skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't be so angry and negative. If you try, you might actually succeed. You just need some patience and perseverance.
I don't have time to read the entire paper but I would like to share an anecdote. I worked at a company with a well staffed/funded machine learning team. They were in charge of recommendation systems - think along the lines of youtube up next videos. My team wanted better recommendations (really, less editorial intensive) so the ML team spent weeks crafting 12 or more variants of their recommendation system for our content. We then ran that system for months in an A/B testing system that judged user behaviour by several KPI. The result was all variants performed equally well within statistically insignificant bounds. The best performing variant happened to be random.

Talking to other groups that had gone through the exact same process our results were pretty typical. These guys were all very intelligent and the code and systems they had implemented were pretty impressive. I'm guessing the system they built would have cost a few million dollars if built from scratch. We did use this "AI/ML" in our marketing so maybe it was payed for by increased sales through use of buzz words. But my experience was that in most limited use cases the technology was ineffective.
> the bishop wasn't saying

I didn't read the original source material or notice a link, so I don't know what Theodore didn't say, just the 140 character excerpts.

> implying that the Church was only interested

I intended no such implication. "conscious or otherwise"
Would be fun to create a central hosted but distributed ai. So generations are shared amongst sessions between multiple players simultaneously. That way you can really see envolvement.
Also add more parameters. Like shooting rate. Shooting speed etc
Yeah, I know that, my mom joined the Romanian Communist Party in the early ‘80s for the same thing (so that she could more easily get food for young me), but that doesn’t make that entire generation less to blame as a whole.
They already do that
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At least where I am legislation already exists. What I'm puzzled by is why it doesn't seem to be policed at all, and why nobody seems to care. When rivers, soil or the air are being visibly produced we at least get some public reactions. For some reason for sound we don't perceive it the same way.
So that 'one app' that 'some Westerners use' which is 'made in China' is evidence that China is now dominant?

"you do more when you work less" 1) This is true in many cases 2) Americans work pretty hard.

"What people contribute is less important than the way they make others feel" 1) In many cases 'communication matters' 2) contribution and communicating well are not mutually exclusive but most importantly 3) Nobody says this.
Those who cause the innocent to suffer deserve vengeance and suffering. Why are we so concerned about the comfort of people who, the majority of the time, are in prison for violent crime?

Before someone brings up "muh drugs" and only cites stats from federal prisons...

"In 2011, 55.6% of the 1,131,210 sentenced prisoners in state prisons were being held for violent crimes (this number excludes the 200,966 prisoners being held due to parole violations, of which 39.6% were re-incarcerated for a subsequent violent crime).[44] Also in 2011, 3.7% of the state prison population consisted of prisoners whose highest conviction was for drug possession (again excluding those incarcerated for parole violations of which 6.0% were re-incarcerated for a subsequent act of drug possession).[44]"
Hello HN! We would like to introduce a new tool for easy vacation planning - https://kudakogda.com.

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Maryna & Sergii
It just enables the microphone at emulated device instantiation time. Easier than enabling/and disabling it at runtime.

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/qemu/+/a7...
We pretty much banned teachers from removing kids from school. We decided that every kid has the right to be in school, mostly in the normal classrooms.

You can see the result.

Basically, every tool for controlling bad behavior gets labeled "abuse" and banned. We don't seem to notice that the resulting disaster of an environment is abusive to the good kids.
The about page of blog has 1 paragraph description of coreboot.
> The US justice system is possibly the most cruel justice system in the West ...

This suggests a terminology issue -- we have the same problem here in Australia.

If you assume the system is intended to mete out justice, little of it will make sense.

If you think of it as a legal system, and consider it's working precisely as its benefactors & maintainers want, the arrangement makes much more sense.
Auto-encoders have been more successful in fraud and anomaly detection then supervised methods. For the uninitiated: the basic concept is to reduce the feature space (i.e. the things you know) to a lower dimensional space, then decode back into the original space. When enough differences arise between the original and reconstructed variables, the event may be flagged for a human to review (or some triage process).
You seem to be knowledgeable on the matter then. Why hide behind a throw-away account and the ad hominem against the author though? You could articulate better your perspective, we would appreciate. (I hope you're doing okay)
I wish they had more support for consumer desktop motherboards, so I could flash my Asus board. Somehow coreboot seems to focus on laptops and server boards.
> 4. Medicare/Medicaid are forced to nearly buy any drug, regardless of cost, if it could save a live. Even if a drug is 500k/year, the system is forced to buy it. This is not a free market and greatly increases costs.

No, they aren't. Medicare Part D plans are not required to cover any particular drugs, though what they choose to cover is subject to approval by CMS.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Part_D#Plan_formulari...
I worked for a company that had a "big data machine learning" product. Yeah, it was mostly elasticsearch aggregations.
This is so far from being a rival, I won't even comment further!
I've run our email server for the last 7 years. Don't have any trouble with gmail.

Setting up was a bit of hassle, but since it was up, I don't do anything with it.

Occasionally I will get the odd notification that a (usually German for some reason) email address doesn't like our domain. But the major providers, never had a problem.

No idea why we haven't had a problem, I didn't know what I was doing at the time (still don't) just followed an online guide. From memory, spf, dkim which I think is all pretty basic things to setup when setting up a mail server and all guides cover it.
"coreboot is an extended firmware platform that delivers a lightning fast and secure boot experience on modern computers and embedded systems. As an Open Source project it provides auditability and maximum control over technology."
https://coreboot.org/
Why can’t there just be one simple solution for this which is peer-to-peer? Why does it have to depend on the cloud?

Because in order to be simple, any solution requires the skilled time and attention of an engineer to create an abstraction layer over the fiddly details. And to update that as the device takes updates.

If you do it as a peer-to-peer tool, that effort is O(N^2). Adding Each new platform requires ensuring that it works with N other platforms you already support.

If you introduce some intermediary like a cloud server, then the problem is O(N). When you add a new platform, just make sure it works to talk between the server and that 1 type of client.

But why does the intermediary have to be a whole server? Why can’t it be a protocol or format? <% insert explanation from someone more knowledgeable about filesystems %>
I mean, if the software is smart enough to make sense of long sequences of 1's and 0's then it must be artificially intelligent to some extent. /s
On the other hand it's a great platform if you do want to support custom clients. Not all multiplayer games even need PvP.
I have concerns because the product descriptions and images don't say the amount anywhere or how long it should be expected to last and under what conditions - kinda feels scammy.

For example, is it 1oz or 20oz? Honestly, it looks like a tiny sprayer - maybe 1oz? How far will it go? Will that 1oz. treat 1 sink/toilet or 10? How long will it last?

I did see that the article says "...researchers also predict the coating could last for about 500 flushes". OK it "could" last 500, or it could last 1. The real question is how long "did" it last when you tested it and what should a normal person expect? Does urine affect it's longevity differently from poop? What happens if you use a toilet brush on it, or use various cleaning chemicals - will that shorten it's usable life?

e.g. from https://www.spotlessmaterials.com/store/p10/Sink_%26_Fixture...:

"Sink & Fixture Coating
SKU: S008191114
$15.00
Our Sink & Fixture Coatings are popular amongst our early users. These coatings can be applied to any ceramic surface and are specially formulated for high-touch ceramic surfaces like sinks, toilet exteriors, etc. After application, you’ll feel the difference. Our coatings are ultra smooth to the touch. It’s that same smoothness that makes the surfaces easier to clean. With these coatings, cleaning ceramic surfaces required less time, effort, and cleaning chemicals. Do not apply coating to floors -- it is slippery. This coating can be refreshed with our Maintenance Spray."
They may have decided that ZT's encryption isn't proven well enough for their needs. It's also posssible they rejected ZT because they didn't want to use ZT's centralized infrastructure. Two years ago was long before ZT started working on making that optional.
I've had a relatively trouble-free experience running my own email server for years by just setting up outgoing email to relay through through the gandi SMTP I got with my domain registration. Email providers don't verify the the reputation of what they want to send to very rigorously, so I don't have any problem receiving my mail.

It depends on why you want to run an email server, I suppose. I just didn't want google collecting, analyzing, and indefinitely storing my incoming mail (left gmail).
The original ELIZA program is sort of a special case, since it's famous for being a lookup table consisting mostly of "and how does that make you feel?" and yet still being convincing to a subset of patients who felt helped by it. I think the author of the review just hadn't heard of ELIZA.
Mine tinnitus and hearing loss comes from a movie, specifically Tron Legacy in 2010. The theater seemed completely uninterested in my complaint.
all fair points. I have have used it to do amazing things. It’s not going away. Just that AGI seems very far away. I think CS is like biology before the discovery of the microscope (why are we getting sick? Microorganisms etc). Or DNA. Once that big breakthrough happens we will quickly transition to a new local maximum.
> or Google's servers

But it's fine if it's (approved and) over a telecom provider as long as the medium is unencrypted facsimile.
Image classification using ml5.js and visualization with D3 and React [video]
I was always interested in using Coreboot for "retro" machines that have buggy old vendor BIOSes, and may not even have updates available anymore (or easily found)

Is there anywhere I can find out about the actual status of things like Coreboot on Pentium III (Slot 1 or Socket 370) motherboards? I know they maintain a "compatibility list" but I'm not sure if these boards have been tested or if they'd have been lost to code churn
Out of curiosity, how does this compare to using tsvector?

https://coderwall.com/p/vngr0a/simple-full-text-search-using...

EDIT: Found my answer

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15884309/postgresql-full...
This topic (though not always this particular article) seems to come up on HN every 6-9 months, and the discussion is ALWAYS the same: "Yeah, you can, but you'll have to deal with X, Y, and Z. Probably not worth it for most people but interesting to know that you can."
I've had US police pull guns on me several times, thrown to the ground have been arrested and jailed overnight, despite not having committed a crime on any of the occasions. My transgression in each case was to have not learnt the submission rituals that American police expect, the whole stay in your car with you hands on the wheel, the yes sir, yes mam.

One of these times was on a late night Santa Cruz to SF drive, my friend and I got too tired to drive and slept on the beach near McNee Ranch state park, in the middle of being arrested, with five guns drawn, one officer said - this is verbatim 'That's a north face jacket, I don't think this guy is homeless. Are you Homeless?' and just like that I was restored to full white privileges and the arrest was off.

I don't think changing law enforcement is easy, I believe law enforcement reflects the power relationships of society - you won't change law enforcement with out changing the society in which it exists.

I love California, it broke my heart to leave, I'll never really know if I made the right decision, and I'm pretty sure if I didn't have four kids I'd be back there.
Programming to Improve Your Life
> all you need to make something artificial relatable is a set of articulated eyebrows

I think of Legion from the Mass Effect games. It's a robot with a blank circle for a face... but with plates around that circle that are animated in a distinctly eyebrows-like way.
I just got the new eargasm, yea that's the name of the company, that can switch between -15db and -22db. Pretty good and better deal and sound quality than using regular foam earplugs. They are pricey around $45-$50, but if I don't lose them, worth the price for protecting my ears and better experience. There are ones cheaper, search high fidelity, HiFi, earplugs. Lots around the $20-$30 range.
Can wait for Ender's Game level ai.
> Hosting your own mail server is not rocket science, but you need to have solid sysadmin skills and a good understanding of email as a whole.

Not really. I had neither and got it up and running. Sure I had some issues, but as long as you have some competence, most things can be sorted out / figured out.
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> "this" refers to the Sprite that invoked the function

Sure, "this" is always what invoked the function. Why not just pass in the sprite to the function though and use the argument instead? That makes the learning more general for all languages and not javascript specific. IMO, there is no value in using "this".

I don't think OOP should be taught in the early stages of learning programming. Here is a simple example from the docs:

let stage = new blockLike.Stage();
let sprite = new blockLike.Sprite();
sprite.addTo(stage);

Why are you adding a stage to a sprite instead of adding a sprite to a stage? Why does sprite have a method defined on it and why is stage the parameter? I think a more consistent way to do that would be to have a function that takes both as arguments:

addSpriteToStage(sprite, stage);

Imagine that the person trying to learn programming is trying to come up with their own library to use. It wouldn't even occur to them to create free standing function. Instead they would have to waste time deciding which arbitrary class to put the method on.

> It can be rewritten without using "this" (obviously). But can you make it easier to understand?

Here is a simple change I would make for that example. I can't figure out how to share the codepen (I think creating an account might be the only way) so here's the code for the relevant part:

function myFunction(sprite) {
sprite.say('hi');
sprite.wait(1);
sprite.sayWait('bye', 1);
sprite.say('')
}

sprite1.whenClicked(function() {
myFunction(sprite1);
});

sprite2.whenClicked(function() {
myFunction(sprite2);
});

Unfortunately this doesn't work. I have no idea what magic that "invoke" function does, so I don't know why this doesn't work. What if you wanted the other sprite to talk when a sprite is clicked? Wouldn't you have to pass in an argument anyway. Getting a magical "this" when it happens to be the sprite that is clicked that is doing the talking seems arbitrary.

Anyway, I guess my biggest gripe is that it puts too much emphasis on OOP too early in the process of learning to program.
That's not being highly empathetic, that's being exactly like every other person.

Also, unironically taking joy in someone else's misfortune is pretty mean.
well, aggregations are just leveraging how the data fields are analyzed and labeled, so if those were based on ML/NLP techniques then it could be legit
Just their conscience it seems.

Looks like the healthcare industry is following the mob playbook.
To be a bit fairer back when weed was demonized then scheduled alcohol was going through a similar attack. It was just way more popular than marijuana which was mainly introduced as a recreational weed in the beginning of the 20th century according to this PBS [0] piece.

[0] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dope/etc/cron...
That is encouraging. Thank you.
Office 97 is older than my undergraduate students. That's so weird.
(I'm the author of TFA.)

I have never had this issue. Generally the issue is either IP reputation of your server (common with VPS providers if you get a recycled IP of a previous spammer) or your domain name.

Otherwise you are probably just unlucky enough to tickle the spam-prevention mechanisms in the almighty "algorithm" run by $BIGMAILER.

I keep one "normie" email address at a $BIGMAILER for situations like this, but at this point in my life I mostly just shrug if some big advertising/surveillance company's email system won't deliver my mail, I just won't email that person.

Be the change you want to see and all that.
This looks like an open source Zerotier, my dream has come true.
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Fair point, sorry for mentioning karma: it was taken out of view from comments for a reason.

Nonetheless I think it is fair that we take into account the name, novelty and activity of your account when ascertaining whether you have more intent than talking here about Catalonia. Couple of days before, and HN itself would have alerted it with your name in green.
It's a stretch to say DOTA 2 or CS:GO were initially made by outside firms. Sure they're based on community mods, but so is PUBG, TF2, all the autochess games. Outside of Half-Life and L4D (which was originally a Turtlerock game) all of Valve's games are polished commercial versions of mods or student games (Portal series), but with the exception of Counterstrike all of the originals were good ideas with fatal execution flaws.

Valve has also released DOTA Underlords and Artifact in the two years. With HLA and Underlords Valve is actually releasing two games this year.
Well, not quite. I also spent some time in LA on a different trip. It was a while ago (so not an adult perspective) but mostly I remember walking through carparks and hundreds of channels with nothing to watch. Seattle was a bit nicer as a place.

I would like to go back some time, just not right now.
AlphaZero is not unsupervised. It is a reinforcement learning algorithm, it knows exactly what the outcome of the game is.
It really was strange, continues to be, the way Google wanders away from products before finishing them.

I get ditching things that don't work, but G+ is a great example of something that had plenty of traction in it's early days and, as far as I can see, lost it purely because G didn't seem to care about it.
I actually have a decent practical understanding of sum types as they are used in Rust at least (including the tagged union implementation of enum). It's good enough to do useful work.

Every time that functional programming patterns get discussed, though, there is a mad rush by functional programmers to impress upon everyone just how complicated they are.

It is the same impulse that keeps the mathematical entries in Wikipedia accurate but utterly worthless for most people.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances"

Stop preaching fake constitutionalism. You don't understand what you're talking about. Congress isn't establishing a federal religion by putting "In God We Trust" on money. This edgy internet atheism is getting old.
Seems a bit more like you sending your tape to Colombia and them deciding to distribute it but give all proceeds to some other guy with no relation to your music.

ed: You’ve edited your comment but I was referring more to the GP case where they say

> And yet, they have claimed copyright on my music and monitized it.

That is exactly Youtube making money on the video and not paying the owner
This was discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18339551, but since it's been about a year (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html), a repost is ok.
I've been saying for years I want to make it, but every time I suggest it I get laughed out of the room. I have a few totally "out there" startup ideas, this is one.

The thing about this is, every family has that one person who will pay for this and they keep it updated. Most family members will just lurk, but some will be totally into it.

I bet they would even take things off Facebook and repost in this app so that people off Facebook can see too.
There needs to be more education around this. I found out through Reddit that medical tents should have free ear plugs if needed.

Many younger people don't know the damage they're doing to their ears. Example, at festival this year overheard couple of girls wondering why bother going if wearing ear plugs when they saw mine. I told them I rather keep my hearing, and they were genuinely shocked at the concept, never crossed their mind being near front stage can cause damage.
"Ron Minnich is a Software Engineer at Google. He has been writing firmware for 40 years, starting with the z80 and 6800. He's also a long time contributor in the Unix, BSD, Plan 9, and Linux communities. He started the LinuxBIOS project in 1999, which was renamed to coreboot in 2008 and is now used in tens of millions of Chromebooks. His most recent effort, LinuxBoot, is now part of the Linux Foundation and aims to bring the benefits of a full Linux kernel to several firmware environments, including coreboot, u-boot, and UEFI." https://www.opencompute.org/blog/ronald-minnich-google-and-g...
Have a look at https://syncthing.net/

It's open source and your data will be encrypted.
The internet is a disaster – David Mitchell
There are comments like this defending escapism all over this thread, and I think theyre missing the point. Escapism is fine, just as dark, depressing, morally revelatory films are.

The comment is about the degree to which one type of movie is relatively dominant in mass culture: the corresponding concern would be equally valid if (eg) brooding meditations on the nature of evil grabbed as much of our cultural mindshare as shallow escapism does today.

Its not a commentary on the individual taking a moment to relax, but rather on a shift in tendency across the population
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