skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if that's intentional, but his name currently appears on the admin profile of the blog [0]. Maybe someone with technical skills and enough time can help him sort it out?

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/author/admin/
How to create a notification component with redux toolkit and styled-componets
China mulls action against Nokia, Ericsson if Europe bans Huawei
It's a hard article to comment on to contribute. It's a nice informative article that doesn't try to stir up debate or be contentious but rather just has really sensible advice from someone who is obviously more experienced than most of the world at this.

What else is there to say?
Many sites are seemingly not tested at all. I recently tried to open a concert site and couldn't get any details on a concert, because their PDF viewer was buggy; I tried on both Firefox and chrome using three different computers, as well as my phone. I wish you could just use the browser's built-in PDF viewer in an iframe (or better yet, don't use PDFs in the browser)
Build web apps the light way – an intro to “lit” apps
The way I understand this. They are doing "fuzzing diffing", I would say even semantic diff that can "understand" that "log in error, check log" and "problem authenticating" are the same (close). They apply it to compare (GB scale) files with application or build logs to identify anomalies efficiently. Otherwise if you just run `diff file1 file2` it would produce enormous result in the real life app. At least in their case.

Machine learning is used in the "understands" part above ^^.
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Yes you are entirely right, and it's outside my edit window to fix.
> A lot of companies like Basecamp and Spotify executed this idea with their company blogs.

> They started with a Medium publication, and when they gained traction on their content, they moved to their own hosted blogs.

This is false. Basecamp's blog "Signal v Noise" is much older than Medium itself, and their transition perfectly illustrates what Medium has become[1]:

> Three years ago we embraced an exciting new publishing platform called Medium. It felt like a new start for a writing community, and we benefitted immensely from the boost in reach and readership those early days brought. But alas it was not to last.

> When we moved over, Medium was all about attracting big blogs and other publishers. This was going to be a new space for a new time where publishers could find a home. And it was. For a while.

> These days Medium is focused on their membership offering, though. Trying to aggregate writing from many sources and sell a broad subscription on top of that. And it’s a neat model, and it’s wonderful to see Medium try something different. But it’s not for us, and it’s not for Signal v Noise.

[...]

> So now we’re back on the indie trail. The new blog is powered by our friends at WordPress, and the new amazing design is courtesy of our in-house designer Adam Stoddard.

> Thanks to the fact that we kept our own domain when we moved to Medium, all the articles and links still work. The pieces have simply swapped the Medium styling for our own look. (Although, sad to say, Medium didn’t let us export the comments, so those are gone ).

[1] https://m.signalvnoise.com/signal-v-noise-exits-medium/
I believe your frame of reference is a small environment.

If all the stakeholders fit in the "2 pizza" team, regularly talk/meet, and regularly review progress/ideas/etc. then sure, writing is irrelevant.

Frankly, for me, reading is a far LOWER mental load than listening to someone talk.

Talking is linear, and often stream of consciousness. I can't jump forwards to see if they are drawing the conclusion they seem to be aiming at, and if so, scan the rest for any variations.

I can't jump back, without disrupting others, when they have made a cognitive leap that I didn't follow, to re-read to see if I missed anything.

Often people aren't able to quickly order their thoughts, speak to these points, and stay on point/relevant in the face of q&a when it's a deep technical topic. I'd much rather read their perspective.
It's an admirable effort and I'm glad the author is concerned about such issues -- we need such concerned citizens. I hope she applies her local enthusiasm to wherever she is now.

I think the presentation could use some help though, for the idea to come through clearly (I don't know enough locally to comment on the merits):

1) The webpage and title purport to tell the story about what should be done, but it's filled with tangential information not relevant to the issue. It took me about 3 casual readings to realize there were conclusions about the alternative plan that should be pursued, written on the page. And I didn't realize what this page was for, until I clicked the PPT link -- which is relatively hidden amongst text despite it leading to the primary document of substance.

2) The document itself (PPT -- unfortunate vertical format and page/text layout I have to say) is also not clear about the disadvantages of the current route, and advantages of the proposed route. Despite being so short, it rambles. It really needs some summary bullet points and maybe a table for someone to quickly grasp what the proposal is.

3) Visually, the map differences between the existing planned route and the proposed alternative are not at all clear -- the maps look almost identical to my quick glance at this scale.
If some of the conclusions are that the stations are poorly located, the point is to show some of the locations in detail and the alternative location in clear comparison. It's almost without point to enlarge the maps so much, yet not point out what is distinguishing about the original versus the proposed route alternatives.

Overall, given that county/city authorities signed off on the project, and that this reads as someone's interesting but casual idea, I can only (as a uninformed observer citizen) assume that forces at play have made their decision, and an effort like this, unless professionalized and given some real attention, are probably too late (see other comments below on why).

But if there is opportunity to make change, I wish the author (or others interested) good luck in going after it!
Probability notation used in ML and engineering has this problem, of overloading p(). Probability notation as used by probabilists in maths departments is completely different: it’s more explicit, and sometimes more clunky.

There’s a hybrid notation that I prefer, for example “Pr_X(x)” for the density function of random variable X at point x; you drop X if the random variable is clear from the context, and you drop x if you’re referring to the entire distribution. Or Pr_X(x|Y=y) for a conditional density. But this notation still has problems when you’re working with hairier conditional distributions, or with distributions that are neither discrete nor continuous.

(Source: used to be a mathematical probabilistic, now working in ML.)
Agreed on the parent comment, the human element is very real. Morale especially during a time of global pandemic is a knife edge to manage.

> The risk with firing 900 people all at once is what if, in a month, everything is good and they need them all back? By only letting go of small groups of people at a time, you both hedge yourself to future risk while also staying open to future up swings.

Again you're looking at it too closely to a machine. Machines don't care and pure efficiency says this statement is correct/better.

If you treat your staff like a portfolio, you are not carrying the tenants of being a good leader.

That's not to say that people don't do that. It happens all the time - treating employees sub-human, merely pawns to be sacrificed.

A portfolio is a portfolio and the analogy does-not/should-not carry well to staff lest we all be slaves where literal ownership of other humans is acceptable again.
Kudos to Ms. Kramer for her courage. She is taking a great risk to her wealth and her career in the hope of achieving justice.
I have gone through the same phase myself. Not only Medium but many other platforms as well.

The algo based recommendation that force feed you the content that "they" think you should read and constant trackers all over the place that profiles everyone with heavy ads scripts with tons of js css files just to read a simple text from someone.

I've built what I had in mind (_sort of_) for myself and many others.

Anyone wants to start a blog, without the headache of self hosting or maintenance without ads and sneaky business model is welcome gonevis.com
The problem is that this effectively requires that you set up all the equipment in a place and make people come to that.

Not a great thing in the middle of Covid.

However, once Covid passes, perhaps WeWork should try this with all their real estate to avoid going bankrupt.
Show HN: Inference GUIs for 12 SoTA ML models
It's still doing good: https://github.com/tats/w3m

I am a very happy using w3m every day. Just occasionally there is a need to use a graphical browser.

There is no JS support though. Don't think there ever was.
Pakistan bans one Chinese app, gives TikTok a final warning to clean up its act
Some of the models we put up have thousands of stars on GitHub and yet still no interface. You’d have to set up dependencies/etc and sometimes even write your own code, just for inference. Never understood why people who release state-of-the-art pretrained models don’t release a way to use or try them on a new input.
I hope it was mostly defensively and not offensively oriented.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_concentration_camps would be an example of the latter.

In these days of economic cold warfare, it's interesting to think of metropolitan areas as those settlements which have sufficiently-developed economies that they are resistant to single-factor speculative attacks (whether on a currency or an actual basket of goods). Internal economies would be the safest protection, as trade networks may or may not be useful, depending upon the relative interdiction capabilities of one's friends and foes.

see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_League_of_Armed_Neutrali...

On a further tangent:

Because spain reached the philippines from one direction and portugal reached malacca from the opposite, dates in southeast asia were a day off from each other, depending upon colonising power. It is a logical truth that all babies born in the philippines on Tuesday, 31 Dec 1845 were neon green and spoke hebrew.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter_caetera
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tordesillas

https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl_philippines...
It's not that people don't care, it's that in their eyes these are reasonable trade-offs for the rich capabilities offered by things like google maps, youtube, gmail etc.

Im all for getting rid of some of the cruft that has developed over the years, but let's not forget the literally world-changing utility that is enabled by the modern web.
First there was zero.

Then there was 1 and -1, and within each was an entire universe. But the sum total of both of these universes was not more or less than that which came before.

And then the universes of 1 and -1 combined their power and reformed, as zero.

It's like the monthly accounts, all the T diagrams must end up balancing each other out or you've missed something. Accountants are black holes, bringing the universe back into the perfect balance of eventual, and inevitable, nothingness.
Doing nothing is not a default position in this type of situation - it is an active choice. This is similar to the pandemic. If you stop and wait for more data, you're not taking a conservative approach, you're deciding based on the available data that the best course of action is to do nothing.
But if those sales are displacing sales of your own products, which is the premise of the article, is it really free money?
There's a simple objective metric that could capture most of what you'd want to know about any school and put USNews's rankings out of business: graduates' achievement. How much are graduates making 10 years later? How many have prestigious jobs or other accomplishments such as research grants or awards? Universities do track these kinds of metrics as part of their alumni fundraising efforts but they're rarely publicly disclosed.
Are you sure? It's no secret that "Scott Alexander" are the first and middle name. The author wants to keep his last name secret.
Fortunately, Tucker’s bullshit outrage is being seen for the bullshit it is, and his sexual harassment escapades are getting even more widely reported. Hopefully his totally planned in advance last second fishing trip gets extended to a permanent basis.
The problem is that the same argument is used in dictatorships to ban people and activist from traditional media(print/TV).

Right now, what prevents Russian government/companies going to twitter and telling them look guys, you just banned your American extremists, can you please do the same for ours. They also practice hate speech, disinformation etc. The only problem is that Russian extremists look like average centrist US democrat.

In terms what is the right and what is not the right is not really for twitter to determine in this case. My point was it should be determine on legislative level what should be on twitter and what shouldn't.

In the end of the day twitter is a massive part of the political process. People exercising their rights, complaining to their representatives, supporting them, spreading their message.

So if you ban entitties from twitter, you ban them from political process. And I do think some entities should be banned, but it shouldn't be up to twitter, it should be up to us citizens to decide that.

If we think that holocost-deniers, nazy sympaphizers or whatever should be banned from social media bring it to the vote, pass the law, hopefully it will stand supreme court challenge and move on.
I have to confess, I was a solid halfway through before I realized it was satire.
https://fangpenlin.com/posts/2019/10/07/elliptic-curve-crypt...
Go back a few centuries and you get long form Latin instead. Or go back much further and you will find the quadratic formula described as taking the number that the second term is increased by, diminishing it by half and then.... . Basically an essay just to say -q/2.

Sure, you could write

-CoefficientInFrontOfXToTheOne/2

But then each row of your calculation will need line breaks and will be hard to understand. It will take forever to write and it will take forever to read. No thank you.
> Try simulating random matchmaking with Elo

I will. I was hoping you'd post the actual simulation details rather than more unlabelled graphs.
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Welcome to the reality of survivorship bias... At least we are talking REAL life decisions, the interesting part is that its probably the majority of people, still no liquidity after years of work. On a bright side, its going to be fine but next time we will all think twice regarding the trade-offs.
Do you accept suggestions for missing tools?

I've noticed that Surge [0] was missing, it's a softsynth made by the same dev that now works on Bitwig Studio.

0: https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/
What's the best static site generator that meets the following requirements:

a) Doesn't use node.js.

b) Has built-in syntax highlighting for C#, SQL, PowerShell and Rust at a minimum.

c) Is also good at "photo journals" or galleries.

I played around with Hugo, but the themes were ugly and it was very weak at managing pictures associated with an entry instead of the entire site.
Yeah, if you're simply compressing the binary with upx or something, the uncompressed size is what actually matters. Though I guess it will decompress faster, the smaller it is. But I doubt that upx decompression speed is particularly important.
Advisors make these recommendations. Say the right words about the US falling behind China or national security risk and no one wants to be the person on record who said no to this.
Suppressing symptoms doesn’t necessarily lead to understanding the root causes, and in fact may do the opposite as relieved symptoms leave the impression of successful treatment.

Of course, to reiterate, in this case the ‘treatment’ is likely addressing the root causes of adjacent problems, and in dire circumstances even a temporary relief could be worth it, so I would not call against it.

My worry is that as one particular way of addressing discrimination (through applying discrimination, no less) becomes the default, it’s cargo-culted and there is very little incentive to understand and fix the underlying issues that said discrimination is a symptom of—which (underlying issues) may well fester until they manifest themselves as a new, possibly worse symptom.
Thanks for sharing, that's a nice project with a good user experience. That reminds me of the concept of blog "planet" that was somewhat popular in the Linux world a decade ago. Basically an aggregate of blog feeds loosely related to a given topic, you can follow it and have the feeling that you're following a community, without the drama that you have on social media. It's a great concept IMHO, and stupidly simple technically speaking.

As an example, Ubuntu still has theirs: https://planet.ubuntu.com/
100% this. I also noticed a trend of people calling themselves "visionaries"...same thing.
linux console user here too :-).

w3m works really great with framebuffer. imho it renders webpages in a cleanset way, compared to all other text browsers. plus it has default vim-like keybindings.
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> he hoped his NULL license plates would make it impossible, or at least difficult, for cops to give him a ticket, since they wouldn’t be able to enter the ticket into their system

This might be bad reporting, but... Did he honestly expect absolutely no difference between NULL and "NULL"? That the system uses "NULL" for unrecognized plates is unfortunate and bad programming, of course, but still...
My irony alarm just went off...
I meant in a hands-off manner.
Perhaps it's about prejudices we have when we interpret the content we read.

I get a dislike for "decorational" images like a photo of a random bridge over a river (c) AStockPhotoSite when talking about building a new bridge in the town: that ain't content. An illustration of the bridge to be, an architectural depiction, would be considered content.

Wikipedia seldom has images of the former type: they are all there to expand the content being represented.

So, I've read the article according to my biases, and I do not see such a strong opinion against images: to me it reads not as if they might, but rather that they do enable them on Wikipedia.
Handing over significant degrees of sovereignty to unelected EU organisations in the Treaty of Lisbon without popular consent - in fact - directly against popular consent (France, Netherlands etc), was by far the most 'self destructive' act in modern politics.

The dint on the UPC and other EU organisations due to this, is a function of the existentially problematic manner in which the EU was formed.

Europe would work much better with a series of consistent bilateral treaties on issues such as patents and regulations, instead of trying to be a Federal Superstate led by the Chancellor of Germany ... who incidentally chose Urusula Von Der Leyen, not the electors, who didn't even know who she was literally at the time they voted. If that fact alone is not cause enough for revolution.
Bundle, unbundle, rinse, repeat.

Tech's virtuous cycle will forever run...
I'm an author of one of the arXiv papers above. One thing to consider is that the approximative power of a given parametric function is not the only criterium. Being able to optimize that function efficiently is as important. Neural networks excel in this. So the comparison you ask for most likely won't appear, because any other parametric ansatz with tens of thousands (or more) parameters would be impossible to optimize. At the least that's the case in quantum Monte Carlo, the domain of our paper. As for "provable", I also don't think that will appear. All the exact theorems about neural networks are way too abstract to be applicable to practical problems.
I'm also puzzled by this and I don't understand the argument of "cognitive load". Our brains are extremely adaptive and powerful, I don't understand how some different text formatting or background colors can be difficult to parse.

If all you do on the web is read news articles, then having an uniform experience is kind of desirable, but other than that, you're doing more harm to the UX by ditching modern browser support. How is draw.io rendering for you? How does the Bitbucket/GitHub/GitLab diff look for you? How's the YouTube watching going?

I guess those are different groups, but remember when everyone was complaining about all the sites using Bootstrap because they all looked too similar?
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>So whose in power won't make much of a difference.

It does, depending upon whether a party has a moral ceiling. Whether there's something which they wouldn't do. Unfortunately, there is no such limit for a party which does not believe in democracy.

Why has India dropped in democracy ratings drastically?[0]

What's worrying is, now that BJP has taught other parties how India's democracy can be broken, even if by some miracle some other party comes to power, it will do the same. So, I will agree with you then.

But, that's not going to happen as BJP has ensured that no elections in future would be fair[1].

[0]https://www.oneindia.com/india/democracy-index-2019-india-sl...

[1]https://www.newindianexpress.com/business/2020/jul/15/asian-....
There's something dishonest about your profile appearing normal only to yourself, while the rest of the world is getting a 404. If you're suspended, fine, but tell the user, but why the need to hide this from them?
Check out Jigsaw, it's a PHP based static site generator
I was going to ask a similar Q, but I'll hitch my comment to yours... (and give you an upvote as well)

To get around Google thinking that your personal hosted version is a copy, can you pepper the medium version with links back to your domain/blog ? Would that help ?
Yup. Kind of bummed to see that it is mostly for OEMs though.
This was precisely the promise of 1980s expert systems
(I missed the sarcasm, and honestly I still can't see it after you've pointed it out - and I'm British, supposedly a native expert!)
Nice man. Dutch Design.

Can't wait for features / extensions!
I think these things have become truer since the NYT debacle, due to people spamming his real name in lots of public places. Among many other examples, somebody set up a linkedin profile under his real name, listing his occupation as "author of slatestarcodex blog".
There is a difference between doing fundamental research and bringing a product to market.

We know enough about quantum computers to be able to build some of them in limited ways which are commercially useful in very specific domains, so then companies can get investment to do that.

But we still don't really understand all of the fundamentals, and it's always hard to raise investment for fundamental research.

Suppose you could prove that building a quantum computer that can run Shor's Algorithm on interestingly large numbers is impossible. Knowing that would be of immense value. People could stop wasting time trying to create it or defend against it. But how would anybody commercialize that information? Who has the incentive to fund that research?
Very strange, and a bad idea to boot! It is distracts from whatever point they are making in the article. The medium is the message!