skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't see what the "default" has to do with what I'm saying.

Indeed. Based on your other comments in the thread, it looks like you're committed to not understanding.

> The parent post was literally talking about prohibiting things one doesn't like

The parent post was literally talking about not talking extra effort to whitelist things they don't like. There's a real difference between that and what you're saying, and whether you want to acknowledge it or not doesn't change whether that distinction exists.
I second this. It’s an incredible time saver. I don’t do the powered water fountain anymore though. The last two filled with a disgusting bio film in the pump that was nearly impossible to clean and is unhealthy for the cat. I had to dump both. You need to clean them super regularly. Easier to just use a bowl and swap it out every few days. Or a large bowl when we go on a trip.
> George: I’m doing X, and I got this error, how do I fix it

The question should be

"I want to do A. I have tried doing it using X, but it doesn't work. Can you help me find a better solution?"

The key is knowing what you want to achieve - which is A.
> everywhere you turn people wish to play the I'm the biggest victim game.

> Let us strive for balance and not the extremes.
I hear you — but I can also see the opposite perspective, at least in the case of TV journalism. Once we lost the almost religious reverence for the nightly news anchor, it devolved into pure spin.

I also think that in a case like the news, there is a real need to step outside of the current cultural phenomena and engineer it — what are the known requirements for the news and how do we move from here to there.
Agreed, the idea is interesting and worthy of further exploration. For starters, does it scales beyond MNIST or 'tiny synthetic datasets'?
Unfamiliar with FB. What are those "Events"?
It's more hygienic

Also, buying and carrying toilet paper is not really practical.
For many sensor data models, CEP is a core element of the data flow but the constraint/query data model is much larger and more dynamic than is typically supported in classic off-the-shelf CEP systems.

This isn't necessarily an issue, complex constraint matching is typically a fundamental part of the ingest path anyway given the algorithms used; making it support more generalized CEP is a fairly straightforward extension of the same computer science mechanics that make polygon search scale efficiently.
I don't know, maybe content recommendations systems could be considered weapons...
Find products with low NPS and high fragmentation. No need for an entirely novel idea. Even the best products we use everyday were very likely not brand new ideas.
There's no mention of price anywhere in the source material though.
LyX probably raised my college GPA by a tenth of a point all on its own just by ensuring I could refer to equations in old papers and still read them later. It’s been well over a decade somehow and I’m still grateful. Amazing tool.
If you're interested in the original PDP-11 handbook, it's available on bitsavers.org: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp11/1120/PDP-11_Handbook_Seco...
Is somebody going to do this for the PDP-10? My first programming experience was on the PDP-10 and I loved how symmetrical the instruction set was. Of course a maximum user address space of 256K 36-bit words would never fly nowadays, but for the time it seemed awesome.
Chrome has some special logic about autoplay. The following page describes them, but I feel like it's a bit more complicated in more recent versions of Chrome.

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-p...
In France, the non profit organisation Envie is doing exactly that. It also employs long term unemployed to teach them a trade, it runs similarly as Emmaus. I buy stuff there because of what they do with unemployed people, but I am not sure they turn a profit.

Honestly speaking, it is hard for them to compete with cheap chinese white goods, their used goods are just a tad cheaper than brand new chinese goods.

Check out https://www.envie.org/
Wondering what brand of reverse osmosis system you recommend? It’s hard to tell what is genuinely good.

Also, what to do about replacing mineral content?

Thanks in advance.
I never said money is the only motivator; also egalitarianism and promoting mediocracy does negatively impact people who want to attain personal growth, being treated the same as the village idiot is not a morale booster. Appreciation is a top motivator according to Maslow.
Agreed, we have a lot of work ahead of us. :-)

Drop us an email (willowpatchgames@gmail.com) when you are ready and I'd love to hear what games you usually play.
At least it has a blockchain, so it must be good.
Amazon did the same thing to me — the AWS SDK for PHP. Except that they hired me, but then began telling me what I could and could not do with the project, how I was/wasn't allowed to talk about it, and forced me to drop support for services that they didn't want to support + I wasn't allowed to communicate to customers why.

A couple of years later, they brought on the creator of Boto (AWS SDK for Python), but I bitched at them so much to make absolutely sure that what happened to me wouldn't happen to Mitch. Boto is still an independent OSS project today.
Sounds like you’ve misunderstood stoicism as a concept, but curious how you approach life post-stoicism?
Direct link to paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.08449.pdf

Interesting paper, although the headline is of course sensational. The crux of the paper is that by using "soft labels" (for example a probability distribution rather than one-hot), it's possible to create a decision boundary that encodes more classes than you have examples. In fact, only two examples can be used to encode any finite number of classes.

This is interesting because it means that, in theory, ML models should be able to learn decision spaces that are far more complex than the input data has traditionally been thought to encode. Maybe one day we can create complex, generalizable models using a small amount of data.

As written, this paper does not provide much actionable information. The problem is a toy problem, and is far from being useful in "modern" AI techniques (especially things like deep learning or boosted trees). The paper also is not practical in the sense that in real life you don't know what your decision boundary should look like (that's what you learn after all), and there's no obvious way to know which data to collect to get a decision boundary you want.

In other words, this paper has said "this representation is mathematically possible" and is hoping that future work can actually make it useful in practice.
Interesting. When I was in high school, I wrote some software to denoise datasets with a genetic algorithm (it's what we had before deep learning was a thing ;). I showed it to my math teachers and they were horrified; they told me that you cannot change data once it's been collected.

I realize now that their take is kind of wrong -- pretty much every instrument in the world performs filtering on what it samples before it presents you a number. Saying you can't filter data kind of misses the point, because almost every real-world system is bandwidth limited and acts as a low-pass filter. But sometimes there are different noise sources, and you can probably write an algorithm to attack them without being "inaccurate". (For example, ever measure very low voltages at relatively high frequency? You'll see a nice 60Hz component in there, because you are surrounded by a 60Hz electric field. That's noise, not data. Apparently averaging through multiple power line cycles is fine, but writing a program to do the same thing is wrong. Seems weird to me.)

Anyway, I'm still bitter about it. (That, and how in 4th grade I got a C in science because we had to make a flipbook about earthquakes that had to be titled "quakin' shakin' earth" and I spelled "quakin'" and "shakin'" wrong. Still don't know how to spell either of those contractions, or what flipbooks have to do with science. They don't come up in real life much. But I sure am bitter, 26 years later.)
> unlimited Volume [1]

[1] after exceeding 3GB of storage the IO operations are limited to 32kbit/s
The idea is not that you should act like it is no issue... you should act that it is an issue that you can do something about.

Being stoic is not giving up on the world altogether; it is understanding what you can control. You can control how you handle a situation if you do not view yourself as a victim. The moment you start thinking that you are a victim, you lose control of the situation.

Some people truly ARE VICTIMS - but it is rare that thinking that you have some power over the situation and there is something that you can do about it is a bad idea.

Something like this: https://butwhatfor.substack.com/p/takeaway-tuesday-facing-ad...
It shouldn’t require them. I thought I saw a comment by the author explaining why they chose to use them, but there’s been like six different threads on three different forums and I can’t find it right now...

I know some C++ folks were annoyed it’s using regex due to criticisms of the standard regex libraries that can’t be fixed, or something, so it’s also not like folks agree that the original solution was optimal. I don’t think it was trying to be, so seems fine, but it is what it is.
the most obvious case is that people don't have a bank account or are 'underbanked' in the US that amounts to about a quarter of the population[1]. I think covid has shown what a mess it is to get everyone their relief money. If everyone had a digital account with the FED it'd literally be a few clicks of a button.

[1]https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/08/25percent-of-us-households-a...
Isotope – Catching bugs in back end services without writing tests
How does WhatRuns.com make money?
I just found https://www.whatruns.com/ and also found a 3-year-old HN discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15098028) on this tool. I really like it, but I just can't figure out what the operators of that site get out of it? It's free, there's no premium version and they claim to not collect any data. I'm a bit sceptical.
Google owns Doubleclick since 2007, shouldn't be a surprise.
Yup, fwiw I'm not actually aware of a fully shielded zk-snark cryptocurrency in production yet, was just using that as a hypothetical example, like a ZCash with only z-addresses.
> required to retain order and stability

There've been numerous transitions to democracy that have occurred without juntas. Your dog-whistling about cultural issues in Africa ignores the failure of juntas in places as diverse as Greece, Burma, and Egypt.

Ultimately though, the merits of juntas in general are not relevant. Do you agree with Bolsonaro that Brazil would have been better off if the military had disappeared more leftists? Do you think that is a reasonable stance for a head of state to hold?
It's no Dacia Sandero, though.
About a year ago I finally allowed myself to get into photography as a hobby by buying a Nikon Z50 two lens kit. I've had so much fun with it while trying to get better at composition that it's well worth the price. It's given me a creative hobby that I can practice away from the screen and away from my house.
the entire things reads like someone trying to push an alternative. there is no evidence in one direction or the other, and nothing is really being said with any conviction.

native advertising is real, and subtlety is key sometimes. if this was not sponsored by the app mentioned in the last paragraph, i'd be very surprised.
From that exact report you just linked...

77.4 percent of people admitted to the ICU were above age 60.

Also you're wrong with your numbers. You skipped females. So in total around 30% of people admitted to the ICU are age 60-69.

There's not a whole lot of 80+ year old people considering the average lifespan is mid 70's, so you have to do the per capita math on that.
“Apple charged them almost the full price of the device to have it fixed.”

What kind of repair are you talking about?
Aha, I didn't notice the little [+] widget next to the Iterator trait in the docs. You have to click it to get the Item type, otherwise it's hidden. Thanks!
The biggest issue for me is that I have more than one serious interest. I don’t want to pick just one. I feel this design encourages monoculture and echo chambers rather than diversity of ideas.
Solid Relevance
Mastodon doesn't prevent censorship. If anything it makes it worse. Instead of dealing with professional community managers operating with clear rules, you are at the mercy of some random nerd running a server from his mom's basement. You can run your own instance, but then you're just talking to yourself. Nothing is stopping you from building your own Twitter, hell we had blogs for years before Twitter. You go to Twitter so you don't have to promote yourself to get an audience, and abiding by Twitter's censorship policies is the cost of admission.
I don't see how any politicians are getting much out of lockdowns right now. Especially since polling places are still open and most people can vote by mail.
Interesting and thank you for the link. 100% agree that both of the articles linked in the write-up should be read.

#1 is a little wordy, but worth it to understand how Stockdale is thinking. #2 is more fun to read.
I assume bgorman is American, as he has quotes the values in miles, even when the website gives them first in metric.

130km/h is the motorway speed limit in many European countries, this car's top speed is 125km/h. It's advertised as a "city car" though, so it's probably fine. In and near cities the limit on motorways is often 110km/h or less anyway.
Same thing happens in Bulgaria.

First they start with Ethernet to the buildings and one switch for each entrance to all occupants. And they was times when most of infrastructure was above the ground on poles. That was 20 years ago.

But like 10+ years ago they start making fiber to the buildings (FTTB) and now they're migrating to fiber to the home (FTTH).

For now most of infrastructure is underground.
I think if you take "just" out of your comment you're spot on. :) Also, I know what you mean but for completeness, random noise is learnable, we do this all the time. You can identify the onset and offset not just of noise but different types of noise. If you mix blue and brown noise and listen to it for a while and then drop one of the noise channels you definitely notice it. You aren't learning the specific values of any part of the noise (as you say this is unpredictable) but the frequency components are consistent enough that we constantly subtract them from our sensory streams all the time.

Noise tolerance is one of the most fascinating aspects of biological intelligence IMHO :)
I like to think of this as adversarial training data. Adversarial inputs in general trick a NN to producing a specific output -- Adversarial training data tricks the NN into learning specific weights.

Note that the distilled data is not even from the same "domain" of input data any more. They're basically adversarial inputs.
Sure. None of it is secret.

There are regulations in place that enforce specific agenda under the guise of AML, fraud, sanctions, etc. For banks and MSBs type businesses that typically are covered under BSA. But even if you think you are not covered by BSA, there is always FinCEN, where OFAC's strict liability is a pretty big stick.

That was high level, but during a more recent conference I participated in ( ages ago now, but on that particular subject ), the discussion of AML professionals suggested something along the lines of 'we can already identify those illicit transactions, why can't we just stop them' ( and to a large degree it is true; your credit card, your bank, your msb knows to large degree what you are buying and what you may be into based on those purchases ). That particular conversation was about CBD products, which at the time were on a weird legal ground.

I want you to think about it. Your bank is already capable of deciding a specific type of product is bad for you. Has been for a while and there are people would like to have a say on what is bad. And they are gaining ground.

My point is, there is already sufficient amount of control each gate keeper has. All it really needs is a request from government to start gate keeping.

Hope this answer the question. There are obviously things I should not be talking about on a public forum and company specific info I can't talk about.
Because central banks have no direct control over regular bank accounts? Regular bank accounts are not held at central banks (yet).
Germ Warfare Allegations Against the USA: The Smoking Gun Discovered
You also need to account for how much people respect their government and policies in their respective countries.
I had to go back and check that you were the same person who suggested:

> Nationalization of the grid assets and a massive nuclear building spree is the only solution

I'm not sure even you know what you want.
Brand New Day, with its 43,000 members, is probably doing somewhere on the order of $430 million of revenue this year (43k members x $1k in premium per year)

Ehhh...isnt that $43m?
Of course it is, and the naivety of webdevelopers that continue justifying a “chrome first” workflow is beyond irresponsible at this point.
I don’t support this as, excepting in medical and large infra where common languages improve important outcomes, API interoperability of consumer bullshit is an arbitrary goal.

We keep legislating pointless high level goals.

I’d rather legislate high level goals like M4A, free education.

I refuse to put political agency into logistical normalization for big business who can afford to do it themselves.

And I don’t believe forcing social norms on humans is acceptable in general. Indeed, I think it’s a truism our biology will always resist.

This is bill is too narrowly scoped to web technologists concerns. After 20+ years in software, I’ve learned technologists are no more important to any big picture as anyone else.

Air travel and medical science did this on their own. There’s no reason private enterprise of dubious value to society need governments mandates for trading gifs.

It’s electrons in a circuit already. There’s your generic interface.

Given recent economic success and shallow human egos, software people have slid into a dopamine fueled circular mirage, decoupled from reality.
Again, I'd really suggest reading the source article in more detail, because it lists quite a few descriptions of politicians getting political advantage out of lockdowns.
Do you have any suggested material on your first two sentences?

Think beginner that has mainly focused on western ideas wanting to get a foundation in eastern philosophy and then go from there.
Actually, reality has fine print....

Instead of overseas visitors spending in NZ and rich NZ'ers spending their tourist dollars overseas .... the richer NZ'ers are spending locally.

Turns out not as different as the doomsayers predicted.
I just love reading her stuff. She must be a joy to work with.

Our industry needs as much humanity and empathy as possible. She sets a high bar.

It goes without saying that she's obviously absolutely brilliant, but she's also energetic, curious and polite.
Malaysia to grant amnesty for illegal immigrants if they surrender voluntarily
It’s little more than a current account at the central bank rather than a commercial bank.

Which of course removes bank solvency risk - just like cash
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' "Being older was associated with lower susceptibility to misinformation in every country except in Mexico." '

Sooner or later, I'll think research will find that this has precious little to do with age, rather it's more to do with the education people received when young. It wasn't until around the late 1970s or early '80s that postmodernism (or the worst bits of it) infiltrated our schools. That's when postmodernism's pushers reclassified concepts and kids were taught that things and ideas ceased to have absolute states or values such as true or false or black or white, or that logic really wasn't that logical after all—instead everything was deemed to be just various shades of grey and or 'possible maybes'. That this 'logic' was forced on such young minds until it became mantra is, in my opinion, treason committed upon society.

The tragedy is that at the time those of us who knew better either didn't notice what was happening or thought it was nonsense that would soon pass. Unfortunately, it didn't. Like the frog in ever-increasingly warm water, we were oblivious to the fact.

Fortunately, most of my education was before that time so it's obvious to me what's happened. What I still don't quite understand is why nowadays this inability to reason is so profound and widespread. How is it that so many people are afflicted with this lack-of-thinking 'disease'? [What I'm reasonably certain about is that the kids I went to school with wouldn't have been as gullible or taken in as easily. I base this on the comparatively high standard of formal debates we often had at school and the cogent reactions of the kids to those debates (both those on and off the debating teams). We were in fact taught to think logically!]

I'm far from being in the genius class, and I'm not bullet-proof against gullibility nor am I completely impervious to bullshit either, but I've not the slightest trouble seeing through most of this crap and nonsense. So what gives? In the absence of instruction or education, are people truly this naïve and naturally so (in the a priori sense that is)? I would have thought that with evolution/survival of the fittest at play, we humans would have inherited more nous than it appears that we actually have. Does anyone really know the answer to these questions, or is it now a matter for serious research?

That many people cannot correlate straightforward information and or reason their way though a problem as simple as 'the mask problem/the effectiveness of masks' is very serious and an utter tragedy for society. What truly frightens me is that this is a good indicator of how thinly both the veils of civilization and education hang over us. It really does signify to me that it wouldn't take many catastrophic or cataclysmic events for civilization to return to the dark ages—a time when society once again starts worshiping various idols or performs sacrifices to appease the gods as the Incas once did.

This ought to be a wake-up call to those of us who are in the know but who've been living in a state of somnolence and apathy over the past 30 to 40 or so years.
And when this boondoggle inevitably fails, and Europe falls further behind, the EU will reach for their tried and true hammer - protectionist laws and regulatory capture.
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I've started to view Technology Review as a PR puff piece for MIT. They often overstate claims or leave out critical details.

As an example, the media lab is still citing innovation with deep fakes, claiming entirely novel results people are shocked to see. They hype their own researchers even though there are kids on YouTube who that have been making similar content up to a year prior to Technology Review's publication.

I suspect they do the same with fields I'm less familiar with.
Maybe comparing pandemic response is more complicated than a dumping of numbers on wildly unrelated countries?

A more accurate comparison that controls for location, culture, political structure, economic situation, etc is between Sweden and the other Nordic countries where it had both higher mortality and worse economic outcomes than its sister nations. Carefully consider your preexisting biases when it comes to interpreting something as complex as the respond of entire nations to an unprecedented pandemic.

Maybe Argentinians just refuse to listen to their government? Maybe environmental factors or lack of infrastructure made it way worse down there and it would be even worse if it weren't for the lockdowns?