skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the idea of RPGs and have wondered about them as art. Thinking about your comment:

One challenge of RPGs producing 'high' art, similar to literature, is that you need a talented, skilled artist. The art of literature can be reproduced and consumed on a large scale: James Joyce writes a book and everyone reads it. Most art that we experience is produced by people with 1-in-10,000 ability (as a guess; that would be 32,000 Americans) that have honed their ability throughout their lives.

In RPGs, the artists are some people you know who play occasionally. They aren't 1-in-10,000 (unless you are very lucky, and then the rest of the group is not), and they don't hone their skills as if it is a profession.

Perhaps RPGs are more like folk art, which is not an insult; folk art produces some wonderful works.

It's hard to imagine RPGs rising higher: Given the structure of them - they require personal interaction and there's way to provide no mass reproduction and consumption of the great artists - it would be hard to make a living doing them or to have your work seen, which means nobody will spend their lives honing the skills (and you need not just one person, but a group of DMs and players to create the art). People work all their lives to be great painters, great guitar players, etc.; will anyone work that hard to be a DM? Will they meet a group of similarly committed players and form a 'band'? Who will pay them? Who will ever see them? Perhaps people will watch a highly skilled group play, but for the viewers that's passive consumption - the opposite of what makes RPGs creative and artistic.

OTOH, I'd certainly pay to play with a a brilliant artist (who can master DM'ing). What an experience!
I bought AMD at $2.87 after someone on HN or Reddit (can't remember which) from AMD was discussing their new architecture and how it could be manufactured cheaper and was as performant.

Thank god someone spilled the beans; also incentives me read HN all the time -_-
> I see all those hypotheses but are those verifiable?

They are not scientific theories. They are akin to the schools of thought in literary theory, and film theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_theory#Schools

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_theory#Specific_theories_...
Student-built Hyperloop pod hits 290 MPH
The true cause of the Mandela Effect isn't false or inaccurate memories, it's the fact that time isn't a line, causality doesn't really exist and the past constantly changes and alters the present. People are really correctly remembering details from former versions of reality. You're not getting old, It really was Berenstein!

Also, the reason this is the case is that CERN discovered the universe is a simulation and broke time trying to hack it.
Hmm most don't? They do usually require Ruby though
Heh, I guess I should have been more elaborate. It was half sarcastic, half philosophical. I was just imagining a future where resources/money only matter to purchase privacy and most essential needs are taken care of. Instead of rich poor, what if the future is those with privacy and those with out, or some shade of that? Maybe it will always be science fiction, but we live in an increasingly monitored world and that power could easily be turned on citizen.
When Facebook posted good returns and stock didn't drop right after Cambridge Analytica many were gloating about how that is "proof" that the privacy scandal didn't affect Facebook and that no privacy scandal will ever affect Facebook.

But they were simply not looking closely enough. And as I said back then, you need to give this sort of things time to see the real effects, like at least until the end of the year. Because I believe the worst is still ahead of Facebook. Facebook is now on a downwards path, and it's irreversible.

Facebook is now officially Blackberry. And just like with Blackberry before, many dismissed the fundamental issues of the company while blindly following the "record quarters" Blackberry kept having until 2009.

If they had just looked closely enough, they would've seen that BB's core North American market was on a steep decline path and it was also obvious that its phones were nowhere near as good as iPhones or Android phones.

Just look at what's happening to Facebook engagement. Ignore Facebook's sugarcoating. Look how the people around you are using Facebook and what they say about it.
A unity of Ethereum projects which have a strong focus on building product and infrastructure
Indeed. I taught myself how to juggle recently, because I am fairly clumsy and thought this was something I’d never be able to do, but I wanted to see how far I’d go.

For a month or so, I’d spend 10 minutes a day doing various throwing/catching exercises with 1, then 2, then 3 balls (went on YouTube for resources).

And then at some point - much like you described for playing the blues - all the separate motions all came together and I was juggling.
GUI abstractions and Erlang abstractions have a lot of impedence mismatch. wxWindows is really confusing to use in my opinion. ex11 actually kind of makes sense, but it was mostly built in the stone age of x11, so widgets look wierd, and there's not any sort of modern font support. It's not too hard to add things, but you have to understand x11 protocol and do all the work (I added support for window titles)
What's your opinion about traveling to Tibet?
If one bought into "the security story", one would expect your company after this policy change to have seen fewer random regressions due to random people rooting around in systems for which they were not responsible. Did you find that to be the case?
> Twitter could choose to mention the criteria they used to select the original set of accounts they used to train their model

The first step to blocking trolls is to not help them understand how they got identified. Seriously, ask Google what algorithm they use to block scammers. They aren’t going to tell you, because then the scammers will just use it to screw with search results even more.
Having recently moved to data science at another big gcp early adopter, BQ was a complete game changer having come from redshift and hive
Warming Arctic could be behind heatwave sweeping northern hemisphere
Evidently it's not employees, but contractors (via Accenture, etc). Rumour around these parts is a content mod killed themselves at work a couple months ago. Wouldn't want to put that on actual employees of course!
uscpablo

Thanks!
Facebook loses $120B in market cap after awful Q2 earnings
I've honestly never understood the love for Steve jobs, he nearly drove apple into the ground, wasn't actually responsible for the good products apple actually made. He was a marketing guy, quite frankly a huckster and a complete asshole to boot.
With this s kind of history of brazen dusregard for your responsibilities, this person will do this many times over.

If they eant to fire her, they will get their chance sooner or later, all they have to do is br dilligent.
You must opt in to share your data for research. Each 23andme user has a choice.

email I received from 23andme today.
"Our top priority is you, the customer, and empowering you with the options to participate in research. As always, you choose whether or not to participate in research. You can choose to opt-in or opt-out at any time."

If you're not a customer, might not want to throw around assumptions.
> The downvotes for simply having another vision of a better future are silly.

It's hubris to declare that your vision inherently provides a better future.

Happily you are completely free to start your own project(s) to 'solve Earth's problems' too -- it won't get in the way of what others (in this case, Musk) is doing, and you can look forward to basking in the glory of curing cancer, etc.

Unless the problem is that other people aren't working exclusively on the things that are important to you?
The science has a clear cut answer to this, not only with twin studies but also with different genes having been tied to specific body features that directly affect athletic ability.

If genetics didn't play a meaningful role in athleticism, we wouldn't have evolved it. But even if that was true at some point in history, that would only be temporary, because without selective pressure, genetic drift would move the population to some point where there was selective pressure.

Obviously environment plays a role, with climate giving kids in California more practice time, or the annual cut-off date in team sports affecting who's in what age group.
Markets tend to over-optimize. That's why I warned caution when many were saying the Cambridge Analytica scandal didn't harm Facebook, even though it was obvious FB was being quite misleading about what was actually impacted at the time and about the fact that their good results were actually given by the stuff that had happened before Cambridge Analytica.

Over-optimization means that even when a string of bad news hit, the stock may not change much because of the previous string of good news still having inertia and the market "not really believing" the new bad stories. But eventually the market sentiment changes, and then it all comes crashing down, and now the bad news are over-optimized, and the good news become irrelevant. And the cycle repeats itself.

This is harder to see with stock because it tends to happen over a multi-year span, but it's much easier to see with cryptocurrencies where this happens over a several months period.
This is not being judgemental, this is factual based on scientific research (Facebook has even admitted as much).

You could Google “Facebook harmful effects research” for several pages of citations.
>> That's why Ada is slowly dying and I'm not sure the good folks at AdaCore really get it.

I made the same complaint in a previous "someone just rediscovered Ada" quarterly thread, and an Adacore dev replied that most of their lib are now GPL + linking exception (well, he didn't say "now", but on their former Web site it's pretty clear no exception was mentioned anywhere regarding their OSS code, so I assume there was a change recently).

I agree with your sentiment in that, Adacore being into high end consulting, I don't see what they'd be losing by relaxing their licencing. This would bring in new people (I mean, if there's a new "hey I just found out about that Ada thing" thread popping up every few months here or on Reddit, clearly the language has something going for itself), which is clearly something they want to see happen.
lol, insider trading? :-) Do have the original comment thread?
Cost (or rather bytes scanned) is sent back from the API on any queries or dry run/validation calls. There's a common chrome extension to put it in the legacy ui, and I believe the beta ui has it baked in (as part of validation)
Not my favorite conspiracy theory, but I have an affinity for the "Face on Mars". I worked on image processing software for Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey. I was probably the first person to see some of the images taken. I foolishly got into a few debates with conspiracy nuts about the "face," while showing them the location at higher resolution, from different angles, etc. I learned that one should just back away from them slowly until it's safe to run.

I had a similar experience working on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the "we never landed on the moon" nutjobs, but the Mars people are far crazier.
When you did this? Why wouldn't all journalists always do this?
> just a cheaply made Feitian Key though rebranded for Google Cloud

Google claims to have written the firmware, so it's more than "rebranded" certainly.
Just like the opioid crisis, there is a point at which individual choices collectively impact society. I'm personally fine with someone shooting up in the privacy of their own home, but clearly something must be done when entire communities are affected.

Facebook has shown a willingness to provide my country's adversaries a powerful tool to subvert the foundations of its society. Fomenting racial strife and spreading pernicious rumors is just the start of it.

The country and the world would be a better place without Facebook.
Reading his website makes him seem less like a master of anything serious and more a master at self aggrandizing douche baggery.

B=MAP reads much like any self helpy gimmick, something so obvious and so useless you somehow feel smart for having had your obvious thoughts on a topic reworded and handed back to you in corny new configuration you can share with your vapid fake friend group.
It feels like you're implying that NYT should be absolved of this. Make no mistake - no one held a gun to their head and made them print those stories.
My point has been the "X is ruining the children's attention" is a constant across history for several new X each generation for as long as there has been civilization.

You could certainly do a study of some metric and X's effect on it and find a few that were affected negatively, call that 'damage', and write blog posts about it. X would continue to thrive, adults would continue to complain about it, and the next generation would find a new X to use, abuse, and irritate their parents.

Philosophically, 'damage' is more like 'change' and there are a lot of people who like complaining about it because they have forgotten or misremembered what it was like to be young and have limited capacity to empathize with a different generation. If there are things about the change which are right and wrong, they probably aren't the ones being discussed or even understood until enough time has passed to see the change with the perspective of time and by then whatever problems have likely resolved themselves anyway.
Very well explained, thanks
> The thing that's intriguing to me is the sudden onset of a compulsion to do one particular thing.

The article suggests something different than a compulsion, something like a sudden awareness of music (or art or whatever) that the person didn't have before.

For example, I have a kind of involuntary hobby of cataloging 3rd inversion seventh chords in music. Tchaikovsky likes to use them in descending chromatic sequences. Brian Wilson has a funny one in "God Only Knows" where the bass idiosyncratically resolves up. Etc.

I didn't have an obsession to learn about harmony and then catalog what I learned in the music I hear. I had an awareness of harmony before I took music lessons, then I learned the notation and went, "Oh, that's what it's called."

I think that's one of the most frustrating parts of learning something that's really new to you. Suppose I had no initial awareness of harmony and tried to learn to identify those 3rd inversion seventh chords by obsessively cataloging them. Perhaps I do some work studying pop and classical music, and after lots of effort I come up with the Tchaikovsky and Beach Boys examples. Then some musician with an awareness of harmony walks in and starts effortlessly adding more: there's one arpeggiated when Link falls in a hole in Ocarina of Time, in the theme to Back to the Future, a famous one in the transition of the last movement of Beethoven's Fifth, a string of them in a chromatic sequence in the Shepherd's Tune from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, etc. "Oh, and isn't the verse of Tom Petty's 'Here Come's My Girl' just a famous alternation between a triad and a 3rd inversion seventh chord built on the first scale degree of a Lydian scale?" In that case I would start to wonder whether I really want to continue with my project.

Of course one can actually learn and improve that awareness with enough practice. But it requires perseverance to keep at it in the face of people who naturally have those same abilities (and often don't seem to value them).
I think Elixir can be pretty easy for newcomers if they have the chance to work with someone who provides guidance on the OTP parts of the ecosystem. Immutable fp has a whole lot less weird stuff going on than some popular oo and imperative languages. I think it's hard for people to jump into writing concurrent systems when they have no experience with it and all of a sudden have some powerful tools to try, but getting stuff done with modules and functions is refreshing straightforward, especially with how good the docs have become.
That's basically what DARPA is, isn't it? Except that DARPA is focussed towards military applications.
Cool idea. I might pay $10-$15 for something like this on Udemy.
If I understand the Science article¹ right, this lake is 1.5 km beneath the surface. That's a lot of digging when you can't go buy a new shovel.

Besides the fact it was only discovered right now, that is.

¹ The two-way pulse travel time between the surface and basal echoes can be used to estimate the depth of the subsurface reflector and map the basal topography. Assuming an average signal velocity of 170 m/μs within the SPLD, close to that of water ice (20), the depth of the basal reflector is about 1.5 km below the surface
It's nice to see someone say that when a person would be hounded to no end online if they showed any skepticism of intelligence agencies' assertions that Russia meddled in the 2016 elections
Just like Google, they are learning that AI is not up to the task of dealing with humans that try to game the system by all means possible.
Kubernetes Vault KMS Provider
I find it to be quite difficult to reach a bag stowed under the seat in front of me without shoving my face in the lap of the person sitting next to me.
Without getting into any theory about how much stocks should vary, if you choose a bunch of random stocks and track them for a few months, I think you would find out that 20% is not a lot.

Stock prices should come with uncertainty bars, like scientific quantities, but there is of course no standard way to calculate and denote that.
Elon Musk allegedly silences one of his shortselling critics by calling his boss
That sounds like a job that you would find at pretty much any mobile gaming company with a free-to-play model. Don’t get me wrong, Facebook has had some pretty gross practices over the years, but it doesn’t exactly rot your teeth and make you steal from your mother.
That really makes it worse. If there were some set of cut-and-dried rules (even one that changed occasionally, because of course Facebook is always changing the rules), outsiders could evaluate those rules and have some idea what's going on. If every data release involves armies of NDA-bound lawyers, there's no way to know anything about Facebook data releases in general. It's completely possible that the Cantabrigians negotiated everything they did beforehand, due to some combination of Facebook lawyer variability and the CA lawyers being more aggressive than your firm's lawyers.
I think the issue with the "don't like it, don't use it" is that it's specifically designed to be addicting. It's hard to say they aren't complicit in the harm when they designed it to be harmful (being addicted to Facebook isn't the worst thing to be addicted to but it's still harmful).
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Hmm. My answer would be “you don’t, unless you are willing to accidentally give stronger guarantees”. I believe that standard C11 permits a function to allocate malloc-style from a big static arena of type array of char. You can even implement free() and reuse the memory. But then all the allocations are really pointers into the arena, and certain operations that should be UB aren’t if you use this type of malloc.

But then you throw something like __attribute__((malloc)) on it, and define that as transforming the return value into a new Pointer that is in a different, fresh allocation. And you declare that access to the range of the arena in use is UB until free() gets called.

I don’t know how well this fits into the formalism, but I think that a complete formal memory model would need to understand that free() is permitted to treat its argument as a pointer into a large array of char, but that free()’s caller is not.
There is a certain level of starting knowledge that can be very beneficial or even necessary before dedicated immersion. Your year of classes likely provided sufficient overview to make the start of your summer more productive than it would have been otherwise.

I mention this only because if you take up painting then I recommend studying up on the materials and processes first (how to mix paints on the palette and also on the canvas).
It's about reducing exposure to risk more than actual occurrences. You only need to regress once for it to permanently damage your business. Just because it never happened until now doesn't mean that it won't in the future.
Issue in Mozilla's bug tracker:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1477667

Draft of an explanatory blog post (linked from the above issue):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aIMPZVy33mn34pXBUETk4lt_...
How much of this should be blamed on Google? iOS only allows certain types of apps to run in the background unfettered - audio, navigation, Bluetooth communications apps (like the Pebble) and third party calling apps. Other types of apps can be periodically awakened by the OS (background app refresh), but the OS decides how often they can be awaken based on the frequency of interaction and a few other heuristics. In low power mode, apps that do background app refresh don’t get CPU time(?) and you can control which apps allowed to run in the background.

This allows the OS to distinguish between apps that always need to work in the background and those that don’t. The only drawback is server type apps. While VLC will keep playing audio in the background, I don’t believe the http server that allows you to copy media over a web interface to your phone will work over an extended period of time unless you’re playing audio at the same time.
The Midtown Uniform
To me that award goes to Twitter, not Facebook. Facebook is actually useful to stay in touch with friends and family in a private fashion. Twitter on the other hand is constant pettiness, aggressiveness and bickering 24/7 from people looking for validation and internet points. The worst internet mobs came out of Twitter and my statement doesn't discriminate between political sides.
Probably not insider trading lol. AMD was extensively shilled on /r/wallstreetbets and /r/amd_stock for 2 years now.
Yeah. It seems like her supervisors should be disciplined.
Who do you think ran it and paid for it, though?
A CEO doesn't have to sit in coach. Less affluent folk cannot afford to sit in 1st class.

The way to complain about this service, is to not use the service.
> One of the things that stands out in false stories is that because they are false they stay "on message" in their falseness. This contrasts with stories that are more truthful which tend to include questions and unknowns that might later contradict or modify the story.

This is the main barometer that I use to see if I live in an echo chamber or not and orient myself in the world. The people I listen to (Rogan, Peterson, Weinsteins, Rubin, and to a lesser extent Shapiro and Harris) tend not to speak authoritatively except in narrow circumstances and their opponents (and people I disagree with) tend to speak as if their opinions are self-evidently correct and disagreement is out of the question.

Unrelatedly, another tool is to examine my mentors' critic's arguments. It is very telling that Jordan Peterson is equally accused of being far left and far right.
Please stop this fear mongering. The essence of GDPR is transparency and accountability. Is there anything else there that you're afraid of?
Of course they have uncertainty bars. They are called stock options.
>> "Oh, that's what it's called."

I think what defines great teachers is their ability to illustrate new concepts through familiar and relatable examples.
Ok, but how is that a response to noting this article doesn't mention the party?

The fact that party is commonly mentioned tends to amplify the significance of withholding it in selected cases like this. Right?
>This is true, but he also was financially aided, advised and accompanied by Wikileaks every step of the way.

Prove it.
Ouch, that other benefit of narrowcasting (the relative secrecy of it) didn't really click with me until now.