skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've made significant efforts to minimize dependency on google services and these are items that appear w/o any interactions or data being explictly shared to the google platform. It was hard to believe at first, but after quite a bit of testing I realized what was happening.
It says it's from scratch, but it's using a lot of words and math symbols I don't understand when describing Linear Regression.
This is how it should work, and it is exactly NOT how it will ever work, because it turns the manufacturers into commodity providers with very low profit margins. Whereas if they keep the software and the hardware integrated and inseparable they can charge higher margins, and eventually integrate these items in their ecosystem (à la Apple and Google), in which both the user and the company benefit from collective synergy/network effects.
>If people cut down unnecessary plastic use because they're worried about plastic particles in the ecosystem, they're also doing something good for the climate.

If the oil isn't turned into plastics then it's just going to be burned instead. Plastics sequester carbon out of the atmosphere. Abandoning plastics without first introducing a carbon tax will harm the climate.
You're going to be fighting an uphill battle here; this is a completely normal, natural manner of using language called ["synecdoche"][0]. I would wager that you use it yourself from time to time without even noticing (though I could be wrong).

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche
Testing out the markets :)

I actually never expected to support VS Code or any dev tools at all! Launched on Product Hunt a month ago targeting 3D design and animation markets. Yet strangely, 25% of my inbounds were directly requesting VS Code, so apparently there's a need.
For me it's very close to that. Nothing is directly used, but for those of us who really payed attention and didn't just do assignments to get them out of the way, the underlying principles of the stuff from college has help significantly.

With a BS in CS, I have two explicit examples:

* Understanding time complexity has helped with a couple performance issues, but one big one was recognizing a Schlemiel the Painter algorithm [0] that multiple other devs (including a senior) hadn't noticed - fixing it brought one process's the nightly runtime from something like 2 hours to 5 minutes.

* In an information retrieval course, we built a basic inverted index as a semester-long project. That experience has helped with understanding how Lucene and Solr do things under the hood, which helped with various things relating to it - understanding why it's fast, understanding why doing certain queries things didn't improve performance, and understanding what people are even talking about online when trying to diagnose memory issues.

If some of this (particularly the time complexity one) sounds basic, it kinda is. But that's the problem - my experience is that people who get into software development through bootcamps or are self-taught end up missing this foundational knowledge, because they don't even know it's something that's out there.

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/12/11/back-to-basics/
I hadn't considered companies that use microservices instead of monoliths, I think you might be right
Any schools going the other way and dropping grades from consideration?
Yes, that one, if you read the article like I did:

> He made sure no one was arrested unless they’d been reached by personal service or certified mail.

> As long as the defendant had been properly served, the judge’s answer was always yes.

I'm not trying to justify anything else, but the experience of being arrested without being properly served does not align with the article in question.
Could you explain it like you're explaining to a high school senior?
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Some people become lawyers without degrees too. They study law just like anybody else they just dont run themselves into school debt. These too can become judges.

Edit: I couldnt find the term but now I did. You become a lawyer by becoming an apprentice of another lawyer. I assume these people become judges. In some states the only requirement to become a judge is to have been a lawyer. My original point was to take the comment from the article with a grain of salt. It requires a citation.
So do you think to these people something like Bitcoin would have an appeal? I am asking because the theme that Bitcoin has no appeal has come up a couple times lately here on HN and some people think it is completely useless. I have never used Bitcoin so do not know it's limitations. Could your friend conveniently send his family money in Africa that way?
Manufacturers like to boast about true but trivial things like "no sugar added". Maybe someone could pick up the idea of "privacy safe" logo to put on packaging of toasters, microwave ovens and (a subset of) TV sets.
What are falling lessons? Judo?
>For people who want to go to college purely for rigorous academic study with the brightest young academic minds, this is going to be a shift.

Will it? The academic cheating scandal and what we know about legacy admission tells us that many prestigious colleges very decidedly don't put pure academic rigor above all else. I've heard tell that getting into Harvard and surviving its social scene is harder than actually graduating from it. Anecdata, but of all the big-name schools, I've only heard of a handful that deliver on their "chew you up if you're not intellectually ready" reputations: MIT, CalArts, several UCs... That's about it.

I'm of the opinion that the radical and purposeful shift we should be moving towards is one of parity in rigor and support for all students passed a certain level of demonstrated competence. Then, lottery.
Speaking as a current grad student, this whole anti-test movement in America is a complete train wreck and will devastate the nation over the long term. Short term, yes, lots of kids will get into lots of programs they are mentally unequipped for. But once they get in, a few will get their shit together and actually do well. Good for them! But the vast majority simply withdraw in the 3rd week before the W shows up on the transcript. The ones who don’t withdraw and don’t get their shit together are the toxic bunch. That’s a significant bunch. They are the ones who show up in labs & loudly say God I hate this class so much! They are trying to build sympathy for their case that the course is too hard. But perhaps it’s too hard because they are just not ready for it - haven’t taken the prereqs, or not doing homework, or not mentally mature. The SAT is supposed to test to precisely these things. But they’ve bypassed that hurdle. So now the TAs and adjuncts have to gently break the truth to them. That no, 7/0 + 5/0 is not 12/0. No I won’t give you a point for that because it’s the most obvious conclusion. I actually had to escort the kid to the Professor because he threw a tantrum and said stats is supposed to be easy, it’s mostly arithmetic!

But in the grand scheme of things, undergrads are mostly harmless. They don’t produce research, they are just there to pass courses and join the economy as worker bees. The really harmful cohort are grad students who get into grad programs without passing the subject GREs. In my opinion, the Physics subject GRE and the Math Subject GRE are probably the 2 toughest exam papers we have in the USA. The vast majority of students cannot for the life of them pass it. The ones who do pass tend to do incredibly well in the grad courses. Especially the math GRE, which tests calculus, gradient, hessian, lagrange’s theorem, greens theorem, stokes, very basic algebra like elementary group theory, abelian & non commutative groups, cosets, fields & rings, basic number theory, chinese remainder, basic analysis like cauchy schwartz and mean value theorems. If you don’t know this material and get into grad school in some math-heavy discipline like math/stat/applied math/... you are going to struggle a lot. If it’s some lightweight discipline like OR/IE/Applied Stats/CS/Eng, ok maybe you don’t need to know this shit. But then, you shouldn’t also show up to graduate probability /statistics classes and then raise your hand in middle of lecture and say you don’t know how to compute the distribution of the ratio of 2 gaussians. This is exactly why have the Math GRE, so you can take a few practice tests for free, realize you don’t know how to integrate, and maybe work some calculus problems before you apply to grad school, not after. End of rant.
I had very high hopes for Silk Labs (founded by former Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal) to produce a device to compete with Google Home and Alexa in a privacy conscious way. Their claim to fame, I believe, was running all ML magic on device instead of shipping audio off to the cloud. They were snatched up by Apple a while back.
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This is a nice way of saying it's nearly unreadable to the point where i wonder if it looks radically different on the developers device.
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Can someone cc the Sanders or Warren campaign. This is ripe for national debate. Hard to imagine this isnt a good wedge issue.
Ex professor here. Faculty have the power to end this bezzle if we admit students are learning nothing and we'd all be better off with real jobs.

Some already have. https://jakeseliger.com/2018/03/12/the-case-against-educatio...

Moreover, almost everyone involved figures out what's going on, sooner or later: https://jakeseliger.com/2014/04/27/paying-for-the-party-eliz..., and typically sooner.

Notice the date stamp on both of those. This is hardly new news. Years ago I was teaching the LSAT and the guy who owned the company told me to read Beer & Circus by Murray Sperber, which fits the genre.
I wonder how many of those would be feasible in real life situations

For example, a celestial body coming in proximity to another will impart tidal forces, might involve some kind of mass exchange or simply find form of atmospheric drag.
I do know that when Arizona became a state, there was a part of the original constitution that the US Congress made them change in order to become a state. Any elected official can be recalled by citizen petition for ballot initiative. The US govt didn't feel that Judges should be included. It was the first amendment to the state's constitution.

That may be part of why you don't get a lot of these kinds of stories in AZ. Of course there are many other issues at play. Such as most political candidates don't show their political party in ads. The term limits set a couple decades ago cause a large shuffling of where political candidates land after term limits (state house/senate/boards).

I've seen so much corruption from inside and out, and even creative ideas of dealing with it, only to see it shuffled differently every time. I'm not sure there really is any other solution than limiting govt as much as possible, and by extension limiting corporate protections as well. Many today lean towards Communism/Socialism as the answer, and from my understanding, I can only see that as escalating the problems in the long run.
Once again, PrEP is a miracle drug and future generations will be baffled as to why we were so slow in adopting it.
I think it does that. I received a "(shuffled)" indicator after a deal several hands in.
Nasty ass eaters and Tinderification of dating networks.
To answer your question directly: if groups engage in ethnic cleansing use a website to plan, coordinate or communicate about how and where to carry out their actions, they are using a website for ethnic cleansing.

I encourage you to look into the situation in Myanmar: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...
Free speech is the cornerstone to a free society. You can't have freedom without free speech.
Free speech is good, and everyone should strive to keep speech free.
but... its cool. and fun.
Thanks for letting me into your thought process there.
Trains longer than 256 aren't the issue as the numbers roll over. The problem is trains with exactly 256 axles (or a multiple of 256), they're seen as zero.
Thanks for the references. I'll check them out.

> It is a wonderful language.

That was my first impression. Now I want to learn more to be productive.
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>Dealer shuffles after dealing 75% of the deck
Mozilla IoT seems to have the right idea. https://iot.mozilla.org/gateway/
The advice of a Scot will be taken seriously. Will be removing AF from the site.
I’m not so sure it’s a bad idea to listen to first person accounts from underindexed groups. For one, it may help surface new metrics to readjust with; for another, it may still help to get a sampling of “is this helping or hurting in your opinion” and watch how it trends over time.
Windows 10 Mobile was better than Android. They just couldn't get users to switch because of a lack of apps. Their decision to abandon the platform and the users (even with their own apps!!) was a very disappointing one and damaged trust.
That's awesome. I'd never heard of the lute-harpsichord before, but the sound is great! The bass is so deep and mellow, but otherwise sounds pretty similar to a harpsichord. I love it, thank you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNYJirAcyJo
The problem with high-power is that you have to go high voltage, which is high risk for a hobbyist. I couldn't find any info on the motor in the article, but most existing EV conversion kits operate around 120 - 140 V.

110 HP is 82 kW, which means you're drawing around 600 A. Anything significantly higher than that gets really unpractical: you need huge wires (at least 00, maybe even 0000), huge fuse, huge contactor, and you're losing a lot of energy to heat.
> "I simply don't know you"
Excellent way to frame the issue here. I've removed AF from the website copy.
What an honest to goodness waste of time. It's fun to challenge yourself with micro optimizations but the time spent on this could have been used on a million things a user cares more about.

I'm not saying perf isn't a feature but if you're playing svg golf you're just doing it for the sport and not the user value and not some altruistic digital pollution argument.
Engineers, lawyers and doctors aren't average, even within the university context.

You need to talk to lawyers and doctors too. Lawyers typically know jack shit about the law outside the fields they practice in. Doctor education varies greatly between countries. For example, in Poland medical school is whole 2 years longer than in the US, and the students have to learn all Latin names of all possible bones and muscles in the whole body. Every doctor will tell you that it’s absolutely useless in their actual practice. Do the two missing years make US doctors 25% worse? Clearly not, doctors forget most of what they learn anyway. It’s not like your rheumatologist remembers symptoms of all those rare internal diseases they had to memorize for the test.

Applying format, structures, and approaches to unrelated fields. Much of an engineering degree is designed around learning to learn well. That's the only degree I can speak of, but it has been my understanding that other programs have similar intent.

And engineering students, especially from top programs, typically are great at that, but not because they learned it at university, but rather because you need to be really smart to get into and successfully graduate with science or engineering degree.

Many people in western countries these days, especially the smartest and best educated, have extreme hard time accepting that innate differences in cognitive ability is a real, observable thing, and consequently their models of reality are deficient, because they put the causation on wrong factors.
I am well aware. I have participated in the tuning of a (small) organ, as I am an organist. You can affect the perceived tuning of the instrument by engaging mutation stops / aliquots. Further, speaking from experience, in practice, stops have a tendency to go out of tune at different rates. Most organists know their instrument very well, have have an intuition for what keys will sound best with what stops at any given time on their instrument.
There is not "except", we are talking about the same thing.
I don't find it to be "nearly unreadable" myself, but yes it's difficult. I think it depends mostly on the quality of your monitor, and on how it is calibrated.
Can't read article but solving this theoretical (and perhaps now real) puzzle is the primary story in the relatively poor book "More Sex is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics" which came out in 2008. Don't bother with the book, it's essentially a lamer freakonomics, but it's interesting that the central story has come up.

Basically if you have many to many pairing up (many one person with one or two partners), there may be less mixing, and less transmission.

In a one to many pairing (one person with ten partners) you can more easily transmit disease even if the total number of pairings is fewer.
I have not found one. Typically they only sell time on big machines with 2-4 cards (or more) and even if not, the pricing is such that if you are doing anything for a number of months it becomes very attractive to buy outright and resell when done. The pricing scheme tells me most providers purchase when you start the lease.

So for the cards and machine attached I usually see multiple grand a month. That is the trick: you need a machine with the card, and they only rent huge ones.

If you just need a 2070 you could do it at home. The monthly bill would pay for the card in as little as 2mo.
I have strong feelings on how much medical reform needs to happen, and some ideas on how it can be done without socializing the system as a whole.

That said, I don't understand why nobody has tried to organize protests outside the courthouse or hospital over this. 90 people in one session are plenty to leverage a pretty big protest. The black eye to the court or hospital in question could definitely lead to some changes. If there are other counties in OK facing the same issues, they could protest at the state level and probably get better protective legislation in place.

I fail to understand how apathy has lead to such passive lack of any kind of action for reform.
This book is both art and magic.

It is poetic in its treatment of introductory computer science.
It's nice to know other orgs also have these checklists where lots of items aren't checked, and you have no idea if they should be checked, or when, why, etc. Does anyone have a good solution to this?
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Continue with Google

Continue with Facebook

.. I'll continue elsewhere
We're (mostly) talking about classic car conversions for something like this. Safety is way down the list of concerns. If you prioritize safety at all, you won't even consider riding in a classic vehicle.

I don't see how the nuances of a battery fire vs. much more likely ICE fire would enter into any reasonable consideration.
A typical one bedroom apartment in San Francisco is larger than a typical two bedroom apartment in Europe.
Many applications (Firefox for example) send aggregated usage data if you enable telemetry, like how many times you used feature X in the last week. I guess they aggregate it to avoid too much bandwidth usage.
`s/vehemence/passion/` and I might have agreed. The words may be similar, but there is a distinct difference between them. Had OP just showed passion for the topic without being vehement, I think it might have landed a lot better.
I think maybe you mean plastic consumers.
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Given they're exporting to the Netherlands, don't they have to meet those standards? I'm not sure if they require grass raised in seasons permitting or not, I do know some places do.
I think they’re trying to get around this by explicitly saying there will be no migration path, but it’ll be interesting to see whether they actually get away with that.
> They(Boeing and FAA) weren't even looking into it, they were %100 sure that the plane is fine.

Weren’t they looking into it after the first crash already? They had issued the emergency directive with instructions for how to shut down the MCAS system, which turned out to not help in the case of the second crash, but there was already a fix to the software in development after the first crash since the issues with the system were reported at the time.
I have. In fact the once in a lifetime offer I got from a member here, the only real help in all these years, was to work remotely and live in Europe. My only real friends are there and my previous doctors there were wonderful so that is the goal. But a (as usual) complicated health issue made doing that job and that time impossible for me and I hate every day that it might have been the last hope. My health keeps blocking things. I don't even know what I could do to earn at this point that I would be sure of being able to sustain. I cannot depend on my body for consistency unless that consistency is pain and weakness at varying levels and that's incompatible with your ability to live being linked with your ability to use said body consistently to work in trade for cash. Every time I invest in an idea with energy and money something else happens to crush it. I'd need years of physical, financial, and mental stability to even begin to recover some life and simply cannot start entirely over with no help like one can when they are young and healthy. I have no bootstraps in any sense of the word to pull on.
> Court is just a building in town. If you are healthy, you can just walk there.

If you happen to live in town and that town happens to be where the State put the courthouse for that county.

Plenty of counties in this country are bigger than Rhode Island -- not just in the middle of nowhere, either.
Your comment made me think of the Vietnam War. Many of the military leaders in the war came of age during World War II and Korea, where the most obvious metric was land: if Nazis or communists were there, then bad. If allies, then good.

But that completely broke down in Vietnam, when the placid villagers in South Vietnam by day became the ruthless Viet Cong by night. American generals had no idea how to approximate their success like they had in previous wars, so they settled on kill scores, and as long as more Vietnamese died than Americans, the DoD could go on television and claim that America was “winning”, even though the incentives for kill scores resulted in a lot of bystander villages being torched and civilians being killed, which only further put public opinion against the Americans.

I wonder if a sufficiently advanced AI system could correct its use of (or abandon) a bad metric even when it is incentivized to use it.

The problem I cited above was effectively so hard for the people at the time that it was effectively intractable. I’m not arguing that an AI would have had to solve the problem (setting aside the likelihood that even had an AI come up with a better solution other inertial forces like politics and sunk cost would have prevented the solution from being implemented), but any system that would claim to be a “strong” AI, it would at least have to be up to the task of trying.
Maybe remove the first part of your statement so your hypothesis can be debated by cool heads?
Got it, thanks. And that's good to know. I was learning Python to transition into Django so I could develop a CRUD web app. I realized it would take me longer than I expected to get to the basics. A friend of mine suggested that I tried the same project in RoR, but starting with Ruby as its "foundations". I bought this pretentious book "Ruby, from novice to professional", and so far I think the language is beautiful. Thanks
I think copying copyrighted material from place to another is a fraud.
Sounds a lot like the OS/drivers thing :)

You buy a webcam/printer which has a driver, but use it with apps made by others.

So I guess we need to invent "cloud drivers".