skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Years ago, I read Infinite Jest, which famously has hundreds of footnotes, so many that the entire last fourth of the book is composed of them. At that time, it seemed innovative and academic in a really intellectual, mind-expanding way, a bit like how inline Wikipedia links probably felt in 2003.

I recently started re-reading the book and had the exact opposite reaction. It seemed excessive, bloated, and generally just overdone. I'm left wishing that DFW had incorporated the footnotes into the writing itself and was just more succinct in general.

It led me to think that this is probably a subconscious reaction to the "excess of information" age we find ourselves in. This link and Infinite Jest were both written in a pre-Internet age.
There's a trailer for a documentary about this guy and his family here: https://www.fortydollarsapop.com/

Interesting to actually put faces to the people being discussed in the piece.
UK Science and Universities minister resigns over EU sat-nav system, Galileo
I rarely wish this (this is HN, not Reddit) but occasionally I wish that vote counts we're public so I could see how many supportive votes you get.
Obviously, hence the word "too".
How a name can undermine your product
Laughing at true new ideas is actually the opposite behavior flaw of whispering about false ideas that are known to be false but are associated with too much social power.
Also interesting, the same about de_dust2 - which is still my favorite map. Followed by Aztec.

https://www.johnsto.co.uk/design/making-dust2/
Words to strike fear into the heart of every programmer:

The tar format is one of the oldest archive formats in use. ... it is ugly — built as layers of hacks on the older format versions to overcome their limitations. ...
This article is directly inspired by my proof-of-concept work on new binary package format
"Zero to One" by Peter Thiel. Every startup founder should read this before starting anything.
They won't sell, and not enough to fund competing research. I'm pretty sure the security concern isn't directly related to defense, but to the security of US industries and economy.
Site name idea: Dadgum Gaming
Counterstrike, and de_dust specifically, are perhaps single-handedly responsible for the rise of the "Internet Cafe culture" in many countries around the world.

My high school years were consumed by it. After getting off from school at 3:30 PM, we would head to an Internet Cafe and play Counterstrike until 6 or 7, or however long before our parents called the cafe's phone line one by one to ask the owners to tell us to come home for dinner!

We also played Quake 3 for a while, but it didn't hold our interest the way Counterstrike did.
Reddit is not a “small business” anymore, it hasn’t been one for quite some time now. Let alone the fact that it’s the fourth most visited website in the United States, it’s now mentioned almost everywhere, from SEC press releases, The Economist articles or “Cahiers du Cinema” movie reviews (the last one really puzzled me as the current batch of Cahiers du Cinema writers are pretty anti-US and anti-technology).
I understand, but science isn't supposed to make life easier, it's supposed to progress mankind's knowledge and that necessarily entails eliminating bad information from the body of knowledge. Avoiding challenging bad papers because someone you know wrote it and you're worried they might not like you for it; well, yuk.
I'm sure KSA had a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_guy for this episode
My dad isn't in my life except for one meeting each at the ages of 9 and 16, but it is surprising how similar we are. He's almost pathologically obsessed with aliens (as am I) and he has a passionate HAM radio hobby. HAM radio is something I've always been interested in, but I'm young and in a math degree and I haven't had time to explore that too much, but before math I was considering electrical engineering. His smile is the same as mine. I look exactly like his sister. For a while I thought maybe my mom had stolen me from the hospital and we were unrelated, because I am 100% my father's child. He also has autism, which he apparently passed on to me.
This reasoning has a problem. We should always be concerned with dependencies and always keep them to the minimum you can correctly get by with.

The problem with thinking these x packages are OK for this library is how we got where we are. Yes we could just avoid using trivial libraries, but even for the other ones the decision to add it into your lib has to be made in the context of the app or lib, or lib's lib using your library. If you only imagine your lib being directly used, your scales a d judgements could be way off the actual cost/bebefit.
I don't know, but it doesn't matter. If your company runs a US website and doesn't do business in the EU, their laws can't cause you to take action.
Most of those forums are now dead because of Reddit and FB.
Landlord Tells Harvard Student to Move Out Over Legally Owned Guns
>> Can't we engineer the spiders to grow bigger?

Well, if we can we should make them really big, like cows, then we can use them as vehicles. Imagine riding a spider up a vertical surface, would be dead cool.

I'd call mine Larry.
I doubt distributed ledgers will do any of that. Maybe if you swapped AI for DLT it would be closer to the truth.
A translation of "Herr", which as a form of address simply means "Mr." (though by itself, it also refers to God, i.e. "Lord"; at least they did not call me "Lord X").
Thanks, will check that out. I really liked the Effective C++ book by Scott.

There's a good video talk by him titled something like "The Last Thing D Needs".
If the fbx loads into Unity fine, are you not using a left handed system, or are you flipping it on export?

edit - I'm an idiot, Unity does its own conversion to left handed on import.
This article sounds like an advertisement.
I found my biological mother just a few years back, right after I turned 18. There is not much better than being introduced as an adult to siblings and relatives and having your circle of loved ones expand overnight. This inspires me to write my story somewhere.
Your link is not a story about politics, it's a story about psychological bias.
How App Prototyping Tools Win You More Clients?
Rather, I think you were reading too much into the original statement. He talked about ML/AI because the threads are about ML/AI. He wasn't saying only ML/AI experienced this. His point was about ethnic population proportions and how it isn't strange that we see what we see. I wonder if the two of you actually agree with each other in reality.
It would be interesting to try and replicate the experiment with other treats. As a child I sort of liked marshmallows, but not a lot. So if I had been an experimental subject, I might have taken the first marshmallow not due to a lack of willpower but just because I didn't care much about marshmallows.
You've merely reinforced his point.
That’s an open (and interesting) question, I think, whether there are absolute physical truths in math, and whether our basic math rules can be defined any other way. But certainly there are huge swaths of math that don’t correspond to the physical world, and there are parts of math that are decided rather than natural consequences.

Ultimately though, the math that is natural science is just called “physics”, right? ;) The reason math can’t be a hard science is because we can’t prove abstract math by physical experiment. That’s all “hard science” means - things you can show by physical experiment. We can prove math theorems by showing they’re consistent under all the other math theorems, but generally not by conducting physical tests.
Potholes
> The intelligence agencies have a lot of credibility to earn back after the Snowden revelations

Huh? If anything the Snowden revelations showed that they'd been hoovering up even more than previously understood. Those revelations make it more credible that they were intercepting communications of ostensible US allies like the Saudis.
For the record, we're not the only species who farms other animals. E.g. carpenter ants famously farm aphids (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_ant).

And of course our skill at exploiting other animals for sustenance is nothing compared to that of parasites.
With GDPR and now this, EU is asking to be blocked off from the rest of the world. So be it.
The last open-world game that I played before RDR2 was Breath of the Wild, and I found the difference in philosophy very interesting.

Where RDR2 is filled to the brim with content, encounters, story and mechanics, it does become apparent after a while that it's all more or less hard-coded. And I felt that a lot of the actual gameplay stuff (UI, controls) suffered from too many of the problems that the previous games suffered from, and that it lacked a degree of innovation.

What made BotW special to me, was the way that the game provided you with a set of mechanics that could be mixed in all sorts of creative ways. While the world itself was less detailed than RDR2's, and the story a bit of a letdown, everything felt like a proper upgrade to the 'sandbox' type of game.

Of course, RDR2's sheer volume and beauty still makes it probably one of my favorite games of the year, but I found the contrast between the two quite interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brouwer%E2%80%93Hilbert_contro...

Brouwer's career suffered as a consequence of his disagreements with Hilbert.

EDIT (with links to the political aspect):
Letters written more about the politics of publishing than the math itself are referenced in a book called "The War of the Frogs and the Mice"
(PDF) http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.224... (see bottom of pg 9 as displayed for the letter Brouwer wrote to Hilbert's wife)
Homesteading the Noosphere by Eric Steven Raymond seems relevant in this discussion. Originally written 20 odd years ago.

"I examine the actual customs that regulate the ownership and control of open-source software."

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/homesteadi...
>>By skipping that step and jumping right to PR to help fuel moral indignation in Americans, the CIA is way way way out of bounds.

What if CIA was told to do so? Apparently the SA has not paid /signed by it's deadline for a major weapons purchase. 15B I think... and oil is lower now. So CIA is to serve our interests and has the prince by the b*lls. CIA might even get their entire budget paid by this episode. Oil is under $50 a barrel now or $30+ lower

I am pretty sure Erdogan would not that outraged if the Saudis cut him a deal too.
Google blocked Gema back then and it took almost a decade for it to get solved.
Your first 30 days as CEO
Grouping Java threads with same stack trace
I wonder if the features of the sperm (musician and maybe a photo) played a role in their compatibility. It is also possible that her attraction to the husband was proxied by the kids. It is also possible that she was a lesbian, before, because she failed dating men (much like the author being alone for failing to date woman). They just happened to share a lot in common and saw the good things in one another.
Github is a platform that allows anyone to share my things openly. It also lets them contribute or perhaps even take ownership of the work if we agree it's better off in their hands.

I'm perfectly fine with that.
Where are the bloody entrepreneurs?
It’s the same family: public judgement of a claim influenced by the person making it, rather than its contents.

Point being: Feynman’s ideas should have been judged on their merit, rather than Richard’s career. Same for the papers published by the institute mentioned above.
I believe Infinite Jest uses "endnotes" as opposed to footnotes. One interesting example of footnotes is Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves where different narrators make extensive use of footnotes to add additional details to the story. On many occasions, the "base" story is only a single paragraph and the footnotes will run on for dozens of pages.
Ah. The Internet cafe. Used to be part of my daily routine with friends as well. Except I grew up in china and my parents would beat me to shits when they found out that I went. Good times.
Why you need a password manager
Surely you can recognize targeting hosts of small business's content and traffic sources is essentially targeting small business. I would imagine this only frustrates you because you are not one of those small businesses leveraging the services of larger ones. Intent notwithstanding, who is really going to be harmed? Who is really going to be helped? Are your answers to those just hopes and is it fair for your hopes to affect the rest of the pragmatic internet?
Same motive your local cops have when they leak all kinds of information about this gang banger or that one to the local media in advance of him/her being charged. Increases likelihood of conviction.

Of course in this case, there would be no charges, or trials or anything of that nature, but I'd think the same principle is at work. It puts pressure on certain people when they let everyone know that they know. (Along with the not so subtle subtext reminding everyone that their information gathering reach is long, and their memory longer.)
For me languages were learned out of necessity. If possible, my suggestion is to move to a region where the language is spoken. Immerse yourself, perhaps there is a community that speaks the language nearby. Go to their cultural festivities and such.

Second, make mistakes, butcher the language and express yourself without care embarrassment. Don’t focus on 99% mistakes, it’s the 1% you learn and retain that add up over time.

Third, do not learn the language by being in a room full of non-speakers. Grammar can be learned on your own if you wish to get technical.

Lastly, optionally, when ready read books in that language to your level.
I think these are his responses

https://stackoverflow.com/users/485343/rustyx

He answered a question on ticking clock in Angular.
This reminds me of someone who named all of his variables after vegetables... I wouldn't want to inherit that product
I don't feel that way about single player games, but I do find narrative based games less enjoyable than story-less games/story-poor games where the game play mechanisms are at the forefront: like Enter the Gungeon, the new XCOM, Prison Architect, Oxygen Not Included, KSP etc.

Games with stories and narratives feel like chores and are restrictive.
I hope I'm not projecting a distrust of simulacrum. I distrust other humans, not our tools. But I'm not oblivious to my bubble and people outside it that have no idea how these tools work or how others might use them to their direct/indirect disadvantage. People create stories to explain their losses and sometimes blame tools.

I understand the uncanny valley as a product of a pattern matching exercise that humans developed well before we encountered AI. A part of our "friend or foe", "like me or unlike me" mechanism. If a user considers the tool a "potential foe" (for instance, a customer service resolution bot) every shallow attempt by the tool to approximate "friend" could further alienating the user. I don't think the "weird feeling" just goes away at that point.

I'm also pretty sure that we're going to be in the uncanny valley for long enough to make use of that "weird feeling" for effect outside of fiction.
Agreed. The ads are also short enough that I'm not bothered with 3 ads over a 2 hour podcast. The breaks are also not typically forced, unlike the radio. In a podcast the current topic can come to a natural end, then a quick ad can be read.

One podcast I listen to does the ad at the very end. It should take a couple a minutes, but tends to turn into another 30 minutes of interesting content.

I do feel like we are still in the golden age of podcasting, and something is going to come along and ruin it.
It's very weird that the article starts by saying that the writer had never listened to a podcast and ends without ever mentioning listening to a podcast. You'd think when spending $50k on advertising in 6 podcasts, you'd at least spend the 3 hours to listen to an episode of each one to better understand what you're doing.
> according to a highly classified CIA assessment

Shouldn't the CIA know better how to protect its highly classified CIA assessments?
> Youtube should block all access from EU

Google already has upload filters[1]. They do this voluntarily.

[1] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2797370?hl=en
Behind Every Great Scene, There Is a Writing Process
>In the later 1920s, Brouwer became involved in a public and demeaning controversy with Hilbert over editorial policy at Mathematische Annalen,

It doesn't read like the political fights were about math. Although Hilbert disagreed with Brouwer, it sounds like the falling out was precipitated by arguing over something subjective.
Ergodicity
Weird that a university press release wouldn't make it easy to find actual details for work in question, but a few links deep you can find a paper on the winner:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/dex-microsites-prod/alexaprize/2018...

> Gunrock: Building A Human-Like Social Bot By Leveraging Large Scale Real User Data

Abstract:

> Gunrock is a social bot designed to engage users in open domain conversations. We improved our bot iteratively using large scale user interaction data to be more capable and human-like. Our system engaged in over 40, 000 conversations during the semi-finals period of the 2018 Alexa Prize. We developed a context-aware hierarchical dialog manager to handle a wide variety of user behaviors, such as topic switching and question answering. In addition, we designed a robust threestep natural language understanding module, which includes techniques such as sentence segmentation and automatic speech recognition (ASR) error correction. Furthermore, we improve the human-likeness of the system by adding prosodic speech synthesis. As a result of our many contributions and large scale user interactions analysis, we achieved an average score of 3.62 on a 1 − 5 Likert scale on Oct 14th. Additionally, we achieved an average of 22.14 number of turns and a 5.22 minutes conversation duration.
Why is it called 'Rockstar Claw'?
Had a consultant developer once who named his functions like doMagic() & doStuff()
I think that it's beneficial that Mozilla pushes this privacy-minded ideology. People who aren't tech-savvy might not know these tips.
They eventually were judged on merit, which is a testament to the system at the expense of the characters that were involved at the time.
If you appreciate this style of ad delivery (and don't mind his...uh....language), comedian Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast and Thursday Just Before Friday Monday Morning Podcast has some hilarious ad reads. He hates doing it, he hates having to do it, and he openly mocks how silly some of the ad copy can be.

Which apparently is fine by his sponsors because apparently they convert incredibly well (it might also have to do with Andrew Themeles, producer and comic as well allegedly is very particular about who they are willing to be sponsored by since neither of them are hurting for the money).

But I agree, ads that are just naturally read and we get back to the show is preferred. The minute someone tries to get 'disruptive' with ads in podcasts I fear the whole house will come crashing down.
Migrant – guilty on nine separate counts, including rape and sexual abuse…
> Without a clear definition of how his potential responsibility relates to US national interest, the matter isn’t even necessarily something the CIA should worry about at all.

The free press is one of the cornerstones of US national interest; allowing our journalists to be murdered because they said something about a foreign power is a threat to that.
Psychology in the west is really a form of cultural anthropology, in that it’s just measuring behaviors for a specific set of people but not the underline mind directly. So this would make sense IMO that you can’t repeat many of the studies because they’re not grounded in the fundamentals of the mind but a layer abstracted a way by cultures and habits. Akin to strudying a Toyota car and trying to generalize all of physics from it.
> you’ve already signed

it doesn't seem he signed, and that's I think what's confusing here. People say it's unethical, but he's in fact just asking how to set up things correctly from the beginning... or at least this is my take.
I didn't downvote you, but I guess the problem they see is that it's not practical for any company that sells products or ads to EU countries.
You could do the Alexa integration for radio ads today. The choose your own ad would only work for people listening to a podcast in an integrated player on the podcast's website. This would not work for people who subscribe to the podcast and download an mp3.

For the downloaders, you can only really target ads based on download time and IP address. I don't think this is much better than radio ad targeting for most use cases, as IP addresses aren't very good at consistently identifying an individual. I do at least hear local pre-roll and post-roll ads for non-local shows.
I’m not defending js. On the contrary the two languages are similar in that early on a lot of people had a negative first impression because of some mind bogglingly stupid decisions made by the initial implementators. This lead to feedback loops where those that were repulsed by those negative impressions moved on to other languages while those that didn’t care stuck around. In both cases that lead to cowboy cultures developing.

It is true that in both cases, eventually top notch engineers got involved in the projects’ core and cleaned things up to the extent possible. But it’s a heck of a lot easier to improve a spec than a culture.
Agree. The Infosec field is a rabbit hole. It's a cat and mouse game. As long as it's run by human, everything is bound to be hacked eventually.
It’s almost like a society beholden to a billionaire aristocracy is going to have democratic process undermined in many contexts.

When the overarching theme for the masses daily life is “grovel before the desires of a smaller and smaller group of haves to survive” no one going to risk their meal ticket.
EU has a proper definition of what a small business is:

> SMEs are defined by the European Commission as having less than 250 persons employed. They should also have an annual turnover of up to EUR 50 million, or a balance sheet total of no more than EUR 43 million (Commission Recommendation of 6 May 2003). These definitions are important when assessing which enterprises may benefit from EU funding programmes aimed at promoting SMEs, as well as in relation to certain policies such as SME-specific competition rules.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/structural-business-statis...
Notifications every 2 minutes:An in-depth look at how people really use WhatsApp
You’re gonna lose some of those features also on Lambda. The speed is gonna be subject to the time to cold start the VM, the times for this are not great for the JVM or .net runtimes.
Countless lan parties which were dominated by either de_dust or bgh.
So do you and the content creator.

I mean, we've all laughed at the "you wouldn't steal a car" commercials, and the truth is, if you could download and 3D print a car, risk free, you probably would steal it.

The underlying social part of that statement is both true and interesting though. Because the reason you wouldn't steal a car is because of the social contract you have with other members of society. We don't steal from each other, and if we do, society punishes us.

That's basically what the EU is doing with this legislation, and sure, its annoying, but I have a hard time seeing how it's wrong.