skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, just spam HN every day?
> But, as a business person, you should pay the lowest amount you possibly can while maintaining the level of quality you require. People who live in LCOL areas are more likely to accept a lower bid to do the same amount of work, which opens the pool of labor up enormously for a lower price point.

Wow, that hurts. You treat all your employees as slaves? What about investing in people to produce better quality and commitment?

I always thought that it is better to have one Gilfoyle who can afford a new Lamborghini every month no matter where he lives, than having 50 miserable copies, because someone wants to save a few pennies. And guess what? At the end they cost you more...
Yeah, thanks. I wondered what had happened to the doorway below Jesus. :)
Are you even watching all that crap? Or is it just that you want a huge collection of media to choose from?

I'm almost exclusively renting, at this point. Decent selection and it comes out cheaper.
I uninstalled the Linkedin app like 30 minutes after first trying it a couple years ago because it was bombarding me with useless notifications.

Then on the Microsoft purchase they redid their site in some crap javascript framework that keeps reloading elements and is 3x as slow as the previous version of the site.

I didn't even assume malice when i read the article title, i assumed incompetence.
In big C++ project, your number one problem to solve is likely C++ build times and how it eats your dev productivity.
That was my (native British English) reading of the English too - it's just that GP's quote clips the context.
These days you don't use the older Fortran'isams Arithmetic IF's for example and I suspect no one uses BLOCK DATA any more.

But Backwards compatibly is important here as there is a lot of legacy code still in use - yes I know arithmetic if has finally been removed.
We use Dockbooker for technical documentation: https://github.com/l3nz/dockbooker and has been working well for a number of years. Builds PDF, EPUB and chunked-html very easily.
The title is accurate and does not make assumptions about intent. Even as an accident, it is still using the Internet Archive as a CDN.
At the time (1948), media meant, like physical things. That you could publish in print or in newspaper.

Even then however, the UDHR doesn't imply that a particular newspaper must publish your view, only that you have the right to publish a newspaper.

Similarly, twitter need not publish you. You're free to create a twitter competitor though (and people have)!
The author appears to misunderstand the main difference between statistics and ML. Let me cite him:

> my gut reaction is to barf when someone says “teaching the model” instead of “estimating the parameters.”

Typical statistics work is to use a known good model and estimate its parameters. Typical machine learning work is to think back from what task you want it to learn and then design a model that has a suitable structure for learning it.

For statistics, the parameters are your bread and butter. For machine learning, they are the afterthought to be automated away with lots of GPU power.

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.
Ask HN: What are your concerns about Apple's app distribution exclusivity?
I’m a design postgraduate student writing a paper about Apple’s exclusive control over app distribution for iOS devices and it’s effects for app development projects (from the designer and developer perspective, and also business standpoint).

I've done a previous research and identified the following main topics:

- Monopoly arguments (by developers)
- Antitrust Lawsuits (in the U.S. and Europe)
- Abusive or Problematic App Store review process (and rejections)
- In-App purchase policy (and it's controversies)
- "Sherlocking" (by Apple)
- User Safety & Privacy allegations (to justify Apple's walled garden)
- "If you want third party stores, don't buy an iPhone. You can always choose Android..." premisse

Could you list your concerns or share your experience with the App Store ecosystem that can enrich the topics I can cover?

Thanks in advance!
I tried making an app that would leverage OSM late last year and was disappointed at the amount of false or stale information in there.

I went into the experience thinking it was the wikipedia of maps. But it's not, wikipedia has much better content control than this.

My theory is that it's too easy for random people to enter data into OSM. It should require some sort of validation of the contributor.

And each contribution should have a discussion, just like wikipedia talk pages. I know that sounds like a lot of talk pages but I believe some of those contributions require community discussion to improve.
There's no reason to believe short term constraints on supply chains are much of a factor in demand for new freighters which won't be delivered this year and whose capital costs are amortised over more than a decade.

Even if airlines predict the global transport market to remain similar for years, that makes it much more practical and affordable to convert existing passenger aircraft stock [which happens anyway, but we've got more and more modern parked or underutilised airframes right now]
As long as the stakes are low everything is fine.
I would save my claps for people who are really working to improve the world, not for corporations who sometimes accidentally do the right thing while pursuing profit.
You may be lucky - people from NTT have published a model based on JParaCrawl - a large JP/EN parallel corpus, which can be used together with fairseq

http://www.kecl.ntt.co.jp/icl/lirg/jparacrawl/
> Thank you for supporting independent artists

While many are independent, you also have a lot of labels on BC (at least for metal) ;)
> And implying there is an equally awful and opposite thing on the left, and that Reddit will become it, is unrealistic.

It isn't an opposite ideology, it's just the same violence and hatred but against the opposite tribe. It's tribalism.

Whether reddit becomes it remains to be seen, but censorship has a strong tendency to produce extremism, because it's a ratchet. It shifts the composition of the population, which shifts what's considered extreme enough to be censored, which shifts the composition of the population, and so on.

I hesitate to post this because it's almost a cliche at this point, and because in the original context the method of censorship was obviously different, but it still seems relevant enough to the point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
It doesn't say 'decided to use' or 'deliberately using', it is 'using', that doesn't connote malintent, that's just the state of things.
You clearly didn't (and probably should) read his post explaining why he took the blog down. It literally says right there, that Scott Alexander is part of his name, but that the NYT would expose his _full name_ instead.
Half assed mobile sites for "big providers" is a growing issue. It can also be observed with reddit. Web technologies are at a point where apps often times don't increase the user experience for technical reasons, so companies deliberately castrate their online offers.
We still have, Delphi might not be loved by younger generations, but it is still around for those that care.

Same applies to C++ Builder, which MS still hasn't been able to match. C++/CX was the closest we got on VS, but then politics killed it.
Who forms a company that writes this corporate spyware and proudly sells it during a pandemic? Seems like that could be the "culture problem"? Is it the "incompetent managers" who are writing this code?
> It's really annoying how people love to moan on HN without context.

It's really annoying how people love to moan on Twitter without context.
This marked the beginning of the end of the Islamic Golden Age, and Baghdad still hasn't recovered. That is one of the most interesting facts to me, that over 600 years later the Middle East is still in disarray.
It's really a spirit, way of life, most people are consumerists sadly, if they own money, they 'need' to spend it

On my side, I rarely think about money, I just buy what I need, that's not much (about 100€/month in total for everything)
Abstract Wikipedia/July 2020 announcement
Wouldn't improving online translation tools achieve the same thing? And a much more reasonable task perhaps (or perhaps not, I am not the expert)

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Examples

I used google translate on English sentences on English sentences here and they outputted exact same German sentences. I feel like this is already a somewhat solved problem
"The challenge that the novel of ideas faces: how does one integrate the exposition and discussion of ideas in the context of a novel (when the origin of those ideas is not the novel itself)?"

"[The techniques used in the novel of ideas] are in conflict with some expectations [enumerated here...] about how a novel works, that in turn were established as novels became more than historical retellings and romances stories".

It is stuffy, but not meaningless.
Did you check the login page too? I'm guessing it's different (and probably more stringent on security I hope) since it's on a different subdomain.
> I feel like many of the people that has this opinion never worked at a big company in a big code base.

Well you're wrong about that.

> Nobody is ever going to touch it until something like this happens.

And that's the problem. A problem a company like Microsoft has the cash to avoid. They could hire more QA staff, but instead they've sacked tons.

Note that malice on the part of the corporation does not necessarily imply any individual at the corporation had malicious intent, although that can never be ruled out. Specifically, I am not claiming the intern who wrote the shitty code and forgot about it had malicious intent. Rather the organization itself is malicious, because it's a paperclip maximizer.
I honestly don't know what the 'ok symbol' is in relation to racism/whatever. In my country I don't think it is a thing and I stopped following silly things on the internet. BUT even if it is a racist symbol/white supremacy/whatever, your wife is still in the wrong. (I am assuming the symbol is not illegal)

Your wife punished a kid for making a symbol she disagrees with, heck, you could even say by making a political statement. If that happened to my kid I would probably go after you as well (not in social media, but with a formal complain to the school to get you punished).

If he wore a MAGA hat would she made him run laps? What about a BLM tshirt? Rainbow pin?

It is not her job to punish someone she disagrees with. She can talk with him and explain what the symbol means and let the kid make his own conclusion, but she can't, and shouldn't punish a kid for disagreeing with him. (which I think is the reason we are now in this place in the world, where you either agree with everything I defend or you are a racist/fascist, or if you are from the other side, you are a communist hippie skyflower)
You know how big Russia still is? It would even count 'global' if they just stay inside the borders ;)
Examples, please. There is bad info here and there, but it's minority (if you want 100% accuracy it's delusional, even Google Maps has a ton of crap, starting from skylights that AI recognized as buildings [3] to businesses you can't even tell they exist).

Also, for a long time now each changeset can be discussed. [1]

I have a hunch you may be from a country where the community has not took up too much [2]. These tend to have more dubious data.

[1] https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2014/11/02/introducing-change...

[2] https://osmstats.neis-one.org/?item=countries

[3] https://goo.gl/maps/knpT8eRR4YhB6Sm86 - look at the shopping mall in satellite and map view
I highly recommend Drawing History, easy to read comics on a wide range of history: https://tapas.io/episode/1214161
The tweet:

Product Management—in 1 tweet.

Role:
Define the product & coordinate actions across the org to enable its success

Success:
User adoption
Business impact

Skills:
Common sense
Immense empathy
Influential communication

Traits:
Low ego
Deep care
High agency

Simple, but not easy.
That's true, but that's an argument about the iPhone and not Photos. On the iPhone, there's literally a switch to instead save as jpg/h.264...which do have their own patent problems (there have been various successful patent collections on jpeg and h.264 is subject to the same MPEG LA group HEVC is).
https://www.facebook.com/upwordindia/videos/2662610620694569...
The conference this is advertising is rather buried in this long article. It's tomorrow, online and free, and the talks sound interesting and varied. Schedule below:

https://2020.stateofthemap.org/
> I don't have any reason to not believe their explanation.

Why not? They've been engaging in very, very dark gray area things before.

> And I don't think my clipboard is useful to them for anything else.

Don't you ever copy paste anything mildly interesting, like email-addresses, phone numbers to add to your address book, form contents before submitting a form in case the site is terrible and resets the form on error etc? I'm sure they'd love to get their hand on that information, as it'll allow for data mining to better "understand you".
Origin and delibrate mistranslation to swastika

https://www.facebook.com/upwordindia/videos/2662610620694569...
First of all, congratulations! That's really exciting!

This is a costly mistake to learn, but to offer a bit of hope, at my last start-up we accidentally racked up high costs on the location API. Our CEO hopped on the phone with them a few times and was able to get the bill down. Good luck!
Well, if you look at machine learning from the point of view of data science
it's inevitable to be confused about its relation to statistics, but machine
learning is a sub-field of AI and statistical techniques are only one tool in
its toolobx. Statistical techniques have dominated the field in recent ish
years but much work in machine learning has historically used e.g.
Probabilistic Graphical Models or symbolic logic as the "model" language. e.g.
one of the most famous and well-studied classes of machine learning
algorithms, decision tree learners, comprises algorithms and systems that
learn propositional logic models, rather than statistical models.

Tom Mitchell defined machine learning as "the study of computer algorithms
that improve automatically through experience"[1]. This definition does not
rely on any particular technique, other of course than the use of a computer.
Even the nature of "experience" doesn't necessarily need to mean "data" in the
way that data scientists mean "data"- for example, "experience" could be
collected by an agent interacting with its environment, etc.

Unfortunately in very recent years, since the big success of Convolutional
Neural Networks in image classification tasks, in 2012, interest for machine
learning has shifted from AI research to ... well, let me quote the article:

>> Or you can start reading TESL and try to get some of that sweet, sweet
machine learning dough from impressionable venture capitalists who hand out
money like it’s candy to anyone who can type a few lines of code.

I suppose that's ironic. But the truth is that "machine learning" has very
much lost its meaning as industry and academia is flooded by thousands of new
entrants that do not know its history and do not undestand its goals. In that
context, it makes sense to have questions along the lines of "what is the
difference between statistics and machine learning", which otherwise have a
very obvious answer.

___________

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/mlbook.html

The excerpt I quote is an informal definition. The wikipedia article on
machine learning has a more formal definition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning#History_and_r...
Sounds awesome.
It will have so much impact in our asynchronous development.
Those using Reactphp and Amphp will enjoy the JIT favour.
Most publishers tend to work with more industrial formats like Docbook or DITA, plus there are nice WYSIWYG editors for them.
If you want to present GUIs from shell scripts, I highly recommend zenity and/or yad:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/zenity

https://github.com/v1cont/yad
Markdown has a problem with consistency and tables, other than that it is pretty good.
> If your content is so toxic that you can’t find anyone in the world to provide even basic network connectivity, it might be time to ask whether you’re using “controversial” as a synonym for “illegal”.

Ah, the good old "only criminals have something to hide" aka "all speech that is good is free, if your speech is suppressed, it's probably evil, and evil speech should be suppressed, because it's evil". That's really not a sensible approach imho.
It sounds like a good plan, however, there is the question of how you want to validate the map information.

Someone adds a street. What do you want to do to validate it? Is there some international OSM team, which goes to all the locations and checks, whether there is really a street? With Wikipedia articles it is simpler, because you can check sources mostly online or you have experts on subjects world-wide, not bound by location mostly.

A map of the world seems like sooo much work to keep updated, while many Wikipedia articles can stay as they are, if they are OK now, because they treat historical topics for example, or mathematical things. There are new developments in those areas as well, but no one will take a wrong road when driving, because the Wikipedia article was not updated. Or at least it is not likely to happen. By introducing additional barriers, the update frequency on OSM might be even lower. I wonder how many contributors there are for OSM maps. I have personally never updated a map there and have been too lazy to read up on how to do that.

One would have to find a clever way to validate map information, which does not inhibit participation.
Implementing Ishido, a game from the 90s, using the Racket graphical facilities
Kapernick made a political statement as his place of work

... and only after being benched for incompetence. (For example, he cost the 49ers hosting the NFC Championship because he blew a game by running out of bounds instead of staying in bounds to keep the clock running. That extra play cost them that game, which cost them #1 seed.) Just basic, stupid shit like that and throwing interceptions instead of eating the ball, game after game.

He ruined that 2010-14 dynasty and got his coaching staff and front office sacked. And then he goes for petty provocational crap like representing police as pigs on his socks. This is a guy who grew up in the lap of upper middle class luxury and wanted for nothing.

You can be a reprehensible human being and still have NFL success if you are top-level talent, but not if you are reprehensible and you suck.
Programming Essentials in Python for a Data Scientist
Please stop calling it a swastika

https://www.facebook.com/upwordindia/videos/2662610620694569...
How to unit test asynchronous code for JavaScript in 2020
How are the interlocutors selected?

The "gender critical" discussion, for example, contains Helen Pluckrose, one of the originators of the "grievance studies" paper, and Kathleen Stock, who got fired from being a philosophy professor for being anti-trans. Both of them take the anti-trans position.
Hello, Guietta author here. For most widgets, the name is derived from the widget text removing all non-alphanumeric characters. So in your example it would become gui.Calculateit

It is also possible to set a custom name using a tuple syntax (widget, 'name'). Like this: (['Calculate'], 'myname')
> if you expect them to use Unix sort you should somehow imply a situation where that is the best approach.

I think the implied question is whether the interviewee is aware of the fact that trying to load a 1 GB text file could use up too much RAM space of the system. Unix sort is arguably the most memory efficient among the 4 choices there. It depends on the amount of available resources (which was not specified), and some companies might be willing to casually let people use 100 GB machines, though.
Have you ever tried to contact a big company for something small like that when you don't have a direct line for support? It's a complete waste of time. Shaming them publicly is the only way to do it without wasting your own time. If those companies don't want to get shamed publicly they can make an effort to provide a way for technical people to report minor issues IMO.

Why should he spend his time (=money) to chase down a multi-billion dollar company to get them to fix a stupid error when he'd be lucky to get a thank you email for the effort?
I'm not promoting anything.
Isn't that basically what they said?

> The main difference between machine learning and statistics is what I’d call “β-hat versus y-hat.” (I’ve also heard it described as inference versus prediction.) Basically, academia cares a lot about what the estimated parameters look like (β-hat), and machine learning cares more about being able to estimate a dependent variable given some inputs (y-hat).
Terraform is I/O bound on cloud provisioning APIs (its CPU performance doesn't matter), and its complex object models need to be extensible. Python would have been a better choice.
I found OSMand to be terribly slow on my old phone and maps.me sort of OK-ish in performance. My phone is quite old. Searching locations in both of them is not perfect. One sometimes needs to know how to search for things and treat the UI carefully, patiently waiting till it has finished showing results.
So what would you say is the best evidence that the EM field is quantised?
> Content editors should not be able to add arbitrary code to a bank's website unless it undergoes review from someone who understands web security.

Hardly anybody really understands web security.
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Another page discussing the concepts without touching on the fact the old studies that showed them were deeply flawed and not reproduced...
I'm all for holding businesses to account but the arguments made on that site are pretty poor. For example, why should it matter that DDG uses Microsoft Outlook for their corporate emails? That has no baring on the DDG's ability to deliver a more privacy-focused search.

The expectation some people have about how some businesses or projects should be run is a little absurd.
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