skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is turning them off the best bet?

Yes.

> From a national (USA) perspective I see people obsess over the markets (as they should given it's their life savings at play).

Warren Buffett, John Bogle, and various other investing "gurus" would disagree with you here[1][2].

There's a great deal of evidence that day-trading, (individual) stock-picking, and generally trying to make predictions based on subjective market data is ineffective.

Many of the investors who succeed in this arena are using HFT, better predictive algorithms than we have access to, and a short-term mindset[3][4][5].

If you want to protect your retirement assets, check out Bogle's books, Boglehead communities, and other passive-investing strategies. These don't forbid anyone from active investing, but they say to minimize your active bets, never listen to brokers/money managers, and stick with industries you know well.

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/08/warren-buffett-says-he-never...

2. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/13/what-warren-buffett-and-kevi...

3. https://www.fool.com/knowledge-center/what-is-the-random-wal...

4. https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0113/has-high-fr...

5. https://seekingalpha.com/article/2125833-how-to-beat-high-fr...
This quote raises questions:
"The scraped data, as well as the YouTube API, provides usa view of the recommendations presented to an anonymous account. In other words, the account has not ”watched” any videos, retaining the neutral baseline recommendations, described in further detail by YouTube in their recent paper that explains the inner workings of the recommendation algorithm[38]. One should note that the recommendations list provided to a user who has an account and who is logged into YouTube might differ from the list presented to this anonymous account."

Many discussions of radicalization talk about recommendations coming after someone has watched a number of videos.

This situation is that after N videos, the algorithm starts to see a pattern, a niche, that the user fits into and then recommends more niche content. Once the user watches the niche content, just more niche content is recommended, or that-niche and mainstream content is recommended and the mainstream content is boring.

In a sense, I don't see how a blind recommendation system could escape this situation. It seems more an inherent problem of blind recommendation systems.

What could be a better approach?

* Better education in the US and the world so people have BS detectors?

* Instead of unlabeled recommendations, the algorithm categorizes what you're seen, categorizes what it's recommending and let's the user say what category they want and remove or add categories for recommendation.

* Have more ordinary search tool and a better categorization system (Youtube is a horrible black-box now, search is terrible, recommendations is terrible, I get videos from other sites mostly).
Why does traveling non-stop make you feel like you're side-stepping your role in society?

One of the things i like best about traveling is that i have the time and mental energy to engage with the people around me. I eat at restaurants, i go to bars, i listen and share stories, i'll contribute to the local economy and perhaps put a smile on someone's face.

When i am working i suppose you could say i am contributing to society, in the sense that i am helping to build some software that performs a function our customers appreciate. But most of our customers don't live in my community. And even if they did, i'm not really employed to serve those customers, i'm employed to increase growth so that the company will make more money for its investors. Trickle-down theory says that's still a net contribution to society, but it feels very abstract to me.

Meanwhile, when i work i am too exhausted to spend any of the money i earn doing those things that i would when i travel - i don't spend money at local businesses, i don't talk to other people in the community, i just go home and sleep and go back to work again. It's the life most of us are forced into to survive, but i wouldn't really call it contributing to society, or at least not in as direct a way that people do when traveling.
Agreed, the typical CS education does not equip students to become useful programmers. I don't think AI has much to do with its failings, though. Universities like to think they are training up scientists.

It is much easier to teach an engineer to make good software than to teach a CSist to do engineering. I have seen the latter happen, but the usual results are... well, we see that every day.
Great article in Forbes about 4 - hour work week.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelschein/2019/01/17/tim-fe...
It can be, but generally isn’t as most macros don’t require generalized code generation, so quoting works just fine. Going back to the first comment I was replying to:

> (In one case, I knew an experienced C# programmer to build and compile an expression at run-time using LambdaExpression [1]. It takes about 10 times as many lines to achieve the same thing, and you have to write in a style that looks nothing at all like a normal function, so in practice nobody ever does this. In contrast, the way to accomplish this in Lisp takes one character, and the code looks identical to a normal function, so it's not unheard of.)

I assume they mean that they didn’t need to manipulate expressions in a general way because what they wanted was a simple macro that lisp supports with nice template/quote syntax, whereas C# doesn’t support macros at all but you can do something hacky with general run-time code generation.
A "bug" that pushes you towards the interface they want you to use. Curious.
Linear algebra, discrete math, calculus. The mathematical underpinnings of algorithms and data structures. Turing machines will be a lot more useful once you actually know how to use properties to prove more things. A kindergartner can recite the layman description of an infinitely long tape with ones and zeroes but such simplistic understanding has very little practical use if you don't understand how it fits into the context of CS in general. Machines improve, architectures evolve, frameworks change. But math doesn't. Every few days there is a new "linear algebra for machine learning" guide that pops up on HN and every now and then there will be a "how to learn math" question on HN. The lack of mathematical maturity among software devs and engineers is not a good thing and reflects poorly upon the industry. Too many universities these days focus mostly on practical leet coding rather than the theoretical underpinnings of CS. An in-depth study of the finer aspects of a networking protocol would become outdated the moment the next iteration comes out, but a close examination of Shannon and information theory will serve you well for life. There seems to be a continuous myth that undergraduates cannot code a FizzBuzz to save their lives and thus all focus should be placed on testing that specific skill. This mentality of being dismissive towards math is pernicious to computing as a science and relegating theory as "stuff I never ever needed in my n years in industry" creates a harmful echo chamber for software engineering.
Speaking of simple computers to emulate, Advent of Code 2019 featured an imaginary computer that you gradually implement. (But do note that not all of the days are about said imaginary computer.)

I am still catching up with it because I didn’t put so much time into it yet but so far I have completed up to and including day 5 of AoC 2019.

For me, this is the first time I have implemented an emulator, and what I like about this imaginary computer is that it is so simple that I was able to build what I have built so far without relying on any external resources.

The fun part of it is working through it yourself of course, so even though I am tempted to link to my implementation on my GitHub I will instead only leave a link for AoC 2019.

https://adventofcode.com/2019
> The deathbed part of your life isn't even that long. Probably a week or something.

Assuming you’re in a developed country, you’ve either been very lucky or haven’t yet had many friends or family on their death bed. It typically lasts several weeks to several months. If you have a family member who is dying of Alzheimer’s (I have), it can last years.

One week would be very fortunate indeed.

That said, I do kind of agree with your sentiment. Even if it’s months, your death bed is still typically a relatively small part of your life.
Netflix does such a bad job with recommendations for me that I can’t understand what they are doing.

For example, I watch a lot of cooking shows. I just scrolled to the bottom of the recommendations on my tablet and they only suggest two—-and one of those I’ve watched every episode!

They repeatedly fail to tell me about new series of shows I’ve watched, or really obvious connections like “Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner” as I’ve watched “Ugly Delicious”.

The problem seems less of a ML one to me and more of a (lack of) metadata one.

Edit: I plugged “Ugly Delicious” into lazyday.tv and the “Similar Titles” are very random.
I see the term radicalization is being brought up, do we serve ourselves by focusing on superficial presentations that won't be the same in 10 years rather than how similar everyone is: Feeling enlightened, competitive and lack consideration that their perceived "ideological adversary" is every bit vulnerable, needy, and scared as themselves?

How is this different from couple's therapy, just at long distances w/ groups?

None of them want to have a picnic and cooperate with each other. And who could blame them? They both fail to recognize each others hardships, yet "get" the human condition better than the other so much better. They begin by insinuating there's another group that has a character flaw, and is so angry. Yet - all the while, they're angry and accusing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projective_identification)

I have a hypothesis: It's all acting out, cathartic, to blow off steam. They're not at the soup kitchen or volunteering. They have a dysfunctional coping mechanism stemming from earlier traumas, and it's more profitable to captivate lonely, bored people by stir up people's anxiety existentially than help them find common ground.

Because if people realized the common ground they shared and cooperated, people would start to pass laws and regulations to make healthcare, employment, housing, education for more fair for legal persons. The whole concept of political sides is a sham: They are legal persons and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs.

If common sense stuff isn't being fixed and people are bikeshedding: the fix is in, people in suits are giving each other high fives and laughing at you. You're being suckered into squandering your political rights (you voted, or can!) to take worthless, symbolic digs at people rather than get what you need, better laws for the practical issues everyone shares. Hint: they tend to be boring.
> How much could freedb have been costing MAGIX?

More than zero. MAGIX acquired freedb in 2006, so I assume this decision was an easy one for some middle manager who has been there for a couple years and has no love for some crusty Old Internet service that's beyond obsolete (aka can't figure out how to put ads on it).
This is not new tech. Lasers have been cleaning rails in Europe for years, mabey a decade or more. If anything, this is only new in the US. It is not unproven tech and those involved are being disingenuous in describing it as so.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a...

2002

https://www.laserfocusworld.com/fiber-optics/article/1655239...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh6U4QJmutA

"all thanks to pioneering laser technology that most railroads are too scared to try out."

No. Most railroads are not scared of lasers. Those with the business case for this tech use it. Those without do not. Maybe "most" American railroads don't use these things but the reasons behind that are probably more political than fear-based.

From 2014:

"North American freight railroads, in general, have accepted the degraded performance debris can cause. Most of the current solutions are not efficient for the amount of territory and service required. A road vehicle with rail wheels based cleaning system would be most useful, allowing one or two workers to concentrate on the worst locations and move between trouble spots quickly.

- Steven Belforti, Guilford Rail System"

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22429984-800-locked-o...
First Al Gore gave us the internet now he's serving up rhythmically generated playlists.
Nice beginners page here:

https://wiki.samygo.tv/index.php?title=SamyGO_for_DUMMIES

This looks awesome and I can't wait to try it out on my TV.
Well one way we deal with typical unstructured data is to prevent the unstructuring in the first place. The low-latency logging method (for example) uses something like a printf-style interface but stores all of the source data with exactly the types you intended to print -- you can always erase the structure by printing when you want to, but having the structure when you need it is very useful.

What "structure" means and how it works can have a lot of nuance. With hobbes we basically start with algebraic data types (which map to most C-style data structures and so can be shared without conversion with C/C++ code). It's been a while since I looked at R, but IIRC it's a lot like Scheme (e.g. maybe the data sharing/translation story is more complicated?).

We do have some things that are helpful for dealing with unstructured text data, like a built-in LALR parser generator and regex matching (integrated with general pattern matching), but it's not one of the main use-cases we've been focused on.
Thanks, I misunderstood the proposal, which apparently applies mostly to "unescaped LINE SEPARATOR or PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR characters" within strings.
The VW group EVs are mostly junk and don't even compete with 8 year old Tesla's. That's tosay nothing about their pitiful charging network or substandard pilot assistance applications.

I am a German car fanatic and would love to own a German EV. The reality is they still have a long way to go.
Introduction to Calculus Textbook, during 1st college year. Mindblown. True enlightment. I got from it what I was looking for when researching religions and philosophy as a teenager.
The east coast doesn't have a "dry season" in any sense California would recognize. If it did this system might not be needed: it sounds like the problem is wet leaves being compressed into lubricant slime where dry leaves would just be crushed to powder.
Why the World Needs Haskell (2013)
Except this doesn't appear to be an open-source firmware. From my reading of their wiki, it's a series of hacks and patches to make small changes to the operating environment. All of Samsung's code is still in there, unless I'm missing something.

Also this should have a [2012] or something in the title. Most of it is very stale and applies to models no longer sold or popular.
If you are not charging then you don't have a business and investors want to see revenue and a return on their investments.

With the small number of active users, perhaps you should look at selling your technology to a company that will be able to spend on marketing.
I wonder how the "Microsoft is gaining on Slack" narrative would be changed if we had metrics on Lync/Skype for Business users that switched to Slack or Teams.

Basically I have enormous doubts about Microsoft's growth numbers in the space, since I can't fathom that anyone who wasn't already paying for MS products would choose to use teams, and I'm curious if they've made up the ground they lost to Slack in the first place.
I mean, of all the different libertarian philosophies, most of them are radical, in so much as they all seek to distance the individual from systems of government and social institutions. Since those things are what most people use day to day, and in the US only one of the two political parties leans that way, it does put you in a minority camp whose views can be felt as a sort of existential threat. (And honestly, politics and religion should both be kept out of most conversations)
Solo travel is an inherently selfish pursuit. You are just consuming, and not creating anything of value for society.
Bollinger is dodging all the safety regulations a normal car manufacturer would have to deal with by classifying their vehicle as a commercial light duty truck. It's cool but I think the company is doomed.
What guarantees do you get from a compiler than you don't get from a third party tool?

> Plus the strangest feature of all - a mechanism for turning off the optional type checking so old code will still compile, even if it won't work right.

Most languages have this, in some form or another. There are ways to get around type checking when the compiler misunderstands something. How is this unique to python?
Sounds like the book was doing something different though. Why should you believe that one sentence? The author has to sell you on the idea and demonstrate why it is a bad idea to hire assholes. A singular sentence isn't going to be enough to convince you, and it shouldn't be.
Maybe. But I did say that they didn't actually want a relationship, which isn't such a brag.
I'm not sure if youve used the average pickup truck in the last 5-6 years but side loading is pointless/impossible because the bed is so high. I am over 6' tall and can't put stuff into the bed of an f150, Silverado, etc without needing to use step rails.
I followed the links and found out that the cheapest option is over $3.5K (https://vorticwatches.com/products/railroad-edition-watch-bu...)

I did not buy this watch, and yet, considered it as a gift to a friend who is a watchs mini collector.

The watch has a "story", and when one get a compliment, he can tell the story, and that is perhaps the reason we buy some of our goods, for the story behind the product, for the "making of", never the less as for hte product itself.

Besides, everything assosicated wit htrains and taildrods turns on the imagination nostalgy by many.
cloud gaming is a hype, which I have spent 3 years on.
I doubt the plastic would make a particularly good hull. Strength/weight ratios are a big deal in sailing.
To the webmaster: Here are a few notes on the copy that might help it read more clearly.

> SamyGO is a project for legal reverse engineering and research on Samsung Television firmwares which is Open Sourced, partially.
We try to fix problems that in the firmware. We don't want money from you. We make this modifications for us and ourself but you are allowed to join us.

SamyGO is a project to legally reverse engineer and research Samsung TV firmwares. We try to fix the problems that exist in the stock firmware.

This project is free and open source. We don't want money from you. Instead, we make these modifications for ourselves, and encourage you to join us by contributing further improvements.
I think similary, I had a moment of weakness when I bought my house and bought some cheap IoT things to make my house 'smart' but this was followed by a moment of clarity so I decided not to use any of it.

I do however, use a running watch from Garmin. That's only used for when I'm excercising though, other times I'm wearing my automatic which is much nicer and doesn't try and track me.

I use my iPod video for music and Podcasts (big shoutout to gPodder and Rockbox for making this easy!). I do not buy and rip CDs though, as I don't like having to store them. I do by all my music from Bandcamp which gives me DRM free copies I can backup.
This should be the top comment of the thread.
Are you above average height? I'm 6'4" and get upgraded often. Seems to be more likely if I check in at the airport quite early.
Here is my adult matching site with generated avatars, would like feedback:
https://www.fwber.com (nsfw)
> Adobe Photoshop

They’re not open source, but quite a few graphic designers are switching from Adobe products like Photoshop and Illustrator to Affinity products like Photo and Designer. So Adobe is open to competitors, but they have to be very well executed (Affinity products are well-executed).

Also, it’s my opinion that (open-source) Inkscape is slowly closing in on Adobe Illustrator (and Affinity Designer). Not there yet, by any measure, but on its way.
I don't follow your logic. Yes, CNN and TYT are very different. This only means they can be tagged differently, but it doesn't mean they cannot be tagged under same category.

For example, The Selfish Gene and Advanced Algebra are two very different books, but they can be both categorized as nonfiction.

Maybe you are right with the conclusion, i.e. CNN or TYT should not be both categorized as “Partisan Left,” but you need a better reason.
I'm sure a more "hackable" web browser exists. But that web browser is likely not as great as Firefox or Chromium. Of course, acquiring technical debt in the short term can improve your performance or feature set in the short term, but in the long term sacrifices "hackability."

I agree with you that hackability is important, but I think we should understand how and why we got here.
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I never had waived change fees when I was 1K. They must have added it recently, but agree that is nice!
If my fridge is hardcoded to phone home at 2am, it works for me.

I kid.
A former boss of mine told me once: "if you think you need X before you do Y you will forever find Xs". He went on to be a very successful CEO of a F500 company so his advice likely has merit.

The takeaway I had was that you shouldn't wait to live your life by first toiling away at something. Live your life today because who knows about tomorrow. And work is part of life. Find a way to enjoy that too even if it's a means to an end.
> "This bit is crap" (https://www.bottomupcs.com/chapter02.xhtml under "Reordering")

Might want to proofread some of this and remove the ... proof-reading notes? Not sure what you thought was crap about this section?
@justsaysinmice
Vistaprint Logomaker files viewable due to insecure Amazon s3 bucket
As a native English speaker who read a lot as a kid, there are many words I've found as I got older that I was pronouncing entirely incorrectly. So I think this is quite common (I know several others like this)
This. It's so easy to escape in workaholism and ignore the "hard" things in life (relationships, health, purpose, etc). It's easy (for me at least) to fall into this trap.
Is it just me, or is this site now gone? I can see some content in Google Cache, but I am wondering if this site has been taken down by a DMCA request. If so, it's a bogus request because no "circumvention" has occurred, just reverse-engineering and alternative (and free) firmware.
Not much fiction in here:

* Ender's game

* Children of time

* Kingkiller Chronicle (series)

* Skyward
Huh, I didn't find anything about that from a quick Google. What kind of regulations does that allow them to skirt?
Thank you. Here's one official response I found, if others are interested.

> Again, we've done the research. The profits aren't there -- very few Linux users are willing to pay for commercial software.

> And the cost of entry is still high because of the fragmented Linux landscape.

> The Linux world has to change before commercial software will have reason to invest in Linux ports.

> And we haven't seen much real change in the Linux market in several years.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160321232350/https://forums.ad...

Edit notice: I completely overwrote the initial version of this comment, which said I couldn't find these posts, because I realized I was using the wrong search time terms and found what parent mentioned.
Its not forward secrecy. Its literally that the default ciphers and modes for PGP are a mess and it is so configurable that it is full of footguns.
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