skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, apologies for messing that up. :) My point was more on the rarity of "syntax breaking" macros. And, even that one doesn't really change the syntax much. It is just a very complicated function, for all intents and purposes.
Where are the emojis for pain? And why are there so many happy family emojis? People (and "corporate people") who care enough to get emojis put in by buy votes at the Unicode Club seem to have super weird values totally detached from humans who send each other messages.
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Yeah, I think you're probably about an order of magnitude off. People speak at five times your WPM, and it feels like I can think of words to say at least twice as fast as I can say them.
You can disable both. (I have Chrome disabled, because I like Firefox more).
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> ...deep strategy games like Starcraft tend to have multiple levels on which to do battle...

That's exactly the point; the "other levels" are macro, micro, and multi-tasking--the "realtime" components of an RTS game. (I consider positioning and scouting a factor of micro and multi-tasking respectively.) Those are the facets of the game that let you take two equally matched strategies, execute slightly better than the opponent, and thereby eke out a gradually compounding advantage.

If you remove those, the "deep strategy" of starcraft is basically just doing the one or two counterplays that you obviously need to do to survive. "He built too many early game marines so now I build banelings or I die." The strategic "if he does this, I'll do this, but then he'll do that" decision tree is very shallow in a game like brood war or sc2.

> What about tanks on high ground and out of reach? What if the roaches have to funnel through a walled choke guarded by some MMLib as well?

Then I'll be forced into one of a small handful of tictactoe-like responses: brood lords, vipers, doom drop on top of your army, or pull you apart with muta/nydus multi-taski... no wait. Just the first three options I guess.
They've named the ages of the Holocene after critical climatic events 4.2k, 8.3k, and 11.7k years ago. In other words 4.2k, 4.1k and 3.4k years apart. Looking at that series it's easy to wonder if we're overdue for another one.

I suppose it still counts if it's self inflicted.
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Google should offer a kickback service. "Install our stuff on your phone and receive $50 back on your purchase!". Or just use Android without the preinstalled spyware _but_ with all of the API's that had been moved to Play Services.
The NIH has a $1.9B budget for alzheimer's dementia research for 2018, That's including the $400MM+ budget increase that congress gave them this year.

There is nothing small about government funding in this area, and Gates additional funding will be a drop in the bucket to what the government is already doing.

It's good that he's putting up his own funding, as it'll give a different set of eyes and money to the problem. But don't get that confused with the government and the NIH not putting some serious research funding behind the problem.
Sylvester coined the name "matrix", using the Latin for "womb" because he saw them as generators. (I didn't know either until this thread.)
Its in their best interest to block/prevent competition.
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Sure that could be the case, but I think most people that set up and use CI just pick Jenkins or whatever on a whim, then we all read about horror stories and bad experiences because the solution they picked is a square peg and they're forcing it in a round hole.
>Psychedelic is not a right category anyway. It is a label given by users based on perceived effects.

That's not my point. My point is that J-dawg stated that the laws prohibiting drugs in the group that we as human beings who are not trying to deliberately misunderstand each other for internet points all understand as "psychedelics" are not based on evidence.

You stated that there were evidence based laws prohibiting a different set of drugs that are not in the group that we as human beings who are not trying to deliberately misunderstand each other for internet points all understand as "psychedelics".

Your assertion does not invalidate his statement.
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I think the beauty is lost on me when I don't know what the color means. I either want the real deal or to know what the mapping is so I can appreciate that. Otherwise it's just a pretty picture.
Does the browser's built in date picker work well with accessibility? I would assume so, but since I only have to follow rules and not use a screen reader, I'd like to know how the actual experience is.

I have moved to using only the browser's built in date picker, living with the limitations for benefit of future proofing.
You're being downvoted because you have an incredibly poor understanding of the Soviet space program.

Yuri Gagarin's first flight was in 1961, 8 years after Stalin's death. The purges have long stopped. The constant hunt for wreckers did, too. Yes, there was still political repression, but it was for political action, not "Oh, the project went up in smoke, we're sending the entire team to Siberia."

There was both a disregard, and a regard for safety in the cosmonaut program. Disregard because of heavy political pressure on deadlines, regard because it looked really bad for a cosmonaut to die. The track record that resulted was... Mixed. Could have been much better, but not a complete horror show.

After the failure of Soyuz-11, for instance, the program was grounded for 2 years, the Soyuz capsule was redesigned, and the number of crew in it was reduced, for safety reasons.
Shovelware shouldn't be in the system partition, plain and simple. Its a bad industry practice, even on Laptops (which do let you delete the recovery partition FYI).
So Microsoft is out of the phone business and basically the browser business. That’s the 3rd major phone OS. The rest are Chinese and there’s a huge cultural gap for them to become competitive in Europe. Google may have stifled OS competition, but that’s a lot more difficult market to crack than hardware competition for which google provided a huge opportunity for. It’s a lot easier making a phone that you know billions of users know the OS interface for.

If I was Google, I’d use this as a perfect PR opportunity to switch gears and start charging $250 per phone for licensing Android and then offer $50 per phone to put all Google related apps on their for a net gain of $200 a phone plus their previous market share. Chrome, Google, Android are too deeply infiltrated to even effect a single percent of sales to a new OS competitor.

Then slowly eat away at the competition by producing Pixel and related models which you can beat the competition for lower and mid phones by jacking up android licensing as you eat away at the market. End result, EU users pay hundreds of more per each phone and Hardware companies die off. Apple could also further jack up their phone prices.
Holy shit, that is incredible.

Did you make an alt account just for this comment? Do you feel embarrassed by your lack of sleep for some reason?
That's called All Random.
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My Dad had a Microwriter AgendA! I learned some of the chording, and used to write "Choose Your Own Adventure" games using its desktop software (which looked a little like a wiki, I guess) and download them on to the device to be played.
>This is actually a common misconception. In reality, it is not possible to "catch up" on missed sleeping hours.

I find that the same sentiment is worded misleadingly in the book Why We Sleep.

If you have a day of bad sleep (i.e. non-optimally consolidating the day's events), followed by a day of good sleep, it's not like your "health bar" is permanently lowered.

You'll just never get to re-consolidate that lost day.

So, today I read 20 pages of a book and sleep like crap - I "lose" the synthesis of those 20 pages in my memory/associative brain map/whatever. If I slept better, I'd remember way more from those 20 pages.

What's lost forever by that poor sleep is the _opportunity_ to properly synthesize those 20 pages just on that one night. Not your "health", and you don't get a permanently increased level of cortisol. After a good night of sleep, you do physiologically recover and you're back to normal.

Also, take everything in "Why We Sleep" with a grain of salt - sleep is hugely important and sleep deprivation sucks but he mentions several times in the book that "everybody sleeps badly once in a while, if it's not the norm then you're fine." Many times he's mentioning effects of chronic deprivation for long periods of time.

And insomnia paranoia will probably make you sleep worse than if you stop worrying about t.
Is that the one where he bounds between exponential growing trapezoids? I recall it being used by his student Jack Lutz like crazy in his complexity theory classes.
They paid to have it bundled as a drive-by install in other popular software, spyware-style.
Ask HN: Does anyone unironically refer to themselves as rockstars/ninjas?
Does anyone unironically refer to themselves as rockstars/ninjas?

This question applies to programmers, designers, lawyers etc. I am not asking if popular musicians call themselves rock stars, or if assassins who wear black call themselves ninjas.

I am asking because I wonder if everyone feels embarrassed by these terms, why do people use them? Surely, it must work on some people.
This is encouraging that Google listens to it's customers' concerns and candidly addresses them.
Could it be Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon? It's a novel, not a short story, but it has the same structure you've described involving successive sentient races (including bird-like people) and the planets gradually becoming uninhabitable.

Edit: Apparently Last and First Men was heavily influenced by a short story, "The Last Judgment" by J.B.S. Haldane. Source: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/sasalum/newsltr/fall99/end.html. Maybe that's the one you remember?
Okay but this guy is saying that he purposely sleeps 11 hours a day so that he can be more creative and cognitively enhanced and I'm the one being questioned for sources lol.
Feel free to add citations, but the most recent findings seem to suggest no negative impacts.

Psychedelics bring forth what needs to be looked at; if one doesn’t have an intention or support to do that, they may want to want until they do.

The same could probably be said for falling in love or starting a company as well.

In fact, my guess is that romantic relationships and entrepreneurship probably trigger “underlying mental issues” with at least as much frequency as psychedelics.
whenever someone brings up the fact a sizeable portion of the population is forced into an unnatural sleep rythm; inevitably someone will chime in with a "I forced myself with method X and now I'm normal".

It completely misses the underlying point.
I will never know how so many people get sucked in and used like this. Surely at least some of the "blame" for this situation lies in the individual that got used.
I think you're right about it being more about denying the enemy team. IIRC, in the last update they said that the bots tend to prioritize denying creeps and taking objectives over getting perfect last hits in lane.
To be clear: when they say paid, it would be a license to install Android as the OEM, not the end user directly paying for Android.
It's fair to say I oversimplified. I'm on kind of a fun jag right now on Slack trying to figure out, for any given period between the end of WW2 and the publication of Lucifer, what a snarky HN'er would be able to intuit from available axioms to "improve" on a one-time pad. Shannon basically gets you the rough architecture of a modern iterated cipher in 1949, but I haven't found an actual design between his paper and Feistel's Lucifer paper yet.
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Yes, it bothers me tremendously whenever I see people asking "should X be allowed?" and similar things. That's the wrong question. It comes from an original position of assuming that everything is forbidden by default, and that good reason must be given for that restriction to be lifted. This is not how the world works. It is restriction that is the aberrant case, and the one which needs to be constantly defending itself. The moment it becomes clear that the restriction is not justified, it must be gotten rid of. Restriction is inherently costly and harmful. If it is not preventing greater harm than it is causing, there's no defense for it.

When it comes to psychedelic drugs and other drugs generally, there has never been any legitimate basis for their prohibition. Even poisons like arsenic and cyanide aren't regulated the way drugs that simply make you smile for awhile are.

I suspect most people simply want to skirt the backing philosophy behind drug prohibition. They don't want to discuss whether the belief that easy pleasure is immoral has merit. They don't want to have to say out loud or try to defend the idea that people would abandon productive, full lives to pursue chemically-induced pleasure states in large numbers. Mostly because they're not confident in their ability to hold those arguments, and they fear it might make them easily swindled I think.
Amazon provides alternative APIs for their platform.

https://developer.amazon.com/docs/fire-tv/fire-os-overview.h...
I'm not sure people who would want pain emojis care enough to buy votes at the club.

Besides, at least as far as Discord/Slack goes, most people I've found just upload their own little emoticons as they are more meaningful and great for inside jokes on a particular server/team.
The bad news:

- They changed the gun emoji to be a water gun, which has a totally different meaning. This retroactively changes previous writings, changing their meaning. What kind of writing system allows people to change your words after you've written them? Emoji is a trash writing system and an agent of kipplization.

- Emoji is controlled by corporations that are concerned with maximizing the value of their platforms which will lead them to a PG13, disneyfied, milquetoast worldview.

The good news:

- In the entire human history, it has never been easier to create and publish text, audio, or video works of any kind. The most popular platforms have severe limitations, but it only takes the slightest effort to use other platforms that are uncensored.

- There is plenty of free software that can give you pixel-level control over your output, you don't need to rely on the unicode consortium or any other organization of any kind to determine what you express.
But in slack emoji, you have to modify the universal standard for the workspace in order to add those emoji, and now you're back to where you started.

The whole benefit of Unicode is that anyone anywhere can see Unicode on any device that supports it, without introducing added complexity of sending the actual image over the message.
> This is one of the oldest companies in existence

One of the oldest tech companies.

There are many hundreds of companies that have been around longer than the United States.
PSA: You can see a record of IPs that have attempted to hack your GitHub account
Github's security settings page (https://github.com/settings/security (insert the usual cautionary tale against phishing attempts here)) has a "Security history" section at the bottom that shows a history of security-related events for the past several months. One can click on the events for more detail, which shows that e.g. a "user.failed_login" event from May 16 was generated when a Ukrainian IP attempted to access my account. Fun tidbit for those of us who enjoy perusing SSH access logs.
I think it's worth a peek.

I think it's uplifting to know how much more there is than what goes on around these parts.
This post, by Andrew Rasmussen, founder of Canny, is a nice overview of one company's experience last year:
https://canny.io/blog/what-youll-get-out-of-y-combinators-st...
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Often with a link to download Chrome saying misleading stuff like “Upgrade your browser. Click here”.
The guidestar technology is new. They are essentially performing active atmosphere compensation by measuring the distortion.
Have any "pain" emojis been rejected, or has merely nobody officially proposed them? (which anyone can do, no club membership required)
> 500,600 words per minute

I realise 500/600 looks like 5/6, but 500,600 reads to me as 500600. Maybe | is a good unambiguous character to use for "or".
For me its about anxiety, and that ability to drudge on.

Certain parts of my brain fatigue and completely turn off. After an all-nighter my emotional resilience is off the charts the next day.

I think a little slower, but so much more calmly, and logically.

At my startup my co-founders actually requested I pull all-nighters before pitching VC's because the effect was so profound. Public speaking is so easy when you stop caring and treat everything like an item on a checklist instead of a potential catastrophe.
I want my storage, and advertising for memory on device these days is fraudulent. How many of the supposed 32GB of flash is actually available once you boot your phone up? Generally 7GB to 11GB is eaten by Android and shovelware right off the bat, I'd call it fraud if something is sold to me with the expectation of 34% more storage space than what I actually end up with.
> there are lots of good insights to be had by studying economists with a libertarian bent

I actually get a lot of insight when economists go against their political 'tribe'.

Paul Krugman on cheap labor, for instance: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/19...

Or Greg Mankiw writing in favor of a carbon tax.

That's not to say they're wrong when, say, the libertarian economist argues against some regulation, or someone like Krugman argues for it, just that it's more 'the usual'.
And then what happens when a new upgrade comes through? It's just a one time OEM installation cost for eg Samsung etc...? Your carrier going to bill you for the update?

The costs would get passed to the consumer no matter what though.
I think that the article makes a pretty good point that emoji are increasingly important in communication -- referencing the suggestion of the mosquito emoji that was supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in order to facilitate communication and discussion about the malaria-spreading insects. Even though I don't completely agree with the importance of emoji in modern communication, apparently a lot of people (especially some of those who vote on the Unicode Standard Consortium) do.

If you were to accept that emoji are an important part of modern communication, would you not agree that censoring certain images is akin to censoring words? Then, the reference to "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" is very apt.

I didn't get the impression that the article was suggesting that the people who vote in the Consortium have any sort of nefarious intensions -- and I don't think that there is much to be gained by a fascist government by censoring the word "shit". The decision to do stems from personal taste, prudence, or social pressure. It is not the intention behind it that we should be afraid of, but the power of some organizations to form our means of communication, independent on how "good" they are, as there are many unpredictable factors that can shape their decisions.
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This is really interesting, I'm not sure how I didn't find it before. What I'd like to know is whatever happened to the CSS-selectors-as-fragment-identifiers movement and why it didn't take off. The proposal that inspired that extension[1] was written by Simon St.Laurent and Eric Mayer, so it's not like it was a fringe thing, and they co-chaired a W3C Working Group on the topic[2], but it apparently never published any reports and the last recorded activity was in Jan 2013. Anyone know what happened?

[1] http://simonstl.com/articles/cssFragID.html

[2] https://www.w3.org/community/cssselfrags/
Based on a cursory view of the available history of failed Soyuz missions, and particularly those involving the abort mode, what you said is empirically false. The cosmonauts on the failed missions were not punished, and in those missions where they survived, many of them went on to crew later missions.
Is this in any way related to the proprietary G-WAN high-performance and scalable web server? http://gwan.com/
Imagine you have a box with red marbles and blue marbles. You start shaking it. The marbles get mixed up. Pretty soon, they're completely mixed up. That's maximum entropy.

Now imagine you keep shaking the box for a few years or so. Just by sheer coincidence, they might end up neatly sorted for a few seconds every now and then. That's like a Boltzmann brain.

I think that's all there is to it in principle, but I'm not very informed.
This will be very interesting to see, despite the vast differences in ruleset that make this much much less complex than the actual game.

My prediction is that we're very very far away from AI that can beat the top teams in a 5v5. Amateur teams can easily be beat simply on the strength of the mechanics (which are very very strong on the AI, beating even pros), but the strategy and coordination of the top teams are out of this world.
You are being downvoted because you tried to introduce a "does anyone else think Soviets were nasty evil people?" rhetoric into what was previously a technical discussion.
I also do not use an alarm if I can avoid it. I have not used one regularly in over 15 years. Regrettably, my partner uses an alarm, so I am sometimes unable to avoid being woken by an alarm. Some thoughts on this:

1. Being awoken by an alarm is stressful. Waking up naturally, when my body is ready to wake up, feels great, and is easy. I have no trouble energetically hopping out of bed when I awake naturally. When I awake to an alarm, it is a struggle to get out of bed.

2. If I am awoken by an alarm during deep sleep, I consider that a waste of restful sleep potential. Returning to sleep for a brief period ("snoozing") does not make one less tired in any significant way. Deep sleep is what really matters, so it should not be wasted.

3. Like you said, the easy way to wake up on time without an alarm is to go to bed early. I allocate more hours for sleep than actually needed. If I wake up earlier than needed, that is no problem. If I have trouble falling asleep, or have poor sleep quality for any reason, the extra time can smooth out the impact. Having a time buffer prevents oversleeping.

4. I use an eye mask or blackout curtains to keep light from windows or electronic devices from disturbing my sleep. Most people think that small amounts of light do not bother them. I used to think the same, but I have come to believe it makes a significant difference. Complete darkness makes for high quality sleep. Light can disturb sleep just as much as noise. If you live in a fairly populated area, like I do, the sky is quite lit up at night. Like many people, I avoid screens and light in general close to my bed time.
"Trustless" is a very tricky concept. Instead of trusting a centralized authority bound by laws and regulations, you trust an assumption that enough independent parties will continue spending significant amount of computation power on mining without merging or colluding to execute a 51% attack. It holds for now, but once the spirit of the 2017's hypergrowth fades away, things may start to look differently.
And a lot of pollution.