skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have another proposal: let's stop connecting every computer together for the sake of connecting them together. Unless there is real functionality provided by said connection that doesn't exist just to excuse the connection, computers should do all their work locally.

We rely way too much on Other People's Computers to do stuff. The only real way to avoid issues is to make them technically impossible, not to rely on laws (that can be abused).

(yes, i know i am asking for putting the cat back in the bag long after the cat's own grandchildren have died...)
"Exfiltrated" implies black market, but for the prediction come true, data would have to be leaked by the vast majority of organizations, including most of the banks. Possible, I suppose, given the difficulty of protecting data against all possible attacks, including release by insiders.
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His main point is valid, education is important for becoming a well-rounded civilian.

However

> Anyone who claims to know the specific skills required for the jobs of tomorrow is just blowing smoke

I do! Math!

Machine learning:

Lin alg

Calc

Stat/prob

Programming: understanding math gives a leg up in understanding many of the ideas underlying.

The meta-skill that math teaches is also timeless: when you learn concept D, you need to have a very good mastery over concepts A, B and C.

In my psychology lectures there never was such a “concept dependency hell”.

So yea math.

Also writing and articulating yourself. A rhetoric class is also timeless (if given properly).

So yea... I could go on. I won’t but I will predict this:

If you learn how to sell

Learn how to play along

And learn math

Then those skills will immensely help you for some of the new jobs in the future.
Animals that are small enough can travel in-cabin for an extra fee, generally in a crate under the seat, while larger animals fly in hard crates in the cargo area.
Sadly, many ML comps involve exactly this. Making a predictor for something, where the prediction has no real world value, and even dubious value at a thought experiment level.

I think one of the biggest skills to have in the ML space, is knowing what is worth training a model to know, and what isn't. Just like in engineering, the most successful products are those that solve a real world problem, no matter how elegantly the others might have been made.
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An ESA is not a service animal and there is no registry. There are just a bunch of idiots and/or scumbags who register their animal for a piece of paper that they think is a golden ticket for their pets. In a few very limited circumstances an ESA is allowed in places that “just a pet” is not, but AFAIAA this is not enshrined in law, just something some places do that aren’t otherwise legally prohibited from allowing animals and the only place I know for sure requires a note from a mental health professional.

There is also no registry for service animals, but there are companies that train those animals and they can be queried about training and legitimacy.

Next time someone says they have a service animal, ask them what service it performs. If they don’t have a ready response, they’re full of it. And if their animal isn’t well behaved, they’re also full of it.

My dog is a retired service animal. She performed seizure alert and response. She could (and probably still can) save a life. If she was on your flight you’d only know if you happened to see her. And frankly the other passengers would be more of a problem for her than she would be to anyone.

ESAs and liars create a lot of problems for legitimate service animals. I won’t point out any specific posts but there’s an incredible amount of ignorance in these threads and I’d bet it’s all due to negative experiences with people who don’t have service animals.

Service animals save lives. The people who need them really need them. Lying about a service animal is like lying about needing a wheelchair. Complaining about them is like complaining about a wheelchair blocking the aisle.

These animals are no joke. They’re extremely heavily trained. Many animals don’t make it through these programs. Some of them are worth more than your car.
Good stuff! Really excited to see this launch. Clearly a large benefit of the service for Evera is the large collection of stem cells. How do you anticipate the drug discoveries and advancements will differ from discoveries made by genomics companies like 23andMe? What labs are you currently working with for this work?
Mass death is not equivalent to the idea of producing fewer products and reusing existing ones. Many approaches can be used at once and reuse is a legitimate one.
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My favorites were the Yahoo! ones that added! an! exclamation! mark! on! every! word!

That and anything that uses the word “boffin”.
Lol of course not. We just get owned again. And the smiling continues.
I agree that that would be more appropriate.
I would feed your dog a penny. look it up.
Clearly. Not sure what your point is. We know that pitbulls often aren't well-socialized/trained. Hence why it was brought up.
Differential gene expression in lonely and less lonely people (2007)
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> I never understood Kaggle. Most competitions don't require code to be submitted

Your point of view is outdated ;-)

In recent ML competitions, participants do submit code that is run on a held-out dataset - as was the case in the PetFinder.my challenge in question here.

Most competition platforms are migrating to this format, as otherwise you can just label by hand as you said.

Note that this competition went even further: not only was the evaluation code run on Kaggle, the training code was also run there. This means that you couldn't even train a gigantic model then submit it: your model had to be trainable within well defined time and resource constraints, which is a great way to level the playing field.

Of course, there's still some unfairness as people with more resources can try out more solutions before submitting a model to be trained on the platform. No platform has a solution for this yet!
Capitalism is a system created by and for sociopaths. It doesn't get much worse than that.
Legit service animals are very well behaved and never a problem.

There’s no question though that this issue of pets masquerading as service animals has become a big problem. Makes sense that places are starting to crack down.
>We treat their work "like some higher command" because it literally is that. Their work (the Constitution) creates a framework that overrides anything enacted by contemporary legislatures.

That's just a choice (not even a popular ie. majority choice, just a choice pre-made by how the founding fathers set up the system, nobody is actually asked about it). It could be totally abolished tomorrow like such things have been countless times in past and present societies.

It's not a natural law or god given framework. So it's in that sense that it shouldn't be treated as that.

You write: "Of course, to the extent we don't like any particular meta-rule, we could amend it with a 2/3 vote. We don't do that because we don't agree on what the alternative meta-rule should be!".

But nobody was asked whether we "do that" not. It's not that we don't do it because "we don't agree on what the alternative meta-rule should be" and thus we are fearful of doing it. It would have been that if we had voted about it, and decided so. But instead, it's not that we don't do it, but that we're not allowed to even vote on doing it or not (well, US citizens aren't allowed that is).

>but declaring that we can just decide for ourselves what the rules will be, without reference to the meta-rules, would lead to total breakdown.

I don't know about that, seems to work for other countries with no holy "founding father" dictums.
The real problem is that you're subscribed to Netflix.
Which is why, when the goal is to guarantee rights, universal programs are generally better than discretionary / means-tested ones.
I wrote JScript and VBScript for IE 5.X and 6.0 more than 20 years ago. We used ActiveX objects to do things on the client side of intranet applications for a law firm.I wrote a docket calendar that used the date picker control for example. We could only use IE not Netscape and nothing else. Which meant it was not a cross compilable with Linux, OS/2, MacOS etc and people who used those computers where SOL. I tried to talk about JavaScript and Java to make it cross over to the other systems, but I was told it was a Microsoft Shop and we only use MS technologies.
As a musician myself, who has also been taught by music instructors over the years, I find this idea strange. Musicians are artists. They are also not beholden to market trends. Music instructors tend to be picky about who they accept when they choose their students.

Music is also a person to person thing. Those who are truly serious about learning will choose a person to person connection.

This is an interesting case of trying to quantify a subjective subject. Music is an art. It's hard to quantify. Musicians (mostly instructors in this case, then a bit later the students) will most likely shy away from this form of making a commodity of something that is inherently personal and expressive.

This model is mostly likely going to fail not because of the numbers, but because of the subject at hand.

This is an interesting case study. And it makes sense, the numbers prove that it's not viable. The fact that it's not viable isn't the numbers, however.

It's something to consider.
Fortran is doing fine in scientific computing.
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>That's the way it's always been. That's the way it has to be.

My sarcasm detector may be off so if it was, please forgive me.

Why must it continue to be that way?

It's possible we must expect and accept that children from broken, impoverished, or abusive homes will just be, well, screwed in comparison to their better off peers.

Can't we instead look for a better way?

- Improve the funding and education of our public schools (particularly by the decoupling of property taxes being the primary source of school funding).

- Take a hard look at our current minimum wage and find a way to make it easier for hard working people to make ends meet, allowing them more time to nurture and teach their children.

Giving up on hard luck children is by extension giving up on our societies future. To me at least, thats simply untenable.
GNU fun?
From that link:

> In the Renaissance, the Italian humanists and their Northern counterparts, despite in many respects continuing the traditions of the Middle Ages, reversed that process. Re-christening the old trivium with a new and more ambitious name: Studia humanitatis, and also increasing its scope, they downplayed logic as opposed to the traditional Latin grammar and rhetoric, and added to them history, Greek, and moral philosophy (ethics), with a new emphasis on poetry as well.

In practice, modern “liberal arts” programs often dispense with logic, math, and empirical science. Again, from your link:

> For example, the core courses for Georgetown University's Doctor of Liberal Studies program cover philosophy, theology, history, art, literature, and the social sciences.

More fundamentally, it’s insufficient to throw in a few courses on math that everyone quickly forgets. Math, science, and logic should be the basic foundation for cultivating children’s world view, not literature, philosophy, or social studies.

For example, consider how kids learn about history. They read stories, mostly focused on individuals. But that’s not the only way to learn history. I took a class at Georgia Tech in the history of science, which looked at the impact on society of various technological advances. History education doesn’t quantify anything. But we have lots of data. What was the GDP per capita of ancient Egypt versus Mesopotamia? What are quantitative indicators we can use to help put those societies into context and compare them with ours? what was the infant mortality rate in India before and after British colonization? What were the demographic trends in Mandate Palestine prior to the creation of Israel?
Where is rust being used for 33kLOC projects?
It’s about time! The practice has been abused so much that it has depreciated the publics perception of actual service animals.
I miss the old internet.
Aside from things like ansifilter you can add a ?style=bw parameter to remove the colors, e.g.

$ curl cht.sh/ls?style=bw

Or if you do like colors but not the defaults you can try other styles, see http://cht.sh/:styles
That's because systemd is a mild editor lacking a decent lisp os
Well optimizing the photo seems a sensible task for AI.
i was once delayed because a dog on the arriving plane made such a mess that they needed to clean three rows of seats. they had to bring in a new plane for us because that one required specialized cleaning. “there was shit everywhere” kind of thing.

i can’t look at dogs on plane the same way after that. must have been terrifying for the dog, and disgusting for the people.

ps - i’ve seen a toddler with poop riding up his back on a plane, too. mom had her hands full with three kids! ive been an obsessed loving dog owner myself, but i don’t like how people try to compare dogs to babies and toddlers. i think it’s demeaning to the “small person”.
Your children will remember you fondly as the man who had no moral center, but at least bought them a car.
Found some pictures of this.

While the wiring is a bit of a mess, it seemed to have been fairly well managed overall. Or at least it wasn't completely cluttered.

http://www.detritus.org/mike/gc/
I've fostered a dog that was fully trained as a service dog, but it was disqualified from being put into service because the vet found a hip dysplasia. The dog never pulled on its leash while I was walking it, and it immediately obeyed a bunch of commands (come, sit, heel, side, quiet, leave it, etc.) without the need for me to repeat. When I eventually got a dog of my own, I worked hard to train it because it was just so awesome to have a dog that was well behaved.

The last time I saw a "service dog" on a plane, it looked like it weighed about as much as its owner. As soon as the plane door opened after landing, the dog lunged toward the door, banging back and forth in the aisle. The owner could barely hold it back, and they weren't giving any commands to the dog. The flight attendant made a snarky comment, "What a wonderfully trained service animal!" I'm sure they know exactly how a genuine service animal behaves, and they are probably completely fed up with the widespread abuse of the service animal exemption.
Yea, what services is the airline providing in exchange for that extra fee? That’s what I never understood. They charge $100-300 for cargo that has to stay under the seat in an enclosed carrier the whole time. I could understand an extra deposit, that is only lost if the pet causes actual damage to the airline, but otherwise if all goes smoothly (as is probably the case 99% of the time), it should be free. People are understandably recognizing that airlines are just bilking pet owners as much as possible, just because they can.
Given this SARS 1.5 has already spread around the world, what's the mathematics behind this?
Except in this story the CEO wasn’t advocating for anything. He was also effectively blackballed as being a “gay hater”.
American car seats are huge. A friend of mine, who is not small – even by American standards, despises SUVs and ended up having to import a car seat from Japan for his spawn.
Still I can fit a couple car seats in the back of my E46 wagon.
Maybe your obligation is to the law but that doesn't mean everybody else should be. The law of the US is corrupt and immoral in countless ways. Anybody who is "law abiding" and nothing else is corrupt to the core.
and stop selling to fireihners
How about fining the company? Wouldn't that do the job of enforcing more careful policies?
The small bit of iCloud E2EE which Apple allows (for health data, passwords and Mac-to-Mac clipboard sharing) is using your iPhone's 6-digit passcode and your Mac's admin password.

That means that Apple can also now perform an offline brute-force attack against your file vault password.

This makes even your offline devices less secure.
Was he blackballed as a result of being accused of treason by the government? If not, it’s not “literal McCarthyism”. It may be inspired by McCarthyist tactics, though.
Meh. I mean sure, Bezos has been a different media owner than Rupert Murdoch, but in the end, the WaPo enforces the neoliberal order, with some sprinkling of liberal concern to re-assure people that yes, humanist concerns are important. But you won't find an editorial line that challenges capitalism, or wanton CO2 emissions which will rapidly kill our planet.

Or Amazon, for that matter. Not an unimportant factor considering Bezos' position atop the pyramid...
People have been saying a recession is 1-2 years away since 2012. Statistically, it's getting more likely this 1-2 year recession pans out with each passing year. But no one has a crystal ball.
That ship sailed in W's first term. Nor, did we sleepwalk into the surveillance state; we voted for it, with ballots and dollars.
>California, where the housing crisis is worst, also has the highest poverty levels of the US when cost of living (which is mostly housing) is factored in.

The housing crisis is relative. It's a crisis when your relative moves in.. All joking aside, _every_ major metro has an affordable housing crisis.
> Most of the world thinks it's not going to turn out that way, and they've been right decade after decade, with small exceptions when cartels and wars have artificially interfered with supplies. Maybe the pessimists will actually be right this time. I would not bet on it.

Ever heard of the inductivist turkey?

"This turkey found that, on his first morning at the turkey farm, he was fed at 9 a.m.

However, being a good inductivist, he did not jump to conclusions. He waited until he had collected a large number of observations of the fact that he was fed at 9 a.m., and he made these observations under a wide variety of circumstances, on Wednesdays and Thursdays, on warm days and cold days, on rainy days and dry days.

Each day, he added another observation statement to his list. Finally, his inductivist conscience was satisfied and he carried out an inductive inference to conclude, “I am always fed at 9 a.m.”.

Alas, this conclusion was shown to be false in no uncertain manner when, on Christmas eve, instead of being fed, he had his throat cut. An inductive inference with true premises has led to a false conclusion". (Bertrand Russel)

(I though there's also a Black Swan NSS theme in this, but on a second thought the eventual exhaustion of limited resources is hardly an unforeseeable Black Swan -- whether people have bet on them being exhausted and lost a billion times in the past or not).
We're just scratching the surface of all we've lost from the old web.
Upsides to renting

+ often all-in/TCO cheaper than owning

+ less liabilities if/when expensive items break; landlord is in-charge of must repairs and expenses

+ easier to move

Upsides to owning

+ neighbors are further away

+ potentially quieter

+ customization (upgrades, ability to modify, holes in walls)

+ able to purchase reliable/cheaper over lifecycle (TCO) items

+ feeling of dominion/stability

There are other options too: rubbertramp/vanlife, leathertramp, oceantramp, go expat in cheaper countries
I think the point is the problem is with the people who continue bending the rules for their convenience.
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Why are you ignoring all the traffic right now that isn't busses?

Let's say we currently have one bus and twenty cars.

If we replace that with 12 vans and 5 vans, respectively, that leaves us with 17 vans.

The road is now less congested and less polluting.

(There's no reason to expect all the current cars to be replaced, but there's no reason to expect all the busses to be replaced either.)
The Big Five in tech are paying like the Big Four in sports
At will employment.
Who cares about this?

Yes, Apple has private APIs that it uses for its monopoly abuse benefit. That is why Apple's "Music" app can't be deleted from your computer ("'Music.app' can’t be modified or deleted because it’s required by macOS.") but Spotify can be deleted.

The solution is for Spotify to sue them on this specific issue and for other people to sue them similarly.
What are they waiting for?
The first bug hits close to home. I spent a good 2-3 months in 2018 researching this and providing mitigations to our ops teams. We also had another bug with older k8s versions - cgroup leakage where pods in a crash loop would leave cgroups hanging around.

We came around to the doing exactly what the team here did. Disable kmem accounting, but we had to rebuild kubelet/runc after making code changes to disable it.

I created some very basic tests to verify which kernel would not give the kmem accounting error. I randomly tested a few kernels (RHEL, CenOs - 3.10.x, Ubuntu - 4.4, 4.15). The 4.15 kernel is where my test didn't show the issue recurring. But I've still seen some sporadic occurrences in the 4.15 kernels as well.

I think you can get a no-kmem stack of k8s/runc, etc. for RHEL/CentOS kernels though. It's what we started to use earlier this year and have been happy with it so far.
NYC link kiosks(?) run Ubuntu
This culture with dogs and animals have reached nonsense proportions. It has gone to the other extreme, and it needs to be reigned back in.

I was in an elevator, and some guy brought his dog to work, or something. I was surprised that I might have flinched, said WTF, and the dog flinched, and growled. At that moment I thought the dog was going to attack me, or the others in the small elevator cabin. And this was a medium to large sized dog, that was also beyond the owner’s ability to easily control.

And I see more often now, people walking their bulldogs, as if they are nice and friendly pets. They are not. They are vicious attack animals.

These dogs are not professionally trained. There is no certification that can guarantee that the dogs are safe to the public. And the owners are typically incompetent and irresponsible morons that shouldn’t have a dog to begin with.

And there are those idiots that brings their large dogs into department stores, and walks them around as if it’s perfectly ok. It’s absolutely abnormal to be shopping at a Target, and to have to avoid some idiot’s large dog.

It’s also irritating to walk through a store like Nordstrom Rack, where people bring their small dogs into the store, and let them sit inside the cart. There’s nothing worse than placing your new clothes into a shopping cart soiled by a dog’s urine or poop. But I digress, Nordstrom Rack must have a policy to allow these people that privilege to bring in their small dogs. I try to avoid the place if I can, because of this. I’ll vote with my wallet.

I’m all for letting people have service animals, if they are blind, or physically handicapped. At least those service animals are professionally trained (or at least I hope there is a valid certification for that).

But for all others with their supposedly “emotional support animals”, then they are just abusing the system, and taking advantage of the good graces of others. It is only a matter of time before one of these dogs violently acts out and attacks someone or a child in public.

What will it take to outlaw this? Do we have to wait until one of these dogs kills a child in order to ban them?
the "rule of thumb" is to rent out for 5% (per annum) of the price of the property. This is the unrecoverable cost of owning a property - 1% in maintenance, 1% in
property taxes, and lastly, the cost of capital (which, i've set it at 3% as an estimate).

If your rent is exactly 5%, then the landlord is cashflow neutral, and the property appreciation is what the landlord gains. If your rent is below 5%, it's a good deal, and if it's above 5%, you're getting shafted by your landlord.