skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Traditionally, it’s a cardinal sin in academia to use parameters like these because you can’t say anything interesting about the parameters, but the trick in machine learning is that you don’t need to say anything about the parameters. In machine learning, your focus is on describing y-hat, not β-hat.

This kind of philosophy will cause future generations to see machine learning as something worse than a fad, almost as something in between a fad and crank science. If this encapsulates how all (generally speaking) machine learning operates then we will enter big trouble, if we have not already.

> In machine learning, bad results are wrong if they catastrophically fail to predict the future, and nobody cares much how your crystal ball works, they only care that it works.

This has moved from Cargo Cult Science into numeromancy. It's leveraging the occult (=hidden, incomprehensible parameters) for predicting the future. Because there exist no first principles, nothing can be further interpreted. Only more of the occult can be leveraged in order to make more predictions not amenable to interpretation, which will in turn require MORE occult to make MORE inscrutable predictions, until the heat death of the universe....

And appealing to 80's AI (neural networks) as case precedence further harms the author's case. If ML operates like how AI neural network technology went, then this whole rigamole will go tits up by case precedence as well.
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Point is it seems he did it after they kept following him and trying to get him to do it, it seems the guys in the other car even did it first to try to get him to mimic it.

And that is before we talk about the problem with firing someone over this in the first place.

Context is important.

I have had to tell my kids more than once that when an elderly person use their middle finger to point at something it isn't offensive because they grew up in a time when it didn't matter. That elderly person sure doesn't mean "F* you" as they are pointing their middle finger horizontally towards something while saying "look there".

In fact I think we all do something every single day that would be considered offensive by someone at some point.
Yes, it is matter of which JVM implementation gets used, and what configuration switches it offers.
Hello, author here. I have tested Guietta on two different macs (mine and a coworker's) and it worked in both cases. There is no variable called 'loader' in Guietta's source code. Are you trying the example in the github readme, or a custom script? Which MacOS version? If you wrote your own script.py, could you please copy it into a github issue?
Yes please, an API!

Also there's a recurring theme/running gag on NTS Radio that it's faster to find releases on Bandcamp through Google than through the internal search. I've witnessed several times that linking to releases is crowdsourced to the NTS chat because the DJs can't find it fast enough.

And they are pushing Bandcamp a lot, with whole shows dedicated solely to music available on Bandcamp. Mostly on the "no-fee fridays".

So an improved search or an API to enable external discovery tools would be great!
I didn't mean it's simple at all! but that most work is done using statistics.
If I develop an app that uses openstreetmap do I need to pay a subscription to be able to download the map tilesets etc?
The answer is crowd sourcing. Everything one person creates or modifies needs to be voted on by multiple people. After x votes and y percent in favour of the change it‘s visible to everyone. The x and y numbers could change depending on the user‘s reputation etc.

Think of it like the stack overflow „tasks“ you are asked to do all the time: review this question, do this, do that ...
I'm an OSM contributor and general map geek so I find it interesting to find unmapped areas. But the language used in this article seems unfortunate. For example:

> People are living and dying without appearing on any database.

What if they don't want to appear on any database? The motivations given later seem laudable, but it troubles me that it should be considered wrong simply to not appear on any database. Probably not what was meant, but it sounds like it.

> It's shameful that we - as cartographers of the world - don't take enough interest to even know where they are.

Shameful? Like, I should be ashamed of myself for mapping my local area, where I live and walk every day, rather than travelling to remotest Africa and mapping there? Again, I'm sure this isn't what was meant, but that is literally what it says.

When reading further down the article it seems more sensible: giving the locals the tools and training needed to map the areas themselves. I'm just getting really sick of the ongoing narrative that says a) we should be ashamed of being born in a developed country and b) all other places on earth need to develop just like us.
It's not that "simple" at all.

Just one example:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/colin-kaepernick-socks/
This is a great post. Pasteboards and snips are so powerful.
Unfortunately the approximations are not that great, requiring you to route all your network traffic through an unknown company.
In some instances they could [as could additional fuel burn from takeoff and airport landing costs] but airlines have done the maths. Flying hours also count towards mandatory overhauls and part replacement/retirement, and in the case where the airframe is due to hit its hours limit first, the extra takeoff cycles aren't going to make any difference.

Fuel burn is also usually the largest component of expenditure, and is especially likely to be when looking at elderly freighters with low capital costs and relatively inefficient engines
Interesting take to interpret "Like" button widgets as wiretapping.

Also interesting that Facebook is the bad guy here instead of the actual side owner including the widget. I mean without everyone including those scripts on their side, Facebook did not have the opportunity to receive such information.
Euro isn’t a reserve currency because of absence of true military powers and dependable justice system that is overly complicated and fragmented to the whims of individual countries. Further, Euro is always risk of countries leaving it and weakening its strength and future. China is still far from developing military powers and world cannot trust that reserve currency won’t be manipulated outright. So, no, there are no real options right now to provide the same economic service.
JPMorgan drops terms “blacklist,” “master” and “slave” from internal materials
black sorts alphabetically, with standard lib first, then 3rd party imports, and user/local imports last. Blocks are separated by a blank line. `from ..` imports come after `import ..`.

Especially the alphabetic ordering is important in my view. Makes parsing/reading and spotting duplicates much easier. It is also PEP8 style [0].

For all these reasons, I think the pyramid style is awful in comparison.

0: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#imports
Technically people who did not take the drug are a control group. It's just not placebo controlled. (Which is quite a big no. Unless there's a known working treatment, which should be used as the control then.)

The big question is, how well randomized are these, and what's the effect size - could be suspiciously small.

If it's not randomized at all, the results do not necessarily show the drug is good - just that it's given to healthier patients.
You can try to reduce such artifact by considering matching reference subgroups.
It's not an uncommon occurrence in case of disputes.

China has kept its ancient love for ink stamps and seals.

Any sort of document gets stamped over there and that confers an immediate sense of validity and power to the document. I am sure that you can show up somewhere with a document signed by Xi Jingping in person only to be told "yes but it's not stamped."
It depends.

In the outskirts of Lübeck, Germany, Google tried to tell me to walk through a private company area with a gate. OSM not only knew about this, it had far (far, far) more details about everything.

In Waterkloof Heights, Pretoria, South Africa OSM was roughly 7 years out of date and had barely any information even then.
I've found that single-player games often have shockingly nice communities on Reddit.

r/EnterTheGungeon and r/AceCombat were two great ones. I say "were" only because they (naturally) become sort of semi-dormant because those games haven't seen major releases in a while, so discussion has petered out. r/Xcom is pretty strong!

It's hit or miss, but a lot of "niche" hobbies have really good subreddits. I recently got into watches and subreddits like r/Casio and r/Seiko are fun and supportive. Not exactly deep discussion, because there's only so much you can say about a watch, but they are fun.

There are some decent audio-related subreddits. I'm a mod at r/budgetaudiophile and we try to be as helpful as possible who are dipping their toes into the hobby, though I'm not too active over there these days.

I haven't found any solid tech-related subreddits, ever. Though, I haven't looked too hard I suppose.
There was a decline for sure, here in London I noticed hiring has almost completely stopped for 2-3 months during the lockdown. Now it's starting to pick up again from my observation but it might take long time before job market is back to normal. By September it should be much better already imho.
You did say "Not to mention the scumbaggery of leeching bandwidth from a not-for-profit", which is attributing poor motive and character. Even without that, your general tone is scathing and accusing, over something that is likely a simple mistake by a fairly fresh or unskilled developer.
Broadly speaking, who wouldn't be prepared to die on the hill of language, humor, and various other things like perhaps which god you're allowed to believe in, that make up pretty fundamental aspects of human life?
I have no idea what this site is, but it won't load for me, at all - I just get a spinning circle for a few minutes. Ublock Origin doesn't claim to be blocking anything, so I don't know what's going on.
It is super obvious that far more people have been fired for championing leftist opinions and causes (living wages, workers' safety, unions) than for being republican/racist/islamophobic.

(Though I am not sure that the right wing dominates societal discourse like you say.)
Actually I started to develop Guietta exactly because using the QT GUI builder (Qt designer) was often too time consuming for simple applications.

Designer works great for GUIs with complex layouts. Having an intermediate XML representation puts a lot of distance between your code and your GUI. Sometimes this is good, other times is not. I rant a bit about this at the start of the introduction: https://guietta.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html
The main reason for numpy’s speed is that it uses highly optimized code written in another language (for matrix multiplications, quite possibly FORTRAN).
"Typical statistics work is to use a known good model and estimate its parameters. [...] For statistics, the parameters are your bread and butter" Ever heard of non-parametric statistics?

"For machine learning, they are the afterthought to be automated away with lots of GPU power." You seem to reduce statistics to undergraduate statistics and machine learning to Deep Learning.

"A well-designed ML model can have competitive performance with randomly initialized parameters, because the structure is far more important than the parameters. In statistics, random parameters are usually worthless." This is blatantly false see Frankle & Carbin, 2019 on the lottery ticket hypothesis.
On the bright side, there's a marked increased in remote jobs.
Have you heard of prohibition? Been there don’t be that. Didn’t work.
Show HN: A TypeScript/JavaScript financial library for Node.js, Deno and browser
There is no validation team, however everyone can check the latest edits [1]. If there's a developed community in a location, say someone in your city, you can validate it yourself. Someone can use Notes feature [2] and report that the street has inaccurate information - by linking to some photo proof.

Thankfully many (not all, like POI) edits can be checked via satellite imagery [3], of which OSM has permission to use many - global ones being Bing, Maxar, Esri, Mapbox. With so much sources of imagery, the update rate is acceptable for most places.

All in all, the result is not as bad as you'd expect. From normal people I hear that OSM is "very accurate" (at least here in Europe). Oddly enough, nobody says anything about blatantly fake info, which indeed does very rarely slip, but apparently gets reverted.

Now as I am thinking, there is "validation team" of sorts, that's Mapbox data team, which uses OSMCha [4] to flag suspicious changesets and checks them (albeit not by physically going there).

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Quality_assurance#Monito...

[2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Notes

[3] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Aerial_imagery

[4] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSMCha
Oof, that’s not a pretty read for DDG. So now what!?

Often I look at people around me who are blissfully unaware of data mining etc. and feel envious. It’s tiring.
hmm me thinks ya business model should have absorbed this and turned it into revenue?
Interesting to see an interactive Fortran as I started with Fortran in my first Job - on my first day I was told there is a book in the company library go and learn Fortran

For the really big Fortran systems I worked on in the 1980's (Map Reduce) the edit compile / link process could take several minutes for a single module - we did have a build system written in JCL to help automate this as well.
OSM is a dataset. That's free and open.
There are different tile servers (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_servers) but they each have a different policy (https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/)

In a nutshell: you can't just use them in production for your app. Development shouldn't be a problem.

What you're talking about is precisely the commercial service that Mapbox offers. OSM (+ some extra stuff).

Alternatively, you're free to spin up your own tile server. That way you don't pay anyone else (but you pay your server).
I honestly rarely have seen this happen.

For one example, the Sacramento Kings lead broadcaster lost his job (and apparently his career) for tweeting "All Lives Matter".
Just learn SQL. Please!
By copying Zoom's logo & UI https://inc42.com/buzz/reliances-jiomeet-ridiculed-at-launch...
Type-Safe Single Page Apps: Is F# Ready for Prime Time?
Neural supersampling for real-time rendering
People who truly think this is any useful kind of metric are probably the ones who think # lines of code written = productive work. Or, as Bill Gates put it so nicely, they are measuring the progress on the aircraft by its weight.
Very nice to see Bandcamp here. As it so reminds me, I have some ambient tracks on Soundcloud that I made during a really crazy trip over here in the pandemics. If any fellow hackers would like to listen, here. Would these be interesting in bandcamp?
https://soundcloud.com/nidnogg
Awesome that they went through the trouble of building the models and doing the tests. Resources well spent!
And with KDE Connect, the Youtube videos automatically pause then you get a call and resume immediately after the call ended.
Interesting but I got eternal salvation or double my money back plus more hedonism with the subgenius’.
If you get around to test it, I would love to hear the results :)
this reads like something 5 or 6 years old
I use to point out that I'm not even hiding it from the local police, today. Police here are OK.

I'm hiding it from:

- a future where the nazis or another totalitarian party wins the election

- future corrupt police personnel

- other countries intelligence (not everything I say might be compatible with doing work in North Korea/China/Israel/Saudi Arabia/Turkey (edit: added Turkey, I don't plan to go there in my holiday anyway)

- Leaks from police IT systems

And then I point to Turkey who went from approaching membership in EU to human rights hostile dictatorship in two years.
Because of the OSM data model, changes can't be really held in "unaccepted" state. One would run into editing conflicts[1].

On Wikipedia withholding edits until review works in some language versions [2], but because Wikipedia pages are "atoms" that stand on their own, they have it easier.

[1] https://learnosm.org/en/josm/josm-conflict-resolution/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Flagged_revisions/Si...
That's probably because this is not the original, but a contemporary copy. There are no halos visible on this high resolution image of the original. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/The_Last...
Ask HN: Zürich – Salary, Life and Things Worth Knowing?
I have recently been considering trying to find a job in Zürich. I have visited the city a few times on business trips in the past but not enough to really get to know it. For those of you that have lived in Zürich what is it like? What is a good daily rate for a contractor? What is a good salary for a permanent employee position? I have heard that the local Swiss people are hard to befriend, how do you go about finding new friends? I am a U.S. and Polish citizen, what types of work permits should I be looking at? What are good areas to live in and what does the rent look like? What are good job hunting websites? What has your experience been like with job agencies? I am a data warehouse contractor at the moment and would like to continue in this role. If there is anything else you think I should know please mention it.
No, but you can consider donating and if your app is popular, you should probably switch to a commercial tileserver such as mapbox.

https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/
Sure, I get it. LinkedIn's email plugin thing was a security nightmare. But in this case, the code is right there!

Take a step back and look at the entire forest: The outrage is over an app accessing data specifically designed to be shared across applications. That's what Copy fundamentally means- make this thing globally available to all my programs. You can poll pbpaste/xsel in your terminal and generate a log of the clipboard buffer without any privileges. Does this mean an untrustworthy app could, in theory, snoop your plaintext password copied from a password manager? Sure, but that's a separate discussion.

Ask yourself, does it make sense to implement clipboard snooping in a way that polls the pasteboard on every keystroke while an input form remains in focus? No, that's weird, there's obvious bug stench. LinkedIn may be nefarious, but defaulting to instant outrage and lack of critical thinking is the real concern here.
The crusades killed around 3 million. Can we ban the cross as well from everywhere? Please?

The Mao era probably around 75 million. Lets ban any symbol related to them (sickle and hammer, red flags, etc).

(ps: I am not in favor of the swastika, just don't like how a symbol can be used for thousands of years, hijacked by some pricks, and now everyone can't use it anymore, and the people that have an emotional connection to it have to censor themselves. Also, isn't the buddhist one reversed from the Nazi one? Mirrored? Which makes it even worse as you are using a similar but not exactly the same symbol and ignorant folks can't spot the difference)
The NYC officers action wasn't even considered a crime, it was that case that finally forced a law change stating people in custody can't consent. Their names being released isn't much of an issue, one of them shares a name with Moby.

Anna Chambers may not have been threatened with arrest, but her name was dragged through the mud by the tabloids, and is likely still at risk from police retribution.

The two are not identical, but the differences do not give any moral high ground to the US.

US cops committing a crime and arresting the victim is also commonplace. Search for any instance of planting evidence or any of a score of incidents from these protests.
Anyone from BarclaysUK internal (IT) audit team reading this? I wonder what your scope is when you run audits on your webs...
Also.. that vulnerability scanner and pentester.. what kind of reports do they issue that they don't mention this JS source??
The culture of backlash from the public is causing free speech to be threatened. Both are true.
Yes, I was inspired by PySimpleGUI (and say as much in the introduction: https://guietta.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html ). But I felt that PySimpleGUI did not go far enough in making things simple. It also supports multiple backends, so that may be a reason to keep things more structured. Guietta is just a thin wrapper over QT.
Same here. It finally loaded when I went to the main page first and then back to the post itself.
This is surreal.
Then proceeds to get ridiculed for copying Zoom logo & UI blatantly https://inc42.com/buzz/reliances-jiomeet-ridiculed-at-launch...
Your morality is bankrupt
Apple has it's 'rigorous' app approval process, why is this not found in there? I've gotten rejected for all kinds of stuff. But I guess they are not doing any quality checks on the apps during this approval process?

Here I've justified the $100 yearly developer fees in that they have this rigorous checks, but apparently they're not really checking the apps?

This is apple failing us, nothing else.
Note that this is a copy by Giampietrino, a pupil of Leonardo, not the original mural in Milan. For comparison, here's a high resolution version of the original: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/The_Last....
Ask HN: How do you deal with social isolation while working from home?
Hey HN,

I've been working from home the last couple of months due to the Covid-19 lockdown. In the beginning, it was great. Being able to wake up and pretty much start working 5 minutes later, having my own kitchen/toilet close by, etc. However, I quickly started to miss the small everyday interactions with my co-workers.

That made me wonder, what solutions do you have in place to compensate for the social aspect of working in an office?

For example, while not perfect, I have found that just starting a call with a colleague without anything specific to talk about feels better than just hacking away on my own.
They where created more or less in the same "old days"

Erlang is from 1986, BEAM from 1991-1992
Is the Grammatical Framework something like the thing you are imagining?
That is a fair point. A good script would be to move towards this scenario of more data than RAM and see what the candidate comes up with.
This version is oil paint on canvas, whereas Leonardo’s version was painted in tempera and oil on a dry wall – an unusual use of materials – so has flaked and deteriorated badly. It probably didn’t help that Napoleon used the original Last Supper’s room as a stable during his invasion of Milan. This painting is thought to have been painted by Giampietrino and possibly Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio – both pupils of Leonardo. It’s believed to be the most accurate record of the original, and has been used to help with its conservation.

In this copy you can see details now not visible in the original, such as this overturned salt-cellar next to Judas’s right arm. Spilled salt was commonly considered a bad omen in 16th-century western Europe. You can also see Jesus’s feet, which were lost in the original when a door was built into the wall that the work is painted on.