skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simplification is an illusion. Simplification works great for understanding and learning , I completely agree but is terrible on problem resolution. Mainly because problems don't get simple just because you want them to. Secondly because the nature of knowledge and the world we live in is of immense complexity.

You are absolutely correct though that we are indeed driving off a cliff of incomprehensibility , I cannot count the times when I have caught , including myself, lawyers and coder not understanding even basic concepts like OOP or legal responsibility under the influence of drugs and alcohol. It's not that the concepts are hard to understand but they are so numerous it becomes so easy to get lose track of where you are , where you were and most importantly where you are going.

When I started coding back in the end of 80s coding in Assembly was not that hard. After 30 years of coding I decided to go back to Assembly I just got blown away how much more complex it became, though obviously not surprised, and of course I discovered that even Assembly coder mostly use C libraries cause well, otherwise it gets insane really fast.

My solution to this may sound insane but in life I have learned that when I have a crazy idea ,usually, I end up being correct. I do believe that AI wont replace us but rather augment us. I am not talking about cyborgs , singularity and these nonsense I am talking about software that helps you navigate through the chaos of information. And when I say AI I mean it in the most vague way possible obviously the technology will change in the future in so many ways.

The only viable solution for the human being is to either find news ways to take advantage of the potential of his own intelligence or augment himself in some way.

Afterall its not a secret that AI is already used to construct AI and this opens the door to a ton of potential.Afterall is it not coding all about automated decisions making ? It's not as if we have not being trusting automated machines for thousands of years. But nonetheless humans are terrified of technology. The marvel of the human condition.
This is raster tiles, not vector.
Yes. About the only thing you can count on is `.+@.+`
It's interesting how these politicians are talking about congestion, but they are unwilling to introduce congestion pricing to directly attack the issue, because no-one lines new taxes and people don't have a basic understanding of markets.

And I also find it frustrating that publications like the NYT won't call these politicians on their bullshit and prefer to write completely uncritical articles now that Uber is unpopular.
Lucky Dilbert gets a cube!
Please explain a bit what you mean?
Yes, that's what I meant by it not being a standard. They should be making a special rule for gmail
The Rogue Tesla Mechanic Resurrecting Salvaged Cars (YouTube)
I have 10 years experience in law and father is a lawyer and even though her remark has obviously a comedic basis , she is very much correct. Objectivity is a huge deal in the legal profession, the ability to separate emotion from critical thinking. Of course its easier said than done which is what creates the laughing part :)
Telegram released a new crypto-oriented feature: “Telegram Passport", a unified authorization services required for personal identification.

For more info go here: http://bit.ly/2uXeFSR
The bit that people seem to be turned off by is what I like to call the 'Stonehenge is not a henge' arguement.

I started trying to contribute to openstreetMAP, to be told that where I was going wrong is that I was thinking about openstreetMAP as a MAP. I am such a fool. It has become a community mantra, and it just sounds silly.
In the last year, I got hundreds of spam emails, each with a valid DKIM signature for a unique .bid domain registered at NameCheap. It costs less than 1$/year/domain.

I mailed NameCheap multiple times about this, they keep telling me they cannot do anything about it.
McMaster-Carr might be comparable, though. At Georgia Tech, a MC order at like 9AM could realistically be received at like 1PM with the cheapest shipping option. Usually the slow link was GT Post Office.

But that's because MC has a warehouse really close to Atlanta.
Replace hierarchical partitioning with keyspace partitioning (eg hash buckets). A fundamental difference in architecture, but so was GP's idea.
English gained popularity as it was THE language of popular movies, music and then later Internet. Just like in the past you needed Latin to be able to read books and communicate with educated people around the world, today you need English. And in my eyes it's OK, we need some standardization in communication to be able to understand each-other, and English is a good practical choice as it's fairly easy to learn.
Assuming that the data set that test and training are drawn from is representative of the data that you see in production.

Which it never is.
SCMP was sold to the Alibaba group in 2016.
Both are available, see https://www.maptiler.com/maps/
I see it more like this:

* Me: Hey guard, I want to read this newspaper
* Guard: I won't let you unless you sniff this turd.
* Me: I rephrase my question innst ye olde English: Canst thou let reade thine newspaper.
* Guard: I have no idea what you're talking about. Here is a newspaper, have fun.

You are allowed make life complicated for me, but I violated no law or contract by rephrasing the question in an unexpected way. The options are: eat our crap, leave, or surprise us.

BTW, This principle works very well for telesales, religious door-to-door people, and service desks. Do something unexpected and they do anything to get rid of you.
Quoting https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44939819 :

> The Norwegian bar has been made since 1937, a mere two years after Kit Kat - originally called Rowntree's chocolate crisp - hit the market in 1935.
In the US at least, I think it’s naive to believe that greater voter turnout would have much impact on the result of something like a presidential election, which is a first-past-the-post vote affected by millions of dollars in campaign spending to drive particular voting rates and turnout behavior.

Comments like this one naively assume the choice you make in the poll is an exercise of free will, but it’s obviously not. Distrust of politicians could be driven by this.

Even more basic electioneering, like engineering a nationwide two-party system to ensure no meaningful challenge to the status quo, might also cause political disenfranchisement, especially among demographics that believe they are systematically the target of that entrenched system (and are usually correct to believe so).

For many voters, they ought to admit their personal choice is manipulated by ad spending and a priori generally based in ignorance and their vote, especially if it’s for a non-mainstream candidate, has no effect.

Abstaining from the vote would be a reasonable choice for these people. And if they do vote, then a good strategy might be to find someone they believe is smarter than they are yet represents the values they want to communicate in the vote, and just copy that person’s vote.

But “more people at the polls” is not automatically going to change much from whatever was engineered in the first place (including engineering voter turnout itself).

However, the part I couldn’t understand is why anyone would think business leaders are trustworthy in any sense. Both politicians and business leaders generally ought to be assumed to be entirely untrustworthy unless there’s exceptional evidence in special cases.
Wetherspoons pubs in the UK don't play music, as a deliberate policy, and it's one of the reasons they're so successful. It's great if you just want to drink with your friends and have a conversation.

I hope more follow suit.
Also, for the most part, media is merely parroting the sensationalism from within the AI industry. It's not the media that is actually allocating millions of dollars to the possibility AI might become self aware and start attacking people.
I can only speculate, but the article alludes to establishing permanent communication with the moon’s backside:

> A satellite or spacecraft in a halo orbit [around L2] can be constantly in Earth’s sight and can therefore maintain communication between astronauts on the far side of the moon and control rooms back home.
It is now owned by Jack Ma (Alibaba / 1688.com) but it takes a decidedly mixed editorial stance: some articles are very pro-China, and align with / support central government position. Other articles are (if not pro-US), aligned with US-policy positions and norms, and critical of China and the central government.

I expected SCMP would quickly become way more pro-China, supportive of central government on every issue after purchase by Ma, but while that has happened to some extent, it was very gradual.

Ma has stated that he wanted the paper to represent China to the outside world from more angles and perspectives.

Personally I find the mixed editorial stance annoying. I wish it would be more decisively one-side like most Western outlets I'm used to. But it really is mixed and has something for everyone, and it's true that you can find perspectives from "both sides" or "multiple sides" there, so I think it is achieving its objective of representing China in a fair way to readers.

For those reasons I think SCMP is a very reliable source for news on the region if you cannot read Chinese / even if you can. If you combine perspective across SCMP, a Western outlet, and a Chinese outlet (like: http://en.people.cn/) you get a much more faithful idea about China just reading one.
I'm curious to see an SF version, though I wonder how you would sufficiently render such a dense and hilly city in this perspective.
SCMP was acquired by Alibaba in 2016 [1], with predictable consequences [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_Morning_Post#Purch...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_Morning_Post#Contr...
Alibaba’s Jack Ma on China’s Economy, HK and the SCMP: Full Q&A (2016)
Well, it depends what you are selling - if aircraft manufactures had stuck to selling hydrogen filled and aluminium painted airships I think that air travel would not be the thing it is today. Amazon's technology is not fit for this purpose, an ethical and responsible stance would be not to sell it for this purpose.
DJs often seen to have hearing problems, I don't know why specific noise limits aren't legally mandated.

There's a barracks that is literally a mile away from us in our city, they had a party and the music was loud enough that it woke children in our street ... that has to be damaging prole hearing who are close-by.
> A lot Dutch people think they are really good in English, but we really aren't (sometimes native English speakers beg us to not try and speak English but use Dutch instead so they at least understand what is being said given their limited knowledge of the Dutch language).

As a native English speaker living in NL I'm really curious about this, could you describe a situation? The few Dutch people I work with have outstanding levels of English, although being at a company where ~90% of people in my department are non-Dutch, so English is widely spoken, my observation is clearly very biased. Plus I live in Amsterdam which I hear is very different from the rest of the country in this respect.
Hah, it's interesting to see my comment cause some controversy on HN :-)

I'm not saying social scientists are pro-Stalian or other suggested nonsense in some comments. I'm merely saying that, compared to every other subject, it is shocking to me that such a high proportion identity as Marxist as it is a relatively extreme political belief. It seems analogous to a high proportion of biologists being creationist. In fact, almost every single social scientist is left wing. That and 80% of humanities papers being sent into a vacuum never to be cited again, suggests to me that there is a crisis.
You probably can. I had a (public) high school teacher who was a Latin BA, and when he was hired at our school he taught English, then started a Latin club where he taught it to maybe 10 students the first year, several more the next. He also worked a lot of Latin into his English curriculum.

Now, if you want to be paid to teach only Latin, that's a harder sell.
Because the current system with hundreds of TLDs is a multi-billion dollar industry.
I remember seeing them in the weekly NYT Magazine, but in the print edition they’re always on separate pages with “ADVERTISEMENT” printed at the top.
How about "we should not throw away the medical scanner because it can be set wrong and it burned this child"?

Or, don't use the oven on setting 3 because if you do your house will burn down?
My pet peeve in English as well as German is conjunctive use of "that" or "dass" respectively. I'm glad that you got right at least :)
In some European countries the neighbouring table may ask you to keep your voice down if you're talking too loud. It would be nice if this habit became more widespread, as I believe many people aren't loud intentionally -- they just never realized the disturbance they are causing.
This looks great, and is still actively maintained on Github. It keeps your data locally, which is a hard requirement for any kind of company use. Uploading work activity to some third party is an absolute no-go for most companies.

The approach taken by many other tools is either a huge database of applications/websites that someone maintains tags for or a custom set of rigid rules. Neither approach works very well on my experience. The statistical approach taken by TagTime sounds much less rigid and more flexible.
google search, since it was integrated to the address bar its super easy to find the right site and you longer have to remember or guess the address , hence the name has become pointless.
The Amazon Lightsail proves there is a huge market for DO and Linode. And DO / Linode aren't exactly cheap, there are lots of players in VPS market that are half the price or more.

I think what is missing is a middle ground approach that scale both ways. Or a Heroku that is built on top of DO / Linode.
Provide childcare, undercutting babysitters.
I don't think that's sufficient on its own. If there's a CNAME on the domain, you'd have to follow the chain of CNAMEs to find an MX record (granted, that's not very common, but I think it's valid usage)
Introduce yourself here:

https://talk.birmingham.io/

Its a very friendly bunch of geeks - someone there might be able to help. There is a fair amount of tech activity in Birmingham so you could get lucky. Good luck.
> Maybe if they collectively went out to vote

They don't trust politicians.
> I find it very strange that, according to this study, Millennials and Gen-Z have more faith in business leaders than in politicians. Maybe if they collectively went out to vote instead of staying at home ...

An election is basically a choice between two politicians that proved to be sufficiently politician to be voted for by other politicians.

So those are probably the most extreme on the politician spectrum, and it's no wonder why people with no trust in politicians wouldn't vote for any.
The patches coming into chez scheme have all been a wonderful read, especially the bigger ones by Gustavo Massa. I hope they can work most kinks out so that the performance drop by running on chez isn't too big,or at least provide some kind of good interoperability with regular chez so that you can write performance sensitive code in chez and use it with/without guarantees from racket.
A little more elaborate would be [^@]+@[^@]+. It might still be possible to construct an email address that is valid and does not pass via comments in the address, but chances that this happens are low.
That's off-topic so I'm not responding.
Also thought this podcast with Rory Sutherland by Farnam Street / The Knowledge Project was particularly good, especially in what the actual value of brand is:

https://fs.blog/rory-sutherland/
in other news google is integrated in the browsers address bar, scientists are baffled how it managed to fit in such small space and how it got there.
Many world theory is about what happens on macroscopic scale. Specifically, it says: "The world on the macro scale is still governed by the same laws of physics as on the micro scale, duh. There are no extra laws of physics (such as collapse) which would start to apply only when the number of particles involved in the experiment exceeds some unspecified threshold."

And yes, there are people who agree with this, and there are people who disagree with this, even among the experts.

But on microscopic scale, it is a general consensus that in the double-slit experiment the particle somehow goes simultaneously through both slits, i.e. that two different realities (different only in trajectory of a single particle) somehow got into superposition.

The disagreement is only about "what will happen with this superposition, when more and more particles enter the game". Some theories say "at some moment, the superposition of multiple realities will somehow collapse, and only one reality will emerge victorious". Some theories say "the additional particles will also get entangled with the particles that are already there". The former predict that the observer will only see one outcome, because when the human brain is entangled, the collapse already happened and there is now only one reality. The latter predict that each observer will only see one outcome, because each outcome gets entangled with the version of observer observing that specific outcome. Both theories agree that at the end the observer will report to only see one outcome.

I guess the experimental consequence of the no-collapse interpretations of quantum physics would be that quantum computers of arbitrary size will be possible.

If you instead believe that an interaction with e.g. 1000 particles will collapse, that would put a limit on number of possible qubits. But of course, if someone would falsify that theory by building a larger quantum computer, nothing prevents you from saying "did I say 1000 particles? I actually meant 10000 particles!" and have the theory survive yet another day. Of course, you can also come up with a theory saying "the superposition of too many particles will collapse unless it happens to be inside of a quantum computer"; etc. But at that moment it should be obvious you are just making excuses.

Now let me ask you in return: Is there any specific prediction of when exactly does the collapse happen? Was it ever experimentally observed to happen?
AI doesent do latteral thinking that well yet. Its a meta problem, thinking about thinking requires selfawareness.

But saying its just bruteforce is missing the larger point, much of evolution is bruteforce.

Of course its money or power first thats how you pay for these things to begin with, with utillity we wil get more and more conscious ai but its obviously going to take time but a blip compared the time evolution have used.
ohhhhh.... I'd want that in my osmand for the biking and hiking modes... :)
Interesting but I suspect that whilst possible they would be reserved for the registry.

A bit like in x.400 you could have a mail address of say C=UK CN=brian" but only if you where the ADMD operator - btw my boss did have that email address when I worked on x.400
That is true. Other people's rights are often an inconvenience.
You can’t entirely prevent it but you can certainly raise the bar enough to deter a substantial fraction of those signing up multiple times. Whether that’s worth the effort or not it a business decision.
Kind of the same concept as in Swedish with ”apelsin” for orange (the fruit). apel + sin = Apple from China.
The software Maptiler is for raster output. Not sure what that map page is supposed to demo.
Because it gives the Java programmer too much power in an environment that should be safe. For example there are applets like AppEmbed that can run an EXE in the browser. That's just insane. Flash and Shockwave in contrast are limited in that sense, you are constrained to doing what you are able to accomplish with ActionScript or Lingo (or at least, that is intended to be the case.) Flash is insecure because it's buggy, Java is insecure because it's buggy AND because it's intended to work in ways you'd think are obviously insecure!
New York Moves to Kick Spectrum/Charter/TWC Out of State
If your town is all chain restaurants then it's possible they all have loud music -- it limits talking and so reduces table occupation times, increasing covers and hence profits. The game nowadays is basically make dining as uncomfortable as possible but just this side of obnoxious; at least in any place I can afford.
Once in a restaurant I asked the staff to lower the volume (and they did) for three times, before finally requesting to turn off the music completely. The comic is right though, at least I do have a mental barrier for asking for such favours even as a customer. I likely wouldn't have asked even once if we weren't the only customers.
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If you're paying tuition to do a PhD instead of receiving a stipend, you are being scammed.
I’m curious what this will mean for consumers whose only broadband option at the moment is TWC (currently about half of NYC).
Without coming up with a pretty new overall design, Intel will struggle with that: the IO capabilities of Zen are much better than those of today's Xeons. And the more chips, the more sockets, the more chip IO. On top of that, as the throughput requirements for NICs, accelerators, storage (ssds and nvram-type devices) keeps increasing very quickly, that'll put further pressure on such a design.

Don't get me wrong, it seems likely that Intel is considering such options, but they won't be all too amazing for many workloads.
Firefox Is Testing &quot;Time Travel Debugging&quot;
Home computers were never personal in any interpretation of the word. They were mostly shared among family members which is why unlike PCs were made to play both games and run software.

Calling a home computer a PC is showing a fundamental lack of understanding not only what PC is and was but more importantly what home computer was and why its named home computer and not pc or game computer or whatever.
Optimization and statistical algorithms known as "AI" are far far far away from surpassing humans. Philosophically, it will never happen, we can create intelligence at best equal to human being's, but creating that kind of "AI" would be equal to creation of life which is beyond scope of technology.

AI is as dangerous as we decide it can be, for example we can create gun with camera and shoot to people based on their looks. Law and common sense should not allow that, that's criminal activity.

I think AI should grow, and take over boring and repetitive tasks. This will free up many people form dull jobs and new jobs on top of that will be created, i.e. jobs to tune and organize AI units of computations and talk to other people about results.
Making a room easy to conversate in is pretty easy and cheap (carpets, curtains, ceiling tiles...). Making a room pretty is quite tricky and expensive (design of materials, architecture, ...).

What’s really rare and ultra expensive is making both at once. Create a space with clean surfaces, high ceilings, etc and still manage acoustics.

That’s where restaurants fail. And I get that they fail because if quiet+pretty is too
expensive, then in the choice between quiet and pretty you will do better going for pretty. Because as much as people complain about noise, we never even visited the quiet place with fitted carpets and acoustic tiles.

A related observation I made was that light really makes people loud. I recently had breakfast in a hotel that made an unusual design choice: a very dark candle lit space was used as the breakfast restaurant. Despite being full of people, most were naturally whispering. But light is just another design element. If you design with lots of light, you also get louder conversation (at least that is my observation based on just a few data points).