skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
git absorb looks sick, thanks for sharing! Any other dark magic you want to share?
I tried programming my arduino to trigger a servo to pull the handle on a spray air can when a sound over a threshold was detected by the microphone, but the servo wasn't strong enough. Enabling an outlet to an already-plugged in vacuum sounds good, though. Excellent...

I had plans to train a cat meow classifier so I wouldn't activate the can due to other noises, say a fire truck, fireworks, or a neighbor slamming a door shut.
I think that RCV is at best a hack, a compromise for people who don't want to get too far from FPP.

IMHO if you are electing individual people (a mayor, a US president, a city council, a US Senator) then STV is more equitable (it is pretty close to RCV if you are electing a single person). But if you are electing parties (like the US House) then MMP is a fairer solution
That’s hilarious. Goes to show how impossible some “debugging” is. No sane doctor would say “so your stomach hurts at night, do you own a fat cat?”
Being interested in show business at a young age teaches you pretty easily that merit only accounts for so much.

On a related note, does anyone know of non-profit orgs that aim to teach people how to use their time and money wisely? Unfortunately there are plenty out there who, either through ignorance or lack of willpower, do not use either wisely, and there are plenty of people and companies happy to take advantage of them.
Don't be too hard on yourself. Don't get into survival mode. Studies show that when people feel guilty/stressed for a behavior, they fall into the behaviors that they are trying to avoid. [1][2]

[1] https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/10.1521/jscp.24.2.254.6...

[2] https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037/0003-066X.40....
Yeah, we've actually had quite a few people already quit over the past month or two, I assume they were trying to lock-in WFH. Friends in other industries are experiencing similar with employers that aren't overly planning to offer WFH indefinitely.
The age old solution to this problem is to package the script plus the interpreter plus the dependencies in a glorified self-extracting ZIP file.

E.g. [pp], [py2exe].

[pp]: https://metacpan.org/pod/pp

[py2exe]:https://github.com/py2exe/py2exe
>I also often zone out during meetings to the point I haven't got a clue what people are talking about

I've found that having a pen and some notepaper for doodling and writing whatever a speaker is saying is helpful to stay engaged
if you spend the same amount of time in xgboost and lightgbm looking for hyperparameters and build trees with a small enough eta. will you achieve the same performance? that's not answered in the paper, and if I am a reviewer I would ask them to come compare time spent.
For about two weeks I'd chase her with a spray bottle of water whenever she meowed. sigh
People use “gender” to mean all kinds of different things. What do you mean by the word in your question? The second part is easy to explain: “Be they transwomen wanting to play female sports”. If by “transwomen” you mean biological males who have “transitioned” to women (more neutrally called “trans-identified men”), the answer is because they are not female, so it is unfair to allow them to compete with females.
Did the Joker admit that Arrow's impossibility theorem doesn't apply to score-based voting systems, or to single-winner elections at all?

Some people just want to watch the world learn.
"has a small number of declared-as-infallible dogmas"

There's rather more to it in general but the concept of dogma is one of the reasons that many Christian denominations exist - in protest of the notion of dogma.

For example: Papal Infallibility. The dogma of Papal Infallibility is that God created the post of Pope and inaugurated St Peter as the first one. God created the papacy for His purposes therefore holders of that role cannot be fallible. However, the Pope is a man (why can't Papa be Mum?) and I'm pretty sure that involves being a sinner. It takes some pretty fancy footwork to elevate a bloke who was a mere automatically sinning Cardinal into an Infallible Pope.

For me the whole crux (if you like) of Christianity is that the ultimate divine being became a person and suffered as such - if you like: They experienced Their creation first hand. I don't think you should go around elevating people into little or demi Gods - that's a form of polytheism. Funnily enough I'm declaring my own form of dogma: People are not infallible: Pope, Queen, nor gerdesj.

I do understand the Catholic concept of dogma and even why it still exists. It is not my point to belittle it either but there is quite a good reason why: "practically all denominations have a specific alignment." Those people find the concept of dogma and the like ... sometimes unsatisfactory.
Person 1: Brave replaces existing ads, that’s bad

Someone from Brave: actually we don’t replace existing ads at all, here’s why

Person 2: no one cares what you do or don’t do with existing ads!

I don’t have any connection to Brave but I find it odd they’ve become some kind of hate figure here on HN. Their iOS client IMO is quite good. Their privacy is miles ahead of the other options. But merely by trying to be privacy first they get crap for not always being perfect. See also: Signal, OpenPGP, Firefox.
> It was MN not MO:

It was, and I am embarrassed that i managed to do that.
Finally multi-level/hierarchical modeling is starting to permeate industry thanks to Stan and company.

I use hierarchical modeling regularly to help build Zapier. So do other companies like Generable: https://www.generable.com/

I suspect hierarchical models will become the next “new” hot data structure in software engineering due to their ability to compact logic. https://twitter.com/statwonk/status/1363104221747421184?s=21
Ha. When looking at the example I did not realize what is really wrong with it for quite a while. But. For what it worth I would never write code like this ( new XXX ) in the parameters section of the function. It just inherently feels wrong to me. I am also paranoid to the degree that I always put brackets in the expressions even when it is not really needed and do all kinds of other paranoid stuff.
> but the Australian experience is instructive.

No? It is instructive of how parliaments work. IRV doesn't explain the multi-party house and senate given that every other country with a parliament also has a similar distribution. If you're only looking at Australia vs America you're doing the wrong analysis (it is far too limited). Australia vs France just outright disproves your supposition (they use a 2 round system). Or we can look at Germany who has a similar distribution and who also uses MMP (like Australia). In fact, both France and Germany have more parties represented than Australia.

I do not understand why Australia is the instructive example and why this is frequently propositioned.
Yes that was the joke.
There is a basic web version if you visit https://sparkbible.com/read. I built it mainly for SEO purposes, but eventually I do see it having feature parity with the other apps.
For those who want to better understand VSE simulations and those who want to compare even more voting methods, see: http://electionscience.github.io/vse-sim/VSE/
There was never any need to scale it at the protocol level. The overwhelming majority of Bitcoin transfers presently happen off-chain, within exchanges. Very few people seem to understand this.
Rather than splitting by gender it should be split by sex, or birth sex, if you prefer.
First of all, calm down. Consider that the people you are talking to may not be idiots.

Second of all, nobody is saying that pointers, arrays, references, and iterators are identical in general. They are clearly related concepts but differ in fundamental ways. However, my point was that a vector iterator needs to behave like a pointer would and can in fact be implemented as a naked pointer. Pointing to MSVC's implementation having safety checks does not change that fact, because pointing to what an implementation does on undefined behavior is clearly out of scope when discussing specified behavior. I'm not going to bring address sanitizer into this discussion to show how pointers can actually be a superset of "pointer behavior" because that would just be irrelevant. The fact remains that iterators were originally meant to act like pointers, and in many cases still do. Believing this does not mean I have a poor understanding of the language.
I haven't noticed any UX issues, great job on the browser, looking forward to the search engine. Thanks.
Nothing needs to be destroyed or reinvented, only returned to common-sense and integrity. There are essentially no new ideas.

- Everyman's Library Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is worth having.

- A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies / Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias is another title important to understand what happened in the Americas as well as slaves taken from Africa.

- Other titles by: Aristotle, Sartre, Kant, Plato, Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, Marx, Chalmers Johnson, Kaczynski (accurate and precise in analysis, dead wrong in prescription), Chomsky, Thomas Paine, Zinn, Stiglitz, Richard Wolff.

Like a scientist if they were to invent compact fusion power in their garage but were so bad at marketing and communicating it that they couldn't sell even one, books alone are static print on dead trees that cannot accomplish actions. This is especially true if their messages fall on deaf, ignorant, or greedy/selfish ears.
Who knows what the net affect is but taking the final sentences of some of the results paragraphs makes it seem like taking care of a cat is a good idea:

> [...] Therefore, cat ownership may be involved in mediating the abundance of disease-related gut microbes.

> [...] Therefore, from the perspective of gut microbiota, our study not only supports that there might be no correlation between cat ownership and obesity but also clarifies that cat ownership can affect the structure and function of gut microbiota in NW [normal weight] individuals.

Including all of this next paragraph as it all seems good...

> Functional predictions indicated that cat ownership would lead to increased synthesis of B vitamins, amino acids and carbohydrate metabolism. Moreover, SCFA-related pathways (4-hydroxyphenylacetate degradation, TCA cycle VII (acetate producers), and glycerol degradation to butanol) were significantly increased. As the biosynthetic precursor of cofactors, vitamins play a vital role in organisms. The gut microbiota can provide various vitamins for the host [41]. Increasing glucose metabolism in the gut microbiota may be beneficial to host blood glucose control [42]. SCFAs can participate in intestinal epithelial energy supply, affect the intestinal environment (such as pH and electrolyte balance), and regulate host material and energy metabolism. SCFAs are related to the occurrence of various energy metabolism diseases. SCFAs have anti-inflammatory effects. Therefore, the influence of cat ownership on gut microbiota function may affect the health of the owner.
World War II Began for the USSR
Then your back where you started with the ratio issue.
I agree that's the greatest weakness in theory.

But in practice that's extremely unlikely -- because there's always a significant proportion of the population that isn't tribalistic (or religious, in your case) the fourth candidate will tend to receive a decent proportion of first-place votes.

Alternatives have their own problems as well, where approval voting doesn't let you specify intensity of preference, or systems that let you granularly specify intensity of preference are not only too complicated for voters to understand, but also fairly arbitrary in how they compare intensities.
Clojure has a decent sized ecosystem by now. The language is almost 15 years old so there is a fair amount of tooling and protocol support.
> Two of those “businesses” only exist because they are funded by taxpayers.

Sure, but let's not pretend that is unique. Our government subsidize many (most?) companies in Energy, Automotive, and Aerospace.
Instead of intimidation, simply ignoring it (i.e. absolutely not opening the door whatsoever) can work.

It can take a while so be patient. My kitty stopped meowing at night after I do this for two weeks, and has never since meowed at night.
There was a candidate like that in California (for the state senate?). Anyway, his whole pitch was “If you elect me, I will allow you to vote through me as a proxy. Every bill will have you able to vote and then I’ll vote the way people have told me to vote”

I am somewhat sure this dude existed and he may be the same guy who ran as a name full of 1s and 0s that decoded as ASCII to some nonsense.

But if it didn’t happen, I dreamed it.
It's only now, several hours later, that I realize I meant to have written 'adderall'. Good grief.
Do you feel it was a waste of time?

BTW I used Xidel some years ago and it was great, so thanks!
you work for Brave. I can't take what you say on face value
It's a luxury belief [0], something that arguably provides negative societal utility yet signals one's worldview very effectively. Only around 30% of Americans think that trans athletes should compete in the gender category for which they identify, so it's rather surprising that there has been such a push to make it happen [1].

[0] - https://quillette.com/2019/11/16/thorstein-veblens-theory-of...

[1] - https://globalsport.asu.edu/sites/default/files/resources/gs...
You could argue that Clojurescript early adoption of React was one of the reasons for it's rise. The early work of David Nolan (Om) and Dan Holmsand (Cloact->Reagent) were, at least in my opinion, pretty influential. Clojure's immutable data structures were (are) a perfect fit. iirc, the fact that "shouldComponentUpdate" could be performant with equality was a huge, easy performance/simplicity win. I may be way off about that, if so, I apologize.
Since you seem to know it all I'll just leave you be. My only actionable advice is that you should hire someone nicer to handle public relations, lest you bleed users from your own mouth.
Isn't this just the Greater Fool Theory [1]

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/greaterfooltheory.asp
That's mind-boggingly preposterous. There was no vibrant discourse in medieval scholasticism, unless you call endless intellectual circle-jerking on minute points of theology "vibrant discourse".

Despite woke cancel culture, today I can say almost whatever I want and suffer little to no repercussions. This wasn't true even 50 years ago (where I live). There's no comparison possible.
This is worth a submission of its own!
N=104 is a fine sample size for some things - especially given how much comfort you have for error.

This isn't a great study in general, because, realistically, there isn't a large range for the work hours. And the majority of them were grouped into one bucket => 4-8 hours.

That's the biggest problem.

The second biggest is that - presumably - not all of the respondents work 5 days per week.

The third is that - without a large sample size - your margin of error is going to cover a pretty big chunk. If your finding is 6 hours +/- 1 hour, 95% CI - that's pretty unsurprising.

You need a large sample size because there are ~115M workers in the US. What are the odds these 104 people are a decent representation of all ~115M voters??

If there's only 10,000 people this applies to that read HackerNews, then - if you fixed everything else - your CI wouldn't be super low.
The string type is broken (2013)
> In the comic, "college classmate" is lucky to have known the hiring manager.

Well, it also kind of demonstrates the contra-point: The classmate did go to college and use his time there to meet people and form connections. It was still luck he knew the manager (though he might've simply seeked out his connections), but it was definitely possible for him to increase his chances and/or pay off an earlier investment.
If the monkey with zero gains 5 and the monkey with ninety loses 5, the monkey with zero was more successful.

It's not enough to look at where someone is, you have to look at where someone started. If you are a millionaire and your dad was a billionaire, you are probably one of the biggest losers on the planet.
not surprising giving that the cats are night hunters. With age though our cat was meowing if we were still up starting around 12am and until we'd go to bed, basically he was enforcing our the typical routine (and yes, he was sleeping with us, and the cats are big on routine)
It makes well enough sense. I was mainly surprised specifically because this is a game, not a DOM-based web app
I've never really understood the criticism of Condorcet's method being hard to understand. If one candidate would beat all other candidates head-to-head, that candidate should be the winner. That's really it. People get hung up on the loop-breaking algorithms when they're not really the point.
First, the comment refuted evidence based on data via personal anecdotes. Second the anecdote’s assumptions were flawed. Unless one believes most drivers are psychopaths, one would not expect drivers to consciously endanger bike riders (especially since a helmet is unlikely to provide any protection from being run over.)
I think it's more complicated than that. Ranked choice voting was put on the ballot and 75% voted in favor, so if it's some scam from the powers that be, they did get a lot of people to agree with them.

I believe the underlying problem was that in 2009 an expensive runoff election was needed, and that was the catalyst to start thinking about IRV. Saving tax dollars is about all you can find for the underlying motive.
My most recent cat, who sadly died a couple years ago, was unusually snuggly. We slept in physical contact, often spooning some or all of the night, for most of the 12 years I had her. She was particularly well adapted to me, my habits and my schedule… I was very fortunate!

I had a really rough bout of insomnia, along with a bad mental health stretch not long after she died. I didn’t make the connection until recently that sleep without my cat might have contributed.

But now I have a particularly snuggly pup, which has improved my quality of sleep beyond even that previous high point. We definitely have to adapt more to each other’s schedule. But it’s surprisingly mutual adaptation, and surprisingly malleable.

Sorry for the long personal response. I have no idea how much wiggle room there is with your cat(s), but I hope you find the benefits of the relationship worth whatever tradeoffs come with the sleep schedule.
You need to be very good looking (in pictures) to have success. I am a womanizer but not big in Tinder.

I once used the Tinder of an ex girl friend (with her permission) and told her, I find one for you. She was okay looking but not super attractive. Match rate of the guys I chose for her was 100%. Basically most guys use the App like : yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes...
The Teamsters announce coordinated nationwide project to unionize Amazon
> Through self-reporting, we found 214 individuals who claimed that they owned cats but no other pet (Cat group), while 214 individuals who did not own a pet were matched with the Cat group by gender, body mass index (BMI), and age (no cat (NC) group)

Somewhat tangential question, but what algorithm would you use in order to pick the control group here? And what if instead I wanted to build the largest control group that still matched the features of my test group?
> They go quiet or form a tiny invite only groups to hide after an attempt to do something good that backfired because their skin is the wrong colour or they aren’t trans.

I don't mean to be snarky since I don't know the specifics of situation your friends find yourselves in, but... is it possible that they should just grow thicker skin? I mean twitter is a cesspool of hate, bitterness, and anger. But you can simply not open it and ignore it, no?
> At first I felt guilty and then I realized in my career that working harder isn't going to make any difference in terms of $, career security, or opportunity to work on cooler stuff.

At least in FAANG, you mostly get paid for what your employer thinks you can do, in theory. Not for what you actually do, in practice.

If you're only self-interested - you're much better off spending all your time learning valuable skills and checking boxes to get promoted, and then job hopping - and doing nothing valuable for your employer again and again...

You're not going to move up if you spend all your burning through your backlog of work items, and you'll get next-to-no monetary reward or meaningful recognition.
Why I carry weapons for defensive purposes but speak facts and reality even if other may wish to impugn or murder me for it. Tribal ideologies are intellectual dishonesty cults incarnate. Saying you're a "D," "R," "communist," etc. puts your mind and your positions in a camp to defend. Why not weigh each issue, policy, and scenario standing-alone with consistent common-sense?

If you don't have a weapon, others with weapons with different beliefs can and will eventually silence you permanently. This is what happens in Mexico to reporters and civil society activists. They don't carry guns and so they make themselves easy targets to eliminate.
One big problem with approval voting is that it presents voters with a difficult conundrum: what do you do with candidates you don't particularly like but would still strongly prefer over one-or-more other candidates? If people are too lenient with their approval it increases the risk of someone no one really likes getting elected over someone a majority would have preferred. If people are too stringent you start running into the same problems as FTTP.

Approval voting has some nice mathematical properties, but I think in practice trying to pidgeon hole people's preferences into a binary decision would be a major source of voter frustration and lead to tactical voting.
Yes, Japan. Where people literally work themselves to death and where the truth goes to die a brutal death. Consider the time that Japanese pilots crashed a plane because the senior pilot was mistaken and his subordinates were afraid of correcting him. The only reason Japanese society functions, if you could call such an unhappy society functional, is because the core tenants of its culture are quietly overridden from time to time. Any system where people never say what they mean and where seniority trumps the truth is insane, full stop.

And let’s not forget Korea. Korea where they have this little problem called “the highest suicide rate in the developed world.” And it’s no cake walk over there. Inequality is insane. What else would you expect from a place where people insanely ignore what is right in front of them for a little short-term gain?

Do frank, direct cultures like Denmark and the Netherlands suffer from these problems? You tell me.

And Russia? Are you kidding? They are completely a culture of respect. Everything is based on respect. It’s one of the most emotion-based societies in the developed world. They will happily overlook little niggling and inconvenient truths for the sake of respect or perceived virtue, as evidenced by their former system of government. Try learning something about Russia… I remember the founder of Scihub had a parasite named after her out of respect by an American biologist or something. She was super offended. Russia is perhaps one of the worst countries in that respect. Almost anything will upset a Russian, let alone the truth. It’s one of the most “never say anything even remotely offensive or else they will be upset” countries out there. The fact that you don’t know this really reflects poorly on your argument. You cite your “experience” but then don’t appear to have much.

And yes I realize she’s not Russian, there’s a huge amount of overlap in their cultures.
In the future you should probably respond to the people you intend your comment to be a response to.