skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The scary thing is that I don’t have any type of Google account at all, yet they clearly still track me and amass a profile of my history and choices.
Giant tip: look at https://www.youtube.com/feed/history and remove any videos you don't want included for recommendations - it really helps clean up your suggested videos.

Doing that, combined with liberally using incognito mode for one-off video watching, helps keeps suggestions actually reasonable.
Telegram keeps talking about how private and secure it is, but all group and private chats are not encrypted by default. Its end to end encrypted chats are very limited (only direct messages and only on one device) and rely on self-baked crypto. Their voice chat is also almost definitely not end to end encrypted, as I'm not aware of a way to do e2ee voice chat with many participants without linearly increasing bandwidth requirements for users
I hide the front page and recommendations with ublock rules and go directly to the 'subscriptions' page instead.

It's the only way to see new videos from creators I care about.
Stan will get your from a prior to a posterior distribution that is best supported by your data, but typically the posterior and prior distributions will not be of the same form, so there's no loop back to make.

In the case that your model is extremely simple such that your posterior has a "conjugate prior" (i.e. the posterior and prior are the same family of distribution), this sort of loop back is possible. But where this is possible you have no reason at all to use Stan or MCMC since you can just update your posterior directly.
Oh, I don't think these are post hoc justifications. Much more likely Gebru was intentionally forced out - I wouldn't be surprised if Google leadership basically said "she's a loose cannon - move her out in the next 6 months" and there was just no good way.
Some of these are self-inflicted wounds, though. For instance, why do you have to declare inline boxes to be inline-block before you can add padding to them? Perhaps just because of backwards compatibility, which could perhaps have been solved a bit more elegant.
All bash version of it...
pgrep -f $1 | xargs -I{} pmap -x {} | grep total | awk '{sum=sum+$4}END{printf "%.2f%s", sum/1024," MB\n"}'

e.g.

$ pgrep -f bash | xargs -I{} pmap -x {} | grep total | awk '{sum=sum+$4}END{printf "%.2f%s", sum/1024," MB\n"}'

74.79 MB
It seems to be an unfortunate reality of doing research for anything other than the sake of research.

My physics teacher worked for some kind of government air pollution modelling group in the past, and effectively said that they would often be told "Here's the result, find us data to make it work".
Oh my god, yes. The day I realized "wait, you can just ... buy a cake? yourself? Whenever you want? No party or anything?" was mind-blowing.
end up with the currently really popular conspiracy stuff. As opposed the nuanced, analysed, subtle thorough and less excitingly paced stuff.

1) CIA is interefering in US elections with evidence-free accuasation of Russia helping candidates who might reign them in to follow the law. Conspiracy? Or something to it?

2) Russia is paying bounties to kill American soldiers. Conspiracy? Or something to it?

3) Hunter Biden might be a bit corrupt. Conspiracy? or something to it?

4) The President has been compromised by Russia. Conspiracy? or something to it?

There will be incendiary stuff on all of the above absolutely full of utter nonsense. There will be reasonable stuff also assessing evidence and may even not come up with a clear and definite conclusion on one or another. Which of these will YT reccomendation push you to? I don't know.
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So, the main claim is “By transferring the ownership of the ISA to RISC-V International, the original developers of the ISA have assured its longevity.”

So, what prevents that association from selling the IP? Reading the articles of that association (https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Certified-copy-...), there must be at least 5 board members appointed by different companies and individual members, so that seems good. It also says the general meeting cannot decide to merge into an entity with largely different goals. I don’t see anything forbidding the sale of IP, though (and the board is explicitly in control of that), and couldn’t figure out whether the board can lock out non-members from using the ISA, prevent companies from becoming members, etc.

Also, as is common with these kinds of associations, it is geared towards companies (premier and strategic members each appoint a director in the board, while all individuals combined appoint 2 others)

My (IANAL) overall judgment from cursory reading is that it looks fine, but isn’t 100% bombproof.

(I also noticed that site is using https://sso.linuxfoundation.org/login, but doesn’t seem to mention any link between those organizations. Is there any?)
We perform a lot of other illegal activities, doesnt change the law.

(Ustawa z dnia 23 lipca 2003 r. o ochronie zabytków i opiece nad zabytkami (Dz. U. 2003 Nr 162 poz. 1568) defines metal detector usage a felony, 2018 amendment makes it a crime.

https://histmag.org/Wykrywacz-metali-nowe-prawo-w-Polsce-a-p...

TLDR: illegal, ~100K people do it anyway.
DNS and IP blocks are like hitting a tiny finishing nail with a 10 pound hammer. Sure, you smash it, but you smash everything around it too.

Try Squid. It's a dynamic higher layer HTTP/web proxy that can block specific URL content, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squid_(software)
Not familiar with them, but was surprised to see this disclosure in the footer of their about page:

> [...] 76% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider [...]
In some regions it is compulsory. USA being one.
Was, in January. This is how it went:

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/tesla-short-...
Thinking about it, I never used anything else than limit orders. Not saying much, so, as I maybe used that to sell like 4 times in tha last one year and half.
I’m not so worried about a short circuit as much as putting a voltage on the case.
The thing is - I don't think the bias in AI is fixable. The way we fix it is to regulate (not self-regulate, Google, Apple, Facebook and other AI companies aren't trustworthy to do it right) where AI is allowed to be used and how much of a negative impact of a persons livelihood can it impact.

In other words, we need to use all the power we have to avoid "The computer said NO, you're homeless/jailed/poor forever now" scenarios.
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The benefit of rolling them up is to get away with all of this small-time fraud at scale (which has also indirectly been Amazon's model in general over the past half-decade through collecting rent from them.) The PR is that these funds are trying to be Unilever, but the reality is that they're trying to buy up a bunch of shady Amazon-only companies that are very profitable and consolidate their accounting, logistics, and marketing departments.
It seems to try to show mw videos I've watched 6 months ago; not topics from before, but the actual videos I've already seen.

Whats worse is that for videos I haven't watched it recommends the same videos for weeks, even though I never watch it.

I feel like half of the recommendation slots are wasted in one of these ways.
What+Day+Was+Jesus+Born+|+Gospel+Of+GOD
How much does this actually matter for the casual retail investor? I'll typically buy 5-10 shares of some ETFs every couple months via market orders (not on Robinhood), am I really getting bilked that bad?
It doesn't seem that hard to get out of a pit, even with the account. It just takes a couple of days of browsing of the new type of content, along with maybe clicking "don't recommend this channel"/"not interested" 3-4 times, and the algorithm switches to the new things... The algorithm doesn't care, it just recommends.
The next cut of Stan will likely use TFP as a backend. I think that PyMC4 will also. The Stan team wrote everything from scratch in C++ including their own autodiff code which many regard as quite a stretch in terms of long term maintenance. Since TFP executes on top of Tensorflow things like autodiff and many of the other performance concerns that take up so much Stan-dev time are already taken care of.
"Engagement" is toxic full stop.
I saw n8n in the list, but it is not really open source [0]. Even on the Github repo they don't advertise themselves as Open Source, but rather "Free and open fair-code" [1]

[0] - https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/blob/181ba3c/packages/cli/LICE...

[1] - https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n
We seem to have an unlimited supply of outrage and facile solutions; your careful analysis is always appreciated.

The zero marginal cost of digital goods and services makes it hard to judge fairness. It is difficult to make a cost based estimate of a platform tax; why a percentage and why 30%? Many use absolute profit as a simple heuristic to assess malfeasance.
Yeah, the recommendations are completely useless for me. They get stuck in some random topic I’m not even interested in just because I watched a video once.
They probably find it somewhere in proximity of where the stolen items would have been...
It‘s mind boggling that one needs to explain this (especially in a community like hn).
Seems like literacy in basic economic principles was replaced by feelings in many people
Interesting. There seems to be a major cultural difference on this.

On the one hand, the argument is that individuals collecting artifacts destroys the scientific utility of the excavation site. On the other hand, someone doing the work to find coins seems better than nobody doing that work and having them lay in the ground.

I wonder if there are more instances of this trade-off between potential good and immediate good.
You are historically illiterate if you confuse America’s misdeeds with those of Maoist china. Our history with Native Americans is not a morally uplifting one. It is also not a genocide. Given your apparent ignorance you may be surprised to know that of the hundreds of native American tribes, the vast majority were warlike and raped, enslaved, and pillaged their enemies. That’s how war works. For example, I live in Seattle. Do you know who owned slaves? Chief Seattle.

Also... I would like you to explain why you think I am trying to control the world by pointing out a historical fact? I assume by providing ahistorical facts yourself you are also trying to control the world?

Finally, I am exceptionally interested in how you know this didn’t affect me. It affected my immediate family, from brutal enslavement to torture and death. I don’t see how that matters, though. Am I to understand that one is only allowed to criticize things in which one has a personal stake? If that’s the case perhaps you should rethink telling me how to live my life, and what I’m trying to do.

P.S. Valley Forge Rocket is a super great name, BTW
Because you have to lift all your calculations into the option context or you have do deal with the missing value all the time.
Why would Toyota and VW need to use Tesla batteries? Patents after all expire and are circumventable. And AFAIK Tesla does not hold too much original IP on battery tech to start with.
I don't think I'd be a hacker/software engineer if my parents controlled what I could or couldn't read on the internet back in the 90/00's. Although I agree with the point, there is a trade-off there.
But they lied about how they made money.

Martin Shkreli's customers made money but he still went to prison for fraud.

fraud: wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain
Expensify's CEO really does send out these exceptionally long and conversational marketing emails, apparently to anyone who ever used (or was required to use) their app. It's a somewhat charming approach in its own way, but the emails were quite frequent and not always that interesting so I unsubscribed.

However: because Expensify does have that habit, I don't think it's unreasonable that the poster just happened to receive this marketing email.
The problem is that most people don’t understand The chain reaction problem here.

Watching one calming video is unlikely to lead you to become addicted to calming videos. YouTube is optimized for the hook, and calming videos aren’t hooky.

The much more salient videos tend to be the sensational ones, and people who don’t have the understanding of that fact are much more easily hooked.

So while it can be a fountain of knowledge for one group of people, the insidious nature of the hooking algorithms still lurk beneath that surface.
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Recommendation engines are the monkey's paw of social media companies.
This is a really important point. Executive-land is all about image and framing, so I can totally see how execs think it's not a big deal to "just make the case" or frame things less negatively.

But while that's ok in a slide deck, it's _not_ ok in a research paper. Researchers aren't (shouldn't be) accountable to business outcomes, but rather the truth of what they argue.

It's tough to see this play out real time.
Exactly this, they're not toxic, just sh*t.

search for a famous song, and the recommendations are for a zillion cover versions of the same song, or other music by the same artist.
Same experience here. I have to actively curate them by removing some one-off dumb videos from my watch history, but my YouTube recommendations are by far extremely high quality. Youtube is the only service I know of that has actually achieved working content recommendations for me.

My Watch Later has hundreds of hours of content from things that I definitely want to watch but I'm either not yet in the mood for or too long to get to now.

Seriously, youtube for all its flaws is an incredible human achievement on par with wikipedia.
Weird to calculate a multiple based on a quarterly financial metric without stating it as such.
Precociously, and already utilised in other regions already.

However, when 5g wifi first came about, many weather radars had issues and DFS was born, compulsory in some countries and is designed to make sharing bandwidth less impacting. So historically, there may be some jitter in some regions and more so for regions like the USA that would of utilised that spectrum differently and with that, the impact may well be deeper and like most change - people will always have concerns, however long they are given before that change.
Just like how google maps won't store your search history or use your current location to help narrow search results if I don't let it store my location history indefinitely?
Fractional scaling finally arrived, I will try it ASAP. Last time I looked in to Xfce there was no way to have a fixed workspace on a secondary display (something that possible in Gnome, for instance). Since I use workspace a lot having a secondary display is kind of useless because it switches workspace at the same time. I since started to use the rather fine Xfce+Awesome combination, but should Xfce get a fixed workspace feature I might go with pure Xfce again.
The international version of this is Windy Maps - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.wind.... I highly recommend it - excellent for outdoors / hiking, tracking route etc. Also has a very polished UI.
Jim Cramer has been advising never to use market orders for several years.
I dunno. What’s your strategy? Mine is to eke out as much as I can out of what little I have, so I use limit orders to keep within my strategy. Market orders would fuck that up.
Also kind of ironic to show a big picture of an iPhone prominently on the frontpage. You can't even install your own software on it without rooting it or getting a devkit.

Perhaps showing a pinephone or a Librem 5 would be more fitting.
As stated in the very first comment, "Just got an email from them about this new chat app they're launching. Curious to hear what HN thinks of it."

I, for one, found that to be very interesting reading. Sounds like they're, in part, aiming to replicate Twilio's playbook on a larger scale.
It's kinda picky though in what it spams you with. For example I watch tons of space engineering bids, will watch anything from Scott Manley as soon as it comes out, yet it often doesn't recommend it to me, I gotta hunt it down somehow.
> someone else is going to make all those decisions for you

Well, yes, and in this case that someone appears to be Google, which is why people are complaining about them making AI decisions.
please go to my demo store (tinystore.online/sb977) then go to a product page and click on "place order"...
the order page show you some info; but don't place order yet. it's and confirmation page; you can go back from here.
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Developing a media portal for photo equipment and photography
It looks and feels very much like Scala, in my opinion.

That's not a bad thing at all.
You'd only typically lose cents (if that; often enough you don't lose anything) per share. And there's no easy way to validate the price is "fair," since share prices are so fluid.

It's also a fairly victimless crime, as the article notes (although it downplays this); in practice, it seems users typically saved more money thanks to Robinhood's zero-fee trading than they lost in less optimal pricing for their trades. The problem here wasn't that payment-for-order-flow is bad — even Schwab does it for their zero-fee trading platform, and in practice it's often a good tradeoff — the problem is Robinhood lied about it.
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How does one search for what one doesn't know exists?
'Disgraceful': lorry drivers stuck at Dover tell of lack of facilities
I just also started looking into Thunderbolt 3 docks after only getting 4k30hz. $400+ CAD is so much though! Im curious if anyone here has recommendations
The one that really annoys me is when $famous_author is on a book tour and I watch a talk. After doing so, YT recommendations repeatedly include more videos of the same author giving the same talk on the same book at various other locations in the book tour.

The algorithm delivers far, far less novelty than I want in anything except music. I very,very rarely want to see a dozen nearly identical videos on the same topic.
>Some things are going to be hard to explain. Some skin tones, hair styles, accents, pitches, timbres, writing styles, etc. may have more/less separable entropy, and that’s going to inevitably make models seem racist/sexist for some applications.

We all know that if you have garbage as an input the output can be anything. So a professional data scientist should do his job and analyze the data first , identify the problems and if it can't be clean go in the world and collect better data.

If you are a high paid professional you should understand that say for face recognition you should get a correct sample size, correct distributed (sorry I am not a professional so i don't know how they should do their job but I know that there are statistical tool that will measure things like this) , instead it seems developers use as input for their experiments some garbage data that they can get their hands on.
What happens to a comet that enters the solar system if it doesn’t hit anything? It leaves the solar system with the same speed it entered it with. Dark matter cannot hit anything.
They have no problems showing me ads for exploitive garbage like raid shadow legends or some other shit I will never ever ever install or buy. And then they tell us they use the data for serving “more relevant” adverts? I call BS.
Phew, I remembered tweeting that comment (https://twitter.com/watware/status/1323610182560161792) and was about to flame this post for lack of attribution. Glad I read on! Good stuff.
Why not automate it? CI/CD? Yes And for React Native apps, too
Tesla has always had plenty of shorts.

If you are less confident about it you can buy a put to limit your downside risk.
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Alright, thanks. But what is the use case for the 4 - 4.2 range? If it's outside of the spec, what would operators use it for?
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From 1647 to 1660, the Puritan Parliament banned Christmas celebration.
I don't think there's a real point to do this "in a standardized way"; imo we should just push for git initializing its own empty initial commit.
And then if you watch one Jordan Peterson video, all of sudden Youtube thinks you are a Proud Boy.

another interesting example from the past, I watched a few science/nature focused videos on Antarctica. Then youtube decided I wanted to see Antarctica conspiracy videos about aliens, secret buried worlds, and Nazi holdouts.

That being said, I think the recs have become much cleaner lately. i.e. no more Russia Today videos in my feed.
Lots of pages show the data in various ways. The chart Fig 5 on page 7 is pretty clear for household income. Table 2 page 34 shows every quintile becoming richer over time. Lots of the content also explains forces affecting this.

There's plenty of such studies from the Fed and from CBO, among others.
Diversity is mit actually great in and of itself by any objective measure. The Linux community that can’t get linked to be even close to a consumer level maturity is diversity, Apple’s Mac OS shows us what focus, consistency, unity, coordination, and in-group abstraction of generalizations produces … a far superior system, regardless of whether it is or is not overtaken later on by the diversity that will destroy it. Ironically, to some degree, Microsoft has been moving to far less diversity as it continues closing itself down and consolidating and integrating services closer.

Any reasonable, objective, and scientific person knows exactly that diversity is not even actually what people think diversity it, it’s actually distraction, disunity, disharmony, pollution, inefficiency. Now, diversification is another thing altogether that is a risk hedge that makes sense and produces well established risk benefits, but diversity is actually immensely risky. Diversity is white literally irrational inclusion of immense long term risks.

Just like adding a civilian to your military squad during war will only likely get everyone else also killed due to their incompatible diversity, so too will diversity destroy all other organizations and systems. It is quite literally the objective of diversity, to destroy, whether those engaged in diversity realize that is the objective of those advocating for it or not.

The ugly effects of diversity are even starting to really show their ugly impact in the USA now as the country that produced everything that we all have and use, including everything associated with this site and organization are starting to dissolve among the predicted strains that disunity from diversity introduces. And that was the objective of those who pushed the diversity narrative in roughly the 60s, a concepts that the “capitalist” types latched onto, because if meant being able to continue and extend their extraction of wealth and resources a bit longer as the lone was running out. It seems like we are possibly barreling through the last station before there is no more track on this diversity crazy train. We’ll see what happens when we run off the rails.