skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who's going around designing a system that will have severe consequences without mitigating the problem of misclassification? There are techniques available, such as autoencoders, sensor fusion, ensembles, using multiple images, training on "neither" examples, asking for human confirmation, etc. It might never be perfect but neither are humans. We see monsters in the dark, the virgin Mary on toast, a face on Mars, optical illusions, get our attention distracted (magic tricks), act maliciously, fall asleep, etc.

The weird failure modes thing already happened with lossy image compression. Characters in non-OCRed text go replaced with different ones by photocopiers, and people saw spaceships in space probe photos of the sun. We'll get used to the odd banana riding a motorbike and realize what's up.
It seems the American definition of Asian appears to exclude the Indian subcontinent
Thanks. It was included because I heard a comment in https://conf.activitypub.rocks/#talks "Let's Play and Win Our Own Game" saying it had basic support.
Art schools that teach you visual art and craft is a thing. So I don’t see why it would be impossible to teach the art of building software. We just need to change our methods.
To catch fake negatives, why not do simple sentiment analysis on each review pair, and insure positive > negative, etc. before the user posts?
> I’m sorry but that is not a “basic well-known fact” that is just conjecture.

Wrong both times.

> If you want to make that claim stick you’d need to do a peer reviewed comparison of DNA and prove it.

Seriously, it's been done. Your personal massive ignorance is not a good argument for anything.

> If you really want to play this game consider that China and India share a border.

Yes, the Himalayas. It's one of the most formidable, uncrossable borders in the world.
I don't understand the details of the the math, or PyTorch, but do have the strong sense that this will yield orders of magnitude efficiency improvements in training and applying neural networks.

It would be quite a stretch for me to use this against MNIST, but it might be worth it.
Drive less or face post-lockdown gridlock, UK transport experts warn
Renewables are intermittent, pumped hydro could work at the expense of destroying Scottish national parks.
Freewheel storage could also work. But SMRs are not ready yet, as outlined in the article. MSR thorium reactors are far in the future, probably past 2030. The closest to being done is NuScale's design which is a natural circulation PWR. But it was just approved this year. Also Russia has a barge with two naval reactors, but theycre small and I don't see the UK licensing Russian designs anytime soon.
What distro did you end up with?
Flatten all the curves! \o/

Our daily routines are so synchronized that we see these massives peaks everywhere. Not only in energy consumption but also in road use (congestion), commuting services (packed subway cars) or in super markets (low fraction of total available checkouts needed during most times of the day because their number was dimensioned for peak times). I'm sure you can find other examples if you think about it.

Flattening the demand over time by allowing to spread out daily routines (by not requiring or forbidding certain opening hours or office hours for example) so our infrastructure would not need to be dimensioned for these outsized peaks would be addressing the actual underlying issue. Building nuclear plants and more streets might be an easier task as the other would require personal and societal change ... and people are creatures of habit (which is something we should never underestimate).
"Asian" in American parlance simply doesn't mean people from the whole continent. That's the way it is.
Fashionweb.io Review: Dior.com
Miss "default template" Dior
We are continuing to review fashion websites, next up is Dior. Another big player that has been amongst the more reluctant to sell their luxury goods online, but they are waking up to the fact that The Times They Are A-Changin’.
I really would love an open source, hackable FPGA DAC like the Chord DACs. What would be needed in addition to these cool looking boards for that to happen, I guess to code is pretty complicated for the USB interface to make it appear as a sound output ideally without drivers. Some kind of accurate clock and an output stage? Not sure if actually converting PCM to voltages over time is really that complicated...
That's why k8s is not a good fit for early startups. It will consume too much of your time that is better spent developing a product that the public wants.
most people's definition of asian refers to the far east (and southeast) asian. India is somewhat explicitly excluded, even tho geographically they are on the same continent as "asians".

I think you will just have to get used to it. It's the same as referring to USA as America - excluding all of South America.
What I found was that people cannot relate to individuals with chronic pain or illness.

If the person talks about it most will interpret that as complaining or having negative view on life.

It’s quite hard for me to watch as my loved ones get rejected by people in their environment if they sometimes mention their pain.

My advice is always to just not talk about it. I feel like most people today just don’t have the capacity to be emphatic, instead they give advice and get hurt when the advice isn’t accepted, accusing you of being negative and not accepting “help”.
I'm very glad the story started with Peter Idah and it's nice to see someone like Kelsey get this recognition for his hard work. The industry (and the world at large) is skewed in ways we can't really understand without being in other people's shoes and this is a small glimpse into that reality. You should be rewarded for the merits of your work and instead we're marginalised by the colour of our skin. I've never experienced what Kelsey has, or maybe I'm just ignorant to the signs, but it's important that more people like Kelsey come to be in positions of "power" and become role models for those who need to see someone like them can make it to where he has.
I was specifically referring to energy spent to build and operate / energy actually generated over lifetime, so called EROI. My post refers to the sources of the info
I stopped writing on Complexity Theory
"during the fires, armed vigilantes set up “checkpoints” in small towns"

That's quite a claim given that the reference link doesn't even exist.
Watching League of legends World finals.
The course's github page also has previous years' materials:

https://github.com/CMU-313/CMU-313.github.io
Middle Ages called, they want their concepts back.

Why is "geographical independency" desirable here?

We ditched the concept of self-sufficiency long ago for almost every other product. Your iPhone was not built here. Your banana was not grown here. The corn might have been grown half a country away. The drugs you might have been prescribed were maybe not produced in your country at all. Why would energy be so different in that regard? (#)

Intermittency is much easier solved geographically than temporally. Move energy instead of trying to store it for local use later. Self-sufficiency was necessary in medieval times because it was impossible to move large amounts of things fast and easy. We solved this problem and famines went away as well. Any famine you hear about today is not caused by logistics or unavailability of food in general but by political or societal problems.

High-voltage direct current (HVDC) power transmission also exists. China has power lines that can transfer gigawatts over distances of thousands of kilometers. Today.

Losses of HVDC are roughly 3% per 1000km by the way, so it is not even that half of the energy is lost in the process.

(#) It actually is different in the regard that effects of lost or cut power (the latter in case of talking about a conflict) are more immediate than they are for most physical products. The latter are usually to some degree in transit or storage so production issues are not immediately felt. It feels like this problem can be solved by even more interconnectedness of power grids. (In Europe, more than a TW (Terawatt)of power sources and consumers are connected to the same grid already, even though a relatively low fraction of this power can be moved over larger distances at the moment.)
No, not every fire can be prevented, but one can:

1. Reduce known and common sources of ignition, reducing their frequency (PG&E should be involved in this)

2. Regularly do controlled burns so that huge fires are rarer

3. Improve standoff room so that when fires do happen, they do less damage to where the people actually are. (This is the town and property owner's responsibility)

Number 3 is really important, because some of the worst hit areas in CA were built way too close to the interface between wilderness and urban areas. Living among the trees might be really nice, but when the fire comes there will be no stopping it at all.
Not the OP, but I also had sciatica as a teen. In my case, it was caused by a chair whose seat was not level; it tilted slightly to the side. It went on for a year or two, I think. Eventually I realized what the cause was, got rid of the chair, and the pain gradually got better until it went away completely.
No, not even a little bit. There is a gigantic gulf between an organization with power in the situation making an official finding, and an individual with no power over the situation looking at the facts and forming a conclusion.
Thanks for saving me from trying Zola. Dates in URLs are a must. I'm on Hugo and complexity is daunting for a personal site, but at least I have dates.
Bing just feels like an inferior product even when they offer a monetary incentive for using them. I tried setting Bing as my default search engine for a month earlier this year and half the time I had to go back to Google.

Here's an example from my browser history: "wacom tablet not detecting levels" (in retrospect, I actually meant to search for pen pressure instead of levels). On Bing, I get results about device not found whereas on Google I get results about pen pressure not working as top result (by automatically excluding the "levels" term).

Best of luck to anyone trying to compete in the search engine space. It seems even Microsoft with their seemingly infinite cash can't put a dent against Google.
And by the way, https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/11/artificial-intellige..., around 2015 I proposed to one of the most renowned European universities to decipher one of the famous undeciphered writing systems if they provide me with the data they have about it. A conversation began about the way I intend to do it. They were really shocked when I told them that I would translate the text without the need for additional two-ways dictionaries(Rosetta Stones). They started wanting me to provide them with the algorithms I was talking about. Of course this did not happen - and they refused to give me access to their database. But believe me, they will remember who I am ;-)

Our copyright dispute will end quickly Facebook.
Easy+Ways+To+Treat+Chest+Congestion+At+Home+-+Health+Lines
What's the visualization? I'm always curious about how other clusterheads cope.

I "push my consciousness" into the pain-free side, essentially detaching the painful side of my head and picturing it not being a part of me, just a floating irritant nearby.

It works pretty well for the easy ones, and helps a little for the bad ones if I catch it while I can still concentrate.
I always appreciate advice (or any input, really) when it comes from someone with experience or wisdom regardless of whether they are a medical professional.
This line about the monorepo from the Dan Luu post always confuses me:

> With a monorepo, you just refactor the API and all of its callers in one commit.

I have experience working a monorepo at a mid-sized tech company (~1000 developers) and with Brazil at Amazon (tens of thousands of developers).

It's true that at my monorepo company, that's how we did it. However, I don't understand how this would work at Amazon's scale—for some packages you simply cannot update all the consumers at once and also as the vendor of an API, it's not my job to update the consumers. So I need to be able to have multiple versions of my interface resident at the same time. Brazil solves this problem with version sets.

How is it solved in these vaunted monorepos at Facebook and Google? If there are N core libraries that each have two versions of their APIs, it it possible for consumers to each pick and chose which APIs to use, or it enforced that libraries just have one version that is "live" at any time?
> If someone thinks arabs are not 'Asian'

Then that person might be the US Census Bureau, which defines (or, rather, has had defined for it) the following racial categories (and more, but these two are relevant to the discussion):

“White – A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.

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“Asian – A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.”

https://www.census.gov/topics/population/race/about.html

This also basically reflects the general use of the terms in the US, except that a lot of people would would consider Semitic people to be two additional separate races and not part of White, and/or would separate out those from the subcontinent as distinct from “Asians”. It's important to understand that while some of the racial terms have names of continent, they are about a particular model of racial identities, not continental boundaries.
We can say fuck & shit, even on tv. We can just say "black rap uses the word nigger a lot" without going into "this n-word is used a lot" What is the n-word? It's a racial slur. So what word is it? Sorry, cannot say.

We can also show titties on tv without being chased by a huge mob of angry people.

I don't know about laws, but in practice I'm happy to say whatever the fuck shit crap I want.
> why is a sidewalk for pedestrians by default?

Because pedestrians should have primacy. All areas should be for pedestrians by default, and minimal exceptions made. The majority of the street is a not a minimal exception.
The iPhone 7 is a mess. I had the same issue with my screen, and now the iPhone's camera has stopped working, only a few months past Apple's warranty (I bought the phone recently). I go in to the "Genius Bar", and they tell me it's a $150 repair. I brought up that the issue had only started 2 months out of warranty and that I could buy a new iPhone 7 on eBay for $200. No budge, they offered me a $100 trade-in value for an iPhone 11.

$100 trade-in value and they want to charge me $150 for repairs??? What?

I am going to iFixIt as the issue seems common, it's just a ribbon that is attached weakly that pops off of the attachment. The camera is still working.
I have been working with postgres for multiple years and in one project I needed to work with oracle. I actually ran into a bug in oracle db and they did not listen to us because we where a small company. We where working for a very large customer and asked that company to complain on our behalf at oracle. They they finally fixed it. Project was a large GIS project. I never had a say in the choice of database otherwise I would have chosen postgres. Oracle regularly crashed on complex spacial queries. At some point I left te company just to stop trying to fix that product. I think the only way of fixing the problem was a rewrite of the product that would use postgres. I hope I never work with oracle products in my life again.
I enjoyed the Flashman series, but the reboot has disappointed me. It replaced the dark humor of the originals with predictable heroics.
Huginn has existed for years: https://github.com/huginn/huginn

It also runs on a free-tier Heroku Dyno.
Built https://violinist.io for updating php (composer) dependencies automatically to scratch my own itch. Now comfortably making a profit after server costs and so on.

Best advice I would give:

Implement features for paying or potential paying customers first. They already love the service and this will boost word of mouth reputation in a SaaS segment.
> Keep in mind these kits are going into 40+ year old cars that don’t have airbags, collapsible steering columns, crumple zones, etc.

Isn't this even more reason to be have safety concerns about the modern replacement kit being introduced here?
That sounds really frustrating and I think you've encapsulated what people who have these chronic conditions are feeling quite well.

It seems like when people with pain decide to share what they're going through, they aren't looking for solutions -- they just want people to know what's happening and that their experience in that moment is affected by it, and they want you to understand that.

I think this mindset is especially hard for people with a technical background to grasp because they are natural problem solvers and they will immediately switch to problem solving mode.

Instead of trying to solve the problem (which is not what the other person needs), they'll be able to connect better with the other person by empathising with them, validating what they are feeling and deferring to them for what to do next.
This is why I started paying the $2/mo fee too.

There are a few integrations I use frequently, which I could do the integration myself, but it'd take a good weekend of my time to do them properly.

I'll rather pay the $24/year, since I value my free time more than that.
> It's not arbitrary.

Take that up with the comment I replied to, because they specifically said to choose an arbitrary one.

> If there is a grid of smaller streets running through a suburb of similar size, it alternates so every second street is a stop sign.

So on the positive side that's fewer stops, on the negative side you still have a lot of stops and you have watch out for crossing full-speed traffic every other block.

I'm not saying that method is wrong, but it doesn't sound like a significant improvement.

> 4 way stops sound like bad design to me, it seems like it would leave room for an aggressive driver to take off when they're not first in to an intersection, bullying their way through.

Someone can bully through any small intersection.

> Roundabouts and standard intersections in Australia do not suffer from this, as in both cases there is a clear right of way. If an accident happens, it's generally obvious who is at fault without the need for dash cam footage.

Why would it be obvious less often in a 4 way stop? And since everybody stopped it should be extremely hard to have an accident without both parties being at fault.

And roundabouts do not have perfect clarity either. If I'm about to enter a roundabout, and someone on the crossing street is about to enter in front of me at a slower speed, it can be ambiguous who actually gets into the roundabout first and who has to yield.

That's a rare scenario, but so is confusion at a 4 way stop. If someone enters first, they get to leave first. If two people enter at the same time, the one on the right goes first.
Planning is not easy. There is an Omega Tau Podcast called "why mega projects fail" [1] which is a good explanation. Bias is a serious problem in decision making.

[1] https://omegataupodcast.net/181-why-megaprojects-fail-and-wh...
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> namely that two of their writers were of the wrong persuasion almost 20 years ago

It was the editorial board, or perhaps I should say the organization at large. And it wasn't just Iraq, it's US interventions in lots of places that are supported and/or positively spun. Also - AFAIK, there was no process undertaken to try and avoid this occurring again.
To fill in the missing step, you can play a real video format in the browser using the HTML <video> element, optionally with the `loop` attribute (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/vi...). <video> elements, like GIFs, are supported in all browsers.

You can choose a codec and container format to export your video to with the help of https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Formats/V.... All of those formats make for much smaller files than GIF-format video files.
We saw what happened to Areva building reactors on a fixed cost contract. Today's economic realities do not quite let one plan a 10 year project on a fixed cost. 3.3bn do not equate to 2007 3.3bn in 2020. The Chinese are able to do it because they not a free market economy, they can force people to work at gunpoint.
I think the problem is you really need to feel the pain of a few badly organized projects to understand why we need things that seem like extra time sinks. It's hard to design a course that deliberately goes about building a project the wrong way without seeming contrived, and yet it's easy to just start writing something that ends up being a big ball of spaghetti.
I understand and am sympathetic with your experience, but note that Apple targets the part of the market which is affluent and also ready to spend money. That's why they can turn a profit for so few units sold vs the rest of the market which sells phones that have far more "bang for the buck". If you own apple shares in any reasonable quantity, the increases of this year alone should reward you for it 3 times over.
Meanwhile in France: https://www.vice.com/en/article/epddna/turkey-france-armenia....
Turkish Ultranationalist Group on the “Hunt for Armenians” in France
I understand where the sentiment comes from, but our situation is by leaps and bounds better than even the best historical situation. Not to mention any real contagions.

Medical system overloaded? They had NONE.

Old people dying? They had NONE, because people did not live that long.

Not able to move from home? Almost nobody ever was free to roam. They had to work their asses off in the field every day.
> because ISPs collect metadata

Which metadata? ISPs only know your next hop. Check out how garlic routing works.
The parent was a bit aggressive, but i think asking why the first poster likes arch packages better than debian is a fair question, since that's the interesting part.
In that case use a managed cluster and it’s less work.
I feel like writing a 'goodbye goodbyes' medium piece which talks about never listening to a 'goodbye' article again.
We're in the midst of the largest transfer of wealth in the history of mankind. We destroyed small businesses but Wal-Mart/Amazon is making money hand over fist, not to mention the trillions in bailout/spending while John Q Public got a couple thousand bucks.

If you want to pull something like that off it's best if you can keep the low status people arguing about masks and melanin.
I remember reading a guide on various bug stings and how to treat them. The treatments were ordered by how painful the sting was. For the most painful sting, the tarantula wasp, the recommendation was to lie down flat on the ground and scream until the pain stopped.
Neither exercise nor meditation worked for me, but very intense throat exercises alleviated the condition. I also took up singing. Now, I daily follow a 5 minute intense throat exercise before going to beg until my neck and throat aches. Only then I hit the pillow.

People suffering from sleep apnea seem to have bad throat muscles and big tongues.
Sigh... 2020 has gotten to my man Hanselman as well. I have been in a lot of emotional pain this year, likes of which I have never experienced before. Reading stories here now I realize I should be thankful to be alive and functional and still reach out and lift that cup of joe. That mundane action now looks amazing. My best wishes to Scott on his way to healing. His writings have always inspired me including today. May God bring us to the other end of this very dark year.
It also excludes Russians, who are also Asian.