skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't this just entrench walled gardens? That is, your apple/googles of the world have their huge user bases and they are guaranteed access to content at the same price as everyone else, ergo nobody has any real reason to buy outside of those walled gardens because nobody can offer you anything different or cheaper than google/apple.
How can I generate raster tiles myself for a specific region, so I don't have to use planet.osm?

I can find regions on geofabrik.
WASM needs to be killed with fire before it's too late.
Fully agreed!
Human foosball: New form of soccer developed for pandemic
> Most structured data in Wikipedia articles is in either infoboxes or tables

Most of the data in Wikidata does not end up in either Infoboxes or Tables in some Wikipedia, however, and, e.g., graph-like data such as family trees works quite poorly as a relational database; even if you don't consider qualifiers at all.
That's a really sexy map.

I like the traffic switch.
>Our media is destroying the USA.

I think this is incredibly true. And it is spreading to other parts of the world.

There is a lot of sensationalism, around black lives matter protests, and very little objective analysis of the "problem". It seems incredibly irresponsible considering the results.

I would urge everyone to listen to (or read) what Sam Harris says in his podcast on the topic, he brings some objectivity and rationality back to the discussion. You feel like there is still some sanity left in the world after listening to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmgxtcbc4iU

https://samharris.org/can-pull-back-brink/
I could have put 'host language', but I figured it was clear from context.

I'd assumed numpy used FORTRAN, but you're right, its heavy-lifting is done in C.
> if the compiler can automatically transform objects anyway, why do we even need value types/structs?

It cannot always without affecting the semantics. An array of structs will still have to be an array of references in most cases, for example. The compiler isn't sufficiently smart to figure out such things beyond trivial examples.

In General it applies to any optimization: the compiler can figure out a subset of optimizations the programmer can. That's why not giving the control of memory layout to the programmer is objectively bad idea.

Also, when you need performance, not relying on compiler to figure out the optimizations is easier than ensuring the optimizations happen. Compilers are quite unpredictable.
He could have been sleeping days and working nights etc. Surely you look at their actual ouput and judge from that, unless I'm missing something.
People who call it "digital psychology" are probably trying to tell themselves that it's OK to do this stuff and that they're not the baddies.
https://www.amazon.com/More-Money-Than-God-Relations/dp/0143...
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Deploying and Hosting a Machine Learning Model with FastAPI and Heroku
Correlation and Covariance are two commonly used statistical concepts majorly used to measure the linear relation between two variables in data. When used to compare samples from different populations, covariance is used to identify how two variables vary together whereas correlation is used to determine how change in one variable is affecting the change in another variable. Even though there are certain similarities between these two mathematical terms, these two are different from each other. Read further to understand the difference between covariance and correlation.
>>> I'd assume that for banks all code that goes into production gets audited.

Code would be reviewed by a developer, not audited. The reviewer may or may notice the dependency to archive.org and may or may not care.

Speaking from experience, the bank may have a policy to prohibit using external javascript, while the bank may not have a CDN itself to be able to host said dependencies.
It’s Time to Abolish Single-Family Zoning
Started using OpenLayers 2 weeks ago for a side project. Agree with you on power of OL. I just started basic features and already loving it.

Apart from OL API doc. Could you please recommend any book/course to learn both concepts & API.
A lot of Starlark code at Google is still tested using a Python framework. So the code is compatible with Python to a fairly large extent.

A Starlark interpreter can easily be compiled to webassembly and run in a browser. I did it here: http://laurent.le-brun.eu/starlark/
> like a closed over value type that could escape the local scope

You mean, captured in closure?
Just finished "Model Thinking" [1] taught by Scott E. Page.

I really enjoyed this class. It provided me with several very useful mathematical tools to think more clearly about important and frequent problems. Scott is a great teacher.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/model-thinking
I think the people speaking in this article forgot that the average attention span in US is 8 seconds.
Early American Colonists Had a Cash Problem. Here's How They Solved It (2017)
Or because the average person is more likely to blame Netflix than Comcast in that scenario.
Is Potable Water the ‘Petroleum of the Next Century’?
Roads in rural areas are a HUGE problem. Particular in remote / forested places where logging roads were used in TIGER data. For example, places like this: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/46.6397/-87.7149

There's a number of us who use this kind of data for building back country cycling routes, and while it's great guidance, there's both the problem with roads being listed that are no longer passable (nor often even visible at ground level), or other routes available that don't exist.

Of course, this gets back to the way much of the data is crowd sourced... And we're working on that. :)
In the Netherlands there was a horrible accident a couple of years ago with children who'd been picked up by daycare staff in a small electric bicycle wagon where 4 of the children were killed. I still remember the feeling of reading the headline. Since then I've read that municipalities are accelerating the transition from railway crossings in urban centres to underpasses, despite the huge cost of this re-engineering. I think the problem with railway crossings is that they are just inherently dangerous, and the severity side of the risk equation if you get a crossing wrong is huge (potentially multiple people being killed).

I like the Dutch approach here: replace them entirely.

https://www.bd.nl/oss/vier-kinderen-4-tot-11-jaar-omgekomen-...
I think this was the version control when paper was big :)

Over of the other points on the article was "lengthen your summary" which was to address that very low read count!

I wonder if it's possible to make a "github of research" where articles are more publicly revised only showing the most recent (celebrating Theory 2.0! And 2.0.1 -fixed typos)

I took the publish process to be: iterate on your thesis.

I saw the pattern as: Ask for feedback from a small group. Improve ask a larger, more reputable group. Repeat.

I'm not current on what constitutes a prestigious Journal today (is Nature still a top Journal?).
No, you hear people screaming at you to stop and pull over.
MTN 5G Network Launches – All You May Need Know About the Roll Out
There it is: the siren call of the proselytising do gooder.

My advancements will succour thee and into the warm boosm of modernity embrace.
'Spooky' Quantum Movements Seen Happening to Large Objects, Scientists Say
I think this is should be said, and people should never take these as dogmas, or "the wires to be pulled to manipulate people".

That's not how it works, and that's not how WE work.

It was one of the things when I switched from CS to Marketing degree, was that there's nothing set in stone with regards to psychology, and that's why you have people that follow some "thinkers" and why there's no human psychology manual to program us.
How will it be called in Chinese? They can change the name in English while keeping the original name in Chinese.

Not sure what the point of stopping the sale of whitening creams in Asia is, though.

And as a non-American can someone explain the issue with the Aunt Jemima brand?
This reminds me of the time I caught my mortgage lender using javascript loaded directly from a github repo on their mortgage application process. I reported it to them and they didn't understand the problem.
The “harm” is the literal murder of black people, transgender people, gay people, etc. The tweets don’t do the murder, but status quo the tweets are supporting does.

I think some here, when talking about freedom of political speech, lose sight of the actual stakes behind the politics.
For Free Pascal (which is used in Lazarus), you can use almost all of the native libraries (linked dynamically, and in many cases even statically). It is not as straightforward and easy as using _pip_ or _npm_, and maybe not as organised, but you can translate the headers to Pascal and get it working. You are not stuck with what comes with Lazarus or Free Pascal, or libraries that are exclusively written in Free Pascal.
The original 747-100's engines were underpowered. That's whey there's extra space for the lounge and more space. As engine technology caught up the aircraft seating increased density.
Second Brazilian museum fire in two years reignites calls for reform
You should read past the first page of that table. Germany and Denmark have 1/3 the death per capita of the US. The Czechs have 1/10 of it.
> Hyperparameter: an aspect of the algorithm, a dial which changes model production

This seems a bit cryptic. The way I understand hyperparamters, they define how a model learns, i.e. you can set an alpha in gradient descent. Now when you compare them to "ordinary" parameters, hyperparamters do not define relationship between data and output.
Physics for Entertainment by Yakov Perelman
There are some nice essays on this concept called "legibility" -- where modern societies hate those systems that are "illegible" in the sense of not being fully mapped, characterized, understood.

In most developed countries this is the attitude towards wildlife for example. Unless all migratory birds are counted, their nests photographed, their legs tagged, their beaks measured and catalogued, it is as if they wouldn't exist. This is considered a shortcoming, a deficit, and environmentalists organize "bird tagging" events where they try to remedy the situation. In traditional societies wildlife is just there, and it is fine to leave it "illegible".
I don't know what the original prices are, but as someone who might like to use algoria search instead of MVP search, the idea that pricing scales with our usage (e.g. free tier -> lowest paid tier) is very appealing. There's too many SaaS where when your usage jumps plus 1kb suddenly they want $100/month instead of $0. Which is hard if you have a tight budget or wnat to keep a tight reign on your budget.
The League of Evil Designers
I think you misread the dynamic of the incident.
The pilots were in an unstabilized approach, didn't go around, landed with landing gear up and applied reverse trust, at which point they figured all those sparks were not supposed to be flying around, brilliantly decided to go around and pressed the TOGA switches. Surprisingly the plane was not able to complete the go around, lost both engines, and crashed. This is the stuff of nightmares.
Of course, I agree with you that the parameter space is ridiculously large. But sadly, that's what people do in practice. And with 20mio, their example is still small in comparison to GPT-3 with 175 billion parameters.

I disagree with you on the restrictive part. Those ML models that are inspired by biology tend to be restrictive, the same way that the development of mammal brains is assumed to be restricted by genetically determined structure. Pretty much all SOTA optical flow algorithms are restricted in what they can learn. And those restrictions are what makes convergence and unsupervised learning possible, because the problem by itself is very ill posed.
A bit off-topic: Is there an overview of OTP's design and usage patterns that assumes the reader has minimal Erlang knowledge? I have no Erlang experience, but I am interested in what makes OTP so revered.
Detecting Attackers from Within
0 Password, make password managers great again – never losing your password man
Attackers Ransom MongoDB Databases – Expert Commentary
Are these reformer/linformer mosty space-efficient or also inference-runtime improved?
in the context of this topic I am talking about evaluating people by github projects, so coding in private defeats the purpose. I can totally understand why companies look at github code. However, if I am looking for a new job, I may want to put something new there so it looks more appealing (now I have bunch of student code). However, it looks like legally I can't.

I guess you could call it portfolio building, but I personally don't see my GH as portfolio.
Finding correlations in time series data
I wish him well but AFAIK all struggles for independence ultimately boil down to military ability, regardless of any treaties and agreements.
Right. If a manager has no means of gauging the progress of those they're meant to manage, they can't do any managing, pretty much by definition.

From the article:

> Bossware typically lives on a computer or smartphone and has privileges to access data about everything that happens on that device.

It's a question of intrusiveness and granularity. Git commits are plainly not 'bossware'.

It's not wise for a manager to use git commits as their sole estimator of progress, but that's another question entirely.
My Notes on Martijn's 'Product Hunt Launch 101'
Eh, we have clay tablets thousands of years old that are just lists of things.
What is the point of starting the article with a very heavy loaded political message? Is it about using any opportunity to make a political statement or just bad journalism?
There's the reverse also, content companies introducing their own streaming.

At some point does this just result in streaming from the content producers directly regardless of how that came to be in any given case?
MASTER BOOT RECORD might scratch that itch.
"customer onboarding journey" sounds altogether twee for a major international bank. Banks are mattresses with insurance policies. Why is there even a journey to be broken?
The Internet Archive rewrites contents of scripts to inject the archive URLs. A better explanation than OP's clickbait is that someone went to the archive to copy/paste misplaced tracking code.
Like every compiled language :/
That occurred long after the point I am referring to.
"While ultimately nuclear weapons were never used for construction projects"

That's arguably untrue. Nuclear bombs were secretly placed under several high profile US skyscrapers for eventual demolition. Chicago Sears Tower, World Trade Towers 1 + 2 and such. Times were different then.
Side projects are icing. People live under different circumstances. One person may wish to spend their free time socializing when they’re done work. Another person may wish to spend that time doing these side projects.

If this made the difference between being hired by a company or not, this wouldn’t be the company I would choose to work for. I could only imagine the 24/7, always-on culture they’d have.
yes. My contract clarifies clearly "whether or not during working hours, whether or not using company's equipment". It could be difficult to enforce, but I wouldn't want to check.
Students built a 16th-century engineer’s book-reading machine
Animal testing is all over biochemistry and biology, is not just used for pharmaceutical and cosmetics testing. Many ground braking discoveries have been (and are still being made) via animal testing. There are whole subdisciplines that are based around animal testing like developmental or behavioural biology.

Though you can avoid it if you really want to, if you study biochemistry, you will learn how to do animal testing and are taught about all the ethics involved, how to do the testing in the most humane way, and how to avoid (or minimize) doing it in the first place if possible.

I've been going through the list of recent Nobel Prizes and the research for these involved animal testing: Nobel Prize for medicine 2018 (mice), 2017 (flys), 2014 (rats), 2012 (frogs, mice). Older research made before we had good tools to work with cell cultures, etc. will probably skew even more towards animal testing.
OneWeb announces HMG and Bharti Global Limited consortium as winning bidders
The author starts with

The data science world may reject me and my lack of both experience and a credential above a bachelors degree

More likely the data science world will reject him because he is so confident a field he has so little experience or knowledge of.

Data scientist is a profession rather than the name of an academic field. So data scientists' job is to solve practical problems. That involves a lot more than class assignments, and in some cases involves using machine learning to maximize predictive accuracy (because common ML models like gradient boosting capture interactions and non-linearities in a richer way than the GLM models the author is familiar with).

Their argument "that's a garbage model because we can't reasonably interpret underlying parameters," is replacing their personal criteria above what is needed to solve some problems.

They can blame it on only having bachelor's degree. But the real problem is the belief that a bachelor's degree taught them everything there is to know, and those in the DS field are ~ idiots who got lucky enough to be paid more.
That's an awfully false dichotomy and I'm also not sure you checked out the linked article.

I'm not a fan of whiteboard interview nonsense either. Probably for all the same reasons as you. Enough said there.

I also really life to see folks' side projects. I think they are a good substitute for work experience - if somebody doesn't have relevant professional experience in a field, but they've been doing it in their own time, that's good & impressive and should be rewarded. I've been hired myself partly on the strength of a large side project I did.

However, the linked article is about essentially demanding that hires have side projects, as a demonstration of their passion.

Rejecting folks on the basis of a lack of side projects is going to be at least as disastrous (in terms of throwing away people who'd be great at the job) as rejecting candidates who flunk a whiteboard test or silly logic problem... and for some of the same reasons. Specifically, neither of those things is necessarily similar to the thing you're actually hiring them to do.

There is an inverse correlation between "time a person has for side projects" and "the demands of their day job." The folks with the most time for side projects are the folks who are either underemployed or unemployed, or don't really do the whole "friends and family" thing outside of working hours.

Also -- and keep in mind I'm saying this as a big fan of side projects and following one's passions -- the act of following one's passion in one's spare time is profoundly different from getting shit done at a 9-to-5. The purpose of a day job is directly or indirectly make money for one's employer. Often that means doing shit one does not want to do. It is a grind, even in "cool" jobs that overlap with one's passions to a large degree.

In short, seems to me the gulf between "following your passions" and "actually getting shit done for your employer" is about as big as the gulf between "passing a whiteboard exam" and "actually getting shit done for your employer."
Closures are poor man's objects and vice versa (2010)
A $225k Launch with Neil Napier of KV Social
MIT has consistently high quality MOOCs. Here's a new philosophy course on edX (offered for the first time this year)
https://www.edx.org/course/moral-problems-and-the-good-life
I think it was spot on. Bureaucracies start with a good intention, then become self-serving, and then become viewed as the goal itself.

The problem is not that these people are not mapped, the problem is that you cannot participate in healthcare without being mapped.
The funny thing is, the reason I support surveillance and legislation against encrypted messaging (or at least a backdoor for law enforcement) is extremist groups like ANTIFA
Why? I don't know much about WASM, but surely it is better than the cobbled together monstrosity that is JavaScript.
HMG: Her Majesty's Government (of the United Kingdom)

Some previous commentary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23676307
One of the oldest moderated communities on the web is https://www.metafilter.com/
> I think it's possible that two people can want high-quality discussion and disagree with what high quality discussion is.

Without comment on any other substantive point, I think the simpler explanation is that people want high-quality discussion but don't necessarily know how to produce it. Even though they know quality discussion when they see it, there's no clear path to achieve that goal. (Hence all of the conflicting comments in this very discussion about the value of moderation policies!)

It's much like the idea of starting a restaurant with "my friends and I know what great food tastes like, so we should have no problem making it!"
"Table for 26 please."
"But there are only 13 of you."
"Yes, but we're all going to sit on the same side."
>over something that is likely a simple mistake by a fairly fresh or unskilled developer.

Either scenario is equally bad when it's a multi-billion dollar financial institution. It's a bank not some Wordpress site for local business.
Think about the thing you know best. Imagine an article about a challenging problem related to that thing. A person with almost no knowledge of that thing reads it and says, “Seems simple enough” and presents a solution. Are they likely to have overlooked something? Misunderstood the problem? Be unaware of the challenges in solving it?
One feature that has impressed me is that maps are exportable as SVG. This does comes in handy once in a while...
Removing funds from the OTF in combination with the EARN-IT act, and lately the LEAD act, will probably leave the US and the partly the world in shambles when it comes to security and privacy online. It seems like the current adminstration really wants to destroy our freedom and hand it to the oligarchs, the autocrats and the malicious tech monopolies worldwide.
This happens around the world. I previously worked closely with teams in India and someone told me that there's secret lineage books that track every born Indian so that higher castes can identify lower castes.

Explained a lot cause many of those promoted, didn't deserve it as much as others, who were probably in lower castes.
Facebook to shut down Lasso, its TikTok clone
What type of help do you need?