skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed that my daughter, despite being an engineering student, isn't nearly as comfortable with the properties of logarithms as I am. Of course, she studied them in Calculus classes, but they were just abstract functions to her since she always had computers or calculators to perform calculations. For me, they were a part of the standard education for technical or science related fields. Even in high school we were expected to use slide rules or tables of logarithms to perform calculations.

I bought my first slide rule around 1964 (with money I made delivering the Detroit Free Press newspaper every morning before school). It was a bright yellow Pickett like those available on EBay[1]. It was possible to do multiplication, division, roots, trig, exponentials, etc. to just less than 3 significant digits of accuracy. If this wasn't enough accuracy, I had to recast the computation as addition or subtraction of logs from log tables, which could with some interpolation yield around 6 significant digits of accuracy.

I just recently pulled out my old slide rule to show my accountant how they worked.

At MIT I saw circular slide rules, and some of my fellow students used them (more accuracy on the outer scales, less on the inner most scales). The most interesting slide rules I've seen are cylindrical. The scales wrap around the cylinder in a helix and are much longer giving an extra digit or two of accuracy (but requiring more mental work on the user to figure out which reading of the cursor to use because the cursor was parallel to the axis of the cylinder). See [2]

By the time I was finished using my slide rule, I'd started working with computers. Even today, I have a fancy overpriced TI calculator that just sits in a drawer. I'd much rather fire up a Python REPL to do most calculations.

[1] https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-1959-PICKETT-DUAL-BASE-SLID...

[2] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/edgerton-center/ec-050-recreate-...
Tech companies are using algorithms to prioritize the messages we see, which makes them incredibly valuable as advertising platforms. It seems like Mr. Stamos wants these companies to have all the rewards and none of the complicated responsibilities to match it. If they don't want that responsibility, then they need to get out of the business of sorting and recommending. Let them be like Craigslist.
There is evidence that deplatforming works (https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjbp9d/do-social-...)
You could inhale too much air too, your lungs aren't balloons, man!
Nit: You should implement quadratic probing with triangular numbers by addition for a slight speedup. I.e. x+= i, rather than x = ... × ...
If you ever find that person, kick them in the shin for me.
Bleach is a better antiseptic than sunlight.

There's some evidence deplatforming works:

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjbp9d/do-social-...

> “We’ve been running a research project over last year, and when someone relatively famous gets no platformed by Facebook or Twitter or YouTube, there's an initial flashpoint, where some of their audience will move with them” Joan Donovan, Data and Society’s platform accountability research lead, told me on the phone, “but generally the falloff is pretty significant and they don’t gain the same amplification power they had prior to the moment they were taken off these bigger platforms.”

> There’s not a ton of research on this, but the work that has been done so far is promising. A study published by researchers at Georgia Tech last year found that banning the platform's most toxic subreddits resulted in less hate speech elsewhere on the site, and especially from the people who were active on those subreddits.

https://mashable.com/article/milo-yiannopoulos-deplatforming...
Calling out something that one could refer to as "hate speech" isn't tolerating the behavior, it is criticizing it.
That's essentially John Stuart Mill's argument in On Liberty. Suppression of bad speech and thought only leads to a tyranny of the majority and can eventually lead to us forgetting what is bad versus good, just as we can't tell what darkness is if we only live in the sun.
I wish this were true. Sadly, evidence may not bear this out. If it did, then e.g. YouTube wouldn't be in a constant battle to take down ISIS recruiting content...
We can think of it as a scale model, 1:1000.
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I suppose I was thinking of it from a Canadian perspective. AFAIK, non-profits are generally exempt income tax.

edit: In Canada, I meant to say.
I'm having a hard time absorbing and getting through all the high-quality insights and contributions. There's no doubt that there are a lot of very intelligent people here.

Very happy to be a part of this community.
I was kind of disappointed that it didn't ask me to share my location. And no like buttons, retweet, etc?

Also, you can actually select the text on the site. Would be much better clicking the mouse linked somewhere or triggered an event.
What is this non-trivial amount? And what happens the next time we have a global financial meltdown? With life expectancy on the rise and the cadence of global economic catastrophe what it is someone retiring at 50 has to expect to face at least one financial crisis in retirement. I don't see how a person can feel secure into their 90s when retiring at 50.
I’ve picked up a bunch of Apple’s Thunderbolt 3/USB-C cables:

https://store.apple.com/xc/product/MQ4H2AM/A

They’re not cheap, but in my experience they do everything: Thunderbolt 3, USB 3.1 10Gbps, and up to 100W power delivery. Now I don’t have to worry about whether the cable supports what I want to do.
Same drawback applies to Bitcoin. Send BTC from Coinbase to a blacklisted entity and see how quickly CB, Gemini, etc. shut down your accounts.
Then you’re left with your local client but you can’t trade anywhere... and speculation is crypto’s only use case today.
I'm sure you've seen this already, but if not:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9uRckJLqLk

A 3:1 scale replica of the Curta, 3D printed.
They have a sliding shield against that which tracks the movement of your foot.
You may find the Gotthard road tunnel (Switzerland) interesting. It's also one lane each way and is a continuous 16.9km/10.5mi in length, though it's so well-lit and well-signed (as with virtually every tunnel in Switzerland, certainly compared to those in its neighboring countries) that it may not be very anxiety-inducing. It's probably far more comfortable than the mountain pass alternative!
>I just don't resonate with the IOT/Smart devices.

Try not to let some of the stupid dead-ends by a new class of tech kill off the whole concept for you. Humans have this great ability to come up with a new nail and suddenly everything needs to be a hammer.

Example; you called out Google Glass. A first gen, pretty hokey bit of hardware that never really went anywhere. Take Google out of the picture for a bit and think of the general concept: It's a HUD. It's AR. Poorly implemented, but you can see kind of what they were going for.

There's a lot of value down that road! Both economically and in the bettering humanity senses. Use a bit of imagination :)

>I honestly am satisfied without smart things in life.

I guarantee you the same thing was said by someone about cars, computers, and the internet. You speak for you, so you're automatically right, but you might be surprised as to how this stuff improves your life once the kinks start getting worked out and we're a couple generations head.
This paper is really not meant for the layman. Even PhD physicists would find it terse unless they are working in the field of quantum information or AMO physics.

However, there are many exciting and great resources where anybody interested can learn more about advanced physics. "The Theoretical Minimum" or Feinman's Lecture series are a great long on boarding experience that starts slow but gets pretty serious towards the end.

And many researchers have more pop-sci type of blogs and media materials for those that want just a quick fix.
How do you feel dehumanized? Let's have that discussion.

(see the answer?)
>So the odds are, you won't exercise until you die.

How did you know this about me?
What about offering to curate a local coffee shop or coworking space or something? There's got to be some place that would not mind free art in exchange for little labels or prices. I know this was very common in my home town. Plus, the relationship could be kept loose, since you aren't exchanging any money either way.
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Yeah, still shot in a way that minimizes the size of the boxes that hold the tech.
> you are describing a situation that those are designed for

I'm curious: how so?

memcached and Redis are commonly deployed for caching, but not for persistence (Redis has optional persistence). That is not to say you can't use them, but I'm not sure what makes them a necessarily better choice than Mongo in this situation (persisted high-speed machine data).

Edit: OK, I see you mean the "for store-and-retrieve use cases" part. You have a point, though Mongo seems to be ok for that use case too.
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Doesn’t work in Firefox for me past turning notifications on/off. Accurate.
> That's impressive foresight.

Not really, it was on the announcement email from Linus (https://lwn.net/Articles/764901/):

"To tie this all back to the actual 4.19-rc4 release (no, really, this
_is_ related!) I actually think that 4.19 is looking fairly good,
things have gotten to the "calm" period of the release cycle, and I've
talked to Greg to ask him if he'd mind finishing up 4.19 for me, so
that I can take a break, and try to at least fix my own behavior."

If Linus asked Greg to "finish 4.19 for him", it's predictable that he'd be back for 4.20.
Yeah, the problem is that it completely overshadows all the benefits of GDPR since most people just associates it with annoying cookie popups.
As someone who is trying to run a website, I try and avoid these pitfalls - just not sure how to actually survive/compete in a world where this stuff you hate is where the bread and butter is.
It doesn't save a significant amount of time or oil. Not enough to count anyway.
"Tech companies" is just way too broad a designation to use here. No one is seriously asking Apple to police hate speech in iMessage or Facetime, for instance, or Verizon to police hate speech in SMS. No one expects AT&T to police hate speech in a phone call.

What people are concerned about are the newsfeeds and timelines, specifically. Companies like Facebook and Twitter and YouTube love to pretend that their newsfeed/timeline products are just like chat apps or phone calls--neutral messaging platforms.

They're not. And the specific reason they are not, is the algorithmic timeline and content suggestions.

It's silly to worry about giving these products "the power to determine what people can—and can’t—say online." They've already seized it for themselves--by deciding for me which content will show up in my newsfeed/timeline/suggested list. They decide which content gets promoted to me.

Yes they use an algorithm to do so, instead of human decisions. But guess who built the algorithm?

Companies that run algorithmic newsfeeds and timelines need to own their role as a publisher and a gatekeeper of content.

Instead of pretending they don't make choices, they should be introspective and thoughtful about the criteria they are using to make those choices. "Engagement" is not neutral criteria because emotions are not symmetrical. Engagement is higher on topics of fear, anger, rage, violence. That's down to our evolution; that's down to the amygdala.

So if you build a publishing system designed solely to maximize engagement, it's going to become a system that preferentially serves content that feeds negative emotions. There are articles and case studies where a person starts with a fresh account and sees what kind of content gets pushed to them; inevitably they get horrible conspiracy theories and fear-oriented content.

Making decisions about what content your audience sees is an act of publishing, even if it's executed via complex algorithm. The companies doing this need to accept their responsibility for what they decide to serve and promote.
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As a publisher of the medical technologies news website (since 2004), I can tell you that what we have now is monopolized internet.

Few entities, like Google and FB, took over the internet and crafted the landscape to their advantage. They monopolized ads revenue, search traffic, and more importantly, they are actively spying on the general public, taking away any possible advantages from publishers. The result is a dearth of advertising money for publishers and regulations aimed at destroying any attempt to take over these behemoths.

When was the last time you saw GFPR notice on Facebook or Google? Do you think publishers enjoy having "Please Donate" pop-ups? When was the last time you heard of investment rounds in online publishers?

In the olden days we had websites and blog networks being born, Gawker, Weblogs Inc, TechCrunch network, political networks, etc etc. And what do we have now? Central stations with fake news shenanigans and retarded memes. While publishers, including your local newspaper and your favorite websites, are struggling. And that's the story behind all these popups.
As you mention in another comment that it's for your business and you don't want to spend time maintaining it once it's running I'd strongly suggest not to go that route and pay someone to do the work for you.

If you do it for your personal email, experimenting around is probably fine for a while but for a business working email is mission critical. Mails getting stuck in filters somewhere, clients not seeing your emails because they got classified as spam along the way will just cost you money and will cause headaches.

Just go with GSuite or Fastmail Business if you don't like Google.
I think OP was questioning how is this paper fits in an generalist IT/business forum.
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http://staticding.org/ helps with those, the only thing I don't like about it is the overlay it puts on the screen and fades out. I forked the github repo to remove it.
hum... ok... making the devil's advocate part, I cannot guarantee I am "caring the appropriate amount". I certainly have a vision not shared by many, so it is hard to say I am "right", when there are so many brilliant people that dont share the same feeling about anonimity, for example. I accept I am expressing I am worried for others, based on how "I" see the relation between freedom, anonymity, privacy and secure communication.
Don't forget auto-playing video that requires 4 clicks to close when you find the semi-hidden close button, like a pesky roach... and restarts every time you navigate to another page or revisit the page
I'm not hating, only observing.

The only ones who see fault in protecting the marginalized are the privileged. The only ones who advocate the right for hate speech are those who are functionally immune to it.

And the demographics of HN are young, single, white, males. It's the only explanation I can find for someone downvoting "Hate is an absolute."
Wouldn't that add a ton of overhead, if nothing is done in kernelspace and everything gets squeezed through syscalls
Sure, but to do addition you need two linear scales, one on the fixed part and one on the slider. The L scale is for computing logarithms, not for doing additions.
> though it may have some unintended consequences that have not been fully understood yet.

I think no one disagrees that it "works" insofar as it stops the bad person from getting their bad ideas out there. Opponents of deplatforming generally argue that the long-term reaction to the deplatforming is worse than the problem the bad person's ideas were causing. Better to counter the bad ideas with good ideas to do long term good.
This is awesome! Some people don't like having a Plan B along these lines because they think it distracts with the standard approach of emission reduction. In reality, for something this important (i.e. Keter level destruction event) we should pursue all threads simultaneously.

"If we don't act soon, we'll end up in "Phase 3" and be too late for both of these strategies to work." In fact, let's at least start brainstorming about plans to deal with Phase 3, too.

The topic of desert flooding has been thought about quite a bit, e.g. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara_Sea and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression_Project.
2 deflating thoughts;

- Qi has always been a slow charge thing in my books. If that's changed, the specifications for the Qi charger required could very clearly be listed, and the Pixel could track the specs of the power coming in at some level I'd hope.

- If sub-par quality QI chargers are a potential hazard, I would say sub-par AC chargers are a far larger hazard from installed footprint. That lock-in would have happened a long time ago if it would have been tolerated by Apple and Google.

Someone will likely find a workaround.
The cloud isn't there to meet processing needs, it's there to meet tech support needs. Everyone gets handed the same keys, so if something's wonky you just get a replacement. No debugging and repair costs, no standards adherence requirements, no getting shoved out of the software layer by a competitor - and the price is just the uncool segment of the early adopters.
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I hadn't heard of Atlantis before, thank you. Very interesting.

Do you happen to know of a self-service tool (CLI and/or Web UI) that allows us to do the following:
Run these Ansible playbooks, then apply these Terraform modules, then run these Ansible... etc.

We often have to build different environments for all kinds of use-cases (usually for testing, debugging or demonstration purposes). Two examples: We need a three node Kafka cluster on the Hetzner Cloud (Terraform + Ansible), we need a five node Elasticsearch cluster on AWS etc.
For that we'd like to specify which Terraform modules to run with which variables, we then read the Terraform state file to generate an Ansible inventory and run a set of Ansible plays/roles.
This is not true. I'm 44, a principal engineer at $BigTechCo, and I know people in mid 50s that are very in demand and will remain gainfully employed as long as they want to.

The problem is that people start a career as a J2EE programmer in their 20s and expect to coast and never update/learn new skills. This will serve you fine for a decade or two, but if you're in your mid 40s and you're only comfortable with technology from the late 90s, your job prospects will be limited.

In order to have a long career in tech, you need to constantly be learning new technologies, frameworks, and languages. If you don't, you can coast for a while, but don't act all surprised at 50 when you get laid off and can't find any work. Would you honestly expect to be able to find work as a VAX/VMS engineer now if that was what you started working with right out of college and never learned UNIX, Linux, or Wintel?
> but you can’t trade anywhere

Just trade on all the other less regulated exchanges. Or localbitcoin. Or, you know, buy stuff.

> and speculation is crypto’s only use case today.

Or you buy stuff... For example:

* Webhallen (huge Swedish online shop)

* scan.co.uk (uk based computer online shop)

* purse.io (buy stuff from amazon)

* fastmail (emails)

* VPN/VPS/domains from various providers

* darknetmarkets
I would change that second to last screen to be about browser compatibility. A site being down/broken happens, no matter what year it is. But the fact sites like BofA do not support a common browser like FireFox I feel is much more in line with the other nonsense in this demo.
You can avoid gemini and coinbase if you use bitcoin. You cannot avoid them if you use USDC/GUSD.
"Easier to use than anything before" and "hard to use" are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
Baidu Research Announces Breakthrough in Simultaneous Translation
We are excited to announce STACL, the first simultaneous translation system w/ integrated anticipation & controllable latency. This is a major breakthrough in #NLP due to word order differences between languages and simultaneity requirement. Demo & paper: https://bit.ly/2yTCvjE
Sarcasm only works when it has a valid point to make.

The "insipid attitude" and "authoritarian behavior" was attributed to a (non-protected) group. Now, it might be that the individual that the poster was replying to is an exemplar of that group but is the beliefs and behavior of the group as a whole that is being challenged, not the individual.
"should kill people" = "those people aren't deserving to live" = 1) either all humans are not deserving to live or 2) those specific humans are not deserving to live = if 2) country X are being dehumanized.

if 1) do you consider yourself a human? A) yes, then why haven't you killed yourself? Since you haven't you think you're more deserving of life relative to everyone else and therefore are dehumanizing everyone but yourself, if 2) ok, you've publicly proclaimed that you don't think you're human which then let me add a second rule. Only humans have right to speech.
Indeed, but since opening dialog boxes was just about the only kind of navigation in apps back then, Esc effectively worked as a back button.
I hope the hell its yelling at the Windows team for it not working properly. That was what he used to do I understand.
But this isn't a warming or cooling cycle caused by any external event, but rather one caused by humans. It's not going to "switch back" to cooling, and this is indeed very new, entirely unprecedented in Earth's existence, and supported by mountains of evidence. The massive amount of pollution we've dumped into the atmosphere is causing irrevocable, widespread, vast changes to the Earth.

All of the above is stuff any kindergartener knows.
What is "hate speech" changes both over time and with who identifies it; even if everyone is against it, they won't all agree on what specifically is included in the definition.
Of course I lack imagination! That's why I asked HN! :)
Let me simplify further, in the face of your ad hominem:

If you're not actively trying to make the world a better place for everyone, you're passively making it worse for everyone.
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I think the higher up you get the more you need memory capacity to quickly switch between tasks. When I look at my VP he has to do a complete context switch between completely different issues almost every hour and remember what was discussed weeks before.
Cockroaches are also hardy and reproduce at an incredible rate. We've seen some cockroaches like white nationalism, that would've atrophied as demographics change, spread more rapidly. We now have a solution for a problem that we wouldn't need without the solution. Great.