skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple points...

College campuses are where you are supposed to be confronted with challenging ideas and different perspectives. That's one of their great gifts. But even mainstream Jerry Seinfeld, who created one of the most popular sitcoms of all time and doesn't even swear, is now considered too controversial?

It's not just him. Dave Chappelle and many other comedians have been saying the same thing about college audiences.
Gold has intrinsic value because it has uses (like conductors and jewelry). Bitcoin has no intrinsic value.
I think we need to let go of the idea that offending people is harmful. It's fine to take offense, we are all free to do that, but I don't think there should be any expectation that people do anything to avoid offending you other than practicing basic civility. You are likely not harmed just because I believe something different from you. Frankly, if you feel like you need a safe space to hide from ideas that you disagree with, the world is too sharp for you to handle.
Second all of that.

Driven to Distraction or Delivered From Distraction.
But not both, they're effectively the same book.
How would you define actual fairness?
The Poison Squad: A History
There was a demo of node software that is capable of 50,000 transactions per second just a few weeks ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3As9-9uSXs

(Yes this is on the Bitcoin SV implementation of the Bitcoin protocol - where they're using the original protocol that Satoshi envisioned)
"...SEE what you have to understannnnnnd...about the Zaporozian Cossackssss...is that EVEN THOUGH the Ottoman Sultan was the ruler of the largestempireintheworld, with the largestarmyintheworld...who had so many times before crushed all...that stood in its way...the Zaporozian Cossackssss...were a people of their own time...were a proud people with their own martial traditionssssss..."
Software Developer Shortage Is Coming
I'm not sure why it's so amazing that there are a bunch of local landlords profiting off people's need for shelter. Great for them that they get to get rich, but why is making sure rich people stay rich so important again?

In my experience, landlords are often a pretty toxic element in local politics (opposing upzoning, opposing progressive policies in general.) IME as a renter corporate landlords were not really better or worse than small-time landlords. At least with the corporate landlords, I can buy shares in the company and reap some of the rewards back. Even better, the government could buy shares through a social wealth fund, and return some of the profits to the whole of society.
Client side thumbnail Caching – and how I stress tested our AWS EC2 server
> New resources added weekly

How do you add the resources? I assume this isn't via weekly iOS app updates?
For me, it's less about having things I need to say and more about endlessly analyzing what I'm about to say.

There is little, if any, forgiveness for the well-intentioned mistakes.
India economy: Seven years of Modi in seven charts
On a similar note, the FBI's Elicitation brochure is a good overview of how people may attempt to convince you to reveal confidential information: https://ucr.fbi.gov/investigate/counterintelligence/elicitat...
Taking this opportunity to promote my side project codeamigo and a tutorial I wrote for building your own Bitcoin wallet https://codeamigo.dev/lessons/start/53
DeepLab2 – New deep labeling library for TensorFlow
I feel like people in the west need to become more familiar with Persian cooking. Every year I learn that one more ingredient that we commonly use in Persian cooking is good for your health. So based on this definitive evidence I'm gonna conclude everything we eat is good for you. To get you ahead here are some other things to try:

1. Sabzi Khordan: Elevate your breakfast with Sabzi Khordan, a mixed of herbs that are commonly eaten as breakfast with cheese and walnuts.

2. Drink properly brewed tea: If your idea of tea is what you get from Starbucks, you don't know what tea is. Try Persian brewed black tea.

3. Persian barberry rice: Try Persian style rice cooked with rice, salt, butter, barberries, and saffron.

4. Add turmeric to pretty much every stew.

5. Try Fesenjan, Ghormeh Sabzi, and Khoresh Gheymeh.
It's many many years old.

edit: Oh, so this is a new, open version of the 2012 system. So perhaps not.
> at NASA

Yup...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODfOvQ6FGXI
When Money Dies is on my to-read list, but haven't gotten to it yet. However, there's some interesting stuff available that may be of interest in this matter:

> Weimar is often mentioned as if it were the only case of post WWI currency collapse. In fact, as the CATO working paper by Hanke and Krus (2012) points out, it was one of 6 cases: Germany, Austria, City of Danzig, Russia/USSR, Hongary Poland.

> Now think about that – did 6 different governments, all within a 4 year time period, and all bordering each other and/or in the same post WWI region and intellectual/political climate (with the seeds of the some of the farthest right and farthest left regimes in all of history within them that would lead to WWII just ~18 years later)—

> Did all of a sudden this little world region and precise time period and intellectual milieu decide to just start spending like crazy? At the same time? While the rest of the world did not?

* https://clintballinger.wordpress.com/2021/01/12/the-myth-of-...

> The Weimar Republic is the most notable hyperinflation. But it was not the only case of hyperinflation that occurred in Europe at the time. In fact, several European nations were ravaged by the war, war reparations and regime changes that ensued. In the case of Weimar the country was already in a fragile state after Germany lost WWI. To add insult to this injury the allied nations demanded punitive war reparations resulting in foreign denominated debt.

* https://www.pragcap.com/hyperinflation-its-more-than-just-a-...

> In this paper I will argue why the common misconception that “inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon” cannot be used to explain most historical hyperinflations. I will argue that “money printing” is often the response to exogenous and unusual events and not the direct cause of the hyperinflation.

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1799102

In Germany, the argument goes, it the problem wasn't necessarily that printing money was the cause of inflation, but rather the printing of money was the effect of something else.
"Another way to attract and retain employees, and to support internal career advancement, is to engage employees in on-the-job education"
The thickening intensifies :) https://twitter.com/grokology/status/1407433078914437120
The actual title is "The 2021 Software Developer Shortage Is Coming", which is what I had initially submitted, but it looks like HN automatically trims off "The" and the current year?
Interesting history, but I prefer the laconic reply: "If."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconic_phrase
>Accounts - can’t stay anonymous, ml systems working around the clock to identify posters.

Really? Thats fascinating! Anything you can provide that gives more insight into this? Has anyone written about this practice?
I can't speak for the GP, but I personally find editing code in my IDE to be a smoother and more productive process than editing any type of serialization or markup format like YAML (or JSON, or RON, or EDN to a bit lesser extent). This is most likely due to me being so used to being on the other side of those formats, or generating them with code in the first place, and not necessarily because one is "better." My IDE setups will reflect that preference, which in turn makes it stronger.
or Anatol Boukreev: "Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer"
If it can be gamed through hard work then why doesn't everyone who is willing to put it hard work get great scores?

Yes it does measure ability. Maybe hard work or practice helps some, I'm not excluding that.
> backfired because their skin is the wrong colour or they aren’t trans

Are cis/white people are often discriminated against?
El Salvador, the military dictatorship that managed to make western dreamer hype it like a shitcoin...
I really like the UX. Makes navigating the content easy and provides lots of extra value.

How is your taxonomy handled ?
Could you break it down for us?
Besides reading this books, what else do you do that helps? Are you taking medication as well?
Batch normalization is nothing neural network specific to it if you use it on the input layer. I don't think it matters for a tree algorithm like XGBoost either way though.

SWA is pretty NN specific. So leave it out for XGB. There's a bunch that are relevant, and they could be very important.
Someone has to foot the bill for credit card rewards
>I don't know how or when we lost tolerance for free speech, both as an industry and as a society. But the Damore incident is when I realized that we have.

The tech industry was just an exception for a decade or so because it was fairly non-corporate. Go to any conservative law firm or traditional management and try to start a fiery political debate, and see how that goes. There was never any lively democratic discourse or tolerance in any corporate environment, or any other private environment for that matter, ask any gay person that's older than 25 and doesn't live in a liberal state. George Carlin made a career of saying 'shit' on television, that's how free-wheeling discourse was.

Also as a sidenote on that Damore debacle, he got canned because of his presentation. You can cite 100 studies, when you start to argue that women drop out of high stress jobs because they're neurotic you might as well commit seppuku. He should have passed that manifesto by someone who isn't on the spectrum because anyone could have seen that trainwreck coming a mile away.
I was (well, not sure, have not tried recently) a very experienced Delphi coder and if it is low code or not depends on your VCL palette. Most would not be: you could drag and drop screens fast but it took a lot of code beyond the very basics. However, there were a few, especially Russian and Ukraine VCL libs which had you just mess around with Properties and that was enough to create pretty complex applications. Most companies I worked with did not allow and/or wanted to pay for those.
We are building packages around WeBase [1]. As an example we have a solution for small businesses/startups that includes a website/forms/email lists etc all in one... here's a site using this solution: https://www.sbaloanshq.com/

Lots of opportunity with these tools and platforms!

[1] https://www.webase.com
COM was pretty neat indeed
Disintermediating friends: Online dating displaces other ways of meeting (2019) [pdf]
Don't disregard scientific knowledge like that. Many (albeit not all) drugs have been extensively tested at least by close to exhaustively testing receptor binding sensitivity.
Except for the extremely rare drugs that have very atypical action mechanism it allows to understand to a decent extent what it does pharmacologically.
But also, understanding how a drug work isn't necessary for taking the risk of trying it given that most CNS (except DRA) drugs are "safe" especially if combined with potent neuroprotectors (anti oxidants, NMDA antagonists, etc)
However even if the risk is low, I don't understand your motive to try it. The only one would be to advance scientific knowledge by self testing. But if the motive is for egoistic and not altruistic then there are much more proved antidepressants out there with small side effect profiles.
This is a welcomed addition to the firmware by GoPro.

For years I've hacked on their WiFi and BLE APIs and wrote several libraries and tools around the commands. My python wrapper around their App APIs got some votes here on HN too.
Its been very cool to see how makers and hackers have used my info to run their projects and create new GoPro experiences. Now it's turn I take a rest.
Over time, I have automated 95% of the accounting of my companies. I started with a simple script that scraped the bank's website to create tasks in Asana for each entry in the statement, the task being "you need to do the accounting for X thing". So I could mark as complete each entry as I grabbed the corresponding invoice and filled the spreadsheet I later on send to our accountant.

Then I realized most of my invoices come by email, so I used Zapier and Gmail rules to find invoices and put them in a folder in Google Drive, which saved me more work.

This was very useful to never forget to fill something in the accounting anymore, but escalated quickly... Later on, I wrote a bunch of scripts that read invoices from Google Drive, extract the necessary information and place it in the spreadsheet for my accountant, rename the files to a standardized format and complete the Asana tasks automatically.

And there are more scripts, for example some services do not send you the invoice via email, but you can log in and download it, or the invoice information might be displayed on screen and if you want to keep it you need to print them out as PDF, so I wrote scripts for this.

All of this became an amorphous collection of scripts that are tailor-made for me and probably would be of no use to anybody else, but definitely made my life simpler. I know there are a bunch of SaaS services now that do this for you, but when I started they were not there and the ones I tried need more manual work than the solution I have today.

One little detail I noticed of my design and was totally accidental: since I made the scripts in steps and used Asana to keep track of which statement entries still needed attention, the "UI" is still Asana and the tasks can still be done manually. Therefore, my scripts do not need to cover all cases, which is great because it's not an all-or-nothing solution.
He applied to 27 countries including Finland. Apart from Russia, the ones he could actually reach turned him down.

I have no doubt Russia is milking this for all it’s worth (wouldn’t you in their place?) but Snowden really didn’t have a totally free hand in where he ended up after his passport was cancelled — just America or Russia.
Pure Python from-scratch zero-dependency implementation of Bitcoin
I often have to remind myself about these stats after reading several comment threads on HN
I agree that if the government halts evictions, then the government should foot the bill, however it is known that the government does have the ability to force private entities to provide critical services (for example, emergency room services) at the cost of the provider. Right or wrong, there’s plenty of historical evidence that this is a real risk for providers of housing and needs to be considered when making decisions about housing investments.
Of course, it can't be anywhere near close to 90% as it's limited to just the left-leaning media, which is probably at most half of all media. I don't know the exact numbers, but I repeat again, it's only the most in-your-face example and the propaganda doesn't end on 'wokeness'.
I try not to be paranoid about it, but there are several governments that I just don't talk about online. They are known for aggressive Internet task forces and have histories of taking actions. I don't see any benefit publicly voicing my opinion on them.

All it takes is for them to indefinitely store all content posted to certain sites (and you can bet reddit and hacker news are on that list), then run algorithms to de-anonymize it. Then they can score you.

Maybe in the future you get a promotion. Maybe you're crossing a border. Maybe a YouTube video you post goes viral. Suddenly that scored record of you sets off an alarm.

The digital history you are creating today isn't going away for the rest of your life.
Misleading title 1.1B files were exposed
It's on display in Helsinki at the moment. Highly recommend checking the exhibition out if you happen to be in town: https://ateneum.fi/en/exhibitions/repin/

I personally liked the portrait of the last tsar the most: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nicolas_II_of_Russia...

It got me thinking that things could have turned out very different for Russia had his personality been different.
From the bug log describing the TFRC team:

"""For a Google project, this was somewhere between "space aliens" and "narnia" on the Scale of Surprising Things."""

What you need to understand is that the people who are doing Jax and TFRC are a group of excited brilliant engineers on the cusp of junior/senior status who have a complete understanding of the current state of ML hardware, and have built a collection of powerful tools that are far simpler than TensorFlow. It's still in the rapid expansion phase, new ideas can be tried out quickly, and engaging with the developer community enables a virtuous cycle that improves the system rapidly.

TensorFlow on the other hand has turned into a complex software behemoth where nearly everything requires extraordinarily long software development efforts to make minor changes, and any changes in the core impact thousands of users.

What I learned from interacting with TFRC and the Jax community is that the real secret value is in XLA and the runtimes that wrap around it. Once you've mastered those, you're well on the way to using large resources like a TPU with a CPU (I think that's just the host CPU and RAM, BTW) and harnessing all the compute elements simultaneously to get peak performance.

I expect that as more people see it's easier to program a simple layer on top of TFRC and XLA, tensorflow will not be as popular.
Ridiculous clickbait title. How the heck did this neural network "can" Excel wrt. this tabular dataset? What's the underlying objective and the evaluation benchmark? And what feature of Excel was this tested against in the first place?

I suppose the follow up will be titled "One Weird Trick is All You Need To Destroy SOTA On This Dataset!"
It is currently mostly resources from Protestant teachers (iirc Yale has some good videos on there that include back & forth discussion from both Protestant and Catholic scholars). This is driven mostly by my familiarity with Protestant resources, but I believe it's also true there's less video content available for Catholic or Orthodox teaching that focuses particularly on the Bible (correct me if I'm wrong). I think it would be great for people to have resources from a variety of faith traditions though.
It's better to spend free time on your own, actually. Managers don't like you to spend free time to dig around. I learned it hard way.
Came here to ask this. Most obvious guess as to where the app's bible texts come from.

Would much prefer to see this as a new UI for Crosswire than an independent effort. I know tons of people using Crosswire
Destroying Unsold Products Isn’t a Scandal, It’s How Amazon Works
IIRC it can jog for an hour.
Live Demo of the Bitcoin Protocol Doing 50k TPS with Bitcoin SV's Terranode
The trick to avoid getting found out online is to change small, irrelevant details. Then, when they try to dox you, they will be chasing a phantasm.

The NSA already knows, but they don't care about that.
GBDT have their own set of hyperparameters such as learning rate, number of trees, min samples per bin, l0, l1, etc.
So you could definitely also create an appropriate cocktail to optimize on, although GBDT are typically more robust wrt huperparameters.
> Ironically this site's dark mode doesn't trigger in either firefox or chromium for me.

Nor in Safari on iOS…
I didn't miss the point. my graduate work was using constraint optimizers in molecular dynamics (n-body physics) and it translated to ML (I didn't have to relearn anything). The one part that was truly simpler is the objective functions in ML are believable to be convex, while n-body physics with constraints are highly non-convex).
It can be hard to find the right cheese for sabzi khordan. Also some people find drinking tea out of the saucer weird.
debatable, unless you are doing really low level stuff, it's almost negligible. also it harder to get code using mutable data structures to scale horizontally. if you have one CPU on one machine, and your code is cpu bound, your statement is probably true.
if you get nervous and ctrl-c things with no output, try using -v mode
The basis for identity is that the receiving party has to make a decision based on some sort of trust relationship.

Everything really winds up being direct, indirect, or brokered, eg. :
- direct: you have a pre-existing account on a website.
- indirect: you have an account with a Company, and I let that company's employees sign in with SAML etc
- brokered: certificate authorities issuing certs based on domain/email/etc validation, and I accept those certs by accepting those authorities

We won't see the indirect model get any broader than it already has - nobody is going to accept Sign in with Apple in lieu of a birth certificate.

What we _do_ see is the platforms (like iOS and Android) becoming wallets for identities issued by _others_ based on the indirect and brokered models. Adding mobile drivers licenses is upcoming for both mobile platforms.

but the reality is that for indirect/brokered, you have an issuer and you have parties who have made a decision to trust the identity. If Apple/Google mandate properties the issuers don't like, the issuers won't use it. If the issuers mandate behavior the verifiers don't like, they won't accept it.

And thats the same for any "user-centric" or "self-sovereign" identity system too. If bringing my own DID means that the issuer can't meet their identity verification/authentication mandates, they won't support it. If me using my own wallet means that a retailer is not getting identity assurance or is otherwise taking on additional risk, they won't accept it.

And obviously the people who do not like the overall properties will choose not to consume it.

What you imply is some nefarious function of big actor desires being baked into standards, I would just call 'understanding market requirements'.
I'm very similar, or was. I was diagnosed with ADHD aged 30. If I'm working on something I enjoy or find interesting, I'm all in on it, obsessed. If I find it slightly dull or tedious, I'll have to fight with myself to get it done, just turns into relentless scrolling through hacker news, or get distracted with other things.

The trick, I've found, is to either find ways to enjoy what you're working on if you don't enjoy it. For example, gamifying it or finding some other challenge in it. Or try to insist on specialising on what you do enjoy working on more.

Read the following as well (if, of course you haven't already):
- Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- Hyperfocus by Chris Bailey

Oh, and don't beat yourself up for not feeling 100% productive or enthusiastic all the time. Most of this expectation is a tech culture thing and it's just silly. Most jobs don't expect this, most jobs people assume you're sat around talking and eating biscuits several hours a day. Our brains aren't designed to work in well defined, lengthy chunks of time, it's absurd we expect that.

As a few others haven't mentioned as well, it's worth getting screened for ADHD if you haven't already, the meds can really really help. They were a revelation for me anyway.
Quite a naive implementation!
I'm aware that causal inference is a popular technique in econometrics, and other places where we cannot conduct experiments.
What I'm not aware of, is if these techniques have produced highly useful and reliable inferences. (Putting on my counterfactual hat) Are there examples of observational studies that would have failed to change public policy without the techniques of causal inference?