skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The percentage means nothing. It could be that some NC State's candidates may fail at both NCSU and Duke. And most Duke will pass at both universities.
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There is no known useful application of current quantum computing (so-called NISQ, for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum). It is an open question whether there is any, see https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.00862.
> What were they thinking?! [...]

In addition to their statement, linked in a thread below [0], what they were thinking is pretty out in the open in the abstract of the original paper:

"We introduce here a new database called “ImageNet”, a largescale ontology of images built upon the backbone of the WordNet structure. ImageNet aims to populate the majority of the 80,000 synsets of WordNet with an average of 500-1000 clean and full resolution images. " [1]

That paper is now 10 years old, WordNet itself had it's first release somewhere in the 1980s. A lot happens in research a decade down the road and lots of research towards biases of datasets are relatively recent in that sense. It can hardly be blamed on the researchers that people use their datasets in production merely because "they're large and there in the open". As their statement indicates they're actively working on the issues that arose during the last few years.

Most research datasets are fit for a very specific purpose, to me the larger problem here is two-fold: "AI" fearmongering on one side and startups/corporations on the other side lacking the necessary skills to select and filter their training data. Hopefully that'll be a matter of the past once the hyped data science field reaches maturity.

edit: Wordnet seems to include said terms to this day, [2] for example still lists "mantrap" associated to "beaty" in the synset for "a very attractive or seductive looking woman". Although I'm unsure how they should handle these cases, both are words and that's one definition used in practice, even if we find it reprehensible. They seem to have removed the n-word but that's about the only removed instance I can find in a cursory search of sensitive or insulting English words. Maybe they should clarify sensitive annotations like they do with vulgarity.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21054770

[1] http://www.image-net.org/papers/imagenet_cvpr09.pdf

[2] http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=beauty
Ah, I never realized in/un would be used with corresponding Latin/Germanic words.

But then, it seems there are quite a few un+latin (unreal, unbalanced, unadulterated, uncertain etc), even if I can't think of in+Germanic.
I used to love NPR but then I realized their content is exclusively liberal. Now I am disgusted by how partison they are. It's like if you listen to the news you don't get a fair report on things but a one sided view, mainly those who suffer under conservative government.
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Working with multiples sessions is more convenient and ergonomic in tmux, don't know if screen caught up in this area.
That might be slightly different in Europe. Remember, that nearly every country speaks a different language. The traditional holiday package contains a guide local to the country of origin. That is more difficult to replace by an algorithm during booking. You still need a planeload of people meet the suitable guide at the same destination.

(Myself I speak 5 languages and can read 6-8 more to some degree, so I am not their customer. But there are huge groups that speak no foreign language at all. I might unscientifically guess, that Britain, the home country of Thomas Cook is over average in this category. Although Brits are at advantage in the destination, because at least younger locals are likely to speak English.)
The blog post you linked appears to, in many ways, strongly undermine your argument.

You say (when linking to the blog post)

> When people say they will pay in surveys, most of them are flat out lying. Here's a recent example:

What the blog post says is that actually, the pre-launch survey closely aligned with the outcome:

> The really comical part is that I should have known, and I could have known. Actually, one could argue that I did know.

> Pre-launch polling on social media almost perfectly predicted the outcome. Here’s the tweet I used to test the waters, which had nearly 18,000 respondents. The results were:

> 72% – No, I wouldn’t donate.

> 24% – I would give $5 per month.

> 4% – I would give $10 or more per month.

> The comments on this post are really worth reading. The feedback was almost entirely positive towards ads and almost entirely “meh” about fan-supported. In other words, the answer to my question was clear from the outset: 99% of my listeners are totally OK with ads, and many of them look forward to finding new products and services through my sponsor reads.

The blog post's conclusion very much appears to be that—in hindsight—people were honest from the outset!
Who wants to have an open source cycle gear system. I'm in.
Cool, a coworker showed me tmux yesterday.

One question we had was about scrolling in the tmux window and keeping the terminal output (as in Linux where I can scroll back with Shift+PageUp). Does anybody knows how that works with tmux?
Here's an off the shelf bike from 111 years ago with a shaft drive:

https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/1908-columbia-shaft-drive-...

For some reason there's a tendency to assume that unusual things in the bike world are crazy new inventions.
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NPR isn't the only content provider. There's also Public Radio International (PRI) and American Public Media (APM), both of which were apparently founded by several public radio stations. And many public radio stations produce and syndicate their own shows independently.

Suffice it to say, NPR doesn't own any of these companies or stations.
Im an Australian who has lived in the Netherlands and I found them pretty aggressive drivers. Generally really nice people outside the car but not so in it.
That is less relevant than the goal, which is to have a better society while not violating human rights, for a very wide definition of human.

In short, being humane. If a certain degree of racism or stereotyping is necessary for that goal (definitely not 100%, but something low), then so be it.

Currently multiple social system in the USA are considered much too racist.
Show me a single study proving that "ads" are the reason consumers won't pay for journalism anymore and I will 100% change my opinion.
False dichotomy.

The government doesn’t have to be in unilateral control for us to admit that citizens would have a very difficult time fighting the extremely well funded and trained military. (For the most part, they wouldn’t need to anyway, they have control of something far more powerful... banking, they’d freeze your funds and you’d be done for).

It doesn’t follow that a government that you can’t fight via conventional means gives the populous no recourse. Voting rights are still the law of the land here and civil disobedience has been effective in the past.

Secondarily it could be argued (very easily) that second amendment in the USA is about the right to maintain well regulated local militias, which at the time would have been populated by yeoman farmers bringing their own weapons.

Historically this is relevant because the revolution was fought by exactly such a set of militias on the continental side, and the British obviously thought this was an illegal action. So they needed a clause “this thing we’re doing is legal and legitimate.”

Buut there’s a difference here between a militiaman with a musket that can fire maximum 3 shots per minute, as part of the local defense force, and an independent yobbo with a hundred of round per minute assault rifle.

But no one focuses on the part of the second amendment that pertains to ‘well regulated militias’, it’s almost as if an industry that makes something with a limited audience outside of military and law enforcement has an agenda and is influencing the debate.
I have been considering approaching a new language lately after have self learn python and more recently javascript.

Where does nim sit in regards to the future of machine learning? Can we expect clones of pytorch/tensorflow? Is it a suitable language for this?
Well, when you purchase GPL licensed software, the author is required to supply you also with the source code, and you must be allowed to redistribute this (under terms and conditions.)

Sure, there are distinctive features for each domain, but in broad strokes, I don't see the above description as very different from the one following:

When you purchase access to an open-data paper, the author is required to supply you also with the raw data, and you must be allowed to redistribute this (under terms and conditions.)
But here is what I think it looks. Whole concept of patent world is flawed and here is how it is.

This piece of gear system is a mix of central shaft(that we see in trucks + gear + that cut-in-half gear tooth)

If we split it into three individual item, then it is a three different patented item. Put together you get a new patent? Come on!
I don't think it is even worth focusing in on specific issues; throwing mud at Stallman's character is post-hoc rationalisation for a situation created by thoughtcrime.

Even if the mud sticks, the major problem is that Stallman was forced to resign after what appears to be (from public info) a moral panic. People acting on moral panics is really bad; good process is slow process.

There are real complaints about Stallman. There have been since the 90s. If it looked like he was resigning because of those then that would be a totally different kettle of fish.
This is not about pedantic correctness.

“Lower level” math courses also should not have excessive amounts of arithmetic. What arithmetic is included should be there for the express purpose of practicing arithmetic (at which point a handheld calculator is exactly the opposite of what you want).

At any point that arithmetic isn’t the point of the problem, the arithmetic used should be designed to not be a barrier or time sink. In pretty much any possible problem requiring substantial arithmetic where calculators should be handling it instead of humans, the student should be sitting down in front of a full-sized keyboard with a more capable tool (e.g. a general-purpose programming language).

Math students at any level spending nontrivial amounts of time with handheld calculators is a huge waste of their time.

Learning to fluently navigate a handheld calculator is not an important life skill, and has little to do with mathematics.

But once you get to pure mathematics courses at the undergraduate level (i.e. beyond the service courses math departments offer to engineering and science students) there is pretty much no arithmetic.
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European guy speaking here. I think he meant in the UK and more general, in Europe. Sometimes, it's a point of pride as well. I heard an investor guy on the radio years ago, saying he drives Ashton Martin because it looks fantastic and is unreliable -- it made driving an adventure.
This works for me. But I am crazy.

- Install Python through Brew.

- Upgrade pip using pip. Install all further libraries using pip. Never install Python packages through brew.

- Use a plain virtualenv per project/repo.

A long time ago I wrote some bash that I keep in my `.bashrc` that overrides the `cd` command. When entering a directory, my little bash script iterates upwards in the directories and activated any virtualenv it finds. I also override the `virtualenv` command to automatically activate the env after creating it.

I am aware there are existing tools out there that do this. Pyenv does this right? But I never got used to them and this keeps things simple enough for me. I cannot forget to enter a virtualenv.

As I said, I am probably nuts. I also don't use any form of IDE. Just plain VIM.
Oh, we had one approved graphing calculator - well, two. The Casio FX-7700 and its big brother, the FX-9700.

Problem solved. Except if you happened to prefer RPN; I had a HP-48 which I had bought prior to the edict naming The One True Calculator - the day I enrolled at university, I started using it again, only to be met with a similar edict in my second term, naming the Ti-89 the only kosher graphing calculator.

Since I graduated, the HP-48 has been in daily use.
It is wrong because there is no causal relationship between the two so none can be inferred.
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I hope you and your family have been able to find peace or are at least able to work toward it... I am so sorry for your loss.

There's a quote in the novel Infinite Jest that changed my perception on suicide. This passage helped me make some sense of something so terrible. It helped me see that I honestly can't even imagine what's going through the head of someone who is going against every human instinct to otherwise survive.

“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
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yes I really don't understand the hatred of cyclists - yes they might slow you down for 30 secs - is it really that big a deal?
If this drivetrain achieves its claims I will be very impressed. Shaft drive designs have been around for as long as chain drives; and they have never been as efficient. Much is lost in the torsion of the shaft. A 2% increase in efficiency is an absolutely massive gain. The cycling industry is littered with flashy looking innovations that don't live up to the hype. The basic design of a diamond frame and chain drive has not been improved upon for over 100 years.

But every now and then there are innovations that actually take hold. For example, the slant parallelogram dérailleur, hydraulic disk brakes, suspension (for mountain bikes), and recently single narrow-wide front chain rings. We shall see how well this drivetrain goes.
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Canadians[1]! A whole country, full of innovation north of Montana and frighteningly aware of snow and ice :).

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zaf4pSe4v4
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Greetings everyone!

I want to share a project I’ve been working on and recently launched:

Foodable - Food, Affordable - https://foodable.ae

Foodable came to life out of my personal need, at work I order food on a daily basis and spend a good amount of time finding suitable meal offers and discounts, so I go from one food delivery site to another, searching for that one meal. So I thought, why not have a one stop listings site that will present all those offers in one place, while also comparing them and telling me what is the best one, basically, find me something foodable!

After having recently launched an MVP, I’ve been using it on a daily basis, and I hope that others would benefit from it as well. Currently it's launched only for Dubai (my hometown), but I am working towards launching it in more cities and different locations too, and also on adding more helpful features to make it even easier for users to find that perfect meal and save money!

I'd love to get feedback on the concept and the provided value, on the UI and UX, and any pros and cons you might think of.

Thanks for reading!
We haven’t had any major threats and frankly life is fucking good. And with ‘good’ comes complacency. It’s sad. You need shocks to the system to spur you on. I don’t know what to think but it’s still a lovely safe place to live and maybe that’s all I want
If what you're saying is true, isn't it crazier that no major media outlet is stating who her backers are?
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My point on Tim's post was that a majority of his most passionate followers (people who also follow him on twitter and would take the time to answer a survey) would not pay for his content. I have no doubt the 72% contains some overlap with "people who complain about ads."

On the lying about willingness to pay reference, I was referring to actual data I've seen, which I posted below. This was from a media company I worked at (reposted here for context):

1) we surveyed users willingness to pay for a premium, ad-free content product

2) 32% said they would pay $1 or more per month

3) we launched said product

4) under 4% converted at $1 per month
Nobody should be using a handheld calculator for nontrivial matrix multiplications. In “the real world” literally nobody does this.

Making students do nontrivial matrix calculations on a timed in-class exam just tests their calculator skills. There are a wide variety of alternative types of problems which will better probe their understanding of the course.

If your students are trying to learn about numerical linear algebra, consider getting them implementing the relevant algorithms in computer code.
The main question remains: what price do you want to pay for procedural fairness, why is it even a major goal?

Most people would probably opt for utility mixed with representational fairness of some degree even when it means law applies to some degree differently to groups and special cases.

Justice is not fairness. It has an institution called motive. (Which is often overly simplified or ignored.)

It incorporates elements of fairness. And it is hard to train. Not everyone can be Solomon, for example.
Since the amount of speculation in this overall thread is pretty high, I suggest simply having a look at section 3 of [0]. It describes the construction of the MTurk task and how they quantified the confidence of answers they got.

[0] http://www.image-net.org/papers/imagenet_cvpr09.pdf
I have no dog in the fight, and wish "enormity" had never developed a normative undertone, but I strongly disagree that said usage is anything close to archaic.

If you Google "enormity," the dictionary definitions it displays before the results are:
1.the great or extreme scale, seriousness, or extent of something perceived as bad or morally wrong.
"a thorough search disclosed the full enormity of the crime"
2.
a grave crime or sin.
"the enormities of the regime"

Merriam-Webster claims this is not the exclusive usage, and that enormity can mean "immensity" without normative implications when the size is unexpected. But the very example it cites, from Steinbeck, involves the "enormity" of a situation in which a fire was started.

That said, I agree that "enormousness" is an awkward word, which I do not use. I'm left to ponder the enormity of my own pedantry.
Fascinating thread with pictures, thanks man!
How good that kiwis have a private rocket company and Australia doesn’t.

Frankly, having done a reasonable amount of business over the ditch the last couple years, the kiwis are just so much more practical and ‘get it done’ than we are. Less risk aversion, not looking to other places for guidance.

Whereas Australia seems to be continually looking elsewhere for guidance on what to do next (and not just politically).
You can enter scroll mode with ctrl+b+[ then you can mouse wheel, PageUp, etc.

To exit just press q or ctrl+c
And I was lamenting people who lament ads.
> guilt trip employees into learning in their free time

If you went to university, not only did you learn in your free time but you _paid_ to learn in your free time.

Why should the calculus suddenly flip when you get a job and all of a sudden you should only have to learn when someone is paying for you to do it?
I assume it's referring to a password login, not an SSH key login.
And movie screen writers are not fiction story tellers. They talk to people while travelling across countries, know their cultures and mix and match. Tada - scene ready.

Pay detail attention to movie scenes, it speaks of truth.
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But perhaps for the average cyclist this "split pinion works under load shifting mechanism" is easier to use and more reliable.
How do you feel about government setting up speed cameras at all of these side streets and issuing citations to all speeders, even those 1mph over the limit, through dragnet surveillance?
I could be wrong, but I think they're saying they do not, but many prisons have a rule against that anyway.
Looking at the design, I can't see how it would stand up to high torque or sudden accelerations. It would skip like crazy, and the flex on the frame would also disrupt the power.

I would guess this maintains its efficiency advantages only in very limited torque ranges and have overall power limitations that normal drivetrains don't.

For general transportation, electric bikes are the real revolution.
> The four freedoms are truly revolutionary and have grown on me over the years. If he had been a bit more focussed and perhaps even a little pragmatic it wouldn't be hard to view him as a Steve Jobs or Bill Gates like figure.

If he had been a lot more pragmatic, he probably could have put the whole free software thing on hold for 20 years, and been one of the early microcomputer billionaires either alongside Jobs and Gates, or even instead of one (or both!) of them.

Then go back to free software--except now it would be backed by the several tens of billions of dollars of the Stallman Foundation, which would generate enough annual investment income forever to easily afford to award tens of thousands of $100k grants for free software development each year.

A decade of that, and there would be GPL replacements for pretty much everything.