skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parents of a friend of mine were Swedish diplomats in Vientiane in the 70s, apparently the world of expats there at the time was very small? It must have been magical (communist dictatorship aside).

Laotians to me always seem even happier than the Thais. On a packed bus ride in Laos full of dirt poor locals, a few chickens and tied up pigs, there was a guy in the back having a shouting conversation with the driver in the front. They were enjoying it a lot.

Other passengers started to chuckle along, you could tell there was a crescendo building. Eventually the conversation ended in an explosion of rapturous laughter from everyone on the bus. It was impossible not to laugh along despite not having a clue what it was all about. Looking around you'd see nothing but huge smiles, all black teeth from beetle nut.

There's dozens of these little moments I'll never forget.
I'm actually not familiar with the "Facebook Crisis" the author alludes to, the one where Facebook is suffering massive losses of users. He only provides one link to a story of this kind. FB is certainly in the news a lot these days, but mostly in relation to its various scandals involving a) the 2016 election and b) its role stoking animus between various disparate ethnic groups. On top of this there is growing mainstream awareness of the effects and reach of surveillance capitalism, and that vague uneasiness is driving people to click on anything FB related because FB is generally singled out as the primary malefactor.

But yeah, I still use Facebook even though I know how bad it is. And even worse, I use a TON of Google products. The simple fact is that we consumers are all in an arms race with each other and these tools that invade our privacy are also critical in managing the complexity of our lives. That's why I think communities like the Amish really deserve more credit for what they've done, which is give up all these weapons of convenience at once, and so live a good life together.
they changed it this year didn't they? Weren't people making jokes that now firefox is square and chrome is round?
I'd be extremely wary of such reports coming from the government. I don't know about other sources but that article provides absolutely no additional information beyond the claim. And I imagine this kind of information is nearly impossible to verify, which they may be betting on.

In short, given the current state of media and government, it wouldn't surprise me if this were just propaganda.
"But how did we manage to lose the knowledge behind the Antikythera device and why was it not recorded?"

The idea that one should share ones inventions is not universal. While other wrote profusely, other ancient sages often guarded their discoveries fairly jealously.

I'm pretty sure lot of pre-20th century discoveries have been discovered several times by various people, but the surrounding society has not benefitted from their knowledge for various reasons.

An excellent example is Leonardo da Vinci. If this question irks you, I warmly suggest you read Isaacson's biography of him.

Leonardo discovered several scientific principles hundreds of years before his time, including Newton's third law, and the fluid dynamic operation of the human hearts aortic valve.

But since he never published anything, references to these were dug out only by latter day historians, and did not benefit his contemporaries.
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> Second, regarding the question of how academic groups should respond scientifically to DeepMind’s entry, I suspect the right answer comes from evolution: adapt. Focus on problems that are less resource intensive, and that require key conceptual breakthroughs and less engineering.

I disagree with this notion a bit - the idea that academic researchers interested in managing their career should consider focusing on problems that are less resource intensive in the future to avoid having to compete with the resource advantage of a Deep Mind ...

I feel I've seen this position analogously expressed in various forms over time in the internet space "don't try to compete with $huge_tech_company on the internet because $scale challenges that they invested $megabucks into solving". This kind of statement was made over and over again as the internet explosion was going on. If you actually go back and look at the details you'll find stories like 'google built $inhouse technology so they could scale to 100 * x visits per day" for increasing values of x depending on the article publish date. But if you look again at that article in the context of a year or two after it was published, getting to x scale for the cited problem has become trivial with nearly off the shelf hardware and software designs.

It seems to me that computing resource advantage is something that should actually _nearly always diminish_ over time, especially when there is widely known/appreciated understanding of the value of the resource ...

Scientific research (in many fields) has been performance and design-test-efficiency bottlenecked for a long, long time -- the fact that there are now wider software trends able to support breaking past those bottlenecks in specific problems is not evidence to me that there is now a resource Emperor to whom all others must cow in fear, forever unable to compete head to head in related spaces ... if anything, the fact that more efficient computation approaches are viable _right now_ and known to be valuable, can spread into the academic groups as easily as the domain expertise of academia spread into Deep Mind's first foray int this problem space ...
Kara Swisher says "remember AOL". I say "remember Life magazine". Whether there is or is not a crisis at Facebook, there has definitely been an ongoing crisis/decline at magazines and newspapers. Revealed preferences, indeed.
Why does nobody target the root cause?

The possibility to show popups and popovers in browsers should be removed completely.
There are little to no legit uses for them. Even reputable websites use them only to nag and annoy their users.

And don't get me started about Javascript. This is a plague, that causes more problems than it solves.
https://www.xbrowsersync.org/

Optionally you can host your own server.
Rich peoples' reference group isn't limited to a single country though. There is no way we can apply the same rules to all, unless there is a new global order I haven't heard of.

See: the disaster of the US yatch manufacturing tax
Demo repo: https://github.com/petergardfjall/geo-wordpress
> real data about ... collected and exposed

Which is not a machine learning issue. Just collecting the information is a costly / time consuming issue which can't be outsourced to servers.
This is a fairly interesting comment for me. I was exactly in your situation.

I had no money in Uni. My parents were boat people with no money either.

Not long after Uni, I had 100K in my account. Comfy, no mansion, no car.

The first thing I spent more than a couple of grand on ever was dental work. Felt great to fix the crossbite.

But here's the thing. You could just be alone your whole life, no wife, no kids. I've got friend who do that, and indeed they can live on near minimum wage and be perfectly happy.

Once you decide you want a wife and kids, the budget changes. By a lot. You'll need a bigger place to live. You'll want to send the kids to private school. You'll need a bigger car.

This can easily add up to several million depending on exactly what you mean.

For the record I did go on to buy an expensive sports car. Not worth it, surprise surprise.
> it's a much, much better investment than cryptocurrencies

I'm not going to argue that, on the basis that crypto is super volatile and has potential to outperfrom etc etc.
Gold is a far safer store of value, a much better hedge against market turmoil, and generally easier to "own" at low risk of having it nabbed.
That's most definitely not the case: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=deep+learning+protein+f...
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Nope, because you can transfer between cash systems. Outsized examples to prove a point.

If Bitcoin’s are worth 1 cent each then cash flows in USD can also turn into large Bitcoin cash flows. But, Bitcoin cash flows could not turn into large USD cash flows.

Further, if Bitcoin’s value is dropping at say 15% per year then loaning them out at 10% per year is losing money vs converting them to USD, and doing nothing.
Sorry but Russians were already living in that reality at that time. Especially MIR-2 with light pen and all that shit of 1969. It had the weirdest symbolic programming language with its own character set. http://www.icfcst.kiev.ua/MUSEUM/GL_HALL2/COMPUTERS/MIRS.htm...
The Go community was rather forthcoming to what AlphaGo brought, because it provided new insights to a field that some of them study quasi-religiously.

Let's see how pharmaceutical companies are dealing with that, or the next fields DeepMind will enter and shake up like that.
We are now finding out that during the cold war, the government has released several reports of "arresting communist spies" when in fact, no one was ever found or arrested - it was just a propaganda piece. I would not be surprised if we were seeing the same thing now to support the "war on terror" narrative.
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Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds
> grow up too soon

When she was fourteen, my wife's mother was sent out to work in a carpet factory by her parents. Because that was the earliest age at which she could be withdrawn from school. The past was not an Eden from which we have been outcast.

> evolution

All that evolution can promise is strategies that have a reasonably good chance of perpetuating some of your genetics. It certainly doesn't promise to keep you happy or even alive after you've had children.
Kinda terroristic and criminal governments, often enough. And when you consider the lives saved by having hospitals or food safety regulations or whatever, criminals and terrorists are doing nothing positive at all, so these "statistics" seem kinda off.

The threat is in not dealing with politics before it deals with you, and a good way to do that is seeing "the government" of a democratic nation as something totally separate from a citizen in that nation... instead of getting engaged because it's so messed up, to disengage further because it's so messed up.
On paper, yes.

In practice, TSMC's 7nm node is actually functional, and producing working chips.

Intel's 10nm... well, is garbage, because they were overconfident.

Now Intel has to either rework their 10nm node, after wasting many years of work on nothing, or just jump straight at 7nm, which seems equivalent to TSMC's 3nm node plans.
Flarum has bene in beta for like 2 years now; site looks nice but I don't get the sense they have a lot of momentum.

If I were going to build a forum today using an open-source platform, I'd probably go with Discourse.

* Discourse - Civilized Discussion || https://www.discourse.org/
Don't use AV because it's slow and annoying. But I do use sandboxie (1) for untested programs and that takes care of most of the problems.

(1) https://www.sandboxie.com
> Mobile phones, free wifi, Facebook, Instagram – and all that – have ruined backpacking.

It's one of those arrogant, old fart things to say and you wouldn't understand it unless you'd lived it but it's 100% true.

EDIT - what's also contributed to this is AirAsia. Now you can have breakfast in Hanoi and lunch in Phuket on the same day for just 50 bucks of travel costs.

Back then you'd fly for 10x more or taking several days of gruelling overland travel and it's those moments that add the kind of character to trips that's now hard to obtain.
The only application for smart contracts I can think of involves trusted public data sources. For instance government published satellite imagery, public stock market indicators, government published socio-economic data.

For instance you might have a company that's looking to reforest an area and you can have a smart contract that takes donations and sends them to the company if some image recognition software scans satellite images and sees the area being reforested(lots of technical complications there).

Or you might have a company that's looking to reduce some poverty indicators in a given city and the smart contract is controlled by statistics published by the local city(though it's not clear government statistics are released frequently enough for this to work, at least they are reasonably trustworthy in developed nations).

Now, why do these types of contracts need to live on the blockchain? Ehhhh. But there's certainly a case to be made for smart contracts, in general as more and more real world information is digitally published in real time.
Maybe it would be a good idea to hide your own total karma too. It's always right there on the top right, and I can't help looking at it. And I feel happy and proud when that number has gone up, and upset when it has gone down.

Much more useful would be notifications of people responding to my comments, or maybe even people continuing discussions that I'm interested in. It's easy to lose track of those if I haven't posted in them.
Eh... no? If you look at abstracts, Zhang group (the second place) also used "deep-learning based contact predictor". Really, the usage of deep learning was kind of standard long before CASP13.

If you read OP, AlphaFold's main innovation is predicting distance instead of contact (regression instead of binary classification), which was also independently developed by Xu, and further, using probability distribution over distance instead of simply choosing the best distance.
If you like casual games like Frog Fraction, you might enjoy this completely normal office calculator.
recursion is your friend :)

i personally liked elixir track on exercism.io

but i started with python did not like the OOP approach (and had difficulties understanding it - compared to just "in -> fn -> out")

then i learned elixir and later on clojure, so i never got deep into OOP to begin with and probably not the best person for guidance
Intel's 10nm was a flop.

With 7nm, Intel seems to have taken a more sane approach, but their 10nm failures and setbacks costed them a lot.
I thought most of the stuff you'd want antibiotics for is resistant to penicillin by now.

For the cuts and bruises mentioned, clean and bandage them and make sure your tetanus vaccination is up to date. Maybe make some calendula and/or yarrow extract, if you're into making your own remedies.
This is an absurd overreaction.

Popovers are CSS. Just a positioned element. And both up-and-overs are "legitimately" used as modals in apps.
Interesting how most of the activities listed were related to meeting high-status people.
I guess this is probably the attitude that made them billionaire in the first place.
Sometimes unaccepted observations can come across as wildly outlandish or insensitive depending on the topic, and initialize the fallible moderators as well

While other things conform to the prevalent opinion and masquarade as insightful high quality comments

there is a reason we can still see the now-laughable criticisms of dropbox
The first post on /biz was “I remember when this board wasn’t shit”
Let's say mental toughness = mental harm/abuse resitance.

Maybe it's similar to how we develop drug resistance. By exposing yourself to difficult situation which are challenging for your mind, you might develop mental toughness.
This describes well my trip to India & Nepal in 2008 and 2010 (6 months total, mostly Himalaya + Andamans and a bit of western Thar desert). Just one fat LP book for whole effin' India with list of hotels, sights and way to get to next place. Those few internet cafes were old virus-laden desktops, with internet connection often in bytes/second, where sending email back home took easily 30-60 minutes, especially if you wanted to send a single tiny picture. Connections frequently dropped of course. I didn't even take my basic phone with me, never regretting it.

The thing is, if you have 3 months or more, you just don't care about the pace. You can't do similar backpacking in 2 weeks, people end up rushing around to see as much as possible. So many random meetings with strangers because we were clueless, ending up being invited into their homes for a dinner. Ending up on a 1km long beautiful empty beach in Goa, with like 2-3 other people on it. Seeing satellite photos now, its one bar next to the other.

These days, even if I carry my phone with me, I have it turned off for days in a row. Mostly turn it to check airbnb or write something to my parents. Otherwise it just ruins the submersion into the experience a bit.
The first victim of war is: the truth.
Wow! I'm impressed. At first, I thought it was another travel aggregator, but when I saw that I could buy all the tickets in one I was really pleasantly surprised. I like the design. A great way to explore Europe.
Craig Wright is a known imposter. He claims he is the real Satoshi and inventor of Bitcoin. Why are his lies submitted and upvoted on HN?
Yes.

The internet is the unsterilized needle entering our brain and giving people a free dopamine high.

It’s sold by large firms and research arms and not by some shifty druggie standing on a street corner.
> Doesn't the checkbook of a business literally pay salaries?

Hint: Some businesses don't even use checkbooks.

> I'm unclear as to what you're arguing here.

Is it really unclear?

Having small-scale tickets that you actually finish is the very essence of agile

This I disagree with. "lmm" seems to think that tickets are either "the very essence of agile" or perhaps even essential to "deliver value to the business."
i must say i am a advocate of physical suffering for developing "toughness" but, not because i'm a masochist, loving the pain of walking or suffering through cold.

the mental toughness comes from a need to ignore physical pain and drive through to the end, as you have no other choice.

in simple terms it's "drive or die".

i'm also a follower of stoic ideology, if you look into that, you can read the thoughts of many great men, but they all suffered.

i'm not sure if i can help with intellectual mental toughness, but i assume this means mental toughness without physical suffering?
> this issue has gone unfixed, for unknown reasons

The reason is just that no-one has thought it important enough to fix, and/or no-one has been able to get sufficient agreement on what the correct fix is. Let's not pretend there's a mystery.
This is a fantastic site that tested the spectrum and flicker of LED bulbs. The author seems to have stopped, but I think it’s still useful.

http://ledbenchmark.com/
How is it different from Kiwi.com?
> But, what doesn't in life?

Studying. I learn (not skim or read but study like I did in uni) new things all the time for the past 30 years and it does not get boring while it costs very little to do so (I do not need diplomas or certificates but I am hard on myself and I do do exams if I can find them like it is real).
Well you certainly have more information than if you don't see them at all.
That only makes sense if you imagine living an entirely different life. What most people need is $1 million in addition to their future normal income. That gives you the opportunities for safety, career advancement and quality of life that you need to have a good version of the life most people are living.

Of course if you don't expect to invest, work or advance everything is going to be have to paid for up front and you will need a lot of money. But that isn't realistic for most people. It is very expensive to be a poor millionaire, but relatively cheap to be modestly wealthy.
> Intel at its core is a marketing company

That's an absurd hyperbole.
No I had some acetic anhydride available to me as well (back before it was scheduled). It was the whole job.
Autism from the inside is not the neurotypical cliché
Ask HN: Do you've programming templates which you use in your work?
Project comes demanding SaaS app development.

Do you always code it from scratch for every customer, or you've templates where you change a thing or two and are ready to launch?

Have you opensourced any such template?
If they talk evil about something I don't like, that's cool and genuine. If they talk good things about something I don't like, now let me be a cynic here
Afghanistan used to be pretty accessible for certain periods of time. Friend of mine travelled back to Europe overland from India and crossed Afghanistan in what must have been the mid 90s, he had plenty of photos posing with mujahideen guys with Kalashnikovs. Pre 9/11 I don't think there was much animosity towards the west.

Even now areas like the Wakhan corridor in Afghanistan are pretty accessible. I wouldn't do it, but plenty of people do.
I’m aware, but I don’t really care. I judge the risk to be really small, and the convenience to more than make up for it. And since I can still get the physical book if I choose, it’s hard to argue that this extra option with its pros and cons is a regression.
Ask HN: What email client are you using?
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I hate it, too. In any case, if the incognito mode can be detected, it's a bug in the browser. Way to go, Google.
17 Years after 9/11: How the US using technology to prevent terror attacks
I have visited the old observatory in Athens, Greece. There, along other treasures (e.g. a Tycho Brahe book) there's a replica of the Antikythera mechanism.

Additionally, recently they found some kind of inscription in it [1], which describes the way that it works. What is fascinating to me is that they also fixed a bug with the periodicity of an event and wrote it down. According to the tour guide, this signifies that it was massively produced. I still find it incredibly difficult to create a new gear without modern tools and also fix a 'bug' by creating a new, better gear to replace the old one that approximates an astronomical event with better accuracy.

[1] https://currentepigraphy.org/2008/09/24/inscriptions-on-the-...
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Isn't phonetics already a solved problem in ASR? The hard part is NLU, including semantics and pragmatics, which this article mainly talks about.
As best I can tell, he's talking about WAPI which is WIFI authentication that China requires. Seems like everyone who releases a device that supports WIFI in China must support WAPI. Why he's bleating about only Apple in this video, I don't know.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/195524/article.html
Who is that guy?
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Ask HN: How will Brexit (or not) affect non-EU software engineers?
I’m an Indian developer and have recently landed a job in London as a software engineer. I’m currently engaged in the visa application process, and the recent protests and general Brexit scenario have me a little rattled.

I’m not sure what the result will be, but it looks as though it’ll be fractious regardless of the actual outcome. I realise this sounds selfish, but I’m concerned about whether there would be any impact to the daily lives of non-EU immigrants like me. I have a family to plan for, and I’d like to head in with both eyes open.

I’d really appreciate your inputs, thanks!