skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet...

I'm all in for nuclear, once we know how to get rid of the waste products.

It's never been about reactor safety, we have a storage problem, that hasn't been solved yet. Without that we're just slithering into the next "waste product that we don't know how to get rid of" cycle.

Also even if we had solved it, it's too late to go nuclear now.
The next 20 years will be crucial when it comes to stopping climate change. We simply don't have the time to waste 7.5 years on building new reactors. What we need to do is ramp up the production of existing tech to the max. It's much easier to scale the current renewable production capacity horizontally than scale vertically with nuclear.
I'm not suggesting that Reuters is lying; I would trust them if they claimed to have evidence of Google's/Facebook's involvement. I'm just complaining about their weasel words like "backed", which could be interpreted in a variety of ways.
Interestingly enough, Japan has a crazy amount of rail crossings, including smack in the middle of busy districts like Shibuya in Tokyo where the gates are down for the majority of the hour; yet they seem to have less fatal accidents than peers. I wonder what's driving the difference there?
I became aware of Hancock by listening to the Our Fake History podcast series about him and his claims:

https://ourfakehistory.com/index.php/season-4/episode-78-who...

The impression I got is... not good, to to say the least.
A very good article, although I think the deeper point that isn't really said explicitly is essentially how scientists (physicists in particular) are often too fond of their models and forget that they are idealizations of the real world. Whether a system really is isolated (they never are) is a serious contingency scientists often forget, but we can extend this to essentially forgetting the applicability of all hosts of accepted theory. This point of view has been called reductionism by some philosophers, and it has value in some cases but tends to overestimate the complexity of the real world.

It's important to remember that all models are approximations.
I just realized the point is to show values above 100%, but yes that leading 0 for hundreds sounds like a bad UX choice
Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One) Paperback – by A. D. Aleksandrov, A. N. Kolmogorov, M. A. Lavrent’ev

The best book.
I'll give it another look, thanks for letting me know!
He does make persuasive arguments about existence of human civilization during younger dryas period (Gobekli Tepe happens to be one of his major evidence for this) but he tends to emphasise or deemphasise their sophistication depending on the kind of audience he is talking to. This is where he loses me. He tries to make much more reasonable claims when he is on mainstream shows like JRE, but he tends to get a lot more hyperbolic when speaking to his core audience.
It is only boring if you do it the boring way.

If the data cleaning is follows standard patterns, you should already have scripts to offload that kind of work to. If not, then there some incredibly interesting decisions hidden underneath. Like in text: Should character casing be preserved ? What should be the unit of representation (word/character) ? How should data be filtered: Quality vs quantity trade-off ?

All of those are non-trivial questions which involve a lot of thought to reason through. You are correct that the modelling is only a small part of DS's day to day job.

But, the rest of it is boring in the same way that coding is boring. It is doesn't involve some grand epiphanies or discoveries, but there is joy similar to the daily grind of "code -> get bug/ violate constraints -> follow trace/problem -> figure a sensible solution" that a lot of software engineers love.
There were no mods added by force by the admins.
The little LISPer is the book I wish I encountered junior/senior year. For someone coming from more of a traditional math/logic education than anything else, it would have been nice to have that introduction to thinking about computation before classes in C.
I recently began emailing my 20,000 (confirmed opt in) member newsletter list twice a week instead of once. I view the slight bump in unsubscribes as a benefit; these are presumably people who weren’t particularly interested in what I had to say in the first place.

Frankly I would rather that they unsubscribe versus filtering the newsletter to a folder where it never gets read.
Well, somebody's reading Sapiens I guess :D
Triso particles have safety features that may power a new generation of reactors
I sure hope so! But in all seriousness I don't think those two points conflict per se; they both say, "...advertising is not very worthwhile..." which kind of nails what's going on. The ground under our feet has changed. The audience by-and-large is fragmented, jaded, fickle, fed up, and has no money.

Fed up for the last 5 years hearing about scandal after scandal, outrage after outrage...

Fragmented for about the last 5-10 years, ever since we figured out the "long tail" and how to cater to everybody's unique interests. There is no longer anything approximating a place where everybody goes/is; hence there's not even a consensus anymore about what reality is, which is a related & tangential issue.

Has no money, well that's more of a continuum... either you do or you don't, but every year a larger number of people don't, and are too broke to be in the market for whatever product.

Jaded with advertising in general ever since probably the Boomers were in their 20s, and moreso when Gen X were teenagers.

Jaded with online advertising ever since the 90s when it became clear ads were going to follow us into what everybody thought was going to be a new online world.

Fickle since the dawn of time.
I'm undecided on whether it would have been a good idea, but could you have reset the password (since it's your email), logged in, and deleted the account from there?
This will fall on deaf ears, but if you have to title a note, it's not a Zettelkasten.
Surely your joking Mr Feinman. I was a child prodigy eons ago and wished I read that when I was a teen.
This could be seriously addressed with a configurable rule system similar to email filters + search. You have to store any of the metadata factors you want to consider in a companion index that can allow complex filtering or decision tree splits, then for introspection of SQL-like data sources, you can follow key and type relationships to determine what’s joinable.

Perhaps outputting several potential answers at the end, each explaining the “pathway” it chose to use (filters / decision tree splits + graphical path through keys / joinable types in the underlying data), and allow the user to select one or more results that they believe are valid pathways of criteria, or perhaps tweak individual filters and joins in the listed pathway for a given result.

I think this would offer a lot more value than trying to get a full natural language interface that “just works” on complex filtering conditions, where getting just one answer back (instead of seeing the variety of pathways the system could choose and what influence each step has on the end result) entails too many cases the ML system fails with unrealistic results.
As a bonus, replacing them also increases line capacity and reliability. The level crossing down the road from me closes something like every three minutes at peak times; any issues cause delays.
Your argument fails to address my point that when you're willingly exposing yourself like that you're exposing others who had no clue or idea to it as well.

Again, you're arguing to take away other people's freedoms because you can't make the token effort to try and reduce spread yourself. Because wearing a mask is about people who are sick taking measures to prevent others from getting sick, not about those who are at risk trying to avoid the virus.

Your example of grandma is an equivalent. She's doing something dangerous and then impacting other people around her that have no choice.
I think you mean Esperanto?
He's being downvoted for making blatantly false claims.

Yours are no better. Romania and Serbia aren's seeing "spikes", they're having a second wave that looks like it will very soon eclipse the first. Sweden's case numbers haven't actually stopped growing. Germany, which had one of the highest case numbers for a long time now had a spike with 1300 cases in a single meat factory. Many other countries have stable low case numbers, which means that they're fine at their current level of containment measures, but could easily see a second wave hit quickly if they undo those measures. I don't think there's any European country with case numbers low enough that they could safely rely on contact tracing alone - South Korea tried that, with the result that they went from single-digit daily case numbers back to mid-double digits. The problem is that in crowded indoor conditions, you get "superspreading" events that can completely destroy all the progress made over months of containment.
> Google care very much about the complete and utter ubiquity of their search.

Google doesn't even need Mozilla to increase/maintain their search market share. When Firefox's default search engine was changed to Yahoo! in the U.S., many users switched back to Google [1]. Also, people who care about privacy use things such as DuckDuckGo anyway.

[1] https://searchengineland.com/report-yahoo-search-losing-fire...
Thanks for explaining! It sounds like you have a strong process going.

> I do create a new text file each time, although it's sort of arbitrary what I group.
It's great that you do what works for you without obsessing. Too often people chase after a rigid/"perfect" system and that's just not realistic.

In my experience, the more modular you can go (without it stopping your flow), the better. Because it'll be easier in that organize step.

I've found that by thinking about my raw notes as a chat with myself, I'm able to increase the modularity without hurting my flow.
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Project ASLAN launches open-source self-driving software platform
There were definitely more cities which were coastal that disappeared as soon as the sea level rose several tens of meters.
>> This is best illustrated by Reagan's phrase...

> This is an idea often trotted out in these discussions but then you should ask how regions of the country such as California...

...of which Reagan was a governor.
discussion not worth having.

the right thing was done, changes accepted, code merged. let's move on. btw: i have a copy of the first edition of strunk & white.
If this is meant to be sarcasm, you should probably be a bit more obvious about it.
Modern critical thinking definitely owes a lot to critical theory. The ability to look at statements from the government and think about the ways in which the statement might mislead or outright lie is directly tied to the original climate of the Frankfurt School.

Typically, we refute philosophical positions by some sort of evidence. Without evidence, there's only opinions, and those are cheap and limitless. Indeed, in this very thread, basically all of the links and evidence have come from only one side. The only claims you've made with any substance are about phrenology and "millenials" in "institutions". I tackled the former; the latter is easily handled by remembering that critical theory started as an academic endeavor, and never really has been foreign to higher education. Although, as I describe this latter position, I'm reminded of the belief in the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory. I don't know why people believe this; Marxists are pretty open about studying labor and power, and the fact that critical theory is a decades-long multidisciplinary research movement rather than a single meeting would suggest that it is not hiding some cryptic agenda.

It sounds like you think that critical theory ought not exist at all, but we would have to remove an entire score of history and philosophy from our discourse in order to do so; you'd have to prevent the First World War somehow. See [0] for a reasonable introduction to the Frankfurt School and critical theory. You might also like the second and third videos from the playlist [1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g5_tuXwOUg

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbAN...
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right. if "a simple mistake by a fairly fresh or unskilled developer" got through, then there was a grave mistake by whoever was supervising them.
Yeah but a cat doesn't power 400-4000 households.

Yeah we are ruining the planet, but the "wind turbines kill birds" thing is FUD spread by the fossil lobby.

The alternative to wind turbines is more climate change which kills an insane amount of birds in comparison.
Hey nice work! Any plans for responsive/mobile optimized format?
I really wish these knowledge base-type apps that have been popping up, like this and Obsidians would use preexisting Markdown and Multimarkdown syntax for links and link references rather than inventing and leaning on their own bits of syntax that aren't usable with other tooling. The whole [[double bracket link]] thing in particular is a pain when none of the cross-referencing supports standard Markdown links between files.
Do you seriously think that all business decisions are based on economic greed? Some people do have values and morality and integrity.
This is probably better than nothing, but it is amazing how often cars get stuck in them.
I wonder whether watching porn is an activity or substance.
Fair enough. HN isn't Reddit, if it needs to be said.

Also I've found there's a knack to promoting your game on Reddit and you may have been a bit too forward. From what I recall it works if you take time to figure out what tone and explanation works. I feel there's a tutorial out there somewhere about how to market well on social media. Myself I'm not an expert.

Also Reddit mods can be petty little tyrants. I'm sorry one traumatized you so.
There is a great article out there about the difference between the strength of compulsion and the strength of physical side effects. The two are not linked. That is, one drug may have horrible withdrawal effects, but cause relatively weak compulsion to continue using. Another drug may cause extremely strong compulsion to use and have no withdrawal symptoms at all.

The idea that addiction only actually exists when there are physical withdrawal symptoms is just wrong, and it is a very harmful wrong belief.
Reddit has an open API, with a rich ecosystem of third-party apps. If the website annoys you, there are plenty of high-quality alternatives.
The Olympics doesn't currently include any competition fully controlled by a corporation. Why would you want to introduce this?
Actually, the more experience I get, the more I think Joel was wrong. Like anything in software, I've had the experience that there are good ways and bad ways to do rewrites. Start with the reasoning for doing it:

Bad reasons: "The code is messy", "It's written in language foo while all the cool kids are using language bar these days", "It's slow".

Good reasons: "The architecture is too tightly coupled now and it won't scale without untangling major pieces anyway", "The lack of our forward velocity is directly related to problem XYZ in the code, and here is how a new architecture would fix that."

In other words, I feel like I can sniff out bad rewrites now, which are generally lack a sense of focus and a true, enumerated list of problems with the current code base. Good rewrites have clearly delineated benefits that the rewrite will bring, stuff that brings measurable value, and show that the rewrite will bring things better and more cheaply than what's possible with the current codebase.
> some developers are betting that empty malls can mix housing with stores and community space.

it was developers and city councils who caused this mess in the first place.

no one wanted to separate home and work / business / industry.

no one except developers and auto manufacturers.
Seems interesting. Excited to see if they can succeed at their goal of persuasion.

It's getting to the point where there's nowhere to hide for people too cowardly to speak their minds; there is no hobby, no workplace, no community in North America where you can escape the cultural revolution and be left alone. Every retreat is an assault, each capitulation is friendly fire.

It is time to fight with your words, and fight to win, so you don't have to do the other thing.
It's all substance eventually right? the activity causes your body to produce excessive amounts of something addictive.
Basically? It's a bunch of people fed up with the high arbitrary BS that characterize American attempts at firearm regulation. At least that was how it started.

When you start getting ridiculousness like coat hangers and shoelaces labelled as machine guns, having to play "Mother May I?" with a federal agency to not lose your right to vote, having the exercise of your Constitutional rights locked behind a tax stamp (in the same manner as a poll tax) and increasingly being on the butt of every moral-panic induced attempt at having your Constitutionally established right undermined through weasel wording by the Supreme Court and an abject refusal by the same court to hear any cases that would make inroads on restoring those rights...

Well... Ya start to notice patterns. Like how the same thing happens with the first, the fourth, the fifth, the tenth...

Long story short it was a fantasy scenario concocted as a response to a hypothetical erosion of civil rights/breakdown in the overall political situation of the United States that would qualify as an instance of "Shit Hitting the Fan" (SHTF) that would justify the seemingly irrational stockpiling of weapons and ammunition.

It's been targeted, because it's a convenient boogeyman, it's nebulous, and it's being taken seriously by a bunch of people who don't understand the lost art of not taking everything you read on the Internet too seriously.

Plus, it's fun to say, and the Hawaiian shirts+tacticool are peak aesthetic.

Boogaloo itself comes from an older meme, <something> 2:Electric Boogaloo being an obligatory stand-in for a senseless sequel. Which fits for how the media is trying to portray the goal of people who know what the term means.

In the firearm community, there is generally a vein of dedication that liberty from draconian firearm regulation shouldn't come from the barrel of a gun, but by popular acceptance that the tool itself isn't evil, even if there are people who do evil things with it, and if the community could just do a better job at reaching out and explaining how firearms work, and the ridiculousness of the current vein of firearm regulations, the world (as experienced by firearms enthusiasts) would be a much better place.

Generally, the people in the community are avid theorycrafters, lovers of all things military, history buffs, engineers, degenerate hunters, etc.

Do you maybe have some unsavory elements taking things way too seriously? Probably. The irrationality of those hypothetical bad apples is only matched by those that think this is newsworthy.

Then again, as one of those who has actually picked through the net in search of hard to find nuggets of oral-ish history, I may be somewhat desensitized to the sense of controversy and alarm anything related to it inspires in people. Persistence in the face of obscenity and atrocity are generally used as a form of litmus test to determine whether or not someone is genuinely looking into the more unpleasant depths of reality for that nugget of understanding they're looking for.

Don't ask what it is I'm looking for that keeps me digging. I probably lost track of it years ago, and know now only that I must dig.
> Maintaining a browser engine is no easy task

Reverting anti-adblocker changes doesn't require that many resources.
Flashpoint 8.1 Out Now
Worth noting that regardless of any racial or otherwise overtones to Strunk and White, professional linguists and grammarians consider it to be garbage advice and this commit ends up being a sensible route.

e.g. This from Geoffrey K. Pullum, who has railed upon this particular dead horse many times, https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=15509

> Virtually nothing useful about English grammar can be learned from Strunk. Setting aside a few standard conventions of punctuation, which barely deserve to be called part of the grammar, the grammatical claims Strunk makes are foolish assertions
What I would do in your situation is try to measure the incremental value of future messages, the likelihood that a given message causes an unsubscribe, and the value of the current message to come up with a good balance.

For a small list like this, it may mean separating users into two segments:

* Actively engaged, send them a weekly update

* Not engaged, only send them big new announcements.

Marketers tend to look at link clicks, email opens (measured via embedded images), and engagement with the actual product (if you have it) for segmentation like this.
I mean, you could say that of practically any safety rule. "Sure, some people die of cholera, but most don't, so continue dumping the sewage into the drinking water".
Calculus by M.Kline would be not a bad start. For a broad (yet detailed) overview, Mathematics by Aleksandrov et al. is exceptional.
I run a small business where my website generates my main income. So if I make the wrong choice here it's all on me. But I don't think it's that young in web-cycle terms.
https://maps.google.se/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tetekn.com%2F
Isn’t this elasticsearch’s fault?
I got slightly side-tracked when you said "we mean" and I wanted to clarify if you meant "the people having this discussion in this thread".

But I actually made the point:

Supplementary insurance is conceptually different, by definition, from comprehensive private health insurance which provides alternative coverage for what is already covered within the public healthcare system.

Maybe I could have added for more clarity:

And that's what the person you replied to means with "very few people have private health care in Europe, at least in the UK".
I don't like the dark pattern at the beginning where it collects your email.
Also the first page doesn't seem compelling.
The blogpost should be the first page and the email collection should be at the bottom so I know what this is all about.
A colleague of mine pointed out that a key part of making something like this look good is controlling the brightness of the display to track the ambient light level. This problem is also faced by digital photo frames... and most of them are awful at it. The recent (?) Google frame, though, gets it uncannily correct and it is amazing how much this helps the illusion of being a "real object" and not just a screen hanging on the wall.