skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So this is the part of evolutionary theory that can never really give up the ghost. There are non-deterministic/non-linear forces at work, which may or may not divulge direct evidence of sequential events.

Why did some primates emerge with brains twice the size of their ancestors, over many thousands of generations, during the course of several million years?

This hypothesis can only fit inside the huge knowledge gap. Many times, accelerated evolutionary changes signify arms races and bottle necks. An arms race like the Cambrian explosion has lots of things happening at the same time, a form of evolutionary tit-for-tat game. A bottle neck is something like the dinosaurs disappearing. The invasive species concept is, many times, kind of in between.

Since we can't access or develop a perfect map of primate migration patterns from an ideal fossil record of all historic skull sizes over time, demonstrating how the expanding brain case trend took shape, the details for the specific drivers of these changes are unclear.

We have a grand canyon sized void of information, and all we can really do is consider bridge designs that utilize natural forces to connect the empty space separating both sides. Figure, maybe, the stoned ape concept is like some epic beaver dam between us and our predecessors.

Since the human brain is an unprecedented organ, we have few avenues for corollaries. Like the big bang theory, we'll get stuck with whatever idea connects the most dots, fits inside the knowledge gap, whether it ousts other ideas or not.

Even if incorrect, the big bang fits what we see, but can never tell us why time started at all, if material existence truly began as a singularity, or whether something existed prior to moment zero. It may be that the big bang is an event that can only be obscuring prior information, due to some unknowable cosmological process that destroyed any such information predating this mysterious expansion event. Perhaps some crunch or freeze, reduced the sampleable scope of the universe we inhabit and currently observe into a pin-prick singularity we are forced to guess only broad, basic details about. How would we inform ourselves of what exists beyond the observable universe, or learn of events prior to a moment that destroyed all preceding facts or information?

As a hypothetical idea, the stoned ape hypothesis will always deal in uncertainty, at least until we discover the next ground-breaking evidence that changes the current picture. Same with the big bang: we can't really know if it's correct, so much as we can only deal in observable facts evident to our perspective, and that can be unsatisfying.

If multiple stories fit inside an evidence-starved narrative (brains doubling in size), these competing stories will sit deadlocked until a tie-breaker appears, usually with the most easily reasoned hypothesis carrying preference until rendered untenable. Science and institutional academia often shuns juicy excitement, which is where this theory's incredible story is found wanting of incredible evidence.
Not unexpected with all the restrictions on data collection being put in place in the West. Google needs the data for its ai. China is more open to data collection as long as it is shared with the government.
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I have a lot of reasons but I'll share the one that always comes first. I have never had a Linux laptop that would both reliably run three monitors and proper power saving when solo on battery.

Every response I ever get is always so disappointing too because it's usually people who think your time is worth nothing and they casually want you to spend hours screwing with Bumblebee or whatever. And when I do build up the patience to actually try it ends up breaking something else about my graphics.

Sorry this is a sore spot for me. I do robotics so using a Mac for years was painful when I had to run ROS, but everything else about it stayed completely out of my way.

Ubuntu is fantastic only when I low-pass my actions, avoiding anything slightly edgy, unusual, out there.

Oh my god I had to compile mouse drivers for my Logitech MX to make the wheel stop screwing up. It's a mouse!!! They were invented in the 20th century!

My Bluetooth driver just crashes once a week. Silently. My mouse just stops working. I have to power it off fully because a reboot won't do it.

I lived in an apartment around 50 or so wifi connections. I would have to toggle wifi on and off over and over the first time connecting because the damn list wouldn't show them all and mine wasn't on the list!

I've worked in product and while I still think so much about product is just utter nonsense, some of it isn't, and it's those practical parts that seem lost on so many engineers.

Why can't I make my damn software Ubuntu update thing not appear every day? I've tried to kill it with stack overflow answers a few times.

Why do I have to pick between chrome having tiny controls and the rest of my UI having massive controls on my 4k monitor?

I don't care about what brand it is. If it's cool. If it's open source or free. I just want it to all just quietly work and stay well out of my way.

No actually I'm not done yet. Why do I have to tell it every time what kind of headphones I just plugged in? And when I leave sleep it forgets and starts blasting 80s eurodisco in the office even though they're still plugged in?

Okay I think I'm done for good this time. Just off the top of my head the things that make me feel like I'm trying to become a master musician by practicing 10 000 hours on a kazoo.
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The other elements of reform are orthogonal to a crackdown on driving, and could just as easily be undertaken first. It’s magical thinking to assert that they will sort themselves out just because we made it harder to drive.
I suppose the author meant that the illusion of proper encryption is worse than simply storing the password as plaintext - especially when the encryption is presented as an opaque string instead of clearly stating that it's using MD5.
I’m not sure. I think I’ve felt a few times as well “if they just..” but as a trillion dollar company now, I think their strategy works perfectly, and after all we pay them a premium to make these design and hardware choices that we may not always understand or agree with in the beginning.
Up late on the snorts, eh?
What I've seen in the wild is companies implementing OPDS up until the part that involved actually downloading and decrypting of content, at which point their in-house system takes over.
Possibly referring to a different f word than you might be thinking of. Eg I assumed it wasn't fuck.
Agree. If you define 'dead' as is 'rare' and/or 'have not heard of anyone still using it' it's pretty much dead. It's a shame that it died (as consuming RSS feeds was an extremely efficient way of staying up-to-date without mindlessly browsing the web and checking tens/hundreds of sites).

If you ask me Mozilla didn't kill RSS, they just updated their browser to reflect a reality. The reality is that most people don't use RSS and don't care about it. Who killed RSS? Going to go out on a limb here and say Google. Anyone remember Google Reader? That thing was amazing - I remember the days I used to go through all my feeds in under 10 minutes. .I guess it did not really fit Google's business model or it wasn't big enough to worth investing in, but if you ask me it was the closest Google came to having a social network.
Mind explaining the joke? Is there another meaning besides the straight-forward one?
In my opinion Kolmogorov complexity is unfortunately limited (if not useless) for saying anything about fundamental complexity - see

Kolmogorov Complexity - it's a bit silly - http://forwardscattering.org/post/7
and
More on Kolmogorov Complexity - http://forwardscattering.org/post/14
Running a profitable RSS-driven startup (https://feedity.com), I've come to the conclusion that RSS is not a consumer technology. It's a business technology, and a critical notification 'protocol'.

Millions of businesses, 'knowledge workers' and infovores rely on RSS for their daily workflow and learning, without which they'll have no other reasonable alternative to stay updated with decisive information and insights for high-volume, high-frequency, low-noise Web content.

Starting from Google Reader's shutdown to Firefox's removal of RSS support, it's just that these consumer vendors have not been able to leverage its business use-cases. It's a feature for them that they couldn't monitize, because that requires a different tool-set, which is not their primary product.

RSS is a backbone, much like a simple API, but it was touted as a front-end enriched with ads, analytics, widgets etc., that didn't/can't work for the casual consumer.

RSS ecosystem is alive and healthy for it's vast and core audience, irrespective.
Aren’t Y4s still long lived credentials?
Is it really? Google plans to comply with the CCP's censorship and information control plans.

The Chinese government are quite literally putting an entire ethnicity inside concentration camps as we speak.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/opinion/china-re-educatio...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/07/24/islamic-leaders-have-no...

No comparison warranted? The only thing refusing to compare the nazis to anything does is lets behavior like this thrive.
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One word: HiDpi

Details: try a HiDpi display and a non HiDpi display both connected to the same PC. Nothing but MacOS handles this well. Even Win10 struggles with Windows that straddle the boundary or things dragged across it.
I agree. I've long thought that animation could potentially make it much clearer what's going on in Vim.

Like if the user types 'das' to delete the current sentence, and it quickly highlights the text to be deleted, and then shows it shrinking away, as the text that was following it moves in to take its place. (Obviously, you'd want the animation to happen pretty quickly).

Such animation could make it clearer what the command is doing, and this could also make it easier to tell if you'd accidentally typed a command that didn't do quite what you wanted.
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urban areas has soundly rejected market allocation of housing, at least for new construction.
I think this is good advice. There is loads of work in PHP that require his kinds of skills. You might not go to the local ECMAScript meet up and do a talk about it but it's gainful employment and there ain't nothing wrong with that.

I share office space with a company that does SME consulting work and they do heaps of Magento, Wordpress and the like. Everyone's getting paid and nobody is complaining.
As a geek I’m always excitedly reading these and I’ve done a couple of hackontosh laptop conversions over the years just for the hell of it, but in my limited opinion (and mind you I always converted older laptops) there’s not much that i think would come close to the perfection that is the Apple hardware and software combination - it’s somehow just such wonderful devices and despite me really wanting a more unique and cool (maybe small and tablet based) MacOS device, i don’t think I’ll ever truly move away from Apple hardware. Do others feel the same?
React itself is quite small and can be learnt in a weekend. The other stuff such as Redux, Webpack, Babel, etc. will take a bit longer, but overall it shouldn’t take that long to get up to speed. If you’re able to go at it solidly for a month, I recommend training yourself in these things.
There are a couple of different approaches, depends on what you are looking for right now... a) join a volunteer oriented club, b) identify people one-hop out from your current professional network that you want to engage with and email them to see if they have time to meet, and c) talk to your neighbors.
> Maybe go fully ramen noodle

The guy is literally homeless. How could he get more "ramen noodle" than that?

This isn't the time to be picky about working for The Man. Now is the time to get some cash and get his life back on track. He can worry about whether he's solving "real world problems" when he has a roof over his head, some money in his pocket, and a resume that lets him pick and choose.
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Can I use a non-monospaced font in either Vim or gVim?
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It's very important that NASA will fly again American spacecrafts. And it's also important that all these years after the final Shuttle flight ISS manned flights are carried by Soyuzes, no matter the relationships between Russia and USA. Don't believe that Soyuz is all 1960's - it's a bit like pointing to the conical shape of Starliner and saying "that's the same as Apollo's".
I've long wondered how the world would appear if we had a different set of cone cell photoreceptors and if a full spectrum engine could be used to simulate that by projecting a different set of spectrum ranges to our eyes. It would still be "seeing in RGB" of course, but entirely different aspects of the world would become visible. I can already do this when converting an image to grayscale, giving different luminance weight to the different channels. It would be really interesting to arrange weights on the entire EM spectrum.

(I'm reminded of some company that developed a pair of glasses for color-blind people which enabled them to see "color". I think it was a similar princple.)
I think ally limits you to $10 a month. I don’t use an ATM that’s not in-network. I’ve only done it once (well three times because you can only withdraw up to $400 at a time and I needed a thousand). Iirc you get the money back at the end of the month.
The Bentogo name comes from "Bento + togo".
I mean, you could say that about co-op programs that mandate a single employer as well.
I had Fedora 26 or 27 installed on a secondary partition on my tower for a while and wasn’t particularly impressed. All of the things mentioned in my original comment applied to some degree... I could make it work and I’d use it over Windows any day but it wouldn’t be my first choice.
Suppose they make that ton of money. Everybody gets a ton of money.

What are you going to do with it? What is the endgame of this money accumulation?
> Search is their business and they won't be allowed to conduct it there without censorship.

Right. Nor should they if that is the cost of doing business. Sometimes there are lines that shouldn't be crossed.

> if you hadn't noticed Google's absence from china didn't liberate the Chinese people.

"I haven't been helping any thieves for the last decade, but robberies still keep happening. I might as well get in on it and make some money."

Sorry, but I have a hard time taking your arguments seriously. You seem to be working very hard to miss the point.
Is this because of the leadership of Sundar Pichai? It seems as though he might have good plans on making more revenue, but it flies in the face of the expectations of his employees. Does this bode poorly for him as CEO if his employees are openly rebelling against these high-profile projects such as this and the drone AI project?
Perhaps use the pattern used by rotary encoders? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_encoder#Ways_of_encodin...

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc5hIxdCMZ0 for a visual example.
From a hardware point of view, I don't get it. There's this laughable failure where macOS lacks drivers for the keyboard and touchpad: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=geGmC1xI4zo

MacBooks also seem to be configured to spin the fan up at 81 degrees C, which is a ridiculous temperature to do so.

I get that their software is probably second to none, but they have major issues on the hardware side.
twitter is a voter intimidation operation

it is not a legitimate business

twitter is a great shame of the USA

it is an illegal operation designed to make it easy for the democratic party to destroy democracy is the USA

twitter is evil

Jack Dorsey is evil

Jack Dorsey is going to hell

Jack Dorsey is a sinner

Jack Dorsey needs extrajudicial execution yesterday

Jack Dorsey is a fucked up monster, he needs to be killed, period.
My thoughts:

- Take advantage of any opportunity that sounds legit, like reaching out to leesalminen from this comment => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17685318

- Work out a detailed, simple, and clear plan for you're going to practice coding as if it were your full time job, because you may need to ask people for help (access to a computer, a safe place to store a computer, a place to clean up & prepare for interviews, etc.)

- Never, ever get down on yourself for doing what you gotta do to survive & get back on your feet

- To the extent that you can, be careful about who you choose share the realities of your situation with, especially during interviews, as you need employers to think that hiring you is a good business decision, and being homeless (in my opinion) has nothing to do with that

- Despite the fact that many people might suggest you get a minimum wage job, that's going to be a big time suck, and if you can find a way to survive without the job, you may wanna use that time to practice coding & interviewing instead (it might be possible to work out a deal with a employer where you can work on a flexible schedule, but don't lose sight of the fact that flipping burgers will not do much to make you better at interviewing for coding jobs)

- Stay positive when telling your story, because the more people are blown away by how you can stay upbeat as you deal with some tough stuff, the more they're going to want to help you

- If you want to practice interviewing, hear some thoughts on how to attract recruiters, or just have someone listen while you vent, I'd be happy to carve out some time for you (personal info is in my profile)

- Go forth and kick ass
Isn’t that just apropos?
Apple should take note because a cPanel+Wordpress shared-hosted blog had downtime?
Good progress! I understand blurring the y-axis, though I'm curious about how large those up/down swings are. Have you considered using an exponentially-weighted average to smooth out the noise in the measurements?

It's just $ f(x_n) = f(x_{n-1}) * (1 - alpha) + x_n * alpha , f(x_0) = x_0 $ where 0 < alpha < 1 (lower values give a smoother graph but lags more)

Here's a quick sketch of how to do it in gnuplot without having to preprocess the data:

# Getting previous values via https://stackoverflow.com/a/25753509/5921362

alpha = 0.1
prev = 0
shift(x) = (prev = x)
ewma(prev, cur) = shift(prev * (1 - alpha) + cur * alpha)

plot data using 1:2 with p,\
data using 1:(prev < 1 ? shift($2) : ewma(prev, $2)) with l
The confusion was that you were not using the term "zero-sum game" correctly. It's the exact opposite.
I don't know if I would be proud.

It is very easy to be morally outraged for something that everyone in the West already agrees with. At this point it is almost a way to display a morale high ground.

I would rather see morale outrage on more subtle subject such as the digital addiction that Youtube etc creates, literally destroying lifes. [1]

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/our-minds-have-been-hijacked-by-...
Many carbohydrates have a higher satiety index than beef does, for example. Potatoes and oats are both more filling than a steak.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/15-incredibly-filling-f...

Legumes are high in carbohydrates and protein and are extremely nutritious and filling.
> how do we import functions from another file / module?

Currently everything is public, so you can just give multiple files to the compiler and it ought to work. I’m working on a more structured module system right now. As a first step, definitions will be private to the vocab (namespace) in which they’re defined by default, and adding an “export” annotation will make them visible from other vocabs. “import” will be sugar for introducing local synonyms (aliases) of definitions in other vocabs.

What do you mean by “multi-line concatenations”?
girzel,

You have to “cheat”. Cheating is when you build your side project/business while employed. Some can arrange this but many simply can’t. I chose to quit a lucrative, somewhat stable consulting gig and with reliance on savings to start an independent software provider service in the same field. Boy did I learn about the same skills shortage spoken about in this thread and the article! The emotional rollercoaster point is so true. If you cannot regulate your emotions (basically become a stoic), it will hurt no end.

It’s been 5 years since I started and I have only managed one enterprise sale (that sale itself took me two years to sign). Been hobbling along in zero growth purgatory since. If this client cancels I am fucked.

It is easier to imagine a life of zero responsibility and drastically reduced stress and anxiety. It’s a fantasy for me now imagining myself “cruising” (another poster’s word) at a full time job. I am 45 now and jokingly imagine myself unemployable. I wouldn’t last a day being microanaged.

My autonomy is important to me. My autonomy gives me full control over how I develop my craft on my own schedule.

When asked by people how things are going, it’s always “fine! Great! All good!” (But the ruse is only as thin or thick as my skin)!
The way I see it, it is mainly Koolaid and a narrative told to the young influenceable techies so they feel invested with a mission, and perform better.
pretty much all Thai islands suffer from this Ko Phangan island, Ko Samui etc, ko=island
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Even that incentive may be good for society overall though. Efficient transportation is not a zero-sum game. There are currently people sitting in traffic who are willing & able to pay more not to sit in traffic.

By building systems which allow those people to pay more, then reinvesting that revenue in transportation improvements, everyone can benefit.

Of course we need to be careful not to create a premium-only product, but some balance should be achievable.
Well, of course, the devil may lay in the details. Anecdotes follow...

My wife had a medical emergency in Tokyo on New Years day 2018. We learned the hard way that if it's not __direly life threatening in that exact moment__ that you __will not__ be given care. You'll be told to come back on the 3rd when services re-open. We got __very__ lucky and she was able to be seen as the literal last patient at an urgent care that we got in to contact with through the concierge at a previous hotel we had stayed at (a very expensive hotel we stayed at for a few nights but were not current guests with).

The __extremely__ distraught looking Australian man with a Japanese girl alongside him, looking for the morning after pill? They were turned away. A Japanese man who had been __hit by a taxi and could barely walk__ was turned away. We saw a few other cases turned away that day and I genuinely felt bad that these people could not, or would not, be seen but that my wife would. It was eye opening, to say the least.

We rounded out our trip in Roppongi and talked to some expats who said that was the standard fare. Get hurt on or around major holidays and you'll be fending for yourself, that was the signal.