skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Edit: the GPS receiver in my phone is giving me some coordinates defined as “position” that happen to be in the middle of the road. However, I know precisely where I am. Don’t you think that the meaning of that “position” is somehow affected by this additional information?

No it is not affected by it. The meaning of position is never changed. Your knowledge of your position can change, but your actual position exists regardless of your knowledge or inaccuracies of your tools.

>As in jbay808’s xkcd example, if you have a random number generator and you know the sequence of numbers that will be generated, do you have a random number generator? The random number generator is still giving you a number defined as “random”, right?

Random number generators are a rabbit hole. There's not even a proper mathematical definition for it. We're not sure what a random number is... we just have an intuition for it. Case in point, the xkcd article could not define it mathematically. This is the reason why the joke exists, because we're not even truly sure what it is or if random numbers are a thing. We have intuition for what a random number is but this is likely some kind of illusion similar to the many optical illusions produced by our visual cortex. If formalization of our intuitions are not possible then there is likelihood that the intuition is not even real.

>Statistical mechanics is based on looking at the ensemble of microscopic descriptions possible given what is known about the system and their probabilities.

ok take a look at this: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2916887/shannon-ent...

They're talking about deriving the entropy formula for fair dice. But they talk about it as if we don't have knowledge about physics, momentum and projectile motion. We have the power to simulate the dice in a computer simulation and know the EXACT outcome of the dice. The dice is a cube and easily modeled with mathematics. So then why does the above discussion even exist? What is the point of fantasizing about dice as if we have no knowledge of how to mechanically calculate the outcome? The point is they chose a specific set of macrostates that have uniform distribution across all the outcomes. It is a choice that is independent of knowledge.
While it is true some don't want to live in those locations (largely for political reasons). It is false to say companies that have a 98.7% political mono-culture like Twitter does has cultivated that ideological mono-culture by pure accident.
I’m in the industry. Have been for years. I still have no clue what an SRE is. Like what do they do? Debug broken services? Unless you worked with people in that SRE role it’s not clear how you’re supposed to know what they do.

This article could have helped me with that but it didn’t fully. It sounded more like a rant that will totally make sense maybe to 50% of infra or devops people.

Maybe it’s me though. I actually still don’t know what a true product manager is supposed to do lol.
Precipitation means the kids stay inside and are more likely to watch television[0]. This was influenced by another paper about the link between precipitation and autism[1]. Why do you think it is joke research? Why did you criticize before looking into it?

[0]: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=989648

[1]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/articlepdf/3...
There are two out-of-field books that I always recommend to policy analysts, economists, and regulatory drafters: The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman, and Algorithms To Live By by Brian Christian and Thomas Griffiths. Both are high signal-to-noise primers on topics that are relevant in decision making and policy, but are rarely covered in an economics or public policy curriculum.
Isn't training literally an optimization of a loss function over training data?
> But court records show that studios’ legal teams ... are challenging the notion that VPNs should exist at all.

At face value that is a preposterous notion. I wish the article would elaborate more on what the legal basis for that is and how they define VPNs.
I believe you are looking at the one year average annual return [0] which is 27.51% [1].

The Nasdaq-100 is down 22.10% YTD [3].

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/aar.asp

[1] https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/total-returns

[3] https://www.slickcharts.com/nasdaq100/returns
Negro and gentile are both Othering. You might think that insular attitudes amongst minority communities can't have a negative effect. I respectfully disagree: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/11/anothe...
Yeah, that's the thing I don't understand. NYC is known as a melting pot of cultures and it isn't inexpensive at all, even out at the far ends of the NRD and B trains. Why be in a great cosmopolitan city if you aren't going to give your neighbor the time of day when you go out and interact? It's not like I'm talking about interactions at a Yeshiva or a Synagogue, but out doing every day things like shopping, or going to for a walk in the park.
Is that with an M1?

I had a 12" MacBook no-adjectives in the past which didn't even work with AirPods well. I was hoping the M1 would have a better BT stack (the iPhone's...)
[Video] How Electricity Actually Works
I’m glad they mentioned the Susan Fowler article, but I’d love to hear from a guy who overlapped in Uber at that time in the same team, ostensibly “not as part of the problem” tell their side of how they saw things.
> I think the law says otherwise? Evidence collected illegally is (usually?) not valid.

Evidence collected by the state in violation of Constitutional protections relating to search and seizure rights of the defendant is generally (with, however, ever-widening exceptions) inadmissible in criminal trials.

Otherwise, illegally-obtained may or may not be permitted; it quite often is, though presenting it opens one up to charges relating to the illegal act involved in gathering it.
There is very common situation on the Internets where comments may be more interestimg then the article they are referring to. Btw HN sorts most popular comments first, so reading few first branches only is OK.
Here we go with the blown up academic nonsense. It just has to stops with these people. Just because a few people may or may not have done it, does not mean it was some sort of widespread practice.

We have got to start calling these people out who have turned the academy into a National Inquirer because they are desperate for attention and funding. It’s toxic and harmful to humanity how they twist things up and distort reality, a la 1984, to the point where there is no telling what the truth is and no one really even can cares anymore because it’s been so convoluted and perverted by self-important, attention starved people.
Gnome: Paying technical debt in our accessibility infrastructure
This is a hilariously bad line of reasoning and basically a signal for me to take econ researchers less seriously.
Compare to Typescript having a very small but significant difference. They use backticks instead of an f-prefix.

I think this minor difference eliminates all confusion of whether concatenating f strings and normal strings propagate. Same when you split an existing f-string in two because it became too long, there is no risk to forget a backtick on the second pet, in the same way you would with f-prefix, because if you do the closing tick doesn’t match the opening.

Linting the existing f-strings is, as shown by this bot, unfortunately very difficult.
Well I'm a 37 year old Brit and never heard that term fwiw.
If we're allowed to do that, why can't my activation function be sin(x)?
Stay the course.
You have to specialize in something to make that much.
I’m sure AWS can keep a few terabytes of data for a few weeks, hoping to keep a good customer.
Outbox pattern is nice, inbox is more questionable. Depending on size of org you might want to solve that exactly once.
Basically, humans are pattern seeking creatures, and children exposed to white noise will try to find patterns in white noise, when there are none, thus leading to the brain maladapting to random patterns. My theory, but I couldn't find a good definition of traffic noise being related to white noise or classified in particular, but who knows.
I could see how living next to a major road or having a noisy environment could disturb a child's sleep at night. Perhaps it is the role of noisy cars that disturb the sleep that triggers these changes?

I was a strange child that could only sleep if mother turned on a hair dryer next to me some nights. This is materially different from highways - I briefly got to experience what it was like living next to a noisy road and I would argue it would be more likely that it is the role of noisy cars, screeching tires, horns, and pollution that is at play in these studies, not the white noise of highways. Would children that lived in windy forests with no sound isolation having to listen to the noise of the trees fare the same?

Most autistic people are sensitive to stimuli - sensitivity being nearly completely genetic determined and little to do with environment. I wonder if it this greater sensitivity being triggered by highways and disturbs sleep that impairs brain development.
Thanks for pointing to that. I thought this part in particular really helped clarify how this is supposed to work:

As we were building Radiopaper, we developed a concept we call "social skeuomorphism." ... Social skeuomorphism is the idea that a social network should be designed to resemble the best social events in the non-digital world. This is tricky, because internet communication differs from in-person communication in many dimensions, and it's not immediately obvious which of those dimensions are the important ones. In a few of these dimensions internet communication might even be superior to in-person communication.

...But parties have a number of built-in safeguards to prevent this phenomenon from becoming toxic. If A approaches B at a party and begins speaking, B is expected to acknowledge the approach, but is free to leave the conversation quickly if desired. If A then follows B, refusing to terminate the conversation, A is being rude, and publicly so. At parties this is often sufficient to ensure that no one has to engage in long, unwanted conversations, or at least not too often.

Maybe this could be a complement to other social sites like HN or Reddit. Sometimes you see two people start to go back and forth in a subthread. Maybe that could be a cue to "take it to Radiopaper".
I don't think it's joke research, I think they chose an effect that might have positive correlation and proved that, then showed at least one environmental factor that could explain it and how you could find correlation there too. They say themselves at the end that they aren't trying to say it's conclusive evidence in any direction, I believe they're just trying to generally indicate that there does seem to be some sort of environmental factor, and that it's likely possible to discover (or at least get set on the path towards) the true cause via this sort of analysis
The Deepmind lead behind AlphaStar, there StarCraft 2 bot that beat several world champs, once said, "the best way to solve a reinforcement learning problem is with supervised learning". That's because supervised learning is relatively extremely efficient, and just RL with more constraints.

Just start learning the basics of supervised learning for classification and regression on common benchmark tasks like CIFAR and UCI. Apply a mix of linear models, neural networks, and trees like random forests and GBDTs. Next try convolutional networks for vision and transformers for NLP. You'll be all set to solve most real world problems.
if your child is interested in a particular type of project why not choose the language based on that as a start
Even though this is a good point, I am somewhat disappointed that people downvoted a trivially correct statement. React is arguably the most popular web framework and it definitely doesn’t do this, nor does anything about it make it especially make sense to do this. Not every React app uses styled components or a CSS in JS solution at all. Arguably, a fair bit don’t. Anything using Blueprint doesn’t entirely use CSS in JS.
I can never be interested in any story about Uber after hearing about the (early) culture there. This is literally the company that started the #MeToo movement and showed us how bad the VC/SV culture can be, and can be covered up with money.
People didn't used to separate religious belief from how communities were governed; the idea of separate “civil” and “religious” law is a modern dichotomy. Historically, it was just the law of the community; sure, once that was forked into “civil” and “religious” law some places, the two sides of the fork have a lot in common.
Here[0] is the original video. The video in this post is a clarification of the original.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHIhgxav9LY
"Diagnoses of autism have risen dramatically over the past few decades, from an estimated one in 2500 children thirty years ago to one in 150 today." is one of the first lines of the article. If you are so smart, and only you are so smart, what environmental factor has increased that rapidly?
Wowzers, that must make you an impressive attack target for all the session data that gets uploaded to your site. How do you deal with user consent in those cases?

I was curious to see what that experience was like from a client side, but it seems https://newaer.com/ is bombing the .min.js include, which of course doesn't turn on said session capture

BuiltWith alleges you use replay on replay.io but I didn't see any references to it on the main page, and app.replay.io is a white screen due to getInitialTabsState blowing up in src/ui/setup/index.ts
It is an interesting concept. Are you going to focus on the people or the topics? If you lean more on people aspect then it will be a social network of some sort. If you focus on topics then it is more like a web forum.
sre means different things to different people, it’s an overloaded term like devops. but I feel like he spent a lot of this article defining what it meant for this team - all that about embedding a dedicated person is their definition of sre
It makes perfect sense for a regulation that intends to protect the retail customer's interests. I suspect Robinhood would put customer money up for collateral if they were allowed to do so.
Conventional commits support a scope which can be an issue ID:
`feat(37): add foo`
The variable length is still a thing though.
They're both written by the same people, econ professors that are helplessly out of their field.

They're assuming a lot of things here:

* Rain means children watch televsion, no rain means they do not. This is a harsh oversimplification of how parents work.

* Cable TV was correlated to increased autism diagnosis. But what else is correlated to Cable TV? Wealth. And what's correlated to wealth? Getting your kid diagnosed properly in the country where healthcare is not easily affordable maybe? If you think that's a stretch, well, the entire paper is argued on this sort of thin ice.

* Autism isn't generally considered to have "a trigger", but some circumstances like stress can make it more obvious how a someone with autism is different. Autism is one of these things that aren't objectively measured, but often are diagnosed as a result of how annoyed parents are.
Why not diagnosis over environment?
I know this is how it goes but I truly had the best possible timing of starting investing (outside of 401ks) for the first time ...
I have to ask, what motivated you to see it through?
$5 vs free is hard sell - let alone $50.
Rarely do I get to see a fossil repository link on HN!
@dang you moderate this forum very well, arguably better than any forum out there.

You and I know perfectly well that some kind of tribal loyalty around loyalty on a programming language (they all suck) is an IQ test.

I’ll look the other way on Siebel committing outright fraud, and you let these idiots argue about go vs Rust without displaying any bias.

Everyone knows that Thompson invented UTF-8. And I’m smarter than Pike, who was always a pity hire.
The HN headline should probably have a (2007) indication appended.
Autism seem to be a politicized issue by looking at the replies.

As far as I can tell the paper is nothing but honest truth seeking, you know a study doesn't equal truth, the article itself doesn't say it is a confirmed hypothesis. And while correlation doesn't mean causation, when you see a correlation, the first thing you do is you investigate if it is a causation too. The most logical thing to do and thanks God smart people did that with lead and many other toxic chemicals that affected society in the past.
More likely would be tire particulates.
Maybe not patronizing, but it does hurt your case. My team recently went though to remove “please” from all dialogs because user testing found phrases like “please reload to active X” resulted in more people ignoring the dialog and later wondering why X wasn’t activated than just “reload to active X”. I assume the bartender has run similar experiments.
N=1, but I grew up without cable TV (only one movie on the weekend), and I'm autistic. very so as a little kid.

my parents were both mildly on the spectrum, I apparently got a double dose. hooray for assortative mating!
EFF Statement on the Declaration for the Future of the Internet
In addition to being quite possibly the best free introduction to CS and programming available online, it also has sequel courses in web development, AI, and game development that one could take.

Alternatively, or in addition, you could follow this course with NAND to Tetris, which had its second addition come out last year and will give any student a firm foundation in understanding lots of low-level details with project-based learning that only requires some basic programming skill.
While it can be argued for other things like ADHD, I doubt it can be argued for cases of severe autism.
We're much better at diagnosing it than we used to be.
Ingnore the 200k number.

The point is that it's much easier and more lucrative to use your expertise as a well-paid employee than to run your own small business. Been on either side, can confirm.
Maybe because it's easier to get a diagnosis now and parents are more inclined to get their children checked? The medical system is not unchanging over the years.

This is the same kind of thoughtful question as "why are there so many more left-handed/gay/trans people than x years ago" - because social factors have changed visibility of these traits, not because they didn't exist.
For the past few years I had this feeling of unease that this wild market was finally going to end in a correction and yet it just kept bouncing back. I have no clue what to believe anymore but I still have the feeling something bad will come.
What was the scale of your community, and how long did the forum last? I would be curious to hear such a system would perform against large numbers of bots or sockpuppet accounts. I think that techniques that work in forums may simply not scale to millions of users, when it actively affects the national conversation.

For example: every time a big political announcement is to be made or an event happens, the optimal game theoretic play is to ban them to prevent them from being able to set the narrative. And it just takes one person to do it. That's not hard at all: if you have millions of users, someone will do it!
Agreed about Roblox!! Started (unintentionally) teaching myself how to program on Roblox when I was 9, and turned it into a career! Making games encompasses so many areas of programming/creation. Even beyond programming (back end, front end, UI), music composition, sound effects, animation, design, game design.. and share it all with your friends. Alternatively, a simple engine like Love2D (which also happens to be Lua)
> I have never given consent to this and I have no choice to opt out.

You have a public repository on GitHub. You are free to switch it to private, but otherwise this absolutely illogical. No one needs your consent to submit PRs to and highlight a public repository.

This is equivalent to having a website and then getting angry about linking to it, or putting your artwork up for public viewing and then getting angry at someone pointing out a small tear in the fabric.

Actually, now that I think of it, it’s better comparable to someone bringing in a handheld scanner with a company name on it, scanning the artwork and then pointing out the tear.

Which is still totally fine. You’ve given implied consent by making it available to the public. You have decided to make it possible for the public to view it, criticize it and link to it.

Quote Wikipedia,

> Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, *study*, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone *and for any purpose*

Case closed.
> I don't know of any other major games using Java

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Java_platform_games
Clarifying criteria and new timing extension for App Store Improvements process
I'd go with Python, Javascript, (and also Godot engine if they have an interest in game development). After that, any other language they'd want to learn should come fairly easily to them. All three have great huge piles of tutorials available free on YouTube, as well as various free and / or cheap resources available from Humble Bundle, Udemy, and other sites (especially if you catch them on sale).
Human young blood perfusions have potent rejuvenating properties.
Is there scientific evidence that eating human flesh/organs would provide additional benefits over raw blood?

Spoiler: there are probably many benefits, see e.g the cognitive benefits that give cerebrolysin, not hard to extrapolate from this and there must exists some human only Peptides.
I recall that women's milk has a special unique substance that is neurotrophic, criminally it is not synthetically adjuvenated in cow's milk.

Of course I'm not advocating you to eat me but making artificial babies without brains might be not science fiction. It highly relate with the urgent need of being able to replace animal breeding with philosophical zombies.
I operate by beginning my day with prayer and meditation. I then follow my calendar appointments, mostly volunteering and classes, and whenever I'm not doing that, I work on my software project.

I live in any spaces which will have me. My needs are very minimal, and through prayer and faith, I am provided for. I eat whatever food is made available to me by the Universe, and when it is not, I am fasting.

If you want to know more details, I recently posted a comment with an overview: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31077742
You can use sin as activation function, but that would require careful initialization to avoid gradient explosion as you would ended up with a lot of points where gradient is simply zero. You can refer to Implicit Neural Representations with Periodic Activation Functions for more details.
> inform people of the risks of purchasing stocks that they are running out of collateral

People weren't allowed to purchase those stocks so I'm not sure what risks you are talking about. There was no (additional) risk from purchasing from RH versus anywhere else. You could always sell. Not allowing people to buy doesn't have anything to do with fiduciary duty. A broker doesn't have to let you buy whatever you want.
All it tells me is that the standard for evidence in economics is much lower than the standard of evidence in medicine or sociology. This paper has some problems that run very deep in established methodology, so while it might be good faith, it's also useless.