skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes, democrats have been complicit, sometimes overtly, sometimes inadvertently. the idealogy around policing and use of force transcends party, institutions, and even race itself. policing needs to be completely reformed and its funding largely funneled to community building and support rather than use of force against minorities.

there was a great story recently on latino usa[0] about josé tomás canales, a texas representative from 100 years ago who fought against the racist impunity of the texas rangers on the texas border. the lawyers for the rangers, knowing that the national media was trained on them in a time with little national media, magnified the threat and danger of the border and mexicans to turn the country toward support of the racist use force by the rangers. a hundred years later, we still curry in that bullshit.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2020/06/16/878316528/the-lone-legislator
Yes. Go 19x19 would be completely intractable on a single machine (one comment is citing a $25 million cost estimate in computing power to train AlphaGo Zero). A more reasonable target would be Go 9x9 but even this would be an extreme challenge on a single machine.

There is an Oracle blog article series about training a close-to-perfect Connect Four player using AlphaZero. Even here, they had to rely on multiple GPUs.

You have to keep in mind that AlphaZero is an extremely sample-inefficient learning technique, even for simple problems. Rather, the strengths of this algorithm is that 1) it is pretty generic and 2) it can leverage huge amounts of computation.
Alcohol + Psychs = bad idea
Speak for yourself. I use widgets heavily on Android and keep a clean app-less home screen. Every app is just in the drawer. As well, there are many things that one can do on Android that are simply not possible on iOS, such as using git to interface with files and querying a remote server. That's just me, though, I know the vast majority don't care about this functionality.
Kind of mundane. Apple's chips trump many desktop chips, so I imagine the Mac might get an edge on performance again, which would be interesting. They're probably going to blow it though.
Grokking deep learning is similar in style and is very accessible if you don't like formulas.
Right here: not toppled, but defaced and soon to be removed. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/roosevelt-statue-be-remo...

Where's the lie?
Viral. I thanked Jonath in a different post :-P

When I see projects like this (I mean especially Julia, but also people sharing their work on packages like this) I feel very fortunate that elements of the free software movement are still alive.
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I don't know about how efficient it is but I have always been able to peg all cores with the multiprocessing module. Even something useless like "x * x" is more then enough for 800%.
Thanks for the reference, from a quick read it seems LogitBoost is a booster for ensembling models under a logistic loss.

I meant that the splitting point in a node in the decision trees that make up a random forest is itself a random variable that follows a distribution. Because its a smooth function (i.e. probability of splitting is 50% at the point and rises/falls smoothly) it should in principle be differentiable* so that the whole model can be trained by SGD and/or fit into an end to end learning pipeline with convolutional layers etc.

*Where I'm hazy, is how can a smooth probability function be differentiable when sampling. I'm brainstorming in the open here, will do some reading on stochastic neural networks.
Is there any difference in the `.evented` example and the example that explicitly uses the `async` and `await` keywords?
I think if one class of drugs has the effect you want (in this case "psychedelics") you'd want to study other drugs in that classification as well.

Since people are studying psilocybine for depression, PTSD, etc, why not others like Mescaline, LSD, or DMT? Why leave something off the table? Maybe LSD is great for a specific type of PTSD and psilocybine for depression? You got to study it to figure out. And who knows, maybe these drugs don't actually help at all. Either way, you have to study them to figure anything out.

> Mescaline and psilocybine have been used in spiritual and therapeutic settings for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.

Yes and no. Those are the active ingredients, but these have not been distilled. From my extremely naive understanding, other chemicals here could affect people differently. So to create a safer and more therapeutic drug. Maybe you even need some of those other chemicals. But you can't find out without testing.

One thing is for sure, in a clinical setting you want very controlled dosages. You're not going to get that by ingesting plants/fungi.
Pretty sure Edge doesn't support HLS anymore after their switch to Blink
The purpose of learning is for my own education (and for a tangential benefit at work). I will be able to keep notes with me. Thankfully I am way past the point where I have to sit in examinations.
> they wanted to deprioritize safety

Who is saying this? Simply stating that a system is imperfect is not advocating abolishment (current social issues notwithstanding...), it's an invitation to explore other solutions.

someone: X is imperfect and has unsatisfactory outcomes
you: X implies Y, how dare you hate Y?

> By advocating for a different model, we're stating "Avoiding injuring humans in drug discovery is not our primary concern."

I don't know if you can see that your argument is a claim that safety can only exist iff we keep the current system unaltered. That there is no other system conceivable which could do better. Which is clearly absurd.
> but ultimately are at the discretion of the site owners

The site owners don't ban users based on race and gender which is the claim I responded to.

> Reddit site owners treat different subreddits differently and different viewpoints differently

Well yes, that is how standards work, "different views" are treated differently based on how they stack up with respect to the standard. I understand that you're arguing that reddit applies the rules selectively, but reddit would argue that they apply them fairly, so how do you suggest this kind of conflict be resolved at scale? Who should decide if reddit is being fair or not?

> If you're challenging the history of reddit, you aren't informed enough to be discussing this and it's not worth rehashing.

If you want to make an argument then make it, but condescending declarations of a monopoly on the informed position does not do your case any favors.
If torrent required payments when they first existed, probably not. At the moment, people do pay for servers to seed torrents so that they have a positive ratio on private trackers.

Torrents don't run on altruism and they never did. You might be looking at one side of the equation, but what if you could earn cryptocurrency by using extra bandwidth on servers by seeding torrents? What if you could pay for a VPN or private server that has plenty of extra bandwidth? What if you could find something rare much easier or get it much faster?
I accept your argument that India should be focusing on the future and not the past. People and govt of India are definitely guilty of that.

But please answer my question, where do you want manufacturing to happen in the next 20 years ? India or China ?

Regarding AI and Automation, yes, India is definitely falling behind in that race and should invest more. But what percentage of the population will support that ? Will the poor care about food on their plates or AI and Automation ?
A democracy is represented by majority not minority.

In next 20 years, do you want a world lead by democracies or China ? Please vote with your wallet. Democracy is as much about duties as rights.
Apple WWDC: As Told by a Sobbing Android Cameraman Hired to Film IT
Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs
I think you are reading too much into that part. She was telling the height of ups and downs as a CEO in that single day.
+1 the very best combo.
> If the industry was gender-biased, then that would mean you would see more female founders, not less.

Not necessarily.

Males and females are different, our hormones are different and it's reasonable to think that our minds and interests are different. In fact, practically all scientific evidence shows that personality trait differences between male and women are statistically significant.

I don't know if things (overall) are easier for women. Some people are prejudiced against women, some others are prejudiced against men. The first group used to be much bigger, but at this point I'm not sure which one has a bigger influence.
The biggest problem with LSD is its unpredictability, and what I think is the main reason why it isn't used therapeutically despite having shown very promising results.

You can't reasonably OD from LSD but you can have bad trips. Some of them can be so overwhelming that they will cause lasting effect not unlike PTSD. If you can stop a trip dead in its tracks, that's one less risk. By having ways to counteract its various potential negative effects, you can improve the safety profile of the drug, and therefore make it more acceptable.
Self awareness is key. I have noticed a substantial improvement in my ability to navigate anxiety since following a regular meditation practice.

Being able to separate my being from my thoughts has been a breakthrough. I cannot stress enough how important it is to shift the thinking from "I am anxious" to "I am currently experiencing anxiety". Anxiety is not your identity, it is a fleeting emotion.
Check out Kettering university. Top rated engineering school in Michigan. You’re required to have 2 years of engineering co-op experience before you can graduate.
Microsoft is shutting down Mixer and partnering with Facebook Gaming
/r/reddit.com is still used for admin communications; if you want to contact the site admins, you are encouraged to use the contact the moderators link on /r/reddit.com.
“Celebrities with over 20,000 Instagram followers – which occasionally stretches the limits of what one might consider a "celebrity””

It certainly does.

I would not classify A-list actors and actresses as “gig economy workers” by any stretch of current understanding of the meaning of that phrase.

Maybe “Talent” (タレント) in the Japanese meaning of the word, maybe.
Seems like this is putting the cart before the horse. Why should we care what Facebook can and can't afford? We don't owe them a business model. The point of this is to remit to the user the value that has been extracted from them. If Facebook cannot make money, i.e. contribute value, on top of that, then they are actually a drain on society surviving off negative externalities and should go.

Deciding how much a user's data is worth is an exercise for the reader, but I would certainly pay much more to avoid Facebook, than Facebook would pay to have me[0]. That's a red flag.

[0] - as would anyone who has ever added a Facebook domain to a Pi-Hole, the total cost of which likely exceeds Facebook's per-user revenue by your numbers.
Where Did Zip Codes Come From?
The trouble is from an IR (industrial relations) perspective that actually can be problem if one group perceives that some other group has something they don't have. (Brigit's Jones Smaug Marrieds )

Also how would you audit this "oh her she's friends with manger x so she gets o work from home etc"
Or they could sit on the cash which many people do in a recession. And again, they've barely touched junk bonds. They are mostly just buying our own governments debt through US treasury securities, the same kind that the US government has created and sold 3 trillion dollars worth this year [0], mainly to fund the CARES act.

[0]: https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/pd_debttothep...
Picture in picture is nice but I am disappointed that there's no split screen for all models yet.
It looks like CYP1A2 gene polymorphisms correlate with increased risk of non-fatal miocardial infarction: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16522833/.
What's not the point of section 230? I literally didn't say anything about section 230 or suggest that sites that moderate should have those protections revoked.
There seems to be growing interest in using psychedelics for medicine. Just last week I was approached by someone asking to sign for a ballot measure to approve the usage of psychedelics in clinical settings (with a medical professional on hand). If they are going to do that, I think said medical practitioner would be the perfect person to have this on hand.
I thought the vast majority of the WWDC schedule was devoted to more specialized talks? IIRC this year they are posting prerecorded sessions online with access to engineers in the forums and additionally doing 1-on-1 labs.

((Edit - linked last year's schedule by mistake woops))
The value of that $75k/year was never from the classes themselves but from the social proof, networking, and opportunity to live among other like minded young people at similar stages of their lives (and exposure to different people/ideas through that). The classes themselves are essentially commodities. A lot of highly ranked universities don’t even have great teachers for many of their classes.

Universities that derive much of their value for being a proxy for some combination of intelligence/privilege can keep their value going into the future because they’ll likely remain just as selective if not more so over time. It’s the not-particularly-selective, small private colleges and universities which have their business model under threat, IMO
It's easy to see why that post was removed. The current reddit "truth" is that transsexuality is perfectly normal and even common. But the real truth is it's not common and it should be treated like any other mental illness. But what tends to happen is certain people like the idea of transsexuality so encourage mentally ill people to make permanent and devastating changes to their body, often leading to eventual suicide. Many of the comments in that thread were showing the real truth, so it had to be removed.
I worked at PlanGrid during this event.

The exec in question received an offer from one of the Big 4 at an equivalent (and possibly more senior - this was in late 2017, so memory is fuzzy) exec-level position, and simply sent word they wouldn't come into the office the next day. There was no two-week notice or polite exit interview - they just vanished.

It was not common news that Tracy was pregnant at the time, so I do not believe it factored into his decision at all.

The exec in question is very well-known and had lead successful teams at much bigger companies before. We speculated, at the time, that he had found working for a startup to be a very different beast instead.
What? Even if someone is doing other bad things, it still is a good thing when they reduce the number of bad things that they do.
What's a Financial Statement?
I agree with the quoted numbers. As I mentioned in another comment, you have to keep in mind that AlphaZero is an extremely sample-inefficient learning technique, even for simple problems. However, it has two major strengths: 1) it is pretty generic and 2) it can leverage huge amounts of computing power.
I like this idea a lot.

As sibling comments point out, there are kinks to work out in mapping out different website structures, and I would add the suggestion that greater information density could improve the UX.

But just think about the collective thousands of hours spent looking for things on websites. Helping a fraction of us find things a bit faster would add up to a big impact.
Backup link if you're getting http 503:
http://archive.is/JSvCi
Can Brad Pitt deliver Pizza as a "Gig economy worker"?
Apple Silicone - Apple is building its own processors for future Macs
You know on Android you can just... download another launcher, right? You can change all of that in about 5 minutes flat.
Ask HN: Good resources for offline documentation to code without internet?
I was on a road trip recently, and decided to try learning Vulkan while I was in the passenger seat, as I had downloaded a PDF of a Vulkan tutorial before I left. I wrote most of a Makefile for my project, but found myself struggling to remember specific automatic variables. I tried `man make`, but that only described the usage of the program itself, not writing Makefiles. Additionally, I found that I had no reference for SDL2, and resorted to reading header files to glean specific API details.

I've found myself in this situation before, trying to learn new things on long flights as well.

Even if there were man pages for some of these things, HTML documentation might be preferable. It would be nice to have a program or library that could download language and project specific documentation in an easily searchable and browsable library. Does anything like this currently exist?
I'm in the worst of both worlds right now. Unable to commit to fully remote but still having to pay to live close enough to commute. I think a lot of people are stuck like this until their companies decide on a long-term solution.
Agreed. I have both the 2019 16" and 2018 15" side by side, I greatly prefer the butterfly keyboard.
It seems counterproductive to me that they don't want to tax cigarettes enough to cut into tax revenue. In that case, it gives the appearance that rather than trying to benefit the public, they just picked something unpopular enough where they can dishonestly squeeze extra money out of some people.

I never thought about it, but now that I do, vice taxes shouldn't go into the public coffers to prevent a conflict of interest. It should have a mandatory use in reducing the vice, or directly paying for economic externalities caused by the vice, and if not possible, should get donated to charity.
That's doesn't provide any evidence. Twitter doesn't block tweets for being "agressive", they block tweets for some very specific things like call to violence etc.

* Can you show that one side gets censored more often than the other? Not just based on your biased personal timeline.

* If yes, can you show that both sides breaks the ToS as often? Both sides are politically very different, and appeal to very different people, it's not hard to imagine that one side may indeed be more violent than the other.

So yes, I would like a citation.
There are anonymous torrents thanks to I2P. If those were to become more popular, then it might be more interesting to embed payments there.
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Apple announces it will ditch Intel and use its own chips
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If you have no problems to solve I'm sure it can seem like that. If your country has international currency controls and you need to get your hands on money that isn't going to inflate away in a few weeks, then a decentralized currency that works well would look a lot more valuable.
You're looking for the state of the union talk of the WWDC. The WWDC keynote isn't really for developers; it's for the general public.
Not sure if you're just making a joke, but I believe the feature you're referring to is called "App Clips" for anybody else who sees this and is curious.

(Applets are a Java thing from yesteryear.)
I would normally agree, but the "customers" for WWDC are developers who want to get business value out of producing apps for the Apple ecosystem, no? It's not an "industry" presentation, an E3 or CES-like event, where the goal is to feed PR to reporters to trickle down to consumers; the final audience for the presentation are the very people watching it, and that audience doesn't necessarily even use Apple devices as their primary devices—they just sell into the Apple software market, potentially as one market among the many they target.

Any talk at a WWDC keynote about e.g. new hardware, isn't because new Apple hardware is fundamentally exciting to these people; it's for the sake of reassuring them that Apple is keeping the market for their software thriving by giving the demand side of their market [hardware] reasons to buy into the ecosystem, or stay in the ecosystem. (It's also for the sake of talking about new software features enabled by hardware changes, e.g. the touchbar translating to an additional interaction paradigm for apps, or ML cores translating to ARKit.)

I don't really see how talking about emoji achieves the same goal of reassuring developers, given that consumers don't really make buying decisions based on the availability of emoji within one ecosystem but not another. (In fact, in my observation, the reverse is true; people usually avoid using new emoji until the people they text with can see them, meaning that a new emoji only becomes useful when both iOS and Android support it.)
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I've always wondered about caffeine, whether in coffee or other products: does its potential neuroprotective and vigilance-promoting effects outweigh its potential diuretic, hypertensive, tachycardic, arrhythmic, and anticholinergic effects in both slow and fast caffeine metabolizers?
same here. for which models is split screen possible?
a browser is an app... but I try to do like you and avoid random and single-purpose apps because they are riskier.
Some countries are boasting that their superior policies prevent the spread so the other countries should learn from them. I doubt it.
While the difference of Sweden and nearby countries can be explained by the policy difference, It's hard to believe most Asian countries doesn't suffer that severely can be explained by policy alone.
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Anything but sideloading
You're probably right, my imagination of trading floors is born from financial movies set in the 80s.
A welfare state isn't necessary if people save aggressively like in Singapore. People are actually required to save something like 35% of their income and their employers have to contribute an additional 15%. Some welfare exists but only for special circumstances like for the needy or disabled. Simply telling people to save more wouldn't cut it in America. If we end welfare like the Republicans want, I think we would need a government mandated savings rate or employment matching program similar to Singapore. We also need to go back to a gold standard and end inflationary fiat money - this is exactly why people dont have a rainy day fund / have no incentives to save in the first place. Its left the individual and the family vulnerable, fragile, and it has lowered our time horizons and corrupted our institutions and increased our dependence on the government.
Cool! How do you figure? Doesn't shortwave take the great circle path, at lower altitude, making the path shorter?
So, they'd be building their own integrated GPU. That was one of the biggest questions last few days, how they'd gap the graphics, but they are taking control over that as well. Good luck to them! Looking forward to see some comparison charts with Intel integrated graphics...
I'm not a clinician, but you replied to my comment so I feel obligated to say this: go see a mental health professional.
ARM software can predict the future via https://github.com/go-bears/prognosticationengines!! Go Bears!

PS This is meant to be sarcastic.
I think you might be overestimating the thought processes behind this, and underestimating the lack of thought among many people who buy their clothing. They're known as "Fratagonia" at colleges and universities nationwide because of their popularity as status symbol clothing with certain groups. I'll leave which groups for you to guess.

Anyways, Patagonia is a pretty small company despite their nationwide reputation, and they've always put values first and hoped/assumed things would work out, their founder has written about this himself. If your business model isn't a cost cutting / race to the bottom one, then a lot of traditional logic about how businesses are run can end up never implemented in the first place.