skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends. There is a lot of the bad mixed with the good.

Rich societies (not just Western ones) seem unable to reproduce themselves - the TFR has gone south of 2 pretty much everywhere, with interesting exceptions (Iceland, Israel). That means that our lifestyle is incompatible with long term survival.

We also have a huge, huge health problem that might directly be caused by abundance of food. Metabolic diseases. Just count all the fat people you meet during a 10 minute walk downtown. Many of them are young and already on their way over the 300 pound mark.

I am not even starting a rant about how algorithms hijack our emotions and manipulate our behavior online.

Humans aren't necessarily built for the world we created. Yes, many things are obviously good: not dying of cholera at the age of 2, for example. But there definitely are things to denigrate in our daily life script. And we must acknowledge these downsides if we ever want to get rid of them.
What about consoles by Nintendo? Their controllers have motion control and all sorts of craze that PCs don't have.
I have no clue where you live, but I live in an eastern european country and I fail to see how can life be better anywhere outside western democracies.

Even living in the poor part of the EU is still a lot worse then living in the good part.

>Life here is beautiful

snort

> the sense of community is so much stronger than it is in the west

the community is precisely why I dislike my country. I can't imagine worse torture then being force to live your life with close-minded ignorant people stuck in the past.

Go and be gay or atheist or just strange in your country then tell me how beautiful your life is.

>overall I'd say that people are less stressed. On the flip side, many things are harder for sure - wages are low and working hours are long, good healthcare is hard come by for many people.

As long as you don't care if you starve or die of illness it's all great. So literally the basics of security.

>life is not "nasty, brutish, and short"

sure, it's just relatively nastier, more brutish and objectively shorter in years of life.

>Perhaps, in future, before making such statements about the lives of people from cultures other than your own, you could take a few moments to try and empathize with them instead?

I don't need empathy when I feel it on my own skin.

Pretty weak all in all.
The problem is the 'pop sci' reporting. "Earth-like" or "second earth" could easily be swapped for "Venus-like" or "second venus" in 99% of cases where pop-sci uses "Earth like" and still be factually correct.

However, Wobbles and Transit photometry are done over time and plot trends which definitively show that something with a certain mass is orbiting with a certain period around the star. There isn't really anything else it could be except an exoplanet, unless our understanding of how physics works was way off, which we know it isn't.

as for Spectrography brabel sums it up in their comment very well.
As I said, "Perhaps DRM content will move towards using it at some point but it's always been a circus to get high tier DRM solutions to validate on Windows anyways". They may flock to it but just like SGX + HDCP 2.2 + IME is needed for Netflix to ship 4k to your PC it just means they still won't ship 4k to your PC unless you have a ridiculous set of requirements.

As far as "getty images" websites don't have access to TPM and the DRM available for video (e.g. Widevine) is both more limited than the native stack (i.e. already can't be used for tier 1/2 DRM content) and for video only. Could the entire browser landscape change in the next few years to enable that? Sure, but it has nothing to do with TPM on Windows.
Elevating society above the individual stifles innovation and leads to stagnation.
That is true from the company's perspective but from a community's perspective pretty disastrous.
Ironically as a review, I'm not sure if this strengthens the case for reading it.

If the best thing you can say is, the author was humble...
Yep.. naming and shaming the carried should be the first thing in the article. They'll probably disable this feature, apologize, and act as if they did nothing wrong.
> but how do we get to that point?

Time and experience for the most part. Impermanence is also a central tenant of Buddhist philosophy and there are lots of books on the subject. Siddhartha is also a great read here.
must have felt so cool to solve an ancient mystery - second dream job for sure
Is that really true? I mean human have no problem living in Arizona during the summer. Or countries in the equator where wet bulb temperature hover around 27C.

I imagine Canada would be more like the mid latitudes of the US if we saw a 2-4C increase in average temp.
That’s super cool, very useful. I would be glad if instead there weren’t absurd delays.
Keeping aside the insulting nature of suggesting someone did not read the article, here is my response.

I like to differentiate between mechanism to make people realize a problem and actual solutions to the problem. Its very easy to say mentor someone to do your job but if that was doable and easy they would be already doing it. The problem is precisely that there is no real good way to do KTs. Forcing someone to solve the problem is one way to KT, but is that the most efficient way? I would rather gather data about what breaks down and come up with a more efficient KT mechanism.
Only problem with scraped/clickstream data is that it's quite inaccurate. I agree it is great for competitive intelligence but falls over a bit when your looking for data on your best content and monitoring important metrics over time. I've always thought of it as scraped/clickstream -> competitive research gsc/owned data -> seo metrics/monitoring.
No one invented alcohol. Drinking "alcohol" (wine, beer) in sub-drunken quantities carries no systemic risk, i.e. it doesn't reduce fitness by any meaningful amount (if you can even quantify "fitness"). This is evidenced by thousands of years of wine-drinking civilizations and cultures that still exist to this day. The cause for Asians "adapting against" alcohol is probably just randomness. A random mutation.
Like Exxon losing 3 (of 12) board seats in May to Engine No. 1's ESG proxy fight, via the support of major institutional investors?

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-27/exxon-...
When I say bloat, I do mostly mean "human-side," not "computer-side" of things. Again, if it works for you it works, but from my POV the idea of opening up a massive application, a web browser, that's mostly unrelated to the task at hand -- when leaner, older, well-proven approaches exist is super-odd to me. I have actually seen this before, and here's the observation:

Consider someone who starts off text-mangling in Javascript, and then later has a go at a more "classic" approach, e.g. command-line with Bash or Python or even Perl. Then consider the reverse; someone who starts off classic and learns/tries this Javascript approach.

I'd be willing to bet huge sums of money that a decent number of the Javascript people will end up adopting the classic approach, and that very few, possibly zero, of the classic people will adopt the Javascript approach.
It's better than just a password. Not perfect, but works 99% of the time (eg with password reuse, dumb keyloggers, over-the-shoulder spying,...)
May be writing code to analyze financial markets' data and using the results to make profitable investments.
Yes, they can only logically deduce correctness based on our assumptions of a given system boundary. But I think it is typically a good idea to write them down formally if you need the guarantees. They are also typically smaller and more declarative.
Explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Russia (1908)
Since most card transactions these days require strong authentication and this is done in Denmark via NemId, which requires second factor (either an app or a key card sent to individual's officially registered address), I wonder what their game plan is. They could use up all your codes and steal the key card from your mailbox, but otherwise I'm not sure... Maybe they wanted victims to pay for 'shipping' the item, but AFAIK NemId asks you to confirm a specific payment amount, so seems it would be quite small amount of money.

That being said, I fell for another shipping scam in DK, seems it's quite common these days. Bank cancelled the card and transactions easily, though.
> And any woman with a professional job would disagree.

My mother is going to be 70 in a few weeks, she is a highly regarded teacher of English, and in her opinion, a lot of things have gone downhill since the 1970s, and especially since the 1990s, though obviously not all of them. So there is your counterexample.

People are complicated and stereotyping them (any woman with X) is bound to fail.
I mean, who knows what random selection of events will cause someone to slip through the crevasse of history into the future. Imagine being the fossil that is found and paraded as the missing link between our species and the one that roams the earth 100,000 years from now, and Ramesses II nowhere to be found...
20 years is a good first approximation for patent term.
Patents expire 20 years from the first non-provisional priority date in the US, plus whatever term extension is granted by the USPTO to compensate you for USPTO delays, less any term lost for a terminal disclaimer.

It's fair game to sue on an expired patent, because in some cases, you can collect for past damages that accrued up to six years in the past. That's probably why the complaint focused on an older product, potentially sold during the patent term.
See also the leak[1] of big oil PR maestro Rick Berman's 2014 speech to oil execs, pleading for funds to combat rational debate and reliable information about fracking.

“Think of this as an endless war,” he told them. “And you have to budget for it.”

> He said the industry needs to dig up embarrassing tidbits about environmentalists and liberal celebrities, exploit the public’s short attention span for scientific debate, and play on people’s emotions.

> “Fear and anger have to be a part of this campaign,” Berman said. “We’re not going to get people to like the oil and gas industry over the next few months.”

> Berman also advised that executives continue to spend big. “I think $2 to $3 million would be a game changer,” he said. “We’ve had six-figure contributions to date from a few companies in this room to help us get to where we are.”

> But always cover your tracks, he suggested, adding that no-one is better equipped at doing so than his firm. “We run all this stuff through nonprofit organizations that are insulated from having to disclose donors. There is total anonymity,” he said. “People don’t know who supports us. We’ve been doing this for 20-something years in this regard.” [2]

Plenty more in the transcript at [1], and the article at [2]!

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/31/us/politics/pr-executives...

2: https://www.desmog.com/2014/10/31/oil-and-gas-industry-s-end...
British right to repair law excludes smartphones and computers
Millennials don't apply to an argument about who would have done what in the 70s - every generation has people who don't appreciate the value of what they have, and I don't think everyone in the 70s was an Archie Bunker stereotype. Yes, I'm quite certain there would have been plenty of people who would have seen the value of cellphones and the internet at the time.

>The more interesting question, though, is whether or not frictionless access to near-infinite vaults of that tailored entertainment actually makes your quality of life better.

That's the thing - "quality of life" is an entirely subjective measure, one which both of us are tailoring to fit a predetermined outcome.

But even if one dismisses the value of access to media to quality of life, the degree to which online services (any service, including streaming media) democratize that access compared to the limitations of physical media and gatekept broadcasts (VCRs didn't even come around until the late 1970s) improved quality of life substantially. That some or much of that media is pure entertainment is less relevant to my argument than the paradigm shift it represents.

I mean, to invoke the trope, you have a device you can fit in your pocket which allows you access to almost the entirety of humanity's cultural and intellectual output, a GPS system, a camera, a radio, a compass, a calculator, it can answer questions, it can order food, it can allow you to communicate with people around the world without long-distance fees. From the point of view of the 1970s, that's literally something out of Star Trek. That seems like an objective improvement to quality of life in the same way that the printing press, internal combustion engine and indoor toilets were.

> But kids in that era would play together in the streets, and families had closer bonds.

Kids don't play in the streets anymore but they still play - my niece and nephew have a huge backyard they play in, and my nephew also makes games for his friends on Roblox. To me, kids today have richer and more fulfilling lives than I did, stuck in my living room watching TV and reading old library books.

Also, I would argue that due to the advancement of progressive ideals allowing certain demographics to exist more openly than society would have allowed in the 1970s, some familial bonds are stronger now than then. Maybe if you're a white Christian conservative male things seem to have gone downhill, but things seem to be looking up for everyone else.
Is it fair to say you're citing identity politics and the presence of ideology as a cause of problems in society?

Re identity politics, I'm trans and it helps me a lot. It feels like an intermediate between misogyny and the abolition of the categorization of gender. Focusing on the rights of one group (trans rights, trans liberation now) feels essential.

Re the presence of ideology, there is no way to not have an ideology. Liberalism and neoliberalism consistently say that they are neutral, but they are also a story about the world and a way to interpret facts, on the exact same scale as Marxism. It's just that because (neo)liberalism places weight on the individual and discounts systemic factors, it can feel neutral if you don't need to think about systemic factors (this is what privelage is).

Not really relevant to your overall critique, but it's just something that stood out to me reading your comment.
What are your thoughts on just using plain datalog/prolog?
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First Direct

However I live in the United Kingdom, so this recommendation won't be much use to people who live elsewhere. My recommendation certainly does not stretch to their parent, HSBC, once the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation which likely does operate other banks where you live.
Pretty clever. Somewhat related, if you want to match the colours of an entire image to an other, you can use optimal transport [1]

Unrelated, the author has a very nice take on generating the organic grid from Oskar Stålberg’s Townscaper game [2].

[1]: https://codimd.math.cnrs.fr/s/2eRBqV9zl

[2]: https://andersource.dev/2020/11/06/organic-grid.html
It is not better than just a password (in fact, it is worse). Providers have been known to reset accounts with just SMS 2FA, and passwords are harder to steal than SIMjacking.
This is to be expected, because pure time-series models (Holt-Winters, ARIMA, etc.) only capture behavior of historical data (autoregressive, i.e. yₖ = f(yₖ₋₁, yₖ₋₂, ...)). If the patterns of interest aren't primarily time-based patterns, then time series models wouldn't be predictive.

In my experience, the time-series models that are reliably predictive typically aren't purely autoregressive but contain exogeneous variables as well (i.e. yₖ = f(yₖ₋₁, yₖ₋₂, ..., xₖ, xₖ₋₁, xₖ₋₂...), like ARX models). These models don't only capture relationships to historical patterns but to other driving/causal variables.

Price forecasts are often modeled as time-series models, but this assumes that prices only have time-based patterns which is often not true. In my domains of interest for instance, time has tangible yet limited effect on prices -- prices are driven more by variables like weather and certain types of market activity.
> Usually, 2FA enables phishing. People generally know not to share their passwords. But scammers are now triggering the password reset mechanism and phishing people for the 2FA code. People are not as careful with that code as they are with their password.

But this makes the SMS a single factor of authentication, which is bad. Combined with a password, it's still a good method, a lot better then just a password.

If I forget my bank password, I have to go to my bank with my ID and reset the password there. I think they added a videocall + id option because of the plague, but going there in person was the only option back when i signed my contract.
As that article points out, the site was brand new at the time. Since then it has evened out a lot.

The Media Bias Chart puts it very slightly to the left. You have to take that with a grain of salt, and I'd say that the error bars from the methodology would place it pretty much dead center.

https://www.adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart/

Of course the Media Bias Chart is itself potentially biased, but have a look at it yourself, and I suspect it will at least roughly correspond to your understanding of the left-right spectrum.

If Axios was biased in favor of Trump at the time that article was written, it no longer seems to be true. I think it's a stretch to call it "moderately left", but it's almost certainly not far right.
It's a term of art describing the regular rhythmic peaks when discordant notes are played together.
I don't know. I feel like that was more a thing 10 years ago. Now all the big players have the ability to use algos, read public sentiment via Twitter, etc. Maybe if someone has a novel strategy that can work (patent and sell it is where the real money is), but for the most part the tecnofinancial arms race has gone to the big players leaving us little guys out gunned.
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>Then, she told them that actual grass-roots organizations like theirs were socially dangerous, because they wouldn't stick to their original mission but inevitably became cults, essentially.

After OWS I find it hard to disagree with this statement.
GHB huh, yeah just try Gabapentin, start with 1.2 grams and adjust as needed. The effects take an hour or so to start showing, but they're pretty much the good effects of alcohol (relaxation, disinhibition, feeling good, sociable) with few of the bad ones (somewhat stupefying and the hangover).

Tolerance builds up fast, a couple of weeks at most for daily use, then you have to taper down or risk dealing with terrifying withdrawals (insomnia, vivid nightmares, anxiety), which are (somewhat ironically) diminished/eliminated by using alcohol.
We don't seem to generate much more innovation than our overseas cousins, though.

A safety net may lead some people to experiment and play with things, others to slouching off. This even applies outside the public sphere. A stereotype of a bored millionaire's son with no energy to do anything substantial exists for a reason.
Windows and Mac builds available for DataStation, the open-source data IDE
Did you tell your friend?
How cheaply can this be made? it would be great to create a line of dishware for elderly, blind, or disabled people to let them know when there's enough
1. water in their cup
2. food on a plate
etc...
Your observation is on point - a strong understanding of maths is crucial for data science engineers. The topics you've mentioned - probability/statistics, linear algebra, calculus- are covered in our course, and our learners are expected to build a solid understanding of them gradually.
To ensure effective learning of these topics, we space out these topics over nearly all of the course. It's a change from our initial version where we've had it concentrated early in the study - however, we saw that such an approach was quite demotivating to many learners.
Next, we use spaced repetition. This happens during our daily standups and project reviews, where senior team leads (expert data scientists) regularly ask questions about topics that might have been covered in previous modules. The questions also tend to focus on understanding (e.g., why something is relevant, how it can be used in business situations) rather than simply recalling formulae or definitions.
Compared to Andrew Ng's Coursera course, we require our learners to understand these topics deeper. However, upon graduation, the level of most learners will be less than PhDs graduates, who spend half a decade on learning these topics. Nevertheless, our students will have strong practical skills to do data science, which isn't properly taught in academic data science education (we hear this a lot from hiring partners). What we have as a key goal, however, is to give our graduates enough understanding to:
a) be able to work on junior-level tasks effectively from day 1. The libraries you mentioned are helpful here, even though not enough on their own;
b) develop the capacity to continue learning maths-related topics independently so that the learner, even after graduation, can continue getting better at maths and feel comfortable with it instead of fearing it
Black holes can't evaporate now because the cosmic background radiation is too hot. The black holes are colder the CMBR, so they absorb heat and grow (albeit very, very slightly).

Eventually the CMBR will cool down and the holes will be able to evaporate, but not for an insanely long time.
As long as we have had laws, there has been some conception of a minor, someone who does not have the rights and duties of an adult. The authors of the constitution were well aware of this. This is not as "wacky" as anything some cynical politician came up with three days ago.
It's rare these days to meet a traditional engineering grad who is not desperately trying to switch to CS. The job market is just not there for pure hardware careers in big cities.
(author here) I did not know that, and I'm not sure how it fits in! All else being equal, more ADH would imply faster acetaldehyde buildup, meaning men would have more of a "flush" than women. I don't know if all else is equal, though. For example, if men also had more ALDH, then they'd also be able to break down that acetaldehyde into acetate faster.

Taking a quick glance at the literature, it's... super complicated. This paper (https://doi.org/10.1002/jcla.10076) suggests that women have lower gastric ADH but higher liver ADH. There's some animal studies that suggest men have higher ALDH, but also some contradictory human studies that suggest that everything is just the same.

Argh, biology.
They were able to do it because the government is/was huge. If it wasn't and if they did not have so much power, there wouldn't have been anyone to lobby.
Signature has to match and they do call you to confirm, but your are right that there is no cryptograpgic security, its all judgement call by meat
> Summary: East asians are partially adapted against alcohol because they invented it first and alcohol reduces fitness.

This seems super unlikely.

It is at least as likely that the mutation which causes the "Asian flush" is protective against something else while losing the ability to consume whopping quantities of alcohol is simply a side effect.
Immediately! ;-)
How is 2 factor authentication 2 factor when I can reset my password with just my phone number?
Do you have a belief like this? What should be done when one has a belief like this?