skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you have anxiety your normal mode of being is similar to what you feel while doing improv. Probably even worse. You’re nervous, your thoughts are racing away, you have no internal focus or time to think about the actual situation, because you’re too busy worrying what everyone else is thinking.

I mean, that’s a normal train ride for me, and it’s not like you even have to talk to other people on the train.

It’s also why practice works. The point isn’t to stop being nervous, it’s to stop being terrified. I’m not sure improv is really better than focus groups designed specifically for people with with anxiety, but I can certainly see it being useful.

As you might’ve guessed I have anxiety. In my teens I literally couldn’t talk to people I didn’t know. I’d get red in the face and panic myself into being unable of speaking. Thanks to practice I’m now capable of doing stuff like: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Lk-4AFOw0tI without feeling fear.

I’m still working on my anxiety though, and part of my therapy is actually being part of a toastmaster group, because the only way to shred the fear,is to experience social situations. Especially ones that give you feedback on your performance, because it shows you, that you really have no clue what other people are thinking, and that what they think about you is mostly positive.
Yah, and be incredibly slow as well. It should be at a minimum 32K which is the DVD block size, but even larger would be better (but may interleave badly with IO to other devices).
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This is standard practice, the system compositor has a fast path for video decoding and rendering. The fast path will not be taken when software composition is needed (eg, something is overlaid or blended).

If you’re asking why they didn’t think to design the fast path to deal with Byzantine faults, it’s probably because why the hell should they?
I'd assume that it was actually an invisible, but not technically hidden div, leading to a fully transparent blending pass - divs with opacity:0 or display:none are trivial to optimize for this case.
Because they have been systematically discriminated against at every stage, most female executives are less capable. They haven't been given the same opportunities and experience that their male counterparts have.
There is no way that's true. I looked at numbeo.com and it says Sunnyvale rents are 60% higher than boulder. Insert your favourite Silicon Valley suburb in place of Sunnyvale.
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A couple of questions,

1) In the motivation for the adjoint method, is u given along with A and C? I don't see how to compute u^T B without u.

2) How do a(t), da(t)/dt, and dG(..)/dh relate to A, B, C, u, and v from the motivation?
Yes, Facebook lets people skip US corporate media and mainline disinformation straight from Russian military intelligence agents posing as Americans.

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/17/677390345/new-reports-detail-...
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On another note, 265.com, a Google subsidiary in China, has no SSL certificate set for the domain, making the site access effectively http only.
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The website is not presenting this as just having fun, but rather making the strong claim that it is actually better than the writing system we've been using.

Making such very strong claims ("I've come up with something better than what civilization has produced thus far...") naturally invites debate, especially when they seem implausible on their face and aren't backed up by a very solid argument. There would be a lot fewer negative comments if this were presented like "hey, look at this neat game I made up..."
Does not work with cats.
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Tolkien did not claim that his invented language was better than English and should replace it.
This was my favourite aspect of dotsies: that words began to have familiar shapes. I stopped needing to parse certain words because their shape was so unique and memorable.

At the same time it would be interesting to see it implemented based on letter frequency rather than order in the alphabet.

It was great fun to read!
Seems counter-intuitive to Amazon's own public dataset program / policy: https://aws.amazon.com/opendata/public-datasets/
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I think many mobile device/camera apps have been doing this. The portrait feature where the background bokeh is artificially made is using a similar technique.
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No. The worsening performance suggests that the pool of women large enough to populate the board seats that the law now requires is less good at doing so then the pool of men they are displacing. Given the limited evidence available, even that statement needs qualifications; however the evidence presented says nothing about why those populations differ.

My not entirely thought out belief is that if the issue is interest, we would expect to see less of a performance drop than if the interest was ability [0].

Actually, if performance continues to degrade, that would likely just be a sign that whatever negative effect is being observed takes more than ~3 months to fully materialize.

[0] Although, even thinking about this for a moment, I can envision a bunch of situations where this would invert.
Pathogens is used as an abbreviation for harmful bacteria/virus/fungus that are meant to be kept out by the plastic. Good point that the process may be less than friendly to other pathogens that could be let in - after its gone may be an issue but hopefully it would be "tamper-evident".

Although even if the bacteria itself is innocuous the byproducts may be less than healthy - alcohol isn't exactly great for humans although it is widely enjoyed and well botulism is far worse and I expect half-digested plastics to be less than healthy even if they are chemically inert.
Ooo now this _is_ impressive.

I used to work in VFX, where I did my fair share of pain and roto.(before moving to tech) Cutting out hair was my single biggest dread. However this appears to do a stella job automatically.
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It's as if millions of voices of state machine libraries suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
How does this fare with visually impaired people? Or with people 50+ who need reading glasses?
>...social engineering...

Like joint tax returns, mortgage deductions, tax exemption for churches, child tax credits, and narrow definitions of marriage?
I think you may not be appreciating the subtlety of the repetition of the "probability of rolling a six". His claim is that aleatory probability starts with the assumption that you have a standard six-sided die with all sides weighted equally, but that epistemic uncertainty requires accounting for the uncertainty that you have a fair die, or even that it has six sides. So in both cases you are indeed trying to calculate the "probability of rolling a six", but the answers, and the process for creating them, are not the same. So while it might not have been the best phrasing for clarity, he's making a meaningful distinction.
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> I stumbled over this somewhat nebulous concept of “ownership” just like the parent,

A lack of clarity about what sort of transaction or license terms give rise to ownership of a copy of software is not justification for entirely rejecting the notion of ownership of a copy. The existence of that ownership status is rigidly established by statute, as are some of the consequences. It's only the prerequisites that are nebulous or at least very complicated, but that doesn't make ownership status any less important of a question. In legal disputes, the tricky questions are usually more important than the ones with obvious answers.
I think the large amount of effort the Rust community puts into explaining what they're doing with their type system, making it a first-class feature that's included in standard tutorials and having a lot of ergonomic effort put into error messages, is actually essential to making it work for ordinary users. (And even then, just barely; fighting the borrow checker is a thing.)

A language that allows someone to build this as a library is much more scary. What other incomprehensible type hackery could someone do? Haskell can be fun but it's always going to look like a somewhat more practical research language to me.
New report on Russian disinformation shows the operation’s scale and sweep
Indeed, they put lot of effort into it, but the main problem was that they committed to the HW architecture with the expectation that compiler R&D would fix the even by then well-known issue of generating good VLIW code for general-purpose software. Turned out this was a fatal mistake, and compiler tech has yet to advance to the level they expected.

RISC, while older, at least was informed by what real compilers actually liked (lots of GPR's, simple instructions).
You're omitting the most plausible explanation:

3. They are disgusted by the camps, but they know if they speak out they'll end up inside one.

China keeps a tight leash on its celebrities. The government is willing to make even internationally famous ones like Fan Bing Bing disappear for months without explanation. It probably wouldn't take much to make one of the Uhigyr celebrities you mention disappear permanently.

What I said to the other commenter also applies here: don't confuse my empathy with why these camps exist with approval.
Hah! A worthy correction.
Isn't that true for "normal" text too? Don't we skim text usually pretty quickly based on how the words look like, instead of reading every letter one by one?
I like to imagine a hypothetical, parallel universe where you spent the same amount of time writing your overwrought post and instead focused on the first paragraph of the simple, accessible webpage that is linked, you'd see a link directly to a series of interactive code samples. An exact summary of "what it's good for" is found in the second paragraph (as noted by others in this thread). Such an investment of time would surely get you below the fold, and see the link to multiple talks and papers. There's a whole section just entitled, "Recorded Talks" with dozens of videos offered by professionals far more qualified to talk on the subject than either you or I as implementors of such software systems laid out in an archival format. Talks by such amazing people as Byrd, Freidman, Stokke or Nolan.

I like to think in that same universe, the poster I responded to also took this time. So that I could have instead spent more time on my OTHER, way more fun and interesting post where I go into a use case. Maybe actually reformatted some source code from the prototype I'm contractually forbidden to share to give a more in-depth look in how one might use these principles (which are, as I suggested, not at all obvious) in industry applications.

I think that alternate universe is one I'd like to live in. Instead, I'm stuck here in this one. A universe where instead of doing more cool posts about the electromechanics of power tools and their restoration, you instead write a prickly little post defending someone's request for a thing that was literally offered in the first paragraph of the source page they asked about. One where I spend time writing this boring post as well.

Truly, we live in the darkest timeline. Probably the darkest part about this timeline is that my post you responded to, devoid of novelty and missing the talk link I was going to copypaste leaving a blank footnote annotation? That's gotten over 3x the positive moderation of my other post where I describe an active use case.

But thanks for your feedback. You're right, I shouldn't post here anymore.
In my defence, I do go outside, run, surf and ride around with friends... exercise does make me happy.

I just feel like I could be learning more, but at the same time I feel it's a futile effort as more and more information is being produced all the time...
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Does anybody care to explain dependent types? I’ve heard the term used in FP conversations but not sure I get it.
I don't have time (or the thumbs) to make a comprehensive list but Facebook has been repeatedly caught doing the absolute bare minimum for PR reasons with little real effect (which theyd be aware of).

For example, earlier this year Facebook announced after public pressure that it would require labeling of all political ads [1]. Right before the midterms, Vice publishes the result of their investigation: they posed as all 100 senators and every single ad got through, labeled as an ad by a sitting senator [2]. You'd imagine a system for identity verification is the first thing they'd have set up before announcing new rules for identifying the source of political advertising.

This is a pattern with facebook and the other social media companies. When they're put under a microscope, they pay lip service to legislators and the public, then continue business as usual.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/business/news/requiring-authorizati...

[2] https://news.vice.com/en_ca/article/xw9n3q/we-posed-as-100-s...
This is a font, not a new writing system.
I would say like a narrow definition of marriage [0].

However, the prejoritive I attempted to convey was not actually that it is social engineering, but rather that it is a
"crude and ill considered attempt [at social engineering]".

Notice that all of your other examples are taxes, which are a well established and effective mechanism for social engineering. I would probably still disagree with it, but I would not be calling the policy stupid if it was a subsidy for women in boards of directors, instead of being an unfunded mandate.

[0] Actually, I would say the entire legal institution of marriage is, but I digress.
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So the time term in these "neural" differential equations is the depth of the network. I see the connection between resnet and the differential equation solver. Basically, you're saying your final result is the end-point of a curve governed by a differential equation whose initial conditions are the input set. You train the equation's parameters in a fashion akin to how you train a standard neural net.

The thing is, with ordinary neural nets you have two arguments for how the thing works.

One view is you are taking inputs and projecting those into a high dimensional feature space and then drawing a separating hyperplanes between points in two or more categories. If you have a proper shaped hyperplanes, the results will tend to generalize.

Another view is you're doing something like logistic regression. You have a function and you're trying to reduce the distance between it and the "true classification function" that takes points to their proper category. You use gradient descent to minimize the distance between your function and this "real function" that you get through data.

So anyway, I am not sure how these intuitions apply to differential equation version. I'm not sure what other intuitions there are for why these equations should work.
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Your article says that using iCloud for storage is optional and all users were warned of this change and had to agree to new service terms. Why wouldn't anyone worried about their data, simply do backups on a computer?
Question about browser implementation: if the Edge team knew that this element's sole purpose was to mess with their performance, couldn't they just configure Edge to ignore that HTLM element when loading a YouTube page? Just strip it from the DOM completely, as though the element never existed?
I don't think delusion is a fair take:

FiveThirtyEight Prediction: 48.5% to 44.9%
Real outcome: 48.2% to 46.1%

I agree that the horserace coverage is silly (especially given how polling operations use sampling and such), but its better to look at aggregate trends in polling than to ridiculously overcover outlier polls.

I also certainly don't think its fair to say "28.6% chance he wins" is a "massive win" prediction. Silver's take was regarded as indefensibly right-leaning and attacked.
It says so in the about section. The AI is trained on people.
> Google employee did become more active on these issues which I think is progressive.

Because the world is changing. The concern around privacy and censorship hasn't reached that level back in 2006 (Mainly because most westerners hasn't been effected by it, funny).

The situation today is much different now.

BUT, I don't think this will be a easy battle. Many people on Slashdot don't even believe Google will just stop trying after this.

The harm is done, Google.
The other issue there is people who are related by multiple lineages. I know a family where the brothers married 2 sisters. Technically, their kids are cousins, but genetically they are siblings. Do enough of that and your genetic diversity of a community goes down to the point recessive diseases start showing up.
Anecdote: my Father would smoke before, during, and after his morning runs. He competed in marathons and later, 24 hour runs on a track. I thought him crazy, but I turned into a ultra runner, too (although I don't smoke - too expensive these days!)
I was experimenting with same idea. It is basically Baudot code used as a font. Problem I had with this is that I couldnt reliably read it.

But I think color alphabet may have some merit: http://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/6color.php
Python 3 is quite similar to Python 2. They made some breaking changes, but nowhere near like Perl 6. The real stumbling block was str vs unicode, which they didn't realize would be such a pain when making the decision.

There's breaking changes and there's writing a new language. It's a spectrum.
It depends on what you're looking for.

If you would like a package room, that's extra.
In unit washer dryer, that's extra.
Doorman - extra.
Reasonable commute - extra.
AC - extra.

Even more money if you want to live in a fashionable neigborhood (Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen) or spitting distance from a university (Washington Square, Union Square, Morningside Heights) or both (St. Mark's)
These assumptions truly seem as a random conspiracy theory an intern would write who does not have any idea of how a big company of this sort actually works.

Google of today is a collection of disjointed silos which don't work well together or they work together at all. The leadership of those silos is being aggressively staffed by "industry veterans" VPs and SVPs from Oracle, HP, Motorola and alikes. These folks build their little empires, not products. NIH spreads, internal "competition" starts, etc. This story should sound familiar to more experienced people from Microsoft... they've seen this development phase, they know what I am talking about... Microsoft's name for that was "IBM", Google simply calls that "Microsoft". And when you hear "We are not THAT yet" and people have need to say it, you probably turned into THAT.

Anyway, The idea of Chrome being so aligned with Youtube - over such minor gains over Edge - would today be just a wishful thinking. Until some major, major restructuring and changes to their recent corp "culture", Google will simply remain incapable of driving waaaaay more important product development changes across its product surfaces than this.
Would you consider a kilogram of gold "the same as" a kilogram of air?

More relevant would be, "is a kilogram of fat the same as a kilogram of muscle?"
Depends on your goals. To think like a 20-year-old again? Sure, I’d buy that. Superhuman? Nah — and there’s plenty we are unable to think. I’m interested in both types of brain enhancement.
Ask HN: Do you think Google's recaptcha has gone greedy off late?
For past some time, on a lot of websites I visit the usual one click 'recaptcha' doesn't work, and it asks me to click various images. That would be ok, but while previously you generally had to click just one category of images, recently I've been noticing they keep on showing multiple images in multiple categories (cars, bicycles, cross walks, buses etc.) and force us to click on all of them. Google is making us do slave work for free, and we don't seem to have many options if we want to use a particular website. Just wanted to check if anyone else has observed a similar pattern.
My guess is they will just switch to doing a pilot project in another country, just as repressive, but somewhere where the abuse of power is relatively speaking more under the radar for most people than China. Myanmar, for example, or Vietnam. This way they can achieve the research goals of learning how to operate in such an environment, while pretending to have stopped.
Yes, I understand that. However, empty divs are not an edge case, and I can imagine a lot of not-insane reasons an empty div might be on top of a <video>. The entire player chrome is within the video nowadays, and it often intersected in the past (the old seek bar for example.) If there is more to this story than an empty div, I would be interested to hear. Today's YouTube seems to put display: none on almost all of the overlays when the user is not hovered, and if that isn't good enough, I think that is a bit absurd. (Actually, there are some empty divs, but they're really just empty... Some contain display: none'd divs.)
538 had almost a 1 in 3 chance that Trump won in their final prediction before the election. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/
Further evidence: coroutines are often implemented as state machines under the hood.
> whereby low probability high effect events (Comey reopening the investigation on eve of the election) are discounted because if you add enough of these potential disruptive events the model will be 50%-50% and that has no value to anybody.

I don't think you can say this. The challenge is that it's impossible to even enumerate all the possible surprises that could drastically swing an election, and incorporating some of them into a model would require pulling numbers out of your ass for how to weight those unpredictable possibilities, and even picking which potential surprises to factor in is a similarly arbitrary decision for which there is insufficient evidence to provide guidance. But none of that means that attempting to factor in such possibilities will drive your model's predictions toward 50%; your predictions could end up almost anywhere in the unit interval depending on the value of the priors you pulled out of your ass, and your final number ends up saying more about your biases than about the state of available predictive evidence.
Are all your newsletters a blog post too? Because I've been wondering where I can read your stuff in one place.
https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript

Looks like last update 3 days ago.
I’m not seeing your quote on the page, and I think that drives my point home: you have created a narrative for the post that doesn’t exist. I mean, come on. They’re called “dotsies”! Does that sound like the name of a font designed to replace ours, by someone who honestly thinks they’ve advanced civilization? Or does it sound like someone having fun?
I like Monoprice, but their affordable RCA cables are pretty bad. The connectors are stiff and brittle. So the first time you fit it, it requires massive force to get it in place, and if you unplug it a few times, it's so loose it makes no contaact and can't be recrimped.

OTOH, fancy RCA cables sell for next to nothing at thrift shops now.
But not understanding something is not a valid argument against it. It says more about you than about the issue. It may seem like a trivial point to counter you on, but I do think this line of (non-) reasoning is overused or at best just very poorly worded, and should be confronted as such.

There are reasons. For example, it would be desirable for Google to avoid being complicit in human rights violations.