skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are these data scientists? Most statisticians I know would just use the linear regression unless they needed a neural network for marketing purposes. Statisticians will spend years studying linear regression and variations in graduate school. I thought it’s a CS guy who would be more fascinated with neural networks.
October US job creation comes in at 128000, topping esitmates
Your neighbor's Ring camera is not recording your fingerprint every time you get out of your house.
I like knowing what language something is coded in. It makes me more likely to look into the project. If it's written in something I'm not interested in I may click through, but not be as thorough, and some languages I save the link for later because I have no interest in them professionally or on my time off. I like looking at all projects eventually because some people come up with amazing pieces of software in all types of languages, but others might not care to look at a Ruby, PHP, NodeJS, Python, C, C++, Rust etc project.
This title isn't very good. At least name the person.
> could

“Can and will”
>They are actually great platforms.

With incredibly toxic userbases.
Show HN: 500+ Wireframe Blocks in 22 Categories for Adobe XD, Sketch and Figma
Such a good series.
A psychedelic church would just end up being a tax-dodge for drug dealers probably.
Your page does not summon the on screen keyboard in iPadOS.
But we have always been at war with Eastasia.
When I say "this", I do not talk about the independence of Catalonia. I refer to everything I wrote in the previous paragraph that you have ignored to instead talk about divorces (a bad analogy, by the way).

They have created a problem that is directly affecting me, and only for their own benefit. And I am the tyrant here?
"highly ranked" is no longer a proxy for useful research sites, which is the entire point of this alternative search site and others. In fact being highly ranked by google is starting to feel like it has an inverse correlation to research-usefulness.
Quantum advantage, or a practical demonstration that quantum computers work
In regards to crime, i think you are talking about reducing crime, not eliminating it.

My post was just talking about eliminating inequality. I make no claim about reducing inequality.
Toxic Air in India Declared Public Health Emergency
It doesn't look like webworkers can access the microphone since the getUserMedia() function is not included in the API.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Workers...
This starts being pretty similar to what happened in the USSR immediately after the Perestroika failed, in a span of 10-years (1990-2000) life expectancy for men fell by 5 years (from 63 to 58).

That was a pretty big societal crisis which among other things helped bring to power an autocrat like Putin (and especially helped him stay there, as life expectancy shot up again starting with the early 2000s), I’m wondering when will the present situation in the States be treated like the real societal crisis that it represents? In other words, guys like Trump are not merely the causes for much that goes wrong in the States, they’re merely the effects, take him down and a new Trump-like character will probably emerge in his place, unless you fix the problem at its very roots.
> You don't discredit anti-vaxxers with speech. Same with flat-earthers. Same with fascists. You know what works? De-platforming them. Not giving them a voice in the public discourse.

What you are advocating for is fascistic. What about those who believe you and people like you don't deserve a platform? Should you be deplatformed too? Who gets to decide? You?

> What has been proven again and again is that bad information drives out good

Actually, the opposite has been proven again and again. Once again, if what you said was true, we would still be flat-earthers and we wouldn't have vaccines. As I wrote, you do realize that flat-earth was the truth for millenia right? You do realize that the proponents of vaccines were ridiculed and attacked right? If people like you were in power, we'd still believe the earth was flat and we wouldn't have vaccines.

> If not you might end up as the US, with a reality-tv star as president.

Spoken like a true fascist who hates democracy. Also the US is doing better than every other major economy at the moment.
The trick that works best (for me), when you feel your are going to fall asleep, keep repeating, in your head, that you are are sleeping but you are awake. It took me a month at the time to get some results; after half a year it went mostly automatic. After that I have been able to do it without effort.

It takes patience though: the first 15-20 times you will likely just fall asleep and remember nothing.

Outer body experience (OBE) books, although nonsense mostly, usually have very thorough guides; I used one because I was convinced that what people call OBE is actually lucid dreaming and I was right. You can train yourself with those books (the one I had mostly had the above trick) and once in a while you will sink through your bed and hang on the roof in the room below or you ‘visit friends’ etc; obviously you are just dreaming but it is fun. You are awake enough to realize what is going and to manipulate the situation.
Don't be disingenous, people are doing a lot more than "pointing out that racism exists" and you fucking know it.
Additionally if we agree to have our data collected, we should still own that data, meaning the 3d x-ray that the othodontist generates is your data, and you should have access to it (from anywhere if digital, or a copy of it if physical), and the choice of it's removal, when said data no longer serves you.
It doesn't seem odd when you consider the effects of supply and demand. Many players in the app market are willing to price their apps much lower than the price of a cup of coffee. Maybe the way we got here is odd, but maybe not since initially apps didn't come with business models, the culture could've extended from there.

I wouldnt undervalue coffee production either, producing a cup of coffee actually does cost more than digitally replicating and distributing an application. The microeconomics are much different.
Where do you get the hydrogen from to refill your cars?
This sounds like a caricature. I haven't been to the US in years, but I don't believe it's this bad.
60+ questions answered about working remotely in India
Cool. I wonder whether there's some way to use this with dmenu_extended.
> Absolute statements are always wrong. ;)

Love the irony here :)
I think I will go with fedora server, since this will double as my desktop system from time to time, and for that I use a lot of Guix stuff. Using Guix on silverblue seems like asking for trouble...
This article is wrong. Regularization is always preferred for logistic regression and should be the default for any real use case. Suppose your data is perfectly linearly separated: when logistic regression sees that it is assigning 96% probability to a given data point, and it could assign 99% (without misclassifying any other points), it will. Then it will try to assign 99.5%, and so on, until you have infinitely large coefficients (in high dimensions this is very possible). Statsmodels’s defaults assume the least, yes, but statsmodels also won’t automatically do things like adding an intercept to OLS, because it is mostly a backend for other libraries interfaces.

EDIT: oops, funklute said this an hour ago and apparently got downvoted. He is correct
The way I heard it expressed was "there's a difference between secrecy and privacy; you know exactly what I'm doing in the bathroom but I still don't want you watching."
What does "toxic" mean?
I have no problem there, people are very friendly on every reddit sub I enjoy visiting. The same is for twitter.

What those platforms have in common is choice.

If you are toxic and think it is fine to openly argue and make socially awkward comments the whole time, then you will view it that way. You will likely also get attracted by subs and communities that this happens.
There is a lot of prior art here, the most relevant of which is probably APRS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Packet_Reporting_Sys...

Newer digital modes do much better than this older AFSK system, but FSK does work pretty well. Some newer things to look into:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSPR_(amateur_radio_software)

FT8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSJT_(amateur_radio_software)

The more interesting modes (WSPR, FT8) are designed for high-loss channels, so have a lot of error correction. For example, I can use 5W of power, indoors, to communicate across the country with it. For high-bandwidth VHF channels, it doesn't matter what you use really. The goal would be to find something that already exists and is easy to integrate, and there are a lot of options.
Augmented Reality Will Make Even Boring Parts of Business Fun
> ... what pilot is going to want to sit in a ready-room for a shift for days on end with nothing to do?

Possible scenario: if pilots are already sitting in a simulator for currency training / testing, it may be possible to have the sim be 'reset' to a live feed in an emergency.

You wouldn't have them hang around 'just in case', but rather use people who are already present for some other reason.

Another possibility: pilots are hours-limited for a given time period. If you have pilots that have hit that limit, some may be willing to spend time in a ready-room for a nominal bonus.
Agreed that there is a lot of toxicity. But I think there's value in learning to participate without being dragged down by griefers and trolls.
Their proposals for obfuscation are a mix of real solutions and things that are easy to work around in an automated way:

* Tor: real workaround, though it does have some vulnerabilities (ex: correlation of ingress and egress)

* Browser plugins that block trackers: real

* Browser plugins that click on ads: super easy to filter out, since you're a massive outlier

* Browser plugins that choose random FB reacts: even easier to filter out since FB has a strong system of identity

* Clothes that fool facial recognition: they can update the software faster and cheaper than everyone can update their clothes
1 commit.

Is this an opening of a mature project that has been coded in private somewhere? Is this just a code drop on the community?

Note: this comes from a developer in Japan. Tantivy's main developer is also based in Japan. @fulmicoton, is there any interaction between the projects?
As someone writing software in Rust myself I am always interested in knowing about projects using Rust for multiple reasons.

1) In the case of libraries (crates), it might be something I can make use of in the future.

2) I can look at how they solved the problem they are solving and compare that with how I'd do it and maybe learn something new that can be useful to me in my future projects.

3) I want Rust to thrive and I want people to be aware of projects using Rust because the more people that are aware of Rust the bigger is the probability that I can work for more companies in the future writing software for them in Rust.
Yeah, they're disabled by default. But now they weren't install at all.
pidstat is also good at showing IO Activity, per process.
They’ve been doing this for a very long time. I’m less worried about the government and more worried about private corporations doing this.
This seems like a good way of doing data exfiltration from a secured/monitored computer. Just get the source from git and run it locally in the browser, then take whatever file you want to extract, zip it, and then encode it in base64, using this to copy it to your personal phone. I bet the Goldman Sachs programmer who went to prison for uploading his trading code to an FTP server wishes he had been more clever like this.
That's interesting. I experienced the opposite with my iPhone and AT2020 microphone. Ultrasonic always worked perfectly, audible complained of packet loss.

I am not sure what the noise floor looks like when comparing ultrasound to the normal audible range. It does seem unlikely to me that all this street noise would only be in the audible range and not ultrasonic, but since my ears can't hear ultrasound, I have no idea. Ultrasound did work better.

I tried the image as well; no idea if it worked. I got tired of waiting.
The timing of this event is curious. Hasn't this been an issue since almost the inception of web browsers?
I think the app is Barcode Scanner, Not Barcode Reader.
I guess “they have your old drivers license photo” is technically an America-wide surveillance system?

Would you not want a law enforcement body to be able to query against photos legally obtained?

Now, if they’re running additional programs with broader means (the FBI do not answer the ACLU on this which is why they’re suing) that is a different matter, but the ACLU does not assert this, only that it may be possible (and for that reason it should be stopped).
Liberals have something to celebrate today
The world is getting better in many measurable ways. Access to reliable food, clean water, medical treatment, education, opportunities for women, and many others is up across the world.

Of course that's cold comfort to the people in places that are still going downhill, or who are "getting better" but still pretty shit. And environmental catastrophe is an existential threat. So it's not all sunshine and lollipops. But I don't think it's reasonable to say we're sliding straight into the abyss, either.
This is changing because of LLVM. It is now very easy to implement AOT compilation for your programming language.

However, implementing an efficient garbage collector in an AOT compiled program is still challenging compared to an interpreter where the stack and each object is just an array of object references. With raw memory you don't know whether something is a number or a reference unless you store extra information that describes the memory layout of every single function or object.
So per your rationale, why not listing in the title other pertinent information about the project?

I am saying that because the programming language is not what defines a project. It could be a pile of junk even if it written in the greatest language ever made.
Souvenirs are a way to signal to your friends & family. People don't buy them because they serve a practical purpose.
> there's value in learning to participate without being dragged down by griefers and trolls

There's also value in knowing when to detach. For most people, these platforms are value subtracting.
2021 F1 Rules
We are talking about a migrant Jewish female mathematician who was discriminated against trying to start a career in the USA in mid-1940s.
I'm not sure they are separable, certainly paper money (and pre-money forms such as hansatsu) are created by issuing a debt, but they were created for the very pragmatic need of bartering without carrying a bunch of gold or rice around.
Charleston did a great job persevering the character of the city as well... That's partly why the tourists flock. Probably also why there's a vibrant culinary scene. So you gotta be careful what you wish for.
Such cleverness; awesome!
I personally have no objections (usually not even strong feelings) to setting defaults, as long as that's what they are -- default choices that users can change if they see fit.

But an option that cannot be changed is not a default choice -- it is a hard coded design decision. My 2c.
I think you're taking a perspective which is too focused on ML, ignoring the widespread statistical use of logistic regression in lower dimensional settings with reasonable a-priori covariate structures.

> Logistic regression without regularization blows up if your data is linearly separable. This is an issue you don't really encounter with linear regression.

Finding that your data is linearly separable is usually quite important - I do see students mess this up though, to be fair.

If you want frequentist inference, non-penalized logistic regression is the way to go.

(disclaimer, I'm predominantly Bayesian, so with proper priors the point is actually moot for me.)
For me it has the opposite effect. After intense exercise I feel more awake and energetic than before, and this lasts long enough to disrupt my sleep.
I'm not sure about this new change, but Firefox "unbranded" builds don't require extension signing.
China targets late 2020 for lunar sample return mission
"Men who are among the richest 1% of Americans live almost 15 years longer than those who are in the poorest 1%, the Harvard analysis found."

15 years is a tremendous gap!
My Charge HR with “sensitive” sleep tracking setting was one of my favorite features. It always knew exactly how much sleep I got. I switched to a Garmin 935 and never look at the sleep data because it’s never accurate.
> it's good to reach out to friends and read between lines, and ask if we're all ok

Will this actually reach the people that need it? I mean, just having friends (and/or people you're regularly in contact with) is probably quite helpful in preventing these situations from arising... I imagine the path towards suicide / serious life & mental health issues is quite gradual, rather than a cliff... so people would become negative, unpleasant to be around (hence lose their friends) way before coming anywhere near suicide... by then it's already too late.

I often think, in terms of my life (highly privileged, smart & well educated, upper class, rich or at least high-earning, programmer, young, healthy, lots of career options, career resistant to automation, first-world citizen so easy to migrate, ...) I'm really quite isolated from "normal", "average" people... I don't actually even know anyone who's poor, or not in a career (i.e. just has a dead-end job like a bartender or truck driver)... just by virtue of the education system, I've been kept away from people like that since I was 15! How am I to even imagine what they're going through?! Sure not everything is rosy in my life, and even rich people can get sick and depressed, but I sometimes consider this viewpoint for some perspective...
Most of the GA fleet is still vacuum powered for backup.
>I have no problem there, people are very friendly on every reddit sub I enjoy visiting. The same is for twitter.

The only way to have a good time on those platforms and to a lesser (but increasing, in my unscientific observation) degree, HN is to only express opinions that toe the party line (party line being relative to whatever the mainstream opinion is on the platform or subset of it in question). Those platforms have features designed to amplify consensus and quash dissent.
I see this just as often for Python, C, JavaScript, etc.

The patters is more like "X written in Y", which is totally fine imo.
And what's the root cause in case you know it?
It can be end to end and
Encrypted and still have a backdoor.

I.e keeping a continuous web client active which the user isn't notified about
I mean, sure, centuries of slavery and systematic oppression may have been kind of bad for African Americans, but the real hardship is a white guy becoming aware of it. Won’t somebody think of the white men? ::clutches pearls::
You must be incredibly lucky, as I carefully curated my Twitter feed to a few scientists and some baseball figures and was still overwhelmed at the hate and awfulness on display. Twitter is for the hateful and gleefully cruel.
To think that with a bunch of gen 3 nuclear plants Germany could've been carbon neutral already just like France.
Filtering out e-commerce sites is a great idea. Is there a way I can do this on DuckDuckGo ?
It can be a pile of junk because of the language it is written in.
I have a static site generator, already written in Perl and Python [0]. I am considering a Go version and maybe, maybe, a Haskell version.

[0] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog
So, from now on malware will come with a minimal Firefox binary included where this functionality is patched out, and the malware will use that binary for installing extensions into the Firefox profile on your machine.

What will Mozilla do next then? Close the source so malware authors can't compile their own Firefox, for security reasons? Only allow installation on DRMed systems?
Interesting how there’s a lot of sleep trouble on HN. Here’s mine, curious if anyone has thoughts.

For over a year now I’ve been averaging around 5.9 hours of sleep. Usually I’m up at 5am and can’t fall back asleep. Compounding this, bad nights I wake at 2 and it takes an hour to get back to sleep. Even then I’m up before 6.

So, two problems: always wake up early and often wake in the middle of the night for an hour.

I can get my brain to spin up at a good level if I get six hours. If I get 5 hours the day is mostly ruined.

My Oura ring data doesn’t suggest sleep apnea and my wife says I don’t snore. I’m not waking up super fresh - so it’s not like I’m rested after six hours. I used to sleep just fine so I don’t think I have the genetic mutation that makes you not need 8 hours. I just can’t sleep much more than six hours lately.

I’ve tried all the usual things; last meal at 4:30, exercise in morning, consistent bed time of 10pm, no devices after 9, cool room, no alcohol, black out curtains, etc. I’ve tried every supplement you can think of. Phenibut will prevent 2am wake ups but even with phenibut I can’t get more than 6.5 hours. You also shouldn’t take that more than 2-3 times a week.

I’m not sure what to try next. I’d love to get back to 7-8 hours though.
> a copy has to be downloaded for each website, so each first website load is slowed down.

The major browsers (FF, Chrome, Safari) all fragment cache by the domain in the URL bar now, for privacy reasons, so this doesn't apply anymore.

> the browser could cache the object across websites and download from a source that the requesting website controls

You can't do this without reintroducing the same privacy issues that cache fragmentation was introduced to prevent.
Hey, I’ve got a suggestion, why don’t you cut out HN too? Give it a try.
Raft storage in-memory only. Not exactly safe replication.
Souvenir shops basically prove this phenomenon. The goods they sell are universally crappy and not a true representation of the place. The sorts of things they sell are about proving to others that you went there, not about taking back a piece of the actual experience. A souvenir is the physical equivalent of a selfie.
The 1950s Are Greatly Overrated
Interesting. Wiki2 claims to make Wikipedia look better, but in my opinion it looks much worse- skeuomorphic, like a UI from the mid-2000s.
Fast rewind/forward n years, and you could replace "Rust" in your post with the name of the language /du jour/.

My original comment was because as an old guy who saw hype around so many languages come and go, I am getting tired of those projects who try to sell themselves only because they are written in Rust.
I mean I could make the claim

"Glenn Greenwald is a servant-journalist for Russian government officials."

with at least as much evidence:

https://arcdigital.media/why-are-internet-radicals-helping-p...

https://www.towleroad.com/2019/05/glenn-greenwald-russia/

https://theintercept.com/2019/04/18/robert-mueller-did-not-m...

Is it fair? I mean calling a journalist an agent of the deep state for publishing leaks given to them is quite a leap... especially given that Greenwald is famous in large part for the same.
The Case for 'Good' Digital Identity (Opinion)
Qt 3D Studio 2.5 released
This is a different issue. We already make some assumptions about the relationship between training data and future data, even when not worried about interpretability, and these assumptions are enough for this paper's argument too.
Well if one googles one can find all sorts of crazy essays...

I suspect the impressions you get about how "anti-white" people are (as opposed to "anti-racism") will depend hugely on your filter bubble.