skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Source? I don’t think you are correct. I’m French living in the US.
Median net income is around 1,700 euro. Most people I know make around 1300-1900. And many retired are bellow 1k euro... People are pissed because they are struggling, and have nothing left at the end of the month. Politicians keep rising taxes, while cutting it for the rich.
I'm no statistician, but the general trend seems to be upward for the last ten years. https://www.westernmonarchcount.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/...

Indeed, but for some out-of-whack numbers in 1997, the data looks fairly non-hysteria-inducing. I wonder if anything was happening in the counties where the count took place this year that might have affected the 'volunteer citizen scientist' participation? Hmm... I seem to remember something... what was it? Can't put my finger on it... I guess I'll just assume the world is ending and all insects are disappearing.
be careful it could be your age advancing that simply reduces your enthusiasm for new tech.

(I'm the same, but I'm trying to be better that the other grumpy old men by simultaneously getting those pesky kids off my lawn and knowing that I do it because of the conflict of generations)
there are zero "arguments" in the post I responded to outside of argument from authority. there's nothing about /why/ precise definitions are better than meandering, nothing about simplicity etc just proclamation that it is
> The most annoying things about math books is the lack of solutions.

To me the most annoying thing about math books is hand-waving, lack of rigor, and unexplained notation.

At least in programming, everything is formal and I can figure out the entire problem by looking at the source.
I haven’t even bothered with a 4K tv yet because my internet couldn’t handle it. I think it will be a very long time before most Americans can get good 4K streaming, let alone 8k.
This appears to be based on 20/20 (6/6) vision. People can have a visual acuity significantly better than that:

> Healthy young observers may have a binocular acuity superior to 6/6; the limit of acuity in the unaided human eye is around 6/3–6/2.4 (20/10–20/8)

> The significance of the 6/6 standard can best be thought of as the lower limit of normal or as a screening cutoff. When used as a screening test, subjects that reach this level need no further investigation, even though the average visual acuity with a healthy visual system is typically better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_acuity

I myself have been tested (twice) at around 20/8 (and was still better than 20/20 when I was complaining of blurry vision after an eye injury).
They have photoreceptors on their skin too.
Yes. ts-node is great for development, but for deployment (in our ci/cd) we run tsc to compile the typescript down to javascript.
What exactly does STD status have to do with any of the rest of this?
Always have a plan B. Even with the best of research and planning, plan A may fail.

The attitude towards risk taking is taking risks where you can afford to fail to live another day.
On the other hand, I don't think it's realistically possible for Yahoo to come back from the dead at this point (and same for the other Oath company, AOL).
Nice point. Nevertheless there is much less sense in taking these if better options are available (opiate addicts are usually forced to take whatever they can find by their urge) and the information is well-available (e.g. the second link on Google to bromo dragonfly leads to PsychonautWiki wich immediately shows you an honest warning banner: "Bromo-DragonFLY is linked to an unusually large number of hospitalizations and deaths", it also says "it produces unusually long effects which reportedly can last up to several days" - I doubt many people are brave enough to go this deep, even and especially if I were an opiate addict I wouldn't dare), people have all it takes to make up their minds so the mere fact of availability is not a death sentence.

There indeed is, however, a problem of dishonest or ignorant dealers selling really dangerous substances like that to ignorant or naïve people telling them just that's acid or kind of but I believe this problem would be much less widespread if people could get safe psychedelics legally or even if the black market itself was allowed to develop healthier so dealers had to establish reputation and care about the customers experience. Also, as far as I understand, the major reason for this kind of drugs to be developed and marketed is because classic psychedelics are too hard to produce for underground labs so they have to consider cheaper and easier alternatives.
On Being Accused
Can we get that GitHub solutions repo going? I feel like that's super important for this book. Bought it anyway.
It would be great if they were a honorable company (ideally a non-profit org) that protected user privacy rather than taking great pride in violating it.

And I don't think it's great that you have one site controlled by an evil company and filled with low quality content/discussion about every niche topic when you could instead visit 2-10 websites about the niche content you care about.
Huh, I get the opposite (for games I've seen running at 60) - footage recorded at 30fps looks a little off to me.
The general trend that goes upward in your graph isn't the number of butterflies, but the number of 'sites monitored', i.e., places where they searched for butterflies.

In the time that monitored sites went from ~400,000 to ~1,400,000 the number of reported butterflies stayed roughly the same (~200,000), which should be grave cause for concern. The number of butterflies should be a linear correlation with the number of sites (unless all sites are chosen completely badly (like the inside of a factory), which is highly unlikely).

Then again, maybe 1997, the first year with 1,200,000 butterflies in ~500,000 sites was a strong outlier, and the numbers past 1999 are the 'reality' which is always hang 200,000. We'd need a time machine to check, or find old data, or find a way to count butterflies in the past (I guess they don't preserve well?)
Ask HN: The state of core software development?
I am still young, but I distinctly remember a lot of systems software being developed and sold/released in the past. Today, excluding fuchsia, a few programming languages, a few protocols here and there and a bunch of file systems, the industry seems to be in a backburner.. (Maybe into research??)

It seems that the development of software has completely shifted towards combined data science, web design and devops (not that it is a bad thing)

Do you know of any other similar projects?
> if you forgot to check for it then at least your program wouldn't crash

If I forgot to check for null (or missing data) then I would rather have my program to raise an exception (to prevent data corruption). Then my error handling code will email that exception to me. I will analyze exception message (NPE) and stack trace. Then I will fix my program and deploy it to production.
Jesus our west coast techno saviors are turning on us.
While I applaud the preservation of spirit and tradition, I don't think you can really be a knight in the modern world.

“In the past, the defence of the faith was riding horses, fighting enemies,” Fra Critien said. “Now we can defend the faith by being an example to those around us.”

That first part is quite important. Knights could have been thugs or even warlords but they weren't. Not because they would have been stopped by the state, which were fairly small and weak at the time, but because they largely chose not to.

And many crusaders went further than that. They chose a risky expedition often at a great expense of their families for no discernible earthly benefit.

Being a gentleman in the modern world is laudable but it happens under a completely different set of incentives.

Still, Malta is beautiful and definitely worth a visit. Especially for Europeans since flights and stay are very cheap.
I also switched to Win 10 from Mac (and Linux before that).

My Surface Book has a faulty battery and I am using an MBP when I'm not at the office. I not sure I will stick with Win 10 on my next computer, but I am sure I'm not going back to OSX.

WSL isn't perfect, but it feel more open and more linux-like to me than OSX. Maybe a Pixel Book,maybe straight Linux.
Why not just use an ad-blocker?
“If I hug you I might just want more.” is a very creepy thing to say in my opinion.
Microsoft HoloLens shoves off for boot camp
This piqued my interest so I browsed your site a little bit and would like to highlight a couple of links to other people ITT.

http://www.lasselaursen.com/interactive-interview an interactive interview

http://www.lasselaursen.com/project/planmixplay talks a bit more about PlanMixPlay and also mentions a source of inspiration that is worth checking out as well, namely https://vimeo.com/25861552
Men can't be men anymore I guess
Well intentioned would be to indicate that the product is not requested. Maybe writing 0 of 0 could be acceptable. 0 of 1 is a lie.
I actually miss the time when it was this cut and dry. The MBP was hands down the best laptop on the market and it wasn't even close. OSX was a great mix of Linux and usability. Everything (mostly) just worked.

I don't recall it being like that before or since.
It would be fun to estimate depth maps from single images.

And for the next act, estimate scene graphs from a single image where the understanding of what is being looked at and the position is estimated. For example, a fingernail connected to a jointed finger, connected to a hand, to an arm, to a body and so on. With dimensions, locations and rotations relative to each other.

One could render a humanoid model at 120 frames (or whatever the gpu would allow) a second using a set of estimated scene graphs trying to minimize error between the image and the rendering.

Add more models (tvs, cars, signs, letters, etc...) over time if the technique shows promise.
Great explanation. I heard about it too but didn't understand it this way. May be I don't have finance background. Any resources you think are great to learn more about this ?
When PG wrote this down, perhaps the vast majority of Microsoft board agreed with him. It was a giant company without a roadmap. A company that always behind.

Microsoft has changed a lot since, and still putting much of an effort and money to gain trust amongst the community. Just remind yourself the reaction when GitHub acquisition announced. For three weeks I read blog posts filled broadcasting fear and loathing as if the government of China has bought Facebook, Twitter and Slack altogether.
> Does that thing do any Windows 10 like non-configurable telemetry?

Yes, it does. If you want to avoid it, you can use vscodium https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium
Is there any way we can keep this somewhat civil?
on the internet everyone is a dog and has read all of the volumes and TAOCP and all of the volumes of landau lifshitz (and also peskin and shroeder and read baby rudin at 5). no one cares about /you/ man - it's a public forum so the point is to give advice that is generally relatable.
FTA:
> I was reported to have “groped” her by searching “up her dress”, when this was simply a search under the covered part of her shoulder of the sleeveless dress."

Umm.. what? If you wondered if Pluto was in her tattoo, why not just ask? Or even make a joke, "Hey, do you have Pluto or did you get it removed like I did?"

Actually touching her dress and moving any portion aside is bizarre at best and creepy in many other cases.
Ask HN: Did you use App.net (Twitter-like)? PLEASE share your experience
Hey folks,
We are researching microblogging apps, and it would REALLY help us to hear from those who used App.net. If you never used App.net you are not the targeted audience.

What did you love/hate about App.net? When you answer please indicate whether you were a paid subscriber.
There's a word for "down an order of magnitude"
In addition to other comments about Microsoft's current market cap and new CEO, this article was posted also posted before Windows 7 was released; arguably the best version of Windows ever made. In fact, that era of software including Office and their server products was very solid.
I have not one single time invoked any kind of authority to make the points I'm making. It was only below, after you've (ironically) invoked the writer's credentials and insultingly proclaimed I never should be allowed to ever teach anything, that I let you know my qualifications.
I agree - descriptive studies also matter. I think in the last century, we have overdone statistics. It is time to counterbalance with a more descriptive approach as well.
That is not the minority. I've been using hangouts with a google voice number for over 5 years, and SMS still works fine. Most of the benefits from hangouts come from using a google voice number anyways (VoIP calls, SMS over IP), so it's definitely not the minority.
Yeah in retrospect those missing maps were terribly unbalanced. They worked at the time because most people just played to have fun and get kills, and were less focused on the objective.

Now even in causal mode everyone is focused on the objective and some level of teamwork. Going solo and not playing the objective will result in much angry chat and usually a vote kick.

I do miss the more casual nature of CS (and many games) in those days though.
We cannot agree on that. Feynman's talk is mainly about social phenomena, so it's entirely reasonable to assume that this anecdote is also meant to illustrate a social point: http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm
Ay ay ay.

This is basically a workaround for a defect of certain typed programming languages that allow null everywhere.

Worst mistake of computer science.

https://www.lucidchart.com/techblog/2015/08/31/the-worst-mis...
I read the whole thing with his voice in my head and it made me mad.
Erm...

> Like Leslie Lamport says

Pretty clear appeal to authority, IMO.
i suppose your definition of men includes being a horribly aggressive sex pervert
She blinded him with science.
The branding might be different but at the helm is what was twc. Charter spectrum or whatever they call it this week is not in control. This is a reverse merger, twc owned charter. New name, same company.
testing the waters isn't a crime
Did the offer any moral or ethics explanation? How did they justify this on a human level? That always interests me about this sort of decision, surely they had many meetings on the topic, what would those minutes look like?
Russia Just Launched Five Objects into Space. There Were Supposed to Be Four
His blog has appeared here before and I've found it well written.
There's your problem. Experimental rilkef isn't suitable for the operation of nophertrunions, no matter what the benchmarks suggest. In my experience, the speed of experimental rilkef is unparalleled, but there's too much side fumbling to use in a production environment.
I recently started reviewing mathematics on Khan Academy to brush up on my math skills and learn more Calculus so I can better understand ML. Really looking forward to reading this!
I found a “my first lab” microscope at Goodwill, and it’s been pretty fun!
So would it be fair to make the analogy that fentanyl is to heroin as vodka is to wine?

Vodka is much stronger, and you can accidentally make a mixed drink that will knock your socks off. Wine has a large range of potency amounts, but is generally less potent.

The answer for alcohol is that, in most countries, every dose of it has the exact active ingredient ratio listed, accurately.
Marcus has been arguing against straw men without actually helping at all for decades now, it's entirely uninteresting to keep listening to him.
> very solid.

You and I have a very different definition[0] of 'solid'. Unless you mean 'relatively', in which case I agree.

0. https://www.cvedetails.com/product/17153/Microsoft-Windows-7...
> The model of human cognition I'm referring to is the hybrid connectionist-symbolic one that Marcus is well known for advocating

> I'm criticizing it for being more a theoretical model than one grounded in the physical realities of the brain, which of course no one really understands

You're contradicting yourself. On the one hand, you claim Marcus' model is "incorrect". On the other, you claim there's insufficient evidence either way. Which is it?

> are YOU strawmanning? lol

Do you know what the term "strawmanning" means? What could I possibly be strawmanning since I was asking for clarification?

> Proposing a research program on that basis requires a high burden of proof.

As opposed to...?

> Yes I am claiming that, if the benchmark for "interesting" is deep learning.

"Deep learning" isn't the correct benchmark since that's what Marcus is critiquing (to some extent) in the first place.

> I would argue that there is not even close to enough evidence that a hybrid approach has improved generalizable power.

Then you'd be wrong. Here's a good place to start your research:

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/331/6022/1279

> Huh? I guess it's the term my mother would use.

Your mother taught you to describe scientific debate as "kvetching"? That's disappointing.
I have not one single time invoked any kind of authority to make the points I'm making. It was only below, after you've (ironically) invoked the writer's credentials and insultingly proclaimed I never should be allowed to ever teach anything, that I let you know my qualifications.

I do justify why simplicity and succinctness are better than meandering. More superfluous information obscures the "nugget" or the essence of we really want to talk about. Strip away the accessory, write the simplest, most lucid explanation that captures the idea, and you will see the concepts and connections in their elegance, more clearly than when that is obscured in the middle of pages and pages of talk. In summary: "idea" is more understandable than "idea+cruft".

What do you mean no reason why? Are you expecting a scientific trial? I'm sorry to disappoint you: these are but my opinions.
> All probably caused by overuse of insecticides.

I am not aware of any scientific publication showing a causal link. Let's be a little careful about this. By increasing crop yields and reducing deaths from insect borne diseases, insecticides have greatly reduced human suffering over the past century.

It's possible that insecticides are the cause, and if so, something has to be done, but such decisions need to be based on facts, on science, NOT on superstition and storytelling.
From 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9772521
The economy in France has been anemic and never really recovered since the last crash (high unemployment). Lots of hard working french people are struggling.
They feel that they are not being listen to.
Uncharitable reading: "a very creepy thing"

Charitable reading: "a funny throw away comment"
I think Greg Brockman from OpenAI has given talks where he argues that we may be able to get AGI by just scaling up existing algorithms. Their work on DoTA 2 is basically on this track of just scaling up well known algos.
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I would be interested to see your data for that. But even so, so what?
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There are plenty of human characteristics that have wider variation. Nobody's diagnosing people with European Skin Syndrome despite the way white people can't handle reasonable amounts of sun and are highly prone to cancer.

Also, it's an analogy, and not meant to be taken literally. It's just meant to give people a feel for what unnecessary medicalization might be like.
I think you aren't buying very good math books then. I find the exact opposite: the thing about math books I have read is that they overemphasize rigor at the expense of intuition. Everything is painstakingly illustrated in such great detail that I sometimes see the trees and lose sight of the forest. I feel as if reading proofs and doing problem sets in math books is just manipulating symbols in well-known ways without really understanding intuitively why something must be true. For example my introduction to metric spaces started by defining the characteristics of a certain function d without explaining how this could be thought of as a generalization of distance.

On the other hand, many programming stuff is ruefully hand-waving and lacks rigor. They might present important algorithms in pseudocode; even when they present in real code, the precise semantics of the real code is often underspecified and vaguely described in English. I mean take a language; how often do you see in the language specification the semantics of the language defined rigorously, using operational or denotational semantics? PL nitpicking aside, how many programmers think a piece of code must be correct because they pass a few test cases, without ever giving a proof?

I'm of course not saying the lack of rigor in programming is bad. Perhaps 95% of the software we are building isn't mission-critical and relying on intuitions is fine; we ain't got no time to prove every piece of code we write. But my point is your observation really does not match mine.
Not the short story you're looking for, but The Hellstrom Chronicle is a 1971 pseudoscience mocumentary in the same vein: the struggle for survival between humans and insects. The conclusion is that insects will "win" due to their adaptability and ability to reproduce rapidly and humans' inability to organize due to excessive individualism.

The film is an odd duck: it's satirical and knowingly pseudoscience yet it won both the 1972 Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Documentary Feature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hellstrom_Chronicle
Mobile. It’s hard to block ads for mobile devices without resorting to DNS blocking hacks. Most people don’t want to deal with that.
It's a pretty peculiar thing to say. Maybe even a bad attempt at flirting. But it seems like whether it's creepy depends on how it's delivered and by whom.

Sure I suppose I'll grant that creepiness is subjective and others will find this creepy even if I don't.

But what's more critical IMO is what if anything we should do about it. Should NDT lose job opportunities? Should women fear working with him? Not over 'creepiness' IMO. That said, losing job opportunities and women avoiding him is a natural consequence if the frequency/severity of the bad behavior continues.

The power of #metoo is that through unity, past victims can prevent future ones. If NDT truly victimizes women, this disclosure will help prevent more.
Not really. When you haggle, you don't bluff by lighting your money on fire.
The burden of proof lies with Neil Degrasse Tyson to prove innocence. He is def lying about having sexually assaulted those women! #MeToo #BelieveAllWomen
And it's (for now) being replaced by relatively simple cultivated ecosystems. Food crops, trees, and livestock (which I gather includes farmed fish).

Ultimately, if we can manage it without collapse, that's all that will remain. Plus us and pets, I mean. And various pathogens, parasites, and so on.
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The Turning test is getting easier to pass.
Misclassifies an empty array as object since zero is falsy.
Here's a YouTube link of the presentation...

https://youtu.be/iqlxsSrd-M4

NB: The slides aren't visible in the video, but here's the corresponding AI Memo by Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom from November 2012...

AI Memo 2002-018: The Role of Programming in the Formulation of Ideas (November 2012) [pdf] https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/6707/AIM-2002...
What's the problem, too much empathy? I mean, if the opposite of empathy is appathy, then I don't see that in the OP.
Maybe you should take a hint huh? If many people are telling you something about yourself (a subject you're inexorably biased on) you think maybe you should reconsider your position?