skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, free software is communism, so it's not surprising.
I've been a fan of the Swiss system for quite a while. The citizens don't merely get to make public comment on what the government does; they can create a referendum and overrule it. They use proportional representation too, as do many democracies.

And the cantons are cool. A part of a canton can leave the canton, join another or make a new one. It rarely happens, but the fact that it can probably helps keep the canton government on its toes. And canton boundaries are probably more organic than many of the US states.
I'm by no means and expert is this field, but I thought at some point I had heard that using words like the xkcd comic were actually less secure, I thought what I heard was that there is a type of dictionary search that can be more efficient in cracking those "all words" passwords (as in, you don't really have 44 bits of entropy). Again, I've got no source, and am not very knowledgeable in this space, so someone correct me.
> 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.

I wonder why? Those are the most, if not the only, honest answers you got.

In current state of software industry, unless the candidate happens to believe in your mission, anyone answering they'll want to still work for you is either lying or naïve.
"Compromise" in what sense?

I don't find any sort of value in DNA services, but I don't feel "compromised" one bit that my brother uses them.

Anyway, the idea of "family" when we get into DNA is not useful, a skilled person can track you down because a total stranger who you share great great great grandparents with uploaded their DNA into an open source DNA database, which is what happened with the Last Area Rapist.
It's cultural, and it's a feature not a bug.

Larry Page always encouraged internal dissent because he had a healthy appreciation for what he didn't know, and would rather get early warning within the company, where he could change his mind, than commit to a course and find that everyone who was right now works for a competitor. This actually paid off in a large way with several key decisions, like switching to the auction-based ad system, sponsoring GMail & Chrome, buying Android & YouTube, killing Google+, and putting Sundar in charge of day-to-day operations while kicking himself upstairs to Alphabet.

The flip side is that many Googlers do have a sense of entitlement that wouldn't fly at any other company, and it can be hard to focus the company to react quickly to threats or opportunities. But in some way that doesn't matter when some segment of the company is already reacting on its own to threats and opportunities; you just have to shift resources to get behind the folks that are already working on the right thing. (This is part of the motivation for Alphabet, where the idea is that Larry can quickly move capital into whatever random team happens to be working on a promising idea and double-down on winners.)
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is that even true? I could be wrong, but I was under the impression that Convnet is inspired by basically, photoshop filters, and after it was created it was found that there are vaguely similar structures in the visual cortex.
This is a tough comparison to make, because all of the iOS device screens that followed the iPhone 4 have vastly improved contrast ratios, viewing angles, colour space support, different anti-reflective coatings, screen lamination techniques, glass, even refresh rate if one considers the 120fps iPad Pro panels.

Point I’m making is there is more than just DPI making those new panels look much better. The panel on the XR is the same DPI as the 4 and is widely regarded as one of the best, most colour accurate LCD displays Apple has ever shipped.

The vast majority will not notice the difference between 2x and 3x retina, to borrow apples technical terms for the different densities - beyond a certain point display DPI is a pure bullshit vanity metric for a given size/viewing distance.

For me personally, improvements in screen lamination are some of the biggest differences - on modern iPhones the screen feels directly laminated to the glass - on an old iPhone 4 there is a very noticeable “air gap” between the display and the glass.
that would be a rash decision. But i would like to see twitter move in that direction: make all tweets copyrighted, and require a fee every time they appear in newspapers.
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Thanks for sharing that book! Super cool!
I can see an argument for that but I don't think it's a valid assertion. People can change opinions. They can't so easily change their skin color.
You can, and if you are self employed you can capitalize those losses under various circumstances. If you have even the slightest inclination to create something you think might sell one day, you probably should, if only for the purposes of establishing a tax basis for what you create. (This was a lesson learned somewhat expensively for me.)
This is the dumbest position a company could possibly take.
Is that based on "average" vision of 20/20? Because apparently 20/20 is not average. It's just a baseline considered good enough. The majority of humans see better than 20/20.
Actually all it takes is a firewall. As far as hiding hosts goes, a firewall is just as good as NAT. And then if you do need a host or two accessible, the firewall is easier to change than the NAT.
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There are other acting acting forces on the car other than gravity
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> Regarding displays capable of accepting 120 Hz input, there are plenty of computer monitors that can do that at least.

Yep, just not televisions! That's a big difference, since most people don't want to put monitors in their living rooms.
If you murder someone, they might be able to find you via 32andme.

Some people would say, "Don't murder people, then!" but folks sometimes prefer, "How dare they catch you, what a violation of your privacy!"
This made me think about cars and all those screens...

Good on Logitech. Real movement. Love it!
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Yet both birds and aircraft can stall. (Granted, birds can get out of stalls much more easily than aircraft can.) While many analogies between natural neural systems and various ML arrangements are false, not all of them are.
Remembered by his VP:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/george-bush-be-prepared-and-be-...
When you're stretching a movie across an IMAX-sized screen, you really want the pixels. I can't fit an IMAX screen in my living room though, so I can't really see the benefit.
Never know that existed! Maybe you can improve discoverability by doing that on typing a dot.
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For VR/AR the most important feature is be pixel density
I’m not sure that the creation of an asset bubble is a good metric for success. How do you feel about pets.com and tulips?
They are their source:

> I took 5000 twitter profile photos and averaged the pixel values by male / female.
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It is absolutely common to drive that fast on German roads. With less accidents/mile than America. It needs good driver education, good roads and good cars, and then it's fine.
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> This is very interesting choice of language. I wonder whether typescript could have been a candidate as well. Although not as popular as JS, I believe most of JS community has migrated to typescript (due to obvious benefits) and it is more closer to a C-based language.

Can you elaborate on this manipulative nonsense?
You're not crazy, just ahead of the curve :P.
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haha, contributed

Also worth of mentions https://usesthis.com/
> Just because not everybody has access != a person inside a gated area doesn't get to see. You made that leap.

Well, I guess that was somewhat of a leap, but it doesn't really make a difference to the argument: The point is that they are suggesting that preferring code that fewer people can look at somehow solves a problem.

> If you are building software on top of software that carries no guarantees then you are liable unless you also somehow make no guarantees.

Well, yeah? But what does that have to do with FOSS? Neither does FOSS imply that there are no guarantees, nor does proprietary software imply that there are guarantees. Hence: What is the relevance?

The only difference between FOSS and proprietary software in this regard is that with FOSS you have the option to do an audit yourself and offer guarantees on that basis without creating a huge unknown risk for yourself, or you could possibly buy auditing services on the free market that come with some sort of guarantee from a third party. There is no option that you have with proprietary software that is somehow impossible with FOSS, which is why the suggestion that not using FOSS for commercial projects somehow solves a problem is strange at best.

> Are you able to sell software without guarantees? Maybe?

Well, given the tons of massively broken proprietary commercial software out there? Yeah, obviously you can?
They successfully replicated a study involving replicating other studies.
I'm very disappointed with the quality of discussion between Marcus and LeCun.

First Marcus responds to Bengio's interview with the arrogant and pretentious "I told you so" tweet, instead of simply saying that he agreed with Bengio.

Then LeCun tweets a snarky and disrespectful response, instead of simply saying that Bengio's comments are different than Marcus's earlier critique.

As a result of these tweets, I lost a huge amount of respect for both scientists.
No I really meant 80s average quality. Hell, I even rewatched some old TV ripped on VHS, it was ugly.. yet I liked it. Not only for nostalgia. I think obsession for perfect signal is pushing people away from quality and simple enjoyment.
I know this is presented as a negative and will likely be taken as a negative, but I think it's actually largely in agreement with parent comment.

Apple is an opinionated company and takes a "this not that" approach to the world. As someone once said, they're one of the biggest companies in the world and their entire product line still fits on a dining room table. That's a lot of saying "no" to things!

Google seems more inclined to believe it can be anything, or do anything. Look at the breadth of concepts they work on through various subsidiaries like Google X.

Extend that perspective to their employees. At Apple you'll know whether you're an Apple person or not, just like their approach to products. Whereas Googlers are more likely to believe they can be anything. Thus, you get a lot more public disagreements among Googlers... there's just so much more to disagree about!

I don't think either approach is necessarily more moral. While Apple does a lot of good product work related to privacy, there is basically no questioning of their fundamental decision to do business with anyone, anywhere. Whereas, while Google's products are worse on privacy by features, there's a lot more discussion about who they do business with.
I never thought about that. Now it makes sense why they still use film even though the prices to shot some shows, even though it a lot of extra costs (media is more expensive, it is time consuming, better lightning, etc)
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Cool question!

Reality is always complex and I have no easy heuristics, but a few basic principles that have bigger consequential insights or uses to me.

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listen to your gut, it thinks faster than your consciousness:

- but only act upon it, once you understood the reason. (I love how with math problems you often know you have valid the pathway to the answer, but don't have it in your grips just yet until a few seconds later)

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I assume everything has a cause or is (pseudo-) random. This leads to a few conclusions:

- no free will in a strict sense (I still have agency and can choose to do what I think is right)

- no bad people (I don't have to talk to assholes, but there should never be revenge, only protection of society)

- if someone is in emotional pain about something silly, the pain is still real and to be taken serious (that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be desensitized a bit)

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Before you do anything, assess the situation:

- I'm very emotional and very analytical, but before I haven't figured out the situation the emotions take the back seat.

- If something can't be changed anymore I might be sad, but have no reason to panic in to any action, where there is no reasonable one to act upon. (As you someone was talking about politics: I don't give much about local politics anymore, only want to understand the "why" of global politics. (local politics is quite approachable however, one can make changes there if one really wants to))

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Sadness is alright and should not be suppressed:

- it also doesn't exclude comedy or bitter-sweet romance

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There is always a meta-level you haven't reached yet. (And usually it's worth to get there. But as in Plato's Cave, usually it's not revealed without new insight. You can go and hunt for that insight though. So if you can, try to take a step back.)
When copyright was invented, the bulk of communication was personal and free. Now it is captured into electronic silos on the internet. Creators can't have priority over the interest of the population. They have to cede that public interest in discussing news is more important than their 'right' to monetise even the headlines themselves. When balancing rights, we have to take a larger perspective that includes more than the creators interests.
I have this nagging belief that advertisers know well that nobody in this generation wants to be advertised to, and that ads generally don't work as a direct call to action. Something that allowing podcasters to loosely do ad reads achieves is a small sense of authenticity.

This seems to fit in nicely with the assertion that they know people dislike ads; when a podcaster stiffly or sarcastically reads an ad and throws in a side comment, the ad-averse listener reads this as an irreverence to commercial advertising that both the podcaster and the advertiser are both acknowledging.

I truly think that the advertiser sneaks into the podcast listener's authenticity dome this way, and I feel like this must be a well-understood phenomenon for advertisers who buy ad reads on podcasts known for having a primarily gen z and millennial audience.

Incidentally there's a podcast episode by New Models that briefly discusses this idea, which they call the "authenticity dungeon".
https://www.librarystack.org/new-models-podcast-episode-07-a...
Well, it does make sense yes, which is why that view has become accepted.

There are some facts that seem to give pause for thought though, like it apparently being much warmer than today in medieval times. This can be hard to see because temperature records don't go back that far, but we know that the Romans appeared to once grow wine near Scotland, something totally impossible today (in fact it only became possible to grow wine in the south of England very recently, a "new" thing blamed on global warming). It's unclear how the Romans could have done that unless grapes were very different or the weather was very different.
There exist PHP projects in good shape now. Even the core developers learned their lessons and are seeking a good language now.
PHP is maturing, and may become a good language at some point... if the world hasn't moved on that this point so it become an old, brittle, powerless one before it has a chance to put its flexibility to good use.

Javascript started from a much better position. You simply couldn't choose a sane toolset for working in PHP on the begining, but while there is no great choice for JS, there exist some that don't suck.
Is it really? Types just help formalize (for you and the compiler) what the code actually says.

Types or not, the refactored code itself is still refactored.
Most papers leverage a results table which compares the newly proposed approach with existing approaches. This section is baselines the results of the new approach with prior work and helps determine whether a new result is actually important or yet another way to achieve the same results as previous work. e.g. the tables on page 7 of this paper https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Automatic-Acquisition-...

These tables are generated using real implementations that may or may not be correct, and should be subject to review when the paper is published.
In the US you can call 112 to verify it. Also you can turn on you hazzard lights slow down and drive to a safe place, most cops are thankful when you avoid stopping on a dangerous part of the highway like narrow shoulders or ramps.
I watched the trailer, and it has some impressive CG, but I think it's cheating to use animals. It's easier to spot flaws in CG human characters. I still count FF:TSW as the most ambitious CG animated movie ever made.
The seller apparently needs my address to sell me an ebook, and it thinks my postal code is fake and locked me out. Well played, Pearson.
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Yes it is true. The often cited statistic comes from https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/200...

Counting climatologists is a bad idea because they shut critics and skeptics out of the field. We know that climate models are generally wrong. Trying saying that while having a career as a climatologist.
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Exactly this. The fact that a few maps and weapons dominated CS is what made it so unique, because you were forced to learn those few maps and weapons in extreme detail. When people couldn't distract themselves with fancy, shiny other things, they were forced to master those fewer things that were available (or were practical) and that many others had already mastered to a greater level than you. Your skill gap was was blatantly apparent to you and others, so you were very motivated to resolve your shortcomings.
The project completed successfully and wrapped up. Final report (2012) http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf

Discussion on HN (2016) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11686325

I think Brett Victor is one of the people driving the effort beyond that project:
http://worrydream.com/
Except this isnt just "one funeral at a time." This is genocide.
Most European TLDs no longer publish sensitive information in the whois data. This mostly kills the whois protection companies which were just parasites, and also protects the privacy of domain name owners.
so many people dont understand the brilliance of infinite jest's endnotes: jumping from place to place storyline to storyline is supposed to make you feel as drug addled as the characters (and i think it's quite effective if you read the book at a brisk pace)
15 years ago?

Source control was very, very standard 15 years ago. 15 years ago I would have run, not walked, from a job if they didn't use source control.

There was no git, we used CVS, which was almost old enough to vote at that time.
> There used to be a one to one mapping of folders to windows. The moment you decide 2 windows can show the content of the same folder simultaneously (which has its advantages), you run in these issues. Which is the canonical view that should be preserved?

I'd posit most of us rarely open the same folder in two different windows, which means the icons should behave as expected in all but an uncommon edge case. It has worked in my experience, at least.

But separately, just as a though experiment: when an icon is moved in one window, the placement ought to update in both windows, in real time. Probably wouldn't have been feasible when macOS X was new, but perfectly doable today given modern computing power.
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Of course a fair point, but I think it's worth considering that basic physics was conceived quite a bit longer ago than the idea of CO2 as a greenhouse gas began to spread. So physics has had quite a bit more time to settle and for people to prove it incorrect (which they haven't), while the reasoning for cause(s) of planetary warming is really still in its infancy, however sure many people think they are.
As a New Yorker I really don't see why this is news at all. There are tons of businesses in NY that are cash only. I'd estimate anywhere as high as 20% of restaurants are cash only
Yeah I think I was more getting at the 5 axis of game design, there’s people who’d like to :
Explore,
Socialize.
Challenge based game / rankings ,
Strategy / logic,
Forget other one

I’d say my tree falling in forest remark goes along two axis of social + challenge against other human brain . Almost same dopamine hit of telling a joke and getting reaction from crowd, feels fun to tell jokes similar to goofing off in multiplayer games etc
Makes sense. Can't make money when customers are ending up dead. Selling pot is one thing, can't die from an overdose, but if I were a drug dealer I'd leave my paws off of heroin, fenta and friends.
Your brother and you share a lot of your DNA. You could be flagged by an insurance company for genes that your brother has.
Sure. Provide anecdotes for justifying your worldview but demand citations from others. That seems totally fair and not hypocritical at all.

In any case, here you go: https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/Unautho...
You’re initial steps depend on your starting point/goals.

Are you a body builder trying to go from 10-12% body fat to 7% for competition.

Are you obese? Do you have chronic diseases or metabolic issues caused by diet?

I personally focus on ATP/krebs cycle, cellular health, dietary inflammation, liver/kidney function...I experiment and consume information mostly from athletes. I myself am a ultra runner but only started running 5 years ago and wanting to be a better runner is what got my to begging taking nutrition seriously. I was 192 4 years ago, I’ve been down as low as 133. I experiment a lot but it’s hard because I feel you must commit months to a diet to really have insight on the effects on your body combined with lifestyle. That seems to be the same conclusion as the other reply to your comment, but whereas they say give is weeks/I’d say give it months.
I remember sitting a bit up front in a theatre and thinking “I can see the pixels”. And worse it was slightly out of focuse (maybe intentionally to hide them).

From that day on every time I see a 4K film in theatres the low resolution bugs me. 8K should get us much closer to the old 35mm experience.
Thanks. It's usually more informative to read the original source.
There is a definitive difference. Global warming has been confirmed across multiple different experiments that have been repeated... this study covers obscure results that are unlikely to be repeated.
That sounds plausible. I grew up without a TV, and I've probably watched <200 hours of live TV total. 60fps looked immediately and obviously superior to 24fps the first time I saw it, and I find it incredibly weird that anybody could prefer 24fps. 24fps isn't even close to realistic.
Interestingly, Latin also lacked both "a" and "the", whereas their equivalents appear in Romance languages more than in English.