skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This ^^ Our starter models are pretty diverse and span real-world problems like optimizing controlled burns w/r/t wildfire containment, and improving Stack Overflow community dynamics (sorry... not a problem!)

In addition we have several dozen classic ABM toy models such as Boids, Schelling segregation, and Conway's GoL. These individually showcase different components of the system.
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Running the compression algorithms is O(kn) where k is the number of compression algorithms. Taking the machine learning approach is O(n).
Thanks. I meant for my comment to be humorous... and evidently, it wasn't.
Sounds exhausting and a bit of a pain for people who correspond with you. What's the point?
Whoa. I guess what they say is true - say a lie often enough, and it becomes the truth.
Well that's good to know. I usually end up wanting to bookmark a site in my synced bookmarks, so I need to load the non-AMP for that :/
Nope, mutual attraction is what couples need. People invent unsolvable problems in their relationship when they lose attraction.
The velocity of the bike+rider is proportional to their mass. Realistically this can range over two orders of magnitude, which can be particularly relevant in a racing context.
Also "fibre-optic" and excessive use of hyphens (eg in numbers like forty-two). The New Yorker uses weird styles.
White blood cells frequently infiltrate soft tissues in order to do their duty so it's quite plausible that some donor DNA sequence will be found in other organs.

I couldn't seem to find a link to the original report in the linked article however it would not surprise me if some of the forensic techniques replied on testing for mitochondrial DNA as it tends to be better preserved in the natural environment. Human cells are known to exchange mitochondria so mtDNA is more likely to display chimerism, especially in this case where the donor is matched to the recipient.
Sounds good to me, as long as ecocide is punished by guillotine.
Did Paypal lured everyone in with their $10 promo?
Yes! They're both really interesting problems and there's no right answer! You're right to be curious, it's a fascinating set of issues.
Personally, I hate it because of the technical use of "moisture" by mechanical engineers that do thermodynamics of steam. Hank Sauer, summer 1980, University of Missouri - Roll, Thermodynamics class. Sauer was a jerk, of course, all heat engineers are jerks. When water is at a temperature and pressure where it can be both liquid and gas, the "quality" of the steam is the proportion of gas to total water. Sauer used the word "moisture" a lot when describing this.
What is harder for me to understand is why do they still use softback. Whatever I buy - I want it to be as heavy-duty as possible. Whenever I can choose between paperback an hardback I'm always buying a hardback unless the price difference is too serious. I don't even see how do softbacks make any sense to exist today when you can get an electronic book whenever weight and production cost are among your major concerns.
I would prefer it to be written in something like Ada or Haskell, but I'd rather board a plane with avionics software written in Python than in Java.

I actually heard Aribus software is written in C++. If true it should scare the shit out of anyone.
Tell me what is your political position
> But the conceiving of this as a privacy problem brings the wrong solutions. It means we are offered tools to remove ourselves from public view, to restrict our public personas, to retreat from public life. It means women are again confined to private sphere, denied civic life.

Yes, welcome to real life.

Where I can't say I'm an atheist back home because I will get beheaded. Or say what I think of capital accumulation in SF because I will never work again.

And if you take the cowards way out of "We should only protect people for what they are and not what they do", being a woman in this day and age is a choice on par with being blond or a socialist.
Open sourcing code can be tricky—there's quite a bit of review that needs to go into doing it right, as well as more work if you want the release to actually be reasonably useful. Blocking this archiving effort is on a whole other level. We're talking about saving information that was already public. All they have to do to allow this to happen is... nothing. I can't comprehend why Verizon/Yahoo would go out of their way to block these efforts.
Yea I am aware of meta hyperparameter approach for ML, except they only focus on accuracy instead of also including train/prediction times in to the equation :) That's what I was referring to! (you can save A LOT of compute and zoom in on things that work if you can weed out slow / badly performing algorithms as part of meta learning hyperparameters).

To make it extra clear: by doing a lot of compute on different datasets and not only recording the accuracy but also time it took, and then by including that as dimension it will even give better results.
This starts with saying that there is a popular telling that the more money a country spends the better life expectancy will be. Especially looking at the US I thought most people know that US doesn't get much value compared to the money spent.

Was that really controversial?
As book author the royalty on hardcover books were higher compared to the softcover books. But still the ebooks were the better deal as they gave the highest royalty. Personally, I enjoy buying nice hardcover books. The Folio Society books are gorgeous
> The author

I am the author ;-)

> That style is in fact extremely useful if you want to jump multiple pages ahead faster, or work backwards faster, rather than one at a time

It is very easy to jump several pages using keyset pagination. That's just a UX thing to do.
Instead of trying to crack the compression algorithm directly, it would make sense to disassemble the machine code and try to understand what it does.
81-year-old Donald Knuth releases new TAOCP book, ready to write reward checks
Sorry, I have no idea. I can only repeat what I've read.

Others have compared inflation to taxation; both reduce capital over time.

So is the converse true? Does lower, or even negative, inflation favor the hoarding of wealth?
There's a company in my area that is focused on this and to your point they are doing great for themselves.
This is a great example. Relatedly Josh Tobin and team (OpenAI) have done some awesome recent work on how domain randomization can be applied to simulated worlds to improve the generalizability of algorithms as well: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.06425
The first time I've seen the .computer TLD, interesting....
Reminds me of how this has not worked - for Mint.com. It was cool when it first came out, got acquired by intuit and now is an old, kinda useless app that was never updated.
Australia has similar rates of obesity and better health outcomes don't they?.
Yeast can handle mid 25% ish at th high end. There are pathogens that 60% whiskey won't kill. The sanitization beer or wine accomplishes is really more of a water test. If the sugar containing solution looks and smells like beer when you open the cask nothing bad was in there.
One of my theories is after WWII a lot of fields of study, like psychology, anthropology, literature, sociology, economics, architecture, etc, went completely sideways into loony coo-coo land. The result were nihilistic/ideological trashfires.

Most of them have recovered like psychology, anthropology, literature, sociology. Economics and architecture really haven't.
A couple do things have to happen in tandem: 1. Switching to a predominantly plant based diet. Not necessarily fake meat, but reducing our animal protein coming from CAFOs. 2. Restoring habitat because we are a super apex predator and we need ecosystems below us to be functioning well. Insect loss and disappearing bird and reptile population is a scary warning sig. We can achieve habitat rehab with reforestation and rewilding 50% of land mass. It’s a start. 3. Protect marine health and eco system. After all, life on earth is only because of the oceans. 4. Bring most if not all food production indoors. 5. Find alt. Energy with a mix of clean nuclear, renewables and fossil fuels. 6. Bring population down to carrying capacity. There is no way avoiding the issue of depopulation. It is possible with non transferable 1/2 surviving child per person so we have genetic diversity. Alternatively, we can incentivize responsible rationed procreation if they have 1 or no children ..but this would lead to a class system. Procreation shouldn’t be penalized but there is no need to incentivize what is essentially bad for our planet. 7. For the above point, we must develop anti aging and genetic repair and tech to extract and preserve genetic material.
They still ship to the US at least, I've ordered from them recently.
Just to note, a diaeresis isn't always the same vowel repeated. The most common example is "naïve", and it also occurs in names like Chloë.
Which is why go is such a problem -- because the linker can't do it without hacks and guesswork, in the case of a static binary that dlopens libc.

I'm aware of the issues. I was a part of the discussions in the hut when they were being implemented.
I'm not sure how so. I just give someone an email address (x122@example.com) and they just use it, and everything to "example.com" (or, my domain in practice) always comes to me. I've never yet had to tell a person (other than some online automated system (edit: rarely there but happened and i was glad I could)) to change the address they use for me. Works well especially when businesses require one. Then if they spam me too much later, I just can auto-delete email to that address at either my email client or using the web tools of pair.com who hosts the domain. But, did I misunderstand you?
Larry and Sergey: A Valediction
I switched to SpiderOak - it's not good and/or doesn't work and/or is very slow. Now switching again to Duplicacy which is just a backup app and you choose your storage option(s). I really enjoy the control that you have over its behavior.
They want to wipe their hands clean of it. They don't want a record of it.
LOL I know!!
MIT App Inventor
I think it's fair to say we would have chosen an entirely different architectural approach had it not been for Wasm. Whilst simulations would have run slower, our dev progress would also have taken a hit.

We're big fans and optimistic about its future :)
User-space threading is not broken. Windows even directly provides support for user-space scheduled threads[0]. The whole model isn't broken; rather, it's liberating. Once the application programmer gets rid of the idea that threads are expensive and starts creating thousands of them willy-nilly, these applications often benefit from a much simpler architecture and fewer bugs. All these complexities are pushed into the user-space scheduler. It's worth it.

[0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/us...
Also, console makers collect fees from third-party game publishers, whether it's on physical media or it's downloaded. I don't know how much profit comes from each source.
> maintaining history is expensive (content needs moderating, you are required to abide by the GDPR and DMCA, there may be disputes about content on the platform).

Things shouldn't be like this. The price per unit of storage and bandwidth falls fast (and, except for the sites dealing with user-generated videos, faster than the amount and size of content grows). Laws shouldn't apply retroactively.

The problem really is that our means of accessing information are services. When you have a physical letter, or an e-mail saved locally, or a text message from 15 years ago, you can just read them. Nobody will know or care. Nobody will come after you trying to apply GDPR or DMCA retroactively. And since storage is near-free, you won't ever lose it until you forget about it (or at least about doing regular backups). Whereas with modern webmail, forums, link aggregators, IMs - you don't have even your own messages, and viewing a conversation that happened 15 years ago is really being provided a service today. Services are ephemeral, they're also subject to ever-changing regulations and whims of the service providers.

Bottom line, while services are necessary for transferring conversations, we really shouldn't be relying on them for access to conversations that already happened.
This is one of the second order negative effects of low birth rates in the developed world. Low birth rates mean low numbers of aunts, uncles, cousins, and other kinfolk who have a vested genetic interest in the well-being of your child. That's something that money just can't buy, no matter how great your nanny or pre-school or whatever is. And that's assuming you haven't moved away from your family, which many of us have.
Convenience and satisfaction.

I remember how anxious I was when, as a student, I didn’t know if a CC charge would be declined or if a debit charge that brought my account balance would fall to -$0.02, thus bringing the wrath of a $29 overdraft fee. The overdraft notice is also a distinctly anxiety-inducing letter.

Microloans are typically offered to people who are not eligible for larger, more traditional loans.

Also, some people who want expensive consumer goods do so for the feeling of the purchase and the feeling of accomplishment, but ignore the nagging reality that they haven’t actually accomplished the purchase until it is paid off.
Brings to mind SSC's excellent review of all therapy books ever: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/20/book-review-all-therap...
I really love this one:
https://tobiasahlin.com/

Shameless self promotion (my blog):
https://muffinman.io/

And of course, Daring Fireball:
https://daringfireball.net/
Is there any cited reason for the groups they're blocking?
What's the best example of modern Datalog?
The field of study is called Epigenetics [1]. I know practically nothing about it, but it seems that some of these alterations to the expression of DNA are not only persistent, but can also be inherited. Which is why some of these discoveries have been called a revenge of Lamarck over Darwin...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics
Hi! Yes, we have played around with character and trigram level neural network language models. Also, we experimented with training a supervised neural network based on a misspellings dataset for the corrector.

Unfortunately, we had trouble getting the performance to a point where they could replace this system. It is definitely something we will revisit soon though!
Two reasons:
(a) If we hit Yahoo with everything we've got, groups would have almost certainly crashed, or at least become unbearably slow. That's not a reasonable thing to do, and would be (IMHO) grounds for Verison banning us.

(b) We were still testing / writing the scripts to do the actual archiving. Most of the groups we did save before the banning were from test runs of the archiving script.

And sure, given hindsight, I'd do things differently. We've learned, now, and are archiving a groups soon after it is joined.
I pasted the wrong URL, but I can't edit it. It still works, but it will just throw an unnecessary alert.

The clean URL is http://code.appinventor.mit.edu
It explains both. Blocking archiving will save a bunch of bandwidth as well as not having to scale up the servers for the load of dealing with the archiving.
Adding more ground stations and building more satellites does reduce latency, because there will be a satellite closer to "halfway between" you and a ground station, which defines the shortest possible path.

If there is just one (non-stationary) satellite in your sky, the geometry is probably pretty crummy, so light-speed delay is greater. Also, link budget is worse, so probably data rate is lower too.

Yes, once you have a ton of satellites, adding more doesn't improve latency much.
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I've spoken to many call center staff who quite explicitly had no permission to deviate from a script. They were audio recorded to guarantee compliance. I'm not the one demeaning anyone.

"This call will be recorded for quality and training purposes"

Quality = making sure no one gets too far or deviates off script. Training = who to blame and who to make an example of.

HN often forgets that people who have swam at the bottom don't have the same rose colored glasses. I've seen some pretty harsh environments and plenty definitely script humans like bots.

The counting vowels example sounds over the top but its only over the top because you think its absurd. It seems absurd because you don't see it as a delay loop. But that is exactly what it is. Here's a real example of a delay when someone needs to resolve an issue that is trivial but the organisation doesn't want it commonly used: Put the person on hold. Wait 2 minutes. Resume the call. Say you've consulted your line manager. Etc.

Don't shoot the guy who reminds the world this has happened and is still happening. People as bots is a thing that is already happening.
- Convenience:
Having your payment info saved in Alibaba (or Jet,Walmart,Amazon etc) makes it easier to purchase & check out especially because you don't have to incur the financial consequences right away.

- Increased buying power & revenue:
The customers don't incur any finance charges. This allows them to purchase $14 worth of products while only paying $7 right away. The merchants that sell the products likely pay a transaction fee. As such, Ant/Alibaba can generate additional revenue from the increased sales and transaction fees.
To love someone only so long as their looks attract you is to love them very weakly.
I've seen a few that are just plain left-aligned HTML with basically no styling, and I think they're beautiful.

Does anyone know of any like that? I can't remember any offhand.
Can you explain the conclusion of this article to me? I don't fully understand what he is trying to say.what are the implications? That the only improvement we can make on the american healthcare system is to fight obesity better?
>open source the q link server code

what a lovely thought. Thanks for the effort, even tho it didnt pan out. if you've got the dvd torrent it out :)

now im wondering if there's a stratus emulator anywhere and/or the os code. Them things were nasty... individually battery backed hard drives was just the beginning. The slot cards looked like someone had dumped yellow patchwire spaghetti all over them.
I've checked that page and it seems pretty balanced to me- though I don't know the subject and might be mistaken. As far as I understand, Copernicus was born in a mixed German and Polish speaking area that had joined the Kingdom of Poland only seven years before his birth. He was fluent in both German and Polish. So I'd say that calling him either German or Polish would be inappropriate.
Yeah, sorry about that. The current (as of 2100 UTC) set of groups being sent out to be joined were ones submitted through our nomination form: https://tinyurl.com/savegroups

I did specify that groups requiring approval to join shouldn't be submitted, but not everyone took notice. (And then there was the several dozen Google Groups URLs that were submitted!)
I don't think you're likely to find too many micro-borrowers on this site.

We used to set up micro-finance co-ops in developing countries. The amount of seed money requested by borrowers was ridiculously small - $100 to set up a corner store in the front room of someone's home, $150 to buy some clothing wholesale and sell it retail door to door.

What we found was that the people who most need credit often just to make ends meet are the ones who are least likely to have access to it. So they resort to "village moneylenders" which is a nice way of saying loan sharks (whose interest rates just perpetuate the cycle). Compare that with people who are relatively rolling in cash who can play all sorts of games with multiple lines of credit and basically work the system in their favour.

I understand that the amounts seem absurdly small, but for some people "I have no money" literally means that they have $0.00, not "I only have a couple of hundred and my credit cards, overdraft, afterpay, etc to get me through to pay day"
I take exception to needing 11 books to contain a 5 book series, unless the Korean language is not very dense.
SpaceX sabotaging earth based astronomy sounds like yet another business trying to create a market/demand for itself.
Herefore I bet my ass they'll do just too little to fix things and just enough in order to not be prosecuted.
According to the link above, it was a fellow named Ivan Sutherland.
Startup employee is a job you take for the fun, not for the money. That’s why it’s predominantly taken by twentysomethings looking for adventure, and why so many of them crash and burn for lack of even an iota of relevant experience, both technical and business.
Gosh, been about 1.5 years since this, and whatta ya know, no change!

Doesn't this indicate that (at least in the USA) politicians use religion to propagandize for their goals, rather than let religious faith guide them to their goals?
It's the same game you play if you're a 'journalist' with a pre-decided narrative. Let that narrative filter what gets reported, and what gets emphasised, and you don't even have to lie.
Repressive Desublimation
From Wikipedia: "Scholars have interpreted Cassius Dio's wording to indicate that the fire did not actually destroy the entire Library itself, but rather only a warehouse located near the docks being used by the Library to house scrolls"

If anything this would make the analogy even more apt, since only part of Yahoo is being destroyed. :)

Regardless, it's mostly used as a metaphor for the destruction of knowledge at this point.
I think it makes value for Y Combinator in terms of deal flow, and Startup School companies to have increased access to talent, advice, etc.

There is some way to put a number on that, but few organizations could get the value Y Co does.

For a start Wikipedia says the top Y Co companies are worth $155 billion, Y Co gets 7%, so Y Co has made $10B or so, if HN is responsible for 1% of that, that is $100m.
If I believed this were the case I’d be single for life.
There is a campaign already.
https://modsandmembersblog.wordpress.com/
For context, I'm a frontend development lead who oversees a number of projects of different shape and size. My personal and very subjective opinion is it's simply hype. If you say "Datalog" to a frontend developer, they will either hear "obsolete" or just not know what you mean. If you say "GraphQL", they hear "+5 CV points". Obviously that is slightly tongue in cheek, but the marketing side of it is a very real factor.

Facebook currently holds one of the largest levers in frontend development — React. If they say the officially recommended way to do X with React is Y, you can be sure that Y will get at least moderate traction.

I'm sure they exist out in the wild, but personally I haven't seen a project where GraphQL really shines through. In my experience, HTTP2 and reasonably well designed RESTful endpoints are the right default to go with. There is the argument that building good APIs is hard, but I believe someone who has reasonable experience with a stable technology will outperform someone using a new tool for the job. If you're not familiar with it, you won't know what to look out for.
To assume that attraction is purely physical is to have a very shallow understanding of attraction.
> For example, on modern systems the 'system call' to get the current time may not even enter the kernel (see vdso(7) on Linux).

Is there a way to check from the running process whether that is the case or not?
Is this something you know from the inside, or your (probably good) guess?