skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GPT-2 doesn't do a _great_ job at this, but it does to some extent seem to have learned some relationships in structures of text in different programming languages.

For example while toying around with it, I gave it a javascript function that referenced an undefined callback, and GPT-2 gave me back a function, with almost correct syntax and mostly random logic, but with the name and call signature of the callback.
>> Does an ad for an abortion clinic count? How about an ad asking for donations for Palestine? Or Hong Kong? Or wall construction? How about an ad that only points out that stocks have gone up, along with a picture of Donald Trump and a flag in the background?

FB has armies of content moderators and content policies to police non political speech already. Look at the controversies surrounding "no nudity/sexual imagery" > "banning/unbanning breast feeding pics" > "banning/unbanning pics of the african tribe who nurse sick goat calves back to health with human breast milk".

Its all complicated, every bit of it, and there is no reason to suggest that political content moderation is any more difficult than anything else.

FB _can_ do it, they are already doing very complex content moderation. There is nothing special about "political" speech.
Its such a superior model. Im angry that it disappeared.
I was shocked to see that Microsoft got away with replacing actual help files with links that open a search query in Bing (completely abused by SEO and spammers).
This is such a regression.

Generally the developer doc was much better when we got MSDN on a CDROM as opposed to todays crap where links eventually become 404 because the MS web team decided to shuffle things around.
Google, in Rare Stumble, Posts 23% Decline in Profit
Seems like you'll want to petition the Dutch, Japanese, and Taiwanese governments to take some kind of action, then.
It doesn't always have to be about linking everything to everything. They (Android) needs a decent watch/health device, one that Google has some control over. As it stands today, lack of 'Apple watch' support really kills their Pixel/Android sales.
Is it cynical? And is it's path really that different to the one taken by the US? The US didn't project power on a large scale until it became a major economic power and involvement in major military conflict drew there.
The responsible message would to report the study accurately and not suggest that the experience of scientists writing grants is broadly applicable to everyone.
Under.

They're obviously buying it just to harvest the biometric data to build a more accurate synthetic human, which can then click on ads to generate more revenue.
It's unclear to me what you think Exhibit B is demonstrating. That's the documentation for CIColor.init(red:green:blue:alpha:), and it's documented. It creates a CIColor with the specified red/green/blue/alpha components. This is literally just a model object.
At best they could have skidded it down the runway, because opening the landing gear doors was purposely impossible without human intervention.
Link BTC addresses or its not real!

!RemindMe: 2 years
Mario Kart mobile is pay to win
I'm pretty sure your proposal would cause every Fitbit user to switch to Bing
> "Quantum computing and consciousness are both weird and therefore equivalent,"

You call this "poking fun", but it's horrifyingly real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind
> Google’s parent company, Alphabet, made a bid to acquire Fitbit, a source familiar with the matter tells CNBC.

More like: the source "leaked" to create negotiation pressures...
One of my first jobs after college involved creating websites using Vignette StoryServer. At the time Tcl was the only language you could use with it. I was happy when a new version was released that supported Java and ASP. Tcl looked like voodoo magic to me but I'm sure for those who really got it, they were pretty productive with it.
More on this point: computer vision tasks are (currently) far more reliant on the presence of a number of identifying features in the high frequency details of images.

The are looking for a significant subset of some identifying group of highly localised features:

think a large number of small things, rather than a small number of large things;

think colour gradients rather than colours.

These sorts of high frequency pieces of information can be placed into images in a way that is imperceivable to humans, but screams at computer vision neural networks.

A sign could say no right turn to people and no left turn to machines.
A combination of two;

1) A consistent global ledger balance doesn't require global consensus; only local agreement, with global enforcement of rules. See: holo.host. Result: linear scalability (think: billions of agregate transactions per second), and CaP (Consistency and Partition-tolerance, with limited availability: any node you can see, you can transact with). Non-repudiable instantly, and finality as soon as one participant node in any transaction rejoins the larger network.

2) Direct monetization of assets with a market price; Dynamic issuance of credit based on price of monetary units vs. a basket of commodities. Sorry, word salad: your money maintains a perpetual, immutable value relationship to a large basket of commodities. No uncorrected inflation/deflation. Dynamic issuance/withdrawal is automatic and system-wide; no "first spender" pissing in the punch.
One company is running out of addresses this time
Does anybody else still get 30 minute delivery guarantees? I haven’t seen one of those in 10 years
.ts comes from TypeScript, which is just JavaScript but with compile-time-checked types (and some other goodies) added on top. TS is really popular now, I don't think any sane dev would start a new project today in plain JS instead of TS.
It's like 2007/2008 again. Everyone savvy knew there was fraud in the mortgage market at the retail level but they didn't know how pervasive it was. To some extent the Chinese commercial real estate market is the same way: nobody trusts the numbers but no one is sure how bad it is. The author is right that there is this pressure to win the money back and that this is where things can get really out of control. Of course, there is a remote chance they can pull a rabbit out of a hat and make enough money legitimately to pay back all the people they owe, but I doubt it.
The clothing industry also. There are countless clothing mills around India, Vietnam and a few other countries.
Child labour is king there. Fast-fashion gave rise to this along with our insatiable desire for newer and cheaper clothes.

There is also the coffee industry, which at least has the fair trade program, that helps the small farmers get the money they deserve instead of being pressured to lower prices by the distributors.
That's really only because it's illegal. Products like chocolate have a strong connection to child slavery, but I rarely see anyone suggest that chocolate should be banned and users of chocolate imprisoned.
This is great! For inspiration: "From The Netherlands to America: Translating the world's best bikeway designs"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp3s2EP0zVo
Based on what I've seen in Chicago, it seems that the missing element is informing the public of the relevant laws.

To my knowledge, the rules covering bicycles and pedestrians have never been on Illinois's written test, they aren't necessarily covered in driver's (or other) education, and, since most motorists (and also, I'm guessing, cyclists) come from more suburban environments where there just aren't as many bikes and pedestrians on the roads, people simply don't know how they're supposed to behave on the streets. Which is a recipe for unnecessary chaos.

Case in point: About ten years back, when she was visiting, I had to tell my mom not to drive in a bike lane. She was surprised to hear that it was a bike lane; she though it was just a weirdly small shared-use lane with slightly confusing paint marks.

And no, while I appreciate the good intentions of whoever it is at the DOT who thinks composes these things, cute rhyming phrases in glowing amber letters over the freeway aren't going to cut it.
No, the comment was about the source of the driving force of the effort. Even if there are regular people who share the same sentiment, the fact is that the effort is being coopted by those special interests. Have you heard of the term "astroturf"?
The Chinese constitution codifies similar things, it’s just less effective without rule of law.
Health data is scary because of HIPAA (and the equivalent in non-US jurisdictions) not because it's inherently special or hard to make sense of.
Voting is not about 'getting what you want'. It's about getting a legal system that works. Getting what you want (within the framework of that legal system) is completely 100% your responsibility
Have you heard about the STAR-Vote system? What do you think about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl8q_356zZs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_sy...
> You have made claims that are so bizarre they cannot be supported by evidence.

I, uh, example please? "Apple doesn't need to care" is in no way bizarre.
It's a wireframe tool, but Mockingbird: https://www.gomockingbird.com/
Let's just remember that all this fake outrage over Facebook ads exists purely because HRC lost to DJT. When Google was providing not only ads as a product but actual human power to Obama's campaign, when tech execs went to work for Obama's administration (DJ Patil, Ravi from Twitter, many from Google) no one said a thing.

DJT's campaign outsmarts HRC by using a perfectly legal product and here we are.
Here in my part of Australia apple watches are pretty rare, but I see a lot of more general fitness trackers, and plenty of Garmin watches. When I was in SF for work recently it seemed like every second person had an apple watch.
Debugging TensorFlow Coverage
Of course they do. Voting machines can be rigged by domestic agents to subvert democracy.

Honestly, it's actually kind of hilarious that some people think Russian trolls and Facebook ads somehow turned the election and not socio-economic factors (for example, those outlined in the Paul Krugman article and thread).
Chamath Palihapitiya on Money as an Instrument of Change [video]
I see this as a good thing. Many 'scientific' studies are manipulated and paid for by special interests. Our existing peer review & journal system hides the actual experimental setup behind paywalls, there is often no repeatability.

The scientific system needs to be opened up or replaced. Distributing information and experimental results no longer requires expensive printing.

People are right not to trust it, scientific journals are now the gatekeepers rather than the gateways they once were.
You'd have to ask her if she would have preferred to die at 60 than spend her 60s languishing in prison, I guess. The grim truth is that sometimes life is very unpleasant and not everyone always feels that living is better.
Telsa reducing Solar+Powerwall prices by $1000 for those affected by wildfires
That's a great analogy. Like peak oil, we've passed the point of exhausting the cheap, plentiful reserves. Now we're scrounging for harder-to-get, scarcer deposits which means that the prices of both will go up, inevitably.

No, we're not out of oil or IPv4 addresses. It's just getting a lot harder to come by either one, and the writing's on the wall that the invisible hand is able to slap us silly if we don't seriously start migrating to the replacements ASAP.
This is yet another example of you just dodging the problem. FB is arbitrarily demarcating a line of their choosing with no consistency. Politicians are no different from people, and should not be treated to a special "free speech pass" on FB. Free speech for all, or free speech for none. There's no decent reasoning behind this midway solution. The true reason for this is that the politicians have regulatory leverage over FB.
I noticed their ads got drastically worse recently; I'm not sure if I got used to them, or if they toned them back a bit, though. Anything could happen if you actually click them, though, that's going to happen on any network
Crypto communities are a lot more credulous than financial communities. Every institution I ever talked to had approximately zero trust in tether. Some of them chose to do business with bitfinex anyway. I'm guessing they regret that decision enormously
I deleted everything Google and switched to iOS a few years ago so Google would have less of my data. Now they are going to get detailed location, activity, and sleep history for all of those years anyway. You really can't win can you.

I bet there is no option to download my data and nuke what they have before this happens either.
I think this person would prefer the names like Tristan and Tristyn to all be grouped together under 1 Tristan instead of being separate because it is just an alternative spelling just to be different.
As someone with 'insider' insight into BlackBerry ...

I would say the issue is complicated:

1) BlackBerry was never thought of internally as a 'platform' more of a 'solution' (i.e. you get what you get out of the box) - apps were a little secondary. That perspective was too slow to evolve.

2) The original Java APIs were not very well thought out - part of the problem in 'great docs' was that the underlying platform wasn't very good to begin with.

3) BlackBerry was a tiny company compared to Apple and Google. When BB launched maps, there was no 'mapping team'. There were 0 people dedicated to mapping. G had I think more than 100 at the time, just dedicated to that. BB was growing rapidly, but had found itself jammed between Apple and Google - two of the most magnificent and well capitalised companies in the world.

I'm still amazed that BB had all the features it did given how small the teams were. Most of the handheld - hardware and software - was developed in one little building - you could literally know everyone working on it personally if you worked there.

3) All of that said - the docs were not that bad. Everything was technically documented. The support teams were decent, just small.
20% headcount growth in year happens regularly for Google like in 2010, 2011-13, 2016 and 15% seems to be lower bound:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/273744/number-of-full-ti...

And from their jobs postings, people around, etc. it seems they are just beefing up the org as usual plus some active moves in the "strategic" orgs like cloud, etc.
It seemed to me you had insider knowledge of FB and were adding value to the discussion. Fair point that I missed your key point that is based on knowing internal politics/ procedure. I look at the big picture of the U.S. Constitution, and distributed power.

I believe in the Fediverse, and would rather take your employer out in the marketplace, than using the federal government's monopoly on violence. You might want to reconsider your alliances.

Find me a hedge fund that will short FB's stock and invest in Mastodon-based service companies (no ads or tracking), please.
Huawei Becomes a Strategic Member of the Eclipse Foundation
Sorry, I replied to a reply to this - the response was intended for you, but expanded on the pre-existing comment.

This comment's getting stupider, the more I think about it.
That's huge hyperbole there. Plenty of projects are started in JS today. It's still wise to provide typings to your user base if you're publishing a library, whether or not you're using TS under the hood.
> (because when was the last time someone ran a political ad that was wholly truthful?)

Perhaps this is a good time then, to revisit this norm itself? Why is this allowed? Sure, politicians lie, it is known, but we've reached a point where the lies on one side (and it is one side, the Republican side) have diverged so far from reality than the base of that side can no longer engage in any meaningful debate on any issue. It's not even a question of bias, most Republican talking points and positions literally do not make logical sense. They scream and rant about problems that don't exist, and refuse to acknowledge the ones that do that are inconvenient.
So much of the right is based on such hard misinformation as to be ridiculous.

And of course Democrats fudge the truth a little here and there too, and that should stop as well. To be frank I think the benefits of "Free Speech" are vastly overvalued. You shouldn't have the right to say whatever you want, at least not in the context of politics. You should be held to account for factual inaccuracies, perhaps not penalized but it should be noted, and you should be penalized for what can be demonstrably proven as outright lies and misinformation.
As somebody who doesn't want typescript support, at all, I relish the lack of typescript support!

Also the component model isn't "hacky". It's logical, unopinionated and straight-forward. I don't know how much you know about Rich Harris but he's not one for producing "hacky" public APIs.
I purposefully haven't said periodicity or something else (maybe I should have added a bit more detail anyway.) The ebb and flow, the up and down the cycling is known, but when and its magnitude is not.

Sure it's chaotic and it probably has scale-free (self-similar or fractional-dimensional) properties at certain regimes, but on the large scale it's pretty well approximated by dynamic systems. (See the micro founded macro models used by central banks.)

Of course, we're getting better at modeling both micro and macro behavior of economies. (The caveat is that the economy also evolves so old models usually get less and less accurate, so job security for econometricians.)
I think it’s probably better to think of those enlightenment ideals as not something particularly western in nature as they were opposed violently for centuries by the entrenched power structures of the west.
https://nordcloud.com/10-examples-of-ai-in-manufacturing-to-...
The Most Haunted Places in Scandinavia
Do you really need to have the car physically in order to sell it? Can't you just have a comparable display model that is used for test-drives? When sale progresses, then you can show them the actual vehicle and sell it to them for a discount.
In Chicago it's largely been implemented by placing the bike lane in between on-street parking and the sidewalk, with soft posts and paint separating the parking lane from the bike lane.

I've watched people put an impressive amount of effort into delicately navigating between those posts so that they can parallel park their car next to the curb. i.e., in the bike lane.
Not true, because Safari is learning.oreilly.com which is still up
Just wanted to thank you and Tristan for the great resource. It's much appreciated!

The cheatsheet about what the processes do when they trap exits/are linked/are port of OTP is awesome. I never remember that very well and was looking for a handy reference to have. Now I have it.

Docker and Kubernetes references are great as those are often involved in today's development and operations, and everyone is probably wondering what's the best way to combine those with Erlang.
The Americans who want to live like Jane Austen
Go is the new Java.

It runs everywhere, is easy to learn and use and people who don't get it hate it with passion.

Anyway, comparing go documentation with rust docs, I'm surprised anyone can get any work done with rust.
Check out Shor's algorithm for finding factors of a number.

And yes, a low number of qubits can factor small numbers. https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.6758
Can someone explain how Duffel is different than the google flights API?
> I also tend to believe Docker makes little sense, where OTP releases are the alternative.

Docker makes a lot of sense, actually, because it allows you to run integration tests easily and ship Erlang releases in the same way as everything else. There are exceptions, of course. As for OTP releases, they are a good way intermediate step before packaging code to RPMs, but upgrades should be done the usual way: via blue-green deployment. Don't even argue with me :-) I happened to support a huge system that uses OTP upgrades, and the amount of complexity and tricky bugs, that live code loading introduces, is immense. No one is smart enough to do it :-)
There are several solutions to the problem you have described. First, when the watchers appear, you can pretend that the machine got "broken" so they have to wait until it gets "fixed" (reflashed with original firmware). Of course, you can "fix" it once again after they leave. Second, you can make it return original firmware when cloning the disk for verification or store modifications in RAM only. Third option, you can have two disks, one with original firmware for verification and other that is actually used. Fourth option, you can install additional microcontroller and connect it to the printer so that it prints what you want instead of actual results.
This is great! I use Zipcar/Turo/Avis quite a bit since I don’t own a car. Some notes:

* I would pay extra for unlimited mileage without worrying about overages. This is a major pain point for longer Zipcar trips to Tahoe or Oregon/Nevada

* The deductible is really high. Zipcar lets me pay extra for a $0 deductible.

* Mileage and deductible should be more visible, I had to go and read the actual terms. A small summary before booking might be good

* Mileage overage of $0.50/mile is pretty high considering I’m paying for gas

* UX nit, the calendar widget on the landing page requires me to scroll through a bunch of early morning AM times before getting to my time. The dropoff picker should default to the month of pickup as well.

I’m a big fan of your focus on minimizing hassle. The uber credit is clever! I’ll definitely try you guys for my next trip.
Casey Neistat, a prominent YouTuber, partially got his start by making a video about people/things blocking the bike lanes in NYC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzE-IMaegzQ
People were hoping that closer ties would open up China to democracy, that capitalism and democracy would go hand in hand. But it hasn’t happened and in fact, is going in reverse. The trend has been obvious for a long time. I remember reading books about the threat in the 90s.[1] In the military, China was the major adversary we trained against in the 2000s, not Russia. But the business opportunities helped mask the growing divide. It’s easy to hope for the best when profit is at stake and the outcome of cooperation (peace and trade) is so much better than the alternatives. But now people are being forced to choose between profits and values, the NBA is just one example.[2] It will take time but the tide has turned and many people will not be looked upon favorably by history, similarly to the Nazi sympathizers prior to WW2.[3] And it’s important to differentiate China and the Chinese people from the CCP. Both the CCP and their apologists in America would like to conflate the two. But Americans and the Chinese have fought together before and can hopefully (and peacefully) overcome the tyranny that currently afflicts the country.[4]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Year-Rat-Clinton-Compromised-Security...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-14-aUXlEac
[3] https://time.com/5414055/american-nazi-sympathy-book/
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Tigers
> - No victim, no crime

So if I drive at at 100mph past a school bus where kids are getting off and I happen to not hit anyone the parents should be, like, "no harm, no foul!"?
Agreed. And so did the authors of Tcl. They moved away from string representations years ago, but old articles on the previous releases keep being recycled.
I moved from NYC to Amsterdam a bit more than a month ago because getting around in NYC is too unpleasant and dangerous. Have been hit on my bike thrice in 5 yrs. Have been run down by psycho drivers. Have been doored.

In the last month in Amsterdam I’ve had more pleasant interactions on the streets than in my entire time in nyc. It’s pure magic what cities are like when they embrace the fact that they are a city.