skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The parent's point was that it shouldn't be surprising that inconsequential decisions arise long before we have conscious awareness of it. But that has no relevance to the question of free will, i.e. the capacity to deliberate on decisions. A more relevant test would be to test when explicitly moral decisions are made in relation to our conscious awareness of the decision.
>> In this case there isn't enough training data for that kind of resolution,
but it has learned that blue cards go with blue cards, and red cards with red
cards, and there's no hard lines from there to the concept of color.

A card is blue (resp. red, etc) because it has a blue mana symbol in its
casting cost. Not because it is found in the company of other blue cards. That
is the concept of colour that a model must represent before you can say with
any conviction that it "understands" the concept of colour. In terms of "hard lines"- that's the hard line you must cross.

The kind of model you're talking about then would be a classifier able to
label individual cards with their colours, or an end-to-end model with an internal representation of cards' charactersitics. That is not what was shown here.
Create an API with Flask
The author was saying that, in their personal playing skill-limited estimation, the model made a stronger pick than the human drafter did. They propose that individuals overrate and underrate cards, but the model collects that and appropriate rates them. But it could also just be that the author is overrating cards - that’s why they asked for other opinions.
Yeah, the other thing to consider is that as you go up the chain the people you're talking to have more context across the business and may know something you don't.

Outlining options with consequences helps them make the right decision in the macro. I've have many decisions from the technical side that made sense but we're absolutely the wrong choice once I had more context around what other teams planned or the business constraints.
> …it becomes clear that many teams are struggling to stay above water. More still, everyone shrugs about it because it's not clear exactly what is wrong…

Nail on the head.
Disrupted by Dan Lyons.
Thought I'd share one of my favorite short stories (written by Ted Chiang, most recently of Arrival fame) that bears on this: https://www.nature.com/articles/436150a
Hey this was a really interesting post and I'm wondering if you'd have any ideas about a project I'm working on related to brand marketing. I couldn't find your email but I saw you live around NYC (as do I) - maybe we could connect? I'm at alex@gourmay.io.
It has been a while since I read it but the first thing that came to mind is this talk by Dan Geer (who is closely connected to US intelligence agencies):

http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt
Microsoft to start selling Windows 7 add-on support April 1
If only there were a way to avoid reading articles about the minutiae of pricing plans and then engaging in discussions about them to avoid making yourself angry.
An interesting thought experiment is what if it turns out that the "golden feature" of f527 -- f528 is race or gender?

Here is a talk about times when that happens exactly:

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/pubs/slides/crunchconf_2018/sl...
Not sure if I agree.

When you give options, you can still have a strong preference for one or the other. Like logo A v. Logo B. It can be passive agressive to make one option looks very good and the other looks like shit. Whereas a transparent conversation will be, I really like option A, but at the end of the day is your area of responsability and if you want to do option B it’s perfectly fine.
HFA = High-functioning autism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-functioning_autism
Blowing leaves is faster - why would a service use leaf blowers if it wasn't less work.

And of course, that's the big issue here. By taking more time, raking makes cleaning the yard more expensive. When it comes to people in houses, that makes yard care more of an expense, which means some people will have to spend more time doing it rather than hiring a service. When it comes to condos or rentals where it's included, it makes rent more expensive.

But hey, some louts won't have to put up with the sound of a leafblower for a few minutes a week. Who cares if everyone is worse off?
1. You'll be much more motivated when the topic is directly applicable to your current struggles, so read books on those topics.

2. You may not know what type of book structure you enjoy reading. Try reading a lot of different books and think about what seems to be easier for you. Then find more of those.
Google is a big company, and most of us working for them are mainly in it for the paycheck.

Knowing that I work for Google doesn't, by itself, tell you very much about my opinions. It indicates I'm not strongly anti-Google, I guess.
100m = 100 metres. 30 seconds extra driving.
Ask HN: Feeling stuck in my job. How do I get out of my situation?
I am a developer based in Mumbai(India) working for a bank. All are extremely old tech and I'm feeling stuck. It is boring and not challenging at all.

At work I use Java. Besides that I know Go very well (including concurrency stuffs). I know Docker and Kubernetes as well. I'm familiar with Python, Ruby as well. (Exp: 1.5 years). It seems that everyone asks for 2-4+ years of experience. Sometimes I feel like being stuck in a catch-22 situation. Any suggestions?
This is a lot of anger over a choice of vocabulary. The author certainly didn’t mean that the model had a deep understanding of the nuances of the concept of color - just that it had identified clusters that in real life correspond to the color of cards.
Just because you’re trading with a developing country doesn’t mean you should agree to unfair trade practices.
There actually is interchange of WARCs in the web archiving community.
The Voyage of the Kon-Tiki Misled the World About Navigating the Pacific (2014)
I am not sure that sheep treat a sheep dog like a normal predator any more than a sheep dog treats sheep like normal prey. They are somewhat tame to the dogs and the farmer. A flock chased by an uncontrolled dog is completely different. So maybe sheep will treat drones in the same way.
Not sure if that was meant to be sarcastic. They have a pretty clear history of accepting garbage for money. https://www.seroundtable.com/google-panda-pr-newswire-change...
Yes, but that's an arbitrary and subjective qualification. It's eyballing - useful as a tool to evaluate your model during development, maybe, but not what you report when you claim the finished model is "better than humans".
Out of curiosity, how do you square your belief in a decentralized web with working for a company that has plagued us with "innovations" like amp?
In case of Russia those in power don't care about that loss they need enough people to do resource extraction and to serve in military and that's about it. Their families live in London and Miami and don't have to contend with whatever crap this will result in.
Facebook stands to profit from its ‘privacy’ push
I think it's more exciting than author admits. Sure, it'll increase confidence and adoption, but it will really mean that the machine can be queried like an expert on whatever corpus it was trained on.
Just so that everybody is on the same page:

https://youtu.be/IGo32RICjk8

The bar for sheep herding robots is ridiculously high. Border Collies are super smart.
I really think some better name than eigenvectors (and eigenvalues, etc..) should be popularized. I find them to be very obtuse and opaque terms.
Yes please. All monopolies are damaging to consumers, capitalism and democracy. Please do away with as many as possible. The only notable exceptions are business areas where the physical constraints force a single company to operate, like sanitation and sewage.
> Russia has been threatened to be cut off from SWIFT

Do you have a link for this claim? All I get when googling "russia cut off from swift" is a bunch of rt/zerohedge/tass stuff (wtf is TruNews?), followed by some clear denials in ft/bloomberg. Is there more to this than just the Russian government saying stuff?
And sheep farms can be very steep which would make terrain avoidance more difficult.
Are there any MtG tournaments which are played for real-money prizes ?

This seems to me to be similar to poker, and considered a game of luck. But i am not familiar enough.

I also found this
https://boardgamegeek.com/article/29969194#29969194
Tmobile's new vague plan for providing home internet over 5g sounds fine, but it is a slow rollout, only promising coverage for 9.5 million customers by 2024.

With many more providers of broadband coming in the next 10 years (gulp, that's painful to type, it is so slow to come), there should be change by then by the comcasts of the world.
Yes, it's basically a demonstration of brain activity monitoring technology.
> I was but one lawyer putting hard work into this project. I'm proud of my role, but can't stress enough that I was just one contributor.

Thank you! Your article made that clear, so apologies for my unclear wording.
Obviously not to the same extent, but you see go fund me campaigns for places with single payer systems.

https://www.gofundme.com/canadahealthfail
You overestimate tech literacy of the majority of Russian population. Very small percentage is engaged with playing videogames or knows how to use torrents.

People are given lots of distractions though - so many controversial, absolutely absurd laws have been introduced in the past few years everybody talks about (about fighting homosexual propaganda, forbidding adoption for foreigners, blasphemy laws and so on). Internet restrictions are like a drop in the sea of craziness and not even the most relevant one for the majority, or controversial, or loud.
Warning: Link is not HTTPS. Even if you manually change it, it downgrades.

Kind of shocking that a website would downgrade connections in 2019.
The example you have given seems to be targeted to close friends and acquaintances he may have or individuals that connect to his cause like others that had similar issues before. A place like GoFundMe allows this community to come together to help the individual without having to figure out how to wire money to him.

We don't know if a large portion of the fund comes from the family or not, neither do we know whether he has the latest generation foldable cellphone or not. You have to make your decision whether a GoFundMe like this falls under your profile or not, it does not mean others have the same profile as you.
... Hold on. Let's just.

Smoking in a hospital?
Map of philosophical positions and their correlations among philosopher
Indeed but if it’s anything like other social activist issues there will be far more people worried about the (cuter) animals than the stuff that affects humans.
This is what he is referring to:

https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/431614-us-cyber-ope...

Saying the US, "cut Russia off" is a massive overstatement, but something did happen.
It's not like Kubernetes has a better UI. You could take a look at OpenShift. It's a Kubernetes based Open Source distro my Red Hat and it includes a quite nice UI, both for users and admins.
If you feel like sharing how you went about it, I'd be happy to publish your stories. Feel free to send a draft to joe@compellingpython.com, or let me know if you'd like some help getting started!
so they put a tazer or gun on it and once in a while punish the sheep.
> I'm not much of a rancher, so I don't know what those would be.

Rotating pasture, making sure the cattle does not run away, assembling them for vaccination.

Those are things that people can not do reliably on large scale, but surveillance and guide drones coupled with rfid tags can easily. I guess the largest current bottleneck is drone time on the air and maintenance.
It's even more paining when you begin to realise that nearly every problem humanity has falls into this category - the solutions exist and are known, but don't get used because we're stuck in a local maximum (one that usually involves bank accounts).
How much did it cost? You could repeat the procedure every once in a while.
Daylight saving 2019 begins Sunday: “Springing forward,” explained – Vox
I'm sure this thing would have happened in the exact same way even if the guy was in his home.
Most long-standing XHCI (USB 3.0+) issues resolved
What does "free will" even mean in this context?
I have been avoiding Boeings for years for different reasons, seems I am automatically protected against these ones too.
While everyone else covered the main topic, there is one aspect of her proposal I disagree with; preventing the platform owners from selling/offering said apps on the said platform. (I could be misunderstanding Warren on this, please correct me if I'm wrong on this).

Software/hardware integration is a good thing, not a bad thing. Safari and Edge remains the most efficient browsers on their platforms because the platform owners know the deeper levels, they're the most experienced and they're in place to optimize both the software and hardware.

Now, one could say that the said platform owners must open up the APIs fully (which I have no problem with as long as it doesn't violate any security / privacy issues), so other browsers could be just as efficient but how would the platform owners know how to improve if they don't try it first?

Everything else, I kinda agree with. I would love to see all platforms require a separation/firewall between the platform owners and App Store but mainly because it allows customers the ability to use other tools that is not normally available with sideloading other App Stores and also other OSes (maybe?)
Please see the changelog on github:

https://github.com/freeciv/freeciv-web
Which (for me) also includes asperger and PDD-NOS
It was in pill form.
A few weeks ago I saw someone leaf blowing snow on the sidewalk in Alexandria, or at least trying to. One of the most absurd things I've ever seen.
Regularization: Ridge, Lasso and Elastic Net
1 event can be significant.
Maybe it's just me, but I find the Pandas method of joining on row indexes rather than column names unintuitive and frustratingly complex. You have to set indexes, join, and reset indexes after the join. Seems like that could be done under the hood and avoid the potential for causing related bugs.
eigen in German means owned/proprietary. this has always been a useful mnemonic for me.
Agreed, and the reason is probably equally as bad... I mean, it's probably because they use cross-domain requests for advertising and/or tracking and one of those isn't HTTP so they don't want warnings/errors from some requests not being HTTPS.
Nima Arkani-Hamed: In it for the long haul
Who talks about US police being brave? Normally I hear the oppisite.
But, it is possible to measure the intensity of sound and how much that contributes to hearing loss. CDC has a handy chart on the effects of noise here: https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/hearing_loss/what_noises_cause_hear... . The existence of other sources of noise loud enough to damage hearing does not preclude banning leaf blowers.
PRNewswire is used by the vast majority of the Fortune 1000, including for releases that are required for SEC compliance. They are probably the oldest and most widely used of all the newswire services.

The point is that using PRNewswire or Businesswire is hardly “suspicious,” because most businesses that do press releases use one or the other.
Perhaps one way to look at it is to compare long lines in code with long paragraphs in prose. I'm sure you've seen examples of posts on forums where someone writes a long post, but doesn't subdivide it into paragraphs. While it's possible to read and understand the message it's trying to convey, it's more difficult to do compared to a version that's divided into paragraphs.

Similarly, one can combine several statements in code on a single line, but that, in my opinion, is harder to read compared to having a single statement per line and harder to read the resulting diff when changing something in the line.

This is one example I copied from bashoneliners.com:

man -k . | awk '{ print $1 " " $2 }' | dmenu -i -p man | awk '{ print $2 " " $1 }' | tr -d '()' | xargs man -t | ps2pdf - - | zathura -

Personally, I would find it easier to read and understand it if it was written as follows:

man -k . \
awk '{ print $1 " " $2 }' \
dmenu -i -p man \
awk '{ print $2 " " $1 }' \
tr -d '()' \
xargs man -t \
ps2pdf - - \
zathura -

If I had this in source control and decided to add, remove, or change one of the commands for this oneliner, then it would be far easier to read the diff if it was in the multi-line form compared to the single line form.
Services use leaf blowers because it's less work and because they don't give a shit about the externalities they create.

It's more than just sound. Leaf blowers mostly use dirty, dirty two-stroke engines. Tons of emissions--which, regardless of the smell, we should be minimizing--and an awful stink.

If you can afford a house, you can rake the lawn and sweep the driveway. Or, as the article notes, even in Totalitarian Hellscape Washington you can buy a battery-powered leaf blower. What a horrible horrible sacrifice you must make.
Isn’t this including negative opportunity cost in the price? I agree with one of the comments that the price should reflect what you have to pay at time of sale. The problem with this approach is that they are assuming too many things. The biggest assumption is 1) that buyers are comparing a Tesla to another car. Why not a motorcycle with better fuel efficiency. This also assumes a fixed differential between gas and energy costs which may or may not hold and 3) that a comparable time period is 6 years and 4) a present value discount rate of 0%. Sure, anyone can calculate all sorts of returns on investment on meechandise. But why don’t we just agree to quote the investment and not the return. At the end of the day, that’s all we know today.
Hospital staff has every right to call the police if they believe someone is using an illegal substance (state & federally) on their property. We should just fix the laws.
Russian here. I live in Moscow. I've just came back from the rally.
Interned at an IT company in Switzerland and US.
My Digital Ocean VPS IP address was blocked in Russia due to this crazy thing going on with the Internet here. Even though it was a private service that is not exposed to the global network.
AMA.
> Especially in a rural setting, I don't think noise levels would be a big concern.

Animals are quite sensitive to noise.
What Is the Boeing 737 Max MCAS?
Yup. Instead of answering the question “how did regulation make insulin expensive” you did what?
Thanks for letting me know
I don't get why not more people are using Swarm. It's simple and it get the job done for many people who don't need a full Kubernetes setup. Also, for instance, it encrypts secrets, opposed to Kubernetes which only does Base64 encoding of secrets.

I do understand the market dynamic but still there are niches for other simpler products.
The right side of the political spectrum talks about them being brave all the time.
Facebook is surely at least an equal to Google in the tracking department, no?

Google is also part of the student privacy pledge: https://studentprivacypledge.org/privacy-pledge/, which seems like a reasonable document.

Edit: should have said earlier, I worked at Google many years ago.
GoFundMe is a way for people he knows to come together and donate without having to figure out where/how to wire the money directly to him. That includes auntie Jane, the one you haven't spoken to for 3 years but still cares about your well-being, whether you made stupid decisions or not.

Raising this guys' specific Fund is similar to the media defaming you on international tv. Chances are you would call a lawyer and ask him to take it down or raise a defamatory libel towards the business.
On the other hand, it is almost undoubtable that one of the reasons iMessage is so popular, is that it's the only messaging app that can integrate with SMS on the iPhone.

Apple then, in turn, uses the existing network effect of iMessage as a way to sell more iPhones. That doesn't seem like fair competition at all.
Sensitivity analysis is the next data science buzzword rewrite of classically important skills in model building.
I assume there's tons of Indian blogs that are just fine, but for some reason most of the time I see blog posts without any depth but full of buzz words being spammed around, they're written by someone from India (and less often Pakistan).

Now it could be that this is just purely because because there's more Indian blogs, making the percentage of spam blogs higher, or because there's three or four people spamming their useless blogs everywhere, but I do hesitate to click blogs with the .in TLD these days.

Probably just a few assets ruining for the whole group, but in my circle Indian blogs do tend to have a bad rep.
The RSA 2019 Conference
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...
> endorsing your product

Hmm, I suppose one could read it that way. I guess alternatively you could write "This project is used by major companies in X, Y, Z industries" so you're not naming specific companies.
Two stroke engines that power these things are dirty as fuck. Sucks to be the worker running these things, I'm super sure they are compensated appropriately and provided the necessary protection gear. Let alone anyone outside within 100 feet.
Wrapping Up Wrapping Up the Earth
900M people will cast their vote over 7 days. Total cost between $5B to $10B
Low-Background Steel
... and he didn't even bring them in the hospital either. That said, hospitals are all about pain control and patient comfort so it should be acceptable for him to bring them in even though he didn't. Of course, the hospital can't bill his insurance for pain killers that he provides himself so they're not really about pain control and comfort, they're mostly about profit control.
> allow a dying man smoke some marijuana

FTA: > Sousley tells them that all he has are pills containing THC
But whose right is it to decide when someone is exempt from the law?

If people disagree with the law, they should campaign for it to be changed. (And indeed, a change is in the works in Missouri, apparently. But as of now, possession of marijuana is illegal.)

A society where people feel they can pick and choose which laws to respect and which to ignore is a worrying proposition, IMO. The law as a whole may be far from perfect, but it's better than anarchy.
Sorry, yes I noticed he was being sarcastic but just wanted to make it clear for anyone wondering :)
Agreed.

I'm not sure that dotcloud and App Engine though were the right products though.

They have shown that a fully managed cloud solution is not the answer. Barely no company could use it, let alone migrate existing software to a whole new platform. It's limited to a very small niche.

Docker and Kubernetes are standalone products. Companies can use them internally and make it work with what they already have.
Interesting. Would you say that the immigrant in question should:

* pay local and federal taxes
* pay into the social security benefit system (if such a system exists)

If yes, would you still say that they shouldn't be allowed to vote?
Seriously, change the laws. The "don't ask don't tell" attitude gets old after several decades.

Over my lifetime, we've created cartels because of drugs. Millions have probably died or been exposed to violence. People flee countries and now we want to build a wall to keep all the "problems" out of the US, that we're largely responsible for.

Let's not shame police. Same on you!
The Morris Worm at 30
+1, I also recently deleted my LinkedIn profile. Taking LinkedIn profile as a sign of authenticity is indeed horrible.
They could just ban gas-powered leaf blowers to prevent that.