skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Unfortunately, the results showed a true-negative rate of 78%. i.e. most of the time the model failed to predict when a meaningful conversation was about to occur.

>...

>The model is significantly worse than a coin-flip. Obviously, this is not good; and given that the majority of conversations on the site are trivial

1. This isn't correct use of the term "true negative". A true negative is when your model predicts a negative, and the label is actually negative. "the model failed to predict when a meaningful conversation was about to occur" would correspond to a false negative (the model predicts negative, the the label is actually positive)

2. "The model is significantly worse than a coin-flip" - Talking about coin flips hardly makes sense if the majority of conversations on the site are trivial.

A better way to think about this question would be from a Bayesian perspective. Define a random variable L for linkage. L=True if there exists a user B such users A and C both had non-trivial conversations with B. L=False otherwise. Then define a random variable T for whether the conversation is trivial or not. Then you can compute P(T=False|L=True) and P(T=False|L=False) from your data.

It could be that what this article is trying to say is that P(T=False|L=False) > P(T=False|L=True), i.e. the presence of a linkage decreases the probability of a nontrivial conversation.

This could occur if, for example, most users of Chatroulette are using it as a dating site, and since heterosexual people outnumber gay people, most nontrivial conversations occur between men and women. So if there's a linkage between A and C, that predicts that A and C are of the same gender, and they won't be interested in talking to each other.

Anyway, I didn't read any further than that, but I would suggest just ranking users based on their propensity for nontrivial conversations and connecting users with other users who like to have nontrivial conversations (or perhaps even better, compute the mean/median conversation length for each user to get a sense of their preferred conversation length, then connect users to other users who have a similar preferred conversation length).

I suspect there's room to use machine learning to improve Chatroulette a lot, even to the point where it could be the next Facebook. People already pay thousands of dollars to attend Harvard etc. for the networking. You just have to use machine learning tools correctly and find a way to capture some of that value.
Does anyone know if something like this for Twitter exist ?
Yep.

Why not make it easy for your competitors to join your ecosystem?

Most deff. They got a home run with Azure.
Investigating this, I saw that the text and link will appear when the width is 768 or greater.
Powershell is better than bash.

The things that are awkward about it are also awkward in bash, and generally less so (usually having to do with quoting details). Nothing is worse than in bash. And a huge amount of things are better.

It's not perfect, there are things I don't like, aesthetic things that are a little strange, but these are shortcomings compared to some imaginary perfect shell, or to some other programming language. Not compared to bash.

The only advantage bash has is install base and familiarity. Which isn't nothing, but on the merits of the program itself, powershell is better. I switched a couple years ago and haven't looked back.
That makes sense. You could say that the "lack of vaccination" yields mutations, much in the same way that the "lack of antibiotic" (like people refusing to finish their prescription) can yield antibiotic-resistant bacteria. But in neither case does it "cause" the mutation.

It appears that I was improperly influenced by the second comment in this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/ozh9mi/is_the_d...
> Programmers who think freelancing will free them up from annoying human contact and non-technical stuff will probably not like freelancing. It requires some marketing, self-promotion, talking to customers, making decisions with incomplete information, constant communication.

Or, in the words of one business writer, "If you want to be a cowboy, get a job". Subcontracting is more business than people often think, when they are outside looking in.
Haha, yeah I discovered this after I wrote it. Probably worth going back and updating.
I've done exactly this. Well, my SO did it at my direction since I was in another country and had forgotten to take the token with me.
To see what’s going on, it helps to get close
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
At some point, someone will make money buying coal, dig it up and then bury it again as carbon credits.

I am looking at you Goldman Sachs.
Incident writeup as sociological storytelling – Surfing Complexity
This is such an excellent take on how to write an incident report: "good incident writeup is a sociological story about our system. Yes, there are individual engineers who were involved in the incident, but their role in the writeup is to serve as a narrative vehicle for telling that larger story. We care about those engineers (they are our colleagues!), but it’s the system that the story is about."
There have to be some limits to that. If there's a democratic vote of the people called, and 50+1% of the people who bother to vote decide to reintroduce slavery (beyond the current loophole in the 13th Amendment regarding criminal sentences that allows e.g. mandatory prison labor), I'm glad that any judge in the country would strike that down.
Moore’s law was about count, not density.
I know it may all look like small potatoes, but this is HN and you are two orders of magnitude off.

0.01% is pretty close to annual death rate from flu in pre-COVID years [1] so the situation that "one hundred times worse than the current situation" will make it 100 hundred times worse (i.e. significantly worse) than seasonal influenza.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html
Quebec to bar unvaccinated people from non-essential public places
They did. Australia publishes data on this and the effect is profound. Australia has had about 400 flu cases in 2021, compared to a 5-year average of about 50000. None of those cases in 2021 have been hospitalised or led to death, when in the average year there’d be about 150. 2020 also yielded a similarly precipitous drop in cases.
These concerns and warnings are coming from the scientific literature - from experts at top institutions in the world. Your dismissal of them is completely unsupported.
Asking someone to support very broad claims isn't “university-level” and in this case, it's something which would be world-changing if true.
This is exactly why the anti-trust sledgehammer is desperately overdue for them.
Well I've been on a real Geometric Algebra (aka Clifford Algebra) kick lately, and ran across ganja.js [1]. It's a single no deps file that is...impressive. 120k uncompressed, and with it you can construct any degree algebra (including the more esoteric hyperbolic/parabolic ones), render to canvas, svg or webgl(!). It also includes a clever little DSL parser and interpreter (it overloads the scientific notation to name basis vectors!) that lets you construct more complex things from simple things using various kinds of products.

The author, Steven De Keninck, is quite impressive as well, having got his start in the demoscene some time ago. He has a good video from SIGGRAPH 2019 [2] that explains why this algebra is better than [matrices, tensors, vectors, complex numbers]. Of particular interest (to me anyway) is the 2D projective geometry.

I don't want to oversell it, but ganja is fucking amazing and there is a great deal I want to do with it. For one, I'd like to recapitulate my physics degree with it.

[1] https://github.com/enkimute/ganja.js

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX4H_ctggYo
If you read beyond the title you'll find that [3] outlines the conditions for vaccine escape and gives many broad examples of antibiotic and antiviral resistance. [1][2] also discuss vaccine escape in detail, but you won't find that out from the title.
The law requires a super-majority in order to change any aspects of the law. The supermajority requirement goes above what’s in the constitution. At least that’s my interpretation as a non-lawyer.
Give KDE a try on Opensuse Tumbleweed or perhaps KDE Neon. Desktop on linux has improved a lot.
Mississippi officials warn against using livestock ivermectin to treat COVID
What about cloud services. A 5G connection to a supercomputer on demand.
First, public schools are government institutions, airlines are not. Sure, flight is heavily regulated, but do you want to live in a world where private companies form a cartel and all agree to require a medical treatment, effectively blocking you from long distance travel?

Second, their are religious exemptions to mandatory vaccinations. We can argue whether there should be, whether they're abused and all that, but as long as they're going to exist, shouldn't they apply across the board?
You can think both. Californians did vote for the high speed rail.
Perhaps it is my ear, but "just like every" sounds like you are diminishing your service. Good marketing tells me what you can do better and how you will stand out.
ok so on the flip side... why should they? they've become enormously successful without customer support
They needed to write part of the law as a constitutional amendment in order to override the legislature’s constitutional powers.
Yep agreed. Early fb would be fine for what I’d like to have to keep in touch with friends. Because of the ‘media’ machine it’s become - the curated feed, videos everywhere, ads and creepy-level tracking I don’t use it any more.
Typography mysteries: How come humans can read text cut in half?
[1]https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/employment-l...
Read the ruling:

https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/0cX7qwGAjt1KIb8JSCUUKLqDA...

In short, California’s Constitution says that the Legislature has “plenary power, unlimited by any provision of this Constitution, to create, and enforce a complete system of workers’ compensation”, and the judge ruled that “any provision of this Constitution” includes the provision saying that the Legislature can’t override propositions.
The Power of Product Thinking – Future
Learning to improve your inquiry and observation skills is critical to increasing your impact on the organization. It will impact how you build tools and products (internal and external): "The simplest way to define product thinking is that it is the skill of knowing what makes a product useful — and loved — by people. As with all skills, it can be nurtured and developed; it’s not just an instinct one does or doesn’t have (and even instincts are trained, after all)."
The developer identity requirement mentioned in this is simply unacceptable.
Oh that’s nice. I don’t particularly like the new pkg.go.dev, although it got slightly better lately
I agree that this seems quite similar to Cerebras. Does anyone think Tesla might sell raw compute hardware?
> With the AB5 wage floor, Uber and Lyft would have had to pay a lower guaranteed rate (just minimum wage), but it would have included idle time. So in Uber/Lyft's nightmare scenario, a million people sign up to be drivers, set their phone locations to the middle of nowhere and get paid $15/hour to do nothing.

Even in the scenario where drivers are employees, Uber and Lyft don't have to accept an unlimited number of driver applicants and don't have to allow them continued future hours if they pull that trick. Or they could restrict the locations where drivers can activate a shift, based on demand. Et cetera. Lots of ways they could manage their staff.
In California we the people can amend the constitution. But Prop 22 didn’t do it correctly. The gig company’s are free to put a constitutional amendment in front of the people for a vote if they want.

Also in CA judges are elected by the people.
Yeah, a lot of people were pointing out how ridiculously large the list of exceptions in AB5 were. I saw a bunch of stories about people in random fields getting screwed in the crossfire.

It could just have been marketing-speak, but the arguments I heard from companies around voting time were that contractor status was for the benefit of drivers. IIRC they were arguing that if prop 22 did not pass, they were just going to pass the costs to the riders, and decrease service availability to match a smaller, less flexible driver workforce. In other words, many drivers would just wake up one day and find themselves booted from the platforms. And riders would find themselves unable to summon a ride depending on driver volume in the area, or time of day (basically old school cab availability)

Historically, Uber has even pulled out of markets altogether (and in Austin's case, only to come back w/ their shit together later and mop the floor with the competition...)

The thing that irks me about this is that I thought ballot initiatives like prop 22 were supposed to give constituents a direct voice, especially considering CA is basically a one-party state. To my understanding, legislation like AB5 gets championed by a politician without much direct input from voters.
>I am one of many people who don't really care for shell, it's old ... and just plain ugly.

Egads laddie, it'll happen to you too some day.
Adhering to process? Someone wise once told me thepst important customer is the one that comes in right when you're supposed to close
Keeps you from slipping down the slope and closing early.

Same thing. You don@t stop following process because it@s annoying, and that customer doesn't walk in. You stick too ick to it because it's how it works.
Related side note: It has always bugged me that the defintion of 1 second, a unit of time, is defined by an atomic oscillation frequency, which is itself a unit x/t. A unit of time refers back to itself in its own definition. My lay understanding is imprecise and I'm sure there's an expert in the wings who could fix it.
Then again most belief systems have a root paradox somewhere within them. Perhaps this is ours.
cool but smthng is telling me I've seen smthng exactly like this before.
What if I have a problem with where I live being one of those places?

Or another question in a similar vein, what if I don't have a problem wearing a mask but my neighbor does?

Also I'd point out, seasonal flu vaccines are not mandatory and in most places have a low vaccination rate. Would you be fine with a non mandatory covid vaccine?
The Luxonis OpenCV AI Kit (OAK) project team is also actively implementing AprilTags [1] and my understanding is it will handle Tag Detection and Pose Estimation on the camera.

[1] https://github.com/luxonis/depthai-python/pull/298
Except, those quickly disappeared. That's the essence of the joke that was mentioned. Each year was called the year of the Linux Desktop, but it never happened.
> will we all have to wear masks at work until we retire

It's really funny to watch all the push back against masks considering how many uncomfortable things people put on themselves every single day, and usually just because someone told them it's cool thing to do. High heels, bras, neckties, etc. and not to forget things that we do to our bodies like implants and piercings and tattoos - most of that is way less useful and a lot more uncomfortable and even more dangerous to our bodies than wearing masks, and yet we not just accept them, we love having it.

Acceptance of masks as a regular part of clothing is just a matter of making it a cool thing to do.
Community version core dev here, the reason is slightly complicated:

Back in 2019, there was no community edition, and most people based their own work off 3b1b's repository. Back then, Manim used a renderer called Cairo, which was painfully slow especially for 3D Scenes. So in late 2019, 3b1b started work on making Manim use OpenGL as its renderer instead, in a new branch called the "shaders" branch. In mid-2020, the community became frustrated at Grant's lack of interaction with them and slow response in merging PRs, so they decided to start their own fork. However, since the shaders branch was still extremely buggy and unfinished back then, they decided to build off the master branch instead.

In early 2021, the OpenGL transition on 3b1b/manim was "complete" (the shaders branch became the master branch, and 3b1b/manim uses OpenGL as its renderer now). This is probably the main reason 3b1b still uses his own version.

Since we decided to work on the master branch, we were (and still are) using Cairo as the default renderer. However, work quickly began after this to transition the community version to use OpenGL. We currently have an experimental OpenGL renderer, and it actually is nearly as complete as 3b1b/manim. However, since we had to worry about backwards compatibility, tests, documentation, Jupyter, etc., this transition takes a lot of work and is still ongoing. I expect that within 1 or 2 months however, that the community version will become "strictly better" than 3b1b's version, i.e. it can do everything the 3b1b version can with the OpenGL renderer (although it may still be considered experimental).

The reason we recommend using the community version is because it is significantly less buggy, has much more comprehensive documentation, tests, Jupyter support, new features added by contributors and devs, plus if you happen to run into a bug, you're far more likely to have a contributor notice it and make a PR fixing it quickly. Yes our renderer is slower, but we're quickly preparing to transition to OpenGL as a default.

If you don't believe us that the community edition is more recommended for beginners, 3b1b himself says it now: https://www.3blue1brown.com/contact#manim

For more information, you can read this page: https://docs.manim.community/en/stable/installation/versions...
Don't statutory ballots require a majority, while constitutional ballots call for a supermajority? This was a close fight. The decision may not have been, ex ante, as unreasonable as you suggest.
So we're going back to AOL keywords?

I'm actually ok with that.
"Our Culture"? Your posting on an internationally available forum, available to many different cultures, countries, and even different cultures within countries. I have no idea what "your" culture is? If you're going to talk about "our culture", please have a bit more specificity.
Certainly, equality is an overloaded term, so it's useful to note the context. He's not talking about economic equality. He's talking about bringing a simplified interface to an otherwise complex and confusing process, particularly for his elderly relative. Different people will suffer from the existence of different barriers. It doesn't have to be a competition.

What Apple does to simplify things (prioritize simplicity and accessibility, obsessively remove or hide options, make reasonable defaults, broaden the happy-path) can be replicated on more affordable platforms.

That said, I've struggled to teach my elderly mother how to even answer her iPhone -- she finds it overly complicated. If she could get over the technical hurdle, she could stay in better touch with remote family and friends who now prefer texting and video calls to snail mail and begin to alleviate her loneliness.
Sure, but if you look at the raw transistor count of a series of similarly sized dies (take Apple's A series for example), it holds up. It only doesn't hold up if you look at Intel the last 5 years. If you look at series' made on TSMC or Samsung, it holds up.
Edit: looks like, of course, they can ban you and lose access to your games, however it requires threatening legal action against Valve.

https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2020/06/steam-user-loses-game-...

Looks like this user received this message[0] after being banned from the community and only because he mentioned russian law did Steam suspend his account.

> Going to support and blalblab again my rights and the russian law, they slapped me with a perma community ban and 1 month ban to contact the support.

0: https://i.imgur.com/uciPvDC.png
Large scale forest fires have never been a large part of the lifecycle of the moist northeast. That might change, but around the great lakes region at least our forest type is entirely different than the western half of the continent. Rain is fairly consistent here.

The first nations did practice controlled burns for the sake of wildlife management (to increase open grazing land) for sure, and smaller scale forest fires did/do happen. But nothing like out west.
If you restrict it to the vaccinated population and the unvaccinated population, then you can consider the vaccinated population fully populated, and the unvaccinated population entirely unvaccinated.

Vaccinated group:

Rt = 6 * ( 1 - (1 * .8)) = 1.2

Unvaccinated group:

Rt = 6 * ( 1 - (0 * .8)) = 6

The question of "how much less" is hard to parse, but the point is that even among the vaccinated group (in this scenario), the virus is still spreading and growing exponentially.

I suppose if Rt was clearly below 1 for the vaccinated group, that might mean something, but if the groups intermingle, that advantage would be lost pretty quickly.
Gosh darn blimey.
One of the basic points of courts is to override majority rules.
I’ve been called an SJW for politely asking people to stop saying “retarded” or the n-word (or saying things that sound close to the n-word to allude to it). So even if you politely ask, some people will interpret it as an us-vs-them fight anyway.

I think the triggered liberal comment was an attempt at levity to make the feedback less harsh so that people might have a less visceral reaction.
I am not dismissing them. On the contrary, every post I have made takes pains to distinguish between the legitimate analysis and claims in the scientific papers you have cited (e.g. that vaccine escape is worthy of concern) and your unwarranted, irresponsible inferences from them (i.e. that mandatory vaccination is a public health risk - especially stated with such a definitive air of authority, followed by a flurry of citations that simply don't say that).

At best we can say that vaccination programs are not without risks. But this is true of many, many legitimate public health measures, and it is deeply misleading to single out one of them as a "public health risk" on this basis. If we apply such a lax standard of labeling consistently, then not doing a compulsory mass vaccination program is also a public health risk, for reasons that are now extremely obvious if they weren't already.

You have misattributed too many strawman positions to me at this point. You are either unable or unwilling to engage in good faith and this may have to be the end of my interactions with you.
What’s the average sale price of a bolt?
That's like saying the best way to learn how to develop good products is to develop products nobody uses.
I understand that, but the answer is the same. setTimeout isn't needed as a fallback (since RAF is widely supported), and it's not better time-wise (since the code we're talking shouldn't run when the document isn't visible).

And to answer the edit, setTimeout is not more reliable than setInterval. They both fire from the same event loop, so timing-wise they're identical (apart from one recurring and the other not).
Ride firms ultimately forced to pay more for labor. Less drivers total and more expensive rides. Poorer areas stop getting service. Stock prices fall. Not a big deal if you don’t care about ride share transportation. If you actually like it then it costs more and gives less.

This website is full of rich techies so won’t affect us. However will affect less well-off people negatively.
Antibiotic resistance is pretty different than vaccine escape.

I wouldn't say [1] goes into any particular detail.

Nor does [2]. It says it can happen.
Thank you. That's informative.
Gosh darn blimey