skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you've discovered that the premise of the marketplace of ideas suffers from the same flaw as the premise of a pure free market - the assumption that markets will always optimize for quality (or objective truth) due to humans being rational actors. But of course, that's not the case. Markets aren't rational, bad actors and perverse incentives exist and because of this, regulations exist ostensibly to force markets to be more fair than mere supply and demand would permit.

The fact that we currently live in an age in which access to well formed, well researched arguments to the contrary of any viewpoint are abundant and freely available, yet extremism is on the rise, demonstrates that letting bad ideas spread and simply expecting rational counter-arguments to kill them does not work. The extremists are well aware of views to the contrary, and couldn't care less. Checkmate atheists, as it were.

I'm personally starting to be sold on the Paradox of Tolerance[0], and the premise that for free speech to be protected, some speech must be limited:

In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always
suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter
them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion,
suppression would certainly be unwise.

But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force;
for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level
of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their
followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them
to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim,
in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

In other words, the marketplace of ideas doesn't work unless there are consequences for selling snake-oil and poison.
oh okay, that kind of policy makes sense when everyone is under 12.
Ask HN: Do you think it's worth learning Java in 2019 for web development?
I work with JS and PHP and I want to find jobs outside startups. I'm worried that they might all be working with legacy systems and really old Java versions.
My wife's family lives in a slum in Caloocan City in the Philippines. When we stayed with them for a visit, it was amazing that I could just pull up my Uber app and get a ride to BGC, which took 1 1/2 hours. There is no other way I could have pulled this off otherwise. It was also amazing it only cost $8.
What's Wrong with the Tech Interview Process?
yeah because taxi was such a wonderful experience and that is why they lost their market.
> No, we're debating whether we should listen to the charlatans that present us our science.

I'm sure some do, but considering the huge number of deniers and their effect on government policy humanity's biggest issue is not understanding the facts (established by science) of climate change.
>Tiananmen Square is a major tourist destination in China. It’s on the subway signs. No one is pretending the square doesn’t exist.

Parent mentioned the "cultural history" of the square, which is edging to the no go zone.
If By "Templating" you mean something similar to Smarty or Twig ( facilities to render pages of HTML with conditionals and variables ) then Java is a fine choice for this.

Spring is unnecessary - the Java templating mechanism is called JSP ( Java Server Pages ) and its part of the standard Java package - no additional framework is required.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaServer_Pages

To do this you will need a runtime container like Apache Tomcat.
( http://www.tutorialspoint.com/articles/run-your-first-jsp-pr...)

If you're hell bent on running Spring ( its entirely not necessary ) you can use Spring MVC which is part of Spring Framework.

Here's an example
https://www.mkyong.com/spring-mvc/spring-mvc-hello-world-exa...
Also they can work both ways.
eli5
No worries, my writing wasn't great to being with :P
>The distinction is in selling access versus selling goods.

That's the core issue.

We shouldn't let firms dictate ownership. Buying stuff is historically a right to property. The whole discussion is pointless because digital firms are using the regulatory capture, its slow reaction and legal loopholes to dictate ownership, all while doing PPP with the gov and lobbying for its causes.

This whole thing is a temporary theater show (while we discuss the issue, the firms are making money and donating it). People should DEMAND regulatory instruments to react quicker and respect our rights.
In order for the overnight rate to be within the Fed target range shouldn't the Fed be involved in the market every day anyway?
I like the diagram where it shows the improvement from "human" to "Google" and labels it as "probably overfitting". Not only does it look like the person is drawing an extra hurricane bubble to prove a point in a presidential style, but it's complete nonsense.

The earlier example says that the difference between winners in an arbitrarily picked Kaggle competition was "0.0014". Sure, I agree, seems small. But this random diagram about image classification shows that the Google model "the improvement year on year slows (the effect size decreases)". But that's not even true. The effect is exponential!

2011->2012: 38.6% "Reliable Improvement"
2014->2015: 34.9% "Probably Overfitting"

Is this really the thoughts of someone well versed in statistics? I get the feeling they are just upset they lost at a competition and decided instead to rant about it (as you can see from the aggressive use of memes). This is not a well thought out argument against ML competitions, but you might be fooled into thinking it was because it contains just enough discussion of statistics that you might not notice it doesn't hold up.
Right; with my unlimited resources, time, and understanding of the legal system.

I mean, I'd love to be able to, but do you think I'd even be able to determine what the company's actual address is?
Phone 11 is 20% faster than iPhone X for convolutional neural nets
Frankly I am surprised this isn't in the article at all, as it was what I immediately thought of on reading about methane release and permafrost.
You didn't provide anything of value to me. All you did was impose upon me the necessity of explaining myself, since it didn't seem to occur to you that it wasn't the word "feminism" that caused my trepidation, but the uncertainty of what I would find behind the headline.
If you scrolled through thousands of actual stock photos I'm sure you'd find plenty that seem "off" in some way. Those just cost a lot more.
Hi reporter on this story:

Are we aware if these are targeted (~60 orders = ~60 targets) or requests for large swathes of information?
Total, more the company inhouse data center type affairs - big, but not your cloud or google size affairs. Then doing one AC to DC conversion instead of all that overhead per system along with the associated heat and centralising - pays for itself.

The cut-off for that level of work I'd say is if you design your own servers over just speccing from a vendor level is when you would be doing this. Upto that, it's still vendor off shelf. Though been a while and an option some vendors may now offer at lower scales these days.
We use gas a lot in central heating (and cooking)

However looking at https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2018/03/16/uk-...

Looks like equal parts domestic gas, electricity, and industry

About half imported, half mined in the UK.

From that page:

"The vast bulk of imports comes direct from Norway. Technically, Russian gas can only arrive via the Belgian and Dutch pipelines, which amount to 10% of total imports. It is estimated that 35% of Europe’s gas comes from Russia, so in theory about 3% of Britain’s gas comes from Russia."
Much of the work that goes into the open source software ecosystem goes into projects that benefit more than one particular platform be they user facing apps or system components. A minority goes into distributions.

Distributions mainly require infrastructure, packaging, and distro specific software like package management.

Many distros are quite derivative and represent largely Linux set up as the author desires.

You see a lot of these because they are easy to make they also suck near zero resources from the broader pool of resources because they are stuck packaging their own software and the skills needed to make them wouldn't translate directly into improving system components anyway.

More complex efforts which are the minority are the way people explore possible paths forward. Many are already increasingly converging on common patterns that make it easier to focus on the things that are truly important to that project.

Complaining about a diversity of options seems poorly thought out when discussing a platform that exists only because others desired more options.

Hell if we all standardized on redhat we might well be trading 10% more progress for 99% fewer options.
It works quite well but it does always make me feel uncomfortable. I wouldn't mind waiting in line longer just to skip it. (And I do when I can).

Edit: also don't bother translating or reading the comments on that website. They are youtube-comment quality.
> The expressly do not allow for dynamic code execution within apps to keep functionality from changing after their review.

This is false. You can deploy a react native app with dynamic code downloading and execution to the apple app store.
I feel like many people don't remember a few short years ago when your options after a night of drinking were to call a friend, wait an hour for a taxi that might arrive and definitely doesn't take credit cards, or drive home drunk.
I meant the article.
I’ve been using Uber for years. From my perspective, the experience hasn’t changed dramatically. I request a ride, a ride shows up, when I get to my destination, I’m billed. I’ve wondered why ride hailing companies haven’t dramatically slashed their engineering teams if the engineers aren’t able to map their efforts directly back to lowering ride costs. For some reason, >100% the cost of an Uber isn’t being passed on to the drivers and yet the company remain unprofitable. Where are the costs besides engineering and drivers?
> dislikes ICE because they enforce immigration law

Well, stepping back from US immigration policy, it seems a little inconsistent, bordering on immoral, to contribute to open source (as in, anybody can use this) and then change your mind about who can use it later.
Trying to have the sorts of long lasting introspective unidirectional conversations needed to really work through things with your partner will either fail or screw up your relationship or both.
>If someone pauses it pauses for everyone, and no one can and no one fast forward only their video.

It doesn’t say who paused the video or give someone the ability to kick out the person who paused?
Visualizing 100k Decimals of Pi, Tau and E with Python
How do we address the underlying selfishness that causes this?
> That’s also consistent with the pattern. 75% of Americans have either employer paid insurance or Medicare. For those people, premiums and out of pocket costs are on average less than the extra taxes they’d pay in Europe for health insurance: https://www.assembly.ca.gov/sites/assembly.ca.gov/files/Arch.... (page 18, showing 5.2% of household income spent on premiums and out of pocket costs). (Note that France doesn’t have free healthcare. It has a significant 30% co-insurance which is usually covered by private insurance. Non-premium out of pocket costs, which comprise 2.1% of the 5.2% above in the US, are only a little lower in the US than in France.)

I grew up in the lower middle class in France, and I have what's considered great healthcare in the US. In France, I would never think twice before going to the doctor (i.e primary care) when I had a medical issue. In the US, I still think it twice even though my copay is not a big dent in my budget. And that's not counting WTF happens in the US if I loose my job.
Neither Uber nor Lyft are really ridesharing. They are ride hailing apps. Unless you are sharing with other passengers? I didn't realise they offered this?
Uber got to where it is today because Taxi companies weren't able to adapt and ignored the threat until it was too late.

Really, all people want from a Taxi is an easy, reliable way to summon transport and take you to wherever. Everyone hates calling a taxi company on the phone, speaking to a surly dispatcher, giving an address verbally and then waiting for an indeterminate amount of time for the taxi to show up-- and then you had to have cash to pay.

By the time the Taxi companies figured that out, they were already gutted and in a downward spiral because of Uber's brutal, calculated competitive practices.
I work in this space... and let's just say that MKL is definitely NOT well optimized for AMD's chips. You'll be lucky to get 10-20% efficiency. Nevermind openblas.
Ahh the paywall.

Let me keep reloading and smash esc until i get it to load without the paywall.
The main selling point for Intel isn't speed anymore.

Intel still has superior performance counters and debugging features. Mozilla's rr (Record and Replay framework) only works on Intel for example, and Intel vTune is a very good tool. AVX512 is also an advantage, as you've noted.

There are other instruction set advantages: I think Intel has faster division / modulus operator, and also has single-clock pext / pdep (useful in chess programs).

For most people however, who might not be using those tools, I'd argue that AMD's offerings are superior.
I am American, but the relevance of there being an explicit right in the US constitution isn’t as part of some hypothetical claim that one may only do things which are enumerated. The relevance is that in the US, removing a named right is more difficult than removing an unnamed right. In the absurd case, this is obviously not a risk, because an attempt to ban standing on one leg is obviously not reasonable. But if the 2nd amendment didn’t exist, gun regulation in the US would have looked very different over the past century.
> They banned the G11 to set precedent. Now any mass market firearm that uses caseless ammunition is immediately on the chopping block.

Caseless ammo isn't a thing in any practical sense. It has serious technical short comings related to heat dispersion, transport, sourcing, and reloadability.

There are no mass market firearms, military or civilian, that use caseless ammo. There were never more than a 1000 G11s, and they were never for the community. Other casesless options simply aren't a thing -- has anyone ever heard of the Voere VEC-91? Or the Armtech C30R?
And I think you're missing the biggest bit, there - each set of 8 cores is its own die. That means that if they have a yield of 95% for that one die, they'll have a yield of 95% for a 64 core monster, too. Compare with Intel, where octupling the die area means their yields would go from 95% to 0.95^8 = 66%. (And if they had 50% yields to start, Intel would end up with 0.4% yields after octupling - AMD would still have 50% total)
Without context, you can't even know how to help their conditions, if you wanted to.

If Amazon is a singularly bad warehouse employer, punishing them in some way (boycotts, etc) might be appropriate.

If Amazon is a singularly good warehouse employer, rewarding them with more business and good PR might be appropriate. It could incentivize the competition to follow suit and Amazon to raise its standards even further to stay ahead.

If Amazon is a typical warehouse employer, then I would find it counter productive to single out Amazon for punishment or reward, rather than the actual good/bad outliers among warehouse operators.

Context matters.
Your last sentence leads me to believe that you are unfamiliar with the normal operations of firms involved in these markets. There is a lot of leverage in repo financed trades and 36bps absolutely does make a difference.
Yes, Uber pool and Lyft line both allow you to share with other riders.
Yeah, but to be transparent, they should post a list of apps and the data they were collecting.
While I'd say it's more of a tacit agreement than a 'here's the plan which we've each signed our names to' type conspiracy, it seems entirely reasonable to conclude that those with power and resources fully intend to conserve it - indeed, I'd argue that this is what political conservatives are motivated by these days, as opposed to legacies or institutions. In past times of apparent infinite possibility it was reasonable to believe the notion of endless trans-generational growth that justified what Plato called the 'noble lie', but when there's a sense that the ship is sinking the rich have no compunction about pushing others out of the lifeboats because that's what they're used to doing.
Here's a ts/js library, called coloring-palette, I developed for Bustle. It was inspired by this project, but meant to produce palettes in a format similar to Google's Material UI. https://github.com/bustle/coloring-palette
Recommend a google news search and pick one of the Bloomberg stories (they limit how many you can read for free).

The problem is that (apparently) there are few lenders in a position to give up reserves to fund other participants bond holdings. Balance sheets, required reserves, excess reserves etc are all pretty complex post 2008.

I don't know how to link to an earlier comment I posted in another thread this morning but summarize:

-Treasury took in an additional 80+
-goal of having 350B cash on hand by quarter
-probably single biggest cause for liquidity issue

-most of the collateral posted to the Fed has been Treasuries and less so mortgages.

-financial system/world runs on repo and it is troubling this is happening at all.

-Did Mnuchkin orchestrate this to force the Fed into backdoor easing through another round of QE? My guess, yes.

(QE is where Fed buys treasuries and other debt consequently injecting cash into the system)
Congress’s failure to act on fentanyl despite warnings, deaths
The problem I see with Uber is that, at the end of things, all they provide is some software running on some servers. While not an easy weekend project, it would not be impossible for a distributed system to replace it, making whatever life they have almost certainly temporary. Every action they take to extract more profit will only increase the pressure toward development and move towards a distributed system. As long as it can present an app to a customer that can hook them up with a driver without being obtrusive, it seems like a service destined to become a commodity and certainly not something likely to be a cash cow for long.
They've been doing this for years now. Significant savings that way too.
And unlike the network effect where winner takes all, I doubt we'll all forget about taxis, and think, man, if only there was this yellow car I could stick my hand out to, and they'd give me a ride for cash.

There's always the thread of competition for Uber. Ironically, the thread from the very market they disrupted! I'm guessing Taxis 2.0 won't have medallions to worry about anymore, just the same regulations as any other ride sharing firm, with only one car.

But hey, I'll take subsidised rides from Uber for as long as they're offering them!
Systematic Color Palette
Disambiguation:

Colorbox is also a lightbox jQuery plugin: https://www.jacklmoore.com/colorbox/
I'm sorry. Thanks for clarifying. I suppose I should have figured that out on my own, but the bit about being "open-minded" must have rubbed me the wrong way.

The closest thing I have to an excuse is that as a fat man working to not be fat any longer, I'm always hangry.
This is indeed very important to understand. While overall of course it’s not a bad sign, the Fed is behaving like a _lender of last resort_ for very short term loans. And the situation can also be explained.

Of course it’s not a good sign overall, but there’s no reason to panic.
The vast majority of mortgages out there today are fixed rate, not adjustable rate. That means that the interest homeowners are paying is locked in regardless of the rates in the market today.
Tell Congress: Don’t Let a Quasi-Court Bankrupt Internet Users
Yeah this is like the authoritarians who claim that if Snowden really feared for his safety as a whistleblower, then he would be happy to be renditioned to a secret blacksite dungeon for punishment by the TLAs he has offended. Does not compute...
Then maybe you could use your superior understanding to convey the relevant insights, rather than just assert that they exist.
An interesting issue is that it's currently impossible to pick the direction of the hue rotation, so if your start and end colors are one opposite sides of the hue circle this tool will go "the long way around". Great for rainbows, not so great if you want to go from orange to purple over red.
At least one bit of the value is that you do not have to install new app or two in every city you go to. I wish something like this existed for parking payments.
> [Uber has] an app my cat could have written

The other day on HN's frontpage was an article ("Software architecture is overrated") in which the author mentioned something that made me shudder:

"Rewriting the Uber app was a project that a few hundred engineers worked simultaneously on, porting existing functionality to a new architecture."

I keep not understanding how it is possible that companies whose core business is very far from IT (e.g. taxi and ride sharing for Uber, or television for Netflix) can be considered high-tech companies and take pride in investing inordinate amounts of money on engineering. What is the point? What is Netflix doing in the company of Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google?
Area 51 Raid Went Terribly Wrong
I think the banned cameras are general surveillance cameras, not the ones used for check-in or boarding.

edit: the cameras aren't being banned, the facial recognition software must be disabled
Uber is absolutely adding value, in my opinion. Disclaimer: I’ve invested a paltry amount in them

Uber is a taxi dispatcher and provides a rating system that provides a vastly improved product to the end user. Seriously Uber is so much better than taxis. You can hail it from your phone, track its arrival in real time, know the fare before you book it. It arrives in 10-20% of the time of a dispatched taxi, costs less, and has much better drivers on average both in terms of skill/not being aggressive, not being assholes, English, and cleanliness.

Uber freight is frankly just a good idea. They already have a huge fleet of drivers and a lot of the tech backend in place to start doing last mile delivery. Lots of value add in that, and in combining last mile delivery with concurrent user transportation.

Uber also has a lot more international exposure than Lyft.

The only issue I have with them as an investor is in Uber eats. It’s costing too much money to subsidize, has too much competition, and food delivery just isn’t something I think can work in the US.

But regardless, when you look at Uber’s core product, I think you would have to have either forgotten about taxis or never have taken Ubers/taxis to begin with to think it’s not a vastly better product.
700 square feet? That's 65 square meters, who even wants that much space for one person? A good-sized flat for a person here has around 40 square meters, so 430 square feet. Insane.
Only having to install one app to get a consistent experience around the world is high value for me as a user.
AI can capture the skill and tone of the human and can replicate it in mass faster that the human could