skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've made a similar experience. On a high-level it seems intriguing but when working practically, there seems to be very little documentation. Even for very mundane tasks like taking the geometric product of two multivectors. Also I realize that many write-ups use different conventions (especially for CGA) making it difficult to combine documentation.

But yeah, traditional Linear Algebra really sucks in comparison. It seems surreal that for some tasks in LA that require solving equations - e.g. with Gauss algorithm - can be solved straight forward. Also I've read that it can be run quite efficiently due to advances in GPU computing. At the moment I'm checking Grassmann.jl, this seems quite promising in terms of performance although it's probably less intuitive than Ganja.js
For shits and giggles:

$ python3
Python 3.7.4 (default, Sep 7 2019, 18:27:02)
[Clang 10.0.1 (clang-1001.0.46.4)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print (0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1)
0.30000000000000004

$ irb
2.5.1 :001 > print 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1
0.30000000000000004 => nil

Chrome browser console:
> 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1
< 0.30000000000000004

$ php
<?php
echo 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1;
0.3
That's very interesting, thank you for sharing that story, makes me feel that information about the world is still young and there is yet things we have discovered. Thank you!
If Byte is really marketed as a TikTok replacement and not just "Vine again", they're missing the entire point of TikTok.
There is some moderation even if it is lenient.

But yes, the quality of discussion on AskReddit is low, which is why I unsubscribed more than half a decade ago. Thankfully, there's other sections of reddit that are in a better state. Quora, however, is a one-trick pony. It's just AskReddit and nothing else. There's no AskHistorians (with it's high standards) or askscience.
Show HN: How do you grow your ideas into robust concepts? Your Demo Feedback?
We should both know better
Bookkeeping needs to be accurate to the penny. Estimating growth for the next quarter or last years GDP doesn't.
Well, looks like Peter Thiel might finally get his wish.
I guess this is similar to Parse or Firebase?
I have a website with over 1.000.000 pictures. I’m still a bit salty that my images get 1M monthly impressions in image search and just 15k visitors.

If I made a website like Image Search, hotlinked all the images and burried a visit website button somewhere as a ‘curtesy’, I’d be sued out of existence within a couple of weeks.
Your local news sector has no community/forum functionality?
Is it free [1], free* [2] or "free" [3]?

[1]: free as in free beer, at no direct cost to users

[2]: terms and conditions apply, free until you hit certain conditions (for example, constant barrage)

[3]: free as in the customers pay for the (mandatory) DDoS protection via increased prices (similar to how I remember OVH handling their "free" DDoS protection)
Duckduckgo shows favicons in search results as well but nobody complains about it. People should be focusing on how to make Google ads stand out more and not the use of favicons.
> Hands down the best integration

I don't see how you're able to use it. This is one of the few intellij features I avoid. Doing anything other than most common tasks is either difficult or impossible. Using git cli is generally better, and it doesn't make me wait 10 secs.

The diff window is pretty cool though.
As website owner I vote for this solution. Right now many people don’t even know you can visit the source website.
The best case is hat it doesn't get worse because vaccine production and other treatments scale/improve faster than the virus spreads. It's still hard to predict the pace of either.

We also don't really know what the current scenario is. How bad is it already?
The real paper is https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.05338.pdf

1810.05337 is a summary of results for PRL

Both are very good
Strict. Not a change in language semantics at all.
Twitter Orders Clearview AI to Stop Scraping Image Data for Face Recognition App
It is doubtful, though, that the spotted fur, floppy ears, and other physical characteristics (domestication syndrome) are a result of the experiment [1]:

"The history of the Farm-Fox population undermines the commonly repeated narrative that a suite of domestication syndrome traits emerged solely as a result of selecting on tameness. There is no temporal link between most of the syndrome traits, which first appeared in Prince Edward Island (PEI) fur farms, and the later behavioral selection in Russia."

On the spotted fur [1]:

"The farm-fox breeders of PEI intentionally selected for white spotting and other unusual coat patterns (Figure 3). They noticed that crossing two white-marked foxes occasionally resulted in animals that held their heads askew, a phenomenon Belyaev would later describe in his population, suggesting shared genetic etiology. White spotting was more common in Belyaev’s selected than unselected populations, but has not been associated with less fearful behavior in individuals (Figure 2D)."

On the floppy ears [1]:

"The farm foxes of PEI occasionally had floppy ears, even as adults (Figure 3C). In the Farm-Fox Experiment, ‘delayed ear raising’ was noted (ears floppy past 3 weeks of age, but not necessarily into adulthood). While slightly more common in the selected population, the trait is extremely rare, and no association between delayed ear raising and less fearful behavior in individuals has been described (Figure 2D)."

[1] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2019.10.011
This also seems to paint it as not as bad as SARS or MERS:
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/how-new-wuhan-coronaviru...
As an Adsense publisher, I noticed they enabled ‘Auto ads’ on every website, automatically. What this does is it plasters 15 ads in a long web page, it adds interstitials to mobile page and it just fucking ruins your websites UX. It’s enabled on millions of websites now. It’s like Google is desperate to make more money.

I can disable it, for now. I won’t be surprised if at some point in the future, they make it the standard and only behavior.
I read a vaccine takes at least a year, that's not a good outlook...
I like different spaces having different keys. If someone is house sitting, then I can give them the one key they need and not worry about snooping.

Obviously a bad actor could get around it no problem, I’m just keeping out the honest
We evolved the ability to think past our instincts, but not yet the ability to totally suppress or control them, generally. That is a source of conflict, particularly when we build technology that, though useful and/or pleasurable, is frequently at odd with our long term mood and health.

This is the unnatural/natural divide when it comes to human engineering. Think of it as hacking the human psyche, vs living closer to the primitives we evolved from. Don't forget that the human brain has existed for an exceedingly small amount of time in proportion to life overall; but many of our primitive psychological and physiological functions are many millions of years old.
Exactd dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22083507
Yep, it's super common that when you show a UX prototype to a client they'll hyperfocus on things you don't want them to focus on right now like the font choice or button colors. Making it look rough and muted can help.
Almost dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22083507
From the FAQ:

What happens if a user forgets the password?
Users should always keep a copy of their password in a safe place, such as a password manager. Since the encryption key needs to be decrypted by the user's password, it is not possible to recover an account if the password gets lost.

I don't believe this is acceptable for a user authentication service. Password reset functionality must be present for this to be production ready.
My Sister is a member of his congregation in Boston, on a day when she was having a difficult time managing the difficulty of being a young mother of 5 while in a chapel during worship services (this happened within the last year or two) in the process of things there was a spill of things of hers into the aisle way. She shot down to the ground to try and gather up all the things now cluttering the aisle way. Of all the members of the congregation who could have stepped over to lean down and help recover the diaspora it was “Brother Christensen” who came over and, despite being in a body ravaged by age and all he’d been through, using support for mere walking. There he was putting in the genuine walk, leaning over repeatedly to help gather things for my likely frazzled and overwhelmed sister.

My sister was vaguely aware that he’d achieved some notoriety. When I went on to speak of the world wide reverberations of his work, it seemed to pale for me to the history my sister had related to me just prior of what this kind, old ‘disabled’ man had done for my sister. An act which virtually anyone else in his position would be excused for presuming that someone else could handle this ‘little’ need.

Thanks Bro Christensen for producing the rebar, the greatly undervalued acts that keep our society actually functional and bearable.
PinePhone Misconceptions
I believe Belyayev had a control group, yes.
They have their own system (a friend worked on it). I don't know the details of the system though
> Scientific papers usually aren’t written as debate transcripts.

Sure they are, although a debate wouldn't be contained in one paper written collaboratively by debating authors, as you seem to imagine -- it would play out over a series of papers, each of which cites previous papers and claims they're wrong.

For example, Timm 1989[1] argues that modern Breton is a VSO language, disputing the claims of Varin 1979[2], who claims it is SVO, which in turn disputes the traditional understanding that it is indeed VSO.

Or the famous paper of Haspelmath 2011[3] citing many other authors' proposed approaches to word segmentation and arguing that they're all wrong (i.e., that "word" is not a meaningfully defined concept in linguistics).

Where are the papers that you claim exist about the lines between languages? If this is really something mainstream linguists care about, you should be able to give examples in non-fringe journals.

I just checked the citations on the Wikipedia article for Middle English like you suggested, and found zero papers about whether Middle English should be considered "the same language" as modern English. Can you tell me which ones specifically you mean?

[1]: Timm, L. (1989). "Word Order in 20th Century Breton". Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, Vol. 7, No. 3, Special Celtic Issue, pp. 361-378 (https://sci-hub.tw/10.2307/4047723)

[2]: Varin, A. (1979). "VSO and SVO Order in Breton". Archivum Linguisticum 10, pp. 83-101

[3]: Haspelmath, M. (2011). The indeterminacy of word segmentation and the nature of morphology and syntax. Folia Linguistica, 45(1). (https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1515/flin.2011.002)
Also... imagining/dreaming together with other kids. Left to eachother, kids often "play make-believe." This is basically brains freestyling what they do best, making meaning for everything.
For a company that had the least distracting ads for a very long time, this is definitely a questionable move.

But, all the hullabaloo in the article about Ad links making money for Google v/s the others that don't seems misplaced. After all, the point of a search engine is to find stuff. And if an ad shows an alternative, that is possibly better, you can click on it.

These ad links are definitely not going to download malicious malware onto your devices.

I am more worried about ads on social media platforms with infinite scroll because those ads are more unpredictable in placement.
Has any one read both Agency & the Peripheral? Which one is the lighter read?
I don't think copyright will be extended again because of successful SOPA protests. Disney knows they cannot really succeed now at extending copyright, so they don't bother to.
Ancient Bat Guano Reveals Thousands of Years of Human Impact on the Environment
Predatory capitalism, well just capitalism.
Coyotes Poised to Infiltrate South America
It seems adaptive, my impression is that I have to toggle it back less and less.
Ah, yes, now I do remember those more useful options. I definitely recall using them once or twice. I can't say I missed it though (seeing as I clearly forgot about it). I guess someone who needs to do it on a daily basis would miss it more.
Clay Christensen on capitalism’s inherent tie to religion
Yes, you are right. This is really interesting thing to study. Everything in moderation is good. Excess or too less does more harm than good.
Please Charge Soon: A short essay on power banks & time
"It's not the message, it's what the listener gets from it."

I begin to think that if you don't understand the advice, you simply don't need it _yet_.
That explains why the speed of diagnosis increased, thanks. Do you have a similarly good explanation for why the lab tests that, starting with 59 cases of unknown origin on January 5 [1], had confirmed 41 cases of coronavirus by January 11 [2] failed to detect any new cases until the better test kits arrived?

[1] http://wjw.wuhan.gov.cn/front/web/showDetail/2020010509020

[2] http://wjw.wuhan.gov.cn/front/web/showDetail/2020011109035
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I believe you are conflating two things. AdWords and keyword-based contextual advertising was not problematic by itself. (And I say this as a person who absolutely hates ads.)

The problem is all the associated crapware, bloat, intrusion, bandwidth hogging, end-user hostility to point of abuse, dark patterns, intentional misdirection, A/B-test-optimised serendipitous confusion, SEO game-theory shenanigans, and ABOVE ALL the industrial scale stalking.

I've linked this piece a couple of times in the past three months: https://bostik.iki.fi/aivoituksia/random/no-stalking.html

Hell, I remember back in 2005 when I held a university course on basics of information security. The class laughed when I noted that observing everything a person does is called stalking when done by an individual, but as soon as its done by a large corporation indiscriminately and at scale, it's data-mining.

In the eyes of the law, only one of them is criminal.
Facebook and YouTube moderators sign PTSD disclosure
There are browser extensions that add a link to the original image.
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It is completely obvious that renewables require significantly more storage capacity than other power sources. However, a lot of experts seem to believe that this is not nearly as big of an issue as you are implying.

As for wind energy, you are completely wrong. In 2019 25% of Germany's electricity was generated by wind (compared to 13% nuclear). This has significantly reduced the fossil fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.

The main reason for halting construction is that conservative politicians have passed idiotic NIMBY regulations that now make it very difficult to build new on-shore wind farms. Somehow they even managed to convince a signify fraction of the population that wind turbines are somehow dangerous (probably the same fraction that believes in electro-smog).
Now if Ben Gomes could roll back whatever new NLP models they've recently deployed, that'd be great.

Oh and "by date" ranking doesn't work at all in the news tab
This is a case where usability should trump security in most cases.

The final user may even think wanting something like this. Until they ultimately lose their password.
I agree, feels more fair towards site owners than hotlinking the image, which been frowned upon on the internet since... At least I started using the internet.

What is not fine, is to use that as a reason to completely screw up the rest of the design, when a small change could have been enough.
Even the best attempts at task-oriented dialog currently using purely ML techniques are pathetically bad. Having worked in the field for a while, one thing that I have observed is that chatbots simply discard the bulk of the useful information that user provide them. They then fall back to asking users direct questions. Apart from this, they can only handle limited information retrieval tasks for which training data exists.

The next challenge in my opinion is to create a task-oriented chatbot that can help users to actually solve real problems which may not be directly related to previously seen problems. Related to this, consider the problem of creating a chatbot to automate support for an entirely new product.

I have played around a little in this space and feel certain that hybrid approaches will be necessary. For example, I created a car diagnosis/remediation chatbot driven by a Bayes net model of a car's subsystems. This actually showed signs of working - sadly got distracted with other projects.
Thinking out loud,'I would gladly pay to be on hackernews ecosystem'.
I disagree on Airtable. Their homepage currently says "Part spreadsheet, part database, and entirely flexible, teams use Airtable to organize their work, their way."

I'm a software developer. I have no idea what they are selling, based on that. Is this some sort of souped up Google Sheets competitor? If so, what does it do better? Is this a team workflow management tool? If so, why bring up spreadsheets and databases? I suppose some teams may try to organise their workflow using spreadsheets, but this far into the 21st century, most people use tools like Jira or Github Issues or Monday.com or one of fifty other tools. Is this a software development tool? If so, errr, what?

I literally haven't the slightest idea, after reading their homepage, what problem this is trying to solve, what solution it is offering, and what the target market is. Am I a potential customer? I haven't the slightest idea. Can this help solve any problem I have? Maybe, but the homepage goes out of its way to refuse to answer this question.

Airtable has even targeted ads at me. It's not like I've only spent two minutes looking at their site. I still haven't the faintest clue what they do, let alone why they are better than competing alternatives.
As an image search user. The number of times I went to the site only to find it either doesn't have the picture or requires a login would just make me mad.
I like to start with a good fantasy. What if I won the lotto or I had created Facebook? Then I could launch a war with the mayor. Become mayor. Create a new traffic enforcement group. Buy out the cable internet monopoly and make it a National coop.

Or maybe I’m just crazy!
If you talk to physicists and they tell you we've got something right, stop talking to them.

Every good(!) one knows that we got it wrong. Just a little less wrong than in the previous model. You cannot get it right. It wouldn't be a model but reality as a whole if you got it right. So the only questions are how you can get it less wrong than the last model, and which of the available models is most useful for the problem you are currently tackling. So yes, sometimes you even want to use a more-wrong model because it fits your problem better.

edit: thought about bringing in an example, but honestly it would need too much googling to be precise enough.
Do you actually use it?
Red Planet Ride-Along
Not to mention these masks are likely made IN China... divert production.
I concur. I only occasionally use !g w/ DDG now, whereas two years ago it was more frequent (although I can't quantify). I stuck w/ it as I wanted some distance between myself and Google.

Whether I've achieved any distance is an open question and I suspect that it is less than it feels like when I use DDG.

The results are comparable in my current experience. Compage searches for 'bluetooth speakers' on Google [0] and DDG [1]. In my location (Canada) DDG returns national results which are preferred and relevant.

I like that on the DDG results page the ad is clearly separated from organic results and I get the results w/out a mapping insert. That's just my preference, though.

Even the results URLs speak volumes. I have no idea what data - if any - I'm exposing about myself w/ the Google result.

[0] https://www.google.ca/search?source=hp&ei=KyUsXtPGIIGL5wKRx7...

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bluetooth+speakers&ia=shopping
Humans (doctors) aren't perfect at medical diagnosis either, so any improvement over human performance is still a net gain, even if it's still below 100% accuracy.
If only twitter could implement block account lists we can ban the whole bots, spammers and trolls in one go

https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/advanced-twitter-b...

When will twitter implement this?

It takes one day to hack this.
Yeah, but why the difference between chefs and SW engineers? Do we need a software Typhoid Mary for things to change?
2 things come to mind here:

A leopard cannot change its spots.

Confidence comes on foot but goes on horseback

I moved to FF + Duckduckgo engine a while ago, it will be extremely hard for them to win me back.
In my anecdotal experience almost all new comp bio methods are implemented and used in R. Python is starting to become a bit more common but is still the minority. When performance matters people sometimes go for C/C++. I have never seen anyone actually using Julia but I guess there may be one or two.
It sounds like a nice experience. But:

> My life seemed to be getting busier, faster: I felt constantly short of time

I can't seem to find any mention whatsoever about whether this changed... hmm...
Valid. Though I don't know why you'd want someone spending half their day triaging emails.
It could be worse, it could have been AppleScript.
> I also remember comparing AWS Lambda at Edge vs Cloudflare Workers ... costs were something like 10x apart.

According to the AWS pricing example[1] 10 million requests per month on Lambda@Edge costs $9.13. The same thing on Cloudflare Workers[2] costs $5.00. So I would expect it to be closer to 2x. Although as you say there's a bit more flexibility with Lambda@Edge so it'll depend on your particular case.

I'm curious if your situation was different somehow that made for such a big cost difference between the two?

[1]https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/#Lambda.40Edge_Pricing
[2]https://workers.cloudflare.com/#plans
This is what I keep hearing about DuckDuckGo and I'd really like this to be true for myself and my search engine usage.

Unfortunately, however, having used DuckDuckGo for the last few weeks my experience has been quite the opposite (described here in some more detail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22106837 ), especially when it comes to programming-related queries.
>Lots of ways to interpret this result.

rounding error in The Grand Simulation.