skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what are the plans to resolve this perpetual backlog?

None.

The problem is esoteric. The minority that misunderstands it as a handout to lawyers [1], too vocal.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30874477
Somehow, people seem opposed to the idea that simple, brute-force scaling can result in something approximating intelligence. But the difference between goofy inchoate text ramblings and effectively writing a coherent essay was just scale.

https://www.gwern.net/Scaling-hypothesis#

Yet, accuracy on AI tasks looks a lot like site reliability (90% is garbage, 99% is flaky, each 9 after that starts getting you a reputation for reliability).
What's popular now?
> On the other hand, we're still considered a subfield whose work isn't always considered entirely relevant to the rest of the field, because we're measured by the yardstick of task-specific performance on benchmark datasets.

That attitude seems entirely reasonable to me.

> I just reviewed a paper yesterday that was powerful and general, but wasn't really trying to hit SOTA on any one test task its architecture could perform. It was trying for generality. This likely got it dinged by the other reviewers.

That seems like an interesting paper!
Show HN: Mercury – build and share web apps from Python notebooks
There is a bit more to it than "a simple poll", given that the idea is to help people find co-workers/companies that share similar values.

Anyway, if you don't want to sign-up, you can simply comment on the HN link.
How did Morocco did that?

There is 2 types of intensives to move to Sahara that exist right now or existed before:

1- Cheaper prices over there, basic necessities are subsidized, gas is way cheaper. This apply to everyone, people who lived there since forever and those who did come from elsewhere. That's normal no?

2- Social welfare, 3 times the grant you'd get as a non-Sahrawi student (while studying in Morocco), and similar advantages for Sahrawi people. This apply only to Sahrawi people, I will compare Western Sahara with Morocco to Chechnya with Russia, it's a net negative on us, costing us so much, but the gov is okay with paying to keep that part of land.

Show me any instance of Israeli-style settlements happening in Sahara. You will only be sent there if you are:

- Teacher, Doctor... but you might be sent anywhere in Morocco its arbitrary.

- Police man, same thing.

- Gendarme, same thing.

- Soldier (you get paid more while in Sahara, understandable considering the potential risks, still soldier hate it cuz it's a fucking hot desert and many leave once they are relocated there)

Other than a public sector job like that, there is no other intensive to go there, basically you go there forced.

I am not spreading propaganda, just sharing my point of view. I do not care about Sahara.
I think there is a subtlety here that makes this fail. Normal does not imply that any finite substring exists, just that the probability of such a string existing is uniformly distributed within the space of possible values. There isn't any guarantee that you will actually see such a string, though you almost surely will.
Watching videos of users' visits to your website is spooky, incredibly useful, and provides insight for better design.
I have to say I have a disliking for what appears to be the current trend of marketing things as "postgres (wire) compatible". CockroachDB is another example that does the same.

The implication is that "if you can do it in postgres, you can do it in X". But the reality is, of course, different.

If you are using databases properly, not just as a blackbox dumping ground, then if you use postgres on the wire, its because you are talking to postgres and using postgres specific features (like you should).

Unless you have feature parity, don't tell me I can connect to another database using my postgres libraries. Its pointless. Its meaningless. Why would I want to do that if I can't use the features ?

Rant over. ;-)
Seriously though, all the microwaves I've ever used have had crap interfaces. I've mulled the idea of doing a Kickstarter for microwave I design, but it's probably beyond my capabilities.
Well, people generally get addicted for 2 main reasons: life sucks and a substance/behavior provides a great escape, or life is boring and a substance/behavior gives you a high that beats anything else. Games fall more into the 2nd category. The challenge part is more related to getting into a flow state.
I think they were referring to gestation, rather than the initial production of the ovule.
Because we live in a society, and our choices affect each other, and we have democratic systems in place to collectively decide on things? You'd have a point if you alone were deciding these standards as a dictator-for-life, but that's not how it works.
That's kind of a hard thing to measure against, can you tell me of an example in real life where you know something is the global optimum?
> I see you are a throwaway account and unlikely to respond.

Created on January 1 (01/01), 2017. It's kind of become less throwaway over time. :)

Also: your username is in green, which means (IIRC) it is less than two weeks old. One of us has a higher probability of being a throwaway.

> One cannot deny that the emergency act was used this way.

Your link says nothing to confirm that it was an ex post facto action.

> That's a very good point, but incorrect. The emergency act is EXPECTED to trample on charter rights. In an actual emergency it's entirely expected that police will go over the line.

The Emergencies Act itself says it is subject to the Charter:

> AND WHEREAS the Governor in Council, in taking such special temporary measures, would be subject to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Canadian Bill of Rights and must have regard to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, particularly with respect to those fundamental rights that are not to be limited or abridged even in a national emergency;

* https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/E-4.5/page-1.html

> That's not at all what happened. They came in and removed the entire lawful protest, not just some illegally parked trucks. The emergency act was used to crush a legitimate protest.

It was not a blockade or protest that got removed: once they started living there it became an occupation.

Further, threats of use of violence are not part of legal protests:

> (a) the continuing blockades by both persons and motor vehicles that is occurring at various locations throughout Canada and the continuing threats to oppose measures to remove the blockades, including by force, which blockades are being carried on in conjunction with activities that are directed toward or in support of the threat or use of acts of serious violence against persons or property, including critical infrastructure, for the purpose of achieving a political or ideological objective within Canada,

* https://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2022/2022-02-15-x1/html/s...
Circa 2000 my wife and I were working on a book about doing graphics work with Linux (never got published) and Wacom was gracious about sending us free hardware for testing.
Not dumb at all, an area of open research actually. The answer is that this is not known and you will be math-famous if you figure it out.
Only the data i‘ve been looking for :-)
Here's their matching Design System artifact in Figma.

https://www.figma.com/community/file/946837271092540314
I didn't know about this, but to be fair, they just released this product last year. Thanks for the heads up.
Because for the same quality, hotels are easily 3x the price. Consistently.
One reason to be cagy about how systems work is to avoid patent lawsuits.
Google is evil, today. They didn't even have to change their site.
Thanks. Opened the link in OP and didn't understand anything.

@dang, I think this should be changed.
Right but a 4K monitor only has about 10.5 times more pixels than a 1024x768 one. In 2000 a high end GPU might have had 32MB VRAM and these days even Intel's worst stuff has access to over 1GB over 30 times as much and even low-end gaming GPUs having 4GB with higher end stuff with 8 or 12GB. Plus the GPUs themselves have gotten much faster and OSs have moved more GUI rendering from the CPU to the GPU.
You just claimed there is no referendum proposition.

Referendum is literally supporting Morocco, Spain lately said they support the referendum in Sahara, our gov thanked them, our media celebrating that Spain is in our side now.

I don't know what's the best solution either, and I would be okay with Sahara being independent as long as people vote for that.
PCs can and do include hardware support for entropy gathering, see RDSEED [1]

Linux is aware of RDSEED and uses it to provide additional randomness when available. You do need to trust the implementation to be free from backdoors and bugs - some CPUs are known to be buggy. [2]

Randomness seeding issues largely does not concern desktop PCs or smartphones (although you can easily catch early booting programs like systemd reading randomness before it has been fully seeded) [3].

It is a much bigger issue on either small embedded devices or VMs, both of which may have very few peripherals to gather entropy from. They can be provided randomness through dedicated hardware support, or from the host, and they probably should be, but that still leaves many real-world systems currently running Linux out in the cold. This is not just a theoretical problem, as has been shown by looking at indicators like RSA keys with colliding primes, which should never happen when generated with good RNG. [4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDRAND

[2] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/18184

[3] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/4167

[4] https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2012/02/15/new-research-theres...
> So not necessarily a disorder, but a reaction; and if that's the case, it deserves more investigation, particularly given how widespread rape is.

Is there widespread evidence of rape victims experiencing vaginismus as a protective reaction at the moment of attack (as opposed to them experiencing it as a disorder in a post-rape-trauma context?)
Of course not - don't be daft.

Australia doesn't have trains.
Just point out one example of this that I think has been very successful, and that's MisterBnB for gay travelers.

I think a lot of straight folks don't understand the mental calculus that goes through a gay person's mind when they travel. I'm at the stage of my life where when I go on vacation, I want to relax and feel at ease. Why would I spend money to go someplace where I may feel unwelcome, or worse, unsafe? For example, there are a few Caribbean nations that are beautiful, but notoriously unwelcoming to gays. Jamaica can have someone else's money.

In an Airbnb, I don't think I've ever felt unsafe, but I'd also rather not feel unwelcome. I don't want to have to worry about some last minute thing coming up making the place unavailable if I mention my partner. With MisterBnB I know I never have to worry about that, and I know my sexuality won't rise to the level of anyone even caring. Even if that's true 80 percent of the time on Airbnb, I just don't want to have to deal with that 20 percent chance of having a bad experience.
I’ve had decent luck with Residence Inn. Full kitchen and separate bedrooms.

The sofa mattresses are terrible though.
they got me hard with an announcement that enlightenment 1.0 was released.

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/03/04/01/1423252/enlightenme...
Would've been funnier: "Chess.com source code accidentally leaked when fork from Lichess got accidentally presented as PR"
They already do have; see Intel's implementation on Ivy Bridge :
https://www.electronicdesign.com/resources/article/21796238/...

(See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2947936 from 2011 but the original article link seems to have gone)
Sib comments are suggesting textbooks (good ones at least, IMO), but FWIW, if I were trying to give someone a 1 or 2 hour intro to LA, it would be:

- Strang's 4 subspaces: https://web.mit.edu/18.06/www/Essays/newpaper_ver3.pdf , and just enough supporting material to understand that at a basic level, and hopefully finishing up with the SVD, which to me is basically a summary of LA in one equation.

- A quick look at the eigenvalue problem, Ax = 𝛌x, with the key note that hey, in the vast majority of cases, Ax does not equal a scaled version of x (it took me way too long to realize that's what we were doing here when I was first learning LA). <roll tacoma narrows bridge tape here>
Password will be sent under separate cover in an email right after this one. LOL.
Ukrainians Repurpose Junkyards and Garages to Repair Battle-Damaged Tanks
Those packages were distributed and run as JAR, WAR or EAR files.

I never remember having seen them referenced as modules.
What problem are we solving?

It is hard to share Jupyter Notebook with non-coders. Old way for sharing:

- create PowerPoint presentation - easy to do, but not interactive,

- rewrite the notebook into web framework and make a web app - requires a lot of work, you need to be Data Scientist and Web Developer

- share notebook as static HTML - not interactive, you need to hide the code to not scare the users,

Mercury turns Jupyter Notebook into interactive web app. You can add widgets to notebook by adding YAML configuration in the first RAW cell in the notebook. You can easily deploy it to the cloud. Main features:

- it is easy - just add YAML config, no need to mix User Interface code with analytics code,

- allow end-user to tweak widgets and execute the notebook from the top to the bottom,

- end-user can download executed notebook as single HTML file,

- you can hide notebook's code,

- there is app gallery built-in, so you can share many notebooks on single server,

- it has authentication available, you can select with who share notebooks,

- it has HTTPS support (certificate from Let's Encrypt),

- you embed interactive notebooks on any website,

- it has Admin Panel (to manage notebooks, users, groups).

The Mercury is dual-licensed. The core is on AGPL_v3. The commercial license provides more features, dedicated support and white-labeling. We select such business model to have sustainability.

The frontend is in TypeScript with React+Redux. The backend is in Python with Django+Celery.
> Further, if this is supposed to be an argument against legal abortion (I heard before from the anti-abortion crowd, that the body has defenses against unwanted pregnamcy)

Most notably the GOP Rep[0] Todd Akin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Akin#Comments_on_%22legit...

[0] short for "reprehensible" in this case
The premise is that Wander is "10x better".

Whether or not that is true is of course a matter of opinion, but as I'm not in the business of spending upwards of $1k a night on accomodation, I don't think I'm the target audience and thus in no position to make that judgement.
Ask HN: How to enable 2FA for Google Account to use Authenticator app?
When trying to enable 2FA (2-Step Verification) for a Google Account I cannot find option to use Google Authenticator app. Only options are "Use your phone as your second step to sign in", "Security Key" and "Text message or voice call". I don't want to link my account to a phone which potentially can be lost. I don't have a hardware key either. Now what?
So would this be a more-or-less correct tl;dr:

Dimensionality reduction is a compressing data in a way that retains the most important information for the task

Feature selection is removing unimportant information (keeping/collecting, or selecting, only the important parts)

Both cut down on the amount of data you end up with, but one does it by finding a representation that is smaller, the other does it by discarding unnecessary data (or, rather, telling you which data is necessary, so you can stop collecting the unnecessary data).
The submitted article is poached from https://www.newswise.com/articles/chronic-low-back-pain-link.... (This page also links to the study in question.) The current link is sketchy, full of ads, and doesn’t link to the source article in Pain.
> That burden exists if you're calling into it from C, it's just implicit.

That point is absolutely crucial. It's not just implicit, it's also often undocumented. Recently, I tried to call LLVM's ORC2 JIT functions from two threads concurrently – an interface which was designed to be thread-safe [1]. And yet, actually doing that resulted in non-deterministic crashes and failed assertions. Guess it wasn't thread-safe after all... None of the types or function prototypes gave any indication that they weren't thread-safe, not to mention the documentation. And that's an extremely popular open-source project! The reality for most other C++ code looks even worse.

[1] https://llvm.org/docs/ORCv2.html#features
They are the same PL/M. Gary Kildall was working at Intel as a contractor when he invented the first version of PL/M. Intel adopted it for their own internal software development (ISIS, RMX, etc), Kildall used it for writing CP/M and other Digital Research products.

The compiler was forked into two versions – an Intel version and a Digital Research version – and they were mostly compatible, but each had some extensions the other lacked. As a result, code written for one couldn't always be compiled by the other.
Thanks for dropping the real link!

Host here. This April fools day episode is an exploration of great and not so great tech April fools jokes, starting with Dang's request to flag April Fools pranks in 2014[1] and going from there through a history of tech pranks.
We cover Woz's many pranks, the April 1st RFCs and many jokes that flopped.

I also posted this myself, but it didn't get traction[2]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7506793

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30877372
Ritualized whimsy loses something.

At Google's main campus, there is the statue of a T-rex. It has been perpetually attacked by flamingos. When it first happened, it was a whimsical joke. Someone thought it was funny, did it, and people were amused.

But now it is tradition. It must be attacked by flamingos. Maybe there's some value in leaving the joke for new people to experience -- XKCD's 10,000 a day and all that -- but it also feels a little soul-crushing to see those sun-bleached flamingos and feel like listening to someone repeat the punchline to a joke 15 times because they were so happy it got a laugh the first time.

Sometimes whimsy has to live in the moment and go away afterwards.

April Fool's is borderline; elaborate pranks requiring considerable planning and set-up are a part of the tradition of April Fool's, so a team of a dozen having weekly standups for 10 weeks to set up an April Fool's joke is actually probably par for the course. But when it becomes too top down, driven by the tradition and "well we've done this before, we got a laugh, we should do it again", it starts to feel too ritualized for proper whimsy.

There's also the angle of personal relationship to consider. A proper April Fool's prank is personal, targeted at a particular friend or family member (or group thereof), and ideally with some lead up that culminates on April 1st. Without that personal angle, it becomes too much like a TV prank show, where a giggling host is just tricking unsuspecting members of the public, which is too easy to end up mean or cruel because you don't know the target. Sure, an April Fool's joke is on someone, but after the target realizes what was going on, they should find it funny too. If they just feel put upon or made fun of -- or worse, traumatized -- it's your fault for picking the wrong target for the wrong prank.

If you have a personal relationship with your customers, maybe a company can pull of a good prank, but when you're just blasting it out to the unsuspecting public, you'll just have a lot of confused people who don't get the joke, and some who feel genuinely insulted or hurt or angry.
check scikit-learn feature selection utilities
https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/feature_selection.ht...

besides techniques mentioned in other posts (l1 regularization) sequential feature selection (backward and forward) is quite common
Largely for driver coverage. Postgres drivers are available in tons of languages so by being wire compatible you can skip all that work.
A Reckoning for Serverless
This is literally not the preserve of evolution (as a concept or as a formal area of study).

The relevant study is the field of abiogenesis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis
Most people don't realize how little engineers are paid in Japan. Personal Assistant at Stanford makes more money than half these engineers. 30% is trying to stem a flow. I'd love to understand the real dynamics of this.
Great April's fool joke from an MLOps company (swindler detection)
Because it works. A strong core and regular movement does wonders for preventing a lot of back pain. Obviously an overuse (someone lifting all day) or acute injury is different, but for the common office worker, exercise gets amazing results.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/stanford-student-hiri...
GOPATH is arguably more an artifact of Plan9 than google3 monorepo, with Plan9 kinda ending up in monorepo-style access with public replica servers linked at /n/
Glad they shared this. Not a fan of the "govuk" prefix tbh.
Report a security vulnerability as an ethical hacker
The dream future is both utopian and dystopian. Technology is advanced enough that such things are in hand of common man but society is so dysfunctional that basic things like clean water and food aren't ensured.
The male guest is the least fun person alive.
Their only docs suggest using an authenticator app (which presumably runs on the 'phone which potentially can be lost' anyway) is possible: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1066447?hl=en&ref...

If it's not showing up for you, you'd need to contact their support team to find out why.
The issue is not that we don't understand Russias security concerns. Everyone understands that now. We just can't comply with Russias demand. Russia wants write the security policies of over 100 million people. No one is going to agree with that.
This is the basic promise of deep learning: resnet, unet, transformers etc… you replace feature engineering with deep learning models… otherwise feature engineering comes from domain expertise/ human experience. or trial and error from known features that work elsewhere.
[Edit to update - Sorry, the link quote is/was from a different nick <cmacleod4> not yourself. My bad]

Just wanted to say - I loved a previous comment that included this -

"... Even if you could spend the billions to duplicate the infrastructure and rewrite all the software required, to actually do the same thing you would also need to replicate all the business relationships with data sources.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer/cat/financial-advisor/etc, but I used to be a developer at Bloomberg :-) " [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26261167
Indeed, it's a lot easier to fix the problem when people can buy a cheap device and verify for themselves that the water is unsafe. Otherwise you'll only get government / corporate hand waving and have to pay lawyers a few million dollars to get anything to change.
Wow, yeah I didn't even think about the asbestos in older houses. Imagine having some people come in and check your pipes for lead but check for asbestos (because they'll have to tear out walls to fix it) and then you find out that you now have two problems :(
Is Space-Time Really Doomed?
This is an easy fix: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39972335/how-do-i-press-...
For typical oviparous fish the cost and timing of reproduction is similar between males and females (dumping a large mass of sperm vs. dumping a large mass of eggs, then taking care of the children) and fancy reproductive organs are irrelevant technology.
I assumed your comment was a joke, but after reading the answers I'm not sure anymore