skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the way courses are taught can give you some needed grounding, like you should always take a good linear regression class. But I think that is as far as it gets you, a theoretical base.

Honestly the issue is that most ML programs are taught as being some kind of additive skill set: the more courses you take the better or selection of the right kind of courses gets you some where.

In reality:

1. most real world problems are also about subtraction knowing what not to try and why it might not work. Like when I ask people about Recommendtaion engines for recommending colocated things, people pile on embeddings, in reality its about finding good false negatives to train datasets, calibration of classifier output and those are really hard problem. Embeddings may be necessary but are the least of your worries.

2. Most companies will not teach you about the fundamentals of stats; you will be lucky if you can get a mentor in a company that has both the theoretical rigour and the practical implementation skill to solve problems.

3. Most ML problems require engineering to work as well, for example you can't use Bayesian MCMC to do most things at scale. Its why Topic models that used statistical models like simulating posterior were crazy expensive on large datasets.
Full disclosure didn't even read the article. But if you wanted to know what programming as a game would look like, play Factorio. Refactoring, decoupling, debugging, it's all there. I played it intensely for 3 weeks then had to force myself to put it down. It's a one of a kind game.
> Even if it was true, it would not prove your theory that it has anything to do with student loans not being subject to bankruptcy. Universities do not issue loans.

This is factually untrue; the better universities do not, private for-profit often-predatory universities do, and those loans are subject to the same bankruptcy provisions as the federal loans issued to students at other schools. These are a part of the landscape that education policy must address.
When theories most experts in the field put a lot of stock in cannot be reproduced, it's a crisis.

When theories most experts in the field are skeptical about or downright disbelieve cannot be reproduced, it's a Tuesday.
An interesting observation is that China is following the exact same economic/international-relations path the US did.

1. Become a global economic superpower (US 1910s, 20s)

2. ??? (US 1930s, 40s)

3. Military-industrial complex emerges and captures politicians (US 1950s)

4. Political leaders then begin looking at military capabilities and questioning why it isn't being used for military interventionalism (US 1960s)

5. Military interventionalism shows its flaws through failed post-intervention nation-building, and decreases appetite for intervention (US 1970s, 80s, 90s)

6. Reaction to historical interventions triggers occasional knee-jerk interventions (US 00s, 10s)

In the US case, step 2 was WWII, which was somewhat unavoidable.

In the Chinese case, I think it remains to be seen how steps 2-4 go.

Absent an external war they're forced to become involved in, I could see step 2 being a popular consequence of whipping up nationalistic fervor to boost government support... and then that populist tail wagging the CCP dog and compelling military action when a crisis breaks out (e.g. Taiwanese independence declaration or naval incident in the South China sea).
Yep, the main problem is that whatever.com could be a completely different page for user A and B, and if they both commented on it, they'd be commenting about different things, then user C goes to view it, and is confused.

Which could be helped by storing the page source or something (which still has a ton of issues associated with it) but then you have a problem of discovery, and how do users tell the pages apart with the same URL? Simple version numbers?

Another problem is you might have 2 URLs that are basically the same page, but with some query parameters that subtlety distinguish them - they are different URLs though. Should there really be two discussion sections for a page that's only differentiated by a referral link or a stylistic preference? Probably not, but there is not an objective metric here we can use to make the call.

What if we use just the base path, e.g. facebook.com? It could be useful for small sides but for large sides you'll run into issues with scoping topics.

it's a really hard problem IMO
For what it's worth I would rather be run over by a stupid person than a stupid machine. At least if I survived I could learn to forgive a person.
Indeed most of these are not available to the public.
I have never owned a car. As a result, I look at each trip and think about the best way to accomplish it. Usually the optimum in terms of cost is by bicycle, or by bringing my bike with me on a transit connection.

If I'm short on time, going to the airport, or my eyes are dilated from going to the optometrist or something, I'll use Lyft or Uber. This is like a once a month or less occurrence, (as you might guess since dilated eyes are one of my main reasons for using a car... I don't go to the optometrist that often.)

So I'm a world where few people own care, you might expect something like this. The car costs are up front per trip, not sunk as they are when you own the car, so you should see people thinking more rationally about their trip planning.
Whenever I read something like this I look my access and sshd logs for abuse IPs and check if they are Tor exit nodes. The Tor traffic is always negligible like 100 failed ssh logins out of 170k are from Tor exit nodes. Or 670 out of 400k for my nginx access.log. Am I unique and everyone else sees vastly different numbers where blocking Tor exits makes a significant difference in the abuse they get?
> Each Unix timestamp corresponds to one unique point in time

That depends. 30th June 2015 23:59:59 has the timestamp 1435708799. 1st July 2015 00:00:00 has the timestamp 1435708800. But what about the leap second that happened between those two seconds? I think most people would claim it also has timestamp 1435708799. but then "Each Unix timestamp corresponds to one unique point in time" isn't true, because 1435708799 now corresponds to two different points in time (30th June 2015 23:59:59 and 30th June 2015 23:59:60). Saying there is a unique mapping from unix timestamp to time would only be true if you either say that 30th June 2015 23:59:60 has no unix timestamp (which isn't a valid return value of any time API I've seen) or if you smear time.
If you rely on human-operated cars for transport, your ability to go anywhere is already controlled by large institutions.

- You require a car manufacturer like Ford or Toyota to manufacture and sell you a vehicle.

- You require an insurance company to cover your liability.

- The government must issue you a license, which it may take away at any time for not abiding by its traffic laws.
There is a video by PBS Space Time on that subject: https://youtu.be/GcfLZSL7YGw
Lots of people give a damn, laws surrounding that exacts issue have changed in the past and obviously they can be changed again in the future.
Naively, I had the inverse question after reading that, how would this be illegal? Why must this be a labor of love? Use of Factorio IP seems limited to visual inspiration and file format parsing, and its clearly transformative (in the legal sense of the word)
It's a shame I can't reply to sand_castles directly.

Countries freely choosing to allow allies to put military bases on their territory, generally with wide public support such as in Germany, Japan, and many others, is hardly colonialism.

Every country that has joined NATO did so with public support, even massive public enthusiasm. Public support is actually a requirement to join.

Do Indians and Chinese somehow not count? Both have benefited staggeringly from the global trade system built and secured by the US and it's allies.

On building alliances "and which 2 countries is pushing to bring about that change ?"

Russia and China have a tiny number of genuine military allies at most. NK and Myanmar for China, a few 'stans and Belarus for Russia. All of them horrific brutal dictatorships in their own right. Everybody else anywhere near them loathes their guts, even Vietnam in the case of China, but are sometimes so dependent or weak there's not much they can do about it.

>You cannot just wash away mistakes made in the past, there will always be blow back.

Agreed. America's mistakes will continue to haunt it for decades to come.
It would be amazing, but that's precisely why you should be skeptical. This is prime fodder for the 'wouldn't it be great if we could do 'x'' kind of mental trap. But applications of a room temperature superconductor aren't lacking (it would be a gamechanger for everything electrical and electronic), it's the material that we don't have.

So until I can bench test it or someone whose reputation I trust has bench tested it for me it doesn't exist.
Rise of the RNA machines – self-amplification in mRNA vaccine design
> extolling it as a desirable-in-itself, convenient way to travel as compared to personal transport is simply not viable.

Another fallacious argument.

It is desirable in itself.

It results in human-scale cities, more accessible for all regardless of disabilities.

It makes more efficient use of resources. It uses less energy, emits less pollution, means less space must be devoted to roads and to parking.

It makes streets more pleasant places to be, so one might choose to eat or drink on the street, free of traffic fumes.

It means one can drink alcohol and not have to pay a lot for a taxi home, and thus, reduces the motivation to drunk drive.

Car-free streets are better for cycling, which is better for public health, which is better for healthcare infrastructure.

In fact, there is no real disadvantage to it, as your rather ridiculous attempts to construct negatives show:

> a (logistically) complex system

That's a good thing. More options. E.g. one can choose step-free routes when moving luggage or infants in prams, or if a wheelchair user, versus faster alternatives when travelling unencumbered.

You may not have noticed but most people have smartphones now, which can do the routing for you.

Your claimed disadvantage is in fact a win.

> waiting for vehicles to arrive,

Better than waiting in traffic jams.

> unload & reload

False; cars must do this too.

> transporting large or heavy items

You make it increasingly clear you've no experience of this and the biases of someone to whom it is alien and scary.

I've moved furniture this way. I've moved rackmount servers and 21" CRT monitors this way.

It's cheap.

> where you're exposed to hundreds of strangers' behaviors & germs

You sound like the increasingly deranged and irrational Elon Musk, whom I once admired.

> enforcedly generic environment

Utter lunacy. American cities, covered in freeways, and still congested, are the ultimate example of this.

You seem to think you are making a logical case.

You are not. You are making it plain you are a bigot who lacks experience of the thing they are attacking, though.
I think we went off course a little, English is not my first language and I don't live in the US. I thought flyover country was a non offensive way of saying everything between the coasts. I apologize if I got that wrong.

Also I'm personally not left or right,I see a lot of value in some conservative ideas. What I meant is if the word redneck referred to a conservative I don't find it offensive precisely because there's nothing wrong about being a conservative, whereas being poor or not having had access to (quality?) education is clearly a hardship that we should not mock.
This is one of those very rare "build it and they will come" technologies. All he has to do is make some material samples and send them to the right people making supercolliders at CERN, MRIs and turbines at GE, etc. Those people can trivially characterize the materials for their use case and if he's truly made room temperature superconductors, he'll have an entire horde of customers trying to throw money at him. Even if he can only effectively manufacture the geometries that 1% of those potential clients need, it'd still be a multi-billion dollar a year business.

Unless someone here is planning on investing, it's a complete nonstory. Let's see the goods!
Why not? It's the same code across all the cars... it's as if you had a clone factory making clones of driver you.
Selling self-driving cars at cost is not the profit-maximizing strategy here.

With Google (and big tech) squeezing more and more for profits, some here even proclaiming it the new IBM, I don't see this ending with consumers winning.
> The romans were at least as violent as anything that came after. The idea that they provided unique stability in exchange for that violence is the roman justification for it. Vestigial propaganda from 2000 years ago. We are not obligated to accept it and in fact modern historians typically do not.

Did they not reduce the amount of fighting? Was Pax Romana a myth? There would be less fighting between regions since most of the regions are already under the control of the regional superpower. Those that haven't been annexed would be wise to conserve their strength if they wish to maintain their independence.
"Lose information" is not a binary thing, nor is it equivalent to introducing wrong information. You don't expect (short)INT_MAX to suddenly give you 1337 just because it "loses information". You still want to have (and do have) some useful properties & information to be preserved even after certain information loss, otherwise the implementation is buggy despite the information loss.

In this case, without leap seconds, you'd have still lost the precision, but you wouldn't have actually violated causality. Winding back during a leap second makes it so that a timestamp that's > 1 second later in real time still ends up being ordered as strictly before the earlier time. That's a bug, regardless of how you slice it.

Now this can be partially avoided by saturating the subtraction at the boundary rather than winding it back, and I'm not sure how many implementations do this. That seems better, but it's still surprising (and thus bug-prone) given the input and output representation otherwise appear to have sufficient precision.
> * Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

> * Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type

Well, at least there are 2 without very refined standard methods to completely solve based on managed memory or strict types.
It's not even mostly chronic low income. Look at Figure 3 in this paper

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2104684118

Across all income levels, USA lags Europe. In 1990, the wealthiest white Americans had the same deaths/1000 Age 20-64 as Europeans, but a gap has opened up across ALL income levels since then.

The gap does get larger as poverty increases, but it doesn't explain why all income levels are worse than Europe.
I don't think this is true. It has more to do with level rather than the absolute pay. Suppose you had two senior hires and one was able to negotiate more pay, the company won't necessarily expect more from the higher paid one.

On a slightly different note, from my experience, companies who pay less actually expect just as much if not more than companies who pay competitively.
You need to distinguish food and supplements. Supplements frequently fail quality tests, but I'm not aware of food constantly being off.

As to "Why isn't that tested every single day by the government with big fines to stop it?" in the supplement industry, it's because the FDA isn't allowed to regulate supplements by law.
> Some people really want to have a production line of developers hammering away boxes of value then can capitalize on,

Infoquake/Jump 225 series had an amazing fun-in-a-dystopian-way visions of this Taylor-ian model of programmers percussively hammering away on code.
> But it sure looks like self-driving cars are still a fair bit worse on the second.

How so? We hear about the self-driving car incidents because they're required to write up reports whenever something happens (and it also makes for a good news story). That's not the case with human drivers.
> is less arbitrary then

Maybe it's slightly less arbitrary, but it's still very arbitrary.

> there is a reason the entire world uses C.

Again, the fact that C is widely used doesn't mean the scale isn't arbitrary.
> The US doesn’t care who runs the day to day domestic government, so long as they have military bases, are the primary trading partner, and effectively direct this countries foreign and economic policies unilaterally.

This is more or less also how the Roman Empire operated.
Honestly this sounds to me like a "you" problem. Tell your bosses what you can accomplish and do it. Do you really think your CEO is the most productive person at the whole company?
I write ‘a’ this way, but my hand movement is more like making a lower case ‘d’ with | and then o without lifting. but in the case of ‘a’ the stem is a curved motion to start with.
The actual desires and interests of actual citizens, even in vibrant democracies with changes of elected government and free speech, don't count. Nice.
I was skeptical, but this was a really good watch. Pity that it’s a video.

For the to;dw crowd: he makes the case that Twitter is by far the most useful social network to government agencies, because the graph is mostly public (unlike Facebook) and all users are both consumers and creators (unlike YouTube). Thus, it is being used by “researchers” and state departments to build what he calls “the Death Star of AI censorship engines,” and these moves to rate limit will cripple those efforts.
I would add similar/same goals here as well.
Google or someone they partner with will likely be an option. Another will be Cruise or whoever they partner with. Or, Tesla.
I don't think you're quite getting the moral lesson in telling stories about gods punishing hubris, so let me spell it out: titanic arrogance is bad and comes with consequences, so don't do it, kids. The point is for people to see particular kinds of suffering as both appropriate and necessary.

I agree that people enjoying suffering generally is pretty bad, and I avoid it. But I make an exception for people who cause suffering receiving the just consequences of their terrible actions. If Musk were just some guy who were living a quiet life and then got cancer or something, I'd feel for him. But he's not. He's someone who's been aggressively a jerk for more than a decade.

His deciding to take on being a CEO of yet another company, one he didn't really understand except as a user, was bad enough. But as a former Twitter user and employee, I've had to watch him destroy something that a lot of people, me included, worked very hard on. I've had to watch him harm thousands of people quite directly, and many more indirectly. And all for nothing more than his arrogance and some half-baked clout-chasing notions.

So I am absolutely going to enjoy the fuck out of his serial rake-stepping. Could this be bad for me? Well that's a question I will take seriously from somebody in saffron robes that spends 10 hours a day meditating. But it's not one I'll entertain from the Volunteer Musk Defense Brigade, and especially not from one of its members who was busy performing lack of empathy recently on this very site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35824824
Paris has done great in climbing up to a bit more than 15% of daily trips by bike.

My point is: even the bicycle capitals of the world (Amsterdam, etc) have equal car and bike trips per day, and it's taken a long time to get there.
They don't. The LEDs fluctuations are a by-product of power rail fluctuation and this in turn can be detected to discover some elements of the computations involved.

It's pretty subtle. This isn't like a flashing harddrive LED, it is an LED that to all intents and purposes is burning steadily. Until you look at it in more detail and you realize that it isn't quite as steady as it should be.
I don't like the word "defending" for this. This kind of thing is inherently malicious.
My bet is Russia.

I work in a German institution. I was recently hacked by such a botnet recently (lessons learned: use AuthorizedKeys, allow only one SSH user, proxy all http connections to a webhoster, and check your SSH and UFW logs often!)

It setup a virtual environment where it downloaded some kind of Tor node and ran some sort of code that used 100% of my CPU. My guess is crypto-mining. I purged the account, deleted everything before I could do forensics, but I checked the logs for the connections and they all came from Russia.
> the effect Tweets easy embeddability had on reporting

This is something I don't get. They say that Twitter is now blocking embeds and I've seen an author respond by... including a screenshot of a tweet in their piece.

Except that's obviously better than embedding a tweet in the first place. It's better in every possible way. It's easier to write your article with an included image that you provide than to hotlink content from some other website. And when the tweet vanishes into the mists of history, your captured image of it will still be around, illustrating your article the way you were hoping the embedded tweet would do. There are so many articles out there with dead embedded tweets illustrating... something.

So, all that said... what was the effect that embeddability had on reporting? Why hasn't it been screenshots the whole time? What did easy embeddability enable that wasn't just as easy anyway?
Hi, offtopic from the above but, I am trying to use your sgml npm package to parse some OFX files, I wonder if you could give some guidance on a problem i am having? I am trying to move away from a wasm compiled OpenSP.

I'm using am example from your website to try and convert from ofx to xml.

"content must start with document element when document type isn't specified" is the error I get.

Many thanks!!
This was super interesting and I think the results are beautiful. I'm imagining how cool it would be for game with a photo mode to have a film simulation mode.
You thought Musk was playing 4D chess? Think again. He was in fact playing 29D chess, with dictators, and autocrats.