skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know the background here. Why is it that the Chinese government or people want to rule Taiwan as much as they appear to?
One thing I do in my game is use pathfinding to find suitable places for doors connecting rooms.

The process is, I randomly place some adjacent rooms, completely surrounded by walls. Then I set up a pathfinder (A*) where the cost of moving through walls is large but finite, and the cost elsewhere is tuned so that long detours can cost more than going through a wall. Then I run the pathfinder between various rooms, and place a door wherever the resulting path went through a wall.

This results in doors situated on "desire paths", so they look more or less like they were intelligently placed. It's also tuneable; you can tweak the costs to either get lots of doors and very convenient paths, or minimal doors while still having every room be reachable.
I have given dozens of ravens-progressive-matrices variant tests to friends of mine of various intellects and the results are basically never surprising.

I guess it's bullshit though.

Third world country girl who struggled trying to learn computer science and gave up and became an accountant? 95

Kind of slow guy that can't do any algebra in his head, bronze 1 at league of legends? 98

Genius guy that is master tier in league of legends and constantly outwits everyone in banter? 143

Asperger sharp awkward guy that is astonishingly good at math - diamond 3 league of legends? 133

Me: I think I'm an idiot sometimes and smart other times. Platinum 1 at league of legends? 122

My older brother (1): Obviously smarter than me but not by that much seemingly, and definitely a lot physically healthier than I am: 130

My oldest brother (2): National bridge champion and obviously very intelligent, masters in math, been an alcoholic for 5 years and got noticeably less sharp overtime: 135

Another guy who was challenger tier at league of legends and also obviously very intelligent in conversation? 138

Smart younger guy that is kind of whacky and out there, diamond 3 at league of legends: 120 (deviates from the norm here but still lends evidence to the correlation)

Extremely competent native american guy that is 2000 ELO in Chess and was diamond 2/3 in league of legends? 120 (while high though, and same caveat as the above example as the other example just above)

hMmmMmmmMmMMMMMM I guess it is just confirmation bias.

I found it interesting how well it correlated with rank in league of legends. There are about 5-6 other samples I just don't recall the specifics anymore.
I do think think young people care very much about copyright.
But protecting local workers from competing with low cost Chinese workers and illegal migrants are very left wing policies, probably the most left wing policies enacted by any president in decades.

I wouldn't call increasing military spending left or right, just about every corner of the political spectrum has done this at some point, most notably the Soviet Union.
I will assume that you meant JavaBeans (the component classes) and not NetBeans (the IDE).
Unification Is the Goal and Force Is an Option, Xi Jinping Says of Taiwan
I want this power
This is patently false. Shame on you.
Those are entirely different buckets of money. Money the foundation spends on things like the IHR, do not come out of the revenue from the Google search deal. Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corp are two different entities (though MoFo owns MoCo). In the same way, donations to MoFo do not pay for browser developer salaries.
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This is, frankly, a pretty stupid reading of the situation.
>I liked OnShape a lot, I think they got a lot of the UI right, but they priced themselves out of the market I'm in.

Agreed. I'm a little surprised at how OnShape doesn't want to price their product cheap enough that every new startup wants to use them with no questions asked. After you start using a certain CAD system, it is a huge P.I.T.A. to switch all your files over. Fusion360 takes advantage of this (no cost till you're above $100k in revenue), but the quality of their product just isn't quite there for me. And given the risks of using an entirely cloud-based system, if I were to make a startup & get funding tomorrow I'd still probably pick Solidworks.
Defund the military.
It's a custom-built chip according to https://atap.google.com/soli/
If America has any earnest, genuine interest in all their wars abroad for freedom and democracy they must continue defense aid to Taiwan.

China's exports are about to surpass the US's. Its growing influence and capability stand in the face of an America that seems determined to tear itself apart rather than be united in the cause of leading the world with virtue of liberty and human rights
Xi should consider the effect of vastly reduced foreign trade after an attempt to take Taiwan by force.
Working longer hours has many drawbacks https://www.economist.com/business/2018/11/24/americans-need...
Taleb is saying that if IQs above 100 have no predictive power, then what’s the point in measuring them? It would be like taking a BuzzFeed quiz that tells me my Hogwarts house: a real measurement yielding a reproducible result, sure, but a pointless one and any use of it beyond “Huh, that’s interesting” would be pseudoscience.
Here's the really long background info:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War
A question to any design enthusiasts and experts here: What currently maintained web/CSS framework has not gone the flat-design way, is inline with HCL guidelines, and has a reasonably complete widget set.
Yep, and as a intro to parametric modelling, very good. It has its quirks, but it's solid. It's also the defacto open source format, folk use when sharing models.
Oil changes often don't get recorded.
> Calling the company was of no help. The engineer who answered responded that nothing was wrong with the design of the switch that extremely careful operation would not overcome. He’d been using it for months with no problem.

My blood pressure rose reading this. Absolutely infuriating response. I can't stand it when engineers fail to recognize how human factors relate to the systems they build. Makes me want to grab them by the ear like a child and put them in timeout until they come to their senses.
That's like your opinion, dude.

Check out Articles 2 and 3

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Shimonoseki
Floating point is also built on integer math, and cheaper operations at that.
I have a strong hunch that human evolution has been accelerating for quite some time. I can’t back this up with citations, but intuitively, as fitness becomes more complex, adaptations should spread faster (and maladaptations should disappear faster). This is of course partly counteracted by the presumably much higher percentage of individuals that reproduce in a civilized environment compared to a pre-civilized environment, but the dawn of civilization by no means brought about full reproductive parity. It seems to be taken for granted that cultural evolution largely replaced genetic evolution circa 10,000 years ago, but I highly doubt it. It seems much more likely to me that cultural evolution has been taking place alongside accelerated genetic evolution.
ROC (Taiwan) is the defacto legitimate government of China. They were defeated in war by communist forces and fled to Taiwan. At the time (1949-onward), America acknowledged ROC as the legitimate government of China, but only intervened to protect them in the Taiwan strait. You can simply read more detail on Wikipedia, etc(1). Then after Mao won control of China, he went on to oversee arguably the manslaughter and murder of more people than any other tyrant in history.

1-https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China_retreat_to...
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Not only that, but for many people, you should probably try to negotiate for the lower net cost vs. lower monthly payments with a higher total cost. If you can float the money, why pay more?
You gotta figure if the Chinese Politburo handicaps each US president on the odds of no US military response to a forceful re-unification attempt Trump is definitely going to be their horse.

Happy New Year, cross your fingers 2019 doesn't go down in history books as the start of World War 3 :)
Typical lease is three years. In that timeframe there isn't a bunch of scheduled maintenance. You need to pass state inspection a couple of times, but apart from that there's normally nothing really to service yet.

From the carfax report the owner who did the oil changes on schedule with quality synthetic oil looks indistinguishable from the one who did nothing and drove the car like a rental. An you can't tell what's inside the engine block until you open it up.
That's not true, I received a detailed price breakdown over email.
> The history of Crimea indicates that Taiwan's only hope is to aggressively apply violence as necessary for its independence.

That's the first thing I thought as well. They watched very closely what happened in Crimea. The timeline also aligns in that Crimea was transferred to the Ukrainian Soviet Republic in 1954, about when Taiwan had split as well.

What would other countries do if say Chinese soldiers wearing no insignia decide to go on "vacation" to Taiwan all of the sudden.
Seems odd to me to waste so much time and money and risk to lives when one can simply drive a mine flail through any given area to clear it of mines.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mine_flail
"Batman: consulting detective"
>Most psychologists, I expect, would prefer to talk about intelligence in terms of the subcategories such as crystallized and fluid intelligence, for which there is stronger evidence and more readily accessible metrics. (Most IQ tests also spit out these scores as well, but it's the IQ part that is the most widely broadcast).

When talking about IQ, i.e. 'g', this incorporates both crystalized and fluid intelligence. So to say that there's stronger evidence for these vs IQ doesn't seem to make any sense.
Missing a bit of sociological historicizing here.

IQ and SATs were essentially designed to keep undesirables, notably Jewish, people out of academic circles. Eugenics and these tests marched hand in hand.

> Armed with this so-called objective methodology, 3 American eugenicists advanced a straw-man rationale for large-scale testing.14
They reasoned that society needed to identify, segregate, and sterilize the "feeble-minded,"' 5 initially defined as those with mental disabili- ties' 6 but later extended to include any "unfit" person of low intelli- gence, character, or ethnicity.17 In both Germany and the United States, persecution of the "feebleminded"'18 hastened a broader eu- genic campaign against immigration, miscegenation, and other pro- fessed threats to Nordic ascendancy.1 9

https://via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=h...

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-ivy-leagues-history-of-d...

https://twitter.com/ft_variations/status/1075782671320657920...
Never a dull moment to talk about the twilight zone that is Greater China
"The proof is trivial and is left as an exercise to the reader."

Sometimes it's infuriating.
The paper is actually pretty interesting - it's a pity the headline is misleading.

The Reddit comment[1] is a good summary: More accurately: "The Tsetlin Machine - a new approach to ML - outperforms single layer Neural Networks, SVMs, Random Forests, the Naive Bayes Classifier and Logistic Regression on four carefully selected contrived datasets"

Notably, on their (weird!) "Binary Iris" dataset, the NN appears to be undertrained, and it is unclear what the headline "mean" accuracy figure is actually a mean of.

However, once we get over that, it's quite a different approach, and I can imagine places where it could be useful. Notably, as an anomaly detector it would seem to have interesting properties like interpretable results similar to a random forest.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/89yp8g/r_t...
You can always use ONNX to convert PyTorch trained model to any other format. https://onnx.ai/
> Obviously, the majority of computer users aren't toddlers, but I think there's a lesson here. I really miss the old Windows 3.1 / 95 / 98 days when controls were more or less standardized and you could reliably tell which were buttons, which were radio buttons, which were okay buttons, etc.

Agree.

Also: tooltip help when you hover over an icon.

Also: menus (for discoverability)

Also: manuals/help files (yep, most software shoudn't need one, but now we are in a worst-of-all-state: new software is not self explanatory, doesn't use familiar designs and the manual is gone :-/)
On the other hand, perhaps it provides an opportunity for people to learn what the terms actually mean. (It took a Canadian to help me realize just how confused we Americans are on this topic.)
I'll be here in the comments if there are any questions. Thanks for checking it out!
> ...the man who despite believing in the necessity and inevitability of it all, took his own life (Oppenheimer),...

J. Robert Oppenheimer passed away from complications of throat cancer. It was Katherine "Toni" Oppenheimer Silber his daughter, who took her own life.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer#Final_ye...
Taking Stock of the World’s Debt
Russian Cosmonaut says that the Hole in the ISS was Drilled From the Inside
3D Printing Glass – MIT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Comics_Publications,_....

(HN removes the last ".", adding another makes the url work :-)
At least it can make circles that are round instead of polygons, so that's a major upgrade already.
It's one of the few things you can't buy. Good goal for an ambitious billionaire.
Apple script, then, makes me sad, because is some of those things that, when you build, you have a lot of hope on that and put a lot o effort for it to be nice and beautiful, and imagine how people will love and how successful it will be. The team developing it probably had dreams and believed they were doing something innovative or meaningful. Then the harsh reality is that all the effort and hope in beauty and niceness were useless because the thing you were building wasn't really necessary or useful to the world. The fact that it was a team in a big company makes it less sad, if it was an solo guy or "small family team" then its really sad. I like Automator and think the natural language style of its script is a brave idea, but I found it too complicated to put to use when I tried it years ago, when I was a completely level-zero non-technical, And I would propably find it too basic now that i can do some Ruby and C#. Just as a note, I didnt get, in the end, if its JS or Python you want for Automator, or both, in this last case, please add Ruby too :D
Oh! Now I understand. Thank you!
Reminds me of cloning error http://steeljawscribe.com/2007/04/30/red-bulls-of-replicatio...
The Great Astyrian War
I'm reminded of the "car owners sending emails to the developer of curl" story. https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/11/14/i-have-toyota-corola/
I enjoy Palantir's Blueprint.

https://blueprintjs.com/docs/
There used to be one of the cockpit versions at SFO airport in the old United terminal near the AMEX Lounge back in the late 80s/early 90s. What a time. Can't imagine seeing an arcade machine anywhere these days...
Only 13 men have been executed since 1978, none since 2006. Isn't really a good measure of being "left" or not.
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What made you ask about Nvidia drivers specifically?
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Is there a valid reason to publish your contact number? Wouldn't not having it accessible been the easier solution? Of course, someone could email too, but it's easier to deal with them; easier even to create a filter and ignore them altogether.
He uses illegal immigrants in his own business. He doesn't care about the workers, its all just a way to rile up his base.
The premium on new construction is around 20% vs existing structures, so you arent saving any money, just paying up front (and financing it to boot).

Plus many people want to live in an already established neighborhood.
I wholeheartedly agree that software development as a whole, especially in the past few years, has been more in the spirit of 'wizardry'.

But with the speed at which the sheer amount of new software 'stuff' comes out each year, there's simply hasn't been enough time to develop rigorous engineering specs or best practices for all of those tools.

Perhaps we're starting to see an initial version of a universally accepted model, at least for the frontend, with the mentioned Typescript + Flux (I'll just say Redux).

Many assume that Redux is only a state container, and it is at face value, but more semantically it is (when implemented correctly) a very logical boilerplate where it puts everything related to state in its proper place, so any developer can look at the code base and immediately get a general idea of where state is set, what events exist and how the state is used throughout an application.

I'd like to see things like these very strict patterns emerge for other tools, like Node. For example, I could imagine a snippet of THE universally accepted express boilerplate for a login, given a specific backend... (can an email + password login really get _that_ customized?)

...argh, on second thought I suppose it can, but even then such a boilerplate could have sections with a freebie spot for customizations

Eh, it's late and I wonder if such universal pattern ideas are a pipedream... I suppose only time will tell...
> The "harmonization" thing is a racket. In short, the corps pass the most restrictive copyright laws they can in whatever country they can pass it. Then they "harmonize" the other countries to that most restrictive policy, usually in the form of trade agreements which becomes domestic law everywhere. Rinse and repeat.

Okay, based on the history and timeline of copyright law, that means you're saying that the corporations pass the most restrictive copyright laws that they can in Europe, and then US law is lengthened to harmonize with Europe through trade agreements (except most recently, where the US declined to participate in the trade agreement with Europe which would have adopted an even stricter copyright law).
I don't know about more recent vehicles, but on older cars it would have been as simple as man-in-the-middling the ignition wire which runs to the solenoid. Switch is in tow, the key won't start the car but things like accessories will still work.
Could yes, probably not.
Because very very few is using it.
Fuck china.
Taiwan is not, and had never been part of China.
There could only be invasion by China.
After WWII and treaty of San francisco, Taiwan and Pescadores islands were given up by then Japan and Taiwan is under management by UN allied force represented by then Chinese forces (Republic of china, ROC) or more specifically Chiang's force. But the soverignty of Taiwan was never specified. Currently the governing body of Taiwan has its own judicial systems, currency, military, and elect its own President.
Current China (People's republic of china) has never has any official constraints on Taiwan. It is recognized as China after UN assembly 2758 that revoked Chiang's force as representative as China and replaced with the communist's People's republic of China.

The government (ROC) currently on Taiwan thus was not recognized as China by most states in the international community. That being said, most international community also didn't recognize Taiwan as part of China and have relationship with Taiwan unofficially due to the undecided de jure status of Taiwan. As US has its Taiwan relations act.
Despite this situation, Taiwan is still not part of China and has never been under governance of People's republic of China.

But PRC has active 3000+ missiles preped and aimed at invading Taiwan as well has it's own law claiming Taiwan is its. PRC is a pure facist totalitarian state. and if you understand history well you will know how much dirt they swept under the carpet.
Many countries require you show proficiency in the country’s native language to acquire citizenship.

The desire to assimilate as well as having the ability to communicate with your fellow citizens should be mandatory for those who a pursing naturalization.
Tangent: 'lay' is transitive and requires an object e.g. 'lay themselves down'

Otherwise use intransitive 'lie' e.g. lie down without a fight.
The problem is that Warren Buffet doesn't care, as in love which is what he's implying, about 99.99% of the population. If he gives a large portion of the population diabetes (BerkshireHathaway own CocaCola stock) and uses the profits to buy his family aeroplanes, by this definition he is a success.
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So I just looked up the prices on Mouser and Digikey for an amplifier or mixer in those frequencies, and boy are they expensive. The R&D spend must be enormous for them not to be making those parts in these frequencies as separate bits.
I wonder how is the lack of this effect connected to autism.
> ...Apollo was a cold war project intended as a propaganda campaign against the Soviets.

I've also read the hypothesis that the Apollo project also served as a peaceful demonstration of ICBM capabilities without expending (and revealing actual capabilities of) real ICBMs. Kind of like applying an added layer of assurance in MAD, by demonstrating through technological affinity the missiles aren't duds and the claims of performance not fabrications. If so, then that's one helluva diplomatic gesture for the history books to cover in the future.
https://www.nasdaq.com/screening/companies-by-industry.aspx?...
The entire implementation appears to be 300 lines of Cython: https://github.com/cair/TsetlinMachineCython/blob/master/Tse...
Open Source, more like. A 20 year old software in vanilla state would likely just not run at all in current hardware.
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The thread in an actually readable format: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1077986070128668674.html
I’ll re-evaluate them after I see what this house does. I certainly don’t want what the current party in power does.
An additional problem for capacitative buttons in the kitchen is that my fingers are often moist or even wet, and this is a disaster when it comes time to punch cap. buttons.

Not only do they not work, no only do they sometimes trigger adjacent controls, but to get function back I now have to dry both my hands and the control surface.

I will never purchase a kitchen device with capacitative controls, but I run into them enough when traveling to experience this frequently. It's a mess.
Is it just my device or is there something wrong with the r in Europhilic Dobre?
To chime in here real quick I don't have much experience with openCASCADE as an editor but it has a fairly decent API for creating and manipulating CAD files. It's LGPL and runs on Win/Mac/Linux so its got that going for it as well.
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I've heard two approaches on Reddit. One is to negotiate the final out-the-door cost (NOT monthly payments) with their financing, etc., and then tell them you have your own financing (or cash) and take it or leave it, being totally ready to walk.

The other is to negotiate with their financing, ensure there are no prepayment penalties to pay it off early, and then as soon as you leave just pay the thing in full or pay it with a loan you secured at a better rate.
> > Note that IQ tests correlate with SAT scores!

IQ tests (of which there are a ton) are regularly calibrated, internationally comparable (there are some reasonably culturally neutral test protocols) and stable while SAT is a US-only metric.

Maybe SAT is calibrated to correlate with IQ tests?
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Wow. Fantastic article. I’d love to do the same with eastern philosophy!
Am I the only one that doesn't get it? Why would anybody be annoyed by a temporary file?