skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can’t think of any recent US President that would start a war with China over Taiwan. China will take Taiwan when it feels like it.
what would you recommend for architecture?

i am working with a construction company that is looking for BIM integration that they can expand on, which FreeCAD seems to promise.
Focussing on "affirmative action" feels uncomfortably close to the exact kind of dog whistling this article criticized up front.

As I understand it, most colleges have been using some form of linear regression model on many factors to filter admissions in a way that maximize returns (i.e. alumni donations) for decades now. Surely there is other evidence which shows that if SAT scores were actually a poor heuristic of potential success, schools would have stopped relying on them by now. (without having to bring race into the conversation)
This must be all about new cars; I wouldn't buy a second hand car without seeing it first.
I remember reading a xkcd where they say: there is an Emacs command for everything. -- Seems there is an Emacs extension for everything too :)
I would prefer a scalable solution. Go with PostgreSQL is my current stack.
I gotta put in a plug for SolveSpace. http://solvespace.com/ its got its quirks but it hits a sweet spot between using a GUI and specifying dimentions numerically. I think it might be abadoned, as it seems to need a serious update of some of its concepts, but as long as you stay under a certain complexity level its fun and open source.
It would be interesting if programmers took "sketching" to be a valuable and necessary part of programming. It's common practice for painters to make a pencil draft first. It's common in industrial design to produce prototypes.

However, when it comes to code we treat it similar to writing. We may have a first draft, but the final draft is often nothing more than a cleaned-up draft. I could be wrong. I never wrote professionally.

It would be interesting if we had languages that would be great for prototyping but designed to be unusable in production. However, I'm having a hard time imagining properties that don't already exist in languages like Python and JS. You want weak typing of course, but you'd be ok with poor security. Maybe we'd some nice features that would make the language run slowly since it running in prod would be a non-goal.
I generally like OpenSCAD but its language is not very feature rich. E.g. it still does not support generalized extrusion, offsetting, subdivision (e.g. Catmull-Clark subdivision), bezier curves etc which I find it hard to use for anything more complex than a screw. They use CGAL as a dependency, so they should be able to implement these. But it's a promising CAD for sure.
If copyright were shortened to 20 years as suggested, it would be legal to freely distribute copies of Windows 98 and Photoshop 5.0. I doubt that would make a dent in sales of Windows 10 or Creative Cloud. Newer versions of both would still be copyrighted, and there would be no obligation to release any unpublished source code.
Economically that is correct. The whole US is very much 'business-friendly'.
Notes on why deep neural networks are able to generalize well
sherpa_41: Well-architectured, trivial browser engine
Programming Languages – GitHub Comparison Examples
> software will be able to notice when you’re feeling down

Facebook-controlled depression, what a dream
+1 for the std::accumulate reference, and I'll add an honorable mention of std::transform which since C++17 also runs in parallel.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18789071
I don't think that is a helpful distinction. In fact, most games use the techniques you will find in those books. To say it's not "real" is arbitrary and irrelevant.
Is this the paper to which you are referring? https://rufuspollock.com/papers/optimal_copyright_term.pdf
Didi launches lending and insurance as regulation risks lower driver numbers
Ignore Taleb, he’s a self-appointed expert among “charlatans” in every topic he’s ever encountered. The sheer hubris of the man is breathtaking.

Every once in a while he’s correct about something important. At this point, though, it seems like those times are basically accidents.
that's a good recipe for insanity.
Is there a "Berlin Wall" between Taiwan and China?
You are inferring severity from death count, as I read it.

The existence of category 4/5 hurricanes in 1900 can't really be used to deny global warming if that's what you're after.
They also have solitary confinement
And anecdotely, IQ style testing has been by far the most determinant data point for successful software developer hires in my experience. I'm almost at the point where I might start to believe it is more important than domain knowledge of programming.

This is likely because the type of work I typically hire for has a large amount of problem solving and troubleshooting as opposed higher level system design. Which is essentially what IQ tests test for.

The world "intelligence" is just a very loaded word and means different things to different people. IQ tests show how well a person can solve puzzles and make connections between systems. Which many consider to be a sign of intelligence. But not everyone.
I remember having similar feelings. In hindsight, I was right, and also, it's made very little difference once I got out into the real world.

The number of people who use their brains for more than getting a better paycheque is small, shockingly so. If you look up the people who've made all the popular javascript libraries of the past decade as one small example - you'll see that none of them are geniuses. They just had an itch that needed scratching. If you have that much, you're way ahead of the game, don't worry about the rest.
I mean, you can make a RADAR with a single transistor, 2 diodes, an exotic but off the shelf VCO, and clever transmission lines. I doubt the R&D cost is very high for for the MMIC here.
Relevant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronization_gear
Actually...

https://www.newsweek.com/nasa-named-its-next-new-horizons-ta...
Try take a summer vacation working in desktop support :)
They are working with Infineon, https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/promopages/soli/

Infineon has a 24Ghz demo board for $150, https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Infineon-Technologies/D... & https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/sensor/radar-sensor-...
Depends on whether that temporary file gets properly cleaned up or not. A myriad of temporary files with more showing up every day could be a significant disk hog, especially for an enterprise with thousands of affected employees.
It is crazy to think that if you live to be 95+ you'll get to see something enter the public domain in your lifetime.
JWT is a buzzword. Some people are attracted to changing shit for the sake of it, and then encouraging others to use the new thing too, to validate their own use, and feel like they're 'ahead of the curve' on trendy tech.

Rather than rehashing it all myself, I'd suggest reading http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/06/13/stop-using-jwt-fo... and https://developer.okta.com/blog/2017/08/17/why-jwts-suck-as-...
Has Bill ever been good at predictions? No mention of smartphones or social media in The Road Ahead. Blindsided by how quickly the Internet developed, underestimated "bazaar" economies that enabled millions of people building both software and content. All the smart home stuff he was in love with has gone hardly anywhere.

I think he's very smart and great at setting huge goals then hitting them, but I'm not sure he's a great prognosticator.
And the TPP was another attempt to do this w/asian countries. Harmonization only goes in one direction, with the countries w/shorter copyright terms always bending to match the most lengthy country's terms.

https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp
My experience has been different. "Academic Studying" can be hard with a full time job, and there is often a wide gap between what you learn in books and what you do at the job.

For purely professional purposes, it's probably a better idea to take a non-academic approach.
> you are arguing that parents should praise their kids for smartness because it helps kids to understand that they are smarter?

I’m arguing for truthfulness. If your kid is smart, don’t shy from saying so. If they excel in other ways, point those out. Helping us to understand our strengths and weaknesses is a gift parents can give.

> if self-esteem of a person based on working hard it is very good

Not necessarily. It can lead to being a grunt. That’s fine if that makes one happy. But many innovations have been sprung from a combination of intelligence and laziness.
For every one person who would rather have a scholarly debate about anything, there are at least a hundred who want some dessert reading, or want to be entertained, or want to get in a fight. A lot of well-respected authors distinguished themselves by not being boring.

I usually use a dry tone on HN because it's a place that's particularly prone to petty pretendo-debate-club arguments, and being boring reduces the chances of getting caught in one of those, which I don't enjoy. But the more entertaining personalities here get a lot more attention.

And fwiw his description of Mensans doesn't seem totally off the mark.
fb isn't going anywhere. Don't worry. Everybody needs fb for data.
Video from Google about the technology (2015):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QNiZfSsPc0
Depressed people are likely to shop to alleviate their depression symptoms temporarily, too.
I've been doing this about 18 years. I'm no longer friends with said MD.

The piece he said made sense:

I figured my husband brought a parasitic infection back from Saudi, a class of trypanosoma, and was reinfecting me every time we has sex and this was why it didn't matter how many antibiotics I took. I was constantly being reinfected.

So I told my husband "you are never touching me again without a condom" and I stabilized in two weeks.

Then I began asking for standard CF antibiotics that are fairly strong but don't have side effects like "kills some percentage of people."

I managed to get on zithromax maintenance therapy, a standard treatment for CF. It has a long half life. So I was on it like two weeks out of the month or something and it's good for like another ten days after the final dose. So I essentially had antibiotics in my system all the time, all but maybe four days a month.

Then a med student at the teaching hospital that I had good rapport with put me on Levaquin, another fairly strong but doesn't routinely kill people drug that is commonly prescribed for CF. After that, I mostly went back to needing antibiotics during stress times, like midterms, finals, Christmas. That was my normal for much of my life.

CF doesn't actually make you sick per se. It causes a bottle neck in the processing of certain molecules due to a defective cell channel. Lots of secondary and tertiary and fourth order consequences grow out of that.

I got extremely interested in what do we know about what happens at the cellular level. I talked to a guy with a PhD in Chemistry. I talked to a guy with a PhD in Biology. I asked a lot of questions of a former RN and she told me "You are asking things they don't have answers for. They don't actually know what that drug does at the cellular level."

It's been a long journey and I'm still struggling to survive financially. I've had multiple blogs where I've tried to find the words to express some of it, but I have no audience, I can get no traction. That means I get no feedback for what makes sense to people and what doesn't.

I'm not sneering down my nose at anyone. I've been thrown off of multiple forums. I've been subjected to really ugly personal attacks. Mods on most forums will not protect me. They tell me I'm the problem and the people attacking me are fine and I need to STFU.

So, you know, right after I win the lottery or marry a millionaire I'll get on some attempt to publish something for some internet stranger who initially told me to go kill myself. Sure. Cuz I owe you so fucking much.

Meanwhile, I'm still struggling to make ends meet and try to eat everyday. And that's where my focus needs to remain for the time being because most of the world quite seriously wishes I would drop dead in earnest and has been actively trying to help make sure I die instead of merely being a flippant and lousy argument tactic.
Musk vs. Bezos: The Battle of the Space Billionaires Heats Up
Protectionism is not specifically a left or right wing policy. There are right wing and left wing reasons to support protectionism. But the left traditionally has been opposed to protectionism because it was seen as way for farmers and other industries to make workers pay too much for their food and other goods.

As far as restricting all immigration, that's very far right.
"The state will pay those new residents up to $10,000 over a period of two years. The grants will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis with $500,000 allocated for the program."

That will recruit 50 workers, plus perhaps a wife/husband/kids. Total roughly 100 people will move to Vermont, maybe.

I think what's more important is that Vermont's Department of Whatever, that created this program, has a purpose for existing. And that department certainly costs more than $500,000.
Mondex
> Each Stowbot is customized to organize one folder. Creating a Stowbot is easy — just specify which types of image content you want your Stowbot to sort.

Ok, what can they sort on.

Also, is this going to be something I can run locally? If so, I'm super interested.

If it's a web-service only, I have zero interest whatsoever.

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~~~Signed up with an e-mail. Sigh:

> We will send out emails to users when the beta is available.

Argh~~~

Just noticed I have a e-mail with a link in it. What?
> I think most people are fundamentally capable of great intelligence.

If the real world distribution of IQ closely approximates the Gaussian distribution IQ tests are meant to model, then in the US alone there are about 44 million people in the range from about 70-85. World wide, about 1 billion people in that cohort of 1-2 standard deviations. Even if actual real world results are half of what the models predict, we're still talking really large numbers of people.

Finding ways to bring them up to "just" average intelligence would be astounding for the species, and I'd aim for that first instead of setting ourselves up for failure by defining a goal of "great intelligence".

Right now, the best we can prescribe with even a semblance of consistent results is intensive educational intervention and family assistance from early childhood onward. Actually doing that in our current economic model would be on the order of ditching the MIC and somehow transferring the spending to those activities. That's a pipe dream with current established stakeholders.
People get upset over all sorts of things. Look at this thread [1] where everybody without a clue gets involved to solve the mystery of an NTFS ADS called :WofCompressedData.

[1] https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/what-i...
@redbeard-- how about VAX/VMS for example? I believe licenses are still being sold for millions of dollars...
>questions for IQ tests are created by people with close to average intelligence

Is this really the case? I would expect the opposite to be true, that people with high IQs and specifically organizations like MENSA that select based on IQ would have a vested interest in being involved in that process.
Just adding the theory below for completeness. Search in the article for the part about the ISS:

http://www.unz.com/ishamir/toilet-wars/
It depends, if it's just you and you want to get to market quickly building your web app and backend in Rails backed by postgres and redis is still a solid choice. Put your code in docker and have AWS' ECS Fargate manage it, do the same for your DB(Aurora) and cache(Elasticache).
I can't speak for mobile devs, but it sounds like a lot of the hype around react native and whatnot has died down.

A bigger org I'd probably just change the backend code to Go and start taking advantages of other AWS products to manage ETL/monitoring/logging/etc. The change to Go is mostly just to prevent your more 'clever' engineers from producing code that no one but them can understand. Languages like Clojure and Scala while cool can start causing real problems in an org where the experience level isn't uniform.

A note on tech that bears repeating, if it isn't going to be your differentiator then choose boring building blocks.
Any key takeaways?
> It occurs to me that much of what crypto-lovers want is actually radically undemocratic.

What's wrong about being against democracy? It's failed miserably.

> Vestigial states that can't do the bidding of the electorate because they're unable to hold companies to account and so on

How can you assume the bidding of the electorate is just, and free of corruption or injustice. Or that governments of democratic states actually work for the electorate, which would be a hilarious assertion.
We do things a bit like that - we break things up in the schematic by page (between one and a couple of sub-circuits per page), and then the designator is page number plus a sequential ID. So you might have C405 (4th cap on page 4) or C847, etc.

We don’t print designators on silkscreen, so it’s not really a problem with the length (e.g when you get over 10 pages and have a five or more digit long designator. With a page that is subclassed you might have one like R1208B for example!)
Sure, but that's what projects like QEMU/DOSBox/other emulators and compatibility shims are for. There's so much abandonware out there, especially games that are stuck in licensing limbo that can't legally be acquired - and it's only going to get worse going forward as things like licensed middleware, soundtracks, etc. have been thrown into the mix with their own headaches.
I suppose the issue with Liberation Mono is just that it looks too "different"?

If I'm recalling correctly, it was also metric-compatible with Courier, as that was largely the point of the Liberation fonts.
I can see that it will be unhelpful in most cases (because we're losing information by implementing constraints as penalties). But are there any cases at all where this would make the solution easier?
"I only made around £2000 total"

I really, really need a "failure" like that, this trimester. Or this semester. I would accept the failure without any problem : )
I did the same a decade ago: http://const.me/articles/robocalypse-pathfinding/

Source code is available but I'm not sure it'll work with modern compilers. Unlike that article, I did not use dynamic memory while updating the vector field.
It's like you are arguing that you don't like that "game ai" is an industry term. It's what professionals call it.
Not only that, compilation time takes 9 months and it could take several decades for a fatal bug to pop up in production.
Bush starting two wars and Obama radically overhauling the US health insurance market are basically the same thing, once you get past the sound bites.
No. Learn flutter.
It seems to imply from the homepage that everything is local, or at least that your images remain local and thus the program runs locally, but I believe the actual training of the neural network occurs on their server, so you have to tell them what things you want to sort by, that might be all.

I'd like to see a bit more information on how that part works and which categories it might struggle with, not everyone just has image folders of common animals.
I think it’s often understated what you say in your last paragraph:

If success has multiple parts with a non-linear relationship (“more than the sum of its parts”), then we’d expect to see decreasing utility for IQ relative to having a strong secondary or tertiary talent — eg, strong leadership skills and EQ, so you can build momentum around your idea. In many senses, this is what we mean by a “well rounded person”.

I’m not sure how that translates into the rant that IQ is useless, pseudoscience, etc. that Mr Taleb makes, though.

Let’s look at height and NBA success. I think most of us agree distance is a measure, but it doesn’t explain NBA success. Just like IQ, it only really explains NBA non-success with much strength: there are very few successful short NBA players, and no midget ones; however, there are many non-NBA playing tall people.

Naively, Mr Taleb seems to be arguing that height isn’t a real measurement because it doesn’t account for basketball skill.
Images to be posted here as they come in: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/UltimaThule-Encounter/

Not much yet.
Wow... I’m truly shocked that I’ve had such a strange misconception about how Oppenheimer died for decades! Thanks for clearing that up, I stand very much corrected.
I read the study, it's very good. The video not so much, and your summary here is misleading and wrong and not very representative of the study I just read.

First, the study specifically avoided self identification and labeling. They clustered people based on their answers to core belief questions. From which they found 7 key clusters. One of those the study labeled Progressive Activists. But that's a label put on after the fact. So it doesn't mean 8% of the population identify as progressive activist. Just that from the study, there's 8% of the population with very similar core beliefs.

Then the study demonstrates that self labels like being left, right, middle, conservative, Democrat, Republican, etc, are bad predictors of shared common issues.

Only 3 out of the 7 groups cared most about jobs, and only one group, the smallest one, cared most about immigration.

The groups the study labeled liberals make up 26%, and the ones labeled conservative 25%. But again, that's the labels the study gave people based on their answers.

Also, the wealthiest and withest cluster identified of them all is the Devoted Conservative.

Finally, the whole point of the study is that appart from the wings of progressist activist (composed of young professionals mostly), and from the traditional (old, white middle class mostly) and devoted conservatives (old, white and wealthiest mostly), all other groups are much more willing to compromise and have varying beliefs depending on the situation, and are most bothered by the wings polarizing the country. Thus when you look at the silent majority, they are much more diversified in opinions.
He didn't bring race into the conversation; you did.

Affirmative action is precisely an adjustment of admissions criteria such that ceterus paribus a candidate is more likely to be admitted. Yes, it's based on race, but if it was based on lottery, it would have the same effect: students with lower SAT scores are admitted to schools which otherwise require a certain threshold.

That they don't do as well, shows that the SAT is measuring something relevant to success in education.

Note that affirmative action would have this effect even if average IQ were the same across races, because schools vary in the SAT thresholds they set, and this would have the effect of propelling students into settings they aren't prepared to flourish in.
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But what's wrong with basing one's self-esteem on being smart, if someone is smart?