skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regrading benchmarks, we have three main dataset collections we focus on currently:

1. Datasets from customers, but obviously those can’t be made public.

2. The OpenML benchmark, which is fairly limited because it’s mainly binary categories, but which is good because it’s a 3rd party, so unbiased. We have some intermediary results here (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oAgzzDyBqgmSNC6g9CFO...) , they are middle-of-the-road. However I think the benchmark is pretty limited, i.e. it doesn’t cover most of the kinds of inputs and almost none of the output we support

3. An internal benchmark suite which currently has 59 datasets, mainly focused around classification and regression tasks with many inputs, timeseries problems and text. Some part of it is public but opening that up is a bit difficult due to licensing issues. I’m hoping that in the next year it will grow and 90%+ of it can be made public. We benchmarkagainst older versions of mindsdb, against hand made models we try to adapt to the task, against the state of the art accuracy for the dataset (if we can find it) and a few other auto ML frameworks (well, 1, but I hope to extend that list) [see this repo for the ones we made public: https://github.com/mindsdb/benchmarks, but I'm afraid it's a bit outdated]

That being said benchmarking for us is still WIP, since as far as I can tell nobody is trying to build open source models that are as broad as what we're currently doing (for better or worst), and the closed source services offered by various IaaS providers don't really come with public benchmark results outside of marketing.
Some dream themes seem to be fairly universal:

https://xkcd.com/557/
That's not quantifiable evidence of a political bias. You win in a prediction market by guessing who will win, not by stating who you want to win.
I don't feel like we're looking at the right metrics to judge if people's lives actually get better. If all you focus on is production/consumption then yes, sure, we've never produced and consumed as much, but consumption of goods and entertainment hardly is enough to fulfil a life. We see it very often on hacker news, people trying to "optimise their lives", "be more productive", not everything has to be about productivity, you can't quantify "social" productivity, the simple fact of writing "social productivity" makes me sick to be honest. We're applying machine concepts to human interactions... what's the best: 10M instagram followers or a loving family ? Who's the most socially productive here ?

> massive increase of wealth

Yes, but again, once you're past a certain point perceived wealth isn't a benchmark for quality of life. A min wage worker has a faster car than kings from the 15th century, they also have better beds, better heating systems, &c. do they have better lives ? And this isn't even talking about the fact the the massive wealth increase was highly beneficial to a very limited number of people while the rest got the crumbs

A unit of out time is more productive, but we still spend as many unit of times working than 50 years ago for less and less rewarding jobs. Being stuck in a dead end meaningless job is a daily reminder that your time is worth next to nothing since you perceive your mission as useless and you're paid the bare minimum.

If all you care about is productivity we're twice as productive as in the 70s [0], are we twice as happy as then ? And by "we" I don't mean "tech workers making 2-10 times their country's min wage". The vast majority of people still have to work 8 hours a day until retirement, less and less are able to afford homes, &c.

I'm not against technology, that would be ridiculous, google search and google maps are literal miracles, but there is a flip side to tech and automation which is becoming increasingly hard to bear for a lot of people. I find that telling these people to suck it up because they have on demand cinema and facebook messenger a bit insulting.

I lived on both sides, it doesn't matter if you have barely enough money to pay for a shelter or if you have enough money to buy any new amazon gadgets, all things being equal as long as you spend 8 hours a day working you'll still be missing out by the simple fact that between work and sleep you'll barely have time to get entertained. "Panem et circenses"

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/labor-productivity-per-ho...
> the news sites lose mindshare (as they stop showing up on social media) and people stop visiting them at all

That's the main problem for them. They are missing right from the place where people socialize, debate, tag and search. They are hanging from a thread, it's only when people intentionally seek their news that they will get to display them. Maybe that will show how much people care.
ok, so 8 hours from vaping in the evening should also not impact your next day
You don't require an account to view/access Hacker News and Reddit's content.
Sad to see no mention of the fact that we have built computers in Game of Life, including one that can play tetris: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/11880/build-a-w...
Shouldn't the article be called "Wine on Wayland" instead of "Wayland on Wine" then? I was really confused by the headline.
But whatever domain is embedding your iframe is still sending you backlink juice, be it to your front end domain.
This is only a legitimate criticism if Facebook and the other didn't show a web page if it didn't have OG tags.

The publishers adding OG tags is a coping mechanism, not an invitation.

And there are a lot of other ways that OG metadata gets used besides social media.
How else has this?

I sometimes remember dreams from easily 15y - 20y ago absolutly vividly, although I have had forgotten them in the mean time. Suddenly, during the day, like in a split second (maybe triggered from a scene or scent) I feel that "feeling" (or more like a superposition of all impression of that dream i had) of a dream long lost and the dream is fully present in that moment and I kind of "remember" it completely. Then it is fading away fast.

Every so often I have these vivid dreams with what feels like long story archs. In my youth / pre 30s more often then now. At the end of my 20s I started to keep a dream diary, not very consistently, but still.

So now, when I have these dream flashbacks, I immeadiately grab this journal or a piece of paper. I write everything down and draw sketches of the scene and really try hard to remember specifics of that dream. And then something really weird happens... i start to remember scences form other forgotten dreams and it feels like I opened a door or pathway in my memory and can look/explore fragments of these dreams. And the harder I try the better results I get. It is really an odd experience.
Say you and I both have a shop selling shoes online. If I use fake accounts to click on your ads I "burn" your budget by driving less sales to your bottom line, since the traffic to your site is all fake. Assuming that you have a limited budget that can make a lot of difference to your bottom line versus mine.

This is a tactic broadly used in AdWords in the past, and I assume that it's also used on FB too.
The outrage is due to Facebook being involved. No one (very rightfully) trusts Facebook with their data. I doubt there would have been any outrage at this level if an independent WhatsApp was doing this.
I'm not sure I understand your comment. Crypto was always about freedom, and as things stand the right is advocating for freedom more than the left (gun rights, freedom of speech, smaller taxes).

Crypto was always about freedom, you're liberated from the dependence on your country, bank, or whatever else it may be. Your fate is in your own hands, your wallet, your funds.
https://archive.fo/KsD50
I skimmed through subtitles and things for a better title and there wasn't really anything.
I would imagine most of the buyers (including traditional consumer-facing electric companies) aren't paying spot prices for all of their electricity, having negotiated contracts with generators ahead of time? But I have no idea on the specifics of Texas's energy market.

As for the scamminess, doesn't our current business culture revolve around doing whatever you can get away with? I know I'm contributing to the downfall of society writing this, but it seems like you're just harming yourself by holding back based on morals while businesses no longer function that way. In this framework, it's up to the businesses to prevent you from switching instantaneously - like open enrollment periods for health "insurance".
Many employers and organizations require inoculations to be up to date. This is to protect others in the organization. It's like international travel, you have to have your shots first.
Each Electron application seems to think it's the only one running in a computer. It's the only way, I imagine, they think it's acceptable the amount of resources they need to run.
Sure. But getting everyday people to panic will actively hurt efforts to deal with these problems. People get really stupid, shortsighted, violent, and desperate when they feel like the world they know and benefit from is slipping away from them.
Apple Destroying Facebook
This is an interesting situation, what if Facebook get news from public feed such as from the RSS feed?

Will countries also end up asking rss readers to pay for the content they give?
Visualizing How Covid-19 Has Impacted Global Wages
> the problem with prediction markets is you have the incentive to make the prediction come true

If players in the market have ways outside the market to significantly affect the outcome that the market is betting on, then it isn't a prediction market. The whole point of a prediction market is that there is no such feedback mechanism.

For example, the article discusses prediction market bets on Trump winning the election. The underlying assumption of such markets is that no player has more than one vote in the actual election, out of some 150 million or so votes, so each individual player's ability to affect the outcome is negligible.
"Difficult to access" here may have meant going to your national/state mapping bureau (or however it's called) and physically buying a printed copy of the maps. It's not necessarily that they "prevented people from accessing data that they funded", or at least it was not around here, just that getting maps required physical movement which I guess these days qualifies as "difficult to access".

I (and several others) used to trace these maps (by hand, using OziExplorer) then offer them for download in Garmin/MapDekode
format. OSM didn't even exist at the point.
It's all worth it because Javascript is such a fantastic evolution in programming language technology, productivity, security, scalability, and consistency.

Sigh. That's sarcasm if it wasn't apparent. And no I don't care if Typescript / ECMASCript v-latest "fixes everything".

The V8 devs are certainly doing yeoman's work, but at the same time that hard work enables all the JS insanity to get worse and worse, to say nothing of the advertising sociopaths, tracking cookies, and browser profiling.

I 100% agree that it should be a required feature of web browsers to limit RAM, disk, and CPU usage. Yes you can prompt for more resources, no you can't ask for unlimited.

Cue every website asking for that along with cookies, and not working otherwise. And of course, notifications.

I'd appeal to google to start enforcing good behavior, and maybe Apple, but that would be counterproductive
Of companies mentioned in the article, the asymmetric contributions to OSM that bother me the most are AllTrails and Strava - 2 companies that heavily rely on trail data sourced from OSM.

AllTrails does close to zilch to help put trails into the maps, even though the majority of trails are user-generated content.

Strava has let "Slide", their one project that could help put trails on the map, die an ungracious death.

If you build a whole business model on top of free data, it may be worth considering improving that data.
Well understood areas do not have a lot of active research. Research aims exactly to understand things better, and people always try to focus it on areas where there are many things to understand better.

Failure modes in distributed systems are understood reasonably well, but solving those failures is not, and the theoretical primitives are way far from universal at this point. (And yes, hard too, where "hard" means more "generalize badly" than hard to implement, as the later can be solved by reusing libraries.)

The problem is that once you distribute your data into microservices, the distance from well researched, solved ground and unexplored ground that even researchers don't dare go is extremely thin and many developers don't know how to tell the difference.
It is true that some newsrooms have a point of view that they push. While data can be manipulated, the desire is that data visualizations from reputable sources (e.g. CDC, etc) can help separate fact from fiction.
I think the problem is that there are no fluids or oils on the skin. The lighting and texture is configured to mimic these excretions but they aren't the excretions themselves and we notice the lack of presence.
Yes, just like you can short Tesla and assassinate Musk.

This is ridiculous, regulate prediction markets like any other financial market (in particular, your identity should be traceable) and then all your clever plan does is get your funds frozen pending a very thorough investigation.
Isn't that just life insurance?
Downloaded the demo app for macOS; feels like an alien UI even though effort was clearly made to use system widgets. On the positive side, the app is only 4 MB and consumes 50 MB at runtime, so at least they've succeeded in that important aspect.
Yes they do? They are basically available in every language, in some ecosystems there are multiple alternatives as well and there would not be that big of a market unless it is useful.
What if someone shares a screenshot of the article?

Probably no different than someone photocopying a newspaper article in a library.

One of the colleges I went to had pretty strict rules about that posted right above the copy machine.
MI6 chief apologises for past treatment of LGBT people in secret service
Lots of businesses in the UK operate with employees not working 40 hours a week. Some of them have 'zero hours' contracts where work is at the discretion of the employer, at hours of their choosing, and with little notice.

If it makes more economic sense for Uber to have a pool of full-time drivers to send to jobs, then that's a model they can move to. If not (because demand is inconsistent, or not evenly spread throughout the day, or whatever) then I have no doubt they'll continue with flexible rostering (perhaps taking more control as to timetabling).

And the UK is not in any way short of private hire companies or drivers. Many of them have apps, and Uber is not consistently cheaper than other cab companies. Frankly from a customer point of view it doesn't make a lot of difference whether they go out of business or not in England.
How did traditional taxi work then?

Does the city auction the permits every year?

Uber was absolutely great in the US because it replaced the medallion system that was more of less a pyramid scheme. That's one of the big reason, I think, it worked so well.
There are no "good guys" in this, neither the publishers nor Facebook, and we all lose from this petty fight.
Social Networks have network externalizations.

The presence of the 'freeloaders' makes the value of the network.
Found: Emperor Hadrian’s Palatial Breakfast Chamber
>Programming languages advance by introducing new constraints.

Among other things.

>throw is a little bit too goto-y for my taste

Conceptually, throw is not at all like GOTO. It's not a control structure, but a communication tool. Throw interrupts execution of logic in a subsystem that encounters abnormal conditions and communicates those conditions to the containing system. The second part is the most important one.

>However, for all of NPM’s problems, at least it is a package management system at all! It’s easy to pick on NPM [...], but even at its worst it’s a huge improvement over manually managing dependencies

This really depends. In many ways NPM made introduction of new dependencies easier, while making handling dependencies over long periods of time a much more hairy problem. I don't like that most devs today assume that versioned packages is the only way you can do things. Many also don't understand that "dependencies" is not a real thing, it's an aggregate label that is applied to a set of problems that happen to be solved by package managers. Problems like discovery, deprecation and compatibility checking.
There's also leaking financial, business data. E.g you create an order and you see your order id being 3000 the first day and 4000 the next, so then you'll be able to guess how many orders this company has etc.
GameStop Hearing Featured No Cats
Both? We don't live in a binary world my friend. They are removing some fake accounts and not others. I have worked in plenty of companies who were doing such a selective job (I'd say all companies do this when it comes to defending their interests) to know this isn't at all far fetched.

Some departments are routinely instructed to turn a blind eye to the actions of some but not others. Sexual harassment is one topic that rubs me the wrong way since I worked (and quit from) companies who were pursuing these cases only if they were below a certain level in the hierarchy. Above that it was "blind eye" all around.
Since I was younger, whenever I am ill - like a fever or something - I have a recurring dream about boulders at the top of a mountain with changing numbers on them. It just kinda loops ... very strange
Sharing screenshots of news sites? Copy-pasting text verbatim or non-verbatim? Any number of ways users can - and will - get around it to maintain the toxic environment.

Just look at Twitter.
The "patterns" documentation seems like a good place to get oriented around the ways they suggest people use this Tauri:

https://tauri.studio/en/docs/usage/patterns/about-patterns
If drivers are getting desperate, it's because there's an oversupply.

What will stop drivers is simply that they won't be able to drive forever if they lose money on rides. That sets a minimal price.
> a lot of early OSM data came from enthusiasts digitizing old US Army maps because, indeed, they were public domain

But that's the rub, we the taxpayers have paid for all the map creation, even the new high resolution ones with far greater accuracy, yet we're stuck with these older, lower resolution and likely out-of-date maps. Even the new maps should be public domain.
yep multiple implementations and glorious code work around for each one of them! ahh those were the days
>They've now come along to start messing with the privacy to start selling ads

Selling user data and advertising is pretty much the end goal of most "free" applications that suddenly pop up on the scene, and that end goal is set from the start (whether to monetize the app yourself or sell/get acquired by a company that will monetize it).
Is that the issue? An account is required because the Facebook feed is largely dictated by who you're friends with. It's not based on a public popularity contest like Hacker News and Reddit. I'm not sure I follow.
I supposed you're being sarcastic. The realistic version of this is that we have experience and evidence that tells us that it has the potential to be more performant.
Check out Polymarket, much smoother UX than Augur (at the cost of being more centralized, as I'm sure you guessed).
What I read was a story of making money from some niche prediction market sites (that I would never touch). There is also quite a bit of handwaving, eg
"I saw more and more arguments from Very Smart People whom I respected arguing that the markets were in fact being irrational and I should participate and bet against them if I can. Eventually, I was convinced." and showing some math from trivial arbitrary scenarios the author poses (nothing to do with the story). This then dovetails into how ETH is a good bet because, they know some calculus? This is crypto-promotion, plain and simple.
Having done a significant amount of international travel, while there are many recommended vaccines to have, the only vaccination I've been required to have is for yellow fever. That's only been required if you're coming from a country with known yellow fever outbreaks. Additionally, I've never been asked to show my yellow card.
I'd say it's worse than that, they offer the perfect counter argument to soul crushing jobs. Get home, unplug your brain, spend 3.2 hours on netflix [0], go to bed and forget about everything else. Yes, your life is miserable but tonight you'll be offered a new episode of that quirky baking show.

[0] https://www.pcmag.com/news/us-netflix-subscribers-watch-32-h...
how do i downvote this scammer
As long as you're being paid minimum wage and the other (limited) employment protections that apply to people with 'worker' status, then it won't matter at all. It's not illegal to have people as dependent contractors, it's illegal not to give them employment rights as a result.

There is a whole separate question around tax status, but that's not implicated by this ruling as it's based on a separate set of caselaw.
The article mentions fake or duplicate accounts but not those that exist for dead people either [1] which would seem to become more and more important over time.

1. https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/29/50-years-therell-dead-people-...
Always thought it was a case of Bremsstrahlung: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremsstrahlung
Doesn't seem to be available.
> maybe readers will eventually retrain to visit news sites directly rather than relying on Facebook and friends to select articles for them

Yes, one or two sites, not the whole press. Newspapers will get to see how much people really care about their content.
Coworking and Flexible Workspace Data
The Result type is specifically designed to store value-or-error. One may use it diffently but that’s what it’s made for.

The library designers had a choice between making a generic this-or-that type or a value-or-error type and they chose the latter because they thought that that would be the common this-or-that use-case.

Even Haskell’s more generic-sounding “Either” type is made for the same purpose: the “right” (as in correct) variant is the value while the left side is the error, by convention.
Its consuming more than that at runtime I believe, you just don't see it because its using webkit in another process?
I recall some discussion along those lines.
> whether or not taxing things causes less of the thing to be produced.

It causes less to be consumed and this is part of New Zealand’s strategy to make the country (tobacco) smoke free. The numbers shown below are a little misleading as the black market increases as the tax rises, as the link notes.

‘The collective impact of the initiatives that make up New Zealand’s tobacco control programme, including tobacco excise tax, is having the desired impact on smoking rates which are trending down. Among Māori, daily smoking prevalence fell from 39.2 percent to 37.7 percent (1.5 percent) between 2006/7 and 2011/12, but during the period of annual tobacco excise increases they fell from 37.7 percent to 31.2 percent in 2017/18 (6.5 percent) –a substantial acceleration in the decrease in prevalence.’

https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/informatio...
yes punches especially. But it is really good it is slow. I punched my little daughter that slept in our bed one night. But no harm was done... phew
hey twarge, can you please test our app and provide feedback. it would be really awesome if you provide some feedback. here is our app https://getorionapp.com