skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of my friends and family agree, but for anything over a sentence or two I just dictate. Voice recognition on my iPhone is fantastic these days and I hear Android is as good if not better, even without internet access. I think the world is moving past typing for shorter, informal input.
I wonder if this will lead to a trend of people going to see events live, more often. Given that seeing something occur live is going to end up as the only "real way" to trust something to be true. Scary to think that reality has become questionable in itself.
AFP is agence France press. A public company, nationalized a while ago. You know, these things people say can not work correctly...
Don't worry; there are plenty of rocks left.
The Java Performance book by Oaks has some sections on internals. Cliff Click has a talk called “A JVM Does What?” that has some interesting material (very compressed though).

There’s also some old Oracle or Sun white papers on Hotspot, but I’ve never actually read them.

One nitpick to keep in mind: the major JVMs do many things in similar ways but have important differences. In fact, there is a spec that’s much less prescriptive, and JITs are entirely an implementation detail. Often when you read “the JVM does X” it means that the author is talking about Hotspot.
Drama as judges struggle to swear in an illiterate leader
I think this is a fallacy. the olden days were way worse. to put in presepective Carrots improving vision is propaganda created by the british yet see how many people believed it. Humans inventing and accepting fake beliefs to comfort themselves was never a new thing. Governments gaslighting its own citizens is communist party 101.
People always want to believe that yesterday was better and blame their problems on the new.
Have you any references to the Development and Commercialization he didn't excel at? I know of Kay by name, but not his life story.
That's funny you should mention "the mouse, windowing and Ethernet", because in the last 5 years the majority of people have stop using all 3 of those (thanks to mobile).
So that takes care of the "little that changed the entire world of computing" argument.

Yes, billions have been poured into AI and we still have no strong AI. That just shows that it's a problem that is way more complicated that inventing the concept of a pointing device, making computers talk to each other, or having applications show something on a screen that isn't text.
The people in the 80s weren't smarter (or dumber) than the people of today, there were just a lot of low hanging fruits back then.
> I would attribute it more the glut of free online porn than netflix.

I can see why porn has an impact in people having less sex but, porn is nothing new. When I was a teenager in the 80s, porn was readily available in VHS. Slightly less convenient that online porn, but equivalent for most purpose.

> Men are far less willing to deal with all the pitfalls, annoyance and cost of dating

There's much more than sex in a relationship, and even in dating. Many people see dating as an enjoyable activity, not an annoyance that stands between them and their appetite for sex.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16036268
I believe it is a bit too early to declare it a success. Can we exclude that it is not accelerating rising cost of living and economic inequality, and the general weakness of the middle class? Also, what is top-down imposed austerity with no option of bankruptcy? To me it is also a form of Keynesianism. The general consensus is that things are headed in a better direction for Iceland or Detroit than they are for Greece.
Shoot pretty much any direction in a busy city, and hit somebody. He was a loose cannon, aiming a deadly weapon irresponsibly. It can be argued, he had to be taken down. Cruel, but when people put themselves in that position something has to be done, and quickly.

Not clear why a sleeping dart couldn't have been used though. Animal control does a pretty good job in such situations.
If they did, people may not like that very much either.
Indeed. It brings space v time to the fore as you're "ricering" your solutions, and elegance v maximised kludge.
It’s old I think.

I might try to dig up some more recent stuff.
I actually genuinely agree. Trustless computing is a very strong use case for systems where a lot more verification happens up front, because the downsides of messing up are so obvious and immediate.

It's worth noting that Ethereum's "fuel" model as a 1:1 correspondence with how Idris's mostly-total IO monad works. The "infinite fuel" bit can just be turned off and some (substantial and tricky, I admit) changes written to keep top-level state around and bam; timeboxed resume-able IO
It’s unfortunate that a false flag operative could easily shut down a major communication channel with posts like that—although I have no idea if that was the case here. On Reddit, the role of moderators who remove content that’s against site guidelines is crucial or else any community could be shut down by rogue or infiltrating members.
I'm not sure how this answers GP's question.
Actually in the Netherlands you can get fine or get jailed for catcalling https://dutchreview.com/news/dutch-news/rotterdam-ban-catcal... .

My girlfriend was called by some creeps at least couple of times on the streets of Amsterdam wintertime in winter clothes. Freaking insane.

Approaching women has its place like parties, social gatherings where you can actually dance or have conversation. If you have friends outing and friend brings his/her other friends that you have something in common is also ok. When you are random stranger it is never acceptable to hit on a girl.

Small talk should be ok but that does not constitute "approaching women" in context of this topic and should be carefull. If you are creep don't talk to random ladies, practice first with someone you know.
> It's like they are trained for [...] video-games instead of police action.

There's an Ad for the US Army which is basically the Call Of Duty video game advertising the US Army...
That does absolutely nothing to answer my question. You show a QWERTY layout in the center, from a Windows Phone device, with every letter key the same size relative to one another as I said above.

Maybe I'm just not smart enough to see the difference from a slide with screenshots and captions that make dubious statements, but I'd appreciate if you would explain anyway.
Related: "Project Jigsaw" from Google.

[1]: https://jigsaw.google.com/
Title should really be "Docker, Inc. is Dead". That's the original title, and it's clear that it's about the company, not the product.
He said “real water” should expire after a few months. His does. “It stays most
fresh within one lunar cycle of delivery,” he said. “If it sits around too long, it’ll turn
green. People don’t even realize that because all their water’s dead, so they never see
it turn green.”

The marketing speak these companies utilize makes me cringe. As a science teacher, I aim to help students develop the ability to critically analyze claims like these. I think half of the people in charge of these companies believe their own hype, and half of them are just doing it to take money from uneducated people.
Do you remineralize that water before drinking?
> That the likes of tinder makes the most attractive men far more accessible to women, so they are no longer interested in the average man.

I think that has already started to happen: https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-g...
Did you try swipe? I can't really use it personally because I switch between different languages too often, but it's practical if you're only writing in one language.
Thanks for taking the time. Happy New Year!
I hate the quote "Software is eating the world" because everyone keeps referring to it as though it's ingenious but in 2011 that fact was already pretty well established... It's like if someone said "the sky is blue" or "it is raining right now".

If anyone less powerful than Mark Andreessen had said it, nobody would reference this trivial phrase.

With this kind of attitude, I'm surprised that people are not quoting Mark Zuckerberg for saying “OK, I'm gonna take off the hoodie" because it carries about the same amount of information.
We've always had to discuss what the facts are - the extreme bias between newspapers and TV channels picking and choosing facts to provide to their users, even on the same news stories - news source A chooses not to provide background info, news source B chooses to provide background info from one primary source only, news source C chooses to provide background info from another source, news source D chooses to provide a general overview but with a slight bent towards assuming that its readers hold values X, Y and Z, etc etc.

You can go back and read stories from the 1950s which have these issues and more. There has never been a time where all individuals involved in a democracy have understood all the facts. Popular politics has always been driven by newspapers and special interest groups.

In my country, implementation of a certain policy has very clear correlation with a marked increase in suicide rates - the slow rollout of this specific policy across areas of the country provides an easy way to show this. Certain newspapers refuse to report on this - it doesn't match their ideology - after all, when pointed out, people holding this ideology will often point out that suicide is one's own decision and it's not the Government's problem.
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We use Docker in production, we’ll continue using Docker in production for a while.

It may not be the best tech, but we trained our staff to do it and we’re not shifting from something that works.

This is an anecdotal view from one enterprise, but I’ve been reading similar clickbait articles about JAVA dying for the past decade and we haven’t replaced that either.

Well I guess JAVA isn’t run by the same people now, but companies frankly undergo blatant mismanagement all the time and survive. I doubt Docker is dying as a company because of a few silly mistakes. Especially because it has somehow managed to build a reach into something as tech-backwards as the Danish public sector.
Also for(Foo x : y) will allocate iterators on some JVM implementations which will nail you on the GC.
There’s also the argument regarding existence. Without the BSDs there would be much fewer ways for people and companies to use great, legitimately industry standard software/hardware technologies. Where would people cut their teeth programming and administrating the same tech that will land them work? Sure, Microsoft’s OSes exist, they’re not economically available for everybody. To say nothing about the realities of which OS offers a better developer/admin experience.
”Austerity with no possibility of bankruptcy” doesn’t strike me as anything doctrinarian, really.

As for declaring it a non-success, and bemoaning, the supposed death of the middle class, you couldn’t be more wrong: it might be faltering in the West, and we might observe a local pressure upon the middle class, but in the Far East (China, India) the latter is very much ascendant.
I think that statement was referencing other alternative keyboards, not standard qwerty
this is a very important point. i tried swiping in my phone using the colemak keyboard layout which i use on normal keyboards, and found it utterly unusable because the prediction quality dramatically goes down. this is most likely caused by the lack of shapes made with the swiping gestures: colemak has the most common letters on the home row so on practice you're mostly swiping left/right.
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Teaching the Principles of Microeconomics through Simulation
Go and Kafka
JMU student works toward building self-driving car
The girl/guy sex vid... has her face been superimposed? If so is that a celebrities face?
I think porn encourages more real life encounters. Simulationing those parts of the brain can lead to more desire for more simulation at a deeper level which leads to more encounters.
how is the raw spring water described in the article any different from bottled spring water like Perrier?
'Keynesian' is not strongly tied to Keynes the person or his thinking or writings. Keynesian's have buried Keynes long time ago. Anti-Keynesians are still carrying his corpse around.

Neo-Keynesian theories formulated and grounded Keynes's ideas better than he did and the field moved on. Today New classical macroeconomics and New Keynesian macroeconomics contribute methods to each other. 'Keynesian' today is just tendency or general direction.

If you want to spot dead ends in the economic thinking, you must look at schools who study the teachings of the founder and never improve upon them ('X said', 'X thought') Keynesian economics is not one of them.
I wouldn't recommend learning Lesbegue integration, and so forth, as a starting point for getting to know more about statistics than the canned procedures you may have been exposed to. That is math, not statistics. It's useful once you get to a certain level, but is not essential for learning the concepts. And it's actually detrimental if it gives you the idea that learning more math (beyond first-year calculus and linear algebra) is the road to statistical understanding.
Website Dumps Files on Gottfrid Svartholm, Co-Owner of the Pirate Bay
There still is pebble. I recently found my pebble time at the back of a desk after not using it for over a year. I was sure it'd be a crippled mess without cloud services and I'd have to jump through hoops to make it do anything useful. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the community is still strong and the watch works even better now without any cloud requirements. Features like voice to text which I recall being clunky and error prone work like a charm. I was worried I'd have to write my own watchface but there are literally hundreds available to choose from. The benefit of fostering an open ecosystem from day one is paying off even a year after the company's "demise." I suggest picking one up on eBay.
I think a small line should be drawn between "touchscreen devices" and "handheld small touchscreen devices" (please read as "smartphones").
if you are worried about somebody actively faking footage, and are willing to go to such drastic DRM measures to prevent it, you need to explain how it is actually going to solve the problem, not just handwave.
Pseudo-science. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Radin.
This just gives more power to "authority". If subjects can't believe their own eyes anymore, who will tell them what to think? NBC would be happy to take the job...
Google and Facebook are being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the position of judge and jury of what is our isn't acceptable speech.

That's over years and by several different governments.

There's tremendous power in that position. I wonder if we'll rationalize after the fact that these corporations always seeked this power.
Probiotics and love (of separating a fool from his cash).
It looks like a graduate class. It's not expected that this is the first time someone in the course has come across most of the concepts and methods.

The syllabus could almost be from an inverse theory class in my field (geology), albeit one with more focus on the underlying mathematics. I don't think it's trying to do too much, it's just not trying to be a intro course.
> the average woman seems like a lame approximation for what can be accessed readily online

I dunno about you, but I really go for that third dimension.
Because they are scum and don’t contribute.
the larger issue is that if it's this easy to create fake photorealism, video evidence is no longer valid.

not from the government.

not from amateur videographers.

not even from a video you took yourself-- think of it from everyone else's perspective.

but people believe their eyes.

we are witnessing the capstone of the national security state's propaganda strategy for the next few decades... when in doubt, construct a false reality.
That book was written by computer scientists, and they demonstrate how the optimal search algorithm is often to pick the most unusual thing to try that you haven't tried yet. I'd like to see more discussion about this as an approach to personal development. Many people advise students and new graduates to sample the search space broadly, without detailed goals, just to see what's out there. It almost becomes the "do something every day that scares you" maxim. There is an old saying about "Everything you want in life is waiting just outside your comfort zone."
I’ve got this one and a few others on a Github repo:

https://github.com/melling/MathAndScienceNotes/tree/master/s...

I haven’t listened to the Notre Dame course yet. How would others rate it?

I have gone through the UC Berkeley Irvine 131a class. I have high-level notes:

https://github.com/melling/MathAndScienceNotes/blob/master/s...

and detailed notes in PDF for the first four classes;

https://github.com/melling/MathAndScienceNotes/blob/master/s...

Actually, wrote this up in a blog yesterday:

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2017/12/30/learning-probability...
Yeah, those diabolical Western intelligence agencies and their kompromat.
Same goes for Youtube - during "ElsaGate" scandal one of the banned channels was in top100 site-wide. I.e. youtube knew, but they didn't cared until their PR took a hit.
It's worse than just having to trust their metrics. Last time I looked, you can't access your own realtime heart rate no matter what - it was only available to 'registered partners' or some shit. When I was looking, their partners page had a demo video of a crowd watching a football match, and had that overlaid with the heart rates of the fans. So basically, next level sentiment monitoring and advertising capabilities.

So actually, Fitbit is in the business of collecting high resolution fitness data which they onsell to 'partners', and they've managed to convince the public to PAY to have this data collected about them in exchange for really coarse aggregated statistics which are an order of magnitude less useful than what Fitbit extracts from the raw data and keeps for themselves.

Fitbit's marketing strategy is the work of evil geniuses.
"Better tried by twelve than carried by six"
From the abstract of the paper this article is about:

> Declines in sexual frequency were similar across gender, race, region, educational level, and work status and were largest among those in their 50s, those with school-age children, and those who did not watch pornography.

Porn isn't a viable explanation if the effect was larger among people who don't watch porn.
Why doesn’t FreeBSD address them?
I've spent years trying to get off adderall, swinging between having serious addictions with it (even pouring bottles down toilets), quitting it for months, and then eventually coming back to it as work/stress accumulates.

A few years ago I quite adderall/dexedrine at a startup, it lowered my productivity as I rushed with caffeine and other things to fill the void, and within a month I was fired as I had become useless.

Adderall changed my personality well before I discovered coding. I discovered coding because it suited my adderall addiction, not the other way around. In fact, almost as a maladaptive trait, I changed my whole career path towards coding away from politics precisely because I realized how well suited this new line of work would be for my addiction: Only in coding could I continue with my dysfunctional adderall-addicted personality, get paid well for it, and paradoxically be seen as a functioning member of society.

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But now I'm stuck. I want to quit adderall but I know I can't do it without at least a month of not working.

Every vacation comes around, and I promise myself I'll make another attempt at quitting but back out, but fear prevents me from doing it.

The longest I ever quit successfully was for a few months while traveling around the world. I experienced the best romance I've ever had in my life, because without my personality being blunted by the effects of adderall, I could be my charming emotional self again.

That all faded when the trip ended, when I needed to become productive again and faced the disaster of not being able to perform.

And that, my friends, is what makes Adderall addiction so uniquely fucked up.

Unlike heroin, alcohol, or benzodiazepines, our economy currently rewards and even encourages us to continue our addiction to this drug.
Carrots improving vision is propaganda created by the british yet see how many people believed it.

Not exactly propaganda, more misdirection, maskirovka our Russian comrades call it
Quite true. Modern ’Keynesians’ took his imprimatur and ran with it, they did not fossilise themselves upon the dicta of the Great One. That’s why it remains relevant today (at least in some guise or another) and why it incorporates methods the totemic founder would have never even contemplated (agent-based modelling, behaviourist economics, and globalisation).
There's really no amount of classroom learning that will replace 20 years of experience with object-oriented systems. If you're going to put an inexperienced recent graduate in charge of design for your large software system, you deserve what you get. Ideal coupling of data to code is an arbitrarily complex, context-sensitive problem and each individual company might take a different approach. At best, that is the sort of topic best covered in an advanced class for students specifically interested in problems associated with a large codebase. It's not a good fit for introductory-to-intermediate "learn how to program" instruction.

We could debate the importance of teaching search algorithms, too. But it's a different issue. Search algorithms are a solved problem[1]. Algorithms like that, in addition to being mental exercises, programming practice, and preparation for a career in academic research, are usually used to demonstrate complexity analysis and space/time tradeoffs. The space/time tradeoff is a problem you will face in nearly every environment no matter what language or technology you use.

[1] As far as we know... there might still be research on searching algorithms but for the purposes of the vast majority of software engineers, sorting functions aren't something they'll ever need to implement.
Fitbit's software makes it very hard to get logs of heart-rate and step count data at smaller than a full-day granularity. I think this is because they know that if people looked at that data, they'd realize it was horribly inaccurate and complain. That's certainly been my experience when I've tried to spot check data from my Fitbit Blaze.
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NYC has been fluoridating water since the 1964. Doesn’t seem to have affected IQ or made anyone docile.
Of course. There is no difference between qwerty and keybee in term of instantness. The difference is between other alternative layouts which claims to be quicker even if they do not shows all the letters (lack of instantness).
Qwerty as Keybee shows all the letters at the same size. But Keybee can show them two times bigger than qwerty thanks to the hex structure.
The President Doesn't Care to Understand Global Warming
[100% Ph.D. in Math + 50% major in Physics here]

Short answer: Nah

Medium answer: (from the comment of nabla9) "It's hard to see what that claim exactly means."

Long answer: Superposition and entanglement are very common, almost all small physics system have some of them. But they are worth mentioning in strange cases, for example two entangled particles at long distance. (At a small distance it's so common that it must be used in many calculations but nobody cares about it.) So "It's hard to see what that claim exactly means." Do you have a link to the slides of the talk or something similar?