skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NPR is such a national treasure.

Here in Minnesota, Minnesota Public Radio is one of the few places that does detailed stories on rural area outside the cities.
The pets won't die of starvation. They tend to eat their former owners. Cats especially seem to go for the face. Source: am pathologist.
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Love this, particularly that you can view the content without JavaScript as well.

If you can solve the "potential for abuse" problem while maintaining this format, you've got something!
Good. It'd be also wise of them to diversify to other countries besides China. They started doing so in India (after India basically banned their shit if they don't make it there), but I hope they now see the lack of wisdom in putting all their hundred billion dollar eggs into one basket.

As to Mac Pro, even if it's mostly assembled by robots, at that price level it better be assembled by red blooded, gun totin', tobacco chewin' Texan robots. There's just no excuse to do otherwise when your computer costs like a midsize car.
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The problem with a single small state is that providers will leave when you cut their pay.

The thing to do is to encourage many more people to do primary care.
lovely idea. really hope it catches on.
I am using NixOS, and on NixOS you can use Nix expressions to create an environment with whatever packages at whatever version you need. It isn’t perfect, but with some effort and tooling it is a reliable, flexible way of managing an environment, and is especially nice in that it manages the exact versions of C libraries as well. Nix can be used on any Linux or macOS system.

(FWIW: there are tools to create Nix expressions from requirements files, so it isn’t necessarily all manual work.)
The problem seems less about racist bias specifically and more about unbelievably dumb tags generally in the first place.

"Stunner"? "Looker"? "Mantrap"? Or even trying to tag people's images with categories like Buddhist, grinner, or microeconomist?

What were they thinking?! Clearly these tags were never curated in any remotely responsible way -- for quality, for sensitivity, or just usefulness at all -- and I'm shocked they were ever intended for academic or research use. No wonder image recognition gets a bad rap, with input data like this.
An even better solution would be to focus on the stuff that matters. A given question in a typical mathematics or engineering type test generally falls into three categories of testing—

1. Ability to identify the right methodology;

2. Memorisation of all steps of that methodology;

3. Ability to execute the methodology correctly;

Parts 1 and 3 are important to demonstrate learning, whereas in the real world 2 is not. Denying books and notes only penalises children who have difficulty with 2, which is stupid.
The claim here is that they're about to demonstrate QC on a specific hard sampling problem , where one small quantum computer will produce a result in minutes that takes a months on a big cluster of classical computers.

That is still clearly quantum supremacy, even if Shor's algorithm is not yet implementable.
The profiling exposed at the top level is coarse. I guarantee you that companies the likes of Acxiom are tracking every woman's periods and they've been doing it for decades. That PII gets squirreled away into their database and feeds into whatever genericised category it is useful for. Sign the right NDA and you get all the goods.
> Yes, it's wrong to assume that you can tell everything about that dog by looking at it - but it's so much more uncomparably wrong to consider that you can tell nothing about friendly or sick dogs based on looking at them!

but nobody in this entire thread was saying that, and my contribution was an additional attempt to further point out why the other sibling responses were missing this

At this point I'm totally content in talking past each other on this topic as I honestly don't know why its not clear that the subset which is undetectable by mere observation is statistically significant.
If the shirt lasts 4x as long, on average, its worth nearly 4 shirts. A 25 dollar shirt is not crazy, why should 100? Its all short vs long term thinking, coupled with lack of product knowledge.
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It is a short hand for the major/prestigious tech companies.

So it would be Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and maybe Netflix depending on who you ask.

And yes, I know that is more than 5 companies. It is a shorthand for "those prestigious, large tech companies that new grads apply to, and hire lots of people, and have large market caps".

If I talk to any new grad who is applying to companies these day, they will know what I mean when I say "big 5 tech companies".

This is a very common term in the interview/tech market and discussions.
People who feel their lives are so terrible it isn't worth going on are usually not monsters. It's usually someone else in their lives that is a monster.

They usually just have too many problems, not enough support and have spent too many years wrestling with it without resolution.

If they were monsters, they would probably be planning someone else's death, not their own. It seems all too common that people around them are a big part of their unresolvable problems.

People who turn to suicide are people who turn their pain inward, not outward. They just want their suffering to stop in a world that both has no answers and often isn't really trying to find them.
The moral standpoint isn't that there shouldn't be more (or less) male software engineers.

The moral standpoint is that there shouldn't be an AICandidateFilter|HumanPrejudicialInterviewer that only coincidentally appears to beat a coin-flip because it has learned non-causal correlations which it uses to dust out qualified stereotype-defying human candidates because they don't look stereotypical enough on the axes that the dataset--which almost inevitably has a status-quo bias--suggests are relevant.
Well, your screen name was aptly chosen.
Is this a replacement or a supplement/alternative to WCF?
There can be standards of proof higher than the current ones for torture. For example, another jury whose instructions are “beyond all doubt.” Both juries would need to come back guilty for the torture. Of course no system is infallible, but there is also off the books torture in the current system.
...which, even if true, would circle back to 'being black' being a correlation to but not causative of criminal records.
1. Way to go guys.

2. Do you do journal articles?

3. Do you have data on the biotechnology business? (I'm looking to start a biotech startup)

I'm re-tooling right now. Taking a break from computer stuff to do a Masters (maybe a PhD) in biology, which is in the middle of a long boom. Being better than everybody else at filtering large amounts of data (at a time when new techniques are being invented month by month and year by year) would be a really good investment.
I was wondering the same. Also annoyed that an article about math/calculators called 120 and ~103 'nearly the same'... thats ~16% less!
What are the theoretical models for the energy cost of computing on a qubit? I'll be excited for QC when there is known way (even with some handwaving and future-tech plans) to compute a non-trivial result for a reasonable sum, such as "crack someone's private RSA key for under $10M of compute cost"
Australian drivers aren't the best, but they're better behaved than drivers in SE Asia. I've driven in Australia and the Philippines. In the Philippines, road rules aren't enforced. In Australia they are, but people don't always follow the rules anyway.
It wasn't true 5 years ago either. Lenovo, HP and Dell all have professional lines of laptops that have been running for decades and have always been better than MacBook price/components wise.

Admittedly they can be obscured by the sea of consumer laptops.
AFAICT, chickens also eat any rodents stupid enough to go near them. If chickens were our size they'd be terrifying.
Student Sentenced to 3 Years in Jail for 3D Printing Gun
These days I use `asdf` for everything--think of it as a pyenv/rbenv/nvm for Python, Ruby, Java, NodeJS, and a ton of other stuff. Through it I create virtualenvs, each targeting a particular version of Python.

https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf
Yeah in general Australian driving is pretty good I've found. Japan is the only country I've been to where the driving is clearly better.

Driving in other countries - the Americas, Asia, Europe, even the supposed peak of Western organisation and efficiency Germany had significantly poorer driving than I see in Australia.

But use of phones is an issue and I'm glad to see this being put in place.
I wasn't implying it's your fault, just saying that it's weird to, say, get mad at Walmart when they put up extra security measures in places where they constantly get robbed.
It should have more in common with traditional forums than Twitter or Reddit. It should also be decentralized to avoid monopoly-producing network effects.
Nim performance is really really good. Like, maybe C - 5%. Comparable with stuff like Rust or D... way way faster than Go or anything interpreted.
> Once you invest decades of your life into a research subject, if it turns out the entire thing is never going to work, there are major social and financial pressures to deceive the public about the true nature of the subject.

You're implying that Scott Aaronson is being deceptive.

I think that needs better evidence. The story you linked to is two years old and it's about QC skeptic Gil Kalai.

Scott addresses him directly in his post:

> If quantum supremacy was achieved, what would it mean for the QC skeptics?

> I wouldn’t want to be them right now! They could of course retreat to the position that of course quantum supremacy is possible (who ever claimed that it wasn’t??), that the real issue has always been quantum error-correction. And indeed, some of them have consistently maintained that position all along. But others, including my good friend Gil Kalai, are on record, right here on this blog predicting that even quantum supremacy can never be achieved for fundamental reasons. I won’t let them wiggle out of it now.
> and has never taken off at all.

Nor have any of TI's attempts at replacing the TI-83 series, like the TI-Nspire. (Which even had a TI-83 emulation mode!)
I previously used conda, now switching away from it as I noticed pretty bad dependency decay. Super frustrating when it can’t rebuild an environment from just two years ago.
The Catastrophe, defined as the simultaneous destruction of almost all the Mediterranean cities around 1190 BCE, is taken as the end of the Bronze Age. It appears to have been the result of a military innovation.
Widespread collapse of civilization seems sufficient to cause trading networks to lapse.

If trade was falling off before that, it could be that the new iron swords coming out of northern Italy were driving down demand, and metal from the now useless bronze swords entering the market.

Hardly anything written for a few centuries after the Catastrophe survives, so the prospect of resolving the question seems dim.
I haven't been in school for ten years, but if I recall correctly the stipulation was not "it cannot connect to the internet and/or store notes". It was, invariably, some version of "it must start with 'TI-' and be followed by one of these accepted integers".

So, whether it was a result of TI's lobbying or whatever else, the fact was and I assume still is that competing w/TI with a similarly capable, reasonably priced device is impossible because such a device cant pretend to be a TI-84, or whatever. Simply having the same capabilities and restrictions is not enough.
I only did 100-level mathematics at university (except for discrete mathematics), but for all my tests and exams, the lecturer made sure that all the problems could be solved (or reduced) without a calculator.

As long as you showed the working and the closest you could get without a calculator you'd get full marks (e.g. you could leave the answer as a fraction like 543/42, or as a power like 26^12).

They were quite good at my university for mathematics exams though. You were usually allowed a handwritten cheat sheet in the exam, and if you couldn't get the answer to a question that had follow-on questions they'd still give you marks for the follow-on question if you just made up an answer for the earlier question. If only the lectures weren't usually at 8 AM I might have gotten good grades.
19 year old kids are still of age, there would be nothing really to investigate.
Yeah, here's an old page imagining how the pronunciation of American English might evolve over 1000 years - this is the projection for 2100: http://jbr.me.uk/futurese.html#5
I think devices need better security. Anything that JavaScript can access should be set to default values where they all equal null. Only once a user allows a certain website to access certain data will that data become available to that website. If every browser did this along with the apis for cellphones then users can finally regain control of what is collected.
I guess the only thing good in it is that parents (and maybe even grandparents?) can pass them on to younger generation like a family heirloom, and child won't even get anything outdated.
Xi Jinping was holding a military parade, and the Chinese police wanted me out
In principle, there is no reason why D-wave also can't achieve quantum supremacy. It is just that D-wave hasn't, so far.

As for Ising model, D-wave didn't outperform classical algorithm after classical algorithm was tuned (it was a new problem, so existing classical algorithm wasn't the best possible), see https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.1084, also there are reasons to suspect why Ising model will not provide any quantum speedup, see https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.5693.
You can already get a graphing calculator on your phone today. Desmos is interesting but their business model isn't going to fix the costs of anything, as many commenters have noted.

At best, Desmos is pushing the costs from students to the book-buying taxpayers. Schools can solve that problem more simply by just buying the caclulators themselves. A TI-89 calculator last for 20 years, $5/yr/student, no big deal, despite costing more than it should.
Are companies like Comcast or Verizon on this list? I honestly trust Google, Facebook, Apple and the like much more—I shutter to think of a world where big tech is neutralized while companies like Comcast control content production, distribution, etc.
This is my biggest issue with Python. I absolutely love the language, but Python 3 ought to be Python 3 no matter where/how you got it. If you are using 3.5 and I'm using 3.7 we ought to be able to share code and things just work. Unfortunately, that is not the case.
Cool, it's amazing that consumer 3D printing has come so far! I remember when you'd be a fool to hang your coat on anything 3D printed.

I was wondering the other day if anyone was 3D printing guitar bracing; I think it could lend to really interesting tone.

Re the topic: any fool with some machine tools can make a functioning handgun; this is only news because it's 3D printer related. If anything, it is easier to make an open bolt submachine gun than an ordinary handgun.
What do you think about Paul Vixie's views on DoH?

On the face of it, it seems like we're going to end up with a bunch of black box devices (from Google, Amazon etc) in our homes that are totally immune to most forms of network policing because between DoH, ESNI, TLS and CDN fronting, you can't see anything.
True. Microsoft used to be a company built around building and selling software. I used to respect that company. Since Windows 10 telemetry, plus targeted ads as part of the core OS, plus Cortana, the business model has changed for the worse.

Capitalism delivers the best targeted ads systems money can buy. Targeted ads systems are more efficient if they are measuring the effect of each ad on each individual, short and long term. The best way to measure such effects is by implementing 24/7 surveillance of every human, in cyberspace and real life. While Microsoft may be playing catch-up with Google and Facebook, it is firmly set to build a surveillance network of its own, with the first elements already here.
Agreed, as I said, "I'm sure the tradeoffs made by the Tor team make sense within the context of their constraints."
You may well be right--the test was given a top-to-bottom redesign in 2016, so you would have been just before that. Nowadays there is a calc active and calc inactive section, whereas the current ACT has one math section, all calc active.
I love NPR. I'm glad they're doing well, and hope they will continue to make quality programs.

But one of the major advantages which has set them apart for me is that they aren't as advertising dependent as so many of their alternatives.

Avoiding ads makes it easier for them to be independent, and able to report without fear of corporations withdrawing their support.

It's also just much more pleasant to listen to. I try to avoid advertising as much as possible, and it's sad that they are one more place it's invading.

I know they've had corporate sponsors for some time, but the podcasts really feel like an escalation.

I don't blame them; I'm sure they felt this was the best choice for them to grow and survive, but it feel like a disappointing loss.
There's certainly a quantitative component. It's easy and often useful to add some such components to qualitative research. But getting into the field, tagging along with the death investigator, seeing the whole process from begining to end, that's qualitative. You're seeing much more than just all of the numeric data captured.

I'm not saying quantitative research can exist without data, I'm not sure where you got that idea. But not all data is quantitative. Data that is non-numeric is qualitative data. A case-study, for example, is often qualitative, though incorporating plenty of numeric data in support.
Decentralized seems to be a big one
Not sure if you caught the convo swapped to prison lol
You may not agree with the authors' or Aaronsons' definition of quantum supremacy, that's ok. I think his definition is very reasonable. Aaronson argues that this experiment will prove quantum computing supremacy in great length and defined it in the first entry of the FAQ as follows:

> [quantum computing supremacy]
term refers to the use of a quantum computer to solve some well-defined set of problems that would take orders of magnitude longer to solve with any currently known algorithms running on existing classical computers

.. and continues to explain why this setup does exactly that.
HN Title:
> Startups are using insect larvae to produce protein-rich animal feed

Article title:
> You Might Not Want to Eat Bugs. But Would You Eat Meat That Ate Bugs?

Sentence from article:
> AgriProtein is among a _small number of start-ups_ that are using insect larvae
Before jumping to pedantry, consider that "higher-level" here is relative (we are talking about high school students).
Yea I've been aware of this for a while, and it's odd how no one brings this up. It's very clear she's from an extremely privileged background with ardent, political parents. The idea that "this is just a concerned child" is far from reality.
Back when I was in calc, you actually had to show your work, so a calculator was pointless.
I have mixed feelings about this, since on several NPR podcasts Exxon has sponsored and advertised their carbon capture investment, despite it being a greenwashing campaign that comprises such a tiny percent of their overall new investment.

How can NPR not ultimately be captured by corporate interests with for-profit sponsorships?
Folks here might be interested in my own (more tl;dr) survey of public resolver usage:
https://twitter.com/mikedamm/status/1136409254305263616?s=20
pyenv is a tool to manage python environments. it lets you install and setup whatever python version you want with a simple command. you can then switch the active python version globally or just in the current shell with a simple command. it also has some virtualenv plugins.

https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv
Well D-wave is evaluated on an optimization task. This Google thing isn’t even trying to solve a real problem. What says you can’t get some very hard to replicate random bits out of a D-wave?
Depends on the environment a great deal.

Linux: Typically using the package manager, or the AUR if I'm not using the latest version. At the moment, I'm using 3.6 as my "universal" version since that's what ships with current Ubuntu.

Windows: Good ol' fashioned executable installers, though there's really no reason I don't use chocolatey other than sheer force of habit.

macOS: I don't do enough work on macOS to have a strong opinion, though generally I just use the python.org installer. I don't think there's that much of a difference from the Homebrew version, but I could be wrong on that front. As an aside: IIRC, the "default" python shipped with macOS is still 2.X, and they're going to remove it outright in 10.15. So I wouldn't rely on that too heavily.

As for other tooling, IME pipenv and poetry make dealing with multiple versions of Python installed side-by-side much easier. I have a slight preference for poetry for a variety of reasons, but both projects are worth checking out.

Finally, at the end of the day, the suggestions in here to "just use Docker" aren't unreasonable. Performance between numpy on e.g. 3.6 vs 3.7 or clang vs GCC likely aren't that significant, but if you create a Docker environment that you can also use for deployment you can be sure you're using packages compiled/linked against the same things.

If all of this sounds like an unreasonable amount of effort for your purposes... probably just use Anaconda. It's got a good reputation for data science applications for a good reason, namely removing much of this insanity from the list of things you have to worry about.
Technically, your example shows that not using coffee is not great for your mom.
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There surely are many logical reasons for people to feel economically threatened, but that doesn't mean people aren't also angry about inequality.

> people by and large can't detect changes in inequality at that scale. They have no idea what the actual wealth distribution is

Everyone knows how wealthy Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are. They may not know the entire wealth distribution but they can detect the presence of the new robber barons.

> why would this psychological effect trigger now in the late 2010s instead of some other time?

It didn't just trigger in the late 2010s. It's been a major force since at least 2008.
This reminds me of Library Thing. Not sure if that service is still up though.
The odd thing about my exams at high school (in New Zealand) is that although you were allowed to use a graphing calculator, you still had to show your working. So you'd plug the numbers into your trusty Casio graphing calculator, get the answer, then still have to work out the answer anyway.

In theory that means that you could use your graphing calculator to verify your answer. But in practice, people ended up spending too long trying to fiddle with their calculator, not knowing how to use it properly, and getting the wrong answer in their calculator but the right answer when they did it by hand, getting flustered that they didn't match, and crossing out their correct answer.
This is my last comment. The Republicans would much prefer to prevent or make it harder to vote for 2%, 1%, whatever.

They don’t care about voter fraud. At all.

They care about adding enough shit together that they can win elections.

That is all they care about.

It is not in good faith. It is not about protecting the sanctity of elections.

It is about the opposite. They’ve never been able to show that voter fraud has ever affected an election.

They’re in it because even shaving a percentage of people from voting Democrat is worth it for them.

That is it. That’s the only reason.

Goodbye.