skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! Ease of use (e.g. no lengthy signups / waiting minutes for cloud jobs to schedule) is one of the main features, so I'm happy you appreciate that!

RE:bias/explainability, that's indeed the main argument against asking people to use ML as a black-box.

I think fully understanding the very nuanced biases that can sneak in data (e.g. selectivity bias from some events being more represented in records, let's say) does require a keen sense for data, which an automated tool likely cannot provide. My bet is that this is not enough of a reason to block people from at least dipping their toe in the ML world, and that we can do more education down the line (e.g. about evaluating systems in real-life, to at least catch underperformance before looking for its source) to solve these cases.

On explainability, some basic tools (e.g. feature importance) are in the roadmap, I hope to get to it in this quarter!

RE:creating datasets being the hardest part of the job, not modeling... well, I think you're 100% right. And that's a tougher nut to crack.

One thing I'm planning to do to help here is to provide a number of "templates", e.g. concrete use cases that people can piggy back on. e.g. explain to realtors that they can estimate house prices by creating a spreadsheet with features A,B,C and D. I can't do this for every imaginable use case, but I hope this is enough to at least inspire people on how to think about data and ML.
Throughout the post the author emphasizes that anyone writing about autism should get perspectives from multiple different autistic people with different backgrounds. I don't think you and him differ in that perspective.
It's obvious why he returned to the plane: to collect the cameras and put the settings back that he used to stall out the plane.
Germany.

I meant it like, "not socially acceptable" = being made fun of. Its seen like an excuse to be special even if you have no skills to demonstrate.
I wonder if you put down a book after 20 minutes, too, because life is for living, and reading is for...?
Look, I'm not claiming it would be a good idea. But if you're the type who wants to wear a parachute despite it being non-standard, and you've got the skydiving rig taking up space in your closet, and would have to pay extra for the usual emergency parachute -- maybe you don't have a ton of money (after aircraft maintenance anyway), or even think the skydiving rig is "better" in some ill-specified way -- do you really think it's impossible someone would just use what they have?

Like, if a high-end gaming PC is what you have on hand after upgrading, why not give Gramps a computer that will maybe take a little longer to bog down?
You can mail them for this and they will do it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
that's trying to artificially constrain knowledge in a way so that your prior assertion is true (reminiscent of the incompleteness theorem). that's a common way that people become simultaneously self-certain and wrong.

scientific consensus has no hope of outrunning even what humans in general know, let alone every scientific conjecture ever made, most of which aren't disproven, but rather merely discarded. and all that is a tiny speck next to everything that's within reach of human knowledge, which is miniscule next to everything that could ever be known but is forever beyond our reach. it really does approach 0 at the limit.
APL evaluates strictly in left to right order. It is very odd to me initially to have uniform precedence when dealing with math.
The irony is that HN posters are vehemently against social media, particularly FB. The reasons I’ve read are all about the general negativity, pessimism, false information, etc.

While HN submissions are generally held to a higher standard, the general comments/discussions are equally toxic. Apparently FB is such a cancer and everyone else is such a problem - but we’re actually part of the problem.
That website has one of the better data exploration interfaces I’ve seen on a .gov site.
Indeed, it's amazing.

This is one person whom I don't mind one bit that he's getting rich (at least I think he is; hell, I hope he is). His money comes from excellent and actually open/free hardware designs and software.

He's the kind of hero we need.
I don't have one. But I think I would buy the Aina PTT Voice Responder if I bought one.

https://shop.ainaptt.com/ptt-devices/21-ptt-voice-responder....
Certainly changing at glacial speeds compared to other developed countries. Wherever else do you see people debating whether we still need statues of long lost fights, whether access to books should be strongly controlled, whether abortion is a woman’s right, etc.

Edit: health care, of course, health care.
Come on, that's not a real problem ;)

As someone who had a Clojure phase about 9 years ago: the actual problem with modern Lisps is that they don't really offer a big set of unique good features. The basic functional map-filter-reduce "meat grinder" is everywhere (and has been almost everywhere for a long time, Java not having lambdas for ages is what clouded everyone's vision into thinking that's not the case). The other "Lisp feature" is macro metaprogramming based on homoiconicity (Code Is Data™) and we have it in some non-Lisps too now (hello Elixir) and… is it really the best way to do metaprogramming? Ehh. Well, many compiled&typed languages actually do similar-ish things: using syn in Rust proc macros / haskell-src-exts in Template Haskell you can work with code "as data". And that isn't as nice to work with as D's `static foreach/if` + reflection/introspecion thingies like allMembers/getMember.
And in Ontario public service, raises are capped to 1% yearly including benefits.
You've just made my point by tracking me down in another comment thread (and conveniently linking to my subsequent reply and not the tirade you wrote as the parent).

Can you please just drop it? You didn't listen with your original reply; nothing I say will change your opinion. I don't need more gratuitous comparisons to dictatorships and ad hominem attacks, thanks. It's always like this whenever I try to explain things calmly to people like you.
> the same anti-“woke” propaganda

I don’t think the term “luxury beliefs” maps one-for-one to wokism or hatred for elites. The key is that the speaker is far removed from the consequences of his actions so is able to espouse edgy but incorrect and even hypocritical theories. For example, in San Francisco blogger Tim Redmond and supervisors Dean Preston and Aaron Peskin are long-time homeowners who espouse anti-capitalist theories in order to justify their actions to prevent housing, which results in higher rents for ordinary workers. I wouldn’t call these out-of-touch people “woke” or especially elite. But I think the term “luxury beliefs” applies well.

See Noah Smith’s examples of luxury beliefs which are not simply wokism: https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1474413184891113478
Is it just me or he speaks of flying with a parachute in just like many vegans talking about being vegans?

The tone is so similar
Bingo. In defense of the author he stated it was a dream.
The license wasn't changed. But yes, generally you can make changes to MIT code that aren't released under the MIT license.

> It's definitely the case that at a given snapshot of the repository which has copyrighted code owned by someone else the copyright notice has to be there at that same revision.

This isn't in the license. Where is this laid out?
Nah, I haven't worked with it since 1.5 I think. I'm glad to hear its gotten faster!
Yes, RE2020 changes the calculation coefficients but no it doesn't allow electric convectors back in new buildings. And worse: it doesn't change the fact that between 2012 and today, electricity (and then nuclear) was actively discouraged by French laws, which defeat your argument about the government promoting it actively to help nuclear industry.

But interestingly enough, two comment above you were “unaware of any current regulations banning new homes with electric heating.”and now you've suddenly become an expert on the topic of French construction law… I like debating with people with opposing views, but discussing with people who are compulsive liars isn't my cup of tea. Good day.
Browsing this guys YouTube video titles reads like a decent into madness… culminating in “I crashed my plane”.
Presumably - I have often wondered how much more we all read and write now compared to people 50yr ago (even if a lot of it is in Slack / email / SMS etc.) It does appear that reading books for pleasure is gradually trending down in the US[1] unfortunately, but in terms of raw words read or written, I would think that we're doing a lot more online than we used to do off...

1: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2016/09/01/book-reading...
I was having input lag issues when playing, things wouldn't fall at all where i wanted them to.

Browser: Brave Browser 96.1.33.106
OS/Kernel: Linux hostname 5.10.88 #1-NixOS SMP Wed Dec 22 08:31:00 UTC 2021 x86_64 GNU/Linux
CPU/iGPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz

Neither of these are particularly weird specs for using the web.
I worked in community pharmacy for several years, but transitioned into medical communications and later started a small company of my own after several years of experience in that industry.
lol so true. Anything that does something is a system, be it hardware, software, biological, mechanic...
It's hard to know what to make of that figure without knowing how the standard is set, though.

I have no idea how California does it, but it's not uncommon to define the grade levels as the median score kids in that grade get on the test. And 50% of kids scoring below the median would only be a worrisome result in the Lake Wobegon school system.
Great - lodash needed a little less now.

Though I do often see people using a combination of maps, filters, reduces, lodash functions etc. one by one, rather than doing everything in a single for in loop. In most cases it feels that For In is still the most performant option, as you want to manipulate the data in more ways than just grouping
mix of muscle memory, strats and changing default settings (DAS/ARR etc) to allow you to play faster
Meanwhile, everyone was losing their minds on 9/12/2001 about the fact that the US Government wasn't able to do this.
Yes, you can use normal mirrors and lenses for these wavelengths
The FAA/NTSB is pretty good at determining why a plane crashed, not so much on judging people's intentions, that's usually left to a jury.
what's adtech in everything? a friend of mine is a salesman for billboard ads. people see it every day if they happens to drive by one of the billboard ad that he sold. does that count as adtech?
I strongly disagree with programming being a “higher” art than music or painting.

As for DIY game devs, I really enjoyed Tom Happ’s Axiom Verge series. The artwork and level design, especially. I’ve seen a couple interviews where he kind of brushes off the praise for the musical aspect - and I agree. I think it’s the weakest part of his games. The music fits incredibly well, but it feels a lot like someone noodling on a keyboard until they reach the appropriate level of spookiness.

But ultimately, all the components work well together, and the games feel like one person’s mad vision.
Mostly writing emails and being shocked no one read them.

I’m now a two bullet point max kind of emailer.
English is the language of commerce and government. My fluency in Tagalog is great, but has minimal impact outside of a small community. Even if you speak a different language at home, school is primary taught in English with exceptions for Spanish or other languages in some regions.

My dad taught English at a community college a decade ago, mostly to soldiers returning from the war. They were mostly smart, motivated people determined to succeed and facing many obstacles. It was shocking to him that they were writing 5 page essays for the first time as 20-something college students.
This is an absolute lie. Repeating this is QAnon level idiocy. Truly.
If somebody talking about their disability triggers you into such a strong political reaction, then maybe consider the possibility that you have let your own identity politics take too much control over your life.

> Also i have a distaste of the author listing their "disabilities" in their twitter bio.

People generally prefer disabled people not to talk about their disabilities or be public about them. But this sort of openness is incredibly useful. It's the internet and it's almost 2021. Let people talk about what they want to without being the internet police.
I get a lot of spam calls, but only one reliably leaves VM: the “auto warranty is about to expire” scam. At this point my warranty has been “almost expired” for years, never mind that I never had an extended warranty.
I gave my in-laws a Chromebook for similar reasons. Either way, most people don’t need a full Windows OS
I mean it still doesn't define it.

All the first amendment does is place restrictions on the government. Free speech is not defined by the amendment at all. It's a wholly separate concept.
That is where Dandelion routing and anonymity networks comes in.

A global passive observer could track cleartext transaction hashes and flag the first IP seen broadcasting them. Bitcoin peer-to-peer CAN support Tor for transaction routing. Monero blockchain can use I2P to hide transaction source also.

_Most_ adversaries do not have such visibility over global internet flows.
Instead of the histrionics, why not just log out and never return?
I agree that it would be better if we had smaller companies. But smaller companies can’t compete with Google/FB in the current market. We either need to create regulations to change the market… or hope that other companies with similar deep pools of technical talent and know how compete with the Big Names.
Why is that? I’m in a state with semi-closed primaries and, as an independent, can draw whatever party primary ballot I want.
Litestream may be able to do that on top of SQLite: https://litestream.io

See the -timestamp option here: https://litestream.io/reference/restore/
@dang please help us all!
He made a comment about how he was expecting a water bottle in the plane. Seems reasonable to me.
I couldn't stand to watch more than a couple minutes of this video. There are several clear landing areas within gliding distance, and in such gorgeous conditions he could probably could have hooked a couple thermals in such a light plane.

This was a setup for YouTube, and he deserves whatever the FAA throws at him.
yes it's a russell conjugation joke (and an example of something that is blindingly obvious to one person, and evidently not to another)
In visual studio (not code), there is an extension to render braces as very small, almost invisible. So with that extension and standard IDE enforced indentation (depending on those braces you can barely see), C# code almost looks like python code.
How to get funded in this case?
Get funded?

I created a few scripts to automate my personal take on music marketing and to market my musical releases. Observing my results, a few musicians asked me to do the same for them and I charge them for it. I am actually making money running their marketing campaigns and I am starting to think of creating a platform out this. I talked with a few music labels too and I got some excited people waiting for the platform to be ready.

The problem: I got a 9-5 programming job that pays the bills and I got a recently born baby, no free time (and no mental capacity) anymore to work on my platform, despite having people asking about the progress of almost daily. Also I have not enough savings to quit my job.

Dream Scenario: I would love to get some funding so I can pay my bills and dedicate 40H weekly on developing my platform.

Is it dreaming too much? Do you guys think it would be possible? How so? I’m open to suggestions.

Cheers
yes and mft (Micro 4/3) is even better. I can get a 1600mm focal length in a tiny package - Panasonic body with 100-400 (makes it 200-800 mm equivalent) and with a 2x olympus convertor makes it a 400-1600 lens.
On (1), that quote is quite irrelevant to the current discussion, and I don't want to get into that. I'm glad that we all agree that burning books should be condemned.

On (2) and (3), neither of these are true in reality, and most don't think they should be true either.

Even if you are an extremely principled libertarian, I am sure that you don't think that every single thing a "private" entity does is inherently good. We, the "private" citizens, certainly can (and should) criticize their actions.

On (4), as I said in my comment, I very much disagree with the prudish/ideological banning of the book from school libraries, so I guess we agree on that?
I've been noticing this web3 buzzword picking up steam on here for months now. And it all feels very manufactured (much how metaverse has been co-opted and tainted by Facebook). I suspect this web3 push is just cryptobros shoehorning their schemes into relevance.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=web3

On the other hand, if you're paying attention, you might have noticed a push back to web1 and even older tech. I hope whatever is next actually springs forth from that movement. Because a platform built around extracting wealth sounds horrible.
Nope, the problem is not what you thought of. The low level communication protocols did not consider security issues when they were designed as at which time every peer could be trusted, and thus no Authentication & Authorization mechanisms were incorporated at all. That was not really a problem until VoIP became a thing. Before VoIP it would be extremely hard if not totally impossible to fake a caller id, but with VoIP there is no longer a physical port associated with a caller, so technically everyone can claim to be anyone as long as they have the service end point details as there is no way to validate if you really are who you claim to be, so don't be surprised when picking up a call from your own number. Doesn't look good, isn't it? Unfortunately, there is no easy fix without an overhaul of the telecom infrastructure by replacing all legacy equipment that does not support A&A. I'm wondering if that is ever going to happen.

But you were right about one thing, telecoms do profit a lot from the robocalls.
When did Rachel Maddow switch to being part of the New York Times?
Or is it all just "liberal" media?
Zero “net” subsidies, which is what matters. The French govt earn much more money from nuclear than they spend in nuclear, so saying that the govt subsidies nuclear is a lie.

Permanent goalpost moving, pulling imaginary figures from sources you never refer to (and pretending you did) isn't “cold hard fact”: it's bullshit.
I grew up flying a homebuilt Taylorcraft. There is no way I would have gotten out of that plane at that altitude. Those things will glide forever and can land on almost nothing. One of the biggest problems they have for new pilots is that they really want to just float and you end up using far more runway than you actually need.

It's possible he's just a new pilot and panicked when the engine went out and would have rather relied on his skill as a skydiver rather than his skill as a pilot. But even the plane looks like it circled and tried to land in the river without him.

Just bad all the way around. At the very least he needs to lose his license.
thanks for the super thoughtful reply!
John McCain was a maverick. Joe Manchin is a traitor.

(In reality both are moderates that resisted enormous pressure from their respective parties.)

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/john-mccain-...

[2] https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/579766-joe-...
Why Learn Compilers
‘Psycho’ squirrel’s 48-hour Christmas rampage terrorizes town, injures 18
> They've offered $10k, which is not a life changing amount of money for me.

This seems too low to me, although without more details about your side project and how much revenue it generates, I can't say this very confidently.

> I suspect that rejecting this offer may eventually lead to a termination of my employment.

How much are you earning from your job in the first place, versus the amount you earn from this software?

I think there are a few possibilities: you can counter with a higher number if you like the company you work for, or you can counter for the same number plus a significant equity stake in the company, so that you retain some upside. If you want to get creative, you could even sell them a license to use your software along with source code access, but keep selling to third party companies yourself.

If you don't really want to sell it in the first place, then don't. I think a $10k is wayyyy too low to force a sale unless your software is trivial to replicate.
the south park vehicle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entity_(South_Park)
> Modulo and remainder are not the same operation, so both python and C are correct

That just makes C look worse. Remainders are always nonnegative, as specified in the Division Algorithm [note that the Division Algorithm is the name of a theorem, not an algorithm].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_division

Also, I'm not aware of a definition of "modulo" other than "remainder". Where are you getting the idea that they're different?

For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo_operation explicitly defines "modulo" as "remainder".
Once you understand that environmentalism is more about punishing people for their lifestyle than helping the environment it will start making more sense.
Interesting project! It seems to be perfect for SQLite, considering it seems to be mostly for reads instead of writes. I wonder if heavy write applications are a bit of a trouble in Golang because of Golang goroutines x C threads model (which I believe SQLite might use?).