skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only thing I'd disagree with is the statement 'we're nowhere near there' with regard to oligarchy and societal collapse. I think we're quite close. We have an entire generation where a tiny proportion have great prospects and the rest have steadily diminishing prospects and increasing stress, and we have educated people who grew up in the west going to join an expressly suicidal terrorist organization. We have a significant proportion of the population willing to vote for a demagogue whose positions are clearly nonsensical because he represents their (legitimate) anger at their lack of prospects the status quo affords them.

The descent from here isn't going to be linear.
The neural network chips are really interesting. Anyone have any detailed articles they on them that they can recommend?
Yudkowsky has been one of the most instrumental and highly regarded figures in promoting Bayesian epistemology, among other woo that engineers and programmers are oddly susceptible to. Nothing wrong with singling him out.
Asymptotics aren't a practical bound on anything - a function documented as being O(1) could still take ten thousand years. In practice outside of hard realtime systems all functions are best-effort and we confirm acceptable performance empirically rather than having any explicit guarantees. I do think a language that made it explicit exactly how long any given function would take would be a good thing, but that would be a much bigger undertaking than Rust's borrow checker.
It sure doesn't seem like it is there reading the page I linked.

I guess the software you mention that depends on having a desktop will do some combination of not working and working poorly, but they aren't targeting legacy applications with it, they are fleshing out their cloud offering.
It's true that when the question is formed in frequentist terms, the answer is much more intuitive. But is that how the problem occurs in real life? The doctor doesn't see ten thousand people take a test; they see a person take a test, and get either a positive or negative result. The traditional way of forming the problem seems closer to actual experience: 'your patient tested positive. you know how accurate the test is, and how common the disease is; how likely is it that the result is a false positive?'
As this article suggests, it's more likely that they'll push for the use of "traditional ____ units", which will be completely arbitrary, especially since most of the people who knew what these units were are long dead. Converting between them will be a nightmare, and if people start demandimg that, say, all buildings for African-Americans be measured in units used by the Zulu tribes, it'll cause even more divides between white workers ("Why can't we just use feet?") and black workers ("This measurement is my heritage, why don't you want to use it?")
This will, of course, be attributed to racism, because scapegoats are useful for such things.
I'm a little late to this discussion, but i'm a senior at irvington right now, and this article is bs. No teacher gives only 20 min of homework a night, and all of my non-ap teachers have still given me homework on the weekends this year.
That previous discussion is of a different article by a different author, but, yes, this issue deserves a lot of discussion. The article submitted to open this thread is by two authors who follow the research literature on this topic closely and who review much of the prior literature in their commentary article.
Maybe not for people who do this kind of things almost on daily basis anyways.

It does have educational value: help to give more people pointers, short tutorial how to attack these issues. The more people can do this, the less bugs we will have around.

We need more people with these skills. It's all the time harder to hire these people nowadays.
> and a decent macro lens.

Often a tilt-shift lens. That's how they place the plane of focus horizontally across a plate so that the food is in crisp focus but the table is softened.

Most photography is nowadays done with vertical planes of focus ( thanks for nothing, SLRs ) but choosing your plane used to be as integral as choosing shutter speed and aperture.
Show HN: “j – a small tool to quickly jump between directories”
I did something similar while working for the IT department at the University of Chicago -- we helped a humanities prof build what was essentially a plagiarism detector, with the twist that it was designed to be applied to "great texts" in order to examine plagiarism, which wasn't considered a bad thing back in the day.

Spoilers: Rousseau copied like 25% of most of his texts from earlier authors.

At the same job, I also helped some linguistics grad students use python to do something involving linguistics that I didn't completely understand. They were pleased as punch to be able to automate a tedious manual process, and expand their throughput to entire texts instead of a few sentences.

So there is a lot of potential for using code to help the humanities, but it takes active involvement from hackers who are willing to work with humanities folks. Props to NSIT at the U of C for attempting this.
> iPad Pro and Apple Pencil is Apple's warning to Wacom

I see it as a response to the MS Surface, which people really like, including myself.
Anecdotal evidence, I used to to that as a CSR at PayPal years ago. After a "normal" day of height hours of calls or emails you had two more hours of emails.

My brain was fried and I was glad when the policy was canceled.

I loved the extra day though (which was Monday or Wednesday) and as a software engineer I would love to pull it off, to rest or work on my own thing, but I would gladly take a pay cut than work 10 hours a day constantly.
<<We tried it. It didn't work. No reasonable person disputes this.

Karl Marx would argue that his ideas might have worked if someone else implemented them.
WTF is it?
Thanks. I don't speak Spanish. I had no idea that this was a common idiom.
This is spot on. I don't have enough money to invest in hedge funds, but when I look at mutual funds I look for consistent returns. I don't care one whit about how ethical the management team is. On some level I care that I'm not dealing with Bernie Madoff, but I don't have the time, inclination, or expertise to suss all that out.
I wouldn't call it "broken". The tools we have today will be "broken" by tomorrow's standards as well.
Ron's First Law: All extreme positions are wrong. :-)

Re: His last line about extreme positions -- Any position with "all" in it is extreme.

Extreme positions aren't wrong. It's just that they're most often appropriate only in extreme positions.
Good talk, sadly he does not go over any of the hardware side. I've been looking for a cheap way to get into SDR.
>I think we're quite close.

USA: 5% unemployment, GDP per capita of $55,000, 78.74 years life expectancy, Human Development Index: 8, etc.

EU: 9% unemployment, GDP per capita $38,000, 78.82 years life expectancy, Human Development Index: 6 average, etc.

Yeah, we're not "close."

Meanwhile countries like the BRIC nations, especially authoritarian autocracies like China or Russia, with terrible inequality and 100x the problems the West has strangely get a free pass from these discussions. HN your bias is showing.
Pretty much anything can be made to work if it's planned for and executed properly.

Our dev process required a lot of meetings and interaction. So in order to ensure clear blocks of working time, we used to set aside days as "no meeting days" Some people would take the opportunity to work from home on those days since it was guaranteed they wouldn't be pulled into a meeting. Once you know Sally, Jared and Kaitlyn won't be in on Tuesdays, you plan around it.

It's really not a big deal.
If you have some time to spare, here's a great paper on a similar topic: the (mis)use of mathematics and in particular equilibrium methods in economics after Samuelson and Hicks ("What Went Wrong with Economics?", Peter J. Boettke, 1997): http://www.the-dissident.com/Boettke_CR.pdf

Pretty much every debate on economic policy between the left and right is full of fallacies emanating from this episode in history.
The preface to all further discussion: wealth is power, and nothing else. In our highly capitalist society, monetary wealth is perhaps the only useful form of power, from which all other power (violence, social influence) ultimately flows.

The Soviet Union attempted to produce equality of income, but not power: power was highly centralized. The equality I want is one that is diffusive.
80% of 20 year old males who die, die from 'External Causes'. That's just mad.
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Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age
I think you are missing the point.
What advantage does this have over say Jekyll?
Nvidia Drive PX 2 car supercomputer
I said it isn't going to be linear.

{seriously - downvotes? This is HN - surely people can conceptualize non-linear processes such as dams being punctured by small holes that lead to a collapse, or the rapid collapse of an animal population when a new predator is introduced, or the disruption of incumbents when a new technology is introduced e.g. Nokia with the iPhone}
PG's simplified essay seems like attack on a strawman; he's mainly arguing that inequality is good, but then mostly everybody agrees with that.

The issue people see (and PG conveniently ignores) is increasing inequality - not locally increasing (i.e. an enterpreneur becoming rich because of a successful business idea), but globally increasing inequality, which happens because of rent-seeking, tax avoidance, buying political influence, monopolistic behaviour, corruption, nepotism, inheritance...

Personally, I'm mostly concerned about the last one - inheritance. I don't have a problem with resourceful people being rich. But I see a danger of the wealth being concentrated over generations unless we introduce proper (non-avoidable) inheritance taxes.
Hidden Factors in Your Brain Help to Shape Beliefs on Income Inequality
Maybe he would, but all the experiments so far have failed for pretty much the same reasons and at enormous human cost.

Meanwhile capitalism in whatever form it's tried has proven itself to be an incredible engine of poverty reduction and human/social progress. There's always been tension between capitalism and democracy and we may be at a point where some of the cracks are showing.
> It is eyebrow-raising, to say the least, to bring in the Civil War as at all relevant and speculate even more wildly that it has intergenerational effects.

I wonder what the results would be if you applied that method to, say, Poland, or north-eastern France.
Awesome, now I can run quick Python commands and see the output in my XFCE panel:
sudo apt-get install xfce4-genmon-plugin
Right click panel > Panel > Add New Items > Generic Monitor > Add
Right click "(genmon)XXX", > Properties
Try this command: python -c "import time;print time.time()"
You might set it to run every 10 seconds.
You could get results from a webpage or all kinds of things.
It supports images, tooltips, progress bar, buttons...
This is great!
Thanks!
Dept. Of Homeland Security Releases Drone Privacy Best Practices
Please tell us more. It still seems like a lot of money, although of course, not to Google.
indeed sir there is implication here with the added adjective of "diversity"
‘Teslasuit’ Is a Tactile Skin That Lets You Feel VR, Kickstarter Jan First
Again, I feel the need to represent the facts from the video for people stumbling over this thread (as of 2016/01):

1.) Rowhammer.js does not (yet) give root access through JS on a website, this is work in progress. The current Rowhammer JS script can create bit flips in DRAM lines.

2.) They do not show how to get root access with Rowhammer.js, they describe a scenario they are working on and that might work in the future, which involves getting access to memory pages with memory cached versions of scripts that someone might execute as root.
Income doesn't help you much when most, if not all, of your disposable income is spent on rent.
On the other hand, identifying a smaller city or town that could turn into a future suburb or expansion of a bigger city is a great way to start investing in real estate. There is a city in Canada called Waterloo, and from what I have read and heard about that place it is booming thanks to its relative closeness to Toronto and tech ecosystem.
I've known people who have formed their moral framework almost exclusively from their experience within such environments. I've even known people in positions of power, who exercise power accordingly.

This is a problem of separating fantasy and reality. If one understands that, say, Doom is a fantasy that does not work in the same way as the real world, then you won't have trouble realizing that you can't solve your problems with a well-timed shotgun blast while running at 90 miles per hour.

On the other hand, if you don't stop and think about how different Doom is from the world, then you get headlines about how Doom caused two teens to shoot up a school. Which, incidentally, is a bad example--the two teens you're probably thinking of were also neo-nazis, so it's far more likely that they played Doom obsessively because they wanted to kill people, and far less likely that Doom drove them to kill.
I second this comment
I think Stephen Bond did some excellent takedowns of the identity politics that has arisen around Bayes' Theorem back in the day. I wonder where he's at these days.

The Cult of Bayes' Theorem

http://laurencetennant.com/bonds/cultofbayes.html

> One of Yudkowsky's constant refrains, appropriating language from Frank Herbert's Dune, is "Politics is the Mind-killer". Under this rallying cry, Lesswrong insiders attempt to purge discussions of any political opinions they disagree with. They strive to convince themselves and their followers that they are dealing in questions of pure, refined "rationality" with no political content. However, the version of "rationality" they preach is expressly politicised.
I think his ideas will fail so long as those trying to implement them are Homo sapiens.
I've tried the Vive in a smaller space and the way it handles walls is pretty intuitive (it puts a "ghost" grid where the wall is when you get close to it). I guess I'm more concerned about how developers handle small spaces- surely not every application/game out there will accommodate for a 10x10 or even a 5x5 space
Could you not also argue that ongoing use of HTTPS after authenticating yourself with the server is to ensure the response is coming from who you intend (i.e., the server authenticating itself to you)?
Success is not a place on a map, it is the journey
Indeed. Now that the Astral Plane has opened up, I think it is past time for Unicode to reconsider its decision on conlang alphabets and include things like Klingon, Tengwar, Aurebesh, and similar. I suppose coming up with criteria for conlang alphabet significance might be complicated, but certainly similar scholarship qualifications might be used as some of the dead languages.
I'm posting from a throwaway because I have fairly intimate knowledge of Bebop.

The reality is that they built and rebuilt several "enterprise" applications and pieces of technology. At one point it was a API based database, and then an application, and the latest iteration was an ATS built on top of their proprietary database. No one at their company could tell me what they actually did because there wasn't an aligned vision from their management. Alas, they had senior people formerly from VMWare and Diane Green at the helm. The company existed for roughly 2 years and wasn't able to actually produce customer working software from what I could tell. The acquisition was a straight up acquihire to get senior enterprise software folks on board to help build Google's presence there.
Do priors just start you off closer to the truth? That is to say, if you start with any prior, will enough additional pieces of evidence always let you converge on the truth?

Does anyone commonly set their priors to be a distribution? Perhaps a range or actually a normal distribution to represent a prior with uncertainty?
The typical approach is to use realpath(). That would expand out any relative portions of the path, which you could then compare directly with the expected path and know for sure it's in a subdirectory of your intended photo directory.

If you go that way, though, you'll also want to stop using the literal '/' and use the DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR constant so that your script runs on windows. realpath(), aside from expanding relative paths, would convert / to \ on a windows platform.
This wealth is based on social cohesion, which can fall apart in a generation or two. Genghis conquered half of Asia and built an empire of great wealth and high culture, but lack of cohesion tore it apart not long after.
Only US citizens are likely vulnerable to the attempts to fine though.
"Also, unless I'm mistaken, Berlin has competition, Uber is available there."

Yes might be, but the situation I've described is the way since I've been in Berlin (which is 15 years) - except the app of course.
What if papers were cryptographically signed so that they can be claimed later and there were a period of, say, one year of anonymity after publication? This period would allow things like peer review and initial recognition of the paper to occur with less social bias.

Just as important would be institutional anonymity. A paper from Nowheresville should be considered equally to a paper from Harvard.

Finally I think papers should be required in their headings to disclose sources of funding for the work therein, although this would have to be done later so as not to indirectly compromise the anonymity period.
I think the point of the Moloch reference wasn't that individuals would work longer hours, it's that companies that have people who work longer hours will be more successful.
Butterfly 2.0: in-browser *nix terminal supporting (some) HTML
Forbes is mainstream business news, not hacker news, so it doesn't belong here anyway. We need downvote for submissions.
When talking to customers, pay more attention in the answers they want to give than in the answer you wanted to get.

The parent assumed it was by month and not mentioned it being too high. So, clear indication that $15/year do not present itself as too high without any further info.

And as other commented, it might be too low. As I type this, both primary comments have very valuable advice. Listen to them and not to the fact they did not answered your proposed question.
They have made noise about running the blue line to the Charles m.g.h. station, which would solve a number of problems. It would require a stretch of elevated line on Cambridge street right in front of Mass General, so no idea if it will ever happen.
> Today, the top 1% control fully half of the planet's wealth

This is a meaningless statistic given negative wealth is possible (indeed common). By this simple measure a recent MBA graduate of Harvard with 200k debt and no assets is poorer than a Mumbai slum dweller with 2 rupees in his pocket.

I would argue that's not a fair reflection of the actual comparative wealth of the two individuals.

A potentially better measure of wealth would be say energy consumption which is highly correlated with living standards.

Of course the other point is that whilst inequality may be increasing, if measured in absolute cash terms, is that a bad thing if the living standards of the poor are being universally raised? A billion people in India and China have entered the middle class in the last 20 years.

It's ironic that the perceived decrease in wealth of the middle class in the US is exactly because on a global scale inequality, at least amongst the middle 80% is decreasing: an increasing percentage of wealth created is being distributed east-wards rather than remaining concentrated in the historically dominant economic powers of North America and Europe.
You technically don't have to, but the Out of Box Experience pushes you towards it.
Will San Francisco ever get a big dig ?

Genuinely curious if it is ever proposed for the 101 corridor that goes through the city.

For those who don't know, the 101 "freeway", which is the main artery north/south through the city, turns into a neighborhood street for several miles (and for several other miles (van ness) goes through a busy city center).

If you are north of the golden gate bridge and you need to go to SFO, you will drive through single family, residential neighborhoods, stopping at stop signs and traffic lights. That's the route.

But there's no other route, so the only solution would be a tunnel, as far as I can tell.

Is this ever proposed ? Does anyone else want this ? Basically Presidio to SFSU, I think ...
Even crazier, because no doubt you specify the scoop size when you buy it. Ours are 2 or 3 cubic meters. They also have weight readings in the cab for the very scenario you are describing.
>Genghis conquered half of Asia

Are we really comparing this to a country that's nearly 240 years old and is a global superpower that has weathered everything from civil war, a major depression, defeating communism, a moon landing, inventing the internet and all the technologies you're using right now, the largest economy by GDP, the most powerful military in history, etc?

This is like saying the The Who or The Stones should have broken up by 1970 because the Dave Clark Five did. I think youre purposely selling short the USA and citing election hysteria that happens every four years is far from convincing. If anything this kind of discourse is healthy and good in a democracy.
http://elis.dvo.ru/~lab_11/bib/hershkowitz-nadal.pdf
I found a thesis on the topic.

Seems the upper bound of estimation when using bayesian probability for estimating parameters with data gets overestimated when the size of the data grows.

It does not makes sense to me, can someone explain this to me as if I was an idiot?

PS one of the searcher in his lab used to say: if you try to find to hard a physical law, you might eventually find it.

(quote from the thesis below)

Most of the results concerning the behavior of the mutual
information, observed for this particular family, are ‘‘universal,’’ in that they will be qualitatively the same for any problem that can be formulated as either a parameter estimation task or a neural coding task.
....
Besides the asymptotic regime p large, N arbitrary, we
have also considered the case of large N at any given value
of a5p/N. In this regime we have both replica calculations
and exact bounds, in particular, an upper bound for the class information and explicit upper and lower bounds for the mutual information obtained with the techniques of [7]. The results suggest that the replica symmetry ansatz give the correct solution. The lower bound is then quite good whereas the upper bound overestimate the mutual information by a factor that keeps increasing with the data size.
VR is 7 times more demanding of your PC than 1080p gaming, say Nvidia
Making it easier to avoid low-level compromise, and why you'll still lose
Exactly. Self-driving cars will be the suburbs' renaissance.
> It isn't just the same. https://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/learn-about/ipv4-ipv6.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6

You can't just link to a long article and claim it shows things are different. What specific differences are you bothered about?

> The justification of why NAT is no longer necessary is nice in a theoretical sense but a pain in the butt if I'm trying to convert my network.

Having used IPv4 networks that used all publicly routeable addresses and ones that did not, the former have always been much nicer, even at a purely practical level of "I want to connect to my work VPN and have it work".
What Led to Amazon's Explosive Growth
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