skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the gofundme page posted this seems a bit more than just visual noise.

I was diagnosed with a mild version of schizophrenia and symptoms vary on a weekly or monthly basis. When it's at its peak, my night vision gets really noisy, when I close my eyes it's like I can still "see" based on the sound I hear and when I look at a bright light and look away it's like the motion repeats itself 0.5 seconds later.

And so when I'm more "normal" I have none of these issues. Sure I have some visual noise but it's not comparable to what the gofundme page describes.
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> I spend a lot of time outdoors, on public transit, and so on, and the last thing I need is a bunch of bystanders staring and eavesdropping on my calls, and even commenting on what I'm speaking

I guess just some people don't have any issues with this, when I'm out and about I do see a lot of people on the phone all the time - usually through a bluetooh headset or other ear piece.

Wouldn't dream of it myself, but different strokes for different folks I guess!
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After these I find it hard to trust Google's results on subjects like politics:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/25/google-tweaks-search-to-he...

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/7/google-fires...

https://theintercept.com/2017/08/30/google-funded-think-tank...

I switched to DDG. I still occasionally use Google to search for local businesses.

Google might have good intentions, however you could say the same thing about SOPA, PIPA, and SESTA as well.

Using "bots" or "algorithms" isn't a way forward either:

https://youtu.be/KwzJlvx4ndk?t=205

I just want a search engine that considers me a grownup, gives me the raw unfiltered data and let's me make my own conclusions.
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Zero. Nil. None. Wide open. Like any other computer with power supply.
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I think you and many other people misunderstood my criticism, it wasn't a criticism of semantic versioning per-se, but was rather than explanation of the issues with semver, which the proposed "scheme" indeed does not fix in any way, shape or form.

The proposed author claims that "You cannot rely on the responsibility of others" but their scheme fails in the exact same way.
LLVM seems to have this as a test case: https://github.com/llvm-mirror/test-suite/blob/master/Single...
I have a landline, out of necessity becaused I need one to get broadband in my house (via ADSL)

The ringer on it is turned off though, I've never given out the number to anyone. Nor do I ever use it.

It's nice to know it's there though, I guess as a last resort in emergency situations.
The difference seems academic. What does espresso quality as?
> Do you mean the fact that in the former, the angle tends to be 90° while in the latter it tends to be < 90°

No, I mean that the end of the stroke in the former is often hooked and crosses the third stroke, whereas in the latter the second stroke stops short of the third stroke and isn't hooked. I'm not 100% sure; and I'm still learning :)

I don't think it's a common character on its own in Chinese either; I know it as a radical.
I have an s7 and I star every important number. I use use IFTTT to enable DND automaticaly at 22.00 and disable it at 8.00. Is very convinient. I can also filter an app for example whatsapp to pass DND and ring.
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> Other studies have shown that cholesterol-raising factor in coffee does not pass a paper filter.

And yet other studies are increasingly pointing towards dietary cholesterol intake not being such an important causal factor for CVD after all [1], and that important evidence going against the cholesterol-is-bad theory was never published properly [2] since the people doing the studies thought the data was flawed since it went against the prevailing theory.

[1] http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1846638&atab=7

[2] http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/04/15/fro...
the problem with the Pop-Up panel is that you cannot open it programmatically
I have constant ringing in my ears, but I'm not sure if this is like the common tinnitus everyone is describing.

It's something that gets much louder if I clench my teeth or stretch my body. I also get the occasional ringing in ear like everyone else does every now and then that lasts for a few seconds. This is much more clear, lower in pitch, comes from one of the ears and sounds more like a sine wave.
What I hear feels like it comes from nowhere or in the middle of my head and sounds more like many sine waves phasing and changing at around 12khz. It sounds very "soft" or detailed and I've tried to reproduce it on the computer but it's very difficult as it easily sounds very harsh. (another way for me to describe it in terms of computer graphics is as if it's super-super sampled)

I've read that everyone can also hear ringing when placed in a quiet enough room, but some people can hear it all the time. (like me but it's not really a problem)

So everyone has visual noise and tinnitus but to different degrees, and when it becomes a problem for the person it's classified as a syndrome?
The definition of "game engine" in the paper is subtly different to the one
most players and game engine programmers would expect. The paper calls the set
of game mechanics a "game engine". I think the players and programmers would
probably call that "mechanics" and refer to the actual code running the game
as an "engine".

For example, if I think of an AI that "learns a game engine from video" I
would expect to see an AI that can take as input video of, say, myself playing
XCOM2 and output the Unreal engine (or an engine with an interface
indistinguishable from it).

In other words, I'd expect to see an AI that goes from example game output to
an automaton that can reproduce that output _and any other output that the
original automaton could produce_.

Instead, from a quick read of the paper, I understand they learn to reproduce
a set of video frames that match the input- and then train a different AI to
actually simulate the physics (i.e. make sure the player doesn't fall through
walls etc).

While this is remarkable and I'm very glad to see a rule-based, greedy
approach that seems to work pretty damn well, I really don't think it does
what it says on the tin.

Still- this was published in IJCAI. So kudos to the authors for that.
You also need an environment variable to be set for it to work.

But yes, it seems to be something you can flip in production. The argument being that if you're in a position to flip prefs you already can break security in a million ways. It's not something you can accidentally flip either.

(The pref doesn't actually "let viruses take over the computer", it just turns off all the security checks)
The difference is far from academic. Paper absorbs the oils, metal does not.

Espresso is definitely not filtered, the oils are necessary for a good crema. There's a fascinating review paper on crema with lots of pictures and microscope images by E. Illy et al. (yes, that Illy) on the subject.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11483-011-9220-5 [open access]
This isn't something that will be solved with technology. Water treatment plants already turn poop into water. Unsurprisingly, Phoenix AZ has one of the highest levels in the world of toilet paper particulates in the water, due to how much treated water is reused.
$1400 a month is the average.

I can start collecting that amount at 67, and will statistically die at 78.

So 11 years of benefits is $185k.

Meanwhile, if I make an average of $100k for just 12 years, then I will have paid that much into the system (15% contribution). And that's not even counting the massive amount of compounding that will have occurred as I've been contributing since I was 14 years old.

I know it's quite popular for the HN crowd to talk about raising taxes for things like universal health care, social programs, etc.

But when I actually do the numbers and look at how I'm already paying about 1/3 of my income to taxes, I'm beginning to see why many conservatives don't trust the government to be fair stewards of our money.
I'm surprised I don't see Guayusa mentioned on HN at all.
"Would there be any interest in a series I've been thinking of putting together about all the fantastically counterintuitive ways your eye fools you without you even noticing?"

Yes
> America went so far off the rails

Huh? It was always an owners republic, like Rome before.

For the 2.0 version they upped the advertising budget.
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Yes: +1 to this. I'm probably one of those 4%. But this "phobia" might just initially be a slight negative feeling of not knowing who or what it is. But it is enough to tip the balance since the majority of calls you get are spam or otherwise unsolicited crap, and the few real calls actually meant for you arn't positive either - then it becomes a learned fear that reinforces itself every time.

I would never call if there is another way using text or other medium, I will not answer if it is not known or there is a good probability I know what it is. If I really have to make a call, that entails preparations and lots of wasted energy (it is wasted since would write it down, and then I could just send it as text and it would be easy to read and understand...)

Sure I can and do use Truecaller, and other ways to block spam or unwanted calls, and It really does work. I still hate the phone though.
It’s not that uncommon here in Canada. It’s not like it happens every winter, but it is not uncommon to have some huge snow storm or frost that leaves some people without power for days.

Just this last winter thousands in New Brunswick were left with no power in the dead of winter for over a week.
Debian Sid, Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64, Systemd holded at v233-9

I've read the bug report, I will try the persistence mode, thanks
That was the standard navigation method of every webbrowser for decades, not a bug.
It gets worse. 曾 and 會 in your comment look clearly distinct to me in Safari, but if I check with Firefox, they suddenly look very similar.

The trick is that 曾 is sometimes written with 八 as its "roof", which makes it look like 會, and sometimes with 丷, depending on your font. (Similar to 兑 and 兌 in the article)
And competition.
>> We're starting to find incredibly elegant solutions to problems that have stymied computer scientists for decades.

I think by "incredibly elegant solutions" you mean the typical black-box statistical machine learning algorithm that takes in some data as input and outputs an approximated function that "solves" whatever problem your data was representing.

If that is indeed what you mean (apologies otherwise) I really struggle to see that as "elegant" -or even a solution. We start with some problem too complex to understand and build a complex system we don't quite understand, that solves the problem in a way we don't quite understand. What did we gain? A system that solves the problem - maybe, when it feels like it, depending on the problem, provided enough data etc etc. Our understanding of the problem hasn't changed and therefore our ability to solve it, hasn't.

To give an analogy- it's like a kid at school who can't solve some arithmetic problem they have for homework asking their big sister to solve it for them. The kid now knows the answer to the problem but still doesn't know how to solve it, on their own. They didn't "find a solution"- they found someone who knows the solution.

I think, if you look at the progress we've made as a civilisation in producing knowledge, you'll find that this was always driven by people who solved problems, themselves. And if you think of the kind of people who invoke some higher authority that has all the solutions, you're probably looking at religion.
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> There is also a great story about an AWS authored firmware update on a set of louver microcontrollers causing a partial outage.

Do tell :-)
It worked on yesterday's Nightly, then I updated to today's and it crashed immediately.
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Do you mean this? http://www.geocities.jp/yokomoko3/kihon-5.jpg In japanese, there is not, but there is this difference in how the second and third strokes interact.
Agree with you.

I think the whole ObamaCare fiasco is one of those things that the typical millennial liberals on HN have gotten entirely wrong.

For years, the mantra here has been that all those red state deplorables who were wary about government health care were voting against their own interests, and ignorant for not wanting it.

Trust us. We know better than you.

Well now we've seen what's happening. Premiums have skyrocketed for average workers and everyone has been moved to high deductible plans that pay for nothing.

My own insurance had gone from decent to worthless, and it costs twice as much. As a single guy who makes a high income, it's no big deal. For many of my coworkers who have a spouse and 3 kids, it has been devastating. And it's getting worse as more states drop plans.
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> If a ripped 6'4" male model called himself @sexyengineer and posted pictures of him building things shirtless, I would roll my eyes and call his legitimacy into question. Doing the same to a woman isn't some sexist conspiracy. To those downvoting me, can you please explain? I don't see the flaw in my logic.

The flaw in your reasoning is that it doesn't match reality. That example of the male engineer actually does exist (@aphyr), and he is (very justifiably!) well respected and not shamed.

In general, the key to understanding sexism (and social dynamics in general) is that the question is not one of what-ifs, thought experiments, or spherical-cow sociology, but an empirical one about a real-world system. Whether people behave in the way you hypothesize or not is an empirical question, and, in this case your hypothesis is false.
> pull water out of our ass

Feasible, but out of thin air is easier and less disturbing. Places in Arizona seem to have around 40 or 50% average air humidity.

And air conditioners are good at getting water out of air.
Imagine if every person in the world had the ability, at their arbitrary whim, to anonymously activate your fire alarm inside your home. That is the reality of the instant message. There is nothing quite as rude as the new message chime.
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So… Who else drew their name?
I think I was being unclear.

I didn't mean that semantic versioning is bad, I meant that specifying your dependencies in terms of semantic versions is bad.
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I stand corrected (filtration is through a multi level matrix, sieving through a single level), though the absorption of oils is a by-product of filtration.
Coffee doesn't contain cholesterol. It contains diterpenes, which are shown to increase "bad cholesterol". How meaningful this effect is, I don't know, but it's not the same as dietary cholesterol.
I too feel like their violent ads (Australian WorkSafe ads are the stuff of nightmares for a child) are a way to force me to subscribe to Red. And that's even with YouTube for kids.
> What can't really happen is for a junior to suggest work.

Junior engineers should feel welcome to suggest work. They should also be ok with having that suggestion rejected or put on the back burner because it's not pertinent to the current product/business goals.

Depending on how the company is run, the senior can make the call, or involve a product owner, as to whether the junior's suggestion is something that they should be working on or not. But I think the OP's point about tone is important: being dismissive about it is demoralizing and isn't helping the junior grow. Explaining why (to borrow the example from the article) it might be ok to lose a week's worth of data, or even why they just currently have bigger fish to fry, but will revisit the idea later... that shows respect for the junior's desire to grow and establish ownership while giving them a taste of knowledge and experience that you have but they don't.
I think the acid test for a "game engine" should be the ability to use it to produce behaviour other than the original. For instance, if you somehow learn a Super Mario engine, you should be able to reprogram it to play a new level that you designed yourself. Even more importantly- you should be able to play the game and get a different outcome every time.

From the paper I think the "game engine" they learn is not even capable of playing the same level in a different way than in the examples. If Mario jumps in frame X, the "game engine" will always show Mario jumping in frame X, and not know there's any other possible state at that time than frame X with Mario jumping in it.

I mean, I see the value in this, totally- they've learned an automaton that can faithfully reproduce its examples and that's no mean feat. But like I say above it would make a lot more sense to define a "game engine" as an automaton that can reproduce the entire range of behaviours of its original- not just a set of its output frames and only that set of frames, in perpetuity.

Of course a "game engine" in the sense I give it above is (in the case of games) a Turing complete automaton- so it would be impossible to learn to simulate it just from examples of its output (there's a lot of maths on that). So the paper settles for the easiest task. OK. But the way they present it is misleading.
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Fascinating, eye-opening article.

As a child, I used to have vivid imagination, vivid dreams, be afraid of silly things such as fear literal ghosts that could live in our (dark) corridor, at the attic or the shed on the far side of the garden. I remember taking more pleasure in playing, reading, interacting with other people, playing computer games, telling jokes (I used to be good at this), being more open, having many more friends.

In recent years I found few things give me pleasure, I very rarely remember my dreams, I can't really get into PnP RPG sessions because I have hard time visualizing what's happening, I have practically no friends, low stress resistance, affinity for vector graphics rather than raster (bitmap) graphics. I'm looking for work as a programmer. Emotionally, I'm an unhappy person. I'm barely even scared by horror movies (I never watched them until recently - I was too afraid as a child). I tend to watch "strong" movies, often thrillers, because they make me feel something, unlike most other movies. Girls stay away from me because they think I'm cold and emotionless, even call me a psycho.

This year, I've been diagnosed with Schizoid Personality Disorder. It boils down to I'm very uncomfortable showing emotions, and even feeling emotions. I avoid situations (even watching certain movies) which make me feel emotion. I won't go into detail but SPD is a very good description of how I feel.

This article makes me realize what happened to me as I grew up. To a degree it's common in all people - moving from a affective, visual kind of mind to a more verbal kind of mind. In me, it's pushed to an unhealthy extreme and causing me unhappiness. My psychiatrist told me what, this article is the missing piece of the puzzle as it tells me why and how.

Some people have an affinity for drawing, and raster/bitmap graphics which is a lot like it. I feel drawn towards vector graphics, SVG and Inkscape because I can utilize my analitycal mind and verbal thinking. With vector, you throw down some shapes and deform them. It's more like sculpting in clay or play-dough than drawing!

But I digress. Now I know how to move in the opposite direction, towards child-like imagination and the times I miss so much. Call it regress if you like. Away from depression, lack of friends, lack of purpose in life. Don't repress emotion, learn to express it. Take singing and/or dancing lessons, something I used to be deathly scared of (until I had an insight: I had to endure much worse things). Exercise my imagination the way I exercise my programming skills and work out. Do more vector graphics (they look cool in a github README.rst), but also try to learn drawing the old-school way. A couple of women, not asked, have told me I have a nice voice. I like fantasy and SF, why would I NOT record some audiobooks ? I can focus on short stories that are no longer copyrighted. I lived in a world of irrational fears. People don't care about me if they can't have a use of me, so they won't remember my antics.
It's very useful for applications that don't guarantee API or data format compatibility between major versions. If you were running PostgreSQL 8, then under no circumstances would you want a silent upgrade to PostgreSQL 9, because 9 would refuse to read the data storage files from 8 and not start up: PostgreSQL required the administrator to handle migration between storage versions.
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I don’t think it’s effective to describe pervasive monitoring by state actors as something that requires a technological response. There is no technology end-run around the law, as has been proven again and again.

If pervasive monitoring in nsa style is legal and culturally accepted, then the solution must be cultural, not technical. Either by embracing the death of privacy and having no real secrets, or by convincing hearts and minds of the immorality of the monitoring until it is outlawed and people who do it are jailed.
Every person I ever met had some interesting story to tell or some interesting point of view worth noticing. Life is not just about doing the big & important things. Don't underestimate the ordinary people, each of them knows many things that you don't and has seen and experienced many things that you never will.
Ok, thanks for explaining.
The video frames it learns from have no information about player input ("press X to jump"). So I don't see how it can learn a function from player inputs to game engine states- without which there's no way to actually play the game, let alone in a different way than the original.
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Can you provide a reference to the uselessness of salting. If it is useless many people need to know!
This methodology is an effective way to leverage the developers in your team. It does rely on a certain discipline that juniours often don't have to drive and refine an exploratory solution into production code.

It requires curiosity, an openness to measuring and validating an idea and then driving it home. This sounds a lot like what I'd want from a team lead; but as someone pointed out some juniors aren't destined for leadership either.

I love the idea and have made it work, a lot less though than desirable.
I think the point (something I struggle with personally) is more that even if you do happen to know the ideal way to do something, it doesn't need to be done that way, and letting someone junior figure out how to do it their own way can still be sufficient. That has the added bonus that the junior will learn much better than if you were to dictate their path exactly.

Of course, sometimes letting a junior engineer do something their own way can fail to be sufficient entirely; knowing your junior engineers and their capabilities well enough to know how much rope to give them on a particular task is yet another skill to be honed.
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