skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the parent poster meant that the classifiers that train into the baked-in categories are trained like a spam filter and use cross-account global knowledge. In other words, it's a model that works if there's a small number of buckets and a huge dataset to train the bucket-targeting against and breaks down if every individual user has their own buckets with their own conflicting understanding of what those buckets should contain.
> That said, the company was new to them and in the process of learning. Perhaps we did them wrong, or perhaps I missed the point.

Hard to say, but I used to do this for a living as a consultant and FWIW much of what you are describing sounds like a poor selection of OKRs of the kind we were often fixing.

> So the OKRs were all just sorta "OK, finish this thing we're already working on."

Case in point. My engagement manager once joked that if I proposed a "% complete" metric like that I'd be removed from a project. I _think_ he was joking.

> And I found those ratings (0, .4, .7, 1.0 for hitting a stretch goal) just a sort of weird self delusion

That's another symptom of poor goal selection. If you can miss a goal and somehow receive partial credit it was a poor goal. If you can exceed a goal and get extra credit it was a poor goal. Targets should be selected because they need to be hit, not just to give you something to aim at.
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Disagree a bit: selling public domain content is OK, as long as you don't mislead the customer and claim that you own the copyright. It's essential that the customer knows what he or she is buying (for instance, the actual value is in finding the relevant PD content).
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A UV lamp will emit a range of frequencies, and one the lower frequency side of that distribution will be some spectral violet, along with a bunch of UV you can't see.

Spectral violet and ultraviolet are just two ranges on the continuous frequency spectrum, so they differ in frequency.
People can want estimates and deadlines, but the estimates won’t be correct and the deadlines won’t be met for an ambitious custom build house, a subway tunnel through unknown “legacy,” or a diagnosis and treatment of an exotic disease, because that’s not how it works.

They might be correct for overpass #10,000, build #300 of Standard House Model B, or churning out antibiotic prescriptions. But those projects should cease to require much if any engineering support, leaving only the ones with more unknowns.

Subway tunneling is a really great example. You run into underground infrastructure that wasn’t in the documentation and you have to stop and figure out whether it’s still used, what it’s connected to, etc. and either refactor it out of your way or change your own route before continuing. You don’t know in advance how many such situations you’ll run into or how difficult they’ll be to untangle. So subway projects are chronically late and over budget.
I'm not involved in the day to day of the business anymore, so I don't know. I suspect now is a good time to talk to a sales rep and see what they can do.
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This is similar to how many iOS apps have gone to now. When iPhones first allowed permission prompting, every app used to just spam every permissions prompt as soon as you downloaded the app, hoping you accepted a few of them.

Now I have noticed apps are showing in-app prompts that say "We need your location in order to quickly find rides near you. Do you want to allow location access now?". This then prompts the actual iOS permission prompt to show up if you accept.
THE FIRST MENTION OF AN ACRONYM SHOULD DEFINE WHAT THE FUCK THE ACRONYM STANDS FOR.
> The functional equivalent to this is iSCSI, which as far as I understand is similar to if not literally what AWS uses under the covers for EC2 block devices.

Back when disk-SSD hybrid storage was still a novel idea (~2006), one of the guys at Sun had an interesting demo with ZFS.

He first created a bunch of storage pools on a server on the east coast from iSCSI volumes on the west coast, install Postgres, and did a benchmark. He next created a pool with the same iSCSI pools but added a local SSD as a ZIL/zlog device (for caching), and ran the same benchmark.

The SSD-enabled pool has quite close to local-disk performance of a SAN.
I clicked "accept" on about half a dozen of these from news sites sometime back just to see what would happen and I never got any alerts. I suspect sites enable it just because their news platform has a checkbox for it, then never send anything out because the acceptance rate is so low (or it would take more effort than checking a box).
I mean Facebook buying Instagram isn't really innovation. In terms of business strategy and feature enhancements, for sure its been great. But that's not really what I'd call innovation.
> when you the dev says "10 days" then they get haggled down to "2 days" by their boss.

Devs are typically optimistic in their estimates. Having someone who won't do the work put any kind of downward pressure on an estimate is a great way of getting uninformative estimates.
According to this thread on V2EX, the block was changed to a redirect to GitHub's 404 page: https://www.v2ex.com/t/551405#reply19
Yeah no doubt that would be concerning.

Sadly not surprising.
Correct - Essentials is just a low cost suite of Chef products. We offer two suites,. Effortless Infrastructure, focused on core config mgmt and security/compliance use cases and Enterprise Automation Stack which includes all of that plus a wide range of app automation capabilities including dependency mgmt, lifecycle mgmt, etc.

see pricing for the suites at https://www.chef.io/pricing/
I would not like to use notifications for anything, including IM. Sometimes I get a lot of messages and I don't want them to distract me all the day.

A better idea is just to highlight the program in the task bar, as Windows XP did. In this case you can view the messages when it is convenient for you.
In my also anecdotal experience 1 km is too short to have noticeable effects. I do >5 km at least 3 times per week with very positive effects on mood.
FAA says Boeing needs more time for software fix
Queen Elizabeth posts on Instagram for the first time
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Perhaps it was "Home of the Underdogs", http://homeoftheunderdogs.net
I like that repeating rhetoric.

The US fundamentally doesn't understand investment.
Give people privilege long enough and they’ll begin to believe they’ve earned it.
I'd expect so. It's simultaneously easy and hard to test. Easy because you need to show something violet on a similar purple background, and hard because we're not good at producing violet: computer screens and regular printers won't work.
censorship is a 'control fetish' signal
Physics defines black as "absorbs all light" or something.

Painters have a range of black colours.

Both are right in the right context.
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Can Shaoxing’s “stinky” tofu survive China’s food-safety crackdown?
Make sure to be there, available and listening. Not judge -ever. Stay ready. Make them know that you are available.
Google Reader was great while it lasted - I had grown to really like it.
Replying to myself - I hadn't got that you have to apply for a spot in the waiting list, through the app. So it just does DNS through 1.1.1.1, still. Fair enough, although my routers generally do that by themselves already.
However, I wish the 1.1.1.1 app didn't show that key in the status line as long as it isn't a VPN application.
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I completely forgot one big part of the social-graph-manipulation model of establishing a forever-government. It's not targetted. This isn't aimed at selectively suppressing certain groups, or stopping something once it's spreading. It's an architectural attack on the structure of the network.

It is unlikely that anyone would notice this because of a few factors. First, the important 'bridge' nodes are almost always poorly connected generally. (I picture a bridge node person like a member of a biker gang who keeps in contact with his elderly aunt, providing a way for ideas to spread from a biker gang to her knitting circle.) If they complain that they think someone is interfering with their ability to communicate with this other group which, by definition, their in-group is unconcerned with... it is unlikely the group would care much. Also, the 'interference' would optimally be as innocuous-seeming and quiet as possible. The fact that you only have to manipulate a small number of connections to have large effects on the networks overall average distance between clusters supports this.

And yes, it should go without saying that this is a monstrously unethical and terrible thing to do. It would probably have a lot of unforeseen consequences. I've been wondering if it would change how things like fashion trends or fads occur and if monitoring that might be a way to detect it. It would seem intuitively that it might lead to echo chambers and amplification of ideas within clusters since whatever moderating influence the slight connection to a different cluster provided would be removed.... but I haven't seen any research about that and I'm not sure how to simulate it without it just being a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Can we not first try this on a few apes and other primates preferably at an ape sanctuary run by a sadistic person ? Maybe someone can then make a documentary or movie based on this?
Probably, the ad revenue from a person who will accept push notifications and then keep coming back to the site, following links and wasting hours and hours, is worth that of many, many, many cranky people like me.
My advice: Think long and hard about which third platforms your products rely on.
I understand that it's not practical or even advisable to completely avoid third party providers, but at least your store should be independent and reachable under yourdomain.com. It should be the primary destination for your customers.

I'm not affiliated with them, just a happy customer, but a service like Shopify will enable you to run your own store without a technological background or server administration and it doesn't prevent you from also selling via external channels like Amazon, eBay or others. The difference is that your primary store, or in the worst case your domain, will be there even if Amazon & Co. decide to stop selling your products over night.
Yes I think that 1/100 is a more accurate ratio. I have only accepted 4 notification prompts and I know that i have encountered more than 400 that I denied.
I'm not so sure. Right now, everyone uses the popup because there isn't an alternative. If there's an alternative, popup use will go down some - but how much?
The article explicitly states it is to replace generation from a coal plant in Nevada.
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I'd look at Corgibytes as an example - it's not how I market myself as much as what problems I gravitate toward, with the alternative being startups.
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> Regarding you, evolution's drives are that you pass your genetic material down to your offspring, that you have as many offspring as possible, and that they repeat the cycle after you are gone.

It also doesn't help that lower IQ correlates to higher offspring, according to some studies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_and_intelligence#Int...
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I used to be obsessed with a terminal-based Tetris game built with ncurses. It helped me get through college lectures better than any other game.
Everyone is the magic word here. Reality isn't that trivial unfortunately and we aren't talking about instances where this approach worked, but whether this kind of approach is justifiable as a general procedure. While pot legalization is going well, there's also an opioid crisis. Does that mean we should further deregulate the opioid industry?

Beside, the majority isn't necessarily in the right either. That's why no matter what you and society need to process the fact that you have broken the law; note that I'm using the abstract term process, which
I used Instagram as an example because I think Facebook has done a lot more with it than, say, Google has with their YouTube acquisition. YT has been largely stagnant in the face of competition from Twitch, Netflix, Spotify, etc. and I see fewer and fewer content creators using it, whereas Instagram continues to grow.
That's great song. Thanks for getting me interested in a band I can't torrent.

Edit: Wait. Am I part of the problem?
I agree, it is thankfully somewhat difficult. One thing the US Copyright office pointed out to me on a request a number of years ago was that any changes need to be themselves copyrightable to have any influence on the status of the final work. Little snippets of text/titles are for the moment still not copyrightable, changing hue or saturation etc would probably not pass the smell test, nor would any batch processing, purely technical changes like resolution or file type, etc. Unfortunately the larger players with standing are unlikely to push for these rulings so it is hard to find established case law.
Hydro is so great because water is easy to store as a reservoir. There is very little hydro generation that isn’t dammed (and most of that is for small scale local power generation).
I think any sport that is more like an art is gonna be like that. Soccer is more of an art. There are positions where the performance enhancing drugs definitely will help you. (And I'm sure a lot of players use those drugs if they are at those positions.) But you won't become Pogba, Messi, or Neymar by shooting up. Those guys are artists.

Basketball is like that too. Shoot up with whatever you like, it will have no effect on your 3 point percentage. You want to shoot like Steph Curry? Then you'll need to be just as good an artist. You want to handle the ball as well as Kyrie Irving? You'll have to be just as good an artist.

I know people might disagree with this one, but I think some hockey positions are like that. People should try this experiment, go to your local ice rink, and try weaving through traffic at top speed on skates and putting the puck in that 6 inch window that a keeper might give you to the back of the net. Steroids aren't gonna help with that.

Those are all sports where a little guy can come in and just dominate through sheer asymmetry of skill. It's a beautiful thing to watch.
Japanese people are taught in schools: We have nothing naturally, so you have to overcome yourself to beat the disadvantages of nature.

Vietnamese people are taught in schools: We have everything naturally, our forests are gold, our beaches are silver. We're proud of it.

Results: Blindly and stupid education is a serious problem in Vietnam. Large percentages of past generation is lazy, not productive.

I don't even mention politics here. A hell.

Shortly, to be successful and rich in Vietnam, you don't need talent or hard-working. You just need relationship.

Who is Ho Chi Minh ? I don't even know if he was Chinese or Vietnamese.

Most of what was told in schools are lie.

Yes, it's a shocking truth: Most of things they taught us in schools are lie. To protect that communist party.

Polices are to protect that party. No bad voice is allowed here.

If you shout out bad things at the party, you'll be caught and get killed silently. Noone knows where you are.
Walt Crawford has done quite a bit of interesting work in this area, he's got a book out that looks at OA journals here:

https://waltcrawford.name/goaj3.pdf

More writing here:

https://waltcrawford.name/goaj.html

I'm not sure that's exactly helpful for what you're asking about, but it's a good read for anyone interested in this area.
> Alignment is a bit more nebulous. For small teams, it may be unnecessary. But as orgs grow, there's room for mission creep and contradictory goals and efforts.

In my experience this is the single biggest thing that trips up organizations which have grown, or been acquired. It also seems to be the thing that people can't wrap their heads around because it feels difficult. If whole divisions aren't aligned then it doesn't really matter how well your team performs because the lowest common denominator division becomes the limit.

This is especially noticeable around acquisitions where the incoming team naturally wants to operate as if nothing has changed, but they may be really out of alignment with the acquiring company. With enough time and management pressure alignment might occur, but it's normally a painful process of the acquiring company taking over aspects of the acquired company. Rarely, if ever, are acquisitions comfortable, but the other other results can be a bit better.
Google reader is the one that kills me. Not only do they not monetize it / promote it, but it's Google subsidized free existence killed the market for alternatives. Then Google+ and their failed social efforts killed Reader and RSS feeds have now disappeared from the landscape leaving us with only proprietary options.
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You don't have to exercise for 5 days a week though - that's an arbitrary choice. I've been going to the gym 3-4 times / week for 1-3 hours at a time for years and it's absolutely helped my mood. There's no magic to 5 days a week.
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> If you allow illegal activity as a form of protest—when it is not the absolutely last option—, then you negate the legitimacy of the law in general.

There are old law on the books that no one in their right mind follows today. It's probably one of the ways a law gets repealed eventually - people stop obeying, state stops enforcing, and then perhaps a repeal happens. I don't think this is anything against the legitimacy of law system in general. It's just that it has many ways of working.

Though in this case it's more nuanced, as this is not against the copyright in general, just specific uses.
Here's my draft article: https://github.com/freeradical13/ValueBasedPrioritization/ra...

I'm not really sure what field I'm targeting, so I was hoping people would note their favorite open access journals and I could investigate (and I also thought a more generic list would be generally interesting to all the HN folk).
ICD-9 had one code for animal bites. ICD-10 has too many codes. My favorite is alligator bites: https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/V00-Y99/W50-W64/W58-...
For statistical purposes and public health data, knowing what animal bit people is useful, but from a fee-for-service side, having to determine and adjust the amounts paid for all these new codes seems like unnecessary complications.
That's down an axis of "strictly worse than the alternatives." With an open-source ecosystem, I have to set it up and maintain it myself, when it breaks I have to service it by myself (often without a useful community to assist, because my problems are often unique to my special-snowflake configuration), and if I get attacked I'm 100% responsible for digging out of the assault with no recourse or assistance.

None of these are concerns with either Google's online offerings or the offerings of most startups.
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You bounce 19% of your traffic but some other 30% might accidentally agree to the notifications and now you can bump your traffic every day by sending them. Those 19% are probably useless people with adblockers that never give their email or click any ads so you lose nothing anyway.

Also, you can send ads using notifications and earn money.
the knowledge of this has made me happy. :)

Thanks.
That is actually a thing, where surplus infelxible solar/wind/coal power is used to pump water up to a reservoir that can then be used as hydro when it is needed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectric...
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When I was young I thought that 2Pi was a more naturally occurring value than Pi. I didn't really tell people about it. Much later in life, I discovered the Tau movement. I doubt that I was exposed to this before my thought of it.

This made me wonder how many truly original thoughts do people have? It's hard for me to think of even one other clear example. Most thoughts/ideas are triggered or build upon others which we are exposed to. The only other large category of original thought is humour. Someone has to be first to make the associations.
Cognitive testing is actually the most statistically sound stuff we've ever come up with in psychology.
To play devil's advocate, we don't know how sucessful they would be if they followed a more orderly model.

Not saying they wouldn't be, but it's entirely possible that they are successfull in spite of, not because of how they operate in much of the business. Given that the vast majority of their revenue comes from just one place, advertising, which seems to be run in a much more cautious manner, there is an argument that this might be the case.
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What do you mean? TorrentFreak is a news site.