skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
one thing that I love about SE is that everyone is very professional. almost all answers are either sourced or can easily be seen to be correct. what I am worried is that if a lot of the normal mods quit and our replaced with new mods, who may be more political, SE will turn into Reddit where leftist politics prevail in all of the major subreddits and most responses to factual questions consist of options or unsourced "facts". if that ever becomes the case then I will be sad. although, when seeing how the admins of Reddit act, I'm guessing that acting like they do is good for business.
As asked: https://cellio.dreamwidth.org/2064709.html
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you are absolutely correct, the instructions for a recipe can be copyrighted. If you use the app you'll notice that when a recipe is clipped, in order to see the instructions you will get directed to the original recipe. I want to do right by creators and make sure they get the full credit deserved.
What the app is concerned with is the ingredients(which is not copyrighted). I can use that for calculating the nutritional content.
Why, shifts can change - especially when it works out for everyone.
That was the first thing that came to my mind as well. There are two definitions of what a hash function is, and they are almost always under specified.

(1) Map key to an integer
(2) Map key to a uniformly distributed integer

In case of (1) the hash map implementation needs to do the mixing step, (2) is much better for benchmarking as in the article.
This generation also has the luxury of building homes on undesirable hills in cities without a tech industry. Nothing has changed. My grandma might have wished to build in lower Manhattan, but that was already occupied and expensive. She went where the land was affordable.

She also didn't really get her home as an financial investment, and she is unlikely to personally benefit from the increase in value. There was no way to know she'd get lucky. She used the home to raise 7 kids and will probably die there. As you say, it was her "escape from constant shackles of rent-seeking".

It's not smelly on her street.

I also hope that tech moves elsewhere. It's insane to cram everything onto a tiny peninsula. I did go to an east coast start-up, and it worked out nicely. There's also that whole middle of the country. Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Wyoming are all fine places to live.
Very nice. If I may ask for clarification on the CNN method (which seems to work quite well), you're taking a CNN that's built for classification but removing the last layer (which I believe is fully connected?) so that you only take the "internal features", is that correct? I would expect some kind of autoencoder would fit here, but very interesting that this works.
I played poker professionally for years. Nobody has the ability he'd have to have.

Extraordinary ability in poker means you win like 55% of the time. Not 100.
Better worker safety certainly accounts for some increase in costs. But US infrastructure costs aren't only high compared to the past, they're high compared to other modern developed countries. I don't think Spain, for example, is keeping their costs relatively low by treating their construction workers as cannon-fodder.
Every beautiful old building, never mind, say, the pyramids, probably represents a lot more relative wealth and suffering than any modern toy of the rich. It's implicit in the amount of hand work you can see in old stuff.
It’s totally awesome and so easy to use!!
At least there is this bit at the very bottom;

> Breaking news, October 6 21:00 UTC: the CTO stepped in, accepted responsibility, apologized to the community, and promised to contact me directly to apologize and discuss next steps. Finally! I look forward to that contact.
> Are these things true of Chicago & Austin as well, or is the the common misconception that "non-coastal" regions means "rural"?

Chicago is on the longest contiguous coastline in the US; it isn't rural, it's also not non-coastal.
I think this is a great point. When I was growing up, I really struggled with writing and in hindsight, it was because I had no freedom with it. I was writing about topics that I didn't care about and trying to write in a way that I thought would be graded well. For years after, I thought the struggle I faced just meant that I "wasn't a writer" and avoided it at all costs. Only recently have I started to explore it more due to a strange string of career events, but I hypothesize that many others will never revisit it once they've classified it as something they're not good at.
So while they wait for the market to respond to decreased demand at current prices levels, prices are sticky in the downward direction, where exactly should they lay their head at the end of the day?
I always liked the social implications of flat fares - poor people tend to have to live farther away so distance pricing, and especially peak pricing, basically makes life harder for people who already have a hard life.

I think that the whole narrative around trains needing to justify their cost based on fares is ridiculous. Few people ride trains for the experience of riding a train. They ride to go somewhere, and do something, and the real value of the fate exists outside the transportation system.

I think Japan, and HK got it right by letting train companies act as real estate developers and build out the areas around stations. That gives them enormous profitability since they can charge rent, commissions for the stuff that people actually care about - what’s at the destination - and literally funnel people in the millions to their shopping centers, office complexes, and apartments.
Wow. This is the shit we are whining about these days... Woooooow
Politics is part of every human endeavor: between kids on the playground, in the workplace, at the level of local, regional, national, and international governments and businesses.

Politics and the negotiation of status and access between various in and out groups is a fundamental part of being human.
Would also love to check out an open source version.
The US has over 300 cities with a population of more than 100,000 people. I’ve lived in a few of these, as well as San Francisco. It’s nonsense to say that none of these places have good, diverse food options or opportunities to make a great income.

In fact, if you pull up the 25 best places to live list that US news does, you’ll find that other than Santa Rosa and San Jose, nothing else in the Bay Area makes the list.
Falcon Northwest keeps making custom gaming PCS one at a time
"normies"?
I suspect you're right. I stopped participating in SE years ago not for "political" reasons like this, but because it seemed to be dominated by power-happy mods and people whose main goal was to collect points and not to help others.

This kerfuffle, and I only got a little summary of it, makes my eyes glaze over. I'm certainly not against treating people with respect, but I'm not willing to stick my neck out for some of the unsavory characters here who aren't acting in good faith.

What they did to Monica Cellio was disgusting. And most likely based on pure hate.
While, in the beginning, a very active user, I've long now given up on that network.
I can't remember when was the last time I asked a question without being forced to defend it for a period of at least a few hours, why it shouldn't be closed as a duplicate, offtopic or ...
It used to be an excellent network, but nowadays it's just script-kiddies-playing-admins/editors playground. It is no longer a productive technical community, so I've gone back to specialized forums.
Pity, I really liked the sites in the beginning.
Fantastic. I hope the others follow suit, because the current system is ridiculous. I stand by my original point because many providers do engage in that sort of anti-consumer behavior.
Alpha release of Age-tool – A small command line encryption utility made in Go
Oh come on, there’s tons of stuff in Python that’s funny without resorting to it being “white dudes spewing slurs and stereotypes and getting nervous laughter for being bad”.

There’s also a certain amount of xenophobia, (internalized) homophobia, and the generalized othering/objectification of women that comes from any cast that is all males. That’s aged badly. But some of it’s only gotten better with age, the tinny/woody sketch for instance is totally different now that I cant stop seeing the servants standing in a row behind these rich inbred morons arguing over something goofy and idiotic. I saw “Holy Grail” recently and it really aged well.
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If you're not aware of the drama, then it really isn't meant for you. The following threads have some background (and dang has linked a few more threads leading up to these): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21175225 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21176712

The tl;dr (but still pretty long) is that Stack Overflow instituted a new Code of Conduct that required the use of a person's [preferred] pronouns. This change in the Code of Conduct was well intentioned but some people took issue with how it was implemented without much community input. A mod (Monica Cellio) had some level-headed discussion/questions about writing in a gender neutral style vs. affirmatively using a person's pronouns. She was fired with basically no due process, and it's pretty clear that she wasn't being mean or intentionally violating the Code of Conduct. A bunch of other mods got upset with how she was fired and they quit. SO has now issued two non-apologies and is rushing out a new Code of Conduct with a short timeframe for feedback, which is almost sure to make more people angry- plus they haven't been very concrete about which, if any, mods will be getting their jobs back after this fiasco. I don't envy SO's position- they have to keep mods happy, but if they walk back their original CoC change they would be telling the entire LGBTQ+ community that they are valued less than a few mods. However, this is entirely SO's fault with the way they have handled things- including not firing a mod that used more hateful language which makes their enforcement of the CoC inconsistent- so don't feel too bad for them.
Not really, he was just following the trends of the time. If anything, New York is in a far better place with him than without. Sure, he did some bad things, but New York wouldn't be able to cope without his expressways and bridges.
Thanks a lot :)

The only thing I find a bit unfortunate is that despite many people trying it (wordpress shows over 5000 hits), very few people are using the share feature to share what they've created. I'll have to investigate what stops people. I'm wondering if it's just having to create an account, or if I've done some major UI design error.
Emm how about increasing the capacity? For gods sake why would do such a thing like “peak procing” to a public transportation system :). Not everything is a optimization honework assignment. This is real life some unfortunate people who have less income than you have go to places too.
Number of people during peak hours is enough deterrent itself. You dont need to introduce extra cost.

Shall we introduce peak pricing to fire trucks as well?
Sounds like https://www.eatthismuch.com/ but with a different algorithm
The "actual thing" w/r/t pronouns in particular is that people should respect someone else's identity.

Deadnaming someone is basically bullying. There's no principled to intentionally do it, and it's almost always done as a power play more than anything. Respecting someone's choice of identity is just baseline "respect for others". It would be like insisting to use someone's old married name after a divorce (or even just refusing to use someone's name after they get it changed, for whatever reason!)

I'm a bit agnostic about stuff like "forbidding non-pronoun usage" (how is that intent even seen?) and fights are getting virulent. But I think it's hard to see the principled argument against asking people to respect someone's choice of pronouns or name.
This guy gets it. If you’re unhappy about expensive rent just talk to your employer and negotiate living somewhere else. Or quit, and find another company that will play ball. There are plenty. Presumably most people here work in tech and there is zero requirement that you work in the most expensive city in the world.
Is there a TLDR of what happened anywhere?
> Nobody is trying to take your grandmother's house away.

Wrong, because of:

> the outcome of property taxes is that they encourage more economically efficient use of land

County assessors routinely change the valuations of real property and the taxes you pay are proportionate to that valuation -- not what you paid for it. If she bought the place for $20,000, which is likely in 1962, then she likely cannot even afford the taxes on the property anymore and would be forced to leave.
The relationship between average wages and SS benefits: those earning lower amounts receive a higher percentage of their wages as benefits, compared to those earning higher amounts. See [0].

Another way to view this is that there is a welfare component to Social Security. And then there is a component that is based on what you earn. This was the basic compromise when Social Security was created in the 1930s.

The upper limit to FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act) taxes on wages, is a way to downplay the welfare aspect of Social Security. Some people think we should acknowledge the welfare aspect and go ahead and tax all wages (like the US does for Medicare), but others don't think that's fair to high wage-earners.

[0] https://financialducksinarow.com/4414/social-security-income...
I have worked with two kinds of managers with outdated ideas or skill set:

1. The first kind is humble, respectful, friendly and likes to learn the modern stuff. These managers are nice to work with even if their skills are outdated. When you help managers like this by bringing them up to speed, you feel happy, the manager feels happy and it is a win-win situation. Relationships become stronger.

2. The second kind is egoistic and likes to assert their power. They are not in the game to learn the technology stuff but instead to advance their career further in the management ladder. I have found that interacting with these managers drains my energy and creates unnecessary stress even if I have to say the exact same thing I would have said to the first kind of managers. I don't exactly know why it creates more stress though. I guess the additional stress is due to lack of trust and lack of a good relationship with this kind of managers. It always seems like the manager is not on my side but always exclusively on their own side. And indeed the only way to get out of this situation is to rally others around myself and have the manager replaced with someone of the first kind.
That's not the point. Digging a massive hole in the ground directly next to a skyscraper's foundation changes the physical properties of that foundation, and requires some very complicated engineering to get around it.

That and all the Manhattan Schist that needs to be excavated. New York certainly isn't built on mud.
A 10x10 room can’t be split into 5x10 rooms.. need some space for the wall in between.

Then you have two doors, and the space those doors need. Two windows for emergency exits.
For sure the first dissenter makes the biggest difference, but only if they have a large following who already agrees with them and were just waiting for a spark. To dissent without a critical mass of support usually doesn't change much.
I'm totally out of the loop about what this drama is about, and I'll stay that way.

These are unpaid community moderators. They are essentially volunteers doing this work because they want to. So let's ponder to ourselves and relate this to our own lives, what kind of relationship do we have with the organizations and people we do volunteer work with?

If you're at a point where you're so dissatisfied that you're writing a sprawling open letter, a manifesto of your dissatisfaction, going as far as buying a domain and setting up a website to publicize how upset you are, just to complain to a place that you volunteer at, you know, maybe it's time to just let it go. Maybe don't volunteer there. StackExchange isn't even a charity, it's a private for-profit company.

At the end of the day, people visiting the site just did a quick Google search and wanted their questions answered for free. They are generally unwilling to pay for this service. If StackExchange didn't exist something very similar would take its place. None of the general public needs to hear about whatever moderator drama took place, even if something criminal happened. It's not our problem.

The users don't actually implicitly value what the moderators do. So if the moderators aren't happy, they should do something else with their valuable time.
what do you mean by support? I google and sometimes use their content and that's it. There are other sources.
Shouldn’t the CTO fire the person who was directly responsible for firing Monica? Why isn’t that part of it?
Paris isn't built directly on bedrock either.
> We’ll keep those discussions (with the erstwhile mod) completely private unless we both agree to share any of it with the community.

Does this mean they're looking to prevent the mod from speaking out unless SE agrees to public release? Or is the first "we" (in "We'll") different from the second we ("unless we both")? Hopefully this is just sloppy/rushed drafting, not forced secrecy.
Thank you for sharing this. I've also been using a similar frictionless observation and clustering method, but I never had a term to label it with. I'll be reading up more on the Fieldstone method.
> We plan to launch a Kickstarter to get funding so we can turn this into a real product to enhance Chess for people playing in the real world.

I expect it is not available!
It isn't about the location, it is about being away from your family, your friends, and your community. That matters to some people.
Books aren't boring. The process of reading is intuitively similar to thought for me, as my thoughts and memories are like words, reading words is also akin to having thoughts and memories.

I'd actually assume that more visual thinkers would like fiction less as it would be a less compatible mode of thought. Another advantage, I'm never bothered by watching film adaptations and having not "pictured" scenes or characters "that way" - having never pictured them any way at all.

The ability to be visually immersed in a book does seem nice. It also strikes me as probably a bit of an exaggeration. I have a hard time believing people wouldn't be spending much more time reading than I observe them to if reading were really capable of such transport into fictional dimensions.

My dreams are as vivid as my waking life. Regarding describing letters, I can describe them as thoroughly as needed. If I couldn't recall a detail about a letter I could trace it in the air with my hand.

In reality, I think there's very little difference in the life of people with aphantasia, which is why most people don't realize it's even a thing until some circumstance in adulthood. The biggest problem it seems to cause me is with directions. People who know me well (girlfriend, brother, parents, etc) will habitually tell me every direction on the way somewhere if I'm driving. If I don't have someone in the car to direct me I always Google regardless of where I'm going. Without directions I get lost quite easily, perhaps attributable to not having a map in my head to look at. Or, perhaps an unrelated directional deficiency.
Yellow brick 1.0 released (Python Visualization)
Speaking as an American, US measurements drive me crazy, especially in baking where packing density can throw things off. I have a coffee scale that is accurate to 0.1 grams and it makes it _so_ much easier to measure everything out.

Having a sliding scale for the number of people you intend to serve would also boost the usability of the site.
What I really like about tectonic, is that a program can use it like a library, and embed the engine without shelling out to execute programs. There is at this point some system font dependencies that need to be realized before compilation.

But otherwise it pretty much just works without a lot of pre-installation steps.
“Keeping your identity small” has certainly gone out of fashion.
You make me wonder if perhaps new languages evolved for exactly this purpose. To conceal ideas and thoughts from the enemy.
Last bit about operators in Japan etc, fantastic idea. Thanks for pointing out.
Mathematically we know it works.
Why not both? Unless you use ASM every day, you can learn a very limited subset (basically enough to reverse engineer a fizzbuzz) and get some benefits from that. Maybe look through what sse and other extensions provide. That doesn't require a lot of time.
I don’t understand why gender/pronouns is even being discussed. Someone’s personal feelings don’t really have any place in a question/answers site. It’s fine to respect a persons feelings and such when talking to a person but when answering a question or asking the question. The gender/pronoun is irrelevant.
> It upsets me because it's removing utility from the language.

> "They" is plural.

It's not though. We use the singular "they" in conversation all the time. You're probably just so used to it that you don't notice.

"The Uber driver is still ten minutes away, maybe they got stuck in traffic."

"Somebody left their book on the bus."

Nobody would think there are multiple people driving the car or that the book belongs to several different people.
SRO housing is still available in college dorms, where even well-off families send their kids and are happy to have them live in those conditions for a couple years.

As long as they are code-compliant with regard to fire protection (sprinklers) and emergency egress, might as well make them legal. Let the market decide if the lower rent vs a small studio apartment with in-unit bath and stove is worth it. (I suspect in most cases, people would prefer to team up via craigslist or facebook and share a multi-bedroom apartment or townhouse rather than live the dorm life though. But PodShare seems to be getting customers...)
Distance pricing seems to work just fine here in Japan, although I did't dig into the data on public transit, just based on my personal experience.

Fares in Osaka or Tokyo are ~$2 per 3-4 stations from your departure point. Riding to Kyoto from downtown Osaka (40km) is ~$8 and 8 stops across two lines. The prices overall are low (IMO), and Japan has lower wage inequality than the US (IIRC).
I think wyclif means casual users, who want to participate in SE community by answering questions.
I don't understand this cry against moderators. These people are volunteerily giving their time to keep quality bar high without any payment. If these people weren't there then SO will be full of duplicates, off-topic and opinion based Q&A just like Quora. A general tendency I have seen is just to ask (often poorly stated) questions without doing simple search to see if it is already answered. Someone needs to respect those people picking up garbage on the street.
Election, the 1960 World Series, and the Electoral College
Using Image Priors to Improve Scene Understanding
It's confusing to me too. Very clearly this is a battle for which there are only losers and no winners.