skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>as I age, I increasingly see the degree to which phenomena are interconnected, and the knock-on implications regarding complexity and unanticipated consequences

I think the same reasons that we have to thank for that we also have to blame for the fact that we are less easy to change our ways of modeling reality, both at the lower and the higher levels as we become older. In some ways we become more humble, in some other ways we are becoming more rigid. In practice I guess we are becoming better in modeling the world around us in those areas that have not changed too much, but at the same time we become less willing or able to revise our models drastically or create new ones, which would be a good thing in areas that have incurred some fundamental changes.

This accumulated "wisdom" often leads to choices and behaviors that cannot be rationalized by those younger, but it can be tricky knowing when that's a case of modeling a situation better and when it's a case of reading patterns that did not exist or missing/underestimating some important variables.

I think it is exciting but also a bit scary to see these changes happening to ourselves with age and trying to see how effectively we can identify and compensate for their negative side through awareness!
What Do Our Oldest Books Say About Us?
For video you can fetch different chunks from different endpoints simultaneously, not the same chunk, therefore not wasting bandwidth at all.
Paywalled / restricted article.
Godspeed
Open-sourcing FBGEMM for state-of-the-art server-side inference
Sure, I don't have the book on me, but this journal entry (written by the author) in Neuron outlines the main points raised here with plenty of references/citations to back it up. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662731...
did you overcome this? learning to delegate can be challenging!
You see, certain cultures already put this line much closer to facial expressions, and find it appropriate to wear veils of some kinds to conceal them.

I'm not only talking about e.g. Muslim cultures; veils were pretty normal in 19th century's Europe (though not as thick as in 16th-century Europe).

So my question is where the line will be drawn, because removing the unconscious form humans seems infeasible, no matter how cultures try.
What if the opposite effect happens? https://www.marketplace.org/2015/03/03/health-care/how-cost-...
Nikolay from Streamroot.io here, co-author of the article.

Yes Conviva provides a service that can give you information about the QoS for the CDN by aggregating data from their customers (they provide a video analytics solution), but it doesn't make the switching (nor on the server side or on the client side), so the video player would need to implement its own logic themselves.

The solution from Streamroot can use this kind of APIs like Conviva Precision, or the one from its competitors like Youbora and Cedexis, and the real value it adds is the client-side switching capability to the players, so it's quite complementary to those solutions.

And indeed the devil is in the details, that's why we built this client-side SDK so the customers don't have to implement all the logic themselves on each platform and device. It was easier for us as we already have SDKs and plugins for most players for our P2P hybrid delivery solution.
I did wish there was a Github link to see the code. I wanted to check if there was a theming option
> You can use the unstable sand pile analogy to describe the state of Europe at the time.

Or, if you want to be direct a d literal, you can note that a key feature of great power relations was belief in (what is now recognized as the myth of) offense dominance—the belief that the technology of the day rendered the power that attacked first an overwhelming military advantage, such that in the face of likely impending war it was critical to attack first. It was literally an inverse of MAD.
I'm still waiting for a browser to figure out I mean "com" when I typed "cim," and you're thinking CDN retries would work?
Earlier similar applications: Meebo, Pidgin / Gaim

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meebo
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin_(software)
go watch "century of the self" by Adam Curtis then tell me what you think
Oh awesome. Thank you!
The sea may be absorbing way more heat than we thought
Early voting also helps, many states let people vote through the weekend before Nov. 6. Or mail in ballots, but yes, making it officially on a weekend would simplify quite a bit.
Again, the “freeze” is for 2018 specific features, the ones that would be backwards incompatible with 2015.

? isn’t sugar, and also isn’t a breaking change.
Backwards credit payment
The interruptive nature of ads has had me swearing at them since I was old enough to speak. Advertising has been compromising things I enjoy for literally my entire life. It's unnatural and serves no valid purpose, but somehow "we" as a society accept it.

I wonder about the broad-scale psychological expense to humans to continuously endure the cognitive load of advertisement inundation. I feel like it's like a psychological tax on humanity, literally dampening our potential. If you consider that people like Steve Jobs wore the same thing every day to have "one less decision to make", you can easily gather how important every "clock cycle" of your brain is valuable when you're operating at a high level of functionality. People close their eyes to concentrate further, or turn down the radio during difficult driving conditions -- these are all efforts to reduce sensory input. Meanwhile, advertising is a persistent sensory load.

Along these lines, in the study "The Economic and Cognitive Costs of Annoying Display Advertisements"[0], which was focused around website advertising, one conclusion was: "in the presence of annoying ads, people were less accurate on questions pertaining to what they had read". This was just something I quickly found and I imagine there are many other studies which have similar conclusions.

[0] http://dangoldstein.com/papers/goldstein_suri_mcafee_ekstran...
Oh yeah, so voting it will be no more anonymous and only the company holding the service know really who vote who...

Corporatocracy is coming, someone watched "Continuum" TV series and think it's a nice idea...
I actually don't think there is a real dichotomy - the system can be annoying to different groups for different reasons. The reasons it's annoying to MDs may be different from the reasons it's annoying to rads techs, etc. But you started by contradicting the parent post ("I wouldn't say that's correct"), which is why I felt inclined to chime in.
For VoD I like the approach where you use a fast and reliable CDN for the first seconds and in the background buffer the rest of the video from a cheap location/CDN.

This works if you download video faster than real time which is almost always the case. That way you get the best of both worlds.
As an American, I detest how other Americans use them. Some folks in the 'ring' slam on their brakes when they see another car approach. Others will randomly pull out in front of folks who are already in the 'ring', causing the first group to always slam on their brakes when they see someone approach. This causes the second group to always pull out into the 'ring' without yielding right of way.
I'm surely going to butcher this story, but I heard from a Zen priest who visited Mount Hiei this year that there is a position there of a monk who maintains a (the?) main shrine. That monk attends to the cleanliness and order of the shrine exclusively, and resides there without leaving throughout the entire duration of the position, which is 12 years.
Can you imagine a label on all drugs. "General surgeon reminds: your doctor might be lying to you as part of your medical treatment. This might not be a real drug"
That was one good read.

Scanning the comments, surprised no one has brought up religion.

Specifically why religions, all religions, need rituals. Not just narratives/imagery/a priest class etc.

Rituals, to the scientist or non believer look totally meaningless and crazy even, but to the believer it's a fundamental part of the dance that renews faith. Faith in what? Faith in the fact that tomorrow will be a better day.

Visit a cancer hospital and for a lot people that is still the best medicine on offer. I like this Ted Kaptchuk dude and it's good to see the work he has done.
The "highly ignorant" are showing up at the polls just as much as the highly informed. Making voting easier doesn't exacerbate that problem.
PostGraphile is built on Graphile Engine which is completely backend-independent (like GraphQL itself). This is what we use in PostGraphile for the "look-ahead" functionality, allowing you to build a database/API/backend query that represents a full GraphQL query as one action. You can read more about it here, though it's currently not as well documented as PostGraphile itself. https://www.graphile.org/graphile-build/
Typical selection bias: ads work if you choose as evidence the ads that work.

For every successful Nike, Coke or Samsung campaign you see there are hundreds of other campaigns that didn't work.

The correct title is: "it is very, very hard to make ads work, but it can be done".
The Big 9: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
Aardvark, the question and answer service that was later bought by Google, initially routed and answered all user questions from their internal team.
How does this differ from the deplatforming we've recently seen with Twitter, Apple app store, Gab from hosting providers, facebook, youtube, etc?
The virulent nature of advertising becomes so consciously clear when you notice _how many places_ you see ads for that product, right? It's kind of disconcerting.
It would be interesting to compare that against the horrible things people do because they do have autonomy.
No two signatures I've ever written actually look the same. I do wonder how this might affect people like me!
If it's a one time thing, be part of a medical study. I think giving some random body fluids/part also will also get you paid.
I had critical thinking and current events classes all throughout elementary school.

Was a private school but never thought about its utility or the idea that may have been an exceptional part of the curriculum till this very moment.
AI: Artisanal Intelligence
Ohm has several impressive features, such as separation of grammar and semantics and incremental parsing capabilities.

The base performance however very low, as in two orders of magnitude lower than most other parsing libraries in JavaScript.

See benchmark at: https://sap.github.io/chevrotain/performance/ that I have created.
It's even better when he slips and say: "Don't anthropomorphize Larry Ellison"
> One reason is a holdover from the days when the eligible voter roles were physically printed on reams of paper to be lined through in pen as each eligible voter 'checked in' to be given a ballot.

Way back when, meaning yesterday? My polling place had two different people with voter lists in front of them. One was a big book I had to sign under my name (once the lady finally paged, one page at a time, through to my name), the other was a huge sheet organized by address where my name was crossed off after I voted.
> I think this understanding is common, but it's totally incorrect and is part of the larger project to get fewer people to vote.

Which is what the Founding Fathers intended. The word “democracy” does not exist anywhere in the Constitution or Declaration of Independence. As Ben Franklin put it, we have a republic, if we can keep it. We have done a terrible job at that.
> How would you deal with unregistered voters?

How is that even a problem if the financial penalty for not voting is implemented by way of a per-election tax credit for voting?

> How would you deal with malicious voters, who now surely would be so pissed they would vote for a bad candidate

A large minority of voters do that in the best case now. I'm not really convinced that anger at being offered a financial incentive to turn in a ballot is going to motivate people to be more effective wat voting for bad candidates than those who are ideologically motivated that way now.
That's how I felt too (hence why I decided to make Relica) -- restic is great, but I needed something more hands-off, and so does the rest of my family.

"Bring your own cloud" was our #1 requested feature, so here you go!
People actually are accused of doing something illegal by law.
All advertising has at least a 1% ROI. I don't think ads are a issue to be discussed.
> different, mainly mental

What evidence do you have that the placebo effect is 'mental'?
A slippery slope many have already considered acceptable, if it involves political (albeit hateful) speech.
Does Slovenia Also Cancel the UN Migration Pact?
Fact or Fiction?: A Cockroach Can Live Without Its Head
Another way advertising works is by tickling the "TIL" part of our brains. Beginning in infancy humans react to experiences that are unique or peculiar. If we see something new or not normal we immediately want to know more about it.

It's why I think targeted advertising is a bit of a scam. Yes, it's neat that we can do that now and the conversion is outstanding. But what's the real value in advertising for Widgets to people already actively shopping for Widgets? I show 50k ads and get sales off 40% of them, that's good compared to another strategy that only works 10% of the time that I'd have to buy 200k for the same result. Except, how many of that 50k were going to buy my Widget anyway had I not advertised? Whereas 150k of the second set had no idea I sold Widgets or even what a Widget was until I told them. Looks like there's more value in increasing my customer base by spreading a wider net with a lower conversion.
It appears that the most important restriction is on recursion:

> This is what guarantees the language is visibly pushdown: all recursion is explicitly delineated by special symbols.

> Plain recursion isn't allowed. Only two restricted kinds of recursion are available: guarded recursion and expression recursion.

So the Owl grammar itself qualifies:

https://github.com/ianh/owl/blob/master/grammar.owl

JSON certainly qualifies:

https://github.com/ianh/owl/blob/master/test/json.owl

I think the full JavaScript language would have qualified in the past, when anonymous functions could only be the explicitly delimited "function() {}"... but now with ES6 we have fat arrow functions (for example "(x,y) => x+y") so I think modern JavaScript can no longer be parsed with Owl. That's because you can write something like "f = x => y => z => x+y+z" which has no guard nor can it be parsed with expression recursion.

I do not think you can do a C-like language because of function types. But you can do a simpler, C-like language, for which they have an good example in the test directory:

https://github.com/ianh/owl/blob/master/test/something.owl
>> Any discussion of my responsibility for my actions must take into account my personal contribution to the decision as a being.

>> again whence comes responsibility?

The only reason I can think of to assign responsibility is to "correctly" respond. Particularly in the form of reward or punishment. But if a person is not responsible for their actions, then neither is anyone responding to them. "Responsibility" comes from some sense of morality, which doesn't really exist without free will does it?
Should be noted that the founders were effectively trained designers and had probably better than amateur photog skills. They knew what they were doing when staging/taking snaps.
>Voting needs to be easier

Which is why it's not a solved problem.
> if you made 2 points in a basketball game and your team lost, were those 2 points meaningless just because you didn't win?

If your only goal is to win, then yes those 2 points are meaningless.

> Should you recuse yourself from playing because it's unlikely your team can win?

No because people play basketball for more reasons than just to win.

> How about raising money for a Kickstarter - was it a waste of time just because you didn't raise the goal and won't receive the funds? Should you not try to raise money and find as many donors as you can, just because there's a minimum cutoff for payout?

That is absolutely a waste of time, yes! A Kickstarter is significant effort and is done with the intent of funding. That's a major opportunity cost for the limited effort one has before giving up and working on something else.

> There is no perspective from which it is irrational to vote. It costs you nothing and can only have upside for your party affiliation. If you disagree we're separated by an axiomatic impasse, not a logical one.

There were something like 40 things to vote on for my ballot. I spent about 20 hours figuring out which way to vote. If I had spent that time consulting at $300/hr that's $6000 of my time. The fact that I would rather have spent that time on leisure activities means that I personally value that time at more than $6k. I literally only did it because I value my relationship with my wife any more and she was most insistent.

Can we agree that the value of my vote is roughly equal to the odds that it influences the election times the value I place on that? We can debate the odds, but if this were a lottery, I would be called a fool for buying that ticket for $6k.
Right, that's the problem. The fact that doctors must ask for the consent of people who don't understand what they are consenting to.

The idea itself isn't that controversial - age of majority laws for contracts, voting, and even medical treatment clearly acknowledge the idea that some people are too young to know what they are agreeing to, so the decision should be made by someone else who takes responsibility for them (most things), or there should be no decision because there doesn't need to be one (voting).

We just need to refine our understanding to reflect the reality that as old as you may get, you will never understand some things.
Products you've cited do implement MFI DRM themselves, like Apple's SD reader. It has an MFI DRM chip, plenty of teardowns are online.

Additionally, the original post is about USB-C storage accessories not working with the new iPad Pros. So, there's ample evidence that Apple can indeed enforce DRM over USB

It's trivial to connect an MFI/USB protocol analyzer to the USB-C bus, and watch the DRM in action yourself.

Cheers
The amount of adult human beings who, when asked for a reference, cite wikipedia (rather than the reference wikipedia uses, if it has one) shows that we should teach media literacy per-se - primary school would be ideal, but so would anywhere.
You may also enjoy heroku for hosting an mvp. Pricy, but straightforward to scale and set up a staging env for testing release candidates on, plus lots of great features like automatic db backups. And since it’s built on aws it’s easier to shift some microservices onto ec2 later as needed.
And you have very faint hopes to have a DL system explain to you why it thinks it is a gorilla. Each system has its weakness.

Still, logic systems are a lot closer to reasoning and understanding (if not for the machine itself, at least for its operators), in other words closer to intelligence than other systems.
While it's a noble goal, I'd say that the two classes that should be brought back are civics and geography.

Did we really get rid of those two classes? I honestly don't know, and have no children to know what is being taught these days. I graduated high school in the early 2000's but to this day my favorite class was "Law and Government", so much of this had to do with my teacher's genuine enthusiasm for the subject matter. We did mock trials, a few of which I won as a fake public defender.

That class was wildly informative looking back, you really do have me wondering what the state of that sort of curriculum is like these days.

(random addendum but a few years back I ran into the gentleman who taught that class, at the voting booth-he was volunteering his time as a poll worker. Just as civic minded as I remembered him)
Especially since AMDs SMT is better.
I do think that the constitution is a fundamentally undemocratic document!

But I disagree that this particular discourse is in the tradition of the founding fathers' concerns about popular opinion.

Their project to prevent "the unwashed masses" from expressing themselves came in the form of limiting enfranchisement to white man with property. They would have vehemently disagreed with the idea that those propertied white men should worry a lot about being ignorant and only vote if they were sure they had properly prepared!
Some scientists are religious, so ritual may be meaningful and sensible to them.
that's true of every business: they need to make money.
I think the point of the comment you replied to is that nobody builds prototypes in a scalable fashion, since if it was scalable (implying you spent some resource to make it scalable) it wouldn't be prototype.
I agree, with one exception. In certain ultra-urban locations, excessive advertising begins to take on its own sort of aesthetic that can become paradoxically pleasant. Some streets in e.g. Hong Kong [1] look like something out of Bladerunner. It has this sort of peculiar, and difficult to explain, dystopic appeal. Dystopic appeal should be an oxymoron. What can I say? I like it. Blame William Gibson.

[1] - https://c8.alamy.com/comp/AA7W4X/long-exposure-neon-advertis...
Non medical placebo effect?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2845699/
What's the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon?
> Corel Draw (if people even remember that)

Apparently the latest release of CorelDRAW came out in April this year. I'm a little surprised - I thought they'd disappeared. But apparently you can both buy a license, and rent it by the month.
Oil is brought in via the Rhine river and processed at the refinery in Cressier. It would of course be possible to ship seawater instead and desalinate it. I doubt it’s an economical enterprise.
At least they (Comcast) just send you an email now and don't inject their notices into the HTML of the websites you're visiting like they were doing a few years ago. It was basically a MITM attack, done by the ISP.
Glaciers work differently from ice on a pond. They have a 'budget' which is determined by the rate at which snow accumulates on the top and the rate at which melting occurs lower down. When glaciers are stable they have net accumulation above that turns to ice, flows downward, and melts at the snout.

Once the temperature reaches a point where net accumulation no longer occurs anywhere on the glacier it quickly disappears.
Thanks! Purchased a copy :)
> I guess I don't really have a reason to post any of this, other than it helps to get it out there

I know that feeling well. Best of luck to you.
> Is it okay for doctors to lie about placebo treatments if it actually helps?

People do this all the time, it's called homeopathy
Maybe what should be taught is “don’t trust anything you read”. That goes for everything from textbooks to newspapers. Instead children are often taught to memorize and obey, which leads to issues when you have to tell your child that the teacher was wrong, and that a teaching certificate doesn’t make you magically all-knowing.
> Which is what the Founding Fathers intended.

Even if that was true (and most generalizations about the Founding Father's aren't because they were a diverse group with often diametrically opposed intentions), “what the Founding Father's intended” (other than some role in the legal interpretation of text of laws written by them, including the Constitution) ought not have any special weight.
I was under the impression that Apple's T2 chip was replacing third-party components like that.