skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My own experience says that you should not attempt to make a serious change without being able to evaluate whether or not your attempt has worked. That could be as simple as fixing a bug - you need a test that would have caught the bug and it (and all your other tests) needs to pass once your fix is in. That could be as complex as something like this, improving your recommendation system. To evaluate something like this you'd likely need a few key metrics, latency and throughput, sure, but also recommendation quality. Maybe click through rate? Growth in recommended subs? Time that users spend on reddit with and without recommendation? Things like that.

If you can't evaluate your change then you will be stumped by a very simple question. Did you succeed? Are you done? If you fix a bug by thinking "I know what the problem is", then change a few lines of code and say "Done" how do you know you actually fixed it? How do you know you didn't make things much worse? Same thing here. So, you changed the recommendation system - did you make it better or worse?

I was quite interested to see how they were evaluating the system and whether or not it was an improvement. Their section on evaluation says "Scaling this component of the system is something we think about a lot and are actively working on." That seems really, really, backwards to me. You are thinking about evaluating it after you've changed the system? Huh?
My address actually isn’t even listed on google maps. I tried to rectify the situation but they wanted proof which baffled me because how do I prove where I live when they’re the ones with the damn satellites?
As I understand it, the dream of Dolby Atmos is that the track is encoded in such a way that it perfectly describes the 'surround sound', it's [infinity].[infinity] , in some loose sense; and then receivers down-mix it to whatever flavour of x.y the user happens to have, as in one 5.1 != Another, since layout and distances differ.

Is that right? And/but is it anything like that in practice? Or are studios still mixing for 5.1 and then running some post-process 'Atmos support' that makes the AVR's Atmos light come on but has little 'other' benefit?
China has been the only country to grow their economy during Covid. Given the likelihood of the cause being preventable, I’m not sure how bad I feel for China nor do I think they would have been any more forthcoming if no one had pressured them for answers. The latter part just doesn’t seem how the CCP works.

While we agree gain for function is bad. Do you think China will stop it now? Sort of a new arms race.

ETA: Does no one else remember those videos out of China with people foaming at the mouth, convulsing, and literally lying dead in the street? Does anyone seriously think that was some weird organic for-fun deception? I have no proof that was a state run for-western media campaign.... buuuuttt...
Even if the authors was mistaken on this point, the rest of the post is still useful and interesting. These are mostly just people blogging in their spare time; doesn't seem sensible to smear the community for a minor mistake like this.
Have you done shift work?

I worked 3rd (11-7) and then 2nd (3-11) shifts a couple years ago. You don't end up 'having sunlight in...free time instead of work time' unless you are sacrificing sleep for it on 3rd shift.

I had a short commute and was able to get reasonable sleep most of the time, in about a year I made 1 driving decision I'd call 'bad', and that was just pulling out somewhat aggressively in front of light traffic (I started taking a route that didn't have that decision after that).
Have you or anyone else been able to pull the absolute numbers involved here that led to the 300% figure?
Kinda unforgivable to be on front page of HN in 2021 without https
191 is a magic number for VARCHAR columns in MySQL when innodb_large_prefix is disabled, which was the default for MySQL <= 5.7.6.

Here is a short list of MySQL magic numbers for column types.

Space efficiency and performance:

- VARBINARY(255) / VARCHAR(255) with single-byte character sets: 255 is the biggest size that requires only 1 byte of storage overhead.

- VARCHAR(63) with utf8mb4: 63 is the biggest size that requires only 1 byte of storage overhead because 64 × 4 > 255.

- VARBINARY(512) / VARCHAR(512): the largest columns of their types that are compatible with in-memory temporary tables when UNION or UNION ALL is used. Larger columns will use on-disk tables instead.

Limitations of 3072-byte index keys (innodb_large_prefix enabled; default for MySQL >= 5.7.7):

- VARBINARY(3072) / VARCHAR(3072) with single-byte character sets: 3072 is the biggest size that can be fully indexed.

- VARCHAR(768) with utf8mb4: 768 is the biggest size that can be fully indexed because 769 × 4 > 3072.

Limitations of 767-byte index keys (innodb_large_prefix disabled; default for MySQL <= 5.7.6):

- VARBINARY(767) / VARCHAR(767) with single-byte character sets: 767 is the biggest size that can be fully indexed without enabling innodb_large_prefix.

- VARCHAR(191) with utf8mb4: 191 is the biggest size that can be fully indexed without enabling innodb_large_prefix because 192 × 4 > 767. This is what the OP is about. VARCHAR(768), mentioned above, should be more relevant nowadays.

Different magic numbers come in if you are using VARCHAR with utf8 (the MySQL character set, not the real UTF-8). I'll let you work out the details, but the magic numbers are 85, 255, 1024.
Certifications mean nothing when a dog can be trained to give false positives when certain people want them to.

It's not like dogs are machines, even small amount of unstructured positive and negative reinforcement can distract a dog from what it was trained to do.
They probably just wanted a proof of residence such as a Utility Bill.
The same exact thing happens with TV shows and movies depicting american policing. If your script does not toe the line, good luck getting those permits necessary to film.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/opinions/2016/10/24/how-po...
I’ll be overjoyed the day that the compass in the vehicle can tell my phone what direction the vehicle is pointed to avoid making a left instead of a right out of a driveway. Yes, there are solutions to these problems in theory, but in real-world application today they’re still pretty lame / inaccurate, and the solutions still seem far away (try getting a few auto mfgs to agree to a standard way of communicating a compass heading to a phone over CarPlay or Android Auto)
That was a great little scene in that movie, Lawrence's advisor buddy made the most of his 4 or 5 lines of dialogue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLLgNi5UmB0 (4 minute clip from the movie, warning, spicy language gets used when rich dudes worry they might end up a little less rich.)
> Intent matters a lot in the law.

I guess this is what it would come down to (ignoring other liabilities like the CFAA): if Signal actually implemented their feature, would they be able to argue that their intent was to stop criminals abusing Cellebrite software, or would it be possible to argue that their intent was from the start to disrupt police investigations?

With Apple that's probably going to be hard to argue, they'll come out with some basic stats that talk about theft reduction, they'll point at their advertising and messaging around the feature.

I can see a distinction there, even though I don't see a super-clear reason to believe from Signal's one blog post that they're specifically trying to disrupt the police.

> That's why we hire attorneys! Legal counsel is here to help.

This is obviously good advice, and people shouldn't be looking at HN musings to figure out what is and isn't legal. But at the same time, minor sidenote:

I'm not angry at you, and this isn't anyone's fault in specific, but I low-key hate this answer because a metric ton of innovative software gets built by people who do not have the resources to hire attorneys for every decision that they make, and it's really unreasonable on a societal level to expect every Open Source dev, teenager, single-founder entrepreneur, etc... to have the resources to have legal counsel on hand. The majority of people in the US can't just go out and talk to a lawyer whenever they want.

Not really relevant to what we're talking about, and again, nothing to do with you, but I'm still unable to keep myself from ranting about that whenever this topic comes up.
>We tolerate design details like this in PGP because we're LARPing, ...

Please, if you can't address the point then do not turn to personal attacks...

We are here to discuss, not pointlessly argue...
Legislators are not the sole source of law in common law countries. There is also case law.

Legislation is typically drafted in a structured way, with deliberate norms and forms. There are professional drafters who do exactly that on behalf of legislators, and a body of case law on the interpretation of legislation that guides their work.
> I honestly don't think that (human) lawyers can be eliminated

That sounds very plausible. But do you think that human lawyers might gradually become a profession of people whose job partly involves interfacing with a software implementation of (large) parts of the legal code? And do you think there is any hope for defining (large) parts of the legal code in a formal language with well-defined semantics?
It's worth noting that sleep apnea can disrupt your sleep without oxygen desaturation. Typical at home sleep tests cannot return a negative result, they can either be positive or inconclusive. EEG monitoring for arousals is necessary to rule out sleep apnea which most at home tests don't include.
Maybe it's just not displaying correctly for me, but the difference between the images for the last easy one (search border radius) is extremely difficult to see.
Also, WAAS https://www8.garmin.com/aboutGPS/waas.html
Trevor Bedford is one scientist at the Hutch. He is certainly qualified to have an opinion, but his opinion is not the conclusive determination on the matter. Other scientists whom I respect have different opinions:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6543/694.1

The other links you provide are rebuttals of particular arguments, but in no way settle the entire question. Knowing that bits of HIV weren't inserted into SARS-CoV2, for example, tells you nothing about whether this virus may have emerged from natural selection experiments in the lab. There are good arguments on both sides, but Twitter, in particular, seems stuck on the pronouncements of early 2020, when nobody knew much of anything about the virus and a certain prominent politician was speculating wildly, thus setting up a left/right polarization over what should be a factual debate.

We need to stop this hostile form of "scientific debate" where one person's opinion is held up as "the science", while all other voices are dismissed as fringe.
Give them your utility bill with your address?
There are broods every year, but every 17 years there’s a whole different type with red eyes that comes out, is my understanding, in addition to the normal broods.
#159 kind of works with the `string collect` mechanism, although it is indeed not very obvious, compared to bash:

set file_contents (cat filename | string collect -N)

I understand that this is purely anecdotal, but I'm using fish for quite a long time, I've written a lot of tooling for myself in fish, and I agree that sometimes there are some things which are annoyingly missing from fish (like this multiline variable thing), but I would not say it makes fish significantly less powerful. And these things are sometimes fixed, too.
Not to mention the dozens of expert virologists that agree the virus characteristics do not seem to be natural.

I have to wonder though if the wet market was a CCP smoke screen... why wasn’t it further from their lab doing exactly this type of viral work? IDK, maybe that was the point to cause suspicion? I’m not crafty enough to know my ability to write world deceiving half-truths.
Maybe, just maybe, we'll realize before many more millions are poisoned by this non-vaccine "vaccine" that provoking a permanent, irreversible, autoimmune response might not be such a good idea.

It's starting to look like Bill Joy was right: this is by far the most dangerous technology we have, and it's likely we'll exterminate ourselves with it. I can't help thinking of Fred Thompson's Carrier Captain in The Hunt for Red October: "...this whole thing will get out of control, and we will be lucky to live through it..."
How does an article on nps.gov have so many grammatical errors?
A good start to reform would be to stop making crime a profit center for corporations that provide prison and rehab services. Their interests are the lowest quality at the highest price, and they will lobby politicians towards that end even if it's not in the best interests of turning a criminal back into a productive member of society.

The government may tend to lack efficiency, but at least its lack of profit motive wouldn't completely taint the whole system.
I enjoyed this. About 1/3 through “hard” difficulty, I found it difficult to discern differences. Perhaps I rely too heavily on my browser’s Inspector tool.

A quibble: I signed up for the “no spam” email update(s) and only then saw mention of Facebook via their HQ’s address. If this feeds into Facebook in any way, it’d be nice to know this prior to submitting my email. I do appreciate you have to verify your subscription via email verification, but the list still received my (unverified) email.

Edit: I see the creator is an employee at FB, hence their use of their hQ’s address, but the creator may want to consider another, like a PO Box. I am significantly less likely to confirm my email subscription if it has anything to do with Facebook.
Double agree.
Larger prime numbers have larger broods (maybe). This brood is the largest, most successful brood
Define "engineered".

If it was bred in a lab via humanized mice engineered with human ACE 2 receptors, would you consider that? What about forms of "no seeum" splicing?
> Two rowing machines could provide roughly 400 watts of power. If they are operated around the clock in shifts, they could supply the ship with an extra 9.6 kWh of energy per day (ignoring energy losses) – one fifth of the total maximum electricity use.

Any suggestions for an infinite climbing rope for extra electricity at home?

> Even a crew of 12 taking a daily hot shower would require 25.2 kWh of energy per day, half of what the hydrogenerators produce at a sailing speed of 7.5 knots.

Well, don’t take hot showers? Get warm with exercise and breathing, then use a little cold water and a soapy rag to get cleaner, then rinse in cold water. I wish I’d been doing this my whole life, for the mental, physical, and ecological benefits. What might a person suffer from that necessitates heated water for washing?
I’ve always wondered, if someone is an irredeemable fuck up, what’s the point of punishing them? They’re not going to get better and it’s probably not even their fault.
That claim struck me as extraordinary, but sure enough: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_sea_level
I don't disagree but you should probably say CCP instead of such a broad stroke with the word China.
When you say the digitization is good, do you mean the OCR? Because I have always been ok with emailing a picture in an email and adding some keywords to the email to find it later. I am not saying that's is all anyone would ever need but I've been doing it forever and like the fact that it works with any writing surface (napkin, wet sand, etc). My handwriting seems to defeat even the best OCR so I've kind of given up on that route.
The North Sea was Doggerland 8500 years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland

You could walk from the Netherlands to Britain.

Before that, the Mediterranean Sea was a dry depression. When the Atlantic barrier collapsed, you can imagine the wall of water filling the basin and chasing early humans uphill.
Is it? Certainly, there are political factions within Israel that claim it should be part of Israel -- that's why there were settlements to remove in the first place. It would be ridiculous to deny that, honestly. Those factions seem to continue to grow in influence every year as well.

The idea that Israel should be one state that covers the entirety of the former mandate of Palestine seems to actually be pretty popular in Israel right now. It may not be the official policy, but it is a very real possibility.

Regardless, if a country exerts every measure of control over a territory it can including entry and exit from it along international borders, it's really hard imo to argue that it sees it as sovereign in any way. Israel clearly does not see Gaza as an independent state. So if it's not an independent state what exactly is it a part of if not Israel.

Or, to put it a little bit more snarky: you can't neglect your way out of an occupation. Neglect is, in fact, a weapon in cases like this.
Well, you actually don’t know the facts. Did Jews live there before the British? Yes. But what you don’t mention is that they were under 8% of the total population. Of course, given what you already omit, you also omit that those 8% owned only 2% of the land. So tell me, why would the 92% accept that so much of what is rightfully theirs would be forcefully taken from them and given to a minority population? Especially when, at this point in 1947, so many of them were settlers who emigrated from Europe to colonize Palestinian land.

But you know, for someone who claims to know the facts, it sure seems like you are purposefully spreading disinformation.
If you were to look up my address (I wish I could post publicly for verification purposes but for security I cannot) it doesn’t display it. It comes up with “address does not exist” and skips from my one neighbor’s house to the next completely skipping over our house.
Exactly. What about the forgetful but responsible people?
The problem isn’t using dogs in criminal investigations. It’s just police officers engaging in plain, old-fashioned racketeering.

Otherwise why would the officers even put up with a dog that’s clearly just wasting their time and preventing them for doing their jobs? Why would they go out of their way to rig the training procedures to make their real jobs harder? Put the racketeers and perjurers behind bars where they belong and the dog reliability problem will solve itself.
This usually happens in very open position, with many <0.5cp options. The engines tend to explore totally different paths than humans. They don't care if a move is slow, forcing, etc.

Humans will tend to explore exchanges, faster & more forceful lines. Engines treat these like any other line, without prejudice. I'm a pretty average player. My positional moves aren't generally reasoned beyond 2-3 moves ahead. I go here. You do something, then I go there. Where I do reason deeper, it's usually forceful lines where a lot of material is traded. I go here. We trade 3 pieces. I attack this. Opponent defends, then I move there.

In a slower position, I can't reason ahead as much because I have no idea what the opponent might do. He has too many options.
lots of 404s doesn't inspire confidence
Yeah, I don't like using (unencrypted) email but it's ubiquitous from work to online authentication. Secure online communication is still an unsolved problem in practical terms.
There's [plenyu of blame to go around. May I ask why you wouldn't blame China at all if the virus leaked from their lab in Wuhan?
What exactly is that site? Is it an automatic indexer of news articles? Or someone's personal curated list of articles? If automated, I am really curious how it manages to crawl and capture some of the news articles that are behind a paywall.
It's easy enough to mock the images in there to do this via a real container, e.g.:

containers:
image: busybox
args: ["echo", "hello this is fake foo/bar"]

and run this on kind
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Interplanetary battle bots
Now we're doing "WebAssembly", "WASM", and "WebASM"?!
Sure, it covers whatever you want it to cover. The interface is fine. It’s the ability to build your own data model that is what makes it powerful, especially because you can iterate so quickly, even after you’ve started using it.
Why exactly? Other than a lot of "potential problems" security theater?

People still send postcards, where they don't care if people read what's written on it..
Boom Supersonic aims to fly 'anywhere in the world in four hours for $100'
Finding a $Billion Dollar Fault Mode
>Going against the official policy of the US government is a more politicalized move than going with the status quo.

How can this be when the policy of the US government is itself determined by politics in its original, non-metaphorical form?
New Mexico Mining and Minerals Division Launches Uranium Mines Dashboard [pdf]
This has been bothering me a lot. I'm a founder of a start-up that's just launched and currently in the 'throwing spaghetti against the wall' phase of acquiring users. The Mixpanel/GA setup I've got is good at product analytics, but tracking exactly where they come from would be an enormous help.

Anyway, signed up (which was super easy btw) and here's hoping for some good conversion analytics.
They do, but the GP was talking about the enterprise value. Kind of like taking the value of your home and subtracting the mortgage to get your equity. They're doing the reverse and adding equity + Deb to get the total value of the enterprise.

That works if the debt is for things like building factories or designing cars. But when's it's borrowed and then lent straight out it doesn't make sense.
I think this is one area where rstudio has the lead.

https://blog.rstudio.com/2020/09/30/rstudio-v1-4-preview-vis...
Could it be a licensing issue?

Naver Maps has really good street view and very accurate maps in SK.

https://map.naver.com/
Not just that. The Persian Gulf, in the heart of the cradle of civilization, is an average of 50m deep, never more than 90m. That's 250,000 square km of prime real estate (a river valley fed by the same rivers that would eventually produce Sumeria) that would have been well above the water line when civilization was just getting started. No wonder every culture has a flood myth.
LAME is great, and in fact it's better than e.g. the ffmpeg AAC encoder at equal bitrates, which is telling. But the MP3 format has fundamental limitations that no encoder can fix, and Opus is unquestionably better in every way. What I'm saying is I'm pretty sure you can find killer samples for 320k LAME (under very good listening conditions), while that's a lot less likely for something like Opus.
I think it's worth noting the value here. The reason why these positions are interesting is that they're so obvious to humans, even ametuer humans, and yet difficult to even very strong computers. This implies that the way computers "understand" the game is radically different; an engine can't reason logically about a chess puzzle like a human can, for instance.
You can't continue working from home because you go idle in chat too often
Really silly question - but can't they correct for this without the GCJ-02 by just correlating the mutual of the map information with the satellite information? It seems like if you can have all the information provided to you, just randomly warped by some deliberate obfuscation you could 'trivially' (aka primitively) correct for it by using the available data of the satellite and the maps by feature matching and non-rigid registration?

edit: updated silly question after reading more on this
You wanna blow up nuclear bombs on Mars to make some quasicrystal trinkets? I don't think this is a good idea. Why not just do it on Earth? It's simpler that way. No need to go to Mars, for one.
It looks like Stockfish still thinks black is winning. I'd be curious to see if Leela Chess Zero also thinks black is winning.
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