jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
While it is certainly possible to have mixed region clusters, from my experience it is better to have one cluster per region. Do your synchronous communication within the cluster / within the datacenter with sub millisecond latencies and do asynchronous communication across cluster boundaries with up to triple digit millisecond latencies.
I've been working slowly on getting solid BLAS/LAPACK abstractions.
> Who are these other people, who are likewise fearless (like SM), that are not around to be studied & interviewed?

People who were not survivors of 4 (and counting) violent assaults with deadly weapons, or of other dangerous behavior which might have not have happened if they had functioning fear.

> I'm asking if there is an evidenced based count, or if you are purely speculating.

I think the burden of proof here should be on anyone who thinks that lacking fear is great. If so, why does the rare disorder not spread? Why is fear an almost universal and evolutionarily-conserved emotion? Why does the only cited example lead an extraordinarily risky life? (How many white female artists ever get held up like that? Or 4 times? Hell of a coincidence...)

> All that these scientists could come up with over the years to justify their (and the general public's) fear of lack of fear is those four incidents of being held at knifepoint and gunpoint.

'All'?
This is a really clever way to help people get an idea of what programming is all about.

Great work!
It looks difficult because we refuse to draw the obvious conclusions and take at face value what our day-to-day experiences teach us.

Let the master programmers (with substantial backing proof) lead the way and everything will fall into place.
> 502 citations

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."

- Joseph Goebbels (allegedly)

It is farcical propaganda, period. While there may be heavy-handed counterterrorism and anti-poverty policies circa 2017 in Xinjiang, there is no evidence of "genocide".

It is not Qanon-tier disinformation, which Wikipedia is resilient against.

It is Nayirah-tier disinformation: peddled by special interest groups in Washington, including the State Department, it gets signal-boosted by establishment media who are on good terms with those SIGs.

Wikipedia is extraordinarily vulnerable to this class of disinformation campaign.

And good luck challenging it in the talk page. Your edits will get instantly reverted by an army of pro-Washington trolls. How else could that extremely inaccurate header image stay up?
I don’t see how it’s any different, let alone “amateurish”. Clinton cleared the way for the internet to create as much wealth as it has (Telecommunications Act of 1996). Every President has had positive policies and negative policies, so we could play that game all day.

Acting like deregulating airlines and busting unions are on the same level is curious. One has created some new companies (and many corporate bankruptcies) while union busting and trickle-down economics helped lay the foundation for the income stagnation the article is largely about.
I did look at another Votizen slidedeck (sorry don't have the link to hand) and they tested a number of different business models (they are serious about using lean startup methodology) and eventually arrived at campaign management as one that actually generated revenue for them.
Nice oldschool music. Where did you get it?
Over financial crimes? Does that ever happen?
> Please let me know if there're any cheap methods to get an IE9.

VirtualBox/VMWare/Parallels. Install Windows in a VM then install IE9.
Not OP, but he used the Impact engine (Javascript) to do this.
Groupon and Votizen have both pivoted quite strongly from how they started out.
...except they dont allow access to the rest of the world.. All they can access is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmyong_%28intranet%29
Usually when I've seen people using remote desktop connections it is to access internal ERP or LOB applications - things which Google are not going to be able to provide access to.

For "normal" desktop apps (e.g. MS Office) - wouldn't providing access to these kinds of things undermine Google's strategy of doing things in the browser?

I guess they could provide a LogMeIn/GotoMyPC kind of product - but that is hardly revolutionary.
>"Requests to Baidu’s content data network are being intercepted and sending back some javascript code instead of the original requested file. The javascript code instructs visitors browsers to request the Github pages of anti-censorship group Greatfire andthe Chinese language edition of the New York Times."

I must be misunderstanding - is there a salient piece of info missing?

It makes no sense for the Chinese government to attempt to foil censor bypassing by sending all users of Baidu a link to a project on GitHub that enable censor bypassing.

As an outcome is to inform all affected Baidu users of bypass tools and a non-government controlled newspaper this looks more likely to be a rogue element to me.

It doesn't even look like what I'd call DDoS - sending genuine users to your site who might be interested in your product, isn't that an unpaid affiliate scheme?!?
That may be for Google optimizations. Sci-fi is generic, Syfy is specific.
Disagree strongly.

That said, I do not totally agree with the article. Last time I tried out duckduckgo and blekko, google was still better. Googles word processing and spreadsheets are getting better, and the android phones seems to be the only alternative in the iphone class right now.
I find any discussion of sci-fi has to start with terms.

To me, sci-fi is fiction based in science that asks "what if"

What if we had time travel? What if we could read minds?

When you string together many such what-ifs, you end up in fantasy, which is what a lot of people today confuse with sci-fi.

Early Star Trek to me was sci-fi because there were believable contemporary characters engaged in asking and exploring around clear "what if" questions. Yes, there was a lot of mumbo-jumbo, but it mostly stayed out of the way. Soon, though, the Trek universe became so full of mumbo-jumbo, futuristic societies that could never exist (really? no money? Just how would that work?) and reversing the warp drive through the deflector grid nonsense that it quickly ended up in full space fantasy land.

I just got through with Hull Zero Three, and while I liked it, it struck me as a dark nightmare from a soulless author (I know nothing of the author, that's just my impression). I think there was a clear "what if", which was only put to the reader at the end. Therefore, I'd qualify it as sci-fi. Pretty good book, but dark.

But a lot of the crap, er, stuff I'm seeing that folks think is sci-fi is just long-format futuristic fantasy -- social commentary at an epic scale written with blasters and hyperdrives. Nothing wrong with that, but (to me) once you lose track of exploring that simple what-if question, it's more like commentary than analysis. You spend more time learning how the author views the universe than you do questioning you beliefs in how things are put together and what depends on what. Good stuff, certainly, but not sci-fi.
Can we ban whoever submitted this article? For stupidity, if you must give a reason.
Not only does she not fear, but it appears she cannot assess danger (picked up a snake).
Actually Apple until recently didn't have a cash cow per se. When the iPod was first developed Apple was making very little money, and broadening its product base was a good strategy.

I think the main popular tech giant that seems to avoid most of the consequences of the cash cow disease is Apple. Even though they are turning a profit comparable to microsoft's, you don't see nearly as many spin-offs or research departments or other leakages. Pretty much the only things that come out of Apple are its top-of-the-line products.

While this is scary for someone who would one day like to work in an industrial reaearch lab, they certainly seem to know how to make money.
"Will You Be Able to Read This Article in 1,000 Years?"

Barring some significant advancement in Sid-Meier's-Alpha-Centauri-style technologies like longevity vaccines or brain uploading, probably not.

Even if I do survive, will I still be speaking this dialect of English? Will I even be speaking English at all?

But back to the main point of the article, saving the article as a PDF is a very wrong approach; binary formats are likely going to be the first to die off. I'd be much more confident in the article being stored more-or-less as it is now: as plain-text markup, style information, and some code executable by just about any modern Javascript implementation, accompanied by the texts of the relevant standards (for HTML, CSS, ECMAScript/Javascript, etc.), so that any individual could then (theoretically) piece everything together and display it as it was intended to be displayed.

Lots of very old software from the beginning of computing history has been preservable in source code form for this very reason of the robustness of plaintext; even with encoding differences, it's been possible to convert these documents (even if doing so has been a manual process). I'd expect that, due to this robustness of plaintext, free-and-open-source software has significant preservation advantages relative to proprietary software (of the closed-source variety, at least), since there's a greater chance of copies surviving due to how widespread said copies are.
Is this a must?

What disequilibrium did Facebook or Twitter arbitrage?
I'm imagining some sort of giant feature-based hash table. What does "three oak trees, a light post, and a mailbox in relative positions [data vector]" hash to? That's an interesting problem. It also has to be some sort of nearest neighbor hash where the same hash without the mailbox component (or with additional preciously untagged components) allowed you to find the same stuff. So I guess this is starting to sound like sparse KNN.
I could tell you, but I would have to kill me.
Companies also track and report is when required by external entities such as the FAA for safety critical systems.

I think it goes deeper than "the conditions you forgot to write" although that's part of it. A developer's test suite tends to make assumptions and these are the same assumptions that exist in the production code. If your assumptions about usage, or input, or edge cases are poor then the tests you write will be poor too and in that case 100% coverage isn't worth much. Big reason I'm a fan of things like QuickCheck in Haskell.
The vast majority of all corporations don't own any media. Lobbying isn't some magic form of mind control: it's just them presenting their case to the government, which is free to ignore them and routinely does. Threat of capital flight is really just "if you screw us over we'll try and leave" which is hardly any power at all, especially as often companies can't leave because they have huge fixed assets there.

Really, corporations have no power at all. They have the power to speak and maybe to leave. Whereas governments can do whatever they like.
Most people I meet seem to simply survive on instinct and mimicking others around them.

I find it really refreshing when I discover that someone is passionate about something, no matter what it is.

The possibility exists that I could just be a bad interviewer though.
Economically, I consider this inevitable personally. The very tech you need to get to Mars with anything significant is this tech, and for quite a while, there's going to be more of this stuff in orbit than anyone on Mars.

Plus there's a non-trivial overlap with what you need for a self-sustaining Mars. We know we can build a functioning supply chain on a planet rich in resources; the real technological question remaining is, can we build a functioning supply chain out of nothing but energy and the requisite atoms not already preconfigured in desirable molecules?

BioSphere was interesting and all, and this Mars shot is interesting, but if we really want this kind of technology, what we really need to do is to build ourselves a base in Antarctica, with the goal of producing a base that can build a duplicate of itself with no additional outside resources other than what the base itself can scrounge from the environment. (With possibly a couple of carefully selected exceptions; we might spot them some yellowcake or something.) Or to build a base, whose goal it is to build a base, that can then duplicate itself without the first base. Once you have that tech stack, you'd have a pretty good idea what you need to do to start building self-sustaining space presence.

The problem is, it's intrinsically impossible for such a base to compete economically on Earth with the other entities using the local abundance of resources. It has to be a deliberate project.

If I were a billionaire targeting human survivability in the long term, this is actually what I'd be doing right now, not reaching for Mars. Once you have this in hand, you'd have something you could actually send to Mars and have some hope of it surviving.

(This gets you a good 80%+ of the way to super-long-term sustainability on its own terms; anything short of an extra-large planetary impact event would in principle be survivable by such a facility. Lifting it into space later would almost just be the icing on the cake.)
Limited practical knowledge here (beginner ASL and some time in a linguistics research lab) - there are fewer synonyms, but facial expression and other movements make a huge difference. Much like German adds suffixes that can really change the meanings of words, a eyebrow or tongue movement can modify a sign in ASL.

Another reason ASL has fewer synonyms is that it’s not a horrible amalgamation of a ton of different languages like English is (English has a weirdly large vocabulary, like 3 times as large as some other languages). ASL is a direct descendant of French SL, no weird mixing. Moroccan SL, in contrast, is a descendent/hybrid of several languages and it, as an example, has like a million different handshapes for different kinds of insects.

Further, a word-sentence model is too limited to describe sign languages (I know this applies ASL and Moroccan SL, not sure about others). For example, a large set of concepts are expressed through classifiers. Classifiers are systems of hand-shapes, spatial locations (e.g. side of head vs in front of chest), and motions which can specify a objects (including its shape, size, and location) and also the objects’s verb and relationship with other objects. Some people mistakenly think classifiers are a form of pantomime, but classifier motions and hand shapes have specified and limited meanings (e.g. the flat rectangular object classifier is not making a rectangle shape, it’s more of a pinching motion). That’s just one example of how sign languages diverge from a word-sentence model, many more differences exist.

The main take away is that sign languages work differently from spoken languages, it’s not that easy to compare 1-to-1. There’s definitely no word that means “rotund” in ASL, but there are certainly grammar structures that let you express that.

Although you could, there’s no need to soften or euphemize physical characteristics in American Deaf culture. You can just sign “that fat person over there” and it’s not considered rude.
Also if you look at ID software, they were just a tiny (but very skilled and highly dedicated) team who churned out one game per month for a year.
A useful proxy for organizational creativity oftentimes comes down to "how well-defined are the edges".

Every human who interacts with (externally) and works on (internally) S3 has an intrinsic understanding of what S3 is. It has well-defined edges.

Higher definition of edges within a product domain naturally correlates with a decrease in necessary creativity and an increase in operational expertise. Its more important that someone who works With and On S3 understand what S3 is, rather than what it could be. That's just the nature of the beast.

That isn't to say that it requires zero creativity; that isn't remotely what I'm saying. There is creativity involved in operational expertise, and beyond even that, S3 gets awesome new features all the time which requires creativity in thinking about how to solve customers' problems in a generic, customer-agnostic way, how to implement those solutions at scale, etc.

Though, even developing out these features are more operational, because you have the defined edges to anchor yourself against. You have customers who are reporting their problems to you. You have a profitable operational model which guides investment in the product.
It's difficult to imagine how one could accidentally consume more than a swallow.
How is Facebook inherently evil?
The Dominion machines have a paper trail. How do you hand wave that away?
I did the same. Mixed reactions, some shocked, some shrug and move on. And my friends are academically educated and relatively conscious of this issue I believe. Probably not the most representative sample...
The current bar is someone fanning the flames but then gives a concessionary call for peace. It should be easier to find than people explicitly instigating violence.
The NYT homepage currently describes what happened as "Mayhem Incited by Trump."

If you were to read that and go to Trump's twitter feed and read the above quoted tweet, you would now be left with two competing ideas: Was Trump inciting the mayhem or trying to quell it?

On the other hand, if you go to his Twitter feed and just see what's currently there, two blank spots replaced with, "This Tweet is no longer available because it violated the Twitter Rules," you will think, "oh, Trump was inciting mayhem."

So deleting those tweets helps construct a narrative.
The best thing we can do is not let history forget what happened today, and what will happen with we let someone like Donald Trump have free reign over the political institutions without proper checks and balances. More than ever, the Democrats need to limit their own powers to prevent a similar occurrence in 4 or 8 more years.
How long do you think 90% of a democracy can go without an increase to their standard of living?

I think you are conflating two distinct concepts. Standard of living is not identical with the percentage of national income you have. The former could increase while the latter decreased, if the total amount of income increased. And that is exactly what has happened.

Or to get specific again, in the subset of society consisting of just me and Larry Page, my percentage of the total income has decreased dramatically. But my standard of living has not declined.
Great quality academic writing doesn't always mean a great grade. If you want a great grade (A- and above), know what the professor expects and mold your paper accordingly.

Now, if you want to produce quality writing that pushes your intellectual limits and makes you a better writer, develop a taste for good writing by reading a variety of works, scholarly and non, practice consistently, and edit religiously - by yourself and with others. Hopefully, then, you have a professor or advisor who can appreciate your work even if they disagree with it.
interesting how Apple is the company he fears the most. steve jobs as a corporate dictor who will go to any lengths to maintain his power.. the cycle leading to paranoia is already beginning to show.
If I create a non-IM use case, can I limit the type of clients that are allowed to connect to the server? For example, disallow Element?
Except that I, too, would rather book an appointment with a date picker than talk to anyone, much less a machine programmed to act like a person. It's like in order to make coffee, getting in my car and driving around the block ten times, parking in front of my house and going in to make coffee, vs just MAKING COFFEE, without doing a bunch of time wasting fluff first.
There's a bit of an issue in that you don't really want to run your generator for too many hours. I think mine wants service every 100 hours or every year whichever comes first. Maybe 100 hours is enough for actual backup and substantial peak shaving though; I certainly haven't studied the spot prices in TX, as I wouldn't live there. ;)

If you had local battery storage, and decent forecasting for house demand and spot prices, I think you could have some fun and save some money. Bonus if you can coordinate loads too. Of course, the more people who do that, the flatter the price curve gets, and the less incentive there is to do it.
Check their ad business brief - https://searchads.apple.com/

As requested, evidence of tracking in iPhones - https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2020/11/16/appl...
Maybe, but can I please not be forced to do business via the robots while they are terrible?

Also, beside being spectacularly good, the AI has to also be actually empowered for me not to find the process wasteful and insulting. The AI should actually be able to solve my problem as a result of natural language communication. Not just walk me through a prepared script: that's frustrating even when a real live human does it.
The title of the link is a bit misleading. It might be better to say:
"Ways to get land in North America without paying" as it lists some techniques you can use: committing to building a house, taking care of a farm, or via squatters rights to obtain land in Canada and the US without needing to buy it.

As there are substantial non-monetary obligations attached (for example, the need to build a house), I wouldn't call this "giving away land". And as most of these programs have been in place for a long time - in some cases dating back to common law - I wouldn't frame it as news. Rather, it's another set of life hacking tips.
Nor food, nor housing, etc... we need a different system for people’s necessities.
Also, many elders cannot differentiate legitimate links and ads. They are more innocent than we can imagine.
Almost the same disparity exists in Europe and they are imposing austerity so are they doomed?
I'm in Australia where we get all that stuff (and amazon sells books and not a whole lot else) and my tax rate (in a relatively high tax bracket) is ~35%, a chunk of which is paying off my (government run, non-profit) university debt. Judging by the sibling comments, it seems like that high cost is about -5% tax at best...
Imagine how hard it's been for Chinese speakers to learn to code and use most modern libraries. I'd say the billion+ Chinese folks can represent a large enough audience for this library, if English-speakers don't want to figure it out (and maybe help with translations).

When it comes to code, I generally want lots of good examples more than documentation, and there seem to be a reasonable amount of examples (I haven't spent much time trying to make sense of them, yet).

I'm implementing a new charting system for our products, and haven't yet settled on the graphing library (leaning toward Rickshaw, but also considering Metrics Graphics), so I'll give this a shot. It looks really promising, particularly with regard to large data sets, since that's something most graphing libraries fall down on...we current reduce our data set to 1024 or fewer data points before sending to the graph. It might be awesome to have all the data in the client and let them zoom in and out at will.
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Do you have any suggestions for a more robust method for anomaly detection in seasonal time series data?
Wow, did not know about that! What a shame that Amazon didn't go with the dual e-ink/LCD idea, given that they're practically singlehandedly responsible for e-ink going mainstream.

Throw in free-with-Prime, Android, and a few carrier discounts (e.g. free data for a year) and I'd happily dump my iPhone in a heartbeat.
Excellent post! Two related articles, on office layouts:

- http://www.economist.com/news/international/21637359-how-wor...

- http://www.newyorker.com/currency-tag/the-open-office-trap
you have to upgrade the processor to even get the option of 8gb I found when ordering this just now.