skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This mirrors my experience. My theory is that YouTube falsely equivocates a video’s relevance to you with your desire to receive notifications about it - e.g. whether you clicked the little ‘bell’ when subscribing. This isn’t what we expect - I personally go to my feed to sees what’s new, but that’s not what YouTube creates the feed for. I don’t know what it makes the feed for, honestly.
Depends on how you do your validation, basically. It's easier to give an example if we assume m_1 is your worst model and m_n is your best: if you do a train/eval split, train m_1, eval m_1, make some tweaks to m_1 to improve that eval score and call the tweaked model m_2, etc., you'll implicitly be overfitting your better models to the eval data even though you're never actually training on it. In which case, yes, it is quite possible that given some new unrelated data, m_n will do no better than m_1 or m_2 or whatever.

If you do a train/eval/test data split instead, train+eval m_1 through m_n like before, and then rank them based on performance on the test data only after model selection is finished, you won't have that implicit overfitting to the test data, and m_n stands a better chance of beating m_1 on new datasets.

There's another way things can go wrong - if your train/eval/test data doesn't capture the full range of variability of the data source that will be producing your fresh datasets, then even if you do the train/eval/test split correctly, it's quite possible that m_n will do no better than m_1 when operating on fresh data outside of the train/eval/test distribution.

Basically, it is possible to build a sequence of models that actually improve performance on new data, but there are also lots of ways to get it wrong and produce models that look like they're doing better in a controlled environment, but fail to do better in the wild.
Smiles back to you, oh creator of forks!

I've tried several times to make a Boys Surface. It's really hard to do. Bending tubing around its own radius - really challenging. Easy to kink, difficult to get uniform. I've commissioned my friend Lucas Clarke and he's had encouraging results; alas but I've seen too many shards of 30mm diameter borosilicate tubing.

Will keep trying...
Can I just ask...WTAF are you talking about? Because you sound like a troll.
Jörg Arndt (jj) also wrote an awesome book about π.

https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/pi-unleashed
Never since I'm not American, but if I were I'd use a calculator. I think this is primarily bad for kids who have to do miles to feet conversion in math problems. It could even be lowering math scores, who knows.
I find the implication behind the exception for financial bankruptcy being left out of the encouragement to not be ashamed interesting.

When the term bankruptcy is applied in any other context than it's proper one, it takes on a positive connotation, but it should still maintain stigma in it's "proper" context?

It just sends a mixed message to me. I get what they're trying to say. A bit of "Spring cleaning" every now and again doesn't hurt, but why tie that to bankruptcy if you're intent is not to treat bankruptcy in it's intended context differently?
Yeah, the other commenter has it right - you don't have to mention queerness to build a system of prejudice, and the "marriage is between a man and a woman" is just the top headline aspect of this. Further down in the document:

"Programmes of partnerships with communi-ty organisations should respect the principle of strengthening the family and marriage and rule out the funding of any projects harmful to these values. It is especially crucial to exclude any chance of allocating public funds and public property for projects that undermine the con-stitutional identity of marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman"

== explicit prohibition on use of public funds for any pro-non-straight marriage activism

"Parents should be allowed to verify any external organisations operating on the premises of the school and any materials they use during non--compulsory classes dually: both individually and collectively – through the parents’ board. It is a good practice to present information inc-luding not only the name but also the program-me and profile of the organisation to each parent separately, in a way allowing them to become familiar with the content thereof before enrolment. A similar mechanism should be applied to any other teaching and educational activities pursu-ed by schools or institutions that go beyond the curriculum or that involve issues covered by the cu-rriculum of Family Life Education, including those financed from public grants"

== any parent can veto any external material on ideological grounds
I want to add that consumers are weak and voting with your wallet is often not possible in a constrained market, plus many consumers are stupid or "not rational" and make poor choices and are easily swayed by marketing.

Obviously we don't want to remove all avenues for self determination, but I don't think adhoc regulation or relying on consumers to reign in global corporations who now have market caps greater than GDPs of large countries is an effective option.

Finding good civil servants is difficult, but so is finding honest and effective businessmen who genuinely have consumer interest in mind.
Not sure about G Suite, but Gmail UX/UI seems to get worse with every other update -- it's cluttered with unrelated stuff, like Google's chat attempt of the month, and unbearably slow. Searching for text with diacritics is broken, even though it used to work a couple years back. Kind of absurd for a search company.
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but a few quiet voices have raised the possibility that no one is responsible for the shocking injuries. On 3 September, Le Monde pointed out that they could be a natural phenomenon – horses that have hurt themselves or died naturally and been set upon by scavengers such as foxes and crows. Previous scares, from the US to Germany, have eventually been explained this way. In the UK, in the decade from 1983, a rash of horse mutilations was widely blamed on a “horse ripper”, but despite prolonged investigations no conviction was ever made. Experts concluded that most of the injuries were sustained through accident or post mortem. A fox’s teeth are razor sharp, apparently; they can inflict damage that closely resembles a knife wound....
From
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/23/horse-...
Personally, I think MySQL died when Oracle got involved with it. The momentum was sucked right out of the project.

The great think about Postgres is it has huge momentum and the team are delivering new features. Maybe Apache has less momentum because it's matured and doesn't need much momentum.

From a momentum point of view I see Postgres as the biggest FLOSS project. I see no point in choosing another RDBMS right now. Time to short ORA stock
can be swapped out for another floss database pretty easy without any real impact. internet in general would be significantly worse right now if FF or apache never took off
I don't mean how he would verify it, I mean how we might verify it.
I have to second the call to declare email bankruptcy. Just go in and archive every email from more than, say, one month ago (or one week, or if you want to be bold, everything). Guess what? The world won’t end, and you’ll still be able to refer to anything you need simply by … opening your archive.

One think the author didn’t mention was browser tab bankruptcy. Years ago Firefox was just flaky enough that it would sometimes lose all tabs, and that wasn’t really a bad thing in the long run, although it was highly annoying in the short run.
Good point, I believe Linebarger was talking about whole-country operations, not just messaging for the fronts.

"Political Limitations of Psychological Warfare." and "Definition of the Enemy." are interesting sections.

He does mention that communication, even mid-20th century, was prone to retweeting: "German broadcasters who emphasized the anti-capitalist character of National Socialism in the programs beamed to Eastern Europe found that B.B.C. picked up the most tactless statements and repeated them to Western Europe, where the Germans posed as anti-Bolshevik champions of private property. American attacks on the Germans for associating with Japanese monkey-men were passed along by the Japanese to the Chinese, who did not like the slur either."

(Another anecdote he tells is about getting into a flame war that went around the world. In hindsight, he regrets getting mixed up in it, yet admits he'd had the dopamine hit at the time.)

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interesting to view this para of "Political Limitations" in hindsight:

> "President Roosevelt, in his conduct of the political world role of the United States, promised Manchuria to the Chinese, Korea "in due course" to the Koreans, and the integrity of the French Colonial Empire to the French; outside of that he avoided specific promises. In another instance (to put a complicated matter baldly), the British promised Palestine to both the Arabs and to the Jews in World War I, and consequently got themselves into a political mess which, thirty years later, was still a mess."

It not only explains indochina/vietnam but also I think we could fairly update that "thirty years" to 100.
Re "Amazon deforestation" — those lands haven't been deforested because of the western country's consumption of meat, they've been deforested because people are starving, and they need to put food on the table, and be lifted out of poverty.

And countries, such as Brazil, are only now doing what the western countries have been doing all throughout the 19th and the 20th century. I know this sounds terrible, but you have no right to demand that Brazil stops the deforestation, and in fact you have no sway either, because you are not buying the result of their agriculture anyway.

If western countries want the deforestation of the Amazon to stop, the cold, harsh reality is that they should subsidize the price for it.

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As for making personal changes, if eating soy makes you feel any better, sure, do that, but stop shaming people for eating meat. Because in the large scheme of things, switching from meat to soy does mostly nothing for the environment.

The reason is that, going vegan, as an individual, only saves you a couple of $ in CO2 emissions per year. That's right. All of your efforts are only worth a couple of $ per year in CO2 emissions. And even if you think that's worth it, those emissions would be re-allocated to industry anyway.

Also, ironically, the behavior of people going green changes. If you have an electric car, for example, you might feel the need to ride it more, to make more trips. Because it's cheaper, and you've been a good citizen, you've earned it. And when that happens, and it does, your net emissions might not go as low as you'd think. Never mind that the subsidies for electric cars are yet again subsidies for the rich.

Go carless first, then we can talk about not eating meat ;-)

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Real change will come from technological progress. It always came from technological progress. Remember whales? Whales were not saved by political activism, by individuals refusing to use whale oil. Whales were saved because cheap replacements for whale oil became available.

Ironically, renewable energy might not be very green at all. Maybe we should address the fact that solar panels are super inefficient, taking up massive land use, and their recycling is super expensive. Instead of investing more in nuclear energy, money is being diverted on solutions that may in fact be worse for the environment than cleaner fossil fuels (e.g. gas).

We are currently unable to replace fossil fuels with cleaner alternatives, because "renewable" energy isn't up to snuff, and because of nuclear-phobia, which prevents investments in nuclear power.

But sure, let's all eat soy, that will save the planet.
A quote from 2016 that I heard agrees with your thesis: "I can't throw a Molotov cocktail through the window of the White House, but I can throw a Donald Trump." Many view him as a "fuck you" candidate and like him precisely because the majority of the elite and the political process doesn't. They don't care if he does a lot of damage or even acts against their interest because it's not like anyone was paying attention to their interests beforehand anyway.
Fontawesome licensing is incompatible with a lot of commercial use, eg, as soon as you have a CMS end-users post comments etc on, even though the intent was pay-per-designer+dev, not end user
"The Coalition for App Fairness", I cannot not laugh.

On the stage you have:

Epic - Trying to be the next Valve/Steam.
Happy to rip off their customers via in-game transactions.

Spotify - Who rip off artists by either failing or paying very little in royalties.

Tinder - Sells sex.

None of these companies have any care for the actual developer; who are the folk trying to make a living from their creations.
Videos from independent creators won't be able to go viral. Your viewership would be bounded by your network throughput. Even if you're already popular, a disproportionate number of your views will come as soon as you upload a video, so you would be end up paying for a lot of bandwidth you don't need.
Only a very small fraction of Indians care or are aware about privacy. Even if there was no Jio, you wouldn't still have privacy. American/Chinese government and businesses already have access to your data. To think that governments will voluntarily abandon control over data is wishful. That ship has already sailed. I would rather give my data to Indian government and companies than foreign.

Also, you are really underemphasising the role of Jio in the digital revolution in India. If you live in India, you would remember the exorbitant data charges by telecom companies in the pre-Jio era. At least because of Jio, internet has more become accessible to the masses.
Thank you, don't hesitate to reach us through gitter or discourse or else.
I wouldn't even say the reported stats are misleading, just that "accuracy" in a headline is too vague to ascertain performance when you're trying to detect (relatively) rare events.
Or he will kill himself, the past few days of testimony have made it clear he sees suicide as a better option than US prison.
Be a Wizard: Controlling volume using Gestures
> I suspect social conservatives have so much power in the US because they attend church and that forms a nexus of political organization.

I expect them to have more in the future as they are outbreeding (republicans VS democrats) pretty handily. [1]

Although not every kid votes for the same party as their parents, most do. And generally this swap trades places both ways, evenly.

[1] https://www.fatherly.com/health-science/republicans-have-mor...
Cool, thank you! I've never seen Quarkus before so it's new to me, but I've had some success with Micronaut so I was a little confused. Surprised they don't work together; the goals do seem very similar.
Sorry I typed that out and left to run some chores. I had a second report open from the same organisation and I quoted 73% not 72%, fixed in the parent comment.

Both reports:
https://www.wilderness.org.au/images/resources/Beef-Deforest...

https://www.wilderness.org.au//images/resources/The_Drivers_...
My inbox is now noisy with newsletters. This hasn't worked that well for me so far.

edit: typo fix.
Don't mean to be pushy, but: Are there really toasters, of any vintage, that can have an energized case due to a reverse-wired receptacle? I'm doubtful, but I don't know.
Spotify, Epic, Tile, Match, more rallying developers against App Store policies
> Any plan that relies on self-imposed austerity measures of billions of people from disparate groups is doomed to failure

True, but if people who otherwise realize the necessity of the change are unwilling to subject themselves to any inconvenience, what hope do we have of ever making the kinds of organized societal changes that are necessary? If you are unwilling to make a tiny change like reducing your meat consumption, you're probably the kind of person who would never vote for a government that forces you to.

The argument is simply way to excuse your own behavior.
That's incorrect. You're confusing SARs with CTRs, which are reports of cash transactions. SARs are for the most part at the discretion of bank compliance officers, although there are a few "automatic" ones.
I'm not really understanding the four points.

A and B would be reasons not to extradite, while C and D would be reasons to extradite.
"Tabloid is a real, turing complete programming language written in JavaScript, inspired by _cilckbait_ headlines."

I like the deliberate misspelling of "clickbait," it layers a spam email feel on top of the clickbait ethos. Bravo!
Post your no-code landing and I'll tell you how to convert visits into customers
> cattle is raised on land that is unsuitable for crop production

This doesn't really matter - it's about the fact that the cattle are eating crops that could have more efficiently been directly turned into food. Unless you're claiming most Australian cattle aren't given feed? (Hint: pretty much all cattle are given feed, even the "free-range" ones)

> If they respond by stopping eating meat, then great - not the best choice, but a step in the right direction. If they respond by stopping to care where their food comes from then not so great.

In terms of the environmental impact, "caring where your food comes from" is truly, qualitatively nothing compared to stopping eating meat. Why are you trying to push this message?
Testimony to House committee by former Facebook executive Tim Kendall
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> The author is advocating for mockist style of unit testing

IMO: "mockist" style of unit tests are best for corner cases that can only be tested in isolation. For example, error conditions that are important to verify, but so difficult or impossible to test that the only way to test them is to test a single class in isolation.
Electric vehicle charging network ChargePoint to go public at $2.4bn valuation
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I agree with you overall, in an ideal world we all have near unlimited compute power and even these "longer" e2e tests run in a few minutes, not hours. Unfortunately it's also not terribly uncommon to see these e2e suites take many hours, or sometimes even days to run.

I think the happy medium might be using a dependency-aware testing pipeline that only runs tests for areas affected by the current commit's changes. I've seen Bazel used in this kind of setup with some success, for example.

Ideally no bugs make it to production, but that's almost never the reality. Obviously it'll depend on your software's use-case and user demographics, but you could erode user-trust just as bad by having a trivial user-facing bug sit visible on your app/site for a few days or weeks because your CI/CD pipeline takes so long to run that it prevents you from pushing out timely releases.
Classic! Easy take recognitions
Well you need to dive quite deep into Category theory before you learn what exponential objects are, which are the constructs you need to have:

a -> (b -> c) ≅ (a, b) -> c

Note that the two aren't equal, merely isomorphic, but Haskell has lots of synctactic sugar that lets you pretend the two are equal.

This leads to a bit of an impedance mismatch when you throw functors in the mix, as functors are a general category theory concept and therefore do not play nice with exponential objects which only some specific categories have. This is not an insurmountable problem, but it means you suddenly need a lot more category theory to do category theory in Haskell.

Without currying as first class citizen you can just lift a function f :: (a,b) -> c as follows:

fmap f :: F (a, b) -> F c

okay you've got a tuple in your functor, but those are simple enough to deal with, however if you try this with the curried variant you get:

fmap f :: F a -> F (b -> c)

okay it takes an 'F a' as input, no surprises there, but it returns you a function wrapped in your Functor, which can be tricky to deal with as most people will expect their constructs to contain data, not functions.

You can then get to grips with this by learning about Appplicative, which you'll then find out turns your functor into a lax monoidal functor. However for someone getting to grips with category theory this is a lot to process.
A nine-day old greenhorn account is here telling us that LGBTQ+ rights are not only a social good, but the pillar of democracy, and if someone disagrees, they are fundamentally antidemocratic?

I'm sorry, but I think you're confusing liberalism with democracy. In a liberal democracy, we usually balance the two, by placing some realm of basic human and constitutional rights outside the realm of democratic political contestation. To say that submitting certain questions to the voters is undemocratic is a contradiction in terms.
Biden is the "things don't get worse" candidate. Positive change is simply not on the agenda.
Wikipedia Pageviews and Stock Prices
Use Cases for Voice Cloning with Artificial Intelligence
Measuring the importance of Postgres is tricky. I’ve noticed that a lot of new DB services use Postgres tech at some level. Cockroach DB is a good example and arguably a pretty important project.
It depends what you mean by "easy" here, but if you define that as "throw a big enough network at it, and it'll figure it out on its own in training", the research cited shows that is the case.

The power you describe comes in part from network size (which is why NNs became more useful as we could size up as computing got more powerful/cheaper/more efficient). Small network means less powerful ability. The research showed smaller networks didn't work, but larger ones did. Seems like you'd agree?
A lot of people assume that what (they think) is trivial for them is trivial for others who not interview as well, have flags on their resume, etc. Furthermore, what may have been trivial in 2000, 2007, or 2019 might not be so trivial 12 months later.

Taking some time off may still make sense but it's always going to be a bit of a calculated risk.
I like this idea. There are going to be a million reasons why it won't work that people will bring up, but ultimately I suspect they're all addressable.

One concern that would have to be addressed upfront would be to avoid having this turn into another Youtube. For example, once you have a great video aggregation site, there will be a desire to start hosting videos yourself. At that point you can start monetizing them and will inevitably want to promote that content, turning yourself into another Youtube. Basically once you control the demand, the supply side is easy to displace. I guess making it open source could address some of this.

Also, should definitely call it opentube.com (already taken of course, but surprisingly not in use).
I used to be a big Oracle fan in the late 1990s, but now can't see the point in paying big bucks for Oracle DB.

Are there any legitimate reasons to pick Oracle over Postgres for a new project? Apart from "support"
How to get Safari's Privacy Report stamp of approval for your website
Apple built their controlled ecosystem and set their rules. And now others are insisting that Apple should not have that control (even when they themselves are doing the same thing).
I mentioned this above on another comment but you're confusing SARs and CTRs.
> I don't think that's a helpful way to look at it. Facebook is a platform that other people use to change what people think, and that's dangerous enough.

I'm not sure there is a distinction. Intent doesn't matter. If your system is used by other people do X, then you are building a system that does X. The Purpose Of A System Is What It Does [1]. You can't just wipe your hands and say "hey it's just a platform, it's really other people doing this stuff!" Knowing what their system does, they wake up every day and with intent say "We are going to continue with this system".

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...