skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is getting a tenure position - with all these nepotism, protectionism, elitism of academic world.
Perhaps it's relative as far as entertainment value is concerned, but not as far as artistic merit is. I for one don't enjoy wading through an endless stream of consumerist drivel helmed by yes-people who just want their big break, or who otherwise are simply involved for the pay and career.

>I suspect Netflix realizes this

Yes, because they collect all kinds of user data and have statistics to back up viewership and retention. E.g. the Adam Sandler films they produced come to mind. I don't think anyone would claim they're worthwhile films, but nonetheless Netflix has stated they got lots of views, which is important for their platform, especially to quantify investment returns.
My theory is that since Netflix is global, foreign audiences further skew the quality:views statistics, as many such countries' media is dominated by Western media, and "Western" may very well be enough to make it appealing simply because it contrasts with domestic media and arts. But I suppose the West does this as well by awarding an Oscar to the "Best Foreign Film" that might very well not be as acclaimed or otherwise not viewed as such in its own country.
Mattermost, and disable public/group channels.
Or, there's something wrong with ventilation in the building. Owing to its nature as an embassy, perhaps people are willing to jump to more sinister conclusions as opposed to if this happened at ACME Headquarters in Omaha.
If you want a good, maintained one that's general purpose, https://mastodon.xyz is one I can recommend.
My ignorant understanding is that pedestrians have the right-of-way, even mid-block.
AI Finally Gives Thanos a Soul
> Isn't it a high time for a decentralized federated search-engine?

Check out YaCy: https://yacy.net/en/index.html
They used to say never put a picture on a US resume (common in some countries). But a picture is considered essential on LinkedIn to increase the search status. Go figure.
Did not read this article, but short answer is Yes. Read the book 'MindSet' by Carol Dweck
Following the principle that array indexes are “between” the elements, the bottom of the first step is 0, and the top of the first step is 1. Then the ground, which is equal in elevation to the bottom of the first step, is at 0, and the floor after the last step is N, one past the index of the last valid step, N-1.

Half open zero based ranges are quite satisfying :-)
Basement is -1
"web dev" is a big tent with room for many specializations underneath. Not everyone needs to know everything.
I like Musk's goals and would love to work for Tesla or SpaceX but wouldn't apply in a million years knowing their style of work. I value my happiness, mental and physical well-being far too much to work in a high stress environment like both companies are known to be. It's truly sad that we've become poisoned by the idea that success requires soul crushing devotion to work. Sure, intense focus and extended work hours can be required at times, but when it's the status quo it's just sad.
Yeah, as you can see, I pushed back on that.

But, as far as I can tell - and I do indeed write with this in mind - the movement to create applications for very fresh, naive installations such as containers or IoT devices, does indeed present a problem for purely-blocking random.

My sense is that you and others in the community encouraging blind trust of /dev/urandom need to adjust your language when consulting on this matter in the future.

Since I mostly write python, I'm happy that this has been worked out and that python now uses blocking random (via getrandom(flags=0)) in these very rare situations.
We're now well out of my knowledge base, but your comment certainly makes things interesting. If they have similar NUMA latencies (big if!), I guess maybe the edge would go to whichever chip had higher NUMA bandwidth? Just sort of thinking out loud...

Or perhaps it has absolutely nothing to do with memory speeds, but I can't think of what else would have such a dramatic effect. I'd love to see the same test with a single Xeon.
In many European cities it's quite common for pedestrians to pass on red (which is considered more of a warning), even in front of cop cars. I've also seen cops on foot cross the street on red.

And I've seen quite a number cross the street randomly among traffic, some of them barely able to move (old, ...)
My college ID card was the SSN. They did not have instant online credit like today.
Primality Testing Under Adversarial Conditions
Winner’s Curse? On pace, progress, and empirical rigor [pdf]
That's overstating things. They put a bunch of Scorsese movies up this summer. Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee is pretty great. That's just for instance. Maybe you've seen everything, but that doesn't mean the content is garbage.
ants do communicate with chemical trails of some sort.
> Dude.Your family isn't homeless. Your kid doesn't have cancer. You aren't a solider, police officer, or fire fighter in (actual) harm's way. You are a billionaire running a tech company that has challenges. The only real personal risk here is to your ego. You need to man up.

Man up he did already when he built the aforementioned tech company, didn't he? And while his kids don't have cancer he himself might get one having the stress he has. Or didn't the tweet author get some himself to understand?

Being not a soldier, fire fighter or police officer doesn't mean being out of the - actual - harm's way. Here we talk not about the ego - primarily - but about something bigger than that. Elon uniquely helps in elevating important topics to the conversation level. Fall of his ability to maintain financial independence while pulling state of the art in tech ahead will, no doubts, add to arguments of skeptics and naysayers and may have a chilling effect on certain approaches to handle modern problems, be it AI, climate change or retractions of democracies.

I'm not sure the tweet author really understands what he's talking about.
Only in the sense that computers running software is physical in that it's on hardware.
Link to the App Store https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/oramata/id1191040183?mt=8
Obligatory Hawkwind reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8pGS4cWbHo
”I have always counted it as a step if my foot-in-the-air lands on a different level than the other foot.”

That algorithm doesn’t count steps of a stair, it counts the number of steps you take to go up (or down) a staircase.

Those are different if you follow this nerd’s way, which, by the way, has benefits other than making it easier to count stairs. It’s a fairly easy way to get some strength training. I think everybody who can should take stairs two steps at a time. That gives you some cushion in old age, as you’ll be able to go back to one step at a time, and postpones the day where taking a stair becomes impossible.

If two steps is easy, you can make going up harder (I don’t advise that going down stairs) by sitting deeper, with your thighs horizontally, or by taking three steps at a time (four steps is out of reach for most)
Idempotent is concept borrowed from mathematics.
It just means:

f(f(x))=x

assuming f is a function (binary operators are just functions (maps) in mathematics, too, e.g. +:NxN->N (read: "plus" is a map from the Cartesian product of N by N to N))
> I would LOVE an app that captures handwritten notes in outline form

Some form of org-mode notation plus handwritten notes would be a killer app.
on netflix is a show called "islands of the future" and in one of the episodes they did in fact pump excess water back up the mountain. I think their location was already hot enough that they didn't consider converting to steam.
The other hormonally motivated biological machines manage not to do that here, so I'm confident your machine is capable.
> shows are ultimately creative processes

Sure, but that's not what I'm talking about here. I'm not claiming that Netflix is doing what would look like "intentionally trying and failing to make good content"—because that would produce qualitatively different content than the kind I'm referring to.

An attempt at rich food that tries and fails isn't bland food; it's bad rich food. A bad lasagna or a bad steak isn't going to suddenly taste like nothing. It'll just taste weird. Whereas a bland food is, say, a cucumber sandwich on white bread. Purposefully nothing-y. It won't ever taste exciting or weird.

Netflix is making "Netflix Original" bland TV, purposefully. Daytime soaps, "ghost investigations", prison documentaries, and other low-budget schlock. The data says people want it, just as much as the data says people want rich TV like Black Mirror or OitNB or whatever-else.
This seems like a thing to build on the moon.
> A company is not legally obligated to maximize profit.

Well, if we agree on that core point - which I think is all the point that wool_gather was trying to make - then that's great! And I think there's no point in the two of us investing any more time in picking over quadrangle's slightly confused reply.

I'm afraid I can't resist pulling on one more little thread, though :-) You've sort of hand-waved "legal or financial trouble" together, but it seems to me that legal consequences are very different from other consequences, in that there has to be a legal basis for legal consequences. "agency theory and the norms of ordinary business" can't condense and resolve themselves into a law: there either is a law on the books or there isn't.

I understand that shareholder lawsuits are a thing that can happen under some circumstances. But if the law doesn't make "not maximizing profit" sufficient grounds, then it doesn't, surely?
It might be worthing buying a notebook with the intention of ripping out pages and scribbling nonsense in it.

The crossed out bits are the most important part of the notebook.
Does anyone have a sense of what maintenance for a system like this would look like relative to maintenance for a dam? It seems expensive as hell.
Similar concept using trains:
https://www.aresnorthamerica.com/grid-scale-energy-storage

I wonder though, the density of concrete is only about 2.5 higher than that of water. So, a concrete tower, comparable to a pumped-storage hydroelectricity plant would be gigantic. Seems infeasible to me.
while there are good parts to this analysis -

military grade tech <---> wildly over-budget and delayed
Or, seen from the other way, the higher the work backlog, the less idle time a resource has...
jQuery is simpler than React. HTML is simpler than React. What a weak selling point, then.
I looked at our stairs at home and they have 13 steps with a rise of what looks like a bit less than 20cm - hard to measure accurately with the carpet. That gives a total height of 2.5m which is nice and round.

A bit of searching around and I find the building regulations permit a rise per step between 15cm and 22cm. And I find a site which says “A typical rise is 2,600mm, which divides easily into 13 200mm risers, or steps”

I roughly measured the overall height of 8 steps and it was closer to 160cm than 152cm so looks like they are the typical dimensions.
If Congress makes laws banning distribution of firearm blueprints, it's considered a 1A/2A violation (or at least legally dubious).

If social media companies ban distribution of firearm blueprints on their sites, it's not considered a violation ("they're private platforms!").

If members of Congress, who hold power to threaten regulation of social media companies, tell social media companies to ban it for them...
This reminded me of an old website from about 10+ years ago. The guy would review artist pens, and would include a drawing of the pen, and whatever else he felt like that day.

Really nice website. I enjoyed reading it, does anyone remember what it was?
If you work hard enough to remove all timer ticks when they're not needed it can add up to save power.
It was a joke, take it easy. With that said, perl has a multitude of ways to shoot yourself in the foot and future maintainers in the face. Notably, the obscure tricks perl allows you to write that are difficult to read in the future but seem clever when you write them. I've written enough perl to know they exist but thankfully forgotten all of them so I can't give a good example. I just remember something about $_ being interesting at times.
It seems you don’t understand (or more likely you don’t want to understand).

In some industries, companies _must_ be conservative by regulation or by contract: it is _not_ a choice. Trying to sell Rust by saying it is used “in satellites” is simply a PR stunt, and one that discredits your other work.

Prove Rust is controlling critical systems _today_ (the kind that requires paperwork to be signed or insurances to be paid). Otherwise, please stop spreading bullshit.
Yes, I believe we have it easier in Europe. I realize my other post sounds rantish but the reason I'm still in academia, beyond the very valid points you've mentioned, is that I don't believe the nepotism and dishonesty issues are specific to academia.

>You get to meet interesting people.

I want to stress that part because I don't feel it does the environment justice. You get to meet fantastic and very intelligent people from all countries in the world. During gathering events, meetings, parties, etc. I've been to, it's not rare to see eight different nationalities out of eight people around a dining table. You talk about science at first but very quickly discussions derail into comparisons between such and such country's perspective, differences in culture, jokes about the language, and so on. And it happens every time. Not all environments provide this.

Of course, you may argue that this diversity of culture and insights is counterbalanced by the community's homogeneity in many other aspects (e.g. the overwhelming majority of scientists are very liberal, even by European standards), and it's pretty obvious that your view of, say, Iranian or Russian people is going to be skewed if the only ones you've talked to are very educated and liberal 20- or 30-somethings working as expats. Scientists are known for their insularity, and while they're a demographic that's among the most susceptible to date outside their country, they're also very prone to date inside the community. The 'ivory tower' stereotype is not completely wrong.
The Un-celebrity President
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle. Would you please not create accounts to break HN's rules with?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This reminds me of the story where a Houston airport kept getting complaints from airline passengers that it took too long for their luggage to arrive. So they moved baggage claim farther away. This made travelers walk farther to get to their bags, but have a shorter "wait" time. Complaints dropped to zero.

I wonder if there is a cultural difference there, where throughput is understood to be better than latency or something.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/opinion/sunday/why-waitin...
Only if all my friends and family are on it, and they'll want all their friends and family on it, and they'll want their friends and family... etc...

It's like the value of a social media platform is in lots of people being on it
It got bad enough for me that I deleted my Netflix account a few months ago and haven't really missed it. I got tired of scrolling through for ages and never finding anything I felt like watching. It still surprises me that they don't do a better job of recommendations given they used to make a big deal out of it.
> If you think “download numbers” (or open source, or being in GitHub) is a good metric for measuring reliability, it means you haven’t really worked in any such field.

I never have worked in such a field, and you're comments about certification, etc, are definitely things I will accept as true. Getting any support of new technology in any space is hard, and of course takes time.

But, I will say that "download numbers" where there is obvious sustained usage of a project is a stand-in for understanding if something is seeing real-world usage. I don't claim that it show stability, only that if it's usage is high and the number of issues on the project are not growing under that strain then you can begin to get a picture of it's stability.

When you talk about formal proofs, certification, etc. Those are different mechanisms for validating that, but generally requires substantial amounts of money to be done.
Maybe so, but please don't react by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes this place worse.

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YAJSF ?

Yet-another-js-framework
I have movies I have already rated (i.e. watched) in the "watch next" list.
Sure, it can happen that I want to watch them again, but it seems unlikely.

It seems clear netflix is optimizing for something which is not just "the movie this user would like to watch next".
RSS was/is a good idea, but it wasn't implemented by browsers that well. I actually think the rise of social networks like Facebook/Twitter were partly due to RSS's usability issues, given that they provided users with functionality similar to RSS's but with much less technical terms. "Following" someone is an easier to understand idea than "click to use my RSS link into your feed reader".
Ya. Like a lot of hacker news posts they are really just advertisements.

I bought Dave's book a couple of months ago. It's overpriced in my mind (it's more like half a book and stops short of delivering what I think most people would expect or want, i feel) but he is a good writer and what is in the book is pretty informative and solidly instructional.
Which coward chose to "censor" me by downvoting instead of just answering with logic, reason and good, conservative common sense? By downvoting without a reply, you've played into my argument. Thanks for confirming that conservatives just want affirmative action for their opinions.
you should be more specific-what part of CS?

all the CS postdocs I know see a) pretty happy b) have a really easy back up of a high paying industry gig that they can pivot to because of currently insanely inflated demand for academics to make deep learning on the blockchain on the cloud on embedded devices doing quantum backprop

-these are ML/theory postdocs
Monkey Business: The 4 levels of insight
meh as a baby academic I am not convinced that the nepotism protectionism elitism of academia are markedly higher than the 'real world'
Could one compare it to the continued use of imperial units in the UK/US?
For a long time, the last 4 digits of a SSN were the only ones with any entropy. The first 5 were determined by when and where you were issued an SSN (usually at the hospital when you were born).

Suppose your number is 123-45-6789. If an attacker can uncover that you were born in Springfield in December 1989, they can deduce that the first 5 digits are likely 123-45. Now, there are only 9999 possibilities for what your full SSN might be.

Moreover, the only random bits are routinely used by utility companies, hospitals, etc. as an oral password and written identifier. If someone reads or overhears that your last 4 are 6789 and knows when/where you were born, they have a frighteningly good chance of discovering your SSN.
You All Get a Stack Upgrade
Lol. I guess this qualifies as "unethical life hack" ?
The cost of licensing has certainly gone up in general. But even quite a few years back a then-Netflix exec told me that people came to Netflix for the movies but ended up staying for TV.
Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels (2016)
On the Unfairness of California Proposition 13
It is just call/cc from scheme. Here calls a function with the current continuation which means you can either do an early return, like the example where they "replace" the current continuation with the value 3.

In scheme you can save that continuation and return to it as many times as you want, which people from other languages have a hard time to wrap their head around. I'm rather sad that they chose to implement undelimited continuations, since that is almost never what you want.

First class continuations are a fantastic tool in your language. They can be used to implement coroutines, fibers, nondeterminism and so on. Really no surprise that they are a part of scheme, which usually pick a few well thought out primitives that combine into nice high level abstractions.
In good old times we had IRC, where you could go to channel op and report an abusive message. Or to bot master, or to server admin. Depending on personality of that guy (usually they were guys, not girls), it could end with a ban for the offender or personal attack on you. The problem with actual human is that actually you cannot trust him to govern without being accountable, even if you know him and even if currently you are friends. When I checked several large Mastodon instances (>1000 users), I was not able to find any signs of a formal and legally binding policy, which means that their admins are not accountable and you have no more rights than a slave of a pharaoh. Mastodon instance may protect you, but is not required to do so and there's no guarantee that it will not support your offender or it will not suddenly abuse you.
I was skeptical, but upon reading TFA, they do have a point.
This prompted me to look up US pedestrian deaths. Some interesting numbers:

"According to the GHSA report, 74 percent of pedestrian fatalities happen at night, and 72 percent of those killed were not crossing at intersections."

"The GHSA report indicated that 15 percent of pedestrians killed each year are hit by a drunk driver, while 34 percent of pedestrians killed are legally drunk themselves."

I'd say we should put in more crosswalks and add lights and reflectors, but I've almost been hit twice by cellphone-distracted drivers in one like that in my neighborhood.

https://www.npr.org/2017/03/30/522085503/2016-saw-a-record-i...
My thoughts are:

Intelligence is not an algorithm.

Intelligence is a criteria for which many assorted algorithms may be judged.

The criteria is making an improbable outcome - more probable.

Any process, biological, mechanical or electronic - that results in narrowing the search space is exhibiting intelligence.

Consciousness is not intelligence - it's a feature of biological life that is frequently conflated with intelligence because we have both. No amount of computational power or data creates an emergent consciousness.
not on my smart tv (tizen), or at least not in any sensible way.
> And a blockchain would be a way to do it

I can't even.
That's how we got the hate read content economy.
Yes you're totally right i need to write the readme properly. You get faster development cycle by skipping the app layer altogether. It's a few sql statements vs java code/release/deploy. Performance: you don't need multiple queries for a constraint plus you can optimize from info within the DB. Dependency tracking: no need to figure out yourself which table/operation can break which constraint.
This brawl started in another thread and spilled over here, and somehow everyone involved has been unable to contain themselves from being personally aggressive. Being nasty like this is not allowed on HN, regardless of how wrong you think someone is. We ban accounts that do this repeatedly.

This goes for all three of you (but I already scolded the other two in the other thread). Maybe you don't owe better to each other, but you definitely owe better to this community.

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