skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did submit it under a completely different title but unfortunately someone changed it to this abomination. I don't know what if anything I can do about it because I also thought it can now be construed as the exact opposite.

I think

Google declared "persona non grata" as sponsor of AI ethics conference by ACM

was my original title.

"Persona non grata" to me was the best translation of "unerwünscht" in the original German headline. There might have been other options but "wanted" certainly is extremely awkward and ambiguous in comparison. But stuff like that keeps happening on HN, it has certainly been a "known bug" for many years, which sometimes leads me to just not visiting or commenting/submitting for a couple of weeks until I've stopped fuming over the unappealable, authoritative actions by someone who doesn't know their limits... ;-)
And yet Substack was featured on HN top for running ads in their email newsletters....
Yes, C#'s greatest weakness is the tooling. There's no autoformatter, for heavens sake. (There are two in theory, but one is prettier's support for an old version of C# and one just doesn't work). And, yes, solution files and project=assembly are both absurd.
This post reads as an advertisement for a blog. While you may have something interesting to say, I find this difficult to engage with.
I tend to agree with you, despite the famous quotation: "Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk" ("God made the integers, all else is the work of man")
To a certain extent, you could probably say the same about the time term in the flat spacetime metric in relativity.

There might be ways around it, but I'd wager that anything you come up with can be massaged a bit to make it look like time is an imaginary dimension of space where it's contribution to distance along the spacetime manifold is negative when squared.
So there is an objective measure for deciding how good a programmer is? Why don’t we just adopt that measure in interviews?
Please post non-mobile links to wikipedia when you can [0]

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The other day I complained on reddit about users deleting their own posts. It's really annoying. There was only one response, "You're overthinking it, man". Now it was me who was annoyed.

Time to pass this one on, I guess: You're overthinking it man.

There.
>How did Toyota (seemingly) blow this so bad?

Because contrary to the impression you get from reading comments sections on HN, Reddit and other sites they are fallible. They are run by humans making decisions based on incomplete and imperfect information. Sometimes they get it wrong.
Is that a statistical blunder? If economic circumstances provide no additional explanatory power beyond coresidence...
How the hell did short selling become a social justice boogeyman?

The narrative in the article -- that people truly feel sympathetic with the garbage companies being shorted to the point of being angry at shorts -- sounds like some ludicrous nonsense r/hailcorporate would dream up.
> DuckDuckGo is my go to, but it leaves a lot to be desired

I have a fantasy where a lone basement nerd storms DDG HQ and teaches them about quotes at gunpoint.
Is it? If the security researchers don't find vulnerabilities, does that mean they don't exist? If the AI ethics researchers embarrass you, aren't they doing their jobs?
Doesn't #2 kind of qualify as "replace"?
That and their brains are insanely malleable. As someone who contemplated learning Irish as an adult, I have to say that their brains can do things ours simply can't.

And I learned Hungarian (and Portuguese) as a kid.
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I'm not sure quite how to explain it, but I get a very uneasy feeling from dating apps. I feel like I'm constantly looking at the same person over and over again, The pics are the same, the bios are copy/paste, overused lines. It doesn't feel like people trying to date, but rather people trying advertise their lifestyle / social media presence. Some of them are worse than others and some seem to only attract a single type of personality. It almost all feels fake

Then go to read some r/tinder advice and it makes sense. The Advice tends to boil down to creating your profile formulaic, attempting to be different or add much personality docks you points.

On another note if someone could please let me know how all these people are constantly affording retreats to all sorts of countries, please let me know ;)
It’s helpful to add a regularization term to your model so that as you’re building it, you penalize high parameter models against low parameter models. It’s commonly done in ML contexts but the idea is sound.

A similar idea in genetic algorithms is to penalize the length of the “genome” being optimized.

All sort of related to the bias variance trade off, overfitting, and the fact that with sufficient order of polynomial you can “perfectly” fit any number of points to create the worst approximator.
I am good with ecosia.org ;-)
The people who complain about virtue signaling are themselves engaging in virtue signaling, just to a different audience.
First, that's not what your link says. (See, e.g., the comments to the first answer.)

Second, I find that claim highly dubious. To do metamathematics and talk about the relative strength of various axiomatic systems, you need to talk about large cardinals. So that, at least to me, seems like a good argument that set theory is foundational to mathematics in a way that category theory is not, since the latter has no non-eliminable place in the (study of) contemporary foundations of mathematics.
Quantum mechanics is not a discrete theory in the sense you seem to be suggesting. There is this idea that is is, which comes from the discrete energy levels it predicts for a simple harmonic oscillator, or the hydrogen atom, but quantities like the momentum, kinetic energy, position etc of a quantum particle are completely allowed to vary continuously.

In some sense (because of the wavefunction) quantum mechanics is less discrete than classical mechanics, a qubit system which would be classicaly described by a single bit is described by a state that sits on a continuous manifold (the Bloch sphere).
Hard to take anyone seriously who wants to ban short selling. Moreover it's not even possible without making an exemption for market making firms.

Also they're talking about how GME made people aware that short selling was a problem? The shorts got crushed..
These are very good points. You have highlighted many “fences” and leaned towards the opposite side of me. I respect these points.
> As long as you can get C or better in every course required, you have a degree. Does that necessarily mean that you are competent?

It means that the university granted you a degree (and, indeed, the med student who got a D average in every class is still called "Doctor" when they finish the process). The point is: universities have a vested interest in the question "Does that degree indicate you have competence?" and incentives to change if the answer, on average, trends toward "no" for their graduates. Corporations have no particular vested interest in the question "Does the corporation's name on an ex-employee's résumé mean that employee has competence?" That's some competitor's problem, not theirs.
There is a cost in order to be free(ed).

Would be a nice study to determine the monthly rate one is willing to pay in order not to the be the service.
If you want to avoid the term expansion, just put double quotes around the words you want to hard require.

As for including "useless" results - that's never a goal, the goal is always to rank the results in the best possible way. What's the best possible way varies depending on the user, and relatively large term expansion is useful for certain users in certain cases.
My son has a Mini2, the transmission range on this is pretty amazing.

We were watching a neighbor's house over the holiday, which meant mostly checking for delivery boxes on their porch and putting them inside. We could drive the Mini2 out the window of our house and 2 blocks away to check the porch without getting out of our seats. And this is a suburban area full of houses, trees, and a shit ton of interference at the wifi/4G/LTE ranges. The video never lost a frame.
“In the ballpark”

It’s not really new, to say that you should use simple heuristics to bound fancy math. Physics does it all the time — eg, unless you’re standing next to a black hole, your Newtonian and relativistic calculations should nearly agree.

The problems with simple metrics arise when you have complex distributions that are poorly represented by mean, eg the shell of a sphere.

If you design a product to appeal “center of sphere”, then it’ll be mediocre to everyone and you end up being out competed on every front by people who design slightly more “biased” products.

I spend a lot of my time explaining that to executives.
Indeed. I'll keep that in mind.
> because none of them have evolved a tongue and vocal apparatus capable of making the correct sounds.

And the neurological development to process and produce speech. I'm no cognitive scientist but I think verbal speech and reasoning is a huge amount of what we call "intelligence" in humans and goes beyond simple communication of immediate facts or commands. I suspect babies do have similar problem solving abilities compared to those animals, but I think it's disingenuous to throw out speech just because a dog hasn't evolved vocal chords. They're also missing the brain to use them, with whatever that means for reasoning.
> My very own system did not work with Pulseaudio when I tried to switch, that was years later. I still use only ALSA because of that experience. At that time Pulseaudio was garbage, it should never have been used then. It only got acceptable later - but still has bugs and issues.

I remember the transition to PulseAudio. Initially, most things were broken, and we still had some applications that worked only with OSS so the whole audio suite in Linux was a mess. I remember that I already switched from Fedora (very broken)/Ubuntu (slightly less broken) to Arch Linux, and for sometime I kept using ALSA too.

Eventually, between switching Desktop Environments (I think Gnome already used PulseAudio by default them, while KDE was optional but also recommended(?) PA), I decided to try PulseAudio and was surprised how much better the situation was afterwards (also, OSS eventually died completely in Linux systems, so I stopped using OSS emulation afterwards).

With the time it was getting better and better until PulseAudio just worked. And getting audio output nowadays is much more complex (Bluetooth, HDMI Audio, network streaming, etc). So yeah, while I understand why PipeWire exists (and I am planning a migration after the next NixOS release that will bring multiple PipeWire changes), I am still gladly that PulseAudio was created.
Depending on how you look at it, most of my recharging is effectively 15 seconds. Because I charge at home, it is just the time involved in pluggging the car in, and I'm done.

Can Hydrogen charge at home?

For ~98% of the days of the year, I don't have to even go to the gas station. For long trips, I'm not sure there's really a difference between a 5-10 minute gas station stop and a 30-40 minute supercharger stop.
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Systems must provide due process, but if you let yourself be slippery sloped into spending time and energy to support your own extermination (e.g. by doing business with nazis) that's really something.
The Berlin government considers it a legitimate reason, and since they get to make the rules that's all that matters in this case. If the people of Berlin would disagree, it's up to them to elect a new government with different views on the topic.

"I want to move to Berlin", on the other hand, is not a particularly legitimate reason to kick out a current resident for a newcomer.
A 60 mph wind on Mars has an aerodynamic drag force equivalent to a 5 mph breeze on Earth.
Sure it is, as long as you're willing to repeat in increments of real numbers.

And that's my point, basically - By the time we're discussing real numbers, we need multiplication as an operator, because we're discussing ratios already.
What they did wrong was not having the resources to handle that volatile environment. I know other companies also halted trading, but many didn't. They are bitting off more than they can chew.
Carter is a very pious individual whose actions always seem to be consistent with that belief system.

Clinton is a well-know womanizer whose exploits were known long before his presidency.

They are both powerful, and influential. But one seemed to put a whole lot more effort into getting laid, to the point of destroying his career.
Amazon launches computer vision service to detect defects in products
Because a bunch of people don't understand how the market work.

like all these people who think they're buying GME stock is going to save GameStop, cuz they somehow think that GameStop get some of the money from their stock purchases... So yeah I really don't know what the heck is going on in people's minds right now.
You could, but why? I wrote a small package to automate my backups, and transform the content into something readable for myself. It's far from feature complete, even for my simple personal use.

But if you're doing a complete read-only copy of roam, why not go all the way and make it editable, and compete with them instead?
I think I understand what you mean, so let me dial back "anything involving the real numbers".

If you are representing or thinking of "sqrt(2)" as "the positive solution to x^2 = 2", then you preserve algebraic properties. But you generally (correct me if I'm wrong) don't get to know whether it's bigger or smaller than something else of the form "the _choose_uniquely_ solution to _some_equation_" unless you rely on an argument where you invoke approximations.
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What point is that? You're moving the goalposts, why would/should/do you think this fund did go '100% TSLA at the beginning and [do] nothinig else'?
But that is only for convenience. You can do everything with real trigonometry, just that it’s a bit more cumbersome. The imaginary numbers don’t correspond to anything in physical reality in electrical engineering.
Every single discussion thread on this topic inevitably turns into a flame war.
One of the most interesting concepts in the book was "efference copies." The idea is that your mind needs to distinguish between stimulus that you caused by voluntary action (moving your arm) versus stimulus that the environment causes (your arm being moved by something else), so you send these "echos" of your voluntary actions back to your brain and this is possibly where your sense of self comes from.
I see what you're saying. Forgive my choice of wording. Perhaps "equitable" wasn't the correct choice.

I more meant whether it will become a currency of the people. Or a store of wealth for the average person.

I'm looking at this through an African lens. Bitcoin showed a lot of promise for cheap and reliable remittance payments and one day a fully fledged currency for the masses. Gave us Africans lots of hope in many ways.

These days I worry it is increasingly growing more difficult to acquire. It's no longer destined to benefit the people.

I don't mean to imply that everyone deserves an equal share. I hope I'm making sense. I guess I'm more wondering about its overall accessibility long term.
Not really, it's normal.

If you have two independent variables that are highly correlated, and you include both into the model, it's going to be pretty arbitrary which one ends up with statistical significance.

If we're dealing with weak effects and small data, there's very little one can do. That's why epidemiological studies like this kinda suck.
Show HN: Learn the Vue.js docs interactively
Hi HN! I'm working on codeamigo.dev, a project designed to help developers learn coding topics interactively.

Codeamigo is a "decentralized" codecademy. Anyone can create lessons on any topic they wish. For now, I plan on approving the lessons before they are published. I believe that we have amazing educators in our community and that learning interactively is more efficient and enjoyable than through blog posts or videos.

Each lesson is made up of steps, and each step is made up of checkpoints. A checkpoint is one or more jest tests that run in the browser against the user's code.

For now, the app only supports JavaScript, but I hope to expand that offering in the future to more languages.

I look forward to any and all of this communities feedback!
Edge doesn't support this :(

You'd think in the 1,454,567 transpile mutants that JavaScript has spawned or the polyfill mess, someone would have implemented this across all browsers.
You also benefit from harming its competitors.
Color | undefined; tells me that the dev who wrote the code doesn't know whether they will pass the parameter or not, it gets decided at runtime.
Not only does this complicate the function signature, it inevitably adds a conditional inside that method -- or passes the buck down the line to another method called from within.

At that point, TS is just a burden.
This article is epistemological garbage. There's nothing more "strange" about "complex numbers" than any other mathematical construction. It's no surprise that they help "describe reality" because they're a relatively basic and fundamental concept of mathematics that was constructed in large part to describe physical observations. I can describe the rotation of my dinner plate using complex multiplication, but that doesn't make it magic or mysterious.
Most icons are generally tiny. Millage will vary, but they can speed up your site. Fewer requests for a slightly large page size.
Then you learn about Zeeman effect.
As many mentioned, DDG is Bing and Google under the hood. That being said, DDG is great and I’m very thankful it exists.

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I agree with the main thesis of the article, stated in the first paragraph. That idea of ”how important it is for us humans to not underestimate animal intelligence”.

I think folks in modern times are less & less prone to thinking animals are ‘dumb’. But 1 or 2 generations ago this was not the case. I think humans for a long time have regarded animal intelligence in an inferior light.

Cephalopods have proven to to be incredibly intelligent, and emotional. I think you could easily argue many of them are smarter than human children, maybe even a lot of adults :)

I highly recommend an episode of ‘Nature’ I saw recently on PBS about octopi. It’s called “Octopus: Making Contact”. It’s the story of a professor who decided to install a tank and keep an octopus in his home, and the relationship he & his daughter developed with it. Absolutely stunning!

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/octopus-making-contact-previ...

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/baby-cephalopods-first-momen...
> I read this too. I never got a chance to really apply it.

I'm in the same boat. I often wonder how negotiations go where both sides have read the book and use the same tactics...
They compete in the same market (digital ads) but provide different utilities for the consumer, hence aren't competitors when it comes to user attention. Google provides a search engine, GSuite stack and other free products, YouTube, etc. Facebook provides a social network and networks to connect with their families. There isn't a meaningful competitor for either in either space. And most companies simply retain two marketing budgets - one for Facebook and one for Google.
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DDG is the wolf disguised as the sheep. If you consider the vast possibilities a company is able to trace you over the internets it's largely irrelevant where are you coming from, as long as you hop once over a server operated by BigCorp.

And in the case of DDG the results come from Bing. From the rain in the eaves.
Are you sure? My teacher did that.

It doesn't take very long, and I can definitely see someone forgetting all about it.
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Is the phrase "virtue signalling" a form of virtue signalling?
It would not surprise me if civilizations evolved in the same way life did on Earth.

Life evolved in the sea. At some point life evolved to leave the sea and go to land, whether the sea was no longer hospitable enough, or in search of better food. Life continued to evolve on Land, specializing into different groups and colonizing different lands.

Perhaps civilizations evolve on their planet, then at some point they leave their planet and go into space (when their planet is no longer hospitable or they need more/better food). Finally, while in space they evolve more, founding different colonies that evolve differently due to culture and environmental differences.
In my understanding what Cliqz did, at least in the beginning, was to buy clickstream data and then build an index on top of that. So in a sense they just scraped Googles' search index, as almost all users rely on Google for finding stuff on the web. The clickstream data gives you both the search query and the website(s) users visit after searching, so it's pretty easy to build a search index from that, at least for popular searches (it might be more difficult for the long tail of search queries).

A lot of the clickstream data you can buy comes from browser extensions btw, and often gets collected without users knowing about it (looking at you, "Web of Trust"). I think their reliance on such data was the reason Cliqz acquired Ghostery, which also collects a copious amount of "anonymous" data from its users. On one hand it's a neat idea since you're basically standing on Googles' shoulders, on the other hand it's at least questionable for a "privacy-first" company as the generation of the search index is based on personal data mined from (often unwitting) users.

That said I don't know how their system evolved, so maybe today they have another way to build their index.
This was my reaction. They've let cybersquatters go nuts ruining the domain registration system for years. UDRP is fine for big businesses but what about everyone else? Why do they allow companies to run bots on the dictionary and register thousands of names at wholesale rates that go years without an active site?

I spoke with Vint Cerf when he was the head of ICANN about GoDaddy's abusive policies that blocked customers from transferring domains, they went years without doing anything about that as well.

Peter Sunde is not the problem.