skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Personally I'd advise against both SVM's and Bayesian methods for a beginner. Bayesian statistics is very much the deep end of the pool.

I don’t know, I think it depends on what you mean by Bayesian. I would say understanding loss functions and regularization requires some understanding of Bayesian stats (just knowing that it comes from log p(x|q) + log p(q) and what both of those terms mean).

> Graphical models and Bayesian methods generally may make a comeback but such approaches have been superseded by other methods for good reasons, i.e. scaling

Can you be more specific here? It sounds like you’re talking about a particular problem or class of methods. PGMs/Bayesian methods can mean basically anything from logistic regression to running HMC on some hierarchical model using 10,000 CPU hours. I just mean aspiring to learn PGMs will force you to quickly learn and gain a deeper understanding of and appreciation for Bayesian stats, and then you can build on that for years and years. But it depends on what you’re interested in doing —- there’s a difference between model building and inference; you can spend your whole life using the same loss function and just focus on making your NN architecture better, you don’t need much Bayesian stats to do that.

> i.e. "MAP" estimation which is more of a hack to ML than an actual Bayesian method

Huh? Maybe we mean different things by Bayesian — the mode of your posterior seems pretty Bayesian to me!

> Meanwhile a strong basis in "deterministic methods", as an alternative way to spend that learning effort, has its own rewards. The training algorithms for deep learning are also the hottest algorithm research area in machine learning, and are certainly applicable beyond deep learning. For that matter a thorough understanding of SVM delves into convex optimization, an extremely powerful framework as well.

Would agree that optimization is an important part of ML/DS, but since nowadays virtually all of the most popular optimization algorithms are available at our fingertips in e.g. pytorch, I would still think its better to start with trying to build a fundamental understanding of how to frame problems. But that’s colored by my own experience and background, people’s priorities should be different depending on what they want to do.
There's some really good advice right here:

Take some basic design principles and stick to them
What I admire the most about traditional media is how quickly they can switch agendas and what short memories they have. It's tabula rasa after every propaganda campaign.

The entire traditional media ( including theguardian ) has been attacking youtube relentlessly the past few years and when youtube finally "submits" and does the bidding of the traditional media's bosses, it's all youtube recommendations now.

It went from youtube is destroying your children, destroying the world, youtube is evil to "you should check out X youtuber", "the best videos on youtube", etc.

I guess there is a fine line between love and hate.
ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of the .org registry
Ok, does that mean that we should drain the Great Lakes so we can "restore" them as valleys with their own ecosystem? (supposing that we could make them off limits to building, so Chicago and Gary and other cities on what are now lakes couldn't encroach; and never mind that we don't know what they were like before the glaciers carved them out, or if they were even valleys back then) Would that be better in some objective way?
The division was never a problem during the heyday. The decline in Lisp in fact started at the height of standardization.

> it's so easy to write a lisp system

Have you tried it, and how far did you get?

Making a Lisp system useful for production is pretty brutal.

13 years into it you will be debugging some eleven-year-old GC or compiler bug.

People think it's easy because they visualize the job as being done when some executable file converts (+ 1 1) into 2.
How many people would you need to infect?
So suppose Urbit is genuinely useful. What is to stop someone from forking it, stripping out the obscurantism, writing friendly documentation, then redistributing galaxies/etc in a different way?

I don't see the moat.
ICANN Board Withholds Consent for a Change of Control of the .org TLD
This has been handled very badly. Zero notice given to users - despite saying it is closing in 2 months time they have immediately stopped uploads and interactions on the app crippling it and removed large sections of functionality. The new subscription pricing for their rebranded version of the same app is considerably more expensive than the plan we were already on. And in an apparent dark pattern to encourage users to move to their new version they claim that comments and likes etc have “no way” to be exported... but you can keep them if you sign up to their “new”, more expensive same app...
wait... If you wanted a desktop, wouldn't getting a non-apple keyboard be a total nonissue?
Not all Ryzen CPUs come with integrated graphics.
This is no way implies "herd immunity". That would require 60% of the population to have not only been exposed to the virus, but to have actually achieved full immunity thereafter.
It's kind of odd to imagine not being able to think of anything to do on a system or codebase. Do you need approval before starting on a change? Why not just do something that makes things better?
Biometrics represent identity and not authority. This misconception will be the cause of many a security fail during the 21st century.

Authority comes from the user's mutable grey matter - not their immutable genetics.
Wait, really? My understanding was that, whereas VW intentionally cheated to fool regulators, Intel (and others) got blind-sided by a creative attack against a fundamental, well-established technique for gaining performance. These seem like very different problems.

Note: I haven't followed the "saga" closely so maybe there is more to it that I'm not aware of.
Oil futures don’t go that far out unfortunately
How can we bring this to Linux/BSD? Specifically the GUI layer? I’ve lamented that Linux desktop world has been fragmented and alien as compared to other major environments. I used to think that things would have been better if we had chased GNUStep and source compatibility with macOS.

I feel like the non-GUI userland in Linux is best in class and is effectively a given for any server deployment. But all the developers I know cobble together a mediocre Linux-like environment on macOS so they can have a first-class desktop environment and an okay development environment.

On the other hand I read about people using Windows as development environment by using WSL.

I feel like Linux will never organically gain critical mass for a desktop environment—substantial source compatibility with some major platform seems like the way to go. How are the Windows APIs vs the Cocoa APIs these days? Assuming source compatibility could help boost desktop Linux’s fortunes, is Windows or Cocoa a better target? Does consideration of iOS change the calculus?
If they refused to hire you I’d be fine with it, but lowballing 10% means they’re not seriously concerned about the risk.
Note that the lyrics are part of the input to the Jukebox neural net, so I assume they used the lyrics of an existing song here. Nothing stops someone from using a lyric-generating neural net with Jukebox though. (It's probably more useful that the lyrics aren't produced by Jukebox because it means you can easily swap out the lyric-generation part or manually tweak the lyrics.)
Lots of people, including myself are quite confused by exactly what Urbit is. It seems like most people familiar with it have internalized its conventions to such a degree, that they can only describe it in the most broad and unspecific of strokes.

I'll take a stab at it, as someone who just spent five minutes skimming its description of its address space, and trying to parse people's varying descriptions of the project.

I'd love it if someone more familiar with the project could tell me how off-base I am.

- Urbit is a virtual computing platform in-which all devices (ships) are members of federated network.

- The federated network is hierarchically organized in such a manner that anyone can join, and receive a unique 128-bit address, but you're incentivized to join as a child of a node on the next level up the hierarchy (in-which case the first 64 bits will be your address, and the next 64 bits are your parent's address).

- your address is cryptographically signed by the parent, which serves as a reputational voucher. Your parent node also serves as a package manager for your vm(?).

- This system allows network nodes to ostracize branches of the network of ill-repute, in order to incentivize parents to 'disown' bad actors, as well as good clients to transfer to parents that don't vouch for bad actors.

- your vm is just that. A sandboxed computing environment in-which to exectute arbitrary code/applications either pulled from your parent node, or exchanged between you and your peers, as well as a mechanism to store and cryptographically sign data data you've generated/data that others have generated which you've cached.
And yet the empire was brought down from within...
> Brave is a great browser, respects to Brendan and team. We both "fight" against Google.

Using Google's browser as the basis for one's own browser is certainly an interesting way to "fight" against Google.

Much like how collecting ad performance / analytics data from users is an interesting way to achieve privacy as a "strict design requirement".
Also on getting your team to actually following those recommendations. I can be right every time, but still nobody wants to listen.
The plumber hooked it up to the same kind of condensation pump/drain that central AC uses.
A few protips: hot reloads are outside of a few corner cases generally unnecessary these days. Be careful about erlang rpc if you expose it in any fashion over the network and follow the eef security working group guidelines re: erlang term format. I use Elixir's plug.crypto.non_executable_binary_to_term/2
Louis Rossmann, AvE, or Joey Santore has a cooking show?

(Slow news day reporting WFH, I guess.)
https://www.stlouisfed.org/~/media/blog/2016/december/blogim...
Thank you for the pointer to DB fiddle!
...or maybe, just maybe, the media - like the internet - isn't a single entity, and in fact contains a multitudes of viewpoints, styles, and opinions...
The thing is that the restaurant has waiters. Those waiters don’t take a vacation because they can’t afford it so Boeing doesn’t sell planes. Boeing isn’t growing so they lay off engineers who now don’t upgrade their iPhones. And Apple will suffer, just awhile from now.
When It's Time to Move to Scrum
Straight up admission of HN's rabid anti-communist bias at the end there.
Several milligrams or kilograms?
The story I remember for the bridge repair...

An oil truck tipped over, lit on fire, melted the steel in the overpasses (same level, above, and below). Bids were put out; you got a bonus if you got it done in under a month, and then for every day before that, further bonus. One bid came in both super low on "cost", and in time (like a week or something), and they'd make all their money on the bonus structure. Firm succeeded (lost like a day to a flat tire on a shipment, too), and AFAIK they were the firm selected for the Yerba Buena changeover. No quality issues either, although I don't know details.

For LA...

LA expo line was originally not going to reach the beach until... nowish? But something happened, and it got done years early. AFAIK, that schedule increase didn't come with a cost increase. Literally right now, my understanding is that the Beverly Hills line is getting accelerated, since there's no traffic to interrupt / work around.

Edit:

Has any government project been on time and overbudget, or are they always both over time and over budget?
I know batteries are for used for quick response grid stabilization, but I've always read that they are worse at maintaining frequency under load.

Do you have a source that talks about frequency stabilization in particular?
It's difficult to know what can be made better because I don't really understand how the entire system works. It's a monolithic system. Again, it would require a businesses analyst to understand what needs to be improved.

Also, they don't want changes made unless there is a need because they don't want to risk new bugs being introduced.
Ultimately the purpose of your enterprise to help employers collude to suppress wages. Please shut it down and disappear. Otherwise I hope you die toiling in poverty.
And why will the Fed stop spending my great-grandchildren’s money to prop up the stock market? I don’t see a reason.
Or you scale back work by 50% and now earn 100% more per worked hour!
I have a feeling that over time descriptions of services like these get meaningless. "Discover, understand and manage your data", that could have a million meanings.
I believe most if not all states seal juvenile records by default.

If so, then a court would have to unseal it.

As an example, in Texas, juvenile records are automatically sealed in most cases, and can basically only be released to the subject of the record, or a prosecutor in a future case.
What a long winded to say you take issue with the semantics... Crypto is very well accepted term even in the Bitcoin community since at least 2011 when I was on Bitcoin Talk Forums.

I personally refer to its by its actual name as I don't like speaking in generalizations as each ecosystem is its own thing, as you are aware, and I instead will say: Bitcoin, Ether, Litecoin etc... but I would never assume someone is not competent because they used a term that has reached ubiquitous use to refer to the entirety of the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem.

Andersen Horowitz has been a proponent for Bitcoin since the days of Circle, right? I seem to remember his names being thrown around since back then.

I'm glad there are early adopters like yourself, predating me as I got in 2011, in the public discourse here but in light of all the disinformation around here do you really think hyper-focusing on semantics is the best way to try and clarify the Public's view on the subject?

Many people here, most with professional careers in tech and CS, don't even understand that Bitcoin solved the Byzantines General's problem in an elegant manner, one previously thought to be impossible. And often make specious reasoned arguments from that POV.

And I'm expected to take this argument of misused terms seriously?
What makes the $ more stable?
> Suppose America goes to war with Examplistan. What does that mean for the Examplistanis? Will they get deplatformed as enemy propaganda? Will the internet become a propaganda machine for wherever those large companies are headquartered?

Isn't this already the case? You can post videos on YouTube encouraging people to join the U.S. Marines, but not Al-Queda. I guess I don't find this very disturbing. Why should Google be required to host data for an enemy state?

> What if Google was anti-LGBT? Would we grant it the same moderation powers? Would we be ok with YouTube removing or demonetising videos featuring homosexual displays of affection?

YouTube's policies reflect mainstream social mores. Had YouTube existed 30 years ago, it almost certainly would have done this, and most people would have been fine with it. If YouTube did this today, it would quickly cease to be the dominant video hosting platform.
>> the top meter of soil in your yard probably contains several kilograms of uranium.

No. That is way way off. Grams ... more likely milligrams and even that sounds too much.
I wonder during the decline of the Roman Republic or Empire if people also gravitated more towards superstitions, cults, conspiracy theories, and other forms of magical thinking.
"The fact that this hammer is heavy and shaped for hammering things doesn't mean it will drive nails. Data or GTFO."
He’s supposed to leave in an error to preserve the context of your correction? LOL.
The typical response I get to such comments is that Google did get fined 50M once in France. The problem is that not only is it pocket money to them but Google continues to violate people's privacy (Google Analytics still tries to stalk me everywhere without asking for consent first).

When it comes to Facebook I am not aware of any investigation or enforcement action being taken despite them being even worse than Google when it comes to privacy and having proven their malicious intent and complete disregard for the privacy multiple times.
I've already been sent links to him twice, and reddit from page, etc.

To be honest, I'm kind of shocked he only has 128k subs... surely this article will help, but I would have thought he'd be pushing a million by now.
“Concentrations are tiny, on the order of a single grain of salt dissolved in a liter of water,” said Yi Cui, a materials scientist and co-author of a paper in Nature Energy. “But the oceans are so vast that if we can extract these trace amounts cost effectively, the supply would be endless.”

That's a lot more uranium than I would have guessed. According to the top few google results, it's about 3 milligrams per cubic meter.
"COVID-19 is clear and unequivocal evidence that population density has reached unsustainable levels. We are looking at The Great Filter." You are aware of course that there have been other plagues in the past, going back to at least the Roman Empire: the Plague of Justinian, shortly after the fall of the Western Empire; and nearly a millennium before that, the Plague of Athens. Just how small does the human population have to get, in your opinion?
Plastic feels cheap and shoddy. Macbooks (and such laptops) feel premium, and I want a premium product. I don't care about the price for a device I live with and work on daily.

The weight doesn't bother me, and in fact I _prefer_ it having some body to it.

Regarding impact... my 2015MBP doesn't look a day old. It's tanked hits that would break other laptops.
> Student loans would dry up overnight if they could be discharged at bankruptcy.

No, more likely they would be priced - both in amount lent and interest rate - according to the value of the "asset" they're purchasing. There's a reason why home mortgage and car loan rates are 3-4% while random credit card rate is 16-25%.

One is used to purchase something that has long term value and may be used to create value or enable you to make money while the other one is used for Netflix and Big Macs.

I'm waiting to see how things shake out in the next couple weeks. Many colleges require freshman deposits on May 1st. We don't know a) how many are coming back into physical session in the fall and b) how many parents will tolerate paying for an online degree. The next 12 months could crash the system.
I don’t get it, he’s just a typical Australian?
Microsoft rebrands Visual Studio Online as 'Codespaces'; plans to lower pricing
Those are desktop processors. Most applications won’t even use 64 cores. But I agree this is this future, but today faster single core will speed up your day a lot.
It's also harder to write abjectly wrong code in the BEAM. I found out that my code was effectively self-forkbombing, because I had hooked up an error reporter (I adapted myself because the version I wanted had bitrotted) to rollbar which (very rarely, when the service was in outage) cause a crash, which would try to report, crash, and exponentially grow. Amazingly, this caused no service degradation for our customers.
Much better to pay the Apple tax than to have to worry about this kind of stuff to save a couple bucks.
I always feel like Erlang and more generally BEAM is the language for a lot of today’s problems but will never see any kind of traction because of “worse is better”.
Staying well clear of 2), but to address 1): Tlon is an ordinary corporation and I would be flabbergasted if cgy didn't retain shares in a corporation he founded.

Then there's address space, and my understanding is that he gave up control of his galaxies, which doesn't say anything about the stars and planets that were in them.

With a little spelunking in the old codebase, and inspection of the Azimuth contract, someone interested in the question could no doubt answer it with reasonable confidence.
According to Wikipedia(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_in_the_environment):

"According to the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation the normal concentration of uranium in soil is 300 μg/kg to 11.7 mg/kg."

So let's say 5mg/kg. 200kg of soil per gram. How much area do you need to make 200kg of soil if you're going down 1m? I'd guess not much...

So I think OP is wrong and it's more like 'several grams'.
I’m glad that you are sure that you are immune and that everyone that one you care about is also immune. Enjoy that rave
Cliqz sounds like an adware/spyware company from the late 90's / early 00's. Except instead of a purple gorilla, we got a web browser.
How to Fix the Problem If Syncios Doesn't Detect the Android Device
right! you would think that maybe someone would have thought about capitalizing a lone letter i. i don't care if everything else is lowercase, but sheesh give us a capital I algorithm.
Logically, if isolation is keeping the curve flat and you still have patients to "burn" through then won't ending isolation make the curve pop back up potentially back over capacity?

It always seemed to me you needed to continue isolating to keep the curve flat as time went on until you reached a critical number where letting it go couldn't overwhelm health services.
> How to extract uranium from seawater for nuclear power

“Concentrations are tiny, on the order of a single grain of salt dissolved in a liter of water”

This sounds way to much, I can boil a litre of water in the kitchen and have a grain of Uranium?

From Yahoo answers

Grain of Salt - 2.25 mg (.00008 ounces).

Uranium - 3 micrograms per liter (0.00000045 ounces per gallon)

Yahoo answers didn't have how much energy 3 micrograms of Uranium can create.

I'd guess if we could get a way to extract it with an algae or something, the energy(sunlight) it uses would be better off stored and burned.
Apple News hits 125M monthly active users
If you're a CEO or a senior executive, I personally would expect that you're 100% capable of responding to criticism without losing your mind or spending $5,000 for a lawyer to send you some copy-pasta of "We take your feedback very seriously and will consider your opinion." and then never doing anything.

I'm not suggesting the leader be the one to personally go and fix the problem, but they certainly should have the communication skills to navigate it and organize a solution.
Second this. When my extremely wealthy CEO overheard I was in the market for a new vehicle, he happily volunteered to get on the phone and pit 3 local Ford dealerships against each other in a bidding war for my business. I ended up saving an additional 12% off what I thought was already a discounted price. I think a majority of us regular people don't know how to tap into that ruthless negotiation when buying cars, houses, mattresses, etc.
Well, I'm partial to my explanation of that operator.

But then, I would be.

https://github.com/mnemnion/ax/blob/master/comment.md#branch