skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't doubt online pedophile communities support pedophiles, but I don't think they create them. Also, just because we're documenting it now doesn't mean it didn't happen before - sexual abuse of young girls has been endemic since forever, and people go through all sorts of contortions not to acknowledge it.
> But beware: it's a freaking huge time sink. I had to take it off all but one of my PCs.

I didn't even enjoy[0] Factorio and it still ate just over 60 hours of my time, so please heed this warning everyone. Factorio is Nerd-Sniping: The Game.

[0] I would like to take a moment to say that while I personally have a distaste for the kind of experience Factorio is, it is an incredibly well made version of what it is. I discovered only one bug[1] during my playthrough and the simulation can handle millions of interacting objects in a vast play area in real time to an impressive degree, and I don't consider myself to be easily impressed by the speed of modern software since modern computers are so ludicrously fast.

[1] It is possible to drop the deconstruction planner into the world as an object an infinite number of times even before it unlocks.
SciPy and NumPy both use Fortran :P
This seems like a great marketing technique for up starts trying to compete in the quality/price space. In the chicken soup example, for instance, cost to produce is a strong indicator that the soup has quality ingredients, and isn't just a big markup on some generic condensed soup.

It's a similar thing with the backpack, but in the other direction - this price isn't low because we cheaped out on manufacturing and materials, it's cheaper than J. Crew because they spend too much on marketing.

The line item cost breakdown is an indicator of honesty and product quality, which of course increase trust. That's not going to work if you're selling $10 shirts for $120
That was a fun read. While it might be unsurprising to some, it's a testament to breadth of applications of modern machine learning frameworks.

I enjoyed this sentence in particular.

> This should look familiar, because it is a neural network layer with no activation function and no bias.

I thought it should look familiar because it's matrix multiplication. That it looks like a neural network layer first and foremost to some is maybe a sign of the times.
There’s a trope I’ve noticed with UML discussions and articles, which is that UML and agile are diametrically opposed.

This is not strictly the case. There’s nothing in UML or agile that says you cannot update a diagram in a sprint.

The supposed opposition comes from, not technical reasons, but the manner of thinking that each encourages. The promise of UML is that if you diagram the problem, all things will flow from it (implementation and documentation), this implies a design upfront and lends its self naturally to the waterfall approach, though this need not necessarily be the case.
But there's nothing stopping Fortnite from developing that right now without the need for a NFT. Sure you guarantee uniqueness with the token, but they can later create an identical skin with a new token. I really don't know what this buys that sort of transaction.
What if you also want to interact with colleagues?
>Stress-reducing: can be stressful at times

This was the most stressful game I ever played. First, because there's always something to do, that needs your attention. Second, because it was so addictive that even my work suffered. The rocket was the probably the least satisfying ending to a game, but I have never been so relieved to finish a game.
What if it turns out the cure is just water and vitamin pills?
Yes. And crime and poverty is related. Also, when more crime occur, police tend to congregate. So if police are pulling people over for minor traffic violations, and then discovering drugs, the 'crime' rate goes up. This then exacerbates the stats.

My point is, pure stats should never be the only source of information. One may not think the police are racist, and instead think that crime and poverty are related. But over policing of the poor doesn't magically make them wealthy.

The policing issue in the US is complicated.
In my mind, the layers make the network "non-trivial". A Fourier transform is only a neural network in a trivial, definitional sense.
There are a few hypothetical exceptions discussed, but the authors were surprised to see that in all the cases they looked at, it seemed to help.

> Extremely high profit margins (>55%) could trigger a negative reaction, although this was not tested. Likewise, suspiciously low margins (e.g. negative or very low) could negatively impact the effect of trust that drives increased sales.
That's A) super arrogant, B) completely ignoring the fact that we're social animals and introverts are a minority in the overall population.
Beings without free will can’t prove anything though since the verbs available to a being without free will is an empty set, and passive descriptions are more apt.
You yourself are a victim of west-centrism.

A lot of Buddhist abbots from India went to Thailand, Tibet (now in China), Sri Lanka, Cambodia, etc. and due to very wide differences in languages, they would have a new name or a weird version of the Indian name. They didn't mind. We are talking about renowned scholars going to some countries on the invitation of the monarch there. The reverse also happened.

A famous scholar, Lama Tarnath, was known as "Anandagarbha" in Sanskrit. His Tibetan name waa Kun-dga'-snying-po. Indians just translated his name to Sanskrit. He didn't mind.

In some cultures, not putting the accent marks in names amounts to disrespect, but in some ancient cultures, only the meaning of the name was important. Not how you say them.
But you wouldn't introduce taxation to target organized crime.
I wish your comment is voted up. Where do we go next ? -- look addition is a neural network, look weighted average is a neural network, look linear regression, logistic regression, Poisson regression are neural networks ...
What we know is that:

* Cloth masks reduce viral loads by somewhere around 30-70%.

* High-quality masks reduce them by e.g. 70-95% depending on how they're fitted.

* We know risk of infection (and severity) is related to viral load, but we don't quite know how.

* We have a lot of well-documented evidence from Asia about reduced infections when high-quality masks are used consistently (e.g. buses in China, hospitals in Singapore, etc.).

* We know masks significantly reduce R0, but we don't know by how much; error bars are huge, and dependent on a slew of other variables.

The key difference between public health settings and hospital settings is opportunities to be infected. As a doctor, I might have 10 opportunities per day, and if I don't have properly-fitted PPE one of those times, and I'm susceptible, I'll catch COVID19. This means half-measures do very little.

In a public health setting, it's a numbers game:

* Personal: If I have 1 opportunity per 2 weeks to be infected, and I reduce odds by 50%, I'm half as likely to catch COVID personally.

* Public health: If I reduce infection odds by 50%, R0 is cut in half. That's huge. Our exponent is very different.

So cloth masks are definitely worth the $2, but won't stop you from catching COVID if you take other risks. If everyone wore N95 or even surgical or nanofiber masks, COVID would probably be gone pretty quickly.
There's a good track on YouTube that touches on the high points of electronic music since 1929 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqukyEC3qWM
Oh, hmm, I actually meant to link to [3] for rising stats on abuse imagery.

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/us/online-child-sexual-ab... No warning needed, no descriptions of abuse.
(Sorry, paywall. Disable JS.)
PlantUML is a nice tool for small diagrams/teams/projects but it doesn't scale to big projects at all. I'm in an automotive project and we had tried to jump from Enterprise Architect to the puml and the latter one failed very quickly.

We realized it's just impossible to handle in a reasonable way hundreds of diagrams from different teams who have to show/maintain cross-component dependencies independently. Puml isn't designed for that at all. Another limitation of puml we faced: there is no way to control the position and layout of elements on diagrams. With complex diagrams, you'll quickly get a total mess and if you are lucky to manage how to get finalized nice diagram then any tiny element added later will ruin the whole diagram since puml decided to reposition everything.

Just wanted to share our experience. Yep, we are still using it for small generic diagrams to quickly depict some concepts as well as for sequence diagrams but never for documenting complicated component/class relations.
"bring your whole self to work"

Trendy, yet completely stupid advice.
Well, you can still probably reduce the training computational cost by feeding the additional FFT features to your NN.
Here is an alternative idea around this:

Winograd transform can be seen as a depthwise convolution with fixed weights.

And similarly to DTF, winograd transform can be used to speed up convolutions: a 3x3 convolution can be implemented with a winograd transform + a 1x1 convolution + inverse winograd transform. This basically reduce the number of operations performed by 2.

Now, if a neural network is able to learn the weights of a depthwise convolution to match the coefficients of a winograd transform, that means you should be able to do this transformation when describing the architecture of your network. That way, you don't rely on your deep learning framework to do the transformation for you.

And more importantly you might end up with something more generic: perhaps the weights in the depthwise convolutions will not converge to the weights of a winograd transform, but to weight better suited to what you are trying to learn.

This is the same ideas which lead to the development of CNN: replace the fixed weights of convolutions used in traditional computer vision algorithm with weights that are learned by the network.
Please consider the possibility that GP is from a different country than you are and that liberal may mean something different there. For example in Sweden, the Liberals are a party that "historically was positioned in the centre" but has since "positioned itself more towards the right". [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberals_(Sweden)
> The narrative republicans have around government inefficiency is either wrong or entirely self inflicted.

if it's self inflicted, then it's not wrong. the fact that they can hamstring important services/bills for purely political reasons and still get away with it at the polls is a great example of how perverse incentives in government lead to mismanagement. if you want to persuade me that X government service will be run efficiently, you need to first convince me that a certain mainstream party will not be able to sabotage it.
And FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) is more efficient than matrix multiplication (EDIT: by a matrix with Fourier elements).
$1 for labor

> For the effect to work, the cost disclosure must be voluntary, not forced (e.g. by regulation).

A logical conclusion from the study.</sarcasm>
I shudder to live in a world where no one tells fairy tales.
Hi Thomas, thanks for your work. I am a fan!

Just a minor comment: I find using decimals places (like 16.1% and 21.1%) in human experiments pretty irritating. It feels like false precision.

After all, these experiments must have confidence intervals. If I had to guess, I’d assume at least a +/- 5 ppts variability in all these numbers.

What’s your view on that?
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So does this information help Epic's case in court or pushes them a bit back? Answer I was looking for but didn't find in the article.
How? If I go to the town square and yell at crowds about how one race is superior to the others, I should expect some repercussions. Why is it different, now, just because it involves computers?
I miss all those old video games without politics.

Nothing political at all about escaping from Castle Wolfenstein and killing Hitler in the process.

No politics in Final Fantasy 7, just some lively ecoterrorists saving the world from an exploitative totalitarian megacorporation that's destroying the environment.

Or indeed in BioShock, a game that certainly wasn't a satire of Ayn Rand libertarianism of the sort that enchants many a Valley VC/founder.

I miss playing Call of Duty/Rainbow Six/other shooters where you could just grab an assault rifle as a serving member of the US military and shoot a bunch of Bad Guys, which had absolutely no politics in it at all.

It sure is a shame the terrible awful SJWs made games political because they let you play as a girl, or put two gay characters kissing for ten seconds in a cutscene.

I'm going to stop playing games and instead go and read a book I've just bought called 'Animal Farm'. I'm sure it isn't a metaphor for anything. I bet Star Trek hasn't got any politics in it either.
Free to Choose is absolute gold if you want to see rational debate among diametrically opposed groups about modern political and economic topics. Compared to what we see today it looks like something from another planet.
Yeah, I surprise my fellow Europeans by explaining that homicides (by gun or other means) are extremely unevenly distributed in the U.S. and that, depending on where you live, your safety may be on the level of Reykjavík (basically a peace heaven) or Johannesburg (living hell), with local gun ownership rates having only a very loose correlation to crime, if any.
umm.. it's not lost, the current title is too clickbaity.

> "On its final dive in the GSR area, a lifting point separated and Patania II now stands on the seafloor," a GSR spokesman said in an emailed statement.

> A spokesman for GSR said the company has not lost control of Patania II, and that projects like this always have challenges to contend with.
The Journey of Corpus
Just as an example, there are many ways to speak in bad faith: They say something they know is wrong so you correct them, then they take offense. They then leverage this perceived (by everyone else) offense and use it to gain some sort of advantage (over you, or systemically).

In contrast, talking in good faith is saying something they believe is true. Maybe you correct them or maybe you don't, but in the end they're just trying to talk to other people.
EDTA is an anti-coagulant, though. Blood collection vials are coated with it to prevent clots in blood samples.
What I do is play single player games and cheat the grind over. Say if I am actually interested on exploration and story and not fighting for 5 minutes after each corner same guys over and over I just find a cheat or give up.
You're really going for the straw-man argument here I see, there is a huge difference between launching a space ship and creating a new way to mine the earth and destroy the environment.

I understand that they have this little catch-all:

> GSR has said it will only apply for a mining contract if the science shows deep seabed minerals have advantages, from an environmental and social perspective, over relying solely on land mining.

But I'm not going to hold my breath thinking that if they find a rich-enough deposit of minerals - that they wont suddenly discover enough "advantages" for the ocean to now be open to the same decimation as land mining has seen for many years.
Shift-Left Security: The Path to PostgreSQL on Kubernetes
As always zero meaningful information from what EU is planning - good for assigning funds and spending on non-effect-making "investments". Just check fruits of plans from few last periods: procuring, security, nanotechnology, cloud LOL - funds was spend and nothing substantial has shown. Maybe some minor internal infrastructure for bureaucrats.

But yes, CPU and Co are hard and unprofitable without monopoly which US build by making that tech corner unprofitable for anybody else. Possibly just by complicating things with other layer - software compatibility. And strategic gov care. Good for US.

So there is only one way ahead: technology change like eg. making CPUs from graphene. Just example, maybe graphene is useless for that but you got an idea - escape forward :)

And if you try to imagine CPUs and other electronic few hundreds years ahead: build one or two fabs per continent or country is stupid - you need to have possibility to order custom ASIC from home - it need to be such easy ! <- imagination seeds :) But usual way is to get easy access to standarised components of known properties - no backdoors included - so it need to be easy to build as much "on premise" as possible.

I know it's not really helping but such electronic industry shape is a must, whatever it is US, China or Europe.
That sweet spot is not learning. Just an illusion of it. I did learned some things as a hobby, but real learning does not feel like gaming. Your progress stops and starts again.

In any case, I decided to never pay big games 2 times and the second time sticked. The crawings went down over time, I rarely feel it anymore. And offer time I got used to hobbies that don't cause those emotional ups and downs, I don't expect them anymore, so they don't bore me anymore.

But after a year, you look back and you see massive progress. You see yourself doing things you thought are impossible for you a year ago. And all that while you are fully aware you still wasted ton of time by doing nothing. It is not like I would be overworked from useful learning. It just happened, piece by piece.

I allow myself free games on cell phone once in a while. But the decision to never pay naturally means I will either reach the end soon or get bored with it.
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I play one hour (maybe two on occasion) most nights just before I go to sleep. It doesn't seem like much but if you relentlessly stick to it like I have the hours add up.

I avoid online multiplayer and competitive gaming. I stick to single player games I can "finish". It's a great way to get that fix and have a great sense of accomplishment without gaming overtaking your life. I've finished more humongous games this way than I ever did and I've been a serious gamer my entire life (cutting out multiplayer definitely, no doubt).
Fascinating read! Thanks for that link.
Reminds me of a friend (a white woman) who was wearing dreadlocks for a period of time (she loved reggae music and everything associated with it). She was abused by black people who didn't like she "appropriated" "their" hair style and she was abused by white supremacists for "promoting" other races. She ended up shaving her head after a couple of incidents.
Luxury brand wallet owners feel much the same way about their wallets that you do about your iPhone.
If it’s Arkansas, then they might be “enlightened” on municipal broadband but are certainly missing the mark with the recent anti-trans law.
"lost" may be overstating things a bit.

It appears that the tether became disconnected, and they're working to reconnect it.
Having fewer people is only good in the scenario where you cannot organize people and intermediate disputes effectively. Having more people leads to things like electricity, transportation technology, computers, modern medicine, and space travel. It also results in weapons development (see first sentence.)

China has GDP per capita below Costa Rica[0], and yet can determine actions and statements made by enormous US organizations like NBA [1], and in knock-on effects, statements made by Disney-owned ESPN about statements made and subsequently disowned by NBA [2]. Multi-national organizations don't think twice about Costa Rica.

Matthew Yglesias makes the case in a recent book that the US should embrace all the ways that the country is able to continue growing while China's, and many other countries', populations stagnate and decline.[3]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
[1] https://www.npr.org/2019/10/31/774985504/the-nba-and-hong-ko...
[2] https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/10/22/is-disney-relation...
[3] https://www.econlib.org/reflections-on-one-billion-americans...
Our people team is in charge of organizing things. Some of it is intangibles like encouraging more communication on Slack, others are more concrete like setting up time to connect people who might not otherwise connect.
> it points to a theory that societal norms serve to re-enforce the expectation of taking jobs in lower paying fields on women versus men.

That’s one theory. Another is that women and men in the aggregate don’t choose the same careers in exactly even proportions.
I actually thought factorio is tedious because it has it's own 'DSL', optimal formulas, optimal paths, stuff that needs to be memorized, stuff that is tedious and you're back to doing what you're doing for a living - googling the unknowns and trying to piece together a puzzle. And for me that's a no go, because fun has to be instant.
Dice, probability, and strategy in the world’s oldest board game
I wasn't implying it's also small, but that it's a fixed value too.
Why is having less people good for the country?
I remember spending way too much time generating UML class diagrams in Rational ROSE for an Ada project which was definitely not built using OOD/OOP (It was an older code base we were porting from SPARC/Solaris to RHEL/x64).

It was the stupidest thing ever. All driven by contract requirements (contractor shall bring documentation up to date etc.).

Why yes, this was in the defense industry. Same project where progress was measured using SLOC.
Returnal review: Roguelite arcade combat has never felt this epic–or hard
It's just a spike, the price will come back down quickly as total stored space increases and makes further "farming" even less competitive. Just consider how quickly the projected rewards are dropping, e.g. at https://chiacalculator.com/ or the XCH/TiB chart at https://www.chiaexplorer.com/charts/xchTib (same site as OP).
I want to throw another reason to play factorio onto the pile: The experience of working with excellent software is wonderful. It will infect your expectations and you will come to resent the lack of quality elsewhere.
Honestly, and this is a real question, do you not see how you are literally doing exactly what you're calling out 'the other side' for doing?
You are not. If Epic wins kiss free App Store apps goodbye as Apple will surely charge everyone to put things in their store. After all neither Walmart nor Amazon allows you to sell your products there and give them 0%. I see no economic difference, a store is a store; storekeepers are allowed to make money with your products. Just because it's a pile of bits makes no difference.

If I want to sell art in a gallery, the gallery probably takes 50%; sure I could sell it online, but no one will see it, whereas the gallery brings customers to the art.

Epic wants profit without cost at Apple's expense, and if Apple if forced to accept this, then everyone else will suffer, except Epic.

You could make an argument that 30% is too high, but it's not a binary choice, 30% vs 0%. Epic thinks that it is.
Fortnite already has the infrastructure to do such a thing, but with NFTs, the infrastructure is open to anyone.
Any screenshots of this on a blackberry?
> I wouldn't be surprised if I get downvoted on here for this comment too.

THAT is the comment that will get you downvoted dude.
Yeah, that's a pretty good summary of my experience as well. I didn't enjoy it, but I finished it anyway because A) I could, and B) I was "working" from home with COVID[0] at the time.

[0] Which I caught at work along with pretty much everyone in the office because the person running the company decided they absolutely needed all of us back there after about a month of most people working from home (but not me!). To be fair, the people working the plant did legitimately have to be onsite, and they also all caught it. 2020 was our best sales year to date, and no one died, so I'm sure there were no lessons learned. Yes, I am bitter about this.
I’m not saying it was aliens... but it was aliens. /s