skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO calling it "convolution" in deep learning is extra confusing, because the word "convolution" means many fairly different things in other contexts.

The idea behind convolution in deep learning is that, if a particular pattern of pixels is meaningful, then it is probably also meaningful if you shift the whole thing in some direction. So you can force some layers of the network to be the same under translation, and it'll be faster to pick up some sorts of patterns.
Epic Fails from Patreon CEO
Which bucket temporal.io and Azure Durable Functions that support `workflow as code` do fall into?
As a reply to a post saying that the quote was taken out of context, providing a second quote not related to the first quote is at best unhelpful.

Or did I miss something obvious?
And potentially making you a liability to unscrupulous dictators is smart?

It's either pointless because nobody wants to fake results or you're another obstacle to remove.
The key evidence comes from text messages and testimony from people other than the two alleged victims.

If indeed this evidence was all fabricated (I doubt it, but who knows), then the best venue for evaluating that claim would have been a Swedish court.

Now we will never really know exactly how strong the case was. But it was strong enough to justify bringing Assange to trial, and he has done himself no favours by hiding in an embassy for seven years.
Thanks, yes the hero needs cleaning. I haven't been focusing on the product site for some time.

I'm also going to clean the personas. People usually like that, so I'll have to ask more.
Given that Microsoft almost killed the entire browser industry just by releasing IE it is quite a success to be around decades later.

> It did well enough until there was real competition

"Real" competition doesn't have to artificially cripple high profile sites to compete. The chrome style of competition gave us ShadowDom v0 on youtube, disappearing features in maps and gmail, empty html elements that only seemed to be there to prevent Edge from accelerating video playback and constant popups reminding users to "upgrade" to Chrome.
Wow, I had the same issue. I'm an ad-noob in the fullest sense of the word, but I tried the Google "Smart Ad". It turned out the same way you mentioned. I looked at where my clicks were coming from, and they were all pretty much from Hindi oriented Youtube channels. I was baffled at how that happened as I targeted US/Canada as you did.
What would the goal of the “users” (bots?) have been in this case? Is there any monetary gain for them? Would a competitor do this to waste your ad spend?
Say you worked in a software development organization that was dysfunctional, shipped updates 3-4 times a year and had lots of infighting/political battles between teams. A vendor came by talking about a new development process with a cool tool touting amazing features - do you think buying into this process plus tool is going to solve your organizational problems?

Is tech the right tool to attempt solving societal problems?

If Tesla's goal was to have an impact on climate change they should allow other car companies to purchase their batteries and motors to build from. Or actually build an economical car, sub $25k, no self-driving or fancy features, no performance mode, etc. Just a working, fully electric car that any working-class person could buy, globally. That would have much more impact than building luxury electric vehicles.
That's certainly the case for me. I think I value my bikes more than my car, though most of my bikes were assembled from piles of old parts. But a bike is a bike, and a car is just an appliance. ;-)
> Well, that's not going to happen, is it?

I think that the working-class prosperity the US enjoyed from the 1950s through the 1970s was not just because the US was the only major economy not devastated by war. I think it was also because business owners were afraid of communism, and were therefore treating their employees somewhat better, to head off any ideas they might have of getting a better deal by revolution. Something like that could happen again... if business owners become concerned enough about the possibility of the workers revolting.
Promote - as in cheerlead, facilitate, protect - not as in, well, try to do by forcing participation.
I have been thinking about this for a while with Reddit. If users could mark why they think something is worth upvoting then everyone else could just filter to find the insightful or informative comments and get rid of the funny ones, or vice verses depending on what they were looking for at the time. Distilling down the comments to stuff you are much more likely to be interested in could improve the site quite a bit, it works on Steam fairly well for games even with a somewhat free tag system but I can't help but think that perhaps not many people would bother.

The simplification to up and down hurts discussion on Reddit (and probably on hacker news too) because it promotes widely comprehended and accepted content. This is why on Reddit pictures do so well unless they are banned, they are very quick to review and choose to up or down vote. However a 10k document will be reviewed by a lot less people, it could fit exceptionally well with the content and get 100% upvotes but be completely buried by all the pictures because a lot less people had time to view it and upvote it.

There is a deeper challenge here with how comments and upvoting and content filtering via users is done. It isn't just the lack of information from tags but also once a document is reviewed will an upvote occur. Much of Reddit shows users will widely upvote on the basis of the title of say news without ever reading it. The longer the article is the less people will return to Reddit to upvote it. Both HN and Reddit promote popularity over fit because low numbers of upvotes on content equates to low engagement and that isn't valuable to them, but it might be the singularly most important piece of content for that audience its just long and badly titled.

There are a bunch of unsolved issues that Reddit and HN have surfaced around the model for content and comment voting and where these two sites differ is mostly only in the rules to try and mitigate the problem with the chosen model. The problem is only more complicated models can improve it and the moment you do that you potentially lose customers, but at the same time you potentially don't want those customers either.

That is my unfinished thought chain on this.
Stuff that Saul Griffith works on: https://www.saulgriffith.com/

In particular, Otherlab companies: https://www.otherlab.com/
I like to call myself a roadie developer, swooping in to clean up the mess after the rockstar developer came in and trashed the stage...
>3. Act in moderation. Low to moderate doses of Vitamin D (e.g. 400 to 2000 IUs daily) have proven to be safe in trials. If you think there is a benefit and we just don't have enough data to prove it yet, you may be right. We do know the harms of taking too much, though, so supplement in moderation. And if you are taking Vitamin D, ask your doctor to check your blood levels.

I'll probably carry on with this then. I was taking a single 4000 IU pill every four days (which was the suggested dosage) but once a week for around 570 IUs a day should be fine. Frankly I hate blood tests and don't believe I'm D deficient, so I'd rather take a lower, even if useless, amount.
Is any arbitrary imperfect sort not adaquate for roll call? If the full names are sorted naively like any other string, why would that be a problem for teachers? I don't get this. Usually what happens is last names are placed first for sorted lists, but this seems like an arbitrary meaningless convention without real utility. And since this arbitrary convention is problematic in cases where names can take on many forms, it makes sense to disregard the convention. If you're not already accustomed to the convention it doesn't even make rational sense; why should the first name be last and the last name first? That's totally backwards, but it's convention. Why though? It's not even like that ordering will necessarily put siblings next to each other on the sorted list. Many siblings have different last names and many people who aren't siblings have the same last name, so what is the actual purpose of supporting this convention?

My name is such a convention-defying name by the way, the way I use it. Often I have to enter "[first initial] [middle name]" as my ''first name'' even though it isn't. Just give me a single name field please.

Edit: Annoying example from a minute ago: I gave my first initial/middle name to newegg. Newegg tried to be clever by dropping my middle name and now calls me simply "J." That's not my name!
Unfortunately, history tells us that almost all major gains in freedom come, at one point, through violent conflict/sacrifice.

If one side (an authoritarian oppressor) is not afraid to use violence, and the other is prevented from using any response, the oppressor will win. This is why major changes usually require civil war.

This is also why authoritarians definitely do not want their population to have access to weapons. (The U.S. couldn’t even control Afghan farmers with guns...)
The Emperor’s New Rules (On Management Culture at Netflix)
Adding noise and/or padding is trivial, it would just be done on a per-file basis. Of course, this would also lose the protocol's identical file feature, but that's not a regression vs v1.
Forest fire hazard is always present at the end of the summer going into the fall in California until the first big rains. It is a Mediterranean climate and it does not rain at all from May till Oct/Nov (with much variation). They had this trip planned, would spend most of it in the high country where there are few trees and low fire hazard. People who do 8 day backpacking trips are going to have more risk tolerance than most people, and now they have a story they can blog about that makes it to the front of Hacker News. Seems like a win to me.
I think the lack of demand on an individual level is different as companies don't value it.

But when companies need help and they look to an outside company to come in and help, then they're willing to pay incredible amounts.
Ask HN: Suggestions for Google and Facebook ADs automation tool
Was looking for an automation tool for Google Ads and Facebook Ads. Do share your suggestions and your review on the same.
Butterfly Network
I Dropped Out of College
Show HN: Turn asterisk-indented text lines into mind maps
Overcast is my current choice. (For iOS, I don't have Android so can't comment.) I tried them all. I don't particularly like any of them.

I've requested a feature and reported a bug via their Slack. I'm hopeful they'll get added and fixed, respectively.

I still don't have a way to easily binge on some large archives. Like History of Philosophy without any Gaps. https://historyofphilosophy.net

And Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History doesn't sort correctly in any podcast client I've tried, making it even harder to binge.

What I really want is a NetNewsWire (RSS client) that can play audio (directly).

I also want client-side metrics and listening history. To help me remember when I heard something, better determine if I'm actually listening to misc content, etc.
I remember my first full-time job I fought hard for a raise and got it. I worked long hours, putting in extra work in the evenings when everyone else had gone home. Then maybe a month later a new hire came in and casually in a conversation he mentioned how this was just a starter job and he was making peanuts. Those peanuts turned out to be higher than my salary, even after my recent raise.
It still does exactly this for me because it is not banned from the internet (yet).
What an awful article. Expensive conclusions are drawn with no apparent consideration for their cost. The experience of a company which appears to have successfully balanced complicated tradeoffs in choosing features is discounted because there were bugs. And almost no examples or useful stories about any detail, or suggestions on how to do it better other than to go (much) slower and to spend (much) more or to not take rich customers money.

I suspect good arguments could be made for these things, but they need to acknowledge and justify their cost.
Yes, you have noticed that authoritarians sometimes use the veneer of freedom and cooperation to force obedience. Sometimes they just use strongman tactics. It doesn't change the fact that voluntary consensus and tolerance are, in fact good.
Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Was a COVID 'Super Spreader' Costing Billions
If you get in touch with the right department, you would typically have to sign a multi year contract with the net value due upfront in case of termination to get them to run the fiber to you. Or else cover the cost of the run as an installation fee.
GM takes $2B stake in electric vehicle maker Nikola
As the other commentor said, that's my point. I could write a song that sounds just like a hit pop song, but it wouldn't be a hit because the music that gets popular isn't the best examples of music, it's just the music chosen to be pushed and sold.
Tesla Gets Twice as Much Driving Range as Porsche's Electric Taycan
I am talking about the trial following his (probable) extradition. If you'll forgive a little semantic pedantry, an extradition hearing is neither a trial nor (in the UK) a proceeding that's televized, so it would be quite a stretch to describe an extradition hearing as a 'show trial'.
One could argue that Purism, Social Purpose Corporation, is trying to fight with pollution (by providing devices with lifetime updates and choosing their sources) and supports human rights (by using exclusively free software, by creating a new market for surveillance-free user-respecting devices, by trying to shift manufacturing from China to USA).

https://puri.sm/about/manufacturing-and-sourcing/

Not sure if you consider them "well funded" though.
Appears to be available here as well - http://health4everyday.com/2020/09/dentists-are-seeing-an-ep...

This is timely information for me, I am having TMJ like issues and grinding my teeth as well. Never thought about linking to my workstation setup.
> We help our own, and destroy and torture with great pleasure and no remorse everything else...

When you say "we" do you mean you personally partake in all these activities, or do you count yourself as an exception to the rule?
On the same boat too. My first language was QBasic on a 286 on 90's.. I studied CS when was 18 but life put me on another direction and I worked on entertainment (music events) for 10 years until a crisis on my 30's. After that, I tried to be a designer but when doing my portfolio online I felt more pleasure coding my site than doing the works itself. Now I'm actively coding for the last 6/7 years and doing another graduation (IT Management).
I have both, and I think the break even point is probably paying for around 7 or 8U.
That's good to know. You learn so many things by rote; rarely, it seems, do you learn the reasons behind them all. Thanks.
Zoom sends videos and some managers even ask to show faces.
Programmer Has Made 1993's Doom Playable on a Pregnancy Test
I guess google pays a share of the money to owners of youtube channels/websites where the ads are displayed?
I'm not sure I agree. I know that journalism (as a discipline) considers this ethical. I kinda get that this is part of the newspaper industry as a public service - that withdrawing publication of something, or changing it without alerting the reader to the change, alters the historical record.

But no-one has a problem with other creative industries withdrawing their publications. Film-makers are forever deciding that movies are no longer available, for purely commercial reasons. Why is writing different? Why is pulling your books from a library unethical but pulling your movie from distribution is OK?

I think we either need to extend this to all creative activity, or reconsider it for writing.
I've also always wondered this and never got an answer
Yes all the settlers were "genocidal" and its totally not a personality study of people live in the mountain states.
Yes, they do. Like, that's literally the definition of "conspiracy".

noun
a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.
"a conspiracy to destroy the government"
> You can't get more minimal than Hugo, Jekyll when trying to build a blog.

Untrue.

> My blog [...] doesn't use any JS at all.

Now suppose there were JS used on some page(s), and that is the static site generator...
that is both interesting and terrifying. thanks for sharing. Hopefully someday a documentary crew finds a way to explore the underneath part.
It's also illegal to smoke weed, drop acid, watch netflix or be gay or publish suicidal jokes in some places. Everybody draws a line for themselves in regard to which laws they have to respect or have no choice but to break today.
Why should we trust he will get a fair hearing at the actual trial if he's not even getting a fair hearing at the extradition hearing?
> This article is a pile of American exceptionalist BS.

Written by British people.
It's somewhat reminiscent of Google's disingenuous "don't be evil" pledge, quietly discarded when it simply wasn't a believable slogan any more.
Any idea how to preserve the ability for people to go to "their" representative under that model?
Jeff Orlowski on the climate change of culture created by our devices
America has an exceptionally large amount of immigrants from everywhere in the world (America gains from brain drain elsewhere).

This has an effect on culture. Not a very surprising finding on the face of it.
> They were also used to censor the web in Egypt but nobody on the US end seems to give a shit that local companies are facilitating dictators

Why would they bother? Money from their US taxes is already being used to kill people overseas. I don't think that preventing some Belarusians to use Instagram is worse than that.
Telerik bought Fiddler eight years ago, and then two years later Progress bought Telerik.
Rust is doing extremely well for a new language.

If it can increase its adoption rate by two orders of magnitude, it just might survive and grow. But it will need changes to get that.
Your [1] through [3] are absolutely true. Dont forget the Chutiyas. Of the three, [1] and [3] were covered well in our history class in standards 7 then again in 9 and 10. Palas of Bengal got a mention, again for obvious reasons. Theirs was perhaps the largest empire in India by area (significantly larger than say the area of Gupta empire at its peak, perhaps Maurya's too, not very sure of that). We had a pretty good History faculty in our high school in Kolkata and good history books. These were all in the curriculum, not side notes mentioned by the teachers. So all this conspiracy that you talk about, I dont buy that.

Kolkata even has remnants of a ditch (now filled up and made into roads) that was dug to protect Bengal from the Marthas. In Bengali, the Maratha raiders and sackers were called Borgis and were bit of a terror. Borgis feature often in Bengali folk songs. The British helped fund much of the ditch digging, for obvious reasons.

But this is a far cry from modern India being a victim of hardcore Islamists. That's quite ridiculous. Sorry to call that rightwing wishful thinking and propaganda out.
I don't agree with your premise. But the obvious answer would be that the the trial will take place in another country under a different legal system involving none of the same people (except Assange himself).
Presumably the ad clicks are making money for the apps/sites that are displaying the ads.
Well, Tesla has done a bit of work with other automakers, but it's probably not in their shareholders' best interest to give away their huge lead in BEV tech.

So, why doesn't Tesla build that cheaper, smaller, lower-range car? It's probably because the profits in it are much smaller, and they need profits to justify their insane valuation. Every quarterly report on TSLA is sliced apart by thousands of analysts, is it in their best interest to make less profit and do slightly more good by electrifying slightly more miles? What if they went bankrupt or lost on a bunch of funding due to this strategy, and then BEVs would be set back a decade?

I'd buy the modest car myself, yes, but I don't think that it's the most financially sound way to proceed...their strategy of starting at the high-end, low-volume side seems to have worked well, so that's what they're sticking with. FWIW, I think the Model 3 is already even on costs with the plurality of new vehicle purchases in America, which with options often range from 30-50k depending on the make.
That was definitely the way he marketed himself. He knew exactly what he was doing and is a great example of marketing vs music. T-Pain knows music, and is a fantastic musician, check out his NPR gig with just a keyboardist and his natural voice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIjXUg1s5gc
Here is shellcheck compliant solution which uses no external utilities, and is explicit about our intention:

# function to imitate "nix --version" since I don't have it installed
nixv() {
echo 'nix (Nix) 2.3.4'
}

read -ra arr < <(nixv)

echo "${arr[2]}"
So low vitamin D is itself a symptom and treating deficiency is just testing a symptom.
The problem with this theory is that if someone wanted to extra-judicially grab Assange at the time it would have been easier to do this without going through a convoluted process to charge them with a totally unrelated and arguably more serious offence in Sweden. He was living there, and his address wasn't a secret.

The UK's record on unlawful rendition flights (at America's behest and otherwise) is also not good and our extradition treaty with the US very one-sided; though there was a reasonable possibility its courts might have stymied a European Arrest Warrant for something his lawyers argued wasn't equivalent to a charge and wasn't equivalent to the crimes in English law...
Bezos Bell System (Cory Doctorow)
I like to eat chicken, beefs, and porks for no other reason than it's tasty food.

Does that make me a bad person?
I had to go back and double check to find out what exposure is. Maybe? But maybe just using the platform for its use case. Maybe it’s both.
Sure, but again Tesla doesn't have a monopoly on battery storage, and battery storage would be expected to become pretty low margin.

I would think that Tesla's best avenue for lasting high margins would actually be the cars; other companies have managed that before, especially in the luxury/semi-luxury market (BMW's margins are decent, say). But they'd really need to capture the whole high end market, if not more high end market than actually exists, to justify their prices.
Not all. A major US Bank (rhymes w/ Pace Bank) used to provide this feature back in the 2000s and then rolled it back. I discovered this ~4 months ago when I wanted to buy something online but didn't fully trust the vendor. Then ended up going with Privacy.com.

I'm a huge fan and would def recommend them to anyone looking for better control over subscription charges
Their annual report does not make this distinction: https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/ad-aspi/2019-10/ASPI...

But it’s really besides the point. Instead of attacking the authors or their sponsors, perhaps we should focus on the content instead. What’s happening here would be equivalent to me attacking you or the parent (and vice versa) for having a comment history pushing CCP talking points.
Which mods do you suggest?

I figured that editing wands outside of the Holy Mountain was what the game designer intended. I can agree that maybe the game designers conception of an acceptable difficultly level doesn't mesh with what many (including myself) think is acceptable difficulty.
Good point. Back then salt was valuable in places just short distances from the ocean. Humans need salt, especially when doing hard physical labor, sweating all day.
But can you really? What are you really choosing from? One senile old man versus senior nacisistics idiot.

Doesn't seem like much of a choice.