skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I strongly agree with this. So much antagonism in society, however, arises when people aim for the wrong 5%, e.g. a 5’6 basketball player aiming to make the NBA. Now, such a baller is more directly confronted with his low outcome, but most of the world is not so apparent with people’s preconceived objectives which are often ego-emergent.

This is where I find deep meaning in the Cervantes quote, “The road is always better than the inn.” Accepting the outcome of the admixture of own’s controllable action and the infinitely greater uncontrollable action of the world as positive can go a long way to a kind of stoic peace and ultimately happiness with one’s worldly produce.
You are correct in that a Turing machine, given enough time, can perform all computation required by Tensorflow. So, if you don't care about time an cost, you are correct that a new paradigm is not required.

But, since a Tensorflow network does not _require_ all the functionality of a Turing Machine, it _allows_ you to limit you to more specialized computational models. And in doing so, you can run your system several orders of magnitude faster. (And the TPU type of processors are still at an early stage, expect at least a few more innovations to widen this gap further)

This comes with a few changes:
- A lot of algorithms (for instance those using recursion) are hard to transfer to a "tensor machine", making some skills obsolete.
- Many/most problems are solved using machine learning techniques, that tend to favor more stats/data science/maths than many pure programmers have.
- Simultaneously, the new approaches are almost equally alien to old school statisticians, as the problem definitions (in particular the kinds of patterns to look for) tend to be quite different.
- Also, the way to approach problems, estimate what problems can/cannot be solved or how complex they are, are quite different. (Requiring changed intuition.)
- New development is to a large extent fueled by changes in hardware (CPU->GPU->TPU->?), and I think problem solutions will become more and more about seeing possibilities across both hardware and software, instead of treating these mostly separatly.

In sum, I think the change in emphasis, skills, methodology, etc is enough to be thought of as a paradigm shift.
In university in eng.math, diff.eq, electromagnetism and signals and systems courses, we had a "Heaviside Method" (with this exact name) in deriving the numerator coefficients in partial fraction expansion process of yielding time-domain equivalents of s-domain functions. I specifically remember my professor saying that this method is ascribed to "Heaviside" so much so that I later googled him and read his Wikipedia entry.
What about 2D graphics? Sprites? Old school stuff? I keep meaning to fire up DOSBox-X and go through some old tutorials. I really just want to put pixels on the screen and work my way up from there - everything else just seems to get in the way.
The problem is that the actual limited resource for workers is not time or effort, but attention. If you're available at work, you're spending that resource.
Housing costs are included in the CPI, as well. In fact, they are about 40% of the total CPI weighting.
My speculation and low interest rate points still apply.

Maybe Cleveland was undervalued before? Maybe the population declines are mostly non-homeowners?

So before naming something specific they are doing wrong, what should a house cost? Cleveland is still so much cheaper than many other cities, they might not be doing anything wrong.
"Nowadays I'd expect a secure messaging app to not just be open source, but also have reproducible builds (checked by third parties). "

Alternatively, they can make it paid, shared source to allow inspections while simultaneously making money. If aiming for contributions to paid source (eg bug fixes or feature improvements), they can make the licenses irrevocable per version with the OS interfacing parts permissive, open source with allowance to swap them out as desired. So, the old version could be updated legally for new platforms giving potentially, perpetual ROI. People wanting upgrades or security fixes have to buy the new version or maintain a subscription.

I mean, nothing would stop people from just doing that themselves with the source shared. I just figure lots of paying customers will stay paying customers switching for reasons having nothing to do with source license. They move for all kinds of non-security, non-philosophical reasons.
Wow, hadn't realized how fast the transition to streaming went. It now responds for 75% of all revenue for the music industry (makes the Spotify semi-monopoly all the more worrying).

To put vinyl sales in context, it is almost half of all physical units in revenue. I think the AUR for an LP is much higher, but still impressive.

I've been thinking about how the vinyl/cd experience could be brought back into the digital era; something with space for decent artwork, like an SD card in a vinyl sleeve or something in between, and a chromecast-like player to match. Something you would be proud to own and display, with a low entry barrier in terms of equipment. If anybody is interested in working on something like this, my email is in my profile.
What city money?

Pacific Bell Park was wholly privately financed, much of that from seat licenses. And the ballpark was key to the redevelopment of the entire China Basin area -- look at aerial photographs of the region before 1999.
> This is in a long tradition of English neglect, ultimately traceable to Heaviside's status as a commoner

This is unfair on the English. Glancing at their wikipedia entries, Heavyside doesn't seem any more common than [Dirac][1] or [Faraday][2]. If I had to guess at a sociological reason why Heavyside got ignored, it's that he got caught in the transition when people started learning engineering through universities rather than apprenticeships.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac#Early_years
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Faraday#Early_life

Heavyside's uncle Charles Wheatstone was a tradie who never went to unversity, but got knighted for services to electrical engineering. Faraday was another tradie who joined the Royal Society eight years before he got an (honorary) university degree. But in a later age Dirac became a world famous scientist, but would probably have gone nowhere if he hadn't got a scholarship to study electrical engineering at a university.

We can't wag our finger at Victorian English society for a the sin of credentialism when our own society does it much more vigorously. It's especially for our own profession, as programming is much more a craft than a thing you can learn at university.
David Wind (Peergrade) on the importance of collaboration in education [audio]
I think the worry is that if you unleash internal energy too much, you end up like Nokia. Teams stepping on each others' feet, low efficiency, high friction.. and your brand evaporates (talking about before MS buying Nokia of course).
how did you do that?
Set the playback speed to 2X, and it's only 3.5 minutes. Viewers must've been more patient in the 1960s.
I agree with you. There are a lot of "zen" comments flying around, which is good. But I think why be stuck in a groove that you decided on probably about age 14 (when you choose which subjects to study, whether to go to uni and then what job to do). Based on what you know now it is good to make a change.

On the other hand "chop wood" to me means don't get too caught up in the results. Don't beat up yourself because you are next the next Elon.
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Javascript + HTML5 Canvas is an easy start, and if you want to do even older-skool stuff you can treat the canvas as just a block of pixels and write your own 2D renderer on top of it.
Probably would use it. However, I'm just a student and definitely cannot afford $45/month.
Looks like I'll just have to hope many people look at my Arxiv papers :).
Good point but The battle continues with Google, Amazon, Facebook taking the corner of the Netherlands.
They run massive networks and definitely do it differently than the Bellheads
What User Testing Taught Me About Writing News for Young People
We've created a dedicated app for this purpose - to keep track of our ideas. Maybe you'll find it helpful for you too :) You can check it at https://idee.mindhouse.io

It's basically a note app dedicated for ideas so you can get back to them in the future.
I can vouch for Andrew Ng's class. Its really top notch.
The Case for Free Community College
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In what ways were they that important later in life?
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Interestingly, many browsers are still susceptible to this attack, for example when used in SVG files (WARNING: might crash your browser and/or operating system): https://jsfiddle.net/e3guLn08/
>https://www.helprange.com/static/images/final_menu_bars.png

IANAL, but this image you have is probably dicey when it comes to trademark use. At the very least there should be a disclaimer saying that they're not clients and they do not endorse your product.
Straight from the report

> MRI neuroimaging was obtained in all 21 patients. Most patients had conventional imaging findings, which were within normal limits, at most showing a few small nonspecific T2-bright foci in the white matter (n =9, 43%).

This sounds to me like the MRI showed most people were normal. It continues:

> There were 3 patients with multiple T2-bright white matter foci, which were more than expected for age, 2 mild in degree, and 1 with moderate changes.

Three out of 21 patients doesn't sound like a lot. The researches agree that 3 people showing something somewhat unexpected isn't significant, and it's probably due to other diseases or conditions:

> The pattern of conventional imaging findings in these cases was nonspecific with regard to the exposure/insult experienced, and the findings could perhaps be attributed to other preexisting disease processes or risk factors. Advanced structural and functional neuroimaging studies are ongoing.

So it's not that "MRIs are subjective" or "are as bogus as lie detectors". Rather, it's the people forming an interpretation of what the results mean (especially those who are not experts, as we can see that the experts agreed only three of the 21 people examined show something, and it's probably unrelated).

[1]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2673168
There is plenty of time to learn the things we want to learn.

How long does it take to get a bachelors in college? 4 years? How many years do we have in a lifetime? Not including our youth? 60? 70?

All it takes is dedication and persistence to learn the things we want to learn.
Any new updates to this article? This guide is well known by ML practitioners for a while now.
> is about availability

That's what I've found especially with my current job.

I can sit for a whole long time doing Nothing. I mean literally Nothing. I could tap out to see a 2.5h movie, come back, and nobody would have noticed.

But "I'm available". Oh but of course, I'll press this button for you. Let me refer you to the "subject matter expert". And no, there's nothing explicitly for me to actually do.

I can't wait for this contract to be over.
The Ark is a socially acceptable way of animating the fact that they are sexual partners and gives a clever explanation to the fact that the clothing throughout the animation suggests that it is raining. The story starts by making it look like a parlor trick for free drinks then develops into what looks like a sadistic prank but it ends up finding an endearing resolution that puts everything right. Let the animation speak for itself, pigeon-holing is a fool's errand.
OOOOOOO, something I actually know!

> Now why would you want to know the committed memory over the actual physical RAM in use?

Because in Windows, committed size is relative to physical size. You can commit a lot more than RAM, but watch your page-file grow.

malloc() can fail on Windows for this reason. This is not the same on Linux or any of the BSD's I've tried. :)

I experienced/discovered this August last year.. sometimes understanding a lot about Linux can make you blind to the architectural differences Windows has.

I wrote some cross-platform CPP to show it[0]

[0]: https://gist.github.com/dijit/cb2caa1a40d48e03613f5af0e518d6...
Did it though? I commented this on another sub-thread, but it seems to be relevant here too. Straight from the report:

> MRI neuroimaging was obtained in all 21 patients. Most patients had conventional imaging findings, which were within normal limits, at most showing a few small nonspecific T2-bright foci in the white matter (n =9, 43%).

This sounds to me like the MRI showed most people were normal. It continues:

> There were 3 patients with multiple T2-bright white matter foci, which were more than expected for age, 2 mild in degree, and 1 with moderate changes.

Three out of 21 patients doesn't sound like a lot. The researches agree that 3 people showing something somewhat unexpected isn't significant, and it's probably due to other diseases or conditions:

> The pattern of conventional imaging findings in these cases was nonspecific with regard to the exposure/insult experienced, and the findings could perhaps be attributed to other preexisting disease processes or risk factors. Advanced structural and functional neuroimaging studies are ongoing.

So it's not that "MRIs are subjective" or "are as bogus as lie detectors". Rather, it's the people forming an interpretation of what the results mean (especially those who are not experts, as we can see that the experts agreed only three of the 21 people examined show something, and it's probably unrelated).

[1]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2673168
>My mouse does not usually follow my eyes

I can't wait until websites starts requesting camera permissions so they can perform eye tracking on visitors.
>Whether its American Conservatives or UK Remainers, much of the political spectrum has an inability to consider the other side's opinion

I would caution the author against merely dismissing this behavior as a defect in their thinking. I suspect that some or most of the lack of empathy is intentional.

Aside: In my view, most people who espouse political views merely parrot bits and pieces of arguments that they have seen elsewhere, so I ignore these "non-thinkers" as I don't believe that they contribute much to the empathy or lack thereof in today's politics.

Back to my point: I think that apathy is often a strategic advantage, especially in politics. The ideological leaders of the groups know this and choose to employ narratives that paint their opponents as evil monsters rather than misled humans, as it makes their jobs significantly easier.

For example, being the political party who sets aside the traditions of the government to, for example, fast-track the nomination of a high-value judge by changing the rules, confers a great advantage to whoever is willing to cross the line first.

In today's democracies the winner of an election is mainly determined by who can stir up the most support from their large preexisting base of supporters. In this system the most attention grabbing rhetoric wins, and empathy just doesn't seem to get the kind of attention that vitriol does.

As for dealing with apathy in politics, I am skeptical of the idea that there is much to do other than remove the advantage that apathy provides, which itself seems very difficult. Promoting empathetic arts seems noble, but I doubt that it would even slow the current trend we see playing out on social media.
Record low numbers of millennials think buying a home is a good investment
These aren't immutable choices. Go talk to people in those industries. Send emails, setup lunches/coffees, take online courses, volunteer/itern and try to get some experience.

You can be equally successful, productive, happy, or miserable no matter the direction.
Austin just gave up on CodeNext, a revamped zoning proposal to allow for greater density. It's not safe from NIMBYs.

https://www.statesman.com/news/20180802/codenext-to-code-nix...
Different people can function under different workloads, and there is no magic formula that will make everyone happy.

I've been clocking in ~50h/week for a couple of years now as a contractor and it's worked well for me. Working remotely helps a lot as there's no commuting and I can start being productive 15 minutes after waking up. I'm also able to distribute the weekly workload as I please (except daily standups). Some days I'll clock in 12 hours, and other days work barely at all.

All clients were happy with this kind of arrangement so far.
This is really impressive. I've always wanted a decent Journaling app that also mapped well to hierarchies and how I think about things. It looks incredibly fleshed out, and that a lot of thought and effort was put into this project.

I'm curious about whether there's synchronization between the local desktop application and the hosted web version. Also about how responsive the web version is, and how well it works on a phone.
Meanwhile Paris is more dense than NYC. Beautiful dense cities are a solved problem since like 1700s.
Perhaps increased real estate values drive out people?
Well, aren't transistors vavles for electric flow, that is valves for electrons
I think the point is that electromagnetism really is a very complex and knotty phenomenon, and we moderns are spoiled by having

(1) Heavyside's deceptively elegant formulas for the theory (which we now call the Maxwell Equations) and,

(2) A well oiled pedagogy about how those equations the capture specific phenomena named after the likes of Ampere and Faraday, and

(3) Powerful formalisms for studying circuits, optics, transmission lines etc that can mostly be used without going back to the fundamentals.

Most of that was not available to Maxwell when he started out, so it's not surprising that he presented his theory in a way that reflected the real complexity of it all.
Using separate beams to constructively interfere allows for at least half the necessary power being delivered per beam. The more beams you use the greater the effect and the less each beam needs to carry on its own. This is not my field, but it seems like you could have beam be quite weak until the necessary constructive interference occurs. What am I missing? I’m not being sarcastic, I’d truly like to know.
> 24 random people became government employees and all had the same/similar brain abnormalities

Only 21 were checked afaik, and out of those only 3 showed something significant in the MRI, which the researches concluded "the findings could perhaps be attributed to other preexisting disease processes or risk factors", according to their published report [1].

[1]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2673168
Photograph Your Work
You don't have to bind 'method' in the constructor to access 'y'. Just put 'this.y = 10;' in the constructor. Your example isn't legal JavaScript.
This is one way to do it, but as others point out, that's potentially going to lead to you being burned out on your work and your hobby, and where does that leave you?

My way is very simple - I have a job that gives me moments I enjoy (adrenaline rush and connection with broad and interesting groups of people), but I would never do it on the weekend - I find it far too mentally draining. On the weekend I do things that are completely different. Whether they be sports, video games, social events or whatever, by being diverse in my work-hobby mix, I make sure that I don't burn out on just one thing.

This does not make me one of the cool kids at programming conferences, does not land me a spot on the olympic team, does not get me 10,000 viewers on Twitch and does not make me a member of the social elite, but it does make me happy, so I guess it's working out.
Cassettes have a versatile DIY aesthetic about them: you could record all your sources off radio, TV or CD, sample it into a synth, build up and trade mixtapes, and so on. It isn't just a format for pre-recorded, and digital doesn't really do the same thing since the result of recording into digital is neatly encoded and organized files.
Don’t go to the bank go to a broker.

You can get a (not so great deal) loan with much higher limits.
The SQLite project is a good example of a codebase despite this decision, not because of it. SQLite is nearly 20 years old, and their position on this topic is reflected in their policy.

And Redis makes no such requirement. You are wrong.
That would ruin the timing and deprive the viewer of the subtlety in the animation. The single-frame transformations into animals and the connecting frames while the camera's perspective pans would be almost impossible to distinguish. This is art, not a lecture. Digesting the series of events in the most efficient way possible is not the point. No one cares how the story ends, it's nice but trivial compared to the animation itself.
I wouldn't overestimate homogeneity as a reason for the Swedish welfare state. The strong Swedish state probably goes back to the nationalization, and later decreased influence, of the Swedish church. That standing was later used by the Social Democrats (among others) to reform Sweden to a welfare state. Today, as those ideas are becoming less popular it is relatively apparent that Swedes don't give a shit about each other more than anyone else. The political parties can't even form a government since the last election.
I use Simplenote[0] for this since I always get random creative ideas and thoughts throughout the day; SN being cross-platform allows me to jot them down mostly on my phone and then reorganize/expand later on the desktop client.

It's also open source, and from a company that won't go bankrupt anytime soon.

[0] https://simplenote.com
So does everyone else. Supply, meet demand. If you don’t want to pay a premium, buy something with lower demand.
Solving N-Queens under 3 seconds
Well, if we actually use BC as a leading currency, not just a store of value, it may end up increasing in value (ie it will cause deflation).

But this is one of the biggest reasons we would not want to use it as a measure of value or standard for deferred payment. Who wants to commit to future payments in a deflationary currency?

Salaries in a deflationary currency leads to unemployment (or one has to allow employers to unilaterally decrease wages at will).

Pensions and other government payments in a deflationary currency leads to bankrupt governments.

Also, consumption (and thereby the economy as a whole) will tank as delayed consumption will be a guaranteed win.

Finally, the super rich will be able to profit maximally if bitcoin replaces national currencies, as a deflationary currency inherently favors the already rich.
It looks like both my questions are covered in your very comprehensive documentation. Color me impressed
Still a contender for History's Greatest Monster 10 years later.
Yes, but the formulation in that paper is really not the best one. Electromagnetism is best formulated in geometric algebra of 4-space (3 space dimensions + 1 time dimension), not 3-space.
One other bit of advice - a lot of the tutorials out there start with matrix math and eventually get around to drawing a triangle.

I recommend reversing that - ignore the math and just get a triangle on screen using a trivial shader (takes a few dozen lines of code in WebGL), then learn about how shaders and matrices work by applying them to your triangle.
Yeah I like this too. Perhaps I use playground/ for when I am in a good mood and sandbox/ when in a bad mood.