skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only got a smartphone about 3 years ago. Prior to that it was plain sms and phone calls. The only lifestyle improvement the smartphone offers for me is being able to look things up at any time, and being able to provide internet to my laptop though tethering. It can be difficult to go without internet when navigating new places. Google used to let you send sms messages to get directions, but they killed that many years ago. Otherwise experience is mostly down to which apps are installed and their notification settings. When i first got the phone i tried social media apps, and my ability to concentrate noticeably worsened. Removing them and locking down notifications for other apps restored my overall quality of life to what it was pre-smartphone.
Why Are the Fires So Bad in Australia?
A history of sugar – the food nobody needs, but everyone craves
Machine Learning:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzxYlbK2c7E: Andrew Ng's
machine Learning course, the recommended entry point
by most people

* https://mlcourse.ai/ : More kaggle focused, but also more
modern and has interesting projects

Do both courses simultaneously, take good notes, write useful flashcards, and above all do all the exercises and projects

Deep Learning

* https://www.fast.ai/ - Very hands-on, begin with "
Practical Deep Learning for Coders" and then "Advanced
Deep Learning for coders"

* https://www.coursera.org/specializations/deep-learning :
More bottom-up approach, helps to understand the theory
better

Do those two courses in parallel (you can try 2 weeks of coursera followed by one of fastai in the beginning, and then just alternate between them), take notes, write good flashcards and above all do the exercises and projects.

After that you will be done with the beginning, your next step will depend on what area interested you the most, and getting way too many resources right now can be extremely confusing, so I would recommend doing a follow-up post after you worked through the above resources.
Also as non-ML stuff I recommend Scott Young's Ultralearning and Azeria's self improvement posts (https://azeria-labs.com/the-importance-of-deep-work-the-30-h...)
"threaten", as if it was a bad thing.

The world desperately need energy-efficient, sustainable public transport and cities designed around it.

The electric car will not save us. Trains and bicycles might.
That’s only true if the battery will export DC and you have an appropriate inverter setup. Tesla batteries won’t supply DC, at least not without hacking. And a big enough inverter to power your house is not that cheap.

But yes, I agree in principle.

On the bright side, there are CHAdeMO and CCS V2H and V2G (Vehicle to House/Grid) standards under development.
The Rise of Listening Bars in Barcelona [video]
It's mine, you can share it without any attribution if you like
Ditched my smartphone 2 years ago, have no social media accounts - and no interest in whatever either is offering. If I don't code, which I do 12+ hours a day, min. 5 days a week, then I'm doing another activity which requires solitude and long, undisturbed sessions. Everything I need done, I can do from a normal phone or my computer.
ChubaoFS: The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s New Distributed File System
Still doesn't make sense. Instagram and postcards have different use cases and latter is not about sending someone a physical photo or showing a any photo (hint again: it's a gesture).
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. I've done my share of video and photo programming on Linux (in particular I've written non-trivial v4l2 drivers for use in things like car rear view cameras, where obviously low latency is absolutely critical and you have to resort to tricks like processing the image by slice before you've read the full sensor) but I'm not sure I see how that's relevant for a "point and shoot" type camera.

For one thing I don't think any reasonable camera would have the CPU "bitbang" the reading of the sensor's pixel, it will be read and buffered in hardware and set to the system RAM through DMA. We're talking about hundreds of megabytes of raw data per picture here, it's not something you want to memcpy(), especially on an embedded processor. If receiving a tweet is enough to make you miss some pixels then you haven't prioritized your RAM controller correctly or your system is severely overloaded already.

The shutter release is independent of course, but it's not something where a few microseconds are going to change anything, especially for a mechanical shutter where you need to move physical parts. If your CPU stalls for 1ms processing a tweet then, again, you have bigger problems. You don't need an RTOS to control a camera shutter.

So that leaves us with the problem of latency but even there I fail to see the problem. My girlfriend is a professional photographer and when she shoots she can either get the preview on the camera's screen (but that involves switching to the preview which already usually takes a pair of seconds) or getting the image on a PC connected through USB, which also takes a significant amount of time. Adding or removing 100ms of latency won't change a lot in practice as far as I can tell.
This was more interesting than the average "rewrite in Rust" blog post. Specifically I thought the part about how having compiler-enforced memory safety allows for the use of patterns that would otherwise be difficult to use safely interesting.
Thanks ....that means that I should walk away .
The Social Security Trust Fund used to soak up most of the U.S. deficit, but it switched to net outflows 1 or 2 years ago.

For the past 5 months the Federal Reserve has increased its treasury holdings by $250 billion[1], after selling them steadily for the past 2 years as part of QE reversal. Everything I've read said that the recent inability for the Treasury to clear short-term bonds is a technical issue. But I wonder if these two matters are purely coincidental. Perhaps the removal of the SS Trust Fund buffer is starting to catch up with our massive and dramatically increasing (since the Trump tax cut) deficits? Any linkage would have to be indirect, I suppose, but still....

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TREAST
Amazing how people keep blaming VW and Germany! They are not the worst offenders, by far:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_emissions_scandal#Previ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nitrogen_oxide_on-road_em...
Web Components Slides – January 2020
After that novel's success, there was a noticeable upsurge in novels that shared a number of features and styles and themes. I suspect that it was something of a Pulp Fiction effect; reading it again now makes it seem almost derivative, much as Pulp Fiction now looks like a homage to itself.

Granted, this is of importance to the publishing industry and the novel reading public rather than, say, the economy or politics.
Just to clear a common misunderstanding.

Portugal decriminalized drug use. Meanings that drugs are still illegal, it is just that you won't face a court of law and you won't go to jail, but you can still get punished, for example with a fine.

Also, if you have more than a small amount of drugs, it is considered trafficking and it is still a crime in Portugal. With jail time.

And there is no exception for cannabis, it is illegal just like crack and heroin.
The fact that we don't yet know the ramifications, if any, doesn't mean that it isn't a potential problem. This is true for the complex chemical soup that is our bloodstream these days, making any sort of inferences to specific isolates exceedingly difficult and even off the mark.
U.S. Population Growth in 2019 Is Slowest in a Century
No, it is entirely possible to delete the underlying object so a reference is left dangling. See https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines/issues/1038 for example.
Predictions about the future that the Cyberpunk 2020 RPG did get right (so far)
In the 2010s the internet went from being 'elsewhere' to ruling our lives
the title (which is what am I searching for) has, unfortunately, a little to do with the content.
Thank you for writing it. I used it for the first time last week and it made my job so much easier than the other solutions I was looking at.
Async/await largely solves that though.
I can only assume you are talking about interacting with Google, the company. I've never succeeded in getting any humans attention in Google, and I suspect that very few people who don't considerable sums with them have managed it. It is indeed like dealing with a gigantic, uninterested, stonewalling, machine.

However, the article wasn't about that. It was about their UI design techniques. When I remember the clusterfuck that was the early versions of Android, I'm truly amazed by how far they have come. Comparing Android Auto to what the car manufacturers provide is literally night and day. The car's native interface is cluttered with distracting detail and a profusion of buttons and controls, whereas the navigation in Android Auto seems stripped down to the bare necessities - just what you need to know. Yet they both have the same feature set, so Google has managed to squeeze the functionality into a UI so simple a single glance at the screen while tells you what you need to know - and not much more.

Google Sheets on Android is to my mind a simply stunning achievement - the pinnacle in UI design. I only discovered it when a desperate situation forced me to use sheets in desperation on the phone. Anyone whose used a speadsheet on a PC knows they support a large variety of ways of interacting with them by dragging, right clicking, highlighting and so on, and despite all that need a large menu at the top for the things not covered. How on earth could you translate that to a tiny screen that can't distinguish between scrolling and dragging? It seemed so hopeless I didn't bother to look for years. Yet when I did look not only did they managed to include almost all of the functionality of the desktop version in a tiny fraction of the space - they made it all discoverable as well.

There is no way this is just luck, or the inspired work of a single man. They had to have employed the engineering techniques like he those described and probably many more besides - rapid iteration, testing many ideas with feed back from multiple groups of users.

Now back to dealing with Google the company. Despite all this good work, Google Sheets (both desktop and Android versions) has a flaw - in some circumstances it can't add up. 1+1=3 is a pretty bad flaw in a spreadsheet. (It's not as simple as that obviously, but it comes up with the wrong result and yet if you export it to say Excel or Libre Office, they get a different, and correct result.) But I don't pay for it, so do you think there is some place I can report this? Absolutely not. They are frustratingly hopeless in some ways.
A Next-Generation Trash Can
Seconding for log parser.

There's even a UI there : https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/in...
Pharo Year One
"For shampoo, I'd recommend going with a solid bar. They're hard to find outside of health food stores and the like . . ."

They're not hard to find at all. They're called "soap". It's as easy to find as Dove Unscented soap or any boutique brand; just look for a soap with the fewest ingredients. Or better yet: if you have time, just make your own. We've been conditioned by shampoo manufacturers to believe that cleaning our hair is different than cleaning our skin and I just don't buy it.

Aside from the convenience and the low cost, the fact that soap isn't an oil-attacking detergent like shampoo means that conditioner is probably unnecessary as well. Also, don't wash your hair every day. It may take time for your hair and scalp to adjust to not having to produce as much oil as it's used to, but my long hair has been absolutely fine for years using just soap.
Yeah, I think that's about what I'm actually working with right now.. Will be live really soon!
Which is great and commendable.. that's what the industry my family member worked in used to be like. Until the decision-makers offshored it all and decimated huge swaths of working class US. There are tons of people who don't make decisions about this kind of thing trying to get by.

Maybe the trade war was worth it, maybe not, but there are real people with their livelihoods on the line suffering the whims of some really apathetic people.

I'm curious what industry is making things entirely in the US anymore? Even something like a Tesla Model 3 is 50% non-US these days.
> The institute survived through the horrible times of stalin and later it became of strategic importance as the west didn't share antibiotics with the soviet union.

Penicillin and Streptocide were shipped to USSR under Lend-Lease in industrial quantities and saved many hundreds of thousands lives.
Besides OS where they are often needed, spinlocks can have their place in a few very specific (and most of the time isolated on dedicated computers), but I agree that too many people are trying to play with them now, without enough knowledge.
Great idea! :P
It is! :P
Earthshot Prize – A decade of action to repair the Earth
Yep, I've heard that too. However, the states are much worse. Someone was telling me about how he made an error, and New York was much more aggressive. He decided to take his family and company to Texas instead, so in the long term, New York lost a lot more money. Plus his kids when they grow up will probably stay in Texas too, so they might as well lost an entire generation they could have taxed. Plus New York isn't a business friendly state in the first place along with New Jersey and California.

Then California is the same way too it sounds even going after former residents as they went after the inventor of the microprocessor who moved to Nevada, and even broke Nevada law while doing so since they sent state officials across state lines to stalk him and dig through his trash. He sued California in Nevada and was granted millions of dollars, but due to a loophole, California didn't even have to pay as much as the judge in Nevada ordered. California says living in an apartment isn't a permanent home, you must get a mortgage and buy a house to no longer be a California resident... Well, of course, that isn't the actual law, so the state of California abused their power.

I wonder how California would view someone getting into YC, doing the program for the 3 months and then going back to where they were originally living or moving to a totally different state after such as Austin, TX since they had no intent of living in California? I wish YC would expand to Austin. San Francisco looks nice to visit, but due to it being expensive, and politics it's a turn off for some people. However it seems like Austin is starting to have some of the same problems with cost of living rising since it's growing, Apple is expanding there to be the largest employer in Austin.
Perhaps it's because you haven't used it and their system suspects someone stole your details and wants to run a Bitcoin miner or something?
right, that would be equivalent replacement...
Isn't this the institutional version of an ad hominem?

Every article from the Guardian, the NYT, or really any other large publisher gets this comment, and it's often voted to the top.

It adds nothing. Everyone knows half of the population doesn't trust any newspaper to get the date on the front page right.

So the Guardian thinks #metoo and the financial crisis were among the topics of salience on the last year? I would actually bet both Bernie Sanders and Rupert Murdoch would agree the financial crisis mattered. And even Harvey Weinstein would agree #metoo had some sort of impact.

Because we might no longer have a shared truth, but there's still quite a lot of agreement on what to disagree about,

There is no "bias-free" book that shaped the decade. Unless you go by print run, and it's the leaflet that comes with every new iPhone. Or go by sales figures, in which case it's 50 Shades of Gray. Which is obviously wrong, but kind of fitting. After all, this seems to be the decade were anything but black and white disappeared.
I got a fairly good introduction to assembly with LC-3 (Little Computer 3, an instruction set for learning) programming in an elementary electrical engineering class in college. I haven't looked myself, but for those self studying, searching "LC-3" might be a good option for self-learning assembly.
Take the Great British Intelligence Test: How Clever Are You?
Not clear what "other languages" you mean here.

GC is a problem for OS/embedded programming. And before Rust, safety required GC (or an unpalatably restrictive programming model like MISRA). Even if Symbolics or the C# Windows Vista work had been more successful, Rust would still be needed.
> I dont see this 50% drop

Obviously, because you're looking at installed peak capacity, not actual power generation. Here you can see that coal is indeed being used less and less: https://energy-charts.de/energy_de.htm?source=all-sources&pe...
>there’s a ton of shitty jobs out there, and those shitty jobs are most vulnerable to outsourcing, automation, made obsolete, etc

Shitty jobs are not must vulnerable, quite opposite in fact. Automating some 400K/year quant job at hedge fund makes morse sense than automatng MCjob that pays 40K/year. More to that, shitty jobs are hardest to automate (we are nowhere close to good janitor robot, for example).

Also, you can not outsource cleaning toilets or hairdessers, but you can software development or building trading models.
Your analogy is wrong i.e. you are comparing apples to oranges. ML is very different from other "normal" computation systems.

* Non-ML: Input + {Rules} = Output

* ML: Input + Output = {Rules}

where "{Rules}" = Infinite set of possible "Programs" each of which is a trace through a very large state space of variables.

In the first case, we humans use all our ingenuity to write the program and tweak it to get the right results. We already know the difficulties involved in writing "correct" programs but have mastered it to some extent.

In the second case, you cannot do that. Your "Programs" are derived by the system and encoded in numbers. How in the world do you even know that your encodings are correct? This is why you need the techniques of Mathematics to transform (eg. Linear Algebra) and constrain (eg. Inferential Statistics/Probability) the output "Rules" so you can have some measure of confidence in it. This is the fundamental challenge inherent in ML.
How Cells Learn to “Count”
If you want to learn the material of MIT courses, I would recommend working through the problem sets, not just the exams.
In R this is rather straightforward, and you can also achieve it without additional libraries:

weight <- read.csv("weight.csv")
person <- read.csv("person.csv")
merge(weight, person, all=TRUE)

Of course, nowadays you would use data.table, but still the merging logic would be exactly the same.
Whatever the influence of “Gone Girl” on the decade is, it certainly can’t be bigger than “50 shades of Grey” from 2011/2012.
It's been free before. It's not that we made money with it.
“Clever” has different meanings in British and American usage. In the US it describes a particular ability to solve tricky problems and come up with innovative solutions, whereas in the UK it describes more general overall intelligence.
When "Antifa thugs" call for the police in Saxony, you can be sure that whoever they are dealing with acted very bad.
If I'm going to click on an ad, it's going to be a Facebook ad. Believe it or not I actually was a patient in a clinical trial I found out about through a Facebook ad.
Setting aside the fact that you're listing event/issues, and not books: In what universe can anyone believe a single Olympics should rank anywhere near the term "defining a decade"?

There's winter and summer, so every decade sees five and your top-10 is half full. Personally, I think the Soccer World is at least as important, and that, considering their singular relevance for the fate of the world, some tournaments surely see two books written about them, the list is full. So maybe that "book" about some regional independence in a has-been empire, which isn't even independent, just didn't make the cut.

By the way: half a million people died in Syria this decade.
Hurr durr. I fully agree that the microservice architecture is abused and overused to all hell, but it is still valid in a lot of cases. It is a separate discussion, and I believe you know that.
Hmm nope, I'm not familiar with TipTap. The text editor is actually just a textarea, nothing fancy :)
I honestly have no clue about Redux. I know a bit about react and used Mobx but I’m not a huge fan. When it comes to state managers and especially bigger frameworks with best practice patterns I get reminded a lot about PureMVC. This was the framework in the late 2000th that claimed to solve everything because it’s so simple and slim. But with a bigger application the whole boilerplate setup exploded. And don’t get me started with PureMVC pipes etc. Reading the comments here sounds like Redux has kind of the same issues.
Or a country in a different direction, Switzerland, where both trains and Teslas are more popular than in Germany despite the lack of many of those EV incentives, as far as I know.
How long would it take to make the whole screen one color (excluding the red car)? And what is the best strategy: driving in circles or fast alternating between gas and brake?
Why implement this functionality from scratch when a tried and tested implementation exists.
As others have pointed out, terrible wrong-headed advice to ignore all "Theory". ML cannot be studied by a scatter-shot approach but needs a systematic plan with Theory first followed by Practice and constant iteration between the two.
Lack of respect for the human right to privacy by governments and corporations will lead to mass surveillance, gamified control and microtargeted propaganda.

Every one of these is dangerous, but gamified control is by far the worst of these, as it directly attacks the concept of equality which many human rights are fundamentally based on. "Equal access to public service"? Well sure you had the chance to have a good enough score to be allowed in this part of town. It is your own fault that you are a bad human. Giving up privacy will place governance in the hand of unthinking uncaring algorithms. If you the think the human bureaucrats were bad, wait until you experience the automated ones. But even worse: these three mechanisms empower authoritarianism and are easily abused to reinforce power of a ruling caste.

Modern technology makes it easier to ignore the basic human right to privacy than to respect it. I therefor would not compare privacy to free speech, like Snowden does. Free speech is easy. In my opinion it is far more reasonable to compare privacy to the right to a fair trial: having fair trials is significantly harder than despotism. And in a similar way, most people care very little about fairness in court, unless they are directly impaired, and many are willing to throw it away if they believe some evil is using it to hide from justice.
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Nonsense. They can't force you to do anything, you can always quit before you agree to doing that.
It's a country of two billion people that grew from mostly rural to partly very modern in very short time. Of course they need a much larger money supply than before.
Puffins can use tools – and they're smarter than scientists thought
In economics there is the concept of sin taxes. With the rise of sugar-related illnesses like diabetes, there has started a movement to tax it as well. Mexico was the first country to tax sugary drinks and many more countries started to follow suit. The key thing is to have a general sugar tax to help pay for the negative externalities like obesity.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/nov/03/obese-soda-suga...
How I automate my home
Yes, if it is a small project by all means do that

For bigger projects there's usually a security@ email address or similar