skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Phabricator's nonstandard workflow and tooling is one of its distinct advantages - maybe give it a second thought.
> I wonder what exactly is meant there. Is he speculating that a larger brain directly provides better parenting ability? Or that perhaps generations ago a family with a useless gene that causes large brains also happened to have another unrelated gene that gave them better parenting abilities, and thus both genes ended up being reproduced a lot?

My guess is something closer to the former, that the two sets of genes are linked https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_linkage and there’s a direct causal relationship between the two. Therefore, it’s actually the “better parental ability” trait is the one that produces the positive result and not the “bigger brain” trait. So yes, adopted children could help falsify this hypothesis.
I think I’ve said as much as I need to at this point. However regarding your friend, incels, and other such people: some people have mental and personality disorders that make them act extremely towards themselves and others. I don’t think we should misrepresent reality for the sake of such people, certainly not for fundamental truths of life that affect us all. There are better ways to help them, ways that don’t involve distorting reality for the rest of society. Being realistic in this case does not mean being unduly pessimistic as they may be, but nor does it mean denying the reality of one’s position.
Threema is a paid app.

Signal (Telegram) is open source and the chat is a core service for their providers. I.e. more important than Hangout for Google.
We're a small company. So far we've been lucky that everyone we've wanted to hire was flexible for some reason (just out of college, been freelancing, huge amount of holiday days saved up, etc). We've yet to face the harder situation where something like this isn't possible.

But even then I promise we're not going to ask "where do you see yourself in 5 years".
I was specially referring to the comments the g'parent poster made concerning climate, in a paragraph starting "As to climate".

It happens that the statements made are not only incorrect, but aligned with common talking points which are predominantly made by climate change denialists.

But you'll note that I carefully did not say that the poster was a CCD. I said the arguments were those used by CCD and which have been well-demonstrated to be invalid, so the poster needs to use better arguments to be convincing.
I really did try scanning the article before this. Looked again, and sure enough it was there -.-" The upvotes suggest that I wasn't alone.
Meet the Married Couple Transforming Cities with Big Data and Bicycle Lights
Some of their originals were pretty good, for example Dallas & Robo.
We're a distributed team. You can come work with us from home or wherever you want.
Your dichotomy is false. In a world with global warming there would be no humans. It's an extinction level event and few of us seem to understand it.
But such changes have happened in Switzerland

Exactly ONE new canton got created by a referendum process. It took 30 years to get to a referendum, accompanied by everything from acts of terror to threats of foreign intervention. And today, 40 years later, we're still trying to sort out the exact boundaries.

Surely, it was pretty successful by international separatist standards, but it still was a hard slog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_separatism
Diesel exhaust is very harmful, moreso than gasoline car exhaust.
probably because relative size is a good proxy for evolutionary "resources" being allocated to brains.

why absolute size doesn't matter as much as we think it should is a really good question, but clearly our modern transition from "the nervous system is like a steam engine" to "the brain is like a computer" is only an improvement and not actually a good model yet.

So, when "one thinks of compute capacity" one arrives at the wrong answer instead of one that fits the evidence and statements of the evidence seem like "a strange argument".
I prefer EPUB for most ebooks, but maths books work far better in PDF because mathematical notation gets turned into image files in an EPUB and don't render nearly as nicely.
I suppose it depends how you view the system and the rotten apple.

A properly functioning complex system should be able to tolerate a few bad apples, limiting the harm that they can cause. If you work in such a system and there are bad apples, you can justify the ethics of your work if there are checks and balances that limit the leader's ability to harm.

The obvious analogy is the current U.S. political system. It's quite possible to see the United States as generally striving for a more fair society, and generally good, and yet to be disgusted by Trump's cruelty and inept. The only way to square those two competing ideas is to acknowledge that even though Trump is a miserable rotten apple, he doesn't really have all the power. As bad as he is, he won't last forever, and the principals of the U.S. will long survive him.
What is wrong with Travis compared to GL's default CI?
Reason React tutorial for beginners
While in representative democracies, decisions get made by "experts in the field" like [checks notes...] washed up reality TV hosts with a career defined by bankruptcy and white collar crime.
I assumed from the mistakes in English that they're not native speakers. Wonder if they actually live in USA
Yeah, for some reason the French word (from which the English one derives) degenerated in a Don Quixote-like caricature. This has not happened in Italian nor in Spanish, afaik.
Is there no way out of the antiquated gift registry idea? Could we have baby showers and weddings in which everyone contributes cash (and absolutely no gifts) to offset the event costs? Any excess cash becomes a gift to the parents or couple.

Gifts served a purpose in the distant past because people needed "things" to start their life, but that's no longer the case. Most people have way too many things, and most of their expenses are operating costs anyway (like mortgage, rent, education, health care, and transportation).
There were referenda trying to suppress that "dirty business", but they failed. I'm not happy with that fact, but the voters DID have a choice.
Similarly, I can get acceptable framerates gaming at 4K on a 27" monitor with an RX 480 for e-sport titles (Assetto Corsa, Project Cars 2 etc.) by disabling AA ... because at that resolution you don't Really need it any more.
Stacks and related JVM flags (Scala)
The point of making opiods illegal in the first place was to protect drug users from themselves. From that perspective, it seems counter-productive to murder them.
Couldn't try this as I am phone. But I do find gravity simulators oddly satisfying.
An opinion piece: end of a PRC-USA trade war
At G20, Xi Jingping conceded to Donald J Trump demands for end of the trade war.

At the surface, a win-win solution was achieved: more trade for both countries.

But in the political dimension, the conflict ended ruinously for Xi. Trump became a man who started and won this war. Xi took upon "teaching America a lesson," and failed spectacularly at a great price to Chinese industry and middle class.

China lost its international standing, and US gained. Everybody sees that US can force its agenda in economic disputes even against China, and that China is a soft target.

Trump intentionally setup the conflict so Xi loses in any outcome: would Xi chicken out first, he will lose his strongman image; would he not, he will be seen as somebody who ruined Chinese economy to save his image. The only option where he could've won was to refuse both outcomes: start aggression on its own.

China has all things needed to not only hurt American rust belt and agricultural economy, but to totally ravage it. Besides being the biggest market for agricultural commodities, China has leverage in fertilisers, other agrochemicals, and veterinary supplies.

American tech companies became inseparable from China. Their very existence will be threatened if they loose China. That prospect alone can crash American stock market, and send pension funds into panic.

The conclusions here is that China has more to gain from breaking rules in international trade, than from continuing playing an unfair game.

Were China to succeed in trade war, it could've secured one more decade of prosperity and growth at cost of its relationship with US (which were doomed anyways.)

American needs China's cheap exports and access to its economy more than China needs its exports to America. There are more avenues for growth for China if it breaks its engagement in US economy, and take initiative in building its own trade block, separate from WTO, and working according its own rules of the game.
Not ridden a bike for 20 years, found a bike in the beach hut we were borrowing, different kind to what I rode, rode it a few miles down the shore with no real problems.

There is one way to forget how to ride a bike, learn to ride a bike that has the steering reversed.
No humans? Few humans, but why no humans? Because everything would be under water?
In general, you can write off pretty much any idea that involves poisoning children as unethical. That death tolls from the [opioid crisis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic) have been rising is a problem that people've been trying to mitigate, not further.

It is a bit strange to consider that we still do poison alcohol to prevent, say, people from drinking mouthwash (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denatured_alcohol):

> Denatured alcohol, also called methylated spirit (in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the United Kingdom) or denatured rectified spirit, is ethanol that has additives to make it poisonous, bad-tasting, foul-smelling, or nauseating to discourage recreational consumption.

Unfortunately, despite a widespread cultural understanding that it's dangerous to consume denatured alcohols like mouthwash, some folks still do (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogate_alcohol):

> Surrogate alcohol is a term for any substance containing ethanol that is intentionally consumed by humans but is not meant for human consumption. [...] Most people turn to these as a last resort either out of desperation, being underaged or being unable to afford consumable alcoholic beverages (with homeless alcoholics) or due to lack of access to drinking ethanol (for example with prison inmates and individuals in psychiatric wards).
The Force Report
We already know good nutrition makes you taller and smarter. I thought this was basically settled, hence the implicit knowledge of the researchers of the height/intelligence link and not much discussion about it.
Could height be correlated with better nutrition, which itself could be correlated with better mental development?
It’s not just about tax: a “magic” passport can be pretty good for spying and smuggling activities. Malta has always been a “listening station” even before the term was coined, what with being in the middle of an extremely busy sea that borders the biggest empires of the age. During the Cold War a number of dubious characters were shuttling around with those passports, and being ordered a knight of Malta in Italy had a strong correlation with being a right-wing personality with Vatican and NATO ties.
The cheapest way is to start with a RTL SDR tuner and for example Gnuradio.

If you want to experiment with celluar mobile radios LTE you need a LimeSDR, BladeRF and a help processor.
It's not fully compatible with web yet but there is ongoing work to make it happen. Flutter itself is about to be officially released in two days and I am sure there will be more push to make it web compatible soon.
Defining such things is usually a misstep, because it invites people to find loopholes. But as of this moment it appears to me thus: using language aggressively to defeat an enemy rather than create connection.
So will it be possible to combine this with amazon's new groundstation-as-a-service?
Chorleywood bread process
Prof. Manfred Lehn has some very good advice on his web-site (in German):

http://www.alt.mathematik.uni-mainz.de/Members/lehn/le/semin...

Here is the Google Translate transcript:

"""

How do you read mathematical texts?

If you are ready to give a seminar lecture in your studies, you have already studied one or two semesters and read one or the other book and know what is important: If you read mathematical texts, there are two modes in which You can proceed: From the bird's eye view: What are the rough lines? What is the subject of the present text? What are the central concepts and definitions, what are the central statements and sentences? What are the rough evidence structures? Why do you do it all? From a frog's perspective: how is it done in detail? How does a proof work? Why do you need the prerequisites in the sentence? What happens if you leave them out? You often have to switch between these modes. First, one has to get an overview of where one is actually going, otherwise one bites oneself in the first technical lemma and gets stuck. At the first reading one can skip all the evidence and focus on the statements of the sentences. At some point, however, comes the point where one no longer understands the sentences, because one has developed no feeling for the introduced concepts. Then it's time to take a closer look at the evidence as well. If you have understood more technical details, you should step back a bit and ask yourself again what the overall context is, etc. In an adapted form, this also applies to the way you approach individual sentences or examples. If you are confronted with a new sentence, you may ask questions of the following kind before, after, or even while studying your proof: What are simple examples of the sentence (such as special cases)? What are simple counterexamples where certain conditions are not met? Does the sentence, or the term used or the proof, refer to already known things? Is there a characteristic example of observing all the essential phenomena? Work in circles in the literature to your presentation (and his position in the seminar).

"""

(You have to swap the word "sentence" with (mathematical) "proposition" or "theorem" at some places for this to make more sense. In german those are the same word ("Satz").)
No way. The psychopaths at the top of the top are a different breed, by an order of magnitude. It takes a different "type" of person to run for U.S. President than to run a large organization or company. Consider the president of GM, who worked her way up over 30 years from bottom to top and had to learn everything in between. Compare that to either Trump, who basically staged his election as reality TV episode that went wrong (he just wanted ratings, not to run the place). Also consider Obama, who was so smart, well spoken, and charismatic, probably only heard people telling him would be president from 18 onwards. Also Ted Cruz, who would happily accept a role of enforcement of the "US Moral Compass" as his pre-ordained right/duty.

My point is that there are plenty of folks at the top of their company that are not physcopaths, they inched their way up over decades of sweat and tears, and even if they aspired to lead on their way up, they knew they had to prove themselves in every aspect of the business first. CEOs of GM and Merck are decent examples. Then there are folks who believe they were chosen for the job before their birth. I'm scared of them.
Browser market share in November 2018: Chrome 63.77%, Firefox 12.8%, IE 8.61%
>On a more practical level, the wake of postmodernism is clearly visible in the educational arena. Because everyone’s experiences are now privileged over investigation of a shared, knowable world, young scholars are increasingly finding venues for articles that tout their own experiences. Nowhere is this more conspicuous than in the humanities where alleged experience-based methodologies, such as autoethnography and ‘action research,’ have gained traction in peer-reviewed journals. With that traction comes increased Impact Factors when academicians cite the personal experiences of others as evidence to bolster supposedly scholarly claims.

This paragraph seems to be the “meat” of the article; standard complaints about postmodernism constitute the remainder. It is an interesting point, but it is not fleshed out very much.
Maybe this explains the phenomena better than my theory of stuff being rapidly copied. Crowding the market with different versions your own product is a fairly common tactic elsewhere, afterall?
Dart 2 is a very solid language. It's primarily an OO language but does have some functional elements in it. It's very similar to Java and C# and most dart developers think it's a better version of Java and C#. It has more features like stream, asynchronous and mixins built into the language. It's in fact a full stack language as you can write server side code in dart as well.
I think Google's long-term goal is to make dart/flutter compatible with mobile (iOS and Android), web, desktop (macOS, Linux, Windows). It will be truly write once and run everywhere.
Stealing Webpages Rendered on Your Browser by Exploiting GPU Vulnerabilities [pdf]
It's gratifying to see a deep understanding of the origin and current reality of this situation emerge after so many years of chaos and culture warring. Hopefully with understanding, and greater exposure to society at large, will come a remedy.
Yeah. I was expecting some level of proposal. I expected the article to have more, so downloaded the PDF. Nothing more!
Hacking Facebook logins using cellphone number churn
I believe flutter will be the only thing that will be truly "write once, run everywhere" as it will be compatible with with mobile (iOS and Android), web, desktop (macOS, Linux, Windows).
Fall of Empires: Rome vs. USA (Hidden Secrets of Money Ep 9) [video]
Post-postmodernism/metamodernism, perhaps best embodied by the type of "post-irony" found on imageboards?
I haven't read any math textbooks cover to cover or anything but I did try to speedrun my way through some concepts needed for ML and from what I can tell the most important thing to learn is the insight.

Doing exercises or taking notes is only necessary if you feel the need for it, otherwise try to understand what the thing is and try to find where it is applied. Even though you probably won't ever need it in the future if you do picking it up will be much easier and this way you get the quick endorphins from figuring stuff out without the drudgery of actual work.

just my 2c.
I'm not confused. Do you honestly believe that all programming language creators agree on all technical subjects? They can't even agree on curly braces vs whitespace sensitive. And blockchain is a different subject than programming languages, they can't make an argument from authority.
> The South always had enough votes to keep slavery legal.

Enough white votes, maybe, and trying to exclude people from the franchise is still a powerful strain in US politics.

> This is this the reason that the Founders didn't pick it. It is mob rule.

I can think of other reasons why a group of propertied males would think that government by a group of propertied males was optimal...

What I find particularly dumb about the US political system is that the founders consciously patterned many of its elements (mutually blocking institutions, vetoes, senators, indirect representation, unequal representation) directly after the Roman Republic, while being perfectly aware how THAT turned out (Increasing institutional gridlock, increasing reward for violating norms, escalating violence, eventually leading to 1500 years of monarchy).

> We see this with budget deficits in California.

Excellent! Now explain budget deficits in Kansas, or federal deficits in the US, for that matter.
rtl-sdr dongles are awesome. I piped the audio output of mine into the audio input for Ableton Live. Then I start channel hopping, record a few minutes of FM radio, then stop recording and use Ableton's slice audio feature to chop it up into a group of samples. This way I can instantly get new 'instruments' literally out of thin air!

Also one time I was browsing different frequencies and I happened to stumble upon some conversation between two strangers. Neat what you can find.
I think the point was it’s not any more dangerous than heroin and morphine, and can be safe when properly administered in a medical setting.
> as a gesture of good will towards the US

"Let me remove this gun from your temple. Thank me, now."
Were you adept at wheelies before? I’ve been slowly improving my wheelie over the past year or so, I’ve found it doesn’t require daily training but if I go a few weeks without doing one it takes a bit of practice at first.

It’s a weird sensation when you find the right balance spot, and you are looking straight ahead (rather than looking down), it’s like you become the bike.
Dispensation of opiates varies wildly, like all health care in the US. I went to an ER barely walking with a large visible abscess and received no drugs for pain the entire time, since they clearly had decided I was out for drugs despite no history of any sort of that activity.
Portrait of a planet on the verge of climate catastrophe
Gels?
Making the Best of MacBook Air Touchpad on Ubuntu
No... Groundstation is intended for receiving from your own satellite.
One problem is people don’t know how much active ingredient 30 mg of the powder contains.
>I'm struggling to find a real catch here

Images depicted belong to HP.
Images will be data mined.

More seriously.
Maybe they hope to make it back with the glossy photo paper?
$3 / 50 prints already seems quite expensive, the marginal cost of some ink is minimal, so for them it's better to give 'value' by giving more things, rather than lowering the cost (just like that ever larger cup of coffee shop coffee).
For long simulations I'd like to increase the timestep, but then RK4 becomes less accurate. For the n body problem, do symplectic integrators work well?
I’d argue that a true beginner shouldn’t trust their intuition unless they have the rigor to prove it is correct. True beginners may think they have solid intuition and a rigorous proof, but without outside validation, may have a blantant or subtle error they cannot see. The point is not to study rote solutions, but to check correctness.

Edit: To your reply below, I’m talking about someone that is self-studying and has no access to a teacher. The suggestion the beginner (without a teacher) should “know” whether or not their solutions are correct is something I disagree with.

I do agree with there are multiple ways to prove something and such a beginner may think their proof is incorrect based on a provided solution, when it may be correct, just different. This is why an instructor is valuable.
It's paywalled, and even Googling the link still gets me paywall version.