skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why you mention ETFs. If Google said it was meaningless that they were in a total market index fund with almost every other public company, then they would be right. But whether they were or weren't they could do business with somebody just the same. Did you think that companies can't interact if they're not subsidiaries of the same organization? Not only can they do whatever they want bilaterally, but often companies or other organizations set up a joint board or company or something with representatives to work on something of common interest. It probably has to be done the right way to avoid antitrust, but it's done a lot, and by government agencies too. This is not a mutual fund or ETF; the joint entity is controlled by the members, not vice versa.
Does anyone have recommendations for how best to approach learning Ancient Greek? Would this book make a good starting point?
...However, for real Japanese from the wild there would need to be many many rules, and any slight deviations from the rules would not result in a full parse.

Much like the rest of biological systems, natural language "laws" and formalisms are more or less guaranteed to have a "except when..." clause after them.

I tried to think of a recursive "except when" to the above, but couldn't come up with anything appropriately witty.
You are comparing average (or worse) internet content to the best books out there. That's basically a straw man argument. The question "Are any books worth it?" is an obvious "yes" and not worth discussion.

I submit that you can find good blogs, podcasts, etc., and find out what their creators are inspired by and consume that content.

I also contend that the whole thing is a false dichotomy. There's no particular reason to just read books or just listen to podcasts. Do both, obviously. Sort by more interesting criteria than the delivery medium.
So, it's been more than half of your sentient life since you tried reading a book that was written 200 years ago... and you're prepared to write off all of fiction as a waste of time? I am begging you to see if perhaps you might have a better experience today with a more contemporary book that frankly isn't kind of dull.

I urge you to try audiobooks. There still exists a stigma that it's not "real" reading, but that is like discussion of "real" men - absurd. Audiobooks are a joy.

My personal favourite is Cryptonomicon by Neil Stephenson, but heck, Ready Player One, Recursion, Delta-V, Walkaway by Cory Doctorow... just give it a shot.
It's official Samsung confirms Unpacked event on Feb 11
Why so many gas pumps still have less-secure credit card readers
I think it would be interesting to make a slightly more complex program involving maybe a few hello worlds, and then see how much the size of all these languages increases.
A WebDAV file could be used as a WebFS Cell. The locking would allow emulation of the compare-and-swap functionality. The reference HTTP Cell: client and server are way less complicated than WebDAV though, as many here have alluded to.
I used it to download a lot of stuff over the years.

That's great to hear --- I know there are quite a few developers who would do lots of different projects, but only to the point of getting something that barely works, and then never use it again. Having it in regular use means you have to continue to fix bugs and make improvements, which a lot of developers unfortunately seem to hate doing, although it's often the more valuable skill. "A true craftsman makes his own tools," as the old saying goes.
To be clear, any forecast requires a model based on previous historical data. Otherwise it's not a forecast, it's just a random guess.
Games are games, game companies are games too. People want to be in this world where you can play with anything, broken and burned is part of the game. There's no difference between company, customer and product, it's all play.

A straight up and down company like IBM or Ford would not dominate in the games industry. Valve, ea, bethseda are leaders in play. They give you the opportunity to play religious heresy, or witness a fallout 76 firestorm. Where else do you get to play with a billion dollar company?
You're correct - I misremembered the exact numbers. Median is an average. The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston was my source for this.

Despite your usage of the qualifier "only" to describe the sample sizes, that is more than sufficient to draw statistically significant conclusions about the racial gap in wealth in Boston.

Finally, here's the description of how the samples were selected:

> Various sampling techniques were used to locate and identify an ethnically plural sample consisting of the specifically defined ethnic groups. The techniques included the following: directory-listed landline samples targeted to census tracts where groups were known to reside; cell phone random digit dialing samples drawn from rate centers that covered the targeted ethnic group ZIP codes; samples drawn from targeted ZIP codes on the basis of billing address; and the use of surname-based lists targeting specific national origin groups.
Yeah I thought about this as well and is something I originally imagined as a cool feature.

The problem, though, is that not everyone will create a sub-layer for every component. It'd be a bad user experience for the viewer to have to just try clicking components to see which ones work, and I don't want to modify the look of the diagram, from what the author intended, to add some visual indicator that it's clickable.
Nope. Public relation to this did it. Sending emails did nothing, just like a person who calls the police doesn’t imprison or even judge a potential suspect.
Monash-led team develops efficient Li-S battery
One pet peeve I have with sites like indeed is all of the subterfuge that goes on. For instance, the half-assed sort by date feature. Indeed adds in month old sponsored postings with new postings, and often repeats those old postings on consecutive pages. Many sites also shamelessly reset their posting dates so that nothing is ever more than a week old.

Stripping away the middleman's ability to manipulate the presentation of search results is the most attractive feature here, in my opinion.
The dichotomy does seem to apply perfectly well. The cost of the ticket is sunken. The social cost of skipping the concert is not.
BSD tar on my Mac (running 10.15.2) has -a for tarfile creation (-c mode); it always autodetects the compression format in extraction mode (-z, -j, etc. are ignored if -x is specified). Not sure when either behavior would've been introduced; the somewhat-older machine I tested on (running 10.13) does not have -a but does have the autodetection behavior on extract.

-I, on the other hand (which, in gnutar, specifies a compression program to run the output through), appears to actually be GNU-specific. BSD tar makes -I synonymous with -T (specifying a file containing the list of filenames to be extracted or archived).

(Please don't use Zstandard if you care about cross-platform compatibility at all, though-- it's fine in controlled environments like an OS package manager, but I don't have it on my Mac, nor do I have it by default on my Ubuntu server (which is still sitting back on 16.04; I should fix that sooner or later).)
Imagine having great memories playing card games with friends but then not being able to see them (due to being 3000 mi away). This is my attempt to bridge that gap, and I hope other people who like Set can also enjoy it :)

Also, I heard cool things about Firebase, and I was curious to see what it was like to build an app with it. It's been a great experience for me so far!
You could say the same about e.g. lock free algorithms. If you work on them you are usually just playing with some cool technology instead of solving the business requirements.
Context-free grammar was originally invented by linguistics to describe sentence structure. Ultimately the field moved away from them, but they are still the first model of sentence structure taught in introductory linguistics classes (at least the one I took).
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This is one of the most refreshing designs I've seen in months. It's absolutely beautiful. I'd be interested in a Mac version.

I don't know anything about the engineering behind an email client, so I'm curious about the security aspect – would my emails ever touch your server?

Side note: you could post this on Dribbble if you want more beta users.
None, because now you owe $9997 dollars to cover the costs of the DNA calculation.
summary: Don't roll your own (spin) locking unless you really want to go down the rabbit hole. Linus thinks locking is a PITA and there be dragons. You have been warned.
gradient boosted trees are black box
I have a laptop in another country that I see quite infrequently and I'm pretty happy this exists.
Curious to know why would anyone want to use this kind of service instead of the wiki / discussion / documentation / issue tracking provided by the project management system? I know this service can "integrate" (mostly just links) with other system. I still don't see what the value added of this system can overcome the pain of using two systems.

May be mostly for teams do not use project management?
Related: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/04/prospiracy-theories/
... Except when the formalism is so powerful as to be consistent with anything.
Sort of. Battery storage for micro grids can pay off if there’s a market for frequency response services and energy arbitrage (see: Tesla’s Hornsdale Power Reserve in Australia). If your frequency response market is sane, your energy prices are already low (most of the US), and outages cost you little to nothing, entirely true, no one is paying for micro grids.

Now, if you get rooftop solar (which makes fiscal sense in most states), and you get local storage, you get a 26% federal tax credit towards the battery storage if it’s configured to only charge off of solar (although I believe you can precharge off the utility in emergencies with no impact to your tax benefit, Tesla calls this Storm Watch mode). So depending on the market, you skip the utility and go straight to the end user (as Tesla does with solar and PowerWalls). Again, this is entirely dependent on the local energy market conditions.

I propose that you’ll see micro grids take off as battery prices comes down from EV manufacturing scaling up.
Or alternatively: https://medium.com/@magicsebi/12-books-you-should-read-inste...
Someone else described my "httpdirlist" specification as "like WebDAV but better" or "like WebDAV but less messy" (actually I do not remember the exact wording).

Now I see that Wikipedia also lists several alternatives to WebDAV too, but I think httpdirlist is good.
I wasn’t really following this whole SameSite thing but between Safari and Chrome and various versions it looks like they made the problem worse.

The idea is great. Basically browser vendors finally realized that most websites don’t need cookies for cross-site requests so it switched from opt out via CSRF busting techniques to opt-in.

Except isn’t following cross-site links basically a GET request initiated by a different referer? So now will the strict mode not have me logged in when someone follows a link to some site that set it? Is that why the default is LAX? And under Lax, what about html form posts to top-level documents? That should go without cookies, right?
A great summary of Kai Bird's book, which is highly recommended!

A really interesting thing to note about Oppenheimer, as the author points out, was a somewhat "haphazard" approach both to studying physics, and in his actual scientific work. Meaning, picking the problems he found the most interesting, rather than some grand, overarching idea.

It's always fascinating in reading books of this sort to see just how closely knit the physics community was, since Oppenheimer studied with Born and Thomson, met Bohr as a student, and later worked with a lot of the truly great ones.
Even in the macabre poisoning episode, the tutor he left the apple for was Patrick Blackett, a future Nobel laureate.
The link is for simple English Wikipedia, which does not use those words. Perhaps the standard English Wikipedia article would be a better reference:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem)
This. There are many children being brought up in single parent or grandparent headed households across Ohio due to the opioid epidemic. See

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/26/us/opioids-kinship-ohio.h...

and

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/02/us/opioid-cri...

The kids who were raised under the shadow of the opioid epidemic are now reaching their child-bearing years. Hopefully the cycle of drug dependance can be broken once firmer opioid prescribing regulations take effect.

EDIT: Not trying to generalize your situation but to illuminate the problematic environments some children are born into.
> If I had a penny for every dissertation in the past few years that boiled down to...

This is very, very accurate. On the other hand, I oftentimes see field-specific papers from field experts with little ML experience using very basic and unnecessary ML techniques, which are then blown out of the water when serious DL researchers give the problem a shot.

One field that comes to mind where I have really noticed this problem is genomics.
> Customers always change what they want.

Definitely this. I moonlighted as a consultant while at a full time salaried day job. Job was billed as some minor enhancements to a data processor and a website for one of their clients. What it quickly devolved into was badically me being the scapegoat for everything that was wrong and expecting me to to answer rather impolite and unprofessional emails from their client (this was in finance). Even billing at 150/HR, it wasnt worth it and I quit after a few months.

The little extra per week just wasnt worth the stress and hassle.

Edit: grammar
>how do we ensure machine learning is trained and verified in ways that don't encode bias

Or, more commonly, people work to ensure their machine learning is trained and limited to not specifically notice any patterns of fact that would be politically unacceptable to notice and make use of, even if it was rational and useful for the task at hand.

The status quo moral system of our society rests on a collection of objectively false beliefs about the physical world. Most humans know enough to avoid noticing these facts because of the social cost and possible societal negative impacts of shaking those moral foundations. It's not even necessarily wrong, since agreed-upon lies can do a lot to reduce conflict and cruelty. But machines need to be specifically trained to not notice these facts. You need to teach the machine not to notice the emperor's nudity.

And what's even better is that this'll never get acknowledged in the literature. It's one of those self-hiding facts which exists if you're willing to notice it yourself, but which no authority will ever tell you (I love these, wish there was a word for them).
This is an incredibly salient point. Others have also pointed out that there are numerous applications in which black box models appear to offer significantly greater accuracy than interpretable models, bolstering the notion that this article is a bit overstated.

However, in this article and elsewhere Professor Rudin has cited compelling evidence of cases in which black box models have been demonstrated to be no more accurate than interpretable alternatives. I feel this fairly justifies the question in the title of the article. For example, based upon available evidence, it appears reasonable that some onus should lie on the creators and buyers of COMPAS (a proprietary black box recidivism model) to demonstrate COMPAS actually is more accurate than an interpretable baseline. While it may not be the case, as the article seems to suggest, that in all modeling cases there is an interpretable alternative with comparable accuracy, in cases which there is, there doesn't seem to be any justification for using a black box model.

On the matter of "human-style" interpretability, we are brought to the difference between "interpretability" and "explainability." Humans have a complex capacity for constructing explanations for the thoughts and actions of ourselves and others (among other things). As OP points out, a lot of famous psychological experiments by Kahneman and others have shown how much of our reasoning appears to be post-hoc, often biased, and often inaccurate (in other words, human explanations are not actually true transparent interpretations of our thoughts and actions). However, we humans do have a powerful capacity to evaluate and challenge the explanations presented by others, and we are able to reject bad explanations. For those interested, a great book on this topic is "The Enigma of Reason" by Mercier and Sperber (https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674237827), but the gist here is that we must understand that while explanations are not the same as transparent interpretability, they are still useful.

I would conjecture that at some level of complexity (which some predictive tasks like pixel-to-label image recognition seem to exhibit), true end-to-end interpretability is not possible -- the best we can do is to construct an explanation. However, two very important points should be observed when considering this conjecture:
1. (Professor Rudin's point in the article) In cases which are not too complex for interpretable models to achieve comparable accuracy to black-box models, we can and should use them, as they offer super-human transparency at no cost in accuracy.
2. Constructing no explanations (or bad explanations) is not the same as reaching the same level of semi-transparency that humans offer. If we want to use human interpretability as a benchmark, black box models with no explanations are not up to par.
The lowest income counties are generally rural:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lowest-income_counties...

Though I don't know why it needs to be a competition. The content in the article is good for people to consider for the boys they care about in their lives. The biggest difference most people make isn't becoming convinced about policy positions but in how they engage with their loved ones and local communities.
As a lot of other people are saying, yes, books are worth it.

I'm 19 right now, so I grew up reading paper books and interacting a lot with the internet and video games. Around when I turned 15 I pretty much stopped reading altogether. I was (and still am) very into CSGO and kind of just dropped reading literature for playing CS with my friends. While that was/is fun, dropping literature as a pastime left a hole in me that couldn't be filled by any video game, podcast, blog post, or even eBook. I only got back into reading fiction because my best friend here at uni was talking about how much she loved Agatha Christie, and I happened to have a compendium of 5 Hercule Poirot books that had been sitting on my bookshelf (and taken with me when I moved) for about 4 years. Now I can't stop reading (again).

Reading books (for me, fiction; for others, non-fiction) widens your understanding of the world around you, the perspectives of those around you, and most importantly your own imagination. Reading literature helps me creatively solve problems and come up with inspired ideas that would've been very difficult for me to come up with otherwise. It is something I would be incomplete without.

P.S. For me paper books are 100% superior to ebooks. The feel of holding, seeing, and smelling a paper book, especially an old paper book, is so comforting and impossible to replicate with an ebook. Though, to their credit, ebooks are nice if you read relatively quickly and want to read while on the road.
It's an interesting table, but what you really want to know is how much of the standard library gets linked in as soon as you do anything interesting. For example, if using one printf links in a lot and you almost always use at least one printf (or use a library that does), then the size you get when you entirely avoid printf doesn't matter, because that's not a practical thing to avoid. But you might want to know the minimum size with printf.

Figuring how where the binary size cliffs are (what causes size to grow a lot) and which cliffs it's practical to avoid might be useful.
It's pretty much the opposite. Stuff online, usually done for free, is usually vapid trash with facts often wrong because there's not enough money to do it right.

In contrast content from books is usually extensively researched and a wealth of valuable knowledge.

Also worth noting that the internet is a relatively new thing, so if you find yourself fascinated by a topic from the 70s or earlier you'll probably be much better off walking to your local library.
going against another strong hand and loosing is one thing - slow rolling strong hand and being outplayed by weaker hand is another (and totally deserved IHMO).
I like this, a little hard to enforce, but I don’t see any issues. Only way to find out is to try.
> As the only tissue that modifies its consistency when under stress (it’s your body’s shape-shifter, of sorts), fascia is [...]

the cervix also modifies itself under stress (child birth), stimulated by oxytocin (aka cervical ripening) or other hormones
20% of youth seems like a huge number to me.

What percent do you think play Fortnite?
Makes me think of the practice of "silk reeling."

Edit: pithiness
in the long run >95% of active retail traders loose money - bull market or not.
discovered seven years ago, to clarify.

also

> estimate that the lost microcontinent [...] was about a quarter of the size of Madagascar.

that's a wild definition of a continent!
I can’t even tell if this repo is satire. Wonder what Larry Wall would think about this abomination.
I would love if that happened -- just deserts.

Unfortunately I'm not sure how a judge would ever justify that. Half of a book is still under copyright of the whole thing. Original music in the background of a movie is still copyrighted as part of the movie, even if a loud action scene is taking place on top of it. So even with a dial tone sound overlaid, that wouldn't change the fact that the music part of the recording has been published.

:(
The very concept of heresy is antithetical to science.
I love that these mice are watching the famous Touch of Evil intro shot.

"Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering, Pinky?"
Pissing off your spouse is a pertinent new cost of bailing from the concert, not a sunk cost. The ticket price is sunk, because you paid it in the past and can not change it.