skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I think you're vastly overestimating China's cultural homogeneity. 30% of the population (so, a greater number than the population of the U.S.) doesn't even speak Mandarin.

Mandarin is basically the Han dialect of Chinese. The Han people are 92% of the population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Chinese

In addition, Mandarin is the standard language used in most or all public schools. I volunteered multiple times in an area where the majority of people are the Yi minority group (location: Zhaojue in southern Sichuan). The Yi people's language doesn't even share the same characters as Chinese. When I first heard their language, I swear it sounded like it was from Africa, a lot of similar phonemes. But even there, they used Mandarin in the public schools.

>> And this isn't happening in some backwater part of the country; in addition to Cantonese being the official language of Hong Kong, Canton (a.k.a. Guangdong) is the most populous province in the country, and the location of Shenzhen itself.

Shenzhen is a city built on top of a fishing village in the 80s that had very few incumbent people. Most of the people who live in Shenzhen come from outside of Shenzhen and never spoke Cantonese. As such, they have no choice but to speak Mandarin to each other, as that's the only common language out of all the people who come from all the other provinces. The fact of the matter is that I cannot remember the last time I heard Cantonese in Shenzhen. Guangzhou has a lot of Cantonese, but that's because there were a lot of Cantonese people in Guangzhou from the beginning, as Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong (the Canton province). Shenzhen's economy is forecast to outpace Hong Kong's economy, though Hong Kong will by no means become insignificant. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-05/as-shenzh...

If Cantonese is dying, it's a natural death brought on by social and economic factors, not a forced death. Mandarin has been the standard language used in public schools since the days of the Republic of China, China's attempt at democracy, in 1912. This is not some kind of new malicious strategy brought on by the modern Communist government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Modern_Standard_Chi...

So many factors are making it a natural death for Cantonese.
My Cantonese speaking friends agree with this.

Source: I live in Shenzhen

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Hahaha, this is the best thing I've read all day :-)
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Not everyone. A large minority of the population were slaves.
This method of downloading a website for later viewing is how Richard Stallman uses the web.

https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
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Actually, nutritionally they were far better off. Domestic plants have a broader spectrum of vitamins but far less of any one vitamin; a varied wild diet is vastly superior to what we eat now. Plus less work per day (except during times of starvation, due to little rain.) Give the book "The Old Way" a read for more direct information about just how much we've lost.
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This makes me think of the movie the 13th warrior[0] where a warrior from Baghdad fights along side Vikings

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_13th_Warrior
Cool! Thanks for that
Already using it to track whenever a couple stores here in Japan put the Nintendo Switch back in inventory or lottery sale
I'm not assuming that. I'm saying that you can't just decide not to evaluate that bit when constructing a hypothesis.
Killer, anywhere I can keep an eye out for it?
Out of curiosity:

yes2.py:

import os
stdout = os.fdopen(1, 'wb')
while True:
stdout.write('y\n')

$ python yes2.py | pv -r > /dev/null
[9.12MiB/s]

$ pypy yes2.py | pv -r > /dev/null
[45.5MiB/s]

So pypy does a good job of speeding it up.

Off a quick 9 second run, python2 with profiling:

ncalls tottime percall cumtime percall filename:lineno(function)
1 4.272 4.272 9.301 9.301 yes2.py:1(<module>)
30856080 5.029 0.000 5.029 0.000 {method 'write' of 'file' objects}
1 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 {posix.fdopen}
1 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 {method 'disable' of '_lsprof.Profiler' objects}
It's one reason I especially like The Wirecutter (as well as a few other sites for non-tech stuff). Is their recommendation always going to be the absolute optimum for me under all circumstances? Maybe not. But I probably will be fine with it (especially if I take a quick look at closely related models).
As a non-Rust developer my first thought upon seeing the optimized version was “On the other hand let’s not visit Rust, ‘tis a silly place.”
I make it a ritual. Every year on the same day, I go through all my stuff. Everything! If I haven't used it in the last year, it goes on Craigslist. It's amazing what you can talk yourself into keeping perpetually because "just maybe" you'll need it one day!
> After a while the bugs are ironed out, so God can settle back and gently tweak parameters at a distance.

That explains the hands off approach God has lately with the human society.
Skritter is also really good for this.
There's more steps necessary to enable WebRender in full capacity.

I presume, though, that things are buggier then and the potentially introduced performance drops might actually make it feel slower for now. I don't know, though, I haven't tested it with just gfx.webrender.enabled.

You can find the current full list of steps to enable WebRender here: https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2017/09/25/webrender-newsle...
I think they have a similar goal. The difference sounds like gta uses git for change detection while bazel uses hashes to detect changes (hashes include the hashes of the transitive closure of the deps; it’s a dag). The latter is more robust in the face of noop edits that don’t change the output as well as distributed caching of test/build results.
Random selection of repositories would be better. Perhaps with a filter filtering out anything with too many stars.

Reason: I know 80-90% of recommended projects.
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One could argue that even if the AI doesn't actually work, if people believe it works then it could bring harm (sorta like lie detector tests which are ineffective but useful for getting confessions out of people who don't know any better). Hence junk science that could harm people of any orientation.
It is in windows, https://www.google.com/drive/download/
> The biggest thing that happened in the JavaScript universe in the past years is the finalization and adoption of ECMAScript 6 (or ES2015)

I don't know if it's meant as a joke, but isn't it usually known as ES6 or ECMAScript 2015? And people quarrel over which to use?
It'd be like explaining climate change to Donald Trump. You wouldn't be able to see it.
Indeed, many of the Vikings who gave up on raiding often settled in what's now England, Ireland, and Normandy, whereas their discovery of Iceland was an accident and its settlement was only partly intentional.
definitely. but they seemed to be one of the most well-traveled (as an ethnicity), hence why they may have acquired objects from distant lands more easily than others. those things could have come into posession by visiting (either peacefully or forefully) less distant lands that traded with more distant lands for those objects.
Mandarin is _NOT_ the Han dialect of Chinese. Each region has its own dialect and while they are not taught in school (mostly due to central government's policy), regional dialects are often spoken at home.

Source: I grew up in Hong Kong and have relatives in mainland China
I'd love to see this tried on Mockingbirds, which mimic other bird songs but also a huge variety of sounds. The ones in my neighborhood even do car alarms, and rapidly cycle through a whole range of noises at the top of their little lungs. The repertoire seems to vary a lot from one bird to the next, I but was never even able to pick out a pattern for the one guy whose venue of choice every night all spring long this year was a bush right outside my bedroom window.
How do you assess someone else’s assessment of their consciousness as truthful? What about their blindness to the effects of their own subsconscious?
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100% this. Violent incidents in China pale in comparison to the US in terms of both scale and frequency. Take into consideration proportion of population? No comparison at all.
Occam's razor:

Viking raided silk traders travelling far, or raided people who had access to those traders, traders who were either wearing or selling the silk cloth with pattern.
Quicksort is great, but the name is not great. It would have been better named as 'partition sort'.
yet another bad sign for, like, democracy and stuff
Cliff?
I got a Nest thermostat a few years ago when I was working from home and sat at my desk most of the day. This meant that I seldom walked past the Nest, meaning that after a while it would assume there was no-one home so would turn the heating off.

I wrote a Windows app [1] in C# that would ping the Nest API to keep me at "home", so long as the PCs screensaver had not come on (in which case I would have probably _actually_ gone out).

Worked well, but when I submitted the app to Nest for approval in their store [2] they asked me to remove this specific feature! It still acts as a handy desktop notifier for Nest thermostats though.

[1] http://richev.me/nest

[2] https://workswith.nest.com/company/notifier-for-nest-by-rich...
As of a couple hours ago the most threatening fire had been turned back with a backfire just when the wind shifted for a bit, so there's a reprieve on that front. There's another fire a few miles south, but it's probably a full day before that could develop to something dangerous for my location, depending on wind. There's another one still to the north end of town too.

It's all up in the air until they are all out. I'm relatively safe right now, but still paying attention to all the alerts as they come in. They just issued a new advisory evacuation[1] in a separate part of town a couple minutes ago just in case conditions change.

1: http://www.nixle.us/9MPXP
Judging from the populism happening in the US and various European countries, it seems that Western countries currently lack the latter too. See Trump's base, anger leading to Brexit, anger in Greece, etc.
Mine plays a sad song when it's full. I think it's the 595?
Well, why don't they think that Vikings simply seen these as a decoration, not understanding what they mean? That happens in much much more recent times. Late Russian ex-foreign minister, and ex-prime minister Primakov, who is Arab states specialist and reads Arabic scripts very well, once saw a garment with 'No god except Allah...' on Patriarch of Russia Alexy II, shocking him because similar ritual garments were used by the Orthodox church for centuries - with inscriptions on the cloth seen simply as decorations - cloth was by tradition bought in Syria. Story was from ca. 1995.
> We train it with a simple virtual environment

I go as far as saying that there is no intelligence without embodiment. AI's, humans and animals need the environment because intelligence is only partly in the brain, a lot of it is in the environment. An agent that forms a new concept needs to be able to test it in "real life" (in the sim). Unless the agent can test, it can't distinguish between correlation and causation. Without causal reasoning, AI's won't get that smart. The scientific method and the way kids learn through play are just as heavily based on the environment.

So I think the next level in AI will be based on improvements on simulators - both physical sims and abstract (for reasoning, dialogue, complex planning, etc). Lately, AI has a lot of synergy with gaming which is a form of simulation as well. Not only that AIs use games as a sandbox, but the hardware used to run games on is also the hardware used to run deep learning (GPUs). Another important usage for simulation will be self driving cars - where a model of the world needs to be simulated in the car to do path planning.

So my conclusion is that we are on a "perfect storm" path towards advanced simulation. From games to SDCs, and from robots to chatbots, they all need to simulate the environment and future effects of their actions. We're headed towards a kind of Matrix before reaching AGI.
I've mentioned this before on HN.

- I've automated taking screenshots of my laptop screen + webcam and fuse them and organise by year/month/day/hour. This gives me a nice lookback at what I was doing on a particular day (assuming I was at my laptop, which I mostly am).

- I also send my GPS location each 30 minutes, again from my laptop, into a database for a nice visualisation where I was at some time.

- Automatically move files from my laptop into various folders which are stages of "stagnation" of the file, makes it easy to keep stuff clean.
Devil's advocate here, but how are skin color and body size any different from eye color or height preference?

The only way to do it truly fairly is to disallow any physical characteristics. By only blocking some you just change the criteria/groups who are discriminated against. But who would use a dating site where you have no idea what the other person looks like?

Better to use statistics to level the playing field by, for example, showing people with less % likes more often. This is pretty much how affirmative action works. Give people biased against by other humans more opportunity to make up for it. Lot easier than trying to fix the bias in the humans.

If you think you can make humans ignore their sexual preferences by hiding certain identifiers you're a lot more optimistic about humanity than I am. I expect the most popular openers on the site to be "r u fat?" for men and "r u at least 5' 10"?" for women. Isn't it just better if those people never talk to each other in the first place at that point?
See my posts above for references to books and articles by Fuhrman, Hyman, Weil, Korb, Hickey, Moore, Bluezones, Howey, and others that support your suggestions as things that can help people in various ways -- quite a few providing evidence linked to scientific studies and thus moving beyond personal anecdotes.

Your point #11 is insightful too, judging by the moderation of several comments in this thread. :-)

That said, often the ongoing "cause" of depression is an interwoven set of issues which may feed on each other in a downward spiral, and getting out of those overlapping feedback loops can be difficult -- even if in hindsight specific causes might be identifiable. So, I can see why someone might object to the phrasing that "there's a clear reason for a depression" even as I tend to agree with the premise overall that causes (e.g. lack of sunlight, lack of sleep, relationship issues, poor nutrition, etc.) can usually be identified and (hopefully) addressed. But when the causes interact, granted, it can be very difficult to try to untangle that knot -- like when money issues prevent eating healthier or when (as an extreme interwoven example) relationship issues undermine sleeping well, which leads to financial issues, which stresses relationships further, leading to binge eating of junk food and sugar spikes and inflammation and headaches, leading to avoiding exercise, causing lowered self-esteem from worse appearance contributing back to relationship issues, and so on for strange knotty loops... The good news is, like Alex Korb (in "The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time") and others point out elsewhere, a positive upward spiral is possible too, as one issue after another gets addressed which frees more energy for dealing with the next issue...
Ask HN: What is the role of an advisor in startup?
I was asked by an early stage startup to advise them on certain technical aspects due to my industry experience and network. Since, I never have taken such role formally, just wanted to set clear goals for myself prior to accepting to advise.

1. What is expected from startup advisor in terms of actual work and hours?

2. Does non-board member advisor have any legal implications / liabilities? I wont have any pay but part of equity, does that change anything?

3. What are advisor's boundary, are they suppose to advise and then let founders take it or leave it? or should they consider themselves as one of the employees?

4. Who would be an ideal advisor for your startup?

*edited for formatting.
This idea is explored a bit in the Ender's Game universe [1], it definitely seems pretty compelling that non-human intelligence might be so utterly incompatible with our own thoughts that even beginning to communicate might be entirely impossible.

[1] http://enderverse.wikia.com/wiki/Hierarchy_of_Foreignness
and that would explain all the raiding and pillaging and terrorizing done by Vikings.

I don't think they thought this through. BBC, lol
I’m going to star then use the tool for more meta.
I am not, but I do very much like the nest cam.
Wow...nostalgia going strong. These screenshots bring me back.

https://openrct2.website/getting-started/index.html

"OpenRCT2 needs the object files (containing graphics, sounds and models) from the original RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 to work. You'll need to have a copy of RCT2 before beginning."
We definitely should do something about this and have daily status meetings to check on the progress of the effort. In addition we need team building meetings.
Make a feature request !
How long until they recommend libraries in our IDEs?
I'm not convinced by that call to authority. For example, what about Larry Summers? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Summers

Do you dispute his position on women in science? Or, should we take his position as correct for the same reasons that you list.

I did not say his only credit was popularity. I said he's a pop-writer, as opposed to, say, a peer reviewed expert in the domain.

In any case, my primary request is that people consider the long list of refutations to the claims in his mass-market publications.
I know we will probably never get to see this (or at least not in the near future) but I would love to see the cost to reuse.
The term "implicit bias" is a poor choice here.

First, it only appears in the title, but not the abstract, for good reason: they are not talking about implicit bias, which as a concept only makes sense when contrasted with explicit bias. Humans can have implicit and explicit bias. An AI can just have "bias" (well, at least until we get true human-level general AI, and we'll be able to talk to it and differentiate what it does from what it says it does).

Second, "implicit bias" brings in a lot of unfortunate connotations. It is tied up with the IAT (implicit association test) [1], which is highly controversial. That controversy has no meaning here (again, since there is no explicit bias to contrast it to), it only hurts.

Unless I'm missing something, I can only guess that they use the term to grab attention, which is cynical and sad.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit-association_test#Crit...
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Mycroft.ai, perhaps.
Indeed, the merits of the science behind Implicit Bias seems suspect.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-false-science-of-implicit-b...
I just meant that if you use "Dropbox for teams" you can upload more than one TB of data. And you pay more, but by default the prices on that page are "billed yearly" for some reason.
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The author says "no magic here" for the C version:

for (;;)
printf("%s\n", argc>1? argv[1]: "y");

but it's not totally obvious to me whether the argument to printf would be evaluated on every iteration of the for loop or not. Does the compiler know that those don't change, and is the answer to that question fairly basic C knowledge or not?
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I love getting rid of things. I don’t care if anyone else does, but I do. I also like acquiring things- but I usually regret acquiring things more than I regret getting rid of things.
Following generic ideas as to how to improve your life is what makes people depressed in the first place. You MUST do this, you MUST do that, become rich, retire early, make the world a better place, do something for humanity, healthy diet, exercise, you name it... Sure this all makes you depressed - it's surprising there's still someone not depressed out there. And now what? More diet, more exercise? Come up with a list of things you enjoy. Be contrarian. Stop listening to anyone, and especially - to your "inner voice" - he is lying to you.
Others have linked the gadget he's using. But I'm wondering if a scale would work at least as well. They might be cheaper/more precise/not subject to local variations in the soil.
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Are you suggesting that men have no reason whatsoever to seek the attention of men and that sex is the only reason for men to seek the attention of women? If so, I'm reasonably confident I can find plenty of counterexamples.
this guy is basically just repackaging class warfare and passing it off as "OMG civil war is coming I was in the army for 20 years you gotta listen to me."

And yet he completely misses ACTUAL threats to the integrity of our republic: erosion of faith in our federal institutions.

The FBI has lost all credibility because of Comey and the clintons.

The Justice Department is in the process of losing credibility with Sessions lack of action, and previously, with Lynch meeting with former president clinton.

faith in the effectiveness of Congress and the Senate is at an all time low, basically due to their incompetence on both sides.

faith in the neutrality of the Supreme Court is slowly dwindling with Gingsburg's anti-trump rhetoric during the election.

Faith in the major media instutions is completely gone because they keep lying about pretty much everything for ratings.

Faith in the president is very low among his non-supporters.

theres more. funny how the author completely misses all of them.
My problem, as a tinkerer, is that I almost always do end up using something I have laying around one day.
Clever! I tend to think it was bad form of Microsoft to go after this kid, and they could have done a lot better than giving him an MSDN subscription, an XBox, and a trip to Redmond.
The risk is that an app compromised could lead to local access which allows local (root/kernel) exploits.
You missed the part when he explained his parents came to america with 2k and 2 kids. This guy wasn't born with a silver spoon.
We will have to agree to disagree then. I think understanding this fully takes more than a casual look.
> Persia, where Islam was very dominant

Was that true at the time? They were certainly ruled by a caliphate, but other religions survive in Persia till this day so I wouldn't be surprised if the process took centuries. There also appears to be some repression of Persian people after. That Viking could of also been a refugee of the islamification process or the various power struggles in the region at the time.
From my experience, the "creators"(developers, marketers, writers etc) in a company tend to favor remote work, while the "money men"(VCs and salespeople) tend to favor office space. Remote work only stands a chance if it's introduced in the early stages of a company when the creators have more power than the money men. In the latter stages of a company, the money men wrestle control of the company and going remote becomes less and less of a possibility.
GIF is basically a bad file format, which is why people will use anything else