skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's a computer program with a scripted story.

There are still games which manage to create surprising experiences through emergent design, such as Dwarf Fortress. Even though one could analyze each piece in isolation without much difficulty, the interactions between all the pieces provide that sense of a complex world.
That you provide the transcript and audio recording is amazing. I think the descriptions of the illustrations could be improved a bit though: they make sense if you've seen the images but they don't really provide the same information.

As an example:

> [ Illustration of what I thought Zelda was versus what Zelda really was. ]

This is a map of the game world with a distinctly visible 16x16 grid and a highlighted 4x5 region. That "what Zelda really was" was more than 12 times larger than "what [you] thought Zelda was" is lost in that description. But that information seems to be what that picture is intended to illustrate.

The transcript reads more like a draft: "this is where that picture goes". Instead it's more helpful to think about why you want to put that picture in particular there, what a normal sighted person can see in it that that you want to emphasize.

For example:

> In-game rendering of the Zelda world map laid out on a 16 by 16 tile grid. A small village in the West wedged between a forest to the North and a mountain range to the South, lakes and rivers throughout the East. The village I thought encompassed the entire playable area barely covers a tenth of the map.

(or something like that, I don't words good)
But, how does one remove the bias introduced by the subject (and their social group) knowing of their high IQ score?

For an objective analysis, wouldn’t some of the low-IQ kids have to believe they are high-IQ and vice versa? That is, how much does the act of labelling someone low or high IQ influence their results?
I never said use PHP though? I am loving Go more lately though, and might use it instead of Python for personal web development projects.
Because the workflow CAD -> CAM is very very good in Fusion 360, people just take it for granted.

Sometimes locked(in) software is just better than open alternatives.

It's like Photoshop vs Gimp. Yes, Gimp can do most of what Photoshop does but it will take you more than double the time to do it.
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Wow, i didnt know that. Info can be found under this link
https://myaccount.google.com/purchases
Probably better than the other way around.
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Ask HN: What did you learn at work last year?
After reading Bill Gates's 2018 review[1], I wonder what the HN crowd would have to say on the same topic. Was your job conductive for some important learning experience(especially if not technical) in 2018?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18803923
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I think that TDD is in a way "sketching" for programmers, you draw the outline (the expected results), and then you fill in and refine the details one by one to make the code work. When dealing with the complex code I also have a habit of structuring the code with comments first: I write a comment for each step in the flow (like a subtitle for that block of code: e.g. parse input, calculate this, get that, output result, etc.), and only when that logic as a whole makes sense I start to implement the actual code below the comments one by one. I find this very helpful to visualize the logic flow.
This assumes you either have headphones or you're in a place where listening to it on speakers doesn't disturb anyone. And of course that you can hear and follow the narration.

Luckily there's a transcript.

EDIT: FWIW something (presumably the subtle color rotation going on throughout the entire page) seems to cause my laptop's fan to spin up as soon as I'm on that page.
Definitely 120.

But what about 120, 140 and 160? What about 160, 180 and 200?
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Still relevant today? In 1988, I was briefed by Ibm how they would use Smalltalk with about 10 programmer develop something to ... do not believe them for 1s.

What is the business model is then what Microsoft teach the world. It is not technology but the business (the share to the inventor and investor) or later in 1990s (we learn from open sources) the governance and partipation model that rule.

Also, it is dynamic and environment base then, how to work in a large team is not that resolve for new firm to use it.

Hence once again a 2018 to 1998 me, is this still relevant.

I read this btw during my 15min search about this and give up. Like 1988.

https://medium.com/@richardeng/mobile-smalltalk-c6f0cc712909
I love Flutter, but I'm still slightly reluctant to go for full adoption until I see a firm commitment to Dart. If Google makes Dart the main SDK language for Android (like Swift on iOS), that'll do it!
I think I'm not aphantasic.

When I "imagine" images, they're not usually superimposed or mixed into the input from my eyes like you described. They're on like a "second computer monitor" in my head. Maybe this helps you understand what it's like?

I "see" what I imagine, but I also can see what it is that's in front of my eyes, and the two things don't conflict with each other.
Seems sensible - worth noting that who owns the debt will be an increasingly important political issue
"Now you would be out of New Year hangover"...

Drunk driving causes well more deaths than fireworks accidents. Not saying OP drove drunk on NYE, but what's wrong with a nice fireworks display on a major holiday? Comparatively speaking, the various pollution's (smoke, paper, sound) caused by fireworks displays around the world must be negligible compared to the risks of drunk driving, waste from paper / plastic products consumed at parties, etc... I'd be more upset at the needless helium use / waste in balloons (which is a real problem) than a means of celebration that's been used for hundreds of years.
It feels odd that on an entire post talking about the challenges of treating diseases like Polio, Alzheimer and Malaria, and the reinvention of the toilet too, people are focusing on a single statement that he just posed as a possibility for the future.

Maybe it is just the HN mentality of nitpicking to every mention of the word "software".
My thinking is that people have lossily compressed images in their minds.

I heard chess masters are way better than normal people at remembering legal chess positions but no better than average at remembering illegal ones.

So I think it could be about learning a better representation with fewer artifacts.
Thanks for the tutorial. If you don’t zoom into where the magic happens, users don’t have context and don’t understand. Also didn’t like the hard cuts. Camtasia is a tool with fantastic zoom and transition effects. Not free but well worth it.
I'm willing to cut the website some slack. It's 15 years old and still online. It's also only 35KB and loads fast. By comparison to the cesspool that is any modern monetized website, this was a joy to read.
That works, until you add rehypothecation to the mix. The balance sheet doesn't add up anymore.
Fusion 360 is excellent, but I feel people don't recognize the true cost of it. I have a long post (not more than 3 cm under yours currently) in this very thread about alternatives.

But yes, one will have to make compromises.
Such knobs are fairly lousy in this way: they lack a start and end point. This is a standard failing of modern things: it’s easier to implement generically useful functionality this way, but it’s objectively inferior in most concrete cases. (Another example: ebooks with unanchored scrolling instead of physical books with pagination where you can feel how far you are through the book. You have no reference point.)

Old microwaves had a clear, directional knob with a start point, an end point, and markings for the values they represented. Barring the question of precision (which could be more or less solved with a more strikingly non-linear dial), that’s positively superb. My ideal microwave has only the following controls: such a dial (you could do some pretty fancy active magnetic design on it to improve it and make it precise, over the old knobs), probably another dial or slider (I’m open to trying it out) for power level, and that’s it. I’d be willing to discuss a +30s start button which moved the knob into the right place for you, and some sort of digital timer for potentially easier reading from a distance. No start button or stop button or open button, because the door opening and closing is better than the old microwaves.

Now it is possible for an unanchored knob to be good; I have in mind a tuning knob from a fairly expensive radio from fifty or more years ago, where they had clearly put a lot of effort into its friction profile. But I’ve never seen such a thing in the digital age, only ever in the analogue world. (Hmm… I wonder whether sound boards count. They may be an exception.) In the digital age, knobs are normally just glorified less/more buttons with very coarse quantisation.

My microwave is similar to yours, but a cheaper model, with most notably a capacitive touch strip instead of the knob; it’s awful.
So I have aphantasia, and I first realized when talking to someone about mental images and memories. They have photorealistic pictures in their mind, or even video scenes like a movie. At my best I have something like an expressionist painting with words and concepts arranged spatially on blobs of color representing the object. More typically, just blackness.

Here is another description of it, and a test in the first part:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewsGmhAjjjI
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you should consider using uBlock Origin , I am using it and not getting any messages
4 hours in this year, I need better internet connection for handling Zoom calls from home :)
The thing I did makes the call unnecessary. So there's no speech-to-text involved.

Detail: deliveries in the Middle East. There's no zip codes, street names are iffy, people don't know their address, there's multiple names for everything (at least english and arabic), there's no "database" for lookups (Gmaps/OSM does not have good enough coverage/accuracy). So delivery companies, when they accept a package for delivery, get the (customer_name, customer_phone, customer_address) tuple (and the physical package), where everything is totally freetext, sometimes the address is like "I live in the X laborcamp, near the gate, call me when you get here". So by default there's a large call center which calls the recipient, and the CC agent tries to figure out where the driver should go based on the conversation. The outcome of the phonecall is a (lat, lon) that the CC agent drops on Gmaps. Then, the next day, packages are assigned to drivers based on the (lat, lon), each driver has a zone (cities are broken into zone polygons).

Challenge: given the historic delivery data, can you (how well can you?) automate the (customer_name, customer_phone, customer_address) -> (lat, lon) prediction?

Answer: as I wrote above, it's doable for 40-80% of orders, depending on what accuracy we're willing to accept, with fairly simple ML.
I am sad to agree with you. We in tech love to believe - with our inflated egos due to recent successes improving the world - that every problem is solved through more tech. I think we need to watch tech fail to solve some problems and experience that failure first hand to really believe that some problems are rooted in culture and social norms, not in a lack of guidance or convenience from some app.

I feel like we've lost connection and patience for each other from lack of practicing empathy. More technology is not the answer to that. I hope we find an equilibrium where we move past such an infatuation with tech that we let it be the right amount of a participant in our lives and place more of an emphasis on the human experience and condition and value our humanity first.
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Just to be clear: Netflix’s CYOA system existed before Bandersnatch. It was used for Minecraft: Story Mode for example.
Not convinced. Pretty much all baseline NER datasets are on news corpuses, which are written in well formatted prose, tend not to have spelling mistakes, abbreviations, bad punctuation, etc. etc. Why do you think that a better performance on these kinds of datasets will translate to better performance in other domains? I wouldn't even be surprised if it's the opposite, maybe it relies more heavily on these assumptions. The truth is there is no way to know a priori - you need a different kind of benchmark to test this.
After reading Stardock’s lawsuit (https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.320268...) and Paul and Fred’s response (https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.320268...) several months ago, I came to the opposite conclusion.

Fred and Paul were initially sued for saying their new game, Ghosts of the Precursors, is a sequel to the game Star Control II from 1992. Which it is. And that it contains the characters from that game. Which it does. They own the copyright on both the game and the characters, and can legally release a sequel if they want; they’re only missing the name.

Maybe it would have been wiser for them to call it a sequel to “our unnamed game from 1992.” But getting that wrong shouldn’t warrant a lawsuit, especially one with such misleading claims as Stardock filed.

In light of the response Paul and Fred filed, as well as the posts they’ve made on their blog (https://www.dogarandkazon.com/), I interpret the email chains from Stardock differently from “good faith every step of the way”: rather, as Wardell earnestly wishing to create a sequel with the original (copyrighted) characters and universe, being rebuffed, and petulantly claiming not only that his partial rights (trademark + SC3 partial copyright) allow him full control over the Star Control universe (including, e.g., to incorporate Paul and Fred’s characters in DLC for SC:O as he has done) but also ludicrously claiming that they never owned any rights at all, despite contracts to the contrary. I quote from Stardock’s complaint above:

> This at least 30-year long misrepresentation and false narrative that Reiche and Ford peddled to Accolade, Atari and to fans of the Classic Star Control Games [that they are the “creators” of Star Control], has resulted in Reiche (who contracted with Accolade and was paid to develop the game despite never having rights to what he purported to license to Accolade) effectively holding hostage whatever copyrighted material that exists in Star Control II and preventing others (including the true authors) from benefiting from it.

I tried to come up with a charitable reading of that quote, and simply couldn’t. To say nothing of this other quote from another comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18805155
The OP you are replying to doesn't seem to get that left never claimed everyone as Equal.

Treating everyone equal is a different topic altogether which isn't bad.

I don't read anything -jt posts, his post are usually ego driven, politically charge, based on false asusmptions to outright lies.
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> I feel people don't recognize the true cost of it

That's a bit patronizing.

> I have a long post in this very thread about alternatives.

I did read that post, and it comes to much the same conclusions as mine. For the two-hour hobbyist projects I dabble with, the cost is acceptable.
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The old paradigm of sealing a rubber dome button under an unbroken sheet of plastic worked just fine, my folks had a microwave for 20 years that worked that way with no switch failures.
I guess what I'm saying is: if we need an app to remind us to call family, maybe there's a larger problem at hand.

Book 4 of the Pendragon series (The Reality Bug) comes to mind. That was a formative book in my young adulthood.
I or others shouldn't have to pay more for sugar because of others inability to limit themselves. There's already several other "taxes" we have to pay. No one wants to add another thing on that list.
While stating at the samw time that the Flutter team is only commited to iOS and Android.

I am still waiting to see if that is a Chrome and Angular level commitment or what.
Wouldn't his brand look better without these spammy things? It's a person writing insightful stuff, not an entity shoving clickbait in your face.
Great effort.

> The bad news is, I don't know of the equivalents of these for Windows, so all I can simply say for this article is you'll need a macOS device to follow along.

Does anyone have suggestions for Windows-supporting alternatives?
Reminds me of the Travelers TV show when the Historians are getting an update.
I was about to write the same thing. I code in XCode and I love SF Mono. I was pretty invested in source code pro but SF mono is so good.
I've tried Dwarf Fortress and I had some fun with it. In the beginning it felt impressive in many ways. There are so many little features and it's really cool with all the things (geography, history, religion, ...) which get generated. But after a while I somehow feel all the randomly generated stuff feels a bit hollow. I guess it's mainly because you generate an intricate world populated with people who display very little in terms of own motivations or agency.

It's difficult to tell a story when all the characters involved seem apathetic to actually partaking and shaping the story beyond going through their daily routines and doing what you tell them to do. Sure, rulers will demand a fancy office and issue a ban on the export of some random item and miserable dwarves go berserk. But that's about it.
I'm not quite familiar with the tooling but it seems to be based on Chromium?
How does the brain learn by talking to itself?
Wonder what HN thinks of Modern Monetary Theory[1] which posits amongst other things that government debt is consumer surplus - and not inherently a bad thing, and also that printing fiat currency specifically to pay for domestic programs does not itself increase inflation

[1] - http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2014/01/diagrams-dollars-...
Its a low cost homeautomation gateway, you can connect all your wifi enabled sensors/switches/etc to this domoticz gateway. Moreover it doesnt depend on external gateway on the internet. It gives you freedom and security by confining the home devices to your personal wifi space.
I think it is a bit of both. We have the technology, but it isn't good enough to work without political changes. What really would help is new technology that is so good that it don't need any political changes to work. So it isn't good enough to be as good, but more expensive, than current technology, it have to be better without costing more.

Political changes to put the cost of pollution on the consumer would help but is only part of the solution
I'm suggesting both. That is, someone with bad intentions but too incompotent to exectute correctly.
To be scientific would require proving a definite causal relationship between IQ and intelligence, while also convincingly proving that intelligence can be measured with a number
I still suspect semantic confusion.

I mean, how does driving work, when you see what you imagine?

Edit: And now that I think of it, I have had some accidents where I reacted to what I expected the other driver to do. But they did something else. One in particular I remember. The car ahead of me had a turn signal flashing. I thought that it was the right one. Or at least, that's what I remembered. So I passed on the left. And hit the other car, because it had turned left. And I recall thinking that I actually saw the car turn right.

I'm glad that doesn't happen more often :)
I’m sure you did improve. Practice effects exist. They’re also limited. Just as I will get faster if I train to run the 100m or run a marathon you can get better at the GMAT, LSAT etc. But there’s a plateau you hit where you can’t get better. If you try to take someone from 50th percentile to 99th on the GMAT in the majority of cases you will fail. An increase of 0.26 standard deviations isn’t nothing but on the GMAT it’s only ~30 points.

https://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a...

Retesting in selection: a meta-analysis of coaching and practice effects for tests of cognitive ability.

Previous studies have indicated that as many as 25% to 50% of applicants in organizational and educational settings are retested with measures of cognitive ability. Researchers have shown that practice effects are found across measurement occasions such that scores improve when these applicants retest. In this study, the authors used meta-analysis to summarize the results of 50 studies of practice effects for tests of cognitive ability. Results from 107 samples and 134,436 participants revealed an adjusted overall effect size of 0.26. Moderator analyses indicated that effects were larger when practice was accompanied by test coaching and when identical forms were used. Additional research is needed to understand the impact of retesting on the validity inferences drawn from test scores.
You're ignoring all the copyrighted movies Disney made based off of public domain works. Good luck just "deriving" off of those too much. With your Steamboat Willie argument, derivative work would have to be based off him, not from works based off him (ie Mickey Mouse).
Sopa was 7 years ago? Wow.
I was very disappointed that the JS implementation leans on eval(). That's kind of cheating, no?
The 'original tweetstorm' that led to the article: https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1076845397795065856
What if Facebook was a brick and mortar company?
i.e., waterfall really does make sense when you're dealing with hardware.
I paint (mostly acrylic) and code. To me, the notion of building a practice run is very liberating; it enables me to think about components, how they should be named/organized, how they interact without the pressure of "getting it right the first time". The time-box for throwaway work should be small. Small enough such that you feel a firm confident grip on the plan at hand. If you have something fully end-to-end operational then more than likely the throwaway has been overworked.

I encourage you to consider trying out more throw-away work before writing the real thing. You find yourself with not only a more lucid vision of what goes in to the "real thing" but a little more muscle memory in getting started down the right path.
I think it's similar to CSS... I however have a sense that IPv6 is much different so we might get better and easier tools for future IP versions once IPv4 is gone, I however don't expect that to happen during my lifetime :/
This is 100% me when I remember a beach scene, but my mom sees a photorealistic photo in her mind. This photo or movie quality seems more typical for memories for most people, whereas for synthetic imagination I think the ability to make it photorealistic varies more.
Which is how many mW at which frequency (~ 60GHz according to article)?
Do you have any of that tolerance code open-sourced? (Even if not the entire model, could you share any of the relevant portion[s]?)
No - subway trains can travel 50 mph or more - a bus can’t do that on city centre roads.
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The closest alternatives in this space would be allennlp [1], the recently released pytext [2] and spacy [3]. pytext's authors wrote some comparison on the accompanying paper [4] and this GitHub issue [5].

[1] https://github.com/allenai/allennlp

[2] https://github.com/facebookresearch/pytext

[3] https://spacy.io

[4] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.08729.pdf

[5] https://github.com/facebookresearch/pytext/issues/110
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in real life everything is interactive - that's the environment we evolved in