skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few years ago my son's (private) high school introduced ipads. The class that had spent a year piloting them was mostly unhappy with them. He led a movement against their introduction. Finally the principal took him aside and told him, "Regardless, if we don't have them parents will think we're behind the times and the reputation and parent satisfaction will fall."

Which reminded me of my time on a school board -- the parents wanted all sorts of things that the actual teachers/educational experts thought wouldn't help. Each time I looked into these suggestions the obvious excuses of teacher laziness/dogmatism didn't appear to be the case; it was mostly parents who'd talked to someone or seen some article or simply "just knew".
I'm the source. Have you tried water from these devices? P mich awful distilled water.
Okay, I have a question about one of his assertions here:

> What may take a cluster to compute one year takes a consumer machine the next.

Is that not partly because the hardware is ever improving? I realize this is a bit of exaggeration, but does not yesterday's cluster end up fitting onto the die of tomorrow's GPU? And then since it's all on a single die, is not the overhead of the interconnect drastically reduced? It takes less time to push information to the next core over when the interconnect is a couple micrometers of silicon instead of the couple meters of silicon, copper, and fiber needed when the next core is in the next rack over.

Certainly improving the model will help; who hasn't marvelled at how better his code ran when he fixed that On^2 hot spot? But I can't help but think improving hardware plays a role too.

Am I off base here?
>The username on the domain doesn't matter, only the domain itself.

Of course it matters if it means that it wasn't actually sent from the domain in the first place and there were no "hacks" involved. You said "emails sent from your domain..." but you do know the "From" address in standard email is utterly meaningless from a security perspective right? You can just

sendmail -f any.address@example.com any.target@example2.com < email.txt

and that's it. There are ways to mitigate that these days and someone can always examine the headers of something suspicious but a lot of older desktop clients and mailservers won't.

Your entire (dubious and uncited) assertion rests on an assumption that it was in fact "sent from their domain". If someone forged it instead then it doesn't even get into law at all, OP simply had nothing to do with it period. Their account wouldn't have been hacked, neither they nor their kit would have any involvement.
One interesting part was that it had to become 10x to 100x cheaper to become viable on the PC platform: FPU, MMU, hardware virtualization, vector processors (aka GPUs), etc. It was possible for quite some time thanks to the Moore law.
I still recommend people to watch this video from the man himself, Linus Torvalds, if they really want to understand the architecture and data structure behind git - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8

If I remember correctly, he mentioned that he wrote the MVP in 4 weeks and the data structures he used are quite simple. Never got a chance to look at the source code but I guess they are in github (at least the mirror copy.)
http://3ddl.stanford.edu/CVPR17_Tutorial_Overview.pdf
I mentioned kodi for a reason. I've definitely binged on seasons of shows using kodi (or mplayer), but it feels relatively deliberate. I don't support Netflix et al, so I don't know specifically how many dark patterns they've implemented to "increase engagement" or w/e, but I do know the setup is there. And obviously if you're using Youtube for "TV time", then game over.
It would be neat if it sent pictures back.
I think you are overestimating the time costs of an older, reliable car. I've got a 2003 Honda Civic 200k miles that I've had since it had 13k miles. I'd say it goes to the shop overnight once every 12-18 months for a major issue or something I don't want to deal with, goes to Valvoline for 15 minutes every 3 months or so, drop off at tire store for 2 hrs twice a year, and I maintain things like brakes, spark plugs, radiator fan probably twice a year total 2 hours at a time.

And for tools, you don't need much more than the very basics for most jobs that I would want to deal with.

Now if your car of choice is a 69 chevelle or a Fiero then it's going to be a different story.
Not going to happen. We have 5 years before the onset of irrevocable collapse and the beginning of a period of time that will make the dark ages look like the enlightenment.
Btw I just noticed that he's the same guy whose work on GAN was used by an art collective, and the resulting image sold for $14k.
https://twitter.com/DrBeef_/status/1055285640420483073
Which neighborhoods can u recommend? Preferably walk-able with cafes etc and some expats..
In that vein, I'm looking for contributors to my financial media literacy guide:

https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/financi...

It's a new version of my broader software eng media literacy guide:

https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/softwar...
Check Talk https://coralproject.net/talk/ .
Beating Dark Souls requires lots of things. Hand-eye coordination, focus, determination, discipline to grind until your are good at something, learning the game world, learning the enemies, problem solving, etc...

Good games definitely require brain power and critical thinking. I think most people that don't play good (at least my definition of good) games don't understand some of what they teach. I believe that learning anything can be good for you.

Kids need to learn how to learn, focus, and grind to be good at something. Video games help with that. Well, not the generic slot machine simulator "games" or "brain training" games that are popular on mobile, but actual games with depth that provide challenges.
Tearing down others doesn’t make you seem cool or smart
I believe it's purely seeing lines that end with )))))))) that leads the OP's observation ("To me, how Lisp looks is its worst quality--the number of parentheses is just mind boggling"). You don't get that in a C-like syntax. In practice you don't read each individual closing paren to understand the code so it doesn't matter. But it sure looks "scary."
Right this is a great point. Future "mates" would be entirely generated exactly tailored to one's neural pattern optimally in every dimension that is then projected onto some morphing android or in some VR future tech that would render other human contact utterly boring and unappealing. The entire experience of the virtual world is so sugar coated in every aspect that we become completely detached and uninterested from the real one, at least in mass, essentially living inside our own mind's fantasy while AI moves on without us, and rightly so.
whoa, turns out some people with autism, schizophrenia and transgenderism aren't affected as much by these illusions if at all.
But there's a difference between narcissism and just covering for a lack of self-confidence.

I'm not psychologically trained, so take this with a grain of salt, but I've met exactly one person that I think was a narcissist. He was a jerk, but mostly because he was utterly baffled by any concept that didn't involve him in the center. It was an attribute completely separate from his confidence. I feel like it is really hard to explain if you haven't met someone like that - I was routinely gobsmacked by his reactions - every human interaction I'd had to date had not prepared me for it.

Meanwhile, I have tons of anxiety and often cover it up with false confidence, and our reactions to similar events were dramatically different.
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this is correct, SS is on the radar and is not as dependable as it used to be, there is a variant of SS that is said to be an improved version but it is still not 100% dependable.
And VMs that IBM invented on mainframes.

And containers that IBM invented on mainframes.
Looks like somebody listened to Ungeniused this week
I've always wondered if recommending SICP would also be applicable to a person who has never programmed before.

Perhaps pragmatism aside, would you?
+1 for uptimerobot. Been using them from the start... (not affiliated)
> Not sure what the fix is either, other than ruthless enforcement of quotas.

Buy older computers (1980s/early 1990s) that don't provide access to those games or the internet.
Just because it's not as difficult/involved as being a lawyer, while also not training you how to be a good lawyer, doesn't mean that it doesn't still require an education. An education to be able to understand the documentation and law you are working with.

But at the same time not all of them require law degrees either, many para-legals and helpers aren't full lawyers.
Can't wait until such latent-space variable changes will be outlawed...
I flip my phone over (screen-side down) on my desk and place it in vibrate on top of a book or something to absorb the buzzing. Works, but not sure why or if it has the same effect for others.
I'd say Win 7 without Aero.
There was a project that did something like this for Windows 8: https://www.afterdawn.com/software/system_tools/system_tweak...
I've heard very good things about Monument Valley [0] (not affiliated). From its Wikipedia page:

Critics praised its art and sound design, but noted its lack of difficulty and short length.

A short length may be the sign of the antithesis of "purely addicting with no way to truly win"!

https://www.monumentvalleygame.com/mv1
You could try setting the screen to grayscale. It's still functional, but less appealing.
The Patent Takedown Game
Are they still making you memorize colors for days of the week? My ex gf tried to go out of a Waldorf program into engineering at CU Boulder and had no clue how to use a computer.
I don't know why, but used cars in the UK and Australia are way cheaper than in the US.
Yes -- but it still works fine for the common distortions that a handheld camera introduces (assuming you don't go into very large time spans).
It Was Mr. Henthorn on the Cliff with a Swift Shove
I was thinking the same things as I was reading the article. Bootstrapping to me has never been about more or less work, focus etc - but about building the business on its own revenues with the the sole focus and interests of the business owner and customers in mind.

So.. there is certainly a key element of control and motivation in a bootstrapped business vs a business with outside investors. But AFAICT, nothing fundamental about level of difficulty or quality of life.
I've always held QfGIV on a Pedestal, citing it as possibly my favorite adventure game of all time. I had grown up playing King's Quest and Space Quest, but didn't play Quest for Glory until college, and this game was the first one made available to me. The setting hit just the right mix of campy horror for me, and I loved the flexibility. I later played through the rest of the games, and got to appreciate them all on their own merits, but I always loved the fourth entry.

On a more recent playthrough, now with my partner, and the ability to see these games from a fresh perspective, I can see all that was wrong with QfGIV as it came up, and I found myself frustrated with it, especially because I held it in so high esteem. Same with QfGIII, but I never held it in too high esteem. (Hell, I don't even think we were able to finish it because of the bugginess.)

That being said, my partner ended up loving IV and we still frequently quote it to one another. But I'm forced to objectively acknowledge that the first two were just more solid games, and had very focused design and this translated into better player experience at the end of the day.

We didn't play Dragon Fire for obvious reasons (the same reasons we decided we're better off ignoring Mask of Eternity.) But we did play Hero-U for a while, and particularly enjoyed the Cole's Latest effort.

I highly recommend at least the first game for anyone that's into Adventure games but prefers to stay away from Sierra because of wonky logic/unfair scenarios/zombie states. The first game does a lot to blur the lines between tabletop RPG and adventure game in a very fair and enjoyable package.
I was criticizing the practice of using a bunch of domain names with vanity TLDs when there was a perfectly good domain sites could be using. I was criticized for this practice by you and others. It is unreasonable to criticize my companies use of the practice and justify that criticism with descriptions of how the practice would apply to other orgs.
Yeah, that's just not right. There are 3 questions to determine gambling: whether you pay something to play, whether there is a game of chance (a random number generator) and whether the game pays out something of value. Considering companies are making billions on virtual goods, I'd argue that a virtual good counts as a thing of value, and when tied to a random number generator (e.g., a loot box or virtual slot machine) then it's gambling (assuming it's pay to play).
Key quote:

"The Page administrators and account owners typically represented themselves as US citizens, or in a few cases UK citizens — and they posted about politically charged topics such as race relations, opposition to the President, and immigration."

I think we need to move beyond the idea that propaganda is limited to the "Alt-right" or "Russian Trolls" and move to be critical of anything we read online and think about when it comes to any content, who it could potentially benefit even indirectly.
QfG I (the original) was the first game I ever played on an x86 (and the first game I played on a color monitor). I cannot understate how amazing that experience was, and feel slightly sad that newer generations will not be able to experience the same leaps in technology and game design. :)
AI Guru Andrew Ng on the Job Market of Tomorrow
R as in repeat? REPL makes sense if you read it as "read-eval-print loop" (loop being the noun, not another verb).
Actually a large faction of the protest has been getting local businesses off of google services and educating a thirsty public about alternatives. Most people in kreutzberg already thought of google as evil. their foothold organized people around removing it from their lives, regardless of how impossible that is
Off base not, but most of this "one year effect" is really improved algorithms, not better hardware. Hardware doesn't improve that fast (1000x in one year).
Although obviously focused on his daughter, "The Martian's Daughter" [1] provides additional interesting insights into his life. What continually amazes me was his capacity to navigate large scale organizations and bureaucracy to achieve his objectives. I typically find smart people have high frustration with slow moving bureaucracy and for him, I can only imagine that it moved even slower. Perhaps this is how he could do small things like invent Game theory in the cracks between other projects.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Martians-Daughter-Memoir-Marina-Whitm...
That’s like saying people drive too much so we should remove the air conditioner and radio.

You imply that this is obviously a bad idea, but why? I wouldn't eliminate the idea out of hand. If cars were slightly less comfortable, maybe people would drive slightly less and walk/bike slightly more. Maybe removing temptation by having a phone that doesn't make it as easy to play games is simply a healthier choice.

As a parallel, the Amish are a societal group that isn't being overwhelmed by technology. Contrary to popular belief, the Amish don't shun technology, rather they develop rules as a community to try to figure out how to take advantage of the benefits of technology while avoiding the downsides.

In most Amish communities, the current rule is that using telephones is fine, but they are not allowed to be in the house. They tried it when they first came out, and decided it wasn't working. The current approach is to put community phones in outside sheds so they aren't too tempting, but can be used when needed: http://amishamerica.com/got-a-quarter/
Non-amp link: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/cancer-tr...
As a flippant replier, it's partly motivated by not really thinking other VCSes have a chance.

As confusing to use as Git's UI may be, I think the only way we're getting away from it is if someone massive pushes an alternative.

Alexa.com has Github trending down six places to the 66th most visited page on the internet. Worldwide. That's not just programmers that's everyone.
oof, the one thing i am wont to want with 3b1b videos is an interactive suite accompaniment.. unreasonably ungrateful i know ;P

i had high hopes this would be it, but this is just a concise lesson form for the series.. which is great! i am a huge fan of both eater's and sanderson's entire ouvre

what's great is that 3b1b releases the code that generates these videos and i have cloned the manim(o) library a number of times in the past when a video had an idea i wanted to play around with but the effort usually gets a low priority and i get distracted with more pressing projects

i figure a simple localhost python server serving up dynamic frames generated by manim could do the trick, maybe i'll work at it again this weekend

when i want to learn a new mathematical concept i like to write the source myself, which is great for getting at the nuts and bolts but it is usually after i have done this and start to tweak the models or constants that i begin to gain a real intuitive understanding of an underlying concept

(o) https://github.com/3b1b/manim
Microsoft kinda gave up on this ruse back at Longhorn and Vista SP1 days.

Longhorn was a fork of the Server 2003 codebase, and Vista SP1 was a backport/newfork of changes made to Server 2008. (Server2008 and VistaSP1 were both released Feb.4.08.) They were absolutely released in lockstep. Vista SP2 was released April.28.09 and Server 2008 R2 was released Oct.22.09. At that point the consumer product became the testing ground for the server kernel.

It's easier to think of Vista RTM as a giant public alpha, and and Vista SP2 as an insider preview for Server2008 R2 / Windows 7.
It appears that MS made a major design effort when they designed the "Windows 95" look and feel. They produced a number of coherent concepts and tried to stick to them everywhere. They kept the amount of fluff at bay.

It also appears that since then, they've never made an equivalent re-design effort to produce a coherent design and stick to it. XP was mostly an incremental change + re-skinning. Win 10 looks haphazard, unfortunately, and, most of all, the new UI is only applied sparsely, so you can't expect it to be equally usable everywhere.

A Linux desktop circa 2000 could have a hodge-podge of GUI programs based on of GTK, Motif, and Athena widgets. But I could not expect the same in 2018 from Microsoft's flagship desktop OS.
7 looks like Vista.

10 looks like 8.

There are a lot of 10/7 fans around, thus they pin for the Vista/8 look.

First you complain loudly "what is this shit". Then when the new one comes which is basically the same as the previous, but a bit more polished you say "I love this, you should always skip one Windows version"
We collected and analyzed a sample of about 500,000 YouTube videos and 2.1 million Pinterest, and in a surprising result, discovered that only about 10% of affiliate marketing content on either platform is actually disclosed to users. The vast majority of disclosures are in a format the FTC specifically discourages, and which users do not understand.
Mazda Protege5. Best hatchback of the early 2000s.

...if your looking for something fun, reliable, and manual. Otherwise just get a Camry or a Matrix or something like that.
~30% of cars are leased, so those would still be available
County Election Websites Can Be Easily Spoofed to Spread Misinformation
It works and it's popular and the underlying model is easy to understand.

I think step one to replacing git will be to launch a tool that completely replaces the git CLI but uses the same model below. I've not looked into EasyGit much, but I don't think it goes far enough.
The original name was owned by Milton Bradley / Games Workshop, used in a board game of the same name (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeroQuest)
Cloud-based file transfer at scale
Yep.. YouTube is off limits. He's still little so social media isn't in the picture yet, will burn that bridge when I come to it.
Very interesting. Does it aggregate per day? If so, I wonder how it handles time-zone, I mean when to create a new day when you have agents on different time-zones.
Scalable Web Architecture and Distributed Systems
Amazon’s own published books are quietly taking over the site
A smart watch helped me (Garmin). I find it's a nice balance. For example, let's say I'm working with my hands on my keyboard. When an email or text message comes in, I glance at my wrist, I see who it is and maybe the subject, and then I continue working without reaching for my phone or mouse. MacOS is pretty good for that with the notifications - integrated with iphone and email, but I've moved away from Apple. If didn't get these notifications, I'd be wondering if it's important or not, so i just take second to look.
At a very low level, I think it has to do with the motivations of whomever controls the code. At a very basic level, pitting your human brain directly against someone else's computer is a setup for defeat.

At the high level, I think we will see a more divergence / degeneralization of devices [0]. Your "phone" should be a separate item from your social media procrasturbation device. We all want some form of the latter, just not buzzing in our pocket.

In the middle? That's the (zero) million dollar question.

(I hope the next wave will be via repurposing older hardware with a Free and surveillance-resistant operating environment, but my fingers are crossed!)
There was a post a few months ago where someone put a greyscale filter on their phone screen, and found the "addictive" effect significantly reduced.

It was just one person, and entirely subjective, but seems worth a look.
Ford CTO Tests Quantum Computing’s Potential Power – CIO Journal
Poutine is not some elaborate French pastry that has specific a specific recipe that must be followed to the letter. It's the culinary equivalent of the broad side of a barn. It's pretty hard to miss.

Poutine made with slightly over cooked (makes them less prone to breaking apart) frozen fries,shredded Mexican cheese blend and beef gravy all from Walmart is still poutine.
Three Chinese teams join race to build the world’s fastest supercomputer
Be advised that impersonating or misrepresenting yourself as an Officer of Comedy Law is a felony and you may be subject to fine and/or imprisonment.
> Hackers eventually found out how to tell a client NT kernel to behave exactly like Server

It was Mark Russinovich who did it with a utility called NTTune. Now he's the CTO of Azure!
Pff. Find yourself a member of the Lost Amiga Civilization to talk to, they'll tell you how much a step backward gaming on x86 was :)
What's the next programming language you want to learn?
Creative directors and other Artists in video games (my experience) tend to like to 'stamp' the visuals of a game with a certain aesthetic, from their own inspiration. Generating 3D models (offline, not in game) would be a great start, but in the end it's only a 'rough' draft and will likely go through the same amount of work to get to a final 'approved' visual state.

Unlikely in the near future, highly probable in the longer term. Imagine writing a script (movie) and having the AI generate the characters ... storytelling to a new level.
Artificial Intelligence: Parking a Car with Only 12 Neurons
To see automatic differentiation in use in an entirely different field, check out page 81 (PDF page 95) of Stephan Schlamminger's dissertation.

http://www.schlammi.com/pdf/diss.pdf

This radically simplified an extremely difficult calculation necessary for a measurement of Newton's gravitational constant. It is the only time I've ever seen automatic differentiation in use in physics.