skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - Yes, this is significantly better than both a coin flip and a human classifier. They gave the same test to humans, who did much worse than the model. See Abstract, Introduction, and Results.

Where do they say that they gave the same test for to humans? All I find is the reference [15] that points to https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232255935_Accuracy_... that cite a previous article about a different set of photos and a different question.
https://www.amazon.com/Lab-Stirrers/b?ie=UTF8&node=318023011
> massive, sprawling, strictly hierarchical monstrosities

> till I realized that anything taken to an absurd degree is absurd

Whenever I see OOP taught, the expectation is that every non-primative is an object in a massive hierarchy. If the default is an absurd degree, what does that say?
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Mark Cuban invests in Mintable and adopts Dogecoin in the same week
Presumably they're a cardinal. Cardinals aged over 80 aren't allowed vote for pope.
Makes me wonder why Auth0's board of directors agreed to the sale.
Obligatory list of alternative Erlang VM languages:

https://gist.github.com/macintux/6349828#alternative-languag...
Take a look at https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx
I am not sure if you can say that precisely -- I added the caveats about the rules for end tags, and the rules for stray < and >.

But certainly a useful subset of HTML can be parsed with a DPDA. (I'd be interested in more analysis of that; arbitrary tags are another factor)

It's a matter of opinion but I would say recursive descent is "nontrivial", whereas matching tags is "trivial".

Recursive descent involves some choice around lookahead or backtracking. It can be slow if you do the wrong thing, hard to debug, etc. It takes a little practice, and correspondence with a grammar is important.

Whereas matching HTML tags requires no lookahead, and I would say anyone can figure it out just with a simple code reading. Even the "inverted" OOP style is "simple", but annoying for me to read and correctly modify. The call stack reads much better.
Years ago my college roommate was in a band. They played local gigs at college bars and local festivals, etc. They never made much money from it, so they were constantly replacing band members. What I noticed from sitting in on some of the auditions for various bassists, guitarists, and drummers is that anyone with the courage to audition had chops. They had been in other bands, they had CD's showing what they could play, and they could make it through a jam session (some better than others). The pattern I noticed was that none of that was as important as how the new band member acted after joining. Did they show up to rehearsals and gigs on time, did they mesh creatively with the rest of the band when writing and learning songs, just general culture fit.

As a former director of engineering, that lesson always stuck with me. When hiring engineers, I never cared much about what college candidates went to, or what companies they worked for, or how they whiteboarded. The thing I looked for were signals that would indicate this person would not fit in with the team culture, take a long time on tickets compared to peers, ignore clean code or performance, etc. If you are optimizing for that, then Automattic has one of the best hiring processes around. You do the interview async, and then you have a 6 week contract to work on tickets (based on actual past tickets). I went through the process and hated the work and the company, and they also thought I focused too much on the code and not the customer. A perfect outcome in my opinion. A standard interview process might have resulted in an offer and my acceptance.
Would you still get time dilation with a warp drive? Are you actually "moving?"
Kubernetes does not solve the issue, it merely has strategies for how to upgrade nodes. The issue is that when you compile new code, even if the function didn't change at all, it will be a new version of the function. If the upgraded node then sends a function to another node to be executed (as is a very common practice in meshed OTP apps) the older node will not be able to execute the function.

Now, I understand that most erlang apps still don't utilize clustering and instead are stateless apps and that's fine, but ocaml can already do stateless apps just fine, right? So my assumption here is that they're putting ocaml on the BEAM to utilize OTP and clustered apps, correct? If that's the case I don't see how you could have a real-world app that you can quickly scale up/down (which is something you often want in a clustered app) - instead it seems like you'd be forced to spin up entirely new clusters and then direct traffic to the new cluster to bypass this problem. This of course isn't a viable tradeoff for very large clusters.
I've lost something.

When I was a kid, buying a new game was nearly impossible; If I was lucky, I'd get one for a birthday present or a Christmas gift. Occasionally a cool friend would lend me a copy of something. For a very short time, I lived about a mile away from a video game rental store and I'd sometimes be able to convince an adult I was responsible enough to return the game and spend my own money renting a game over a weekend.

As a result of this, I'd spend many, many hours on the same game. I'd "beat" the game, but I'd also have this sort of mental model of challenges or 'perfect' gameplay that I'd try to achieve. It might be a score. It might be a time. It might be collecting all of a thing. It might be getting to a particular location that appeared to be 'off limits.' It was basically 'achievements' before there were achievement systems, but they were generally a lot harder and all the rewards for doing it where self-generated and internal. (I also spent a lot of time thinking about whether a thing was possible, and if it wasn't, why not.) This also allowed me to spend a lot of time on games that weren't very good and find some good within them.

This post reminded me of this, because Wing Commander (the original) was one of those games I played over and over again. (I can't really recall what my goals were for the game, but I remember it being particularly difficult to achieve them.)

I don't really do this with games anymore. Even in the case where I don't have the next game chosen and already in my line-up, it's easy to buy a game online and have it downloaded and playable within an hour. There aren't any surprises: readily available game reviews tell me basically exactly what to expect. On a game I particularly enjoy, I might spend some more time on it by gathering the achievements, but achievements really pale in comparison (in terms of both difficulty and reward) to what I remember of doing this myself in my youth.

It's like the difference between reading a novel and really understanding a novel at a deep level. I think I'd like to get back to those deeper dives; but with more money than time (versus more time than money that I used to have), so many excellent games available, and all kinds of other distractions, I'm not really sure how or where to begin. I'm also not sure it's just me, or if games in general have lost a sort of magic they used to have.
>Let's take the example of "If I Ran the Zoo", since it's one of the only images [0][1] I can find.

I was originally going to issue a rebuttal based on my reading of "If I Ran the Zoo." But, it occurs to me that you can't really be very offended if you haven't even read the story. What's there to be offended by? You don't even know the context of the image which offends you.

>I completely fail to see how you can infer that a publisher not generating additional copies of prose that has found itself in a morally compromised position implies that Dr Suess is evil, or that anyone thinks that.

Although I still disagree with the publisher's decision, I take your point here.

>because they partook and perpetuated the darker side of a slaver society's worldview

What exactly is a "slaver society?" Dr. Seuss was born in 1904, after slavery was abolished. I doubt he was much of a "slaver," as in "someone who literally obtains slaves."

>Children develop their worldview thru the mediums of information they interact with,

Yes, precisely, and I don't believe it's appropriate that children learn to fear and ban ideas which they find distasteful.
If this was true and was indeed very little risk in getting there, they wouldn't have sold. Think about it.
It's about the readability of existing code, not the writeability of new code.
One Designer Just Made More Than $450k on Virtual Furniture
These particles don't have a volume; they're point-like. They don't exactly have an inside with other particles waiting to burst out. These are just mathematical abstractions after all, good at making some predictions. May or may not be actual reality.
My input as a former technologist turned marketing guy over the years - where is a decent SSG (perhaps like Zola) with page building drag and drop tools like a Wix or a Squarespace?

I'd love to move our site off of Wix - and have full control when needed and work offline before publishing pages - but inevitably you dive back into code or the guts of database queries once you leave these WYSIWYG tools.

Between Wix and Zola is an opportunity, in my opinion.
I think that's a great argument for keeping widely used protocols. I don't want any one person, or one entity, to rapidly pivot my critical infrastructure (whether it is "broken" or not). The slowness of change is a feature.
I am curious about something: is there a possibility that this is due to technical aspects of the images?

For instance:

The type of camera used will vary in ways correlated with the person's lifestyle. Richer people will be more likely to use a recent flagship, for instance. Various brands have different popularity with different groups. Perhaps the algorithm is picking up on the different models of camera?

The pictures are drawn from various different websites. Perhaps these websites use different software or different settings to compress images and the algorithm can pick up on that.

Perhaps old photos are compressed with different settings than new ones, or may have been re-encoded multiple times.

A more tech-savvy user is more likely to encode their pictures properly, while a user who is less knowledgeable might upload an image that has artifacts. Similarly, some users will upload images that are out of focus or poorly-lit.
Not OP but I wouldn't consider using this because it doesn't say what you said "Free to download and run." The language on the site makes it look like a free trial of some sort.
How important is “bounce rate” in Google's site ranking factors?
Pollen seems so incredibly cool and powerful, but every time I have tried to play around with it, I get distracted by small quirks and areas that I wish were documented more clearly, or in a more organized format.

My daydream is to make a _good_ technical documentation system with it that is usable by the everyman, but it's still just a bit too much of a stretch. Markdown + pandoc + LaTeX templates get close, but LaTeX templating is a nightmare, and markdown is far too limiting and lacks expressivity (without ad-hoc DSL's slapped on top).

If anyone has a good pollen tutorial or example repo, I'd _love_ to know of it.
I imagine the parent is questioning why the definition for "a substantial dampening in competition" is so strict. To me it seems that they are claiming that this clearly constitutes a substantial dampening in competition, and are thus questioning why it is not illegal.
Earth's position and orbit spurred ancient marine life extinction
You Were Duped into Saying Yes. Is That Still Consent?
I had noticed some threads about this on stringi/r. Glad to hear its more systemic!
>> fall prey to the exclusive marketplaces on the rise

Valves initial support for linux was for precisely these reasons. Microsoft was talking about restricting which games could run on windows in much the same way an Apple does with iPhone software. The prospect of Microsoft having veto/censorship powers over violent video games struck fear across the industry. Valve then pushed towards "steam machines" running not-windows. Those issues have reduced as of late but were the trigger for what would eventually become the proton project.
A fast, low-cost method to detect Covid-19 infection from a pool of samples
I agree, but the ratings are self-selected by the reviewers so it's hard to enforce. The more the reviewer is comfortable in the linux/steam/proton ecosystem, the more inflated the ratings get. I'm guilty of this myself, rating a game platinum because it runs great perfect except for multiplayer (which I don't want) and only if you give it this esoteric launch command (which I had to do once and promptly forgot about). If I'm lucky I remember to add those caveats and what the esoteric launch command was. I'm usually just so happy that I can run the game now after decades of a terrible linux gaming experience that I can't help but over-inflate the ratings.
I’ve seen one similar to the Marfa Lights, Paulding Light in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Paulding Light is caused by car headlights.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulding_Light
I had the same problem my whole life up until about two years ago. For whatever reason my default mindset was that when I heard something I didn't understand or was curious about, I would explain my understanding and frame that against what I thought was wrong about their understanding. I then expected them to respond in a similar way. To the majority of people this seems confrontational and argumentative, so everyone just thought I was being a know it all jerk.

I changed to only asking questions and/or mirroring back what they said. The change in strategy answers my curiosities and helps people to feel like you are listening to them and care about what they have to say. Hope it helps.
Clients don't have to have exact same power.
For example it would totally make sense to grep over a google doc represented as a plaintext file.
Or at least traverse over the complex structure to extract some data, even if it's read only.
By performing the analysis within each of those subgroups.
The creator of Erlang said that static typing was not appropriate for the applications Erlang is designed for. Worth keeping this in mind!
Twitter is testing an 'Undo Send' button for tweets
Just checking in to see if I have this right. So I can literally buy Mein Kampf from Amazon, but not a Dr. Seuss children’s book?
We were/are (Fortune 500) in the process of migrating from Ping to Auth0... Glad I’m not on the group that’s been working on that for the past 1-2 years
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I think it's yet another situation where everyone is escalating hard from "hey, there are some stereotypes in this particular media that are problematic when presented uncritically".

That initial idea somehow turns into, "The left hates Dr. Seuss" and wild slippery slopes about book burning.
nobody saw this coming </sarcasm>
The article directly contradicts this submitted title; there's no reason why it would be illegal.
What about tweets like "Dogecoin is the people’s crypto"?

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1357241340313141249
The Circle of Now
> Does it mean that people shouldn't face criticism and negative consequences for what they do in the public sphere?

It's fine to criticize people. Do you believe that someone should never be able to hold a job again because they donated money to a politician that an employee finds unsavory?

> The argument was that LGBT people and their fellow travelers working for and supporting Mozilla would likely not want to continue if the head of the organization supported anti-LGBT laws. As such, that would diminish his leadership effectiveness.

There is no proof he acted against the interests of LGBT employees at Mozilla. I like the idea of due process and if you can't come up with something that actually hurts employees then I don't find it to be a substantial argument. There are millions of people that don't support LGBT laws. We can't force them all to be jobless homeless. That's totalitarian.

What I get from your post is that an employees personal feelings are more important than facts and reality. Employees can always go somewhere else instead of launching campaigns to have someone fired.
Computer algebra systems are usually large, heuristic systems for doing algebraic manipulation of symbolic expressions by computer. Roughly, they’re there to aid a human in doing mechanical algebra by working with symbols and not just numbers. Generally, the results coming out of a CAS are not considered to be “proved correct”, and ought to be verified by the programmer/user.

Proof assistants aim to allow one to write down a mathematics assertion in a precise manner, and to help the user write a formally verifiable proof for that theorem.

Extremely crudely, a CAS is like a super-powered calculator, while a proof assistant is like a super-powered unit test framework.
I've been using an HTC Vive on linux. It usually works pretty great. The performance might be percentage-points worse than a "clean" Windows install, but in my experience Windows didn't manage to stay clean.

I've got a gtx 1070, which at this point is pretty far from top-of-the-line VR-capable card. I'd probably get significantly better performance improvement per effort spent by upgrading my card than I would by tweaking the OS.

I can pretty consistently enjoy VR games. I haven't tried vr web browsing in a while; I remember it being pretty finicky on Windows several years ago.
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I've used Julia a bit and I fail to see that "light years ahead" point. Julia is sure a cool language to work with, with a very nice type system and a quite smart compiler, but well, the stuff I've used is still much of meta-programming (like Python does, except here it's JITed right). But maybe my epxerience is so limited I don't see the interesting bits...
I am fairly certain that Facebook owns any content you post on Instagram, so not illegal.
For me personally - all these popup banners and modal walls for websites about cookies and stuff just really make the internet a worse place. I suspect that empirically, they don't accomplish what the GDPR intended to - and they make the internet less enjoyable. Thanks GDPR.
The github link on the site takes you to your personal github page, not the page for the sendreadable project. One downside of the way remarkable handles this sort of thing, is that I assume I have to give you my API key, which would let you read/write anything you want to the tablet. Its a lot easier to trust that you're not doing anything fishy if you provide the code to the project.
It would be nice to see a logistic regression using at least some of the features known to be useful (including geography and income).

That way we can see how much of the performance is from magic AI pixie dust, and how much is from basic 19th century statistics.

Every time I read a paper like this, I have this Margaret Mitchell talk [1] in the back of my mind.

[1] https://youtu.be/XR8YSRcuVLE
Port, native client, whatever. Most native Linux versions do not work well at all, and many that do have very low performance OpenGL renderer rewrites that cannot compete with DXVK.

There are obviously exceptions, but IME they are quite rare.
Data keeps piling up: No 'mass exodus' from California during pandemic
Yes. Same here. Google's gotten some bad press lately for banning people without stating a reason-- yes, there's legal rationale for not giving a reason. But, I'd suggest it's also likely that nobody at Google actually knows the reason. There's not some single common and obvious thread in the bannings (aka customer "segmentation"). Speculating, it's really just your risk/segmentation score from algorithm X is vector Y. And, I'd imagine AdNauseam increases your score in the bad direction.
I agree, gambling and alcohol ads should be banned. I personally would never work on them. There are categories of vice products that the law treats differently in many mediums.

I don't see why the existence of alcohol should mean SaaS software companies shouldn't be able to reach their target market with ads.
This shows that social online networks are really advertising/propaganda networks which can be used to manipulate unaware people. Misuse by these and other sociopath's needs some type of governmental control.
I wonder if the study accurately reflects the lack of political common ground in the population. Are only 28% of us “moderates”?

It’d be interesting to do the same analysis with photos of people taken 10, 20, 30, 40,... 100 years ago to see if the intersection (28%) grows/shrinks historically. Were we always so easily politically separable by our appearance alone?

Has our appearance always revealed our political leanings, or do we now dress in order to make a political statement?
They explain: they tested predictions on pairs of faces of teh same gender, ethnicity and age. The result was 69% instead of 72% apparently.
> Funny aside, McAfee also donated a bunch of malware infected laptops to the Belizean Govt and police force

It's even worse than you make it sound. He planted remote access software on the laptops so he could spy on the police. This isn't just a couple of copies of Bonzi Buddy we're talking about here.
I would be very interested if instead if they first passed it through an indepedently-trained emotion classifier, and then look to see if the emotion vectors alone can predict liberal vs. conservative to some degree.
Does the US have jurisdiction here or is the Southern District just playing Team America World Police again? Is using Twitter the new precedent for being ensnared by the American legal system?
Was it really the McKennas who wrote the first diy guide?

Maybe one of the first.
It should be obvious to anyone who reached the site. They have listed popular books on the front page.
And the website itself isn't indexed if you don't explicitly search the name.
Had to throw http://durgasoft.com/ 's hat into the ring too for the garish web design subset.
In fact, the dating site dataset was ~54% conservative according to their explanations of included data, but the point stands.
Or this.

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/330/806/8fc...
I don’t see how any of these is cursed really. I think it is fair to assume that most of these websites are the product of work and passion from individuals having put some time and effort into it.

One can perceive them as ugly, outdated, funny, or even pointless (I don’t, but it’s not the point). But using a domain like cursed.lol and a vocabulary like “twisted brain” or “fucked up shit” (OP’s comment) is a bit too much on the side of the mockery / disrespect / immaturity and doesn’t belong here IMO.
Funny you should mention the mental model of challenges because I do the same thing. I've started role-playing in games that neither require nor request any real role-play. For example, I find it much easier to suspend my disbelief in a shooter game if my character doesn't have to survive 10s of bullets without even a wince. As a result, I play and replay shooter levels until I can beat the game without taking a single bullet.
A lot of the offline generators also had forward contracts to deliver, so they ended up losing too. Costly lesson in preparedness.
the basis of my post was about the lack of statistics between "dead" and "not dead", so statistics about who dies is pretty irrelevant

I moved because I had the privilege to choose and did

you are reading everything wrong here
I got the US version of this machine for Christmas 1982. The manual that came with it had all of the Z80 opcodes listed and briefly explained. I learned a lot from that little machine.