skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dear Mozilla developers! I've been using Firefox since v1.0. And I want you to know that by ditching the old plugin architecture you are alienating your faithful users, myself included.

I'm sorry, but I decided to stick with Firefox 55 for now, possibly switching to Palemoon later. I need my old extensions to work: Status4Evar, EdgeWise and Classic Theme Restorer. I can't stand the current FF UI and I will not give up on this.
"Once you’ve followed your curiosity to several different tributaries, those tributaries will converge. Then, you’re completely, utterly, untouchable."

From a good read on how curiosity may guide you: https://medium.com/the-mission/make-the-pursuit-of-curiosity...
Awesome stuff! Had a lot of questions hope you don't mind am father to a few boys who love legos and have just gotten into logic gaming.

How long have you been programming?

What was your early exposure like? Which language tools, legos, games, etc?

Did you have a mentor or self learning? Anyone else in your family programs?

Does academia suffer as a consequence? (It did for me)

I was self taught at 13 (GWBasic on a Commodore PC10) but had very little mentoring and no internet access which limited my trajectory.
In a similar vein: If you need to use a tool (software or other wise), and you might use it more than once, take the time to learn it right. This will slow you down in the beginning, but it pays off in productivity later on.
>The quest for an AGI is more about translating the notion of a corporation (or government, etc) meaningfully into fully electronic computer terms than it is in replicating the human mind.

That's an astoundingly terrible idea, considering what powerful corporations and governments have done to the world.
Am I right in thinking the study of fish/sharks and fluid dynamics helped with the breakthrough?
Sure, but realistically, why would he?

What would be bad is if he had specifically asked or funded them to make that post. But you can't blindly assume malintent and hypothesize that Google has been funding New America so they can bash on other monopolies.

There is no proof of that, that's just you assuming the worst.
Ah yes. The ol' "Communism has never been implemented right" argument... Oh please.
– Economics / sociology –

A Farewell to Alms https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691141282/

Cartesian Economics https://www.amazon.com/dp/1616407395/

The 10,000 Year Explosion https://www.amazon.com/dp/0465020429/

The Righteous Mind https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307455777/

Mindstorms https://www.amazon.com/dp/0465046746/

– Philosophy –

Tao Te Ching https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060812451/

Meditations https://www.amazon.com/dp/1545565678/

– Autobiography –

Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393316041/

Recollections of Eugene Wigner https://www.amazon.com/dp/0738208868/

– Fiction –

Fahrenheit 451 https://www.amazon.com/dp/030747531X/

Dune https://www.amazon.com/dp/0441172717/
Yeah, but it really has the connotation of suffering, pain, etc. where the escape from Samsara is Nirvana, or the final cessation of suffering
The difference is that it's a superset, whereas Kotlin is a different language with Java interop, that's designed to be familiar to Java programmers.

To use a JavaScript analogy, Kotlin is CoffeScript, and Iodine is Typescript.
The complain in the article was that teachers and other students assume the girls are in MIT not with the goal to learn or work, but that she is there only or primary to find husband.

So, unless you assume your classmates are in school just to find husbands and assume all girls are like your friends, the preferences of your friends are irrelevant.

I knew people who had trouble to keep up in school, because they came basically for party life and procrastinated too much. I don't assume all guys are like that. Similar thing (through being family oriented and willing to accept negatives of being at home is more noble I guess).
I'm a diagnosed borderline-psychopath. (Some non-complex emotions, in contexts where strong emotions would be expected).

The article does get caught up in it's continual comparisons to killers.

But for those with no criminal history? I'd still call it a disorder.

I find it exceptionally difficult to interact with the average person on a daily basis. Well, more tiring than overly difficult.

I'm not normally interested in how your day is, so why should I ask?

Fantastic, you had a child. I've accepted that, no need to keep talking, I'm sure you're proud. I feel something akin to pride in my own daughter as she learns to clap and walk. But I don't know why you'd care to listen to me saying that.

To be part of society though, I've developed rules, and they help me fit in. Smiling, laughing, being quiet and sympathetic.

Unfortunately, I also need to regulate some heavy self-control.

I should attempt to convince someone of the right choice. They're a human being, they deserve their independence.

But it's so much simpler to manipulate them into doing what I want.

It can short-circuit days of discussion with clients.

But, the system of rules I made myself don't allow it. I had to include morality in these rules, because if I have worth, then others must, from a rational view.

I'm not free of morality - but it does require active effort to abide by it.
Early Data from Harvey Shows Epic Flooding
Caveat lector. This book inspired some juicy reviews:

A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity by Cosma Shalizi 21 October 2005

A Thirty-five Year Old Kind of Science
by Juergen Schmidhuber, based on a letter to Intl. Journal of High-Energy Physics, vol 43:5, June 2003.

looked up at http://shell.cas.usf.edu/~wclark/ANKOS_reviews.html
article includes no map

Seriously?

EDIT: https://thegreattrail.ca

https://cangeo-media-library.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/im...
How would you suggest to measure it? Isn't it something very personal and specific? Or are there any common methods to measure it?
I / my company was founded 10years back we focus on CNC Machines specifically. Recently with one our our clients we’ve been working with three leading iIot solutions; some mentioned in the article (we provide the data from the machine into there platforms) six months into the project it is really evident, domain knowledge is key to success. I believe there is an expectation that analytics, Machine Learning, Big Data etc can be applied without the knowledge and results can be delivered. The problem is automation equipment is not / has not been designed to deliver data at a scale this technology can be applied successfully, domain knowledge is still required to make it a success. Shameless plug www.cncdata.co.uk
Thanks for asking!

1. I've been programming since I was 8.

2. I started out with HTML, then slowly moved into CSS, Javascript, Python, C, and Assembly.

3. I am completely self-taught, a few people in my family program but are in different fields than what I am interested in.

4. I wouldn't say that it suffers, but it is definitely hard to keep up with both. I always keep school as my first priority when it comes to these types of things, and most of my projects are done over break or the weekend.

Awesome! The internet is extremely helpful and you can learn pretty much anything you put your mind to, and it's never too late to start :)
If I could really recommend anything, I would say to stop doctoring your commits for the appearance that you code /every single day/.

You don't have to look like a super programmer to convince everyone that you're smart, you are smart as hell already.
> It is impossible for any thinking person to believe that a company whose core competency is essentially "the ability to find anything" would be totally stumped on how to find a single black engineer. The only reasonable conclusion is that they have no real desire to do so.

Having run many hiring and recruiting campaigns (dozens, for several companies, seeking both experienced professionals and, at other times, students from the soon-to-be-graduating class at top colleges) -- there are very few blacks in the available pool.

Asians? Many.

Indians? Many.

Whites? Plenty.

It is a pipeline problem. Saying "no" to a hundred Asian applicants isn't a problem, because there are so many.

Saying "no" to a single black candidate can be a real problem because there are simply so tragically few.

I hope my next round of recruiting is met with a greater pool of candidates (experienced or fresh graduates), for the benefit of all parties involved.
Hi! I'm the author of the post.

So, it's not "asking for help", it's informing how you can help.
I'm also not "begging for contributors" or asking to help with "company goals", I'm suggesting ways to help with our current major release. If we're successful, it should make the whole Web better thanks to bringing more competition and choice to the user.

Major open source projects are actually fun to work with for many people. They're very challenging not just because of problems you solve, but also because of the massive project culture and technical infrastructure in place that you learn in the process.
That learning helps people grow as engineers.
Also the feeling that you made an impact on the lives of millions of users is quite awesome.
For others, they're already Firefox users and it's just about fixing a bug that was itching them.

So, generally speaking, there are reasons to help major open source projects, even if they can afford to hire full time engineers as well.

Two side notes:

1) We're way, way smaller than all our competitors. The number of engineers that Google, Apple and Microsoft can hire to work on their browser engines is significantly higher than what Mozilla can do. We can't compete and never will be able to. That's why, beside of our culture and Mozilla Manifesto, we rely on our ability to attract contributors.
2) It's a chicken and egg. Keeping the project really open (not technically open as in - we'll dump the source code to github every once in a while), requires continuous effort. Having a healthy community of contributors is important for our project culture to stay open. If people stop contributing, some things will naturally decay into less open state making it harder in the future for new contributors to come in. And I'm not even talking about code only. Mozilla's marketing, engineering, privacy, security, UX and other projects are working in the open.
Agreed 100%. Why not do things like how Google Webmaster Tools does it, where you fill in a form, get a file to post on your website and have it auto verify based on that? Or for those who aren't website/service owners, a system where you verify your name or address?

The current exclusive system on sites like Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and others is awkward and makes no real sense whatsoever. Same with the also awkward trend of 'deverifying' people that say something 'offensive' or 'brek the rules'. You don't stop being the same person when you upset someone.

Really, sites and social networks need to just treat verification like anything else.
Assuming a lot of people here are working on an AI or ML problem for work or fun, what are you working on?
I always wondered what happens to the prodigy children when they grow up. If I am not too intrusive, may I ask for your story?
The Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality fanfic by Eliezer Yudkowsky provides an interesting introduction to some ways of thinking that may be new or surprising.

Schild's Ladder by Greg Egan is interesting for considering models of reality (also his other books).
Hi there, I'm left wondering if you started this [1] from scratch or used a sample OS project? I don't understand why'd you initialize the GDT in the bootloader.

[1] https://github.com/kbrsh/arc
Why would someone code for 15% of currently nothing vs go consult for 150 bucks an hour?

Could a developer do your job plus his own and thus own 100% of the business? Some developers can sell too.
and I think that's what the US secretly hope happens (as perverse as that sounds). so they have a reason to attack
Facebook & Google has never had to compete with worldwide services, too. Only US services.
They're being pedantic (probably to highlight the complete lack of useful information provided by the post they responded to.) "Too little" means "not enough" and "not enough" is not enough by definition. There's no such thing as "not enough" of those things because none is enough.
> Lawsuit: Amazon sold eclipse glasses that cause "permanent" blindness"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/lawsuit-amazon-s...
The problem with not choosing this hill is that the hills that need defending are exactly the ones you wouldn't choose. If this guy didn't appear to be in the wrong, the government wouldn't spend their time trying to unlawfully compel him to decrypt the drive.

If white supremacists had something nice to say, people wouldn't want the government to unlawfully silence them.

It doesn't feel good to protect the rights of suspected child pornographers, or white supremacists; but consider that we don't want a government empowered to unlawfully persecute those who do or say things we find morally repugnant because what the majority finds morally repugnant changes over time, but fundamental rights shouldn't.
Not really, the light flux is not really related to the physical aperture (diameter of the lens), but rather to the f-number of the lens (what photographers usually call "aperture" is in fact the f-number, focal length divided by lens aperture), an iPhone has an f/1.7 lens. This is an extremely fast lens, faster than any any zoom on a DSLR. Only dedicated prime lenses are faster.

The flux is:

Φ/4α² * 1/A²

Total energy does depend on actual aperture though. Total power is:

Φ/4πα * D²

Where D is a diameter of the lens.

As a first approximation, the sensor can support a certain flux, but once that regime is exceeded the damage is proportional to the energy, not to the flux. So if we talk about the regime where the sensor is not destroyed, flux is the relevant metric, but a larger lens will likely cause more damage once damage actually occurs.
Javascript string encoding: from UTF-8 and back
I think the "scaling" is not about the software platform or connectivity etc, but that it's hard enough to transfer what you learned from the sensor data of a gas powered turbine to the sensor data of a steam powered turbine, and of course even harder or impossible to the pump motor in an ice cream manufacturing plant.

And there are millions of different pumps, motors, gears and whistles and their parameters and environment is so specific to the industry and actual machine.

It does not scale to offer the same thing "horizontally" across all industries. So they don't offer generalized "industrial" IoT to power plants and ice cream manufacturers alike, but focus on a few industries they know well.

You can of course call yourself horizontal across all industries if your offering ends at the software platform or some other building block, but that is apparently not what industrial clients are buying. They buy a wholesome solution.
Ah, yes, the Shaggy defense [1]. It's is rarely is successful in practice though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaggy_defense
Those are great brands, but the person who is going to drop £1500-3000 on a (beautiful) Nomos is fundamentally not the same as the person who's going to spend $12 on a no-name watch, whether that's on the watch itself or on shipping. No way.

I hate to recommend them because, as far as I'm concerned, they're on the same spectrum as the scammers in some sense[1], but if you do like that style of watch and you're willing to spend maybe a hundred dollars (probably less, used, or in a sale) MVMT might be the brand to go for. And I've seen ASOS selling Bauhaus style watches for as little as £25.

[1] I don't love MVMT because in their marketing it's pretty clear that they're claiming to be something they're not - i.e., a "real" watch company with some actual heritage - as opposed to what they are, which is an affordable fashion brand.
Retrieving Gold, and More, from Wastewater
It might not be legal or sanctioned by the mainstream psychological community yet, but it's definitely an option (if you can track down a therapist willing to do it).

Psychedelic therapy has been practiced virtually since psychedelics started to be widely used in the mid-20th century. In the 1950's and 60's, LSD and other psychedelics were used therapeutically. In the 1980's, efore MDMA became known as a party drug, it was used therapeutically. Indigenous people have traditionally used psychedlics in a sacramental context in which goals and results could arguably be seen as therapeutic.

When these drugs were made illegal, the above-ground therapy stopped, but some therapists dared to continue their work despite great risk to themselves. To give just one example, a book called *"The Secret Chief Revealed"[1] chronicles the work of one such underground psychedlic therapist, Leo Zeff, who led hundreds of therapy sessions with MDMA.

Today the practice of psychedelic therapy continues, and there are even university programs that teach it. It's still mostly underground, but is starting to rise aboveground and becoming a real option as research in to psychedelic therapy gets positive results and positive media coverage, as more doctors and patients become aware of it, and as the so-called Psychedlic Renaissance grows.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Chief-Revealed-Myron-Stolaroff...
I hate to be "that guy", but is there any verification that Kabir is, in fact, 13? The project documentation alone is incredibly impressive - the breadth of knowledge is remarkable for anyone who hasn't even taken highschool level classes.

(coming from a highschooler, for whatever that's worth)
Could you please stop violating the guidelines, which ask you not to complain about voting or insinuate shillage?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Try portaging your canoe for 20km through the wilderness and say that again :)
Are these re-implementations?

Or does Amazon offer the source code for these services?

Not meant as a critical question, I don't understand the origins of this repository and really how it can be.
I agree with you, whoever will provide the first working prototype will provide the whole system.

What you mean by postlight type of company?
Text-to-Image with Stacked GANNs
Unless you use this excellent library:

https://actor-framework.org/
'I Am That' by Nisargadatta Maharaj

'The First and Last Freedom' by J. Krishnamurti: Mainly because of what he says regarding Free Will. Later I read 'Free Will' by Sam Harris, and I think Sam explains the same idea in more detail.
Citing 'The First and Last Freedom': "Thought is nothing else but reaction; thought is not creative."

'The Grapes of Wrath' by John Steinbeck

'The Little Prince' by A.S.Exupery: when I was a child it made me reflect about society.
How to be interesting
You've also missed the point that people are paying $12 for watches that are arguably junk not even worth $1.
Haha if you look at my recent commits (maybe 1-2 a day), you'll see that I've been putting less effort into the amount of commits, and more effort into the quality of them. I think a year ago I was focused more on getting that graph to look good.
> That way they would have received both the positive publicity as well as reduced the free labor they need to provide.

not everyone has an agenda. perhaps this was just about helping people.
Content Security Policy - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP
I agree it would cause inflation. What is not clear (and I probably won't believe any study claiming clarity) is what % of said inflation would be caused by economic growth vs monetary manipulation. There are lots of studies that show disbursing money to relatively poorer people results in more immediate demand for goods than the investments & spending of those it was taken from. Whether this is a net positive for the economy is unclear, but the GDP metric would likely record growth.

If the money for UBI is obtained through debt, then I 100% agree with you because then gov. is basically taking money from the working class through inflation and also giving it back to them with an awkward couple year delay + corruption leakage in the giving and taking cycle. Ironically this would probably increase wealth and power inequality in the long term.

Edit/PS:

What is worrisome about proposals like this is the delay in the giving-taking cycle. If party A enacted such a policy they would probably enjoy a big economic boom for the duration of their term and then 8 years later party B would suffer from a massive increase in inequality and possibly financial crises.
Our Mathematical Universe - Max Tegmark

Being and Nothingness - Sartre

Chaos - Gleik

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Feynman
I don't see how that would be possible to actually "find" short of him unlocking the drive.

More like "the judge thinks". Which, we shouldn't be incarcerating people indefinitely for IMOP.
Ethereum Smart Contracts (Solidity) and a bit of fun playing a bet
loved your quote.

> Intelligence = Speed of the car | Smart = Good at driving it | Wisdom = Where to drive.
TLDR; could someone point me to a tutorial or an explanation on how to properly install FF, update & save the open tabs without making bookmarks (that last point is and edge case we can skip if it's difficult), and having the current icon, on a nix system that has explanations for 5 year olds?

I would love to help but being an amateur I've encountered a few pain points, unless the issue is my search skills are lacking. A few days ago I finally updated my Firefox version on Debian 9 to the developer version 56 (previous 54). The problem has been finding documentation on both the Debian and Mozilla websites on how to do it the right way. Found a decent tutorial, made a back up, installed and my machine is working much better. It is old and got little memory :)

Then FF said there was an update. I got stumped. From what I could find FF sync has a limit of X bytes. I ended up looking into making a web extension but that's going to take me some time. It seems I could save the open tabs using Tabs.tab from the API, maybe. Sorry, I digress.

In short, how can I have two FF versions on at the same time, different directories obviously, with their respective icons, while manually updating them? I guess it would be to delete all the files in the dir, unpacking, and call it a day? Still need help with the two versions though.

If you read all of this, thank you.
Wikipedia Matters [pdf]
I'm pretty sure we all have the same risk of death.
How our immune systems could stop people from reaching Mars
Best advice is probably to prepare for a lot of front end. Doing "the minimum" takes considerable skill and experience.

Angular 1 or 2 makes some things simple by providing a proper "framework" in the place-logic-here sense.
OTOH it can also be constraining because anything not matching that framework will be almost impossible to force in.

And when things gets a little more advanced than the todo-app you suddenly have to learn lots of complex parts of the framework at once.

React falls on the other end. Things stay relatively simple from todo and up, so easy to grow with. But there is no framework and no real consensus, so you need to evaluate a lot of debates and variations on how to approach things to move forward, this can require a lot more experience.