for any unethical company and it would work.
Gardening creates food, improves your well being, improves your physical fitness, and has been shown to help with dementia. Your definition of "pointless" has no meaning and just sounds like ennui. Language learning opens up new opportunities. CoD at 10K hours is boring. You're skill level is likely to make you better than most people playing, to the point that you might be able to be good enough for esports, which would make the activity not pointless.