skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The market for something to believe in is infinite
Unfortunately, it looks like they really Hollywooded the shit out of the story.
There are various ways to to do that with Firefox. You can use different profiles (completely new settings, add-ons, etc. everything back to default) or multi account containers (gives you different sessions per tab-group)
Reminds me of the typical middle manager in a corporation. Best way to survive is to just confidently repeat what the top guys tell you and change your opinion based on political trends.
There are! The most famous one is this one https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794... and the results are largely in-line w/ what one might expect.

> Two kinds of bias were identified:
(a) a tendency to overestimate small frequencies and underestimate
larger ones, and (b) a tendency to exaggerate the frequency of some specific
causes and to underestimate the frequency of others, at any given level of objective
frequency
SVG Path Data Micro-Parser targeting custom interface objects
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16707540
Ask IH: Getting the most from a book?
The Two-Eyed Man (Alan Kay's Ted Nelson Tribute for Intertwingled)
In this case, the problem was that the function to self destroy the contract didn't have the flag "OnlyTheOwnerCanCallMe" or something like that. A functional program wont save you of missing flags.
You don’t see a difference between a regulated system in a state were people are sovereign and one system where the people at the top of it can do whatever they want?
It’s kind of sad to see a lot of people enjoying fascism barely 70 years after the most terrible war to date...
Mozilla does not work for shareholders.. All that money goes back into Mozilla itself.
All right then, “most communities in the US.” I’ll admit I don’t really have any idea how it works anywhere else.

However, I can only imagine that all developed countries have the “problem“ that modern building codes reduce the rate of fires such that they are faced with the choice between (1) reducing density of firefighters and therefore increasing their average response time (2) paying them to sit around and do nothing, or (3) giving them something else to do when there isn’t a fire.
I didn't apply for this session
What are the examples of some of the other industries that thrive on this kind of asymmetric information for the buyer?

Reminded me of this article by Tyler Cowen
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2015/04/06/alex-tabarrok-tyler-...
A lot of the JS problems arise from developers building against v8. I primarily develop with Firefox and do the same the other way: wrote a demo last year that ran at 60fps in Firefox, but <15fps when I tried it in Chrome. Turned out that out-of-index array accesses drop v8 out of a performance optimisation, but had I developed against it in the first place I might have abandoned the whole approach as lacking performance instead of just realising it was a quirk of a particular engine. Incidentally rewriting it to guard against out-of-array accesses only got Chrome up to 50fps so it was still down on Firefox. Maybe other assumptions of mine?
We have mandatory code reviews for everything, which encourages small, bite-size commits and frequent merges. Majority of the changes goes through with just one other person taking a look.

But we also specify (and highly encourage) that anyone trying to land a more invasive or complex change should require multiple review approvals. The most demanding "please pile on, we want eyes on this" request I remember was set to require 4 separate approvals.
In a time when most news headlines lack meaning & substance it is really refreshing to read from a European investor (& entrepreneur) so focused & clear.

I’m assembling a set of a handful of VCs worth reading & following. Any suggestions?
What about TaxAct?
> VCs use a number of disparate investment theses

To be more clear, I believe that such other issues, often mentioned, some on the Web sites of VCs, are nearly all just smoke to hide what I listed as the main issues. In particular, of course, I was pushing back against the statement I quoted from the OP -- their statement was much worse than mine!

But here on HN, I warn entrepreneurs who have already sent 100+ e-mail pitch decks to VCs: I gave my best guess on really how VCs select deals.

Batting average reference? I'm not considering the SBIR program at all. E.g., GPS, coding theory, e.g., as part of radar, lots more in high end radar, e.g., phased arrays, Keyhole (a Hubble, before Hubble, but aimed at the earth), the SR-71, the F-117 stealth, the SOSUS nets and adaptive beam forming sonar, some of ABMs, a huge range of parts of the SSBNs, high bypass turbo fan engines, the nuclear power reactors on the submarines and air craft carriers of the US Navy, and much more were not SBIR projects. I am drawing from early in my career in applied math and computing for problems of US national security within 100 miles of the Washington Monument and comparing with what I've seen in VC work.

The Navy's work on rail guns looks darned promising.

For DARPA, yes, they flop a lot, on their batting average, much more than the rest of DoD, but DARPA also has some spectacular wins. E.g., of course, TCP/IP. And they fooled me on their autonomous vehicle "challenge": While I believe that autonomous vehicles are a long way from being ready for real roads with real traffic, I can believe that so far already the DoD has gotten some good progress for some cases of logistics. E.g., one of the issues in Gulf War I was truck drivers. There an issue was that a lot of the drivers for the US were women, and the Saudis didn't like women driving vehicles. So, there was a trick, a deal: The US and the Saudis agreed that when the women were in uniform and driving US military vehicles, they were "soliders" and not women. Otherwise they were still women and could not drive!!!

Uh, the robots of Boston Dynamics are impressive, maybe still less good on legs than a cockroach, but already or well on the way to being useful for the US Army.
> For a long time I could not bring myself to take the notion [of a free OS] seriously. It was like hearing rumors that a group of model rocket enthusiasts had created a completely functional Saturn V by exchanging blueprints on the Net and mailing valves and flanges to each other.

Absolutely brilliant.

Unrelated: It's amazing how many predictions he got right. It took Microsoft another 15 years to fully realize that you cannot "bet the farm" on your OS.
What is a Wojak?
I have also enjoyed "Buddhism Without Beliefs" by Stephen Batchelor. It breaks down which parts of buddhism are socio-cultural concepts inherited from the cultures where it developed and what is the core wisdom.
A World of Opportunities for HPC and AI
If you believe the world to be deterministic, I think you have to remove a lot of terms from your language, such as 'learning', 'illusion', 'rationalizing', 'purpose', and 'social'.

It is hard for me to understand what a 'rationalizing system' could even mean in a deterministic world. Would there be an experimental outcome that could prove your hypothesis about it wrong?
1) Proof of Stake will end the argument about electricity[0]

2) To criticize Ethereum as "an extremely slow computer" is the laziest, no-effort, no-thought attack you can make

[0] https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-FAQ
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A related blog post is https://research.googleblog.com/2018/04/introducing-semantic... (posted by walterbell and lainon but didn't get attention).
> There isn't really a similar way of doing this for French and Spanish. You can't just take a Spanish work, pronounce it using a French pronunciation, and then voila have a French work. It's not even entirely clear for all words what "pronouncing it with a French pronunciation" means.

I guess this is similar to how every written english word has a well defined spanish pronounciation as if it were written spanish. You wouldn't always get something intelligeble from an english listener's point of view, but by the rules of spanish pronounciation, many english words have similar pronounciation when read as spanish. I don't think I've ever heard a song do something like you described between these 2 languages, though, and I'm not sure how it could be made to sound good either.
I'm using Sailfish OS on an Xperia X since when it became available. My main reason to migrate from Android was "battery life" which was confirmed (battery now lasts ~5 days instead of the usual 2-3), but the OS has a lot of small and bigger bugs (e.g. carrier selection, 2G/3G/4G priority, stuck data comm for Android apps) and missing features (notoriously: tethering/wlan access point, bluetooth) that do not currently make it a valid alternative for a normal user if compared to the other operating systems. Version 2.1.4 beta is available (https://blog.jolla.com/sailfish-os-2-1-4-now-available-early...) which might fix many bugs and deliver some key features, but the date for the final release has not been published (and I'm too scared to brick my phone by installing the beta).
I honestly have no idea whether ants are conscious let alone can become enlightened. I try to treat them well but I'm not planning on teaching them to meditate any time soon :)

During "the inaccessible," assumptions about an objective or pre-existing reality fall apart as well. From within the standard materialist metaphysics it seems rather unlikely that we're special (or that meditation even does anything "transcendent" besides jiggling around some neurotransmitters).
> For example, sharing and reusing database connections via a connection pool is much nicer if all threads can actually access the same memory.

Why is this inherently easier to you with threads rather than forks? Many very successful apps use a forking model and do what you say, so I’m genuinely curious on your reasoning here.
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NASA and SpaceX Are About to Launch Planet-Hunting Satellite TESS
Vipassana is the ultimate form of Stoicism. A great way to dissociate from problematic feelings, instead of addressing them head on. :-P
Towards the end, the article spells out that this is rooted in how very off limits women are. I don't condone this practice by any stretch of the imagination, but I think it won't be solved by simply being judgy about the end result. Saying that you can't have sex with boys without examining the status of women in this culture isn't really a solution. A real solution would need to address the degree to which women are socially isolated, among other things.
You just need a logo that’s recognizable in a stamp at a glance. Piggy backing off of established brands is the easiest way to do it.
Dude, Where's My Search Box?
So by the argument, the more terrorism kills, the less it should be reported?

I think it's clear it's not due to its infrequency that it's reported on so much.
I was more concerned about company name/description
What a strange comment. Have you tried to answer this for yourself? For example, looking at the homepage or any demos?
What We Know and Don’t Know About Election Hacking – FiveThirtyEight
2 things chrome still has above ff for me:

- NO bar above the tabs
- I CAN double-click to select independent word in url
Some contracts are declared void by the judge because they are against the current legislation.
In ethereum the contract is the law (until the people at the top are ok with it, otherwise they will unilaterally change the law)
The IRS knows almost everything you file with them, so for millions upon millions of people it's totally pointless to file taxes. This system, that people hate, is foisted upon them to create class sympathy with people who really should be paying more taxes. They're the beautiful personalities that concocted the latest tax bill.

EDIT: I should clarify that I don't mean that the particular individuals that reinforce this particular law wrote the tax bill, I see them mostly as an amorphous class of rouges much as you might regard Annonymous.
Well - I'm not so sure, you're setting a very high bar which makes it difficult for people with a different background to make points (badly in your view, but pretty well in mine) which the community needs to hear.

This isn't a Ph.D. exam, this isn't a thesis - it's an outsider calling BS. I'm not impressed by the counter arguments advanced so far. Let's be honest, Alpha Go and Alpha Go Zero are surprises in that they have shown that Go isn't as astonishingly difficult for approximate search - which everyone thought it was - but until we see the real world applications it's all of intellectual interest.. which is the point of the article.

There are a lot of folks who I respect making claims similar to the company that is featured in the piece, I'm really disappointed by that because everthing that we know about learnability is ignored with the cry "we've got deep networks now". We've don't know why dnn's generalise as well as they do but shouldn't, but it's no excuse to just abandon our sanity and go out and bet large amounts of other people's money on them doing things that they can't.

This money, btw, should be spent on hospitals and roads, not on providing near 7 figures for these people.
I can't help wonder if Google discovered that the banking and legal fees involved with paying channels that are below said threshold were eating their profits.
Alright, this is a literal fingerprint, it's not like WhatsApp places "fingerprints" in pictures apart from, well, photos of fingerprints in a picture. Was worried for a moment there.
Microsoft Teams used to reject Firefox. Changing the UA to Chrome solved the issue.
Wow, thanks for these links, I had no idea about plastic number theory in geometry. So cool.
Yeah, that's a good point. In the sense, RubyOnRails was a great blessing to the language.
http://southofheaven.typepad.com/south_of_heaven/2011/01/sod...
Oof, that bug doesn't inspire confidence that this will be a worthy experiment. Thanks for the link though, I'll test against a fresh install of osx on a laptop.
Theres also a radiolab episode:
http://www.radiolab.org/story/radiolab-presents-rough-transl...
>Funny enough whenever I see a tattoo on a westerner's body, not only is it usually wrong in the grammar/spelling sense. But it is ugly as hell.

Tattoo characters being "ugly as hell" aren't unique to Eastern/Asian script on Westerners. There is plenty of ugly Western/Latin script on Westerners too.
Wouldn't it be more sensible to have a minimum withdrawal amount in that case?
Companies providing operating systems is a clear conflict of interest. Evidence: the tragic state of the entire mobile ecosystem, where no hardware can be fully utilized by (or even make calls with) an open-source OS.

This article also fails to mention Tizen. Has it been abandoned? It was absolutely terrible (millions upon millions of lines of the worst C code I've ever perused) but I thought it still existed, making vaguely similar claims to open-sourcehood as SailfishOS.

The real mobile OS to watch and advocate for is postmarketOS, which attempts to get mainline Linux kernels working on phones.
Some Tesla owners are being dismissive of attempts to paint Tesla owners as being unaware of the actual capabilities of Autopilot, based on Tesla's marketing.

Owners see marketing occasionally. Owners see the reminder that they have to stay alert 100% of the time each time they turn on Autopilot. Owners get the alert that they need to put their hands back on the wheel. And so forth.

If you've got data about owners being confused, please share.

Meanwhile, next time an owner offers anecdata about what they personally have learned about Autopilot's capabilities, perhaps you could respond to that, instead of telling the owner that they're being dismissive.
I like multi-container better than chrome's solution. I can keep sites from seeing cookie from any other site. Or I can create a group of sites that can share login sessions. And all I have to do is click the links and it all happens automatically.
I relied on Google Books' digitizations of 17th century rare books constantly while in grad school for history; probably more than half of the texts I cite in my academic publications were accessed via Google Books. But lately I've noticed that many of the rare books I relied on are no longer available to read (they're clearly still living somewhere on Google's servers since you can search for snippets, though).

Anyone know why this happened? It shouldn't have anything to do with lawsuits related to publishers since the books I'm talking about are centuries old and housed in places like the British Library, which one would think would be committed to making them publicly available. In some cases (like my weird little specialty, 17th century Portuguese apothecary and drug manuals) I'd say the decrease is on the order of 80-90% fewer texts available.

Luckily HathiTrust largely makes up the difference, but otherwise this shift would be kind of a catastrophe for me as a researcher. There are dozens of times when I my choices were either "access this rare book via Google Books, or fly to Europe and look at the closest physical copy, which happens to be in some obscure library in Belgium/Lisbon/Rome/Budapest/etc."
> is it good practice to do it that soon?

1) How do you think most compiled languages were created back in their early days?

2) Crystal isn’t really that young of a language

3) even many non-compiled languages are run on an interpreter written in the language they implement these days.
Most modern neural networks implementations are parallelized. And that is why we can run them extremely well on the GPU. For example Volta GPUs delivers 5X increase in deep learning training compared to prior generation NVIDIA Pascal architecture.
This is why I was asking for clarification about the hardware claims.
I use them instead of Intuit for exactly this reason. Intuit is an evil parasite.
>> I have to add that the Security Director wasn't a security expert

Typical.
Adam is wrong.

We don't have return free filing because making people fill out complex forms every year makes them hate taxes more and (generally speaking) vote in favor of lower taxes. This ideological position has far more to do with our current system than a relatively small amount of lobbying.
Mocking and Testing AWS APIs with TestContainers and LocalStack
There is a massive chance to disrupt this market right now. But bandwidth costs alone make it difficult to challenge google in this space.
Say an old neuron dies. Could a 'replacement' neuron ensure continuity of the original 1000s of precise connections?

Assuming that it can't, how is it to compete with the other neurons? (There's a school of thought that neurons compete with other neurons for resources by making useful connections.)
This. The time it takes to open the browser or create a new tab are sometimes way long. Unacceptable when doing development work in browser.
Doing taxes doesn’t bother me; seeing how much of my money the government earned the float on does. Unless withholding is perfect, I essentially give the government an interest free loan every year.

We should end automatic withholding and let everyone pay their taxes on April 15.
Perhaps, though it may be related more to the number of payments than the amount pr payment.
In JupyterLab (http://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/), this is built-in. Just right click a notebook and choose "New Console for Notebook".

JupyterLab is in beta and is intended to replace the current Jupyter front-end.
I fail to see how this is much of a problem.
It's worth noting that the latest tax bill will simplify taxes for a lot of people due to the fact that significantly more people will take the standard deduction instead of itemizing.
> ...but it's literally just a matter of training and improving not some fundamental problem that can't be solved.

I heard this echoed many before when pawing through the library stacks in my uni days looking through the littered corpses of AI trends in the past. I believe that we will eventually get to strong AGI. But after either reading or seeing in-person the hype machine sprout up and wither around symbolic programming, semantic programming, neural nets, fourth generation, expert systems, perceptrons, Connection Machine, etc., I'm gun-shy around any proclamation that achieving strong AGI is "just a matter of...<insert-single-solution-space>". The results so far seem to indicate pure cognitive processing is very amenable to the toolbox we have built up to-date in AI research, hence the breakthroughs in game playing.

Manipulating and interacting with the material world and humans however, and the results are a little patchier; I suspect we have lots more work and research ahead of us than we currently realize. When we do get some initial results like the laundry-folding machines, they're single-purpose and uneconomic for mainstream middle-class adoption (not to speak of working-class), and often with lots of attached caveats like Tesla AutoPilot. Instead of all these discussions of whether or not we will get strong AGI, I prefer to see everyone assume it will happen, and when we don't get the incremental result we were anticipating, say, hmm, that's interesting, I wonder why...

I want to see the hype tamped down to the point we can steadily chip away at the overall problem space, and accelerate AI research results and organically reach strong, economically-available AGI sooner than continue experiencing the disappointing two-steps-forward-one-step-back our industry seems to so far historically take in this field. The hype says we're a sprint away from unlocking all sorts of benefits promised by strong AGI, when we are better served accepting the organic incremental benefits as they occur during our acknowledged marathon, and using those incremental benefits as stepping stones to greater understanding.
I think many or most anti-tax people do indeed favor proposals that simplify the process of paying taxes.

I wouldn't call myself "anti-tax," but I definitely prefer to pay lower taxes, and as few flavors of tax as possible, so maybe that meets the definition you had in mind. I dislike paying income tax in significant part thanks to the painful process we use in the US. And that painful process is principally due to the complexity of our tax law and the IRS treating all taxpayers as guilty of fraud by default, expecting each to prove otherwise.

Given the modern surveillance state, the IRS could send most of us a form saying, "We know you owe $X more than you had deducted; pay up, citizen." But they do not. In fact, for most of us, the IRS could more seamlessly handle our withholdings so that April 15 is a complete non-event, but they don't do that either. Basically, they don't provide services to taxpayers. We're not customers.
There's a fascinating documentary called "A Certain Kind of Death",[1] which shows what happens in the US when someone dies with no next of kin.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErooOhzE268
The coloring of the chart is awful, alzheimer and terrorism having almost identical color.
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Many examples: faster in and out of the market, better fills, will not end up owning a company by mistake (e.g. bought all shares), etc... The bigger you get (in billions) the closer the returns will be to the market average...
Nice-I like it!
> Wow, terrorism really is overrepresented compared with how we die these days.

How many people do you know that were killed or injured in a terrorist attack? Second order? Same question for {murdered, illness, natural cause}. Compare magnitudes.
I should clarify, by private cloud, I mean a few custom designed servers running open stack or something, and DC I mean some built up "pod/rack" design you might colo. Ether way, I mean end to end, I was just trying to account for colo and on-prem (two sigma, for example, have a small private cloud in their office that's quite well architected.)