skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, taking the maximally-charitable view of things would point out that "Black Crime" would cover ~half of violent crime in the US, and so deserve a category. But somehow I doubt that they'd cover non-black crime to quite the same extent. (Though the maximally charitable view there would be that non-black crime is better covered on other sites than black crime is, and so on)
This is all good advice for the app tier, but in my experience the most painful outages relate to the data store. Understand your read/write volume, have a plan for scaling up/out, implement caching wherever practical, and have backups.
I've seen 4 ads on Google SERPS but I've seen as many as the first 5 results being ads on Bing. This is getting out of hand.
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And how do you get data on the fly [prediction phase]. Do you have an API call you make to get data that your ML algorithm can munch on?
I see, I never used it myself, from the outside it looked promising it is sad that it didn't deliver.
There's a saying that lotteries are a tax on people who are bad at math. Sounds like your thesis is that ads are a tax on people who don't know how to set up a server, and I agree.
On the plus side, a catapult that could get the airplane up to cruising altitude in one piece would make for a heck of a ride.
Netflix’s multiple screens implementation makes it everyone has access to everyone else’s profile. They should’ve let people link individual Netflix accounts together, but I can see how that can cause fewer possible subscribers if people start sharing.
I've been looking at both - as far as I can tell, OpenBanking is UK only, and PSD2 only applies to personal data, not making transactions. Am I mistaken?
That money will be blown on hookers, most likely.
My jeans are now loose, as well. I can no longer "pinch an inch" (or two) as the popular saying went. I have one of those scales that computes body fat percentage based on resistance - It may be rather inaccurate, as some have suggested, but for what it is worth, it is also suggesting my body fat is going down ever so slightly. Theoretically this is probably due to my body now consuming fat as fuel instead of carbohydrates. And although I am now increasing my fat intake, (hopefully) my body will continue to utilize the various places it has stored adipose fat in the past (around organs being the decidedly more dangerous form).

So I am assuming, based on those measurements, that some of the weight loss is due to fat consumption, even if the lion's share is water weight.

I will soon have to punch another hole in my leather belts, at this rate (already loose fitting)...
That's going to end up in our oceans.
Syncthing is equivalent to the file-sync portion of Nextcloud and really is p2p FWIW. Been happy enough to replace my Onedrive subscription and once set up, just works.
Can confirm we don't have any sort of HSA/deductible fees.

You just phone the doctor and make an appointment. Stuff happens. Pay for nothing. Ambulance turns up to help you? No payment. 5 days in hospital? No payment. Major surgery? No payment.

15 years ago, I went to the doctor with a back pain, turned out it was an pilonidal abscess, got told not to eat anything, sent directly to hospital, surgery next morning, next 2 days in hospital, then nurse came round to my house once a week for the next 8 weeks to change the dressings. I paid? Nothing. No-one even mentioned cost. I filled in no forms. It just happened.

Only thing we have to pay for is prescriptions, a fixed fee regardless of the drug of £9 ($12). And only people who can afford it, people like pensioners and people on benefit get prescriptions free. Oh, and a fairly small charge for dental checkups (£40 every 6/12 months) and if you want non-standard dental work (you used to have to pay for white fillings, otherwise you got the cheaper amalgam ones, but now you can get either I believe).

They'll usually tell you if it's a lot cheaper to buy for prescriptions yourself, i.e. if they reckon simple painkillers is the best thing, the doctor will tell you to go buy £0.40 paracetamol from the supermarket, instead of giving a prescription for the same drug at £9.
> I'd love to find another ritual that gets me in a similar mindspace.

Long walks, perhaps?
The response is related and non-tangential. The “endlessly belabored” argument that results are less relevant is an important discussion with many merits. It is true that there is value in shopping results and information results. However, there is a more optimal balance between the 2 that will improve the usefulness of the internet for many users.
I do not, but that doesn't take away the fact that millions use the platform. It might gain traction, amongst Facebook users.
It ignores the 30 point gap in obesity - 6% for Singapore, 36% for the US - which is obviously a big contributor to the US healthcare cost problem. 36% obesity is an extreme elephant on the table for costs. I would be surprised if the US couldn't shave 1/5 off its healthcare costs with a 22% obesity rate (comparable to Germany, Brazil, Poland, France, Sweden, Netherlands, Finland, Norway, Austria, Spain, Russia, etc).

Singapore vs Japan and South Korea is a more interesting comparison (similarly very low obesity rates) between costs in developed health care systems, if you wanted to see which worked better. Japan for example has a spiraling healthcare cost problem related to its aging population.
additionally you would need to be able to execute code as the targeted user account. I think its acceptable to call this kind of use an attack or backdoor but not the feature itself. I use this feature daily while considering the risks.
One of the numbers games in Kenosha used the Powerball multi-state lottery numbers as the source of randomness.

Each participant entered a bingo card of N numbers. Each regular number drawn in the regular Powerball results since the start of the game was marked as "hit". When all N of your numbers become "hit", you win. Then you meet a guy behind a bar at 3 AM, backed up by your beefiest brother-in-law, to receive a sack of cash, which was about 60% of what everyone put in at the start of the game.

The numbers guy tunes N to match game length to buy-in price and jackpot size, while also discouraging ties that would multiply the risk from the cash handoffs.
We haven't had high-velocity media for decades, and information is easier to make extremely false and get believers than photographs. You can't create a complete narrative through photos alone. You need associated information.
One thing I find fascinating about Gimlet Media is that there will never be a “Founder’s Myth”. They recorded the story as it was happening.
It's going to need to sustain that growth for a decade to be of any reasonable size. Google gets approximately the same number of search queries per day as DDG has in its entire lifetime (~11 years).

Edit: The problem in sustaining this growth isn't just marketing either. With increased traffic come increased server, maintenance, and engineering costs which may not be possible to support with untargeted ads as advertisers won't pay big money to show ads that have poor conversions.
Then why doesn't it work in the other configurations? For instance, a low fat diet has been shown to not cause weight loss. Even though fat is an insanely dense energy source, cutting it out of your diet leads to GAINING weight. If calorie in/calorie out worked then obesity wouldn't be a problem in the USA because 99% of obese people have been treated that way.
What is this, the 1800s?
At the same time, a dirty trick and pure genius!
Similarity detection software are unable to distinguish copyright infringement, plagiarism and accidental rediscovery.
Why airgapped? Is it a business/security requirement? If you have to share the machine, does everybody have to thumb drive over their files to run with the big GPU?
If they told you what you did wrong you will come up with better ways to do the same thing without detection.

Google's detection system is weak. Really everyone's is. So they use arbitrary ways to detect you have done something wrong. Sometimes it is a false positive. Sometimes they didn't think it through.

Like the guy who visited Iran and used his online account there only to get locked out because of being identified as belonging to a country on the export control list.
What kind of targets is crystal used on? Strictly x86_64 linux?

EDIT: Took a little digging but I found it [1] (and yes it's primarily x86_64 linux+macOS)

[1] https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/wiki/Platform-Suppor...
>the internet is supposed to be a place of equality

What have you that idea?
hi Aaron, I'm one of the BentoML aurthors - great suggestion on pipreqs, will look into incorparating that into BentoML!

It should be very straightforward adding support for saving/loading Statsmodels in BentoML. In fact you should also be able to just use the existing "PickleArtifact" in BentoML for statsmodel predictors too. We will add an example notebook for working with Statsmodels library soon!
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I'm curious if anyone has run into situation where being an "idea" person has been a negative at work. Sometimes there is the perception of ideation as a waste of time, or that the ideator (is that a word?) is one of those "whacky ideas" people. "Why are you going for walks, don't you have work to do?"
Yes to pickling models!
Air traffic is a luxury that's not really warranted or necessary. It has a huge environmental cost. I never said rail is faster and better, it's just necessary to prevent climate change that will kill billions of people.

If in the future some modes of transportation are banned, everybody will feel sorry to not have enough railroad and nuclear energy.
Redis cluster performance on a single machine vs. KeyDB multithreading
I am very interested in the inter "process" comm (or, inter "module" comm to be precised). From the surface, this runtime and modular system look pretty similar to the based OSGi runtime plus OSGi security. Not that I wanted to scare folks here as OSGi has a bad reputation of being bloated :-)
Only a bit higher, if you also account for all the foreigners growing US agricultural imports.
And Nippl-e

https://youtu.be/hNoS2BU6bbQ
We have a bit of a problem like what you mention. Our backend/app is in Java but the DS/ML team generally works in python. The ML team basically doesn't ship production code.

Here are the artifacts we produce:

1. For new models we often build a demo endpoints/glue code written in python/flask that can be compared against the prod output in dev/psup.

2. Deep learning models (much of what I do personally): saved in TF saved model format. If it is an update to an existing model often it is just a drop-in replacement. If it is a brand new model i will often include a flask demo (the python code does proper data transformation before calling on tf). On production side, after testing/regression these model are deployed via tensorflow-serving containers and used as gRPC endpoint. For production, whatever data pre-processing needs to be done is written by the backend team, who compare preprocessing output with our demo.

3. Logistic regression/tree models: again, for new models we provide the demo but what goes into production are either csv (logistic regression) or json (tree) of the weights/decision boundaries which are used as resources by the backend team's Java code.

The overall flow is:

ETL (via apache airflow/custom code) => model training/feature engineering => (saved model file + flask demo endpoint/documentation on feature transformations) => dev incorporate model/test into java backend => comparison of demo vs java backend => regression of java backend (if they had previous versions of model) => psup (small amount of prod data duplicated and ran in parallel with prod) => prod (model deployed + monitored)

There is a caveat that we also do some batch processing/not really live analysis that is just done in python and then results are pushed wherever they need to be pushed. In this case we don't involve the backend/java team.
If people realized how much money of their hotel booking was going to Google and the OTAs, they would piss their pants. It is an excessive, useless, and largely avoidable tax.

* also note it’s driven substantial consolidation in the hotel industry, because big companies like Marriott can just rake in their direct bookings.
I like the JVM and have done lots of code for it, but the java download&install / setting up PATH / non native gui-look / no exe-files / should i get se/ee/jre/sdk etc etc must be a big contributing factor to its lack of being more popular (client side). A lot of the experience has been clumsy, ugly and unintuitive from the start
they want you to buy something that they show you in an ad

I am eager to see how it well it works in practice
https://duckduckgo.com/traffic
There's conflicting data out there and it's a relatively short time since a lot of states legalized.

Uncoolness has been suggested with medical marijuana possibly even further accentuating a shift.

I guess, to the degree that usage hasn't gone up all that much, one can imagine a number of explanations. Regular users already had their sources. Sure, there are older, probably wealthier, people who don't mind a sometimes smoke or edible but also weren't willing to risk buying it illegally. But I imagine this group are mostly pretty light users.
Can you help me understand what the upside is for me?

Let's say I tell you I am a man. How are you proposing to "enhance my online shopping experience"?

Since this is "online shopping" I probably came to your site with specific products or types of products in mind. Are you proposing to offer me "man based" shipping options?
I feel like all content is trying to one up each other without substance, as if going off a checklist. But it could also be that I’m getting older and I’ve already seen variations of it so now I’m bored of it.
Whilst it looks good, I love that I don't even need an account to use draw.io. We use it at work and integrates with Confluence perfectly.
I agree, but what do you do when others don't co-operate? My experience is that most people absolutely hate this. Only occasionally do I run into someone that appreciates figuring it out for themselves. More often, they feel like you're playing games with them, or being condescending. You become the jerk for withholding information, instead of them for wanting others to do their work for them.
Thanks I found more details here: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store...
$20/user/month seems incredibly expensive for an editor that we would have traditionally paid a one time cost for. I assume this has the saving and sharing of queries built in, but that is a lot of money for some storage. Are there other major benefits I am not seeing?
(It is not my intention to attack you or make you defend this product, I am just curious if I am missing something - there are a lot of similar products with similarly questionable value propositions)
Schiff's reputation doesn't ride on twisting of words, it rides on how much he's participating in the activities that he's supposed to be in charge of investigating.

Nobody's saying pick a side between the two. Be sceptical of every politician. Don't pick either one as your character reference for a narrative.

(That said, I don't mean any of the following to be exonerating or damning to Trump.)

I find it troubling that Schiff appears to have taken an abrupt change in strategy, once he was accused of meeting with the "whistleblower" before the claim was filed. The timeline doesn't look good, especially when considering the change in IG whistleblower rules.

And cherry-picked leaks are a giant problem in DC right now.

Regardless, you don't need to necessarily change a transcript if you told (coached) the witness what to say (or how to say it) in the first place.

It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you.

And that applies no matter how innocent or guilty Trump is of anything.
We are framework agnostic for model development, models get converted to ONNX[1] and served with the ONNX runtime[2]. They are deployed as microservices with docker.

We are currently looking at MLflow[3] for the tracking server, it has some major pain points though. We use Tune[4] for hyperparameter search, and MLflow provides no way to delete artifacts from the parallel runs which will lead to massive amounts of wasted storage or dangerous external cleanup scripts. They have also been resisting requests for the feature in numerous issues. Not a good open source solution in the space.

Note that this is for an embedded deployment environment.

[1] https://github.com/onnx/onnx

[2] https://github.com/Microsoft/onnxruntime

[3] https://mlflow.org/

[4] https://ray.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tune.html
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Yes, many companies are built on dark patterns and could not exist honestly.

https://www.darkpatterns.org/
Could you elaborate on this? I'd be interested in a few examples of Taleb's cherry picking and counterexamples to his statements on antifragility.
If I curl the article's URL, all I get is:

<html>
<head>
<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex,nofollow">
<script src="/_Incapsula_Resource?SWJIYLWA=5074a744e2e3d891814e9a2dace20bd4,719d34d31c8e3a6e6fffd425f7e032f3">
</script>
<body>
</body></html>

And then if I curl:

https://www.nccgroup.trust/_Incapsula_Resource?SWJIYLWA=5074...

Then I get an obfuscated Javascript blob:

http://dpaste.com/2H519EP

I can't understand how this page could work on any browser that doesn't enable Javascript.

The only possible explanation I can think of is that it must be sending different content based on user agent, or something, though messing around with sending different user agents via "wget -U" gets me more or less the same thing.
Firefox disables this automatically now
Since I'm reading Patrick O'Brian again, I can't help but be reminded of the practice of false muster - keeping well-connected boys on the books of warships as midshipmen fraudulently, so as to accrue more service time and seniority.

Nepotism and zero-sum games just go hand-in-hand.
Popcon does, I believe, skew toward workstations over servers. But I don't think including servers would change things, in fact it probably show even bigger systemd use. Servers is where managed process solutions like systemd (and upstart, runit, etc.) really shine.
If we're delving into paid services, I find Miro to be another incredible product in this space that absolutely nails the UX. My whole design team collaborates on Miro now and we love it.

https://miro.com/
I've moved to ASDF and haven't really looked back. It's working well with low fuss, and supporting far more than just python on my machine.
Part of the problem is a huge part of that "content" is ultra SEO'd low quality copy pasted crap crammed with ads, specifically designed to harvest clicks from Google, and little else.

The best open source mailing list archive is unquestionably https://marc.info . yet when you search things that are open source relevant, you get https://nabble.com which goes as far as to fake being a forum and fills content from mailing lists, is nearly useless feature wise, and is crammed with all sorts of nasty obnoxious advertising.

marc.info doesn't even crack page 10 with typical queries, because they don't play the SEO optimization game, and doesn't run ads.

This is a great example of Google becoming totally useless.

The last time I remember this being mentioned on HN, a few days later marc.info was at the top of search results for mailing list type posts, but it seems whatever manual tweak they applied has since been invalidated by the Googletron...
I'm curious how untargetted they are - if I'm searching for python, how untargetted is a python book ad? I'd be more inclined to purchase that rather than a remarketing adroll targetted ad that's just spewing me the same item that I purchased 30 minutes ago
Absolutely. There are a zillion different problems to solve like this, but I don't think they're necessarily unsolvable, though.

On the one hand, you do really want people to be relatively insensitive to the cost of medical care they actually need. When you need it, you get it. On the other hand, that price insensitivity, applied indiscriminately, leads to the massive ballooning costs we've all seen. I don't think there's a way to have full price insensitivity and to keep prices in check - which means that we either just spend whatever our doctors ask (I'm not interested in that), or we start making people more price-sensitive to allow those downward pricing pressures to be exerted.

Fundamentally, you don't get away with increased price sensitivity without someone yelling about death panels. Prices are how we allocate scarce resources, which means they determine who doesn't get things. We can either pretend prices don't exist (and get the status quo), or we can acknowledge that they do and that sometimes, people can't or won't pay those prices. Neither is emotionally attractive, but I think being realistic about the existence of prices and allowing consumers to actually exert some market pressures is preferable than just being held hostage to whatever the insurers demand we pay this year, just so that we don't have to think about costs at the point of service.
algorithmia.com ?
HTTP endpoints, serverless, versioned, logging, auth, etc.
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> if you hire twice as many devs you don't get twice as much code written.

or if you do, that could be a bad thing ;P
This is a really good case for quantitative finance, and it's also really clear, so thanks for both. Consider my perspective changed for the better.

There's still a bit of dissonance in this for me, but it's abstract and strays a bit what you're saying, so don't feel a need to respond: I think, for example, about the friends and acquaintances I have in finance who I've often heard lament about the lack of meaning, utility, and social value in their work despite the good pay. They're smart men and women, every single one, so I'm sure they know they case you're making - so what gives? (This is clearly more a question for them than for you.)

I also wonder idly what proportion of the explosion in the finance industry since the 1970's is taken up by the sorts of plainly beneficial and useful efforts you describe, and what proportion is simply craven, greedy bullshit. Clearly the latter is more salient in the cultural and moral imagination, in no small part because of the Madoffs and the Beskys and the Milkens of the world, not to mention everyone involved in the 08 crisis. That the former isn't as salient makes me think, like, how many Jack Bogles are there for every Gordon Gekko? I know a ton of Gekkos - I went to college with them! - but few Bogles.
What? The? Actual... Wow...

I didn't know... Sometimes I really wonder..
Did you have the two systems talking to each other through HTTP endpoints? I mean the ML system receiving data from a source API and sending back a result? Is this where AWS lambdas jumps in? Are there any formal tools that facilitate making these endpoints?
it doesn't seem to get properly enforced.