skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He did it though. Assuming that anyone else could have done it or would have done is a bit presumptuous.

Look at the history of sound recording[0] for example. You can see that the technology that made it possible existed for years and years before anyone attempted such a feat. Now imagine if the first one who decided to record audio never done it would you think that we will be where we are now because "For sure someone would have done it" argument? I highly doubt that.

What bugs me though is what are the things that could exist right now but are not because someone still didn't think about them.
You're thinking way too long term.
Yet to read this paper but wondering if the authors a familiar with the work of Dasgupta et al. on fly olfactory model for locality sensitive hashing?

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2017/08/25/180...

I have been contemplating the relationship between random projections and compressive sensing since reading it and curious to read this paper for any insights on compressive sensing.
Not the temple os guy. (Church is part of his last name) It was a different guy that was more active on hacker news. He was also really critical of Silicon Valley.
Kids may need help in controlling themselves. Spending time with phone or computer provides certain satisfaction, just as browsing social media does for adults. But those things don't necessarily make us or the kids happy. It can be like an addiction, they would like to quit, but they can't. Parent enforced screen time may be a way for them to escape this and do something that really gives them pleasure.
What the author refers to as "randomization strategies" is in fact regularisation: a set of techniques to prevent over fitting.
All of the people (edit: one of the people) who were interviewed admitted that there was sexist behavior at the company (Uh, a game where you grab a woman's tits? What?). But the women who worked there don't seem bothered by it. So the point of this whole situation should really be two questions.

The first question would be: is sexism okay if nobody minds? The immediate, modern answer has become "No." A zero-tolerance policy is being adopted by most organizations in the world, due to mounting pressure to hold people accountable for unacceptable behavior.

But it's clear that has not always been the case. If we rigidly judge all past behavior based on modern standards, we end up with cases like this. And maybe that's fine? Maybe we should judge all old actions based on modern standards, because we should continue to live by our current standards. But is this fair to the people who lived decades ago? Should we just say, they should have known better?

This second question is how other controversies have developed recently, such as the tearing down of monuments depicting people who represent injustice. We are judging their former actions based on modern-day standards. And again: maybe this is fine. But I don't think our society has come to a definite conclusion.

In any of these cases, a moderate person would perhaps try to find a common understanding and seek the best solution that weighs all the merits of each individual case. But society is not shaped by moderation. Emotional exuberance is how human society is guided, and the silent consent of the majority drives it forward. So expect more controversy for quite some time to come.
That's not how I experienced it I remember reading suddenly clicking I think in my first year as I can remember the Victorian era school room in my villages primary.

Oddly enough I am a dyslexic but had zero problems with reading- writing, spelling and grammar not so much - chiz
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The Lumia phones were build by Nokia. The Android ones are build by HMD global
I laughed at this :)
Mostly it was the execs that didn't want to go with Android, because they feared they would end up just another me-to brand fighting over scraps.

That said, it seems that much of what sunk Nokia back then was American pension funds pushing to turn a Finnish company American.

In a way it was similar to when Stringer was put in charge of Sony, a culture clash of epic proportions...
The thing is, finding a nonce that with given payload gives a hash ending with
predefined number of zero bits has only one purpose: so everybody is very slow
in computing it, but everybody is very fast in verifying. You can trade it for
any other difficult problem that's easy to verify (anything NP-complete will
do, assuming P != NP), you just need to find encoding that maps a payload into
a problem instance.

In other words, you could replace proof of work with finding the largest
clique in a graph, and try doing that in ASIC.
This will be the 2nd time the Swiss watch industry takes it on the chin. The last time it was just Seiko with their quartz watch in combination with the fragmented Swiss watch industry which prevented a cohesive response.

It will be interesting to see how what happens this time.
You didn't answer the question. So the consciousness of the illusion is real? One of my girlfriends was a voracious reader, but couldn't for the life of her recall anything out of them. She used to joke that I was "functionally illiterate" because I'd take six months to read something like Kavalier and Klay, but I could remember certain scenes in great detail. Is my ex-girlfriends' experience of her reading books real? Reading gives her great pleasure, so she must experience such pleasure. Her experience seems to be like mine when I recall having a dream where I felt certain emotions, but the contents of the dream fade out of my memory. Is her experience of reading and my experience of dreaming real?

If one deeply introspects about the nature of one's experience of experience, one may come to realize there's a certain fragmentary nature to consciousness.

Have you ever had episodes of behavior, for which you have no memory? "Blackouts?" I have. What if consciousness is simply an interesting epiphenomenon, unnecessary for thought and decision making? If all we have are people's reports of it, why should we accord any more epistemological significance to it than we do to religious experiences?
carpenter 2,000 years a very good analogy with quality of code.

This is very good reward system for developers .
placing a premium on “skills learned or perfected” over “bugs closed or features implemented”

> We aren’t dealing with anything new in terms of work ethics and quality control in software development. I maintain my code quality the same way a carpenter 2,000 years ago would have cared about how well the insides of a finished product are designed, whether it exceeds its required specifications, what other carpenters would think of their work, how they would feel if a future apprentice or master saw what they created that day, and so on and so forth.

> Additionally, I place a premium on “skills learned or perfected” over “bugs closed or features implemented.” If xx is better implemented via an approach I haven’t used before - well, here’s my chance to learn how to do that. Sure, it’ll delay the process. But that’s where technical debt comes from.
The bigger issue for me is pricing in USD, and less about the currency in which payment is collected. I'm in the UK, and while I can generally work out a rough exchange rate for GBP to USD and EUR in my head, I've no idea what the current AUD rate is. Making me check is a small but real barrier.
What it does is prevent someone from fraudulently altering transactions, because to do so would require an enormous amount of energy.
If you are more hands on, you could look through the F# in minutes. A quick intro into the language.

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/fsharp/
Why so? Their CS program is now #8 in the world and CS research #1 (at least in one of those "proper British rankings").
For what it's worth, my phone now is a Nokia 6.

I was choosing between that and a Moto G5 Plus in the price bracket. Perhaps the Moto has better features, but the Nokia has a solid steel plate running through its entire body[1].

So, I could have had a better camera and battery on a Moto, or I could get the assurance that if I end up in a Star Wars garbage compactor scenario, I'd have something I could wedge into the damn doors to avoid being crushed completely flat.

I went with the Nokia.

[1] https://youtu.be/0M3Budnl3aI?t=186
Ask HN: A pixel on my screen is walking like a bug.  What could it be?
This is very strange.

Yesterday morning I began noticing what I first assumed was a very small insect meandering around on my screen. I quickly realized that it was not an insect after I tried to squish it (the dot just kept moving about).

I then realized it was a single pixel, or a dot the size of a pixel, that moves around my screen in a meandering fashion, very similar to how an insect moves. It tends to focus around the top left of the screen, but "meanders" all the way to the right sometimes as if it's looking for something.

My next thought was malware. I attempted a screen recording using Quicktime but was surprised to find that the meandering pixel did not show up in a screen recording. Hmm.

I was able to record it on my phone.

Any ideas what this could be?
That Reddit thread is really great. One idea they don't mention is that perhaps the extreme transparency of winning the lottery should include anyone who begs for money. That is to say, the lottery winner should bring a camera with them everywhere they go, film every beggar and harasser, and post all the footage on YouTube. This would of course require a good bodyguard or two.

I think that's what I would do. When someone is about to start their pitch, I would tell them the rules: if you pitch to me, you must do it on camera, in public. Otherwise, I'm calling my bodyguard.
Yeah but there's many other, compliant, ways to advertise so they'll just do that instead.
Who's the most demonized group of people in America today?
That's a funny headline given that the article doesn't discuss Android at all. Apple's outselling the Swiss watch manufacturers by itself.
Yes, but governmental, judicial, and financial malfeasance do happen. And with this much money involved, there's basically a certainty that it would. Government-sponsored entities awarding millions of dollars to anonymous persons gets sketchy really quickly.
I think this is a good argument for restructuring the lottery. From what I gather, the big jackpots used to be smaller and the small wins used to be more frequent. They changed how it works because the larger the payouts of the big jackpot, the more of a ticket buying frenzy you have.

Everyone actually wants to win. But not necessarily life changing amounts of money of this magnitude. We should go back to more small wins and smaller jackpots.
An insect inside your LCD: I had one of those!
the answer you are looking for to your core question is “No”.

Generally all kernels will assume _some_ backing store. The reason for this is dealing with RAM being full.

This is because updating MMU is generally expensive, so it’s easier to mark an address as belonging to your process, and commit the pages after the fact.

Now this can be changed in settings. Ensure pages are backed before allocated, and running swap off can be done.

But then EVERY and let me repeat EVERY SINGLE piece of code you run has to able to handle malloc failing gracefully. And next to none do. This is a strange condition because how you handle it depends on your kernel configuration, and how much stack you have left. Which is difficult to know unless you wrote every piece of code FOR your custom kernel config.

Ultimately just having swap enabled and assuming a back store is easier. The few places where you get away with 100% ram and a read only store is embedded (generally, not always) and in these conditions you can closely tie software to kernel configuration.
Nokia has been selling smartphones since before the iPhone.
Everything I said happened in the 9 years I was on well/septic. We didn't have to get the new line, it if the backhoe repair didn't do it, we would have had to do it.

Permits are from the county health department. Apparently poor septic systems wind up polluting ground water with fecal coliform.
Sure, but we've been waiting for micropayments for 20+ years. No exaggeration. The infrastructure isnt there. Cryptocurrencies have some infrastructure already. I'll pay the electricity tax if I can reward good content and not have ads.

If this catches on it might spur alternate and less wasteful solutions, but until then I've been all for this.
No idea how the system works, but if the clerk is able to disable the scanner and manually press a hidden button that plays the audio of the losing sound, seems like a pretty easy system to break.
> I'm not cool with 20 kids standing at the train station not talking to each other, not standing on the right side of the yellow line, not paying attention to the train that is about to push them off the platform, just so they can push a few pixels around.

Neither is anyone else.

But then again, the objectionable part of that has nothing to do with the use of technology, or even the not talking. If kids were standing at the train station, talking to each other, and even physically interacting, and also not staying on the right side of the yellow line and not paying attention to the train about to push them off the platform -- behavior with kids in similar circumstances without technological toys have shown themselves just as likely to engage in as the scenario you describe -- I think it is equally problematic.
This happens _a lot_ in Supreme Court decisions.
totally. i always think of it as "letting the glue dry"... you put the pieces together by practicing, apply glue by repeating it, and then let it set by sleeping.
Who will write the specs that cause the code to be generated?

oh...
I use mine exclusively for the DVDs and BRays I've ripped from my collection. No more scratches!
Every competitor that has tried to kickstart their own OS has failed (Microsoft, Palm, Mozilla, Ubuntu, etc.)

Maemo might have been a great OS, but Android and iOS have sucked the oxygen out of the room. There’s no way Nokia could build and support an alternative OS just for enthusiasts.
They recently hiked up their prices b/c now it includes a Xamarin mobile app but their back-end and middle-tier is free & open source[1]. We opted for the paid version because our team is small and we are building a new multi-tenant SaaS.

It's going well but the primary challenges we have are porting our existing data into their data model which right now uses SQL Server and some Redis.
The paid version comes with descent support via their premium forum[2] but they have their own tag on StackOverflow[3]

[1] https://github.com/aspnetboilerplate/aspnetboilerplate

[2] https://forum.aspnetboilerplate.com/viewforum.php?f=5

[3] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/aspnetboilerplate...
I’m from Bangladesh, where women face many problems. In many cases they are forced to wear head scarves, the rates of domestic violence are through the roof because it is culturally normalized, etc. For the most part, they don’t feel “disenfranchised” because they don’t know anything else. But I know very few American-born Bangladeshis who want to go back and put on coverings and live in a traditional Bangladeshi marriage.

And obviously working at Atari wasn’t like being in Bangladesh. But the basic principle applies. Taking a poll of disenfranchised people is not useful because one of the central features of disenfranchisement is that most people are resigned to it. The question isn’t what they think. That’s not how you judge the culture. How you judge it is to go to people who have experienced something different, and ask them if they’d trade places.
Do we know what the author of that article's biases are? (Everyone comes with their biases, and I know pretty clearly what Brianna Wu's are because she's reasonably famous, but I haven't heard of Brad Glasgow, I think.)

In particular, the casual dismissal of saying that someone "bills herself as a game designer and activist" and the off-hand reference to "former GDC Pioneer Award winner Markus 'Notch' Pearson" without mentioning Notch's strong ideological biases re social issues and the game industry, make me feel like there's something undisclosed here.

If we're going to be wary of journalists misrepresenting sources to fit an agenda, I feel like we should apply that principle consistently.
Redfin estimate – Wrigley Field
>Having military posts doesn't make that territory part of an Empire if the US doesn't exert much political control over the host country.

The political control was solidified over the past 100+ years for the benefit of US corporations. Countries which worked towards self-determination because they didn't like seeing the natural wealth of their land expropriated were labeled as communist, and had their governments overthrown with covert coups, assasinations, and mercenary armies.

>I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

-Major General Smedley Butler
As of 2016 ~10% of the world's population is undernourished.

https://www.worldhunger.org/2015-world-hunger-and-poverty-fa...

If you believe that "most of today's populus have barely enough to eat" there is a good chance you have a much more dismal view of the world than actually exists.

I'd recommend checking out http://forms.gapminder.org/s3/test-2018
Yeah, I still use N9, it didn't lose anything from its elegance. I wish they still had Meego, but MS' change agent made sure all internal competition to WP was obliterated, first indirectly then directly.
#2 is 90% of my requirements
Establishing Early Neural Network Standards
Do you genuinely not understand the idea of proof of work, or are you just attempting to conceal your actual point, which is that you don’t think the transactions in the Bitcoin network are very valuable?

You’re making it sound like you genuinely don’t understand proof of work. Proof of work is the reason that it is effectively impossible to fraudulently alter Bitcoin transactions. Again, it’s fine if you don’t care about that because you don’t see any value in those transactions, but surely you recognize the huge importance of preventing the modification of previous transactions in any sort of payment system.
That's quite a surprise giving that Nokia 8 was quite disappointing in my opinion. I think they would've sold more without the 'bothie' gimmick, and just marketed their quality and security.
Except the biggest problem will be friends or family that suddenly all “need help” because they spend their money frivolously or suddenly their car breaks. That or you get totally pushed out because you weren’t generous enough.
And, from another side, if you only have few providers (economy of scales, network effect, or other barriers to entry for competitors), it's the providers who choose, and users only get to pick from what little is available.
Yeah, that. It always amazed me that Eric Schmidt spent millions every year on personal security for himself and his family. But the reality is that for some people it is "easier" to find someone with money and force them to give it up than it is to get the money legitimately.

The comments about family really resonate. I did not realize that so many of these folks were being killed by family members, that seems a bit extreme.
There are a few startups doing prediction markets on blockchain. I think most if not all of them are doing KYC and following all the regulations. Not sure why it needs blockchain in that case.
I'm curious, what value does your ticket brokerage create?
In this case, rubocop is indeed configurable: https://github.com/bbatsov/rubocop/blob/master/manual/config...
Do you carry millions in cash around in your wallet?
New study says most smartphone users check in within 5min of waking. Here's why.
Ask HN: What is your salary as an ML engineer/researcher?
Nice post (and beautiful charts!). One other quick comment: really appreciate that you never excluded single sign-on from your base plan.

I'm always disappointed when I see SaaS where you have to upgrade to an "enterprise" account just to get reasonable security. Props to you and your team for not forcing customers into that dilemma!
> I think you are complicating the process in your mind or you frequent places that don't use technology.

I think it varies, that kind of tech would only benefit a regular sit-down restaurants where the chairs are in fixed spots and constant. It doesn't work for a busy bar with me shouting "3 more beers" as the waiter walks by.

I assume the same or similar POS tech is used everywhere but in most places here I assume waiting staff either ignore it or charge everything to "chair 1" at the table, simply because so very very few ever split a bill to who ordered it. Since no one does, it's less work taking the hit when someone does (and asking people manually) rather than assigning orders to chairs all those times when no one splits. Obviously, that would also change if more people would split - so I'm guessing that with tech for splitting bills without staff help so prevalent here, it won't be common to have staff split bills.
"Even in the 1970s, people knew this was wrong."

That is true. However... are you sure you would side with the people who knew this was wrong, were you in 1970? Because in 1970, that would be the conservatives, the church-goers, the ones who were not going along with the sexual revolution and were sticking to older mores.

The direct linear ideological ancestors of the current dominant Silicon Valley liberalism were not decrying this sexual liberation... they were the ones creating it, normalizing it, and outright celebrating it, and rubbing the noses of the redneck rubes in flyover country over it, the same redneck rubes in flyover country that the HN gestalt so frequently sneers at today.

The Silicon Valley of 1970 would not pick up the morals 2018 is trying to impose on them. They would actively rebel, because frankly the #meToo morals are rapidly evolving into, if not already at, something even more strict than what the people in 1970 were already rebelling against as being square and out of date!
Ask HN: How do you focus an explosion of energy?
I recently had an idea that I'm very optimistic about, assembled a task list, and about 100 articles and videos to review on it. I'm having trouble staying focused when I'm not doing this (at work, gym, etc.). I feel like I could stay up for 3 days straight reading all this.
It's HMD, another Finnish company with some managers ex-Nokia, so there is certain continuity. However, manufacturing is done in China and no they don't own any factories.
I think his point was that you made it sounds easier than it really was for some reason.

Regarding the second bank you wrote, "and that was it." In reality, you admit that there was tons of paperwork that took days to receive. So, no, that wasn't "it."
I like having a library that I can flip to when I'm bored and want to do something productive.