skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR: Yet another hackathon is won by someone submitting a project based on prior work. This (in my opinion) is equivalent to cheating.
They weren't tithing enough money to the right people?
Every time I reinstall No Man's Sky, I immediately go "Nope, not gonna stand here and mine with a laser for hours at a time." What a lame mechanic. It should be like StarCraft where you have drones do it from the beginning.
I thought that the internet lately has been nothing but disagreement.

Perhaps it's disagreement across tribes, but mandatory agreement within each tribe?
The best part of this is just how easy it is! Just a pip install and you're up and running using industry standard Postgres SQL!
UI wise one of the worst apps I’ve had the misfortune of using. Buggy (ticks for mono space text never work first time), really slow, like 300 baud modem typing experience on a laptop that otherwise has no problems, confusing UI, teams/chat/activity I never know where to go. Also it often crashes entirely.
I really hope this change clears up some of these problems.
https://dilbert.com/strip/2003-07-12
There aren't any solid GUI solutions for Rust yet though.
And very online people like you whine and cry about how you’re the real victims if anybody critiques any aspects of your ideas, or probes your motives.

Because very online white male people are so ensconced in privilege that they not only demand to be able to say any thought that comes into their head; you are such entitled little princesses that you must be able to say it without anybody ever being even slightly mean to you in reply.

And then, comically, whiny, thin-skinned little losers like yourself call other people snowflakes and characterize them poorly, without ever realizing what an absolute hypocrite you are.
Corollary: "Businesses that base their growth on A/B testing only, turn into gambling or pornography".
I'm just glad that there finally seems to be a backlash against all this nonsensical internet-hate-mob stuff. Like a big wave in the ocean that finally recedes. Hopefully.
Nobody knows when his time is up. You could be hit by a truck on your commute to work.

I would rather live my life as it comes, for whatever length of time fate has given me.
* I've been studying Brazilian Portuguese for a couple of years. It's the first Romance language that I've studied in depth (I took French in high school but never progressed very far). I've become fascinated by Romance language grammars, and Portuguese has grammar in spades, e.g. tons of conjugations like the future subjunctive, personal infinitive, imperfect, etc. The great thing is that once you've studied one Romance language, you almost always get an automatic headstart in another. (except for outliers like Romanian). For example, through my study of Portuguese I've found that I automatically gotten (written) Spanish for free. I can now read simple Spanish texts even though I've never studied the language (though I still have to beware of false cognates; also, more complex articles like those in El País still stump me.)

* The other thing I've been investigating is meta-learning techniques for predictive modeling, like ensembling, stacking and boosting (the kinds of techniques used in ML competitions) -- basically ways to combine statistical models to extract more signal without overfitting. At some point individual statistical models are limited in their ability to extract signal from data (even though the signals are there) -- and neural networks are a step too far because of the data volume requirements -- so learning how to combine multiple models is the way to go. None of this stuff is new and I'm a few years late to the game but better late than never.
The "accept all or leave" has recently been ruled illegal because the law requires "free and informed consent". Refusing service without consent isn't a free choice to the user.

Similar for Google that went the "you can disable cookies in your browser" way, I doubt that will survive a lawsuit in the coming years.
Facing the resistance in your job search
That phenomenon has a name and a Wikipedia page (probably called "X's Law") but I forget what it's called. But the point is: the longer something has been around, the longer you can expect it to be around (given that you know nothing else about it). Cf. the age of a mountain vs an individual butterfly and your prediction of how long you expect it to be around for.
Hah, if he's willing to get botox in his lips he's probably being sincere. Or, maybe it's just some sort of video editing magic?

A lot of online interaction is based on "If I can prove how this person is terrible, then I can be happy because I've proven to myself that I'm a better person.". Well, a glance at this Twitter account makes me feel better, because I'm certain he's a very unhappy troll, because people looking for offense wherever they turn surely will find them, and he's probably a very unhappy person because he feels he's been offended every day. Ah, that sweet persecution complex!
But the tests are not binary sick or healty. If your test gets more sensitive, then you have to shift the, say, PSA value that you use for a diagnosis.

I really hope that false positives become a regular thing. For one it shows that the tests are working according to statistics.

Second, getting comfortable with false positives means that you can more easily hold off treatment, if in your specific scenario the treatment is not beneficial - think an old test that doesn't find the cancer plus a new test that does; and the new test is shown to lead to overtreatment. We need to learn when to hold on and not to treat.

And third, if testing for 10 things will find something that you don't want to know and harm your psyche, when you test for 100 things you will have almost certainty that there is a false positive and this can give you back some of the "blissfull ignorance" I believe (while the doctor can still give you the statistically best treatment).
If the set of Twitch influencers is relatively static, presumably you could just cater to the exact peculiarities of their tastes in games to the exclusion of the wider market, the way that some authors try to cater to the exact peculiarities of the tastes of a particular editor.
> ke MRIs and CT scans that only detect lumps, to blood tests that detect CANCER.

You mean like the PSA test? It's pretty bad, in the scale of these things. It's used because there isn't a better screen, not because it is more specific.
I think it's plausible, but not in this scenario. In the west, this is a politically charged situation. There, it's a matter of life and death.

If this was an actual simple border dispute, I'd be more inclined to listen to anyone who didn't have direct knowledge, but since this conflict hearkens back to literal Old Testament days, I'm more inclined to believe a native.
This is my perspective exactly. It's hard to be mad at someone for optimizing for their own desired outcome.

I'm mad that it works.
App stores aren't competing because.. there is no competition

Also, I didn't know app stores funded hardware. I thought the money came from the value created by devs or from the actual device price. I mean, should my next IAP say "fund the development of the next iphone". How many consumers will like that?
How do Android manufacturers manage to make hardware without an appstore? It's not like Apple has billions to spare to actually make hardware, things must be tight

Now seriously, none of the above are the issue. The issue is that the iOS app store should be one of many, and that Safari shouldn't break html5 functions on purpose to prevent PWAs

This even spills over to Android because devs in general aren't going to adopt wasm until it truly can be run cross platform. Google actually benefits from Apple's protectionist policies. Microsoft also tried to pull this with IE and we know what happened. It will happen again (and consumers will benefit from it). What good is a great device that can only run few and bad apps?
I would keep the files separate and just use JoHnNy dEcImAl

https://johnnydecimal.com/
This, and not just the US, the West in general. Everyone concerned about the long term consequences of these closures needs to look no further than our leadership mostly ignoring it and thinking we were somehow immune. Heck, even after taking some measures, many parts of the nation/world then reopened too early only to see multiple surges.
I have long predicted that Telegram is the next facebook, but far better. Telegram is yet another centralized social network that is rolling out payments, video, etc.

It's not open source backend or customizable. But it's probably the most libertarian/freest one from the closed source solutions, that won't kick you off, and the software is very good.

We could consider integrating with them (for example, instead of connecting your mobile via sms, you could connect your telegram and then receive notifications there from some FTL bot).

PROBLEM

Still, of course, keep in mind it's a closed source and proprietary backend:

https://yalantis.com/blog/whats-wrong-telegram-open-api/

If you want an open source network to power "Web 2.0" communities, there aren't many good solutions. Diaspora, Matrix, Mastodon, Inrupt, etc. are just not on the same level as Telegram for regular users.

For Web 1.0 we have Wordpress, which powers 40% of all websites in the world now. But somehow for Web 2.0 there are no good alternatives, so all our public discourse is taking place on privately owned platforms, and now the US government has put out bills seeking to break up big tech. How about trying a more libertarian solution first: open source.

SOLUTION

We've been building something for the last 10 years, and giving it away as open source: https://github.com/Qbix

Here is a demo that we did for Yang's campaign two years ago, and kept it around as a demo, it has payments, video, etc. also but it uses open Web standards like WebRTC and WebPayments to do so, and it's completely open source: https://yang2020.app

PS

Web 3.0 is value transfer and programmable smart contracts, e.g. Ethereum web3 l9brary, etc. That happens to be radically open source (just like Web 1.0) because (for now) these blockhains and the code they run are all public, and you are encouraged to verify your smart contracts on EtherScan, etc.
Maybe it's just that they're normal (is 'healthy' an ableist term?).

You can make the argument that 'normal' people have been held down by jus' reg'lar dudes for millennia. This is their chance to shine.

Have an upvote ya 'rebel.
You should read about it a bit first, but the only real way is to do some coding.
Unlike automobile accidents, risk of death from Covid varies substantially according to age and whether one has any comorbidities.
Amazon rolled out Slack in summer 2020.
> Should it though? Seems like we've survived

Someone survived - but for the mutations to have a selection benefit strong enough to dominate that gene pool there would have to be more people who didn’t survive than did.
Yea it isn’t tricking them into something. It’s capturing data they’ve input.
For Canadians... I love this one:

ENTER YOUR POSTAL CODE:
A1A1A1 <- ERR!
A1A 1A1 <- ERR!
A1A-1A1 YOU MAY PASS.

Lazy %@$# front-end devs that can't reformat the input!
So I search google for "undherd Richard Dawkins", first link:

https://unherd.com/2021/04/why-the-atheists-turned-on-richar...

"Why the atheists turned on Dawkins - They care more about social justice than whether or not God exists"

Written by: Ben Sixsmith is an English writer living in Poland. He has written for Quillette, Areo, The Catholic Herald....
I prefer traditional sessions, but for some systems implement JWTs as well. I'd offer the above but with a couple of slight differences.

- Issue tokens containing a flag which makes them read-only and give them a short life-time (around a minute). At times of heavy use you're now performing authentication much less frequently in comparison to every request, so less scale is needed. If the token is intercepted it remains a read-only one tied to the context/permissions of the user it was provided to.

- When a destructive action is requested (write, delete) if you receive a read-only token reject it. The app will then be forced to re-authenticate to get a write-capable token, which has a lifetime measured in seconds. This covers you for a couple of quick requests and so still reduces load - but the lifetime is very fleeting so revocations, if still needed, are extremely short-lived before the token is expired anyway.

If you still want to maintain a revocation list you can stick the tokens in something like Redis with an auto-expiry set to match the token. The short lifespan will keep the revocation list comparatively small and Redis being in memory will make checking it fast.

However as the read-only token is only valid for a minute and the write-capable token for a few seconds, there is usually no need to keep a revocation list at all.

This all may not seem worth it for the small usage windows you get with a short-lived token, but if your client app/site is refreshing pages or pulling in data via 10 requests in a 2 second window (not uncommon) then you've eliminated 9 authentication requests. At small volumes it doesn't matter, and at large volumes you may reduce the authentication cycles by 90% or more. Again, without needing a revocation list.

All that said, use traditional cookies/sessions unless you have complex requirements.
As far that I'm aware, it is key management/distribution problem and how to expose it to the user. So in order to not manage them, only the device with the phone number that the account is registered with can do it.

Desktop apps are not the ones where you create Telegram account; you only authorize them.

For another example, Threema, which is E2EE by default, doesn't allow more than one device with the account (to use multiple devices, you must create several accounts, one for each device and link them, and then basically any chat is a group chat. For desktop use, the web client uses webrtc to talk to your device to use it as a proxy).
Is Discrimination the Rule or the Exception?
I get that.

I do this kind of small consulting (firmware/hardware design & integration, etc.) on the side from my day job. I find that the biggest problem is discovery. There are many individuals and small businesses out there that need simple control systems built, but the only firms they can find are the ones with lots of marketing but they're too big to care about a 20-hour project.

If your friend still has this need, my contact info is in my profile. I'm in the US and happy to help.
Sure but what is the scenario where you wouldn't want to use DuckDB and you'd want to use PostgreSQL instead but wouldn't want to load into PostgreSQL? DuckDB is already a SQL engine. The only additional benefit I'd imagine from PostgreSQL would be stuff you get from it being on disk?

But that's why I'm asking, I don't know.
Which is amazing because Slack calls are so bad that they pushed us to pay for Zoom licensing. It can bring a brand new $2k laptop to a sputtering halt. Which is bad but honestly fine for meetings. Where it lost us was that we couldn’t use it for pair/group work because our tools would become so slow as to be unusable.
No it does not. The most successful people on social media, i have found to be pretty cool and collected. The mental illness symptoms i think are more likely to come from having no following and feeling ignored. That will drive some ppl mad.
"Send to Bottom" of the help box is hilarious
Perhaps I should have said "I don't draw the line there" instead of 'I don't care'.

There's a certain amount of cognitive dissonance (or callousness) required to operate modern technology while also maintaining one's personal ethical standards. After all, I purchase phones and computers that are assembled in sweatshops, using components whose raw materials are mined by children in countries with no safety regulations. I clearly haven't drawn the line there either.

Compared to that, choosing a product from an OEM that's not GNU compliant is an infinitesimally smaller ethical quandary.
And people ask me why I still root. Nothing like a phone with every app that can be frozen actually frozen. (App Quarantine)
Your info is outdated.
HN posts/karma are probably going to come up in his next performance review!
Every time you click the "help" button its just says "Please wait, there are X people in line." and just keeps going up every time.
That article articulated something I've wondered. The loudest voices on social media strike me as people with a weak sense of the boundary between themselves and the world. That fits what the article describes as BPD: "identity disturbance with markedly or persistently unstable self-image or sense of self".
Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
I think that looks a lot more like the right direction.

I would say that the precision part of Ag robotics is the most important part and the success of this project is likely going to be resting on that entirely.

It boils down to something like:

1. Can you sense and classify (i.e. Deep learning based vision)

2. After that, can you turn a pixel into field coordinates. (Pose-> gps/encoder/imu/etc)

3. Can you act accurately/quick/effectively enough (kill/treat mechanism, electromechnical design)

Then it's can you do it reliably enough. Then it's can you do it fast enough. Then its can you do it cost effectively enough.

Farmers won't mess with anything not reliable. They generally aren't interested in anything with worse performance than existing processes, even if greener/cheaper (unless they are significantly so). They most especially will not mess with anything that doesn't generate value in their eyes and they are very good at understanding what generates value and what doesn't.
So what are the psychological issues that led you to write this comment?
Oh, I wondered what our UI designers had been working on for the past month...
When I canceled my Comcast internet service, I got much less resistance from them, but this was in the days where they still had physical offices that you can go to. I took my modem and dropped it off, telling them to cancel my subscription. When they tried to give me the retention speech, I told them I had already switched providers. End of conversation.
There's a couple of xkcd comics relevant to this. Anyway the space of possible compounds is mind-bogglingly huge and that's impressive. At the same time it's countable, and as countable things go, it's not even so big. The kind of hugeness that keeps me up at night is the "long line" or the phase space of the cosmic fluid.
Direct link to the PDF report:
https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelima...

> "Most of the UAP reported probably do represent physical objects given that a majority of UAP were registered across multiple sensors, to include radar, infrared, electro-optical, weapon seekers, and visual observation."

> "Some UAP appeared to remain stationary in winds aloft, move against the wind, maneuver abruptly, or move at considerable speed, without discernable means of propulsion. In a small number of cases, military aircraft systems processed radio frequency (RF) energy associated with UAP sightings."
The point there is, while some negative attitudes may not be preventing other projects from using the code, they do prevent the project from growing, and it leads to fragmentation, which I believe they are seeking to minimize. So something has to give.
Derek is right about the vastness of chemical space, but I go back and forth on the claim (frequently made by those in drug discovery) that AI cannot possibly extrapolate to spaces of this size, for at least three reasons:

* Image space and text space are also vast, and yet we've had good success applying AI in these areas. I have yet to see a convincing argument that these spaces aren't equally large.

* It's a bit of a red herring: actual drug discovery programs are not exploring "all of chemical space". They're usually focused on "lead series" of much more constrained molecules.

* There are actually context-independent signals that can be used to generalize AI methods. The generalization is far from perfect, but it's not like every one of those 10^60 molecules are entirely different from every other molecule in the set. There are clusters and patterns and trends that can be exploited for gain -- this is what makes "medicinal chemistry" an academic field, and not merely an exercise in fortune-telling.

Personally, I think the bigger problem applying AI and ML to drug discovery is less the "vastness of chemical space" (a proposition that makes med-chemists feel secure about their jobs), and more that the datasets in drug discovery suck. There's tons of siloing of data, none of it is consistent, and you can't even depend that two assays for the same target, measured in the same lab, years apart, will yield consistent data. It's a total mess.
That isn't even taking in to consideration the material cost of constructing that many solar panels. We would likely deplete the available supply, or come very close to, of minerals needed to manufacture those panels. And we would need to do so about every 15-20 years based on current panel efficiency.
5:08 of my life that I'm not getting back.

Congratulations, that was infuriating :)
I'm one of the engineers there
Thank you.
That very feature is well in the pipeline. We're taking care of some edge cases plus a handful tests before rollout
TIL what ELI5 means
A troll is it doing it for fun and as an art form, I'd say that the horrid people on twitter are another thing.

As mentioned in an earlier thread, I see a close relationship between the Twitter People and That Guy who goes to all the city council meetings to yell. They don't make up a majority of the population, but they sure can burn up some bandwidth.
https://archive.ph/7yizC
Unfortunately, your critique has even less substantiation than the article, and therefore it would be even sillier to draw conclusions from it...
Oh god no. It means their managers evaluate them on that metric. In this case, the company has set targets on how many Linux kernel patches employees should land.
No, there isn't, though it is probably important to point out that age, genetic disposition and gender are a big factor in selecting what kind of test and if positive what kind of treatment - if any - will be administered and that this is as you correctly identify on symptomatic patients only which raises the base rate in that population (the population of symptomatic patients) tremendously.

And that's exactly where the issue with indiscriminate asymptomatic testing lies, that requires much higher quality tests than the ones that can be used in a diagnostic setting once a patient is symptomatic.

To add one more unpopular bit of data to all this: there is some evidence that the indiscriminate testing for certain cancers has gone too far and that it no longer is a net positive. But in the presence of certain mutations those tests are extremely valuable.

https://www.statnews.com/2018/01/01/cancer-screening-misled-...

Biology is messy, and it is quite hard to state up front whether or not a test or a treatment - even if in an experimental setting it is working - will still be a gain if rolled out in a different setting or application. Hence all the trials and studies, that's the only way to really get a grip on this.

I'm quite curious what the outcome of the large scale test the article refers to will be.
That's disappointing. Haven't listened yet, but can you sum up what their (I assume Jason Fried's) worldview is?
I think I found a bug. When I put 4-Aug-1978 for birthdate, and 41 for age, it said age and birthday don't match.

It validated successfully on 42.

Although maybe that's part of the game?