skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are NOT learning from their history. In fact (to quote from https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/copenhagen-speech-v...):

"I found that, contrary to what most people think, Weimar Germany did have hate-speech laws, and they were applied quite frequently. The assertion that Nazi propaganda played a significant role in mobilizing anti-Jewish sentiment is, of course, irrefutable. But to claim that the Holocaust could have been prevented if only anti-Semitic speech and Nazi propaganda had been banned has little basis in reality. Leading Nazis such as Joseph Goebbels, Theodor Fritsch, and Julius Streicher were all prosecuted for anti-Semitic speech. Streicher served two prison sentences. Rather than deterring the Nazis and countering anti-Semitism, the many court cases served as effective public-relations machinery, affording Streicher the kind of attention he would never have found in a climate of a free and open debate. In the years from 1923 to 1933, Der Stürmer [Streicher's newspaper] was either confiscated or editors taken to court on no fewer than thirty-six occasions. The more charges Streicher faced, the greater became the admiration of his supporters. The courts became an important platform for Streicher's campaign against the Jews. In the words of a present-day civil-rights campaigner, pre-Hitler Germany had laws very much like the anti-hate laws of today, and they were enforced with some vigor. As history so painfully testifies, this type of legislation proved ineffectual on the one occasion when there was a real argument for it."
What is ‘g’ in this context?
Racist comments aren't hate crimes in the US. It's violence that is. You won't be charged with anything.

You subscribe to the might-makes-right mindset by demanding respect for people who have the power to punish you. That's practical, but not morally very solid since it implies less politeness to weaker people.

Some would argue the 30 years war was worse than the Nazis. It killed more people than the holocaust, and at a time when the population was much smaller.

I totally oppose physical violence against people for saying insults. That's terrible to me. For exactly this reason - innocent people not trying to hurt anybody end up getting punished because they're misunderstood. The swastika really doesn't mean the same thing to people everywhere in the world. Not everyone shares the Germans' violent anger at people who remind them of their past.
"Hack your wrist" may not be the best slogan..
>> What cats do? How cats respond to things? How they interact physically with their environment? That’s all statistically learnable.

Not at all. At least not in practice and certainly not for any significant subset of the things that "cats do" or the ways they "respond to things".

You can certainly collect some examples of all the behaviours you describe above, but there are so many of them you are never going to have enough to model a cat's behaviour with anything like significant accuracy.
Well, it's sad that it didn't worked out for you, but please don't presume the whole world share the same experience :)

I've bought mine 3 years ago, mainly for managing notifications (I was doing business oriented things back then and had a lot of social notifications), and it was immediately worth it : no need to get my hand out of that keyboard to unlock my phone and see a notification I don't care about every 5 minutes (especially frustrating when you're a vim user trying to optimize your hand movement around the keyboard).

Since then, there's three other use cases that make me use the watch every single day for those three years:

* controlling spotify without needing access to my phone when outdoor

* having my up to date grocery list at the wrist any time I feel like shopping (thanks to google keep)

* setting timers through voice control while cooking

That's certainly not as game changing as having a computer vs not having one, but that's still far from completely useless.
The problem could be over-breathing, i.e. exhaling too much CO2. This lowers the blood CO2/bicarbonate levels and inhibits the oxygen release from hemoglobine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr_effect).

The remedy is to breath less, both less frequent and less voluminous. Very little breathing is needed to saturate the blood O2 levels, as can be checked with a simple pulse oxymeter.

Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buteyko_method
No, I don't use apps.

Apps can do millions of things you don't want an untrusted party to do on your device.
The issue with this is that we don't want to screw over someone fully.
If languages were infinitely complex, humans couldn’t do it either.
Would you suggest that the iterated interactions between Germany and Greece after the 2008 financial crisis, with Germany's various terms for Greece's financial bailout, were an example of Europeans being more willing to sacrifice for the greater good?

Or how about the current resistance of Eastern Europeans, regarding refugees, after Germany and Merkel volunteered them to sacrifice for certain visions of the greater good?

Or how about Turkey and ... etc etc etc.

America isn't really analogous to individual nations like Finland and Denmark. It's huge - up around 320 or 330 million residents, IIRC.

And a lot of those residents, despite how American mass media tries to frame things, come from very distinct, very fractious subcultures with long histories. See the book Albion's Seed for one version of this argument. And fundamentally, a lot of those groups don't entirely have shared values, nor shared respect for shared experts.

This is kind of my point in highlighting Germany's problems relating to other European countries - the same issue of different local cultures, and different values, comes up.

In America, one of the main ways people dance around these tensions is by letting people express their values via money. If something is important to you, then you'll likely put your resources together to support it. And if you have a lot of other like minded people, you'll maybe find a bunch of other like minded people to support it to, and pool your resources. But won't rise to anything like national technocratic support for whatever it is.

It's one basic way of dealing with actual, serious, difficult pluralism.

And that does mean, in practice, people have a default sense that other people ought to mostly be able to do what they want with their money, which scales up naturally to the wealthy or rich as well.

It's not optimal, but it's not really clear there is any kind of optimal - again, looking at various between-nation destabilizations in Europe when it comes to simply relying on technocratic assumptions about the greater good is probably useful here.
> In a simplified closed system, where all you have are barometers and storms, maybe there is no difference between implication and causation; all you know is these variables are correlated. Perhaps once you take every atom in the universe into account, the two start to look the same.

Implication it is a very mathematical thing. It is like you know, that y=f(x), and then you write x=g(x), where g is inverse of f. It works both ways, there are no cause, no effect, just link between two variables. If you use math to reason about causal links in reality, you need to use some implicit knowledge which is not represented in formula. It doesn't means that math is bad. Geometry likes euclidian space while we know from Einstein that our space is not euclidian one -- it doesn't mean that geometry is bad. Euclidian geometry just solves some specific problems and doesn't solve others.

Causal link reflects ability to change dependant variable by changing independant one. It is not something like "fundamental property of the Universe", it is our subjective way to structure information about the reality. It seems to me, that physicists believe the other way, that causation is the inherent property of reality. Maybe they are right in their field, but it doesn't work in everyday life. Causal link is an abstraction that helps us to know what we can do to change outcomes.

In this sense there are no causal link between barometer readings and a storm: if you change barometer readings to reflect a fine weather the storm will come anyway. Maybe there is causal link between atmosphetic pressure and a storm? I do not know it, because I see no way to change atmospheric pressure and I'm not educated well enough to understand scientific weather models. Though it is relatively safe for me to believe that low atmospheric pressure causes storm: causational link or correlational one -- it will not change my behaviour, because I cannot change atmospheric pressure. If I'll find a way, than it would be cruicial to figure out the kind of the link, because I'll be able to break something if I'm wrong. But I said that it is relatively safe, because if I suppose that link is causational, I would use that link differently while reasoning about the weather, it will change my other beliefs and probably it will change my behaviour somehow.

So, the main idea is: causation is just our way to structure reality. We are free to choose which links are causal, it is all up to us. If we think it will help us to reason about reality, then we should speak about casuality. And the most important difference between causation and correlation is the ability to change dependant variable by changing independant. If we can change dependant variable that way, than we should mark link as causational. If we cannot, that we should think about that link as about correlational. Implication just do not draw this difference.
Digital has hardly replaced analogue as the superior form of anything. Providing services digitally is more convenient but the experience is still often second rate.

Inefficient? Hardly. A book in paper form is considered by many people to be superior form of digesting complex information.

Secondly, a library contains
a) librarians that help you find what you need
b) huge curated collections of books, carefully categorized
c) the categories themselves! One might learn something new by just investigating what categories of knowledge there are.

Libraries are the analogue manifestation of the entire body of knowledge humankind has collected over millenia. In the past there were these silly VR interfaces in movies where the person could dive into information and find what they were looking for by diving in a sea of information. Well, that place exists in the every manifestation of a proper library adminstered by trained informaticians, and the physical shape of the thing is designed to help one find and digest knowledge.
It's a hell of a lot easier to be negative or express a frustration than it is to put the energy into a positive, constructive conversation. It's not an easy problem to solve because the different parties to the conversation have different experiences and are often unaware of the situation for the other people involved.

For example, what might have been an innocent question for one person is actually an annoying nag to somebody else, because they've been answering that sort of question for a long time and have built up an expectation for everyone else to do more research first. The person asking the innocent question doesn't know that they're the hundredth person to ask, so to them the response seems harsh and unkind. Someone observing the exchange from the outside is going to have their own judgments on the quality of the community.

The solution to difficult communication isn't to communicate less, it's generally to communicate more and that doesn't necessarily mean more conversations, because communication can take place in many different ways.

What would help even more is to approach communication with some level of empathy and compassion, and accountability for how you react to those reaching out to you (or those you're reaching out to, of course). If it always seems difficult and sucky then you need to understand why you continue to see it that way, why you get frustrated, and what you can do for your part in that communication to make it more pleasant for yourself. And then make that position clear so there's no misunderstanding of intent.

A large part of communication in those terms, and at the scale we're looking at here, is setting clear boundaries on how you wish to be communicated with and how you'll do your best to respond. It's not useful to act out and complain and moan because nobody can guess what it is you want from them.
Nice catch, didn't noticed the date. Strange also that cryptocurrencies aren't mentioned at all in the article, or maybe it's simply lack of research from the journalist.

If you look around in the HW forums, the blame for current GPUs prices is strong demand from cryptocurrencies mining operations, but yeah, could also be hearsay repeating.
I swear every time this comes up it’s like people have never heard of open table or yelp, both of which handle online reservations for lots of businesses.
lol, "nazism is not an ongoing danger"

This is amazing, it's like Charlottesville never happened and Bannon never had the president's ear.
> Besides students are in a disadvantaged position when they really want to get educated. They have no bargaining power.

I would agree if the only way to get educated was a private university. As it turns out, that's not the case. For starters, state universities are about 90% cheaper per credit hour as compared to their private competitors.
Tell that to the billions of people already happily capturing video with sound on their phones. Considering playback is often a phone speaker, it's not like people require "film set" quality audio recordings. They just want to hear audio from the recorded location, no matter how rough. In saying that, I understand the Google Clips position with no audio, but I'd likely skip it because of this.
[BOOK REVIEW] Thoughts on Shoe Dog: Memoir by the Creator of Nike, Phil Knight
>Isn't [curve fitting] all of science?

No! Astronomical observations can be shoehorned into geocentrism by adding more and more epicycles. That's curve fitting. At some point you have to realize the Earth revolves around the sun. Currently ML is on a dangerous path because any disagreement with empirical evidence can just be waved away with more data, more computation power, etc. In that sense, it's practically unfalsifiable.

http://wiki.c2.com/?AddingEpicycles
Are we talking about blackberry or Nokia here?
> even though DDG now offers a quality of service comparable to the big G it still remains extremely confidential

I’ve tried to switch to DDG a couple of times and I use it as the default search engine on my cellphone now but it’s not yet as good as Google is for easily finding exactly what I want and I doubt it will ever be because it is thanks to the very thing I don’t like about Google — the amount of things they know about their users — that Google are able to give the results that their users are looking for.

I bought a book called Relevant Search because I think that it might be possible to build a very good search engine for oneself but I have not yet had time to even start reading that book so.
Excerpt from the article:

It’s one of the best entrepreneurial stories I’ve read and here’s my take on the book.

I am overwhelmed after having lived through Phil Knight’s journey as an entrepreneur. I learnt valuable lessons on subjects like negotiation,team culture,sports and sportsmen,leadership,hiring,accounting,business wisdom, and entrepreneurial mindset. I also learnt a bit of Japanese :P
Fwiw, the sample size was small. The control group (no exercise) even smaller. The difference between the two close to negligible.

Interesting findings, but nothing all that useful outside bar room banter.
Let's say we have a set of techniques that can do convincing text-to-speech in limited domains, but those techniques are too cumbersome to solve it in the general sense, at least with current equipment and data.

Then there's the ability of humans to process speech, which works in a much broader range of situations and therefore suggests that there is a better way to do that sort of thing than the techniques we have right now.

Does this help reconcile the two seemingly contradictory comments, above?
Customer Service seems to be way down the list of those things ain't it
Can you show us the Facebook Ad placement and the article you sponsored?
Would be very interesting
Your weekly diet menu with cold soups to favor hydration this season
Yes, that's what I read before deciding to try it :)

But my question was more about what you were saying about the TI chip, what makes you say it will be a problem? (eg different architecture, known limitations, etc)
Ocean-going robots that could revolutionize fishing, drilling, and science
>Fast food vegans sure do die.

As opposed to proper vegans, who live forever?

>And if you believe that nothing you can eat can be toxic to your body, you already lost in life.

Plenty can be toxic, including all kinds of plants (heroin is made from a plant). But the best diets according to longevity statistics and scientific studies still include meat, e.g. the Mediterranean diet.

Or you can ignore those, and opt for some semi-mystical, culting fad diet.
I'm sure he didn't know that law. That seems to be lost on everyone in this thread. It would be a complete surprise to someone who didn't see Nazis as a real personal terrible anger-shame-inducing thing and who comes from a country with freedom of speech.
The Markov Property, Chain, Reward Process and Decision Process
"general intelligence". the characteristic that IQ is intended to correlate with.
There are 22 million companies just in the US. Can you name 1,000 companies in the US that pay in crypto? I'd be willing to call 0.004% "a bunch".
> Wikipedia would benefit from a policy where a sufficient number of individual complaints against a user who has passed some threshold of number of edits to a single article (say 100) would be automatic grounds to block the user from further edits to the article, regardless of fault

If you haven't yet worked out how that would be abused, think a bit more.
The author of the article wouldn’t have escaped the debt even by dying - her parents would still be on the hook. It’s not “hereditary debt” but it’s close.
Then simply adjust the profile until the ML says it's not fake.
What about a proposal to return to subsidizing higher education the way that most developed countries do, so that prohibitive loans are no longer necessary in order to acquire it? In the Information Age, isn't having an educated workforce a public good?
It's not like they could repay hundreds of thousands of debt and buy a house within 7 years anyway.
DiscoverDev, Issue #15
Creating a culture of growth and ambition, Part 1 – Leadership
Because then you don't have to raise your wrist to look at the time?
I can't help but wonder how you are going to read all the responses here?
TBTK: A C++ SDK for quantum mechanics
Isnt it hilarious to see this being touted as some new and insightful way of developing a product? CS undergrads should be forced to learn about how bridges, skyscrapers, and airliners get built.
A whitepaper for some dude’s personal project, the sense of entitlement is astonishing.
I think the "exit" can have many positive externalities. Where would we be if Steve Jobs or Elon Musk didn't take the exit? I think the serial entrepreneur mentality is to our benefit. We also have people like Bezos who have managed to do many amazing things within the same company as well..
IBM is a perfect example. The trouble was really not trouble at all. They felt the tremor, but that's it.
If taking baking soda helps then not having to take baking soda would be normal. The arc of my point / question was is this:

Why do we keep "curing" that which can be prevented? Instead we keep grabbing the balloon, and then pay (more) to add that "cure" to our lives.

T2 Diabetes is not normal. It is preventable. We have a "cure." But instead of using that cure, we're investing - read: wasting - resources looking for a cure that will need to be paid for.

Inflamation is (likely) the same. Mind you, baking soda is inexpensive. But as cures go, prevention (and a return to a natural norm) is #1.
For me the features I love are:

* TOTP generator

* Music control

* Notifications

* Emergency light (it isn't that bright, but has saved me a few times when I just needed a bit of light)

What is a pity about all this is how s* bluetooth chipsets and drivers are. At least once a week my phone's BT just glitches off >:|
Magnifying glass? Or how about a magnifying monocle?

Accessibility settings on ipad has some zoom features too.

Or just write a quick scraper.
Datalog and emerging applications: a tutorial [pdf]
“Whenever you're called on to make up your mind,
and you're hampered by not having any,
the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find,
is simply by spinning a penny.
No - not so that chance shall decide the affair
while you're passively standing there moping;
but the moment the penny is up in the air,
you suddenly know what you're hoping. ”
― Piet Hein
I glanced through it and none of the facts removed seem particularly controversial. The editor simply put the fact back in and replaced the source.

Moreover, wikipedia doesn't ban RT as a source and correctly argues that biased sources can be legitimate if they are correct in context.

It seems these days that simply being an anti-establishment politician of any stripe instantly attracts accusations of Russian conspiracy theories. It's weird.
Vox.com did an episode of their podcast The Weeds on this the other day[0].
They make some pretty convincing arguments that the article overstates the problem.

[0] https://www.vox.com/the-weeds
I agree their spec page is missing some specs.

Resolution appears to be 1080 x 1080 - after downloading the clip on their page. I assume this is max resolution but who knows.

One of the example videos is actually 30 fps, they must have bumped up the framerate before publishing for some reason, or maybe the app does this by default... https://mannequin.storage.googleapis.com/austin-overview/sma...
I’ve seen people (fellow foreigners) wearing hammer and sickle on tshirts in czech and it didn’t seem to cause any trouble. I’m sure people quietly thought “what an idiot” but nobody actually did anything. Weirdly a friend of a friend who was a member of the local football ultras threatened to kick the shit out of a someone who was wearing that iconic Che-Guevara-face t-shirt
... but nothing happened (and that’s probably one of the more violent people).
Well, since it uses Libhybris for interfacing with Android it should not be a problem to port it, but, the advantage of the snapdragon chips is that most watches use the same chip so the code was reusable (eg: g watch > g watch r), so you might encounter some issues that are not present on the existing ported watches. Fortunately the source code for the kernel on the omap3 is available for download: http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/OMAP3_GIT_Linux_Kern...