skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here’s a demo of HyperTIES with pop-out embedded menus:

HCIL Demo - HyperTIES Browsing: Demo of NeWS based HyperTIES authoring tool, by Don Hopkins, at the University of Maryland Human Computer Interaction Lab.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZi4gUjaGAM

A funny story about the demo that has the photo of the three Sun founders whose heads puff up when you point at them:

When you point at a head, it would swell up, and you pressed the button, it would shrink back down again until you released the button again.

HyperTIES had a feature that you could click or press and hold on the page background, and it would blink or highlight ALL of the links on the page, either by inverting the brightness of text buttons, or by popping up all the cookie-cut-out picture targets (we called them “embedded menus”) at the same time, which could be quite dramatic with the three Sun founders!

Kind of like what they call “Big Head Mode” these days! https://www.giantbomb.com/big-head-mode/3015-403/

I had a Sun workstation set up on the show floor at Educom in October 1988, and I was giving a rotating demo of NeWS, pie menus, Emacs, and HyperTIES to anyone who happened to walk by. (That was when Steve Jobs came by, saw the demo, and jumped up and down shouting “That sucks! That sucks! Wow, that’s neat. That sucks!”)

The best part of the demo was when I demonstrated popping up all the heads of the Sun founders at once, by holding the optical mouse up to my mouth, and blowing and sucking into the mouse while secretly pressing and releasing the button, so it looked like I was inflating their heads!

One other weird guy hung around through a couple demos, and by the time I got back around to the Emacs demo, he finally said “Hey, I used to use Emacs on ITS!” I said “Wow cool! So did I! What’s was your user name?” and he said “WNJ”.

It turns out that I had been giving an Emacs demo to Bill Joy all that time, then popping his head up and down by blowing and sucking into a Sun optical mouse, without even recognizing him, because he had shaved his beard!

He really blindsided me with that comment about using Emacs, because I always thought he was more if a vi guy. ;)
> Going from 3 to 4 and getting a 50% speedup

That's way too low goal to even matter.

See this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17007867

A simple loop in loop is 50 times faster in Javascript in the Firefox than the same loop in loop in Python. When you say "50% speedup" I understand you expect a speedup of 2 in "10 years". Before V8 the Javascript in Firefox was even slower than Python is now. And now it's 50 times faster than Python for "simple" things (which are actually the most important ones to be made faster). PyPy also proves that some code can be JIT-ed. One of the PyPy's problems is the "compatibility with libraries" part.

And yes, that kind of speedup like in Javascript is achievable in Python too. It's just a question of the right people being paid to do that. I've personally made some JIT compilers and I'm sure that Python can also have really useful faster interpreter and JIT. The approach of V8 for speeding up the "objects" as they are typically used and the calls can surely be applied to Python:

From the article: "The instrumented interpreter found that 70% of objects have all of their attributes set in the object's __init__() method."

As far as I know, V8 approach shines for such objects.

Also note that modern Javascript engines don't do only JIT or only interpretation, they adapt in runtime.
Why would you imagine that? This compiles to SELECT col1,...,coln FROM table ...;
One thing that I never see brought into the equation but I believe is fundamental to human "general" intelligence is emotional response. It's hugely instrumental in terms of us deciding what's important to investigate, which input to analyze and how to mold our output. The importance of emotion in guiding and driving our learning is most evident in children, during the first four or five years of life of development.

I think a huge leap forward in the field could be made by modeling an emotional system similar to ours. It also seems like it would be an incredibly difficult and fuzzy problem to solve.

Addendum: After thinking about it for a few minutes more, I bet an implicit understanding of cause and effect could be derived by a system designed to try to optimize it's emotional state
Not always great on desktop either, unless one have a movie width screen...
At that time, Silicon valley didn’t exist and California was barely getting mass migration. About a century later, now even the car industry seems to move toward California..
I've been watching "Babylon Berlin" on Netflix which is pretty good. But I was annoyed at the dubbing, it just felt out of place.

I finally found a switch to switch to the German soundtrack with English subtitles. I'm much happier with that.

I wonder why each scene is not just shot twice, once with the German dialog and once with English. It would work much better than dubbing.
> He clearly believes in the art of film-making, and not just throwing out big-ticket movies.

Except that's what he does. Sorry if this sounds ad-hominem, but he could spend less time expounding the difference between 70mm and digital and rather concentrate on making movies with plots that make some sense and not just intended to please the most average public.
The fact that you feel that additional personnel are necessary to document what another person does speaks volumes as to the unnecessary documentation requirements. We should pare back documentation requirements so that one person can do it without another person's help.
That looks great! Thanks for the recommendation.
he's ignoring expressions. it's not true.
It's a very interestiny topic. Passive observation can never determine causality ... But active experimentation with control variables can! This is super important, you need an active agent running experiments to narrow the causal structure e.g. a robot. More data collection doesn't help without a feedback loop
I would argue that if you can set aside the pop-culture legacy of the character of Batman--that feeling of "can something this popular be actually good?"--The Dark Knight is a better movie than Interstellar.

Interstellar has some beautiful shots and inspiring moments, but I think the plot and characters are not as well-realized. As much as I love the subject matter, I think Interstellar is one of Nolan's weaker films.
The market decided already. They love having no privacy.
I liked Simple, but changed over to Chase when the account migration stuff came up, because they couldn’t “verify my identity” enough to create my new account.

What a bummer! I banked with them for 4 years, and then they can’t verify I exist?
Yes, this. Not all textbooks are worth anything, to be sure, but decent "boring" math texts generally have all of the "easily digestible" stuff that youtube videos do, sans animation. Math really took off for me when I started going passed the required problem sets and doing the interesting ones that weren't assigned. Really digging into them and drawing pictures, etc. Math is a contact sport.
Nice write-up & demo. MCTS—UCT particularly—is a hidden gem of symbolic AI that hasn’t found it’s deserved notoriety; I suspect because it’s not as flashy as the successes of deep learning. I think we’ll be seeing a lot more of it in the future though, as it has proven to be a remarkably flexible general search algorithm with simple, tunable mechanics to balance exploration/exploitation. It also works well in both classical search and adversarial search with minor modifications. A lesser-known example of its use in classical search is that at the time DeepMind made waves with performance on Atari games with Deep Q-Learning, the state of the art results (better than deep-q results on most games) were actually MCTS-UCB for planning/policy learning.
Honest question:

If an embassy started blaring very loud music (or a siren), can the US do anything about it?

Likewise, if they started emitting strong microwaves at people, can the US do anything about it?

It seems like there must be some limitation to what you can do from the embassy to people outside of it.
I can feel what you mean. In college at times when my 101 code wouldn't compile I was convinced that Borland C++ had a bug.

For me its the point 2 that is most relatable. Every time I have to use a library, even C++ STL beyond the oft used portions, or learn a new framework or language, my heart sinks a little anticipating the impending path of thorns. I have had so many encounters where it is literally a pain in the neck from all the peering into the screen trying to see just what the heck is not working, or eye burn from staring into the monitor squinting at the debugger window with small fonts, or both of this along with sore and sweaty fingers out of frantic googling that I shudder just writing about it. I call this "wrestling with the API". Its an occupational hazard for us to deal with all the man made pieces of software that are as different as their creators, and I have made my peace with it.

It usually turns out that I missed a fine detail in the documentation. Sometimes its my fault where I wouldn't have read the docs properly or have made uncalled for assumptions, and other times its squarely the documentation's fault for being unhelpful. When its my fault, I feel really disappointed with myself for having been so careless despite being an experienced dev. That adds to the frustration. Almost every time, stackoverflow has bailed me out, and invariably it would be an old post. (At times when I find a solution to something seemingly insurmountable, I have even mused about donating some money to them.) I take solace in the fact that someone had faced similar problem long before me and I need not be so harsh on myself. That until it happens again.
The difference lies in the citizens' ability to fix the problems. Florida, my state, has a problem with not returning voter rights to convicts once they get out. There is a group spearheading a correction. The governor isn't too keen to help, but the people can exert their will and correct the issue. Hard to do the same in China.
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Always love your work! Going to check this one out right away. Yeah GLES and readpixel aren’t friends like for instance GPUImage uses the hardware backbuffer to store it as a workaround: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12813442/cvopenglestextu...

So it’s device specific to implement the same thing I believe GPUImage uses a stub for this to apply the same shaders you have in mind.
After the 25th, send them a polite email saying you're a European resident, and you would like your personal data erased. Or if they have a contact form, visit their site from a European VPN, and submit a support request. If they question it, because your personal information says you live in the US, just say you relocated to Germany a few years ago, or you're dual citizenship with a European spouse. It's likely not worth their time to argue and risk a potential complaint.
Even on my desktop, unless I shrink the text down to a size that's too small for me to read, it's displayed as a horizontally scrolling block. (Using Firefox.)
The segmenting backfires hilariously between countries.

I've often seen shows go "It was Mr. X all along!", everyone looked at the person who said that in shock and awe and realization, there was a sound cue, screen faded to black and then the show continued with them going to kick Mr. X's teeth in, but already in a much less dramatic tone.

And then the actual break happens in another spot, where it's much less appropriate and breaks the flow completely instead of making me eagerly await the end of the break to see Mr. X get his teeth kicked in.

This is actually a trope: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CommercialBreakCl...
Believe what you’re looking for is Babylon 5, which pioneered the story arc twenty years before Netflix.
yeah that's the point. you don't write down a million rules. you write down a program that can find the rules.
Hawker (Food Centres) API
Not everyone is rich to buy such laptops.

Also I don't know any no technical friend using more than 4GB on their computers.
China is going to win this one, because US VCs want to "exit". Big Chinese companies are quite happy to keep ownership as the company becomes operational and profitable. They want revenue, not valuation.
Michael Pollan on psychedelia: ‘Everything I once was had been liquefied’
I’m intrigued by your idea, but I don’t understand.

I think of a right as something inalienable—even if it’s blocked, you still have it. And morally unquestionable. I have a right to move about my country freely, so long as I don’t interfere with people. I believe I can morally use violence to defend myself on someone else’s “property”. Of course the U.S. disagrees. They think someone simply buying a deed is enough to strip me of that right. We’ll see if the U.S. ever recognizes my right. I believe Finland does.

But I don’t understand the right you’re referencing. It seems to amount to: if I do something when I am a child, I have a right to use physical violence to stop people from telling stories about it later.

And you want this right to be recognized by the courts so you can use the police to exact that force, rather than doing it yourself and risking your own incarceration.

Is that right? Sorry I’m extrapolating your position. I know you didn’t say that directly, but I am trying to understand what legal reality you are hoping for and what you mean when you say “right”.
But having wrong preferences in the first place isn't the kind of strategic mistake they're talking about.

It's thinking of the type "my 1st preference is school A, but I probably won't get in, so I'll say my preference is B so that I get that at least" in cases where they would have got into A if they had stated it as their #1.
> Yep. I bet this changes relatively soon, since you can sometimes use recursion in OpenCL & CUDA.

Am I correct in assuming you can only recurse when the recursion can be "unrolled" into a simple loop? In other words, no program flow structures.
I agree completely with the above, and I feel like I'm in a similar position. Mind if I contact you to discuss a bit more?
I've thought about trying to add that eventually, but I think I would need a weather forcast with insolation data and also some modeling of when the sun goes behind trees/hills at different times of the year.

Anyone know a good insolation forecast API?
Elon Musk – The Boring Co. Presentation. Q. And A. Session [May 2018]
I'm amazed you think US foreign policy history is relevant here, and your characterization of it is frankly childish, but the Chinese record on human rights is demonstrably bad. It isn't a stretch, at all, to think that the Chinese are not going to too much care about where this research might lead.
Nice gatekeeping, friend. I've also personally never heard my math graduate student friends talk like this.
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> It seems suspicious that this is classified as philosophy - it has an empirical foundation! You can even design experiments to test these "theories of metascience:" just check to see how fast the scientists that work according to them produce successful theories.

I'm very skeptical that such a foundation would work faster or achieve more optimal results than an analytical approach. You can keep going meta, but so can I, and the analytical approach will always outpace the empirical one.

> Roughly speaking, the division I am making here goes: experiments plus arguments makes science, arguments without experiments makes philosophy.

I suppose it depends what you classify as "arguments". Science traditionally produces theories that provide predictive power, but also explanatory power. This latter aspect is often overlooked, but it's essential since it provides insights into further possible experiments. If your "arguments" includes an ontology for scientific theories, then I could agree with your breakdown, but notice that an ontology overlaps with philosophical inquiry.

Also, there's a new and growing branch called "experimental philosophy" which includes experiments that test intuitions on philosophical questions, so it's still not quite clear cut!
Business Lessons from Jess Lee (Sequoia Capital)
It's spelled Ad Nauseam and you shouldn't throw a commonly used Latin term around without specifying you're actually talking about an extension[0].

[0] - https://adnauseam.io/
At least from my academic degrees through Ph.D. and peer-reviewed published papers, I qualify as a mathematician. So, I'm interested in the OP and your link to quora.

I've read a lot of high level descriptions of math including some from some famous mathematicians that I regard as total BS. In strong contrast, the quora link was pretty good. Some of the best parts in that quora link I had to discover for myself, and the quora link is the first explanation I've seen by others.

For the OP, naw, I can't go along with much of that. In strong contrast, I loved learning, using, creating, publishing, teaching math and still do. Most of what I learned was from what I studied from outside a formal academic course; I studied the material because I wanted to understand it and did like learning it. The work was great fun, not frustrating or unpleasant in any sense. Even in courses, mostly I just wanted to learn the material and often ignored the class and teacher, concentrated on one or a few books, studied alone, and learned the material, generally for the course standards, quite well.

Sorry the OP had a tough time multiplying matrices and understanding eigen values -- I had no such problems. To me, matrix multiplication is glorious because it is an associative operation and from what we can see from that -- amazing when think about it a little. For eigen values and eigen vectors, those are astounding, the keys to the polar decomposition which IMHO is the crown jewel of linear algebra and one of the more amazing results in all of math.

The most difficult material studied was just from writing that didn't explain very well. One example was most of the explanations I read for the simplex algorithm of linear programming. Really, a super nice way to approach the subject is that it's just a nice, nearly obvious, tweak of Gauss elimination.
Doesn't seem like a good thing to me, with the cost of real estate, energy and labor in California, building sprawling manufacturing plants for cars probably won't work. Plus the margins on building cars are very low at high volumes - not something SV is used to.
Great perspective, I see.
I co-own a medical clinic and would love to talk with you about how we solve efficiency problems in our practice. (scribes are too slow/expensive) My email is in my profile.
Students in poorer neighbourhoods don't have internet in the Netherlands?
> No. The rich and everyone else send their kids to the same public schools.

They don't send their kids to boarding schools in the UK/US/Switzerland?
.NET has been doing it since 2008.
> For global rankings you don't need to know that user 1456 has rank 56, you just need to know that somebody holds that rank.

Isn't the purpose of global rankings to know how any given user is ranked globally? It's not much of a ranking system if all you can say is, "Yes, we have one million users, and they are ranked 1 to 1,000,000. We are not able to identify who is what rank."
That's basically what Late Shift tried to do: http://lateshift-movie.com/
This is just wrong, sorry.

Lots of measures have been put in place in the last decade to prevent '08 style crashes happening again.

The entrenched interests want less regulation, not more.
Reminds me of something predicted in “Weapons or Math Destructive” an opique algorithm deciding our fate that’s difficult (impossible?) to fully audit. It’s a cruel fate we’re leaving ourselves too if we don’t leave a lot of room for common sense.
Xamarin.Forms and Avalonia.
There is literally no scientific evidence to support this. How does one even "focus" on a gene? Please keep ultra-low effort comments away, thanks.
Not true either - policy depends on the type of market, and whether there is enough political will to make it happen.

Several markets tend towards single players (telecom for example) without regulation you will always have a poor economic outcome (for the majority of citizens aka customer Education)
For details about the voting algorithms, alternative methods based on genetic optimisation and Haskell implementations, have a look at the the MSc thesis "Genetic-Algorithmic Optimisation for School-Allocation Mechanisms - A Study of Amsterdam’s Student to High-School Allocation Problem" by Philip W.B. Michgelsen: https://eprints.illc.uva.nl/982/1/MoL-2016-10.text.pdf
The alleged (last I checked) Deep Space 9/Babylon 5 scandal is interesting to read about. Good starting point: https://www.reddit.com/r/babylon5/comments/7qbjn7/did_deep_s...
People like soap operas, if by that term you mean long stories about the relationships of a family-to-tribal size group of interesting people.
>If they are able to corelate that data back to your account, and you account contains information that allows them to link it back to individual you, then absolutely.

It's amazing that people actually think this type of request is reasonable and that a regulation enabling this type of request will not kill Europe's competitiveness wrt internet companies.
I was trying to imply that blockchain is not the only way of fixing the broken US banking system, and moving to blockchain could perhaps limit your options of interoperating with other parts of the world that have managed to build a user-friendly banking system. It's possible that blockchain could form a basis of a financial system for a limited group of people, but hoping it to be a foundation for a widely accepted system is from my perspective a misguided attempt to apply a technical solution to something that doesn't need one.
> they have a retirement system that is so pervasive, that once you are 60, you earn more money by retiring than by continuing to work, and thus literally push the entire population to retire at the same age.

You don't get paid retirement money unless you are of retirement age. That is 68 at the moment, and increasing.

And then, you get the money regardless of whether you're still working (most people stop).
It's not the saving of labor that harms people, it's the not sharing of the benefits that harms society. The Amash are correct that there are detriments of blind trust, they are incorrect as to what and who is not worth trust.
It is true that AI researchers are drawn to DNNs like moths to the flame, but AlphaGo garnered quite a bit of attention and it uses MCTS in a very interesting way
Wow. That is so well written. In a few words he's completely captured the sensation of nostalgia that I often chase after.
A Wikipedia editor's long-running campaign
The characters never learned, either, which is why I quit watching. There was always "let's go to the village that we've never been to before, and split up so the zombies can take us out one by one!" among many idiotic tropes.
I can't name you concrete examples, because I've encountered this too many times. But here are general categories in which those interpretations fall:

- The physicists just can't measure precise enough, so they think in probabilities. Also known as "hidden variables". This is wrong. Bell test demonstrates the opposite.

- "Observing" a particle can change it state, therefore observer can change everything, therefore our minds are all-mighty.

- We don't understand "quantum" and we don't understand minds. A mind "can't just work on classical computation alone" and quantum computation is more powerful. Therefore minds are "quantum". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WXTX0IUaOg
Cape Town has first-class and second-class carriages in its municipal rail.