skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I remember seeing photos of some university - I can't remember where - that actually ripped up the old paths and paved over the desire paths, to great success.

And when people do this: it makes the path a bit jarring since you intuitively know it's been designed that way for maximum efficiency and you are being 'played' in this subtle way.
That's a pretty specific situation you're dealing with so I don't know if I have any useful advice to offer. I can just say that throughout most of my life I've dealt with regret the same way, no matter the circumstances. I remind myself that it's a stupid and useless emotion to indulge in, since there's no way to go back and change anything. I tell myself "acknowledge things you regret long enough to learn whatever lesson was to be learned, and then forget about it."

Of course that's sometimes easier said than done, but replaying that thought in my head usually helps.
Ah, that's the piece I was missing. Thanks.
Also see the Julia package that makes it acessible with a high level interface and probably one of the easier ways to play with it: https://github.com/wsmoses/Enzyme.jl.
Ask HN: Why does it seem like people dislike AMP?
I get the general impression that people don't like AMP, but I don't know why.
That's fair, my argument is less that reframing the context is always bad, and more that the original context of [Amazon] in [Companies] makes a lot of sense. I also think that the presented Fiat vs Ferrari is a poor analogy. Why, in your view, are universities so much better than Amazon and other top tech companies? In my view, they're often doing far more than universities on the cutting edge of research. While there are certainly some tradeoffs in a corporate model, I think that universities and tech companies are both effective research organizations, but have different focuses. To use the cars metaphor, it's like some discussion about Ferrari vs Bugatti vs Koenigsegg vs etc. and then someone starts talking about superbikes. Amazon may compete with universities for employees, but they don't directly compete with universities in market share, products, or services.
In '99, while working at a solar hydrogen startup as a recent grad, I was exposed to a fellow who proposed to transport H in the form of H2O, and his solution for cracking it was to make purple ping pong balls filled w/ Na. He'd deliver a hopper of Na ping pong balls, and a machine filled with water. Feed balls into the machine, which would then use a ram to split the balls underwater, and siphon off the resulting H2 gas to feed to your fuel cell.

The racket it made, with a loud kerchunk splitting the balls, and the hissing immediately following, was just slightly terrifying.

This paste seems a good deal saner in comparison.
Not paying back debts as agreed is tantamount to stealing, which is even shittier IMO
Data Normalization: What You Need to Know Before Feature Engineering
Apache Pinot – Realtime OLAP datastore, designed to answer with low latency
Except that there most commonly sold car is half that, plus maybe $500. Then if you factor in cost of ownership, which its crazy not too, subtract another $5000 or so.
I don't know. I can think of some possible reasons, for example: the people who decide to have a company party do want to be nice, and/or maybe they want to party themselves, and/or maybe they see it as an opportunity to get publicity and network, and/or maybe they do it because other companies do it and so it's just "what is done", and/or maybe they do it because they think it'll raise morale and team bonding.

But I don't know. Maybe someone who has personal insight into the matter can chime in.
great idea! lmk if you'd like to chat
We've gone through a lot of collars with our cat and he seems to tolerate the neoprene and velcro type the most. The brand I'm familiar with is Beastie Bands. They're more secure than I imagined and fit loosely without snagging or easily pulling off. Additionally, it seems to generate less matting, which is a plus.
Putin's palace. The story of biggest bribe
Now in English.
“There’s no backdoor.”

— Perhaps the door is cracked (or ajar) and a microphone is listening in ... still?
I have a suggestion about the first plot you show in the writeup. From what I can see, it is based on a finite pool of data and so it undersells active learning: performance shoots up as AL finds the interesting points, but then the curve flattens and is less steep than the random curve as the "boring" points get added. It would be nice to see the same curve for a bigger training pool where AL was able to get to a target accuracy without running out of valuable training points. I suspect that would make the difference between the two curves much more stark. As it is, it just looks like AL does better for very low data but to get to high accuracy you need to use the whole dataset anyway so it's a wash between AL and random.
> Then it got taken over by a bunch of entrenched editors

You're assuming this is not enabled and supported by the WikiMedia foundation. I believe you are wrong. That is, what you see when you try to edit values are those "entrenched editors", but those are just the front lines.

Certainly, some policy and customs are set by virtue of being an active editor; but more fundamental and site-scale issues are just as certainly discussed, decided and acted upon - infrastructurally - by the foundation.
Construction is a prime example, especially Home Construction. Just look at the TikTok videos showing horrendous plumbing and electrical work.

Hell, I moved into a house built 3 years ago by a major firm and the ceiling fans were ALL wired wrong, and many of the electrical plugs are upside down.

This is a house that had a specific design model. My presumption is that unskilled labor was brought in to complete work and just did a shitty job.

You can see this sometimes with outsourced programming work or local work that is poorly designed and inadequately tested.
But all countries have these questionable choices and histories... but we are just singing out China as evil... feels like propaganda.

I agree democracy helps distribute power... I don’t agree it makes people more accountable. Or is inherently less/more “evil”.

Compare China and US Covid response. Which one has held people more accountable, which one has been more evil?
> Same is true for compilers.

Which are mostly collections of dozens of languages and dozens of backends reusing the same functionality in compiler collections like the GCC or LLVM.

Instead, with LSP, every single one reimplements everything from scratch.

And the features available to you differ heavily from one language to another.
People like the restrictions AMP applies

People dislike that to "use AMP" you have to be hosted by Google on a Google domain that hides your real website's domain, and only Google - you can't run your own AMP-equivalent behind any major CDN
Look at a hosted knative solution, like Google Cloud run or one of many others: https://knative.dev/docs/knative-offerings/ You don't have to know or care about anything Kubernetes with it, but you get ease of just throwing containers at something and having it run them for web-scenarios. They scale up and down to zero so you aren't paying a cost when nothing is happening. And when/if you need it, you have the full power of a kubernetes cluster at your fingertips too.

AWS lambda can run plain old docker containers now too. Check out something like the serverless framework to make it easy to define a bunch of web services or APIs and deploy to lambda, knative, etc.
Chrome. Their UI is the best in the market.
A few month ago, I found out that Thunderbird can show RSS Feeds within your grouped Inbox. So I just have to keep track of my e-mails and when one of my few selected RSS feeds posts something useful, I noticed it automatically.
Would be interesting to see how may people inadvertently employ Dijkstra's Algorithm on their runs/walks https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/dijkstras-shortest-path-al...
You can Google to quickly get a bunch of different articles about how ineffective the Red Cross is; we don't need to recapitulate them all here, it's just a little funny that they were your example of an obvious recurring charity donation.

If I have a real point here, it's that people all have different definitions of what important charities are.
Most hotels will have slow but unlimited wifi. If you use something like resilio sync, syncthing, or photosync, you can transfer the day's photos and videos overnight while you're sleeping. Links here: https://photostructure.com/faq/how-do-i-safely-store-files/#...

Also: if they do decide to mail SD cards, have them only send backups, so if it's lost in the mail is not a tragedy. There are USB OTG dongles you can attach to an Android device to make SD to SD copies, using a file manager on the smartphone, so you don't have to lug around yet another computer.
I understand where you're coming from but this isn't a good argument.

First, you're again jumping to conclusions about what people believe in order to straw man them - I've never heard anyone call for Hillary's murder, only her imprisonment. I still don't see that kind of thing as representative.

Second, by this kind of logic, the Muslim ban was a great idea. While only an incredibly small percentage of them actually committed terrorist acts, what's the acceptable percentage of those who think that radical Shari'a is a good idea, even if they don't engage in violence? 25%? 10%? Look, here's another random unverified poll that says half of all British Muslims support illegalization of homosexuality: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/11/british-musl... Guess we should systematically discriminate against them!

In both cases you are using stereotypes to hurt people. This is not to say Qanon people should be given a free pass, call them out on their bullshit. But I think the percentage would have to be nearly 100 in order to justify any extreme actions against Qanon. And it clearly isn't.
>reasonably high APRs

I think the disagreement may be on the definition of “reasonable”.

Similar to utilities, I don’t think most people begrudge a company for making a “reasonable” profit. The problem sometimes comes when it starts to become unreasonable level of profit, predicated on lack of transparency and shady tactics
I have a small flat in the city, a little junk food, and no car. I'll be totally honest - from time to time I feel a little twinge of regret, since I could afford a McMansion and an expensive car if I worked all the time. But I quickly remember that I probably like the idea of those things much, much more than I would like actually having them. Especially at the expense of having to work all the time.
Qutebrowser - Uses Blink engine but lightweight and 100% keyboard navigatable with vim-like controls.
We don't need satellite data to find true north, it's just the easiest way to do it given that we have satellite data. That's a category error.

Moving very big rocks doesn't need to involve aliens. Using water and ramps and rollers, we could move them. That a documentarian couldn't figure out how doesn't mean it isn't possible.
Some choices are mutually exclusive. It seems common, but in my view (intentionally?) ironic, to use the term in those contexts.
The problem is that Content ID systems are tangential to the law. They are private systems developed to cover tech companies collective asses. It is easier for them to take down all content matched in their content ID system than to verify the validity and legal ownership of every track uploaded to their system. The latter is very hard actually. I guess a solution would be for original creators to be able to upload their content to the content ID system and mark that content with the correct license. Then free to use content could be uploaded and scammers could be punished. I don’t know if this is already a feature they support.
I think I can agree to disagree with most people replying, I consider it highly misleading that they prod users to donate when using Firefox, and don't mention that Firefox is not funded by donations: https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/

A few years ago, I certainly thought the funds went to development. And I can't say I'm a big fan of most of their initiatives (most of which have been abandoned Google-style).
That is a particularly difficult argument to make - Twitter put out a statement [0] when they banned him. They do not mention 'breaking the rules for years'. They take a surreal and incoherent view that "To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th." is an incitement of violence.

Siding with a political majority is a safe strategy; but that statement is pretty much indefensible. Even if you believe they had grounds for the ban based on a history, their actual reasoning is different from your justification.

Nonpartisan moderation would involve, at some level, quotes or instances where Trump said something objectionable.

[0] https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...
Also a couple of things to note:

1. Submarine cables can't go in a straight line, since they've got to, you know, go down to the bottom of the ocean. (Which, you may have heard, is quite deep.) Also, a cable with a length of several thousand miles tends to have some slack.

2. Your packets may take a very curvy route from one city to another, even when they're not geographically that distant. This may be because your ISP is bad (and has poor/limited routes), geographic or geopolitical concerns, or just because of the way the Internet infrastructure is built. On the US's west coast, I often experience latencies 60%+ slower than the theoretical minimum when accessing servers in the central or eastern US. (e.g. SF -> Des Moines, IA at 70ms).
This has come up before for Fox News in the courts. They won. Because they are not a news channel and only air opinion pieces they aren't subject to the Fairness Doctrine.

Also, Reagan killed the Fairness Doctrine so it doesn't really matter. Basically Fox is free to lie as much as they like and it's perfectly legal because some politicians found it to be beneficial.

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-...

https://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-host-shepard-smith-opinion...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sean-hannity-the-whole-newspa...

Any time a Fox News host is pressed about their lies they fall back to the "nobody would believe these obvious lies" defense, and it works. Accountability is dead.
or direct air capture (expensive and inefficient)

The big question in my mind is whether direct air capture is inherently expensive and inefficient...or if this is just a chicken/egg problem where we haven't invested time and money in making it cheaper because it's expensive, and it's expensive because we haven't invested time and money in making it cheaper.

I don't know enough about physics and chemistry to answer the question on what the theoretical lower bound on cost might be.
Was able to log in... what a great nostalgia flash! :)

Sad to see how many links are broken now...

... and some, like postsecret.com, are surprisingly still live and active 15 years later.
We're not even at 59% for "ghosts don't exist": https://today.yougov.com/topics/lifestyle/articles-reports/2...
I just set up one of these Signal proxies. Hope it helps you and others in your country communicate freely and safely. [1]

Regarding Tor: if you want a Signal-like app that uses an onion router look at Session. [2]

It uses the same encryption protocol and very similar UI to Signal but routes all traffic through the Loki network so your traffic passes through three nodes. It is an onion network like Tor.

One other benefit of Session is the lack of metadata inherent to its design. No phone numbers or even usernames are attached to your account. You get a set of characters that looks similar to a bitcoin address and a QR code to make sharing it easier.

Of course this lacks the convenience of Signal but it’s as hard to block as Tor.

[1] https://signal.tube/#signal.xanny.family

[2] https://getsession.org
I spend a lot of time in US cities. I live in one of them.

The reason some communities vote to entirely ban panhandling goes to the root of why people resort to panhandling. It's because there is no support structure to counteract the decades of systemic destruction of human dignity. The vote is to assuage middle- and upper-class sensibilities to avoid thinking about the systemic issues by resorting to "out of sight, out of mind."

There is a strong bias in the types of people who fall into this situation. If you do not consider that racism, you have missed approximately the last decade of discussion around the matter.
Thanks for this, at least my tabs aren't totally lost.
... this isn’t denial of service. ? Also my original question: doesn’t encryption secure the entire chain?
I feel that too - I joined HL just a couple of weeks ago (from Unix/webdev tech focus) and it's been a lot of learning so far. I'm going to do a little research (and write a blog post) into the specific case of 'too subtle for a regex' aimed at general webdev folk who have a problem to solve rather than people that already want to use ML.
It's even simpler now, lambda supports running docker images as of a couple months ago: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-containe...
See this other comment also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26028498

Round trip vs one-way
How do they spend so little on internet hosting? They're one of the top 10 websites in the world. Are servers and bandwidth really that cheap? It's not like it's all text either - they serve images, audio, and video too.

Anyone know if someone donates hosting resources to them? I simply cannot imagine serving that much traffic on < $3m.
You are obviously very intelligent, but assigning value to the partner's contribution to a relationship, and seeing it in an economic lens, may be intelligent but is not necessarily wise.
A well-known fact in the industry is that most hedge funds (including shorts) don't actually know what they're doing, and rely on selling narratives so they can gamble with other people's money. The overwhelming majority can't even beat the S&P in performance. Short sellers are infamous for spreading massive FUD (Tesla was a prime target for years), and most continue their antics despite no longer having any credibility whatsoever.
Now suddenly data flows between my computer and Microsoft. Without me ever agreeing to that.

And if I install the wrong application - BOOM - Code by Microsoft is executed on my machine.
Blocking tor exit nodes is considerably easier than an arbitrary proxy server. Tor provides a list, in fact.
The Great Suspender Chrome ext has been flagged
All of sudden the The Great Suspender extension has been flagged by Google as having malware? Does anyone know if this is true?
I don't thinks that lack of legal protections for IP is in any way an equivalent to communism. Money would still be on the table, it's just the way they are gained would be somewhat different. IP as a concept isn't even that old and our societies managed to exist, produce works of arts and various services just fine.

As for the big tech firms - why wouldn't they exist? Would Google be disrupted if tomorrow all patents in the world became unenforceable? Or Amazon? Sure, MS might be in trouble, but what they are doing already feels like a gradual switch to a service/subscription based model.
Yes. It is a crime. Depending on the type of crime, you may or may not get a public trial.
Now...

How do you splice a hollow optic fibre?
Depending on where you live and how good is your library selection, yes, and I do encourage people to do that.

Growing in up in Brazil though, didn't have much luck at that time, finding things that I wanted.

Edit: this was for books in Brazilian Portuguese. When I started focusing on books in English - to prepare to move to Canada - I bought Kindle books because otherwise, I would have to pay for international shipping, buy for high price in a Brazilian bookseller, wait up to 2 months for bookdepository delivery...
I remember following the development of Bioshock Infinite and Starcraft 2 for years, and then being disappointed at the content that ended up cut between the previews and the releases. Since then I just don't follow early hyping of video games.

So if I were someone who liked CDPR's Games, and I bought Cyperpunk and enjoyed it, I wouldn't say "Man I'm so outraged, they promised x feature and the game didn't ship with x feature", I'd say "Haha Cyborg Genitals Go Brrrrrrr".

I think a better question is why do so many gamers want to tell other people whether or not they're allowed to enjoy a game. This is particularly bad as someone who enjoys Bethesda open world games, any discussion online of any of those games not named "Morrowwind" or "Fallout New Vegas" is a one way train to people telling me I'm an idiot for being willing to buy another one, as if I'm not allowed to like Skyrim or Fallout 4.
You're been working with PHP, why do you want to switch to Rails or Django?
Contextual Prerequisites for Understanding [pdf]
That's less a hard number and more a limit of how much power you're directing at it (with limits due to the inefficiency of RF energy transmission mostly) and how sensitive your receiver is. The passport RFID tags have been read from over 200 feet away for example. (this number is from years ago too)

https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities---threats/resear...
The cloud ruined that fringe benefit, I used to manage servers in London and got to visit them quarterly. But now I manage servers all over the world, and it's impossible to see them physically, even the ones that are hosted nearby.

Though all things considered, I don't really miss sitting inside a cold, loud datacenter or standing in front of a tiny KVM monitor for hours just to load CD's to do a software upgrade.
You can use homomorphic encryption that allows the vote (after-the-fact) to be auditable but secure and allows individuals to validate that their vote was counted accurately.

Microsoft has a project that seems to work in this direction:

https://github.com/microsoft/electionguard
I guess one might have to do some definition of terms here.

Is "customer service" where a customer gets to call/walk in and talk to a human who genuinely tries to help them solve their problems, or where a customer gets to call/walk in and treat someone like absolute shit in order to feel better about their problems?

'Cause "customer service" in the US is all too often used to mean the latter.
If Wikipedia becomes unfashionable to the extent it is highly dependent on its savings, it will no be longer valued for being Wikipedia (by definition).

It might be valued as an institution with modest economic power, which doesn't seem to me to add anything to the world that isn't already there.

2 years of all current spending as a cushion seems like plenty to me (for Wikipedia, which has not faced any unexpected financial shocks, even in 2020). If you can't navigate shocks and downward trends with that cushion, then you probably ought not to exist.
Here you go

import math

def Circle(x, y, r):
return (lambda d : d['visitCircle'](x, y, r))

def Rectangle(x, y, w, h):
return (lambda d : d['visitRectangle'](x, y, w, h))

def area(shape):
return shape({
'visitCircle': lambda x, y, r : math.pi * r * r,
'visitRectangle': lambda x, y, w, h : w * h
})

exampleCircle = Circle(2, 1.4, 4.5)
exampleRectangle = Rectangle(1.3, 3.1, 10.3, 7.7)

print(area(exampleCircle))
print(area(exampleRectangle))
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