skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The CIA does not manufacture or sell weapons, and it doesn't set weapons sales policies. War profiteering American military industrial complex companies manufacture, sell, and lobby to make this possible. The allowance for the arms sales is made possible by the legislative and executive branches, so you can blame primarily POTUS and the Senate for not just the arms sales, the very definition of blood money, but also funding the military logistics the American military has been providing to Saudi Arabia for the deaths of Yemeni civilians. But the people pulling the trigger are the Saudis.
SC1, Ultima Online and Mario N64 are three truly beautiful games that stood out to me personally as not just games, but art, and not just visual medium. All in an era before the current billion-dollar industry and tech. The Ultimate Online and SC soundtracks are actually wonderful.
> It's use in this way is not as well understood as traditional drugs

Traditional drugs are often a crapshoot anyway, and there's been plenty of harm from them. In the end, it should be the patient's choice in what path to take.
Even if you could see it, I have yet to notice an actionable pore on a television show, or a marginally detectable irregularity on a car's paint job in a movie that forced me to completely reevaluate my opinion of the story.

8K is not pointless, it is a higher number. Higher numbers are better. Would you like to buy some stereo equipment?

I literally cannot read text on a monitor that is less than 4K, it causes me to uncontrollably vomit. I watched a demo of an 8K monitor, and it enabled me to read in languages I don't even speak.
I'm with you, I remember watching the Hobbit at the theater, and being creeped out by how surreal all the movement were.

I'm okay with playing video games at 60fps, but my brain keeps rejecting photorealistic content above 30fps
I'm not sure 8k will suffice completely for 2030's VR experience.
It looks great, but imagine the name of the software being "Moron3D". That is the reality for every native Norwegian speaker, since "dust" means "moron" in Norwegian. I don't mean this in a petty way, it's just hard to ignore, for me.

In related news, Honda tried to launch a car in Norway a couple of years back named "Honda Fitta" which roughly translates to "Honda the Cunt". The tagline was: "Fitta is small inside, but grand when you get in. A daily pleasure!"

They quickly changed the name to just "Honda Jazz" instead.
Not when it can contract that out to the Saudi government then help them cover it up. But yes, your point is well taken. It was just more convenient to have MBS murder that particular Washington Post reporter, this time. But the other "enemies of the people" are on notice that they'd better watch their mouths and asses.
I used to work on a project called AppLandr - which allowed one to create landing pages for their projects via a drag and drop interface.

It’s still live and I spent over 2.5 years working on it as my sole project.

It was fun and I learned a lot through a plethora of mistakes, guides, YouTube videos and so on.

I wouldn’t change anything. I love that I spent so much time learning through AppLandr. I also made some $$$ but that’s another story!
We're not talking about the same thing. You're talking about the deal, I'm talking about what AMD did with the cash from the deal.

Look at their balance sheet, and note that without the $300M infusion, the market would have been spooked by their debt levels.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AMD/cash-flow?p=AMD
CATIA has VBS, if you're in that particular circle of hell.
This comment is truly shameful. Blender is an amazing open source project created by volunteers and this kind of mean spirited criticsm is toxic. Your ignorance about the amazing effort going into 2.8 only adds to it. You should delete it.
FWIW I run a startup and I think every single one of these questions is terrible.

We can gauge your ambition and your resilience just fine in your first few weeks (in which we've signed you on as a contractor-under-evaluation - if your situation allows). And yes, we've had to learn how to do this the hard way (having kept people on for longer than was good for anyone). But I think it's nuts to think that you can test someone's ambition asking "where do you see yourself in 5 years?".

I'm pretty convinced that that place deep down where people's natural drive comes from is, especially for engineers and other creative roles, very disconnected from conscious career planning. If you want to tap that natural drive, you need to create an environment where it can flourish. I don't think that asking "Why should we hire you?" when you mean "Do you understand what problem we're solving?" contributes to such an environment. You want to be open, clear, direct, and honest, not play guessing games.
I wonder what google or reddit know about my political ideas..
Ok so you have kids who play say Minecraft, they download all mods they can in zipfiles and install all the other games packs from weird internet forums.

What is bigger threat and attack vector, McAfee, Symantec or modding forums for 10 year old?

For me installing AV is silly I don't download and run random crap from internet that friend from school also installed. But If I would have kids having installed AV and updated is quite good idea. I also wonder all time how my non technical close ones break their computers, I don't know what they are clicking but I do not get unusable windows 10 every 3 months. My gf is not technical but she almost never install anything on her laptop and it works fine, so for this one I am quite happy.
The point is that in a trustless system trust can be earned by reputation, which is distributable and relatively trustless. Sure, you are taking the risk that you'll get screwed, but that risk factor should be calculable.
I saw 8K demos at Yodobashi Camera a few years ago, and I couldn't tell the difference between 4K and 8K.

I can tell the difference between HD and 4K, so my eyes aren't completely shot. But I think we're getting to the point of resolution for resolution's sake. Like having a speedometer that goes to 200 MPH, when the legal limit in your state is 85, and the car simply isn't capable of 200.

I remember back when the Amiga came out. My friend who had one said it showed 4,096 colors because that was the limit of human perception. Now I know he was wrong, but it made sense at the time.
> the main reason I left research was because of the widespread fraud.

I'm super curious about this. I had a similar experience in another field.

Is this something you witnessed going down in person, or did you just develop a strong feeling given a lot of clues?
>>Once you get past the squeamishness

We have no qualms about eating stuff vomited by insects (honey, although technically not vomit but still) or large looking insects (lobsters, although technically not an insect but in the same family). Humans will eat virtually anything as long as it tastes good.
I love listening to the sounds of nature while I'm coding. TRON like music is brilliant as it gives me a lot of energy!
Anything with spoken words or a thump beat is too distracting for me!
Hah, solder cracks. LG panels backlight completely shuts off if one LED dies (for, uh, "safety" reasons, they couldn't design a proper fucking power supply). Which they do, a lot. Now, you can barely notice one LED gone. Replacing the strip costs 1/4-1/3 of a new TV. This fucking world...
I would call it a failure of interpretation. at one extreme one can assume that your sample is unique, and results inapplicable to anyone else. At the other extreme is the assumption that your sample is sufficiently representative so that your results apply to everyone. obviously in most instances it is somewhere between these, and that it "failed" is the basis of new inquiry
>The NY Times would have to change completely to follow this strategy.

Becoming profitable will require lots of change.
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pass the salt shaker?
Does this play nicely with 3D printing like Fusion/Cura does ? Fusion's UX makes me want to gouge my eyes out. It's almost as if they make it intentionally hard so that you have to buy a training from them...
The privacy divide: It'll cost you
The new digital divides
Did not know there was a online library of refactorings. Here’s the link https://refactoring.com/catalog/ if anyone’s interested.
And it's totally unrelated to RMS, who only encourages NSA and FBI agents to follow Snowden's example:

[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
there is actually a standard distance away from a screen that determines maximum viewing pleasure , I think it is 10ft but that is a rule of thumb it changes due to screen size.

https://www.crutchfield.com/S-2baTDHKQBkY/learn/learningcent...

I think it has something to do with full vision of the screen at any time so your its centerted and a particular percentage of your field of vision. I couldnt find the study which was for sports and movie watching but I bet such a standard is even more important for gaming.

Basically relatively speaking your screen should be the same size in your field of view but the fact that its bigger allows for better detailing.

4000px from 5 feet doesnt look at good as 8000px from 10 feet even thought they fill up the same area in your field of view
That's also why I want HD audio. I'm not saying I can hear the difference above 16-bit 48khz, but I feel more comfortable with a 200-400% buffer. And maybe someday I'll get bionic ears.
Vulnerability is not lack of security. You need a threat actor exploiting the weakness for it to become actual insecurity.
Agree. This is simply good targeting.
Silicon Valley Season 5 Episode 4
Sapiens is the most interesting book I’ve ever read.

It details the evolution of man over hundreds of thousands of years.
I find it jarring that someone calls people that they've never met "my children". I get it - biologically they are offspring, but IMO the language should reflect that being a father/mother/child means having a role in the upbringing, and reserve a separate name for mere passage of genes.
You mean like Gaddafi?
What would you say are your metrics?
Well, I'm very fluent in Typescript, and often find JS code extremely difficult to understand. The types are a great aid to understanding code. It also seems to be the case that a lot of JS code does not use ES6 polyfills, unlike Typescript code, so it tends to be less clean.

Edit: Upon rereading I see you are talking about the book, not actual projects, so my reply is not all that applicable. Though I'd actually say that Typescript is much more understandable than JS to someone unfamiliar with both.
This is how marketing works. They could have used music taste or religious affiliation or nearly any of the data add-ons Experian sells.

This isn’t sinister in any way, merely clever as it seems marketers had been behind the times.

There are entire magazines and television shows that have equally strong affiliation. If spend on fashion related stuff was smart, it was because it was a bargain compared to the many other methods.
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With an emphasis on predators.
it's not really mimicking how our brains work, although that was the initial inspiration, decades ago. There are still people trying to model the actual brain but they don't overlap much with the machine learning community anymore.

the idea originally was that a neuron can be roughly modeled as something that sums up inputs from other neurons and then outputs some kind of threshold/activation of those inputs. this is probably sort of true of biological neurons although as living cells they are much more complicated than that.

but lots of recent and highly successful techniques in deep learning have given up on even that very weak amount of biological imitation. One simple example: lots of techniques involve multiplying together the outputs of "neurons". There is no sensible biological interpretation of this operation.

Neural networks are Turing-complete (assuming all the usual pedantic assumptions you need to make that statement meaningful) so in that sense they are as powerful as our brains.
It’s often not even a battle for hearts and minds en masse. Given the polarised state of many western democracies today it’s often just a few percent or less of the electorate one would need to influence to affect outcomes. Given this, with sufficient investment and scale, it seems alarmingly doable to me.
It also begs the question of whether we have any more free will in fashion choices than we do skin color.
That's certainly and transparently Trump's motivation for covering up Kashogi's murder. Imagine how he'd act if Saudi Arabia murdered Sean Hannity.
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Sometimes higher resolution can even reduce the bitrate, since jagged edges become smooth transitions. Basically, the codec has the freedom to reduce the resolution if that's what will maintain the most quality.

I only know about this practically in regards to 10-bit anime being more compressible than 8-bit, but I assume the same logic applies.
I really don’t think we’d be missing much if these websites were shut down. In fact, it might be a good thing.
Windows itseld is a proprietary software. MS Defender does an ok job but for most malware that target consumers,those av softwares are not a negative.

As a techie you might have nation state actors employing sophisticated attacks or corpirations spying on users. But the most immediate threat to consumers are things like phishing attacks,ransomware and banking trojans.
I think Blender is primarily developed by people who get paid to work on it.

I don't think I'd object to the comment if Blender actually had a bad UI, but I don't think it does. It just has an unusual UI and a steep initial learning curve. Clearly many people manage to do amazing work with it.
> It was definitely effective and stretched ad dollars further.

The evidence seems to indicate that not only is the technique not effective, but that it wasn't actually used in the campaign. More than one article, in traditionally liberal publications that would normally be on his side, refers to Mr. Wylie's techniques as "snake oil".

Also remember that we only know about Cambridge Analytica because Mr. Wylie announced to the world that he had created "Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare mindfuck tool". That is a grandiose statement if I've ever heard one. His career since his announcement seems to have consisted of going around and being paid to talk about his claims. So we have one guy, who stands to benefit from such claims, saying all of this in the face of a mountain of evidence from credible news sources that shows that his techniques didn't work and weren't used. It's fair to say that his claims are suspect at best, which makes the idea that CA had any effect on the outcome of the election highly suspect as well.
There is an enormous amount of consideration and nuance being projected by this article onto these questions and the context they're often asked in.

I've been in this industry a long time, I've been in startups and in big enterprises, and I've been a hiring manager in both cases and an executive in the former.

Very, very rarely would I say that my hiring manager or executive peers (especially of the typically inexperienced startup variety) would be asking questions like these with the awareness of intent and interpretation being claimed here. Mostly these questions are being asked because, just like the fairly pointless "whiteboarding" questions, they're just the questions everybody thinks they're supposed to ask. That is of course until an alternative model is presented and nurtured.

If you find a great hiring manager who is actually putting in a lot of forethought, intent, and consideration into their hiring and interviewing process, then do whatever you can to work with them. But, one of the ways you'll be able to detect such a person is they won't likely be asking cookie-cutter questions or giving you cookie-cutter quizes.
For me the unrepeatable experiments suggest something even more interesting - that unless the originals were flawed or fraud, then something about the people tested has changed.

We are all more aware of conmen movies, of fake news, or have read popsci books and now know what to look out for.
I notice they mentioned broadcast in 59,60,and 120 Hz.

I’m wondering if the 120Hz is just frame-multiplied 24Hz video. Watching a 24Hz movie would certainly be a better experience at 120 fps than at 60, since there won’t be the experience of judder as 120 and 24 divide evenly.

Regarding displays capable of accepting 120 Hz input, there are plenty of computer monitors that can do that at least.
Sure, Induction is the basis of knowledge. But, it can’t tell you why something is the way it seems to be. And, it also can’t tell you if it will always be that way. For that you need theories and models that can be repeatedly tested.

For example, if you wake up every day and see the sun rise, it’s safe to assume that it will always rise. But, without understanding the forces that cause the sun to rise (and the forces that cause those forces), you can’t really be sure. And, even then, an unaccounted and unknown force can come along and break the model (see: the black swan problem).

Induction is unavoidable and very important, but it also the root of many logical errors. In social science, there are so many unknown forces at work, theories are very fragile.
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Most of the impression of a mainstream consensus is formed when some kids polled a ton of scientists what they thought of global warming, but then restricted their published number to a small subset of those, climate scientists. Plenty of other scientists are like, hey, these guys are full of crap.
Asking permission to be heard is an idea that needs to die
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On a Debian Stretch system, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz, 'scp'ing files via the loopback interface, the fastest combination in the stock openssh/opensshd is ciphers=aes128-gcm@openssh.com. The run-to-run variation of the various macs was big enough that I can't declare a winner, but umac-128@openssh.com and hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com came out on top in two trials. Best rate over all trials: 976.6MB/s (= 7812Mb/s) though I don't know whether ssh is reporting powers-of-10 MBs or powers-of-2 MiBs...

meanwhile, nc-over-loopback is is over 3400MB/s (27388Mb/s).
"And lo, it was an evil chicken before my eyes. And as he was evil, I slew him."
"car simply isn't capable of 200"

what if it's going down a steep hill?
For web app development my setup is as follows:

4k monitor for two panes of code

4k monitor for a browser + debugger or maybe two browsers: one mobile one desktop.

1080p monitor for docs or maybe Netflix as I work depending on the kind of work.

When I'm doing robotics or server or more general programming work I basically just use my main monitor.

Reading code on a 1080p monitor is almost intolerable now that I'm used to 4k. I can size it way down and get two full panes of code side by side.
At currently normal distances, with currently normal display sizes, 4k is already better than needed. But screens are getting larger and more ubiquitous (often leading to people standing close to giant displays), so when designing for the next one or two decades 8k definitely makes sense.
As the interview was further and further analyzed by both The Company and the proletariat, an arms race developed. The Company asked esoteric questions and the proles studied. The proles learned to FizzBuzz and The Company developed FooBaz. Whiteboards gave way to take home interviews which gave way to probationary offers. Personal questions were supplanted by a form of subtextual sparring in which small facial movements, pauses, and hand movements spoke volumes.

By 2034 the majority of proles were on illegal performance-evaluation enhancing drugs, necessitated by the fact that the average prole was also on The Company's indefinite performance improvement probation. They occupied over 20% of their working hours proving their worth to The Company, which had hired Prefects to wander the endless halls. The Prefects started administering the Voight-Kampf employee aptitude tests on proles, but soon began testing each other on their own effectiveness in administering the test.

Before The Fall, the end state of the system was that The Company existed only to vet its own employees, all of whom were in charge of secretly monitoring other groups of employees. They had their nominal tasks such as programming or planning, but employee evaluation was based solely on the ability to evaluate others in their nominal tasks.
Going to be more pedantic, its always about how the content transforms, how many attributes does it have and how can you interact with it.
I do this if it's not production code. It's memorable, and it's even semantic in some cases.
We ask the "where do you see yourself in 5 years" question as part of our standard interview. We don't put very much weight on it, but it adds color to the candidates ambitions. Most engineers say they would try to stay as engineers, some say maybe product/project/people management; these are all fine answers.

Then we have the candidates that just blank or give a response like "I just want to make money". Not dealbreakers, but not great answers.

But I've also gotten a surprising amount of really terrible answers, like "at Google" and "ideally I finally paid off all my student debt so I can finally be a comedian". These are the people we don't hire.
The typical American diet is sorely lacking in fresh greens especially, fruits and vegetables in general.

Consider also fresh food deserts that exist in many cities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert

Dandelions are widely available in most cities and very easy to grow, guerrilla gardening style.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_gardening
It's different and coconut milk is as much milk as a seahorse is a horse, it's just a word.
It puts those 1984 commercials in an entirely new light.
You can sit closer to these TVs, 4K included. Which opens up the larger screens in smaller rooms. This can really improve the viewing experience.
... how? How is an identification methodology a war let alone a culture war?
The other phones (except the XS/max) have the same dpi