skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to offer a free product to those who are willing to be tracked and don't care about ad personalization (such as myself) - you can't do so without also offering to free to everyone else. You aren't allowed to ask the second group to pay if they want to use your product - thereby forcing them to offer it for free in a way.
To a point I guess, but I imagine the drop off in performance from 2 hours to 8 hours of standing watch is much larger than the one from 8 to 20 hours.
FF itself since Quantum has been heaven for me personally.

I've always used FF and Chrome, flipping back and forth as Chrome filled in where FF had issues and vice versa, but after a week or 2 on Quantum I just didn't need Chrome anymore and uninstalled it. Haven't regretted it once.
Inverted control is a hallmark of many programming domains. It’s not like you can get the user to be synchronous with respect to the program they are using (unless it is a non interactive batch tool). Even functional paradigms like Rx have control flow running around all over the place, the only saving grace is if you can keep it encapsulates via a set of opaque data flow pipes (and often you can’t).
Robotics companies tend not to be unicorns because 1) they require monetary input to scale and 2) you can't sell them to a FAANG.
If I had a choice between suffering and dying... I'd pick whichever had a greater chance of letting me achieve any of my goals. Maybe seeing my family one more time would be a worthy goal, or maybe sparing them some suffering would be a better one, but I'd rather make that choice myself.
The spinal cord in this case is injured, but not severed.
It doesn’t matter. Starving a bedridden patient to death is a passive activity, and is hence defined as “moral.” In contrast, giving them a morphine overdose so they die quickly and painlessly is an active measure and thus defined as “immoral.”
Sorry to disappoint but I’m not American nor do I own any clothing from China (or any other countries that may rely on sweat shops for production).

From a security and privacy standpoint though there are possible implications when a tech-product/service is owned/controlled by a Chinese company. China’s influence on it’s businesses (especially tech related) can’t be denied.
It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if news would break that the Chinese government has it’s hands in Opera’s cooking pot somehow.

Sorry if I have offended you but that’s just reality. I don’t trust Chinese tech companies.
I’ve had the pleasure of working with a number of doctors who are well-respected in their field.

I never once saw one more excited than the times they’d describe what it was like to find out a patient was a candidate for a targeted therapy and bring them back from death’s door.

Most of them do this to treat, and I believe they’d be very happy to be out of a job if it meant fewer children, parents, or simply humans, had to die.
>for all other devices

Yes, the solid state storage for which it is designed. The Fusion Drive by definition includes rotating media and compounds this problem by involving 2 devices in a common logical storage device.

The APFS support for Fusion Drives was pulled from High Sierra for reasons that were never explained so there were apparently issues, and without knowing what those were it is impossible to evaluate how likely it is that these were all resolved now.
> "That’s one reason why efforts to encourage empathy for people with depression, anxiety, or other mental disorders often focus on the biological basis of the conditions."

There is a deeply insightful book called "Against Empathy : The Case for Rational Compassion" by a Paul Bloom. I hadn't thought too much about it until I read the above quote assuming empathy to be a Good Thing and that researchers and doctors et al should strive for greater levels of it. I think practitioners should at the very least make the distinction between empathy and compassion. We need more compassionate doctors, not empathetic ones. And disambiguating language opens up all sorts of incredible and sophisticated interactions.
You’re being downvoted, but this is exactly the concern that a sweeping change like this provokes. Who’s to say Google won’t decide that a lack of sync is a problem they can silently fix too?
My particular vein of work certainly makes me more likely to have interacted with this different way of doing things, but I don't think at all that it's a necessary component to there being reasons to consider it and reap the benefits of it. Because I didn't always used to be in this vein of work, and in retrospect I would have benefited enormously from being more judicious and fastidious in my prior lives using things like TLA+ or requiring even super basic things from my co-workers/teammates like property-based tests. I would have saved so much time and money and heartache over the years.

It can't possibly be more efficient to take 50 fairly expensive people and have them iterate 10,000 times toward something that still ends up being fairly broken---and requires maintenance in perpetuity---than it is to take 6 slightly more expensive people, and have them iterate 10 times toward something that does exactly and only what it is supposed to do and requires basically no attention once it's been instantiated, can it? Even if you're Instagram.
There absolutely is far more labor than positions available for game designers. Same for game programmers, many of whom have education and background so specific to games that they are effectively unemployable outside that industry. There are a bunch of schools that train hundreds of students on nothing but how to build high-level game logic in Unity.

Almost everyone directly involved in production of game titles (i.e. not middleware) would be financially much better off taking the skills they already have and working in another industry—e.g. management for game designers, tech for programmers—with the possible exceptions of artists and musicians.
How can we scale private, smart contracts? Ed Felten on Arbitrum
Gary Kurtz, Star Wars producer, dies at 78
matching faces with voices in a surveillance situation, which person is talking?
My read is that, if you think about it, yes, it's somewhat obvious that would happen—but the question is, since that's clearly not fair behavior/right, what do we do about it?

It seems clear to me that it's not right since in both cases the causes are outside the control of the afflicted person—even more so in the case of a brain structure anomaly; and a common ethical heuristic is to not blame someone in such a situation—but practically speaking, because people can't relate to the brain structure issue, they won't empathize as much.

Another ambiguity here is what's meant by 'empathy'. If you take it to mean 'relate to' (which is one meaning of course), then it's vacuous to say people have more empathy for those they can relate too. But there's another usage referring essentially to a cognitive mode wherein the empathetic person acts with understanding toward someone they're engaging with. It's surely easier to enter that mode when it's something you can personally relate to—but that isn't necessary: we can become empathetic in this way just through an abstract understanding of someone's situation.
Of course, if your high level estimate is 10M, any 10k estimate detail is bullshit. It would likely be more accurate to give a range from 5M to 20M.
TLDR; Rambling tirade against the left and the academy with no clear thesis or proposal. Lousy even for Quillette.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics.*

*https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I've heard of lobbying, and didn't suggest government mandates are good (or not). What I thought was is interesting is that at least initially, it was an unintended consequence, nor the result of a mandate or lobbying.
It usually isn’t bad unless you live there. As a tourist, you’ll hardly feel like you are in a police state (quite the opposite, it can be quite chaotic and free wheeling as long as you don’t go near politics). Ya, the internet will suck while you are there, but the food is great and there is a lot to see. IMHO, you would feel more repressed in a place like Singapore than the PRC.

If you are going to Xinjiang or Tibet, things start to get weird. Both are really nice places to go, but the logistics are complicated and you’ll feel much more repressed. I went to northern XJ in 2006 before the 2008 riots, it was absolutely stunning and a great place to tour. I also visited the Tibetan part of Sichuan and Yunnan, equally awesome, you are really missing out if you never see it! The Tibetan areas outside of Tibet are easier to get into for foreigners, well at least they were back in 2004. China is getting more closed than it used to be before the olympics, that’s for sure.
That's actually this paper: https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/04/looking-to-listen-audio-vi...
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I'm guessing that when you start snooping on the everyday mobile activity of 1.3 billion citizens you hit the kind of scaling problems that usually only Facebook and Google see.
Good, more people need to realize that it's not a good system for the employees.
if the dataset fits in memory (less than 1-10 million entries) it might be faster to do a full matrix multiply in numpy instead of the approximate nn search, as it avoids disk read. I haven't tried benchmarking this though.

also, I might have skipped over it but most implementations do pca on the high dimensional feature vector as the data tends to be sparse, is there any reason it's not done here?
I wish Mozilla would give some kind of guarantee that they won't drop the feature, otherwise I don't feel like investing time into building a workflow around it is worthwhile. And it's sad that this is even an issue.
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Did anyone suggest making the change, but announcing it today and having it come into effect a year (or even two) from now? That would give parents time to plan adjustments to their schedule, and would give a lot of people the chance to move schools if they really wanted to.
>I think it might be time to phase out teaching imperative and object-oriented programming. Most of the grief in my career has come from them.

Good luck. Computer Science degrees are balancing act between practical and theoretical. More importantly students want to work with technologies that are popular in the industry today. You can try to to stand against the tide, but you will lose.
When I worked as an SRE at Stack Overflow we used name.com for all our domains (and R53/GCP/Azure for DNS). Never had any issues, and worth adding to any short list you come up with.

If you do whois lookups against the top 50 websites you'll see a lot of them use a small set of registrar's. But not all of them accept small businesses.
There's probably (simple/cheap) ways to overcome that, but I see your point.
I can't believe you are complaining that the author is giving you an alternative to just paying.

You can either read the book on github (thanks!) or have a better formatted version in exchange to some marketing technique.

I think it is fair.

This is an entrepreneurial community, we should rush to pay this author to support his efforts, rather than criticize his attempts to get something out of providing his work for free.

Shame on you.
It was a fight between scientists and non-scientists. The scientists saw the scans of her head that showed a void where there should have been brain. The non-scientists looked at a handful of home movies where here random movements and facial expressions occasionally lined up to make her look aware. Such debate between scientific evaluation and layperson "gut feelings" predate so many of today's debates re climate.

It was also a generational fight. Her husband, the normal go-to for medical decisions was on one side, and her parents on the other. The parents wanted control over their daughter. They could not accept the widespread default that, for most all medical/legal matters, spouses trump parents. And this was Florida. So the "rights" of the older generation were given greater play in the courts than would have happened in other states.
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Not OP but to get in generally go to an ivy league school, or go to a non target with an amazing GPA, ECs and luck, or have connections.
Interesting, I was wondering what to do with my audiblepixel.com domain.
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Is there a risk that the planned explosion changes the trajectory of the 1km wide asteroid? Odds of it swinging closer to Earth as a result?
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Lots of interesting ideas in this book. Thanks!

My only grip is I wish there would be more examples: when you talk about state especially.
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A dinosaur can do a lot of damage as it falls, unfortunately.

The more that China enforces the social credit system, the less worried I am about competition from China. Stagnation is the end result.

The damage it can do in the meantime is incalculable.
Zoho has 40M users and apparently $350M in revenue. Why are you using a consumer grade domain registrar[0]?

The gold standard for any enterprise is MarkMonitor. You can pick any other enterprise level service which would mean you don't resort to lowering yourself to begging on Twitter to find a contact at a pivotal service provider

This has damaged you beyond DNS propagation, I don't know how anybody in tech is going to take you seriously again without some serious action

[0] https://www.tierra.net/
These kind of concerns, laws and regulation often remind me of a 1983 joke by the Belgium comedian 'Urbanus':

Urbanus vertelt dat zijn buurman boer is en dat hij rond rijdt met zijn tractor en een vieselijk geel poeder spuit op zijn akker. Kwaad interpelleert hij hem.
Urbanus: “Maar voor wat is dat nu allemaal weer nodig ?”
Boerke: “Dat is poeder tegen de olifanten.”
Urbanus: “Maar hier zitten toch geen olifanten in ’t Pajottenland ?”
Boerke: “Goe poeier hé jongen!”

Translated:

Urbanus says that his neighbor is a farmer and that he drives around with his tractor and sprays an awful yellow powder in his field. He interrogates him badly.
Urbanus: "But for what is all that necessary now?"
Farmer: "That is powder against the elephants."
Urbanus: "But there are no elephants here in the Pajottenland?"
Farmer: "Yes boy, good powder!"
SO true
Why are mathematicians so scared to look at and validate his proof? I would love to see a good faith effort and have any mistakes found sooner rather than later. Does it have to be so personal? I don't consider myself a mathematician but I would love to understand how this works.

Btw typo: Extra I in skepticism. :) No big deal.
As long as there are some blockbuster indie games that make their creators rich, and as long as games are fun to make, I don't think we'll see the entire industry die out.

But yeah, making an indie game is on average not a good financial decision.
I am using Zoho Reports to generate some daily PDFs from a DB. If they could just make it so I could copy reports and point the reports at new queries it would be fantastic. As it is, I just want to throw the whole thing out and will eventually make something to replace it.
It would be great for practicing songs. In this scenario you would be clicking on the instrument to turn off.
Probably something similar to CSC Global.
Pretty hard to learn vanilla JavaScript when you're stuck in the mud 8 abstractions above it, trying to keep up.
Is it wrong? Or is Musk just still ‘succeeding’ despite his 80 hour workweeks?

Either way, if he built even slightly decent companies, what Musk does should have very little effect on their trajectory unless he wants it to.
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Social wealth funds as a mechanism for reducing inequality
Great. Please document how you'd like your family to think about it. Patients who aren't clear on what they care about make it harder on their physicians and much more importantly on their families. 'I think he would have wanted...' vs 'He says he wanted X, right here in this document.' Most physicians will bend over backwards to try to make it happen if its a realistic goal.
I would no more work for Google than I would work for Facebook exactly because of their disregard for privacy, no matter what their policies may be.
Could FEC be considered a form of encryption?
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Almost always. And almost everybody is more or less mentally ill in a way or another, me included.
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Thanks for the information, much appreciated! I'm afraid to speak with a psych cause they will take me off these meds that I rely on to perform neurotypically. Ritalin made me bipolar with severe mood swings. Wellbutrin paradoxically made me feel depressed. Only amps have allowed my brain fog to subside and slow down my racing thoughts.

Magnesium is great, I take it throughout the day. L-theanine helps with the come down as well.
Oddly, TagConnect with the locking holes is slightly bigger than 4 standard .100 pins.

TagConnect is really only useful when you want to only program the board, and not do anything like debugging.
I found the premise of that book to largely just be disputing definitions [1] with a very particular definition of empathy that isn’t actually how people use the word.

Something about it bothered me - I think that it felt like a straw man arguing a position nobody really has just to be very pedantic about his specific usage of the word empathy.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7X2j8HAkWdmMoS8PE/disputing-...
But you think that I'm right, so you don't think I'm unjustified. Do you think they're excessive? Should I have used like a toki-pona word or something?
>"It raises a question for both users and browser vendors: What does it mean to be logged into a web browser?"

Which is a question so absurd that no user should ever need to ponder it. The question wasn't "raised." Your diction suggests it arose in some organic fashion and it did not. Let's be clear - the question was forced upon the user.
> personified by the removal of their slogan "don't be evil"

It's always interesting to see how the most technical users seem to take such an irrelevant vague throwaway marketing line so seriously.

It's also still in the code of conduct but now moved to the end so it was never actually removed from anything anyway, if it actually matters.
A brexit supporting "enemy" of a brexit supporting government? Enemy of whom then? The regulator (ICO) is not the EU.
While I agree with the spirit of what you’re saying, micro.blog is not open source.
A few recognizably good titles like Land of Lisp and the "Learn you" titles (though I own a copy of Learn You A Haskell and it was just ok -- but kudos to Miran Lipovaca for writing it).

Haven't heard of the rest though.
People are not as scared about biological warfare “as they should be.”
This is going to be huge for the hard of hearing.
> No it's not algorithmically determined like you claimed?

You misread my post and have drawn an incorrect conclusion as to what I meant or intend to say. I do apologise for my part today's round of your confusion, Mr. Lift BigWeights.

But please, sir, I am not a "he" and I'll thank you kindly to take that mis-gendering somewhere where it's welcome. Perhaps a collapsed neutron star? That would be the biggest weight you could lift, indeed.
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I added this feedback to racket/gui. Not sure if that's helpful.

https://github.com/racket/gui/issues/115
His youtube channel is https://m.youtube.com/user/TheSignalPathBlog

There are a lot of amazing teardowns on there.
Sure, if you want to choose death, that's your choice.

But you should also be aware that many many other people would choose life.
and I have a ton of wedding photos taken on that Quicktake that I'd love to be able view again. Any idea how to convert QuickTake formatted-photos into JPEG?
Both Amazon and Google have bought robotics companies.
I use several different computers and operating systems regularly, and it's really useful to have my browser history, bookmarks, extensions and other configuration synced up.

That's not to say I'd be miserable without it, but it's a nice convenience that almost immediately upon starting up a new machine, my browser is set up exactly the way I like just logging in.
EFF Opposes Industry Effort to Have Congress Roll Back State Privacy Protections
I'm a prospect that explained how the journey disinterested me from the product. I provided specific examples along with my best understanding of why I felt that way. This is one of the things that HN was founded on.
Real hardware is imperative. Object-oriented programming was once treated like Functional programming. The languages which did implement OOP as it was originally thought was horribly inefficient. So practical languages took the good idea out of OOP for convenient syntax sugars.

Functional Programming will follow the same path. You probably don't like it for it will be ended up impure and just some syntax sugar that looks like FP, but rest of the world like it because it gets the job done.
I fail to see how it's a reasonable remark. Does it become unreasonable upon an actual accusation of sexual harassment?

If Torvalds were a childless serial monogamist, should we be less surprised if it turned out he was secretly sexually harassing women?

The remark reflects a false, antiquated view of sexuality and morality. If you want to argue against equivocating sexual harassment with tenuously linked incidental behaviors, it's not a great starting point, to say the least.
>but the question is, since that's clearly not fair behavior/right

Is it?

In the second scenario, I empathize with the painful experience, not just with the outcome (depression). Even if both fictional characters are described as having the same state now, how they got there matters to us. We feel empathy for what they went through.

I don't think there's anything wrong to have different emotions towards a person who has just been robbed, compared to someone who hasn't been (but doesn't have more money in the bank account).

We have codified this in our laws. We give different punishments for the same crime depending on the criminal's path and emotional state. We literally judge people based on what they went through. Why is it wrong or unfair to feel differently towards the two fictional characters in this case?
The literal definition of empathy is rooted in the ability to understand and relate to someone else. Doctors can't empathize with most patients, nor do they need to. I think sympathy is the word this article is looking for.
Or a nonce?
I assume that Trump, as a solid business man and a conservative politician, will tell Yelp that the Invisible Hand of the Free Market will sort this out.
my company is big enough they self insure. aetna, etc exists to administrate the program
Australian Government Ignores Experts in Advancing Its Anti-Encryption Bill
I prefer the other idea.. open up more frequencies to amateur radio with different restrictions. When I scan the frequencies, there is SO much that isn't being used.
Don’t forget https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Dyn_cyberattack
Does #MeToo Exist in China? The Case of JD.com's Billionaire CEO
No, just like speaking in phonetics isn't encryption. It doesn't hide the content of the message, it just adds extra data to make it easier to recover in the case of noise.

FEC could be mistaken for encryption if the algorithm wasn't published, but the same could be said for pretty much any other digital mode. Even Morse...
> so all functional code is arguably syntactic sugar

No. "Syntatic sugar" implies that it is relatively trivial 1-1 translation that could in principle go backwards. Functional programming has many, many more optimizations and transformations.