skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Onsite (Bay Area)" could mean a five minute commute or a two hour commute depending just where in the Bay Area you are. Suggestion for next month would be to add the city.

For the curious, Syllable is in Sunnyvale near 237 and 101.
Federated microblogging: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon

Distributed video streaming: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
"MPAA and other "rights holders" do this frequently."

You don't have a free speech right to post the copyrighted material of others, just sayin'.
Actually...

This seems like it should obviously make sense, but in practice it doesn’t necessarily. Usually the sense in defined by the context, and so the vector can carry the meaning of multiple contexts at once.

There are some specific tasks where this breaks for some words. I can’t remember one I’ve seen right now, but thinking about the “bark” example, it can cause a problem when both the “woodyness” and “noisyness” of a word cause completely different results. In practice that’s pretty rare.

Generally though, the non-relevant meanings don’t have any negative effects as they can be ignored.
Yes, but why do cloning when you can go to the pound and get as many dogs as you want.

I understand feelings but death is part of life. We don't like it but there are things we just can't change.
Education is a sacred cow for cultural reasons and probably a gigantic waste of resources on the whole.

I think it would help to step back (rather like an anthropologist) and ask fundamental questions regarding the social, cultural, and economic functions of education in a given society or economy (or globally) and go from there.

Regarding practical, real world questions on the value of a college education, I can only say this: as much as I dislike German-style educational tracking, the so-called 'dual system' in Germany does produce interesting results, and provided the right conditions, something like it could be put into practice elsewhere. At the very least it provides workers with the necessary technical skills to do their jobs while shielding them somewhat from competition from outsiders (this protectionist function should in theory help buoy up wages and add job security, though collective agreements and general employment law contribute to both) without without sending them to college. One can and should of course debate the merits of general education and its putative political, social, and cultural benefits, but if we are talking about the bare-bones technical skills and practical experience needed to do a job, a parallel apprenticeship and vocational training system as exists in Germany is a viable alternative to university.

I could say a lot more, but I will leave it at that for now.
Perhaps you meant S02E01 of Black Mirror? Episode 2 of that season is "White Bear" which has nothing to do with cloning.
I'm not sure, the article doesn't mention any of that.

It actually tries (weakly) to claim the opposite, with statements like "Carlos and Wilber both had very similar white mobile phones" and "We are a little bit more ego-centric, bigger flirts."

Nothing about nurture playing a role though.
I was actually wondering about this. Say I know I'm going to die in the next couple months - if I wanted to put up a website and make sure it stayed online for as long as possible, what would be the best way to do that?
No appointment necessary. Just show up during its hours of operation (which are on its website) and go on in.
Tangential to your general point

> You can have a successful In-N-Out

Only if you are the owners that have all of them; In-N-Out is a private, (mostly?) family-owned business that doesn't franchise, and has stated that they won't ever do that or go public.
In that case, though, the moral position is part of what brings them additional profits.
Whilst I think there's some merit in the recent increase in China articles here. The tone of this one seems sensational. What I find most intriguing about discovering China is what it says about me and the so-called West. China's influence is growing you say? My first reaction is concern, but my second is humility, as if looking in a mirror. I can't help but feel a little like this article immaturely criticises a topic that it never has an intention to understand. The entire premise of being able to so easily stir such ominous sentiment betrays the existence of the elephant in the West's room: Western power is so taken for granted we no longer know how to treat it as a privilege. It's embarrassing, in fact I think we have, at the very least, a responsibility to be embarrassed, that unironic, one-sided criticism of China is culturally acceptable. This is not at all to imply that China doesn't represent the absolute worst of human behavior, I'm not naïve. It's to say that the conversation about China is really the stirrings of a new awakening in the West's self-understanding.
citation please
That something of such dubious “value” would be subject to this kind of competition between giants is shocking to me.

Maybe I’m just a paranoiac, but given the choice of Amazon, or Google having mics/cameras in my home, I would choose neither. I can’t think of a company I would trust to do that, and yet even people sensitive to privacy concerns on one hand seem blinded by the most petty convenience offered by these devices.

The stakes are huge. Both Amazon and Google are building out a new voice-powered operating system that can control everything in your life — from your lights to your garage door to the music and video you stream.

That’s... terrifying.
My absolutely embarassing blog from 2018
I learned a lot from this, and whether or not one should be doing this, I simplified:

https://github.com/shmup/react-makefile/blob/master/Makefile

I opted out of checking for modification dates on node_modules and yarn.lock, because that seems like exactly what Yarn itself is for. I let it manage itself.

I also let Webpack do the heavy lifting.

So in short: I don't really need the Makefile at all and could just add the clean and dev-server commands to a script block in package.json

I still like it though
You’re very brave showing that!
This might just be a whoosh moment for me, but what's the actual societal damage here? My takeaway from the article was that CEOs try to optimize their personal payouts but there was little that seemed to imply this is a serious problem versus an interesting but already accounted for part of how these companies operate.
> If your stance is that IRC is irrelevant to this thread because Slack and IRC solve different problems

I was saying you are comparing Slack to IRC-when-used-to-solve-a-different problem. You haven't described IRC as it could be configured to handle the same problems as Slack, only when you've encountered it in the admittedly more common case that it's intended for drop by traffic.
I don't think we need to repeal anything now that the government just routinely ignores the Constitution when it conflicts with what they want to do.
His argument is that it's useless as a research topic because you cannot perform experiments about it.

You can still believe it if you like, but its slightly less useful than trying to convince everyone to replace pi with tau..
Here is what Tor claims to solve on its download page [0]:

"The Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location, and it lets you access sites which are blocked."

That statement is not exactly true in the case of that Harvard kid. A sysadmin and their logs is still "watching", and in this case eventually found out which site through news channels ;).

That's not to say that I think Tor isn't great nor that it shouldn't be used. My complaint is that it gets represented to general non-technical crowds as solving more problems than it actually does.

[0] https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
It's the first article I could find that referenced the twins in question. But researchers said they were surprised how much impact upbringing had. Unlike a lot of twins separated at birth, these were raised in very different socioeconomic circumstances.

Project about them: http://drnancysegaltwins.org/bogota-twins-project-gallery

The best reference I can currently come up with is this comment by tokenadult who has a longstanding interest in twin studies:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10100109#10100644
The morality and profits in your example are complementary, not in opposition to each other.
Harvard medical school did a similar experiment on fast evolution of bacterial resistance to antibiotics on a petri-dish. It also clearly shows the lineage of evolution. Very interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plVk4NVIUh8
Facebook suspended Mr. Guo’s account. In a statement, the company said the account published the personal information of others without their consent, which violated the platform’s policies. A spokeswoman declined to comment on whether Beijing’s complaints played a role.

Chinese authorities have also successfully persuaded Google to pull down content that had been available around the globe.

How do they use those standing desks without a spine?
D Fantasy Ove: Colorless Perspectives
In the UK at least there is one very literal tax on women: paying VAT on sanitary products because they’re defined as a luxury.
Well they're not icebreakers.
The whole point of that (awful [1]) movie was that they artificially arranged to have the clones grow up much as Hitler did. The first few scenes have hitmen killing the clones' fathers at the same age as the real Adolf.

[1] Well, at least Steve Guttenberg and Lawrence Olivier got to be in the same film. It was either that or Police Academy XII.
Will Traditional Education and Universities Become Obsolete?
> Her net worth is $340 million. $50k is not a huge amount for her.

The degree of wealth does not negate the absurdity of the investment.
I don't think Mastodon has implemented ActivityPub yet, does it?
The third or fourth time they hit the front page?

Oh look, it’s back again and already has 6 points. lol

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16506914

Jesus Christ.
That's equivalent to someone with a $1M net worth spending $150 on a dog.
> I know plenty of successful people in the trades.

Good for them, but it's an anecdote. People with bachelors degrees make 70% more, per the article.
The Dummy Transistor Effect
That’s all true. Sometimes I describe NNs as fancy least squares. Interesting things are bound to happen when you have a few hundred million parameters.

Just to play devil’s advocate, we don’t know yet if the model is bad or if we’re just feeding the wrong kind of data, right? These optimization algorithms are good at interpolating; they do well with new data points that land inside the multidimensional convex hull of the training data. They can fail spectacularly when the new data to inference is outside that boundary. But humans aren’t that great at extrapolation either. Maybe NNs will be good enough when we show them everything there is, maybe what we think of as conceptual understanding is just as much simple interpolation of our experiences as our neural networks...?
Yes, I see that he was kidnapped from Thailand in 2015, and was just arrested again, this time in China.[0] And in 2015, four other Causeway Bay Books staff were arrested, in Hong Kong and mainland China. So I stand corrected.

0) https://thediplomat.com/2018/02/the-strange-and-sad-case-of-...
I believe this war will be won economically/politically/socially, not militarily, and China holds most of the cards in those areas if you ask me.

EDIT: Hey serial downvoter, do you realize you've missed a few?
Holy crap. Blast from the past. Thanks so much for making those games; I killed years in high school on Achaea.
Didn't they just move their Chinese icloud and keys to mainland China? https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/28/17055088/apple-chinese-ic...
Dogs are really great companions. They become whatever you want them to be and never argue. It's a two-way benefit. I think you have to live with one or be friends with one to understand why they are a big deal.

I agree with you though, cloning one is a step too much.
I don't think so, what they are trying to show is quite the opposite, mass shooting in Brazil is rare, and that's manly because individuals that are likely to commit this kind of crime wouldn't easily get a gun like an AR-15, access to this kind of guns without a tough background check is insane even for countries like Brazil. General crimes (non mass shooting) involving handguns are common though, because it's easy for criminals to get illegal handguns. The latest is not fault of gun control policies, but a very corrupted system.
The way Zuckerberg has gone about it, I think he is awkwardly a sinophile, he isn't doing those things just to (or even primarily to) get Facebook into China.
Also, the reason the US stopped development of it's own nuclear powered cruise missile (Pluto project) was because of the research into OTHB (over the horizon backscatter) radars that can detect cruise missiles.
Interesting, in the UK (in fact, most of the world except the USA, I think) the term Faculty still means a branch of a university dealing with a particular subject group, like 'Faculty of Arts' or 'Faculty of Science' with departments arranged under the Faculties. It's always odd to me seeing e.g. the teachers at a kids school referred to as 'Faculty' on American TV shows!
I believe the article is sensationalist precisely because the target audience would generally take western power for granted. It takes strong words to really get across the message that China isn't playing around and has the power to back their ambitions.
That one is easy:

https://www.google.com/search?q=swedish+citizen+china&source...
Ask HN: Code Profiler for  Node.js / Express?
Hey guys, would anyone know of any code profilers for Node.js similar to Django Silk: https://github.com/jazzband/django-silk/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=node
I'm curious that we couldn't harden flash runtimes.
Transmission does this with the verify command.
I'm not one to tell Barbra how to spend her money, but I think she should stop portraying herself as a textbook liberal and champion of the 99%.
It doesn't ring very true.
Just because Stalin was a monster doesn't mean that quote is bad.
*Google always wins, given enough market share.
Those lasers are intended as defensive weapons against drones, missiles, and small boats. Such targets have no practical way to protect themselves with reflective chaff.
This post right here is a classic: https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
Well, I consider that I do, as fair non-commercial use. Also to buy and sell drugs without getting hassled. But anyway, I'm not saying that I approve of what China does.
Lovely UI...

I'm interested to know what DB you used for searching chords? I tried to create something similar in React with MIDI support a while back but couldn't get the library (unfortunately, its name I've forgotten) I was working with to play ball with some of the tastier chord combos :)
Youve got enough comments to reply to so Ill be concise. If this can be used against drone craft or reliably against missiles then I'm for it. If it's just a better gun Im against it.
Wasm doesn't have one yet, but it's a future extension to to spec.

You can, of course, compile your GC in today, and it will work. Wasm's integrated support will mean re-using the existing GC, which means smaller code size.

Side note: most people thought this would be a precursor to DOM support, but the new "host bindings" proposal opens up DOM support without needing GC support, and many people believe that now the former will land before the latter.
Non-paywalled: http://archive.is/Rq7FP
Nope, conventional power. They can't afford nuclear power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arleigh_Burke-class_destroyer#...
Emscripten does, but LLVM does without emscripten too.
Well, maybe sigint isn't admissible in the US, but it certainly gets used, as the basis for parallel construction. And likely also in the UK.
I tend to agree. I've been a huge privacy and OSS advocate for years, and still consider myself to be so. Yet, over the holidays, based on ravings from friends and family, I picked up some Google Homes on sale and have been loving them for the convenience they offer me and my family.

That said, I am deeply concerned about where we are headed in the future. I have a natural distrust of all organizations that grows exponentially with the size of that organization. I don't want to make a choice between the lesser of evils. Yet, as we get deeper and deeper into the pervasiveness of technology, I see a real inability to participate that comes as a result of abstaining. Historically OSS has been late to the party, but at least they show up. I have a hard time seeing open source projects keeping up. I had high hopes in mycroft but it never materialized. I'm not too invested in Google Home to bail, so my soul may still be redeemable. I am nervous about our future options tho.
When you say Australia is involved in this, do you mean the Australian govt is involved or just that China is doing this on Australian soil?

I don't understand from your comment whether you're referring to the Australian govt or the Chinese government as having bought all the press. And who "they" are when referring to disrupting lectures.
> Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.

150m could do a lot of good. 20B could do even more. Can’t we express a desire for our elected leaders to spend our tax money on good instead of perpetuating the military industrial complex?
Right, just like it was mentioned in TFA, I recall limping back to the Tiger's Claw, not sure if I would be able to hail the ship to request a landing. It was touches like that that made it so immersive.
Well, antonyms are usually right next to each other in word embedding spaces anyways. (since the context they're used in is often hard to tell apart)
Agreed, and your politeness is undeserved in response to my bit of snark, so thank you. I still strongly disagree that most of education is signaling/credentials, but we can follow your example and disagree respectfully.
It's shorthand for a normal distribution with mu=90 sigma=15.
You have a voice powered operating system in your pocket with any modern cell phone. Sure, you can trigger it off using a software switch but do you really trust that?

Apparently enough people trust it that they keep buying the latest phone models year after year.

Anyone who is terrified by this technological shift should at least be cognizant that you are already basically recorded in some way whenever you go out in public in any major city.

This is just the next shift.
Imagines young suddensleep meticulously typing each lyric...

Boom na da mmm dum na ema

Da boom na da mmm dum na ema
GO!

So... fight something on the... dum na ema

Fight... some things they fight

So... something on the ...dum na ema

Fight... some things they fight

Fight... something on the... dum na ema

No... some things they fight

Fight... something of the... dum na ema

Fight... some things they fight

Part of me...

Oh...
I think it's incorrect to say that Feynman diagrams are as rigorous as standard perturbation theory. Perturbation theory in QM has a completely rigorous description. It's controlled approximations to known mathematical objects. By contrast, the derivation of perturbation theory in quantum field theory involves applying reasonable well-understood transformations to mathematical objects which are largely _unknown_. Nothing protects you from garbage-in, garbage out. (Perturbation theory turns out perfectly sensible looking answers for theories like 6 dimensional scalar field theory, which doesn't actually exist.)

That said, Feynman integrals are something mathematical physicists have a reasonable level of comfort with these days. There's a well-developed theory of Euclidean path integrals which works just the way Feynman integrals are supposed to. The rigorously constructed examples are lower dimensional field theories, like scalar field theory in 3d, but they don't really differ in kind from the 4d theories used in particle physics. It's just that the analysis gets significantly harder in 4d.
If It was human - you’d propagate their genes by having children with them. I guess she did the next best thing with her dog.
Markdown Support Added in Latest MacOS Simplenote
Literally the first Google search result has it all laid out - well cited, at that.

I would hope that you avail yourself of this wonderful resource in the future, saving time both for yourself and for others.
Write-ish. I always had problems with how it worked.
A second collection of interesting links about Kubernetes
I mean, the pi/tau thing is _purely_ aesthetic. That's a big waste of time for sure.

Having a more coherent metaphor for the evolution of quantum systems might help with physical insight, though. If e.g. the universe isn't differentiable across spacetime, we need a better understanding of GR. Many worlds insists it is differentiable (and local), so thinking that way could help integrate the two.

It isn't an important thing, but pi/tau is an unrealistically silly thing to compare it to.
One I just remembered from a decade or 2 ago: Realm of the Mad God.

Its a browser based 16 bit mmo, and used the free to play, micro transactions model way before it was popular.
> That’s... terrifying.

Agreed. But we seem to be in a minority considering how popular these devices are, measured in terms of the millions of such units sold[1].

I guess they are taping into the 'human beings are inherently lazy' thing.

[1] Source:

> A year ago, Gigaom said Nest was selling 40,000-50,000 thermostats per month. Devitt estimates Nest is selling 100,000 thermostats per month now.

http://www.businessinsider.com/nest-revenue-2014-1
> stuff that you could get for free from a library or online

You can't get a college education for free or online, or anything like it. Professors won't spend large chunks of time talking to you and working with you. You won't have access to labs, research libraries (including JSTOR), or other resources. You won't have a room full of peers to study with.

(Online you can get some of those things, but not all and IIRC the research shows it seldom works out the same.)b
I had to read that as, "Carlos and Wilber both had very similar white supremacist ideologies." Karma was sacrificed for this comment..
I don't think wreck-it-ralph is a video game movie in the sense that we are talking about (unless it's based upon a video game I've not heard of).
This is creating an edge in the market where independent merchants and services can operate and their independence is their virtue.

For an example, Google has Chromecast/YouTube, Amazon has Amazon Fire/Prime Video, and they're less and less interoperable year upon year. This war creates an edge that Roku can squeeze into, which has support for every major vendor except Apple.

I find myself using Target and Walmart's websites more than ever before, not due to some moralistic protest, but simply because they're now more competitive and have products Amazon don't stock (like Google Home Mini for one example).

I find it interesting from a business perspective that Amazon chooses to push out competition, whereas most major retailers stock both own brand and branded products side by side, and profit no matter what the consumer selects.

I wonder when Alibaba US and EU will open. If Alibaba will sell anything and Amazon is protectionist, I can see that being Alibaba's edge.
Do you mean an Sinophile or do you mean he has a Chinese fetish. They are different things. One may be benign, where the other may mean there could be an issue.