skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of that is fantastic! And as a relative nobody independent artist myself I totally agree with you, it's why I work there. Thanks for using the site!
Machine Learning Model Generates Hitler's Ethnic Cleansing as Humor
It won't make a difference. In Europe countries have been lifting their lockdown measures and the spike in cases they expected to see didn't happen. Massive protests happened in major European cities and nothing happened. Massive protests in NY didn't result in a spike of cases. In most places COVID-19 is over. Done. When the dust has settled covid19 will be seen as just another really bad flu season.
I think the federated learning used by google keyboard is already pretty secure right?
The system is working exactly as intended, that’s why we have systemic racism. If you look at the history of Reconstruction in the South and how it ended and gave rise to Jim Crow rule, you’ll see that we are very much an intentional system of white supremacy.
Fat2Lose – A curated directory of tips and resources to help you lose weight
There are all these technical solutions, but the following may lead to a better experience and more fun trip overall: Make a rough plan in advance, then as you get there, start asking around and follow the advice of locals: truck drivers, gas station operators, hostel receptionists, etc.
Just listening to it for the first time, I feel the song is unconsciously inspired by Radiohead's "Idioteque". Lots of interesting recommendations there though!
Well, essentially what I was asking is "is there any good new stuff or is this movement dead", meaning the 2012ish hype of open university knowledge, so I don't think it's a question of a recurring nature.

Most of the replies here are more suitable to "what are good moocs", which is fine and what I more or less expected anyway.

As to regularly resubmitted post, this kind of touches the issues I asked. If there aren't many (or none) good new materials then there is no much point reposting same things again and again, similar threads from 2016 or 2018 will do. Some communities post a compilation of what new courses are gonna start soon. I don't find these useful, because they end up being just a huge dump of everything. I guess what I would find interesting is a recurring post about learning that goes like like "what are you learning/learnt recently/this year/this season" and why a mentioned source of learning was good. This naturally will focus on quality rather than quantity.
Yes exactly. This has taught us that we need to take other viruses more seriously than we have. Maybe we should take some measures at the height of bad flu seasons. Maybe we should just always wear masks on flights and other crowded places. Maybe we should shake hands less and wash them more.
I would like you to define what you're against in more detail here.

There are also things much worse than mere "cancellation" going on; murder and deportation, for example. We don't normally have to say we're against "murder culture", but somehow there are hugely controversial street protests against it.
My former roommate graduated double majoring in Physics and CS. I don't see the problem of people having studying multiple disciplines.
I typically just put them into a pressure cooker but will definitely give this a try
Your questions miss the point. The Confederate states wanted to be free from federal economic control. Such a freedom is not an individual liberty that would be conferred by the state upon its citizens but rather an organizational mainstay that would define the state’s relationship with the federal government.

Slavery was the tipping point but the conflict goes much deeper than that.
Haha, actually it's the single most praised feature from our users :-) It's that benefit you get instantly, as typically the user "gets" it within seconds and really speeds things up. As I wrote in my lengthy comment, which I understand you might not have read, we will implement a gradual progression starting at the current layout (incl. delete key) up to the "power user" hexagon layout. You decide how far you're willing to transform your typing behavior :)
Citation needed. What specific things were discovered ? Are they useful to humans ? Could they be done without testing ?

All that I read are pointless science articles about aging in mice as if that applied to humans.
I don't know about practical, it has, er, affordability issues.
Half a million people have died from Covid [0] already and it's only July. Seems like it is in the same league as TB or malaria.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths#what-is-the-total-nu...
To participate in today’s world you need to be tracked and all your stuff is under control. I think there are stories of natives being taken, visiting London and saying cool story bro no thanks. And going back. Actually, many Amish come back too.

And as far as data... yes ir is now CRACK to organizations.... the word USER has a drug meaning too, and it’s probably very appropriate. The GDPR and Cali rules are just the beginning of detox... E2E all the things is coming.

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=169
Covid-19 Vaccine undergoing Human testing, expected to complete by August 15
Just for the record my definition of an identification strategy is not quite right -- it should be

> a way for assessing the impact of x (downloads on sci-hub) on y (citations) which _identifies_ a source of variation in x, that is independent of y, except through its impact on x.

There are a bunch of different ways that people express this. One is that there are no backdoor paths between x and y. Another is that X should be uncorrelated with the error term of the model.
For more complex GIS-data exploration, visualisation and research, I'd suggest QGIS. https://www.qgis.org/

It is not the most userfriendly (aimed at GIS professionals) but it does have a large, open and friendly community around it, making lots of tutorials, manuals, introductionary material and so on.

Edit: especially your type of "problem" is what qgis is good at: you have a CSV, maybe a postGIS database, some old scans of maps maybe; a government provided shapefile of the waterways and so on. And with qgis you can all project them over Google/OSM/Bing/Mapbox maps, mix, mash, filter, extract and so on. It is a desktop software, so publishing your result would probably mean "make some PDFs" or "render a set of PNGs" or so.
I recommend https://fsnot.es Native and blazing fast for iOS and macOS.
> Ok, but isn’t the premise of this line of reasoning flawed? We didn’t know what our understanding of electromagnetism and quantum mechanics would enable in advance.

No, but we did know what we had large gaps in our knowledge, even of things at close to human scales -- before those theories were discovered and worked out. It was then reasonable to expect that filling in those gaps might lead to new technology and applications also at human scales. And I'm not talking about direct applications, I'm talking about applications decades or more out -- but the fact that the energy scales were somewhat close to home meant such thing were possible.

From what we know about the current frontier in particle physics, nothing informs physics at human scales. This is a strong statement -- its many many orders of magnitude off in energy scale.

It could be that we're wrong about some that (and that's one of the reasons I think this research should continue) -- but it's not something that should be reasonably expected.

> Science is always just exploration, and the outcome in terms of tools is always incidental.

My comments were about how the science should be presented to the public in an honest way. And I think trying to sell people on science by quoting past developments that are quite different in character and expectations to what is being done today is dishonest and is a disservice to everyone involved.

The point that should be made is exactly the one you make above: science is about exploration -- full stop -- and we shouldn't make exaggerated claims about applications to sell people on it.
Downloading page is down now, I guess?
When I read defenses of these moves online, usually it is acknowledged that these terms, when used in the context of engineering, do not have a relationship to human subjugation. However, the arguments offered at that juncture are:

a) Every little bit helps: If we can help eradicate injustice even in a tiny way, such as by using more inclusive language, and it's not unreasonable to implement, why not?

b) We need to cut ties with a problematic past to improve: If we want a world with equity for all, we must voluntarily let go of heritage that binds us to a world without equity.

I have many problems with these arguments. (If I have not steelmanned them sufficiently, please suggest improvements).

First, it is not true that the current strategy is reasonable to implement. A solution is reasonable if the effort needed to implement it does not outweigh the impact of the problem. A reasonable solution is to use "leader / follower" yourself and gradually encourage people away over time at their own discretion: a low-effort solution for a low-impact problem. An unreasonable solution is to risk production impact and breaking changes (as in third-party tooling that relies on the `master` convention in git), creating more work for everyone - all so slightly different language can be used. Doc changes are a great low-effort solution if you really want to do this.

Second, the claim that improvement cannot occur without cutting ties is a bit of a switch-and-bait. People will defend "improvement is not possible without change", and then morph that into "improvement is not possible without disassociation". There is some merit to this latter claim in some contexts - for example, in cases of domestic abuse - but that does not make it universal. We can keep the past around, but eliminate its ability to impact the present, which is "improvement with change". I think the "master / slave" convention and its history have done this adequately, since everyone agrees that no reasonable person would associate the term now with an endorsement of slavery or oppression.

These two points put me firmly in the camp of "necessary changes are good, but this particular change is unnecessary".
You'll love this one, Allen Millyard uses a hand hacksaw & his BBQ to make a Kawasaki Super Six and a Viper powered motorcycle.
https://www.youtube.com/user/millyardviper
Discover on the Bandcamp homepage is good for this, and we have pretty good genre-specific tag pages now that have a combination of algorithmic and curated picks, and you can dig in real deep with your own filters if you want. Example: https://bandcamp.com/tag/electronic

I work on the discovery team, so this is great feedback to have, thank you :)

(also proper radio is a great idea)
It's fair to say Covid19 will kill 70 million. (.4% disease + .6% economic across the world)

That's probably the number directly killed in WW2

But probably not killed by WW2 indirectly.

So you might argue if you count the decade long economic deaths from C19 you also have to count WW2s additional decade long economic deaths.
Finding stuff is a little slower and harder because of the small screen. Selecting text (e.g., to get a reasonably-sized URL) is massively painful. Copy-and-paste with long presses is finicky (often you end up moving the selection by mistake). Bleh. Forget it.
For $80 billion we could lift 700 million people out of extreme poverty. For apprximately $100 billion we could save 11 million kids in a year.
Using Webhooks to track blockchain events
This is an excellent comment from somebody who understands Hobbes :)

> It's also a reminder of what happens when political and business leaders ignore the rule of law and basic standards of representational social justice. Cancel culture and wokeness wouldn't be necessary - and wouldn't even be happening - if there was a general sense that the culture was fundamentally ethical.

Exactly. #metoo exists because reporting sexual assault to employers or the police is often ineffective, so the only resort is the court of public opinion. "Black lives matter" exists because of a number of incidents where a black life was lost and no consequences attached to those responsible nor was any attempt made to prevent it happening again.
Actually parking minimums are the price control, keeping prices higher than they may be without them. So someone is...
Flaskcon 2020 begins tomorrow (free livestream conference all about Flask)
Primary, secondary. Problem solved. Need more, well English has it.

Anyone arguing against this is just pissing against the wind -or worse.

Move on. Were supposeto be the people who adapt and change the fastest.
At least the Vietnam war ended.

The wars in this century seem eternal, despite also not reaching many goals.
Search result for 'Google Analytics' still shows Flash tracking as benefit
How has Japan/South Korea worked around that? When I think of countries with crowded public transit, Japan is always top of mind, but they seem to have avoided a lot of the virus transmission problems you'd think would have been associated with that.
I'm very sad as one of the machine learning engineers and surprised that this paper is accepted ACL2020.
https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.acl-srw.21/
It's also the mainstream, now that millennial graduates are seeping into the institutions. I'm sure some important people knew phrenology was dumb when it was big, didn't make it less dumb 70+ years later.
Luckily we aren't having any political belief system forced upon us. People are independently choosing to remove terms they personally don't want included in their projects. If someone feels the same way about the use of the term "child" in code they can freely update their projects today; they don't have to wait for any pendulum.
Most healthy/young people can fight covid19 off with t-cells, so they never create antibodies. 80% of the world population lives in the northern hemisphere where the flu season is pretty much over and covid with it. And remember that the average age on the planet is only 29, and for people under 50 covid19 is no more dangerous than a regular flu.
Yeah, probably should've posted another link but the first one was from a news site I don't like and I didn't want to give them visits so I picked the next one.

Anyway, Duck it and you will see it on several other sites.
I don't think this article does nearly enough work to support its claim that a misunderstood belief in entropy is responsible for human greed, a claim which I think is dead wrong. Most people don't have a misunderstanding of entropy because most people have no knowledge of the concept whatsoever.

You don't need the second law of thermodynamics to make human beings shortsighted fools. We've been doing that for millennia.
First, find a cheaper API that accomplishes the same goal. Second, email Google billing and see if they're willing to give a discount considering the accidental and non-commercial nature of the charge.
It wasn't really addressed to SSC; I've read some of his articles and almost none of the discussions below them, but I am very familiar with HN.
90 day license suspensions for those who ignore signals should do it.

Those that ignore the signals and live, that is.
When someone has it, can you please make it a torrent?
> I'm afraid I have to inform you that displaying political symbols (such as flags) _is_ part of spreading propaganda.

While propaganda requires displaying symbols, displaying symbols does not necessarily entail propaganda. The entailment is simply not bidirectional, ie. surgery requires a scalpel, but cutting my steak with a scalpel does not make it surgery.

> At best you can say that one is simply being an unwitting vehicle of propaganda, but to claim that the public display of such a strong political symbol as a flag is not intended to spread and reinforce what it represents is just absurd.

No it's not. Someone who grew up on the Dukes of Hazzard maybe just really loved that car and associates it with great memories of a happy childhood. To call this "being an unwitting vehicle of propaganda" is losing the plot completely.
It's not only about the actual words you're typing. This is one thing and you can opt to "trust" Google that they do what they say (which is not always the case, as previous scandals show). But it's also about other data the keyboard collects, such as contact details, memory data, usage statistics, etc. If you're comfortable with sharing everything with Google, well then that's that. I'd then still ask if Gboard is 100% comfortable to use, whether you never do a typo, whether you feel there's no improvement possible :-)
The 1918 pandemic didn't have basically every country in the world undergoing quarantine measures to reduce the spread - in fact its existence was actively suppressed due to wartime press controls
Bathe yourself in Dr. Roentgen's invigorating rays!

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-0-387-49...
If it is only offline and not connected to online services how can the keyboard learn your user profile in an efficient and fast way?
lyra.vc
Causal Discovery in Physical Systems from Videos
oh thanks, I thought it meant date the post was created so I was trying to figure out how to match that date to now/near now... makes more sense.
Etherpad plugin to easily find out whats changed since you were last present
Companies will build things that people will pay for. If you can pay for a garage, you will have no problem finding one. If you don't want to pay for parking, you're not forced to.
Welcome anyons! Physicists find best evidence yet for long-sought 2D structures
It is possible in Excel to have named cells and to use python. Personally, I think this is better than what you propose unless you want to spend the next couple years trying to make a business out of it.
Sounds good. I hope I needn't clarify myself for telling 'YouTube of 2005' as a compliment.

I've had YouTube channels in the past with few thousand subscribers, but now I've recently resigned myself into making non edited videos on my personal channel. My aim is to just have a stable camera setup & good quality audio for the sake of the audience.

I think the difference we're talking about here is 'Making videos for ourselves, others like us vs making video purely for scaling up the audience'. IMO, former can help in retaining our sanity, but latter can make us rich at the same time constantly looking for acknowledgement from others.
Great article. Well worth the read!

I enjoyed the part about sampling which is a big unsolved problem. To me, techniques like nucleus sampling and temperature sampling feels like hacks to make up for the fact that maximizing for likelihood maybe isn't the goal!? Maybe repetitive gibberish has a higher likelihood than prose written by humans? That Best of sampling decreased text quality indicates that it has. Researches have assumed that the problem would go away with ever growing models. But maybe it won't?

I don't agree that generating (symbolic) music would be less sensitive to sampling issues. On the contrary, in my opinion. In text you can often get away with grammatical errors or missing punctuation. But if the pitch or timing of one chord is wrong it's over. The audience instantly hears that it is garbage. Thus, you have to lower the temperature (or probability threshold or what have you) to make the sampling more conservative exacerbating the problem with repeated sequences.

Of course, in music you want repetitions. But not too much. The magic number (in Western music) is 4. Fewer repeats makes it feel as if the music jumps around. More repeats makes it feel as if the music is stuck or "looping."
I fail to see where you provided him wrong, based on my math and the calculator in the backend. The existing $29 is roughly equal to $240 on the new plan 250,000 operations vs 250,000 searches. Obviously operations include adding/updating/deleting data. But if you don't do any of that it's basically a different of $220. If you do some operations, say half of them are operations you are looking at $150~ vs $29.
Hi. Thanks a lot for your answer! Those links will be of great help. :)

I was actually skeptic about getting an answer on this after 24h without one - thought it would become unreachable.

I am indeed confident around higher math, analysis of algorithms, software engineering etc, maybe I'll get to take some shortcuts.

I work at a company that collects data from social platforms. We used to provide our clients a data visualization tool but, lately, we started to also analyse the data and build custom reports. The thing is none of us have studied data analysis (nor data science), and it is currently impossible for us to hire. So I realized how useful that kind of knowledge is, even if I'm not gonna learn it all in the short term.

Anyway, thanks again for your answer!
> I wonder if/how AI personal agents would be able to help in this regard, trained to spot when attention is being manipulated

Yeah that gave me a chuckle.

Vastly more likely outcome will be any more advanced technology we create will be used to identify that we could be manipulated more.

Given that is all we have thus far done with any advanced technology we have created, it seems reasonable that we will continue on this same path.

Unless we are acted upon by some significant force.
Upscaling Images with Coordinate Networks
Kind of like how you choose to accept the terms of service.
> Can you list recent Nobel Prize laureates?

For me the Nobel Prize was greatly diminished in 2014 when the Nobel committee lost all credibility.

The inventor of the LED Nick Holonyak, Jr. didn't win a Nobel Prize but in 2014 the inventors of the blue LED did; Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura.
Excellent way to treat people with personal problems like depression, health problems or a failing marriage. This is really an efficient society that I don't to live on.
Etherpad plugin to mitigate against malicious authors
This page loads one CPU to 100% in Firefox
It's difficult to beat because prices are a race to the bottom, and small players have no effective way to build up and manage reputations.

If I need a widget, and Vendor A charges a buck, while Vendor B charges two bucks, all else being equal, I'll buy from Vendor A. Bad customer service helps both vendors compete with each other, but prevents small companies, collectively, from competing with Amazon.

On eBay, small players do manage reputations, but only for a few weeks. If a product fails (or is discovered to be a fake) after 60 days, the seller is all good. Next sucker! There are things I'll buy there, but far more I won't.

Google itself has the problem that culturally, it relies on algorithms which know better than you do, and is not a service company. It does great tech, but holds human being outside of Google in open contempt. That's find for running a search engine, adwords, or gmail, but it crashes-and-burns for ecommerce.
Anyone want to answer my criticisms on covid lockdowns-

>You sacrifice the 99.5% for the 0.5%.(If not handled perfectly sacrifices 100%)

>Flattening the curve allows people to have access to ventilators saving an additional 12% of people (oxygen can be taken without hospitals or physicians)

>Suicides, drug addictions, home abuse and more are all side effects of attempting to save the oldest, obese, and sickest population, who otherwise can self quarentine.(My only counter point is that the 0.5% can be called into work, and lose unemployment money.)
How to Switch Logo in Dark Mode
It’s going to be 104 degrees where I am this weekend in Central Texas. Nobody wants to ride a bicycle for non-fitness/fun purposes in that sort of heat. And it’s 50% humidity as well. Ten miles in Amsterdam is much different than ten miles in Phoenix or Texas or New Orleans.
Defensive Stoicism Considered Harmful
How to Excel at Your Job as a New Developer
Any example on that?