skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Its population has fallen by 97% since the 1980s, and is at just 99.5% of its original abundance."

I assume they mean 0.5%?
It's a pretty common assumption that any physical process could be simulated by a Turing machine (given infinite time and space etc.). We could probably never build such a Turing machine. I didn't mean to make any stronger claims than that. As I mentioned before, this is a pretty pedantic way of looking at the world.
Having a capability and chosing what you use it for are different things. I also believe that the life of RF detection by third parties, and radio between parties has been entirely parallel. For every signal, there is a device hunting that signal in amongst the noise.
It's all ok in marketing until you have "the time" :-) Btw this is what the "marketing gels" at Burberry still refer to the time when chavs got into Burberry check baseball caps.

And this is a direct quote from a mate who works for a big 4 consultancy "gels" being the upper class young women who will be working there.

I suspect that Mr Bannon wearing Barbour isn't exactly taken well by their marketing team.
It doesn't need to be "always true" for a tendency to produce conflicting objectives no sane legislator would ever choose (and making them much more difficult to repeal) to be a potentially crippling weakness of direct democracy.

Perhaps experience with being consulted is why the Swiss appear relatively sanguine about a referendum vote to impose quotas on all immigration being creatively reinterpreted by its trade-prioritising government as just introducing job preferences for Swiss nationals in times of high unemployment and tightening residency permit criteria. That's certainly a course of action which would be expected to create much more unease in other parts of Europe; the furore over whether prioritising Single Market alignment in the UK's future relationship with the EU over an assumed preference for immigration restrictions that wasn't even on the relevant referendum ballot paper is a notable contrast. But I'd imagine there were aspects of the Swiss political psyche other than "maturity", "long term vision" or experience with referendums which made them relatively unenthusiastic about an impractically-high UBI proposal, high minimum holiday entitlement and supremacy of Swiss law over international law and relatively enthusiastic about banning minarets, allowing greater surveillance powers and [until remarkably recently in some cantons] restricting the franchise to men. Californians certainly don't have a particular shortage of referendums either.
If you get cited you can appeal based on the milkweed.
With the way startup/language/framework names are going lately, these "silly" names will be real products by next week.

I look forward to the flopnax v python war, and the ropjar v docker debates.
Interview with photographer, https://www.citylab.com/design/2013/10/russias-disappearing-...

> What compelled you to start documenting them? I perceive them as rare, unique objects and often the movie theater is the only handsome building in a district so my urge was just to keep them in a time, place and memory through documenting. These cinemas are frozen in time, being parted from movies but their identity preserved; a frontispiece and a name.
Not even with random all caps words in there?
The dawn of self-driving companies
Not disputing this outcome, but what is your solution for violent piracy and it's effect on shipping?
Flutter isn't a competitor to electron as you can't target web browsers with it.

I tried Flutter over a year ago and found the instant reloading of code nice and has most of modern features but went back to native as the library support is still non-existent.

The real competitor to flutter is kotlin cross-platform from jetbrains. Most android developers are already familiar with kotlin, unlike dart, and also has great tooling.

I look forward to seeing which one wins mind share as they are well designed options.
The middle Eastern wars since 9/11 have killed more civilians than Pol Pot.
It turns out, people are always political, because they're people.
Can you give an example of a testable prediction?
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They apparently also don't require crossing wires connecting each eye with the opposite brain hemisphere. Instead, the optic lobes are directly behind the eyes: http://cephalove.blogspot.com/2010/06/view-of-octopus-brain....
I use tsc -w, what do you use? I'm not using it on the frontend but for nodejs (i would use webpack on the frontend)
I have. It’s great because it’s developed using geometric intuition (a la 3b1b).
Just missing probability/stats.
This is the first time I've seen someone casually use "f;g" as notation for (reversed) function composition. I'm glad for it, but does anyone know how widespread this notation is?
Thats essentially what apple’s “retina display” definition is, isn’t it? Assuming whatever reasonable distance, a minimum ppi that doesn’t allow seeing individual pixels, gives you the apple line’s retina screens (I forget the actual numbers they use)
Yeah MongoDB always gives me a very-un-PC chuckle as an Australian. It was a common insult growing up in the 80s.
Please don't take personal swipes in HN comments.
I am basically trying to understand the formulas in machine learning papers, will this book help achieve improvements in speed?

I just realize I fear math because the educational system I grew up in was violent (like beating kids for getting a quiz wrong wtf).

It was only through psilocybin mushrooms did I discover math and calculus again.
YouTube premium viewers can watch more videos per hour due to lack of commercials. This boosts the value of product placements, on top of that product placements rarely include residuals for unusually popular vidoes making this a large net win over normal YouTube adds.
This seems like part of the insect apocalypse story, and bee colony collapse disorder. All probably caused by overuse of insecticides.

Note that if we don't find a way to correct this, it can be catastrophic on a timescale that makes the most alarmist climate change predictions seem like nothing. There must be some percentage of normal insect population density below which population of frogs and birds and what not will fall even farther, with knock-on impact elsewhere.

One wonders how much of a boy-who-cried-wolf effect we might be seeing. Alarmism gets tiresome, so it's important to ring the alarm about the most urgent problems first. The insect apocalypse -if it is real, which I've a feeling it very much is- is probably a problem we can ameliorate quickly once we decide to, and it will worsen quickly if we don't. But climate change gets all the attention and sucks the oxygen out of the room.
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fortunately it's std not STD. The first looks like nothing in particular, the latter looks like S&M kaomoji.
I'd like to tag onto this: I've been reading your blog for nearly a decade and can say that you were one of my inspirations for studying math and CS.
What's up with grammar.. nobody will take you serious.

Otherwise, great article :)
Can you hint the problem with a python based solution? What doesn't feel right about it.
I just got the book and have read through part 1 already. Thanks, it's a great book, so far.
Would you say the book has been refactored? Nah, just kidding, the author would probably call it restructured.
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Yeah if I saw that I would have just thought that it was sponsored to show up first in the list of items or something minor like that, and not that it wasn't part of the original list at all.
The way service is designed and implemented matters and not the tool
Dichotomy Tests
I can predict or skip those ads. The ones that I can't skip otherwise (especially on mobile) are why I'm a subscriber.

Side thing no one ever mentions about ads, they always play at 1x. I watch between 2-4x and ads seem so slow when they happen
What we see as an octopus is only a three dimensional slice of their true form, obviously. They are actually a physical manifestation of the monster group.
[raises hand] If it can avoid a >100 MB hello world, I’m on board. That makes it worth learning a language I would never have heard otherwise.
> 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.

Wouldn't it be awesome if we could just 3D print ourselves all kinds of nice things we'd like to have?

If we could actually pull off such utopia, why should society as a whole consider it acceptable to artificially restrict this capability?

When the legal situation around monopoly rights is holding us back, maybe the time is ripe to come up with a new social contract that is actually beneficial to society?
The American Billionaire Who Got Chewed Up by English Soccer
Because you don't "properly" study all papers that you read.

For most, you just want to know the general ideas and understand the novel techniques that were applied. You might decide to do a deep dive in a very select few. At this point code becomes useful for reproducibility.

Also once you are experienced in the field, you don't relearn everything for every new paper. Most of the paper just propose incremental minor changes.
The only things I care about is what these changes are (conceptually, not a code comparison) and data about the effect of these changes. I don't want to have to read your code to find out where you have applied a certain new hyper-parameter to your gradient descent.

Stop thinking that the entire research population is publishing all results as papers because they don't know better. It's indeed the most efficient way to share knowledge for experts in a given field.

> since the information is presented in the proper format (not translated from code to math/prose)

Do you really think researchers just write some random code until they come up with good results and then try to retrofit that with some equations?

You have got it completely backward.
I don't think so. 10-bit improves compression because posterization leads to noisy patterns that must be encoded. By smoothing the posterization out, encoding a gradient, and having the decoder produce the noise, you can save bitrate.

But the equivalent in spatial resolution is encoding near-horizontal lines... which isn't a common situation (unlike gentle color gradients) and isn't a problem in the first place.
Robot Reality Check: They Create Wealth–and Jobs
Some quick googling gave me this:https://paul.reviews/passwords-why-using-3-random-words-is-a...

(also good stuff here: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/151165/is-rando...)

It seems the consensus is to use 5-6 words, and following the xkcd trick of 4 may not be enough.
Defender doesn't get updated as fast as other AV that is why it is free and if you actually get a MS enterprise AV is a ton of money compared to other enterprise AVs. I have had Defender not find viruses other AV will caught as long as a week. Also defender also opens up vulnerabilities. I didn't miss the cost/benefit calculation.
https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-26/p...
So these industries have unfilled positions but are unable to charge enough to get the cash flow to pay more and fill these positions? That sounds like these industries perhaps aren't all that vital.
Open Source Intelligence: A Key Under the Proverbial Mat
No, it should not. No one puts their eyeball to the screen under any normal circumstance. And each additional pixel has implications for bandwidth. Bandwidth is a limited commodity. I don't want my internet bandwidth reduced by your desire to watch TV from less than an inch away.
Please keep programming language flamewars well away from HN.
The Role of a Corporate Spouse
An adversary doesn't have to decrypt the traffic, they just reroute to their own TLS site to trick users. Or they do broadcasts like LLMNR to grab things and there are some WPAD attacks. Firewall on many computers might also allow things through, to perform relay or direct password bruteforce attacks. There are so many attacks that are possible, decrypting traffic really isn't so interesting.
no, we're downvoting because it's irrelevant and it says it's made by microsoft right in the footer
I have PiHole running on our home network blocking ads, phisihing domains, etc.

I also don't use the ISP router / wifi.

I feel like those two things are good steps towards protecting my family. They give me some piece of mind at least.
It's also important to keep in mind that the history of "bad" stereotypes usually has somebody intentionally signal-boosting them for their own gain, often financial, like medieval kings cultivating negative public opinion about Jews so they could exile them and take their stuff, but sometimes more indirectly social, like the elites in pre-slavery American colonies portraying blacks as inferior to keep the indentured mistreated lower classes from joining together in rebellions.

Less malicious stereotyping doesn't have that history of being intentionally used to oppress or "other" groups of people in an organized way, and so doesn't have nearly as much offense to it. For example: "white men can't jump", or associating action movie stars or bodybuilders with Austrian accents.
But everyone makes fun of the püpli kids!

https://youtu.be/krwyCx-ko_s
The style here reminds me of Ray Bradbury, based on the pacing and level of detail.
Because people's fashion choices, food they like, beer they drink.. that's culture. Two opposed cultures fighting over everything? Culture war.

It's another point in evidence of something we can all see.
Those same countries have the option to go to the World Bank for loans, the problem is the World Bank is used to enforce Western ideals onto different cultures in return for the loans.
The Chinese loans come with no strings attached other than the infrastructure being the collateral if the country can't pay.
Text? But we're talking about moving pictures. You're not gonna notice.

Also, frankly, the last thing I worry about every day is whether I can turn off anti-aliasing yet. Text has been comfortable on computer monitors for a long time now.
FOSS was going nowhere until the rest of the world got introduced to it. It was of more or less purely academic interest for a very long time.
window components are cool.
where is that leetcode link supposed to go to? I'm getting a 404. Link is https://angel.co/leetcode-1
You are comparing a name that is not parallel. If it was American Airlines, it's not unthinkable for a headline to read "American searched...".
I love the "Hello from the Magic Tavern" ads
Any social movement turns into a church with a priest caste in the end.
Which does horrible things with good intentions.
We took a place, where socially awkward beeings could contribute to society while beeing themselves - and turned it into a social minefield - for what gains? Those who are offended by this, dont want to contribute anyway- they just want the power, and those who contribute (and by increddible sexistic concepts are so brittle some bad words will scare them off), use swear words that would make a sailor blush.

If somebody attempts to push bad, not profiled, code into the kernel, and you cant yell fuck - while literally getting fucked - where is the freedom, that was promised in free open source?

First they came for the bad words, and i did not care, for i only used old english to write code..
The actual bare minimum you can do to protect your data
FPS matters a great deal in video games -- 120 is fantastically better than 30. FPS really doesn't matter that much in movies, much less TV shows, even action movies.
>Sure, mistakes happen, my own PhD contained a major blunder (discovered several years after submission -- at least somebody read it ...), but I'm extremely open about it.

So what was it?
> 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).

So only not currently employed people?
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[ Tutorial ] How to Target Facebook Groups with Facebook Ads
I thought this new book would be the third edition.

https://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Ruby-Addison-Wesley-Profe...
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This depends on the tooling a little.

We are getting a fair amount of cacheing and state management for "free" by using Apollo with GraphQL.
Plenty of cliffhangers in this comment
>Show me where the H1B program or mandate says anything about the best and brightest. Perhaps you confused H1B with the O-1 visa program or the EB-1 priority green card employment category?

I thought the whole intent was to bring in people to work jobs because we don't have talented people to fill those positions? Or has that definition shifted according to your perspective?

>The program isn't run from tax payer money, it pays for itself and then some.

It allows companies to flood the market with extra talent to keep wages suppressed while also holding leverage over folks who can either shut up or go back to Hyderabad. Someone is making money off of it, for sure. I don't think it's in the best interest of the job market and specifically earners, and you haven't convinced anyone that it is.

>Just the fees can cost $4000 to $5000.

Is $5,000 that much money to you? I would argue the cost of H1B's are much higher, especially when you consider the number of folks coming in who are unqualified and simply holding a job so a bunch of middle men can take a cut of their pay, not to mention the extra paperwork and headache it causes someone like me because I can gamble on an H1B contractor through Infosys or Larsen and Toubro or find an alternative means to fill head count.

>Sorry, but it is clear from our conversation that you don't have the first clue about anything related to this topic. I won't be replying anymore until you try and bring yourself up to speed on what you're ranting and raving about based on one off anecdotal bad experience.

My experience is with all the people previously in multiple non-tech companies and then two of FANGs, including my current one.

>I won't be replying anymore until you try and bring yourself up to speed on what you're ranting and raving about based on one off anecdotal bad experience.

Your responses get more and more emotional, which (I could be wrong) makes me think you're an H1B yourself or have an inherent bias towards H1B's because of family or other connections.

FYI - Showcasing your frustration that we don't believe you at your word and throwing a hissy fit doesn't convince anyone you're correct. If that's your method of convincing people of your ideas, you won't get very far and if you do, the people you work with will jump ship because of you.
We had a baby carrier on our list. It looked like someone bought it, but we never received it. I think someone bought it for themselves, and Amazon took it off our registry.

But the bigger thing that pissed me off was that they give you a $100 credit for diapers and wipes, but the only selection you could use it on was bottom of the barrel ones, and the wipes shipped to us were weeks/days out from expiration (we checked, same item bought at target expires 1+ year out).

Didn't buy diapers from them, cuz my sister got sketchy counterfeit pampers and boxes full of random shit. (I don't know what they saw wrong with the diapers, but all the big brands have serial numbers (for getting points or whatever), and their amazon diapers didn't show up in pampers system...
> It translates to loyalty (albeit weakly) in that a woman who is older has better self awareness and knows what she wants in a relationship, where a younger woman might still be figuring that out

Than why are there clear correlations (for women) between # of monogamous relationships and likelihood of divorce? As well as between # of sexual partners and likelihood of divorce?

> So it's more valuable to have a woman who isn't independent?

Of course! More flexibility and dependence up to a point is certainly better.

Of course the idea that this means a woman can’t have her own hobbies seems to be taking things to the extreme.

> Seriously?

Yes and honestly.

I married young and I think the troubles we went through together have deepened our relationship in a way that would never have been possible if we were both “emotionally mature”.

I’d also question whether people really do mature “globally” that much - vs maturing in specific contexts and relationships.

For example if women matured significantly in a “global” sense between mid-20s to mid-30s you would expect a big drop in obesity as women started taking better care of their health. But you don’t. Etc etc.
I would pay for the solutions as a book on its own. Solutions are essential for self learning, specially for tricky parts in mathematics i.e writing proofs, probability problems. I think the book “how to prove it” has good examples
FWIW, I think that's a fine answer. Maybe the tone can be less cynical and bitter, but the intent and content is fine.

I have someone on my team that literally said, I'm an amazing engineer. I don't need the money, I just don't want very much managerial responsibility, I want time and location flexibility to raise my kid and fair market pay for my work. You bet your ass we hired her. She's still an amazing engineer and wonderful addition to our team.

That's why we ask these type of open ended soft questions, people are different and have different wants and needs; we want to have that conversation before hiring to raise the probability that it'll work out.
The mental model gets better when you realise online ad auctions have bids multiplied by the predicted click-through-rate (pCTR).

That means someone can outbid you easily if it is predicted the ad will be clicked, and they have to pay a load of money if it's predicted the ad is very unlikely to be clicked.

Which in turn means, you'll effectively only be shown ads you're interested in, since the predictor thinks it's very likley you'll click (or watch the whole thing for a preroll ad).

Turns out, that predictor is mostly right - it did a good job of showing me ads that were funny enough to watch to the end, and correctly realised I would never watch an ad twice, so never showed me the same ad twice.
Who is saying you can't tell apart 60fps from 120fps? Ludicrous statement.
If you keep music downloaded it's better - play doesn't force you to refresh/re-download every few weeks.
But is there a slack bot for that? I mean, seriously a slack bot that replies this to every blog post linked?
I read once, the key to mastery is perceptual exposure and deliberate practice.

Don't know how the first part would work with Math.
Wouldn't the recent exceptional ME migrant flow explain it better?
Anti vax movement is not that known outside USA.
Shouldn't the `Student` class implement `Person` here? Did I miss that in the code sample?
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