skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a logical hypothetical, but we don't know if it's accurate.

This provides data about what the gas station is stocking, but we do not have data about what Google's current users favor. It may well be that the users do prefer RC Cola.

And setting aside user preferences, the gas station doesn't stock what people want to buy. They stock what will make the most profit. The users may want RC Cola, but by refusing to stock it they may be able to force users into buying their higher-profit-margin Coke.
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I know about them, but last I checked, they too were part of the picture I'm lamenting: they ran Android 4.2 at best, as of last year.
And not just books of course. Often we notice/realize additional things when rewatching a film.
Messy codebase is one thing, but messed up build/configuration system is much worse.

I don't ask to see it, but I've found it effective to ask a simple question: "So, How's your build system?". The engineers at an effective company where everything is in order, will just have this puzzled look on their face and say "it's fine", not really understand just how terrible things could be.

However, for those companies that have huge problems with their stack, the kind of places where builds and configurations break on a regular basis, the kinds of places where you spend half your work hours fighting against configurations and setups, well those interviewers start having steam come out of their ears. After asking this, One interviewer admitted their build system was a hot mess.
It must not be that huge of a problem because farmers are continuing to purchase the most up-to-date tractors with all the wing-dings, bells and whistles they can afford. The guidance consoles are not tied into the machine and don't care how old the equipment is, so why again do you need that brand new $200k tractor? Perhaps this will be a wake up call. Stop buying new equipment and fix your already existing, already purchased, old equipment.
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Thanks for your appreciation :) These are excellent questions, let me come back to them tomorrow.
and off-by-one errors, never forget!
> Please try to consider a case that is reversed from your political point of view.

For my part, there is no such case.

There is no case where I would feel "that person should not receive a defense" but I do feel Manning should not have been prosecuted.

(And I'm generally pro-military, until they try to hide the truth from the American people.)
I think doing away with the warehouses isn’t compatible with conquering the last of retail; same day delivery. Even next day is cost prohibitive for drop shipping as it requires UPS or FedEx.

Amazon goal is same day delivery using low paid, Uber type contractors.
Why would it be unsafe for them just because they rejected me? And of course people are not universally against it. Most people seems to be meeting their partner through friends but the second largest group has met their partner at work.

https://www.bustle.com/p/where-people-are-actually-meeting-t...
'Uber loses more money than any other company to ever go public.' Says it all.
I feel like you are fishing for "autonomous driving" but I think the real answer is: Lyft going out of business.
A few months ago I was of the opinion that Google was falsely accused of bias and favoring (likely because I tend to agree with their results). However, it's getting easier than ever to test the bias for yourself.

I actively wanted to read some of the extreme right wing stuff a few weeks ago, so went searching for it. I've done this with left wing stuff before and it is very easy to find it via Google. (meta comment: I believe strongly that we do everyone a disservice by silencing people. It harms the rest of us by isolated us from anything not "mainstream" and it further pushes the silenced into radicalism and vindicates/bolsters their argument that they are mistreated. So, I try to put myself in uncomfortable territory to see what people are saying, even if it's just to get it from the horse's mouth than spun by somebody in the media or on twitter).

I literally could not find it on Google, but just moving over to Duck Duck Go I found what I was looking for right away.

You should try it yourself! Think about some polarizing political topic and plug it into Google and then do the exact same search in Duck Duck Go (and maybe Bing, I haven't tried that but I will). You'll be shocked at the difference.
My problem with thinking too much is when I'm faced with a decision, I find I often have a preferred course of action already in mind and whether that course happens to be objectively better than the alternative is completely immaterial to my ability to think long and abstractly enough about it to reason myself into believing that it is. I have had to train myself to turn off this abstract thinking as necessary. The upshot is when I do, the actual correct answer to the situation often strongly presents itself and immediately seems obvious.
It used to be a commonplace (and interesting) to see Japanese people frequently take out their stamp for anything requiring a "signature" but in recent years I really haven't seen it happening much. I was always able to use a signature on any official document and I think this has become a much more acceptable form of verification for Japanese people nowadays.

Also, it's a shame those episodes are geoblocked in Japan since some of the people who'd most enjoy and benefit from them are people who're visiting Japan for an extended period.
Part of it could be privacy too. I ordered a computer monitor that was in its own cardboard box. However, that box had clearly printed "Gaming Monitor" on the box. This item was sitting on my porch for a few hours before I got home.

Amazon put it in one of their boxes, which did not have any labels about the package contents. Thieves are more likely to steal a box that says "expensive computer part" versus an unlabeled box.

Not to say that's always the case, but it depends on what the products box is like.
For a general reference I would look at Jason Gregory "Game Engine Architecture".

For a deep dive into all game engine topics I would recommend the Handmade Hero dev streams: https://handmadehero.org

(Note that Handmade is not a useful model for an actual game production, it's more like a platform for investigating cutting-edge engine topics, so you can pick and choose parts to get what you need. It's been going for years and remains mostly a tech demo.)
Isn't there also good to be had here, because it could normalize the concept of transgenderism, drag, etc.?
C++ with all optimizations disabled is still slow. g++ takes 2.8 seconds to compile a simple helloworld on my machine - or .14 seconds the second time after caches are warm... Python2 can build and run helloworld in .028 seconds, or .011 once caches are warm. Of course the C++ hello world runs in .002 seconds once build (caches don't seem to make a difference but that might be because it was still in the cache from building)
Progressives are not liberals. They are sad and mentally weak people who cannot handle other opinions existing.
How would a lack of choice and the ability to self determine be positive?
Decentralized identity is not useful. Its a red herring. What we need is better decentralized anonymity.
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My guess: Intel is using one of their super optimizing compilers to get these speeds. I'd wager that if you run this on an AMD CPU, it slows down.
Google shows users what other users like, and most of Google's current users favor a small number of major outlets...

If you think gas stations need to be more "fair" about which pop they sell

Not a good analogy. With social media and the desire to exert control over what's trending, it's more like, in the earlier days of 5 Hour Energy, when sales were growing rapidly, gas stations and convenience stores refused to try it out for reasons beyond sales. In reality, they're fairly enthusiastic about trying such things out. In reality, the space next to the register is fairly market driven.

“Getting it next to the register isn’t hard. Keeping it there? Very hard. Anything that sells, the stores will try. To own that space is really hard.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2012/02/08/manoj-b...

Sometimes I see the entire pantheon of legacy media news channels on YouTube presented to me, when it should be obvious that I never click on those links. Funny that.
This box of rubber gloves is SIOC and hopefully isn't too attractive to porch pirates: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01JGLWP3S
What would you consider a fair per-GB price for Cloudflare to route data over their own private backbone (which I hastily assume includes their own leased fiber, routers/switch fabric, and other associated fixed and variable costs)?
Of course the paradox to that is the fact that even though he had quite different attention placed on him in these two domains, he excelled at the highest level at both. Does that bring into question just how big an impact that experience really has?

I'm a coordinator at a K-12 school and I actually think about this quite a bit, and I'm not really sure I've made much progress. I've had the privileges of being an administrator in schools in different continents, serving vastly different populations, organized very differently, etc. And it has always shocked me how seriously we take some decisions, or how many hills staff is willing to die on for a sincere belief that deciding something one way or another is crucial to our work, yet knowing in the back of my mind another place where the approach was wholly different and yet the outcomes looked much the same.
>during the Obama administration Google actively participated in spreading narratives

I haven't heard of that, could you link me to where I could read more?
> Google is not liable for anything they publish/display, but still have the power to choose what they publish/display.

Choosing how to respond to a query string is the very nature of what a search engine does. It's utterly impossible to have one without the other. The more charitable interpretation of your argument is that there should be more "neutrality" in the algorithm, but that's also difficult... Should they be neutral to whether or not people are trying to manipulate algorithms with dishonest SEO? Should they be neutral to what other users like? Neutral to who else links to the page? Who decides which neutrality prevails where they conflict? Who decides if a certain kind of neutrality is more important than user preferences or market demands?

This is a rabbit hole of mutually exclusive goals and inevitable trade-offs that requires complex judgment. Government regulation in this area would be extremely difficult and troublesome, not just for economic reasons but also for first amendment ones. Free market competition in this area is going to be limited due to economies of scale, so that isn't perfect either.

And if you think that imposing traditional publisher liability for search engines is likely to make search engines censor _less_, you might want to think a few steps further down the strategic consequences.
What are some resources outside of gang of four?
We provide a lot of value for free through our free service. Argo is an additional paid service that improves performance for customers that want to pay for that.
DFL is a compendium of curricula to help you deeply understand Machine Learning
Siri - Alexa App is on the App Store as well as Google assistant

Apple Pay - there are plenty of QR code based pay apps on the store

AirDrop - any one can write a share sheet extension to duplicate the functionality.

Phone app - there has been a voip API that let third party apps integrate with the native phone screen forever. Hopefully you don’t consider third party apps being able to intercept phone calls a “feature”? How many security issues have arisen because of that on Android?

AppleTV - you mean a remote app? Streaming from your phone - the Roku app lets you stream video from your phone and Apple just announced third party AirPlay integration.

SMS App- Google Voice. If you mean allowing third parties to intercept your native SMS phone messages, that has been one of the many security nightmares on Android.

Also “as far as the App Store itself”, the original poster said that there are no products “in the App Store”. Are you expecting Apple to sell an App Store within the App Store?
Yes, I forgot about Russian gas. The US basically had to threaten the EU with tarrifs (hint: on vehicles, I wonder who's EU's biggest vehicle producer) if we don't import LPG from the US to reduce dependency on Russian gas. Norway, your other suppiler, isn't building any new capacity either.

Wait, your country is building coal plants in 2019? At least reconvert them to gas or oil.

Otherwise I agree that the difference is small. Your country is probably exporting for cents at a dollar during wind peaks and importing at night when France sells surplus nuclear energy at a discount. The issue with many variable renewables in the mix is that you have to build excess transport capacity which only gets used during peaks. Not to mention that solar has 0.2 max capacity factor and wind around 0.45 - the difference between that and 1 is idling.
Sure you can. The TLDR would be "piecewise constant projection"

I think picking up a standard graduate probability book will clear this up better than any long comment trail. There are no problems defining a coarser sigma algebra using an original one and then defining a function measurable on the new sigma algebra. Note this continues to be an r.v. in the original space as meaurability is preserved. A consistent definition the values of the conditioned r.v. would be the piecewise constant approximation of the original r.v. over the indivisible elements of the coarser sigma algebra.

Let me try another route.

You seem to be accepting of a conditional expectation. Now what is a conditional expectation if not a function. Now all we need is that function be measurable with respect to the new sigma algebra, thats ensured byconstruction. Hope it helped some
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They are doing that already. What do you think "most relevant" means -- it means "the link that most people want to click on".

Now, if I am looking at the google new results, and I see results from bbc.co.uk and "Random Guy's News Site", which one am I going to click? I'd choose bbc.co.uk every time.
So they will be marked as "relevant" and will rise to the top, while "Random Guy's News Site" will be marked irrelevant and fall to the bottom of the list where no one will ever see it.
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We keep ours in the trunk of our car. Makes it easy to do unplanned grocery shopping. Take them in, unpack, hang them on the doorknob to bring back to the car next time we go out. Haven't lost one yet, and we've had the same 5 for ~8 years.
So now it's a good thing that Google prefers reputable and well-known news sources over random unknown noise?
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I don't know if Google news still has the feature, but when I used it, there was an option to raise and lower weights to certain news outlets. I found it worked less and less over time to the point where the outlets I specifically filtered on didn't even show up.

I don't believe this is simply an effect of giving the crowds what they want.
Isn’t selection like this always self reinforcing?

It’s like when Facebook or Instagram only shows me certain posts, and I react to those posts because they’re all I am presented with. Then, their logic is that I just love posts like that, and it’s all they should show in the future.
Horrible things about cabs in Chicago (I literally haven't taken a single one since I started using Uber so idk if some of these got any better)

- Drivers always claimed the credit card reader wasn't working and tried to force payment in cash - the card reader was always just clearly turned off and they would slap it pretending to try to get it to work

- Drivers randomly deciding to charge 1.5x or 2x based on the ride going outside some made-up "zone"

- Drivers all crowding around bars blocking the street and sometimes getting into fistfights over their positioning in front of the bar (this doesn't happen anymore since Uber)

- Most of the cabs had absolutely disgusting interiors

I do agree that Uber's whole pricing competitiveness is a VC-funded greater-fool scheme, but the expectations of service levels in the ride hailing have been greatly improved.
Aka the weaponization of HR for political reasons. Obviously this is a tactic to fend off non-mainstream thinking in the guise of political correctness (feeling safe/not safe). HR is loath to be in the crosshairs, so they’ll probably tend to try and hire milquetoast staff.
I don't want to argue semantics, but even if we do, I would state that you are wrong. [1]

Censorship can come from anyone and anywhere. Especially when a private company like Google has more power that many governments in the world. Google could even be considered an un-elected government depending on how you look at it.

What they are doing by de-platforming people is censorship.

They offer no clue as to how their algorithm works or why some people get up on the list while others don't.

While they could theoretically show all 1,690,000,000 results, we know for a fact that just the first or second page at tops is what matters. So, in all practicality, the other results do not exist.

If the other results do not exist, then they are a publisher and should be treated as such since they pick the winners and losers.

If there's nothing wrong with what they are doing, what's the problem of calling then a publisher? Why not embrace it and take full responsibility?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship
Its time to buck up and make some sacrifices for the sake of our health and our planet. All of these problems can be overcome with a little bit of effort. Are we that collectively lazy?
Nethack was the first large C codebase I ever got familiar with / tinkered with, and honestly I think it did some damage.

I mean it's great for what it is -- an organic codebase that evolved over decades (so there's a lot of performance/memory optimizations that make the code somewhat less clear like a lot of bitwise operations) and targeted a dizzying array of platforms (so there's a million #ifdefs that you have to climb through, many of them nested) and also compilers (so there's a legacy of really short file and function names that decrease clarity as well).

The attention to details is truly inspiring. But as a codebase, it's a mess.

On the other hand, Brogue [0]'s code is very clear and enjoyable to read.

[0] https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/
My company, Modulate, is building "voice skins" for exactly this purpose: customizing your voice in chat for online videogames!

It's a really interesting technical challenge. On the one hand, changing your timbre to another human voice is much more complicated than basic pitch shifting, so we ended up using deep neural networks for a kind of simultaneous speech-recognition and speech-synthesis approach (though training this system to preserve e.g. the emotional complexity of your input speech while still changing out the timbre convincingly is difficult - we use adversarial training on the raw audio waveform, which is powerful but also pretty much unknown territory compared to images).

On the other hand, it's important to run with very low latency on your device while you're playing, which means that we can't simply "throw the biggest network we can" at the problem. So we have a tradeoff between model latency, which is easy to characterize, and audio quality / voice skin plausibility, which is pretty ambiguous and subjective.

Finally, as this kind of tech improves the potential for misuse becomes an important problem, so we need to build in protections (like watermarking the audio) that can help prevent fraud while not compromising the speed of the algorithm or the quality of the output audio.
The current American socio-political environment is a vortex of escalation right now. Moreover, we seem to be moving from rabid polarization to a calculus of hatred. I'm not sure there is a controlled transition from this state, except for a sudden (and potentially violent) 'release valve'.

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I hope my claim is false. I have zero desire to witness/observe the types of historical events that fall under the above category.
I'll never understand how we name things. It's weird to have "Hyperactive" in the umbrella term when only two of the three categories have it as a trait.
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"Taxing housing" isn't weird at all. We don't tax housing. If you rent, you pay rent to your landlord and that's it. You don't also pay taxes on that rent to the government. I'm guessing what you actually mean is that we tax property. This seems inherently fair to me. Why should you get to squat on a piece of land for free in perpetuity, especially when for most land, the value of the land is inherently improved by government-provided services?
I think I prefer right-to-repair laws compared to a government takeover of John Deere.
How do you know overall jobs will decrease?

It's also totally possible that each warehouse will be made twice as efficient per employee... but also deliver twice the merchandise... maintaining the same total number of jobs.

Kind of the same way that automation of the past 100 years across the economy has still resulted in record-setting employment right now.
Similarly, this also leaves open a big loophole - if you implement a tax on jobs eliminated, the incentive shifts to starting companies that that don't have jobs in the first place. Then you quickly arrive at the sub-contracted functions shell game where a company pays for a service rather than for specific workers to avoid the automation tax, and the fulfillment companies shuffle around as new automation tech allows them to eliminate more jobs.

I don't think taxation on automated labor really gets us anywhere. Wealth tax makes a lot more sense with fewer loopholes.
This is the list of the world's top 50 news sites.

https://www.alexa.com/topsites/category/Top/News

Hardly any conservative sites make the cut - Fox News is 10th, but the Drudge Report is 23rd and the NY Post is 26th.

Meanwhile, CNN is third, trailing only Google News and Reddit. NYTimes is 4th, WaPo 11th, Bloomberg 17th and USAToday. Meanwhile, 222,000+ sites link to the NYT. Fox News has just 52,000.

Google’s algorithm lets the Internet vote on which news sources it trusts the most. As it turns out, very few right wing sites make the cut.

Perhaps not the biggest surprise, as right now, according to Breitbart, the biggest story in the entire world right now isn't Zuck, isn't Trade Wars with China, it isn't even Julian Assange, it's that Jussie Smollett's 'Empire' just got cancelled.
The source you linked is a per-year breakdown for Germany only. Especially considering that it's a well-developed country that isn't a large commercial producer, I'd be very surprised if those results can be extrapolated onto the rest of the world.
In the US, many retail stores will give you a plastic bag for a small item that you can carry in the palm of one hand. It's just automatic, without any thinking involved.

Some places have enacted a fee for single-use plastic bags, which abates the problem by encouraging people to purchase multi-use canvas bags or use paper bags, and by forcing retailers not to automatically provide plastic.

But for the most part, it's a total free-for-all.
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First, I did not imply that reputability should not factor into the results.

Second, the criteria for 'reputability' is a great deal of what's at stake here.