skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It uses underspecified concepts in an attempt to sound smart, but all it does is fail to convey much meaning.

That sounds like it conveyed the meaning perfectly: they wanted to present an idea that struck you as smart, but which you didn't understand -- we're meant to see the show as Morty, not Rick. So we just get a Rick-ism that clearly has some structure to how the Ricks are organized (which the Ricks understand), but which doesn't immediately mean anything more to us. Rick and Morty isn't a science lecture -- we should expect narrative language, not scientific language.

It suggests that the Ricks are organized around some central, finite core of Rick-ness that we don't know about (notice that they have worse lives as they acquire letter variations on their curve numbers, eg TV personalities on the citadel). That's the point -- they don't want to get into a detail physics argument about it, but frame a (later revealed) structure among the Ricks.

I just don't think we should assume that structure is the shell of a normal distribution instead of something Fry-esque (ie, I'm-my-own-grandfather shit) -- we should leave them the room to insert whatever structure fits narrative-wise when we get to the point that makes sense in the story.
This is exactly what I do. The last few months learning rust I've created a lot of "disposable" things to play with[1]. I use GitLab groups and subgroups to sort my projects into essentially those categories.

[1]: https://gitlab.com/iron-oxide
I do agree with you. Actually, excuse my shameless plug, I am selling "hardware" pomodoros https://PomodoroHourglass.com
was the person incompetent or did he/she not get along
Ah okay! I must have misunderstood you. The implication (to me) of seeking to attribute blame was the typical game of trying to pick the most apparently malevolent actor, not actually thinking about why we failed to foresee quite foreseeable consequences in the past. I'd completely agree that trying to figure out why we didn't foresee this (to help us prevent making such mistakes in the future) would be very helpful.
Recognizing a trend vs. a lasting truth
I think parents who have had their kids purchase things from the app store without their approval might disagree.
Great word.

Saving the next person who also didn’t know what turgid meant a Google search:

Turgid (adjective)
- swollen and distended or congested
- (of language or style) tediously pompous or bombastic
> So if you think your phone will be seized, it’s a pretty quick way to disable everything but the passcode.

Good luck if the cops assault you from behind or early in the morning...
Two reasons why this is a colossally bad idea:

- Mavericks is old enough that it hasn’t received any security updates in over a year

- You’re falling way behind on emoji support (but maybe you haven’t noticed if you spend all your time on Hacker News, since apparently emojis get stripped out of posts here)
CRISPR Can Now Be Used to Edit Individual Bases
I wonder why they are considered two different persons at this point. I am not entirely sure the justification of separate identity here should be the two obvious separate "bodies" (gastrointestinal tracts, limbs, etc)!

All that matters for the same identity to me is the brain. If one can read the thoughts of the other so easily, in my book it is the same person.

Disclaimer: am resident in Neurology with a background in Anatomy
Agreed. The history of power is church->liberal democracies and republics->corporations.

The net-state is a great term! but it refers to the medium through which the corporate state is projecting power, akin to the social contracts and armies of the papal and liberal states.

We definitely need a bill of rights and constitution under the net-states. One that our liberal institutions can defend.
> It isn't.

That's not something that you may simply unilaterally declare. I don't recall anyone appointing you final judge of what peoples' motivations are.

Remember "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."? Authoritarian liberals are trying to grab the authority to dictate what we may and may not discuss and we mainstream liberals must prevent that at all costs, lest we lose the soul of the liberal movement itself.
It's also far more likely for an attacker to have your photos upon which to build the authentication profile, than it is for them to have your fingerprint.

Apple is being misleading with that number, because it assumes an attacker would throw random photos/profiles at the iPhone X, not profiles that look very similar to you, which is far more likely to happen in practice.
I've come to the same conclusion myself. I have a 3-6 month project/learning goal generally called "The Big Ticket" that is priority number one, and anything else I learn is secondary to that. This way I don't end up being scattershot in my priorities for the long-term (which is easy to do in the short-term).
I've just tried this on my iPhone 7 for the first time (iOS 11.1) and it takes way more than 5 clicks to activate.
Yeah, but if the US is a dystopia and the EU is a utopia, who is to argue? Or maybe a lot of those comparisons are simplistic.

We like and have most of those things, too.
Cardiologist Betting That Lab-Grown Meat Startup Can Solve Global Food Crisis
I had to do an internet search to find out that the Airplay selection on my phone was now the two squiggles on the upper right of the music icon on the control panel. Not too obvious when you’re trying to redirect YouTube.
Billionaire Alwaleed Arrested in Saudi Corruption Crackdown
By that logic all technology is "natural" and there is no distinction between the inventions of man and the creations of nature/god. Such logic sidelines self reflection, leading to horrible places.
First: I used your "nutty conspiracy theories" wording.

> But then why do you judge the conspiracy theories to be nutty, if they are on just as firm an epistemological footing as actual history?

But to elaborate on your argument: Because of the dubious epistemological footing indeed "actual history" has not the highest reputation to me. The reason I disregard lots of "nutty conspiracy theories" rather lies in the fact that many "conspiracists" have a tendency to find conspiracies in other topics, too, where falsification is much better possible. Thus I tend to judge by looking at the track record of the respective person.
Post-Election Tech Guilt
And "the world of people" needs to be driven by a coherent set of principles. So far the western world subscribed to rational thought and the socratic method.

The question is, to what extent the current shape of humanities is aligned to those principles?!
What Did Bernie Sanders Learn in His Weekend in Canada?
Fine, so you have an opinion about which the author of Ungit doesn't need to care. I am sure a monkey in the zoo also has an opinion. Remind me, why did you write down anything again?

The moment you start talking about what's "right", you are just showing a lack of maturity.
> I've been burned enough times that I'd actually join a class action lawsuit at this point.

Joining a class action lawsuit usually takes no action at all, but some action is required to opt-out.

So you've basically just said your been burned enough to do precisely nothing about it.

Now, if you were willing to initiate a lawsuit, whether class- or direct-action, that would be saying something meaningful.
Prototyping VR inside VR
I kind of agree. Although I look around at those professionals every morning, and almost nobody is smiling. That worries me. And kids notice that too.
This is a really interesting story and quite timely with some videogame fans complaining about choices made in translating Japanese videogames to English.
What kind of idiot are you?
Just open your own business (products or freelance) and move to Mexico to work remotely for US customers. Super cheap, better food, tropical climate.
90% of HN readers would be smart enough to do this and sustain themselves beautifully.
Won't you have to pay taxes twice if you're from USA though?
Every field has its own sugar water, and its own titration.

Advertising and GUI design are the sugar water of computer science.

The "coding interview" tells me that at least some aspect of programming is akin to titration.
All they know is the angle, so their mind probably adjusts. There were experiments with a helmet that flipped your world upside down, and it turns out the brain adjusts quickly and presents things right side up.

Furthermore, these girls can see out 3 or 4 eyes, depending on the girl, so you are the one stuck in a limited view of the world, not them.

Regarding other limitations, yes, they are also bothersome, but if you've known nothing else, it probably isn't so bad. We all have limitations that others would find a cause for despair.
> In my opinion the scarcest human resource is nuance.

Indeed. But our society is dominated by story-telling which has much to gain by underemphasizing the nuance of reality and overstating the choice elements that happen to fit a narrative.

I still wonder if the number of concepts the modern person has to deal with—due to our ever-complexifying society—mean that we are more easily drawn to mental shortcuts. As a kid, I remember being around farmers in my dad's village who never lived in a city and most of whom didn't have high-school level education. By our modern standards, their mental load was low, yet in the things that they dealt with, they were impressively thorough and appreciative of the nuances that existed in their life. And that often translated to a nuanced appreciation of their fellows.
This doesn't meet neither the free software nor Open Source license requirements. It might be open source in some colloquial sense, but that's not how the term is usually understood in the trade.
School funds should be distributed equally across the entire population. If we were a democracy, rich neighborhoods wouldn't have better schools.
Would this prevent github from using ungit (unless they pay)? Presumably this would also prevent ubuntu from packaging ungit?
Indeed.

Dirty little secret -- no more than 30% of elite school grads are really "smart" (here meaning they can grasp, apply, and extend complex new ideas quickly). The others are usually bringing in some sort of social capital (athlete, highly skilled and aggressive hoop jumper, etc.).

One thing I try to tell people about elite school grads is to set the expectations early and clearly. The really smart graduates get bored really quickly, and if you have routine work for them, it likely will not work out well. That said, the hoop jumper grads may be exactly what you need as long as you have a long series of hoops. The athletes have their strengths and weaknesses, too (n.b. the elite school varsity athlete totally-not-a-club club is a thing, and that thing has value in the right contexts).
There are many other problems with the concept, though of this one:

High-level blocks (domains, TLDs) can be bypassed using, say, dnsmasq, by providing specific pass-throughs.

As for sites that use widely-blocked services: the message is to feed back to them and tell them not to do that. The fact of countermeasures does not mean that there will be no collateral damage. In fact, that's kind of precisely the situation that got us into this mess in the first place: putatively legitimate advertising that isn't.
The seminal article on TDRL: Sutton, R. (1988). Learning to predict by the methods of temporal differences. Machine learning, 3(1):9–34, PDF:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.132...
Just because something is old, it doesn't make it true.
Very sound advice, thank you. It’s as you said, more organisation is the simple answer but it’s quite an effort to get there. Making progress slowly though..

> one of the attributes that has helped him the most is his ability to efficiently context switch and get serious work done throughout the day.

> A major thing I haven't really figured out is maintaining / reviewing

These two are particularly interesting for me. I find that switching between tasks is the most stressful, where I feel overwhelmed most often. And that of course wastes time too.

I also find that even though I was productive, its also easy to forget what I learnt. Which makes it wasteful too. I try to keep a learning journal but this itself can take time because I tend to muse - perhaps this is where I should focus on making it more efficient
> The EU has done great work in this area by trying to standardize the university curriculum across the union. What that means is that a master's degree in computer science from the university of München is mostly comparable to one from Madrid, so name-dropping your university "does not work."

It matters very much whether you got your CS Masters from a place like Cambridge or ETH Zürich versus some small university in a small member state. In my experience (having studied and taught in multiple European universities, both before and after the standardization) Lesson 6 very much applies to the EU.

The main achievement of the EU standardization is that a Bachelor degree from any accredited university from any member state will technically qualify you to the Masters programs in all member states -- before the Bologna Process some countries didn't even have separate Bachelor and Masters degrees.

The Masters programs themselves are standardized at the level of nominal effort, but vary wildly in topics offered, actual effort required, and quality of the teaching. No standardization can change the fact that the top people will seek out the top universities, which then heavily skews the skill distribution between the universities.

The structure of the programs is standardized in the EU, not the quality of the programs.
iOS 11 on my iPhone6 has completely slowed it down. Apps take forever to open. The camera too. When this phone came out, it was lightning fast. The way they keep bloating the incremental iOS updates is infuriating.
Is that the same Mexico with 100k+ killed in the drug war since 2005? Maybe it's an unreasonable fear, but conducting business and sticking out as a foreigner seem like a risk.
The questions Facebook, Google, and Twitter told Congress they would answer later
Overcast is a great app. Smart Speed is awesome, syncing between devices works perfectly - something Apple hasn't gotten right in 6 years -, playlists are logical, and it works better with the Bluetooth controls in my car.
Original title: Congress Assigned a Lot of Homework to Facebook, Twitter, Google

Techmeme summary: Bloomberg: A list of all the questions Facebook, Google, and Twitter told Congress they would answer later
> I agree that the study of history is [a] method [...] for recognizing the errors which produced those enormities, in order to avoid repeating them.

Why? Do we have any evidence for that it helps at all?

Here's what I find weird: when one is talking about learning history, usually the "pro" side cites the importance of the subject, and the "no" side, the methodological "flaws". It seems that this discussion is a bit pathological: Everyone agrees that if a certain avenue of study can reduce the probability of genocide, it should be undertaken. The question is that maybe (probably) these avenues of study do nothing of the sort.

Of course, we can disagree about that. But how would we settle/improve our knowledge of the question?
My feeling is that since Steve went, the engineers have nobody to be absolutely shit-scared of and the quality of software has gone down ever since.
This article is 5 or 7 years too late. We already moved to cities. Now we want to be married and do things that require yards. Or at least own a small piece of the city and no longer be at the mercy of landlords (non-rent controlled renters).

Most importantly, I’ve learned the joy and importance being near my family and spending time with them. These are all things I never cared about in my 20s.
Normally you use a computer, so all of those if you add a wifi adapter. If you have some kind of ethernet-only machine then use an external device (like another computer, or a router, or a raspberry pi) to turn wifi into ethernet.
I think you’re dead on. When you don’t have a functioning shepherd of public discourse, the various outlets and commentators, and by extension the lies they tell, start to become indistinguishable. I actually understand why many people have a hard time seeing the difference between CNN and Fox News. One embodies a set of ideas I find more tolerable and decent, but they both rely on glitzy dramatizations and questionable punditry to sell a mostly cheap, trashy product. I’m not sure how to make good, rational journalism both economically viable and socially popular, but it definitely seems like now
more than ever there’s a need for it.
They have their brains fused together and can still walk and talk? The flexibility of the growing brain never ceases to amaze me. It shows how robust the whole process of growing from a single cell really is. A human can grow in uncountable ways.

Given how the twins share sensory inputs, I wonder how memory and imagination works for them. As they "hear" each other thinking, do they also share common memories? If one remembers a scene, will the other remember it the same way? Or will it have to be narrated between them?

When one reads a book, will the other get the story? I would guess so. But will they share the imagined parts, or will they imagine the scenes individually?
The Art of electronics. Learned more from that than I did doing an EE degree at university. It gets used to this day even though I bought this copy in 1995. I have the latest edition arriving today.
My Body Is Not for Sale, a Tale of Real Estate Misogyny
Can you hear the war drums? Because WashPost is beating them (again).

Why isn't the administration going after this leak to the press, I wonder?!
It would appear that they perceive themselves as separate. They don't simply share a brain; there seems to be two of most structures. The brains are, however, highly intertwined.
It's already arrived to Europe anyway. There is one mainstream view regarding (1) how to solve the immigration crisis, (2) whether or not different cultures and religions are equal, (3) whether or not a nation has the right to make a decision about its future.

If you don't agree about any of these, you're quickly denounced as alt-right, Nazi etc. In extreme cases, you can lose a job. It's not happening frequently though as people are not stupid and learned to keep a low profile. You can discuss things in a more open way with your friends, but you better avoid any online discussions if you can be identified, no matter how reasonable your argument is.
Corestart 2.0: What's new for performance in .NET Core 2.0
What is the "correct genome"? Seems like you could only define it as a local minimum in fitness space, or some kind of attractor.
The difference is that it's easy to change a PIN, but hard to retrain FaceID. So sharing a PIN is reasonable in the knowledge that it can be changed, but you might not be aware that it has more ramifications under opaque and unclear circumstances.
That’s not really the current sequence though. That only rarely happens to me. Autocorrect is probably good for me actually.
The initial reporting I saw on this indicated they sold something like 5% of their total stock in the company, which seems like kind of a small amount to risk insider trading charges over.
That's not precisely true. Because we live in a democracy, citizens of local governments can collectively vote to levy additional funds for local schools. I agree that federal and state funding should obviate this, but there's nothing intrinsically undemocratic about the current system. (Unfair or badly designed != undemocratic).

Some of the best public schools in the nation exist where I grew up in the Minnesota suburbs. They served trailer parks and public housing the same as the doctors and lawyers. But they also passed levies to increase their own taxes year after year.

It is unfair, and wrong, that Minneapolis inner city schools don't have the same funding, but the vibrancy of the well funded public schools was a consequence of local, effective, democratic political action.
unittest with https://github.com/kislyuk/ensure
Yertle the Turtle, by Dr. Seuss. It taught me early to question authority and resist popular movements that are built on my back.
Hmm my mistake. The blog post said Differential Equation and a classroom of 300 some students. Not many non-core classes have 300 students in them. I remember my diff eq class (18.03) being rather large (similar to 8.01, 18.01, etc etc).

While 18.03 is not core, it is a requirement for most engineering disciplines at MIT.
Approximate Median Income by BART Station [image]
I quickly scanned for "You will be hired at places that others are not even considered for because you are largely paying out the nose for a brand name." Didn't find it. Lame.
I don't know. I'm doing an EE degree at the moment (second year) and AoE isn't that helpful from my view to understand the theoretical side. It'll tell me what an op-amp bandwidth is and the significance of 3dB but it won't tell me why it's that way, or go into why there is a decay at 20dB/decade. It's been more helpful on the practical side of building circuits rather than their analysis, but I don't know if that's the point or not.
Winning move how? With which board?

with

O__
_X_
O_X

Then X can't win in the next move and must choose (0,1) between the two O's the left column in order to not lose.
Pierre-Olivier Latour -- he built Quartz Composer & GitUp, two pretty incredible tools. Looking at his portfolio, I'm amazed how much high quality software a single person can build.
I think that means not using a newer SDK than 5, in which case the feature doesn't exist yet.
Did you read the article? Pretty sure the vast majority of people living in Columbus, IN are in single-family homes.
The fact that we have come to a time where anyone would consider it a "colossally bad idea" not to upgrade an OS because of substandard emoji support makes me weep for the future.
Putin and the Russians are just asking for it. Maybe they have forgotten what the soviet overnight collapse felt like and need a little refresher.
I just read through it on an older ASUS Chromebook Flip (ARM, 4GB) without issue. I found it to be a clever and engaging presentation format for a tablet. If I were on my desktop I'd probably go for the print view though.
Unfortunately as long as there are better parents there will always be better schools.
I haven’t put up with much of anything... I like Apple because it’s more usable than android. That’s all. The truth is hat everyone here has a grudge against Apple and so any time they get something wrong or there’s a bug (even something as irrelevant as the OP) they lose their mind like “haha what now Apple users.” It’s sick really. Apple is still good.
Benjamin Lee Whorf - Language, Thought, and Reality

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/language-thought-and-reality-...

This little collection of essays from the 20s by a chemical engineer is astounding. For anyone interested in cognition, engineering, language, there are mind-blowing insights packed throughout.
That's what I find most impressive. The insane amount of bits they do from a single FreeBSD box.

And I concur as well on the BSD crew responsible for engineering it. The grey beards are getting harder to find as they retire and I weep each time one does.
At least now it's easier to explain to customers why they have to get a DUNS to have apps under their company name in the App Store while the Play Store just allows it.
They have already allowed the relicense by releasing their contributions under a permissive license such as MIT.
Moving to the EU as an American is not easy if you don't have the assistance of an employer, or the benefit of marrying into it.