skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The paper trains an XGBoost model to predict investment outcomes for startup investments from the time period 2014-2016. The model is trained on investments prior to 2014, and uses features from Pitchbook. It says the most important features are text descriptions of the company and CEO, which are featurized as unigram and ngram TF-IDF counts.

The paper avoids the very first methodological problem one would check for, which is using a held-out set that is mixed in time. That is: at least it uses a heldout _period_ (2014-2016), instead of individually held-out samples. Using individually held-out samples would let the model learn about future trends. If you know some companies that will be successful in 2026, that will help a lot in deciding what to invest in today, even if you can't pick those companies. So at least the paper doesn't do that.

However, the paper doesn't seem to have limited itself to information written and documented about the companies at the time of the investment decisions. Descriptions about the CEO will change over time. Once a company is looking to go public, maybe they emphasise that their CEO has an MBA. If your company died at seed, maybe this detail isn't included in the text. Even the people listed as the founders of the company is something that might be revised over time (Tesla is a famous example).

The paper really doesn't give us much insight into what the model learns. This means that we need to consider competing explanations for the model's accuracy --- we're not forced to accept the author's conclusion that the investments were indeed "predictably bad" in a way that could be profitably implemented as a trading strategy.

By itself, the fact that a black-box machine learning model with a large number of features can distinguish between two classes on a held-out set really isn't very strong evidence that the model has learned something of practical importance, that will generalise beyond the train and held-out sets you've collected. You need to show us what it's actually learned. If it's supposed to identify wolves, is it looking at the canines or the snow? For a study like this, I'd want to see feature pruning down to where the model is still accurate but with only a few textual features, and then show us what those features are. If you can't do that in a way that actually leads to human insight, it's extremely unlikely that the model is learning anything real.
Regarding the name, I am not in love with it, but people like my other names even less… Suggestions are always appreciated.
Now if only Firefox would support OSC52...
This course looks "fine"; however, I would recommend that anyone interested in exploring CS (or perhaps even if you are a self-taught and very able coder who wants to learn those missing fundamentals ) takes CS50 out of Harvard.

It is easily the most engaging course I have ever taken and it's available for free on edx.org or you can take the "real" class from Harvard extension for a couple grand. You can go into this class as an underwater basket weaver or a strong coder and get a ton out of it.
Lithium ion batteries aren’t without consequence. They’re made using rare, mined materials – in contrast, an engine is made using more common materials – and weigh a lot.

This is pure BS. Lithium is extracted from water and it’s extraction process has about the environmental impact of turning topsoil.

The rare earth metals in your catalytic converter alone have orders of magnitude greater impact. They rely on open pit mining in third world countries and directly pollute ground water and have very poor disposal options.
> So then the wider gauge is helpful to increase lateral stability (to prevent tipping over) since the cars are so light.

If they didn't wanted to reinvent the wheel, they could have adopted another standard railway track gauge: the Iberian gauge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian-gauge_railways

There's a fun story about BART: the US decided to go with a blank slate approach to railway design by hiring not railway engineers but aerospace engineers, and consequently the project relied heavily on reinventing the wheel. This track gauge thing happens to be one of many examples.

As BART decided to forego any standard way of doing mundane railway tracks, they had to endure decade-long delays and huge budget overruns to cover up their loss. Otherwise there would be nothing to talk about a mundane rapid transit system which already covers pretty much the whole Europe.
This gives me a morbidly hilarious mental image of someone trying to dispose of a body using a bike trailer or cargo bike. Perhaps the rider might even feel a little self-satisfied about how environmentally friendly they're being by doing so.
Am I naive to believe that an article with such title would at least looked into assassins claims to begin with? Like how much was donated for starters, history of mental illnesses, gambling, and so on. Instead we start with Nixon and Kissinger
Why? A few thousand ladybugs is like a few thousand flies, there are so many ladybugs already that they wouldn't make a dent. In areas without pesticides you often see hundreds of them sitting and eating the parasites on some bush.
there's a big gap between "meh it's okay" and "pypi really goes above and beyond to serve the package developers and the users too".

it's strange (unexpected? totally expected? sad?) that the for profit npm (which started out as the butt of every supply chain joke) seems the most dev friendly.

eg. npm has namespaces (and neither pypi nor rust's crates.io does. and the Rust dev experience is usually considered sublime, and the whole decision making in Rust land is [was?] very dev-driven)
Ironical from people working at Apple in the 90s.
Don't let fear control you. You're (presumably) not part of a cult and (presumably) have no intention of becoming part of one. (Presumably) none of your social groups are on the verge of being labelled one by the general public.

Whether or not a given killing is morally wrong is undecidable. Obviously, sometimes killing one person saves many people.
At Octopus Energy, I think we’ve made negative prices available to retail customers (at least in the UK, not sure about the other countries we’re retailing in).

People getting paid to charge their cars because the grid has a surplus of (probably green) energy.
TripleCross – Linux eBPF Rootkit
I thought letting businesses do business without government involvement was peoples ideal state? Allowing private companies to handle debit transactions for a country turns out to be something that should be well regulated. Who’d have thought.
Better hurry up before they all gone.
This sort of stuff makes me happy I worked on open source research rather than try to get a PHD. Same thing is playing out with LeCun. The excessive, perhaps egotistical need for attribution in academia is in strict opposition to what I consider “good science”.
It almost feels like that account is trying to be another Titania McGrath [0].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titania_McGrath
For clarification, “red queen” means a conflict between two or more entities where the cost of engagement grows, but the relative advantage does not change.

Simply put, search engines have been at war with SEO for over 30-years, which has significantly raised the bar not only being a search engine, but producing content; not to mention knowing how to search for information. With the introduction of machine generated content, information wars between countries, global dependence of online commerce & information, etc — the speed of change shows no signs of letting up.

In my opinion, for the average person, knowing how to search for information is the real issue, not that the quality of information available has become worse or that Google has become a worse search engine. If anything, Google has reduced its advantage search capabilities not for financial gain, but because average user is just too lazy to learn how to search and keep up with changes required to continue to be an advanced searcher.
I'm very much part of that community but I could see verified moderators using it.

However it could just be reputation based like on Wikipedia
While reading I was just going to ask if there are more non-anectotal evidence for doing this? And also, are there information sites where one could start to try it on oneself? :)
Sorry for video link, but I couldn't find it if they have put the script on their website. However, I found the contents insightful.
This technique would probably still work: https://i.imgur.com/GMpoCh9.jpg
I'm a bit dulled to it these days, so that part didn't even register.
Why would you assume the ideal environment for learning social skills is in a school with children interacting primarily with other poorly developed children?

Life experience and growth shouldn't be confined to a standard classroom.
Way ahead of you; I already stopped pretending we'll have a habitable planet by century's end.
No. It’s Bing in the same way that Uber is Elastic Search. It’s built on Bing and other tools and adds, tweaks, adjusts, etc. Calling DDG a Bing proxy is somewhere between misleading and dishonest.
Bivouac
According to NHK TV News, shooter went to Okayama the day before where Abe made campaign speech. But as the speech was at a auditorium and Abe didn’t mingle with crowd after speech and left right away, shooter didn’t have the chance. Shooter found out online that evening about Abe’s visit to Nara.
It doesn't actually work though. The very important people who intentionally write cryptic emails invariably end up wasting more of their own time dealing with the resulting misunderstandings compared to just writing out what they're trying to say properly.
Exclusionary?
You are projecting. For many families that is indeed the case. There is no one at home to provide either education or motivation for many different reasons
Randomizing unconditional cash transfer amounts in the US
> Google has an incentive to rank pages that contain Google ads because it makes them more revenue. Google has an incentive to rank profit-making sites higher so that they make more money.

Is there evidence that they do this?
Sure, there's always been the occasional outlier. The difference now is the frequency and scale.
The "in school" part is important here. Children don't have to be in a classroom, but they do need a good teacher, proper resources, etc. for them to learn. Many weren't even getting these basics pre-covid, so when it did hit, they were completely lost.
Ever heard of Assange?

(Also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_secret among others; there is a ton of those.)
Prologue - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/prologue/id1459223267?ls=1 for iOS works with plex and is my go to tool for the past 2 years
They feed and target an army of boycotting minors, because minors can't be punished by law in the same way as an adult would be. If things got hairy will flash a "Just Kidding". Very low risks for the people moving the puppets at ten thousands Km of distance, also.

But the economic damage is real and persistent.
I don’t have any shogi pieces handy—I’m more of a lapsed go player myself—but can’t they be stood on their ends like dominos? Image searches for shōgi daoshi in Japanese yield a lot of pictures like this:

https://www.photo-ac.com/main/search?q=将棋倒し&srt=dlrank&qt=&p...
That's kinda sad tbh.
The OP is comparing concern for people getting too close while filming to murder. I believe you’re intelligent enough to already know this and you’re also intelligent enough to know there is a reasonable argument for the use of force in both cases you mentioned.
One thing missing from this great introduction is how to enforce object lock for new objects. This can be done by setting a default retention mode and period on the bucket and having a bucket policy for s3:PutObject(Retention). It looks like I should do a writeup on this. I am working on tooling to make using Object Lock (to prevent ransomware) more convenient.
I live in a country where it's above 23 degrees most of the year :) I got used to it. When I first got here I used to wear T-Shirts in winter at the agony of my colleagues. But the second year was a lot tougher..
Also, parent could research into their intolerance. E.g milk, gluten etc could easily cause these, and cutting them (mostly) out might be an easy fix.
You should look at it from their perspective. You are a smart person who is capable of the work, yet still had bad grades. You don't need to show them you are smart and capable of doing math - it is not about that. It is about whether you can do those things in a structured school environment. Stop trying to prove you can do math and start trying to prove that you can work within their system.

I don't know the school system in Singapore, but in the US, we have community colleges that accept everyone. Most people in your situation take a few classes at a community college to prove that they can succeed in that environment, and then try again with the university. If there are similar option in Singapore, I'd go that route.
Actually good point, looking at that article again, 190° is edge-to-edge — i.e. also including single-eye areas.

True binocular FOV is 120° horizontal, which makes it close to a square actually.

It’s not like that remaining 70° is completely useless for monitor viewing, you will still peripherally notice any major display changes in that area, and should you need to turn your head, the partial view makes it easier to quickly find and lock onto the new target.
Twiglets - crunchy snacks coated in yeast extract - have been ruined. Yeast extract is quite salty so to meet the government's new healthy food guidelines the manufacturer has removed more than half of it. They are pointless now, bland and a bit greasy.

They've been my favourite snack for years. I'm gutted.
I thought this was about Croydon in South London when I saw the title, which is a sort of Live Free or die place in its own way.
Pretty much all academic research work is done by grad students, with highly variable supervision by the PI.
Lazy devs who dont want to learn the history api and malicious devs who want to trap you on a website
All the cars I've owned in Europe (all manual) had no lock out whatsoever.. No need to press the clutch or brake for the starter too work.

Having said that, when I still had a car I used to drive old cars. My newest car was a 2005 Volvo S40. But this was also perfectly capable of starting in gear and with the clutch engaged.

My first car still had a choke :)
Given that private business won’t magically reduce their profits to have (more) backups and hire more competent it staff, I guess you all want the internet to return to being a regulated utility? The only really serious aspects were letting debit transactions be run by a single provider along with some aspects of border control. These should have mandated fall over to other vendors to keep running. The banks and credit cards did fine as long as the store was on line.
Everything in this article rings true. But there's more. HTTPS only, combined with almost everyone only using LetsEncrypt (a great service), leads to massive concentration of value for any internal corruption at LE or external political (or other) pressures on LE. The more browsers refuse to show HTTP, the more people in LE, the greater prize it is for those that want to control what is seen.

If you want the web to be free and open, and you run a personal website, please consider providing HTTP+HTTPS.
Set aside Yemen ones (of which I know nothing, but that likely has not that much rain), "mud" houses (which were once common in some regions of Italy, Abruzzo as an example) are usually plastered (with clay, and painted with lime), and have a roof that is usually protruding outside a little bit more than other types of houses in order to better protect the walls, but periodical maintenance/repainting was required to keep the walls dry.

Check this (Italian, but understandable via Google translate):

https://www.cronachepicene.it/2018/02/07/memoria-del-territo...

If you search for "raw earth house" or "rammed earth" you will find similar examples in a few more "rainy" countries, including the UK.

https://www.motherearthnews.com/diy/earthen-homes-zm0z12aszm...

> First, the old adage: Give your buildings a good pair of boots and a hat. That means lifting your earthen walls up away from water on a solid foundation and covering them with big overhangs.
It's pretty remarkable but from what friends who are parents have told me is that as bad as school can be, remote 'learning' managed to be far worse. The depths of terrible learning environments has truly been plumbed.
There are places where going to school is the only way children get a half a decent meal. Public school is about a lot more than just studies.
Your focus on Tesla ignores that EVs are simply better than PHEVs. Look, it's a Toyota rep talking about PHEVs when they missed the boat on EVs. So its just like your YouTuber.
From a population perspective, all groups of people will have a disproportionate fringe of memorable behaviors. I've always found it odd that people group an entire community together like that, which may be the fact that I'm on the spectrum.

The crypto jerks aren't necessarily the ones who quietly used blockchain investments as an attempt to invest. Can't say they made a wise decision, but it's just bad form to strike someone when they're down. They still came out better than taking $40K in consumer debt!
The olden zeppelins hardly “pootled” though. They were doing 120kmh at cruise speed. Im sure with modern technology you could up those numbers to 200kmh+. Considering how bad flying is for the environment, I would gladly make the trade to arrive a bit later for a more comfortable, environmentally friendly ride.

This coming from someone who flies 20+ times a year.
From what I understand the pros are that it's a sustainable material, you get great insulation from temperature and sound and good durability against earthquakes, and you can easily extend or modify the building; the cons are that it needs a lot of maintenance work, it is vulnerable to heavy rains (the reason for the yearly maintenance work on the Great Mosque of Djenné) and it needs good planning to resist flooding.

I think the insulation is the most interesting property, for me at least, being from a country where summer temperatures can reach 42 degrees C easily. Anecdotally, stone has similar properties although it tends to stay cold in the winter. Intuitively, I expect you need to have thick walls with both kinds of material if you want to benefit from their high thermal mass, otherwise once your clay walls are heated through by the summer sun, they will keep radiating heat throughout the night. That would in turn mean that more space is needed to build a house with thicker walls than normal.

The real problem is, of course, I don't really see developed world cities tearing down all their concrete buildings to live in mud high-rises, sutainable and well-insulated though they may be. It doesn't sound like something that can be easily adapted to big cities, in other words. Perhaps it's possible to change the way we build newer houses, to use more sustainable and economic materials like mud and stone, but we already have way too many concrete buildings (and steel and glass towers) and I dont' know how realistic it is to expect that those are going to be retro-fitted with earth- or stone- based insulation.
> I found all I've learn is worth nearly nothing in industry

It really depends what you work on. Doesn't even have to be high end. When working on performance critical code I was glad about my computer science and math education more than once. And performance can get interesting even at a few million users or regardless of user-count in realtime applications. When writing business logic without performance and scalability in mind, yea, all that knowledge remains dormant. Reality is that there is simply far more business logic work out there than performance critical code.
And online people have to effectively renew a license from Google to broadcast
There's still the thing with donations and the illusion of getting rich that comes with it. Also: sunken cost fallacy + "this is MY baby".
*advertising

Social media alone wouldn’t encourage that nor would even host the content for free unless they can make money off it (and make more than it costs to host it). Nobody in their right mind would pay actual money to watch this content though, so the only way this currently survives is advertising. Eradicate that and a lot of the harms of social media go away.
That 'first hit' (to the logistimatics result) appears to not contain the string 'PL884-200' anywhere on the page.
Coca Cola did make the transition with new Coke which is still used for Diet Coke
> The LDP has been in power almost continuously since its foundation in 1955—a period called the 1955 System—except between 1993 and 1994, and again from 2009 to 2012.

in theory there's no problem with this, after all if they represent the plurality ... just as in theory many political systems should work just fine.

and it's certainly possible that this is what the vast majority of people there wants, so it might score 100% on "democracy", even if there are certain very obvious problems (let's say their insane justice system, or the simple fact that their population is both shrinking and ageing)
Yes, and it doesn't just affect your neck. Setting it up like that is also better for eye strain and fatigue, because if your monitor is too high and you're looking up (defined as your eyes angled above your horizon), tear production is inhibited and your eyes get tired a lot faster.
About EBCE
Articles like this are why I come to HN.
There is a really good paper on better notations for differentiation https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.09553 in such a way that algebraic manipulations of the "dx" etc have meaning. The main proposition is to stop calling the second derivative of y along x d^2y/(dx)^2 since this is completely wrong if you want to manipulate things algebraically. In this notation the exponent is denoting function composition and not multiplication.
Finally (the end goal), EVs powered by solar are completely CO2 free. If own a house and have a solar installation that covers EV charging, you are CO2 free.
Does that mean it’s unlikely to pass?
> It can complete phrases by having seen TBs of similar ones no more suprisingly than google can.

Hard disagree here. Google can't do what GPT-3 does and it has access to a lot more than 350gb (size of GPT-3 model). I doubt you literally believe that.

> We have never thought totally dumb solutions to these problems were unimaginable. They were just so dumb, that the only route to using them would be to somehow run a Ghz processor. Well, since we now have those, dumb partial solutions to dumb problems are possible.

Did the GPT-3 architecture exist 10 years ago? Could an ANN from 10 years ago have produced comparable results, given access to the same hardware? I doubt so.

It basically seems that in your worldview, anything below "human level intelligence" is just unimpressive? Seems quite a high bar.
I agree with the theme of your message, but people won't be educated unless they seek it out themselves beyond just what the media spouts. That is all too sadly very rare.
> Reading some comment chains makes you doubt the average users reading comprehension...

Or maybe those users just think you’re wrong?

AFAIK most people use a package manager to install multiple mods and it works just fine in most cases.

In my opinion being able to install mods individually is much preferable to mod packs since you don’t have to add a bunch of stuff you don’t want and don’t have to wait for the pack compiler to update all the individual mods etc.
Students often find it difficult to understand/express what they find challenging and why, and rely on external motivation. Usually it helps to have peers to work with, and teachers should be assessing and scaffolding for students.
These are very good questions:

[1] https://www.uwa.edu.au/Profile/David-Blair

[2] https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/mark-oliphant