skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So UFOs only fly at night? Cause during the day people with consumer cameras have zero problems recording planes at much higher than 3000ft:

https://youtube.com/results?search_query=zoom+airplane&q=zoo...
ET finally shows up and it turns out they're Marxists, that is really going to upset quite few people.
Not with that attitude you can't. I've changed a lot of things about myself by ignoring advices like this one. I don't care if it's "scientific" or not (btw most modern social science is more of an opinion than traditional science anyways). You CAN change by thinking.
Given the hype those get, I thought it would be a new blockchain.

Thankfully not, but it does remind me of this, somehow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa
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Ternary operators in JSX are valid javascript expressions. As is anything that goes into {}

All of the following is neither Javascript nor HTML:

v-for=”x in list”
v-if=”conditional”
v-on:click=“function”
v-bind:key=“something.id”

etc. etc. etc.
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Online retail in China has a 25% share of all sales, around 2.5x higher than the US, and still growing rapidly, and this in a country with 3x the population of the US.
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I've switched back to Terminal from iterm on the mac because of latency. I hate even small lag.
It is very individual, the "rainbow porridge" works really for me, while your model may be better for other people.

Finding distinct colors for multi-colored diagrams is a science on its own. They should have the same level of luminosity (so that they are readable on white background) and equal "distance" on the hue axis. The answer is the Munsell color scheme http://www.ktorides.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/colors-75...
No one wants to buy it because it's missing a tenant.

At some price someone will decide that the building is a worth while risk. You might not like that price, but there will be a price you like more than getting hit with high taxes for owning an empty building. The point here though is not to keep you, the landlord, rich; it's to make a city full of shops with happy customers, taxable sales, etc. If you can't make your building work for you then your business has failed and you need to move aside to let someone else use that real estate asset. That's how capitalism works.
In London, it is quite common for real estate companies to own a whole neighborood. They are usually quite smart at preserving the character of the area by taking a lower rent from a local shop/coffee shop/pub, and reaping the reward from higher residential rents as more people want to live in this area. Marylebone is a prime example.
Maybe that's why they remain shy and stay at a distance we can only capture them in low resolution and/or grainy videos?
JSX is a thin XML-like DSL on top of Javascript.[1] Unlike untyped strings with a custom parser of Vue, which require you to write something that’s neither HTML nor Javascript.

You can have as much separation of concern as you like with React.

[1] https://reactjs.org/docs/jsx-in-depth.html
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> The NSA surveillance was a conspiracy theory until recently.

NSA surveillance was a conspiracy theory “until recently”? Really? Bamford’s The Puzzle Palace came out in 1982. We have known about the NSA (known, not ‘suspected’) since before Edward Snowden was born. People in the crypto and infosec community have considered them the top threat for decades. Actual techniques and processes are news when verified, but please do not try to suggest that either the existence of nor extent of NSA activity were in any way surprising or considered a conspiracy theory.
The program involved seems to have been a way to divert a few millions of dollars to a politician's friend, and it's not terribly hard to find earnest, believing people who are still basically cranks and put them in charge of it so that the reports coming out sound like it's genuinely important work.
What do you think a trained neural network classifying seemingly random noise as an image of a panda is?
It might be related to you having a 4K/Retina monitor and the website's author having an older (i.e. regular) display.

The author might never have tested their website on a large display like ours and thus it'll look a bit odd and we have to zoom in.
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It is feasible to brew enough strong tea, and drink it, to cause cardiac arrest in a susceptible individual.

It's extremely unlikely someone would do that, and there's probable enough bitters in tea, especially green tea, to cause the average person to vomit before they ingested too much caffeine from tea.

But what green wrote is true and correct: https://www.caffeineinformer.com/a-real-life-death-by-caffei...
Totally agree with this. Been bootstrapping my own thing for a while. If it hits $5k MRR I'll be more than satisfied and probably never raise money.
No, I believe it is for Christmas.
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I like running stock Android and was considering buying Google Pixel 2 but it does not have a dual sim option which is a deal-breaker for me. I ended up buying Xiaomi mi A1 which runs stock android. I love it. There is one downside - the really bad camera and is probably the reason I will jump ship again when a worthy product comes out.

I would gladly pay an extra $100 or $200 for a Xiaomi mi A1 second edition with a great optically stabilized camera and NFC.

It's a shame because this phone proves it is possible to build a great phone for little money, fix a few little things and you end up with a phone that can compete with flagships that are two or three times more expensive. That might not be in Xiaomi's interest though.
Why will Linux be faster with PS/2 keyboard rather than USB keyboard?
Angular came out of Google, so what ;)

React leads the pack in:

- consistently good DX

- it’s used at FB so all decisions they make are guided by their own practical needs: don’t break backwards ompatibility, don’t break tools, improve tools, create tools where none existed etc. etc. etc.

React team has a very pragmatic approach to development, and it shows.
Reading https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_applelisahManualSep82_..., that clock runs on a custom CPU that also handles the keyboard, the mouse and software power off.

”The keyboard/mouse control is performed by a dedicated slave processor, known as a COPS. It provides
communication with four peripheral devices via the A port of the keyboard 6522 VIA port controller.

[…]

The COPS receives power from the backup supply. This voltage is available at all times, whether the system is
powered down or even unplugged. The only time the COPS will cease functioning is if the battery is allowed to run down by having the system unplugged over a long period.”

Given that and the time, it doesn’t surprise me they weren’t over-provisioning bits for that clock.
There has been a ton of new apartments and townhouses built in MTV in the past 3 years.
https://numer.ai/

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That's a bit different in that manufacturing physical evidence, especially large stockpiles of WMD, and planting it in a foreign country is harder to do undetected than making a blurry video or asking a few pilots to repeat a story about an UFO encounter that wasn't 100% true.
No it's tiny on a regular display
I read the word "nothing" and I thought to mysel: now THIS will turn interesting!!! (thinking that this will point to removal of Net Neutrality and the risks and conflicts it will bring to online services once ISPs turn aggro to both content producers/distributors and end-customers.

Buuuuuuuuut no.. it was a silly short-lived comment about piracy (not even an educating one)
The first thing I want to say when I go into a group meeting is “how did we fail”.

If people are communicating well, slack, grabbing coffee, email then group meeting seem unimportant. When you need to setup a meeting, in particular to discuss a specific issue, it feels like something has gone wrong that we’re all not well aligned already.
There's something about this article, it kind of feels like a sequence of staccato thoughts. It feels like it kind of jumps around.
Joe Armstrong gives a very good talk about ideas in the article in "The Mess We're In" (2014):

https://youtu.be/lKXe3HUG2l4?t=26m12s
Does reference counting really use less memory than tracing garbage collection?
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What makes you think he failed to notice the word "white"?
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It does make a lot of sense. Especially in markets without any "natural value" like cryptocurrencies. So much sense that there is even a word for it: Wash trading

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wash_trading
Hah! As a deuteranomalous person I wouldn't have noticed without someone telling, and then inspecting very carefully :(
That sounds a bit like a violation of net neutrality avant la lettre.
Very nice, thank you for posting this!

Program slicing is especially useful when debugging and reasoning about programs in declarative languages, such as Prolog.

In Prolog, it is natural to think in terms of generalizations and specializations of programs, and you can often explain important program properties such as nontermination and failure by showing relevant fragments of clauses.

See also failure slicing.

In declarative languages, slicing is much more convenient and useful than tracing the execution.
Radar signals need software to be interpreted. Need I say more than that?

Some team did their utmost best to write the code that's running in those F16s. They really were excellent engineers, with no doubt huge budgets. And they got it kind of running and after a few years of debugging got the most obvious crashes and other bugs fixed.

I think it rather likely that some disparate echoes got interpreted as reflecting from a single object, and that's how you get things travelling at incredible speeds.
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It's a different red (#cc1010) to the story rank numbers (#be2828); maybe the latter colour gave too little contrast compared to the menu bar text, so they opted for a lighter one.
On one hand, mathematically speaking, the problem of sampling a finite state system when the probabilities of each state are known is a trivial one, as you know very well since you have shown that method in your posts (computing cumulative probabilities ...)
On the other side, your blog is about computation and math, and in the realm of computation the complexity of algorithms is a key factor. Mixing time and burning time of markov chains are also computationally important.

The curse of dimensionality is a cause of Monte Carlo methods to be used instead of other numerical methods in high dimensional problems.

You should communicate to your audience that the advances in stochastic sampling and its application to science has revolutionize the field not because a breathrough in maths but because great key insights that allow us to explore multidimensional problems effectively with the help of computers.

Another important factor is that MCMC is used extensively in Bayesian statistics, but to explain that main application of MCMC in your blog it is necessary to introduce concepts like Bayer's theorem, likelihood, posterior density function, and prior probabilities.

There are some blogs in which all those concepts are illustrated and code in R or python is provided. Perhaps MCMC requires more than one post to be adequately explained.

To sum up, I am a follower of your posts and I appreciate the effort you take to show the main ingredients and the python code. My only desire is for you to continue improving the content of your blog for us to follow and enjoy.

Merry Christmas to you and your family from a follower in Spain.
And content creators have the freedom to choose where they distribute content, many of whom choose Netflix.
> Netflix has more than 110 million subscribers.
> Netflix operates in more than 200 countries

The five largest public torrent trackers track 30-50 million peers at any given time, serving over 10 million torrents. Torrents are estimated to have over a quarter of a billion active users. Torrents can be streamed, and in the end you have a DRM free copy of the file that you can rewatch at your pleasure, on any device(adding custom subtitles if you need them). It amazes me how much effort has been expended on pushing malware to almost everybody(binary, unauditable blobs in every browser) solely so that massive cartels can make money on something that has been solved since 2001.

Subscribing to Netflix, or any other proprietary streaming (dis)service is not only foolish(in the sense of surrendering your own freedom, not to mention your hard earned money to nefarious corporate interests), but deeply unethical.
I also had these thoughts when I bootstrapped but the problem is not being able to hire a great team that can build something you would not be able to. If you’re all 3 single guys in 20s, enjoy 20s. When you’re married and have kids, then you’ll care about bills rather than lifestyle and retreats.
Missing In Action I believe.
Kind of like AFK (away from keyboard)
we need more mechanisms to punish rent seeking.
375 years ago on this day, Isaac Newton was born. We don’t know whether the apple that inspired him to his theory of gravitation was green or red, so I guess the admins play it safe.
Yeah maybe like 1000 units tops
It ticks to 25% loaded even though your internet is down.
Maybe they are waiting for/helping us to evolve enough for us to be able to have a conversation with them. Even 50 years ago almost everyone would have found this idea very difficult, as time goes on it gets better.

We also have no idea of being able to relate to their culture which may be radically different than our own. It might be far far more right wing for example and they might see us as a slave race or supremely inferior, which we will probably be.
I zoom in pretty much everything too.

The vast majority of web designers are clueless or just don't care about font size recommendations. Most studies recommend at least 18 px for body text, but almost every website goes smaller. Medium is a notable exception, they have sane defaults.
Merry Christmas! :)
I'm a cryptography/security consultant, here's the kind of things I do. Hope that helps :)

* I get on calls with potential clients to see if we can solve one of their needs. Their needs can be broad: auditing code or specific implementations; reading and vetting pages of protocol design; advising on third party products or libraries; documenting the risk of the latest X attack... Sometimes I can do it, sometimes someone else should do it, sometimes no-one can do it.

* If nobody can do it but it's an interesting problem and it's relatively reasonable to tackle I (or someone else) will spend X weeks researching the subject so that we can provide the service in the future. We've done this with ethereum smart contracts recently for example (it's been pretty fruitful and I'll be giving a talk at Black Hat Asia in a few months on the subject).

* When the job starts, I'll be talking to the client to make sure we're on the same page, see what kind of claims they want to make, what they're more scared of, etc... This helps a lot, but of course the client is not always right or not always aware of what might go wrong. Most often companies do not even have a threat model and have no idea what they should really defend against.

* Most of my engagement are remote, but depending on the field you might have to go on-site. In any case, you always try to be close to the client so that you can get responses relatively fast (consulting is expensive, you don't want to lose your time trying to find answers they can provide). (Unfortunately it is not always possible as some of them are really busy or just do not want to spend the time answering questions.)

* Whatever the type of job is, you always spend a few days internalizing everything you're reading or hearing (I call that drowning). You try to get an idea of what the product/protocol/solution/app is (if it's your first time working on it), you read papers or articles about it if you're rusty/missing some pieces, you go through the codebase and ask questions to see what is what and what is where.

* Then you dig in, you do what you're best at. In security/cryptography we try to break things, find gotchas, discover flaws :)

* Eventually, you need to provide some product to the client. It is often some document or a presentation (or both) of your findings. You want your client to understand what you did, like really, this is after all the product they're paying for. You also want to give out recommendations on how they can fix things, sometimes you will want to fix things yourself as well. It all depends on what you can do or what the client wants you to do (if you agree).

Anyway, these are my 2 cents. It's a field that mingles expertise with client satisfaction. You need to know something that can help one or several of their problems, and then you need to do your best to convey your explanations.

(I just wrote this huge comment because I felt inspired after reading a large 2000 day-old tptacek comment.)
Yeah, people who aren't already familiar with the equation will be spending their precious and limited short-term memory on the mapping of symbols.

By expanding the symbols to words, they have more mental resources to look at the relationships between terms.

Essentially a lot of the same reasons not to use single-letter variables even in a statically typed language.
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> Both seem a stretch at the price and age.

Agreed ;) Also, the number of Corvettes on offer of that age is super low and I don't like them to begin with. Porsche is nice but as you noted expensive as well as very expensive maintenance wise. I did look at a couple but could not find one in my price bracket that would last even a year without major repairs.
Don't hi-res monitors have UI scaling built in to the OS? so sizes should be roughly comparable
Unless in those 15 years you bought all the property around you, then your “investment” doesn’t give you the right to say what happens to that property. That’s the default: people (including developers) get to do what they want with the property they own. You’re the one trying to use the coercive power of the state to prevent them from doing that.
> not to mention your hard earned money to nefarious corporate interests

Yes, this is the basis of our society. I work for money to buy things, mostly from corporations. There's nothing nefarious about that.

I find it really hard to believe that paying for content is unethical.
Yes AMD have open-source version of their drivers for linux, so they are generally more stable/friendly than Nvidia.
I know what it does when I don't press play: fills my memory with a boatload of bloated interface that has the shittiest navigation of any media player I've ever used. And I still can't just view a list of all series/movies by date.
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Thanks for the suggestion with the remote, I'll keep it in mind. Can you recommend a specific one?
I am all for video-on-demand, as long it's free. So YouTube, Twitch, etc are great value.

In case I need to spend money, I prefer to own the thing I pay for. So Blu-ray/DVD/CDs discs for me. The gathered video/music can be played on all my devices from car to phone, even in flight-mode offline. I trade a bit of less convince upfront to really own it, but then I can play it as often and exactly when and where I want.

Anyway every few years one could get a higher resolution version, unfortunately the films aren't sold in source versions, but downscaled, but the video-on-demand at always lagging behind and stream worse bit rates.
At least they did not include @Dropinin. Phew. I liked it's replies though until it got shut down by Twitter.

https://imgur.com/mCeAV1b
Who knows ... maybe the British empire would rule, lol :)
Who knows if the cold war could have been avoided if we had attempted to do conflict resolution rather than take a hard threatening stance.

How would the world look if those resources had been spent solving poverty?

Regardless, the US could probably spend a little less, without destabilizing anything.
Try the reader view available on Mozilla Firefox (but perhaps also on other browsers)

Gets me from https://screenshots.firefox.com/2Gu0kninnhAnZKVw/www.smashco... to https://i.imgur.com/tld6Kl6.png
The sites are not "responsive".

This particular site starts with a relatively small font and not responsive which I'm sure makes it a pain to use on small displays.
Try alacritty. It's primitive, written in rust, though it super quick (to be fair I have never done any measurements). At least I can use vim within it, without any noticeable lag.
> I find it really hard to believe that paying for content is unethical.

Your money isn't going to the people who created the content. It is going to cartels that have no interests in common with you, and have massive lobbying power in order to force you to download malware and restrict the access of information from you.
Some people think that it doesn't cost anything to make movies/TV.
GP got his reward for that investment in the form of increased value of his own property. That’s all he’s entitled to.

> No one has a right to move to NYC, and most particularly my block.

People have a right to use their property as they see fit. If that means tearing down a brownstone in your neighborhood and building a high rise so a bunch of people from the Midwest can move in, so be it. The government can limit those rights when necessary, but the affirmative burden is on the party demanding such regulation to show why it is necessary to interfere with peoples’ property rights.
> How do you prevent over-supply from being built? How do you ensure that the housing is of suitable quality?

The market ensures those things.
Wasn't this called the Lisa Desktop Manager and never 'LisaOS' ?
Does that blockchain clause target miners? Aren't they called Mining Farms, not Data Centers?
Puff piece aside, Xiaomi is one of the Chinese brands that are usable outside the country.

Their Snapdragon based Mi flagships are lightweight (lots of plastic around a thin metallic frame, which in my opinion is the sensible way to design a phone) with good screens and crappy cameras. The LineageOS port is well developed and has been my daily device for about a year now.

Installing LineageOS was trivial once you unlocked the bootloader, which was the only roadblock since the instructions were outdated, but at no point required reading Chinese. It involved giving them a phone number that could receive SMS but a temporary number and throwaway email worked. People joke about how much spyware is on the phone, which is a possbility, but outside the application processor I fail to see why there would be more than other manufacturers.

Their Intel based Macbook clones are also well built and runs Debian sid without any surprises.

This is probably how the Chinese brands will move up the value chain in the western hemisphere. Not by launching new brands but by direct consumer sales to people who buy from digital marketplaces anyway.
Which just goes to show how much of a market there is for easily digestible information in this space.

Netflix in particular seems to have some really interesting ideas hidden behind unclear blogs(at least for me personally) and long presentations I rarely have time to sit through, even though I often appreciate them when I do.