skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me the connection between performing multitasking and therefore loosing your ability to memorize things is not at all obvious. And for it to be obvious (I think) one would probably need to know a lot more about the brain than we currently do.

I mean: your example of a triathletes doing a sprint might be true (although a triathlete is probably still a lot better at that than an untrained individual). But there it is easy to see a connection (different muscle mass, different exercises to know what to do in a sprint). But why should there be a similar connectivity between different brain functions?
I have been letting my kid use their ipad, iphone, and laptop since they were 2. 10 years later have not had any issues. I have no rules about when the kid can use their screens. Strong believer in the self-driven approach to parenting, see link below. When there are kids around, my kid puts the devices down and gets to playing with the other kids (that also have no rules around devices) and they all interact pretty normal. I also feel, that restricting the devices might actually lead to mental fixation on them and could back-fire.

Its pretty interesting because when my kid was young, my concern was not too much exposure but not enough.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0797ZV1RJ/ref=oh_aui_d_de...
> It's not – at least in Germany. Laws prohibit intense rent hikes, thus you can lock in a low rent, with a delta to new leases that is just ever increasing.

That's great in theory, but in practice has literally dozens of ways to be bypassed. Rents in Bavaria and Berlin have increased by nearly a quarter over these past 4 years.

One of the problems being that the Mietspiegel only accounts for new rentals, with steady increases in rent prices, it does not reflect the actual "average rent prices" because it's missing data for people who've been living in the same place for years and up to decades, with the same low rent.
> I have to wonder - is anyone working on using generative AI to create 3d models for games?

It's not AI, but MakeHuman[1] has parametric features for human meshes[2], and you can hit "Random". It also has sliders for age and gender parameters. I last used it a while ago, I'm sure I'm underselling it.

1. http://www.makehumancommunity.org/

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDhb-6FcqeU
There’s an underground shopping district in Atlanta but it’s history is a bit different.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Atlanta
Inflation is an average. Newspapers usually report the national average, but there are a lot of other averages and they aren't being kept secret. This page has data for California:

http://www.dof.ca.gov/Forecasting/Economics/Indicators/Infla...

I don't think anyone is all that interested in a bunch of dry statistics. No conspiracy is needed.
Apple's Tim Cook: 'I don't want my nephew on a social network'
Never thought of that, but that sounds like a great idea. Thanks!
Being distributed is really more of a 00s concept anyway. It makes total sense that distributed systems would be replaced with more centralized ones as the internet itself goes through a similar transition.
Hearing a 20-something Albertan casually reference "frogs" made the bottom drop out of my stomach. (This was the better part of 20 years ago.)

They'd never call someone that, face-to-face out on the patch, but the disdain was apparent.

And the superficiality. Montreal is one of my favorite cities -- warts and all. (No pun intended, although now I see it.) This person reduced to using the term "frog" had never been to Quebec and had not even taken the time to learn the basics about the place, people, and culture.

Canada has assholes, like everywhere else. Fortunately, on balance, I've found Canadians a lovely people. Not perfect -- but then again, not particularly trying to be, either. Good, not "perfect".

Or so, as an American, I need to hope. Some place better than what we are becoming.

The wheel turns...

P.S. Shawarma Poutine. Whoever's appropriating what, I've made a mental note, for the next time I'm up there.
AT&T Is Killing One of the Internet's Last Good Things: Filmstruck
You're confusing sensor size for the algorithm again. The Huawei sensor is twice as large as the pixel 2, which is why both cameras without night mode on has a vast improvement in the p20. It's also why the improvement by turning night mode on in the p20 is not as great of a leap as on the pixel.
> this company never gained anything from developing and pushing .NET

eh? the whole reason they make tools is to lure developers.
This is one of the biggest challenges with AI in my opinion. The models can generate the transformations but they have no concept of correctness when applied to vague generative tasks like creating a face based on a set of existing photos.

Basically, there's just one level of cognition. In this case, the AI would only achieve that expected fidelity if the system is layered with more and more models that aim for correctness and accuracy (does this look like a woman, does this look like a mouth, does this look like a nose, etc). The problem with this approach is that it becomes incredibly hard to determine what's needed to be 100% successful at a complex task.

This is the reason why I think we are still far far away from a fully cognitive AI and is the same reason why you only see AI used for very narrow use cases.

Self-driving cars seem to be the first real attempt to have a broad AI system applied to a super-complex and unpredictable field, but I always see conflicting information regarding the progress and challenges in this area.
“’Cause the technology is just gonna get better and better and it’s gonna get easier and easier and more and more convenient and more and more pleasurable to sit alone with images on a screen given to us by people who do not love us but want our money. And that’s fine in low doses but if it’s the basic main staple of your diet you’re gonna die. In a meaningful way, you're going to die.” –David Foster Wallace
That's a pretty poor example. Not all tools are equal, and one of the important ways to describe a tool is by what degrees of freedom it affords the user, and what aesthetic decisions are baked into it. A paintbrush has a lot of degrees of freedom and makes few assumptions. Even for tools that do a lot for you, finding unexpected/unintended degrees of freedom or subverting those aesthetic decisions is one way that artists innovate. From the article it seems that most of the aesthetic decisions in the resulting work were baked into the tool, not made by the artist.

That said, a huge part of an artist's work is contextualizing their work and building a story around it, so in some ways if these guys were able to successfully convince people that it was worth $435k then good on them. I just don't expect that to last. When video equipment was inaccessible to most, simple video art was innovative and new. Now that the tools are easy to get and use the work needs to be more sophisticated.
That's arguably not the most interesting architectural aspect of Git.

Or does any back-linked tree data-structure becomes interesting if the nodes keep a hash of their parent instead of a raw reference? I don't think that's the case.

It might be a bit heretical but I don't think Git has a super interesting internal architecture. I'm not downplaying the fact that Git was very innovative, especially considered the landscape of SVMs at the time. The tool as a whole is great and has desirable properties but its internals don't strike me as particularly innovative. It's a clever composition of solutions to well established problem domains. And in that aspect it is a beautiful engineering solution although there is room for a lot of improvement in terms of UX.

And in addition to that, I would argue that it would be a very weak definition of "blockchain". The innovation in Bitcoin is the incorporation of proof-of-work and resulting alignment of incentives such that it can achieve probabilistic consensus in an adverse setting and with some degree of asynchronicity.

The underlying structure of the data is an obvious choice because it is simple and "captures" the idea of aggregate global state, but it's also hardly an important innovation. UTXOs are more significant.

And also, recall that the textbook example for state-machine replication is always an append-only log for example. So that's not the crux of it, or of blockchain, in my humble opinion.
one of the problems with Fentanyl is how our hands are tied when it comes to inbound shipments. Rogue laboratories in China are a pill-mill for these synthetic drugs.

>Over the last decade, federal officials say, the Zheng group mailed and shipped fentanyl and similar illicit chemicals to customers in more than 25 countries and 35 U.S. states. U.S. officials say the syndicate’s success, laid bare in a recent federal indictment[1], partly helps explain America’s skyrocketing death toll from drug overdoses. [2]

[1]https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-chinese-nationals-charged...
[2]http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-china-fentanyl-201...
What is Career Choice? Amazon pays for labors to retrain for other careers
Thanks! Yes, right now we're offering it as stand-alone classes, and parents can just book it for their kids on our website. We don't work with schools, currently.

Our goal is to eventually offer a full curriculum that can be a full alternative to "physical" schools.
So when I write a project in C, will Github show me a popup recommending I switch to C# for a faster, safer development experience?

Microsoft feels like an untrustworthy friend to me -- I'll go to a party at Microsoft's house, but I wouldn't let Microsoft hold my wallet.
We replaced a little over 80k lines of Erlang with around 50k lines of Rust (not all at once of course). The biggest change was memory usage went way down. Erlang likes to run on nodes wth huge amounts of RAM for process mailboxes. We cut down our peak usage by almost 30%. That’s huge. Latency is also significantly better for the percentiles we’re looking at. The best part is that the code base is way easier to manage, and it’s much easier to keep adding to the code add without causing regressions.
I would argue that humans can't multitask at all, period, full stop. At best we can rapidly switch what our brain is focused on.
But the representatives of these companies are not armed forces. It would be very wrong if they were able to use any force beyond air pressure coming from their throats.
On Linux (and, generally, under X), you at least have copycat skinning engines, so that you can have your Qt programs mostly copy the look of the current GTK theme, and vice versa.

Under Windows, no such thing existed and exists, unfortunately. One thing that I had hoped when installing Win 95 back in the day is that old binaries that use standard window-drawing functions will automatically upgrade to the new look and feel. Not all of them did, alas.
Tons of people support whole families on a tech salary. I myself do it, as do 3 people on my team.
"Instead, worry about being authentic."
Isn't that the difference between (true) narcissists and people who suffer from a narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)?
R as in REPR
I've experienced the exact same thing on latest thunderbird betas and nightlies.

Its a shame that GPU support by Mozilla products is in such abysmal state. Meanwhile Google has working hardware accelerated video decoding AND decent GPU support in Chrome.
YC Unicorn Factory Needs Competition
Yikes. I’m thinking about how labels and identifications like these might harm us. As naive as it may sound, I think when you identify with something, you are constrained within that indentification, not aware you are really not that and therefore limited. I know we live in a society but yikes.
After leaving Google Talk behind, Skype was my primary chat app for a few years, but a lot of people I used to talk to on it have primarily moved to Discord at this point.

I still like Skype more than Discord, but chat apps are wherever your friends are.
Loot boxes, mostly. Gacha games and the like pioneered it and now it's in everything. The slot-machine pull does something to people, and I'm more worried about what it does to brains that haven't completely set yet.
I feel like that we're getting these huge gains on tasks that can be made faster via better architectures, regularization, normalization, data augmentation, etc, such that he's right.

I just wonder if it will ever feel this way for reinforcement learning.
Windows Defender Antivirus can now run in a sandbox
Many of you have been discussing speed, but one of the things I liked most about the old GMail was the look. This is surprising, because my taste tends toward minimalism and the muted colors of today. GMail used of a variety of colors (blue, green, orange, etc.) but there was an elegance to them. It's not just blue, it's a very specific shade of blue (#C3D9FF). The confirmation messages aren't just "orange," they're #FAD163. I've spent my whole life in art and have been a graphic designer, and these colors seem to me hand-picked for maximal retinal happiness.

The style was not just in GMail but also Calendar, Google News, Reader, and the main search itself. For a while Google hosted the articles for the Associated Press, and I looked for them among the versions of each story in Google News. The width of the text column seemed to me precisely right. The image carousel, when included, was easy to use and lightweight compared to the monstrosities in other news sites.

I always ascribed it to Google's data-driven design decisions. In 2009 a well-known graphic designer quit Google shortly after starting, because Google made him user-test every tweak. "Yes, it's true that a team at Google couldn't decide between two blues, so they're testing 41 shades between each blue to see which one performs better." (https://www.cnet.com/news/google-designer-leaves-blaming-dat...)

But I also think a lot of credit goes to Kevin Fox, Senior User Experience Design Lead, 2003-8 (https://www.linkedin.com/in/person/). He recently tweeted a article showcasing several Google products at their inception (https://twitter.com/kfury/status/1045169856998305792) though the subheading is, "Google didn’t always get design. In fact, the earliest versions of some of its top products were downright homely." I couldn't disagree more.

I'm unsure how credit should be distributed. Paul Buchheit is GMail's "creator" (He's also a partner at YCombinator). A history of GMail is in Time magazine, http://time.com/43263/gmail-10th-anniversary/. He left Google in 2006 to form Friendfeed, which bears a strong resemblance to Google's products (http://thomashawk.com/2009/04/friendfeed-is-for-winners-frie...). Other former Google employees cofounded Friendfeed: Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, and Sanjeev Singh. But they also hired Kevin Fox.

Regardless, in the early 2000s I loved Google and all its user interfaces. Around 2010 it began changing, and I've liked the changes less and less.
> but you do know the "From" address in standard email is utterly meaningless from a security perspective right?

That would be the argument as to why the domain owner would have a duty of care when also using the domain to send legitimate business email. Again I'm not saying there is a duty of care here, I'm just saying that it's not obvious to me that there isn't one.
For The New Yorker, the main site (sections, articles, tag pages) was its own theme.

We used off-the-shelf plugins for for curation/features: ACF, EditFlow, Yoast (SEO).

We also used custom Plugins for building out curation and full content feeds for our iOS app, managing podcasts, and AB testing.

Quartz was different. We only relied on the WP editorial UI (with EditFlow plugin) and simplified the templates to just deliver JSON (this was before they had the JSON-API in core).We built an independent web app on top of that.

Hope that helps answer your questions.
I personaly use Chromebook C710 as my main computer. Works just fine with 6GiB RAM and stock HDD. Never liked cutting edge hardware.
http://www.classicshell.net/

First thing I install on windows 10 (via ninite.com) and followed by removing everything I can (and some things I can't like Cortona)

Others shell changers exist, but this is the one I use.
I dunno, I remember losing HOURS sitting in front of a TV. Watching whatever. Whatever they wanted to show me, I'd watch it. Commercials every X minutes.
It is going to Excel in every aspect.
Physics seems to require that a practical fusion reactor be very large. Complex technology is involved, it is hard to believe it is going to beat solar, hydrocarbons, fission, geothermal. etc. in economics. The problem is like that with fission -- uranium and uranium processing, and even plutonium processing are not expensive, but the reactor is.

For a Deuterium-Tritium cycle, half of the fuel will be in the form of Lithium because you will breed Tritium from it in the reactor blanket. Lithium is a relatively rare element in the universe because it gets burned up in stars. It's not clear that the Lithium resource is bigger than the Uranium-in-seawater resource or the terrestrial Thorium resource.

Another issue is thermal dissipation. It is already challenging to get rid of 2-3 GW worth of heat from a nuclear power plant. You could dissipate that heat by evaporating a modest amount of water, but that water could then condense and cause dangerous fog and icing on nearby roads, for instance.

If fusion plants are scaled much bigger, say 50 GW thermal, getting rid of the heat is more difficult (most practically it could be disposed of in the ocean.) The plants have to be cited further away from cities, power has to be sent further, all that adds to the cost.

It would be beautiful if fusion could support human life beyond the "frost line" where small bodies are rich with volatiles such as water, ammonia, carbon monoxide, etc. Imaginably you could cut up something like Pluto into small ringworlds that provide more living area than the Earth.

At some distance solar energy gets weak but a practical fusion cycle (possibly D-D based) might make it possible to hop to the nearest star from comet to comet over a time scale of 20,000 years or so.

The trouble is that people used to the Oort Cloud lifestyle probably won't be too interested in stars if they've managed to live that way for 20,000 years.
There also is only an arbitrary artificial border between a branch and a leaf or the tree and the ground it grows from.

You're right that in ultimo, all these distinctions are artificial and determined by humans - but they have use in our interactions and survival.

Culture is significant in those interactions, if you met a random person somewhere in the wilderness and your survival is dependent on not offending this single person, culture suddenly becomes a very real thing to you (despite that person probably being pretty friendly and hospitable in reality).

For most of us, in highly specialized and commoditized societies with lots of intercultural communication, these boundaries have blurred somewhat but it doesn't mean the concept is entirely inapplicable.
You seem to not get it.

Situation 1: Person A and B are married and have a sexual relationship. A is a VP, B is just a regular worker. Nobody has a problem with this, and policies generally don't have any problem with coworkers being married.

Situation 2: Person A and B are not married and have a sexual relationship. A is a VP, B is just a regular worker. Some people have a problem with this, and policies often have a problem with coworkers being married.

That's called discrimination based on marital status (or lack thereof).
Fermi's paradox doesn't need a resolution besides the vastness of space. The concept of such logical extrapolations from a sample size of 1 irritates me to my core.

Devils advocate; I doubt that. "super-stimulating" ourselves into oblivion requires a level of willful complacence we manage to avoid, at least on the whole as a species. Otherwise things like Vegan diets wouldn't be fads because no one would willfully choose crappier food options for the sake of abstract reasons like "ethics" or "morality" that have zero impact on our daily lives.
That page neither contains or links to any actual data on the effectiveness of any of the techniques described.
According to the phrasing of the complaint, it was the use of the Apple logo on the batteries and not the batteries themselves that CBP took issue with. “It is assumed that if something has that Apple logo on it, it must be counterfeit,” Rossmann said. “It couldn't be that someone who has these batteries sold them to me. It couldn’t be that someone took these batteries out of machines that were on demo in stores….machines that they owned, packaged them up and sent them to me,” Rossmann said. “No, they must be counterfeit. There’s no other explanation for it.” [1]

It is possibly the items were counterfeit. But the information as presented does not make that case. They've been called refurbished. Until a case is made that they are counterfeit that includes more evidence than "it has an Apple logo on it", it makes sense to assume they were not given the statements about their providence.

So all my arguments to this point can be taken to apply to this specific case, and you can feel free to provide your opinion.

1: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3ppvj/dhs-seized...
I really hope Git isn't the end of the road for VCS. I work in visual effects and video games. Most video game studios still begrudgingly use Perforce for project data. Many also have a separate Git server for code. Perforce or SVN is still the go to solution for binary assets. Trying to explain Git to programmers is difficult enough, for artists who have never used the command line it is unreasonable. Every time I've seen an "asset library" it's usually written from scratch instead of built on another VCS. I've made some crude attempts at building on Git and the data just structure isn't appropriate.

I know it's a bit unreasonable to expect the same tool for everything (but that's what you were implying). The binary problem is more manageable for code with a few UI assets (like icons), but isn't great.
I played through the original Hero's Quest when it came out as well as QFGII, including run throughs with all of the characters. I have very fond memories of the first one, that game was pure magic.

I also bought QFGIII and played through maybe half before losing interest. I thought the graphics were cool and it felt more ambitious, just couldn't get into the story and mechanics in the same way.

That said, I was one of those who really decried the move away from text parsers in Sierra games. Those early Police Quests, Leisure Suit Larrys, Space Quests, etc, those + a variety of Infocom games were the foundation of my childhood.
Oh yeah, Diablo was certainly engrossing. However I think there's a distinction between creating a fun game that happens to be addictive, versus architecting a game to be as exploitative as possible.
Then, because the parade of Gothic-horror clichés apparently wasn’t enough, the Coles added H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos to the mix (or, as the manual calls him, “P.H. Craftlove”). The two make decidedly uneasy bedfellows. [long description of why they're mismatched follows]

Somebody hasn't played Bloodborne.
So, they eye works pretty much like a camera - but it's not a camera: it's a complex dynamic self-assembling, self-tuning adaptive structure.

The fact that it's geometry is roughly static around a focal length that has sharp focus on the retina is a wonder of homeostasis with at least three known tuning loops:
1) the lens
Moving on swiftly...
2) a slower feedback loop adjusting the choriod (hence focal length) in the order of hours.
3) an even slower loop adjusting the eye geometry over longer periods of time.