skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some others have commented that this isn’t “required” but I can tell you that solid understanding of Bayesian statistics makes everything make way more sense and gives you a great basis for building more understanding of any ML algorithm. I don’t mean just memorizing Bayes’ theorem and answering the canned “99% accurate test is positive for a disease that affects 0.01% of the population” interview questions, but understanding relationships between methods (GP’s, SVM, neural nets, tree based things) and how they relate back to Bayesian statistics either directly or by approximation is key to having true visibility into what you’re doing. Sure you know about loss functions and regularization, but if you can’t look at a loss function and translate it into a precise statistical statement in terms of priors and likelihoods, you don’t truly know what’s going on. You also will have a hard time extending other loss functions/regularization schemes in a way that isn’t problematic, and explaining/justifying the choices you make on that end. Thinking in terms of Bayesian statistics (Bayesian stats IS stats, it’s mathematically equivalent to frequentist statistics but has a different philosophical interpretation) saves you from many many rabbit holes that in hindsight are obviously Bad Ideas when seen from a more Bayesian point of view. Not to undermine people without a strong statistical background, you can still do good work, but your life becomes easier and less ad hoc (in my experience) once you understand things statistically. You should ideally understand the assumptions behind your models, and what the implications of those assumptions are, and it’s hard to do that consistently and rigorously without Bayesian statistics.

That being said, Bayesian statistics is not SUFFICIENT for doing data science well. You need to know pragmatic solutions to intractable problems, what heuristics might be ok to try, how to EXPLAIN things to people, how to code well enough, etc. But boy does knowing Bayesian statistics help.
Large bodies of water, mine shafts or just holes in the ground. Just a few meters below the ground temperatures are effectively constant, barely effected by weather. Ocean temperatures are similiarly stable.

Of course you can't start digging while dying of heat stroke and you can't crowd people into any places (people are great space heaters). With education about proper measures a few days should be survivable for rural populations. In cities you just need air conditioning, there's no other viable way to cool large amounts of people.
You need semiconductors to make smartphones. China is mainly doing assembly.
Boeing Faces Doubtful Airline Chiefs in Mission to Restore Faith
Would be interesting if this ultimately results in a win for RISCV.
> doesn’t it make sense to filter out candidates who aren’t comfortable with functional programming

Only if your business success depends on it, which sounds very unlikely. It's already difficult to hire devs, no need to make it harder just so that you can check a programming style checkbox.
A median Indian makes barely over $50/month[1]. Electricity is only slightly cheaper than the US[2]. Much of the country couldn't afford AC even if it were their only living expense.

[1] https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/ind...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing#Price_Comp...
Air conditioner is like few hundred dollars. Are homes in India that cheap? Even cheapest homes in my countries will cost thousands of dollars. If someone can buy it, he can buy air conditioner.
Cook's Prepositions
Outlier probably wasn't the right phrasing on my part for this specific issue of spousal voting pressure. Thanks for calling that out. You were right to.

The way I think about this though is that we should view these concerns as needing tailored (sometimes orthogonal) solutions. There is an analog here to testimony in court. Defendants have the right to know the evidence against them. Including the identity of witnesses and the nature of their evidence and statements. This often puts witnesses at risk for retribution. It's a huge problem. But do we do away with requiring this kind of evidence disclosure? Not having it makes it easy for evidence to be fabricated without consequence. And for defendants to not know who or what is being used against them in court. This would potentially have even more dire repercussions. So currently, we find other ways to help ensure the safety of witnesses and accept this major issue.

In the same way we might find other solutions to the issue of Spousal pressure. Opt-in voting receipt print outs. Support programs for domestic abuse, etc...

This is for sure a problem. And maybe even a major one (like witness safety). But overall, the alternative of having insecure and unverifiable elections is increasingly seeming like the more important issue to address. Most complex systems are about balancing tradeoffs. And it should be unsurprising, that a stable election system is too.
Its more expensive than solar or wind, but cheaper than those + storage. Which is a legitimate comparison as its more reliable than those, and possibly dispatchable.

From a UK perspective theres quite a lot of paperwork. You have to get surveys for flow rate over the year, and theres limits to how much you can divert.

Both those combine to mean that it isn't really worth it unless you're off grid, and in the right location, with enough land, and water.
I recognize the difference, but they're parsing and filtering the most valuable advertising data, and then just... shoving it in settings and doing nothing with it? There's no clear reason why Google is collecting purchase data from Gmail, and actively working on refining the code used for it. If you look at my comment that you originally responded to, I did not say they used it for ad targeting, merely that they collected it, which is true. Even if they do not use it for ad targeting, the only purpose your article states they won't use that data, it's still very valuable research data to collect.

Not only that, but as the articles about purchase data parsing states, you can't even opt out of it or remove items from Google's purchase history information except to delete the emails themselves. Which, for people entrusting their communications to Gmail, is a drastic step. It's surprising to even have a "remove" button, but for it then to tell you, in order to do so, you have to delete your emails.

As an aside, it's not doxxing someone when you post as your real name, and publish your employer publicly under the same name. The "my opinions are my own" line is a release of Google's legal liability for what you say, which is why a lot of employers suggest or require similar statements. However, it's psychologically impossible for your opinions to not be swayed by the employer who pays you and whom you spend a large percentage of your time with, regardless of whether or not you are "representing" them officially or not.
He said somewhere else on the site that because of the location he may only get 3 hours of sun in a day and sometimes months with no(I assume direct) sun in the winter.

So solar wasn't an option here though likely would have been cheaper and definitely easier.
Simple caching library, extensible, avoiding dog-pile effect, written in Python
>We know the effect of different programming constructs on expressive compression and reasoning costs. The closer we get to the limit, the less benefit we can have.

>Here, too, there are theoretical results showing that increased expressiveness cannot lead to cheaper reasoning, which is not an obvious result even in the worst case (because there are far fewer "compressible" programs than non compressible ones).

I find that very interesting. Do you have a source for it?
Wouldn't map and reduce be more readable if you were used to reading it? I've been using a lot of Elixir and Ruby, both of which use map and reduce, and neither of which make extensive use of for loops. Map and reduce are what I am used to reading.
I see a lot of for loops.

Working on a project in which there are really nary such resources available, and I'm stuck with only 'for' ... guess what? I don't miss much of these functions; I just don't find myself reaching for them, wishing I had them.

Either a for loop, or a couple of lines of code, or gasp you end up writing a short custom utility function to do specifically what you want, which is generally better optimized anyhow.
“Home of the brave” comes from a line in the American national anthem [0]. You will find similar patriotic statements in all countries’ national anthems.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner
While you can't block volumetric attacks on the server, this is something a hosting provider can help you with. Some have automatic volumetric DDoS detection and protection, like OVH, and some might be able to ask upstreams, internet exchanges to completely block all UDP traffic for certain subnets or even setup completely custom firewall rules, effectively preventing volumetric attacks from filling links within their global networks and of course from reaching your server. But you are still left with non-volumetric attacks that you need to use a firewall for, maybe even with some scripting to gather statistics and whitelist known good IPs and IP subnets in case of an attack. Maybe with mitigations on, for example, frontend web servers to avoid overloading much slower backends, databases, etc.
Have you started a company and made it successful?
I'm living in EU, and have exactly same bad feeling about pollution generated in EU or US having much more worse effect in some other part of the world. I'm trying to advocate for wanting less (stuff, travelling, ...), but it's seems only very few here care.
It's not just that. Exporting Passwords from Chrome to FF is impossible in macOS. Not a day goes by that I don't have to enter my password for a website. Thus, switching to FF actually means re-entering tens of passwords manually (given that you do remember the passwords, otherwise you'll have to go to Passwords Manager in Chrome and see the saved passwords).
Indeed, some languages (such as Swift) provide a mutating reduce because it makes sense to use it in some cases.
Witcraft by Jonathan Rée and the History of Philosophy by AC Grayling
It's ridiculously easy to write a DoS tool. Let's make DoSing legal then.
I'm not sure it's really worth engaging a throwaway account that is throwing around unsubstantiated "facts". You're just feeding the trolls ;)
The debugging of "5.0-10379 - VideoCommon: Constrain the array_base registers by booto" is just insane.

Props to the person ("booto") who managed to go through this, you are an example for any of us.
Other than the clickbait headline, does this paywalled article add anything not covered in previous discussions of the antitrust investigation of Google?
The tool will convert the Table an view DDLs, SQL Queries / SQL Reports from One data warehouse platform to another
Does this remind anyone else of the lottery ticket hypothesis deep learning paper that was published recently? [0]

I think the gist was that neural networks are usually much larger and more connected than necessary. The paper provided an algorithm to iteratively prune connections by seeing which links in the neural network had the lowest weights.

Here's a quote from the paper:

"The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: A randomly-initialized, dense neural network contains a subnetwork that is initialized such that—when trained in isolation—it can match the test accuracy of the
original network after training for at most the same number of iterations."

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03635
The Occident. Yeah, I guess those swathes of the US are the popular exception.
>In DC, I might pay $2500 to live in a decent 1BR in a hip part of the downtown area.

Suddenly, we are talking about hip part of the downtown for people earning close to minimal wage?

What is wrong with this apartment for $925[0] 975? [1]

[0] https://www.apartments.com/park-southern-apartments-washingt...

[1] https://www.apartments.com/delwin-apartments-washington-dc/s...
Reduce is slightly different from fold because it does not use an initial value, which means its semantics differ somewhat with regards to restrictions on types.
Culture evolves/changes over time.

So it's a valid question as long as it's not a veiled "will there be too many brown people".
I've been wanting to write a DSL for solving room scheduling problems (and similar) with SAT (i.e. translate to DPLL). Put up a simple front-end, receives text that gets added to the constraint base.

Your thing seems so much more powerful. I wonder if this UI idea would make it more usable.

(Wait, are we reinventing expert systems?)
It’s n^2 time, not space. Each property of the object gets copied each time around, and the number of properties being copied increases each time around.

It’s probably a good idea to start considering this kind of copying an antipattern. The good news is that the correct implementation doesn’t have to involve mutating any arguments, just a local with unambiguous ownership:

const keyBy = (iterable, key) => {
const map = new Map();

for (const value of iterable) {
map.set(key(value), value);
}

return map;
};

const peopleObj = keyBy(peopleArr, person => person.username);

If you have an array, you even get to keep using array methods, which everyone loves:

const keyBy = (array, key) =>
new Map(
array.map(value => [key(value), value])
);
Or PolyML, which is another popular implementation (e.g. used in the Isabelle/HOL theorem prover):

https://polyml.org/
Does JavaScript have adapters to covert lists into generators or lazy iterators?
Thanks! Here's the relevant part:

> We recruited 114 participants on Amazon Mechanical Turk based on the expected effect size for curiosity on trivia questions (as estimated via Kang et al., 2009 and Gruber et al., 2014) and how many participants we estimated we would need to exclude (e.g., due to inattention) based on previous laboratory experiments on Amazon Mechanical Turk. From this sample, we excluded 16 participants for providing the same curiosity rating on at least 90% of trials in the learning phase, and 11 for skipping 20% or more of trials.1 We included the resulting 87 participants in the analyses reported below. Participants received a monetary payment at a rate of US$10.00 hourly in exchange for their participation, and the task lasted approximately 50 min.

Take from it what you will, but I feel the title should be changed to "What curious attentive Amazon Mechanical Turk users whose curiosity rating tends to increase, who don't skip tasks, who need to earn some money, and who have 50 minutes to spare think they know--but might not--pushes them to learn more..." But I jest...
This research doesn't account for most defensive firearms use, in which the gun isn't actually fired, but is "brandished" to deter the threat. When defined correctly, defensive gun use is actually several times greater than negligent discharges, assaults, homicides, and even suicides by gun combined.
India's total retail space is 2 sq ft/person[1]. That's not enough space for someone to sleep in, even assuming that 100% of the retail space there is air conditioned (it's not) and assuming that the AC systems can keep up with that much body heat in temperatures that high (they can't).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retailing_in_India#The_Indian_...
Why impressed by that, though?
20% of Five Eyes, but the UK only represents 1 out of 28 countries in the EU which is 3.57%, yet they should dictate what everybody else does?

edit: Why the downvotes? As an EU citizen, I'm directly affected by this, and I very much do not like the idea of the EU towing the Five Eyes line to further fascilitate US foreign policy interests.

We very much would like to make our own decisions in our own interests and not have all our policies decided and forced upon us by the biggest brother on the planet.
I credit drinking copious amounts of ice water and frequent urination for helping me avoid hyperthermia for 10+ hours working in a kitchen where the air temperature read 52C + radiative heat from various equipment and high perceived humidity.

Granted I don't know the wet-bulb temp actually exceeded 35C
We seem to be focusing on defending against different things. I am focusing more on mechanisms to defend the integrity of the election itself against hacking or election fraud. Which seems like a dominating concern in the modern context.

Different threats require separate considerations for sure.

To be crystal clear. I'm still for secret voting, and being able to lie about your vote if you want to. But without an ability for the voter to verify their vote, you must trust the entities themselves that are holding the election. Both that they are acting in good faith. AND that they managed to secure the election against outside tampering. The very people that you are worried might compel you to declare your vote are the ones running the election systems themselves in many situations.

We need to be able to operate with less trust here, not more.

> If each one has a secret passphrase, nobody can verify that the total is calculated correctly.

It's possible we are misunderstanding each other. There would be a verifiable ledger. With opaque tokens for each vote. The total can be verified by counting. Just like normal. We could use our signature method of choice to sign and verify the integrity of each vote and all the votes. The body holding the election would be able to verify the total counts are correct and not tampered with.

For a specific vote, an opaque identifier that nobody except the voter can resolve, provides a mechanism for the voter to self verify their vote was counted in the way they expected.

A passphrase was just one idea to avoid printing the token on your vote receipt. But if we really want to go down the rabbit whole of having cover. There are many other ways to provide plausible deniability. You could opt to not get a print out of your token. And your deniability would be you don't have it, and you can simply lie about which vote is yours (even though you know the one that is yours).

> It was a long fight to get secret votes

I'm still saying we keep voting secret. What we are discussing is the ability for a voter to verify their vote was counted. But it's still meant to be secret. In fact, something analogous to the 5th amendment to the constitution could help enshrine the right to a private secret vote as a fundamental right.

> Just imagine that during McCarthyism people that were requested testify in the committee has to first say their national ID, token and passphrase to be sure that they didn't vote for the Communist party.

We make it a constitutional right to have your vote be secret. Make this clearly illegal. If you are worried about the central government not obeying laws, then nothing really helps you. The central government ultimately wields the final say in all matters here. They can put you to death if they like. A verifiable election system is meant to help ensure we never devolve to a government that does what you are worried about.

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Ultimately all of your examples about being forced to declare things apply also to your credentials to your personal devices and online account. All of which contain more less enough information to both figure out what your vote was, and much more.
But having a programming style checkbox checked means the developer will almost immediately be productive in your codebase.

If you are saying that familiarity with a particular programming paradigm doesn’t matter, then does familiarity with a language matter? People still check for that :-)
> and then stabilizes around the daily average temperature, not the high.

However the acceptable temperature range in water is also much smaller because under water we exchange heat quickly and don't have a way to cool below the temperature of the water. Water above ~38°C would be dangerous to stay submersed in. Not a problem for huge bodies of water, but important to keep in mind on the small scale.
Holy fuck are you stuck in the cold war? "Communism" was never a threat to America and communist countries haven't been a threat since 1991.
hey thanks for the reply and the info~! i'll check it out
This guy has been doing it for 30 years now (injecting himself with snake venom): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcbqB0pFRPA

And also a longer but older documentary-short about the same person: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q_m-rDUNw0

Apparently, the same guy (Steve Ludwin) actually has his own snake show on VICE nowadays. You can see all videos about him (and ton of snakes) here: https://video.vice.com/en_uk/topic/steve-ludwin
I think this should be investigated.The use of anti-depressants amount to performing medical experiments on people. E.g. Let's see this anti-depressant, then evaluate side-effects, if it doesn't work switch to different one or adjust the dosage. There is no scientific basis to do that. The supposed chemical inbalance is not being measured so the doctors really are giving people random drugs and those drugs are difficult to quit without medical supervision as well. When you quitting you feel so horrible you rather keep taking them. This is a huge money making racket for big pharma and make doctors look like charlatans at the same time casting doubts on medical profession. This only feeds to another camp like anti-vaxx.
Huawei may be one of the most popular smartphone brands in Poland (if not the most popular actually).

I guess the "Chinese dream" is over.
Here in HN you have to fight to read a WSJ article. WSJ articles are pure quality, and for you normal human, to lay eyes on that supreme piece of journalism, clicking "web" and playing with the referrer is not enough.

Jokes aside, can't bypass the paywall either.
(1) This isn't new at all. Turn on the television near Syracuse NY and you'd get the idea that there isn't anything to the economy than collecting Medicare benefits and getting a hit by a car so you can get a big payout with the help of a personal injury lawyer. Once in a while you get an ad for a car dealer because if there weren't any cars then you couldn't get hit by one.

Not all cities are like that; in Binghamton you might see an ad for something you can buy with your own money from time to time.

(2) If 10% of the population has 70% of the wealth or whatever it still seems that 70% of the marketing effort will be aimed at 10% of the people, even if 90% of people don't ever see it.
Could tell more on election stealing in India. There were some allegations about the correctness of EVMs. Is there any thing more substantive than that.
I don't know why, but appending "?mod=rsswn" to a WSJ link does the trick.
Newer versions of Chrome OS are able to run Linux in a container. You can install Firefox with the "firefox-esr" package in that Linux. Unfortunately, audio doesn't work yet (at least not on my PixelBook), so it's not really a complete solution, but for (quiet) browsing it does work with uBlock Origin. Apparently Linux audio under Chrome OS is coming soon.
Is "introvert" a protected status, a badge of honor? Besides, the article doesn't describe any particular "illness".
As far as I am aware, if you are in an assured shorthold tenancy, as the majority of rented homes are in the UK, your new landlord can serve a court order under section 21 for a no-fault eviction.

On the other hand, if you are renting commercial property for a business and have negotiated a lease, then the lease contract holds.
On the other hand, if you happen to have the problem of many qualified developers applying for a position, picking the one that happens to know functional programming in additional to the procedural style is often a good choice.
Well, this isn't a hiring situation, this is a getting contributors to an open-source project. When you're looking for volunteers, the tolerable amount of friction is often less than if you're paying someone for their time.