skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have two accounts, one for work and one private. One of them is for following political right-leaning stuff, the other for left-leaning.

In my experience both accounts do not try to push me to extremes. They DO try to keep me in a bubble, and both are very happy to lead me away from politics in general.
I'm actually working on this, releasing it in about a week or so (doing the final edits).

It's called "How To Debug CSS"[1], if you go through my post history, you'll get a good idea of the backstory behind it.

Essentially, what I'm trying to do is help developers like you (who are like me, or at least how I was), in that I knew CSS for a long time, but never really felt like I 'got it', in the same way that I 'got' many of the other aspects of web development.

I've now gotten to a point where this is almost the complete opposite. I now feel like I have gained a certain level of mastery over CSS. And most of it had to do with a simple change of perspective.

Here's an article I wrote as sort of a subset of the book, that covers a lot more about how you can truly start to get better at CSS, as a developer: https://planflow.dev/blog/how-to-get-better-at-css.

[1] - https://gumroad.com/l/Debbg/z823cp8 (I've added a pre-order discount code to the book for those interested).
Could you expand on this please? What costs apart from the $100 or so dev license?
There is a distinction between a “device” and an “arm”. This is why there is no constitutional right to own a WMD like a nuclear bomb or chemical bomb. Rocket launchers are considered “destructive devices” and you can buy those as well as the munition for it. Good luck getting one though.

However, if you go through proper channels it’s amazing what you’re allowed to own. In some states you can not only own a tank (that’s the easy part - you can even import one if the guns are disabled) but could also have it stay equipped with its standard issue .50cal gun! You won’t be allowed to drive it on public roads though. They are also cost prohibitive.

Hell, you can buy fighter jet if you’d like. But it has to be demilitarized which although still fun to fly would sort of limit your ability to maintain air superiority against a properly provisioned force.
U.S. Sues Walmart, Alleging Role in Fueling Opioid Crisis
So what you are telling me, all those movies, it's not just Hollywood magic, it's reality? Ugh.
No. There are two issues: the artifacts are not just treasure - scientifically their context (in the ground and in time) is what matters, the context the treasure hunter removed them from. I.e., he prevented scientists from ever being able do the digs themselves. The other issue is that, AFAIK, scientists often prefer to leave parts of sites intact for future research, presumably hoping for better technology in the future.
Reply All Podcast, ep 127/128 seemed to claim it's actually not that much better in NYC now. Instead they claim the way of reporting crimes has changed to make the numbers look better than they actually are

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2hx34
Osmand shows opening hours etc. when available, just do a short tap on the POI. As this is a "news for nerds" website, it is worth mentioning that if you find that info absent on OSM, then that means that you can add it for the benefit of all.
The parent did not say "in the US".
It will also continue to ramp up even more as growth dries up. The internet can only get so big, especially on a quarterly basis, and these companies are already very big. They're public and pressure to grow is huge.

It's going to be a rough ride throughout the next decade.
If you are participating in said events, you are no longer a journalist. The blatant dishonesty of calling detainments arrests and including getting caught up in a "kettle" because they were in the crowd as detainment leads me to believe they would also include participants calling themselves journalists in the list. Why should "journalists" participating in the event receive any special treatment? It should be expected they be treated as any other participant.
This is the business model that Telesat trying to make work. While they are behind Starlink in terms of rollout, they are a credible manufacturer/provider for a service like this

https://www.canwisp.ca/resources/Conference%202020/Presentat...
> Also, the Flix type system ensures - at compile-time - that all first-class Datalog values constructed at run-time are stratified.

That does sound powerful! To be honest I have no idea what the implications of that are - but I guess that's why it's research!

Re: effect system.

The reason that I think algebraic effects are so cool is that they allow for trackable, side-effectful, and powerful abstractions.

To me it sounds like Flix's Pure/Impure effects offer a fine-grained form of taint tracking. Why do you think I should be excited about this? For example, why not Haskell's monad solution?

I hope I don't come off as confrontational, I'm genuinely interested :-).
That's why I'm never logged in. And I also clear my cookies everytime I close the browser. Youtube to me now is more like a blank page where I search for stuff instead of a weird aggregator.
Any scientist writing prose will necessarily strike a tone. Unless they’re just publishing raw data, the way you use that data in your prose will lead to a different tone. I have read a good deal of historical and modern scientific papers and they all had different tones.
The impact of such algorytms is devastating. Not only because they recommend engaging content that may lead to addiction and waste of time, the most precious thing every human being has.

What is even worse such algorytms force creators to become part of this harmful scheme. Knowledge is the thing that is hurt also. It should be out there. For decades people learned how to explain complex things in an easy way. Because there is no other way we can as people evolve and learn.

But now these algorytms promote the opposite. People who have nothing to say, people who complicate simple stuff beyond imagination are paid for doing so.

On the other hand people who have something to say are bashed because they are not engaging enought, they don't do videos that fit needs of video addicts. So they are not paid.

Such algorytms are the worst thing humand kind invented in last years. The devastating effect of these can be compared to drugs and gambling. It should be banned.
Nanomaterial theory describes strongly correlated electrons in quantum dots
Stock prices are always based predicted returns over time. Their revenue growth for 2020 was 40%, 2019 14.52%, 2018 82.51%, and 2017 67.98%.

So, you really need to predict when that stops before you can get a reasonable estimate for sock value.

A more reasonable 144x in 2022 after 2 years of ~40% growth is the equivalent of ~282x today. That’s not exactly the huge drop people are expecting. In other words I do expect a drop, but I don’t expect short selling is a great risk adjusted investment.
I wonder how much of the supposed overvaluation can be attributed to the "traders" on r/wallstreetbets
I’m not an expert but my understanding is that modern JIT can be faster than ahead of time compilation because the JIT has runtime information, so you get profile guided optimization for free.

Warm up takes a while but then it can be very fast. For long running servers this works quite well.
Thanks to all contributors, I have found a home in XFCE after Ubuntu drop Unity.
Q3 free cash flow was 1.4B. 640/1.4 = ~450. So stock price is currently about 450x previous quarter free cash flow.

So I guess that's what the grandparent meant.

Link: https://ir.tesla.com/
I didn't even know that was a thing, thanks!
Idea: AI bot for detecting positive tones in Google's papers.
BlocklySQL: A new block-based editor for SQL
Paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336754811_BlocklySQ...
Mobile phone cameras do this with a ToF (time of flight) sensor and a software trick. I have yet to find a webcam that can do this.
I don't think it is a new phenomenon. Insanity is just part of human nature. In his book "The Intelligent Investor" Benjamin Graham constantly refers to irrational "Mr. Market". The book was written in 1949. Go back even further in time and find Dutch going crazy over tulips. And so on.

The best advice I have ever been given: Just ignore the market noise. Invest in a broad ETF and stay in for as long as you can, don't look at your balance until then (which I still do).
It shows windows, has a bunch of great QOL and power-user features, and doesn't have a bunch of bells and whistles. I don't want my DE to have a bunch of animations and transparency effects and things popping up in every corner every five seconds. I just want a thing to show windows and let me efficiently navigate them. XFCE does that perfectly.
Sorry, China has just as large of a population and played the infrastructure game way better. It’s not a population problem, it’s a lack ingenuity and power-house organizing capability. I’ve alluded in a lower post that if we’re to be prejudiced in anyway against Indians, it would be to attribute an anti-social dynamic that is making the larger society dysfunctional (as it would a single individual). I’m comfortable with this prejudice because it’s something you can change.

Follow the rules and think about the impact you have for the love of god.
Same BS law in Poland. No one bothers to look for stuff, but if you happen to find anything you are automatically a criminal.
Yahoo Finance says PE ratio is 1200.
Great example from yesterday for me: wife complained about our toaster oven and that it is a pain (burns food among other things) and misses an older one we had that died. Old one ~$100, current one $35. She said we will just have to wait for this one to die and then get a good one. This was a good mentality when we were pinching pennies but I make FAANG money and told her it is totally fine to toss the toaster oven. She is still chewing on that idea as it feels wasteful.

Edit: I fully agree with you on all your examples. Just wanted to give a counter example.
This is boring because it lacks the type of imagination that Elon Musk's companies tend to bring to fruition. I would like to see this type of article rewritten for a scenario where Tesla Network is up & running. Would the stock price still be mania in that scenario?
Stan gives you the ability to do probabilistic reasoning. There is actually Tensorflow Probability (https://www.tensorflow.org/probability) which has a lot of overlapping algorithms, but isn't as mature and approaches some things differently.

The main difference is that with Stan you think in terms of random variables and distributions (and their transformations), while with Tensorflow/DL you think in terms of predicting directly from data. Stan lets model a problem with probabilities and do arbitrary inference, generally asking any question you want about your model.

There are many other interesting alternatives, e.g. http://pyro.ai/ which takes a yet another approach merging DL and probabilistic programming with variational inference. (Stan and TFP can do variational inference too, but I guess it's like Python vs JavaScript vs Ruby vs Java - all of them can be used for programming, but not the same way).
But HTML doesn't say anything about how things need to be rendered / presented. It was never intended to do that.

All it does is mark the structure in a document. "This is a header", "this is a paragraph", "this is a quote". That's basically it. The "hypertext" part of HTML refers to the notion that it uses URI's that can be used to identify resources, and dereference them.

It's entirely up to the consumer of a HTML document to decide how it gets rendered. A browser engine comes with a layout component that determines how the constituent parts of a document need to be painted before they are actually painted on the canvas.

Browsers in a GUI come with a default CSS definition that will be used if the document doesn't reference a companion CSS stylesheet.

Moreover, a browser doesn't have to be a GUI browser. What about text browsers on the command line?

I'll give you an example:

This is the hard coded default style definition of the Lynx browser when running through curses:

https://github.com/kurtchen/Lynx/blob/8b3a9d48dc6737e2062c56...

And this is the parser that will parse whatever limited user CSS is provided, as it is a text browser.

https://github.com/kurtchen/Lynx/blob/8b3a9d48dc6737e2062c56...

CSS was exactly designed to solve those 3 problems and much more.

The separation of structure and presentation is by design. Why? Because HTML and CSS never were intended to be used as tools for building "Rich Web Applications". They were originally intended to render hypertext and static web pages.

As it happened, the world wanted rich, interactive, animated web applications. And it needed technology to build such complex applications. Web technologies have evolved over 30 years to get to that point. Remember Flash? Java applets? Silverlight? Those were all attempts to do what HTML and CSS didn't do. Until the big vendors who came to dominate the browser market expanded on what HTML, CSS offers, and build new API's into their browsers that allow for exactly that.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to build rich web applications, and trying to leverage these affordances. But if you get hit by the limits of what web technologies have to offer in terms of maintainability, performance and what not, that's because you're still building on top of a historical foundation of basic principles that was never intended to be used in ways that it is used today, 30 years into the future.
Chinese autonomous driving startup WeRide bags $200M in funding
But given that way more Indians now have data, I'm not sure that it's much of a loss to Facebook, as they got the users.
GNOME in buster defaults to using the Wayland display server instead of Xorg.

https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes/c...

Debian 10 "buster" released July 6th, 2019
As a Christian that has read the Bible probably a dozen times, I know of nothing in the book that says only God can create life.

Can you point me to a spot where it says that?
The hard part of electric vehicle has never been assembly - its batteries and charging. Toyota and VW can ramp up as much as they want, but they'll probably have to buy the batteries from Tesla.

Tesla is not without its problems, but I think it's a bit naive to focus on the solved problems as limiting their potential. It's also the wrong thing to look at - Tesla is concerned about dictating the future of transportation and energy, selling cars is a means to an end.
Mercurial subrepos use basically the exact same model as git submodules, but unlike git submodules, they actually work and are useful.

The differences aren't huge, either. It would not take much effort to implement the final 20% of functionality to make git submodules useful. But it's just been left as a half-finished, half-broken feature that is not good for anything.
I reckon you can find tons of ex-hippies who would say “California will never go back to what in was in the ‘70s”, when they were already onboard Janis Joplin’s Big Yellow Taxi (written in 1970 and inspired by Hawaii, but massively popular in 1974 California too) and decrying the loss of “Steinbeck’s California”.

Places change, and places with little historical roots as most of the US tend to change even faster. That’s just how it is.
“This is a clear message to those who, for the benefit and selfish pleasure of a few, rob us of our common heritage and erase entire swaths of our history.”

There should be a better process to legally report the items or exchange them for market value so this wouldn't happen in the first place?
Indian space program has a very different set of goals.

- Develop indigenous technology, reduce dependency on technology transfers
- Become a technology provider for defense, as in cheaply available satellites, as well as Research and Development for missiles, etc.
- Get some market share in the international satellite launch market and make a bit of money.

If you observe, Indian missile technology and Indian Space Research Organization, ISRO have grown together.

In India, the Defense is not as advanced and gravitational as in the US, so the idea that the military will have 2 generations advanced tech is not true here (this is my guess)

That is the reason we have missions to moon, mars and all, to develop expertise in technology and build strong institutions that become the bedrock for future endeavors.
Did you just post their entire marketing email as a comment thread?
If conspiracy stuff were the same way you describe music, you would eventually end up with the mainstream opinion, no?
I have confused feelings on the "efficiency" of their recommendations. As many others attest to, their recommendations lean heavily on popularity, and any one video in your history can change dramatically the majority of videos you get recommended. Even if most of your history is on completely different topics, that one video will dominate the recommendations.

People tend to suggest this is intended behavior, my question is instead: Is the recommendation engine all that good to begin with, given how a lot of people find their recommendations confusing, lackluster, or downright bad?
I’ve heard YC Alumni talking openly about building something and then “selling it to dentists in Nebraska”.

They are talking about pumping up a stock and unloading it on some working class rube (well, thousands of rubes) who topped out at the education + service tier.

This is viable exit strategy for many.
That subreddit is fomo central
Yeah it's a pain, but have you tried turning NoScript off? It's a nightmare of "give us your email address!" "accept our cookies!" "check out our whizbang menus that barely function!" "watch our article text slowly fade in!" "look at this image scroll in from the sides for some reason!"

The web with NoScript is a chore; the web without NoScript is unusable.
My uBlock Origin filters:

www.youtube.com###dismissable:-abp-contains(Recommended for you)
www.youtube.com###dismissable:-abp-contains(M views)
www.youtube.com###dismissable:-abp-contains(LIVE NOW)

(edit: formatting)
Show HN: Wildcard API – Data Loading Like React Server Components, Today
I am still learning about Bayesian inference so this might be off-base but isn't the point to compute the full posterior distribution (or an approximation thereof) of the underlying parameters. Whether this is done in the context of a linear model or a deep neural network is a question of tractability.

The other distinction is between discriminative and generative models. In a discriminative model, the output/label is being predicted based on the input features: p(y|x, theta). For example, the probability of an image containing a dog, y based on pixels, x. Theta here refers to the parameters one needs to discover.

In a generative model, one instead models the distribution p(x|y, beta) i.e. given the label, say dog, predicting the joint distribution of all the images.

Neural networks with backproagation can be used for both discriminative and generative models. Bayesian methods can be applied to both discriminative and generative models to compute the full posterior distribution of the parameters, theta and beta.

Edit for clarity: The claim is that the choice of the model vs the choice of inferential methodology (Bayesian vs max likelihood for example) are orthogonal choices.

A neural network doing (discriminative) binary classification based on cross-entropy is maximizing likelihood instead of maximizing the posterior. Most Bayesian examples seem to specify a generative model (a Hidden Markov Model for example) and then infer the posterior. But there's nothing preventing one from using Bayesian methods with discriminative models (generalized linear models) or max likelihood with generative models.
Everybody knows that. You can think it's a bad thing for a private company to do bad things, even if they're free to. Stating a fact isn't an argument.
I have second hand memory of an SNL sketch from the 80s(?) about this phrasing, but for man, mugged, and five minutes.

Second hand because it was told/ re-enacted to me in lieu of recorded on vhs or similar.
Author here.

React announced React Server Componets [1] and an interesting feature is the ability to load data without having to create an API.

You can already do that today with Wildcard API. I've used it at many projects now and it's quite a pleasure to work with! It feels more natural than REST/GraphQL/Express enpdoints; you simply define and call functions remotely, that's it!

I've tried many things to popularize Wildcard but no luck so far. Although it's used at couple of companies so that's quite a success for me already :)

Let me know what you think, or if you have any questions regarding APIs in general :-)

I'm also working on a couple of neat things such as session management[2], realtime[3], and a new super minimalistic/simple query language[4].

[1]: https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/12/21/data-fetching-with-react...
[2]: https://github.com/reframejs/wildcard-api/issues/59
[3]: https://github.com/reframejs/wildcard-api/issues/61
[4]: https://github.com/reframejs/wildcard-api/issues/60
It is not just ETFs.. your pension funds and 401k funds and all sorts of traditional funds also invest in the market with S&P index as a factor.

Many people will not have any say or choice in these type of funds investing their money.
Yes, my partners know of each other :)
Consumer behaviour and Covid-19 during holidays
Which means worrying about fundamentals like cash flow to market cap is meaningless. Those days are over. It is all about supply, demand and liquidity. Stock prices are a popularity contest and banks are full of cash so they are in no danger of crashing like in '08.
Turkey sentences journalist Can Dündar to 27 years in jail
Forcing men to poop standing up is probably some productivity hack.
About those vector icons (2011)
So we short Tesla? Are people taking the other side of this if they are so sure?
It's used a lot for things like analyzing clinical trials, e.g making futility or early stopping calls in interims, or for meta analysis.
JAGS may still be the most popular, at least in some companies, but Stan is starting to catch on thanks to its greater flexibility in most respects.
Well, Google removed "Don't be evil" as their slogan quite some time ago. Don't think that was by an error.
This is exactly why I browse entirely within private mode now. I always make sure I am not signed in to my Google account before clicking any YouTube link.

I do not need to be constantly reminded of a single weird video I have clicked months before.

YouTube recommendations haunted me for life.
Camo is fantastic.
Feedback:

1. Don't make people scroll one-page to actually see the software list/cards

2. My first reaction is to find the search text box which is not easy to locate. Make it prominent, front and in centre.
There's probably two complications with that plan: first, you end up with a tunnel that is too steep (you have to dip deep enough to get under the water), or you end up digging (and outfitting) four tunnel entrances, rather than three.

[n.b. I am assuming the plan actually makes sense, and that when you compare the three-headed tunnel, the two tunnels, and the tunnel & bridge solutions, and all of the maintenance and externalities of roads connecting them, the three-headed tunnel is no more expensive, and trying to think of reasons this may be. If the plan is actually more expensive, or if no counter-proposals were considered, this is all somewhat moot.]
I did a hike a few years ago with nothing but a drawn map and a compass - it's a very enjoyable experience indeed.
haha,

it's like Airbnb without the middleman ;)