skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it include things like head of a shopping mall calling for emergencies with customers?
I think that's a little bit pedantic. Complaining loudly about how the knocks technically aren't, themselves, longer or shorter is a digression from the reality that any sane human can detect and recognize consistent patterns in a series of knocks on a door, or beats on a drum.

shave and-a hair cut... two! bits! [0]

match in-the gas tank... boom! boom! [1]

–··–· ··

Everybody recognizes that knock pattern, whether they know the trivia behind its origins or not. The singular instrument leaves the interpretation to the pattern of the beats alone.

Meanwhile, a rimshot, involving two drum hits and a cymbal crash offers two channels of interpretation.

ba-dum tiss! [2]

The rhythm and the sound could each carry separate messages, which means the carrier signal would have to be agreed upon, before sending the message. Is the cymbal crash the best carrier for the dashes, or is the rest note in between the drum hits and the cymbal crash actually the pause that signals the dash?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shave_and_a_Haircut

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5KBVCoKYt0

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimshot
Reminds me of the movement to grow vegetable in shipping containers. Perhaps we have understood the full equation of plant nutrition in a closed system, perhaps not.

I will say I suspect your point will have a hard time gaining traction. I wonder if there is an evolutionary advantage for memes that promote deconstructionism, at least in this phase of history where there is so much low hanging fruit of things to deconstruct.

A person who believes a lettuce plant can be fully understood in a 1000 page report will endeavor to write that report and build technology from it.

Someone who believes there is an unknowable (in the near term) essential component to thriving will tend to say “let’s stick as close to tradition as we can... don’t know what we might miss.”

The payoff for the deconstructionist is invention, fortune, and an audience. The payoff for the anti-deconstructionist is better health, perhaps a greater sensitivity to what’s real, and a lot of blank stares.
I thoroughly disagree.

I understood with greater clarity and conciseness.

Numbers and models speak clear to me, so theres one data point
I didn't mean to try to belittle you experience in any way.

The one thing I am tying to validate / invalidate is weather "spiritual" as used by non religious people, is mere hacking of our delicate physical and chemical machinery.
Thank you! This is great to know. I surely could handle design server cloud equipment, do they use Open Computing or is all custom made?
> The only problem is learning to fly is prohibitively expensive for most people. Skydiving is a much cheaper activity.

I assume you are talking about flying an typical small airplane?

You can learn to paraglide for well under $2k.
Bad depression can also hurt every day. Bad skying diving only once. (YEMV)
I have a friend dying of congestive heart failure. He'll be dead within a year. But in the meantime, he calls 911 a lot. Not sure what the solution is supposed to be here. A lot of these calls are perfectly legitimate and not the result of anyone "abusing" the system. Some people have more medical problems than others.
It's funny. When people ask "where are the jobs?" the 1% respond "there's no work to do any more. robots are doing it all. automation means we're just too damn productive".

So, presumably there is a surplus.

Except no.

When people ask "where is the money?" the 1% respond "not enough money. Not enough surplus. You need to work until you are 68 now".

This contradiction is, oddly enough, rarely addressed.

Perhaps the problem isn't not enough work or not enough money. Perhaps they are both scapegoats for the real problem: wealth inequality driven by (among other things), tax evasion.
There was a bug in Mathematica 10.0.3 that messed up saving parts to PDFs though. I wonder if he was on the release where this was broken:

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/68893/save-a...
Aside from Canada, which some commenters here say don't do this any more in some provinces, are there any others?

Genuinely curious. Its a hard thing to Google for.
The argument at the moment seems to be "define a problem that a computer can't do that a human brain can"... "I can't because expressing that problem is beyond the machinery I have developed for cognition, and it may always be".

What is certain is that there are uncomputable problems, but are any of the problems that humans solve in order to speak, act, socialise uncomputable? Some people think that because they are solved within the physical universe then they must be computable but that implies that the physical universe can be simulated (in principle) by a universal turing machine, since we can express problems (using the machinary of the universe) that a universal turing machine can't do then there is a gap that permits the possibility that there may be some process which is not simulatable by a universal turing machine.

In my belief free will/autonomy/initaitive/creativity are expressions of that process, but belief is not an argument.
Hmm, I am both under 20 and have hard time being productive for long periods of time in anything other than programming.

Thanks for the advice :D
I found it interesting that the 7030 "Stretch" that was the base platform for this system was initially considered a failure. It didn't come close to achieving its design performance, forcing IBM to slash the price to contracted customers and pull the product off the market. But many elements of its architecture were later used successfully in the IBM 360 and other models.
Note: misleading title. This is not about the internet, or the World Wide Web, it's about Facebook and other social media networks. The very first sentences seems to conflate internet and Facebook:

"Something has gone wrong with the internet. Even Mark Zuckerberg knows it. Testifying before Congress, the Facebook CEO ticked off a list of everything his platform has screwed up"
Well, it's having people with infinite access to shared, finite resources.

I worked as an EMT and would regularly get bizarre calls from people abusing the system to take their kid to the hospital because he hurt his arm, the parents following in tow by car. Or a domestic dispute where they think it's reasonable to call an ambulance like it's a less-serious police dispatch to handle more minor issues. Or really just a free taxi service in general. -- You don't have to pay if you just walk out of the hospital or ignore the collections. If you don't have insurance, it's pretty much the only option.

I'm not sure if there are any alternative medical models that solve the nature of some people to abuse shared resources.
When I saw one of these on Mr. Wizard back in the day, I thought the future had arrived.
Fireman are for protecting life, police for protecting law.
I always wanted one as a kid, but they were way out of our price range.
But the article doesnt put forward that the 'OR ELSE' case actually exists. The author just hypothesis it (which is relevant itself!) and goes from there, without providing any sort of hint of evidence.
Indeed, a very special equilibrium then.
At first the supposed religiousness of it annoyed me too - but over time it sat ok with me. If you think about it, the audio course they use for the sessions was recorded back in the 90s, and back then this was refreshingly religion free. Lots of the work on meditation (things like Search Inside Yourself) which have completely reduced the amount of religion in it, are very recent compared to Goenka's course, so I think you have to take it as a product of its time. With a partial Indian background, a few times I've tried Indian writing on meditation, etc, and it is so seemingly intricately bound up with religion (almost to the point of superstition), that to extricate it as much as Goenka did for the vipassana course I think is still great work.

Unfortunately I have to agree that it does attract a lot of participants who want to believe in magic and superstition. I was very disappointed when the course was over and I found this out. Perhaps that is why Goenka is very clear in the recordings to be skeptical and only take what one finds useful from the practice.
More relevant: Does it matter if human brains renew their neurons?

We know that there is lots of redundant networks and plasticity, so if one cell goes down does it matter whether the gap gets filled by and old vs. new cell?

With 100 billion neurons we seem fine with what we have. The bigger question seems to be how to protect these 100 billion cells from degenerating.
Wasn't MMX excluded from x86_64?
...or regular uBlock Origin in 'expert mode':

Check 'I am an advanced user' in the settings, then click on either 'requests blocked' or 'domains connected' in the drop-down to access dynamic filtering. Block everything third-party by default by clicking in the right side of the second column. Load a site with lots of third-party content, disable the block (by clicking in the middle of the third column, greying-out the block) for only those things which seem to be essential to show page content and you're done.

While not as fine-grained as uMatrix, uBlock Origin generally is the quicker way to go from 'empty page' to 'only the content I want' on sites which, without blocking, are tracker-ridden dark-pattern hell-holes.
I want to use one. I have something called Alpha vantage, but it seems if I want stocks from certain indexes I need to buy their API...
I agree that it’s probably not effective, just because most people aren’t that good with math, or don’t think of things in terms of math. But how is it condescending?
I think you might have a decimal off. 100/62763 = .0016 = 0.16%
Thanks for the Lemons reference. Maybe I'll get in contact, at least to get a sense of the market and opportunities.
That’s not much in SV.
Surely not more condescending than scolding a stranger for the way they express their own internal mental models...
Long poles anchored everywhere around the moon.

Even if some of them will get covered by dust and some get destroyed by asteroid impacts, the others will remain visible.

You don't get a better anoxic environment than space!
It's a bold story but I can't help but feel angry despair at all the education he stole from so many children over so many years. Despicable cowardice.
Where can I read more about this topic?
Well since the author is an economist, questions about "real science" can be interpreted a few ways.

For a fun look into the high standards of the field, a few years ago Piketty made the mistake of sharing his Excel files, in which all sorts of crucial adjustments were hard-coded into tables of data...

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/05/pi...
I was fortunate enough to watch 2001 on a huge screen, at night, at the bottom of the Thompson dry-dock in Belfast ( in which the Titantic was constructed ). It was indeed an utterly different film when surrounded by enormous cold darkness.

It would have been interesting to have had the 'dialogue scenes' projected onto a smaller section of the screen and then expand out for the space scenes.
You can try Capistrano
IMO the problem is the tax code itself rather than who is filing the paperwork. Unless that is simplified, there is zero chance the average citizen can work through their taxes themselves and pay the correct amount.
I admitted as much in the comment. :) I felt that your comment applied equally to brutalist, modernism, and minimalism. Your assertion that there is no underlying material to expose. All three ideas are ways of grounding the design in material.
Right, any individual sentence is fine and the idea is probably usable, yet it's not clear how each statement relates to those that came before it.
Yeah, but IC design would be a long shot to me. I have lots of board level experience, but just the odd academic course on IC design. If needed, I'll do, but I'd rather leverage my board and system level expertise.
Not really, it is as unhealthy for your personal integrity as waste water is for your physical well-being. Both can be made palatable by filtering, neither of them should be used without treatment.
Yeah, mistranslations can be frustrating. But this has nothing to do with the submission, which has plenty of interesting content. Please don’t derail the substance with unrelated complaints.
Open source brings with it a strong culture of publishing code openly.
It seems that the amount of public Jupyter notebooks is already higher than that of Mathematica or similar, despite those tools having a 20 year lead?
Do we still need recruitment agencies?
A newbie question - What is the reason E and T have one beep only?
If your getting paid to work on a 8/16 bit mcu(or low SRAM ARM) same stuff still applies.
Well, criticism and reduction are both constructive though.

Baseless assertions about someone’s experience are just bullying rhetorical flourishes.
I'd say the fire service is more the protection of property, which overlaps into protecting life in some cases.

It's odd to me to think of the fire service giving first response medical care, outside of perhaps smoke inhalation and burns.
>We are also striving to make contributing to Jupyter / open source recognized in Academia - for people like Fernando to get proper recognition, and future generations of scientists to have incentives to do this kind of work.

And thank you for this! Do you have a post about what efforts are going on? I myself am trying to find out how to navigate academic spaces while spending significant time doing open source development. I am curious how you're pushing for changed incentives to help people in this kind of position out.
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Mobiles are very very dangerous
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06gRzcMD4jw
I just realised who this blog post is by, it's the Paul Romer. Apparently gravitas is important at the World Bank, because clearly he's run the tank dry.
I love it!

When will OTP be updated to support Blockchain?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge#Foreign_involvemen...
It’s not all about compute. SIMD instructions allow you to load more bits per instruction cycle. When you are doing sequential access on a modern processor, this can make a huge difference. It allows you to use the memory bandwidth to its full capacity.
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I've never read about them attacking people, but they will go after small pets and rummage through your trashcan. The biggest danger to humans is having one fall on you. They climb coconut trees to get to the coconuts, but being a little clumsy, fall out of the tree sometimes.

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It's worth keeping in mind that the party system works differently in the US than it does in most other countries. Almost anyone can up and announce they're running as a Republican or a Democrat regardless of their prior actions or current beliefs, and vote however they want with few consequences.

Consider that Bernie Sanders was a member of a third party as a senator, but ran as a democrat for president without changing any of his positions. Similarly, Trump had little relation to the modern Republican party and essentially took it over anyway. When Ron Paul, Donald Trump, and John McCain are all in the same party, you're talking about a pretty big tent.

In the USA, "parties" are more analogous to coalitions in parliamentary democracies. The party primaries play a tremendous and oft-overlooked role in the actual elections.
You cannot argue against reality with hypotheticals. Present reality is as stupid as described.
Its very common in Portugal, particularly outside the largest cities.
I downloaded 1304 fonts from here: https://chinesefontdesign.com

I then wrote a script that used Harfbuzz to extract every glyph of 75,000 characters as PNG files. That took about 4 months to run on a spare computer, writing 500 GB to an external disk.

I now want to sort out the blank glyphs, but it's really slow even on USB 3. Instead, I bought a 2 TB upgrade for my MacBook Pro, passed down the 512GB to my MacBook Air, and now I'm copying the files from the external disk to the SSD. There's about 90 million files to copy, estimated time remaining 4 days. When I remove the blank images, I plan to use the data to make my own Chinese OCR using Tensorflow.

The TTF files alone are 11.82 GB. If you can recommend a suitable file host, I could re-upload them for you.
This man is sooo good
RF/Microwave hardware design, DSP with FPGA, maybe SDR. Though those all would be specific to the military-industrial complex.
It's an interview, actually. The important part is below, where "the people who built it" talk about what went wrong. It's about the Internet since the beginning.

Instead of taking the actual title, I decided to use the title in the URL which is more accurate.
Google has a whole division now called Google Consumer Hardware, and they’re hiring hardware engineers at the typical Google salaries. Google X, Waymo, and Verily all do plenty of hardware too. And of course Apple does hardware. Tesla hires hardware people too but I haven’t heard the greatest things about their salaries or work life balance.
In France firefighters are also paramedics. They provide ambulance services and are usually first responders for any medical emergency.
Perhaps there needs to be a different solution for these kinds of people. There's probably a way of addressing your friend's needs more effectively and also not taking up dispatcher time.
My background is slightly higher-level than yours; CPU architecture. I have friends and colleagues with similar backgrounds, and the ones pulling in the most have either pivoted all but entirely to software, or have managed to find hardware roles within the big 4. They do exist. The latter get the best of both worlds, as they pay essentially the same as they do for software roles, and come with the rest of the usual perks. Banks are similar, but my observation which may or may not be completely accurate, is that they are pickier and narrower in scope.

I would be wary about getting a PhD in anything outside of computer science today, though. The roles are out there, but there are far fewer of them.
This assumes unaligned access is cheap.
My guess is that he's talking about design custom equipment for efficiency and performance. It's a movement akin to moving from EC2 to in premises: if you're big enough, it starts making sense to custom build, often with in-house development.
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> But during the hike, when I'm searching for a place to have a bite, I use Google.

I hope, when you're on your hike, you add the restaurant to OSM! :) Along with all the other info (wheelchair accessibility, wifi, opening hours etc etc)
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A coworker was volunteering with the local rescue squad. They knew the frequent callers personally. One was a particularly sad story of lonely old woman who would call because she just wanted a ride to the hospital and it seemed to be her only source of human interaction. They could never say "we are not coming, it's so and so" because well that one time she could have really needed help. Some insurance companies have incentives against this by charging a steep price for the ambulance ride and only waving if person is admitted. But at a deeper level this is a failure of social services and increased isolation and loneliness experienced by the elderly. We usually hear about how it happens in Japan, but it's happening here in US as well.
A rather prescient quote from Alan Kay's Dynabook paper in 1972 [0]

> For many years it has been a tradition to attempt to cure our society's ills through technology: "You have slums? Let's build low-cost housing!" "You can't afford that TV? We'll build a cheaper one and you can buy it on time, even though it will break before you've finished paying for it!" "Your kids aren't learning and education is too expensive? We'll build you a teaching machine which will guarantee your kids will pass tests!"

[0]: https://www.mprove.de/diplom/gui/kay72.html
Space Opera is the funniest science fiction novel I’ve read since HGttG
I think it is important to understand that low latency = HFT. Because HFT is data driven it is part of Quant trading. But not all Quant Trading requires or is being done at low latency limits.
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> I think we need scientists to take two contradicting studies and try to find out the root cause of a discrepancy, instead of making a third study.

Yes, the shorter form being ;-) :

I think we need scientists.
I think the trick is you can run it in parallel. Which under ideal circumstances may give that kind of performance. But this is the first I've heard of this algorithm.
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I don't see it as defensive. I see it rather as "other bashing". Claiming Japanese anime has this quality of much of it being clones of other stuff can only be interpreted 2 ways

1. This quality is unique or more common in Japanese anime

2. This is a feature of all media of which Japanese anime is one

If the answer is #2 then there was no reason to say it. It would be like saying "water is wet in Japan". Of course water is wet everywhere so no point in even bringing it up.

If it's #1 then we need proof that Japanese anime has more clones than other media from other countries. I think that proof will be hard to find. Crunchyroll is not Japan.
The article you reference makes the same mistake as Searles Chinese room argument. It somehow assumes there is something magical about the human mind.

I had a brief argument with Robert Epstein (the author of that article) because I find the argument that humans don't actually store information to be quite misleadning and missing the point.

The most obvious mistake is this:

"We don’t store words or the rules that tell us how to manipulate them. We don’t create representations of visual stimuli, store them in a short-term memory buffer, and then transfer the representation into a long-term memory device. We don’t retrieve information or images or words from memory registers. Computers do all of these things, but organisms do not."

This is both true and false. It's true we don't do that like a computer but its wrong to claim that computers fundamentally do that too.

That happens several layers of abstraction up and so a computer fundamentally doesn't actually store an image or a word either it manipulates atoms and turns circuits on and off and several layers of abstraction up it gets translated into meaning first by machines then by humans.

Anyone who have a hard time believing machines can become sentient should first ask themselves why they have a harder time believing that than accepting that dumb immaterial matter somehow have become the pattern recognizing feedback loops that are us.
What have Republicans done to defend property rights? Are you talking about gun rights?
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