skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Likely from nets.

https://www.worldoceanfest.org/new-blog/2017/6/9/the-impact-...
Oh boy, yes. Neuroscience is all about serving the egos of the scientists, and it can often be anything but scientific.

(Although, as a failed vision scientist myself, I may be credibly accused of some disqualifying bias in this regard).
> The problem here is not Bitcoin per se, it is the current state of the real world

If Bitcoin doesn't work in the real world, that's a problem of Bitcoin.

> Bitcoin, in a world where it is the sole currency, has the benefits you quoted.

If Bitcoin doesn't offer sufficient benefits in the real world as it is without being the sole currency in the world, there's no plausible route to it becoming the sole currency.

“My clever idea is great if everyone wakes up one day and abandons all other alternatives for it, but not otherwise” is a long winded way of saying “my idea sucks”.
Each z14 has "approximately 20,000" C4 solder bumps, i.e. connections! That's astounding.
Contentful is also a good option.
I hear what you're saying but the problem is that, when retelling the history of a large battle, no foot soldier plays a large enough part to give the reader a good sense of the overall event. An author can try to incorporate the grunts but they run the risk of overwhelming the reader with names that need to be kept track of.

The stories of the foot soldier can be told but they are usually closer to a biography rather than over-arching history. Author Stephen Ambrose was one of the best at it. His books "Citizen Soldier" and "Band of Brothers" (among others) are excellent.
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Sure, but in the case of animals with the capacity to suffer, that would only be true in the same circumstances that human cannibalism would fail to cause suffering. (Well, sans the disease risk to the consumer).
>> What irritated me about it was the assumption that, if most of your predictions are correct, your model is almost entirely correct, and just needs to be tweaked a bit.

Haha, no. We wish.

Epicycles worked very well and were highly accurate, because, as Fourier analysis later showed, any smooth curve can be approximated to arbitrary accuracy with a sufficient number of epicycles. However, they fell out of favour with the discovery that planetary motions were largely elliptical from a heliocentric frame of reference, which led to the discovery that gravity obeying a simple inverse square law could better explain all planetary motions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferent_and_epicycle

A theory can explain observations even perfectly well and still be wrong- because the frame of reference is wrong. The worse thing is that you can't figure that out until you've figured out what the correct frame of reference is, and looked at your obsrevations in a new light.
Here is a long list of headless CMS

https://headlesscms.org/
'Physics is notoriously bad at having curiosity about strange, unconventional, or truly novel ideas.'

There is certainly no shortage of these!

What we are short of, are ideas that are:

- falsifiable

- testable by experiment, with current technology
The brake on the cycle that I see coming is that eventually, surely, everyone that can take part in steps 3 and 6 has already taken part in one of the cycles and quite a lot of them got burned.

Or more succinctly - surely sooner or later you have to run out of naive speculators?
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One potential counterargument to this is scale. Before 2012, I hadn't heard of Bitcoin.

Back in '13, it was me and a couple of my nerd friends who were talking about this crazy Bitcoin surge. I read some about the algorithm, thought it was cool, and left my money elsewhere. It was mostly low-traffic articles or niche sites that talked about it.

A year ago, my dad asked me about it. My coworkers claimed to be experts on it, but only had the most basic understanding of Merkle trees, and no real context on mining difficulty adjustment.

Each successive bubble has involved more and more people who are new to Bitcoin. At some point everyone who cares about the "get rich quick" aspect will have already heard and gotten burned.
>Meanwhile we have managed to avoid election disputes leading to riots and burning down parliament for 150 years using a simple volunteer run hand counting method.

The words 'Accurate, Accountable, Auditable' do not occur in this sentence.
I was in your boat not too long ago (honestly, I'm still there but it's become better), and I realized a simple, yet effective way to interact with people without having to a.) talk as much and b.) put your opinions out there for a possible anxiety-inducing interaction.

It really came down to asking good questions. This allows people to help clarify themselves to you without you having to talk too much. It also builds your listening skills, which is probably one of the more important interpersonal skills you can attain. If you ask good questions, people will seek you out. Win-win for your interpersonal and professional goals.

As for resources, I recommend A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Idea. It's a great book with actionable items to help you ask people questions they don't normally hear, which will help people not only understand you better, but help you understand them better. In the end I wouldn't be surprised if this book helps you help other people flesh out their ideas, desires and needs.
Not sure about this one tbh. On the one hand this seems an awful lot like compelled speech, OTOH it doesn’t seem like the cable companies have a valid reason to bar broadcasting ESN’s offerings. I’m not really sure what race has to do with it. The CEO happens to be black, sure, but I feel like some details are missing from this story.
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Dig it! But I'm clicking on Preview and getting a I need to subscribe?

https://cl.ly/709c92e9ca7b/Image%202018-11-20%20at%2011.12.4...

Get this:

https://cl.ly/eac5828099c5/Image%202018-11-20%20at%2011.13.2...
but no dividends.
this is sad, but I find that fact that the harassment level was so mild the more surprising aspect
With Tumblr specifically it's user-generated content that's the problem. In high school, there were people who posted racy pics on there all the time.
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Great! Our project had the same idea of combining different skills: I was working with ML and my colleague was the TA from a robotics class.
How well does it hold up in adverse conditions, like outdoors in bad weather, or dark light, or a drunk person trying to take the photo?
That hasn’t been my experience. You can search for whatever you like.
It was Al Gore
There's so much wisdom in the post.

>The business is almost never paying to you clean up technical debt. They are paying you to generate revenue (or save costs). Period.

So true. Once you're in enterprise nobody cares that you wrote the connection pool yourself (which I did and nobody gave a darn). I did 5 years in enterprise and decided that was enough for a lifetime.

>Nobody gets credit for building a system that never goes down.

This happened to me. I designed and wrote a subsystem that is used by every GM dealership around the world and that thing never went down meanwhile my colleagues project was always down yet folks from the other team were the ones that got promoted.
Not a fair comparison. See[1] how a whales digestive tract can be a fraction of the size of a humans, relative to overall size.

Also 6 grams can be three whole plastics cups - or a dozen lightweight bags, not that neat little teaspoon full.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sperm+whale+anatomy&t=ffsb&iar=ima...
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this is how I understand it. but then I’ve heard statisticians describe neural networks as “nonparametric”, even though they typically have a fixed number of parameters. (millions of parameters! arguably they are the MOST parametric.)
The 'revolutionary' aspect is the suggestion that a single celled organism is also doing variational inference. Or, more accurately, can be described as such.
Is the plastic in the rivers postconsumer or preconsumer waste?
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Pretty much ... except instead of being in the form of a TODO, they are actually little YAML data structures embedded in comments, holding requirements, tasks, plans, test cases, records of design decisions and other bits and pieces that need to be tracked and managed.
OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT - watch out for your US Dollars y'all, I heard at least one physical paper $20 bill was used to buy an 8th of reefer in Rhode Island this one time... the Fed is winding up its operations as we speak...
To be honest, I have no idea what you are trying to say. Metacritic score is "highly, highly correlated" with film duration?

This isn't science or engineering, it's art. You can't objectively determine whether any film is "better" than any other, because the only thing that matters is how an individual viewer likes the film.

We seem to be talking past one another. Have a nice day.
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How do we handle and use such enormous amounts of data?
Definitely read How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.

However, just reading a book on this subject is not enough. You will actually have to apply the principles in your everyday life. Dealing with people is kind of like an art. And just like any art (like painting) you can only get better with deliberate practice. Doing this might feel a little uncomfortable at first, but it's how we grow as people. Where I work, employees are offered tuition reimbursement for taking their official courses (https://www.dalecarnegie.com/en). The Carnegie courses helped me take the knowledge from these books and put it into practice. It was incredibly helpful for me, and aided in overcoming some of my social anxiety.

Another user also recommended toastmasters, which is probably an equal alternative if you can't get your company to pay for the courses.
Good Dinosaur and Up are both interesting cases of Pixar's environment team exploring if they could use Google Earth (and equivalents) for location scouting, to the point where Good Dinosaur used a lot of direct satellite imagery and terrain data to bootstrap the animation process. Which is fascinating technically, but absolutely an interesting comparison to the less realistic approaches of everything else in the film. Up they managed it quite well because the real place they found as example is fantastic enough to support the rest of the film and the pulp adventure storyline supported that uncanny valley realism; The Good Dinosaur did not find something fantastic enough nor did it really support the story near as well.
Only if those "negative externalities" are illegal for everyone. In this case, they're perfectly legal activities. It's not a "break" or "subsidy" just because someone's allowed to carry on a perfectly legal activity.

Look, if it is bad to use oil for fuel, then just tax it. But playing these word games is lame.
Parallels between social media misinformation campaigns in USA and South Africa
There are a lot of weird quirks with Tumblr that I don't understand like how some pages will only open up in the dashboard.
I think fidgeting is a lot healthier than sitting in the same position for extended periods of time
My bad. I wasn’t thinking about the real world implications of what he said when I wrote the above. I was thinking about the entertainment value of the situation. Sorry.
Do you not understand the issue? I'm not trolling. You become wealthy by allocating capital efficiently. This is econ 101. How hard is this to understand?
Tried a few times with the "Scan" demo on https://jabcode.org/create/ using Firefox for Android, but it appears to just get stuck displaying a loading spinner.

Seems to work in Chrome, so not sure what's wrong with the implementation to make it not work.
Tesla is a bad example for almost any given point, but in this case it's relevant to note that he was not a scientist, and his funding model did not work.
I call it do-your-partism and it’s a big part of the reason we have so many problems that people seem to care about that aren’t getting solved.
I was seeing similar symptoms. Fixed by setting cookies and all other state except bookmarks, one or two others, to clear upon browser exit.
It was also a time when the whole societal landscape was different: peasants farmed because it was their way to survive and the aristocracy lived on the labor of the former without having to work. What changed now it that almost everybody need "a job" and the attention and time of a lot of smart people is distracted by that. That's also the reason why people professionalize themselves by going to the academia. In my case, I would do research and experimenting new ideas no matter what, but joining an PhD program is the way to put bread on the table.
I might buy it. Seems like it has the potential to improve myself at least a little. I am always wary though of applications which are glorified notepads or spreadsheets. Also the privacy policy isn't that convincing. In what scenario would a third party need access to the data?
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We continue to allow corporations to become governments in and of themselves, and to take actions that protect themselves, or push a set of goals that are synonymous with the CEOs intentions, at the cost of individual liberties. They've stretched this so that things that are clearly legal outside of work hours, and in the privacy of ones own home is cause for termination, while things that are clearly illegal in any context cannot be remedied under due process.

Western civilization literally fought wars to get a set of balances in place around free speech, religion, anti-discrimination, and freedom to pursue "happiness".

We should be very very cautious about letting companies this amount of power, especially Google and Facebook, which have shown no issues terminating people's employment, and taking corporate actions that threaten democracy for their leaderships person benefits.
If anyone is interested in code, this is an implementation in Java made by a friend: https://github.com/comodal/secret-shamiracle
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No, you don't need a GPU at all. It helps, of course, but it not necessary. I don't remember the specs of the computer we used, but to give you an idea we give all the training data to undergrad students in the machine learning class (https://www.kaggle.com/c/mac0460-self-driving) they achieved good results with their personal laptop.
FWIW I can easily imagine an angry, old white man calling a 30 year old white man 'boy'. It's typically a condescending way of implying dominance and is not necessarily a racist expression in and of itself.

Coupled with his other comments, though, you might start to view these as 'dog whistles'...
Recommendation: The Extra Credits folks have been doing an Extra Sci Fi series that covers the big names of Sci Fi - and that included Heinlein.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaWMe5nC9SA

I liked it - it was a great primer on an author I was aware of but didn't know much about (yes, I need to catch up on my reading list).
He used to be on at like 4a when I was in high school. I genuinely dont understand how this guy has had his own shows consistently for 2 decades and STILL most people have never heard of him.
> I can share that research if you like.

I'll bite. Let's see it.
To add a whataboutism, what about Snapchat?
Clothing?
Crypto coins are all worthless. Just my 0.0000^-11 Bitcents
In the US, parent's have to go out of their way to get their kids exempt
If you are in public, you have no right to privacy. Anyone can record you. You don't have to be overtly recording all of your interactions but there is nothing unethical about recording everything you see in public.
Agreed - I don't need numbers to tell me how unpleasant the daily experience of riding the subway in NYC has become.

I was merely responding to someone else who brought up a numbers-based argument only to find out that they... apparently don't have any.
An online persona is like client-side data validation. It's a nice to have, but it cannot be trusted. You should always have server-side validation anyway. That's what tests/assignments/interviews are for.
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> According to this explanation those super powerful individuals "sell" Bitcoins for fiat in order to pay the energy (electricity) they use in order to mine another currency. It is only possible because Bitcoin is not the sole currency.

Doesn't it? What changes if you take out the fiat intermediary and buy energy (a fungible, near-universal production input and end-consumer product in one) directly and the competition is about a commodity that is not a currency?
Safari has a site filter, Tumblr doesn’t.

How effective filters are is another question, but Apple has long stated rules that apps must not provide access to “objectionable” content without some kind of access control which doesn’t seem to meaningfully exist on Tumblr.
There is a large overlap, for instance, the popular VIME exploration algorithm [1] uses part of the free energy objective function.

However, free energy isn't a theory of curiosity per se, its posed as description of self-organisation. It just so happens that you can express the free energy functional in terms of epistemic (curious) and instrumental (reward) components.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.09674
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My opinion about Google has completely changed in last few years. More scary than Chrome's monopoly is Android. Android is basically a black box. It's very hard to find what apps have access to what on the device. We desperately need a third competitor in mobile space.
People adapt to their environment very quickly. This makes problems fade into the background. As a software developer, here's an interesting experiment:

Pick 100 bugfix commits from source control. Read each one and try to find bins for each bug. You may find that a very large fraction (often more than half) fit into a bin for which a very small change to tooling or process could prevent. That change hasn't made because having this type of bug is "normal"
I hope YouTube is sued next, for pulling “right wing” programming.
> Why aren't they? They're not doing it from altruistic reasons, they've just found people willing to work for less pay.

The middle class is not asking for progressive taxation of the rich for altruistic reasons either: they want the benefit of that taxation: access to housing, health, government jobs, college education, etc.

Its a much more morally and factually confusing narrative to say that the middle 50% wants to take fro mthe top 25% and bottom 25%, than the top 50% is taking from the bottom 50%. Particularly because in the utilitarian view, taking from the middle and giving to the bottom is still redistribution of wealth the 'right direction'.

The case in the united states is a lot simpler than people think tho. I believe the single most important reversal of real wages stagnation is to fix healthcare. If insurance cost half of what it costs today (or even less), then real wages would get a massive bump, specially at the lower echelons, where insurance costs disproportionately more than at the top.
Alternative from the Reddit post:

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
At least in the US, you can record anything you want in public. There are some limits for things you see on private property from a public area (like using a telephoto lens for snapping pics of someone's bedroom) but if someone is in public, they have no right to privacy.
You'll notice that absent from this cycle is any kind of productive use or innovation with bitcoin. Its all cyclic hype.
Thanks, for what it is worth I also have problems with the idea of IQ tests! ;-)
That's an interesting idea. Do you have any thoughts on the fact that the structure of the cosmic microwave background radiation is exactly what we would expect it to be if the universe had expanded from a tiny state to its current state?

I'm unwilling to assume it "just randomly looks like that" given that a random distribution on a universal scale seems highly unlikely to show the large scale structures notable in the CMB.
Oops, my mistake on the gender- Sabine is not a super familiar name. (Still dislike the tone, though; don't care how famous she is).

I also think the taboo has lifted a bit, as it's now possible for mainstream physicists like David Deutsch and Sean Carroll to build their careers on quantum foundations work. But I still think the physics community has a lot of baggage from the second half of the twentieth century to let go of.
well your's is a valid use case. I just didn't understand why OP was expecting it to be binary compatible. It's just a distro
Ask HN: Favourite self taught software developers and engineers?
Hello HN.

Who are your favourite highly-regarded, self taught software engineers and developers?
I am teaching myself CS (through http://teachyourselfcs.com and many other resources) and I would love to have some awesome people to look up to in this field.

Thank you all so very much.

Edit: By 'Self-taught' I mean anyone who didn't go to University
> suppressed "unconventional" interpretations of quantum mechanics (like the many worlds interpretation) in favor of the obviously-wrong Copenhagen interpretation.

They’re just interpretations and they all work equally well and produce the same predictions. It makes no sense to call any of them obviously wrong. It’s personal preference.
I think this is excessively harsh.

The only guarantees made about the LHC were, that it would prove or disprove the existence of the Higgs Boson.

Believe me, experimental physicists are desperate to find the slightest deviation from the standard model. I spent 2 years on one such 'stab in the dark' rare decay analysis!

The SM's predictions have been tested to a rigor unparalleled in history. It predicts stuff like mass of W & Z bosons, fine structure constant, the measurements of which exceed an accuracy of 1 part per billion in some cases.
The PC is a bundle and the OEM (not VLC) needs to pay for the license. I think the second case is also a bundle: there are specific clauses to close such loopholes.

Worth noting that the license is less than a dollar per device and the manufacturer is only required to pay if he sells like 100k devices per year.
True. Ability to use with gloves as well. Apple could probably make the Apple Pencil work with iPhones, but it probably wouldn’t be worth the hassle.
They're literally in the article, quoted by the grandparent comment you're replying to. The trial will be to determine if these claims have any merit to them, details are in the article, I suspect more will come with the trial itself.
Reminds me a bit of the expression "desperate times call for desperate measures".
Or put it in an encrypted 7z archive. Or any number of workarounds where you're not sending image data so the filter can't detect you.