skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd be surprised about the shortsighted things people do for small marginal gain.

More of a light hearted example. I worked at a grocery store years ago, one summer the 4L ice cream buckets stopped having handles. A lot of people complained, they liked to use them for berry picking and other things. One day I asked the people we ordered the dairy stuff from why. Turns out, some accountant figured out they'd have a marginal gain of 1¢ per ice cream bucket if they removed the handles. In the end though, that year we ended up throwing a lot of them away, whereas the summer before we'd had trouble keeping them in stock. People really liked those bucket handles. I still wonder if the penny savings were worth the loss in sales from people that wanted buckets with handles more than ice cream.
My recommendations are massively personalized.

I live in a non-English speaking country, and looking at the trending lists and friend's playlists, all the recommendations are in the local language. My recommendations are 80% English and 20% local language (local stuff that I do watch).

70% of my recommendations are also centered around the interests I watch - technology, old computer restoration, etc.
What if it's discrete but effectively matches what we know in that current mathematical methods correctly approximate it in their respective contexts and resolutions? I mean in the same sense that Newtonian physics approximates Einsteinian physics at low speeds and distances.
Absolutely - and nothing else matters.
Teach or acquire? Talk to people about it often. Keep an open mind. Take note when someone exhibits the value in a way you admire and ask yourself: how can I emulate that next time I feel pessimistic about something?
From the engineering friends I know at Stripe, you'd be correct: there's a strong cultural push to not question the status quo / prevailing wisdom.

On the tech side, they continue to build on top of a broken foundation (MongoDB), resulting in millions of man hours wasted dealing with the complete lack of transactions. Mongo now has transactions, but last I heard Stripe was still running a very outdated version and spending absurd amounts of time dealing with issues that transactions would have entirely avoided. If you suggested that maybe it'd be worth changing course to something like Postgres because of the insane amount of work being wasted, you'd be shut down for not being optimistic enough.
Lean meat like chicken is has an INSANE protein ratio and vitamin B content /per calorie.
Different wells produce very characteristic product that's hard and expensive to mask. You could tell it from API gravity and sulphur content, among other things.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_crude_oil_products

So I don't see how you could economically camouflage crude oil from relatively simple chemical tests.
I agree. There's an open issue for this in the `wtfdocs` repo. If you have any thoughts on what's causing it, please drop a message in there.
Rwanda to possibly issue national digital currency
> That's not the most unethical thing that is happening in the world

I'm just going to refer to the factory farming article from 80000hours:

https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/factory-farming/

Considering that "Each year, 50 billion animals are raised and slaughtered in factory farms globally. Over a billion animals live in factory farms at any point of time in the United States. Most experience serious levels of suffering.", I would argue that it's hard to find anything comparable in magnitude to that tragedy if one allows that farmed animals are even a 1/100th fraction as conscious as humans.

I would... probably not enjoy being proven wrong this time :S
I can essentially haul a Prius around on/behind my Tahoe with 6 people plus the driver. Not sure we are apples to apples here
I'm really happy with my YouTube recommendations as well. I'm sure they could be better at finding new stuff I haven't seen, but I don't get any "garbage" (e.g. I see no political stuff at all).

I also like how they're not afraid to surface older evergreen videos. I just got this 2-year-old video about a WW2-era Monopoly set recommended to me (never watched videos about board games, monopoly or WW2) and I thought it was fantastic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsrC79QV7cU
but with probe metrics and other experiments we are retroactively explaining why the big breaktroughs actually work, and these can inspire and fix the big breakthrough by putting them on more rigorous foundations. At the end you get a formal explanation of the conditional probability that given a carrot with 6DoF and such and such parameters (age, size, ...) in such and such lighting conditions results in that probability distribution for pixel values.
Absolutely not just you, this is the same style abused by a comical number of different service websites nowadays because it happens to be the latest fashion fad:

* Plaid — https://plaid.com
* Airtable — https://airtable.com
* Blogsend — http://blogsend.io
* Twist — https://twist.com
* Humaaans ("dopey cartoon people" as a design product) — https://www.humaaans.com/
* Personas ("dopey cartoon people" as an avatar) — https://personas.draftbit.com/

Thankfully, this awful trend seems to be going out of favor, because the following services' websites have recently refreshed off it:

* Pastel (recently refreshed their site) — https://web.archive.org/web/20180203192541/https://usepastel.com/
* User Testing (recently refreshed their site) — http://web.archive.org/web/20190201001118/https://www.usertesting.com/

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I don't know about you but if I didn't know what Gluten was and an article simply defined it as "Gluten is a protein that causes diseases such as celiac disease" for its audience to further its argument I'd consider that misleading and wouldn't trust the author anymore.
To offer a counterpoint, I absolutely love YouTube recommendations.

Once you get into watching videos belonging to a new field, you get a lot of recommendations for that, and it's great to use them to get a good nice overview of the field.

Likewise, repeat recos for songs etc are also very very convenient.

I think this is again a case of the vocal minority making it feel like everything sucks.
Honestly, major releases of Android meant something between the early Android 2.0 - 5.0 period. Most of the features since then have been largely cosmetic. Ask the average user if they're using their phone differently in the last 5 years (Android 5.0 release was in 2014) and I'd wager little to none of that would be related to OS-level changes.
It was just a bit of a play on the comment.
I haven't said anything about design. You are making assumptions. I said Darwinism appears to be completely useless when it comes to practical application, and has been replaced by other mechanisms that are identified in the biological data. In this new thread I said there is a conservation of information law that the book authors apply to artificial life simulations. I am talking about what we know through mathematics and quantitative empirical analysis.

Regarding GAs, the conservation of information applies to how much information we can expect from a single random sample. If we can sample from the entire space of possible solutions, then there is a chance of sampling the optimal solution. The conservation of information applies to the necessary input to the algorithm in order to bring the chance to a certain level.
Coursera acquires Rhyme Softworks, an online platform for hands-on projects
Why the Amazon doesn’t produce 20% of the world’s oxygen
I keep a git repo of a 'commonplace book', which I prune to plain text, and keep scraps of various texts - short tutorials, poems, a password vault, and usage examples. The same repo gets loaded at home and work, and so those examples are available to each other.

One subdirectory is more magical, 'data/cheatsheets/<filenames>. If I run a bash function 'cheat $1' with the filename, it will just dump the file into a pager like the less command.

When I fizz out on how git works, I run 'cheat git' and get my own notes. I can edit it when something ends up being useless to me, and keep the most important stuff at the very bottom. Eventually it gets drilled into my head and I learn it.

This scales to one person very easily. The value is the subjectivity. With some actual editing, this would also scale to a small team of maybe 4 people.

Of course, most of the stuff in my repo would not be appropriate for sharing, but the model would extend in general.
> Read the fine print and you will find "FBO" (For Benefit Of). The tax code makes it technically owned by the government, but provided for your benefit.

No, the assets in the fund are owned by the plan administrator, and held for your benefit; this is in some ways better than you owning them, as it makes them generally immune to seizure/garnishment by creditors other than the IRS, and only by the IRS to the extent you could take a no-penalty distribution.

That's a pretty basic error in a rant about how everyone else doesn't understand the basics...
Let's keep the numbers in perspective.

The 8,3% (or 9,52%, or whatever) of Firefox users is way, way beyond total Skype users. Firefox has about ~170M users, Skype 4,5M.
> I work in medical research

Then there is a good analogy: tobacco. You believe smoking drastically increases the risk of cancer, right? Yet for years, tobacco companies argued that the evidence was inconclusive. After all, if a doctor can't predict which of their patients will respond well to a certain medication, how can they say that exposure to this or that substance was responsible for the cancer?
USD to INR results only two quotes.
A bit on topic...

Is there a phrase for the ratio between the frequency of an apparent archetype of a bug/feature and the real-world occurrences of said bug/feature? If not then perhaps the "Fudderson-Hypeman ratio" in honor of its namesakes.

For example, I'm sure every C programmer on here has their favored way to quickly demo what bugs may come from C's null-delimited strings. But even though C programmers are quick to cite that deficiency, I'd bet there's a greater occurrence of C string bugs in the wild. Thus we get a relatively low Fudderson-Hypeman ratio.

On the other hand: "0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3"? I'm just thinking back through the mailing list and issue tracker for a realtime DSP environment that uses single-precision floats exclusively as the numeric data type. My first approximation is that there are significantly more didactic quotes of that example than reports of problems due to the class of bugs that archetype represents.

Does anyone have some real-world data to trump my rank speculation? (Keep in mind that simply replying with more didactic examples will raise the Fudderson-Hypeman ratio.)
True enough but the gold we are talking about is real gold and basically as-advertised; the fake part is the branding. So if we care about oil source because of the quality of the oil the original analogy isn't relevant here - it was meant to indicate that there was a moral reason to track the source.

But with oil that doesn't make sense because everyone is happy to buy from the Saudis, whose last scandal involved bone saws and acid vats.

It isn't helpful to the conversation to replace gold with oil.
I had an idea for a responsible mass surveillance system.

Say you have cameras all over the city, feeding to the local police station. That's helpful in catching criminals, but obviously easy to abuse. Well suppose instead that the DVR in the police station is encrypted and contains a secure enclave. All the camera feeds are E2E encrypted from the camera to the box. The secure enclave in the DVR enforces rules for how the footage can be accessed. It only allows X amount of video footage to leave the box over time. Say watching 4 camera streams continuously or something (in a city of hundreds of cameras).

So a crime occurs; police know the rough time frame and can easily query footage from the box. But mass surveillance, watching all the camera streams, dumping them to an AI cloud for facial recognition tracking of all your movements, etc, isn't possible.

The secure enclave can also enforce logging; anyone viewing the footage submits authentication, creating a permanent paper trail of who viewed what.

There are endless possibilities for the rules we want to establish, but the thrust of my idea is that we can enforce them using that concept of a secure enclave and encrypted footage, so that we can be reasonably sure that the system can't be abused.

Anyway, it's just an interesting idea I had. I'm not really trying to make an argument for or against widespread surveillance like that. Just, if soceity wants it, there are ways to build systems that enforce rules on how those cameras are used. And what Ring offers is kind of in this vein too; allow camera owners to share footage on a case by case basis when requested. I think it'd be even better if Ring footage was encrypted so that Ring actually really couldn't access the footage without your consent.
That's not how trials work.

Someone has to testify that yes, they installed the camera on X date, yes, the date/time stamp is accurate, yes, it was working the last time they checked, yes, the video in question was recovered, yes, the video was transferred to the prosecutors office, no, the video was not modified to the best of my recollection.

Saying "hey, I have this mp4 that proves the murder" doesn't work in court.
As someone who just served Jury Duty in the USA. I can tell you the 'bill' for my services was barely minimum wage.
The title doesn't seem to be misleading, it seems to be boardline. How would you re-write the title in a way that is engaging and still gets the point across?
The lispwork page http://www.lispworks.com/success-stories/ has some that are specific to lispworks. Some also (with possible overlap) at https://lisp-lang.org/success/. Allegro Common Lisp success stories: https://franz.com/success/. ITA (now part of Google) https://www.itasoftware.com/
Certain parties operating in the UAE will touch it. This is just one further step away from selling it as jewlery.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/04/12/dispatches-child-labor-d...
Its band support is not good wherever you live. It doesn't have two Russian bands, one German, one Romanian, a few US etc.
Photographing the Most Radioactive Places in Chernobyl
That has not been my experience. Companies can and should develop a set of technologies that they as an organization feel comfortable with, but this list should be dynamic and should have some diversity in it. Don’t allow every technology under the sun without any vetting, but also don’t force everyone to use the one true programming language, Java.
in this case, unintended fork bombs
Beyond nukes: how scientists dream of killing hurricanes
Liver is _the_ superfood.
Would it be less maintenance to use your web server's cache feature? Both Apache and Nginx can cache dynamic pages to static files.
I'm in the same boat, I decided to turn all the features ive hard coded into my wiki (dokuwiki) over the last few years into a standalone fresh, from scratch, file manager with wiki journal capabilities.

I sort of outlined some key points here: https://tumblr.macleodsawyer.com/post/187317505027/file-mana...

* Making this for myself, but might open source it. Should be able to run independent without server, or on a server for cloud capabilities accessed through a browser since it uses a flat-file structure with a json registry of file names and metadata for collections and records.
This makes no sense.

There are a wide variety of dishes and people may be suggested that they can perfectly eat good, tasty food without eating meat at every meal.

There is no need to even mention the terms "vegetarian" or "vegan", or to invent random new terms.
Not sure about open source projects, but in corporate settings it is often driven by short term thinking in priorities, sometimes driven by short term incentives that reward features over usability/support.
How does the defense question the circumstances around the video if it's just a letter they sent in? Or should they just take the prosecutors word that the video is what they say it is?
And then strings are text implemented in numerical terms
> Nasty history is quite often the difference between a racist value judgement and a relatively innocent statement about people.

One shouldn't use history to justify their own racism.

> Racists can often behind ignoring that distinction. It's called a dog-whistle.

That's simply not what a dog-whistle is.
What if you were a random witness? You didn't sign up for that either. You have certain civic obligations which are enforced by law. I assume in these types of cases, you could be held in contempt if you wouldn't respond voluntarily.

It's unfortunate for the person involved and the incentives in the system are such that no one is trying to make efficient use of their time. But that's pretty much the way it is.

It's not really that different from being seated on a multi-week jury trial much less a possibly multi-month grand jury.
The text is very faint in many places, so I applied some thresholding in GIMP to make it crisper: https://i.imgur.com/cpC3PK9.png

There's probably a way to adapt the training process to create black and white images directly, e.g. by evaluating the classifiers on the thresholded images, but passing the gradients through to the underlying continuously-valued images.
this is pretty cool! I've needed a tool like this all week to mess with the GitHub API
Familiarity and low resources needed .. I can use a $5/year natted VPS and program (via Git/Vim), run scripts, surf the web (links), chat on IRC (Weechat) and continue my Tmux/Screen workflow on basically any *nix machine with at least ~16MB memory.
> Yes, 401k plans usually have high fees

I haven't seen these "high fees" in any of the five 401k plans across 4 providers that I have had since I started my career 17 years ago.
Cars are heavily subsidized too. For starters, they take up a fortune of free land in urban areas, even when gas taxes pay the bulk of road construction they take the land for free.

I don't know what a fair competition would look like.
[Show HN] Text Piper – Composable Unix-Like Text Processing Commands in Web Form
You're crazy if you think there's even a sliver of a chance Musk is going to serve prison time.
Author here!

What can you do with it:

1. String together Unix-like text processing functions into a text processing pipeline.

2. Share said pipeline with friends and co-workers through a transparent link.

3. Since the functions are encoded in the URL, you can even compose functions without getting on the website! Just start typing a link: www.textpiper.com/grep?total/col?2&3/sort?asc/replace?dollars=yens

4. Your data is safe since it doesn't get out of the browser, but I'm aware that composed URLs could get logged. In future I'll add opaque URL.

It's very much a prototype and a work in progress, and as you can tell already, my UX skills leave a lot to be desired. Feedback is very much appreciated!
Your comment is oddly confrontational and assumes a lot. Also relies on a societal change that the parent commenter is by no means responsible for.
Your hyperbole really undercuts your (reasonable) argument.
Sure, if you're looking only for foods labelled "superfoods". But there's also the popularity of low-carb diets like paleo and keto that treat animal fat as healthy.
Thank you for the kind words. I tend to leave off my present employer on Twitter. That said, I'll give it some consideration. All the best!
At a minimum you could include all 2-character combos? Or even just a common subset, maybe the top 100 or those appearing in 1%+ of the OED. And MNIST itself is kind of limiting since no one was trying to write numbers "artistically".
> if this is the case there's no actual calculation performed

There is no conscious calculation performed. The result might be fetched from memory, but there might also be subconscious processes involved. And that seems to be what the argument is about. Grandparent claims we cannot count without language while the article claims we have estimation hardware builtin (that's count-ish, imo). That's not really conflicting, since GP implies a specific counting process that's usually done consciously. Do the clapping, ask someone unsuspecting how often you have clapped, and he'll probably be able to tell the number without concisely counting. Even for a stream of sensory inputs.

But yeah, consciously thinking about something usually involves words for many of us, as that the most common/effective way for our thoughts to interact with the world.
I'm in one now. It pays about 25% less than my expectations. I came from freelancing before this, where I'd work about 4x faster to justify my rates. Now I just work half my usual pace and it's still double the average productivity.
Warren knows that his statements are enough to move markets, so even if he wanted to say something, I think he'd be cautious of how it was said. There's something called the "Warren Buffet" effect where, when he announces a new purchase or trade, much of the market follows him and proves him right.

He invests in candy? Everyone invests in candy! Oh look, candy stocks went up, it must be a good investment!
It's a video, it can speak for itself
free training materials, and no guild structure.. who is the winner here?
Doesn't Qualcomm also contribute to mainlining of kernel support? Are the drivers for the FP3 SOC upstreamed in mainline? If not, is there an effort to do that?
Oh, that's a long story.
The Bernard Vonnegut referred to in the article was Kurt Vonnegut's older brother.
One of my favorites is Stephen King's NYT review of Donna Tartt's 'The Goldfinch': https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/books/review/donna-tartts...
AFAIK, nothing prevents that.

You'd want blackholes with 100 solar masses though, as the collision will apparently shed significant part of the mass in gravitational waves.
In some areas, the only option is to cook 100% of meals if one wants to be vegetarian. In others, it is still possible to go out to eat. Further, the prepackaged vegetarian options are only available in some options.
Microsoft readies exFAT patents for Linux and open source
SpaceX’s Dragon completes record-setting third Space Station resupply mission
> If a trip cost $10, the driver gets $7. You are telling me $3 to uber doesn't cover overhead?

Your mistake (I think) is that you are connecting the costs to the prices on a per-trip basis.

In the hyper-growth phase where the objective is to gain mindshare and market share, their VC and IPO cash can be used instead of charging reasonable prices.

For your scenario it’s entirely possible that the price of the ride is $10 but the cost of the ride to the driver is $12.
Falafel is vegan but its widely available from a variety of different vendors whereas seitan is a much rarer find.

I frigging love falafel but I were at a kebab shop that offered seitan, I'd order that (at least the first time) because I also like seitan and I can't get that at any other falafel place.
Missing a pretty substantial player: https://www.sendwave.com/