skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that Pandora's recommendation results are far superior to Spotify's, thanks to the Music Genome Project. I think Spotify does some basic "A likes X and B likes X, so if A likes Y, B will like Y" processing. My ideal-new music-discovery workflow gets the best of both worlds: find stuff on Pandora, and use the results to create playlists on Spotify.
I wouldn’t go to an Apple store to buy a computer because you can only buy stock configurations. I would go in to get a feel for them and order online. In the case of Apple Stores. They don’t care if people are “showrooming” and then buy online. Apple gets paid either way.
Nothing.

Some people have said ARM EL2, but virtualization in hardware isn't required if we can get a terminal with a jailed environment (akin to chroot) with brew. At worst you could spin up a Linux kernel in userspace if you needed to.
But how does allowing everyone to see IP addresses help with anti-vandalism? There’s already the CheckUser if there needs to be an IP-block ban.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CheckUser

As for privacy, allowing everyone to associate your IP address with your edit history is quite different than only allowing the website to see it.

The reason I bring this up is because there have been quite a few times where I’ve wanted to make a quick copy edit, but I don’t, because I don’t want the edit and the name of the article I read to be permanently associated with my IP address. Preferring anonymity and the ability to change identities, I hate having a permanent account for online interactions. I‘ve made a lot of temporary account on various websites, but most of the time it’s not worth creating a temporary account for a tiny edit on Wikipedia. So I don’t bother.

Maybe I’m a unique case, but I’m still willing to bet that there would be more interaction from non-logged-in users on Wikipedia if their IP address were hidden.

(As a side note, the reason why I’ve stuck with this HN account for so long is because there is a limit to how many accounts an IP address can make before getting banned.)
I think the real answer is both. The fact is, lower income neighborhoods do have more crime. That's just common sense. People do what they have to to survive.

This results in heavier policing, which then creates a cycle. You put people in prison for a felony, and when they come out they don't have many options. They're in a worse place then when they went in. Not many places hire prior felons. So then they end up committing crime again and going back. For more on this google "incarceration cycle" or similar.

This also obviously has a bad effect on future generations. Kids are growing up on a single income cause one of their parents are in jail, and that makes it more likely they'll too eventually be forced to enter crime.

I believe, and the data shows this, that the vast majority of people don't commit crime because they want to. They do it because they feel like they don't have any other good options.

The only real way to break this cycle is try to do things besides policing and incarcerating. Focus on rehabilitation and social services. The initial investment will likely need to be huge, but in the long run, I think it would pay off.
So what? Change the law.

Civil service employees don't make policy, nor do their unions. A union can demand 25% raises and get 2.
yeah apparently javascript or html5 video isnt lightweight either though. I 'd prefer the timeline in which the flash ECMAscript and animation model had become standard in the browser.
According to the Yegge rant, it was some time around 2001/2002/2003, so yes.

https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611
Physical news papers are laid out in terms of a specific design for readers. People tend to start in the same place on the page, and work in a predictable pattern around the page until they are done. It's like a backwards G, I think.

I wonder if this development, which is complete and utter crap, is based on something similar?
I disagree. It's an effective way of conveying emotion and in so breathes "life" to the words. It's a gentle reminder that the person typing these things is human; bringing along a range of complicated life experiences and emotions that you may be unaware of. Perhaps you need to look inwards and discover why something that is ordinarily insignificant brings you so much frustration. Is it from a preconceived idea that swearing implies a lack of intelligence? Time for some introspection.
Great idea!

The lockdown was actually a very productive period for me and I've managed to launch a project that I've postponed for a long time:

https://www.fonts.do - the largest database of premium fonts, with more than 137,000 items

PS: I've submitted Fonts.do to your directory and I hope it'll be featured :) Thx!
Google: "Yah, we did that 20 years ago on mechanical hard drives."

Seriously though: Google built realtime indexing a very long time ago.

I co-implemented a small-scale (like 100k pages) full text search engine about 20 years ago with a lot of inspiration from the 1998 paper "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine".

I had always assumed Google used 2-3 layers sort of like in Hierarchical storage management (HSM); fresh data stored in RAM and older data stored on HDDs, then combining them during the query step. I was itching to have a go at implementing that, but it wasn't really required for our use case.
Well, aren't you glad we just made it untenable for a large number of experts on the subject to work here?
> When was the last time a political decree lead to change in who gets to be leader in what ?

The creation of the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and Advanced Research Project Agencies undoubtedly had a profound impact on the direction of both the US economy and the rate of scientific progress during the mid-late 20th century.

> I don't see what the problem is to let China do what it does, and focus everybody else's goal on other more important things - like reducing global C02 emissions... You could generate millions of jobs just by doing that.

What makes these mutually exclusive?
My experience of the non-US military is that soldiers have a lot more accountability.

You are told the rules, standards are high and you are held accountable by your peers and superiors. Infractions are punished and squads are self-policing as you can be punished if one of your squad is caught breaking the rules. IE people are always looking over your shoulder and you are looking over theirs.

And the US military seems very similar. Yes mistakes are made and crimes are committed but overall standards are high.

Most cops I see in the US operate on their own (so no squad policing) and standards dont seem to be very high compared to non-US cops I know.
In the UK we have what's know as youth offending services, the main aim of which is to keep youths out of the courts and criminal system by utilising more appropriate methods of disposal for minor offences like drug possession.
> Joseph Stalin supported the campaign. More than 3,000 mainstream biologists were dismissed or imprisoned, and numerous scientists were executed in the campaign to suppress scientific opponents.

Wow, so what sort of rationale can we make of this? Is the logic, "Stalin supports bunk science theory", "other scientists critique said theory", "therefore they indirectly critique Stalin and reduce his legitimacy/credibility"? Something like that? Are politicians expected to grasp every scientific thing they must evaluate accurately? Why wouldn't they accept and admit 'yah maybe we got this one wrong, sorry honest mistake' than to go out and murder folks. That seems widely overreactive.
Have to agree as much as I don't like some of their products. They really polished the experience and executed on their visions with great aplomb.
> There needs to be some collective or individual cost to being a bad cop or the incentives aren't there to behave well

Sure, cops should not benefit from QI, at least as currently constructed (a more limited form may be appropriate and arguably even Constitutionally necessary from a due process perspective), and that may make merely negligent acts something they can, and may even be required as a condition of employment, to cover with insurance. That isn't instead of their public employer being liable (the absence of QI for private employees doesn't negate respondeat superior), nor does it mean that the important acts (which are intentional crimes) at issue in the present discussion of police abuse would (without major and undesirable changes in public policy) be insurable. That would actually dilute the goal of effective cost to being a (deliberately) bad cop.

I don't have a problem with direct liability for cops.

I have a problem when what is proposed is that as an excuse for absolving public-agency liability, or when it is suggested that civil liability for the intentional violent crimes at the core of the abuse discussion should be made insurable (which has the same problem as QI with only public agency liability, since then the agency effectively is self-insuring the crimes and dealing with individual costs of employees in it's hiring and firing policies.)
Isn't Kerala ran by literal communists?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism_in_Kerala

Edit: downvoters should instead explain to me why my point is wrong. Kerala has been ran by the local communist parties for most of the last 40 years, and communists keep winning majorities there. Seems to go against the OP claim

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Democratic_Front_(Keral...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Kerala_Legislative_Asse...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Kerala_Legislative_Asse...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Kerala_Legislative_Asse...

And so on, the communists and the other party trade power most elections.
What do you mean by advanced nodes? If you're talking about nanometers, you've got TI, Micron, and a few others.

Where you have deep voodoo are some of the MEMS and analog manufacturing processes (e.g. ADI). Those aren't necessarily small feature sizes, but they are hyper-advanced. It take massive R&D to replicate them. But they're not large volume either. A few years back, I think car airbags might have been the biggest application.
Not surprising to me, but its really too bad. The consumer side was always hopeless, but I thought the stores provided a great hook into the small business, education, and non-profit sectors- orgs too small to have anything resembling a decent IT department who needed help. I wonder what the effort would look like if those customers had been the focus instead of individual consumers.
Does AMD manufacture here?
Herd immunity for COVID-19 is 60-85% of the population. (The formula is 1 - 1 / R0; intuitively, the average person spreads the virus to R0 other people, so if only 1 / R0 people are still susceptible, effective R = R0 * 1 / R0 = 1 and the epidemic reaches a steady-state instead of growing.) NYC antibody tests have indicated about 20% immunity. They're still a long way away from herd immunity.
Of course there needs to be massive changes in the police, I'm just not sure the GP's argument justifies it.
Microsoft stores are (were?) magical places full of bizarre and weird devices. I actually had fun going in and seeing all sorts of gadgets and devices and playing with demos. A candy store for futurists. In comparison Apple stores are dystopian places full of rows of identical looking people looking at rows of identical beige phones.

But I think it's pretty telling that I loved hanging out in them, but never spent any money there.
I wonder if the sewage includes Barcelona's airport. Hypothetically someone with COVID passing through the airport on a connecting flight could have used the bathroom without transmitting to anyone else in the airport.
It's a bit early to assert that given the drug was noted to help just days ago.
> Flash becomes very slow.

No surprise there. Flash was never good on Linux (IME).

If the cost of the windows license is a barrier, then maybe the content isn't worth that much to you? I truly don't mean that in a condescending way. I just find that a lot of people like to data hoard without a real need for what they are hoarding.
Truckers have strict rules about how much driving they can do in a 24-hour period.
Ben Smith on the rise of Substack and independent journalists [video]
Arctic heatwave: what warmer summers mean for the region’s wildlife
I am going to pay for hey. I like the concept and it is one less thing on Google
Also, most fans of "cancel culture" are university students, who don't have an idea what it means to try to pay your mortgage and feed your family. For them it's just a game. A cruel game, but kids often are cruel.
Doesn't lyme disease have similar long term issues? Do we know why certain disease cause these long term debilitating symptoms?
This is a weird defense. They are certainly able to do better with their resources unlike e.g. Fairphone.
+1. Besides being a good story, the piece is also informative, and that part, unfortunately, is misinformation.

On the other hand, let me introduce a wild hypothesis:
There are millions of planets out there just like Earth, except that microorganisms there never got around to digesting lignin. Deadwood and oxygen piled up on the ground and in the atmosphere respectively, until an epic fire decimated the biosphere, and only microscopic ocean life remained, if as much. The oldest such planets light up every billion years or so. The cycle is too short for complex life to get intelligent. This process is The Great Filter [1]. Earth is the only exception.

If that's true, than Mr. R&D did care a lot about future disasters.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
A good pattern matching library in Lisp makes code a heck of a lot more readable.

Firstly, even basic list destructuring with destructuring-bind is an improvement over a soup of car/cadar/caddr/.

Suppose we are in a compiler and would like to look for expressions of he pattern:

(not (and (not e0) (not e1) (not e2) ...))

in order to apply DeMorgan's and rewrite them to

(or e0 e1 ...)

I would rather have a nice pattern matching case like this:

(match-case expr
...
((not (and @(zeromore not @term)))
`(or ,term)) ;; rewrite done!
...)

than:

(if (and (consp expr)
(eq (car expr) 'not))
(consp (cdr expr))
(consp (cadr (expr)))
(null (cddr expr))
(eq (caadr (expr)) 'and)
(eq (cadr expr)
... ad nauseum)

Even if a fail-safe version of destructuring-bind is used to validate and get the basic shape, it's still tedious:

(destructuring-case expr
...
((a (b c))
(if (and (eq a 'and)
(eq b 'not))
... now check that c is a list of nothing but (not x) forms
)))

I don't have a pattern matcher in TXR Lisp. That is such a problem that it's holding up compiler work! Because having to write grotty code just to recognize patterns and pull out pieces is demotivating. It's not just demotivating as in "I don't feel like doing the gruntwork", but demotivating as in, "I don't want to saddle my project with the technical debt caused by cranking out that kind of code", which will have to be rewritten into pattern matching later.
>>Awesome. Zero help. But thanks for planting that seed of fear.

It is a pandemic. We absolutely need to be fearful, because it will encourage us to take extra precautionary or avoidance measures we otherwise would not have taken.

This is why "they are just trying to scare people!" is not a valid criticism in this context. The entire reason the pandemic is re-surging is because people are not scared.
They are random! It's just that what is random in a mathematical sense isn't random to a human.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustering_illusion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_clumping

The best song randomizer I've seen described generates a permutation of songs, then "plots" them in n dimensional space with closeness being closeness being a weighted distance of closeness in the playlist and whatever metadata you have about them. (artist, genre, year, mood). Then you iteratively break the clumps until you can't find any or the number stops decreasing. If you still have clumps then you raise the bar for what is considered a clump and repeat until you hit zero.
>The Mac Pro 2010 is the exception since you can upgrade its GPU to a Metal compatible one.

You can also do this with the 2008 Mac Pro; either by using a recent nVidia GPU (though every time I've done this I've seen a bunch of weird artifacting) or by using an AMD GPU with the patch that removes the requirement for the SSE 4.2 instruction set (which the CPUs in the 3,1 don't support).

RX570s and RX580s being 100 dollars makes the decision upgrade that much easier.
Did you read the link? It didn’t say you couldn’t do it. You have to jump through hoops but they are well defined hoops.
The creation of the US interstate highway network was a political decree and that changed the US to be a leader in km's paved roads

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_road_netw...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Aid_Highway_Act_of_195...
With the amount of money an average recipe blogger can make from display ads inserted in those stories, they really and truly don't care if it annoys John Q. Public.
THIS IS A TERRIFIC IDEA!

Feels so intuitive. Turns the control center into the top bar from macOS or the file/edit/settings bar that many windows apps have. That's so darn obviously the right way to do it!!!!
You should ask some homicide detectives why that is.
I already saw your Twitter link.

Email is a push-oriented medium—notices comes to the (potential) customer.

Twitter, OTOH, is a pull-oriented medium—the (potential) customer has to remember to check the notices from your account (and you post regularly, so it is not clear which tweets the customer should really pay attention to).

It goes without saying that email is far more effective since you already have the customer’s attention, also you can do long form writing in a way that doesn’t involve extra clicks & URL shortener redirects—avoidable friction—as you would with Twitter as your delivery method.
Marc1 says>"Ethnicity Distribution:
A substantial majority of the protesters were white, in the cities where the data was gathered, with the highest percentage in Minneapolis (85%), followed by Los Angeles (78%), and Atlanta and New York (both at 76%). A total of 18% of the protesters were African American in Atlanta, 11% in Minneapolis, 13% in New York and 3% in Los Angeles. Those numbers remained steady during the nighttime hours. Hispanic and Asian American participation was less than 10% in all four cities.

https://www.mobilewalla.com/about/press/new-report-reveals-d...

Again, nothing you say here can be found at the URL you provided. In fact the words "male", "female" and even "%" do not exist at that URL.
Equally and fully enforcing laws seems about as likely as equally and fully eliminating bugs from all software to me
For some some petty crimes (running red lights, not socially distancing, etc..), all neighborhoods actually commit them at a fairly consistent rate, but it is not enforced consistently.

For instance, here in Chicago it is common to find people not following the social distancing rules, but predominately white neighborhoods largely get a pass while black and brown neighborhoods get enforced.

So to answer your question, the crimes are occurring everywhere but statistically speaking black and brown people are more likely to face penalties for crime while white people are not.

https://blockclubchicago.org/2020/05/26/chicago-police-only-...

This also applies to parking tickets

https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/eric-zorn/ct-mayoral-...

and jaywalking

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/08/in-ch...
Agreed! Alternatively, some semantic segmentation network could be used and a masked MSE loss. In this paper, we focussed on showing the crazy potential of GANs for compression - let's see what future work brings.
oooooh I thought Spotify just had a schizophrenic A/B test started every other quarter, I didn't realize the UI changes are contingent on what kind of song list you were listening to.
It'll be interesting to watch as congress balances vertical integration concerns with increased need for high-tech (like semiconductor) manufacturing.

Companies like AAPL and AMZN have shown multiple times, they are willing to invest past the barriers to entry to improve vertical integration, reduce their bottom line, but also give back some of those wins to their customers. Both of these companies are leaders in custom silicon, and it is only a matter of time before they prioritize the move into silicon fabrication as well.

Best case would be if, once mature, these companies would spin out subsidiaries which design generalized chips and fab chips for the entire industry. But if there is a push for regulation to have less vertical integration because of the enormous competitive advantages, its not clear where that line should be drawn for creating subsidiaries. It'll be interesting to know if their decisions to invest into things like semiconductor manufacturing will be impacted by regulation and which is the less bad choice accounting for the economy and national defense.
Capturing markets (or trying) by burning VC money is different than trying to build customer loyalty with good service. VC fueled business cares about market share/profit potential, not profitability.
Also, the entirety of what China has accomplished is based on political decree...
And a lot of the corrosiveness that cops have to suffer is from other cops. Racism, bigotry, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia etc. If you're smart, you're excluded by IQ tests since departments prefer to avoid you.

This ends up altering your worldview as an "Us versus Them" where there are cops and there are criminals. Everyone else is a potential criminal. Everyone is given side eye. The system is rigged, so why not put in for extra overtime. Bump up your salary the last three years so that your pension goes from a $90k/year basis to $175K.

And if you think cops are out to protect you? What a joke. Cops are out to protect themselves first. They've been glamorized since the 1980s as "foot soldiers in the war on crime." Their unions have fought to protect the "few" bad apples, when the bunch is rotten.

They go through the motions of "protecting" us, but that's just paperwork. Showing up and taking some notes. If you've ever had anything stolen, you'll know what I mean. The cop will write down some information, maybe give you his biz card, then that's the last you'll hear of it. They never do any leg work/investigation, unless it's something mandated by their bosses.

Defund needs to happen soon. Spend the money on drug rehab, mental health, etc. We need less than half the cops we have, and no damn PD needs an MRAP.
Tell me more. I’m also in the Midwest US. Still early in my career. I’d consider London but the cost of living scares me. Also the whole Brexit thing.
How does cross-camera object tracking fare? Don't need to recognize someone if you can follow them until you see their face or their car or destination clearly.
13 years ago I was working on a project for IKEA, a room planner. We used Flash and it was a seriously ambitious project. The level of interactivity that was possible when using Flash was unrivalled for a long time. It appears that most of these type of “sites” has been replaced by native apps, even though the web platform has most of the required capabilities now. Flash was fun to develop with, as everything was well integrated and just worked, and pioneered many of the technologies we now see as part of the web platform APIs. A lot of the criticisms of Flash is due to shitty timeline-based banners which used up the CPU. You could definitively make efficient, fast performing apps/sites using Flash/AS3 if you knew what you were doing. Of course I moved on to JS/TS development, but it isn’t as fun.
You don't see the problem being reliant on another country for semiconductors, which are necessary in essentially every industry (including military)?
The failure of Sprig