skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fox News has dropped anchors because of ad boycotts.
If I understand your architecture correctly, your client has to wait for the network roundtrip before being able to see the result of the die roll, correct?
trading forex swaps as an individual is a disservice. its not centralized at all, as a retail you get spreaded quotes from some banks that want to make markets and that is it really. many of the biggest fx brokers have been banned in the us over the years too for all sorts of awful things [1]. there are cross bank quoting and such but the whole thing is extremely unsuitable for retails, making it prime for low barrier to entry decimation of retails which is exactly what you'll see time and again.

if you really care to trade currency rates in a sane way, there are CME futures

1 http://www.forexscamalerts.com/fxcm-permanently-banned-usa-f...
kudos moment from the coca-cola,

This act is a tight slap on the big brand who are willing to make money by playing people's feeling.
You're right. It works great with NotTheOnion for example: https://unim.press/#nottheonion
I do believe that you perhaps aren't tieing the program to the recipients. But I don't think the distinction between the program and the beneficiaries is clear to the average voter who likely hasn't ever met a person on an H1B. When they read these stories their instinctive reaction is jobs going to "other people" and then they vote for people who are against immigration, who are tacitly for xenophobia. You could have called me pessimistic, but we have clear examples now of how xenophobia can resonate and can be built on labor issues.
When i first read this i tried to imagine what kind of music this would be. It sounded exactly what i thought it would.
It will be difficult but that didn't stop those colonizing the new world and it shouldn't stop us.

The universe has near infinite resources, why continue to fight over the finite resources on earth?
Right? This wouldn't be a problem if we didn't have livestock. Animal agriculture is an unnecessary barbaric practice that has no business in our modern world when we have better options accessible to us.
> The conversations aren't about less police, they're about defunding the police

cutting police budget = less police
For client side prediction, probably, yes. But having a single library that could tell you "given game state X, which plays are legal" would be nice for rendering the UI without needing to ask the server for every last detail.
You are incredibly uninformed on the lives of pro musicians. Trust me, I am one.

Labels are dead. Studios are dead. The onus to procure the gear and space to make music is entirely on the artist now. Yes, costs for some gear have come down, but to do truly professional work you need to invest at least a couple thousand in a computer and software (DAW, plugins, etc), another thousand minimum in speaker monitors, another thousand minimum in acoustic treatment, plus let’s call it another thousand or two for various misc stuff (display, keyboard, mouse, a few instruments, a decent mic and audio interface, midi controller(s), cables, etc etc etc). I’d say dead bare minimum you need $6k, and that’s ignoring the fact that so much music software are going to subscription models. You can easily add another zero to that.

Plus you need the space where you can actually make a decent amount of noise, the time (and money) to learn to produce, mix, and master your own music — all lifelong and singular skills in their own rights with their own masters, totally apart from actually writing and performing anything.

Add on distribution fees (which aren’t quite as low as you think in order to get to any sort of “professional” echelon), business and legal fees, etc etc etc, and things get expensive fast.

The important distinction here between coding and music is that the cost has entirely moved from a label/management firm to the artist themselves. No one really makes music in a studio with a console anymore. Yes, it happens (I’m a film composer writing orchestral music, so I’m still doing it — yes, we typically pay for the orchestral recording sessions, whereas in the past film studios took on that cost, and that alone can cost well over $100k), but all in all music is made on a computer. Just because that’s the same tool you use to code, don’t think it’s at all the same to you buying your laptop compared to the days when IBM built its own mainframe (and of course businesses still routinely give out laptops to their employees). Coding can be done even on a shit $300 Acer with free VS Code, but you’ll have a hard time making any professional music on that same computer with free software.

There’s a lot more wrong with your assumptions (such as amateur and pro musicians making the same income) but I’ve typed enough for the moment.
My first reaction to this was, "why?" The skeuomorphism of the low-res paper background and ugly type is horrible. But, reading the comments here, apparently some people like it, so ok.

But you can see all the CORS issues this is throwing up. Rather than a 100% js app, why not call a function which fetches the content and caches it too? CORS issues begone, and caches too! You don't need an expensive server setup, have a look at AWS Lambda or Azure Functions.
If you don’t trust them with your data, you can encrypt it with your own keys.
>I want to go back to 90's when we had healthy debates between republicans and democrats. We were one country. One voice. And people debated about issues and not about other people's clans.

i came here only 20 years ago, so can comment only indirectly - recently watched a Bill Maher standup from something like 91 - and pretty much the only difference was clothes. In particular it was somewhat eerrie how he was talking about Anita Hill while short before me watching it there had been Kavanaugh story.
Can someone please write a short story with this plot.
Because method calls don't compose as compiler plugins or runtime reflection.

They were also not invented by Java, other languages like Dylan, Python and .NET actually go them first.

Actually they are like a poor man's Lisp macros kind of.
Text alone can be beautiful.

As one example, the front page of the Wall Street Journal in 1987 was predominantly text. [1]

[1]: https://wsjshop.com/products/framed-reprint-crash-of-1987-st... "Black Monday Crash of 1987"
Naah, no one was thinking of ethernet cables in old houses. Wireless all the way.
The resources are far away, we have no way to get to them right now. Will we reach those resources before we run out on this planet? Before a catastrophe wipes us out? Who knows.

By comparison sailing across the oceans seems trivial.
> Bias is when ML sees something not relevant as a pattern and uses it as a feature to determine the future.

This alone does not fit the definition of statistical bias. Statistics is not capable of proving causation. So a completely trivial fact or feature can be a great estimator nonetheless. Of course if the system changes then you have a problem (with or without a causal model).

If historic data is warped by police of course, then you're using a biased sample and will indeed get a biased estimate that way. But if you correctly use randomly sampled data and a method that has been mathematically-proven to be unbiased, then if your model says to deny loans based on race, you would likely make fewer bad loans more by following it versus ignoring this information.
Every person I encounter has a Facebook. Even my ~100 years old grandma has one. Not sure what other social media has the same presence in the life of people. Tumblr/Reddit/Twitter are not even close and quite niche in the grand scheme of things.

>nor are they even the most popular among certain demographics.

Of course there are niche websites for some people, doesn't take away from how big Facebook is. Perhaps not technically a monopoly, but their influence is real and there should be barriers so it's not abused.

>"manipulating voters," which isn't always illegal.

Yeah of course, law has had trouble adjusting to the omnipresence of Internet for a while now.

>Is having the government restrict free speech really better than having corporations do it?

The government should not restrict free speech as much as Facebook is allowed to right now. Some laws prevent some sorts of extreme speech, e.g. hate speech, but I'd rather society come to a consensus on what's out of bounds than some corp choose them to cater to advertisers/their bottom line.
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Ditto; the client side code needs no game logic, only aiding UX; dont let the user click outside a minesweeper board, but if it does, the server still validates.

I made a System inspired by boardgame.io (but it was too integrated with react for me), which means i can write the game on the server without writing any client code at all. the client gets a list of valid moves, and my debug view gets error messages and a bunch of buttons & drop downs for parameters.

https://github.com/NewChromantics/PopNotPoker/blob/master/Se... here's multiplayer minesweeper:)
Http://not.poker

All the real work is in the lobby code anyway.
Anyone that cares about AOT in Java could have gotten one of the commercial JDKs that offer it since around 2000, what GraalVM brings into the table is not having to pay for such tooling, although the best optimizations are still only available on the professional version.
> To me it seems to be a binary

It doesn't have to be binary. Instead, we can say that the more power someone has, the more it is ok to reveal info about them.

You can pick public figure, but I wouldn't do that.

> Who exactly is allowed to do the calculus

Anyone at all times. That's how society works. Everyone has their own opinions.

I don't agree with your binary opinion though.

> Of a CEO

CEOs have lots of power. They don't need to be protected as much as everyone else in the world.
Some of them are latent bugs on x86 too, just rarer due to the stronger guarantees x86 provides.
I mean sure they are down entirely in line with the rest of the market but whatever sells the clicks
because the BLM and ATF totally went in against Cliven Bundy with guns blazing (oh wait...)
Kotlin flow allows you to have the best of both worlds:
Suspending function that have obscoleted the concept of promises and flow when you want to deal with fine grained async list processing
Then you've done something somehow, or I have, because none of my 5 Windows machines have rebooted without a week's notice in about three years.

If it helps, you can use "powercfg /lastwake" at a command prompt to find out why the computer last woke from sleep. With that info you should be able to put an end to those unrequested wakes.
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To be honest. I don’t believe a word about the performance using AI. Especially if the article doesn’t present the features and the NN architecture. Its always the question: would a super simple model perform the same way? And very ofter the answer is yes.
> stop wearing those stupid fucking polyester hoodies

According to this chart, the main sources of pollution are by far wear and tear from car tyres and road surfaces. Synthetic clothing comes last.

https://i.imgur.com/KmbY72h.jpg

That being said, one should never forget secondary effects of reducing consumption which is economic stagnation, which in turn leads to inequality and social unrest. At the same time, it is not really proven microplastics are particularly harmful. Its benefits may outweigh some harm to organisms when it only shortens live expectancy by a few years. That being said, it is of course always worthwhile to remove pollutants where adverse effects are obvious and where alternatives are available.
There are countless animal and plant fossils from as far back as 100s of millions of years ago. Wouldn't we have found at least a few fossils of constructed objects?
Let's say I want to predict the crop yield of a field. Sure, looking at the yield in previous years would help. But the yield is just a nonlinear projection of a point in high-dimensional space that has dimensions like weather, water availability, pest infestations, farmer skill, etc. All of these dimensions are incredibly relevant to forecasting, but once we've projected our points onto the yield axis, most of this information is gone. So if you want to take advantage of this information, you need to do your fitting in the original high-dimensional space.
Yes, on the compilers that offer it.
Where do you see anonymity on the internet now? People constantly get doxxed or lose jobs for what they said on social networks.
Unicode also have hearts that aren’t colored pictures (which gets filtered out if you try to write them on HN apparently)
But then again, some people get a black line. I guess we can let others get a colored emoji.
Other scientists on HN: are his comments about how badly science is being done accurate?

If so, why/how did it get this way?

Have you had any experience of it?

I'm kinda horrified that all the comments so far are about academic careers and no-one's mentioned one of the fascinating parts of the article: that science is being done badly and the task of spotting that and clearing it up is not considered valuable.
FB is down significantly more this week than the market
FB: -9.42%
GOOG: -5.65%
SPY: -2.56%.

But I agree the headline is asserting a causal relationship without sufficient evidence.
A long while ago I started refusing the offer of vendorware at conferences and events, and recycled everything I did have. I never wore it and it just creates waste and clutters my drawers.
I’d wager the rent rate is necessary to cover the mortgage, homeowners policy, other insurance, and repairs. I don’t think landlords have 36% IRR on their investments. Rents at that large of a discount aren’t sustainable.
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My commentary of the heatmap: https://twitter.com/zorinaq/status/1276578004072673280
Nonsense. Adobe may have been the one to pull the plug, but the Flash era would have been stretched by at least a couple of years if Steve Jobs hadn't pitted the weight of the entire iPhone community against it.
Do people actually care enough about "threats to humanity's potential" to actually support this kind of thing? I imagine more people would say they care than would actually want to pay tax dollars towards it.
The variety of fossils we have is stunning, but even that is a non representative, femtoscopic sample of all organisms that ever lived.
Before widespread use of the internet, protests and riots due to police brutality were waved off as "those people acting up". Progressive candidates never got any traction. No one had any real sense of what was happening on the other side of the country, let alone Europe or Asia. Information was controlled and broadcast by a few small entities that were mainly interested in propping up the establishment. Look up operation mockingbird. Let's not be Pollyanna-ish about pre-internet times.
Interesting that it mentioned a 3-feet wingspan dragonfly. I would have thought they were limited at their current size because of the law of aerodynamics...Now I wonder why we don't see any dragonfly based aircraft around...Fast speed plus incredible manouvering capabilities...
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Who is this Peter Rex? I just went to rexteams.com The site is quite vague. After doing some googling it looks like this is one of those guys that's like in the business of selling business. They do a lot of lectures and stuff.
Yes, "targets" would be clearer than "contents" here.
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ffsend excellent tool. Ffsend is inspiration for me to make 'ele'

https://github.com/prakis/helloele

Ele is a command line tool works with your own cloud.
Main difference from ffsend and other cmd tools is no need to share links, files are referred by file-indexes.
What a cheesy attack. It only cost them $1.14M to get their data back. I can not tell if the attack hit something inconsequential, the criminals are stupid, or they just do not understand finances for them to ask for such a tiny sum.

UCSF received $1.43B in grants and contracts during 2017-2018 [1]. Assuming they are generating an equivalent amount of value in knowledge evenly distributed over time, the loss of one day of research would be ~$3.9M. So, if the the last whole organization backup was one day ago and the attackers were only able to stop access to the last day of work since they did not think to corrupt the backups before they went out, then the ROI of paying off the ransom would be ~3.43. If they were able to affect the entire organization for an entire week, then the cost would be ~$27.3M with an ransom ROI of ~24.

So, assuming they did any damage of consequence, asking for ~$1.14M seems like robbing a person at gunpoint for their pocket lint.

[1] https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/02/413396/ucsf-top-public-rec...
I just spent a few minutes reading the readme, and I still can't figure out why this tool (or GitBook) is directly connected to git. OK, a bunch of markdown and json files in folders form a book. How is this connected to git?

I totally get storing the markdown files/folders in git, but surely any other version control system would be fine too?
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> Is it similar quality or higher-quality now?

I also read the paper. Depending on what metric you choose, it is either similar quality (based on revert numbers) or higher-quality (based on PTR - basically the characters that survive subsequent edits).

> While the article and paper are all positive... I'm not sure that's what this unambiguously shows.

You are absolutely correct!

The paper actually shows that Tor edits were much worse than any other group ("Overall, 41.12% of Tor edits on article pages are reverted, while only30.3% of IP edits, 35.2% of First-time edits, and 5.5% of Registered edits are reverted.") before the ban was implemented.

After the 2013 ban they "consider the small number of edits made in this later period. Using the methods described above, we computed the reversion rate and the PTRs for the population of 536 edits made after 2013 along with the same number of time-matched edits from other groups as described above." - and THIS dataset is what the headline comes from!

So this positive conclusion is based on these 536 edits, not the much bigger dataset! Additionally, they filter out edits to non-article pages where "this analysis provides evidence that Tor was used to engage in edit warring in violation of Wikipedia policy."

It's a pity, but this paper doesn't really support the idea that Tor users are good Wikipedia editors.
Very nice. How do you auto generate the bots from the game rules? I'm assuming you just have them play the game a lot against each other and use genetic algorithms/reinforcement learning (you'd need some rules about scoring)?

Do you have the option to generate different bot difficulty levels?
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Are there many different styles for teaching Linear Algebra, though?

I'd definitely be interested in seeing how different resources teach it.
Smartphones used ARM for a while. I think that many of the major libraries were used in one or another project. So I think that this problem won't be as severe, because those bugs hopefully were fixed.

Also Raspberry Pi was a popular choice for many tinkerers for years which also helps with ARM penetration.
The problem people are complaining about in the comments is the tendency of many science journals lately to use their articles as undercover delivery vehicles for political messages in the guise of investigating something else.

If I had no agenda other than looking for evidence of pre-human technological civilization, I would focus on artifacts, as most people would. That is how we have found almost all ancient civilizations. You can't have even a slightly advanced civilization without creating big, hard objects such as rock or concrete or metal. Even a rather poor SE Asian town of 100,000 people out in the jungle will leave some fossils where their cheap, concrete buildings stood that, a billion years from now, may still exist and appear clearly non-organic (fossilized basements with pipes, for example). And if the civilization was "technological", it was probably populated enough for many such towns to have existed, at least one of which would probably have exposed fossils somewhere.

Of course asteroid strikes and plate tectonics could have buried it, and it's an interesting question where you might look for a city built a billion years ago, but there would probably be a lot more column inches devoted to solid artifacts, fossils, and questions like these than to climate change if the only thing on these scientists' agenda really was the question they claim.
This is much needed as GitBook moved away from Book publishing and abandoned open source spirit.
Alpha Waves was the first 3D platform game
If we really take the macro view, it seems Facebook is a bank which can print money at its whims.

Sure, advertises commit their billion dollar adspent but Facebook can always claim their commited amount have been spent and populate the dashboards with realistic data.

The big brands do not base their ad expense on specific metrics like small businesses do. Once you are big enough to make billions, chasing matrics results limiting your market.
Yes, I think they’re right along Dana Street.
Internet comments are the result of a giant experiment giving infinite numbers of typewriters to an infinite number of monkeys.
> If we want to stop neighborhood gang violence in the long term, we need to work on why people join gangs, and what they are fighting over.

This may be utopian and fails the "perfect is the enemy of good" maxim. Meanwhile entire neighbourhoods if not cities (and sometimes entire countries) are anti-social, where the average resident has to suffer through a constant threat of violence.
Yeah, okay, but we're talking about stellar objects. In that context, there is no minimum mass for a black hole.

If you can figure out a way to cram the mass together.

But that was the point of the first comment anyway, that if you didn't quite get enough mass+density that you might get something weird.
And here the video story from Dan McCrum

https://www.ft.com/video/37cb70e6-72df-471e-943d-2d32c278565...
Hey, maybe if I was a little rude. I'm sorry. The fundamentals of quant finance are little too long to go into here. But if you're legitimately interested in having a good conversation. I can explain it to you. Email me at sturm@cryptm.org.

I can give you complete run down of persistent factors, leverage, risk-adjusted returns, etc etc.
Why “coincidentally” in scare quotes?

If one company is going to open an electronics store, they will put it where it is accessible to the most possible customers. If another company wants to open one they can either put it in the same place for the same reason - and now there are customers who go to that region to buy that kind of goods making it more desirable - or they can put it somewhere else where it is accessible to fewer customers, and that’s a silly decision.
Fuck these companies. Make your product, STFU and don't be policing morality. Fascism is when companies become an arm of the government, enforcing political ideology, which is exactly what this is. Free speech includes hate speech, and if you're against free speech, fuck you too.
It's all about everything (software tool)
You could perhaps do something with the dot language and gvpr[1]. It's not super easy to use though, but I've used it to generate a Javascript representation of a graph before.

[1] https://manpages.debian.org/testing/graphviz/gvpr.1.en.html
oh my bad, just tried realty and it worked too as it went to realty.com