skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, but I really have no patience for these purely "philosophical" discussions of probability.

I’m not sure what you mean by this. Can you elaborate?

I don't see a single equation on that page

If equations are what you’re looking for, here are a few good starting points:

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-0-387-84816-7_... (Ray Solomonoff, founder of algorithmic information theory)

https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783540221395 (Marcus Hutter)

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-44958-1

but I can assure you that to compute a probability you are assuming some form of the likelihood, ie the way you calculate P(D|H), applies to your problem.

You should really take the time to read the Scholarpedia article (or above sources) on algorithmic probability and Solomonoff induction. It’s one of the most beautiful and elegant examples of mathematically formalizing perennial philosophical intuitions.

The reason I brought up algorithmic probability is because there is a precise mathematical sense in which it is “optimal”. Again, I encourage you to read about universal semimeasures.
Before someone unleashes their malignant creation upon the world, they'll make sure their design choices look boringly common to this tool.

As an aside, the introductory paragraph is an extremely strong piece of writing that gives a great intuition for their motivation.
I definitely agree with you.

The way that I write Objective-C is to use 'id' for everything and have as few classes as possible, mostly I just add methods to the existing classes mainly NSString, NSArray, and NSDictionary.

Objects are interchangeable as long as they can respond to certain messages. For example, any object can be an array as long as it responds to objectAtIndex: and count. There was a whole discussion above about how Objective-C doesn't have generics, but this completely misses the point because Objective-C doesn't even need generics. "Modern" languages are not necessarily an improvement, software generally does not get better over time, it reaches a peak then it declines.

Objective-C is one of the best languages I have ever used, but the vast majority do not understand it, even the ones who say that they used to write Objective-C for X amount of years but now love Swift. The truth is, they never understood the beauty of Objective-C.

I consider Swift to be a language for large teams of average programmers, reading Lattner's response to Swift's criticisms tells me that he is a compiler guy, but that expertise does not carry over at all to programming languages.

I don't really like the direction they were taking Objective-C anyway, so in the end it doesn't matter. I'm against things like dot notation for accessing properties and ARC, I don't use either when I program in Objective-C. Those recent changes end up making the compiler more strict and a pain to deal with.
Concurrent Requests in Node.js (JavaScript) Using Async/Await
It may be as boring as the all meat diet =).

Nuts, avocados vegetables, leafy greens, mushrooms, berries.
Coconut and olive oils.

Most of the time this manifests as:

- Salad with nuts in it. Dressing is chopped cilantro, lime juice, salt and olive oil, which seems to go really well with leafy greens. I can eat this salad for one meal everyday.

- Some kind of a curry or stir fry or soup with vegetables and mushrooms.

- Frozen berries for dessert.

- Salted pistachios for snaking.

It is easy to follow but it does get boring. So, when I crave something else like dessert or bread or fish or whatever then I indulge. That makes it easy to follow the regular diet the rest of the time.
Unless of course, you have low blood pressure, which some of us do.
The all zero thing goes back a while when someone in the military was told to put launch codes in and defiantly made them 0. Because God forbid there should be any protection on the most deadly device ever created by man.
Yet you all cheer when the SPLC implements thoughtcrime right here in the "land of the free".

I hate to indulge the cliche "snowflake", but the notions you all have of what should and shouldn't be on the web is increasingly looking like what your professor told you to think.

Or do only white Americans get to decide what is "hate speech"? Why won't you respect what other cultures determine "hateful"? You certainly expect them to accept your notions...
Lol @ the thought of threat to the bird’s eyes. An average beam is a few mm across, and divergence quickly spreads the beam to trivial power. It would probably happen once in awhile, but it would be incredibly rare to catch one right in the eye. Add to that fact the birds seem scared away so it makes it even more unlikely.
It's much more likely to have reached maximum concurrency than maximum throughput. When the site is accessed by a general audience, many will access it through a 3G connection or worse, and their slow speeds will cause the number of concurrent connections to balloon. This website uses Apache, which sometimes defaults to a maximum of 10 concurrent workers.
But for other consensuses, for example evolution, any individual person can readily explain how it works to a anyone else. Then it is up to the person hearing the model to accept it as fact, and maybe they make some logical error rejecting it. But until you explain to them the model, I don't think you should have any expectation that they should believe you.

It sounds like no one responding to me actually understands how climate models work. How do they work? What are their assumptions, their dynamical models, their uncertainties? I don't think you or anyone else in this thread can tell me that. You can tell me "the data is there", or vague assertions like "there are papers everywhere" - that's it, no specifics. If you were writing a scientific paper with such vague assertions it would be thrown in the trash.

Only specialists are qualified to even enter the debate. That is the essence of the fallacious appeals to authority that undermine all climate arguments. And the specialists are terrible communicators.
Some people at China desperately want to access Google for a better search experience. Is a 80% percent of Google better than no Google at all for Chinese people? If people is dying and you have the cure with a little bit stains, is the ethical violated if you save people with a imperfect way or just let the pantient to die is a better option?
For me, endurance exercise is where I really need salt to avoid cramping. The more hours exercising, the more salt/calories I need to ingest. High intensity doesn't hit my body quite the same way.

Just an anecdote, YMMV
I'm still struggling to understand how that happens. You've got a professional programmer who's just randomly writing code for imaginary requirements they made up? I mean sure, obviously that's bad practice and unnecessary, but who does that, and why do their managers and technical leaders allow it?

I've always taken YAGNI to be a cautionary principle about over-engineering and over-generalising software designs before there's sufficient expectation that the extra flexibility will justify the implementation cost. I'm not sure I've ever seen it used (or needed) in the context of someone just randomly adding arbitrary functionality because they felt like it, and it had never previously occurred to me that someone might restrict the term to only that scenario as Fowler seems to be doing in the quoted comment.
>Some policymakers argue that people who engage in unhealthy habits also impose negative externalities, since they tend to present taxpayers with bigger medical bills. In practice, however, these costs tend to be overstated.

citation needed.
Got it. Not trying to knock the hard work put into this, I'm actually thrilled to see this initiative and only intend to be constructive. Personally, I would rather be asked to trust that site admins were auditing each torrent to ensure it at least looks legitimate, before passing final legal responsibility on to me as a seeder. Leaving users to identify contributors they can trust to never include "Pirated Movie 2018" into their donated seedbox sounds like quite a hurdle to attracting new seeders willing to participate in a "legitimate bittorrent use case" project.
Here's a link without a paywall:

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/in-australia-town-...
But, if the birds derive a significant portion of their yearly calories from eating berries during the harvest, you will still do damage to bird populations. Also, an open berry field keeps birds nearby. If the birds can't eat the berries, then what incentive do they have to stick around and eat harmful insects?

I'm not necessarily against the bird-lasers, but it's worth considering their side effects.
It really depends on sugar and insulin levels, high insulin is the culprit here, primarily due to an increase in high sugar intake combined with increase in fat and or protein.

Also there are many other factors like the move towards more western diets often also includes a less active lifestyle to to moving towards more modern "working/middle-class" type of jobs.

If you eat nothing than rice and some fish from time to time and work in the field all day ofc you won't have problems, if you are loading on fat and sugar or even sugar alone you will.

However fat on it's own does not make you fat on it's own, and with the diet available to most people in the west today reducing their carb intake to 30% or less will do wonders, I'm not advocating for everyone to be on a 20g carbs a day ketogenic diet but obesity is not tied to fat at all.

Don't forget that we have had populations that do not eat carbs or eat very little carbs, inuits, Chukcha etc. traditionally ate little to no carbs as carbs were rarely available, essentially all the population close to the arctic primarily consumes fat and protein and they also doing just fine.
Last Week in Pony – August 12, 2018
I've been getting into old scifi audiobooks. They're quite fascinating.

Not quite as immersive as a dead tree book, but at least I can still enjoy and be absorbed in it while walking/running.
Getting rid off... straight to the concentration camp?

P.S. I also do what I do only for money, please let me know to which camp I should report too.
Was he fed to a crocodile? Is he in a meat pie? Will the reviews for the meat pies improve if a man with failing livers is added to the mix? So many mysteries. I love this article.
This probably didn't help

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCOSejS1SSY
Rethinking storytelling in the crypto space
ADRP operates on the 4kB page of the pc (by truncation), not the entire pc. RISC-V could have implicitly added 2k in auipc and balanced out the bias. But they didn't.
“When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Words I am always reminded of whenever I try to be too clever on the internet.

Glad you're doing better.
Learning Code Readability
Not for a long time. As pointed out by others, too toxic, and too commercial.

I was optimistic about http://pipedot.org/, but it's unmaintained for a long while.

Also https://soylentnews.org/ ... My impression is the comments there are sliding toward toxicity, I'm sorry to say.
My Startup Failed, I Lost Everything. Here’s What I Learned
Funny how one of the examples for translation

>"I will not buy this record; it is scratched." -> Spanish
>No compraré este expediente; se rasguña.

is wrong x).
Proportionate isn't clear, again don't mistake the dollar amount they pay in taxes with their tax, while we cap taxation for a good reason as progressive upto 100% is a very bad idea.

And yes it is clear to anyone who studied economics, and more importantly it's really depressing that you are using these populist arguments how about replacing the movie star with a doctor? Is it ok we pay a doctor who spent the better part of the first 30 years of their life becoming one and would spend the next 30-40 years being one more than a worker at McDonalds who's only required qualifications are to not set the building on fire and being able to say "do you want fries with that?"

The sad truth is that you wouldn't find people that are successful and do no work hard even those kardashians that you seem to adore so much.
No, because currently they’re forced to use a VPN and see the full thing, which is what most people do because results are way better than Baidu (even in 中文).
no way raptors or shotguns can affect close to as many birds.
I've actually built a similar language directly inspired by this one. It's been left to sit for a long time due to some issues with the implementation and language itself.

https://metacpan.org/pod/Language::Farnsworth

I originally built it because I wanted an easier to integrate version into an IRC bot, the java implementation of Frink was hard to integrate safely (keep it from running too long, max memory usage, etc.) at the time and having a native perl version made handling a lot of that easier.

Language wise, the problems I ran into were that, at least in my implementation, it began to get very difficult to parse a lot of things unambiguously and I couldn't solve them without a larger redesign of the language. In particular handling arrays and making user defined types easier to use and make (you can emulate that right now with currying and closures to make function calls simpler). I never got it past that step because I didn't want to do a complete redesign of the language and break all compatibility, right now about 80% of all Frink programs will probably just work fine in Farnsworth, and 90% with some minor tweaks.
I agree. Mild depression for most of my life and running has been the biggest help in regulating my mood. Not only that running makes me feel better but the fact that 'I' can make myself feel better by going for a run is meaningful to me.
Thank you for taking the time to share all this.
If you define a "radian" like that you lose all the nice properties of sin like sin(x)' = cos(x)
Why so Spurious? (BlackHat 2018)
You love this article about the possible murder of a 70 year old alcoholic labourer who lived by himself with no family in the whole country?

I think it's sad.
Another benefit is personal improvement. We spend a good portion of our lives preparing for life. Once your career starts where do you improve from there? Exercise gives you something for personal improvement that is outside of your regular path. It gets you away from the computer.
Oh, give me a break. I obviously meant I was OK with those people quitting their jobs.
Rather than building your own browser, take a look at Beaker Browser.
My guess is, it’ll sit just fine with them and we won’t see any push back.
We don't have to close them off entirely, but we do have to acknowledge the problem in our faces. Google would be happy to apply the censorship worldwide, not just in China!

If Western culture isn't dead, if our Western legal traditions mean anything at all (I'm talking about individual rights here) then we have to fight the good fight for ourselves and on behalf of those who can't. Otherwise we'll succumb to the least common denominator because technocrats simply don't care.

I'll tell you the truth--I don' think the new generation in SV has any understanding of history whatsoever. I think they believe they are the most brilliant, infallible people in the world. So I don't have a great outlook on what our future holds because it's always like this when a generation arrogantly forgets the past and thinks that nothing bad can ever happen. SV is almost 100% Democrats, coincidence?
> However the fsin instruction's job is to calculate the sin of the actual input number, not try to guess what input was intended.

Not guessing what was 'intended', just treating a number like "1.234567" as "any number that could have rounded to 1.234567000, whatever is most convenient". Does it cause any practical problems to do this? How often do people actually expect/need a double to be treated as having infinite precision, rather than 53 bits or slightly more than 53 bits of precision?
> salt makes food taste better

My stepfather would say the same thing. Whenever I'd eat a salad, he'd look at it and say "I can't eat that shit," then he'd eat a steak that had been fried in 1" of fat, some eggs also fried in the same 1" of fat, some home made chips/fries, also fried in the same fat. French toast, to him, was bread fried in 1" of fat.

I wish I was making this up. As a teenager, my diet was horrific, usually undercooked mincemeat with chunks of bone still in it, but I did get some vegetables. Unfortunately, they were "flash boiled" - cauliflower and cabbage that were nearly raw, mashed potatoes that had uncooked and unmashed chunks in it. I used to heap pepper and sauce (ketchup) on everything, so I couldn't taste a thing.

In the event he did eat something that resembled a salad, it was a heavily curried coleslaw, with heavily curried grated carrot, and heavily curried eggs.

When his doctor ordered him on a low fat and low cholesterol diet, he realized that the suggested margarine had less of the bad stuff in it so he could put more on his white bread, usually as thick as a half dozen playing cards.

When he grabbed the salt shaker, you knew he was going to die from a heart attack or a stroke - and he did. Without a word of exaggeration, he would shake salt over his food for half a minute or more. He always had a bottle of Coke beside him, too. He'd drink a couple of 1.5 liter bottles a day in summer.

As an aside, it was almost a decade after I left home before I re-discovered the idea of meals for pleasure. I'd been trained to stuff terrible food in my mouth for so long that I never bothered to taste anything. These days, I'd rather have some fresh-sliced tomato, leek in a white sauce, side dish of tortellini with a drizzle of olive oil over it, and some steamed mixed vegetables (corn, peas, brocolli, cauliflower) than any of the crap he ate, or forced me to eat. Unfortunately, now I'm hungry.
Looks like local openstreetmappers also decided to skip it: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/-15.57428/133.21534
I agree with you 100%. I'm pretty excited about HCL v2 - already simple stuff like a short-circuiting ternary operator makes my life easier (no more weird joins/splats with conditional resources in outputs). Hopefully further improvements are implemented on top of the 0.12 changes.

Otherwise, about like you, I'm tempted to write a Terraform frontend that interfaces with existing providers...
Google's situation is similar to many American authors' experience when confronted with the choice of 1) not publishing in China. and 2) publishing a censored version of their book.

The decision is not an easy one, even for those who support freedom of information. Those who deem Google's actions unethical often fail to realize that without Google or foreign books, Chinese internet users and readers will have less access to information.

Peter Hessler, an American writer detailed such the discussion of censorship in the West https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/09/travels-with-m...

"Western commentary about censorship often turns inward, portraying limitations in other countries in a way that celebrates our own values. One of the most striking qualities of foreign portrayals of censorship in China is the apparent lack of interest in Chinese readers and editors. "
Which game are you recommending? Also what do you like about it?
If we take the conversation at face value this individual does not appear to be malicious.

What's unsettling is a cheerful disposition mixed with deep resigned sadness. In a weird way its like he had given up and was broken but yet wanted his last shot at some 'fun', and also a bit of a protest while he is at it.

It's feels both disjointed and coherent. He is another voice in a growing realization of the need to organize society around people and not markets.
Google first censored in I think France at least 10 years ago ( and still does ) so stop the hypocrisy and clean up our backyard first.

Defend Alex Jones etc or go home.
> Like everything else, our lives need to have a balance between socialization and solitude.

Beautiful post, and I think that line encapsulates quite perfectly what any thinking person should keep in mind when it comes to discussions on solitude and socialization.

The difficulty of achieving that balance is that it differs person to person, and culture tends to compound the difficulty of achieving the perfect individual balance.

Imo, self-knowledge and the self-confidence it helps canalize offer the only navigable route through the overpowering currents of culture towards that island of balance.
That reminds me of the foibles of some of the Greek philosophers and thinking that checking if the theory has anything to do with reality would pollute the purity of thought and thus concluding that projectiles must have triangular paths where they drop at the end once they run out of impetus and women must have fewer teeth then men because they have smaller heads and all teeth are clearly the same size. Their 'wisdom' was clearly the height of foolishness despite lifetimes of thinking because they insisted upon their alienation as an inherit good.

Keeping in contact with industry is important even for those who work with the theoretical as a source of inspiration and applications. Even if the computer science itself should be technically divorced from language watching it in action and understanding it helps realize what is important so they don't spend all of their effort on minimizing memory footprint at the cost of other constraints. Following what they are doing informs both the industry and the professor.

Theory without reference to reality can easily lead to a solipsistic spiral that leads nowhere to put it politely. While it is good to explore the theoretical foundations breakthroughs come from noticing what exists in reality and understanding it. An immortal's eternity with classical physic in an infinite white walled room with infinite ink would not come up with quantum physics much less subatomic particles. Alienation from industry should be something to be ashamed of not to be proud of.
One probably still relevant usecase for mechanical state machines are elevators. Original design of push button controled elevators is surprisingly simple and involves mechanically implemented state machine where the carriage itself is part of the controller mechanism (the overall idea is that on each floor there is switch that gets flipped by the passing carriage that signals whether the carriage is above or below that floor), such systems are certainly still used (second generation of automatic elevator controllers implement the same logic "electronicaly" by means of johnson counters built from mechanical relays instead of the distributed electromechanical logic).
This argument is simply frightening first how do you define who creates value? should we now have a citizenship score?
Secondly the vast majority of people who work freaking hard jobs would quit if they would be taxed to the point where taking a lower paying, less stress simpler job would be as beneficial.
This is very cool. I had to look around a bit, but I found a link to DRACO taking off at at a competition:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp3402SOk8A

Apparently this distance is about 100ft.

Stats are all over the place, but "DRACO will climb at 4,000 feet-per-minute (FPM) and cruise at 180 mph (290 km/h) at 16,000 feet." which apparently blows everyone else out of the water (and it should for a 1M+ plane)

Also, 5 months is a crazy timeline to build something that flies. I can't imagine the amount of skill (and confidence needed in your skill) to hop in a plane you tore apart and redid in less than 1/2 a year.
Java, Lisp languages, Ruby, Python, JavaScript - basically whatever my customers need/want.

I love Ruby but it has been a few years since anyone paid me to write Ruby code. I wrote some Lisp books in the 1980s, so with a steady cadence I have had Lisp jobs. Lots of Java, which I still think is an OK language.