skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
e-bikes help substantially with heat. Less effort for the same speed means more wind and less sweating.

No one is proposing e-bikes for 40+ mile commutes. That can only be replaced by commuter rail and in-fill housing.

Half of all car trips are less than 15 miles and a lot of those could be replaced with e-bikes.
Can’t argue with that. Unfortunately there is no agile/“fail fast” in government.
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I would guess these situations pre-date any of the current zoning laws.
At the risk of seening facile, the "just" the title resulted in my being hostile to the article. But, to try to be fair, I read it.

After completing the toughest gig of my professional life to date, "just build the product" as an instruction/conclusion feels both useful and flip.

In my head, I have an idea for a product. Sod all money in it. But as useful tool for something I care about, the "just build it" mentality fits.

However, in the roof-over-head world of making something useful for an enterprise customer "just build it" feels trite.

I went in to as a software consultant/developer to a fairly non IT literate organisation and was tasked to deliver to their specs. The big and costly challenge was to discover the product. To understand and challenge their specs, see the gaps, refine the UX and deliver. In my naivety, I thought the the customer would be receptive to this approach. Turns out they were - but only because I shouldered the cost of doing so. A massive learning experience for me. The customer got a product that exceeded their expectations - but, for a fixed price gig, commercially a failure for me.

I wouldn't change my willingness to jump in this time around, but I won't repeat it - and would now walk away early from a customer that thought they had the solution all figured out (as opposed to having the problem figured out). In this circumstance "Just build the product" feels trite and self-indulgent. Clarity on what to build is hard earned. And the opportunities that iterative development affords to a a software development organisation are a hard sell to one whose core expertise lies outside IT. Possibly a failure on my part, certainly room for improvement on my part.
Black Mirror writers: please turn this into an episode.
> Ok. You are proposing I should be able to buy any gun I want whenever I want regardless of size or capacity, automatic, or loud or silenced for cash without any checks or regulations at all?

What? No.
Is Cyber Retaliation from Iran Imminent?
> when the language itself (spec and implementation) is constantly in flux.

Common Lisp and Clojure are legendary for their stability. So many times I have experienced it myself - I would pick up a 5-6 year old Clojure project, update a bunch of dependencies, and somehow most things work right off the bat. That trick never worked for me with pretty much any other language - C#, Java, Python, Ruby, Go, Lua, Javascript - you name it.

Why is that? Probably because Lisp dialects essentially have no syntax. Code is data and data is code.
A lot of odd and downright false assertions ITT. Anti-Brexit people are too often mistakenly conflating Cummings/Johnson and Farage as if everyone in favour of Brexit has precisely the same views. In reality they ran two different campaigns in very different styles and in fact one of Vote Leave's main aims was to keep Farage off the TV as much as possible because he was (and is) a turn off to the majority and presumably most swing voters.

I voted Remain at the time, but stumbling across Cummings' blogs and subsequently reading about Tetlock [0] + David Deutsch's arguments [1] has left me in favour of Leave (although I don't have strongly nailed down views on this).

This project is a great idea to improve the effectiveness of government by creating tools that will help ministers and officials make better decisions in the face of complex systems. Will it work? I'm optimistic but there will surely be unknown unknowns that could derail progress in addition to plain old politics.

[0] - Superforecasting is a great book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Superforecasting-Science-Prediction...

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdtssXITXuE

Also, Timothy Gowers (Fields Medallist) has an interesting piece in favour Remain [2], although he overlooks the fact that differences in institutional design of UK vs EU mean that sovereignty has significant implications beyond just sovereignty for sovereignty's sake.

[2] - https://gowers.wordpress.com/2016/06/02/6172/

Edit: Would love to hear counterarguments from downvoters btw. I don't mean that in a hostile way, I've changed my mind on this topic many times in the past 3 years and I'd be more than happy to be exposed to more good arguments against Brexit and Cummings' ideas.
Given your responses I wouldn't say its misworded but wrong. Specifically referring to his last sentence:

"McCarthy didn't realize it could be used on computers till his graduate student Steve Russell suggested it."

Anyway, appreciate the clarification/link. Will try to correct my article when I get a chance.
The best solution for randomness is to try multiple times. Unfortunately humans only have one life to live and limited capital. This is why rich kids more often end up founding successful companies - they were able to try again after their first failure(s).
How did you cherry pick that list?
The actual top countries per capita from your source are:

Qatar 40.1
Trinidad & Tobago 37.78
Kuwait 34.24
Netherlands Antilles 23.55
Brunei Darussalam 22.96
United Arab Emirates 22.31
Aruba 21.59
Luxembourg 21.34
...

But looking at the total, rather than per-capita, carbon emissions makes more sense if we want to actually cut total carbon emissions.

Here is the list of top CO2 emitting countries:

China 10,877.2
United States 5,107.4
India 2,454.8
Russia 1,764.9
Japan 1,320.8
Germany 796.5
South Korea 673.3
Iran 671.5
...

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
, which cites the source
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/fossil-co2-emissions...
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>Not to mention the ease that that feature can be abused. What’s to stop the opposing team from just vote kicking the top players on your team?

This is exactly what happened when they had this feature in Overwatch. One of the top (legit) Widow players could not find a game because everyone he played against vote banned him from their games. He was basically unable to play the game because he was too good at it.
Security measures like that becomes "Google abuses its monopoly to suppress competition" complaints that are frontpaged here every week.
I remember Iran had very large scale protests in 2009 leading into 2010, so that was probably on their mind, thinking it would lead to some kind of radical change.
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I've been experimenting with both Bulma and Tailwind as a way to finally ween myself off of Bootstrap.

What is it about Bulma that's pushed you to look for something else?
I was looking for something like this. Seems it just might do the trick. Awesome job, thanks!
Yup, we have to find places that conform to what we want (e.g. loud music, sells liquor, etc). So long as we have a reasonable choice, we're good. I am willing to go out on a limb and bet that there are more bars in Tampa that disallow smoking than ones that allow it. We should avoid outright banning something in all adult leisure places we never attend, lest we've moved the goalposts from health to convenience.
>If the scientist was wrong, he was wrong for reasons that were more subtle and complicated than the objections the author thought of.

oh you mean like aliens not existing and the guy getting really excited over a space rock?
Two hours/drink is what I've been told it takes the body to process. Mind you I didn't fact check this, and it's highly variable.
Sorry to hear your preconceptions. Here are reviews on my famous no-packaging vegetable stews: http://joshuaspodek.com/food-world-reviews

Guests have included titans of industry, famous authors, podcasters, a Nobel laureate, and many among my podcast guests.
I don't really care for government safety rules like these in general. And I totally get that biking is relatively safe in places were it's deeply ingrained to the culture like Amsterdam. I still cringe at least a little bit though with pics like this. (from Amsterdam)

https://flic.kr/p/WRp6js
Same shocking experience in Austin a few weeks back. Trying to pick up a DisplayPort KVM and a couple of DP cables. This is the big one on MoPac by Opal Devine's. I'd say more than 50% of the shelves were bare, with merchandise strewn about, loose power cables still plugged into outlets. A surprising number of employees but no one was actually doing anything. The computer hardware section looked like a bomb went off. No stock anywhere. But there weren't any "Liquidation / Going Out Of Business" banners like you'd normally expect to see in these circumstances.

I used to love Fry's, they had a great selection for system builders and hobbyists. Although I will say it always had a kind of grim, penitential air to it - all the employees in their black and white outfits and the massive black locked cages behind the rows of registers. It seemed oppressive, like you wouldn't be surprised to find out that the managers were beating the cashiers or something.

Still, sorry to see it go. I've been disappointed with the other system-builder-oriented place in town who knowingly restock broken merch. I guess it's Newegg from here on out!
Yes. It's an example of trying to write how you'd want it spoken.

The written word is a different medium.

It would be like writing:

> She enters the room. Pan left and there's a photo on the wall. Cut back to her, she's brushing a strand of hair from her face. Now cut to the bartender. Zoom in on him. He's polishing a glass, staring at nothing.

etc.

It's a pastiche of a movie scene.

It's not that you can't do it or that the reader won't know what you're trying to do. Unless there's a specific reason to do so, it's probably not the best option.
I used to use Lucene back in the 1.x days when a fuzzy search was a complete table scan. It was quite a surprise to see how your single term fuzzy query was interpreted as one term query for each fuzzy hit OR-ed together. The Lucene team soon realized they needed to code a levenstein automaton but none of them had ever done that before. They pulled several all-nighters reading math papers and coding and when they succeeded they were so happy they told the world about it [0]. It's a great story.

https://dzone.com/articles/lucenes-fuzzyquery-100-times
MM doesn't solve any problems in case of cheating.

Also there is no such things as "MM being really good" it's a tradoff between many criterias.
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It's a world market. US as a producer sells oil both domestically and abroad. US as a consumer consumes both domestic oil and foreign oil. In 2018, it worked out to about 9.9 million barrels/day of foreign oil being imported, and 7.6 million barrels/day of US oil being exported.

If something disrupts production of some major world exporter X, causing the world market price to rise or causing shortages on the world market, US domestically sees that too.
> GPUs are already SMT processors, since that's how they handle main memory latency.

I thought they used a simpler barrel-processor model to handle that. SMT seems a bit more sophisticated.
So, given the author quit his money making startup to make a business that would be helpful for humanity, I assume that all of his data and IP is now in a .zip file up for auction and not actually disseminated to people who could use it right? It tells you that what people say is their motivations, especially when it comes to startups are often not at all the case.
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You need to register the car, and that often requires proof of insurance, which requires a driver's license. Either way, my point still stands. You're quibbling over semantics. So few people want to buy a car just to not drive it, that we don't even consider it a problem.
The new Seattle waterfront sidewalks have a similar inlayed motif of large purple glass tiles. Was cool to notice the design inspiration.

https://www.washington.edu/news/2017/05/18/seattle-seawalls-...

https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-s-new-seawall-was-built...
Yeah there was one generation of Mac's that used the Intel Core Duo which 32bit only. They are long not supported. https://everymac.com/mac-answers/snow-leopard-mac-os-x-faq/m...
That's assuming the way they test is based on whether they get banned or not, instead of analyzing the anti-cheat code to see how it works so they don't get banned to begin with.
ElasticSearch is really just clustered Lucene with some nice features wrapping it. You can probably get away with something that also wraps lucene. Though elasticsearch has a dominant position precisely because it is quite full featured and easy to run.
Hey, a left-leaning folk here (in that I broadly approve of Labour’s manifesto, if not its execution or current leadership).

The things Cummings gets right are already well-discussed, among the lefties in my social group at least. And he gets a fair bit of not-entirely-negative analysis in the Guardian.

I like almost everything Cummings says about data-driven government. That’s all fine. But that’s also not what people are generally taking exception to.

On the other hand, I think Seumas Milne is terrifying. Perhaps more so than Cummings, were Milne to have actual power.

You use the expression “left-leaning”. Cummings himself demonstrates the limits of simple left/right, liberal/conservative labels. He’s a little bit of all of those things. He’s not a Conservative party member, for example. Immigration doesn’t bother him personally.
> “but what if we had an anti-gravity drive?”

What does this one mean? I know you said you think they're meaningless, but in what context is this one used?
Maybe they're not bothering to replace burned out bulbs? Neither's a good look, though.
But my point was that Fry's could have made changes too. It's very possible to compete with Amazon.
This is the worst timeline.

Some of this is, most assuredly, going to happen - at least to some extent.
This is a really important point and I wish I'd mentioned it. The computational considerations (as you've said) make the classic Gradient Descent method infeasible in practice. Therefore we resort to stochastic estimates or Quasi Newton approaches (which I'm still looking into).

My main objective was to highlight is that given that we are performing the classic gradient descent, the gradient will yield the greatest reduction in the function value. Essentially it was a point to highlight the underlying calculus. Wayne Winston in his book Operations Research: Applications and Algorithms has an interesting passage where he discusses the gradient being the direction of maximum increase (he was looking as steepest ascent).
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You are referring back to OP's own reasoning fallacy...

DNN emerges out from being an underdog. Its superiority was proven by technology and economy.

What you said is of course not wrong, but they can never be proven right. As immediately you switch the role, your argument then favors the other one.
Here's a post on how I make my stews: http://joshuaspodek.com/my-famous-no-packaging-vegetable-ste...

Here's a video of me making it (to manage expectations, I didn't make it to entertain, just to document): http://joshuaspodek.com/20-minute-vegetable-stew

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Quite. Can't really help you on how to analyse a pattern from it. First figure out how to represent what's in all those assorted books without bringing your own skew or bias in how you're assembling it.

I'm stone cold on modern astrology, I suspect it more likely the season you were born and spent first three months (i.e. freezing cold or nice and warm) influences more than Mars or Libra. At the same time there was a lot of awareness of science and medicine far further back than you might think, often buried or silenced behind religious policy or dogma, and it was a rather different beast back then. It wasn't specific predictions until much later (well at least how I understand fromt he histories I;ve read). Seasonal patterns and growth cycles have been known since, well, Stonehenge -- hopefully those aren't too controversial too. :)

I see the question has been flagged. Perhaps it might be better to think of how to ask the analysis question generically enough to get past the HN "woo mumbo jumbo" reaction, like "how do I analyse patterns in a vague data set from multiple, potentially contradicting ancient texts" or some such. or s/astrology/astronomy/ and resubmit. :)
If you thread this up to the product-level, opportunities abound. For example, instead of storing data for a feature, see if you can get half the feature without the data storage. Or, if a certain feature is going to require a major shift in the way the UI looks or works, perhaps there's a way to blend in a v1 to the existing metaphors that can be replaced later. Etc
> How long can legend persist, though?

This isn't the right question. There's nothing stopping a legend from persisting indefinitely.

But the information about where a legend came from or how old it might be will become unrecoverable.

As a minor digression, consider the related question "how long can a word persist in a language?". We can trace languages back several thousand years. Many words don't go back that far. Many words do go back that far, but have changed significantly in form, meaning, or both. Some words have, by coincidence, been preserved almost exactly in both form and meaning -- in at least one descendant language. There's no reason not to expect the same pattern to hold at larger timescales... but we can't reconstruct ancestor languages at those larger timescales, so there's no way to evaluate the claim directly.

Back in the realm of legends, we know that the proto-Indo-Europeans had a legend of a warrior who kills his own son. The Irish reflex of this legend is the story of Cuchulainn, and the Greek reflex is the story of Hercules. These two stories have some suggestive similarities, but in isolation it is not obvious that they are the same story. In particular, the manner in which each kills his own son is totally different. We are nevertheless confident of the relationship between the legends because we can see the same legend occurring in other Indo-European traditions.

So in summary:

1. A cultural feature may persist for pretty much any length of time.

2. However, after a while it becomes impossible to determine how long the feature has been in place for.

3. And very old features are likely to have mutated in some ways; without points of comparison, it is not possible to tell which aspects of something are old and which are new.
I think the key is whether the E-mail is unsolicited. Request a password reset? The E-mail is solicited and expected. Just bought something from an online store? The receipt E-mail is solicited and expected. In these cases, users should not feel it's particularly risky to click the links, because they are currently interacting with the site.

On the other hand, "Hi! We noticed there is a scary-sounding problem with your account, please click here to fix it!" No legitimate company should be sending users something like this out of the blue, and users should be trained to immediately think fraud/scam when they receive this.
Gee, you just described my practice :-)
By modern I mean the approach to configuring and running, and the myriad of languages used: Antiquated XML for some things, a homegrown DSL for others, JSON for query results, then multiple languages for expressing various parts of the query -- it's pretty chaotic.

Another thing that felt antiquated: The whole notion of uploading an "application". I can appreciate the benefits of controlling the lifecycle of the configuration and have Vespa distribute it to nodes. But when you start out, that "application" is just one or two files, and yet you have to create a whole directory structure for it, as opposed to just POSTing individual configs to REST endpoints like you can do with ES. The heavy-handedness of it feels very "Java".

The document you linked to is a different type of exact match. I've been through this, and even posted a Github issue. Mysteriously, a Vespa developer replied that nobody had ever needed exact string matching, so nobody had bothered to implement it.

Parent/child is not applicable to what I was talking about, I think. I'm not talking about hierarchical relationships.

For my part, most of my work is in structured data, not text or vector-based ranking, and Vespa really doesn't seem to be designed for that.

ES also has a very, very good aggregation API. Vespa's aggregation syntax is odd and seemingly much more limited.
Excited to share a small project I put up in the first 2 days of the new year.
New year resolutions usually break in 20 days. But what if you get a daily reminder in your email. Probably you could hold to goals a bit longer!

Using Surge to host frontend, and hosting backend on ec2.
Couldn't use Netlify/ Github pages without enforcing HTTPS. Any suggestion on how to enforce HTTPS for ec2 at cheap cost?
As a life long cyclist (half of that time in big european cities, half on the countryside) I doubt that the muscle power to propell your bicycle forward is the issue that blocks a wide adoption of the vehicle.

As far as I can tell the (by far) biggest issue is the perceived risk involved which boils down to mostly two things: infrastructure and adoption.

Better infrastructure demands you not to be as hardcore to start riding the bike — more adoption makes cycling more normal and therefore safer (motorists and pedestrians start to think more about cyclists, which means less dangerous situations occur).

How to get people to cycle is also something that you can figure out by places where this worked (e.g. the Netherlands, Denmark etc.) instead of trying to create new products to sell.
The Tibetan origin legend is not random, has been around for a long time, and is an important part of the Buddhist and Bon traditions within Tibet. The “monkey” is referencing the same race of hominid as the legendary Hanuman in Hindu myths. The idea here passed down in the Tibetan tradition is that the wild race of “ogres” have been civilized by noble influences.

So while random legends might be that, there may be other characteristics of legends that are not being accounted for with a purely random selection.