skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, for the sake of discussion, let's say that you actually said "permanent irrevocable ban by the host of a major service" and not "block", which usually applies to users.

The lack of appeal is indeed egregious.

However, it is NOTHING like being killed / capital punishment. It is a ban from a single service, and nothing else in the world. If that service is such a large part of your life that you might as well be dead without it, you REALLY need to get a life.

Mostly, I'd suggest putting more thought into your arguments, and being a bit more gracious when readers notice your lack of clarity or precision. I used to make those kind of arguments too, and I found that everything got better once I figured out it was a waste of time, and I was better off saying, 'oh, I didn't make that clear enough, here's what I meant to say..."

Anyway, have a great weekend!
Lyft says drivers tampering with surge pricing could be booted
What happens with the zero-sum cancelling out phase if one device disappears during the process?
Are Cryptocurrencies Suspect Because They a Difficult to Regulate?
Like Google’s core business gives them the infinite cash to burn to prevent an alternative to YouTube ever showing up, AWS might be that but for Amazon.
You can disable string normalization with Black, and then continue using single quotes all day. But then, yeah, you give up enforced standardization on that.
The article mentions Bill Gates' famous week-long thinking retreats where he would go rent a cabin for a week and think about the future of Microsoft.
On the value of removing temptation rather than trying to resist it
How is this different than the railroads that owned the railways and were broken up in ye olden times?
It may be a big revenue business but margins are extremely thin. That's one of the reasons why there hasn't been much innovation. Amazon could be a different story, but the virtue of brokering a standard product is same as retailing a barcoded product. It's the same marketplace story. If Amazon is interested, it's not for the money but for an opportunity to own an important platform in the logistics industry.
Paper Money Won't Last Forever, That Is Guaranteed. But Crypto Remain Capitalist
Comments like this are the reason I am on this website. Thank you for taking the time to lay this out and sharing your experience with us.
Frankly, the biggest reason by far that Facebook is dangerous is that government will step in one day and start manipulating/tracking people.
Conversion of the Voynich MS's handwritten text into a computer-readable format
Citrus Farmers Facing Deadly Bacteria Turn to Antibiotics
A lot of clever efficiency improvements & innovations look obvious in retrospect. I have come to believe that "obvious in retrospect" is actually a clue suggesting it could make a good patent.
Free as in beer vs free as in speech.
For what it is worth, I would guess most people under report their drink totals to surveys. Also, just using the following link:

https://www.alcohol.org/bac-calculator/

BAC can range greatly depending on size and gender. For a 200 pound guy, seven beers over three hours is close in BAC to four for a 120 pound woman. Age I would guess is also a factor. Three drinks would definitely would have a much larger effect on my in my thirties versus in my early twenties.
Anyone know how to bypass the "Medium" pay wall?? Help!
So, correct me if I'm wrong, but this basically only works when you've already done your data exploration phase, you've committed to a particular topology, and now you just want to optimize your weights?

It seems that this won't work so great if you don't have any initial data to bootstrap yourself with. So, perhaps the idea is you bootstrap with a few people, do your explorations, and then scale it out with federation?
Downvotes, is that all you’ve got? Can’t explain yourself because you’ve got no good response?
I was abruptly fired and unemployed when my daughter was born, which paradoxically has saved us money in medical expenses, as a pregnant woman and her infant retroactively get Medicaid. So while we have primary insurance, the secondary Medicaid is active for a year before it has to be renewed (which we won’t do as my income is too high). It covers all the copays of her primary insurance and we haven’t had to pay a cent. It’s all been pretty surreal.

We also got to deal with a bizarre situation of me breaking the health insurance bank at the contracting firm I worked for. When benefits renewal came up at the end of the year only a high deductible plan was available at $1220 a month! So we dumped their plan (I feel bad for everyone else, but what was I supposed to do?) and bought her a $325 a month plan with a $500 deductible. Technically I didn’t have to, because of the Medicaid, but it made me feel like as someone who makes close to six figures employed, I shouldn’t be taking government benefits just because they’re offered.
I'm currently receiving medical bills from some overseas hospital. I get a power bill from some guy in Ohio. I'm part of a family's frequent vacation emails. There's some woman named Deborah whose Verizon bill I get alerted about. On the GSuite side of things, I have a catch-all account for a domain I own that receives real estate documents every day of the year.

So many people have provided my GMail as their own that its and endless stream of missed communications and noise. Worse yet - apparently it's distorting the profile Google (and whatever other government agencies track this stuff) have built about me.
Oh boy. This is an awesome gem in the open source world.
Did you know about RMS's song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sJUDx7iEJw

He is drumming on the laptop. [laugh cry]
There's a middle ground between a fancy luxury market and flickering green-tinged fluorescent bulbs that always make you feel slightly ill. Signage & organization also serves a function aside from "experience".
I’m not aware of access logs exist, perhaps history tracking if enabled on that object(limited to 10 fields per object).

It would absolutely be considered a breach if customer data was accessible by non authorized staff, moreso if by partners.
>>”It took me 7 years to get my PR after University and another 2 years for citizenship.”

Was it Canada or USA citizenship?
The problem I see, from briefly looking at the landing page is that you can achieve what you want on Slack by disabling notifications and then checking slack every hour or so, when you've just committed some code and feel like your mental cache can be flushed. This is what I do. There isn't a big enough problem being solved, especially to move away from the slack ecosystem. Even if the 'other' product had all the things slack has, the cost of getting another tool and getting used to it seems too high when that effort could be put into swapping a different tool for a different reason with more upside for the team. The cost of the product itself in this equation is almost irrelevant.

Having said that no one wants to be the "Dropbox is just rsync " guy. Or Lily Allen turning down thousands of bitcoins (although she's successful anyway so she probably shouldn't care). If you see what I mean ... no one wants to say an idea sucks before hand, and if they do you can just say "well they said that about Dropbox".
> The Consumer Welfare Standard fails to capture forms of market power and forms of dominance that should be relevant to antitrust and do raise competition concerns.

Why would I care about anything other than consumer welfare?

Screw for profit businesses. I don't care about their welfare. I only care about consumers.
It looks from the comic like they aggregate data with linear structure (probably derivatives on the model parameters.) Each device adds a mask to their part of the data, and somehow the masks are coordinated across devices so that when the data are summed on the central training server, the masks cancel out.

It's unclear from the comic how the masks are coordinated, or how they compensate for the risk that a participating device drops out (which will make all the other data from that iteration useless, if you set the masks up in a naive way.)
As a listener of the Art of Product podcast I am a little sad with this announcement. But rationally I don't think I should be. The founder was very aware and honest about the challenges of his product; and this decision, at this time, seems very mature and right.

Good luck on your next endeavor, which, I guess, will be a developers'tool :)
There’s a superb YC video that rephrased this correctly for me - be in love with the problem, not your current draft of a solution. Certainly not your first draft.

https://youtu.be/vDXkpJw16os

But you do need love. I had a similar experience with https://whatsgoingon.in - I fell in love with my own live blogging product, but I don’t have the problem of actually needing a live blog for anything in my life. That craters motivation pretty quickly.
Well the skeptic in me doesn't want my model touched by other peoples models.

Of course it depends on the application... For example, I might not want my keyboard autocomplete learning from others, but I might want my self driving car to do it.

For applications where we want a common model, I see no other way to do it but this. The idea companies collect massive stockpiles of data forever is infeasible.
I just finished Wolf 3D Black Book last week & my copy of Doom arrived yesterday. Just before the updated version (grah), but they've both been great reads.
Life doesn't suck. Relatively few people are dying from starvation or infectious diseases relative to historical percentages. That's a huge improvement no matter how you look at it.

The trouble is that human happiness is mostly based on how well we're doing relative to others. So if your neighbor's circumstances improve a lot while yours improve only slightly then it feels like the situation is getting worse even when you're objectively better off.
Roberts is a squish who allowed Obamacare to stand through some hysterically twisted reasoning, so there's no chance Roe goes down anytime soon.
Except that failure modes of ftp (technically not ftp-the-protocol itself, but what the server chooses to do with the file) is not well defined. What happens if the connection dies half way through? Is the partial file processed? None of it? Does the file get moved after the upload is done or after it has been fully processed? Does every single last company in this space's ftp site behave the same in the face of errors? Also is this literally ftp and not anything more recent that includes encryption, but if it includes encryption, what ciphers are supported? Nevermind the files may be in ebdic or something else wonderfully obscure...

(I also work in payments. Bank's SFTP sites have under-defined failure modes.)
Side note: I commute to work on a bike occasionally. My commute isn't long (~3miles) and I try to be considerate and move to the side when possible, stop at stop signs, not run lights, not sneak up while waiting at stop lights, and stay off the sidewalk. You know: behave like a considerate driver sharing the road.

The reason I do this is because all the bikes I see when I drive are flagrantly disregarding traffic laws and acting like they own the road. These pool noodlers seem like they are doing more of the same.

I wish they got pulled over by cops more often because all they are doing is endangering everyone else who is actually sharing the road.

Cyclists are why I have a dashcam.
Since we're sharing anecdotes... I also have a gmail address with a fairly common name.

1) I've received a bunch of Fw: emails from an Australian person over the years that I ignored as spam. Until he sent a very personal one, inviting me to catch up over beers since it's been so long, at which point I took pity and replied along the lines of "Hello! This is not the address of who you think it is. You're emailing the wrong person. Have a nice day." To which he replied "Lol, nice one!" Eventually the emails stopped.

2) I received a message from a major American company that if I didn't take action urgently, something or other would happen to my requested service. Ok, fine. Then within the next 5 months I've received at least half a dozen emails from them titled "FINAL WARNING: ...", stressing just how important it was for me to acknowledge it. I suspect the company is run by the people behind the Final Destination films or the Final Fantasy games.
No, they don't design CPUs. They design ASICs that run inside their network. This is the secret sauce that keeps them competitive in HPC environments where latency/bandwidth matter a lot more.

They used to do the whole shebang, back in the day. But it's been a long, long time since that was the case.
MIT 18.065: Matrix Methods in Data Analysis, Signal Processing, and ML [video]
That website actually looks to be run by Uber, not Flexport.
I agree with you more than some others here are doing but I just wanted to say the "learn to read" part is not constructive.

I have been guilty of the same kind of nonconstructive dialog but ... Let's aspire to better, eh?
Yes the bottleneck in producing more licensed physicians is currently the number of open residency slots in teaching hospitals. We need more funding for those. Every year some students graduate from medical school but are unable to actually practice medicine because they fail to get matched to a residency program.
> My experience is with s-expressions being a wall of text.

That's sad, but unfortunately not that rare. Making a Lisp readable is not as easy as doing so in Python.

In my experience, Lisp code written by an experienced lisper who cares about readability can often be much more readable than well-written Python (assuming equal levels of proficiency in their respective languages). On the other hand, the number of ways you could destroy the readability of Lisp source is endless, they are always close by, and are even context-dependent. Beginners or people without the focus on readability use those ways rather liberally.

The situation is the exact opposite: Python defines the lower bound on the code readability ("Readability counts" -> PEP-8 -> linters -> (lately) `black`) while Lisps, in general, don't even have an authoritative PEP-8 equivalent.

On the other hand, Python also has an upper bound on how readable it can be: its syntax is rich, but if you find yourself in a place where it's not rich enough, you're on your own. You could just use the expressive power of the language to hijack the syntax and beat it into shape better suited for your problem, but it will be almost certainly seen as un-Pythonic.

On this point, Lisps have a huge advantage, because you can change the language parser on the fly easily, and you can add whatever syntax sugar you need in a couple of lines of a macro. In other words, Lisps give programmers tools for making their code as readable as they want (and are able to) while at the same time allowing them to write "walls of text" (and honestly, that'd be a very polite way of describing some of the Lisp code I've seen) which - in readability - could be one of the worst among many languages I've seen.

So, what I want to say here is that it's possible - and not that hard - to write readable Lisp code. Unfortunately, a programmer has to both think of readability when writing and have skills to make their ideas on readability into reality.

In effect, yes, there's a lot of Lisp code which is hard to ingest. Some style guides are there or are being created, paredit helps a lot, I'm not aware of any linters yet, but they should start appearing at some point. On the other hand, Lisp code skillfully crafted for readability is rivals (and sometimes surpasses) Python at its best.

I'm not sure what Lisp code you've seen, but I assume it was all of the former kind. This is unfortunate. Without knowing what was it you were reading/working with it's hard to recommend anything, but I found examples in "How to Design Programs" quite readable: https://htdp.org/2019-02-24/part_five.html and there are also other books and Open Source projects with code worth reading, but I'd have to dig through my bookmarks, which I don't have the time for right now, sorry :(

TLDR: Lisps - Schemes, Racket, CL, PicoLisp, Emacs and TXR Lisps to name a few - can be used to write astonishingly readable and to-the-point code, but the languages do absolutely nothing to discourage using them to write the most unreadable mess under the heavens. As for the reasons for this - I've honestly no idea at all.
People will not pay unless they believe the files will be unlocked, which they will do en mass only if they have some publicity with positive indications it’ll work or at least a lack of negative indications that it won’t.

If ransomware gets a reputation of not unlocking on payment, then it degenerates into a virus and you’ll have mainstream news media telling people not to bother paying.
Imo the cases where autopilot fails should be a subset of where humans fail. If it's failing in places where humans wouldn't then there's an issue.
When you pay for something, you get more of it.

Socialists have turned the place is a shit magnet.
It's spring. Everyone gets allergy meds advertised to them in spring.
This looks fantastic and great value. Is their an API? We’re heavy users of the other sites you mentioned in that way.

While I have you, what’s the ETA on the Canva button?
Google Antitrust Complaint Threatens Plan for Auto Dashboard Dominance
Is there a list or mind map anywhere of all of the nefarious things google does? Most people reading this forum can spend the next three days talking about all the evil shit google does and Not even run out of things to say.
I write a lot of scientific code with python and in those cases you really want your equations and matrix columns aligned for readability. These matrices appear so often adding fmt:off destroys the readability/elegance gain from the clever formatting.

Here's an example snippet by Peter Norvig that is beautifully formatted:

def neighbors4(point):
"The four neighboring squares."
x, y = point
return ( (x, y-1),
(x-1, y), (x+1, y),
(x, y+1))

def neighbors8(point):
"The eight neighboring squares."
x, y = point
return ((x-1, y-1), (x, y-1), (x+1, y-1),
(x-1, y), (x+1, y),
(x-1, y+1), (x, y+1), (x+1, y+1))
Derrick, let me share my rather cynical opinion about all of this and hopefully it will make you feel better. The part where you say people were waiting for it to be "more polished" really speaks to me. I've heard that about some of my basically finished websites. The thing is, that's a lazy answer. At the same time if you had asked someone why slack is so great when it first came out they would have fired off some canned response. Because of this fact I really question what actually motivates people to adopt software. I don't think it's the things they say. I think it's more the idea that software as an industry is analogous to the fashion industry. People just a lot of times do what they're told. I think you have to tell, not ask. But in 2019 how do you do that? idk, pay Scott Hanselman to say your product is a revolutionary idea and see how many people parrot that same response back to you. I'm saying I don't think you had a bad idea but maybe you overestimated the autonomy of the average developer.
Slovenia. Hot.si
Google mentioned at I/O that speech recognition will soon (this summer?) be performed locally on Android devices, with no voice data being sent to Google, because they have been able to reduce the size of the model dramatically. Is that related to federated learning?

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06621
I'm also surprised that you can achieve criticality with any number of cubes of "natural" uranium that hasn't been enriched.

I guess they'd basically be replicating the Oklo reactor at that point? The Oklo ore was originally much richer in U235, by virtue of it being billions of years older than whatever the Germans were messing with.

Edit: thinking about it, I guess Fermi didn't have access to any enriched uranium either, so the use of moderator material must be the trick.
In Australia food seems very expensive in general, so having Aldi isn't so much about getting cheap food, but getting reasonably priced food. Although I think they generally stock less healthy foods, so you have to be careful with dips and things like that. But fruit, veg, meat, milk type stuff it's a winner. They also sell a lot of homeware on a rotation basis, so one week you can buy a drill, the next and air compressor, etc. I guess this works well for them as it creates scarcity.
> It looks from the comic like they aggregate data with linear structure (probably derivatives on the model parameters.)

Thanks, that's the part I must have glossed over. It looks like they're using secret sharing to distribute as shares that all need to be together to reassemble [1].

[1] https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-...
People find ways to say that about a lot of things, from housing to first-run movies. You'll have to do better than simple assertion to defend the claim that cash assistance for college should be universalized rather than means-tested.
Though I bet I largely share your feelings, I feel like there is an interesting converse in terms of distant history looking back.

Things like HP Lovecraft renouncing racism is only preserved because he wrote so many damn letters. It doesn't make the racist stuff he wrote less racist, but it allows a really clear view on how worldviews could change at the time. Perhaps the things we are storing will have historic or philosophical value.

I miss real privacy though.
This is heartbreaking. Only a markedly superior flight officer would be affected the way he was, and it made him unable to continue. The flying public loses one of its best protectors.
Space Engine
The sad thing is that the type of driver that comes closer than 3 feet to a cyclist has a good chance of being the type of person who would be enraged by this. Could result in more conflict than its worth.
Another option would be to hire a data security firm to do ongoing penetration testing at your business, perhaps even to the point of supplying employee email addresses. Then if the business is penetrated by the security firm, they can give notifications of what needs to change, who needs to be educated about clicking on email links, etc.
You've been changing people's airline tickets just for typing the wrong email address?? I hope that's hyperbole, otherwise that's awful.
That's where the 1 rep comes into play: the only way to get a diamond without rep is employment.
I currently have an old G Suite account with my own domain, the problem you mentioned is the only thing holding me back. All my things (Docs, YouTube, Cloud, Analytics) are currently linked to that domain, if I were to delete it, I would lose everything from the past 5+ years.
> this depends on a rough prediction of when the next crash will occur

If you think the tails are mispriced (and you have some kind of alternative distribution), and markets are liquid, can't you just keep on making Kelly bets? Maybe you need to model third-party investors bailing too, though...
Not for high-quality software with a GUI.
If #3 happens I'd be shocked (and pleased).
Look at HP's history. They killed the Alpha when the Alpha was the top processor of its time. Even after the decision to kill the Alpha, the sheer momentum of it led to many Top 500 supercomputers such as ASCI Q.

Why did they kill Alpha? Because of a deal with Intel. HP hasn't made money off of shipping Itanic systems. Compared with where they'd be if they never killed Alpha, they've probably lost billions of dollars.

But financially motivated manipulations are more common than drama in a Korean soap. So will HP do the same thing with Cray? We don't know. They could have some back end dealings with Intel again and we could see inferior Intel-based systems instead of AMD-based. It's easily within the realm of possibility.
I'm a motorcyclist and do this regularly and legally on Sydney's narrow streets. It is quite safe. For leg powered cyclists riding with a reasonable degree of care it is certainly safer than the regular flow of moving traffic.