skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook has over 2.5 billion monthly active users, which is not a "community" under any definition of the word. In my view, the fairly intuitive human instincts for being in a community simply can't be applied to such a diverse range of groups, cultures, and languages.
But that course is the very basics that you need before you can start doing applications. Just like you have to learn a bit of vocab and grammar before you can start conversing in a foreign language. Once you’ve done that course you could start to actually learn some AI or optimisation or whatever.

If you want, there is a course called 18.065 that he is written that is about AI and is far more application-based. He reviews the 30 hours or so (by lecture time) of his famous LA course in the first 5 or so lectures before springing off into everything you need to end up with AI.

But the contents of his classic course (having an intuition for the 4 subspaces, describing and decomposing matrices in terms of the eigenvalues and vectors, analogies for non-square matrices) are in no way maths for the sake of maths, they are fundamental to understanding any onward applications of LA. They are the very basic words and grammar that let you start using LA in real combat situations. So that you could pick any random paper on ai or stats or control theory and actually be able to follow it rather than just be staring at hieroglyphics. It’s really worth the 30 or so hours of your life.
Weird? No. Objectively wrong? Yes.

The link from their switch to your equipment should not be made of copper, because copper does not provide electrical isolation between the endpoints and is susceptible to interference.

Fiber does provide electrical isolation between endpoints and is not susceptible to interference.

Fiber also supports significantly higher throughput.
just don't get involved in political advertising and keep the newsfeed unweighted to reduce manipulation so people can mange their feeds themselves maybe with the ability to 'mute' loud sources easily ie: reduce the blast radius of crappy content

this isn't hard, i'm not sure in what world the 'easy' path is trying to manage/filter/label content on a global scale
It won't come out until the politicians decide what they want the report to say.
It's worse than precrime. With precrime, you might never be predicted to commit a crime. The situation you describe is basically a) starve to death or b) go to jail.

I wonder if you could make a case for entrapment here?
One without packages shipped as prebuilt binaries: Gentoo [1] would be a good example. You compile every binary yourself (sometime you can use prebuilt binaries for the biggest software, if you are so inclined and the distro allows it).

[1] https://www.gentoo.org/
no one is objecting to Bayes' Theorem here at all. I am directly addressing your argument: there is _inherent_ bias in policing data, and doing a Bayesian analysis will make it very easy to fool ourselves into trusting the results while also allowing everyone in the room to absolve themselves of taking any responsibility for the consequences of doing so. Pretending we know how to debias policing data _broadly_ (i.e. we know how to do it in every locale and in every instance that the data will actually be _used by practicing law enforcement professionals_) is a perfect recipe for disaster.
There are many modelling studies I can find at first glance, eg this one (including references to older studies):

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0072-6

> 'Most previous studies project an increase in global lightning with climate change over the coming century, but these typically use parameterizations of lightning that neglect cloud ice fluxes, a component generally considered to be fundamental to thunderstorm charging. As such, the response of lightning to climate change is uncertain. [...] In contrast to the previously reported global increase in lightning based on CTH, we find a 15% decrease in total lightning flash rate with IFLUX in 2100 under a strong global warming scenario.'

or eg this one using data:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13646...

> 'Many published analyses show that lightning activity is responsive to temperature on time scales ranging from the diurnal to the decadal. The hiatus in global warming is manifest in several global datasets in the decadal period 2002–2013. The statistically flat behavior of the global lightning record from the NASA Lightning Imaging Sensor over the same period is consistent with this hiatus in global warming.'
Also note this is not about replacing a police force of a city. It's about replacing the police force of a country of 40 million people.
I would argue pretty much the exact opposite, writers on substack are a step above journalism. NYT especially is an advertising company that realized people also pay to have their own views confirmed. (And when opinion columnists occasionally don't do that, lots of people comment that they're going to unsubscribe! Further proving it to them. The product isn't what's true, its whatever makes number go up.) This is obvious in all the little lies they tell that conform with how they think that their audience views the world. I can give some examples:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/us/international-students...

> Amid ‘Trump Effect’ Fear, 40% of Colleges See Dip in Foreign Applicants

After reading this article, do you think colleges overall are seeing a significant drop in international applicants, a significant increase, or it stayed about the same?

What actually happened: "39% of responding institutions reported a decline in international applications, 35% reported an increase, and 26% reported no change in applicant numbers."

source: https://www.aacrao.org/docs/default-source/default-document-...

Or this: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/upshot/free-market-for-ed...

After reading this article, what do you think about the general views of economists on school vouchers? Note how they couch this:

> But economists are far less optimistic about what an unfettered market can achieve in education. Only a third of economists on the Chicago panel agreed that students would be better off if they all had access to vouchers to use at any private (or public) school of their choice.

They want you to think that economist are on-net against vouchers. Now read the source: http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/education/

36% agree, 37% uncertain, 18% disagree. It's not "only a third", its really that twice as many economists agree with vouchers than disagree, plus a wide amount of uncertainty.

NYT is full of this stuff. It's terrible. They constantly editorialize even factual sources to confirm the views of their anticipated readers.

Broadly speaking if the people with megaphones tell you that people with megaphones are good, and are more important than ever, and intimate that the truth is their domain, consider for a moment that it might not be. Just because someone has a megaphone does not mean they are a light-bearer, no matter what motto they put on their masthead.
"You have no perfect laws or rules and never will to begin with, so the idea of following rules with ideal tech-supported precision is wrong in it's core. "

This makes absolutely no sense.

We already use fingerprinting, DNA, photographic evidence - and in some cases worst of all '1st hand witnesses' as evidence.

Pursuing techniques and possibly technologies that more effectively help us create just out comes is exactly what we want to do.

Your example of 'Turing' is another thing entirely: what is deemed legal and not-legal is a completely separate thing from what we construe as evidence and not evidence.

"Too much laws and you have zero progress or evolution because progress comes from reviewing known and accepted concepts"

What does 'too much laws' mean, and what does it have to do with anything?
> It does not racially discriminate and it is not racist. It does not harm anyone.

This is a dangerously irresponsible statement.

If police are disproportionally spending time in specific neighborhoods, and arrests are disproportionally made from that population vs. actual crimes committed, this will be captured and reinforced in the predictions.

So yes, it's racists and it harms people.
And so what? Seiously, if a person told you they have a permit from pope to mine black holes would you be inclined to believe them? If so, I maintain that the person provides a valuable service making people less gullible.
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So probably the best next step for MS is to prepare something like a "dev" license, i.e. an Enterprise license for the individual that knows what he is doing.
I wonder how well it works during a blizzard, when you want your internet to be working since you're stuck inside.
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Right, I don't know if it's even appropriate really to be trying to compare HTTP APIs and Unix programs like this. As you've stated, they really are meant to serve different purposes. So the original discussion of "i wish i was building with legos" I'm not sure quite sure how you would even apply it to HTTP APIs.

I do think that there is an interesting point around "designed with pipelines in mind" though. I don't know if that would specifically make things more "lego-like", or if that would even specifically be a good thing. But it would be certainly interesting to analyze the list of "average library interface, or framework, or domain-specific language, or REST API" and evaluate each of them along those lines, and consider what it would look like if each was designed them to be more pipeline-centric.

Or maybe the original post came more from a feeling of "it's easy for me to think in terms of pipelines, so anything that forces me to do otherwise feels needlessly complicated"?

But, if we start thinking in terms of pipelines, then that's essentially what functional programming is, run a function, get this output, pass it to another function, get its output, run another function, get its output. So, maybe the love for pipelining comes out of actually a desire for a functional core. So it'd be more like "i only want to think in terms of functions at the core and not have to worry about side effects, and unix does this on a program level".

So, of course, you can't entirely get away from side effects, otherwise you'd literally be doing nothing. So we push it to the edges as far as we can. The analogy for side effects for Unix then would be `> myData` as the last step. So you could say that Unix's philosophy is to have programs that form a functional core, with there being only one possible side effect, which then only has one possible placement, which is at the end of everything. Sounds like a functional dream world.

Back to the list, if we wanted to design "average library interface" with this idea, then maybe you'd say here is a package with all the functional methods. And here is a package with all the side effect methods. And the design is to run a bunch of methods from the functional package before finally making a call to the side effect package.

If we then loop all the way back to REST APIs (and I mean REST spec this time) then I think I could make an argument that REST does in fact follow this functional core philosophy. You have GET endpoints which are your functions, that let you retrieve resources. And then you can POST against objects, which are your side effects, which let you create or update a specific resource. The spec limits the types of side effects you can make, almost to the point of making them dead simple. So, we then have a clear delineation between what is a function and what is a side effect, with a very limited and clear number of side effects that you're able to create.
I think this is a pretty valid point—in fact the effect of Spotify's approach to promoting music with this hegemonic quality has been documented pretty well, even resulting in something people call "The Spotify Sound":

https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2019/06/how-the-spotify-soun...

Not to mention they were caught with their hands in the cookie jar a number of times, promoting their own fake artists "algorithmically", and it was such a good game that Sony got in on it as well.
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Hopefully soon! However, in addition to research needed to make this work for video, it also needs research to make it smaller and/or to put it in silicon (see my other comments). The network shown is "only" 726MB BTW :)
Not going to flag it because you are right.

Once you are a platform (FB, Twitter, Google, Reddit, etc...), you should only be allowed to "censor" things that are illegal.
In the Summer 2020 batch every company is remote. My guess would be that 25% of the companies in the batch are currently based in the bay area.
Static linking allows LTO with aggressive inlining and is therefore able to achieve far superior performance beyond just the startup time. Arguing that dynamic vs. static has better RAM utilization or not is pointless because nowadays we have plenty of RAM but single core performance is stagnating for almost a decade already. Moores law might give us more transistors but single thread performance is still more or less bound by the clock and transistor switching frequency. Sooner or later static linking will become the only way to move forward and the conveniences dynamic linking offers will not be worth the costs.
Insert joke about the purely binary nature of determining PHP project quality.
I fully understand and appreciate that supposed benefit but I don’t think that justifies the privacy cost.
It's generous to assume that our news organisations actually do follow that kind of rigor on all non-opinion pieces all the time when there is a conflict of interest, be that political affiliation or in the presence of financial incentives.

There are countless examples of bad journalism from the NYT to Vice all the way to the links of Breitbart.

Look at the Scott Alexander case in recent days or looking further back the scandal around Johann Hari.

I think this would be a good thing and at the very worst not worse than what we have now.
Comcast does not appear to be using the Mozilla brand. Am I missing something?
I'm the author, so I hope that passes!
Microsoft could put effort into making Windows Updates completely silent and not require a reboot.
I don't see it as a lot different than "Starve the beast"[1]. "Starve" means kill by removing nutrition or sustenance. But do we literally take it to mean "cancel the government by removing funding"?

There's a difference between a slogan and a program. Somehow accuracy and correctness in slogans are only demanded when someone doesn't agree with the basic premise of the program.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
The camera can be lost or break. With a phone you can live stream to the internet, and everything will be remotely recorded no matter what happens on the site (unless lose of internet connection), and no matter what police do to your phone
Who provides that fiber connection?
It was a one-two-three punch. First it was Craiglist, then it was Google, now its Facebook. The main difference between google and facebook is that search optimizes for sending you on your way, so the destination sites could still do something with their audience. Facebook is extremely optimized to keep you on facebook, so in a raw attention-economy eyeball-minutes sense FB hurt much more than google.

And yes, if you're looking for full spectrum technicalities here amazon and microsoft and yahoo all shaved a few % each themselves too.

But the high order bit, in 2020, is unequivocally FB.
Depending on the user, the psychological result can be quite different. I mean it doesn't really matter if Windows reboots and kills your computation overnight, you can just do it again! On average over time, it probably doesn't waste your time any more than making Linux work would. But it feels rude.
It's not about how much money they have, it's the lobbying. I think it's selfish and immoral to lobby for something which you know full well is against the public interest. You're directly influencing legislation in a direction that's bad for society.

The key here is that collective action is the only way to fix climate change. So, on a personal level, I'd rather donate to environmental activism groups than buy more expensive "green" groceries or some such. And I'd encourage everyone else to do the same!
Sure, but I think the most important reason people have in mind when they argue for dynamic linking is that they will receive upstream bugfixes. I don't think your eight cases are equally important.

You are of course right, though, and writing it down like this can be useful.
Nice to see emoji domains in the news...
I think its going to be a much harder line to draw than people assume. We already trust the big email providers (Microsoft, Google) to perform blanket spam filtering. Part of that working is that its non transparent, it works because its a black box that noise generators can't inspect. Where is the line between spam and valid speech? Individually, we have ceded control of filtering to the giants, because anything else is overwhelming. I am not sure I would be able to use any of these products if they didn't take a "block first, release from the filter later" approach.
> You can flag this comment away

Why would this comment be flagged?

It's a reasonable statement, Twitter handles have replaced phone numbers in the age of online discourse. Telling someone to join a fringe social network is like saying people we can ban people we don't like from using the telephone because ham radio exists.
400-square-foot micro apartments coming to downtown San Jose near Google village
And somehow in this small sleepy town, the same 2 blocks have consistently been the "you can always get heroine/meth/crack here" blocks for about 30 years, and they can't predict the need for a squad car parked there.
> It's not that precise

I think you're being too kind. That map is a disgrace. The 'latest public release' is from June 2019, a whole year out of date. One self-reported hookup in a census block is enough to mark the entire block as 'having service', which is a ridiculous metric, particularly in rural areas as you said.

This map was designed by the incumbents as something to point at when they are criticized for the sub-par and overpriced services they provide. And the FCC went along with it, which is just regulatory capture.

A real broadband map would

a) not rely on self-reporting or have really serious fines if companies deliberately provide incorrect information

b) give an indication of what is actually installed (1 house out of the 100 in this census block has fiber from Verizon? Great, 1% actually installed).

c) give an indication of what is actually available. 95 buildings out of 100 can't get the Verizon fiber service? That's 95% of the census block that does not have service. The telcos have this information (they all have a way to look up a physical address on their website to see if you can get service), they are just not sharing it.

The FCC broadband map is about as bad as the cell phone carrier's coverage maps, which are also a complete joke.

For those, though, there are crowdsourced and way more accurate alternatives (e.g. opensignal.com, cellmapper.net).
It is not a matter of thinking or belief, there is documented Evidence of this political bias from many sources and from many Tech companies.

The debate comes into place because the Tech companies will still ban people for clear rules violations even though they are on the "correct" side, direct calls for violence as an example

But the even the rules themselves on most of these platforms show a political worldview toward one side.

This is also influenced by the massive shift in the overton window over the last 4 years, so much so that many people on one political side seem to have whiplash.

So I do not doubt you will find people that will disagree with what way the bias leans, however when you have documented and video evidence of the bias in one direction then the debate is much less valid
To put in very common language here: there are times when refactoring would be way more costly and difficult than rewriting.
I'm very conservative and I don't like this one bit. I agree there is a good comparison to the 2nd. I think if you sat down with your average conservative, you would find that they probably either already agree or would be quick to agree that this is bad.

> Do we really trust big business that much?

In general I trust them more than the government simply because they will never have as much power as the government.

Stop trying to take my guns...and my crypto.
Ask HN: Good beginner resources to learn chemistry
I never did much chemistry in school or college and mainly concentrated on biology and physics. I've started to gain an interest in Chemistry especially Biochemistry but am finding my lack of basics holding me back.

Does anyone have any good resources online or books that they could recommend?
The solution is not to increase them, that's for sure. The solution is to abolish the quota system which Democrats keep upholding for their Big Tech overlords.
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I'm thinking though that if the AI runs less often, it might take different decisions depending on how fast the PC is. So just like if you did physics without fixedupdate, you could have players jumping lower or higher depending on how fast their PC is, maybe you'll be making the AI dumber or smarter (due to thinking more often).
Our fiber ISP, Ting, used those in our neighborhood to lay new lines. It was interesting to watch. For the most part, the only place where you could see any disturbance was when they had to pop up for a junction box.
So you're saying that more police presence is harming people. How?
If there's no crime there are no arrests or reports after all...

Your reply is rather aggressive for not apparent reason. As I said this is highly political in the middle of the current hysteria.
TLDR: Zuck bows down to the Dems with the other tech CEO/shareholder puppets

"Because we can't win arguments we're going to silence, boycott, flag, and censor the other side"

This is how you lose your democracy, they take your fangs away.

You will lose your speech, then you will lose your guns, then you will lose your vote.

It happened in Venezuela and it can happen here.

They're coming for us first, you next.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1275156623317745669

edit: of course this was flagged, hahaha
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"Defund police" isn't the same string value as "Abolish police". In your haste to demand correctness from others, you seem to be twisting words yourself.
I agree protecting opinions I personally might not agree with is important.

However, I see no value at all in protecting calls to violence or protecting speech that is intentionally designed to deceive or manipulate.

Additionally, attributing and contextualising information must be allowed.

Finally, many scientific matters are settled (such as that climate change exists, that there was systemic discrimination of PoCs even long after abolishment of slavery and that Earth is not flat).

Stating that those debates are settled and that trying to "reopen" them does not do any good must be allowed.