skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've moved to the "Just make a phone call" camp after hating phones for many years. I still don't really care for phones, but getting stuff done is often much quicker when you call someone. If given the choice I would drop Skype and other online calling services, they're still no where as reliable as telephones and always a hassle.

My preferred communication means are: phone, email and everything else could disappear and I wouldn't care. Really, everything is just a poor implementation of the phone or email.
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In my experience the others just are relieved that someone puts an end to the miserable writing they are getting used to over time, especially when seeing the new fresh, thick, vibrant lines!
We also made lots of fantastic predictions about space travel. I don't buy that hype guarantees future success. I'm not even sure it's relevant beyond possibly getting more people working in the domain and the resulting impact that may have.
> The failed Spectacles experiment just seems to scream that this is a company with a lot of money and no clue what to do with it.

Spectacles look exactly like Google Glass to me, though with a bit less creepy human thumb marketing... http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5179166eeab8ead0440...

All of the current surveillance capitalism companies seem to be flailing when it comes to doing anything beyond selling ads.
Looks like the con purged it from util-linux in 2002.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=149321
I thought your 15ms comment was correct. It is 16ms motion to photon latency. Why microseconds?
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No. I just take 100mg per day, upon arising. As prescribed.

If I need to work a long day, I take another 50mg, plus more coffee.
I got the impression that this happened before OP started taking modafinil.
[Alt]+[←] requires two hands, though: One to press the [Alt] on the far left of the keyboard, one to press [←] on the far right of the keyboard.

That’s horrible.
Why would 5 extra dollars stop drug purchases or pizza? It cost 7 dollars extra to get just eats or ubereats to deliver food which doesn't many.
Yeah, but that isn't actually very strong causative evidence. If there is a confounding variable, maybe upending a scientists life and moving states takes longer than than the legislature raising the tax rate. Maybe the tax change compounds the impact of another variable and is followed by their relocation (ie, the tax change contributes to the decision, but isn't the root cause).

The point is, "A causes B" is a much stronger statement than "A and B are related". There is solid evidence of a relationship, because the core of their study is a statistical test of correlation. The causative elements here are of a speculative nature, because they didn't gather any data on cause. Cause is being extrapolated from a correlation, which is dangerous thinking. The conclusion here is a good one to be circumspect about.
Just don’t pay attention to it. Visual snow is like floaters; both are perfectly normal. Some people notice them and then become obsessed; others barely ever notice them.
In the sense that GP states, yes, but I disagree with GP: "E=m" is wrong even if c=1 in the units you're working with since c is not unitless; it has speed units. You can't have a kilogram of energy. You need to multiply a mass by something with squared-speed units to get something with energy units.
One thing I've noticed whilst trying to learn Japanese is that reading long stretches of romaji/kana is just tedious. There's certainly overhead to learning kanji (especially as a non-native speaker), but I'm not sure romanisation alone would make for a better language.
This reads like a parody of Pygame. Why write something in a single line of Commodore Basic when you can do it in 50 lines of Python?
Sometimes you need that. The issue isn't the phone call, it when people don't agree on what the phone is for.
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Vue is not a one-size-fits-all solution though is it.
As far as I know, using backspace to go back was something from Internet Explorer, which other browsers copied as a concession to users used to it, but only on Windows. I've used Firefox for over a decade, and backspace never went to the previous page for me, even on a new install, so "every webbrowser for decades" is a stretch.
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Allow me to dramatise:

[Studies Duff's device]

"What... Oh, no, C! What are you doing?!"
> But if w're in the middle of crossing the road that's not the time and place.

I'm facing the same thing right now and I keep thinking back to what my mum did: It's always OK to ask why, and this question always deserves an answer, but you need to accept that sometimes the answer is "just trust me, I'll explain later."
Yeah, the methodology is weird.

I got the income info from here: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4109731-united-states-incom...
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Well, that was my thought, at first! PVCs feel like your heart is trying to jump out of your chest. Very freaky.

But, as I said, I've seen cardiac specialists. At least twice, over the years. They basically said to drink less coffee. But they found no evidence of heart damage.
This is so sad. Really, really sad. In case you didn't know, he is the son of the legendary Amar Bose, founder of the famous audio company, Bose Corporation.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanu_Bose
Couldn't you use this same line of thinking to argue that only one dimension is required? Our eyes may generate 3 channels, but don't they depend entirely on the frequency of light received which is one dimensional?
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Yes, and I haven't had any PVCs since taking modafinil. Because, I presume, I'm drinking less coffee.
Right, someone needs to go and check what learning classifier systems can do on modern hardware! :3
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It would actually be doable in 2-3 lines using Unicode characters 2571 and 2572 (both hex), respectively "╱" and "╲".
I was discussing the possible price crossover between Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash with a colleague just a few days ago after I found out about the 'New York Agreement' which had been signed by several major exchanges.

If you read about the New York Agreement and you understand the technical implications of it then you should have a very clear idea about what is going to happen when the exchanges start honoring that agreement.
> How can you NOT see the difference?

I saw the difference, because it reminded me of the difference between ン and ソ in katakana, but if you aren't Chinese I can see how you could assume they are the same. You can draw the same character differently in English without changing the meaning (e.g. 9 straight or curved, 7 with or without a bar through it, looped k or f), so overlooking the difference between 𠮟 and 叱 seems easy enough.
If you own nothing and don't even make choices about where a service comes from, you will loose ownership over your brain.

Without free will, you have to be lucky that keeping you happy will still serve some purpose...
Thanks! I do note this only refers to "workers" (they give an exact definition), so does not include people who only have unearned income. I don't know how much that would distort the data at the top.
The third chart on each line shows the relationship between tax level and net-migration which what they are making their claims about.

The individual one (first line) looks like a shotgun blast to me but the business one (second line) shows some correlation.
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I would love to see this with a more complicated search space. The two examples are too easy to climb.

Would be really interesting to see how the different algorithms travel through a landscape where it is hard to find the optimum.

And to make it perfect: Put information about the performance below each visualization.
Interesting, thanks for sharing this.
Two thoughts, in order:

1) This isn't normal? I get this plus an auditory analogue (imagine an impossibly high pitched sound like crickets chirping) which I've always figured was just what my 'noise floor' sounded like.

2) Why would you see this as something to cure? (Edit: Assuming it's something you only see at very low light levels - if you get it all the time even in bright light then that would be pretty bad.) It's just what you get when your visual system's auto-gain tries to amplify darkness. I'm not sure what else you'd expect.
The article doesn't explain why it's not overfitting.

Overfitting isn't that impressive.
That's not quite right, They still come in descrete packets. It makes sense to call these photons and I've been told it's better to just think of them using statistics rather than to use something like waves or particals.

Not that I understand quantum mechanics.
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import sys, random

while True:
sys.stdout.write(random.choice([u'\u2571', u'\u2572']))
sys.stdout.flush()

They're called box drawing characters, it's how ncurses applications draw their GUI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_character
I typically use a vim-like set of keybinds when possible, so for me it's something like shift-H or g,h.
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Ah I misunderstood the previous comment. Sure, if you have a list of pointers to values that satisfy a given interface, dispatching at compile time would not be trivial.
"Science has moved", "Photons don't exist".

How do you live with that?
I am so confused, What should I learn Django or Ruby on Rails?
I first learned Django, but later had a look at Rails, it was more implicit and easy to do stuff than doing it explicitly in Django, based on remote job perspective should I learn Django or Rails,
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Most of those are small acts in comparison with the power that the US government has, and one of those acts was linked to the MIC that GP mentioned (DARPA is part of the MIC).

Let's say you were in charge of government spending, would you be spending $584 billion a year on the military? Just think about how much good you could do for your country with 50% of that (the US would still have the biggest military budget even if cutting spending by half). Do you think the best you could do is a school lunch program and paying electric companies to extend the electric grid?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/CBO_Info...

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jan/...
Why invest in something that is clearly being driving up and down by bots? Virtual currency will never work so long as there is speculation. Fools gold.
In one of the YC videos someone says that in Silicon Valley when you suggest an idea people think about what would happen if it did work rather than all the possible failure modes. From that perspective, the article starts with failure modes and ends up with success modes. YC startups tend to be young people, I suspect because they don't have "experience." While the junior/senior dichotomy is one aspect, the article is even more interesting when framed in the context of success-mode thinking versus failure-mode thinking and how to take effective action.
# Without unicode or pygame (using Python3)

import sys, random
while True :
print( random.choice( [ chr( 92 ) , chr( 47 ) ] ) , end = "" )
sys.stdout.flush( )
Both things are true. Income taxes are less efficient, sales taxes are more regressive.
> If you know English, the loanwords become immediately accesible.

Bit of a stretch IMO - the pronunciation and usage can still often be different enough to trip you up, especially when you consider there are non-English loanwords on occasion (e.g. playing Persona 5, it took me far too long to realise that ルブラン, which I naively transliterated as ruburan, was actually the French "Le Blanc").
The generator is not going to run unless there's an outage.
> "E=m" is wrong even if c=1 in the units you're working with since c is not unitless

In natural units, c is "unitless" (AKA dimensionless), by definition.
Four ethical priorities for neurotechnologies and AI
Most-upvoted reply is excellent.
The explanation by TillWinter about systematic task assessment is quite impressive

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/73n9pm/com...
"“I understood nothing, but it was really fascinating,” he said. So Scholze worked backward, figuring out what he needed to learn to make sense of the proof. “To this day, that’s to a large extent how I learn,” he said. “I never really learned the basic things like linear algebra, actually — I only assimilated it through learning some other stuff.”"

https://www.quantamagazine.org/peter-scholze-and-the-future-...
same as therapeutical amphetamine
It’s funny that the crypto coins are so volatile that it’s almost impossible to write a standard article about them.
Ask HN: Why has no one created an “Amazon” driven by local businesses?
I'm sure I'm not the first one to have this glaringly obvious idea, so I put it up for discussion. I was largely motivated by horror stories of Amazon workers having to walk 15 minutes to the break room for their - you guessed it - 15 minute break, along with a very strong desire to support my local neighbourhood/city shops.

The concept is an "Amazon" style shopping experience which supports local businesses. Let's ignore shipping logistics and synchronising stock inventory for now. Why is there no single global site for consumers to search local neighbourhood inventory for a product as a starting point. Yes, large department and retail stores often have nearest branch stock checking and online checkout, but I still feel the experience is frictious and fragmented. I understand many small businesses already operate on Amazon and eBay through fulfillment programmes. It seems like a fairly concrete and scalable problem to solve in principle, but probably quite difficult to operate sustainably.
That's what makes natural units natural. Certain quantities (like mass and energy, or distance and time) are physically related such that the distinction is, in a sense, artificial. The conversion factors between the units used for these pairs of quantities are the fundamental physical constants that get set to unity in a natural system of units.
Wow, the argument of the text is almost completely disconnected from the title: it's ostensibly about where star scientists choose to locate, but in reality talks only about where star scientists choose to migrate. These are very different things.

If a star scientist chooses to remain where they began being a star scientist, that itself is a decision. And it's an obviously important one: a high-tax state may well be able to offset receiving migrating scientists if it creates more in the first place.

The account for this, you'd want to look at where star scientists start out, or simply look at per capita star scientists for each state. To ignore this strongly biases the article in favor of low-tax states.

I suspect that in practice, high-tax states tend to have more star scientists per capita than low-tax ones, simply because part of what they've done with greater tax revenue is invest into higher education that helps create those scientists. This would be not unlike how so many tech companies are headquartered in high cost metro areas, because those areas are more successful at creating those businesses, not at convincing businesses started elsewhere to move there.
I would never have guessed this result, because it seems like a vast overoptimization for light detection: in what circumstances would a human being need to see a single photon? And if those circumstances are rare, then what is the cost (in fitness, energy, etc) that we pay to maintain that ability?
There is, unfortunately, a great lack on this very topic. In the digital age, it's sad that for those things, you pretty much have to rely on books.

There are a few resources, like glyphwiki or Kanji-VG, that have stroke information, but TTBOMK, they don't contain any information about the kinds of strokes.

Even if they did, that would barely scratch the surface of what I am, personally, interested in. For instance, I'm taking Japanese calligraphy classes, and am interested in the various ways characters can be written in the different styles (楷書, 行書, 草書).

I've also found that interesting etymological facts about kanjis help me remember how they're written. To give a couple examples of things I've found by looking at japanese kanji dictionaries, 並 (line up) is derived from 立 (stand up) repeated twice (立立), and 自 (self) had the meaning of nose before the character for nose was created (鼻), which is why you'll find it in many nose-related characters like 臭 (smell) or 息 (breath). The latter is the kind of thing that I've found most learning apps completely miss. All those I tried, which are all essentially based on the same data sets anyways, will tell you that the radical 自 is for self, and be done with it. Somehow they do manage to tell you the radical 月 can be related to flesh (which is why it appears in many organ-related characters). In the worst case, Kanji-VG based apps will even tell you that characters with the radical 自 contain the radical 目, because you know, 自 looks like 目 with a stroke on top. Which is completely misleading.

Essentially, what I've found works for me is to go to the local library, open good old fashion japanese-japanese dictionaries, and research the subject. It helps that I live in Japan.

I did try a few japanese-targetted apps, but they are mostly drill based, and/or heavily targetted at kids. That doesn't work for me. Maybe I simply haven't found the good ones... finding something on those app stores is so impossible.

As for japanese learning tools for foreigners, they tend to be targetted at beginners, which is fine, when you're a beginner.

On the subject of drills, I haven't found any that actually tries to challenge on similar-looking, possibly even homophone characters. At best, they will make you pick between homonyms, like "given $context, do you write きんし 禁止 or 近視?" (both are correct writings for きんし, but have totally different meanings, so the context tells you which to use), but I haven't found any that makes you pick between homonyms that are purposefully wrong but very close looking. Like "do you write そくおん 促音 or 捉音?" (only one of those actually exists, the other would actually have the same reading if it did exist, but it doesn't).

But I digress.
However on the other end of the spectrum you have The monkey experiment, where you end up with 5 monkeys that don't climb the ladder for the banana reward, but none of them knows why not to.

I sometimes still find it a challenge to walk the line between sticking to a principle and letting it go. But it's my opinion you should always stay open to let any of your principles be challenged (by someone else or yourself). And it still surprises me how I can shatter some of my deep rooted principles because of a new/different look on things.
Most styling markup formats (except markdown, irritatingly) have added those features to the "text" layer.
> I only once in a while use the !g bang and almost always come back disappointed.

Ha! My exact experience shows the same. I'm not finding something using DDG and think "well google will find it, surely", use !g and bam! I've got the same irrelevant results. The correct approach is to adjust the query but it's hard to fight the habit of trusting that Google knows better...
But is a Digital Nomad all about working from Starbucks or the beach? The impression I got from the book (4HWW) and blog posts I've read was more of people staying for a few weeks/months in rented houses in each place, not in an hotel for a few days.
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They definitely didn't succeed in reviving the magic of that one-liner. I could see myself explaining the BASIC code to my little brother, but when it comes to the new version I don't think I would succeed.
I would rather describe as a very weak, long-ranging, attracting force.

A force of a very special kind, because all other forces are strong, short-ranging (they need to interact, the only not-mechanical force) and repelling.
I hope it picks up momentum among the broader public - while it can feel like the entirity of HN is on Firefox Nightly, there's a much larger leap to be made in overturning the broadly held 'common sense' view that Chrome is the superior browser.

I don't doubt that such a sea change in public consensus is possible - it happened several years ago with the surge of Chrome in about 2010 [1]. Chrome was markedly quicker than the competition in its day, but I believe that Firefox 57 makes at least as big a performance leap in day-to-day usage over its rivals as Chrome did when it came to prominence. For much of the last ten years, Chrome has been the go-to browser for the tech-saavy user - Firefox is now as well placed as it could ever be to reclaim that crown.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Browser_usage_share,...
Eastern Europe and South America are also pretty affordable, though obviously not quite as cheap as SE Asia.
I'm not sure if this was posted here to make fun of how little progress they've made in 3 months, to commend them how much progress they've made, or to just introduce the project.

I am confused, impressed that somebody still wants to make a powerpc laptop, but also underwhelmed by what essentially amounts to a generic description of a computer.
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And their friend 戉.
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you should link to the reply instead, because the most upvoted reply might change.
Unfortunately I don't really deal with the submission process so I'm not 100% on the story. It could be the business plan, I'm not sure. We have tried Worldpay, but I have always thought Stripe was a instant no when it comes to gambling sites?
Folks at Shoutem poured years of effort into building this platform and it definately shows. The product is really solid and I recommend taking a better look at it if you're planning to build a mobile app.
A similar 'mafia' pattern emerges in a lot of other organizations, whether it's other countries or even something like games. You can see it in places like a younger Google or Pixar.

A main requirement appears to be that these organizations are underdogs. The pattern would not emerge in post acquisition PayPal for example, or something like Google or Facebook.

It's not just smart people. Bell Labs had really smart people but they were not powerful.

While they are underdogs, they are also well funded. They are not starving startups, but mid sized organizations. This gives everyone room to grow and plenty of challenges.

Chemistry among the talent is also unusually strong. Leaders have to be open minded, willing to make risky moves.

Another sign is that the members are usually willing to give up much better offers for what they have. People very rarely quit the group, and usually these are the kind of people who regularly get offers from top companies. It's a black hole - it sucks smart people from all over.

And finally, there needs to be some bigger bad out there that unites them to focus. This could be something like a IPO. It could be a much larger competitor. Or it could be them against the world.

This pressures them to stay united, work together against a common threat. Usually this is the missing link that prevents any regular group of smart people from becoming a mafia. This pressure builds camaraderie and creates unusual growth.