skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Growing up playing these kinda games, you kinda just normalize it. I came out normal.
I'm not against FOSS, in fact I'm extremely pro FOSS. I'm against the idea that simply using FOSS is the goal. My goal is productivity and most of the time that deals with leveraging free software which is great.

FOSS at any and all costs is radical. It's the very definition of radical. It's an absolute. It bugs me when the no true Scotsman argument is used to shame a well designed but partially closed or entirely closed software rather than blaming itself for not providing an equal user experience.

Most people just want to do work on their computers. Most don't give a shit about using their computer to push some everything-free ideology.
Asus FTC settlement release (2016)
People who don't check their pockets every time they get up blow my mind.
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> In case she tell me "mission back envy" I must connect to the Internet and check where exactly is it. So I must have some device and connection

The app works offline, so assume you already have it installed, you don't need a connection.
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the thing is you are getting nervous over this. it is understandable as you only graduated six months ago, and this is clearly your first job.

however, leaving your current job for a better opportunity is an everyday affair in the private sector. we are all accustomed to it.

There is nothing wrong with this. Your colleagues should be happy for you.
> Trying to pass off a revisionist hypothesis with advance knowledge of results

I think you're reading too much into the "first they found X but then they found Y" narrative in the top comment of this thread. There's nothing like that in the actual paper - the authors start with one hypothesis, gather the data, do a bunch of regressions and whatnot, and report all the results. Then their overall conclusion is that the balance of the evidence supports their hypothesis, but they note all the caveats. There's no revisionism or changing of hypotheses or whatever, that I can see.
I thought about this solution as well and I came to the conclusion that it might worsen the situation even more: people panicking trying to force the overhead compartment could slow the evacuation even more. You need just one panicked passenger trying to force the lock to block a whole plane.

It would also be a quite challenging technical problem: are compartments locked the whole flight? Are they locked only on emergencies? If so: who thinks of locking them when an emergency occurs? I admit I don't know much about emergency procedures for flight attendants.
It's easy in hindsight to judge them, but you benefit from the knowledge they gained from experimentation. Radiation and the effects of background radiation was poorly understood. While no one contested the destructive impact of the bomb themselves, it was unclear what long term impacts, if any, might result.

Also around this time, soldiers were exposed to direct nuclear explosions, handling nuclear material with incorrect safety procedures, and all sorts of behavior we would consider to be insane.

To make a modern day comparison, future generations will surely judge us for our inaction on climate change or heavy use of PFAS and types of plastics.
It is a longer term cache.

:D
It will, so why not start now? No more excuses!
Being prepared and worried are two very different things.

If you can't separate those two, that's the problem to address - not simply dispensing with all preparation for the worst outcomes because YOLO.
Not for investment, but for protecting the value from one day to the next, since inflation is 25000%/year.

(I’m just hypothesizing here, would love to hear from someone who knows what is going on)
Or - making human art more accessible to everyone
> Thiel is dead wrong.
Academics tend to be middle middle class

Hmm, how is he wrong? Sounds like you agree with him...

Universities didn't start like a place for the middle class. They were elite institutions. I guess depending how far back you look there was not much of a middle class to speak of..

The idea was then to make it universal so lower classes could participate as well. So now academics don't always live wealthy lifestyles and there is a chance they came from and stayed as middle class.

The "intelectuals" so to speak is in a way a separate class. Depending in the time and the context it may be desirable to become a member of this class. Just like at a time it was desirable to become a priest, a member of Communist party, or other parties or groups.
Your link:

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without parameters = https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers
sessionId = 1_cc-session_21fee4d0-f420-4344-902d-3f4401eb33bd"

I don't know what that means, but it means something.
The Arctic is an ocean. Maybe you mean the Antarctic? Even so we're very far from uncovering its surface and there are international treaties prohibiting resource exploration there.
Use the sealed pouch ID holder on a lanyard around your neck under your clothes and it won't fall out.
I'm also sometimes confused by how people don't get this. Anybody honest with themselves should realize their phenomenal fallibility. Life necessarily involves drawing conclusions from incomplete data. I can't see how it's reasonable to not be intellectually humble in the face of that fact.
I don't know whether it forms a particular curve or what kind. But the fact is only a small proportion of the population has the innate talent for software development.

As long as people can practically attract a mate while lacking this sort of abstract reasoning ability, the majority of the population won't have it.
> a high school math teacher who produces great math undergrads

I don't believe a high-school teacher can produce great math undergrads. Personal anecdote, when I was in high-school (very small town in Europe), one of my friend was very gifted at maths. He would spend his time in math classes drawing cartoon. The curriculum didn't fit his abilities. Today he's professor in an Ivy league university. He would have been a great math undergraduate no matter who his high school teacher was.

EDIT: It's just an anecdote and of course I'm not saying teachers are useless, but I wouldn't rate teachers based on how many stars they've produced.
I check them every time I get up...

except for that one time I actually dropped something
>Like the Royals of the world, here is a chance to create a timeless memory.

Roll up, roll up, get yer powdered insta-class here. Bored of your lowly social status madam? With just one helping of insta-class, members of the nobility might finally notice you exist. Is easy to use with the simple applicator, all you need to do is add money. Terms and conditions apply. No refunds.

edit - this is what went through my head as I read the copy, right after, 'no, not much'. It is perhaps harsh, and I slightly regretted it after reading that the artists have the ability to set pricing.

It might be an idea to have a complete rethink of the marketing approach, as currently it leaves me utterly cold and leads me to assume it is a service meant for snobs interested in status, rather than something fun for people who want a nice painting.
> nobody improves 10 times faster than someone else (which happens in maths).

This does not happen in math either. What does happen is some students have significantly more preparation than others (including, for example, introspecting more while doing their homework for several years, playing board games, solving logic puzzles, building with construction toys, ...) and do more or better focused practice during a course.

Better-prepared students already know a significant part of the material being presented in a course, have extensively thought about ideas which are similar, or have improved their generic problem-solving skills. They end up stuck behind fewer blocking misconceptions.
Thank you, that was very helpful!
The argument here is "I shouldn't avoid emotionally traumatizing you because at some point, someone else in the future may emotionally traumatize you".

Perhaps there's a case to be made for exposing people to controversial or offensive ideas in a controlled environment to prepare for encountering them in an uncontrolled environment - in fact, this is frequently called a "safe space" and ridiculed by people who believe that modern societies are too "snow-flakey"!

But that's certainly not what internet trolls are doing.
You can find that at https://flightaware.com just from the flight number...
It's worth pointing out here that, thousands of years ago, Colorado was under water. While a case can be made for human-influenced climate change, it's still a fact that the earth's climate also changes on its own. If we're going to be here (which seems likely), we have to adapt to that.

Most people are not willing to give up the benefits of fossil fuel (which has improved every area of our life from the food supply to medicine and housing) in order to try and stave-off the inevitable changes, whether they're caused by humans or not. A good book on this subject is The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels.
The real villains are the nimbys. If there were a ton of empty buildings this wouldn’t be a problem, they could move into one of the empty ones for cheap.
When we started accepting orders 3 months ago, we started with few local artists and couple artists from different cities in India. My faith in the project became stronger and stronger as we started to talk to artists one-on-one, almost everyone was stoked about the idea and our passion, and attention to details to the project. We ended up contacting several artists pan India, some strongly resonated with our idea and so it began... We are still in process of on boarding artists, and we are constantly looking for talent. My wife has a very keen eye in spotting talent, and she also has a degree in Fine Arts so her being a co-founder in this venture helps a lot.

Fun Fact that helped us break-through with most of the artists can choose their pricing, we don't ask them to stick to certain pricing, hence artists don't feel boxed. My biggest take-away has been to never let their (artists) creative spirits cause of a certain economics of the business. We are still learning, and will know more as we progress.
Maybe a name change is order... you are aware of what "coochie" means in American English right?

EDIT: If someone is bilingual and targeting multiple markets, they have to complete ability to judge and choose a name lacking connotations. Doing otherwise is abstruse. Of course, it doesn't matter if it is only targeting the Indian market where there are no such connotations.
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How to Repair Your Relationship with Passion and Work
Do ya think maybe you could find a way to put a little less information in this post? I mean, it's pretty bloated at a whopping FOUR words. How is anybody supposed to parse all that information in order to extract the meaningful bits that would be used to construct any kind of useful answer to the question?
There has also been an awful lot of humans doing stuff "just to see what would happen" across history. From ice-picks for faster lobotomies, through widely available quack remedies to project A119 - "I wonder what would happen if we nuked the moon".

Let's not presume high moral motives in everything our forefathers did, nor to all of our current generation either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_A119
Unethical doesn’t ring true for you even as fb faces a multi billion dollar lawsuit over targeted manipulation of individuals in concert with Cambridge Analytica?
Slightly off topic but I’ve been playing with this dataset for a while now to learn ML. It’s remarkably humbling.

No NLP approach I’ve tried has been able to predict question score based on content better than my baseline of “choose the mean”. (I’ve tried random forest on bag of words, AWD-LSTM, and Google AutoML so far).

The author of this post tried score prediction as well and pivoted to tag prediction after she couldn’t find anything that worked well: https://twitter.com/srobtweets/status/1125860523377979398?s=...

It’s so crazy to me that which posts get popular might just be random. And makes me wonder about the correlation between post content and popularity on other social sites like HN and reddit.
It really depends where in the US. I've recently been the wild state of West Virginia, and while you can meet stereotypical "rednecks", every person i met in a position to help me helped me, and everyone was very welcoming. I did not experience the same in California except maybe around Bishop.

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What does this answer have to do with OP's question. Surely he already knows ethical issues surrounding FB.

Its like bots pattern matching the word 'FB' in every single post and posting the same comments over and over.

pls don't ruin his post with flamewar tangent.
Bromide is the safe form. Bromate is the carcinogen, a side effect of sunlight and chlorination, but it also forms if ozone is used to sterilize the water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromate
Casual phone games have more mathematics involved than people appreciate. Even if that involves figuring out that you will die before completing the game unless you pay for it.

But, regardless of their merits, casual games are insanely popular for various reasons.

And not just casual games. All sorts of games involve mathematics.

That may not be your case, but a lot of people have fond memories playing SimCity or min-maxing their paladin.
"victims" of what?
yes its ok.

don't overthink.
Not sure if you saw the book I linked to in my other comment, but that's the premise:

"This book compares how traditional schools can, metaphorically, act like a ski school, which temporarily organizes its students into classes where each student shares a specific and common instructional need but has previously mastered the critical prerequisites that will enable new learning to take place."

https://www.amazon.com/General-Systems-Unique-Learning-Schoo...
No, it's a play on the "superhero whose best/close friend is an unpowered but helpful colleague to the main character gets killed/maimed by the villain" trope.

E: Wait did I get whooshed?
Those are two independent problems. On the one hand, how do we generate electricity. On the other hand, what do we do with plastic garbage.

"Burn it to generate electricity" solves the second one entirely by solving a small fraction of the first one. That is not a flaw, it just means that we still need solar panels and nuclear reactors to make up the difference.

It still gets rid of the plastic garbage -- and the fact that it's a small proportion of electricity production is a feature, because burning plastic gets it out of the landfill, but it's not exactly carbon neutral. Doing it at smaller scale, especially if it replaces that amount of power generation from coal, is more feasible than burning plastic (i.e. oil) to generate all of our electricity.

> There are different chemicals distilled and they have different purposes, such as making asphalt, lanolin, naptha, paraffin wax, kerosene / jet fuel, and other goodies. Maybe 40-50% of a barrel of oil at most becomes gasoline and diesel, 4% becomes plastic.

The distillation process can actually be tuned within a fairly broad range to produce different output products with varying degrees of efficiency.

It's also possible to make bioplastics from biomass, though hardly anybody does that because it's more expensive.
Artists do recommend other artists. Most artists we come across is through artist recommendation.
the world existed before American English. Also the sound is more like "coon-cheee", not like what sounds in your dirty mind.
One of my favorite points on this story is that it is the origin of “We can neither confirm, nor deny”:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_response
I would call this very scary. Soon a single entity can do full surveillance of the whole planet at reasonable cost. what could go wrong?
Could a mod change the title to something grammatical?
Generated data can be used to increase variety as a way to avoid overfitting. A simple example might be translating or rotating images.

Not an expert, but I'm guessing it must be easier to do this than to improve how the machine learning generalizes from less data.
In Tamil it means speech that leads no where. In the sense of debating but not useful.
If someone else might hold that view legitimately and it stands on reasonable logic by itself, does it matter if someone is playing "devil's" advocate or not? Maybe this is not devil's advocate but something called empathy?
I used tags on MathOverflow because questions outside my area of expertise often may as well have been written in Latin.
> where did this idea that "anyone can learn to code" come from?

From VC and business owner "thought leaders" who have an economic incentive to flood the market with programmers and drive down salaries.

(Oops, I forgot we're not supposed to say that out loud...)
What is photorealistic changes every decade. Doom used to be photorealistic, then Unreal, then Crysis, now modern games are photorealistic. And yet they don't look realistic at all.
The entire discussion does revolve around human factors; how decisions were made, how the changes were designed to avoid the need for retraining, and in this specific article, designed to hide a change under the guise of preserving standard procedures for the people flying the plane. I’m not sure what other angle you’re after.
24 yo CE here with FE here, the question becomes do you think a test can be designed for something as large as software to accurately judge competency. Competency in code comes from getting stuff wrong and having to live with it and fix it, that stuff isn't super easy to test.
Of course, but isn't this marketed to a US audience? You won't name a Hindi product "chut" either. It's common sense.
What is never brought up in the lab grown meat discussion is the potential to mitigate human suffering. Working a fishing boat is hard. Working a poultry plant is hard and psychologically stressful. Lab grown meat could eliminate that for thousands of people.
The worst case scenario for you is you don't get a date. The worst case scenario for them is their work environment is now unsafe because they had to reject you. I encourage you to listen to women's thoughts on this issue, which are almost universally negative toward workplace romance.
This isn't SF, this is NYC. I don't recall development being overly burdensome in NYC
Similarly, predicting issue tags on Github would be interesting.
The original assertion is that mathematicians do their best work in their 20s. Not learning. Most math discoveries we know were made by guys under 25!

This makes mathematics an outlier scientific field, so if your explanation is "life responsibilities", you have to explain why mathematicians have more life responsibilities than others.

So my money is on some brain development thing. Not that I have any better argument than "what else could it be?".
> In the real world there are massive amounts of code in the .net framework.

Right, I agree with everything you said here. That's exactly the reason why MS said at the Build conference that they will be supporting .NET Framework "forever". There is a lot of it out there and it will likely remain for a very long time.

When I said there won't be a concern with portability via .NET Standard, I merely meant that the current shifting landscape of Framework features vs Core features vs the intersection known as Standard, will go away. There will be .NET 4.8 in maintenance mode and .NET 5 as the future, growth mode. Maintaining .NET Framework apps hopefully won't be a problem but if you're thinking of building a new app using .NET 4.8, you're likely making a big mistake unless it's to satisfy some immediate need that doesn't work on .NET Core. MS said they're committed to supporting people stuck in that position. Just don't expect new features that will appear in future .NET versions.
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It's far too premature and ill-prepared to armchair solution workshop. My point is that maybe the solution is to funnel humans towards a behaviour rather than hoping for rational behaviour
No, there are still problems. My understanding is there will be further work on the .Net Core version although I haven't paid any attention to that so far.
That's just one application.
And the effect is they improve 10 times faster than others who don't do all that.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were August 6+9, 1945. The Effects of Nuclear Weapons was published in 1950. Bikini Atoll was March 1, 1954. We already had a really good understanding of the consequences of nuclear weapons without needing to tow the Independence back to SF, sandblast it and sink it off the coast nearby. This was just stupidity. This was just the military ignoring what we already knew at the time.
you know the hindi word for vacation is - chutti.

This is sophomoric funny only if you read it in Roman script.
You will be fine whichever you decide. There are always consequences to any path of action. In this case, let yourself be calmed by knowing that none will cause your ship to spring critical leaks. I have back to back <6 months full time positions on my resume. I was hired by a YC company directly after those.

You sound like a bright kid. You'll figure something out that works well for you. Remember that your own judgment is the signal in all of this tech hype chatter noise and you'll be just fine.
Impossible is plant based, not lab grown.
So, it looks like what the SoEs are doing is perfectly legal? Otherwise he won’t just complain on Twitter? And those tweets will be taken down because...?
The online price of the panels on my roof is under 1/3 of the total cost of the system. The inverter and related hardware is much less than that.
>very few high school math teachers who have a good idea of what mathematicians do

(Professional mathematician here)

That's unfortunate, and it may be solvable. Indeed, professional mathematicians are usually the ones teaching prospective high school teachers during undergrad, so we are the ones to solve it.

You have define "what mathematicians do" properly, though. Here is a recent paper that I (and two others) wrote:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.00044.pdf

Nobody is going to understand that without a lot of specialized training. That shouldn't be the goal.

But problem solving comes close. For example, the "riddler" problems on fivethirtyeight.com are fantastic.

Here is an even better example:

- Write down all the integers which can be written as a sum of two integer squares: 0, 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 13, ... Go up to at least 200.

- Look for patterns. At first, your descriptions will be vague. Keep refining them; eventually you get a nice exact description of which integers are on the list and which aren't.

- Why are these patterns true? You've made a conjecture, can you prove it?

- Are there similar such patterns with related questions? For example, integers which can be written as x^2 + 2y^2? As the sum of two cubes, or of three squares? What is the special sauce needed to make your pattern tick? Can you prove more cases, or a still more general theorem?

This problem is accessible to anyone who knows basic high school algebra, but it requires a lot of effort (and, probably, in most cases, a lot of mentorship to help the student through it). We should try to do more of this kind of thing with our students: it is exactly what mathematicians do.