skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are discussing the suggestion that people work 3 hours. (Indeed the title of the article is literally "Work for only 3 hours a day, but everyday".)

Your quote does cover 3 hours of work very clearly:

"At about 10:30 he left for his Princeton office, walking when the weather was nice; otherwise, a station wagon from the university would pick him up. He worked until 1:00". That is almost exactly 3 hours. Your quote clearly describes about three hours of work per day, from 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM. The only problem? Your quote continues "then returned home for a 1:30 lunch, a nap, and a cup of tea. The rest of the afternoon was spent at home, continuing his work, seeing visitors, and dealing with the correspondence that his secretary had sorted earlier in the day. Supper was at 6:30, followed by more work and more letters."

Literally "the rest of the afternoon was spent at home continuing his work...dealing with correspondnece..." and after a 6:30 pm supper "more work and more letters."

I will thank you for not cutting your quote off at the word "he worked until 1:00", which is the kind of example I was asking for (describing a 3-hour workday). The only issue is that an additional 5-10 hours of work follow. It's no example at all. In fact, taken as a whole it's pretty much the lifestyle I was describing, working from morning until late into the night.

If you do know of any scientist who worked for 3 hours a day I'd love to hear it.
We'd need to discuss how you define winning ? I couldn't comment on Elon, I've not met him, I can say that it's not sound to base an assessment of an individuals 'happiness' or 'satisfaction' based on their public standing or wealth or achievements, life is not a jigsaw puzzle whereby all the pieces in the right place bring about the desired outcome.
Diaspora: https://www.joindiaspora.com/

It is peer-to-peer in the same sense as Usenet is peer-to-peer, users still need to login to some "pod", even if they own it.
unlike a lot of contemporaries read through the end of the 20th century / beginning of the 21st, putnam was a rigorous and important philosopher (as opposed to, say, jerry fodor, who should be lauded for generating interest in philosophy and opening new discussions but whose arguments are almost uniformly terrible, technically).

i'd forgotten about his direct realism, but it makes sense given his sort of instinctual bent toward wittgenstein. i wish more analytic philosophers were adventurous enough to reject platonist place-holders and carry their views out to the furthest logical extent.

sorry that this comment was so vague, but what else could it be? just wanted to post that we've lost a great mind.

some random reading in the realm of what i'm talking about:

http://philpapers.org/rec/FINWOR (doesn't mention putnam if i recall, but the wittgensteinian considerations here can shed light on what i'm talking about re: putnam's instincts)

http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/23171-hilary-putnam-pragmatism-and-r... the quick summary of direct realism here corresponds very well with how many of us chicago-wittgensteinians are pulled toward direct realism; once you discard the idea of a correspondence theory of truth and knowledge, and start to recognize that truth conditions are ubiquitously context dependent (in terms of what the speaker is trying to accomplish with the words, the shared cultural knowledge of speaker and listener, etc etc), so too can you get rid of many of the pesky oddities of traditional 20th century analytic philosophy of mind: (abstract?) mental items, qualia (maybe), etc etc. if i see a cow, i don't see "cow + some LaTeX symbol" that exists just-for-me--that's not how language works, and we're not talking about magic observational souls, we're saying that guy over there looked and saw a cow--or whatever we're actually talking about).

anyway, putnam is very worth reading, if only to remember rigor and honesty. as with all philosophy, the conclusions you can take or leave.
One more question I meant to ask, but forgot to:

Is UBI intended to be universal across the entire country, or does it scale to cost of living of a given area? I can see pros/cons to either.
CSS Grid Layout by example
CMD or CTRL+F "minutes ago"
Yeah they've really missed the fact that it isn't the algorithms or code that we're missing out on. Companies are usually pretty open about these because they know it isn't bit that is hard to compete on.

The hard bit is the training data. Good luck collecting 10k hours of transcribed speech, or 10k recordings of "Okay Google".
And today you lost your bet :-)
Well not using CUDA isn't necessarily synonymous with "use a CPU". There is OpenCL. But still, you have a point even if we might quibble over details. This is why I am very much hoping AMD gets serious about Machine Learning and hoping for OpenCL on AMD chips will eventually reach a level of parity (or near parity) with the CUDA on nVidia stuff.
Why they blocked it? The images will be distributed anyway, what is the reason?
> As a fan, with no credible music press to help discern the good from the shit you'll just never hear about the really good bands because the signal gets lost in the noise of all the shit.

Throw darts until you find a band you like. Then, go to their Facebook/Bandcamp/Soundcloud/Last.fm page and you'll find a bunch of "if you like this you'll like these" links to other bands, or even a list of musicians the band endorses.

This is the modern equivalent of flipping through the radio.
Some argue that the Sex Pistols were a _boy band_ orchestrated by Malcolm McLaren...

> Reliably or not, Mr. McLaren explained his strategy for packaging and selling the band in the 1980 film “The Great Rock ’n’ Roll Swindle.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/arts/music/09mclaren.html?...
yeah. kripke can be convicted of truly awful exegesis of russell, frege, wittgenstein, but his own contributions to philosophy are mammoth. his attack on the identity of necessary truths and a priori knowledge alone is excellent.
Also... True multitasking, tons of storage (32GB + MicroSD), accurate stylus input. But like sonnyp suggested, mostly that it was a full Debian-based Linux experience with a decent keyboard.

It wasn't perfect (I seem to remember the battery life wasn't great), but it was a great device, more like a Swiss army knife than a phone. Wish Nokia had done a full release of the N950 (the N9 with a hardware keyboard, only released to developers, with a weaker screen than the N9) as that was shaping up to be even better than the N900.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N950
It depends on how much extra (if any) the UBI in question gives for having dependents.

The simplest thing to solve the problem (way more than finagling UBI rules) is just doing the opposite of what the Republicans are currently doing re: sex education, defunding of Planned Parenthood, and restrictions on abortion and birth control.
What gives you the idea that those qualities make anyone actually worth 100+ k$/yr?

The only factor in that short list actually providing any indication of worth to the company is "has a CS degree from a well-reputed university" and that still doesn't indicate being able to perform in a job (rather than study).

I wish our economy could move beyond grading employees by degrees. They're proxies for the things that are hard to measure. Sadly I don't think they can easily be replaced (if at all).
I 100% agree with this. A lot of older games are appealing simply because they're good games in general, and are seen as a new experience for people who didn't grow up with them. For example, how many people likely played Ocarina of Time or Majora's Mask for the first time on 3DS? Or before that, the Wii Virtual Console? Yet for a lot of people coming back to them, they still consider them some of the best games of all time.

Heck, I do, and I'm one of the people who never played either til then.
There was a report on the NANOG list of customers being flagged for VPN use while using an account in two countries simultaneously, but if one used another account from those IPs, there is no issue.

http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2016-January/083833...

I suspect this type of analysis plays a bigger role than most people think.

i.e A user jumping back and forth between US and Australian Netflix - faster than 'physically' possible, would act as a VPN flag.

Personally I had to change the end point of my home made VPN, but have not had any issues since. As a precaution, I have avoided region jumping. If I did, I would try and leave a realistic gap between any access.
Re: Obama on Fetishizing Our Phones
> you make that sound easy

How was getting signed to a label, even an indie one, any easier? At least now it's all up to you creating something people want instead of convincing a gatekeeper you're worthy.

> The only way that's really going to happen is it you get extremely lucky

You mean, like getting signed to a label?
I haven't heard any proposals that would give UBI to children. I personally don't think it's a good idea. Have UBI start when someone turns 18, otherwise maybe you give the parents more for each dependent that they have.
"– Support advanced processor features, but don't
require them"

I like that a lot but I'd like to know it can do emulation.
It won't be outlawed as long as public will be against it. It will be a political suicide for opponents of encryption. But only if public will be against it. Time will tell.
Hacking OpenStreetMap data for fun and profit
OSDev is a very good resource:

http://wiki.osdev.org/Memory_management
Installing cygwin consistently from powershell
Women's secret films from within closed city of Islamic State
The Obama Administration simply will not throw their own (the FBI) under the bus. Fortunately for us the Democrats do not control congress so Obama is unlikely to get his wish here.
There might be a knock-down argument against UBI; you just haven't given it here.

Thank you. That's useful feedback.

Though I honestly do not have time today to try to come up with a "knock down" argument for basic income and I am not sure it is possible to do so if you simply do not see what I see with regards to "cutting a check for every single person has inherent problems." I did the full time wife and mom thing for many years. I am horrified at the idea of women cranking out babies for the increased income. I view motherhood as something sacred -- the I was entrusted by "god" with these little souls and it is my responsibility to do right by them. I see setting up a financial incentive to crank out babies as something that will go horrifying places that will be detrimental to the foundations of human society, no matter how you handle it.

As someone who is currently quite poor, I find it deeply troubling that if I am poor, you wish to have the state butt into how I spend my funds. I think that will have draconian repercussions as well.

However, the odds are very high that you are male and men (or even childless women) frequently just do not understand where I am coming from. There may be no means to cross that chasm.

I am likely to be mostly okay regardless. I fear that the world is going to hell in a hand basket. I would hate to passively stand by and watch it do so without so much as voicing my concern. But, on the other hand, far more people have been assholes to me than have been caring and compassionate. So I care less about the welfare of other individuals than I used to. My one remaining hesitation to give up arguing my case is that if the entire world goes to hell, then I shall wind up living in hell. I would rather not do that.
Seems the cheaper tools work by forcing the phone back into 2G then just scraping up what is made available by the less secure standard.

On the iPhone is it possible to disable the 2G fallback?
That sounds like the typical Japanese salaryman lifestyle, from what I've heard...
I agree and we are betting on that with the investments we've made in the past four or five years since we stopped making broad horizontal investments

But I feel that even more dramatic upside is available in the less developed world
The point of the article is that the people who missed two days of sleep knew they didn't sleep enough and that they were not performing well. While the people who only slept 6 hours per night thought they got enough sleep, so they are more likely to continue this schedule.
Yes, but look up "parallel construction" for numerous examples of law enforcement doing this and working around the "poisonous tree" stuff.
DHToT: storing IoT sensor data in the BitTorrent peer-to-peer network
Show HN: A real world Web app for 30 minutes: Spring Data REST and ReactJS
It's a great illustration of the lack of rigor around this stuff.

My college provided significant benefits to ADHD diagnosed students. Rather than take finals in stadium seating, you got a personal, air conditioned office, received unlimited time and could use reference material.

A few of my friends found a "Do you need Ritalin" quizzes in a magazine, went to a doc-in-the-box and got the diagnosis. They sold the Ritalin and got better grades.
Same in C++. There's `std::vector::reserve`, which grows the vector's underlying physical buffer, without logically adding any new elements. If you `reserve` enough capacity before inserting anything, it's even a `O(1)` operation.
I mean yeah, the decisive move _I_ make when I play my noob games is hardly divine, but in top level play, it happens every game.
Ah yes, "Let's use semantics to infringe on unalienable rights, that'll show those Framers!"
For reference, here are the books mentioned in the course:

Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, by Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto

https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/book/ebook/the-book.h...

Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning, by Csaba Szepesvari

http://www.ualberta.ca/~szepesva/papers/RLAlgsInMDPs.pdf

edit: added other book
React Native: Morphing SVG Paths with React Art
Xapian has been using BM25 forever[1] - what made Lucene switch now?

[1] https://xapian.org/docs/bm25.html
I made a comment directly on the blog post which I'll copy here:

I've also spent a lot of time recently trying to understand how 'perf' works at a low level. I'm getting closer, but a lot of it is still pretty impenetrable. There are four main resources that I'd recommend.

The first, which you've almost surely found, is the "Perf Wiki": https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
There's not a lot there, but it's a good introduction.

The second, which you might have stumbled across, is the text documentation scattered throughout the kernel source. Most are in https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/tools/perf/Doc..., but the most useful one is up one directory at https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/tools/perf/des....

The third is Andi Kleen's PMU Tools: https://github.com/andikleen/pmu-tools
The 'jevents' library within this illustrates how to use 'perf' to set up the counters while using 'rdpmc' from userspace to read them.

The fourth is Vince Weaver's Unofficial Linux Perf Events Web-Page (http://web.eece.maine.edu/~vweaver/projects/perf_events/) and his associated Perf Event Testsuite (https://github.com/deater/perf_event_tests). Tests make wonderful examples.

The deeper I got into it, the more I realized is that 'perf' is still evolving, and there is a lot of anger and discontent below the surface. There were (and are) competing alternatives, but 'perf' is politically in control. Much of what you read about 'perf' should be probably be viewed through the lens of "history written by the victor", and "the vanquished" may have different perspectives.

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Separately, in case anyone is already familiar with the internals, here's an aspect where I'm currently stuck. There is an "offset" field which one is supposed to add to the result read from "rdpmc", but when I do so I get strange problems: https://github.com/nkurz/pmu-tools/commit/f2ab49207d4c7b7ddd...
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That deals a lot with theory, I am in need of some implementations that work. I've found things that don't work, but I need something I can start and play with.

Nothing really seems available which seems sad.
"One-way encryption" is a terrible term - they mean "encryption that the encryptor cannot decrypt upon demand."

So, asymmetric cryptography.
it's not just nostalgia, some game principles are very hard to find in modern games, especially regarding the exploration of interesting mechanics irregardless of balance.

strategy games like master of magic or total annihilation, were faction had a distinct feeling from each other, even if some were more powerful, are almost impossible today where multiplayer is a large portion of the game and necessarily need to be balanced, which causes many games' faction to feel reskin of each other with just minor changes and not really unique mechanics.
My wife and I use an amazon card. We get bonus credit towards future amazon purchases. I calculated the discount and it only amounts to around 1%. I'm a somewhat rational person but I still feel like I'm getting something free when using the rewards. Marketing power is kind of amazing.
I am fundamentally opposed to a UBI. The question of how to solve the issue of paying women with children is just one detail that I believe is problematic. But I think it is fundamentally broken through and through and I hope to god, the devil and all points in between that we do not get one.
The author writes about “path-dependent types”, but all I can see is plain existentials.
I usually find a way not to do what I consider not worth doing.

I usually ask why the task is worth doing. If they can't come up with a valid response, I try to show them why it's not worth doing. If I can think of a better thing to do, I let them know. If this doesn't work, I will delegate or trade the task with someone else. If that doesn't work, I will often just ignore it. Usually, nobody realizes the job wasn't done, mainly because it wasn't important in the first place. Rarely will I go through the pain of doing something that I realize is not important.

Although I have never been diagnosed with ADHD, I feel like I can relate to some of the symptoms.
AR was also supposed to be the driving factor of the first wave. Nintendo invested not small amounts of money to make sure the 3DS was a decent AR platform. Not that most of its users ever realized.
Agree, "is implementing" could last forever or have a very limited scope by design.
I think I am going to assume there is no E2E encryption until a proper confirmation from WhatsApp.
Yeah, I'm not in favor of a wealth tax, precisely because of the evasion problems (which France is experiencing). I think a better and simpler solution is to not have abnormally low capital gains rates. And did you know that someone who is wealthy, who owns stock worth millions of dollars, pays $0 federal income tax until they reach over ~$80K in qualified dividend income per year? It's absurd. Income should be taxed the same regardless of source. Maybe give a slight tax break of ~5% for long-term investing of, say, 5-10 years or more, but getting a ~20% tax break for investments only a year old is absurd.

Of course, the most effective wealth tax of all time was implemented centuries ago and is continuing to perform amazingly. I'm speaking of the elimination of primogeniture, which does an excellent job of breaking up multigenerational wealth (and thus largely prohibiting the establishment of a permanent nobility class).
Funny.. The majority of AI research is currently using open source libraries (Theano, Lasagne, Torch, Keras, Scikit-Learn, Nolearn, etc. etc. etc.)

Now Google does have access to a whole lot of data that the rest of the world doesn't. and FB, Google, and etc. have more than a bit of a hardware advantage... for now, at least. Distribute a shared system over a P2P infrastructure, and you can change that. Perhaps rather significantly.
When the Glass Breaks
Rust. It's god damn beautiful. It's design is magnificent, so much so that it seems easy to write beautiful rust code myself.
No, they don't. No one cares what position the sun is in at noon. Noon is "the middle of the workday", or "lunchtime", neither of which has anything to do with the position of the sun in the sky.

Solar noon is an outdated concept that is completely meaningless to the vast majority of the modern world. There's no reason we should tie our modern workday to solar noon any more than we should tie our software launches to the lunar cycle or our bathing schedule to the tides.
While it's often pointed out that children are not rational actors, I'd also like to include that parents are not rational actors all the time either.

Often people want to impose a rule on their children without properly evaluating it because its what they were taught, and has become part and parcel of their socialization.

Other times people must impose a rule on their children due to government regulation (e.g. you can't leave children under X age home without someone over Y age responsible for them). In those cases, people fail to explain their guiding logic because no one likes to say "I have to do this, the government is making me do it through threat of jail time" and thus their justification---both to themselves and their children---comes off as flimsy.
He did it in a hotel room in a foreign country. He, Tarnovsky, Nohl and Goodspeed just blow my mind.

Things like the ZINC by Xilinx are working its way into things like the Red Pitaya[1] which is absolutely remarkably capable for the price range, but yeah FPGA's are pretty niche for the common end-user. Lithography on sil wafers ends up being cheaper at nearly any scale. It turns out more economical just to do that one of those cheap FPGA-to-ASIC conversion dealies (rather than using Cadence or whatever VLSI tooling you have to DFM from the start [I think UC Berkeley has a full architecture/RTL/logic/circuit/physical kit]) at the threshold of around a few thousand units.

[1] http://store.redpitaya.com/red-pitaya-board-36.html
I think Bud wanted to make a different point. Ie that AI doesn't delegitimize us---whatever that even means. Dolphins were just an example. He could have used Neanderthals, or Aliens.
"Work for only 3 hours a day, but every day".

'everyday' is an adjective
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Natur...
Huh, I wonder how much truth there is to your words. As an outsider to Machine learning and neural networks, it seems to me that algorithms can be very valuable and big companies do not lack training data. Of course, training data is expensive and very important, but if training data were that important, their most important resource would not be machine learning scientists, but an army of do-monkeys that provide training data. It won't be the victory of the smartest scientist but of the one with the most employees. And that does not seem to be the case.
I thought Agner had shown that the Haswell AVX2 stuff didn't necessarily bother turning on the entire execution unit unless it really seemed warranted, preferring instead to issue the 128-bit operation twice and combine. For example see the later comments on http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=142
I don't understand this response. Why wouldn't banning the sale of ammunition and ammunition components not work to stop most of the bad problems of guns? A gun is still arms even if it does not have ammunition so this avoids the constitutional problems, but it makes them much safer.

I should add that I am not arguing for the banning of ammunition, just why has this not been used as an attack vector on the gun lobby?