skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people are better athletes than others, but anyone who trains will be better than someone who does not, regardless of any innate potential.

I see creativity along the same lines. Many folks are conditioned to memorize, follow processes, follow norms and paths laid by others, it may not occur to them to seek out originality. It is another form of learned helplessness.

Creating is hard, especially when judged in a commercial context. Sure, if I make my own bread it will not win a prize but I made it, it is mine and therefore special to me in ways that are not reflected by the market.

Too often emotional value is dictated by market value, with the logical conclusion being "what's the point of making when I can buy something better" -- and you may respond, that is the correct view but it misunderstands that creativity is a process, a worthy act in its own right but also a journey that may end up in interesting places that are not explored by commercial venture.
How a polymath transformed our understanding of information
At best, shaping messaging of policy, at worst, propaganda. He isn't preventing any scientists from publishing anything. Even if he did scrub a term from the entire site personally, that isn't censorship. It isn't illegal to talk about Climate Change.
well at least there is a tool in java. and once warmed up it's basically the fastest tool available.
google closure compiler.
so basically if there would be a closure service that could be installed on your system a lot of things would be way faster.
Great list of potential startup names too!
MMM is alive and well in Africa, unfortunately, ICOs make me feel like Chicken Little.

> pretty much everybody was a "kid" back then

The Universality of the blindness is what bothers me the most. What am I blind to? When does Caveat Emptor bleed into paranoia? My hope is to inspire more people to speak up to others so somebody can warn a future me away from a mistake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMM_Global
Honestly, this seems a tad self-aggrandizing. I've done wet plate before, you can learn it in an afternoon, it's really not that hard. If you can't find someone to teach you there are books like The Keepers of Light that have the formulations and processes all laid out, so learning by yourself isn't that hard either. The tricky part is getting hold of some of the chemistry, but that's not as hard as it used to be either. The issue with wet plate processes is that it's kind of finicky and there's a lot of experimentation that has to happen before you get it down, but getting from 0 to your first one shouldn't take 45 days if you really want to do it.
Not hard, it just takes time, and money.

As for there only being 1000 people who practice this, well, that's just not true. I personally know at least 3 photographers in the SF Bay Area who do it, and I know of at least another 6 in the same area (just don't know them personally). It's actually become a quite popular thing to do.

Good for him building a studio and all, and for doing something he really enjoys, but some of these claims are just not right.
It's not impossible, just time-consuming. It's the kind of task computers excel at but cannot currently do for general cases.
Of course you can do it on company time. What other time is there?
Step 1: Build wet plate studio

Step 2: Take pictures that are creepy af.

Step 3: Profit.
> there has always been good reasons to avoid running code in the browser unless there is a good reason

From what I hear from the junior devs, what they're teaching in school these days is that as much of the site as possible should be offloaded to the client device in order to free up server resources.

The mindset is that everyone in the world has unlimited massive bandwidth at all times, along with the latest gear; and if you don't, you're an "edge case" and should be ridiculed.
I don't know of any, but seems like a great app idea. People are often looking for best <insert-food-name> in the area as opposed to "best restaurant in the area".
If we normalize the Fourier transform {{\mathcal F} f(\xi)} of a (Schwartz) function {f(x)} as {{\mathcal F} f(\xi) := \int_{\bf R} f(x) e^{-2\pi i \xi x}\ dx}, it is well known that the Gaussian {x \mapsto e^{-\pi x^2}} is its own Fourier transform.

Funny that he should mention it: just the other day, my mom and I were having a good laugh because as it turned out mom's neighbor, a Mrs. Cringleton, apparently had no idea that the Gaussian is its own Fourier transform under these circumstances. Apparently it came up over a cup of tea and bicuits they were having, and Mrs. Cringleton felt quite a bit embarrassed when my mom remarked: "But my dear, that is well-known!"

Poor Mrs. Cringleton...
They do what is necessary to prepare people for battle.

It seems to me hippies who see the biggest threats as internal are always a product of a secure environment. I suspect such attitudes don't thrive in places with war on the ground. America has never had a major invasion in terms of amount of land invaded. We seem particularly prone to this idea that war happens elsewhere and is not a real and serious threat.
Malicious Chrome extension is next to impossible to manually remove
The "older 16-bit Windows applications" (actually a misnomer because there isn't this distinction in practice) actually used DPMI, which does not involve v8086 mode.
"As long as you live in an atypical situation where all your material needs are within 15min walking distance from your residence and you're affluent enough to not notice retail markup the issue you bring up isn't a problem."
Mods didn't do anything. Users flagged it. The tug of war between upvotes and flags is the eternal cycle of life on Hacker News; you could not be describing anything more routine.
I'm interested to know what you worked on on Alpha.
I knew a few people in my high school engaged in multi-level marketing schemes. One of them tried to sit me down and sell me on joining, and I flipped it into trying to explain to them why it was a bad idea. It was a new concept to me at the time!

The best part? They're legal in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_marketing#Legality...
And Japan can rival USA in being fanatic about Apple computers...
1. Thanks for making Braid that was great

2. I believe you that the author is a straightforward person and I don't think there's anything malicious here. Still, it's not a good dataset. It's 250 data points collected in an ad hoc way. A single decision like "do we include PUBG or not" can sway every statistic in here. So I don't think it's a good idea to make any conclusions based on this data.
68K. Down from 331.
Japan's dominance is likely to be heavily influenced by the fact that families could adopt adults to continue running the business. This would have helped substantially to keep family run businesses running competently much longer than their equivalents in countries where that wasn't the tradition. That's probably not sufficient to explain 50 generation (!?) but could very well explain 20 or so.

Germany, Austria and the UK, mostly seem to be breweries and inns/pubs. I'd speculate that some of this is likely to be monastery or abbey run so, again, it's not as family dependent as most businesses would have been. Also, if you find a popular spot for serving beer in one of those countries, say near a major market, you'd be getting punters for generations.

Switzerland's a bit less obvious. Possibly it's to do with its stability and conservativism?
So many breweries!
>How long does the power unit lasts until you have to replace the paper-towel-roll-sized U-235 core?
It's not a completed design, but based on their proposed design[0] 20 or more years. The old reactor core is going to remain in the spacecraft, which will probably be at the very least hundreds of thousands of kilometers from Earth. In short, you don't replace the core, you would replace the entire reactor, which is doable because the reactor isn't very big.
>plug interface
whatever you want it to be, it's not a complete design
>Can I charge my iPhone? What about my electric razor?
The current tests should enable reactors with electrical power outputs ranging from 500 watt to 10 kilowatts. An iphone probably has a power consumption of around 1 watt max, so you should probably be able to run between 500 and 10,000 iphones. Electric razors have a max power draw of 20 watts, so it should be possible to run between 25 and 500.

>Are they going to test burying one in red sand for 15+ years and see if it can be dug up to phone home in an emergency?
Any such tests would be purely ad-hoc. That being said, if you don't have enough power to phone home(<100 watts), you are already screwed.

[0]https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/201700...
[1]https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/kilopow...
[2]https://www.daftlogic.com/information-appliance-power-consum...
Apart from language cleansing on an ideological basis (which is still significant and disturbing), has any hosted data or research on climate change been affected? Are they poised to be affected?

There was an HN news item about climate scientists backing up government data on climate change before the new administration took office and it would be interesting to follow up on the discussions that took place. Maybe that follow-up has already happened.
São Paulo has a similar system in place since 1996, where each vehicle has one day a week where they are banned from using the roads during peak times.

My understanding is that it doesn't really help that much because even with the rationing the tendency is still to saturate the roads with cars. São Paulo is one of the cities with the worst traffic congestion in the world. Additionally, rich people can bypass the rationing by purchasing additional vehicles.
Yeah; it's a relatively large place though, so maybe some of the companies were in areas that didn't get quite so beat up in various wars?
Ask HN: Hiring managers, what do you look for in a developer resume?
This is a question for both hiring managers and others involved in the decision making process for hiring. I'm curious as to what matters for you when you are looking at candidates' resumes. What are common mistakes you see? What makes a resume stand out in a good way? What makes a resume stand out in a bad way?
Chair Reveal
That would be non-free / non-open to be clear. A copyleft license is non-permissive but is still free/open. Just want to be clear, since some people mistakenly think things like that commercial use requires permissive licensing.
Faster E-commerce Search
It's inherent to how FPGAs work. Logic blocks are necessary but are kind of a heavyweight solution to emulate normal logic (and they'll result in a ton of extra silicon driving leakage up).

Perf/Watt has always been interesting as well, It's a major concern for data centers (worse perf/Watt requires more cooling which drives costs up).
Is there a name for the fact that articles that start with "Why are ...?", that promise to explain some curiosity, tend to almost never give a satisfying answer? (Usually because it just reports on some small incremental research paper that's still far away from shining a clear lucid light on the bigger picture.)

Betteridge's law doesn't apply and clickbait is too broad.

Another part of the phenomenon seems to be that the comments here on HN is rarely about the actual content of article itself, but about peoples personal thoughts on the subject.
For instance, I wouldn't be surprised if an article about incremental research about dreams would be titled "Why do we dream?", would not contain a satisfying answer in the body of the report, and would on HN mostly consist of peoples own experiences and thoughts about dreams (instead of about the specifics of the research).
I can see why you qualified that with "modern" as going back just a bit, i am hard pressed to find any computer other than Apple that labeled that key with Delete.

Amiga 500 use the left pointing arrow. Atari ST actually labeled it Backspace.
What’s So Dangerous About Jordan Peterson?
Thank you! http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-welch-cancer-trea...
"They don't have time to objectively evaluate this," to me, sounds like, "Our engineers follow extremely rigid and obtuse coding standards that have no relation to the outside world, and are unable to read or understand code written by anyone outside our company."

On being measured up with other candidates, I'd really rather they assess me based on my skills and experience, not on a time-unlimited mini-project. The major factor in those projects is free time. I am always going to lose to a person with more free time than me, even though I may outmatch them in skills and experience. And if all they're looking for is someone with a lot of free time, that's not the sort of job I'm looking for anyway.
If you are curious, I suggest you read my comments in this chain.
This misses OP's point completely--they're talking about the people who will use pieces of cardboard to fill pits in the earth and make the railing way too high because that's how long they happened to cut the boards. In my experience, these have indeed always been the people who hastily say, "Let's just do this!" instead of asking, "What do you have to do here?"
Big Endian is still supported natively on POWER8/9

Intel added movBE (mov big endian) support in BM2 extension.

Networks are still Big Endian.

SPARC chips (and now RISC-V) are BIG Endian by default.

MIPS just became an independent company a few days ago and they have native Big Endian support.

Edit 1: I was wrong about Power8/9 LE/BE
Introduction to Lie Groups and Lie Algebras [pdf]
Improving people's perception of AI
Oh, thanks for the link, this gives it a lot more context. A website made just to show his designer friends who are also pressured by the market to not value UX. Makes sense they romanticize UX and don't actually bother with it themselves.
We know that human level opaque AI can exist. So the question becomes: how do you solve this problem if you can get access to the low level details of your brain processes and if you can run copies of parts of your brain with arbitrary inputs?

One answer would be: generate thousands of short descriptions of input signal for its different aspects, find the ones which correlate with the outputs more, refine hypotheses using scientific method.
Also the reason as to why so many new microbreweries tend to brew ales rather than lagers. Ales are much more temperamental and can be fermented at around room temperature thereby making homebrewing much more accessible.
The 24-bit virtual machine I'm working on is little endian. The 'processor' reads instructions and addressess in little endian and instructions are stored in memory in little endian. But when programming it, using assembly, values and addresses are written with the least significant byte on the furthest right to make it easier for people to understand. At least so far. I may change it if it ends up being confusing.
My employer is working on robots with semantic understanding. Can’t help you on the unicorn front, sorry. You’ll have to do that on your own.
I don't understand what you mean. Line breaks can be inserted where ever suitable. Whether the bytes are listed left-to-right or right-to-left makes no difference.
I turned flags off as an experiment to see if HN could have an interesting, civil discussion. I would not call it a great success. Nevertheless the article itself seemed to me to provide a much better initial basis for such a discussion—regardless of whether one agreed with it—than one like this, which appeals mostly to narrow partisans on both sides.
https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article/101/19/1325/1073822

"Given the considerable time that has passed since PSA screening began, most of this excess incidence must represent overdiagnosis."
great, we're all in agreement.
Perhaps I should have kept my comment to myself. However I don't see any need to rebut such a ridiculous notion as the Trump administration not prominently using a term, being the comparable to Chinese censorship of Tiananmen Square. Can no one talk about Climate Change in the US? It is a completely ludicrous comparison that should be obvious to anyone on its face.

The author of this article makes no attempt to connect the two, or show how what Trump is doing might lead to Chinese level censorship. This opinion piece is complete tripe. In my opinion, the article should be what is flagged here as there is no kind of intellectual honesty in it. It is simply a political piece with nothing interesting to say except make an outrageous claim that it makes no effort to back up.
I tried to implement a fine at my old job for every time anyone--technical or not--started a sentence with "Can't you just..."

No one complied, of course, but I never let the sentiment die.
Thanks so much for maintaining homebrew!
The Global State of Science (2017)
Paul Graham's article on income inequality was of terribly poor quality (not sure if that's the one you're referencing).

He fails to even begin to discuss capital, return on capital, and capital ownership as drivers in economic inequality. Basically it feels like a piece written by a smart guy who has no idea what he's talking about but feels emboldened because "economists are all idiots".
First trademark not copyright.

Second like others are saying there is no conflict here because they are in completely different sectors
Apple and Honda can, I would be suprised if not Lulu too can...
I think of creativity as a kind of skill, that you build through practice.
Thank you! Nice catch!
Recent Linux supports both endiannesses for PPC. ppc64le was added recently.

RISC-V is little endian.
Outcomes are not necessarily better overall for earlier detection, though. For some kinds of cancer, pancreatic, for example, yes. Others, likes prostate or thyroid, not so much.
IMO, the problem is that the ones that approve the look-and-feel aren't exactly the users, but the hirers. And since they already live inside the company, some things might make sense to them, and not the wider public.
I just tried. Actually, the site UX is so bad that it gracefully degrades without JavaScript enabled. The animations, the low information density, and all the other atrocities translate "perfectly" when browsing without JavaScript. smh
Very cool! So this is an open-source Little Snitch then?
I'm not sure if I agree or not but I think this is a very insightful comment.

This is the level on which this conversation needs to take place - what's important? Are some things more important than others? It's not strictly about dollars and cents, or how to pay for it.

For what it's worth I think they're about equally important. There's no such thing as "an alternate road system", you either have one, or you don't. And I also think there's a place for people who don't have kids, who make a considered decision not to fund schools but want good roads so they can go places and get to work.

This is meat and potatoes politics: tradeoffs, values, what we think is important and are willing to pay for.
I sometimes buy things on amazon assuming it is coming from amazon directly and only later realize it was being drop shipped from overseas.

I used to think that wasn't a big deal since I really only check the estimated arrival date if I need something in a hurry. But, as of this article, it is a big deal no matter what because it changes who the importer is...

If something ships from Amazon then it was Amazon or a third party who imported the goods. If it ships directly to me from another country then I am the importer and I am on the hook for customs issues that I am not in control of (ex. is it OEM or is it counterfeit).

Amazon needs to make it very clear who and where each item is being imported from when it's not shipping from a warehouse in the same country as the delivery address. They have to stop pretending they are walmart or target in the cloud and that every purchase is a safe purchase.
It's not currently in operation and hasn't been since the 19C. Also it wasn't set up till the 17C so is a whippersnapper in comparison to this list.
I've heard that crypto market caps are extremely misleading. Any take on this?
> but anyone who trains will be better than someone who does not, regardless of any innate potential

I disagree. The genetic lottery is unfair; and some people are just better than you no matter what you do, and no matter what they don't do.
I Know We’re on a Megabus but Would You Marry Me?
I took it to mean he was doing the old-timey thing of putting up a plaque saying the name of the business, a slogan, and the proprietor. (In commerce, quote marks tend to indicate emphasis or a slogan.)
Building more roads creates more traffic i.e. more “demand”. This is the unforeseen problem with road building schemes. The solution is mass transit and city planning to reduce road commuting.
It doesn’t help that the designers often do not code and model the experiences in animation software.

I am currently working on a redesign and just saw the agency’s suggestions for animation. Seem to be highly influenced by iOS apps’ transitions and motion. But this is a website, for browsers, to be displayed on a variety of screen sizes, on a variety of browser versions.

And the users of my website use mostly other websites so if I create something that behaves very differently, the training they have will be wasted and the experience — unintuitive.

So the agency will present this to high management, in an ideal layout, designed in animation software, moving perfectly smoothly and solving for only one case without a clue on how to approach corner cases. If management finds it sexy, we’ll be stuck with development and maintenance of ultra complicated code. And the pleasure of discovering and resolving all corner cases ourselves, on a deadline, with limited budget.
This is correct and exactly what the CPB officer told me.
Curious, do you have kids/family in the house? There may be a difference in the mental/physical load of "managing a household" vs "doing housework".
But, as I say, there are decent solutions you can use, and you just spend a couple of days implementing one of them.

A couple of days seems very optimistic!

The situation today is certainly better than it was for those of us who got hit by the new rules before the payment services had caught up and had to do it all ourselves.

However, even the payment services today typically concentrate on adding the correct VAT rate onto initial purchases and possibly doing some sort of look-up to try to keep the required proof of location. They still won't do much to help you keep up to date with different tax rates for different types of service or in different territories, filing (and, if necessary, later re-filing) the MOSS returns themselves, knowing which location and therefore which tax rate to use for later payments after a customer starts an automatic recurring subscription of some kind, and so on.

And of course it's all relatively simple if you collect all your payments through the same payment method, such as Stripe and a plugin as you mentioned. If you're collecting through different channels then you're still going to have to reconcile all the figures yourself as well, at least with any payment systems I've ever seen.
A Letter to a Junior Engineer
Care to share your "credible evidence"?

There's been an awful lot of FUD being spread about Bitfinex for the past year or longer, so you'll excuse me for not taking these claims seriously.
If you use Linux on POWER you're forced to use Big Endian mode as the faster Little Endian mode (according to marketting) is reserved for IBM's operating systems.

That's not correct. Ubuntu is LE only and it looks like RHEL is also switching from BE to LE.

"The base RISC-V ISA has a little-endian memory system, but non-standard variants can provide a big-endian..."

SPARC and MIPS are dead.
FWIW the officer told me in the interview.
Dr. H. Gilbert Welch has made a career out of studying whether or not early detection is useful and necessary. http://tdi.dartmouth.edu/about/our-people/directory/h-gilber...

Cancer treatment is highly lucrative, though.