skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have some experience here.

I now prefer to think of every day as the start of my life and ask myself "What to do first?"

Life is a gift, everyday a celebration.
I totally fail the point of this article. Why not just say A, B, C, D, E, F as the letters that they are? Works perfectly fine.

1F is just a two-syllable word. Just like "fiftysix" is.
No, you're letting them start to depend on the tool which allows you to renegotiate for a good deal later
This article describes pretty much the entire reason I got in to software development, why I'm still doing it, why I'm here today, why I run Linux on my main machine, etc.

I have an undergraduate degree in Physics for largely the same reason.

I'm increasingly convinced that this is just a mindset you have or you don't.

For me, the world is a place to tinker about in, learn, build stuff, break stuff, etc.

I'm currently tinkering about with my homelab setup, tweaking the security, setting up redundancy, etc. Why? 'cos I can, and when you hire me you get all of that.

It's certainly served me well so far!
> If it didn't work, how could Facebook charge $75 billion a year for it?

People believing it works and failing to verify?
Just like citizens can act up on, say, getting blackballed by Google and having their email gone forever?
Not sure what you mean? Screenshots are actual screeenshots. They've just been cropped since it would look really odd otherwise :).
There were plenty of people calling it dumb when it happened.
The Climate Wizard of Yendor Is Awake
Granting permission is probably in the YouTube ToS, at least if the lawyers thought about it and considered it to be an issue.
What does this have to do with charging stations? What percentage of his "Supercharger" network is powered with solar panels? Why does Tesla have to provide the charger networks personally? Why would Tesla have have to undertake residential solar installations to install them at the charger stations? Imagine if you could only fill up your tank at your auto manufacturer's station. Musk's central problem is his hero complex and delusions of grandeur. His ego requires that he gets as close as possible to producing the future^tm by his own hand.
This was part of the master plan and roadmap for Java for a long time now. This should not be a surprise or cause any outrage. The roadmap was:

1. Oracle starts to relicense as open source most parts of the JVM, spinning off OpenJDK in the process.

2. Oracle provides support, patches, community and endeavors to help get OpenJDK self-sustaining.

3. Once OpenJDK is maintained by the open source community and generally healthy, Oracle starts working on proprietary value-add additions that can benefit their customer base (and bank accounts).

We're entering phase 3. Oracle, beyond what you might think of them, has done a pretty decent job of following the overall plan. They have helped get the OpenJDK community off the ground and are still invested in its success.

Without doing the above, there was real risk that Java would succumb to other more open platforms or be splintered off by companies like IBM, Redhat, etc. Instead, the above plan allowed for Oracle to keep the core of Java in one piece, conceding that other companies would help with its evolution, and still reserve their ability to make a buck later.

It's a little shaky right now with all the hubbub about Oracle's licensing of the Oracle JVM. The messaging could have possibly been better. But if you haven't been aware of the OpenJDK and following along with it - if your sole source of all things Java has been Oracle - then it's definitely time for a wake up call.

Oracle is now a member of the Java community, not necessarily the driver.
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Since nobody mentioned it yet - I would like to point out that there were two Humboldts (brothers). Alexander was the explorer, Wilhelm the Prussian government official.

Not everything named "Humboldt" is Alexander. For example, the Humboldt University Berlin (ca. 33,000 students) is named after both brothers, and it was Wilhelm who helped to create it.

Wilhelm von Humboldt -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_von_Humboldt

I'm quoting a few sentences here because this Humboldt brother likely is much less well-known here:

> He is especially remembered as a linguist who made important contributions to the philosophy of language, ethnolinguistics and to the theory and practice of education. In particular, he is widely recognized as having been the architect of the Humboldtian education ideal, which was used from the beginning in Prussia as a model for its system of education and eventually in countries such as the US and Japan.

> Humboldt installed a standardized system of public instruction, from basic schools till secondary education, and founded Berlin University. He imposed a standardization of state examinations and inspections and created a special department within the ministry to oversee and design curricula, textbooks and learning aids.

> ...his fragment of a treatise on the 'Theory of Human Education', which he had written in about 1793. Here, Humboldt states that 'the ultimate task of our existence is to give the fullest possible content to the concept of humanity in our own person ... through the impact of actions in our own lives.' This task 'can only be implemented through the links established between ourselves as individuals and the world around us'

Alexander von Humboldt -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Humboldt

The person the map-story is about.
The question you should ask is "how much does it work?". What percentage point gain did it give Trump, what percentage gain did it give Clinton and what was the net gain?
Answer: They don't, and you're guilty until painstakingly proven innocent.
i'd appreciate a link, i did a basic search on those keywords but didnt find anything matching.
Apple’s Watch Is Smarter, but My Casio Keeps Getting the Job Done
It's sort of ironic that the NYT decided to caption a shot of a soda fountain calling for more taxes on sugary drinks when the high fructose corn syrup is only so cheap in the first place because of subsidies. Maybe instead of subsidizing on one end and taxing the other we could just stop subsidizing unhealthy foods?
> Why aren't heat pumps used these days?

They lose efficiency in very cold conditions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_source_heat_pumps#In_cold_...). Albany, New York (https://www.weather.gov/aly/SpecialDataALB) has an official all-time record low of -28F (-33C), which is well below the point where air-source heat pumps have any meaningful efficiency advantage over even resistive heating.

Heat-pump solutions that use the ground as their heatsink are much more expensive because of the excavation required.
The ideas in "Sustainable"[1] are a good start.

[1] https://sustainablefoodfilm.com/
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*$75 Billion. And that's what they generate in revenue from advertising on their platform.
No mention of AggregateIQ ? I think CA people just actually wanted to appear shady and create some sort of mysticism around themselves. Atleast in the Brexit campaign AggIQ had realtime targeting (source : really Brexit The Uncivil War) which seems way more important than a FB data dump.
Can You Replace Redux with React Hooks?
I endorse that warning, I try to never pronounce i.e. 0x10 as "ten", just "hex one zero". After I wasted an hour hunting down somewhere I misused a number having the wrong base, it just isn't worth it.
Google's search results are pretty meaningless these days due to changes in presentation of results and inference of intent
I have never heard of a blackball list at large SV companies unless it was something egregious that person did. Things like starting a fight with security, coming to an interview drunk, etc. will get you on it.
All fair points. I was discouraged when I read your original comment, because I took it at face value as "this is what it is, this is what it always will be" but that wasn't your intention.
> but there should be no question that it can shape public opinion.

Having worked with this technology, I question its effectiveness. Do you have any data to back up your claim that it can sway people's opinion? It seems dubious that it's more effective than traditional brand building through mass media advertising (which itself has never proven to be particularly effective).
And after the second 80% is finished, then you only have 80% left.
Yes, thank you! Good catch and good addition. I'm actually quite interested to see where Amazon takes this.
Big business is beginning to accept broader social responsibilities
Ask HN: How to factor DL training pipelines
I'm getting to a point where I'm implementing a lot of different DL models for my research (in PyTorch) and it's obvious to me there's a lot of boiler plate (creating the data loaders, forward pass, backward pass, val (.eval) pass, collecting statistics, saving checkpoints, etc. So like a good software engineer I try to factor these "pipelines" into reusable components (a train step, a val step, etc.). The problem is every single time I feel like I have a good factorization I find some quirky model or training trick edge case (e.g. need to do something with the optimizer at some point in the training process).

Any advice on either how to factor this or some framework that does it already for me? I've looked at fastai's callback model and initially tried to roll my own version but it ends being up being so brittle with very leaky function interfaces (passing boolean flags and branching on reflection and etc).

My kingdom for a monad!
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Oh yeah. It wasn't clear from the blog post that he had implemented some of the std::ops operators for his Vector3 struct.

You can get rid of the superfluous & symbols by implementing for &Vector3 also, so again, the ergonomics section doesn't really resonate with me.
Perverse incentives. Corn farmers are in Iowa. Iowa is where presidential elections start [1], and several Congressional reps are from. Hence, the need to pander to these folks and their biofuel and ag subsidies if your run for office touches Iowa ag.

If you can't dissuade unhealthy subsidies as a state or other jurisdiction, you're only left with enacting your own opposite disincentives. Farmers are going to hold onto their subsidies to the bitter end, no different than fossil fuel/O&G industry. I'm always surprised when people assume these economic actors would do the "right thing" voluntarily.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_caucuses
Saatva+Mattress+Savings+Labor+Day
I think you have misunderstood. I am talking about Amazon getting the text.

The text for these books already exists, they're books that are being read out.
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At least the memes write themselves.
First- there is absolutely no way for a civilian reporter and civilian readers to know if this article is even true. The CIA doesn't make a practice of verifying where they are/aren't collecting intelligence around the world, for obvious reasons. If the CIA did collect HUMINT on the UAE they would be very careful about it- they don't want to damage the relationship we have with one of the few countries that lets the USA operate armed jets on regular missions (many countries allow the USA to base jets, but restrict taking off with weapons or other inconvenient things to the military).

Second, if the CIA actually doesn't collect HUMINT in the UAE, it's not because we think they are unimpeachable in their conduct. It's because we don't need to put people at risk to get the information we need. By themselves the UAE isn't capable of very much. The UAE's power comes from money and they conduct their business out in the open. The intelligence community gets all the information they need by watching bank transactions and that leads them to the people they really need to spy on.

The UAE is different from Iran, which not only funds malign groups but actually trains and commands its own network. Iran's money and people need to be watched, but the UAE doesn't get its hands dirty, so we only need to watch their money.

Edit: rather than fix all my grammar, when I say "we" I mean the USA as a nation, not that I'm some CIA agent with spare time to comment on HN.
Facebook advertising doesn't make billions of dollars due to psychographics. It makes billions of dollars by knowing that you've looked at 7 pairs of shoes in the past 10 days and then showing you more shoes.
Because there is a shed that needs to be biked.
Why not build more housing then? Real estate speculation is bad but there seems to be actual demand for more housing if I’m reading your comment correctly.
There is nothing contradictory here. The beauty of the title is to impress upon the listener the essential nature of the liberated mind and all of existence as non-dual. It isn't one or the other because the further down you go, what emerges vanishes instantaneously, simultaneously.

Zen and Vajrayana practices can be an effective tool but I see more faulty thinking in its practitioners than people who stick to Sravakayana (Theravada + surviving canon of the other Early Buddhist schools).
Still sounds like a Youtube problem, not with copyright.

The amount of false positives Youtube's copyright system has generated is crazy. It's clearly broken and wide-open for abuse by bad actors.

Even with the complications of copyright there are so many examples of people having entirely fair-use videos taken down. It goes well beyond just the difficulties of two works one copyrighted/one not matching.
Aside from the fact that there exists a wide variety in houses of worship such that your imagination is off-kilter, it's also worth mentioning that there is a bit of an apples-to-oranges comparison between a religious-group and a business.
Yes, the Wikipedia article I posted refutes the article's claim and does so with data.
Sadly it seems like it is many times easier for politicians to push a soda tax (which also serves as a political gesture on its own that can be framed as being for the good of the every day people and against the controlling influence of Big Soda) rather than undo decades of agricultural policy, which would also be controversial amongst more rural bases.

As you point out, it completely defies elementary logic - but politics and policy seem to have preoccupations and incentives that are orthogonal to elementary logic.
No, it's that since the text already exists (the written book), it seems overly complicated to transcribe what the voice actors are saying.
Do you have a link to that data?
> There was a moat between the operations/sales team... and the technical team.

It's one thing to claim two teams _don't_ work together regularly; it's another to say there's a moat between them, indicating it was difficult or impossible for the teams to interact due to an external factor designed into the organization's structure. What does this moat mean practically, and why is this claimed division pertinent to the points the documentary makes?
>coming to an interview drunk, etc. will get you on it.

Really what about the SV party culture ? And if the companies are that professional and only care about your work why does the age bias exist ?
This brings up a broader subject (not specific to this particular documentary): it's getting where I just don't like watching documentaries anymore because a lot of them are wrong.

The experience I want is to enjoy spending some time watching an interesting documentary and walk away with my mind enriched with some new facts and analysis. Instead, a lot of the time, it's interesting, but I walk away believing something that isn't true because whoever made the documentary was too lazy to fact-check, was unconsciously biased, or was even intentionally leaving out part of the story because they have an agenda.

Not all documentaries are this way, of course. Some are accurate and objective. The problem is I can't easily tell before watching. As a workaround, I can do a bunch of my own research after watching, but that's a bit of a pain, and maybe I'm better off just skipping the documentary and going straight to the research.

Unfortunately, for a documentary to succeed commercially as entertainment, it's not necessary for the audience to actually learn. They just have to feel like they learned something.
The whole debate about nutrition confuses me.

We have all of this hyper-specific advice that sells a lifestyle, like telling people to eat kale or chia seeds or whatever the new hip of the week is. Hyper-optimization for overachievers; or at least those who like to pretend.

In reality, you could basically fix this situation overnight by killing off TV dinners and fast food. Yes, my pleasure centers are also tickled by a McDonalds, cause I'm an idiot just like you, we don't need it.

We call it "junk food" as a sort of humorous quip. If it's actually junk (and it mostly is), then it shouldn't be on sale, because it crowds out alternatives.
>More than 100 million adults — almost half the entire adult population — have pre-diabetes or diabetes.

Though one can't pin this staggering number on one thing (the article mentions 10 factors[1]) sugar-sweetened beverages are a nice first target.

Soda is looking more and more like cigarettes in terms of health effects and nutrition.

At a bare minimum we should stop subsidizing the production of corn syrup and other raw materials than enable soda to be so cheap.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2608221
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>Also, what if you disagree with me politically about illegal immigration - does that give you a "right" to ban me from your establishment?

If the owner said that in the US? Well, probably not. If this hypothetical establishment is open to the public, they aren't allowed to discriminate based on political beliefs AFAIK.

They could just kick you out for 'no reason', but that seems hard to do without pretext.
BTW "Google" is a kind of good, inventive, unique name, rather unlike to be squatted. I wish more companies came up with unique names that are not common words.

But have you recently visited pets.com, mail.com, delivery.com, or whatever were the generic names commanding millions in 1999? Pets.com in particular just redirects to a different domain, more trademark-able.
Cool to try and kneecap healthcare reform by saying that what we really need is nutrition reform. Eat better, you fat slobs. Your sickness is your own fault. We can't let you see a doctor until you put down the cheeseburger, lardass.
The point of this project is standardized inputs and outputs, that's all. Working with commands is not standardized on traditional posix systems, in terms of either input or output.

The other comments about adding a "stddata" and handing this responsibility to userspace is a good one.

You shouldn't need to know a specialized DSL for each tiny core util.
Ugh. You had my interest until the annotations everywhere. They are only Stage 2...
The values I quoted are for third party insurance (akin to liability in the US)
If the publishers prevail it probably would end non profits that "read newspapers and magazines" for the blind.

e.g.:
http://gatewave.org/
There's no inherent reason that new technologies will increase costs.

They are often introduced with high prices, but a closer look also often shows that they are still cheaper than the care they replace.
> You’ll be able to read message board threads with people sharing hints and discoveries, or sit around with a group of friends and pass the controller, as someone decides to test a hypothesis. I didn’t have that. It might go against the spirit of the game, but it’s also going to prove a necessary relief valve. And maybe it’s not against the spirit of the game at all! Maybe it reflects how different tribes would exchange information, helping the species as a whole.

Given our own ancestry and evolution, it sounds like that's exactly the right approach to this game - gaining knowledge not by slowly evolving into it, like birds who instinctively know how to build nests, but by learning from others by observation and tutelage.
As suggested in a cousin: onety-one thousand, seven hundred and eighty thirteen.

Every word (phrase in the case of hundred/thousand) becomes strictly one digit, as opposed to normal English where e.g. "thirteen" is actually two digits.
> How are they doing anything but trying to charge me twice for the same story?

That's essentially what is happening, but that's not the onus for the copyright law.

Standard IANAL caveat.

The law is set to protect and encourage content creators by clearly defining what is copyrighted work, and how that copyrighted work can be used.

> why once I have the audiobook I could not be allowed the text version for free.

Speculation, but it could be that publishers haven't figured out the simple economics of rolling the cost into the price of an audio book, or that publishing deals with authors prevent that type of bundling.
>according to our own personal interpretation

That's incredibly problematic
Now that you've written it out I can tell that the "-ty" of "fifty" was probably shortened from some older pronunciation more resembling the word "ten". But I guarantee you that native English speakers are not thinking this in large numbers. This is the sort of insight that comes better when it's not your native language, others of us will just internalize "fifty" as its own word.

I guess it's also no coincidence that words ending in -teen are frequently confused with and misheard for those ending in -ty.

Edit: Seems like they derive from different Germanic roots for 10.
Sure. And don't sweat the comments about "it doesn't do anything new blah blah."

I built an eBay feedback reminder (that's had over 15,000 paying users over the course of its life).

Here's the thing: eBay already sends feedback reminders and people pay to use mine anyway because of some minor differences (and then there are customers who don't know eBay sends feedback reminders).

Pretty much every nay say anyone who hasn't succeeded in business could give you is total fluff.
Most of us have fell down these rabbit holes of learning before; the author does a great job of illustrating the concept, showing the solving of an "ultimate question" about how/why something works the way it does.

I don't know if it counts the same, but I once went on a weird journey to solve a particular coding problem that I was certain was already answered. I don't recall the details, but I do recall thinking to myself "This seems like a common problem; a quick google should bring up a solution..." - so, one google search later, and:

https://xkcd.com/979/

At that point, I vowed to solve the problem - again - and post the solution (of course the fact that I can't recall what the problem was negates me being able to show you what I mean - my apologies - sigh).

I quickly found that to solve the problem, I first had to learn how to code X, which in turn meant learning about Y and Z, and also coding A, B and C. I ended up going down these rabbit holes; by turns learning and coding partial solutions, by others finding example code I could adapt to my needs (not always in the language I was working with, either). I spent more than a few hours on this task, but I eventually did come up with a solution.

And as I recall, I did post that solution to the thread where I encountered XKCD-979 - so future people wouldn't be inconvenienced.