skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the response. Would it be correct though to say the channel does not reflect mainstream academic views?

The creator of the YouTube channel describes himself on his Facebook profile as a geologist with an interest in Neolithic sites, but he does not appear to be an archaeologist, anthropologist, or any sort of professional historian:

https://www.facebook.com/pg/MattSibsonAuthor/about/

> Ancient history writer, geologist, currently re-writing the history of the Stonehenge landscape with new interpretations of Neolithic monuments.

While amateurs are capable of good work, and scientific consensus can change, eccentric ideas are more often wrong than right. Matt Sibson may mean well, but I would not consider his YouTube channel a reliable source given that the videos appear to diverge from the scientific establishment on a wide range of topics.
I mentioned similar law, not same, the 3000 are also only if you don't have any passport or ID card at all. Like, you couldn't possibly show one.

Not having it heavily depends on the situation, there are some where you may end up being fined.
The Craft of Text Editing
Story of Robert Mueller's Time in the Vietnam War
Someone from CERN called a senior faculty member to complain about a blogpost
It is no more "sensible" for a state to be exercising control of its border than it is for a town to be exercising control over its border. We're all free people in the world, and we should be able to move around it freely. There should be no borders at all.
let's not forget "union" and "struct"
How Peter Jackson Made WWI Footage Seem Astonishingly New
Any decent examples of this doing something?
Kinda. This video shows what you get https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoWW5HiGHsg&feature=youtu.be
I've seen my share of code bases and many times I've seen a long function, I've made a number of other observations:

The long function has a lot of comments that try to describe the different steps. The comments are often confusing because whoever wrote the comments couldn't quite understand themselves what is happening.

There is a significant frequency of bugs found in the functionality implemented or coordinated by that function.

The long function has poor code coverage.

For me, a long function is usually a code smell.
Why Should You Make Mobile Games in 2019
Curious what you're working on and if you have any specific references - I'm also interested in fusion of classic symbolic AI with deep learning
Severn bridges: Final day of at least 800 years of tolls
Love that!! I have a lot of slo mo videos from the farm of ladybirds and bumblebees in flight..I do a lot of nothing but staring at the farm. Bees are so awesome and I have spent hours just sitting in front of the apiary.

Myrtle Mouse had an uncle who ran a surgery and apothecary..where she sometimes assisted as a young mouse. A damselfly comes with tattered wings and wants them repaired. In the waiting room, there is a bumblebee with pollen baskets that has been clogged. Maybe I will switch them and make the bumblebee the one with the flight problems and Myrtle can recall how her uncle explained bumblebee flight to her.
REmacs (Rust Emacs)
Shouldn't you be using one of the command line image optimizers?
On the other hand, biometrics is a quite decent username, better for this purpose than some nickname or email address.
This is neat! Doesn't just teach you how to use the computer, but it's a complete introduction to programming. (At the time, I suppose, there was not much difference :)
There are differences in usage. For example, it is not correct usage to call someone “a French”. The adjective “transgender” seems to work similarly.
You let it go round a curve at 75mph, or is this hypothetical?
Creating models of ideas to see if it works or fails?
They probably loaded the levy request with a bunch semi-related equipment upgrades on top of the central AC controller, kind of like how bills in Congress get tons of extra requests tacked on to the main request. Since they've been running the controller so long without significant changes, their HVAC systems are probably just as old if not older than the centralized controller that's already very obsolete.
We outspend almost everyone else on education: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-education-spending-tops-glob... Our post-secondary education spending (college and above) is the highest in the world, and 80% higher than the OECD average.

Oklahoma spends about $8,000 per student per year on K-12 education. If it were a country, it would fall between Italy and Spain on that statistic.
What level of detail do airport security body scanners have? Enough to print a head good enough to unlock a phone?
Does anyone know if there's anything about the unlocking method that requires the model to be 3D-printed?

It seems like you could render the 3D model of the head on a monitor and point the phone's camera at the monitor. If the phone needs to see some sort of parallax change relative to its own motion (from internal sensors), then one could put a 6-DOF tracker onto the phone and use it to update the rendered viewpoint of the head (a form of user perspective rendering).

Such an approach would be quite useful for law enforcement to gain access with much less time waiting for printing.
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Regarding that last point: It carries the assumption that people in STEMMFT (science technology engineering math medicine finance and the trades) do not have strengths and talents in other areas that they set aside to pursue their careers.

Our society seems to have no problem taking a rational approach to something like, for example, basketball. Unless you are one of a few truly phenomenal people with the talent and drive to succeed professionally, playing basketball is a hobby. Full stop. You can count on coaches to (mostly) objectively advise you as to whether or not you are one of those people.

Not so, the liberal arts. What was intended as a program of enculturation for the children of the wealthy elite has turned into a monster that devours the children of the working class, who are mostly not exceptional, and for whom an arts degree is an expensive diversion at best.
As far as I remember (I can't check now) articles in foreign Wikipedias that have a "silver" or "gold" status are shown with a star in the list.

It might not be obvious to English speaking visitors as I suppose they don't pay much attention to the list, but visitors who speak multiple languages often switch between them to get the most information.
Well, American submarines get the XBOX controller, so…
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A collection of Pratt parsing articles
Old wine in a new bottle. And a bit of tail-chasing.

Reading Hunt's paper it seems he's not even trying to address the Hard Problem of Consciousness:

> But why, sceptics will object, is all matter inherently experiential?
Some facts are simply brute facts. There are no additional answers
below the level of brute facts and we just accept this and see where
these brute facts take us. I postulate, based on the arguments fleshed
out here, that the stuff of the universe is inherently experiential. This
theory leads to an intellectually satisfying world-view as well as
greater compassion for the universe around us and all of its inhabit-
ants. In this case, it is no tragedy, by any means, to accept that all
things are inherently experiential and that experience complexifies as
form complexifies. It is, rather, a very satisfying path between the
dogma of traditional theism and the more recent dogma of crude
materialism.

So, what's the point?[1]

Here's Albert Einstein: "A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

[1] Will this help me build a GAI robot? Will it help me be more compassionate?

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Do a video search for "metronome synchronization"... E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v5eBf2KwF8 Sooooooo satisfying......
The iPhone uses lasers so it’s not just imagining but depth measurement. I don’t think could be faked with only a monitor.
The India-Bangladesh border is really fascinating.
Looks like it was infinitely more complicated before 2015[0]
Dahagram[1] appears to be the only major enclave that wasn't exchanged.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%E2%80%93Bangladesh_encla...

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/Zgs1wsxqvo12
I am just rereading flatland. That would be tough for me.
Why is it the only place i see all of this apple stuff is hacker news?
I can see how you’re jumping to conclusions but I’m sure the original comment is a reference the widely acknowledged fact that women are more inclined to be interested in people rather than things.
For now, at least.

Some companies have massive annotated databases of people's faces from different angles, and the ability to do plausible 3D reconstruction of the faces.
Even then the distinction isn't so cut and dry.

https://modernfarmer.com/2014/04/meet-earths-oldest-farmers-...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-ants-becam...
I'd guess it's either "browser plugins are banned" or "one of the advertising companies might sue us."
Watch The OA. Refer to my comment history for other titles you might like.
How about none? Is it advertised or listed as containing asbestos in the ingredient list? Do you want to use it on your baby?
I will admit that my engineering degree was fantastic. Learned math at a level that allows me to do pretty much anything.

However, this isnt true for every engineer, every degree, or every college. And- Did I really need to pay 40k to learn math really well?

My engineering job + coworkers were significantly better than college as far as increasing my ability to be an engineer.

Even one of the most valuable degrees, I'm starting to become skeptical of its value.
I tried watching the first season of Star Trek TNG recently and couldn't get through two episodes. Things get dated I guess.
Aren't brakes and steering mostly manual? I don't think it's the right advice to tell people to trust Autopilot when it's failed in several egregious ways.
Linux is not UNIX™, but it is a Unix in most meaningful senses of that term. My opinion would be that making much of the distinction would be pedantic in a negative sense; there does not seem to be a practical reason for this.
Colin Kroll, Vine and HQ Trivia founder, dies aged 35
Meditation and nature are not tied at all. All you need for meditation is your brain. You can meditate in your basement, on an airplane or under a tree.

Maybe you are confusing the mindful meditation with the spiritual meditation?
Oh yeah? There are no democratic countries with high speed rail? Hmm... I wonder where the Chinese stole their high speed rail designs from then...
Ask HN: What happens to outstanding stock options?
I've always wondered what happens in case there's an acquisition and there are some stocks from the employee options pool that do not really have an owner or anything around. Who's the owner of these? Do they go to the buyer? Do they go back to the founders? Does this depends on the deal?
Within a certain operating region (stress and strain, i.e. the straight bit on the stress/strain graph), a spring will behave linearly e.g. F = kx.

In real life it should be pretty close to linear, but it would be worth checking as I could imagine there being non-linearity or time dependence of a spring under what is probably a decent amount of load being applied quickly and repeatedly.
https://www.wireguard.com/#ready-for-containers
Angular likes when you structure your application a certain way.

You try and tweak how you want to break up a component and the house of cards starts to fall over.
It is important to remember that functions exist for the sake of humans, not computers. The computer wouldn't care if all the code was in a giant main() function with GOTOs and a manually-managed stack, the programmers are the ones who have a problem with this.
And surrounding scientific inquiry, is scientific discourse, which is now taught even down towards K. Eg, don't chose among widely-differing jellybean counts based on friendship.

Apropos children and verification, while looking for something to point to, I stumbled on and enjoyed the introduction section of https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2018/papers/0062/0062.pdf , fwiw.
What were your challenges with site creation?
It’s not faster, but it does improve code quality. I also don’t think it’s that hard to learn, but I’m coming from a strongly typed, object orientated background. Like the sibling commenter I’d also be interested in hearing your team’s experiences with it.
I wish my company was cool enough such that our internal tools (even if they're technically complex) would be of interest to people :(
Core Data comes to mind, especially when dealing with multi-threading scenarios. For new projects, I switched to a thin wrapper around SQLite (SQLite.swift) and never looked back.
In this example, though, the iPhone did not fall for the 3D printed head, so this attack would likely be just as effective with a picture.
Or if you wet yourself
they did freedom units math! quite a feat
It is paranoia or rather political acting, since right next to the "controlled" borders there are smaller streets and paths without controlled border and there are multiple reports about those border officers not finding anything of relevance (from time to time they notice something like overloaded cars and those kind of offenses, but that's not a border protection issue, but regular police work)
You're right, that isn't supposed to happen. Added an issue to fix this here: https://github.com/carbonsam/perfectdadbot/issues/14
Thanks for the feedback!
How to Build a Python 3.6 Seed App with Docker
The best of both worlds is to use Firefox to handle the AMP site links from Google Now, or Google Feed, or whatever it is called now. Fast, and with ublock.

The only problem I've ever seen is that stories from tomshardware do not load in firefox mobile unless I replace the amp in the URL with a www.
I don’t deny that. But to say that people don’t currently watch cable when three in four households do still have cable is false.

My older son went a year without cable or home internet. He used his phone for tethering and his PS4 to watch video on TV. Of course he used our family Netflix plan, Hulu, and played video off of my Plex server.

I doubt my younger son will ever have traditional cable. We haven’t even bothered with giving him our DirecTVNow login or getting a third stream for him to watch.

He is also coming up in a house with unlimited gigabit Ethernet, every room wired for gigabit Ethernet and Roku TVs, AppleTV boxes, and Roku sticks all over the house....
Looks pretty cool.

Heads up though. There's a bug on your sample page: https://www.pubilling.io/sample

When you click the "Edit" button for the CC, the UI shrinks into nothing...
> I would not consider his YouTube channel a reliable source

I mean that's like saying Star Wars isn't a reliable source; you're judging something on the basis of something it isn't meant to be in the first place.

Like when something like this tomb is discovered then he'll report what the discovery is. And when someone proposes a possible location for Atlantis, he'll report what that person is proposing. But saying that his channel is unreliable become mainstream academics don't think Atlantis existed is disingenuous.
PDF: http://www.maccaps.com/MacCaps/DIY_Information_files/Macinto...
That's not how GDP is calculated. It's roughly the total value added along each step of the production/sales chain. If every person were equally productive and were paid exactly the value they added, and there were no taxes or government spending, then GDP per capita would indeed be the same as the national wage, though of course this situation is idealized to a ridiculous degree.
How big is this?
To make an analogy, the first code snippet is like a book with a table of contents and then a bunch of chapters, and the second is like the same book with no table of contents. Not a huge difference at least from that perspective, but the first one can be more clear at a glance, since it at least tries to describe the high-level steps without getting into the weeds. Your editor should allow you to easily jump in and out of each "chapter"/function to see its contents.

However, I prefer to put `doFirstBit` and `doSecondBit` below `big`, since that way the file is laid out in the order that the code is typically executed. That makes the two code snippets even more similar.
Yes, I'd greatly prefer the "many smaller functions" approach.

* Each function has well-defined inputs and outputs, no weird dependencies between parts.

* Parts can be reused when needed, and tested independently.

* Separating functions makes you think about good names, and good sets of inputs and outputs. This alone uncovers a few classes of bugs and mental mistakes.
Maybe this should be an 'ask HN' thread.
About 10 years ago I considered taking up robotics as a hobby, and thought better of it upon asking a robotics professor I did deadlifts with in the gym. My goal was an autonomous robot which could fetch me arbitrary things from a refrigerator with minimal trickery (aka radio tags on beer cans, magnetic tape on the floor, etc). Seemed impossible at the time, or at least a pretty serious Ph.D. thesis type of effort.

Is there some list of 'open problems in robotics' by which I could inform myself if this is still an insane goal?
I should probably point out the prerequisites. You need to know basic multivariable calculus, and basic matrix algebra.
Lossless Backpressure in RxJS
"Author" is a more specific term - there are many jobs that require ability to write well, but it doesn't involve any creation of original work or much choice of expression(as an author would), and it's entirely accurate to say that you're creating content according to your employers needs but you're not really an author or copywriter. E.g. writing summaries of other authors, semi-structured product descriptions, part of highly normative technical writing, and even fake reviews (it's a whole industry...) or astroturfing.
Re: Github Discussions

Preface: I don't think this resolves the issue completely by any means.

It's seemed clear to me for awhile that Github discussions need threading, badly. The 200 comments on one of those issues probably amounts to about 40 actual discussion topics. Many of them are the original poster adding follow-up comments to their original comment, or back-and-forth discussions about one single comment. It's especially noticeable on contentious discussion topics.

Basic conversation threads wouldn't completely alleviate the problem--200 threads is much better than 1000 comments, but probably still an intractable amount for the maintainers. Still, it might mean you're able to scan 75% of the discussion instead of 25%.
1) theres a reason we have the phrase "starving artist" ... its a feast of famine career. Talk about a degree meaning little. Liberal arts is the last place a degree matters.

2)beyond job choice or debt. Did this person not take internships during college??? Cry me a river. You take jobs during bachelor years, you get reccmondations talk to your employment office (most colleges have them) and you have something lined up (espcially for a grad). I smell that this person does not work well with others and bruned all of her bridges with her colleagues.

Are we getting the full story, is this person good at what they studied and worked hard to make connections? Possibly not. This is an anecdote that should not be used as conclusive evidence of anything.
It works the other way around. The presence of your paired, and unlocked iPhone will unlock the Apple Watch (provided it is on your wrist at the time).

I have found many compelling reasons to buy the watch even though it can't unlock my phone. It can unlock my computer, but it's not much of a revelation, it's not that hard to type in my password quickly on a physical keyboard.
I'm not aware of anything like that. It should be possible, though. When models are available for the elements, as they are with LEGO, it should be as simple as identifying connection types and mapping them to spatial movements.
Did the parent say all immigrants? Read the post a couple of times and couldn’t find that wording
Check falsifiability, also follow Occam's razor. These are core ideas behind forming scientific theories too.
> bachelor’s degree in English, getting a master’s degree in creative

I think people need to do a lot more research into career earnings and job prospects. These degrees have never paid well, which is unfortunate for the subject of the article.
do you think that model can usefully be extended to distributed services to reduce round trips?
The worst are expensive "professional" master's degree programs in careers that seem like they'd be very promising in terms of job opportunities at first glance: public health, public administration, biotechnology, legal interpreting, etc. I'm afraid that many grad programs in data science have the potential to join this group.

They all seem like "responsible" careers that someone worried about making a living could turn to. And then these graduate programs make expensive and misleading glossy brochures and web sites to entice students into a career where jobs are plentiful and well-paid.

Well, you can turn those programs into a decent job, but you have to play your cards just right. You have to choose the exact subfield that is hot right now, and pick up skills that aren't necessarily taught at the grad program. And you have to get into the exact right internship, or get lucky enough to snag one of the dwindling number of government jobs in your field. But no one at these schools bothers to tell the students these things. So in the end, relatively few graduates end up working in the field they studied.

But they do keep the $50,000-100,000 in debt they accumulated.
What a great article!

I liked the commentary about preppy white guys. I think this was deliberate (perhaps subconsciously so), but not for reasons why it might happen today.

First, back in the 80s there was still a big issue as to whether execs would use computers. Most could not type; that was at that time considered a female activity. Sounds absurd, but this was literally a topic not just in newspapers talking about computers but also in computer journals wondering if PCs could break into business. And most execs were (and still are :-( ) male.

Second, the Mac was quite a bit more expensive, really at the edge of what an individual could afford (Apple offered a finance plan, if not at launch then soon after). So they were making an affinity pitch to people who could afford it.

> Also, why is the keyboard in Chapter 3 positioned like that? Why on earth was it posed that way?

I suspect it was to show you could use the mouse and not be intimidated by that scary keyboard thing.

I was also struck by the Chapter 3 photo as it seemed to be the only one that could have been shot today (except for the Mac itself of course). All the others had hairstyles, color palette, and/or artifacts (desk phone, tape dispenser) that you'd never see today. Even the final shot of the Stanford Campus has bikes that look old fashioned.
That is like saying all kids should play basketball because they could get into the NBA. There are always lucky rich people. A ton of Microsoft and Amazon VPs have local MBA degrees. Does that mean that my Seattle City MBA will make me $1 million a year?
Earned income tax credit recipients more likely to be audited
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Driving a car on the road with other cars is - factoring in the age of the tech, lack of regulation, involvement of humans and the consequences if it goes wrong - more difficult that what's mentioned on your list.