skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is my social group. Neither I, nor my friends, dye our hair because we want to be non-conformist or quirky — we dye our hair because it looks cute. It’s not at all difficult to think of fashion choices that’d be more distinct, but it’s often the concern that we’ll be seen as “weird” that keeps us from choosing them. I look how I do because I want to be liked and respected, same as anyone making the choice to be fashionable.
Hacking Android
There probably is not an advantage to using multiple threads, unless you really need to free up the main thread, but even then I would just batch the calls sparsely enough that it does not hog the main thread. IIRC you cannot use multiple threads with the same context in vanilla OpenGL but they did become available with Vulkan.
The story behind the first computer in Canada (2016)
Nitpick, article quotes scientists that talks about brain size relative to body being a factor in intelligence, not brain size alone.
Advanced math topics are based on layers upon layers of abstraction (theorems, corollary etc.), like an enterprise software. I also dislike the hand-waviness, but I do understand that I have to read up on the basics in order to grasp the advanced concepts.
One of the arguments that the reviewer makes is that breakout success looks unattractive from an vc point of view and are thus hard to predict(category killers like Microsoft/not the first os, Facebook/not the first social media and google/~20th search engine).

If I’m understanding him correctly, he seems to suggest that much of success can be attributed to luck. That is, being at the right place at the right time.

But if being lucky means all the stars align and the market takes off, such as storage cost drops to enable Dropbox, or processing power per dollar drops to enable more expensive compute, really all players in the industry are able to take advantage of it. Therefore it doesn’t explain why Facebook was the one and not MySpace.

In my opinion, being a category killers comes down to having an revolutionary product that truly separates you from the pack as well as be at the right place at the right time. Google pagerank probably was the 10x improvement AND they had good timing. On the same line, Dropbox just worked at a time storage and bandwidth cost was rapidly decreasing and was 10x better than the competition.

Of course, there is another category of category killers that didn’t have any competitors to come before it. And that is likely because from an investment perspective, it looked so unfavorable no one even bothered.

As such, one offs such as Musk who are willing to act irrationally by funding the likes of SpaceX (original goal is to increase public interest in space) and Tesla created those category killers.

It’s more than simply luck.

Just my two cents.
It results in tautological tests.
Actually the new regs ensure that only companies with the resources of YouTube will survive.
Insects are packing their things and getting ready to depart.
A small note: what's the difference between GitLab, GitHub etc? Are they companies with a substantially identical target: making money? Does they offer storage on their own server (or even worse others servers in a chain)?

So why the hell instead of moving from a company to another ANY FOSS dev do not came back to classic ML (mirrored offline in personal maildir) and use hosting, multiple if possible, only as a mean to offer a shared repo? Why not even serve the project via the repo itself like fossil?

There is a world outside the web, on our desktops.

Just as a suggestion: try to disconnect your desktop and look what you can or can't do. If you feel "empty" you are in danger.
MacOS is anything but a buggy mess. I use it for 12-16 hours a day, every day, and have encountered literally zero bugs in the past 7 years.

If you don't consider your OS a separate hobby unto itself, MacOS wins against Linux desktops, easily.
No, the disk format is not guaranteed stable yet. Rushing to stabilize the disk format for Btrfs was a big mistake. Bcachefs is playing it safe! Wait for it to be mainlined.
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Linux, the kernel, is one of mankind's greatest achievements, I do believe this. The Linux desktop experience, however, is a living nightmare. Your computer itself becomes your second hobby, in addition to whatever you do on your computer. For a professional who's at work to produce novel software, that creates an additional time-sink they don't have the luxury of indulging.

This isn't even really a debate for developers, and pretending like it is just baits the idiotic "Great OS Wars" debates that have zero rational actors. "What's the best OS (for x)" has been, for probably 25 years, a flaimbait level question.

Besides, I use "all" 3 OSes (MacOS, Linux, Windows) for various things, why does this have to be a, "YOU CAN ONLY PICK ONE!" conversation? I could happily develop on Linux or Windows, I am (along with most in the industry, based on my conversations with people over the years) just happiest on MacOS.
Edison was not responsible for Topsy's death. That is a myth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsy_(elephant)#Association_w...

http://edison.rutgers.edu/topsy.htm
I dunno, awareness of world history? "Cultural Revolution", to those who have even a fairly basic grasp of Things That Happened Outside Startup Land, is always going to be inextricably linked to China and 1966.
Eye response frequency depends on the light intensity. We can track higher frequencies when the lights are brighter. Dim theatres played a role in preserving the illusion of motion when movie frame rates were very low.

You can also perceive very high frequency lights by the strobe effect. For example if you wave your hands in front of a PWM LED or a bad fluorescent light you can quickly tell. By moving my eyes quickly from left to right, I can easily spot the order in which my office projector flashes the colour components of its image.
The reason people put their code online is because it is a convenient way to host it, and often platforms like these have some ancillary tools that make the code easy to work with.
Then they 'd have to enroll more students.
> It's not a secret that Blender has a bad UI

> But it's clearly lacking in the UI department.

It's not a secret that a small, vocal minority of Blender users feel that way. IMHO most of them have never used industry standard tools that have way stranger interfaces eg. Zbrush that are much harder to master.

> There's even a three-part article (2013) from Andrew Kramer of Blender Guru

It was actually Andrew Price:

https://www.blenderguru.com/articles/fixing-blender-part-1-w...

He later admitted at the 2013 Blender Conference there were a lot of problems with his proposal and that the way he had gone about it wasn't that great either:

https://www.blenderguru.com/articles/improving-blenders-ui-t...

Not completely unlike the grandparent poster, which is presumably why he got downvoted.
In the mean time I'm a happy nilfs2 user (not so happy for the cleaner performance but in the end it works) down from the root. A logfs is really nice against accidental overwrite/delection and coupled with LUKS+LVM while far from zfs comfort and perhaps future bcachefs it can work with enough flexibility (nilfs2 can resize both in grow and shrink direction live and IME issueless).

GNU/Linux desperately need a modern storage solution, well ANY OS I know of except DragonflyBSD (Hammer) do need it.
Who is backing it?
What I've read is that crows are smart for the same reason that dolphins are smart ("social intelligence"). Crows also tend to live in flocks/groups, unlike many other bird species.

Not a great source, but here's an excerpt explaining that they tend to grow up in groups:

But growing up is a different story. During younger years, they often live in larger flocks dubbed juvenile gangs. "It's exactly how it sounds: they're basically a bunch of teenagers trying to compete with each other," Brown says. And it's these relationships they have to keep tabs on.

https://cosmosmagazine.com/social-sciences/why-are-crows-so-...
codetrotter, I much appreciate you sharing links - I am particularly curious as to how you got to the interactive interview. I was pretty sure I currently don't list it anywhere on the site.

Organic google search perhaps?
It is indeed juangacovas - I use it readily for the show :)
OpenZFS is available, if you need something right now.

Though it's not convenient to use for normal desktop systems (something like Partition Manager and Gparted don't support it).
I do NOT run "projects" with web(cr)app as much as I can, when possible org-mode and a dCVS repo are the best tools.

IMO web based stuff for "headless ..." literally means head-less, or brain-less (sorry for my English). Solution for people who do not know anything better. Even if they have at their fingertips.
This is one reason you’ll have to drag me out of the city: only Seattle and a handful of very expensive suburbs (Mercer Island and the like) have CenturyLink’s symmetrical 1000/1000 service for $85 with no caps. It is a godsend for a household that hoovers down bits like they’re going out of style.

Even Frontier is better than Comcast, at least in the data cap respect, and that’s saying something bad about Comcast...
Anyone interested in this kind of local control should check out the Home Assistant project: https://www.home-assistant.io

It allows you to corral all these IoT devices through a massive library of open source component plugins. From there you can send control out to Amazon, Google, or Apple, or just keep control local through the web UI.
I wouldn't buy dolls, and after, their clothing either. Yet my daugthers love them and I love my daugthers. I wouldn't buy expensive jewelry, yet my wife loves it everyday still.

There is so much you wouldn't do for yourself but do for the ones you love. That doesn't make it insane or just to not disappoint. You do it because it makes you happy to see them happy. If you would do the same if you were alone is not the thing that matters here.
It sounds like his pay as a "professor, post-tenure" was reduced to 49% of what it was before, so it's almost certainly a money problem.
I feel mildly insulted by the title for this reason.
I imagine similar arguments were made when movies went from b/w to color
Despite what the article suggests about playing a musical instrument, I picked up an instrument that I used to play (for ~10 years), a couple years ago, and I was completely lost. Tone, pitch, form, fingering, tuning, reading sheet music, knowing scales -- pretty much everything was just gone. It was not at all "like riding a bike". I played around for a few weeks but it felt like I was starting from scratch.
in special partnership with agencies in Kansas City, Silicon Valley, ...

The map shows no Silicon Valley participation.

Also, I get an Apache 500 error when trying to use http://www.ridehail.com/
How many people have the TV/Monitors to actually watch 8K? This is impressive yet feels like redundant innovation.
I think the person you replied to was looking to make a "Great Leap Forward" wordplay.
> Years later, when we discover these relics and hop on, it’s as if we never stopped biking.

I'd like to challenge this. Barring scientific evidence to this fact, it is at best an anecdotal evidence, and so I will submit my own anecdote:

I didn't ride a bike for about 10 years. When I started riding again, I definitely felt unsteady for the first few days or weeks compared to my previous riding ability. I was unsteady enough that I thought at the time, "People that say you don't forget how to ride a bike are full of shit."

Granted, my ability to ride came back faster than if I was learning from scratch. It might become a discussion determining different shades of "forget" -- but if we get to that point, then we've conceded the crisp assertion that "we don't forget how to ride a bike".
Steve Yedlin (cinematographer of The Last Jedi) posted an excellent analysis of image resolution in cinema on his website. It utterly convinced me that resolution beyond 2K/1080p is superfluous on most normal-sized cinema screens at normal viewing distances. IMAX will, however, benefit noticeably from higher resolutions.

http://yedlin.net/ResDemo/index.html
How much more do you weigh from the last time you did one of those cool wheelie things regularly?
Not sure about the corporate sector, but it certainly seems to at least have an impact on American politics. Some 2014 statistics [0] have the average age of representatives and senators at 57 and 62, and several current senators have served for well over 25 years (3 senators right now have been in their offices for over 35 years) [1]. I'm sure it's hard for even the brightest young politician to oust someone who's been in office since before they were born, especially if they're in the same party.

[0] https://www.senate.gov/CRSpubs/0b699eff-adc5-43c4-927e-f6304...

[1] https://www.senate.gov/senators/longest_serving_senators.htm
>Time spent inside the game industry is generally viewed outside of the game industry negatively.

Are you referring to all roles (as in art and tech roles as well) or just production roles?

I can't say I've felt the same sentiment but I was an engineer that played games who then joined the industry.
Issue them with letters of marque and give them a list of what to attack, would be the established method. Though I am not sure if that is still considered acceptable.
> But if being lucky means all the stars align and the market takes off, such as storage cost drops to enable Dropbox, or processing power per dollar drops to enable more expensive compute, really all players in the industry are able to take advantage of it. Therefore it doesn’t explain why Facebook was the one and not MySpace.

That's true, but you also have to be well positioned to capitalize on it quickly when it happens. Dropbox was, and so was Microsoft.

It's not necessarily the insights that are luck...it's all the missed equivalents that we've all never heard of. There may have been 10 companies trying to do more or less exactly what Microsoft was doing. They may all have been at the right place at the right time, but Microsoft had a little extra something that's hard to pin down. While i'm speculating with Microsoft, this is certainly true in the case of social networks. There were dozens of them at the time. Livejournal, Xanga, Friendster, MySpace, etc...They were all doing more or less what Facebook was doing. What did Facebook do so right that they didn't? There's certainly lots of ex-post just-so narratives about their exclusionary, college based early access model. But it's very hard to know if that was truly causal or not.

I will say that the one example of Gwern's that I really take issue with is Google. Google was very much not just another search engine. Google had a true, deeply differentiated technical insight that nobody else had. They solved search. The 'search engines' that existed before Google weren't even worthy of the name. They really innovated, and they deserve every ounce of credit for doing that. While luck is always a factor in these things, I think Google's success was as genuinely merit-based as any company's i'm aware of.
> 8 semi-autonomous tentacles, with one sort of central coordinating body. What could it possibly be like to experience the world that way?

Humans have two semi-autonomous brain hemispheres, each with a slightly different personality.
Sorry. I haven't read that book. :)
Since yesterday, it's possible to view the items in someone's list without logging in. If you open your own wishlist in incognito mode you can see how this looks like :)
Yes. But there's an illusion of intentionality. Because [pausing, looking at my hands] it's all just so bloody amazing.

But on the other hand, some of the kludginess is also bloody amazing. Spiders, for example. The gut passes through the "brain". So there's a tradeoff between "brain" size and eating. And so they employ external digestion, and suck liquid.
Care to post some of your art created with Blender, or any other 3D package for that matter, so we can judge whether you're just another disgruntled beginner, or a talented pro who knows what they are talking about?

Also as interesting as this new program is, it's not an "alternative" to Blender, it barely scratches the surface.
> If modern computer power were thrown at symbolic AI the same way it's been thrown at NNs, it highly likely symbolic AI would experience similarly-impressive gains.

What's the basis for this conjecture? Is there a mathematical model for symbolic manipulation that would benefit from parallel execution/GPUs the way ML applications do?
For the most part, our calorie crops do not rely on insects.

For example, corn is wind pollinated and wheat, soy, rice and potatoes are self pollinating.

Having reduced access to things like almonds and apples is gonna suck, but even with 0 insects it's still going to be reduced access, as hand pollination is quite a fast process.
Tangential: helping insects.

I could obtain free wildflower seeds from a Dutch foundation aiming to protect the bees, and last Spring I did some 'guerilla sowing' on bare patches of land waiting for new building construction.

Big success. The nutrition-poor soil apparently was ideal, and in places dense flower beds appeared. It gave me huge satisfaction to not only see bees and other insects, but tourists and inhabitants making photographs, and children shouting excitingly "Look at all these flowers, mom!". A true win-win for humans and bees.

Would be really easy for the municipality to adopt this as a policy and sow all these temporary spots with flowers.
Would your adoption plan have been to not provide any 8K channels until a sufficient number of people had bought 8K capable sets without anything to watch?
Seconded. It takes serious mileage and time to regain full fluency. I am sure this is measurable - I actually fell once after a few years break, as I was not used to manoeuvring between cars. It's like saying "you don't forget how to play the piano". Well you don't, and you do, depends on how you define the "knowing" discussed - something the article did not do for obvious reasons.
How the most First world of problems are still problems
I sometimes feel like we talk about evolution wrong. Here, for example; it's not like gazelles couldn't take advantage of being smarter, there are plenty of advantages to be had if you can outsmart your predator, it's just that the smarter gazelles weren't ever smart enough for that to matter.

It's more about if it's possible for minute intelligence improvements to produce higher survival chances. For a gazelle, the intellect leap needed to be substantial, and random genetic mutations weren't going to get there. For an octopus, each little intellect bump meant little survival bumps too.
I use the 'bypass paywalls' extension for Firefox. You can download from Github.
F-word removed from Linux code comments in favour of 'hug'
Show HN: Find trails to run near you, anywhere in the US or UK
IMVHO the most efficient language is the one all involved parties in a communication speak, understand and can use to express as clearly as possible anything they want.

So IMO German is the most efficient one for Germans native speaker's between them, French for Frenches etc. The thing we really need is an international, artificial language, as simple as possible for anyone in the world to be used ONLY for docs and international communication alongside their native one to avoid advantage a country above others.
I have used it both FreeBSD port and LLNL port but for now on GNU/Linux IMO it's better LUKS+LVM+nilfs2 for stability and performance...
Well... where did he see himself in five years?
Did a 5G Cellular Network Test Cause Hundreds of Birds to Die?
When I read the title, I thought it might just mean people who use their full names in their e-mails, but nope, it reveals a name just by sending an invoice. Very interesting. I wonder how PayPal will respond.
Those who have a habit browsing HNews are likely to have a working VPN.
It's relevant if I have a requirement that if a file happens to be duplicated, then the once-include mechanism should treat those copies as one object.

This could arise if the code is originally on a system where some header files are symlinks to a common file. These symlinks happen to break (due to the way the code is archived, or on some system that doesn't have symlinks or whatever); they turn into separate copies.

Exclusion that is keyed to a symbol that is encoded in the file has no problem with this; filesystem-id-based excusion doesn't handle the case.
It’s called “emergency” for a reason.
Except that there is already a company making ankle trackers and selling it to the slave owners, but their ankle trackers chafe the slaves ankles and Google's do not. That is my point.
Gitlab also runs locally.
Yeah, we use tsc for node. I typically just use ts-node for development, though, and tsc gets to hang out in CI/CD somewhere. I assume ts-node / webpack / etc all use tsc under the hood, though.
If Google had no physical presence in the EU then Google can just ignore the fines. The US won't force them to pay fines levied by a different country. They'd have to win a US court case.

Just like China can be upset with Wikipedia. Wikipedia can tell them to pound sand.
Engineering researcher, but not-ML.

"Code is everything" approach presumes that communication is computational by default. I'm not sure if researchers agree on that. This is particularly important for a field that aspire for artificial intelligence. Language is the best bet we have at the moment.

Secondly, there are social aspects. I am becoming more well read in my field, and there are time when genuine "rediscovery" occurs. Many phd students, depending on their research group, do not come up with ground breaking work right off the bat. It takes them a few years. In the publish and perish economy, there are venues to show your paper. If their genuine work is rejected, it may stop them from progressing in their career to come up with great work. It is like expecting an undergrad to come up with a full master's thesis for a course project. Happens, but not often.

Above being said, now if I am to read the code, I will be rereading many code repretitions every year. Whereas reading similar abstracts is less time consuming.

Your blogpost comment touches a bigger issue of how to tell who conducts legitimate research. The best we have so far is that those at the top of their field to provide assessment. They're journal editors. They have dedicated their life to their field, and have read paprs from decades of research work (whether or not the field is scientifically paramount is irrelevant, not all can learn the same thing, and education system is there to _educate_ the population at large, along with generating new knowledge, and along with advancing new researchers). For the sake of completeness I'd add this, at least in my case and perhaps many others, as one becomes more experienced, one can assess their earlier grasp of the field, or their earlier misunderstandings, better.

Hence it seems reasonable to publish, and have abstracts.
Primary use case is more tracking and surveillance, I presume?
The article isn't saying that YT Premium for ad removal is going away.

It just says that the YT Original content is going to also be available via an ad supported model for non YT Premium subscribers.

Its central claim is that YT couldn't make compelling case for original scripted long form content to be a selling point for the premium subscription, mostly due to it being dominated by short form content.
Attempted to train it by typing for ~2 minutes. Basically typed everything on the GitHub page and tried getting predictions.
Results were disappointing. I didn't see any accurate predictions. Even with the default p/q program I see mostly random results.

I tested on a 15" Macbook Pro 2018 (latest version of keyboard that is softer to type of / less noisy)