skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm founding Trainer Vision with my partner, who is a certified personal trainer. Normally they write our blog posts since that's our target demographic. This week we switched things up and I wrote a more explanatory post. I think focusing on what your users do with most of their time is a helpful frame for any developer or creator.

Happy to answer any questions or discuss any feedback!
Yes. When you send an email about a commit, and you get a reply that they will “revert back” some time later, you can be very confused.

Especially if you use git or svn, given that “git revert” and “svn revert” exist.
Another excellent article about her from 2014 is here:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/maryam-mirzakhani-is-first-wo...

It also tries to explain her work in layman terms, fwiw.
No, I don't miss that point. Some people should definitely go to jail.

But what is the solution here? Be really angry to the lenders and make them keep writing checks to the fraudulent borrowers?
I not only could, I say so.

Focus on platform languages and you always win long term.
Purple prose is not a requirement for literary fiction.
Mirzakhani will always have a special place in my heart.

I was an undergraduate mathematics student when I discovered her work. It was a paper on closed geodesics and there was something special about her writing. Her approaches were simple an elegant -the kind that made you, as a reader, feel accomplished for understanding such a complex subject. It wasn't long until she was placed among other grand mathematicians that I looked up to.

A year later she died. I wasn't even aware of her health. It sucked to see an idol go so young. But it's incredible what she accomplished within her lifetime. She'll always be one of the greatest.
Is your comment a recursion or bootstrapping joke?
No, it's a selector, but one that can include the actual text in the page. So instead of having to select based on a pre-existing anchor, like `http://site.com/page#anchor`, you can link to `http://site.com/page#understanding+his+correctly` (though that's not their format). No need to alter the markup.

Though, I'm curious how this works when text is broken apart over spans or divs.
Oscar's Hill
RIP(روحش شاد باشه) Maryam and thanks for your contributions.
Reaped the benefits? Greece's GDP dropped 30% since 2008 it and was forced into austerity by the Troika to move debts from the left pockets of Deutsche Bank to the right pockets, with the interests paid for by Greek tax payers.
Sometimes you have to allow yourself to be surprised. :)

Plus, don't know how you would sum her up - "A mathematical genius"? A bit dry
I was at a tobacco company hq once. It surprised me to learn that almost everyone there smoked. A lot.
That is how languages like Go get designed, pour souls not able to spend some time learning.
It's not false, the article you link to provide no data, nor does any of it's references that I checked and basically just states a lot of scientist agree. Which I don't deny, I have my skepticism as to how accurate climatology and climate physics disciplines are but that is a personal view, i don't view it as a pseudoscience but I put a lot less faith in it than I do mathmatics.

The article sited provides no data that would break down CO2 contributions based on natural phenomenon vs emissions. The only study I know of that does is the tree ring data paper and it has since been found to have significant mathematical errors and in need of revision based on the findings. This article is a sociology piece at best describing the natures of how denialist and right wing fanatics operate and how climate scientist tend to agree, but even with that there are social implications of funding, group think etc.
It's a vaporizer for leaf material. People have been using this tech for weed for 20+ years.
I struggle to find a problem that "real ID" fixes. Sure, it's easier to get on a plane (it's not true that they are actually required, some TSA guy at the airport saying so to me the other day notwithstanding), but that simply pushes back the question: what possible value is there in checking ID before flying?

Like the current electronic voting mess, it was part of a rush to legislate in early 2002 all of which collectively feels like "something must be done; this is something; thus we must do it".

I have never seen an explanation of how my life might be improved by going through all this nonsense, while I have experienced plenty of inconveniences.
My first thought was: "Did he write a new book?"

And indeed, "Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present" will be published soon.
I like David Foster Wallace as a writer and he’s as much an authority as anyone when it comes to writing well, but I think there’s a pretty major difference in terms of goals and priorities. PG is writing about writing as a means of processing ideas. He’s taking the perspective of a structural engineer, not an architect. While Wallace wrote beautifully, PG is writing about writing usefully, even if that writing is bare and unornamented. And while that may not be your preferred style, I wouldn’t dismiss it as something that someone would want to do.
Sounds like SAP :)
As a counter point, I've been here, and thought the same, but it was my lack of experience that made me think that way. The codebase was written the way it was for a reason, and I was just not experienced enough to understand it's reasoning.
Strings and Loops Within Pi
There's a large international audience here. So, slang like "yep" should probably be avoided if one is keen to carefully tailor their writing?

(I debated whether to use 'one' or 'someone' here, for similar reasons.)
Phillip Morris invested over $2b in Cronos Group. They are playing in the cannabis game.
I find that most of the problem of merging come from lack of randomness. That is both parties think the other should have already acted, so they think it's not their turn to act. Eg. I already slowed down yet the other party hasn't even started merging, so I'll speed up. Then the other car just starts to turn. Bah, I have to slow down. But they noticed I sped up, so they reverse their course, and we're already approaching the end of their lane, so ... poor other car has to now come to a complete halt, and either wait for a bunch of cars to pass, or this lane will have to come to a stop too to let that car in. And so on.

So some kind of consistency would help. If the self-driving car decides to let the other car in front of it, then slow down, wait a bit, then okay, chance missed, go ahead.

How else would it work? This part is classic reinforcement learning. I don't think this policy part is the hard part. (Eg. similar speed merging, and from-stop merging, or stop and let other car in.)

Probably each brand will have a personality. (Based on their timeouts and other parameters.) And humans will adapt quickly. (And naturally the self-driving cars will change over time too.)

Chat requires an amazing amount of implied context. Merging? Not so much. Driving in general? Yes, that does, because there are strange edge cases. (Like what to do when you are lost, or the car breaks down, etc.)
Given the entirely performative nature of the genre, purple prose well executed almost certainly cannot hurt.
How on earth does this make government in any way more efficient?

I ask this as someone appreciative of government in general.
I think a lot of the comments in this thread are trying to evaluate the privacy concerns on merit, which makes sense, but IMHO it's also instructive to look at the fact that other W3C members don't want this included and Google is able to do it anyway. Perhaps that should be the bigger cause for alarm than any one feature.
Exactly this. Climate change is used to allow people to pretend they're doing good for the environment, but it's really just green washing our actually environmentally destructive practices, like as mentioned nutrient runoff from agriculture, or the insect apocalypse (and subsequent bird and other animal life / diversity collapsing).

Some people hate to hear it, but it's debatable whether the whole conversation around climate change is beneficial or in fact detrimental to real environmental causes.
I'm very appreciative that we're researching psychedelics again. There is clearly some degree of therapeutic potential for these compounds as adjuncts to traditional therapy programs.

However, I'm also worried that the media glamorization of psychedelics will sink this trend before it has a chance to gain a foothold. I get worried when Fortune is consulting with tech-age gurus like Tim Ferriss instead of reporting on the underlying research.

Psychedelics show promise in controlled trials when embedded in the middle of intense therapy sessions, administered by trained professionals. Participants in these sessions, such as the author of the article, are generally drawn to the psychedelic treatment with a strong pre-conceived notion that the treatment will "work". In other words, it currently self-selects for true believers almost perfectly. The placebo component is very real.

Psychedelic treatment also doesn't work miracles the way that Tim Ferriss and other gurus tend to hype it. In the article, Tim compares a single psychedelic sessions to "a decade of highly-effective talk therapy", which is a red flag for anyone remotely familiar with psychedelics or talk therapy. He also glosses over the fact that he frequently took psychedelics as a younger person yet still suffered from depression.

Depressed patients are a notoriously vulnerable population, often desperate for any form of relief. Dangling psychedelics as an easy-button miracle cure is dangerously irresponsible. Yes, I know Tim technically recommends that his listeners don't self-experiment at home (wink wink) but do you really expect depressed patients reading this hyperbolic article that doesn't bother explaining the limitations or downsides to come to the same conclusion?
This is absurdly difficult to pull off with very little payoff. You'd need to be sniffing the traffic of a network. Then craft a URL that contains a unique image near your text fragment query. Then somehow send that URL to the victims on your network. _Then_ check how long it takes for them to load that image upon clicking the URL.

I'd like to call myself a privacy advocate, but this is just absurd. The pros obviously outweigh the con of a very precise and targeted attack that leaks a predetermined bit of information.

If you've got their DNS records, you've already violated plenty of their privacy to get the information you want. No need for this text fragment "attack."
> It's only not a tax technically

In the same way that any benefit program being cancelled (eg. movies for kids for free every Friday on the town green, etc) are stealing.

It's a benefit that had some or all of it taken away.
If it works properly there isn't another layer to debug (and anyway, one has to debug OCaml's syntax as it is, so it's more like trading one debug layer for another). I've never had to debug into assembly before, for example. And while syntax is normally just superficial, OCaml goes out of its way to be obscure and I don't have time for that. Especially with all of its other warts (stdlib issues, crappy package management, crappy build tooling, still no multithreading, etc). I eventually just gave up. Which is too bad because the type system (absent the OO stuff) could be useful.
This is even better though: https://www.99xtechnology.com/blog/research/neutralinojs-int...
I haven't taken this course, but I've read some of Strang's textbooks and found them to be excellent. What do you dislike about this course?
Reprocessing is a rewrite of Processing in Reason.

Runs with WebGL and OpenGL.

https://github.com/Schmavery/reprocessing
The potential unintended consequences was covered in the movie Serenity.
Oof. I don't know who would really trust research about it being "less harmful" coming from that company after their history. It may very well be, but I wouldn't trust them on the matter.
You're right that it's just a vocal minority. But management has sided with them repeatedly, such that the minority now rules the roost there. Without anything to check them or push back they're rapidly getting on with the task of making their products politically biased.

I didn't see it on HN yet (maybe it's here and got flagged), but this story went around on Reddit yesterday:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/f6pyiu/cloud_v...

Google are adjusting one of their AI APIs to refuse to label men and women in images, because it's "biased".

Clearly that's a minority viewpoint, but it's being implemented formally in their products. It's safe to assume the entire company is working towards the destruction not just of the Republican party but its entire worldview.
This reads like a list of bullet points the author dreamed up that morning. I can feel the morning coffee and feigned interest in communicating to the anonymous internet as the self-interested writer taps a pen on his computer screen.

A better way for this writer to succeed would have been to wrap his list of "rules" around a problem for a character, institution or team of people. Placing these imagined rules in story through a daily work schedule at the 9-5 software office job would greatly improved it's readability.

Bob works at Innitech and he needs to create an essay on the latest doodad the boss is craving to provide to his superiors. Bob's needs to provide precision only when it is necessary because of [humorous anecdote about engineering culture]. Jane works at InGen and needs to provide an essay on a C++ based linux app that rotates raptor eggs or whatever. This rule X covers the strength she needs to convey in her essay and this is how her client presentation will be improved by it. The rule on clarity of writing is how she can help her co-workers with accurate, clear information.

The author would engage a broad set of interests and the reader can quickly digest the information that matters to them because everybody understands the story format. The author could put down his morning coffee and instead describe part of the story to his wife or secretary and see the reaction of someone outside the field responding to what could be an interesting topic.

We are left with mechanical writing that has to be laboriously deconstructed and reconstructed in the reader's mind as context that applies somewhere in their life. Nobody is quite sure when, where, why or how they are going to be writing an essay, but my golly they are prepared with a bullet point list of rules to do so.
It's complicated....

"Bulk commodity" in trade means that a good is comprised of units (discrete or continuous) of equally-interchangeable quality, as opposed to a good which is comprised entirely of unique entities.

If I take a brick, or a shovelful of sand, or a barrel of rainwater, a ton of iron, a bushel of wheat, a dollar or yen or pound from you, and return another to you later, it doesn't matter if you get back the same unit or a different one, so long as the quality is equivalent.

If I take a Monet or Picasso or first-edition Gutenberg Bible or the Hope Diamond, you're going to want that specific item back, not a replica, no matter how exact or precise.

If I order a package of washing-up liquid from Amazon and that goes walkabout, Amazon can simply ship another unit of soap and I'll be happy.

If I order a pair of prescription eyeglasses and those go walkabout, Amazon cannot simply redirect another customer's order to me -- the specific nature of the glasses -- prescription, frame choice, fit, lens coatings -- matter.

Bulk commodities are highly undifferentiated. Within a commodity class, they're infinitely substitutable. Once a price is determined, what you get for that price really doesn't much matter. In other words, it's the realm of market-based exchange most amenable to price-as-the-only-signal you can find.

And yet, it still doesn't rely on price-as-the-only-signal.

Even amongst commodities, there are quality measures. You want your sand to be sand, not dirt or plastic. For specific applications, river rather than beach sand. Grain is controlled for moisture content, spoilage, and insect fragments. There are quality standards imposed by mechanisms other than price.

Your (apparent) objection to my comment was actually the point I was trying to make.

But thank you.
I'm glad my uni didn't have things like homework. Physics at Exeter 74 to 77 had tutorials instead, if you didn't complete the work in time your tutor might grumble but the grumble had no impact because the class of one's degree depended only on the finals and the final year project report/dissertation. Of course not finishing the work quite likely had some impact on your ability to perform in the finals!
The Washington Post article linked above mentions that the Texas AG is using his google probe to solicit donations in his reelection emails.

Here is a NYT article about how state AGs get used by company lawyers to go after competitors with money exchanging hands (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/19/us/politics/lawyers-creat...)

Here is the one about the Mississippi AG used by the movie industry to go after google (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/20/technology/google-attorne...)

The WSJ is a not an uninterested party in this case, and this is but one example of them misquoting and spinning reports to attack google (https://searchengineland.com/misquoted-and-misunderstood-why...)
I think you underestimate people's desire to scam the system. Buy $1000 mattress, leave in box, "return" mattress and get $1000 refund. Sell online (instead of donating) for $300-400. Rinse, repeat.
This article is nothing more than a bulletin updating us on the latest developments in the case

It's called a "process" article. Some small thing happens in the process of a larger event, and it's updated. It helps the publication later if research has to be done into what happened and what the coverage was. It also indicates to its avid readers that it's following the event long-term and "on" whatever happens.

It's just normal journalism. But since the majority of people on HN consume their news in bits and bites here and there, and random headlines, they don't understand the benefit.

painted up to look like more than it is.

That's more of a matter of opinion than of fact. Sometimes extra background is added to a process story for the benefit of people coming in for the first time, or who will only read a few reports about an event over a period of months or years.

/Was a journalist for 20 years in a previous life.
The university industry is starved for cash, that's why they're such easy prey. So many professors bought and paid for. It's like how Huawei is subsidized because the Chinese government gets the real benefits from backdoors into other countries infrastructure.

So yeah, it makes sense that cash-starved professors sell their soul for money. All the incentives are there.
It appears this could just be a prime95 bug from reading the comments.
Yes, that's possible.

But patents are already just as powerful, actually much more so. They cause a lot of problems but haven't caused the tech industry to collapse in a MAD Mexican standoff of lawsuits.
> Is there a reason they can not walk to school?

Sounds like a good way to get yourself a visit from CPS. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/13/parent...
Thanks.

I think I'll recommend merging the articles.
This article title and conclusions are misleading. It shows how to write a simple game in OCaml and then proceeds to conclude that ReasonML is better. I would expect the author to have the same game implemented in ReasonML for comparison to show us why. Otherwise, it is not very convincing.
Habits 101: Research and Techniques for Habit Formation
Should I buy this house or wait for a better one – a handy calculator and model
In fairness, it's dead because it was shitty and made most things harder, and the things it did improve JS copied. If OCaml fixes its syntax, then we won't have any need for Reason.
This is brilliant unintentional parody.
But if it had the anchor 'cancer', couldn't you infer the same from the url alone? These examples seem highly contrived.
Orders of magnitude. Total Earth solar irradiance is in the order of hundreds of petawatts, while total world installed power plant capacity sits in at a few terawatts.

We're simply unable to measurably increase the amount of heat on the surface of Earth directly.
Exactly, people should be judged for their actions. Not for skin color or net worth.

One's wealth isn't automatically a result of bad actions. It's a very accurate comparison. Generalisation is generalisation.
If by "well" you mean including Blueprints and physics-based-shaders then probably yes; although stuff like 3D rigging and modeling which is done on different third-party tools are a must for a lot related jobs.
> That's not the case here. JavaScript provides an implementation of 64-bit IEEE-754 floating point numbers. You do not need to know anything about the implementation (is it implemented in hardware? in software? what are the algorithmic details? who cares, they just work!) to use them, they function perfectly like IEEE-754 floating point numbers should.

You're missing the point: the fact that it's an IEEE-754 floating point number is always an implementation detail. I've literally never been told by a business user, "Hey, I'd like you to add an IEEE float field so we can track some IEEE floats." That doesn't happen.

> Think of it like this: no sane person would think the fact that an integral type (i.e. an "int" or a "long" in C/C++/C#/Java/whatever) can't represent the number 3.75 exactly means that "int"'s are a "leaky abstraction". Of course they can't represent 3.75, it's an integral type!

Sure, nobody will agree with your straw man argument. But de facto people want their float types to not round decimal values to binary values. And even integers are a leaky abstraction--if you expect `int` to represent an arbitrary integer, you're going to be disappointed when the values get large enough. But hey, you're the one who said it was an integral type.

> Likewise, of course a floating point number can't represent 0.3 exactly: it's a floating point type! They never pretended otherwise! If you want to represent 0.3 exactly, go with a rational or decimal type, that's what they're there for.

The difference being that the average developer or business user knows what an integer is, whereas I doubt even you can tell me whether an arbitrary case will go wrong without testing it or doing some back of the napkin math.

> All the time! Like, 99% of the calculations you make on a computer, IEEE-754 floats are by far the best choice to represent a number! They're a stupendous numeric type! There's a reason why every CPU and GPU in the world is optimized for floating point operations (that's even how you measure their performance, with mega/tera/peta-FLOPS!), and there's a reason why every language under the sun has built-in support for them! Some languages (like Lua or JavaScript) make them essentially the ONLY built-in numeric type: it's that good!

Way to not read a full 1/3 of my post. I'll just post it again, please read it this time:

Sure, that's a good-enough abstraction for a lot of cases, which is why a lot of languages implement that standard, and it's pretty reasonable for JS to do that.

I'm not sure why you're leaping to the defense of floats: just because something is a leaky abstraction doesn't mean it's not a useful leaky abstraction. I'm not saying languages or architectures shouldn't implement floats.
So you derived the idea axiomatically?
It's quite efficient if you manage to bring together large enough crowd.
I don't know. The second line is a bit sketchy, but an AG having the MPAA ghostwrite things for him seems like pretty good support for an insinuation that private interests are manipulating the investigation. Maybe the term "corruption" is too loaded, but would you agree that the AGs are investigating Google based in part on how third party groups would like the investigation to go?
Apache Kafka on Kubernetes, how to size the cluster