skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will-power is essentially an Interplay between multiple models. If you view days as test-runs for programs you have optionally installed in your system, the energetic focalizers are creating energetic "gravity-tag games" out of synergystic signal processing. Let's say you have a process already needing to be in motion and then you attach a carrier wave on top of that...it could be considered a supplemental annex which creates an alternative nexus point for another energy loop or process table.

Anyway, move marginally beyond the words I'm using and imagine it more as an attractor where you go down a river on a riverboat and while casting nets also change your duck call to another one which still attracs ducks but also happens to attract alligators. Taking advantage of overlapping scenarios to create a change in what the existing momentum is applied to is the real trick of conscious agents.
Automatic updates started in about 2000ish and hard forced updates are even newer iirc. Before that the best they could do is a notification which people running a leaked build would probably ignore or not get at all, who knows what the Windows Update infrastructure is like for internal builds that get leaked.
Am I the only one who loves this behavior? I'd be perfectly happy forcing Chrome/Firefox/etc. into a 1GB sandbox and then telling it to "unload tabs on memory pressure." I only use a few tabs at a time; a simple LRU OOM-eviction algorithm should work wonders.
I don't - and in fact I finally got around to creating a HN account in order to ask you. Googling that just leads me back to this discussion. What's it from?
I would publish on your own domain but you can start using one of the out of the box included WordPress themes.

Like others have said it's the content, not the presentation that can be improved over time.

If you're including code snippets it would make sense to take a look at using markdown . . . this article is a little dated but a good starting point: https://css-tricks.com/posting-code-blocks-wordpress-site/

Also think about making it easy to double click to select all of the code or use another method to make it super easy to cut and paste the code.
I feel like quantum computers are getting all the spotlight but optical computers are every bit as cool and quite a bit more viable right now. Furthermore we do need to develop this industry because it would be ridiculous to still be using wires with quantum computers.
>The CDC doesn't agree.

That is because they are dishonestly presenting the data on the rhythm method and fertility awareness combined as fertility awareness. That is obviously silly, as one method is significantly more reliable than the other.

>Condoms are also pretty crappy in typical use

Typical use matters for population control, not for a responsible individual's personal use. I know if I am putting a condom on or not. The large percentage of people who do not put one on despite relying on them as their sole contraceptive does not lower the failure rate for me, it merely brings down the average failure rate across the population. Other people's failures do not cause me to fail.
>Would definitely have been better than Tron 2

At least we got a good Daft Punk album out of it
My Perception of Love May Be Different Than Yours
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I assume the old links to threads/posts will be alive again soon.
Have to agree with other commenters here and point out that this has never been proven. Nor has it ever been claimed by anyone other than a disgruntled business owner.

I have no stake in Yelp - I actually abhor some elements of their product - but I detest uniformed opinions even more.

I've worked with several ex Yelp engineers and the consensus seems to be that more than anything Yelp is terrible, maybe on purpose, at explaining why what they do APPEARS to be bad.

It has to do with how their algorithms deal with time and aging posts - often things don't happen right away so people jump to the conclusion that this is being done manually when in fact it's just math kicking in.
> We are considering the interaction between our code and the library.

Ah. The comment I replied to was not about this, but about bootstrap 3 breaking in newer browsers.
I have a use case where I need to copy in large quantities of content and have them display nicely. At the moment we are using Redactor which is broken in many respects.
I have been using your test form and it appears to play much more nicely with the sort of data that we get.
We do have lots of table data.
Would you contact me (in sig) to discuss further?
> What Hoffman's theorem says is the fitness-tuned critter will — almost always — win the evolution game.

It doesn't from the explanation in the article at all. It just states the reality critter can't beat the fitness-tuned critter.

Evolution doesn't 'care' if you have extra useless things, you won't lose them evolutionary. (Although if there is a energy or something cost it might 'care' about this negative)
dear jhchen, the name quill nearly same to quill from quintic. I'm ain't from quintic ya.
Crowdsourcing the Beatles: Ron Howard's new documentary with rare footage
Location: New York

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Node.js, Go, Python, Javascript, SQL, AWS,

Java, HTML/CSS, D3.js

Résumé/CV: https://s3.amazonaws.com/saurav.io/Resume.pdf

Email: sj2726@columbia.edu
> I'd love to see any demonstration of a model of an intelligent organism with no sense of reality at all but that still functions properly

That is a strawman argument. Hoffman's actual theory is that "under evolution by natural selection, an organism that sees reality as it is will never be more fit than an organism of equal complexity that sees none of reality but is just tuned to fitness."
This is taken from the more in-depth in the Quanta interview [0] linked in the submitted article.

[0] https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160421-the-evolutionary-arg...
You linked to the rhythm method, not fertility awareness. Fertility awareness means actually measuring the physiological changes resulting from the hormonal changes that precede ovulation (temperature, saliva, cervical mucous). This is much more reliable than guessing based on the date, which is obviously going to fail relatively often as ovulation isn't reliably regular even in the most "regular" cycles.
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I don't think they are talking about having NO sense of reality. They are saying that having filters that 'simplify', or make these signals more 'user friendly' bring evolutionary benefits in comparison to experiencing reality as is. In other words, we experience an altered reality sculpted by our cognitive engine.

This reminds me of Aldous Huxley's "The Doors of Perception", by the way.
As a fun fact, separate virtual machines running under a VMWare ESXi hypervisor—which is about as "sandboxed" as you can get—still share memory: the hypervisor hashes the 'cold' pages of its VMs and, when it finds duplicate page content either within or between VMs, it merges the duplicated pages together into single copy-on-write pages. ESXi has never had a security vulnerability due to this optimization, AFAIK.

Ref: https://labs.vmware.com/vmtj/memory-overcommitment-in-the-es... (search "page sharing")
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Depends on how much you think the advisor might be able to help you. Guidance is nice and always appreciated but at the Series A stage you are probably pre-product market fit and you are looking for your first few marquee customers.

Choose your advisors wisely and they could open many doors for you. If so, equity given to them is well worth it.
Governments are just supposed to act as if there aren't other countries in the world? Something tells me this principle wouldn't result in the peaceful, logical decisions you're hoping for.
A similar article about Hoffman was posted on HN in April, with quite a bit of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11588698
What do you think of it for pedagogical purposes? Even if it were impossible to implement, I wonder if an interface closer to traditional programming might lower some barriers to understanding what a quantum computer can do, and how a quantum algorithm might work. Perhaps "prototype in Python, rewrite the slow bits in C" could be adapted to quantum computing.
Ask HN: What are your favorite articles/blog posts of all time?
fossil + gmail (with gchat and hangouts) and you've got a full stack :)
Maybe the standard repair procedure requires them to run some low level diagnostics to confirm the HW is OK?

If you are concerned about your data then I guess the answer is to wipe the machine before giving it to them and restore from a backup afterwards.
there are some concrete examples of this though. we see the visible spectrum, a particular subset of EM spectrum that's a pretty good enough abstraction to get around in the world, it's a heuristic for the spectrum that's "good enough". we hear a subset of the audio spectrum, it's "good enough". etc etc...
So, default wallpapers in early Windows 95 builds.

The first Preliminary Development Kit had an "Under Construction" wallpaper. The second one had the same wallpaper but tiled. Beta 1 had a different "Under Construction" wallpaper.

Of course, after PDK1 leaked far and wide, MS implemented some serial protection in PDK2 up to beta 2 (different from the one in the RTM; however the RTM's setup has remnants of it). Given that the leakers were involved with the warez scene, however, the skilled reversers that the builds were passed to easily found the backdoor that had been put in so that those on MS' internal network didn't have to enter the serial, and just patched a few bytes in the setup to abuse that.

The interesting part of this serial was that it was in two parts. One part was the "beta site ID" and half of the "password"; if this was valid, but the second half of the password wasn't, setup would appear to continue... until the point it would copy files, upon which it errored out with a message "General error 57, please contact your beta administrator".

This misdirection was discussed at the time, with some people believing the error at face value. This continued with the foundation of communities to preserve and discuss such builds several years onwards.
The last half of the password was the hex form of the first 16 bits of an MD4 hash (this code was written in around autumn 1993!) of the beta site ID, the first half of the password, and... a string inside the setup that was used as the titlebar text for the error message, which would be something like "Microsoft Chicago Preliminary Development Kit 2, November 1993".

This part of the serial algorithm was finally reverse engineered, and a key generator made....in 2014.

Afterwards, some early Internet Explorer 4.0 builds were discovered. They used the exact same serial algorithm as the early Windows 95 builds. And had the exact same "MS internal" backdoor.

(Um, I think I may have just ruined one of Raymond Chen's future blog posts.)
I think one of the keys is having solid blocks of time, if I have an hour or two without interruptions I can get a lot done.

It's the stopping and starting, people coming by, checking email, getting a text message.

I've been using the tab snooze chrome plugin to snooze gmail so it's only in my tabs every hour or so.

Blocking news and social sites in your hosts file, helps in case you wander over to a time waster of a URL. Mine redirect to Trello.com to remind me to focus.

Also listening to up tempo music with few lyrics helps, listening to a track on repeat can really focus my attention.

I also use the pomodoro method with the Tomato Ticker osx app.

That seems to help focusing on lots of small tasks, if a task is longer than 25 minutes and I'm plugged in I just keep going.

Also sometimes a goal is nice for larger chunks of work, get this knocked out and then get that game you've been wanting, lunch at your favorite restaurant, or take the afternoon off etc.

Most of these are handled by various apps but if you could integrate them together that would be a plus.
I pronounce "00ers" as "zeroes"

Maybe it should be "00es"?
If employers suddenly started paying less then I'm pretty sure housing would drop.
Evolution does not fine tune things that closely. Sure, we can't tell which specific frequency's something reflects. That's a well known limitation. It's also kind of boring.

If we had gaps in our hearing range that may support the theory, but a more accurate assessment is detecting the world has costs. Organisms only collect as much sensory information as they need to survive. But, the same is true of running speed. To be predictive you would have to find a new and active distortion in sensing based on some prediction.
If you're designing a language it's probably okay to have string literals that can't contain certain characters, so long as there is some other way to do it. It's a bit different for a serialization format.

The question is what you do when you're converting some data from some other format (for example, dumping a database) and there are strings that actually contain these special characters. Even if it's a bit ugly, it's good to have some way to represent the data so that it can be read back in again without any loss. In this kind of tool, you can't just say "don't do that" because the data has already been saved - you're just converting it. (So my idea of not calling it a string type probably doesn't make sense, on second thought, if you want to be able to interoperate.)

Square brackets are an interesting choice. If you just want to do simple lossless escaping, it doesn't seem that hard:

\\ means a literal backslash
\] means a literal ']'

Anything else gets written as-is. (But, what if the database actually does contain control characters in some of its strings?)
I seriously can't tell if this is a parody post or not. It seems like there's a consistent idea under all of that, but it's such a jumble of metaphors that I can't figure out a single sentence.
Fakery in a fake situation? Who would have thought...
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Which lacks predictive power. Humans have a blind spot because they can operate just fine while having a blind spot. However other organisms don't have a blind spot thus blind spots are not selected for.

The missing piece is something where getting the wrong information has value. But, that's harder than simply incorrectly interpreting information.
Were you asking because of his interests or because of his grammar?
People should read the whole article, this is really ATT deciding to fsck over the small minority of their userbase that shouldn't be fscked over.

They should make those service areas totally free. And the FCC shouldn't be holding their feet to the fire not meeting their obligations.

The more you make, the more you get for free.
"his conclusion is a dramatic one: The world presented to us by our perceptions is nothing like reality"

If both he and the press are hyperbolic about the absurdity of his claims, I feel justified in saying that the claims he's making in these articles are on-their-face absurd.
...and i remember answering a similar question on SO.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/35537499/319204
How Was Burning Man?
Sounds like it's best for mindshare/brand-awareness rather than action beyond that?
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Which is a vacuous claim. I don't perceive FM radio waves, or the weather on Jupiter. Does that mean that I don't have a sense of reality?
Kind of reminds me of how the boeing 747 was only ever meant to be a stopgap and everyone thought the real future was supersonic.

Optical computers will be drop in replacements for our current ones won't they?
Derek Muller burned money on Facebook ads, and did an analysis showing that their metrics are flat-out horseshit. Definitely have a watch if you're considering spending on Facebook.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ZqXlHl65g
Not that I'd advise anyone take the risk, but there are lower risks associated with mixing SSRIs and MAO-B inhibitors (like ayahuasca). It's the older class of anti-depressants which are both MAO-A and MAO-B inhibitors that you don't want to mix with SSRIs (and lots of other things too). MAO-A oxidises/metabolises seratonin, noradrenaline and dopamine, whereas MAO-B is mostly just dopamine. MAO-A inhibition also causes the 'cheese effect' (consumption of tyramine causing hypertensive crisis).

As an aside, it's a real pity that the side effects of MAO-A inhibition loom so large in people's imaginations. They're extremely effective anti-depressants and many of the risks can be easily mitigated, but GPs and even shrinks are now too afraid to prescribe them.
I got excited because I thought it was a make release of MathQuill, web-based WYSIWG equation editor with LaTeX support. http://mathquill.com/

Ah well, this looks great too :)
Can't you bounce radar off the radome at a distance to reverse engineer the interior reflector's positioning?
Show HN: Regex using template literals (Node.js)
After a very very long time only. It is not a liquid asset. It does not react to sudden price shocks quickly if at all.
Doesn't that make him the counter example to everything :)
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The water example showcases the germ of the idea pretty well. Stimuli don't need to be in 1-1 or even linear correspondence with physiological responses to those stimuli. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding his argument.
a lot of the crucial work in engineering happens only after you learn when to say "no".
Can't see anything on an iPhone, I've got no idea what this is.
They're sending up a CubeSat which looks to be pretty small, from Googling it looks like the cost to launch could be $40-60k USD.

I'm not familiar with testing things like this, but I could very well see that being cheaper than hiring out a well-qualified lab to test it out.
How long until an intelligence service creates a system like this and turns it loose, only to be watching and listening the whole time.
Yes let's not over-analyze this.

Obviously an engineer is involved in the shaping of the requirements by interacting with the product manager or whoever(never the client). By asking questions, making inquiries and sometimes even poke holes into user stories that ultimately don't make much sense.

No one is all-knowing, no requirements are perfect, etc etc.

What I'm saying is that it's the job of the (Product) manager to understand what the client wants and to relay this into more tangible terms to the engineers.

As for knowing the business domain. Meh, sometimes maybe, but I can think of myriad of situations that it doesn't matter and it may not even make sense.

If you have dozens of engineers and you expect all(or most) of them to be familiar with the business domain, I'd suspect there would be some serious management/organizational problems in that company.
Why Hypertext Markup Language rather than Portable Document Format? Because you like ads?
Ethically Turning Sydney into San Fran
A (Relatively Easy to Understand) Primer on Elliptic Curve Cryptography
I went to a community college too. I was told in the first few weeks, most of you will drop out, and not transfer. This tenured Ph.d was quite a jerk, but he was right.

I transferred to a four year university, and got that rediculious degree. I look back, and there was so much b.s., involved in getting that degree, I'm suprised I finished.

I finished because it was better than working full time. I had this beautiful, competitive girlfriend who I just couldn't be with anyone without a degree. I'll never forget the look on her face when she asked me, "How do you feel about getting a degree?" Honestly Ingrid(yes, unbelievable blond) it was a waste of time. In four years, I had maybe eight classes what I really felt were worth the money.

If I was to do it over again, I would have picked a degree I was interested in. I picked business administration . I thought it was the safe choice. I was wrong.

I went to graduate school for a year, and dropped out due to health problems, and I didn't believe the mantra they were spewing. I did pay back that 10 grand. I'm glad I payed it back because I need to file a chapter 7 soon.

(If anyone currently going to a community college reads this, hang in there. It will get depressing. Your buddies will fill your head with stories about epic parties at their school. Just finish those general education transfer courses. I actually had a great time in CC. In Anatony, and Physiology classes, I dated a lot. It was loaded with nursing students.)
I wonder how many rationalists on HN this post will piss off before it falls off the main page.

"Reality", "science", "fact", and "logic": these are all arbitrary concepts and disciplines that are stuck in a limited worldview. There is no true objectivity we can experience as humans.

Just because we don't experience something or it doesn't fit with what we consider rational thought, it doesn't mean that that thing cannot exist.

However, we learn this truth from science itself- in seeing how other living things experience life and react and how it is so different than how we experience it- how we aren't made to be objective.

The means of showing us truth we've relied on is flawed. At this point, the rationalist understands why Plato divides into thing and form- because form is the only ideal that is an anchor when you realize that our experience is unreliable:
https://www.northampton.edu/Documents/Subsites/HaroldWeiss/I...

But, then when you accept form as the ideal and reject things, you have rejected everything we have to understand form. So, you fail to have anything dependably rational left.
I highly doubt that any of the bands you mention in the 2nd paragraph will sell out an arena by themselves.
Even in their heyday godsmack,a7x, disturbed would maybe fill a large club. But then once the "real metal" picked back up 10 years ago or so these bands lost their appeal to the old school slayer/pantera audience just because there were other "options" available. Same goes for the younger deathcore/metalcore crowd (with a7x managing to stay afloat in that pool but nowhere close to where they used to be popularity wise).
It seems like the people profiled in the article failed to learn that completely. Instead they go on about plant spirits and vibrations and other things they hallucinated as if they were actually real. That the perception of truth and truth itself are the same thing.

You don't need drugs at all to learn how subjective our own perceptions of reality are. And the risks suggest that it would be unwise to do so.
PDF is meant for paper. HTML is meant for screens.
I hard-reboot about once a week, caused by my carelessness and running out of 16GB of RAM. I always recommend against btrfs for system partitions, and if you don't make frequent backups, against user partitions too. Read through "man btrfsck", that should caution you sufficiently. I'll try out XFS on an external HDD I'll buy soon.
Agree 1000%. We need to get back to where students can pay for their own education with a part-time job and graduate debt-free. If the loans are cut off, colleges will have to cut their administrative staff and go back to shitty dorms, vs the luxury apartments that kids are living in now.
I used the app daily for a full year at one point, and really loved it.

Rewatching it - 6 minutes for an entire year, was amazing. You forget so much as time goes on, having those seconds spark memory upon memory is more than worth it.
This thread is predicated on the assertion that users lose 10 or even 20 hours per week to reboots. Not just once.
>"Given an arbitrary world and arbitrary fitness functions, an organism that sees reality as it is will never be more fit than an organism of equal complexity that sees none of reality but that is just tuned to fitness."

See Blindsight by Peter Watts.

http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
House of keys: 9 Months later... 40% Worse
I wonder what the keyboards are for / how they worked. No digital synthesizers that small for cheep then.