skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool.

I'm glad someone pointed out Skirky's thesis (which you saw). You may also want to peek at folksonomy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy

I used to be believe the world was knowable and representable, definitively. Much like the aspirations of the Cyc effort. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc

I now believe the usefulness of any particular model and captured dataset depends on who's asking the questions.

For nutrition, there might be different views for laypersons, producers, nutritionists, researchers, etc. Sure, the domain is the same. But the details relevant to each, their use cases, will determine the schemas, the datasets, the granularity, the queries. Further, efforts to create the uber-nutrition-o-pedia knowledgebase, useful for all audiences, will inevitably disappoint.

In other words: One size fits none.

I don't mean to be a buzz kill. I'm just relating my pessimism after once having lofty ambitions. YMMV.

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I have completely different notions about belief systems, fact checking, etc.

There have been many "what is true" efforts. There will be many more. A contributor at mondaynote.com writes about some school's effort (Berkeley?) and links to similar efforts.

I think they'll all fail to meet their goals.

As we learned from MC 900ft Jesus: Truth is Out of Style.

I no longer care if something is true. I only care who said it.

Every tidbit needs to sourced, cited, digitally signed. So you can trace who said what when. Authoritatively. Anything without a signature is nothing more than gossip.

Then use the existing web of trust infrastructure. News outlets, bloggers, researchers, any one who want to be taken seriously will sign their real names to their works. If someone's cert gets pwned, or is revealed as a shell, then it can be revoked. And everyone will know.

Sorry if that's a lot to take in. I'm still chewing on the notion.
What's some low-hanging fruit in mathematics?
Works great with javascript turned off -- 12kb, finished in under a second.

Inspecting the HTML, the rendering seems to be blocked by a script loading the google fonts.

Huh. Wonder what this is doing here. Probably hiding the whole website while googlefonts finishes loading.

<style>.async-hide { opacity: 0 !important} </style>
20 Easy-To-use Mockup Tools to Design Your Next App
I wish Apple got this...
Learning to Navigate the Web
Yes it does get cleared frequently because it is not part of my standard file system.
Similar boat for me. Got an X, didn't get an XS.

The only thing that tempted me was the camera improvements. Which aren't so much camera hardware as them greatly improving their photo processing via specialized computing hardware, as I understand it. Still, I take a lot of photos, and everything about this change looks fantastic.

Gruber's slideshow is good for demonstrating it: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gruber/sets/72157700003327111

Honestly, Apple's consistent approach of "new phone design with number-bump" one year then "same design with incremental improvements and an S" next year means that outside of unusual cases buying a new iPhone every year is silly. X to XS is underwhelming, but 7 to XS (or XR) is quite compelling.

Given which... unless Apple does something outright worrying, I expect I'll buy whatever they put out this Autumn. Get the fancy new camera features, and more of a notable increase everywhere.
China’s Debate Over a Shrinking Birth Rate Highlights Growth Concerns
Payments are interactive like credit cards. They require that either both parties are online or that there is some hosted bulletin board that will hold transactions data until you come online.
Would you attribute the c/cpp success to a lack of "native" build tool?
If you'd like to find out more I can recommend a great magazine.
If it takes 1.5 hours longer by public transport than by car that means you do not have good public transport. Maybe good compared to surrounding areas but still bad.
Having naming be a bytecode level instruction kinda misses out on a whole level of what makes compiling interesting in my opinion. One of the challenges in compilation is to convert names to offsets representing names. This is an important optimization.
You get historical PET scans from years ago and label them with whether they turned out to have Alzheimer's later in their life or not.
This is the reality, but of course it's absurd. I'm going to be brave and admit I'm not middle class from now on, though I'm sure all my peers would easily accept any claim that I am.
Here's a interview with Jack Mullin where he recalls the time he almost took a wrong turn on his way to liberating the two Magnetophon elements that eventually transformed AMPEX from a wartime motor manufacturer to the cornerstone of Silicon Valley it would eventually become: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olg5OMBil84
Pants and bazel sound like favorites
I mean, exactly
> Is it just that there's no institutional rating of this sort of thing?

The ADAC gives school grades and explanations of the visibility for tested cars; most cars get shit-tier grades. E.g. the BMW X1 gets a straight 5.0 (fail) for rear view and 3,5 overall.

Many cars cannot be safely reversed alone without having a backup camera — which is often an extra feature.
Take away the dollar figures and it makes sense, 1 person caring for 8 or so children (child care) should be much more efficient than 1 person looking after 1/2/3 children (normal for home care).

That this efficiency ends up lining someone else's pockets would be a separate issue.
Edit: I'm speaking from my knowledge of this topic in the US. I'm not ware of practices in other countries.

I'm familiar with the school systems and their on boarding processes for new students in many parts of the country, and am not aware of any pockets that systematically utilize IQ tests.

You're correct about military recruits, but I don't know if their scores are reflective of the general population. Certainly the composition by demographics differ somewhat from the general population, which woild cause me some concern if I were trying to generalize from their IQ tests to the broader population.

However, the context of my comment was about IQ related to elite colleges, and that remains an area where the data is sparse for IQ scores of such students. There simply isn't much if any research being performed these days tying IQ to success in higher education.
This is kind of goofy accounting. They clump all hydroelectric, solar, and wind together into one category, then split up brown coal, black coal, and gas into individual categories.

Still, well done, Germany.
I've been doing this for years. TBC - it doesn't eliminate the need to check your blind spot anyway (as many have mentioned) - just makes it more likely that you catch something moving unexpectedly into your blind spot, or you catch it before turning to look.

Also, the positioning is difficult to get used to, since you kinda have to trust it blindly (you can't get a good idea for where it's positioned based on seeing the side of your car) and then also it's just awful positioning for parking. Not to mention, anyone else using or sharing your car will complain to no end about the weird mirror positions.
I'm totally sold on privacy as a critical feature of currency long-term, and that mixes in bitcoin alone are insufficient. Pretty cool to see two mimblewimble projects launching (beam + grin) which seem to have made some different tradeoffs.

Dandelion seems like the weak link from a privacy perspective under a reasonable attacker scenario, though, although it could easily be replaced.
Aha, so even though there are 100 bytes per transaction, you can merge all the transactions in the block so it's actually just 100 bytes per block (plus unspent outputs). Nice.
Oh, this is fantastically cool. This is what cryptos should be. Real anonymity, no greed, no speculation, just good math. I love it.

That said, the "no amounts" thing is very confusing. Do they mean to say that the amounts aren't public? Because as far as I can tell, there definitely _are_ amounts. From the repo: "The block reward is currently set at 60 grin" - that's an amount, right? Someone's account is credited with 60 grin. I can then send 20 of those 60 grin to someone else, who can send them on and so on.

Furthermore, the look-forward to quantum computing is great, and not common enough in new projects.
Look at LLVM's doxygen, say, http://www.llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1MachineRegisterInfo.... You see how things like const, bool, and unsigned are all believed to be classes? Go further down, and you can find a definition of a global variable Reg, which is from a case where Doxygen managed to think that the arguments of a function a global variables.

That's just the stuff I have readily available; there's been several times where I tried to use Doxygen to figure something out, only to discover that it was horribly confused and worse than useless (since it looks like it can tell you the information, but it doesn't figure it out).
>> The problem would then become people using their corporations to make all of their purchases. Their corporations would own their yachts, their houses, their cars, etc.

> This is illegal.

Citation, please.
For anyone not familiar with Indian currency naming and exchange that seems to translate to ~$265,500
Curious as to other countries that have recently hit peak population.
Understanding Human Mobility Patterns in Developing Ctry with Mobile Phone Data
Since this is intented to be educational I find it a bit unfortunate to implement function calls using the host (python) stack since it's an important part of an interpreter.

It means that you can't really add things like stack traces, coroutines, exceptions, single stepping, etc and understand how they work under the hood.
Generally our brain is composed of a bunch of different subsystems and networks that accomplish varying tasks or objectives, and communicate the results with each other. There's a lot of data sharing going on, as well as reinforcement of known successes thanks to one subsystem known as the reward center.

While we don't understand how our brain works to the bits and bytes, our knowledge and understanding of how our brain functions is Growing. A fuller understanding of how our neurotransmitters work on a chemical/biological level, and an effective way to model it, will likely result in interesting advances in the field of AI

I chat with my neuroscience friend a lot, and the overlap I see between how he describes how the brain works, and general computer science concepts is surprising.
Yeah, it's really difficult for people to understand how much fossil fuel is still used today with all the headlines of 100% renewable here and there. Even that almost always means 100% of electricity, which is generally 40% of total energy, the rest being heating and transportation (very fossil dominated).

This is great progress but we're not out of the woods. We need all the low-carbon energy we can get, and quite urgently. This leaves no room to rule unpopular but quantifiably safe and clean sources like nuclear.
"non-cognitive development is important and clearly lacking in government supported child-care."

I really doubt this.

FYI I live in Quebec, and on my Highstreet there are a handful of daycares where normal businesses/stores/restaurants would be.

Because they are small and common, it seems everyone is only a few hundred meters from their childcare around here.

There are so, so many correlating factors that I'm going to say it's really difficult to measure these things.

+ The amount of marijuana that people smoke has skyrocketed in recent years, and they smoke young here. I know that smoking pot in early years i.e. 13-14 is bad news.

+ The number of children born to non-married and cohabitation parents is very high these days.

+ Quebec has a very different culture than the rest of N. America. They are chill here these days. For a lot of complex cultural and political reasons, I would say there is a defeatist, antagonist attitude (for the last 100 years), but in the most recent generation ... it's like they also have a kind of 'given up' attitude. They don't seem to care about much at all.

I'm just throwing up some examples, I have no idea what it is, but I suggest that the issues in later education are due to a bunch of factors and that prevalence of childcare isn't really the big one. Maybe, but I doubt it.

Also I should add that this 'universal childcare' thing is a huge deal. It really changes things. In the ROC ('Rest of Canada') or the US, it's getting stupid expensive to have children. Here in Quebec ... it seems 'normal' to have kids. Just a few dollars a day. My sister in BC is a Finance Director with 3 kids and she only breaks even on daycare (!!!) essentially doing her job so she still has it when the kids are out. That's insane.

All political issues and massive costs/taxes aside ... having cheap, really local daycare is a hugely relevant thing to communities and parents.
Dwarf Fortress is a different kind of game from No Man's Sky or The Witcher 3. It has a huge learning curve and takes a lot of effort to play. For every amazing story that people crafted there are hundreds, maybe thousands of failed game attempts.

That's fine and purely procedurally generated games can be amazing (I'm working on one myself), but they are a different type of game play, and often attract a different kind of player. Not everyone wants to be a musician, some people just want to play rock band.

For open world exploration games in particular, in every single example I've seen, mixing in hand crafted world building with systemic game mechanics always provides a better experience.
>Pay more money for all the desirable jobs, never mind the undesirable jobs

But how? We've found that market economies tend to work the best. These pay based on supply and demand. The other option is a planned economy where you might be able to attempt something like this but all examples of planned economies have resulted in so much suffering I don't think we want to try that again.

Who is going to drive the rubbish trucks, clean the toilets, keep the sewers flowing and look after the sick and elderly if we get rid of all the undesirable jobs? Some jobs are horrible to do but we need them done.

Evidence that children cared for in the home may have better outcomes than those in child care need not lead to the conclusion that women must be forced into indentured motherhood. It simply means we have a problem to investigate. There might be a better way to do this.

But doesn't your comment that women "should retain total autonomy of childcare upon the failure of a marriage" suggest that you think women are the only party responsible for childcare?
I had this idea a long time ago but never actually tested it. Now I have: http://marksblog.com/gamma-resize/. The square/sqrt method gets at least 80% of the quality but should be quick to compute on a modern processor.
Links to the Wikipedia main page. I think you meant this link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect
My phone is the single weakest link to life security.
The semantic web is alive in a different form with the microblogging community using micro formats.

See Indieweb.org and microformats.org, micropub, microsub, websub
> back then [in 2009] there wasn't much awareness of this issue

I haven’t noticed too much change in the general awareness of this problem between the 1990s and today.

Experts have always known the right thing to do and people have been talking about these problems as long as there has been image processing, (e.g. Poynton’s Gamma FAQ dates from sometime before 1998 http://poynton.ca/notes/colour_and_gamma/GammaFAQ.html) but it’s new to everyone at some point, and newcomers perennially screw up.

The annoying thing is that there are folks who continue to screw up (like Adobe Photoshop) who should really know better. Backwards compatibility shouldn’t be an excuse to continue with broken implementations for decades.
His experience from the 90s and early 2000s is meaningless in the current era. Version control and Google were in their infancy.

SVN was first released in 2000. Git in 2008. Branching, tagging and diffing were nowhere near what is possible now.

That goes back to desktop with a disk smaller than a GB, CPU in the tens of MHz with a network so slow and reliable, if you have one at all.
Same question as cjohnson318's.

What are some low hanging fruits in mathematics? I have been looking for them for a few years now and have found none.
Nixon Tried to Shut Down the World’s First Online Message Board – PLATO
Sorry, what am I missing? That's exactly what I was saying - this stops making sense anywhere in between "small" and "the big boys"
America's first public earthquake-warning app unveiled in Los Angeles
This is what is known colloquially as 'shooting the messenger'. You are putting blame in the wrong people. We are being trained to filter out BS precisely because of the misinformation levelled against scientists to discredit them.

I would argue that there has been little to no hyperbole from scientists, literal or approximated to'everyone dies'. There has been careful and clearly hedged approximations of likelihood and possibilities. Most of which have turned out to be dramatically understated in the short term.

A fair bit of this has happened in the media though, because it largely supports the status quo (right or left wing).
Add a script in your package json that just runs `webpack`. Then you can run e.x. `npm run webpack`
"Yahoo Finance estimates Apple’s 5 year earnings growth at 15%. Using a 7% discount rate, that works out to a net present value of $449 billion."

Not sure if I would use those numbers...
I think stablecoins are a good idea but curiously (not really) no one accepts them for payments.

I wasn't aware of token curated registries but after skimming the paper (seems to be something like a prediction market?) I don't understand the connection to monetary policy.
As a non finance layman, this confounds me. Shouldn't it be a case of optimism, as price cut indicates potential sales increase? And pardon my ignorance if I am missing something obvious.
I couldn't tell
> non-negligible amount of coins gets lost or destroyed every year.

This is an interesting point I had never considered before.

Assuming that a mainstream crypto currency would lose a constant percentage of its coins each year (seems reasonable), any mainstream crypto currency with less than an exponential growth rate will eventually hit a steady state of coins in existence.
Well we clearly went to school together. That's not very nice.
The history of the web is one of centralization not decentralization.

Steam is already a very good solution for distributing PC games and it has the added benefit of implementing a payment model, DLC features, social capabilities, updates, cloud-synchronized saved games, and, perhaps most importantly, a discovery service for finding new games. It even supports automatic WINE mode for windows-only games in linux (a feature that surprised me).

I welcome the day when more games run automatically in OSX or Linux, but I think the need for an app platform isn't going to go away. And as someone who plays games often offline (on a plane or sometimes the train) it's really nice to not require an internet connection to play something.
> Taking the FAANG approach if you're not part of that acronym sounds like introducing inefficiency.

Is this not saying that small companies should avoid monorepos?
Sounds like it uses TrackPoint II, which was an earlier iteration of the TrackPoint as we know it. I have the first laptop I ever used, a Thinkpad 350C and it has this earlier iteration. The feel and caps used were very different.

The current version is the TrackPoint IV.

More on the topic, unfortunately does not include usage in external keyboards: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/TrackPoint
I would say it is likely that the lack of a native C++ build tool helped Bazel to not have to compromise on how it integrates compilers into the system. I think that C++ is also just a good fit for the design; not all languages will. Interpreted languages fit into the system a bit less well in my opinion (but I still like that it is treated with some level of consistency.)
Umm, all energy consumption eventually ends up as heat in the environment. If you are bringing "infinite energy" in from space, you will be dumping infinite heat into the environment. Not exactly good for cooling the planet.
Isn't this how Python itself implements function calls, using the host (C) stack? Hence Python's lack of support for stackful coroutines?
sRGB gamma encode/decode is a natively provided hardware feature on GPUs, and is plenty fast. There’s really no excuse in 2019.
Also has a syntax reskin in the form of ReasonML
Depends on what you find interesting. Depending upon what you are targeting, the names can be part of the bytecode and the interesting part becomes conforming to their naming standards, preventing clashes, mangling for needed temps for synthetics/spilling/etc, and name resolution even in recursive situations.
Credit cards have addresses and they aren't online. Simply knowing the number on a card is sufficient to withdraw from it.
"I never created a Patreon account for us though. Everytime I began I never finished signing up. The whole thing just seemed like a hassle. Too many input fields and things to consider and graphics to provide. Patreon expects creators to create more content for patrons. We felt we were already giving away lots with our already free content."

I actually really like this philosophy. I run a tiny, niche miniatures wargaming blog, and while I have a Patreon account, I don't feel like I really fit with the Patreon "idea" of heavy engagement with patrons.
+1 for the adaptive cruise control in fast but varying speed traffic. The variant that my Hyundai has is also really pleasant for stop-and-go traffic, too. As the space shrinks below the minimal set, it'll basically progressively slow down all the way to the point of coasting for quite a while before it finally comes to a full stop (if the traffic hasn't started going yet). A small thing, but since cruise control only disengages if it comes to a complete stop, it in effect makes for a really pleasant stop-and-go commute as it very rarely has to come to a complete stop and disengage along the way. Also has the secondary effect of drastically improving my gas mileage vs. when I manually drive the same commute.

My previous experience with adaptive cruise control with another manufacturer wasn't nearly as polished, so I didn't think much of it when I bought the car. But it quickly became one of my favorite features!
In the 1980’s(circa 1981-1984) each middle class mall had at least 1 non-anchor store dedicated to personal computers, peripherals, and software.

I remember splitting my time in malls between bookstores and computer stores.

The first flight simulator software I recall seeing was in a mall computer store approx 1982. Very vivid memory of the software box, with very optimistic visuals and description of its capability.

In retrospect, the mall computer stores in the early 80’s seemed unfocused. They didn’t seem to be targeting businesses, but they didn’t seem to be targeting consumers effectively either.

Even with a father working in semicon, I recall my parents not being able to articulate a compelling reason why to purchase a personal computer.

But they did anyway.

It felt very much like a “because it’s the future” rather than “because it can do X”.

Our first family computer was a TRS-80 with magnetic cassette storage and transfer.

I remember when Basic code was printed in magazines to re-type like a monkey to play simple games.
I use HTTPS Everywhere plugin for firefox... it's pretty surprising in 2019 how many network-related blogs and articles are on http links and the https equivalent is broken.

You can use Let's Encrypt, it's free. It makes me not want to listen to what's supposed to be their wisdom on networking matters if they can't even get that right.