skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't find any other reports of it, but I was on FF 47.0.1 on Windows 7 and upgraded to 48.0.1 (For some reason I never upgrade when prompted on the XX.0 releases). And I would have intermittent whole-browser freezes that lasted about a minute. Not like one every 4 hours, but more like once every 5~10 minutes. Back down to 47.0.1.

I tried again on 48.0.2, ... same thing.

I can't nail it down specifically enough to file a proper issue report, so I guess I'll keep trying when the next releases come out.

I also notice that webapps seem to like Chrome better, but FF usually performs "well enough" that I've put up with it because I find it (for me) to be markedly better at helping me deal with the ginormous amounts of text content I apparently consume. But webapps have been degraded enough for the last month-or-so that I'm running chrome in parallel just for those.

I love FF and I'm hoping that this is one of those isolated things that the fabulous team over there fixes before too long. (I suspect it's a JS related something or other, but I haven't been able to track it down specifically.)

(Wow. Now there is a rambling comment!)
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Many are there just for the party scene. Whenever I hear my peers describe their experience at one of those events, I never hear them say how excited they were to see an artist. Instead I get some tale of an epic bender.

I'm sure plenty of people go to these for the music, just like I'm sure plenty went to Woodstock mainly for a big party (before it rained and they found out the acid was bad).
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I think a problem with thinking "an interface closer to traditional programming" is that it's really difficult to get anywhere close to what traditional programming is in any meaningful sense. It, QCL, looks traditional because it looks like C with qubit registers (i.e., on the surface, "just another datatype"), but quantum programming is anything but C. No printf'ing quantum states, no qmemcpy, no qmemset, no stepping debugger, no hexdumping, etc. These things are more-or-less quantum impossibilities of ever having, and so we need to think about things in a new way. Trying to hang on to C(-like) programming for pedagogical purposes is more or less a lost cause. With that said, I do not claim that there is no utility in something like QCL. I just don't think it's right, right now.

A very rough analogy, I suppose, would be "let's make Haskell more accessible by doing away with monads and referential transparency". At that point, you've departed from the paradigm Haskell puts forth, and you actually haven't made Haskell any bit accessible.

Your second point about "prototype in Python, rewrite slow bits in C". There isn't, as far as I'm concerned, that sort of problem with quantum programming at the moment. Maybe in a decade or two. It is difficult enough to even get an algorithm working altogether, let alone reasoning about speeding it up. To reason about speedups, you need a framework in which you can reason about performance on some machine model. One such machine model is described in the aforementioned reference.
tbh it doesn't sound like you have a serious confirmation bias; it sounds like you are looking at the evidence trying to build your ideas on firm foundations, and are aware when the foundations aren't firm. That is a healthy cognitive outlook.
Reason could have been my favorite character. Simple, straightforward, no ambiguity in its dialog.

Everybody listened to Reason.
What I found interesting about this is the anonymity factor. Currently you can't get a GMail, Twitter, etc accounts without verifying it with a phone number via SMS or voice. This service supposedly solve this issue, but indeed if they rotate between a few mobile phone numbers they will be quickly banned.
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I think you'll find the slowed pace happened a good deal before the managers came in if you look at the history more closely.
Still the color argument is pretty strong. What if the energy emitted/reflected by the universe was totally in the non visible light spectrum. No one would see anything. To a blind person this is a normality, and so perhaps a person who is blind would have a better feel for what this means, but to the rest of us, color is so ingrained as "color is reality" it's hard to imagine.

Now also realize that we touch absolutely nothing. And yet we perceive solid things, as if they were solid. But again they are not. We just feel electro-magnetic force.

Following with QC, there isn't really anything such as particles.. the world is just fields of various types. Only when we go and look at the fields do we see particles, but they are just excitations in the fields.

I sometimes walk around and think what if i shut off all the perceptions that i know are only in my body/head, and thought about what was left. There really wouldn't be anything at all what we think there is.

I'm not concluding that this guy is right or wrong, but I think we have an almost impossibility in comprehending that this could actually be the case. Given that we are 90% fooled, why couldn't we be 100% fooled?
It is a highly constrained search though. You need to verify moves against the piece that is checking only and then verify if the move potentially preventing the check does not discover another check.

Even easier in case of double checks, since you exclude captures.

Verifying a tie or mate due to repetition is more tricky for a usual test, but not if you hash the whole board state.
From HN posts, it seems to me that people are moving in these directions:

OO -> FP

frameworks -> libraries

ORMs -> query builders

weak typing -> strong typing

dynamic typing -> static typing

Rails, Koa, etc. fall on the "before" side of the trend, whereas things like React fall on the "after" side.
The fundamentals are pretty easy. I wrote a blog post on this, let me know if it helps

http://gabgoh.github.io/SARG/
This is kind of trivially obvious, confirmed by every human sense having a different response curve than other animals, different species being able to deal with different abstractions (eg, certain dogs being able to recognize conditionals but not predicates) and so on.

I have to wonder if he's doing a Straussian thing and "really" talking about selected-for responses to certain obvious truths particularly relevant to evolutionary biologists.
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Yup, I have covered this use case in the article
But interviewing isn't about asking someone technical questions. It's about whether the candidate can get work done. I'll never understand the massive debate about the effectiveness of work-sample tests -- no questions, just "Here is some work. Can you do it?"

I've seen how effective it is. And how many people rebel against it. No idea why. Ego, sometimes. It's unfortunate.
The paper “Objects of consciousness” by Donald D. Hoffman[0][1] is an interesting read—if only for its attempt to build a formal model of consciousness and define what it means to “observe”, in the quantum sense.

[0] http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00...
[1] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9829085
The myth of low-hanging fruit
You can install v51 nightlies from here: https://nightly.mozilla.org/
Actually yes, these things and many beyond that are knowable, yet you don't know them. Therefore you only have a sense for a subset of reality, just as you can't see the whole spectrum of light or hear every sound.

But this extreme example is not really relevant for this discussion, at least that's my humble opinion.
The problem here is that the concept presented isn't scientifically rigorous as applied to human consciousness and perception. One, fitness simulations are reductive by design and trying to draw analogies from them to explain complex subjective phenomena is a stretch. Two, we need a testable hypothesis - I haven't seen one presented here.

It's an interesting concept, but the author provides us an example - an organism responding to a fitness function optimizing for Y resource where X < Y < Z doesn't distinguish between X and Z, just that X and Z are both "bad" - reducing complex quantities to binary outcomes. To then suggest physical reality could be "hidden" in these sorts of reductions without an analogy or testable example just seems philosophical.

The best supportive example I can come up with is - we obviously don't see "reality." Visible light, for example, is only a tiny fraction of the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Our ability to perceive and differentiate wavelengths in this range has been selected for. But language and formal logic --- abstract relationships, mathematics --- seems to be something we've discovered that describes a Universe of relationships we can't possibly entirely perceive. But we still utilize this reality, as we've incidentally discovered the rest of the EM spectrum by its interactions with other aspects of reality we can measure and the ability to describe abstract relationships (language).

So I guess I'm a bit confused, and I admit ignorance here --- my 2c here is an off-the-cuff response to the article provided without digging deeper. Is the argument there are rules and laws of the Universe we can't possibly understand or perceive (physical constants, relationships)? If so --- that's plausibly true, but if something doesn't interact with the Universe in a way we can measure, it may as well not exist. Or is the argument that the way we describe and interpret the Universe (language, logic) is inherently flawed because it's been developed or "discovered" based on selection for the ability to use language between extreme quantities of "language resources" we can't possibly measure? The latter is interesting, because it's perhaps a unique perspective on mental illness and drug hallucinations / delusions (schizophrenia, LSD) but still not testable.

Just musings. Neat philosophically. Would like to see something concrete here, but seems to be a prime candidate for circular reasoning - we can never test this hypothesis because we can never know what is, by definition, unknowable to us.
For those who have actually looked at Hoffman's work (rather than just reading a popularized account):

What happens when the fitness function is not static (as it often is in the real world)? My gut instinct is that an organism that perceives actual reality (or some close analog thereof) will be more adaptable to a changing environment than one that is optimized for static conditions.

Perhaps Hoffman has taken this into account (I don't know -- that's why I'm asking).
The initial report from last year has interesting, if sadly unsurprising, background on how/why so many of these embedded devices have wound up this way.

http://blog.sec-consult.com/2015/11/house-of-keys-industry-w...
Does anyone know what eradication techniques they used to such great effect on malaria, but allowed for an increase in dengue? I would've expected malaria and dengue to move together for any commonly used eradication technique.
Support for this attribute is modern browsers is good but it is never used unless you visit the image directly via its URL or the like..It is going to be of no use when you embed the image in a webpage..Lot of times, I do a right-click -> open image in a new tab and see a differently oriented image and am actually confused by the behaviour..

Of course, if you are distributing the image URL directly, it is useful in that case..
Ask HN: What books did you read as a kid that inspired you?
I was talking with family today at dinner and we were discussing books we read as kids and how they inspired us. I loved to read Tom Swift and I believe it helped inspire me to be the technology entrepreneur I am today. What did you read that inspired you?
I use both FF and Chrome. Chrome is more heavy-duty, so I use it for Dedicated Browsing. I've set it such that when something calls me away and I close Chrome, the tabs will reopen so I can continue where I left off. But sometimes I'll be doing something in another program and need to look up something quickly. In such cases, I don't wanna wait while Chrome reopens 11 tabs so I'll use FF instead. My FF-tabs aren't saved between sessions, so I only see a single fresh tab when I open it.
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Ask HN: Diversity Survey
1. What stage is your company at in its growth?
(Seed stage, multiple rounds of funding, corporation, SMB, etc.)

2. How diverse is your workplace?
(In terms of race, gender, age, education, or whatever parameters you think are important.)

3. What does your company do to foster diversity, if anything?
(Hiring practices, outreach, leadership, internal culture...)
and why was that worth -2 moderation? I AM a cognitive neuroscientist; I certainly am not denegrating them. Cognitive scientists are used to contrasting percepts with objective reality, hence all the facinating illusions they love to demonstrate. Evolutionary theorists are used to counterintuitive ideas that result from putting fitness functions at the forefront. I would not have thought that putting the two together is a new idea.
Thank you! Yeah I was thinking that too, I need to look into caching the requests so it doesn't get hit every single time.
I believe a lot of hacker schools do exactly this
I think at least in our generation, yeah. But who knows. There's also optical quantum computing.
Any way we can get Gmane up on Baqqer so we can donate/support operations in some way/form?
Is this argument circular?

Let's assume for a moment that someone believes that human beings can "perceive reality". Adding the axiom that "evolutionary theory is mostly correct" (which doesn't seem too bad), one concludes that because "perceiving reality" would require a large expenditure of energy, it must be necessary in order for optimal fitness, since if we are to believe it is with us, we must have evolved to do it. Similarly, walking is "necessary". NB. "Perceiving reality" seems to be defined by the person writing the question, which is a conflict of interest.

(I leave out the interesting but undesirably complex hypothesis that some strategies exist which do not involve perceiving reality but are not accessible by evolution for unspecified reasons)

This argument takes off by constructing a fitness function where perceiving reality is unnecessary. It then concludes by construction that the perception of reality won't evolve. However, there is no real "theorem" here: all that has happened is that it is now encoded in mathematical language that this belief could be true or false.
Oh thanks for that mate will definitely look into this, especially the free tier
I agree that tests like that can be a great way to determine how effective a candidate might be.

I think the same principle applies - if possible, giving everyone the same work sample tests provides a good basis for comparison between candidates.
The invention of the nuclear bomb has led to the most peaceful period in human history. So to whatever extent the scientists and engineers who had some part in creating those bombs are culpable, they should be considered heroes.
Adds new keywords "INDECISIVE OR", "MAYBE IF" and "PROBABLY EQUALS" :-)
It's tacky to post content like this on HN without disclosing a personal interest in the company/product. I'm assuming by your profession (as well as using this URL: https://gab.ai/?ref=mfishbein) that you have a business relationship with Gab.
In which case I expect the other person to agree that both options are equally valid and it's appropriate to choose randomly.

I think randomness is often underappreciated in business decisions. It helps create a baseline for performance measurement.
And this is precisely where trying to measure a unique experience with microscopes and well-established materialist scientific theorems begins to fail us. An experience, by the way, that many call the 'most important' of their life. They describe it as 'noetic' in that it seems more real than ordinary consensus reality, and 'ineffible' in that it cannot be successfully described, it must be experienced firsthand.

These aren't just the waxings of a hippie distracted at work, I can point you to studies that demonstrate the repeatability of it all (i.e., 'most important experience of life' claims, noetic properties, ineffable, etc.) Many people use these descriptors when regarding their respective psychedelic journeys.

In my opinion, the reason some people have awe-inspiring life-changing experiences and some just see neat visuals or have the ominous 'bad trip' goes back to my first comment. Set, setting, and intention are absolutely everything with these substances. The stuff just seems to be of a higher order, and it seems it gives you just what you deserve.
Isn't Hoffman's argument pretty mundane?

The conclusion seems pretty obvious; we only see light in a certain (relevant) spectrum, we only taste certain (relevant) chemicals, we only hear sounds in certain (relevant) frequencies, etc., because it doesn't help us (and in fact distracts us) to perceive more information.

Also, it seems like a big aspect he's missing is that within each relevant spectra, we've gotten pretty well tuned to reality. And that's simply because oftentimes, fitness is highly correlated with perceiving reality. For example, seeing all physical objects realistically is important for survival, since if you can't see perceive certain physical objects, then predators/prey may take advantage of the failure (e.g., zebras blending in with tall grass).

Is there some greater point I'm missing?
If your API has lots of different user roles (which can often break REST), this small library we built might be interesting to you: https://github.com/computer-lab/django-rest-framework-roles
If bananas reflected yellow light, but we saw them as blue instead by some purely neuropsychological phenomenon, would this cause any significant problems?
I came to Gmane back when I needed to search newsgroups (NNTP) archives, then later on, mailing lists.

Maybe I'm nostalgic but I really miss the newsgroups that focused on just the messages, and could be consumed by any client, stored offline, searched, etc.
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> "let it sit in the rack"

So do they do scheduled collections of failed units? Or just let them sit there indefinitely?
Star Trek's LCARS could become your virtual assistant
Ask HN: Photo cataloging programs
I'm looking for a program to catalog my midsize photo collection (about 25K photos spanning the last decade). I'm at the point where I have so many photos that I'm starting to lose track of the context each photo was taken in, this is quite important to me so I'm looking for some software help.

These are the kind of features I'm looking for:

1) ability to maintain an index of photos searchable on tags like location, year, and custom ones like "landscapes", "to print", etc.

2) ability to batch add new photos to the index, all with the same tags/description.

3) ability to add a small description to an individual photo (ex. sunset view from Haleakala volcano, Maui) and have the photo be accessible by searching for "sunset" or "Maui"

4) catalog is transferrable between computers. I have my entire collection on Dropbox so it's synced on my laptop, desktop and my parent's desktop. I want the catalog to be available on all of these computers at best, and at the minimum I want there to be a way to easily transfer the index if I upgrade one of my computers.

What are some programs with these features? If there isn't one that meets all desired criteria, are there some that come close and what are they missing? I don't mind paying a small amount (ideally a one-time purchase rather than subscription) but obviously free is better.

One of the obvious choices is Adobe Lightroom, but I haven't found a detailed enough walkthrough of the cataloging/tagging/search/indexing features to commit to paying ~$100/year. I'm also not really interested in the batch editing capabilities of Lightroom at the moment because I have a standalone copy of Photoshop Elements that I use for <1% of the pictures. Is Lightroom still the best option?

Thanks for the advice.
What would it be like to touch "something", rather than mere electro-magnetic forces? Isn't this just a game of words? When we touch electro-magnetic forces, we are in fact touching solid things.
I should mention here that I work for Facebook. (Though I would also like to make clear that this post and anything else I do on HN is my personal opinion and does not represent Facebook in any way)

You are mistaken: FBM supports multi-way communication. For work, I use Messenger almost exclusively. For personal stuff, some combination of Messenger, Google Chat, and SMS/MMS. I do log on to IRC once in a while, mainly Freenode, but it's far from "primary".

Why does the "average" person ever need weak identity communication? I mean, I'm glad it exists and it has a niche, but why would you expect that to be someone's main way of interacting with people?
There's actually an entire category of bicycle enthusiasts who only have one bike. ;-)
Actually, 99% of written materials might be perfectly readable (on a computer screen) in plain text format. For them even HTML is an overkill. A good reader app will let you choose the RX ("reader's experience"), but even a simple text viewer/editor would do the job most of the time.
This strongly reminds me of things touched on in Ian Hacking's Representing and Intervening. Early on he mentions that done medieval philosophers thought that crabs emerge out of tree trunks and later transform into ducks. Obviously that's total nonsense from our perspective but it might be a good enough heuristic like the world being flat is a really good assumption for everyday use.
>Technological progress won’t create mass unemployment ... In Krugman’s celebrated example, imagine there are...

Stopped reading right there. Hypothetical scenarios are not a replacement for empirical evidence. I can just as easily imagine a scenario that runs contrary to the one given.

This kind of baseless speculation cheapens economics as a science and is why a lot of people don't take macroeconomics seriously.
So the options are the world is rational and understandable, or there is no truth, everything is a lie and we're living in a Lovecraftian horror where we are physically incapable of understanding reality.

Presented with the two options I'm inclined to believe the prior.

- If the latter is true and I believe the prior no vice.

- If the prior is true and you believe the latter however no virtue. There's no sense in making an attempt to understand the world. You're missing out on everything. Just giving up on understanding.

I'll take the prior.
Being remarkably lazy, the idea of manually tagging so many images gives me hives. It'd be fun to try piping your collection through an image processing API, a la https://cloud.google.com/vision/, and seeing what comes out the other end. Could save you a bunch of time re: the tagging of items like "landscapes".
No, it didn't. Democide in the 20th century, the death toll of which far outstripped the death toll from conventional warfare, reached its peak after the use of nuclear weapons against civilians in Japan. The notion that the post-nuclear era has been "peaceful" either absolutely or relatively is completely, ridiculously false.