skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both scenarios can be true, you can be "clueless" and optimistic at the same time. Even if the Gervais Principle is real, it doesn't mean you need to be nihilistic. If your work is giving you meaning and joy, does it matter if sociopaths are benefiting more than you? It's kind of like being resentful of professional athletes, it simply wasn't in the cards... Saying this as a definite "loser" btw.
No and yes, we are both wrong so let's refine our thinking in order to gain accuracy and reach agreement.
Machine learning isn't necessarily probabilistic. This statement definitely is true and I'll prove it.
However my original example
E.g a rule based (causal) parser can learn the structure of a document. alone is unsufficent to qualify it of machine learning! Indeed, an HTML parser alone isn't enough to say it's learning, more accurately it is only memorizing the structure of a page.

ML means that the function that maps inputs to outputs is learned from data.
This definition is overly restrictive (but match e.g the behavior of neural networks).

Wikipedia has a more inclusive and useful definition of what qualifies as ML:
Machine learning (ML) is the study of computer algorithms that improve automatically through experience and by the use of data.[1]
So a ML algorithm allow to automatically improve throughput at a tasks through learning the representation of the data it is fed.
Considering this definition, we can realize that the most used ML algorithm in the world is Pagerank (for improving the ranking of Google search results).
And surprisingly, this algorithm is non-probabilistic.
It attribute higher weight proportionally to URLs that are the most linked to by other sites. I.e it basically learn the structure of the graph that is the web.
And its performance is data driven.
So it's not just about causally memorizing the structure of a graph but also about reusing its past memories for newer queries, then we can effectively talk about machine learning.
Pagerank diagram ->
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank#/media/File:PageRan...

I'll give you an example of a non statistical machine learning algorithm that I am currently developing:
Semantic parsing is the task of encoding semantic meaning in a graph from a natural language text input.

This graph can then be used for semantic question answering.

It is rule based and it will learn the semantic structure of the text. The more data you fed it the more knowledge it can encode. Hence it's performance at question answering increase with experience. It is causal and yet it fit the useful definition of machine learning cited above.
Please read the rest of my comments on this thread. I don't think you should pull your kids out of school. Simply sit with them and help modulate the information. Learning to operate in the context of CRT is simply part of how their lives will be, assuming they live in / remain in the US.
I wonder why their legal department would PREVENT them from saving their users.

What legal reason would exist for that? I thought legal would instead force them to save their users, since otherwise they would risk getting sued by all of them by all the damages caused or something.
> Well, they are shooting at a per Raptor cost of 100k long term 250k short term. Even assuming it is 4x as much now, that is about 3m for the engines.

That's some super optimistic numbers you chose there. There's no reason to believe that at this point in time a Raptor engine is only half as much as a less complex Merlin engine.

The loss of three engines per test is by far the most costly part of the operation. How much an engine costs right now, I don't know of course, but I'm very confident it's more than $2 million a piece.
A wretched hive of scum and villainy.

But seriously, it's basically a front end to a bunch of people who have been incentivized (or fooled) into installing a proxy server on their home computers. It's primarily of interest as a way to make certain types of fraud (like ad fraud and credit card fraud) much harder to detect.
A voting system where voters can prove which way they voted is vulnerable to coercion or retribution.

The manager rounds up the workers and "suggests" they all compare how they voted. Those who voted "pro-company" will likely reveal their vote. So for everyone who refuses to reveal their vote, the manager checks a box next to their name on the attendance sheet.

There may be a voting system that provides all the desired guarantees, but I doubt such a system is also easily understood and trusted by the average voter.
World Weekly News still available at your local grocery store checkout as far as I know. That was how I learned what "fake news" was as a kid, the fictional headline you mentioned is totally game for that magazine. In fact most of their covers were some blend of politics, sex, and aliens.

But I'm sure some people believe it or whatever. Doesn't make it anymore credible now that it's on the internet.
Thanks! That is not an obvious conversion from natural language to math to me, but it does seem like the one they must be using.
Maybe for people with spotty timelines, instead focus on the number of lines of code or something. Show the whole year as a pie chart, broken down by language, or framework, or something. Maybe show a wikipedia-style timeline view of contributions/commits by the user. That way long gaps can be obscured, since your timeline doesn't have to be perfectly linear.
I realize this is going to come off as dismissive, but don't use fixed container widths.

Responsive design is a paradigm shift away from perfect pixel-level control over every container size on a static-width document. It's not print design, it's a different medium.

Stop making fixed layouts that break whenever I snap a window at half-width to the side of my screen; there are legitimate reasons why someone on a computer might want their fonts to be bigger or smaller, and your column widths should adjust to accommodate that.
I’m very glad it’s online, and hope this continues. I’ve done decades of conference/workshop/meeting travel, and yeah - the in-person interactions are useful. Those interactions IMHO don’t outweigh the cost, disruption-to-life, and unfairness that physical travel has. I’ve been mentoring early career people for years, and this past 12 months has been wonderful for many of them. Not everyone has the $ or time to travel, and many people got left out of participating in in-person events as a result. Online events have flattened the playing field and are allowing people to participate who would have otherwise been excluded. I would 100% sacrifice chatting over beers or during coffee breaks to let a wider population participate - I’d much rather optimize how we do things for everyone, not focus on the desires of the subset lucky enough to have the ability, desire, and resources to travel.
Everyone dismisses bitcoin. Its not that hes wrong, just that these feelings are not limited to some upper class, champagne swirlers.

And the reason normal people dismiss it are the same as the hedge fund guy: its impractical, fad like, no intrinsic value, associated with crime, and cryptos have unlimited supply.
Double-You is just ridiculous in the first place. I cringe a bit every time I have to say "AWS", but that's just because it's much smoother in German.
> so many writing systems where "cap height" is meaningless

Can you name any writing system that doesn't have a logical equivalent? If you pull up all your examples, a quick eyeballing of them reveals there is a clear upper and lower (or left and right in the case of vertical scripts) "line" that is the obvious equivalent to cap height, even if ascenders or descenders sometimes go over it.

If you don't want to call it "cap height" in favor of a more inclusive term then you're welcome to suggest one, but the idea is generally applicable. It's not ignoring other scripts.

> Specify it in pixels?

This is a solved problem, the author presumably meant logical pixels (e.g. as used in CSS), not display pixels. Logical pixels map to display pixels either 1:1, 2:1, 3:1, etc. or by a non-integer ratio when other browser or OS zoom settings are used.
I'm not saying that machine learning isn't capable of doing these things (most of the time). I'm saying there's no way in hell you'll get a non compliant blackbox system past European safety laws.
I'm all for attribution in this case it was basically user generated content. We deployed measures to avoid this in the future afterwards, nonetheless I still think the practice is predatory. If I had ripped some artist off his hard work, sure. But not naming the photographer of an half-assed picture submitted to an article with close to zero traffic, in order to lure some people into copying the picture for your own profit is just shady.
Some opinionated thoughts on SQL databases
> Are you asking for the names of specific news orgs? Would requests for publishing stats and word count follow?

What I'm getting at is I recall seeing a number of articles about it during his presidency, and with some quick searching I was easily able to dig up articles from CNN, WaPo, HuffPost, other left-leaning outlets calling him out. A slight tweak to your trend search further corroborates that it wasn't ignored: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=O...

As for interest in the Iraq War waning, surely you can see that A. Obama didn't start it, he inherited a quagmire, and while much can be said about how well he did or didn't handle it, it was fundamentally created by Bush and B. the country had a far more pressing issue with the great recession in the timeframe in question.

Regarding supposed press ineptitude - would you not agree that the right is by far the bigger problem in this equation with Fox, Breitbart, and a well-documented proclivity for spreading fake news? I'm all for calling out bad journalism - I just don't agree that your both-sides take is accurate.
It is a premature April fools joke.
>think of this as the coolest year for the rest of your life

As someone who had to suffer through −40-45°C winters all my life, I can live with that. I don't know if it's due to climate change, but this winter was pretty tame. Only a few −40°C days in total, not three to four weeks as it always had been previously.
Big Chunks of Corporate Tax Cuts End Up in Executives’ Pockets
Absolutely agreed. The article laments things like "I have no good way of knowing how big my text is going to be when I say 16pt," and my response is "why would you ever need to know that? Do your containing elements not reasonably resize when their inner content gets bigger? How are you handling internationalization where strings will certainly be longer?"

It's ok for apps to look different on different platforms. We need to stop trying to design things pixel-perfect to the mockups - I thought we could have left that trend behind in the early 2000's.

OS font rendering can even provide info about the physical dimensions of the screen and give you an "actual size" unit you can use to match your screen to real world paper. So a lot of this article, to me, reads as a misunderstanding of why fonts render the way they do.
That should be easy!

https://www.amazon.com/CSS-Awesome-Mug-Programmer-Developer/...
My favorite part of the web interface is when it silently reverts changes made at the command line.
10 Mistakes to avoid when resizing your cloud resources
> “The breach was massive, customer data was at risk, access to customers’ devices deployed in corporations and homes around the world was at risk.”

> “They were able to get cryptographic secrets for single sign-on cookies and remote access, full source code control contents, and signing keys exfiltration,”

Maybe putting your network control plane in 'the cloud' isn't such a good idea after all...

Edit: Just re-read the article, this part stood out:

> the attacker(s) had access to privileged credentials that were previously stored in the LastPass account of a Ubiquiti IT employee, and gained root administrator access to all Ubiquiti AWS accounts, including all S3 data buckets, all application logs, all databases, all user database credentials, and secrets required to forge single sign-on (SSO) cookies.

> Adam says Ubiquiti’s security team picked up signals in late December 2020 that someone with administrative access had set up several Linux virtual machines that weren’t accounted for.

If this is true, and whoever breached them had full access to their AWS account, can we really trust them to clean up all their tokens and fully eradicate all forms of persistence the hackers may have gotten?
> I’m using a 3.2GB file containing 13.3 million lines of Apache logfile, half from 2007 and half from 2020.

I'm not sure if this was deliberate, but I hadn't come across this use of 'logfile' as an uncountable noun (eg. like 'water', 'money', or 'data') before.

Having occasionally dug into logs over the years, it certainly feels right, though asking "how much logfile?" strikes me as a bit Doge, but I'm sure that will wear off.

Linguistic evolution in action, folks!
> That's the theory. In practice: You have a story which is e.g. 3 points complex and you can not really say how long it will take you to finish it. It could be a simple task like painting the wall. The complexity does not depend on the size of the wall so it does not matter if I have to paint a 5 meter wall or a 20 meter wall it still will be 3 points?

Whoever is encouraging that is encouraging nonsense. All estimations end up being based on a combination of factors including complexity and size (which is not complexity). Your 20 meter wall is a larger task than painting the 5 meter wall even if it is the same complexity. Whatever the estimate is, then, should be larger.
You are most welcome! Thank you for your questions :)
An introduction to GCC and GCC's plugins
meh, not really a good substitute. They've got the prosumer market locked down.

Probably why they got into this mess. Lots of successful product people deferring 'non product' stuff.
What is missing aside from the dashboard?
Successfully sweeping it under the carpet means you don't get sued for the mistakes you made.

Legal isn't there to make sure the company complies with the laws. Legal is there to advise on and minimize legal risk.
I'd bet this was done on purpose, since the optical centering of "Revert" is improved by this change.

However, Apple should reduce this optical offset for smaller buttons with relatively larger text, e.g. those in the Bluetooth System Preferences panel.

The side-effect is that all-caps button text is no longer optically-centered, but that's a relatively-rare case other than the "OK" button.
It's interesting to see that neural nets were there from the beginning of the computing age. McColloch, Pitts and von Neumann were thinking of a connectionist approach from the start.

Such a sad end for Pitts. I couldn't help thinking that he was kind of like Will in Good Will Hunting - a complete outsider, a self-taught genius with a very rough upbringing and lots of demons from that past.
>onboard NAND.

I disagree. Having onboard NAND seems like a disadvantage, for like when it goes bad from all the usage.

Should have one M.2 slot.
Isn’t helium already used to push fuel into the pumps?
This is wildly inaccurate.

Muggings are uncommon in neighborhoods like locust point,hampden, Roland park, federal hill, charles village, Patterson park, etc.

Even in "rougher" areas of the white l (station north, Remington, Barclay) Muggings are still uncommon
>the ID.4 is the first product to be sold nationwide that confirms the company’s commitment to sustainable mobility.

Exactly what about the mass extraction of lithium is at all sustainable to provide the energy storage for all motorised personal transport?
Because the only time in last 250 years that French forces have shown up in Poland in numbers, it was to invade?

The above, combined with their inaction in the face of Russia annexing part of a European state means you're arguing for ambition contrary to history. You say things are different now, and maybe they are. Time will tell, I suppose.

I think it more likely that if Germany has her way and builds a EU army, France would take their lead in defending European nations. I'm really not trying to smear France here - I think they could be doing far more for global stability than they are, and would like to see it. But actions speak louder than words.
> I need a citation for the fact that Hitler (and to a lesser extent Goebbels) are synonymous with the words Nazi and Holocaust? Really?

That is not what you claimed. You need a citation for the claim you made, then we can talk about you citing other claims.
I'd be surprised if unions controlled as much money as CEOs; union reps aren't generally on rich lists.
> But these stem from a deeper divide: the degree to which a person has trust in the system.

I fundamentally disagree with this premise, and the entire article hinges on its veracity. The idea that "Banks = system" and "Bitcoin = anti-system" is as naive as it is superficial. I wouldn't consider myself part of any elite (being a 1.5 gen US immigrant), but I'm quite bearish on BTC for the same reason I was bearish on bit torrent back in the early 2000s: its primary use-case is to circumvent legality.

Technically it's interesting, and even socially it might be interesting, but the bottom line is that most BTC these days is used either to (a) make money off of speculation (which isn't much different than options trading or gambling), or (b) buy illegal things (be it drugs, weapons, porn, ransoms, etc.).

Ironically, the article doesn't even touch on where BTC could actually make a positive impact (countries with failing currencies, or out-of-control inflation). But really, in these specific scenarios, the US Dollar is just as good as BTC. In fact, I remember in post-Communist Europe, the de facto currency was US Dollars, as local currencies were a mess. Even when I last visited Romania, I remember having to bribe a government official (to prevent stonewalling our EU passport applications) with a bottle of wine and a few hundred bucks.
It got bad enough I wrote a (now unused) script in batch instead of Powershell. Also having to explicitly enable scripting for each machine was a pain, though understandable.
> Hopefully this account isn't fully truthful

Brian Krebs is a reputable source who has a lot to lose if he makes unsubstantiated claims.
presumably the social media manager is working from home.
This company is a disaster it seems, and I have just setup my whole home infrastructure and home security aound their products...
They where the most recommended brand when I was shopping for new stuff a year ago.
Didn't work consistently on Firefox on Android. It would miss taps, sometimes it would get stuck "down".
> Adam wrote in his letter. “Legal overrode the repeated requests to force rotation of all customer credentials, and to revert any device access permission changes within the relevant period.”

tsk.
If you click through one of the links (e.g. Python) you will see it does allow you to do so!

https://pypi.org/project/geoip2/
Yet another free and unlimited file hosting service
What a shockingly large breech. Wow.
These aren't mutually exclusive. I would vote for onboard NAND and an M.2 slot, and perhaps also a jumper or something to select which to boot from.

Normal thing might be to boot from on-board NAND but put real workloads on M.2 if present.

I have to also vote for crypto extensions. The Pi 4 is the only ARM64 I have ever seen that lacks AES and CLMUL. Makes it pretty lame for web serving, router/firewall/VPN gateway, etc.
It depends on what you mean by "worthing" it. To become a better programmer? Definitely worth it to know Clojure, as it does provide a new programming style that has inspired some other ecosystems. To find a job? Probably not. Clojure is not a popular language.

On the other hand, nowadays you probably can get away with not knowing Java when doing Clojure. There are also Clojures that are not on the JVM. For example, if you do Clojurescript, then you probably need to know some Javascript. There are also natively compiled Clojures for shell scripting, e.g. babashka, etc.
That’s true. I should be more fair. My comment is a bit out of frustration at maybe one or two other comments.

While the criticism against “good habits build wealth” is legit when it leaves out the inheritance fact, i think I was just annoyed that the focus was on that rather than what was a good use of an inheritance.
No problem. If your concern is the particulate matter, then, yes, banning old diesels makes some sense. They don't have the particulate filters - those started showing up in the 2000-2010 era. However, I would rather see that implemented as tighter standards, and if you can meet them with a retrofit kit, you can continue driving the older ones. We saw this with noise kits for older jets (retrofit kits that reduce the noise to the new standards), and if the concern is specifically emissions, then if you can make an older vehicle meet the newer standards, there's no reason to keep them out. I'm not a fan of arbitrarily destroying old but operational equipment.

My truck is a '97, and I believe the smoke opacity limit for emissions testing is 40% (it's allowed to block/scatter 40% of the light going through the exhaust). I believe commercial trucks of the same age are held to roughly the same standards. That's a good bit of smoke in the exhaust. But until you get into the high pressure common rail stuff (up at 30k+ psi, multiple injections per cycle), you'll get some smoke under certain conditions.
With pizza, here's my thought process. Firstly, overnight has no special significance for food. If you order a pizza at 9 PM and wake up at 7 AM, then that is roughly the same as ordering pizza at 11 AM and eating it later at 9 PM. So just thinking in terms of hours, I think I've seen bad pizza (ie, pizza with visible mold growth) at 48 hours. I do not remember having any bad experiences with pizza that has been out for 12 hours or so. Usually my rule-of-thumb is around 12 hours, but if I'm desperate maybe 16 hours. If old pizza is just one of many food options, probably 8 hours.

However, I think the author is being a bit silly with painting this as a matter of liar vs truth-teller. The truth is that without much more detail about the food and your environment, estimating time to spoilage is just an educated guess.
I've seen a usb hid mouse jiggler used in exactly this set of circumstances.
Who's angry? I just pointed out that the proposed "solution" has some shortcomings that didn't appear to have been considered at all.

OK, a more inclusive solution: how about sizing fonts based on a coordinate space within which the font designer is free to draw the glyphs using as much or as little of the space as they consider appropriate for a given character. (They can even draw beyond the nominal "bounds" of the sized coordinate space, e.g. for long tails or flourishes.)

We could call it... oh, let's see... maybe the "em square".
Ask HN: Marital Problems
I know this is a weird topic for HN but I'm hoping there is some wisdom here for me.

Me and my wife are having a lot of challenges with our relationship. We have a 2 year old child who is very clingy and has intense meltdowns.
I struggle to deal with that situation plus all stress of being the sole provider to our family.
I love my child and my wife but I feel neglected, unloved and unwanted. I help with the child and I do a lot (if not most of the chores) but my wife still complains she is tired all the time. She does most of the child bearing and even takes the nights. Our child demands a lot! I'm not very into my wife’s parenting style but I’ve learned to keep my mouth shut even though it’s getting harder and harder.

Our sex life is also non existing which is driving me crazy and makes me angry. It was bad already before the child but since the pregnancy it reached all time lows. We have sex maybe once or twice a year at this point.
My wife complains I don’t attend her emotional needs even though I hug and kiss her a lot but she doesn’t engage or kiss back.

Any words of wisdom?
That's a feature not a bug