skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A rough guide to making a medieval manuscript
Americans spend a lot on politics because they're much richer than Europeans and can spend a lot on everything. You see it with healthcare, houses, cars...

GDP per capita in the US is a third higher than in Germany and the US is four times more populous on top of that. The amount of wealth sloshing over there is incomparable.
This feels like it's "DoubleClick For Publishers or Bust."

Admittedly, I've only been on the DevOps side of content marketing -- and even at that, only on the cloud infrastructure side of it -- but, I think that just about everyone knew that while writing your own content and then selling your own ad inventory was ideal, if you couldn't sell your own ad inventory, DFP was the second best play for the income.

To me, this screams, "Even if you have other ads, if they're not DFP-compliant, we won't show them if they are from our browser."

I may be completely wrong...but, who knows.
The name is tongue in cheek. It's taken from a NEJM editorial that attempted to negatively characterize people who just analyze data without doing the grunt work of collecting it as "research parasites".

(Obviously the editorial is gesturing at a real problem: that by unbundling data collection and analysis and, as is unfortunately typical, only giving credit to the result of analysis, there could be a dearth of data collection from lack of incentive. But characterizing pure analysis negatively is obviously the wrong response.)
For anyone who ever needs to search for files on Windows, try one of my favorite utilities, Everything by voidtools:

http://www.voidtools.com/

I set it up with Ctrl+Shift+Space as a hotkey so it's easy to open. I have about two million files on my C: drive. When I open Everything it displays them all, and then as I start typing in the search box it filters the list as fast as I can type. Highly recommended!

It just searches filenames, not content, but often that is enough.
or maybe single word lookups are pretty useless for most translations? How would you identify those words which can be directly looked up in a dictionary vs those that require the current context for translation?
Still buying stuff and I've been using ublock origin for years.
> Good engineering is really all about empathy and psychology.

I disagree.

I'll give you a team of psychologists and I'll take a team of mathematicians and we can see who can build the better software.

Empathy and psychology are game changers only when they are built upon a broad and deep base of analytical thinking and problem solving.
It's not even consistent. The people who are convinced that global warming is going to kill us all (because science) are generally the same people who go into hysterics over nuclear power and GMOs, despite the fact that the science tells us that both of those are quite safe.
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WeWork Buys Meetup; Here Is How Meetup.Com Will Change
I am well aware that vegetarians are often given a hard time for their choice to not eat meat. I grew up in a meat-and-potatoes family. I was a wannabe vegetarian for a time, but I have a serious medical condition and that simply doesn't work for me. Still, I eat a great deal less meat than is the norm for many of my relatives.

On visits home, I have been accused of being vegetarian because I don't necessarily have meat as part of Every. Single. Meal. For health reasons, it is not unusual for me to choose a vegetarian option. Even when I do eat meat, it is typically the smallest portion of anyone at the table.

I have thought very long and hard about food and ethics. I occasionally spell that out if it seems pertinent for some reason. Getting on my high horse about how my food choices are ethical or about the amount of time I have put into deciding my position on the matter as a means to piss on other people never strikes me as pertinent.

So it rather annoys me when a) I am equally given hell for my food choices by both vegetarians and by those who perceive me as a vegetarian and b) vegetarians inevitably assume that they have thought more on the matter and researched it more than I have simply because I don't agree with them.

Most of the world is raised on either a shame model or a guilt model. If you are choosing to not eat meat for ethical reasons, it isn't surprising that meat eaters will feel judged by you. Most vegetarians are, in fact, judgy about the diets of others. It isn't hard to convey that fact and meat eaters are not oblivious to it.

I rarely get hassled these days, in part because I mostly either eat alone or with my two adult sons. When I do attend a meal at a social function, if anyone comments on a lack of meat on my plate, I go out of my way to make it a non issue. I don't talk about food ethics. I usually avoid talking about my medical situation. I try to frame it as "Oh, the (vegetarian option) just looked scrumptious! I really love cheese dishes!"

Because I am a big believer in go pray in your closet and not interested in making my food choices a political issue between me and friends, family or acquaintances. So I go to great lengths to frame it as a personal choice that implies nothing at all about them.
It certainly can be difficult to work around gendered language. The point is to think about it and avoid it when you can. You never met your daughter's surgeon: "I'm sure the surgeon did all he could to help her." "I'm sure the surgeon did all that could be done to help her."

Maybe the former expresses your intent better (for some reason?), but why not use the latter?

This, of course, is quite aside from what a machine should do in ambiguous cases. In those cases, I just wanted to put a vote in for things like he/she (or: he or she) coming from machines rather than statistics-based presumptions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_language
The C standard explicitly lists signed integer overflow as an undefined behavior. Any undefined behavior in your program essentially makes it semantically meaningless. There is no guarantee that the compiler will even emit the assembly instructions that would lead to signed overflow behavior. It could just as well emit a program that deletes your files, and still be standards-compliant.
I think it's a problem for a lot of software projects that often, simple user operations traverse too many files or components.

Obviously this kind of complex logic is written by smart people who can keep long chains of logic in their minds but it doesn't mean that it's a good thing.

A less intelligent developer would probably have a hard time keeping long chains of logic in their mind and so would be more likely to keep their code simple and readable... Which often means better code.

But it depends what kind of problem is being solved. If it's a very complex problem like working with distributed systems then complexity cannot be avoided.
I'll be frank, if supposed "actual scientists" were better at science communication, may be there wouldn't be a need for "science communicators."

I say this as an actual scientist who mostly dislikes communication. I'm happy there are communicators out there that raise our profile a little, I don't feel jealous or spiteful for some reason towards them.
I would then ask: "what is science?", "who defines it?", "who is science?"

Readiing the last article you linked, it seems like a legitimate debate about the scientific method and what constitutes scientific theories. Every scientists (but especially "science fans") need to acknowledge the fact that all science rests on certain axioms (partially laid out in the scientific method) that can't be proven by science. So going with the newest developments in the philosophy of science, the people developing science itself, seems only reasonable. What you call "getting rid of evidence" is only the exploration of other types of evidence aside from classical empirical evidence
I know... The main reason is it is hard to avoid downtime when upgrading older postgres versions (given a large and bussy enough server)

The situation is getting so much better with logical decoding in recent version.

When the upgrade day finally come it will be like christmas with Lateral, Filter, JsonB, Percentile_Disc/Cont, and "upserts"
Douglas Hofstadter: The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think (2013)
I don't say it's easy, at least from organizational/product-development perspective. But that's basically how every translation website before GT worked: type a word in language A, select language B, get the result(s) from a dictionary, done. In the nineties I had this pocket device: https://i.imgur.com/Yp9yTRL.png which would look up and translate words in 8 languages. Today I have a smartphone which can connect to a datacenter with enormous computing power, but a dictionary lookup is a hard problem?
There are all kinds of crazy energies released by adhesive tape: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/411085/x-rays-made-with-s...
It's a nice writeup but to be honest, I'm so happy that I have my pi-hole setup so I don't care anymore :). For Android is an OSS app called dns66 (f-droid) which has the same functionality.
Yep. It is literally the worst screen sharing tool I've ever used. Screenhero used to be amazing. My whole team would use it for pair programming.

Now, we've literally had to resort to using Teamviewer, because Slack is so bad.
Except for the fact that you actually don't need any sort of energy infrastructure whatsoever with electricity. All you need will be a solar panel in the near future, resulting in more homes with heat and lights, more people with access to inexpensive transportation, and a more equitable share of well being. Third world countries stand to benefit the most from electrification.
Indeed the users may perceive the approach they adapted as a local maximum and don't consider the price of climbing down in order to climb up to a higher point to be worth the effort.
"didn't know whether to fix it or sell tickets."
Pretty sure that any fan of Star Trek would pay a pretty penny to touch a real force field ;)
Why would technologists do that? Especially in those circles there's an incredible belief in easy solutions (i.e. technological solutions). For your homeless problem sociologists and anthropologists would probably be most appropriate
> Us dutchies are decent on admitting our faults. I think we are pretty clear about our mistakes in Indonesia

I respectfully disagree. I've always thought of Dutchies as open-minded but I remember reading a plaque at the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam) that left my jaw on the floor by being overly euphemistic. It was an exhibit of about 2-dozen weapons symbolically surrendered by Indonesian leaders; the text was worded as if it was a voluntary gift of their own volution. I thought a little self-honesty would go a long way.
As one of his duties, he personally entered a melted-down experimental reactor as part of the team that disassembled the damaged core.
It really is sad how many people would use a man's political leanings in the 2010s to dismiss the scientific book that made him famous in the 1970s.
Ask HN: Something that is to Word like what Sketch is to Photoshop?
I find Word (and Pages) cumbersome to use. Is there something that is to Word like what Sketch is to Photoshop? Sketch is so to-the-point and simple still powerful. I'd like a "word processor" that is like Sketch in those regards.

Maybe I should use InDesign? I used InDesign in a graphics design class I took because I as a software engineer wanted to get a better understanding of graphical design. From my experience at that time InDesign didn't have much support for layouting a large mass of text across multiple pages. It felt more like a tool used to manually lay out a number of boxes with text inside them inbetween graphical features and images.

I don't think I want LaTex; I don't want to have to learn an entire language before I can layout two pages with some images and text.
I think the actual plan may be one step once their own blocker is released:

1. Declare all ad blockers in the Chrome Web Store now obsolete, and ban them.
The search for Jackie Wallace
My company has two engineering departments. 1 that has a very traditional management chain (non-technical) that is very bureaucratic with lots of meetings. The other promotes only the best technical engineers with ~10 years of experience and people skills. The latter typically performs far better finishing all projects on time and under budget. My boss's boss knows every table in our database, how each interface to our various apps works...etc. All our management in that department can speak on the same level as our vendors and drive key design and architecture decisions and the next day be talking to shareholders in the political realm. When someone asks them a question they can give an answer down to the lowest level of granularity if need be. So my experience based theory of management is to take high performing domain experts with people skills and put them in management in lieu of typical Harvard MBA types. Then pay for them to take some finance classes to round off that skill set if needed.
It doesn't prevent you from installing an Ad Blocker extension to block sites yourself, as you do today.
You should check out the book. It is really fun (especially the illustrations).
As a scientist, I'm biased on this issue. Being a scientist involves dealing with data and making/testing hypotheses. Being a scientist helps you understand scientific results, and then you can make a value decision with how those results affect policy.

Germany seems to be doing very well with many scientist leaders. Angela Merkel has a PhD in physical chemistry. Just because America doesn't respect scientists that much, doesn't mean they don't make good leaders.
if you couldn't sell your own ad inventory,
DFP was the second best play for the income

If you don't sell your ad inventory, then how is DFP different from Adsense?
Ha! The overwhelming majority of congressmen and senators are lawyers or businessmen. The number of scientists, between both chambers, is in the low single digits.

https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/R44762.html#_Toc49835...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2013/01/17/an...

I don't think we're remotely close to "swinging the needle too far in the opposite direction"...
This is from Nov-28-2017 but I think think the analysis is still good. Meetup made some significant changes to their interface recently that have let to a lot of dissatisfaction and complaints from organizers complaining[1], I think these date from a regime where the focus was on growing attendees. I agree with this analysis that they will start to focus much more on organizer satisfaction because it's the organizer who determines meetup locations and WeWork wants to see these in WeWork facilities to introduce attendees to their offering.

[1] https://medium.com/meetup/web-redesign-explained-5f5a4ae7e42... see comments for more than 100 detailed complaints from Meetup organizers about deleted functionality in new interface.
Typo in the comment above: I would not have translated the articles in full if they had not, as my time is limited.
Though, in order to shut down the computer, you first had to click start. Not a real problem, or notice by most people, but when you sit down and think about it...
Communism is by definition stateless, so any society where a state exists is not communism. You might say that this is impossible, and that would quite possibly be right, which is why there is no real-world example of a communist society.

I think the only way that it could possibly work is with post-scarcity or at least much less scarcity that currently exists.
Streisand effects have huge survivorship bias.
I worked on the special election campaign for Bill Foster (D-Il). Seeing him win was one of the most memorable moments of the last decade for me.
Given the data from the 20th century, when scientists are in charge not only do you get a lot less liberty, you get a lot more rationalized wide scale atrocities.
There is a big difference between management and leadership. Are we really talking leadership here or is this about climbing the company ladder?
Run the examples to see what it does, try to build something with it to get a deeper understanding of the depth of its capability, then finally dive into the code itself by fixing a bug or adding a feature or even just playing around and changing stuff. Join the developer channels and ask questions. People usually love it when you show an interest in what they've built.
I recall seeing an article regarding an interview with a US Civil War veteran in the 1950's [1] which made me think, the Irish Famine was only some 150 years ago. It would have been likely that as recent as say, the 1930's you may have still had living survivors - and by extension, their stories of what they saw may yet be in living memory - it definitely would have still been in the 1970's.

[1] - http://attic.areavoices.com/2011/03/01/listen-to-a-1954-inte...
Something I'm unclear about regarding U.S. jurisprudence in general, and perhaps this bill in particular:

Suppose this bill becomes law, and a regular citizen wishes to help legislators understand the folly of their ways.

So he creates a website designed to be an object lesson for the legislators who passed the bill. Through some combination of website design and social engineering, he creates a scenario where the politicians themselves, as well as their friends and families, are likely to violate the terms of service. And in fact, they do.

- Are the politicians subject to criminal sanctions only if government prosector is interested in pursuing the charges? I.e., is "prosecutorial discretion" applicable regardless of the crime?

- If the bill allows for civil penalties, are they still applicable in cases where the regular citizen had the agenda described above?
I was talking to the SiFive team yesterday and it's down to the relatively small run of wafers they made. The price will come down, likely very dramatically, but not for a while.

This board is very much to get hardware into the hands of developers who are porting software (such as me), it's not really something for end users at this time.
Do you mean that liquid engines are easier or harder to reuse after being dumped in the sea? Maybe you could elaborate on which difference between solid and liquid engines you're focusing on.
Does anyone know how dangerous this actually is? Could an esd be big enough (basically lightning) to hurt or kill you?
The gif is a great idea. Comments like these are great because it lets me know where to invest my time.
Yes, it's little fast. Thanks!
" to physics where they want to get rid of the need for evidence altogether[3]." Don't pick on string theorists...
Well, I mean, one of the issues listed is "getting a lockup with ls * on the default directory". Sure, Rust (or any other language, even something like Idris) is not a magic pill, but at that stage of development, you can't expect much. I would still say that it is, on average, a lot easier to shoot yourself in the foot in C than in Rust.
And the absence of empathy and psychology - and creativity - will give you impenetrable code with a terrible UX.

I'm not sure abstraction is the correct thing to look for.

There's an engineering joke about the difference between an engineer and a hobbyist being that anyone can build a thing for $20, but you need an engineer to build something that works just as well - or better - for 20c.

There's a lot of $20 code out there. 20c code is much rarer.

This isn't entirely related to IQ or the ability to hold a model of the entire codebase your mind, although both help a lot if someone has a talent for seeing the essence of complex relationships.

Some people get there after a few iterations, some people never get there at all, and a talented minority of developers tend to get there on the first try.
>Adulterated" mostly means "diluted with water

Decidedly false. The milk vendors add chemicals such as boric acid and paint thinners. Extremely harmful to the health.
A Model of Mental Fluidity and Analogy-Making (1994) [pdf]
He's 67 years old, so I doubt he'd be making the trip himself. Nor would you or I, of course. Other astronauts would, presumably.
I would not play with this until I knew exactly why it was happening. You could easily be killed by an electrostatic phenomenon that is poorly understood. Remember in the old days when ball lightning would just straight up kill people by passing into them? Still does, but I think most people know better now than to touch such a ball.
Stick one in a well-made plug-in/hybrid, and I'm sold.
Check the documentation, if there is any. I've actually tried to add a small section on "where to start reading the code" to my larger projects. If it's a web application for example, you'd probably want to start where the routes are defined and go from there to whatever subsystem you're trying to modify or understand.
Can SLAM be applied in this case?
The Janus cosmological model
Search the file for the description of the Jumbo architecture to get an idea of Douglas Hofstadter's computational approach.
I don't think I said that. The article is about "scientists" running for political office, not applying as advisors.
Indeed: http://oirase.annexia.org/riscv/
Good thing we live in a strict cold culture-less world then.
I just checked that website's section for where I live, and at least half the entries were about laws that IMO most people would consider sensible if they knew the whole story.
> AI research is very faddish with periods of extreme optimism about a technique followed by disillusionment.

Truth! I happened to go through grad school at a time when SVMs and kernel methods were cool, neural nets were the opposite, and Hinton and his students were oddball outcasts at NIPS. Kudos to Hinton for sticking to his story until the current "deep learning" hype wave presumably allowed him to buy a yacht and an island. I imagine we'll be hearing about some other non-linear optimization technique in a few years.
Did Google lose an anti-trust suit over adblocking before they implemented this feature?
Yeah it really does feel like it, at least for their referral code, which they ephasize. I wish they'd publish a script for DIY benchmarking to compare to their results. Also

> DigitalOcean 10$ - CPU 1 core - 1 GB RAM - 512 MB Swap

Not the case any more, so some updated stats would be nice.
I think I'd be fine with a politician with a non science background if they had excelled in Math/Science based courses in highschool and were generally curious as to how our world works. The problem is that most politicians I've met have a strong legal background (good), but a non existent technical background. How can you make key decisions if you don't understand these topics? You just take the word of advisors? If two advisors tell you two different things, how do you know which to trust?
I see the article just as an effort at highlighting Hinton and his AI research. I don't think he would say he had done it all. Toronto Life is saying it all.

I have just finished reading this interesting wiki titled AI winter defined as a period of reduced funding and interest in AI research:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

There have been such winters since the 60's.