jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As you said and linked elsewhere in the thread, the unicode consortium takes the viewpoint that there should be one codepoint for each glyph, even if that glyph has multiple semantic meanings in different languages (e.g. "U"). So by that standard they should probably be the same codepoint, but in that case it's hard to argue that roman capital I and turkish capital dotless I should be different codepoints.

Alternately you could argue that ohm symbol shouldn't lowercase to omega, which, maybe. I think the right view is simply that lower- and upper-casing aren't always well defined, are culturally and contextually dependent, and are probably something you should only ever be doing for display, not for semantic purposes. (If you want to do case-insensitive comparisons of strings, Unicode comes with algorithms for that which do a better job than upper- or lower-casing the strings before comparing)
Sorry but real estate is nothing like a collectible. It has tangible value as a form of housing or for some commercial purpose (retail, office, etc.).
They can out grow the economy in the short term, if it lasts long enough it becomes the economy.

Differentiating between fad and valuable, especially with manufactured commodities, is a guessing game. Odds are someone will end up with a large amount of junk along the way.
To me, these arguments are vaguely reminiscent of the philosophical arguments from the 80s and 90s. I also remember some people using Go as an example of a problem to which ML approaches won't work. We've gone from people giving up on computers solving Go, to human Go masters retiring because AlphaGo is impossible to beat.

I mean, AlphaZero is trained solely on self-play. It is not even given the rules of the game, it exists in the world where it is rewarded or punished by the 'laws of physics' of the Go board the way we exist in a environment with physical rules that constrain and reward or punish our biology.

To say that AlphaZero is just data compression of the inputs seems hand wavy. It is data compression only in the sense that phenomena from the world is stream of data, and humans developing representations of that data (eg laws of physics) around that data are a compression of it.

But AlphaZero wasn't given a huge feed of pre-played world data. Rather, it interacted with, and poked around in a simulated environment, until it was able to make good predictions on how its interactions would turn out. I learn that dropping a ball falls to the ground, and so I can make a prediction of what happens if I drop a ball. How is AlphaZero predicting the outcome of moves purely from self-play just another kNN? If so, why isn't our brain's learning just a kNN then?
FWIW french law is also available officially via http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr though that's not exactly sexy. All of the french code (and other sections of french laws) are available for free with full history e.g. http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do?cidTexte=...
I was thinking about this. Are there any examples of open source Karpathy style computer vision applied to SLAM/point cloud data instead of 2D images?
I was expecting some kind of Wasteland joke. Cool stuff.
hi there
So you can see right there that vitamin D has had no significant impact on Covid, at least not in anyone who is not already deficient in vitamin D. If it had an impact, then most people who are shut-ins and don't supplement, would have gotten sick, or even died. And that just hasn't happened. "Most" haven't gotten sick. Read more on https://www.canadadrugsdirect.com/
As an academic exercise, bravo. As a practical matter, articles like this boggle my mind.

I really struggle to find a single reason how Linux makes sense on a laptop in 2015 as a primary OS when OS X is an option.

If you feel that strongly about running a Linux desktop, just do it in a VM.
Surely you have seen the combination phone/shaver/projector/voice translator/harmonica/coffee-maker

http://www.pomegranatephone.com/ (seems to be down)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e4X10hOh9o
Wouldn't it be more practical to change things so that the cops aren't raiding houses all the time?
Neither of those renders follows the Roadster / S / 3 / X design language. They look like something Honda or Nissan would come up with.
From what I can see, yes, methane is abstractly a worse greenhouse gas. However its absorption band is within that of water vapor. Since water vapor is plentiful around the blue marble, methane doesn’t really cause any problems.
https://www.mwl-law.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/PEDESTRIA...

Vehicles must yield to pedestrians in cross-walks in just about or all states it seems. I didn't read every single one in that PDF but i skimmed it.

In some states:

"Vehicles must yield to pedestrian in crosswalk on vehicle’s half of road or close to it. Pedestrians must not step off curb and into path of vehicle when vehicle does not have time to stop"
Protonmail has a huge gap between promises and what's delivered. Their IMAP bridge is slow and buggy, their mobile app hasn't been meaningfully updated in a year, and even as a paying user they put upsell ads in the sidebar, above your own folders.

If PM is not a honeypot, they are incompetent.
They had a warrant. It wan't technically stealing since they were legally authorized by a judge to take the property in as evidence.
The worst thing to come out of "hipsterism" is the dilution of the term hipster to be utterly meaningless, and frequently used describe any person that one dislikes for any reason.

The word "super" is just a word. People have been using it for a long time.
Yep, they are terrorist. And, yes, they did. Read the piece in Guardian or elsewhere, location where bus was blown up is more than 15 kilometres away from the closest Ukrainian forces location. Max distance of mortar - 10km.
Huh, that's rather unfortunate. Thank you for pointing that out, I'll see that I can fix things!
This is not apples to apples. As soon as you apply the same ecosystem concepts (end points not owned and operated by the company) google has the exact same problems.

Reminder: Silent closure of android bugs over the holidays.

How many beers did the google pr team buy Dan Goodin?

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/2qjkuf/someone_sile...
> What if you just shut down the computer

Good idea. It's probably the safest/most paranoid to trigger an NMI or bus reset. Should be extremely low latency.
> the important thing to remember if you are actually giving a talk is that you are the presentation

I spoke with a "speaking coach" once and this was precisely his advice.

At the time, I was giving him a mock presentation in a small room and I was using a laser-pointer.

He told me "Unless you absolutely have to, NEVER use a laser-pointer. YOU are the presentation. If you have to point out a specific section of your slide, walk up to it and SMACK it with your hand. Then get back to communicating with your audience."
The person with a twitter account could then be a ‘twat’
Steve Jobs: success built on talents of others (Woz), used sweatshop labor, and was very much a dick as well. Minimal technical talent. Jordan, when his team was down, could take over the game as a matter of choice. Apple took an investment from Microsoft when they were against the ropes.
Or more importantly the lack of quality of the apps that do exist. As a part time WP8 user I've never really suffered from a lack of apps, but I often find that the apps that are there never live up to the quality and finish of equivalent apps on Android. Don't get me wrong, they're all fine and all get the job done, but never quite as nicely as on Android (or iOS).

The only exception where the Nokia Here navigation apps.
If you're building the bones of the company and you're not getting double digits of equity you're getting a raw deal. That percentage will get diluted with every round too so it's not like 10% of 100M or something.
I addressed that in other comment: I don't want to have to rely on that. For starters, there is no real data about that, just anecdotes. How do I know they will reimburse non-US customers too? Many companies have that policy: They protect US customers because they can sue them, but people from other countries can only complain on the internet.
I disagree with this but do agree that there's a problem to be seriously discussed.

The Sunday Times ran a big and rather non-judgmental feature on "Generation XXX" today. The stat quoted in the Commons was that 80% of 14-16 year old children "frequently" use Internet pornography. They also interviewed some various teenagers and discovered both that anal sex is now "normalized" (their word, not mine) and almost everyone's shaving their "lady garden" (again, their term) merely because that's what they're seeing in porn.

Without being judgmental about it myself, I find it rather amusing but I can see why people are getting upset.
Nice layouts! I've sent you an email.
Clifford Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg comes immediately to mind.
A polyglot quine! There should be special obfuscated contest just for that.
A lot of commenters seem confused about this: you still have to validate Office to get it to work, or pirate it to circumvent the check. The change is that Microsoft will let you download Office add-ons without verifying that said validation occurred, so pirate versions can now access the downloads.
I doubt that viewing sex is harmful to children, but most porn is not in the realm of reality. As long as children are able to realize that porn is not reality, there should be no issue, but if children are introduced to sex through pornography, then pornography becomes what they believe reality is.

(I should note that, though I am not in the UK, I do not support this action. "Nanny State" indeed.)

{edit=expanding} I think it's all about how children relate to others. Violence definitely has an effect on children, but I think it may have less of an effect on them than viewing pornography does. Why? (well, let me answer that question that I brilliantly asked myself!) Because most of the elements of the violence that you see (I'm not talking about sexual violence here) in media are elements of relationships with other people that most children have already experienced by the time that one would think that they are able to view violent media. Basically they have experienced the reality of relating to people in such a manner, and can easily distinguish the fantasy (e.g. getting angry at someone, vs getting angry at them and then beating them with a baseball bat).

On the other hand, pornography is all about relating to others sexually. Children have no experience with this, so the viewing experience becomes not just entertainment, but education, and I don't think that most porn has life lessons in it that we want to teach children.

Note that this is a very general argument. Even the word 'children' is almost too general to mean anything. A high-schooler and a 3 year old are on very different levels with respect to how they can handle these things.
Sure. If you read 2-5 books a year, its possible.
I don't know how it is in the US but in Australia my CS results meant bugger all after I left college. The majority of companies care far more about you doing your own personal projects and having a passion for what you than the grades you got in college.

So keeping this in mind, work on your startup as much as you can while passing your courses and you'll come out far ahead of others who get A's but don't have a single personal project or demo on their resume.
Ha, I wonder how much my VHS of Tron is worth.

As long as there isn't a mythbusters:tron, because wow has Hollywood jumped the shark or what (ie. green hornet mythbusters).
The whole point of the particular three propositions is that they're highly correlated. Each condition involves an aggregate of many companies. If any of the conditions is true it says more about the general tech climate than it does about the luck of any particular company.

Personally, I might put the odds of each at 60%, 70%, and 90%, respectively. Independently, that gives me a mere 37.8% chance of losing. However, I also think that condition 1 succeeding is highly indicative that the others will succeed too. So, if it were really $100,000 at stake, I wouldn't take the bet.

The real conundrum is that stakes of winning aren't $100,000. The loser's money goes to charity, and the winner's takings are the publicity gained from being right. No doubt both participants feel that the publicity is worth more than $100,000. They don't need to have even 50% confidence to take the bet.
This probably won't work if you just pass -j. If I needed to solve this problem, I would have just grepped the output of `ps' to get the make invocation. If I wasn't sure which invocation was correct, I would have used heuristics like the output of `pstree' to figure it out.
I had never considered altitude as a factor in takeoff weight limits.

How much load would a typical FedEx flight need to shed to operate out of Denver?
tup [1], redo [2] and ninja [3] are probably the build systems with the most potential.

redo is the simplest, which is unsurprising given that it was originally proposed by djb. Alternatively, you could look into mk, which is the make replacement used by Plan 9, Inferno and derivatives.

[1] http://gittup.org/tup/

[2] http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/int...

[3] https://martine.github.io/ninja/
Browser VR has been doable for years already. Three.js has been the de factor standard API. I have worked at a bunch of places that genuinely tried really hard with some actual practical, commercial uses for interactive 3D experiences and none of them stuck.
I never said to not get a competing offer. I said not to take (accept) a counteroffer.

In fact, I think it is good practice to do interviews every once in a while to see what the market is willing to pay for you.
how about sticking to the speed limit?

Because the speed limit in much of the US is below the “natural” speed of that roadway. We have highways where 80+mph is the norm, but the posted limited can be anywhere from 55-70mph (I-95 along the east coast). Driving the speed limit actually becomes dangerous. At this point, speed enforcement becomes a hit-or-miss affair, where you’re at the mercy of the police officer. Better hope he’s having a good day and you don’t “look suspicious”, etc. Making it even worse, that same interstate (I-95) has the limit vary from 55-70 depending on state/town - the highway itself didn’t change, just the jurisdiction. And yes, the states with the lower limits are notorious for ticketing out-of-state drivers.

And that’s just the highway. Secondary roads through small towns are just a racket. https://www.newsweek.com/police-chief-quits-after-report-rev...
> judicial elections are needed

These aren’t a panacea.

I’ve helped get judges elected in Manhattan. The primaries swung by tens of votes in some cases, usually no more than a few hundred. A few clubs, or one large tenant association, could decide the vote. (Counterfactual: judicial elections attract disproportionately-informed voters if they happen off cycle and without party affiliations, which in the context of primaries, applies.)
> As recently as last year I have read people proclaiming that war was "obsolete" because it was too expensive because we are too economically intertwined, but apparently this is not a big enough of a deterrent for some leaders, so again we can never count on this idea again, it was naive.

You might be right about this, but I'm not yet writing it off. So far, it seems the most affected countries are not as integrated as the others, like Sri Lanka, and Pakistan (of course them more so than Sri Lanka).

When it hits an economically integrated country with power, then we'll see what happens.
I did specify "any conventional military force"; 'winning' an occupation/insurgency is quite another matter, particularly when the 'win conditions' are political rather than military. And doubly true when those political win conditions are poorly defined in the first place.

But trust me, defense industry lobbyists are very eager for the US Government to spend even more money to address these shortcomings...
> when compiling

When opening a second chrome tab*
I once wrote a custom build systems in python to generate Make files. I did this because I wanted to use convention instead of configuration and achieve fast builds on multicore machines. Later, after leaving that company, I wanted to recreate a similar build system. I wrote it in python to generate Ninja build files.
I found it easier and cleaner to write Ninja build files.

I wasn't able to do a direct comparison of the build speeds of the two systems, but I bet the Ninja builds were significantly faster.
> _________ is shitty though when it comes to tech. The pay is garbage compared to US top companies so they lose out on the top global talent.

You can fill the blank with the name of literally any country on earth and the sentence will still be correct. Tech salaries in the US are a huge outlier. There is not a single other country on earth where ICs can earn remotely as much as they do in the US tech hubs. Even US top companies don't pay remotely as much in their non-US offices.
It is absurd to assume that there were zero firearms of any kind at that event. There aren't zero firearms at children's birthday parties.
That's literally against federal law. https://www.govdocs.com/can-employees-discuss-pay-salaries/
Taxis, small delivery vehicles, utility cars, cars and trucks for countryside use, and various trucks for city and highway use can all be electric, with all the benefits of EVs.

If you want public transit be more popular, build denser cities. E.g. on Manhattan using the subway is a no-brainer, and you are rarely more than two (long) blocks from a subway station. In some more remote parts of Brooklyn, you often cannot reach the destination by subway alone, and you have to take a bus. Even further away, traveling by a bus either becomes too slow, or the bus does not come close enough, and a car is inevitable. I suppose there is no way to make public transit economical or time-efficient in agglomerations like Houston, even though LA manages a bus network somehow.

Cycling such distances us also problematic: you either have to be pretty fit and take a shower when you arrive, or you have to have all the time in the world. Cycling within a dense city is pretty practical, though.
If you make a gene drive you are a scientist.

Hopefully whoever decides to just go do it has the sense to only target mosquitoes that preferentially feed on humans. Much less ecosystem impact that way.
I cycle and I agree it's a superior form of transport.

> cars are the single biggest reason why living in the city can be unpleasant

I'm pretty sure rent / house prices are the #1 negative people cite about cities. A relatively new phenomenon. In cities where prices have not risen as much, like Detroit, I doubt people say cars are unpleasant.

Ironically cars are probably depressing prices in the city significantly. For most normal people, a car lets them not overpay for land, by letting them live somewhere far away.

The pandemic changed that calculus. Normals don't work from home though. Normals were just sustained by PPP, until that ran out and they get (or already are) fired.

> infrastructure

The people living in cities with developing infrastructure change faster than the infrastructure gets built.

Let's say we're talking about a place where land values are rising despite no infrastructure changes. There, the people who want to leave rent or sell to the people who want to come, who already find the lack of infrastructure agreeable.

The people who are left over can't afford the higher rents.

So then, what you discover is situations like the Sommerville Green Line Extension. Many residents opposed it. "Gentrification" is a word used to describe the antagonist, for these people.

Why opposition to infrastructure? It raises rents.

It's a little reductionist, to make everything about dollar and cents. We're paying for the environmental and psychic impact of having cars everywhere with too few dollars.

But good luck advocating for infrastructure changes on a timeline faster than the makeup of the residents of the town.
Who's been locked up?

I've gone to the gas station daily to get fountain drinks, I've gone to grocery stores, etc... I have NOT gone to movie theaters or crowded in-door places, but I mostly avoided those before lockdowns.

The only change is masks.

In fact my daily life is mostly the same as it was before lockdown, except I had covid last march, have severe anxiety, depression, weakness in my hands/feet and severe neuropathy, as well as a standing heart rate of 130, sitting at 90, constant shortness of breath, fatigue that's only sort of in check when I take 3-4oz of energy shots per day plus my vyvanse, and two antihistamines (loratadine/pepcid).

At night I have severe insomnia, but that could be the pain as my pain level seems to be 2x at night as it is during the day.

I'm pretty sure there's a very valid effect of covid on the brain/body/etc. If you doubt it just go to reddit.com/r/covidlonghaulers
This article is beyond frustrating. It nowhere addresses the question of how the CDC has authority to ban evictions nationwide.
Why not just write this as a bash one-liner?

function httpdiff {
diff <(curl -L $1) <(curl -L $2)
}
If you haven't already, I'd suggest downloading 'Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation (1904)' by Lafcadio Hearn (free for Kindle or as an .html from Project Gutenberg). Although sympathetic but culturally chauvinistic by contemporary standards this study does supply a corpus of interesting observations on the history of a Japan rapidly transitioning from micro-managed hierarchical feudalism to a form of Euro-inspired modernism, with associated strengths and weaknesses. And this while engaged in a war with tsarist Russia. What Japan was shapes what Japan is.
I've been much happier with lobste.rs' voting system than HN's. On Lobsters:

1. All moderation is public information.

2. Who invited who is public information.

3. You need to pick a reason for downvoting something.

4. You can undo a downvote or an upvote.

Perhaps because of these properties (or something else), I also enjoy the conversations and community there better.

Frankly, I am annoyed that I can't read what your post said without copy/pasting it into a text document. WTH HN? Don't treat us like children.

It's obvious his post was downvoted for no good reason (as many posts on HN are). By making them difficult to read you're just making it difficult for others to evaluate even what reason it might have been downvoted for was.

(P.S. If you want a Lobsters invite, see my profile.)
Beware that free tier has 15 GB upload limit.

from https://aws.amazon.com/free/:

Data Transfer

15 GB of bandwidth out aggregated across all AWS services*
This same researcher has been working in this area for awhile, and this is not an unexpected extension of things he's developed previously - like how to take standard video and determine the pulse of any people present (search on 'non-eulerian video magnification'). He's been working in what you can recover from the variations present in video which others have written off as 'noise' for awhile. I wouldn't be surprised if he just stumbled upon the effect sound had while doing other analysis.

I haven't looked, but if the NSA was involved with this, its usually easy to find out. Just look for any grants involved and look up the source of the grant. They don't usually hide their involvement in funding research. Pretty much any study done in the past 10 years about manipulating social graphs was funded by the NSA.