skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another personal anecdote to support this; I’ve done this sort of “reset” more than once, and there is a qualitative difference between getting 9 hours of sleep between 10pm-7am and 1am-10am for me. Your mileage may vary, but that 3 hour shift is the difference between feeling like a winner or feeling like a loser for me. I don’t know if it is psychosomatic, but I also don’t care if it is as long as it keeps me feeling good.
"We’ll use an optimization algorithm called stochastic gradient descent (SGD) that tells us how to change our weights and biases to minimize loss. It’s basically just this update equation:

w1 ← w1 − η ∂w|∂L

η is a constant called the learning rate that controls how fast we train. All we’re doing is subtracting η ∂w|∂L from w1:

- If ∂L | ∂w1 is positive, w1 will decrease, which makes L decrease

- If ∂L | ∂w1 is positive, w1 will increase, which makes L decrease"

Simple indeed.
I don't think so. But Andy Jassy has not been quiet in his criticism of their model.

AWS Aurora wasn't built out of spite, however. It was/is designed to be a cloud-native database from the start because there was a perceived desire for the product. As it's AWS's fastest growing service, the team deduced correctly.

Disclaimer: I work for AWS.
Content across the web should be fine for now.
Well, actually this is the publication record of an influential social scientist. JDP is the most influential social scientist of our times, bar none. This is his publication record. That makes this the publication record of an influential social scientist. Does that offend you?

Knocking him for collaborating is ignorant and disingenuous. Scientists collaborate. His record shows he is a real scientist. It doesn't have to show he is the best or that he deserves a Nobel Prize. At this point, he's probably a better candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize if anything, but this only goes to show what he's been working on lately, which is more activism than scientific research. More Neil deGrasse Tyson than Einstein, but that doesn't make Neil a fake scientist.

JDP's last book he did write for a broader audience. Great move. Even I read it. And he brought with him the scientists and the research that otherwise would not have reached his audience.

His book is maybe 75% work of other scientists, 20% story telling, and 5% what he draws from it. Basically his 12 rules. He demonstrates how to draw meaning and meaningful conclusions rationally, with well grounded premises. If you have low tolerance for the more abstract genre of ancient story analysis, then skip it. Or maybe there is some truth to it? Decide for yourself.

Did you read his book? Fine if you didn't but I wouldn't claim to understand him if I hadn't. Maybe you have issues with him, which is fine, but again, that is a separate matter than the substance of his lectures. Which are all highly specific by the way. So to say they're all based on weak papers or that he's selling snake oil is an immediate tell that, again, you either don't understand him or have other issues/motives.

(Thanks HN for not letting me reply, claiming I'm posting too fast, when clearly I'm not. Not sure how you're suppose to have a conversation.)
While I, as a rule, try not to stand against good storytelling, I clicked far too many times while thinking "get to the point" before I just closed the tab.
For anyone else curious: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/wiki/Freque...

> This repository is a placeholder for the full open source release. Be assured efforts are under way to make the software available here. In the meantime, enjoy using Ghidra on your SRE efforts, developing your own scripts and plugins, and perusing the over a million lines of Java and Sleigh code released within the initial public release. The release can be downloaded from our project homepage at www.ghidra-sre.org. Please consider taking a look at our contributor guide to see how you can participate in this open source project when it becomes available.
Ben Shapiro at 12 years old, playing violin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK8mbA083hE
Weren't they hacked?
As someone who co-signed on a loan in the past and had to short sell, I advise you to keep paying rent, save money and only purchase a home you can afford instead.
Why would you say it's not. It's the begging of tracking to get information about what's happening on your website
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The problem isn't ads. The problem is the stock market. Investors want to see growth every quarter or they punish the company. If your business is making money from ads, you have to increase impressions. At first you can put in more ads. But there's a limit. So, next you move to targeted ads. The overwhelming shadiness to all this is a direct result of investors not seeing past this quarter.

Want to see less intrusive business practices? Get rid of quarterly earnings reports.
This is the real issue, I think. Facebook taking your data has no concrete consequences for most people, so it's easy to see why they might think of the typical "don't use Facebook, it's bad" as fearmongering.
Bomb damage assessment from the air is notoriously difficult.

Even if your local construction industry has a hard time building high speed trains and nuclear power plants on time you will find in wartime they get the lead out and can patch up damage quickly.
I've experienced the same experiences as those mentioned above in Barcelona. You clearly agree with those terrorizing tourists out of some misguided blame.

The reality is that the rich Spanish sold the rest of you out for a quick buck. That's why there aren't any good jobs and any reason to stay. Those that stay whine and complain. Yet every Spaniard I've talked to in northern Europe talks openly about the whining and the lack of desire to get to the root of the problem or take responsibility.
Thanks, I referenced this quote and TechCrunch article in my comment on the medium article.
I store stuff in flac, i got a large nas at my house. Then i can down convert to any other format I might need. I enjoy the flacs when I'm home.
While we're at it, can we ban chewing with the mouth open in the office please?
Looks like that thanks to Sleigh, adding support for decompiling additional IAs will be rather easy. I can barely believe how straightforward it looks, just looking at the code in the Processors directory. Some IAs there don't even need the Java code, to be supported.
it's not that low, read more about Metcalfe's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law
This resampling adds some latency, right? Ideal resampling adds infinite latency---the sinc function has infinite support.
Yes. Privacy is one of those things that doesn't matter, until it does. Then it's usually too late.
A reduction in their ignorance would make them enjoy the other choice just as much, but for less money. They’re spending more just because they don’t know the facts. I consider that a waste.
> The unfortunate explanation for the phenomena that you're observing is that most people simply don't care about their privacy -- at least not nearly as much as you do.

I don't think that is a fair assessment. Even if that is true technically, it is missing the spirit of the question at hand. I think many people are misinformed about what is happening in data collection and processing, and if they were well-informed, would care more about their privacy. Given that people are intentionally being misled about the implications of giving up their privacy - via various propaganda about how it's not-that-bad, etc - I think it is unfair to state that people "simply don't care about their privacy ... as much as you do".

I think if people knew what was at stake, they would care more. Stating that they "simply don't care" is basically ending the conversation preemptively, such that the only possible future is that there is no privacy.

But I think people are misinformed, greatly. Very few people have any idea how intense FB's data collection efforts are, or how insecure the data is when it goes there, etc. Even NYT pieces do not reach that many Americans. And NYT or other publications are careful and methodical about their writing, barely able to reach into the future and question out loud the future FB is building.

Democracy is at stake. This is more than a question of individual privacy: people need to understand that our society is crumbling due to lack of privacy, because wealthy and powerful institutions are using that intense violation into private American lives to brainwash targeted people with conspiracy theories and other dangerous society-damaging things.

Privacy matters to everyone, I'd wager even to those who think they don't value their individual privacy.
You don't back up your hard drive?
The big issue with moving jobs to other countries more than anything else is timezones and language.

Distributed teams across the US isnt much of a problem, but try working with people that have an 8 hour timezones difference and it's much more difficult.
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> facebook already as my bank account info

> facebook already has my social security number

> if facebook doesnt have that stuff, im sure they could buy it or brute force it in seconds.

Do you not agree that this is a somewhat sad state of affairs?
Just want to give a shoutout to my trusty friend Xvfb. Used many times to remotely & automatically operate GUI apps on Linux.
Eargo Raises More Than $52M in Series D
Since I haven't replaced my Kindle I do all my reading with a dim red headlamp. I like it better than the paperwhite blue-white light and wish Amazon offered a red light Kindle.
Increased urbanisation is at best marginal in Western countries. This is not what is driving prices.

But top places like London now attract from a global pool of billions.

People need to realise that a world with 10 billion does not look like a world with 2 billion.

Lastly, the planet has trouble with us now... It's terrorism to suggest that 10 billion is just fine.
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> Why would I dump $x00,000 into home equity when I could leverage that money for decades are earn more in the market?

My favorite rebuttal to that argument is this Q&A: https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/89245/should-i-buy...

To quote the top answer:

> Ask them if you already owned the house, would they be advising you to take out a mortgage in order to invest elsewhere. If not, ask them to explain the difference between taking out a mortgage on the day you buy the house and taking the same mortgage out the day afterwards.

If I owned a house (with no mortgage), I wouldn’t take out a mortgage on it just to invest those funds in the market. Some people might, but that’s too much risk for me.
You do not have a risk free return on that capital.
There is no free lunch.
Keep in mind that FB has an analytics product similar to Google analytics. I agree with the outrage over FB, but I'm surprised that thus far Google has mostly skated by without too much scrutiny from the general media.
Python sets are internally just a dict hash table for the keys with no associated values.
> some researchers have suggested that excessive deforestation in the Maya lowlands, which was once home to some 10-15 million people

I just can't quite get over this stat they dropped in here. 15 million people in ~250 AD puts it in the same neighborhood as ancient Greece at their peak a few hundred years earlier.
That was the point I was trying to make but realize I wasn't clear. Pharma knows that academic findings are unreliable so they test for reproducibility before investing in further development
Brainstorm thread: What are some novel ideas outside of self-driving that the Waymo Lidar Sensor could be used for? And what could be done if it goes below $1,000 (e.g. video games)?
"4" means bad luck in some countries, so maybe they should name it "USB5" from "3 + 2"
Whataboutism isn't helping anything. Google doing something doesn't make it okay that Facebook does it. And Google's tracking is being discussed in this very thread, so it's not even accurate whataboutism.
Output visualizations to SVG rather than PDF
How does Oregon’s first-in-the-nation rent control law work? A quick guide
Using VPN servers in high-risk countries
I think you completely missed the point. The internet has value as a digital market, communications platform, tool for free speech and human rights preservation and a lot more, and much of that value comes from the fact that any participant, no matter where they are (obviously assuming they are not blocked or restricted for malicious activity intended to disrupt the service in the first place) can send a message to any IP address and that message will get there. So:

> the companies selling the service to end users should be allowed to come up with creative business models

No, they shouldn't; not if this requires breaking the global internet. It's not worth it. Why should the fact that it's possible to work around specific resulting issues in the USA mean it's desirable to go down a path that benefits ISPs and (dubiously) a small subset of consumers, and literally no one else? You might tell me it will benefit most consumers (as in, ISP customers), but that's shortsighted. The loss of flexibility incurred from the destruction of the system and the loss of the global digital market will have negative consequences for almost everyone down the road.

Or to put it in other words, stop looking at this as if it was a primarily economic problem tied to the availability of internet access choices for the customers of certain ISPs. Those things hardly matter in the bigger picture. They certainly do not matter to me, an european citizen. We have real net neutrality legislation in the EU. But it still matters to me if my business (should I have one) cannot reach american users and customers properly. It matters to me if it's hard for me to exchange ideas with americans, like we're doing right now. It matters to me if I can't play videogames against my american friends. That's worse for the economy and worse for consumer choice.
I'm an Indian and that doesn't ring a bell. School used to start at 8.00 for me. Throughout the year. No dst. When I started working for a European company, it was insane that I had to wind back clocks.
From reading his shareholder letters, watching a boatload of his talks and interviews on YouTube, and most importantly trying to re-create his thinking on most of his investments, from his early partnership days up until about IBM. (he is actually quite open about what he likes in a company, even though people think he's being cryptic)

For example, he always cites figures such as return on _tangible_ assets in his interviews.

He is also obsessed with moats. A large reason for the relative lack of moats in tech is that the barrier to entry is low, and has been dropping for decades. You could whip up a respectable competitor (technology-wise) to most of today's unicorns in well under a year or so with only a little bit of money, but given many years and billions of dollars you couldn't re-create Coca-Cola's distribution network.

I am actually curious how you think this is not like his other investments? His investment style has changed for sure, but I would draw two lines, one that he talks about around See's Candy in the 70's. The other I would put about 10-15 years ago, where he started looking at more capital-intensive businesses (like BNSF). Both were gradual shifts, though.
I think it might be lineage os. I have a phone compatible with it, I just need the time to switch.
> Google tracks people on ALL websites, without any consent

How so?
I agree, but for this particular area I think that the estimation is nor far away from the average.
If they stick with the current system, next will be USB4.1 Gen 2, while USB4 gets retroactively renamed to USB4.1 Gen 1.

But that's assuming they don't find a creative new way to name USB4 versions poorly.
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- COMMON LISP: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation (1990)

- Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp (1991)

- Common Lisp Recipes (2015)
author doesn't take into account that although you cannot hear above 20khz or below 20hz. That doesn't mean you cannot sense it. Sound after all is just air vibrating, therefore obviously there must be an effect on the body.
Yeah, I'm sad this wasn't tested. The subjects definitely moved back towards baseline, but if the extra sleep didn't produce any kind of overcompensation it's not super clear what it did. I know there are two other relevant results here.

One finds that people recover a portion of recent lost sleep and that's it; a week on 5 hours/night and two weeks prompt similar recovery amounts, and 48 hours awake prompts similar recovery to 72 hours awake. Which certainly says you can't "pay off" arbitrary debt.

The other one is from the same authors as this, finding that after chronic sleep deprivation, oral-glucose insulin response recovers within 3 days of 'free' sleep, but IV-glucose response isn't back to baseline after 5 days. Which suggests the added recovery sleep might just be a way to get back on track faster, rather than actually offsetting anything (at least for insulin).

But I don't think I've ever seen a study actually comparing the two conditions.
Interesting. Are you sure you were using the right settings and a recent version of LAME for this?

The only artifact I can reliably hear in 320 kbps MP3s is pre-echo, for instance with castanets, and only in a few very specific situations. Apart from this, V2 and above sounds completely indistinguishable from the original to me.
Well, I don't think it is the best answer to your 'challenges'. I mean stand-ups should eliminate the requirement for other meetings as those disturb the focus a developer requires to work, but eliminating that tiny bit of mandatory human interaction seems weird to me (and probably hurts the team spirit in the long run).

I don't mean to be negative, just honest feedback.
"Perhaps the biggest issue is that we need to stop treating “big data” as a marketing gimmick." says the guy who did a TED talk titled 'What Can Big Data Do For You'.

Also, comparing IBM PS/2 disk transfer rates to a 10PB cluster in a cloud makes absolutely no sense.
Can this be mitigated by keeping the room a bit more humid, so you don't lose as much liquid through your skin?

Especially in the winter, waking up in a room with sub 30% humidity is brutal.
That actually sounds pretty neat.
> Tracking the behavior of your own users on your own app, for product improvement purposes (which most users will expect)

Depends. I think it's clear that users do not expect you to record their session, even though it's tracking behavior for product improvement.
IIRC, the current trend is already a net outflow from urban to suburban areas. It ebbs and flows, probably has to do a lot with life stages as well.
One of the "nice" things about being hard of hearing is that I can't hear any difference between flac and mp3s down to around 96 or lower for most music, so hypothetically I don't have to worry about this stuff.

Of course in practice I do still keep flac rips around because I'm a data hoarder and what if I decide I want to reencode all my music to opus or something? But at least I have the option to stop caring.
Hmm? Large customer of leading widget manufacturer decides to make its own widgets in-house instead and keep the build minus buy money (plus possibly getting a better widget). Totally normal market practice.

Large player in widget market has low marginal cost and deep pockets, sells widgets at marginal cost its competitors can't match. Also totally normal market practice.

Competitors exit market or are relegated to minor market share, leaving de facto sole survivor. Also totally normal market practice.

We could be talking about chrome just as easily as IDA pro here.
Strong disagree here on the topic of measurement. While some papers are "idea" papers (and goodness is obvious), others are best evaluated through careful measurement, showing strengths and weaknesses of the approach. Bad evaluation will lead to bad conclusions about the merit of an idea.
> anybody out there working at facebook

That access would certainly be tracked and the person punished very quickly. Facebook takes user data breaches very seriously.
Just checking out the main website.. it was a bit slow. Even the JS/CSS stuff was a little laggy on the mouse:hover sections and the modal loading.

I haven't see the tool's UI, but if I was to check out just that landing page.. it gives a low expectation of the tool that it leads to.

I opened it with developer tools, and it looks like you have a LOT of resources loading (webpacks, scripts, etc.). Pretty bulky setup.

Just food for thought on the lead-conversion side. I wanted to be helpful..
I think this comment is facetious (apologies if I’m reading it incorrectly), so I want to offer that this is “simple”, but opaque to someone who is unfamiliar with the syntax or background context.

Andrew Ng’s course on machine learning from Stanford (on Coursera, which you should be able to audit for free) gives great intuitive explanations of these topics, if you’re curious enough to invest a couple solid weekends to get the foundations. The foundations alone will get you very far indeed.
> Fortunately we have Ghidra to look at itself?

The all-time classic “Reflections on Trusting Trust”[1] seems relevant again here.

[1] https://www.archive.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p7...
Just adding here: gyms don't want you to use their equipment / facility to get healthier. Or at least many don't.
going low carb (+ no sugar), cutting alcohol helped me naturally wake up more refreshed with less than 7 hrs sleep...
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I provided sources and facts. If you refuse to look at scientific facts by asserting I am denialist and/or propaganda. That's fine, keep your blinders on.

For the record I'm not a denialist. I do believe global warming is happening. I just think there's absolutely nothing wrong.
Only offering jobs in dense urban areas sounds like a great way to get away with age discrimination, assuming that people age out of cities as their day to day experiences contradict "received wisdom" about urbanism
I remember reading that book! There were lots of deaths in those expeditions. As the author said, "supercave" exploration is like extreme mountaineering, but even more dangerous and complicated.
>> It's frustrating to know that despite how bad they are, despite every new discovery of terribleness, nothing's going to change, and they're just going to get bigger.

> They've got a captive audience. Like it or not, the service that Facebook provides is unparalleled, and short of direct, tangible harm, it's not enough for most people to give that up.

I think it's mainly unparalleled from the advertiser perspective, but not the user perspective. I think network effects aren't as compelling to users as is often assumed.

I think Facebook's privacy terribleness will be part of its undoing, but only part. Other things, like fashion, user fatigue, and potentially new regulatory antitrust oversight (to block acquisitions) will be significant factors, and they'll all reenforce each other.