skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure I didn't say anything about "human nature".
> "online education is something you want other parents' children to do"

Perhaps a degree is a proxy for measuring parental investment
Is this the technology being used on Disneyland's smugglers run ride? I remember moving my head around and the 3d perspective following my viewpoint, but my Google Fu at the time could only find articles about the real-time rendering used on the screens.
> unless you can get people to value trying to figure out what's true and updating on evidence itself

What evidence could you give to disprove the belief that abortion is murder? The belief is not a claim about evidence; it's a claim about priorities, as the GP said. Or, if you like, about what actions count as belonging to what categories.
Hey guys,

I faced a similar issue at the company I work for (where a PM had activated an instance for months and racked up a $9k bill). I've been spending my coronavirus time hacking together a service that hopefully makes billing on AWS more clear. It does cost optimization and anomaly detection right now, and I plan on adding more features as I start to see more use cases.

Check it out if you'd like, and let me know what you think!

www.usage.ai
Another self-descriptive one would be .orc
Send it to me, let me try it out. If I break it I will buy it and if I like it I will buy it, but your crappy commercial isn't a sell.
>But you can't resell used games, that's the important point

Well, yeah, I said to an extent not exactly the same. That's also why I made my post. It is possible now.

>If resale is allowed, a single purchase of the original good could be played by potentially 100s of consumers (sequentially) without a single additional cent for the author

This argument applies equally to physical console games (Used copies sold at Gamestop and ebay) and physical books (Libraries and second hand bookstores). Those mediums didn't get destroyed by the reselling of the item after it was used.
We removed the Pricing/Premium page because we do not intend to make any of the current features paid. What you sign up for is free. Writing in the current mode will always be free!
HBO Max Pacts with Hulu
Its the other way around, see this post by Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702
Why Remote Work Is So Hard–and How It Can Be Fixed
Yep. Also as more services become available doing variants of the same thing, very likely it will be easier to bulid a layer on top to make it easy to access all of them
I would do piecewise addition like this:

Girl A is 1/3 of Table A, which seats half of the students, so she is 1/3 * 1/2 = 1/6 of the total.

Girl B is 1/3 of Table A, which seats half of the students, so she is 1/3 * 1/2 = 1/6 of the total.

So girls represent 1/6 + 1/6 = 2/6 of the total.
From my own experience, I've had many many many conversations regarding topics like this that haven't changed my views in any substantial way. BUT, I have had a handful that did and those are so valuable that I think they it IS worth banging our heads into each other's walls most of the time for these rare moments.
What? It was you who was explicitly mentioning additional services (e.g. always getting latest version) which just don't apply to books.

If your argument is convenience tops everything: again, the best possible, most convenient book store would be just like genesis library, except that you'd have to pay (and maybe see a single ad banner less).
I think people haven’t really updated their opinion of VR since the Quest came on the scene. VR will almost certainly never be as big as Mobile is now. But the Quest is a fantastic experience and lives well past the point where VR novelty has worn off. It’s the social experience and portability that does it. Sports, as you say, in particular are good here. I’ve been playing Echo Arena for a few weeks, now, and far from the novelty wearing off, I’m actually enjoying it more and more. Maybe it has something to do with the sense of presence and—dare I say—intimacy you get playing a multiplayer contact team sport when we’re all supposed to be self-isolating.

The main, enduring dimension VR adds to gaming IMHO is physical exertion (and this aspect is only really engaging with a standing experience... and then only enjoyable if wireless). I feel much better physically after the light exercise of half an hour of Quest gaming than I do after half an hour playing some PC first person shooter.
> 1) No Comprehensive Standard

Here the "scandal" is that the "standard" is poorly specified, and therefore isn't much of a standard. This seems to be the root of the scandal, and all else appears to flow from here.

> 2) Context Free, Just Kidding!

Here the "scandal" is regarding to context sensitivity -- the author vacillates about the status of the "scandal" but still, it seems clear that they're identifying context-sensitivity as scandalous.

> 3) Whitespace Insensitive, Just Kidding!

Here the author considers irregularities in how "whitespace sensitive" cpp is -- both in the "spec" and in implementations, with an example of non-portability between gcc and clang.

et cetera
Nullish Coalescing Operator
The second one is the attack that spread all the way to a basement HPC cluster in the Physics Institute at LMU Munich, the IP addresses listed are indicators to look for that your system might be compromised, not the victims of the attack.
It isn't mentioned in the blog as far as I can see but the author appears to be advocating "micro habits" (also known under similar and other monikers, small habits, BJ Fogg's method etc).

The idea being you pick up a new habit using similar techniques to pomodoro, a little bit at a time.

Example of similar reflections:

https://hackernoon.com/micro-habits-changed-my-life-47f572bf...

One thing I did find useful in this particular essay (the OP) was a reminder of the relative difficulty of spending X amount of time doing something new compared to the same amount of time doing something second nature - which is magnified further according to how boring, painful, or just plain irritating it is.
Palantir beats the fuck out of their employees, be careful...
Not good. I didn't click on the link because I was worried it might, but I almost did.

If I had I would have probably brought at least one video conference to a halt.
I mean, the leader of the country represented by .us brags about raping women, threatens nuclear wars, etc.... no country is uncontroversial.
BlizzCon 2020 Cancelled
I think the thing is though, its ok. Know that you're going to get off track, but also that it's possible to get back on track. In fact, commit to always getting back on track. I just had my second son. At the time I was hitting my squat goal, and stronger than I'd ever been. I was basically in the same place before my first son. After each kid, I regressed. You can't lift heavy weight during massive sleep fragmentation, nor is it smart to try when you need to be free from injury: that kid isn't going to rock himself to sleep at night!

But the fact I got back to where I was the second time taught me you can get it all back with enough work. You still have to do it, of course, but you should only regret losing progress if you fail to get back on track when life is telling you it's time to. But don't regret the fact that life can, and will, push you off the track now and then. Embrace it, accept it, and get yourself prepared to build it back up again.

The worst thing you can do is fall off track (which will happen) and then think because of that it's not worth starting over again. Or that what you accomplished wasn't worth it because you lost it. Or that it was a one time gift, that you failed to keep. The gift is the fact that you now know you can do it, and so can do it again.

Having the recognition that it is a cycle and you have the means and the will to correct it out of the trough is the only way to really ensure life long habits. It's easier to maintain than to build, of course, but don't feel like rebuilding is totally avoidable, and that it's a failure to have to do so when life gets in the way.
The risk is that it behaves like a reinforcement learning algorithm which essentially rewards itself by making you more predictable, I'd argue that's what curated social networks do today.

If you're unpredictable you're a problem. Thus, it makes sense to slowly push you to a pole so you conform to a group's preferences and are easier to predict.

A hole in my own argument is that today's networks are incentivized to do increase engagement where a neutral agent is in most ways not.

So perhaps the problem isn't just the need for agents but for a proper business model where the reward isn't eyeball time as it is today.
This is terrific, thanks for posting. Readers will appreciate Sean Michaels moving novel "Us Conductors," (https://www.amazon.com/Us-Conductors-Novel-Sean-Michaels/dp/...), which is loosely based on Leon Theremin's life. I've never read anything quite like it — part biography, part thriller, part love story, part music history. (Michaels is quoted in the piece, actually.)
I don’t ask people if hey are really Marxists because when I have in the past I get accused of “pigeonholing” their idea(s)
You can get 10Gig ethernet cards for ~$120 and a 10Gig switch for ~$250. To me that seems like a reasonable price for anyone doing work that needs that kind of bandwidth.
Also, I find this interview terrible. Very shallow
Just curious, why do you leave the signature out?
Downgrading to HTTP and removing the path (so just http://archive.md/ ), I get the following:

"""
Error 1001 Ray ID: 599a073ddbc3ae0c • 2020-05-26 19:50:59 UTC
DNS resolution error
What happened?
You've requested a page on a website (archive.md) that is on the Cloudflare network. Cloudflare is currently unable to resolve your requested domain (archive.md). There are two potential causes of this:

Most likely: if the owner just signed up for Cloudflare it can take a few minutes for the website's information to be distributed to our global network.
Less likely: something is wrong with this site's configuration. Usually this happens when accounts have been signed up with a partner organization (e.g., a hosting provider) and the provider's DNS fails.
Cloudflare Ray ID: 599a073ddbc3ae0c • Your IP: ... • Performance & security by Cloudflare
"""

This raises more questions:

- Why doesn't Cloudflare just return NXDOMAIN if it thinks the domain doesn't exist, rather than resolving to a bogus server?

- Why doesn't it just drop and time out the request, so my computer decides to fall back to an alternate DNS resolver?

- Why doesn't it show that error text when a path is present, instead of just serving a HTTP 403 Forbidden error with no additional information.
I moved from OWH because they only assigned a /128 to VPSes, so you're sharing a /64 with other servers. That was problematic because I run my own email server, and blacklists for IPv6 tend to be specific to a /64, meaning neighbouring servers landed my own server on blacklists (i.e. they blanket blacklist the whole /64). And obvs cloud providers sadly host a lot of spammers.

In the end, since OVH even after being asked for years offer no option for /64s on VPSes, I moved to Hetzner, where a VPS gets it's own /64, so only I am responsible for my mail server's reputation.
So run a traceroute?
> most convenient book store would be just like genesis library

Great! So let's start there. That's already 100% better than what the current bookstores are doing (a few small publishers aside). That alone would solve my and the OP's problem, and I'd be open to buying ebooks, but I guarantee people will also enjoy the additional features once you get them to use the platform. I would certainly like to browse a curated catalog with tags, user reviews, a discussion section, thematic sales, etc. Just as with games. As with digital storefronts for games, you could always go find similar resources outside the platform, but having it all in one place is incredibly convenient and engaging.
Depends on who's dying, but somewhere between 10k and 500k haircuts per death. (A teenager or child is "worth" more than someone in a nursing home - and if you go by life expectancy, it's more than 50x higher)

So 10k @$20/haircut is $200k, near the top of the statistical value of a year of life. (And the life expectancy of someone entering a nursing home in the US is less than a year) 500k @$20/haircut is $10m, or at the top end of what federal agencies put as the value of a life in the US.

At either conversion rate opening up for haircuts alone is remarkably silly.
Where do you draw the line between someone on the internet "being wrong", and someone on the internet spreading dangerous misinformation? Sure, walking away from the first is often a good course of action, but what about the second?
AI has become specially hard to define nowadays that we see companies using advanced ML techniques for solving issues that were perfectly solvable through linear regression modeling, just because that’s the path for that sweet investor money.
Your post makes some really salient points, and then misses the head of the nail in my experience. Sure, most of the information Sears historically collected is probably junk for supervised learning models. That isn't what makes this hard. High cardinality categorical features aren't what makes this hard. Re-engineering the business processes aren't what makes this hard.

What makes this hard, is that for all of these companies, machine learning models are essentially used in place of heuristics of varying degrees of complexity. The models are being used to incrementally improve heuristics that in some cases are tuned quite well. Couple that with the issue that a machine learning model is only one piece of an actual product improvement for these websites/companies (ie: now you have a prediction, what are you gonna do with it to effect the product?), and all of the sudden you have actual incremental improvements completely misaligned with moonshot expectations.

We've had plenty of rankers and recommenders for decades, the current wave of deep learning variants are improvements, but they're incremental from a high level. If your business wasn't successful/is failing using simple heuristics (sears, jcp, etc), a machine learning model isn't going to magically correct that.
That's actually a really strong argument to invent a new tool, especially for speed tests. Each provider can never paint a full picture on their own, so having multiple things to test against is useful.
Gopher was an early competitor to HTTP. Gopher documents ("gophermaps") have a simple tabular presentation. The types of data and links which can be placed in a gophermap are limited and non-extensible, as Gopher predates MIME types. Gopher also has no facility for encrypted communication.

The web (both HTTP(S) and its preferential presentation format, HTML) is built on standards which are obscenely complex, which have features that do not have user privacy at heart (cookies, user-agent strings, css lazy-loading resources, etc., etc.), and these standards are, as I noted above, heavily guided by profit-motivated actors.

While I agree that the top-level pitch might benefit from speaking to a broader audience, the FAQ and standard document linked from the main page provide answers to many of your questions.
Yes I agree. I call it the 'dip of doom' that happens at the 4-6 month mark. If you push through it, you're golden, but so many people give up.
Thinking through this, it seems like content-in-URL would work for a website with a single page or a small number of pages, but would limited by the fact that links from one content-in-URL page to another content-in-URL page require content from both pages to be encoded in the first page’s URL. If you have pages linking to pages linking to pages, this cascades into requiring content from all pages encoded in the home page URL.
For me, organizing stuff is something I enjoy to a point where I'd consider it "living my life". I get a lot of joy out of using emacs/org mode every day, but I can also totally understand someone who doesn't.
I really love the idea of bringing a bit of high quality art/performance entertainment into the corporate day.
An Oral History of “Friday”
I think this is called extortion, not blackmail.
He missed one important thing - the C preprocessor is completely unaware of C types. Its expressions follow different rules.

A major goal of D was to make the language expressive enough to not leave room for the preprocessor:

1. modules

2. manifest constants

3. nested functions

4. lambdas

5. static if

6. compile time function execution

7. string mixins
Android LiveData and Single Events
Oof, Korea? Bad example.

We spent 4 years fighting, with 3 million casualties, in order to leave the border between north/south in the same place we found it, and install an allied dictatorship for the following 30 years. I guess it worked out eventually, but that's to the credit of the Koreans, not us. We were fine with a capitalist dictatorship as long as the Cold War was on.

Did you ever hear about this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwangju_Uprising

Thousands of protestors killed, by US weapons, while our defense dept was kept in the loop. And I had never even heard of it until I went to fact-check myself about the length of the dictatorship there. Funny. I wonder why.
Thanks! Is there any particular feature that you would want to see in the product? Which is the thing that keeps you engaged to write?
Nope you’ll see exceptions that they hire without a degree but paying 200k compensation to a fresh grad I don’t think so
A website that will be built on top of user requests
I built an experimental website that aims to build a website completely by user requests from scratch.

Brick is a request/feature that represents you want to put some feature on the website. You can bring a brick to change the text colour, typography or background image. Even you can put a brick that could be your cat picture!
Only one thing to say: shut up and take my money!
Even for integrals, derivation isn't a silver bullet. You need to derive and also test for equality. Determining whether two expressions are the same (or enough the same, like a being the same as a^2/a except for a=0) can be really hard.
I didn't see it. All I know about it comes from Christina McDowell's open letter:

https://www.laweekly.com/an-open-letter-to-the-makers-of-the...

> Your film is a reckless attempt at continuing to pretend that these sorts of schemes are entertaining, even as the country is reeling from yet another round of Wall Street scandals. We want to get lost in what? These phony financiers' fun sexcapades and coke binges? Come on, we know the truth. This kind of behavior brought America to its knees.

My point is that we did find it entertaining to the tune of $0.4B, and that doesn't bode well for our general level of moral development.
Awesome, thanks for the examples. It got me going in a direction I didn't expect the discussion to go though: were these examples of traditional medicine or alternative medicine? They seem to be the former whereas this discussion was about the latter - alternative and traditional medicine are not the same thing [1]:

> Complementary medicine refers to therapies that complement traditional western (or allopathic) medicine and is used together with conventional medicine, and alternative medicine is used in place of conventional medicine. Alternative medicine refers to therapeutic approaches taken in place of traditional medicine and used to treat or ameliorate disease.

The difference (as I've understood it anyway) is "alternative medicine" implies you contradict modern medical practices, which was the basis for the comment I replied to. And which (I guess not surprisingly) medical experts recommend against. So I think the kind of example you'd want is a medical treatment that modern medicine previously recommended against, but that ended up vouching later. Because this was all a response to a comment that suggested people had a double-standard and were moving the goalposts or something like that (hence the AI comparison). Merely showing the science went from "we don't know if X is a good idea" to "we know X is a good idea" isn't finding an inconsistency.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3068720/
Wow, thank you for the answer and the links. I had tried to search for something like this but I didn't have the right terminology.

I really hope to see something happen in this area before I die, just for the sake of seeing it happen.

I often wonder about whether neural networks might need to meet at a crossroads with other techniques.

Inductive Logic/Answer Set Programming or Constraints Programming seems like it could be a good match for this field. Because from my ignorant understanding, you have a more "concrete" representation of a model/problem in the form of symbolic logic or constraints and an entirely abstract "black box" solver with neural networks. I have no real clue, but it seems like they could be synergistic?

There's a really oddball repo I found that took this approach:

https://github.com/921kiyo/symbolic-rl

"Symbolic Reinforcement Learning using Inductive Logic Programming"
It doesn't make sense to say that British imperialism led to communism from capitalism, if the starting point without British imperialism was mercantilism.
Was this a result of "AI", or did an insider add this to a blacklist?
~= 50 MPG
"Thank you for consulting us so extensively. After long deliberation, we've decided to move ahead with the implementation to meet Q4 targets."
Could some kind soul please post the ip of archive.md? I can't reset right now. Thanks.
I don't know, I think the controls [0] on my car (VW Golf 2017, <20k new) are pretty close to perfection.

Physical buttons or dials for everything except for infotainment settings, but minimal with no clutter. Steering wheel input for cruise control/audio/wipers and the heads up display, while the climate controls are dead simple and easy to work without looking down. Infotainment has both touch and a context sensitive dial. Everything is grouped contextually and I never have to look away from the road.

I was especially impressed that a single dial (left, next to the lights) dims _every_ light in the entire cabin to the same brightness, across many different subsystems. Great design shields the driver from the complexity of the system.

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/wiqfh1w.jpg
This idea has been around for a while, it was trialled during the early days of digital media services when they were trying to preserve the level of DVD and Blu-Ray sales. But it didn't take off widely. It seems to have hung around as Walmart's Disc to Digital, but stopped at the end of last year.
I'm curious how these aggregators (i.e. API routing layers) convince vendors to work with them. Is it just the promise of high transaction volume?

For Segment it was relative easy, I imagine, because most of the tools they integrated with had freely-available APIs.
Is it clear that echo chambers and polarized discussion are good for the bottom line? I imagine they help with user growth and user retention, but would people engaged in these polarized echo chambers actually spend more on advertised products?