skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My changed relationship with the telephone became weirdly apparent when I watched the original WarGames movie recently.

There's a scene where David (Matthew Broderick) is alone with McKittrick (Dabney Coleman) in his office being interrogated separated by an office desk. While they're sitting there the telephone on McKittrick's desk starts ringing, which he silently ignores keeping his eyes glued on David, who grows increasingly uncomfortable as the phone keeps ringing and going unanswered.

I recall when that movie first came out there was a terrible tension in the air because nobody ignored a phone back then. Leaving it to just ring away felt wrong and unacceptable. Now whenever a phone rings I mostly just go "ugh" and feel no obligation to get to it at all.

As I watched that scene again I felt nothing of that original tension. I wonder how that scene would effect younger people today watching it for the first time?
Apple does not dominate mobile by any stretch of the imagination, with about 15% market share. Google, on the other hand, is creeping up to monopoly status with Android and its roughly 85% market share.
I don't know about other brands, but the juvenile in me loves how the expo caps stack on to each other to make swords/what have you
Because structural problems can not be solved on the individual level.

We will not end world hunger by eating less. We will not stop climate change by turning off the light more often. And we will not fix exploitative employment practices by voting with our wallet.

The cynic in my thinks that the "vote with your wallet" slogan has been coined by those who want to prevent better regulation.

All these things CAN be solved by passing laws and regulation and by building a society that supports and enforces those.
A favorite of Japanese study beginners is learning how to distinguish between ツ and シ, as well as between ソ and ン.
Not just a lot of visitors, bit visitors that stay on your page a long time. Like the UFC video site that was caught out.
I really like the idea, I asked about other with experience doing it and had the exact same experience, really nice app recommendation!

https://www.reddit.com/r/digitalnomad/comments/6yaktd/experi...
I have had some astonishing discussions where people actually refuse to accept that the verbal part of the thinking (talking in my head) is almost insignificant part of what thinking actually is. Or to be accurate, people claim that language is somehow crucial component of thinking.

To me that is really weird idea, and I think that it can even be "proved" to be wrong (obviously my opponents disagreed also there)

Namely, if language or verbal thinking was the defining part of thinking, following two things would necessarily be true:

1. There would need to be significant concepts that people talking different languages think differently. But of course, those are extremely rare and not so significant exceptions. Even if in some languages age is something a person owns and in another something a person is (I have 20 years vs I am 20 years), people in both languages both grasp the idea of age similarly, it is the time since you were born.

2. If the verbal thoughts were what thinking actually is, there would be no difficulties to convey my thought to you without errors. But obviously that is very difficult for anything but the most trivial thoughts. So it should be obvious that language is really only a very vague presentation of what thoughts really are.
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I also receive a lot of those (around ~5 a day, for more than 5 months already). It is really annoying and makes me wish I could just block numbers on my phone.
I ran a similar analysis a while back on 6 years of "Who Is Hiring" threads to show the growing demand for security engineers. If you're interested it's never been a better time to get into security:
https://twitter.com/arkadiyt/status/892578518508253184
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The company that maintains my generators has a dummy load that is basically a large resistor bank and fan on a trailer. It seems like Amazon could just build something like that on a larger scale to load the generators - short term they could even rent the dummy load trailers and hook them up in the parking lot, right? For a permanent solution, have logic to switch in the appropriate amount of resistance to maintain the minimum load required.
What do you mean 'no'? It's an empirical fact that very talented designers considered flapping wing flying machines, before they had the information that we have now. They were not 'overly simplistic' except in deep hindsight.
But the average person can’t type faster than they can talk. Generally a conversation has two sides and typing forces both sides to express themselves in a much slower manner, the time you save reading you will waste typing
Can I ask how it went legally wise? Did you involve lawyers etc?
They are actually parsing the code into their custom ast format, so they have a lot of things done out of the box already.
One of the tables seem to show characters that are in Unicode BMP but not in JIS X 0208 (many I think came from JIS X 0212). Another table of course show characters not in the BMP.
Try listening to the end, there is often a number to press to have them stop calling.

The internet myth is that this marks you as someone to keep calling (because you listened), but really they will stop.
On that note: https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/comments/4gjtd1/whats_your...
As with all things in life, semantic versioning is a heuristic for a largely stochastic process. You and only you are responsible for whether your code is broken or not. Semantic versioning is just this one standard most of us have agreed to follow as a community to make that responsibility a little easier to bear.
I worry about this daily. More so, does my lifestyle necessitate others being taken advantage of?

Is it even be possible to live a moral life?
For those of us who don't read Japanese, can you explain what the four characters in question mean?
Yes, mnanagement of that type of employee can be a definite issue. Depends on the type of the manger too. Top-down, command-and-control managers go nuts in this arrangement. Delegator managers do fine as long the employee ultimately comes through and perhaps gives updates occasionally. Yep, there is a fine line between off-the-rails cowboy and disciplined, independent contributor. It's why it's typically harder to be the Questioner/Rebel type early on in one's career (at least as an employee).
In this context the "Corporate death penalty" could just be allowing them to get sued for the full amount of the damage they caused without baling them out. In practice, there is no way that they could survive that.
The book Adam's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans makes a cogent argument for my position. It examines carefully the difference between Animal Communication Systems and our own, in all the variety primitive humanity could devise.

https://www.amazon.com/Adams-Tongue-Humans-Made-Language-ebo...
Completely.

I've been surprised by the hostility/resistance to the idea that we don't think in language, especially when I'm trying to convey to people how my own mind works.

In trying to convey my experience with language, I have to try to express a layer of...as best as I can get in programmer speak...multithreaded-notthreadsafe-consciousness-impressions. These I then have to translate into single-threaded verbal language in order to communicate with others.

Indeed, without my years of practice to try to become a better communicator, I find this results in my natural speech being a kind of stocatto-mid-sentence-pausing way of speaking, as I have to join each thread of threaded-conscious-impressions before coercing and outputting it in the best approximation of a serial structured verbal language. Over the years I've just become better at pre-buffering before the verbal component is output and consciously shutting down other threads.

When I'm thinking of logic and computer programs alternatively, I often find myself thinking visual-spatially.

Indeed, when I'm really thinking hard and trying to understand some algorithms, I can sometimes be seen closing my eyes and even engaging my arms/hands as though i'm moving, conducting or manipulating physical things. Because in my head that's exactly what I'm doing: the arrays/lists/things exist as spatial objects in my mind, and I'm running things through by manipulating them in space or seeing how they fit together spatially/in relation to each other.
Android's Do Not Disturb function should allow a setting for allow calls from contacts only. Mine does at least.

If that's not to your liking a third party app would most likely be all you need.
It's interesting that an almost identical copy of his proposals have already been implemented in Golang, where they are 1) widely reviled 2) seen to be a failure and 3) are in the process of being abandoned.

If the author is serious about the proposals, he should really do some work to figure out why they only people to have actually tried them hate them so much, and not just relegate it to an offhand comment in a footnote.
They're katakana characters, used mainly for transcribing foreign words. シ is "shi", ツ is "tsu", ン is "n" and ソ is "so".
No meaning per se, these are from the katakana syllabic alphabet. They make the sounds "tsu" (ツ), "shi" (シ), "so" (ソ) and "n" (ン).
The question is whether those being rejected are these ones or not, which I don't know if we have enough information to tell.
They are phonetic characters, so they don't mean anything. シ (shi), ツ (tsu), ノ (no), ソ (so) and ン (n), all in katakana (used to write loan words and slang).
" Google search promoted false reports about the suspect, suggesting that he was a radical communist affiliated with the antifa movement"

This is bad, but Google is not there to provide the truth, but rather to search the internet.

I agree we should all be wary, but I don't think it's a search Engine's job to sort truth from fiction,
Yea but different boxes are mutable for different people in different ways. When communicating by way of the written word language is the common abstraction. To be synthesised as per the receivers own “internal boxes” but in the macro structure imposed by language
His name is Jim Fisher, and he's from the UK. I do consider it likely he grew up speaking English.
What bothers me about articles like this is not their faith in the power of neural networks -- power that, I'm sure, we have only just begun to harness effectively -- but that by ignoring the history of neural networks (and machine learning in general), they paint a somewhat misleading picture.

Artificial neural networks were invented in 1943, some years before the earliest electronic computer prototypes. In fact, the McCulloch & Pitts paper that first described them served as an inspiration (possibly the main inspiration) for von Neumann's design of the digital circuits that would make the earliest computers. Alan Turing discussed using genetic algorithms for training neural networks in 1948[1], roughly concurrently with the earliest work on software. So "software 2.0", if not predated "software 1.0", certainly evolved concurrently with it right from the very beginning.

Early progress seemed so promising that a whole movement dedicated to the belief of the power of neural networks and similar techniques, called Cybernetics, was established in 1948[2] by some of the leading minds of that generation, like Norbert Wiener and von Neumann. They were so optimistic that they believed that a full mathematical theory of intelligence and the brain would be completed in five years. The skeptical Turing, who attended some of the groups meetings but found McCulloch to be a charlatan, thought it would take 50.

80 years later, while better hardware has certainly finally allowed us to enjoy some of the fruits of that old promise, we have yet to make any theoretical breakthrough. The algorithms we use today for training neural networks were invented 50 years ago, and there wasn't even a modest theoretical breakthrough in at least a few decades. I don't think we are in any position to announce any sort of revolution.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neuron

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unorganized_machine

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics
Not a Japanese reader so i can't fill you in on what exactly the characters mean but they are characters from the Japanese katakana script. Katakana are generally used for loanwords and each character represents a sound:

ツ - tsu

シ - shi

ソ - so

ン - n

The reason these are difficult to learn is because the tiny differences in stroke angles (especially when handwritten) make it easy to confuse them.
We aren't done designing flying machines. Maybe it will turn out that when we have sophisticated enough control mechanisms and materials, flapping will turn out to be the way to go after all.

Of course natural evolution has found only local minima in the fitness landscape, but as a designer it's been running its algorithm a lot longer than humans have. Its local minima may well be better than ours, and so worth trying to imitate.
Only ringing for people in your contacts is how a phone should work out-of-the box. But for some reason it is instead impossible.

Another good idea: a phone call from an unknown caller should be alerted with a short text stating who they are and what they want.
Google still provides the best results for me, almost always hit 1 or 2. I tried DDG and it was just too consistently wrong.
I despise the name "Software 2.0" because it implies a certain betterness.

Some things will always be written in the "1.0" fashion.
I don’t think it’s the same. They can’t reason about what they’re doing abstractly. That’s why they’re acting it out.
Interesting, what is Chinese style monetization?
I only know of Finland, but here diesel for work machines is much cheaper than diesel for driving.
If his response was normal there would be no telephones because no one would use them. Hence he is not normal, he is unusual. Different.

I get to decide because i am human and humans make assessments about things and people.
shouldn't you be quoting examples from within the same society? it seems a bit suss to quote a German budget chain acting reasonably responsibly towards its employees as a counter point to an American one. last time i looked labour laws were vastly different between the US and Germany...
>There would need to be significant concepts that people talking different languages think differently.

Not necessarily. If you study linguistics you will find that (human) languages are very similar. So it is possible, that lanugage is a central part of thinking, but the differences between languages are too minor to have significant effects.

I agree with point 2 though.
>You mean the Chinese government will stop protecting their currency and hurt their export?

For the last two years, their problem was the opposite. They went quite draconian on people selling RMB to keep currency strong.

The main motivation is to allow CCP keep throwing money around the globe, buying allies
There seems to be a few plugins like this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/mastodon/, but it's not RSS, and ultimately different. It could all potentially work together nicely, and I wish federated services like Mastodon were more widely used. They could definitely lower the burden to publishing/consuming RSS.

I don't think social news delivery/publishing is an easily monetize-able business. Out of twitter/reddit, reddit seems to have found a model that works for them. Twitter hasn't found what works yet.
>>Roll all of your 401K's over into a single Roth IRA.

In the US, Roth contributions are made with "after-tax dollars", while 401K contributions are generally made with "pre-tax dollars", so if you rollover the 401K into a Roth, the IRS will see the rollover (aka "conversion") as a bump in your income and ask you to pay tax on the rollover amount, with the remainder/net going to the Roth IRA.

I still think a Roth conversion is a good idea for self-directed investments, but folks should be aware of the incoming tax bill.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/retirement/09/roth-401...
Even if that features worked, it would still be user hostile to force them solve a global problem locally.

If Google really cared about user experience, they would already have downscored all those low-quality sites years ago. But they don't - neither now nor back then. So either they are profiting from those low-quality sites, or they simply don't care.
Geez, I thought someone was using pencil and paper.
> If I were rich, I would have a permanent secretary. All calls first reach the secretary. The secretary would arrange the conversation for a date and time that suits my calendar.

I'd be surprised if there isn't a twillio-based system for this already...
I drove by a closed Amazon.com warehouse in Kansas a few weeks ago. Next to it is a RV campground that is still operating. If you look around on RV websites you can find quite a few reviews from people who went there and other Amazon.com locations to work like this. Those reviews mostly paint a very different picture than what is described in the article.

For many of the Amazon.com camper/workers it was a way to do a lot of work in a few months to help support their retirement travel and the people who were actually doing it seemed to think the pay was pretty good--especially with the overtime.
And, most importantly, (4) Android.
This seems like a poor framing when you consider that the vast majority of "software 1.0" projects are of a form that does not map onto the semantic structure of a machine learning problem.
I was watching out for a quote from Karin James, and found it! I recently collaborated with her and others on an fMRI-compatible touchscreen, which has been used for studying handwriting in children. Her lab is doing good work.
> Some things will always be written in the "1.0" fashion.

Like the article clearly stated.
The interminable nature of texting conversations drives me crazy.
This reminds me of that Ken Thompson quote:

"I've seen [visual] editors like that, but I don't feel a need for them. I don't want to see the state of the file when I'm editing."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson#Quotes
it's pretty crazy to think that the ESA is so far behind SpaceX that they are starting research on a 'me-too' reusable engine while SpaceX has tested, deployed, and proven theirs for over a year. SpaceX was working on this engine 10 years ago; in the time that it may take ESA to deploy the engine (let's give them 5 years opportunistically assuming they can learn from SpaceX, and cut through bureaucracy) SpaceX will have done 1000 launches of the same class of engine.
I love reading through the comments on these articles.

A "Jonathan Brown" wrote a play about it: http://www.somethingunderground.co.uk/the-well/
Thanks for the explanation, and I definitely agree with all your points. The reason I ask is that over the past year or so, we have been hacking on a little side project that maps a copy-on-write tree to a distributed shared log (https://nwat.io/blog/2016/08/02/introduction-to-the-zlog-tra...). This design effectively produces an append-only database with transactions (similar to the rocksdb interface), and means that you can have full read scalability for any past database snapshot. We don't have any query language running on top, but have been looking for interesting use cases.
Hmm, somehow missed that. I guess, then, that the anxiety disorder he describes affects written communication, too.
We already have a forcible retirement system that makes all the decisions for you - social security.
I think BF Skinner tried to take behaviourism here. All behaviour being mediated by conditioning, with thought being the sublimated stimulated response of the vocal chords. I think he made a good bit of headway with this but I think Noam Chomsky (language development being his substantive field) put the kaibosh on it. Can’t remember the nuances of the argument off hand.
Hasn't advertising always been the primary drip of financial resources for podcasts? Aside from a bit more enthusiasm for Casper mattresses than is probably warranted, I don't think your concerns have come to pass.

The great thing that podcasts have going for them as a product is they're super cheap to make (relatively speaking). Podcasters willing to compromise the product by taking on more obtrusive advertising will get outcompeted by those who don't. It's ideally how media sites in general would work, but those are expensive enough to run that most sites resort to intrusive ads.
> last time i looked labour laws were vastly different between the US and Germany...

Exactly.
This sounds like an eminently fair deal for this site unless I’m greatly underestimating how lucrative your advertising is or you have subscription revenue you didn’t mention.

You’ve made something people like. Congratulations. Nothing I say about operating the site as a business detracts from that.

Playing the probabilities:

You probably do not have a defensible business. Your users are loyal to Marvel trailers, not to your site; it is merely a way they know to consume Marvel trailers. They would switch in an instant to a similar site if yours went away or was dissatisfying.

You likely do not have any durable advantage in marketing your site. A durable advantage at your scale is one that a smart person given a month and a $5k budget couldn’t duplicate.

The nature of your revenue is likely non-recurring. You have to claw your way up from $0 every month. A change in the advertising market or your biggest source of traffic is an existential risk to your business. Next month’s revenue might literally be half of this month’s without you doing anything wrong.

All of these factors are going to push down the market value of your site to people who want to buy it and operate it as a business. If you speak with a broker (I used FEInternational, twice), you will probably told that the value is ~2X the annualized cash flow you got from the site (revenue minus hard costs), when using the last six months average as a baseline. (i.e. 24X average of last 6 months)

If that calculation comes up with an answer well above $50k, and you want to sell, talk to a broker.

Otherwise, the offer reads (to someone with only educated guesses of revenues to go on) as generous. Many offers do not turn into transactions; sometimes they do.

Separately, do you want to sell? What are your goals for yourself and this business more broadly? Are they helped more by you continuing to run it or by having $35k or so in the bank?
That was my workaround, too.

But now I have a better workaround which doesn't only work for mdn, but any other high-quality resource: I edited my browser settings to use a different search engine by default. (currently DDG)
> as best as I can get in programmer speak...multithreaded-notthreadsafe-consciousness-impressions

The way I explain it, thoughts in my mind are organized in graphs, perhaps like a wiki. As I communicate, I'm constantly deciding which concepts to render inline into text, which to keep handy in case it comes up, and which to ignore. I find that I have decent memory, but it's hard to get to a story from a prompt (like: "tell me something funny from your childhood").
I have no doubt that if the capping of 401k deductions goes through, Roth IRAs will be next. There is nothing stopping the government from deciding to tax Roth withdrawals down the road. They'll probably do it at a lower rate, like capital gains, but I fully expect it to happen.
VS Code doesn’t seem to require indexing in the same way.