skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now we might have a model that fulfills (2) but we cannot be sure because we used a black-box approach.

It's not like the alternative is any different. Being sure you have the right answer is not viable, the other methods of getting there are just more transparent heuristics.
It's crucial to work hard, but FOR YOU, not for your employeer. I have a family member who worked very hard at her dead-end job (was very loyal to the company) and became bitter after they fired her (made redundant because of computerization). If she spent part of that energy on strategising on how to get ahead in her career, she'd be in much better position.
That's only true in some limited cases.

Section 4.1 of the paper he linked discusses extensively the limitations of linear model interpretability. Here's an example:

"With respect to algorithmic transparency, [the claim that linear models are more interpretable]
seems uncontroversial, but given high dimensional or heavily engineered features, linear models lose simulatability or decomposability, respectively."

Given how many interesting problems are high-dimensional or solved through heavy feature engineering, you must be lucky to live in the happy space where problems are either low-dimensional enough to not need heavy feature engineering or where the client is already familiar with the high-dimensional features you're going to limit the model to using.
Gin. Lots and lots of gin and tonic.

https://slate.com/technology/2013/08/gin-and-tonic-kept-the-...
That last sentence... As a college student, I’ve never thought about that. It’s crazy to think that the percent difference in age gets smaller over time.
Free Public Universities
If the democrats succeed in making public universities free, what will happen to the private university tuitions ? I wonder if the private universities will start lobbying against the democrats to prevent it...

It’s kind of similar to public free healthcare. Fee for service entities / insurance companies will suffer a downward pressure on business... but somehow the private universities seem politically separated from private insurance companies...
There's a reasonable amount of FOSS developers here, so let me ask a question.

Often times I'll run across a FOSS project that claims to solve a problem I have, encounter a bug that makes the project useless for my purposes, and discover that said bug has had an open entry in the issue tracker for years. This even occurs in major FOSS software with paid developers working on it.

Clearly no one actually cares about the bug, and "chiming in" is apparently considered rude. So I ignore your software and move on. Whatever, you don't owe me anything.

Then some day I respond to a forum post by someone asking about experiences with your software, and relate mine. Apparently this is also rude, and I should have filed a bug report.

I guess my question is: is there any scenario under which one can actually provide feedback other than praise that you will accept?
Can they be applied to other DBMSs? I mean, I don't think other DBMSs treat database files too differently from SQLite, don't they?
It also lets you sync via alternative services like Dropbox/Mega.
Except this isn't really supported by the evidence. We have examples of fast food being restricted, and it has virtually no impact on obesity or health[1]. We now have tons of data regarding the Federal government's efforts to build full-fledged grocery stores in low-income areas. And the results show virtually no impact on health[2]

The second point I want to make is that you have a mis-placed emphasis on "fresh food". Frozen or canned vegetables, fruits and legumes are actually more nutritious than fresh produce. And the cost, variety and quality of canned and frozen produce has been improving steadily for decades.

The food desert hypothesis sounds compelling, but simply doesn't jibe with the evidence. Obesity among the lower classes is almost certainly driven by cultural and/or genetic factors, not lack of access to healthy food.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/20/393943031/wh...
[2] https://www.vox.com/2015/12/22/10644738/food-desert-evidence
BitWarden is one of the few things I pay for even though I don't have to simply because I really want it to keep existing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/19/world/africa/isabel-dos-s...
Seems so: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/punkahwallah#English

I remember hearing it for the first time watching reruns of It Ain't Half Hot Mum.
My copays are virtually 0.

At the hospital where my child was born in Ireland there was a sign on the wall apologizing for the fact that if you didn't have your insurance card or medical card (public insurance basically) and you went to the emergency room they would have to charge you....

one hundred euro.

My mom was amused when I texted her the photo, in a sad way.
I feel like the nineties demoscene equivalent is taking over the machine (x86) and putting some code and important variables into cache lines that never get evicted and all of your data runs through the other cache lines by mapping of that data sparsely in memory.
Good article, but I must misunderstand, how do the suggestions at the bottom overcome the issues/myths listed, particularly "postdocs formally [don't] exist" which seems to be the issue at the root of all problems.

The tenuous employment status of postdocs seems to be a choice made at an institutional level, although seemingly across every institution in the world. I'm not aware of any funding stipulations that prevent institutions from giving postdocs proper employment status/permanent contracts. Sure, a new project might require a postdoc and might have funds allocated for this, but why can't unis use their already-existing projections for incoming funds and allocate jobs (i.e. permanent postdoc positions), just as private companies hire staff on the basis of cash flow/revenue projections?
Totally agree, but this is something hard to grasp for many people.

What's also important is to realize the external constraints. You should always plan to allow a couple of failures before reaching the end of the rope instead of going all in in the first try.

Taking your example if I can only do the task 3 times (for whatever reason: budget, etc) then my chances for success are a lot lower compared to a competitor who can play the game longer.

EDIT:
Also it's important to learn and internalize that knowledge after each try. In most cases you can't do the same thing each time and expect a different outcome.
Show HN: A small tool to manage your neural experiments, built on top of Git
Yes, if you stay on the beaten path, invest time in figuring out the subset of functionality that actually works, and tease out through experimentation its major quirks, the basic AWS services can be made to work fairly reliably. I stand by my description of this state of affairs as "half baked."

The true AWS advantage is that the boss can't get fired for choosing it so the individual contributors already have spending authority inside its walls. Unfortunately, that's a trump card.
How to build a startup in Earth Observation and succeed
Success requires 3 things:

1) talent.
2) luck.
3) hard work.

Talent allows one to have that idea that will provide a large client base when implemented.

Luck allows the ideas to catch on because it is the right time for those ideas.

Hard work allows the ideas to become products and services.

Hard work alone is not enough for success.
Mother in Law Market Research (2010)
They do that very often. I once drove the wrong way on a one-way street because some troll had changed the arrow's direction.

Fortunately there was almost no traffic.

Signs get vandalized or stolen all the time here in Uruguay. Mostly vandalized.
> frequent consumers of news - remain far more trusting of every institution than the mass population.

propaganda works
You can also send bricks back and they will send the brick to the next buyer. [0]

[0] I don't recommend this.
Economic progress is not the ultimate goal of social systems, so tempering it when it works against social health is perfectly fine.

Things like environmental concerns also act against raw economic progress, but are necessary for a healthy society as well.
This is significantly off for at least Amazon/AWS & MSFT.
I know Amazon employees often get AMZN shares as bonuses ranging from single to triple digits.

Current AMZN share is at 1864.72USD. It is not unheard of for an L4 to get 5 to 10 shares as bonus. I have heard of L6 getting 150 shares. That is significant.
Honestly it hurts to say but the prevalence of tall-poppy syndrome, deference to your boss, etc. is horrific for salaries in at least Ireland, and maybe Europe as a whole. When I left my last job we found out I was paid quite a bit better than my colleagues (who were just as good) and all I had done was... push a tiny bit. They hadn't.

Other things like "always be interviewing even if you like your job" and stuff like that get the odd look of disapproval, even though it's pretty obvious you will do your best negotiations when you have the strongest position, which means already having a job you like.
The parent post equated club supporters and "militant antifa" with the perpetrators of violence and "if that were not enough" presented the continued squatting as an example of undesirable behavior.
Any chance you can expand on what kind of life lessons you found in the Travels book? The description of the book makes it sound like it's just a collection of adventures.
The article went up an hour and a half ago, at the exact same time as https://status.lastpass.com/ updated to say they were investigating. In under an hour, they acknowledged, identified, fixed, and verified the issue.

The fix went out less than half an hour after they learned about it, and this HN submission was posted 1 hour ago, so no one learning of the issue by means of this HN submission will have been able to reproduce the problem.

Also, if you've enabled offline access to your vault (which used to be the default IIRC, and would be smart regardless of your password manager of choic) this won't affect you.
First, I would say that the British should not receive the benefit of the doubt as to their behavior during the Bengal famine, given their intransigence to release grain during the Irish potato famine (and that so many Irish were forced to rely on potatoes leaving them vulnerable was another effect of British rule.)

Here's some scientific evidence that the Bengal famine of 1943 was not linked to soil moisture levels, like the previous five:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/04/churchill-policies-bl...

Again, the long history of callousness of the British empire towards its colonies should lead one to be skeptical of the official intent at the time.
I'm seriously not able to distinguish how many of these comments are about Ruby and how many are about Ruby on Rails (RoR). From the very beginning Ruby's popularity and criticism have hinged on RoR. And most people tend to conflate the two completely.

Personally, I love Ruby but don't like RoR. RoR seems to bloated to me. Of course it does many things. But very rarely have I come across projects which require all those things. And even then, I'm quite sure, we wouldn't be able to use all that RoR has to offer.

For many, many, years now, my stack has been Roda / Sinatra for routing and Sequel for DB access. And whenever, we've come across some requirement which needs heavy lifting, there are enough Ruby gems which do that without tying you up with the RoR framework.
Apple CEO calls for global corporate tax system overhaul
I don't understand, are you saying it only applies to Euros?

I assumed (and understood from the link) that it applies to all EU member states, which presently includes the UK. Since the exchange rate fluctuates, there must be some margin of error allowed, otherwise it's almost impossible (and certainly more expensive) to implement with more than one currency.
I must be getting old - an article with such a title would used to also be appended with, "For Fun, and Profit!"
stress-ng
fio
That quote about 15 years being the end is bunk. Lots of people are individual contributors for decades, many after trying management and deciding it wasn't for them.
I would be quite interested in an IR/JIT assembler specialized for vector instructions with ARM Neon and x86-64 SSE~AVX512 output.

Ideally it handles register allocations and generated function caching as well. The current JIT assembler (ASMJIT, Xbyak) requires you to handle register allocations. LLVM is as mentioned quite a heavy dependency to have.
On a side, am I the only person that doesn't like The Register write style, especially the headings? Yeah, irony and fun all that you want, but it ends up looking like a gossip/tabloid magazine
We don't buy things with money
I don't know, I've never worked in the US. OP seems to imply you do?
Well, try this on for size: You aren't a customer of Facebook because you aren't paying Facebook... Facebook is paying you. For the privilege of being able to sell your eyeballs, they pay you a great deal more value in their services. They're putting down a non-trivial amount of cash on providing these services to you that you put no cash down on.

Cutting you off at the scale they are at is just no big deal to them, but you may in fact miss your payment.
Vue.js Carousels: SSR Support and Performance
It turns out the circuit breakers are mixed with other apartments as well. For 5 bonus points on your digital logic final, construct the apartment complex's truth table.
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How did security get worse?
I like Enpass (enpass.io):

- non-subscription version available

- multi-platform (IOS, Android, MacOS, Linux, Windows)

- offline access (local DB)

- sync via non-Enpass servers (eg use dropbox, google drive, iCloud, box etc)

- actively maintained

I have been using for ~3 years on a revolving door of devices and have never experienced any issues - just works.

(Not affiliated in any way with Enpass)
Hey Mir display server is still alive :)
Good and evil are relative. In this case the beneficiary is the political elites.
I really enjoyed Fravia's page back in the day and one of my all time favorite sites by +Malattia (had to search a bit to find it): http://3564020356.org/

Which reminds me...I never figured out that hash-maze but back in the day I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Maybe current-day me will fare better.
Yes, our mileages may vary because what you've described could be survivorship bias from a lucky break. And since costs don't scale with wealth, any future risks you take can be absorbed by the original luck.
This isn't something the average urban poor family is going to think about or attempt for many, many reasons, and I don't consider that to be their fault. I think we have a fundamental disagreement about responsibility that won't be resolved on an internet forum.
For Firefox there is https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/passff/ which I'm quite happy with.

When combined with a yubikey set to decrypt only on touch this setup has a very low attack surface compared to other browser password managers.
Actix Web – Project Future
I'm 3 years into Bitwarden and have never looked back. I backed the kickstarter that failed some while back, but it seems he/they ended up managing without it. I should probably subscribe even if I don't need the extra features.
Could you? You would also have to take into account that the instruction that make the program could also be randomly flipped
The Crystal and the Way of Light by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu. I had no idea that in the heart of Tibetan Buddhism lies this this particular teaching, for hundreds of years considered ultra-secret, but at the same time so directly connected to our present situation.
The EuroStat figures that they partly use say this, which is not mentioned in the article:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/table.do?tab=table&tableSe...

> Figures should be interpreted with care as suicide registration methods vary between countries and over time. Moreover, the figures do not include deaths from events of undetermined intent (part of which should be considered as suicides) and attempted suicides which did not result in death.
Without a safety net, the cost of failure is often too high to not balk at the first or second failure. Those fortunate enough to fall out of the right womb have the privilege of failing many many times without significant consequences.
Similarly, the botanical definition of "nut" excludes basically everything we think of nuts. Pedants seemed to have learned that peanuts are "not nuts" but have yet to pick up on that almonds, pistachios, walnuts and pecans are also "not nuts."
Most DBMS don't let you at the files directly - you speak to the DB over a socket. Because SQLite is in-process, bugs in the process that access random file descriptors can write over the SQLite files.

(This is more ammunition for the idea that the real software isolation boundary on a desktop computer should not be "user", but "software author"!)
Moving to the much later Gamecube, it supported a locked cache mechanism that inter-operated with DMA. That way you can get your code in half the cache and streaming the data through the other half via DMA. Code runs guaranteed at max CPU speeds, never evicted. Data speeds are also fast when you orchestrate your DMA to cache nicely.

Instead of fancy locked cache or other cache tricks, the PS1 and PS2 also had scratchpads that ran at full speed. 1K for PS1 / 16KB for PS2. Very useful.
Parts of this are commonplace:
"Fifty-seven percent of respondents worry about losing the respect and dignity they once enjoyed in their country."

Sure. Decisions are made top-down, expertise is discounted, etc. The culture has drifted.

But then this frightening (to me) non-sequitur (to me):
"Fifty-six per cent of the surveyed global population said capitalism in its current form does more harm than good in the world."

Based on available data, abandoning capitalism makes all these problems much worse, plus overshadows them with questions of basic survival.
Aerial Board of Control? :-)

(Kipling also wrote SF short stories, set in a universe with the aforementioned organization as a world government, for example "As Easy As A.B.C." (1912).)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_Board_of_Control
When I can control the client configuration, I just set up my own trusted root CA and then have the distributed systems automatically submit a CSR on initialization. This doesn't work when you have to support end user's web browsers though (unless you're somehow lucky enough to own a public CA and don't care about ICANN rules). It really does seem like there should be an encryption-only option for TLS. Maybe anything that resolves by IP address and not name should display the green padlock even if the SAN doesn't match the name?
Pretty sure he means gaming, even my 2080 ti struggles with 4k gaming (well imagine wanting the highest setting of every game in 4k, most gpus can handle that in fullhd n 2k, but 4k every gpu is jsut to weak)
> 1password had a good UI but the "master key" system is difficult for users to use. It was also more expensive.

Unsurprising, and at the same time it makes 1password's security scheme much more bullet proof.

You need that piece of information to identify the client, and even 1password doesn't have it, which means that when inevitably one of these cloud services gets attacked with success, it will less likely be them. Plus they can't see your stuff, that's a plus.

Security is not free.
I think I may have read your review (did you make an article online?) and I'm now happily using Bitwarden. I just signed up for premium, not because I want the features, but because I want to support what they're doing.
1. You can't know. (Unless something confirming the opposite leaks in the future).

2. Facebook's reputation is so bad when it comes to privacy at this point that trusting them is just naive.

3. Even in the best case, your metadata is certainly used. Facebook didn't pay over $20 billion for a service with no monetisation model purely out of the goodness of their hearts.

4. Whatsapp has good network effects at least here in the UK - when your flatmates or coworkers have a group chat, you can't just say "Well, let's get everyone over to Signal.". You either use Whatsapp or go without the group chat.
Amateur, at least in common American English, is virtually never used in a positive or neutral sense. It should definitely be changed in anything marketing-related.
half of what world? certainly not earth?
I had an interesting experience sorting exam papers when I was a TA. I found that quicksort used up too much desk/floor space. I settled on splitting the papers into piles of 10 or so, applying insertion sort on each pile and then pairwise merge sorting them until I had a sorted pile.
SQLite is serverless; server-based DBMSs are free to use other locking mechanisms, other than relying on filesystem primitives, to achieve concurrency.
I started to follow Tibetan Buddhist teaching, where high and low self-esteem are treated in the same way, as a manifestation of pride, which is considered one of the 5 main emotions. Once you go deeper, your low self-esteem is gone. There are very practical methods for that.
How to understand clients by analysing social media
Dealing with Workplace Stress with Ethan Evans, VP of Amazon
Why so much concern of British officers in India,
Better question would be how did common Indian population survived British Raj, when American Native populations did not.
So now your local, trusted device depends on untrusted, ephemeral cloud-services to be trustable by you on your local network?

That sounds like the worst of both worlds.
It first sends to one of the Chinas, then USA, then Germany again /s
Hmm, yeah, you're right there (on both examples).

I'm still not so sure though. That's something of a special case, the extreme upper end and also at the end of one's life.

It feels like you at least need to at _some_ point have the wealth if not necessarily personally (e.g. whilst growing up).
The technical restriction is that you need to have google apps installed and have a valid app certificate to use FCM (the current name of Google's push notifications).

As for alternatives. FCM (or, for that matter, Apple's APNS) requires a persistent connection between a device and push servers to work. Curiously, both Google and Apple seem to be doing this via maintaining a modified XMPP protocol. And this just can't be replicated by any other party: to maintain a persistent connection an app must work all the time and be active in the background, and both Google and Apple heavily suppress background app activity (google has some workarounds, but they become more and more restricted with each OS update).

All in all, I believe that this policy is begging for some antitrust action, so device owners could legally subscribe to alternative app stores and push notification providers. From what I know about XMPP, replicating a server part of a push service should not be insanely hard to do.
Starvation != malnourishment.

You need a very monotonous diet to get a deficiency disease on any first world country and most developing ones, in part because so many foods, and salt, are fortified. Eating nothing but pizza or nothing but McDonald’s will not leave you in great health unless you’re very active but you’ll get enough minerals and vitamins unless you eat nothing but fries.
does this apply to companies not based in the EU? I don't see how they could possibly enforce this.
The trillionaires club: How big data, cloud and AI are powering the tech economy
Ah, that might be it - I was talking as an individual user rather than imagining a team deployment.
Block Ads for Your Entire Home Network with a Raspberry Pi