skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Misread this as being about working outside which is completely different (and IMO more interesting). I suspect by now most of us have a pretty good understanding of what happens when we are working remote.
What I stated was that this person selected data in a way to support their theory and that i could easily select a data point that contradicted his theory. I did not claim that my single example proved some other theory, I did not state a preferred narrative as you claim.

Please have a look at the guidelines, you should try to honestly understand my point.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
exactly. Even an incomplete map with somewhat limited resolution makes navigation a hell of a lot easier than flying blind. This effectively is a data reduction solution-- if you have a fuzzy shape of the thing you are trying to model, and you learn the mechanics better with each thing you model, your ability to quickly and accurately reach a goal improves
> An inflationary currency incentivises you to invest it, otherwise you lose real purchasing power. With a deflationary currency, you can just stuff it anywhere and see gains. You steal from tomorrow. As the material wealth of the world increases, our money supply should increase to match.

You don't understand the WHY of those gains.

A deflationary environment is the only real environment, that is why central banks are set up to fight deflation, because deflation is the natural order of things.

And in that real environment, gains in productivity are only possible because of savings, people invest not because of fear, the investments takes place because people truly believe the business proposals will produce VALUE, and hence REAL GAINS, which necessitates that people be not drowning in debt. That is why an inflationary system is a bubble system, it cannot be sustained on its own. It is a perpetual motion machine, or tries to be anyways.

Society has made a lot of progress, but the price has been an unprecedented amount of debt. In essence, we've mortgage the future, and at some point those bills will be paid either by will of by force.
A lot of cheaters are detected and banned, but like you say there's probably a lot of 'minor cheaters' not caught.

The issue really is the group who are detected and banned - they just sign up with a new account, and then carry on crushing players until they're banned again. The average game quality in this situation is pretty poor - because the rating of a player is very far from their true skill.
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> I do think you missed the point.

Please make an effort to engage with the comments I make, rather than making guesses about my mental state.

> Me: The human bureaucracy is suppose to be there to determine the quality of the flags and analyze whether there is any discrimination at play. A company that lacks this human element is negligent and should be held responsible.

The human bureaucracy doesn’t do that very well. The human bureaucracy is deeply flawed and has limited skills. We can assign blame to the human bureaucracy for its failings all we want, but if we want to effect change then it’s necessary to include a broader range of factors in out fault analysis.

In other words, “assigning blame” is a low-stakes political game, and “root-cause analysis” is what really matters.

This is like the 737 MAX failures. You can say that it’s the pilot’s responsibility to fly the plane correctly—but the fact is, pilots have a limited amount of skill and focus, and can’t overcome any arbitrary failing of technology. So we rightly attribute the problem to the design of the system, of which the human is only one component.

This grading software is like the 737 MAX—it’s software that, as part of a complete system including non-software components like humans, does a bad job and needs repair. The 737 MAX reports listed something like NINE different root causes.

I don’t understand this absolutist viewpoint that the human bureaucracy is the ONLY thing that you need to protect you from bad software. There are multiple root causes, and the bad software is one of them.

> Hence why the humans should be held responsible for not addressing bias in their system. And why the actions of an algorithm should be the responsibility of its creators.

So you’re saying that there’s a problem with the software, and that we shouldn’t place all the blame on the college administrators? Isn’t that what I’m saying?

> But if you believe someone has the right to have guns while others don’t, im hard pressed to see any other determining factor except who has the gun.

I do believe that not everyone should have the right to own guns, but if you’re interested in arguing with me about it, I won’t engage. If the comparison doesn’t work for you, think of something less emotionally charged like the 737 MAX or the Tesla Autopilot—both are scenarios where we rightly cite the software / automation as a root cause in accidents.
NewPipe doesn't use youtube-dl. It uses its own library for downloading from Youtube.
Happy to see a mention of democratic schooling [0]. In my opinion, as someone who not too long ago left the American public school system (but was also 'unschooled' [1] for the early years of my education), so many of the problems that arise in school are due to a lack of self-direction. We teach children to rely exclusively on authority figures for motivation, and then get discipline them when:

1) they don't submit to their teachers and follow directions.
2) they aren't able to direct themselves to complete tasks on their own.

Finally, at least in my experience, teaching students something they aren't interested in or motivated to learn is basically futile. Maybe they learn enough to pass the test, but it's quickly forgotten.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_education
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unschooling
Actually, no! Or at least, the budget they used (<$100k at retail prices to train the model) is well within the feasible range for other research institutions.

In other words, it's less like GPT3 and more like ImageNet.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marriage-penalty.asp
> Excluding certain immigrants from taxpayer-funded public benefits isn't "hostility."

That may or may not be true but it's absolutely reflective of the hostility that that colors immigration policy.
Of note, octave's official symbolic package is effectively a sympy wrapper, mapping matlab's symbolic api to the equivalent sympy functionality. Very nice project. https://github.com/cbm755/octsympy
Decades back, Congress starved the IRS of infrastructure funds as a means of kneecapping it. Innovative programs (IRS-CAWR, etc) were prototyped, hugely successful (first year brought in several $100M for one service center), but then nationwide rollout was dragged out for years for lack of HW.

I doubt much has changed and things are cobbled together. Like all large legacy environments, reimagining is costly, complex and prone to high failure rates. They should never move off the mainframe.
tesla or square is not an asset class
The stream is Ron Gilbert being interviewed about various fun trivia for Monkey Island and its development. While they do that, they show four cutscenes (one per map piece for MI2) that didn't end up in the final product due to size limitations. Also during the stream he describes that those scenes originally popped up randomly during game play but they change it to only happen when you exit a room.

So they randomly played those cutscenes during the stream and the one I linked ends and the stream switches back to the interview with the interviewer saying: "... so that's pretty interesting that this would be the secret" :-)
>What I mean by that is that if your goal is to use Android Pay, Chrome, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Drive, Google Fi etc. and somehow retain some level of privacy, MicroG isn't going to help.

Have you tried using Magisk hide & MagiskHide Props Config to enabled SafetyNet? If SafetyNet is enabled then Google Pay, other Payments & Bank apps might work just fine with MicroG (I haven't tested it, just a theory).
It didn't, but Windows was very late at this too.

The Mac App Store is for app delivery, similar, but not exactly a replacement.

A package management system must take care of versions, dependencies, such as, this version of MySQL needs OpenSSL version X, Readline Y, etc. Make sure it doesn't mess with Python's OpenSSL/readline decencies which are both different from the ones used by the OS, and so on.
Thanks! I'll take a look at it and try and port it over. Hopefully it'll help some other poor souls (possibly myself) who have to deal with the same issues.
> into the actual rust runtime?

Rust has the same level of runtime as C, with no plans to expand it. So, regardless of how awesome this project is, this is unlikely.

(Notably, there is no "Rust runtime" for async, you have to bring your own if you want to do it.)
My goal is not to optimize google's AI training, it's to get access to the damn website. I think part of what it does is compare your answer with other people's, if the AI is not sure, so it's more like a Keynesian beauty contest where I'm trying to guess which tiles the average person would pick.

(And fail and then have to go through 5 more screens of this.)
It seems obvious in hindsight, but such trials do have an important role in this process. Not to mention mRNA vaccines are new and it could possibly just have made things worse.
I think it would be helpful and you wouldn't be getting negative reactions if you actually posted some examples. I can't think of a single thing government has done to "roadblock marriage".

Under the Obama administration marriage benefits were extended to same-sex couples EXPANDING the government's push for more people to be married.

https://web.archive.org/web/20161110003040/https://www.justi...
How many could have been saved from injecting an untested vaccine on billions of people? What a weird question.
Art 5.1 Released: ASCII Art Library for Python (+ Font Typo-Tolerance)
No, most people forget about it (I had to be reminded by the above comment), but the 80286 did have a 16-bit protected mode. Quoting Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_mode): "[...] Acceptance was additionally hampered by the fact that the 286 only allowed memory access in 16 bit segments via each of four segment registers, meaning only 4*2^16 bytes, equivalent to 256 kilobytes, could be accessed at a time. [...]"
It certainly was possible on the Amiga, although I'm not sure if dpaint could do it at the time of making Monkey Island 1. At least later versions supported HAM modes and of course when AGA arrived it did 256 colors too.
It's an old, crufty Unix that had various components replaced with proprietary Apple software. Take a look at how a modern Unix does networking, versus how Apple is forcing the market to use their proprietary network APIs.
That's an impressive challenge!

How are you finding the challenges in PDP-11 assembly? Are there any unique things about the PDP-11 instruction set or architecture that helps in the challenges?
Morse Code to Text or Text to Morse Code Conversion
> Americans are always so disproportionately concerned about moochers rather than grifters.

That's by design, sadly.
Two people working together can generate more wealth than one person working alone. It's not a controversial concept.
There is no way in hell any company would accept a buyout offer for $25+ billion worth of Zoom stock at their current (very inflated) price.
I don't know - tens of thousands per train is not accessible for most academic institutions when you consider the necessity of ablation studies, experimentation, etc.
If curious see also

2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23747133

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20287486

Lots in 2014:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8243452

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8109265

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7214783

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7145219

2012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4463471

2011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3141699
"Obviously" is shorthand for "I want you to believe this but I don't have evidence for it, and I can't see how to validate it".

Used a lot in mathematics, substituting "proof" for "evidence".
Basically it learns (locally, no data is sent to the cloud) how you use tabs, and tries to predict whether you will need a given tab in the nearest future. If you don't - it would unload this tab (with a few exceptions) from memory so that it won't be lost from your tabstrip, but won't consume memory and CPU resources. Think of the Great Suspender on steroids that constantly gets better over time.
Apples don’t “breed true” or in other words there aren’t any “purebred” apples. The seed in any given tasty apple will produce a mostly inedible apple.

You could make a variety of apples breed true, but you have to selectively breed many individuals over many generations, and from seed to apple can be up to ten years, so it would have to be an enormous project to take on that you’d probably have to convince your grandchildren was worth pursuing.

The alternative is cloning by grafting on to root stock, which is so very much easier.

A lot of the food, especially fruit, that you eat are the same kind of clones. Bananas and avocados are a couple of examples.

A fun related fact is that there was this trend in the 50s and 60s of irradiating seeds or planting things in a circle around a radiation source hoping for useful mutations which could then be cloned and produced commercially. Atomic gardening actually produced several popular varieties of produce.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_gardening
Terrific, feel free to ask questions here.
To be clear, I don't have a strong opinion about this, and I'm not making a claim that marriage is a good or a bad thing, I'm just answering your question.

The usual argument that says that the government disincentivized marriage is through social safety nets like welfare, particularly ones that pay more for single parents without a spouse in the house, as well as mechanisms like child support payments.

The usual argument that says society has disincentivized marriage is basically through access to sex. There used to be a culture of enforced monogamy, where there was enormous social pressure to be married before having sex, and especially before living with one another. Now, that stigma is largely gone, so the incentive to get married has diminished substantially.

Again, not making a value judgement, just answering the question.
I also have no idea what you're talking about.

But, generally, I'm not sure that incentivizing people to legally bond themselves to another is necessarily an unquestionably positive thing.
Edith Stein, Advent, and the Collision of the Two Covenants
The interviewer was making a joke by abruptly cutting to alternate versions of the Monkey Island 2 "interrupting" cut scenes and Ron was playing along with the joke by implying that their conversation continued during the interrupting cutscene by coming back out of the cutscene's with garbled mid-conversation, one of which was essentially "...and now you know the secret" as if it was given away during the cutscene. (It likely was not, as again, Ron and the interviewer eventually made it clear the gag was a gag. Even if it were, it didn't make it to the stream.)
This penalty basically starts at 250k in combined income. The median household income is $60,700 as of 2018.
Netherlands offshore wind farm with ability to power a million homes operational
The "vocal hostility" (such as it is) rests on policy. The U.S. has twice as many illegal immigrants as "Europe" (EU-27+UK+EFTA), despite having a third less people overall. That is the result of policies--lax border enforcement, lack of enforcement of work eligibility requirements, etc.

People get hostile when other people don't follow the rules and the government doesn't enforce the rules. (E.g. Wall Street after the 2009 recession.) But that's still a matter of policy.
poetry has several advantages which I can no longer live without.

1. Packages are downloaded in parallel. This means dramatically quicker dependency resolution and download times.

2. Packages can be separated for development versions production environments.

3. Poetry only pins the packages you actually care about, unlike a pip freeze. One application I work on has 15 dependencies, which yields a little over 115 packages download. pip freeze makes it impossible to track actual dependencies, whereas poetry tracks my dependencies - and the non-pinned packages are in the poetry.lock file.

The rest is nice, but the above is essential.
It is laughable with the number of articles that state this recently, I do think things are different as large name brand companies have moved out very recently:

Pinterest paid big money to break its lease to move out of SF, Stripe is moving out, Charles Schwab and McKesson, and Bechtel also moved their HQ out of SF and CA in general.

These moves were all done pre-covid but as a bay area resident the past year has been horrible like none other, fires raging all summer and toxic smoke, pg&e shutting off the power all the time, crime is really, really bad. I had stuff stolen from my house, a first of living an entire lifetime in the bay area.
> It also makes one reconsider the notion that monopolies are entirely bad.

Much like political dictators, they can be exceedingly efficient and have resources (and authority) to do things in spite of opposing interests.

People who faced with the narrative that countries have a monopoly on a number of aspects of life find monopolies are not a BAD THING(tm), but that they are bad for a consumer market - as a monopoly eventually blockades aspects of the market.
This story is constantly repeated in different variations on the theme. In Florida they decided to drug test people who were getting food stamps but they didn't find anybody because, surprise, poor people can't afford drugs, and they spent a fortune on the drug tests.
That's quite interesting ... I believe the test set size is not constant year to year but rather a function of how many new structures have been experimentally discovered since the last contest?

Does seem like the contest structure could include quite a bit of risk for hiding the effect of overfitting ... I wonder if there is anything inherent about the problem that reduces that risk ...?
Snope says it's false: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/glyph-notes/
Slightly editorialized to meet title character limit.

"Situated 23 kilometers (around 14.3 miles) off the coast of Zeeland, in the southwest of the Netherlands, the 752 megawatt (MW) Borssele 1 & 2 offshore wind farm spans an area of 112 square kilometers. It uses 94 wind turbines from Siemens Gamesa."
> Sure, but why do consumers need the government to tell them this is a valuable aspect of the technology they've purchased. It they don't value it they don't value it, having the government mandate and tell you what's good for you helps no one in the long run.

I don't think it's that simple at all. There are lots of small reasons people right now act the way they do which in the aggregate makes it look as though they don't value repairability. That doesn't mean that they wouldn't prefer a world where repair was easy and cheap. It also doesn't mean that a world where repairs are easy and cheap isn't preferable to one where it isn't, in a bigger perspective (environmental, for one).
Provided that OpenStreetMap data in your area contains house numbers (in not all places is this available), OSMAnd works fine for finding exact address. The only catch is that you need to choose the city, then choose the street, then choose the house number. This is exactly how car GPS units worked for many years, but I know people today have been spoiled by Google Maps and expect the address to be found if they just type it in as freeform text.

Searching for the nearest grocery store in OSMAnd is trivial: go to Search and then tap on the shopping basket icon: a list of nearby shops will appear, sorted based on how close they are to your current position. Of course, the grocery store needs to already been added to OpenStreetMap. If it isn't there yet, you can always sign for some an OSM editor account and add it yourself (but be aware that with great power comes great responsibility).
Actually, the first written example is in Shakespeare's 1st folio - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/02/shakespeare-and-emoticons/
Burn him in effigy...
Growing your acquisition value from $8B to ~$25B+ in that period would count as a win in my book.
SSL for internal services seems to be becoming common these days and that's not a bad thing. Corporate/institutional information warfare is becoming a pretty big deal now (see all the US hospitals being infiltrated) so hardening on the inside to at least slow down an internal threat is not a bad thing at all.
My heart goes out to the young adults forced to continue to live in abusive family situations due to economic instability right now. Achieving financial independence from my parents probably saved my life as a young adult, and I worry for young people in bad situations who will now have trouble getting away.
Actually, is helping to reduce the carbon footprint of natural gas and oil producers: https://www.coindesk.com/energy-giant-equinor-to-cut-gas-fla...

All of the excess gas and oil that's currently wasted but goes into the atmosphere is starting to be used for Bitcoin mining:https://cointelegraph.com/news/oil-companies-will-dominate-b...
Is the cost to train really the relevant metric for developing this? It seems like the salary's involved are probably at least 10x whatever they spent on hardware.
And yet, the planet itself is unstable.
> Let's just give everyone a MSc, shall we?

Are you claiming that having open-book tests makes it so that everyone can get an MSc? That’s what it sounds like you’re saying, so I assume that I just don’t know what you’re arguing.

Every system is going to catch some percentage of cheaters and wrongly punish some percentage of innocent people. The pandemic has put us in a bad position where we can’t use some of the more effective systems (in-class tests) for assessing knowledge / preventing cheating, so we are forced to come up with some kind of compromise, and in many subjects, open-book, take-home tests work very well (although they require more work from the professors).
Doesn't work in Safari 13.0.2

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>apart from occasional breakage due to API changes

I agree, but I thought they were just scrapping YT and using YT-DL.
>"I'm not sure that puts Slack in too bad a light."

For another perspective, from a WSJ article on Friday:

>"Zoom has grown to more than 300 million daily active participants—a broader measure than daily active users—from around 10 million before the pandemic. Microsoft’s Teams, which offers Zoom and Slack-like features and comes at no extra cost for users of its Office 365 suite, grew from 32 million daily active users at the beginning of the pandemic in March to more than 115 million last month. Slack stopped updating its daily active user number late last year when it reached 12 million." [1]

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/slack-missed-out-on-the-pandemi...
> the problem might be just too complex to grasp for the human brain

Maybe all at once, but having a self-consistent, unified theory is very important.

We can't understand the full brain, but we can understand the essential components and how they work together. This still constitutes "interpretable".

> The universal function approximation theorem doesn't also say how to find that network.

Correct, and irrelevant.
Whenever deepmind comes up with something like this, my first instinct is to say "yay for humanity" ... then I remember who they work for, and the second instinct is to say "Ah. Crap."
Is that true? I thought fundamentally, the simulation tries to find the state of lowest energy, which is defined by physics. So, your result can be better than the data set used for training.