skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that in this area people are terrible at making financial choices, and only ever think in the short term. This is why we have (for instance) laws about withdrawing funds from pension accounts etc. Because otherwise people raid their own retirement funds and end up reliant on the state.

There absolutely is a choice - you can politically campaign for the right to opt out, or you can go and live in a country that doesn't have the protections you don't want. Most of them are pretty damn awful because they don't look after their citizens at all.

What you don't get to do is live in a society with such protections and social measures and then not play by its rules.
Ligatures really are neat, indeed.
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Simplification. I know what my scroll bar looks like and prefer it not to have multiple borders and shadows. It's easier on my eyes and mind.

(I don't love everything about "flat design", but not everything needs to be super skeumorphic)
Yep, it's a heuristic I observe too.

But heuristics, by definition, are imprecise and subject to exceptions, and in my experience he's one of the exceptions.

> Causing upset or inflaming anger is occasionally necessary to pierce the veil of indifference, but we should do so only with great caution.

I think he does. He only attacks people who are powerful enough to be able to handle it.

And the stuff he talks about is important.

The way IQ testing is revered and misused arguably does great harm to many.

And the stuff he's been banging on about for years - the way governments, big corporate execs, academics and media insiders work together to benefit themselves at the expense of the powerless majority is important, and could well lead to another economic crisis in the next few years - is critically important.

That said, you don't have to listen to him, of course.

But it's worth examining if there's some deeper reason why you find his ideas unpalatable, beyond just tone and style.

My own motivation has been to pay attention to what he says, as he turns out to be right when it matters most, and by applying his ideas about things like stoicism and "anti-fragility", my life has vastly improved.
You’re painting a picture that every social justice-aware person is pushing for equality, while ignoring calls for equity and how that’s distinctly different.
There's also https://github.com/tasn/scadjs
I built it because openJSCAD was (is?) pretty incomplete in comparison to OpenSCAD. The nice thing about scadjs is that it doesn't reimplement the CAD engine, but just uses openscad itself.

I was using it for my prints, so it works and works well, though it may be incomplete in some areas.
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IIRC rust was designed from the get go to be user friendly. That's why you have things like intelligible error messages and rls. The rust community, as well, plays a huge part in how easy it can be to track down answers. But try debugging a nom parser sometime. Your eyes will bleed.

OTOH the contrast to Javascript is pretty stark. As much as I've got plenty of complaints about the language itself, the community really a detriment. Things like Electron and Node actively shun cross-platform compatibility. Tools like webpack tend to attract cargo cultists. It seems there's a lot of wizardry and hair pulling involved anytime I touch JS.

C/C++ though has gotten a lot better with the advent of clang.
It’s an interesting concept but to me there’s enough evidence that people really can make images in their head while I cannot.

I remember being really amazed at photo-fit artists and how they could recreate faces someone else had seen just from an explanation. It was only once I realised I couldn’t make images in my head that I realised it wasn’t the artist who had super-powers, it was the person who could actually remember someone else’s appearance in their head and tell them what to draw.
I think that this is a big part of why tiktok works so well as an app. You can always re-phrase one video in the context of a new one to create a lot of creative mashups.
>theres less reasons for Taiwan to oppose reunification

What? Nothing you said in the previous sentence make any sense for reason of unification .
I teach my children the opposite. Perhaps I've worked too much tech support.
Here's the thing: the authors, and most people in the NLP community (as opposed to people who can use off-the-shelf tools and nothing more) know how to get better performance on other domains. It's just that "it requires some adjustments and manual labour" doesn't add anything to the "deep learning solves the problem" narrative that is predominant in research articles and most blog posts on the topic.

On the other hand, you can bet that actual practice in Zalando (the authors are all from Zalando's reasearch lab) involves more regexes and retraining models on proprietary datasets and less using off-the-shelf models and hope they stick.

No one claims either that you can solve every Vision problem with a model trained on ImageNet - you'd do transfer learning, or for non-understanding problems (estimating colors and contrast or anything else that's unrelated to objects in the image) you'd use something else that doesn't involve deep learning models at all.
CycleGAN, a Master of Steganography [2017]
I wonder, do you go to an art gallery and complain that paintings don't adhere to the Material design? This is a work of art. It's supposed to be playful and colorful and a bit crude. The message would be quite different if it would be written in a dark-grey Helvetica on light-gray background, don't you think?
This post reads like a polemic and not something to be digested as science (note calling it a 'pseudoscientific swindle' and the ad hominem attack on Murray at the start). There seems to be a bi-modal reaction to the IQ measurement problem. It's either a real meaningful and effective measure of intellectual capacity. Or, people try and discredit the whole idea and label anyone that explores it a racist or otherwise posses a shallow understanding of the science. The real problem is that it has some validity so it can be used to argue for and against all sorts of things that are really not justified by the science. However, if we ignore IQ as a valid research subject and line of inquiry we'll be doing ourselves a disservice. We need to follow that thread even if we don't like where it leads.
Good luck putting that genie back in the bottle
Well, congratulations on destroying philosophy and making a fortune in the trite self-help book business.

This approach to generating philosophy is the exact opposite to the philosophical tradition - there's no effort to determine if any of this stuff is "true" in any sense, there's no traditional formal reasoning model behind it; just if it sounds good. I expect to see it weaponised on political billboards and youtube videos this year.

In particular, “the limits of my language are always your limits” is a horrendously mangled Fascist version of Sapir-Whorf.
IQ is largely poorly understood. When measured as a number it is a convergent assignment, which is everybody is measured against a central assessing scheme that doesn't realistically reflect capabilities, competency, or potential.

More valid are divergent tests that measure creativity, response quantity, originality, and problem solving. In other words how unique can the answers get and still be applicable.
Has anyone done an equivalent study for legacy admissions?
It would be nice to get some feedbacks. This project is not new but I discovered "Show HN" feature recently and it is really nice to get quality feedback from community. I am still improving this product.
I saw an article [0] posted on here, which made me reconsider my feelings on obesity. It's worth a read even if you don't agree with the conclusion (I still don't), it was very thought provoking

0 - https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/12/7/16587316/ba...
Go big, let your product stagnate for a couple of years coz it doesn't improve adsense dollar revenue in a direct way and then go home.

reminder that inbox is getting the shotgun to the head this year while gmail still feels like it's stuck in the early 2010s and that's just the most recent one.

any area that google dominates in nowadays feels almost accidental, like they don't actually want to dominate that area but the alternatives don't have their datacentres and thus aren't as good-for eg youtube.
Thanks, that's a pretty interesting take.

(Also a reminder that we're probably going to lose some interesting stuff when Google+ goes kaboom...)
I'm curious if any of the Buddhist visualization techniques would help, particularly vajrayana practices. I can dig some up if you're interested, but they are boring and very rote. You start very simple and small and slowly add features or details one by one until they are static and achievable to whatever you are trying to visualize, but some of these prescribed years of practice. They also don't stop at just visualizations, so it may be irrelevant as well as impractical depending.
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I remember trying out an Android sleep app that had a "flat" design. It never worked. On the last day of the trial I realised why - part of the flat "design" was actually a button that I also needed to press. I was so annoyed I deleted the app.
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I don't see how a War could happen between two Nations that has Nukes. Do they agree on not to use Nuke before the war?

There won't ever be a World War 3, if there is the next one might very well be the end of human civilisation.
I love the typography and the quality of the presentation layer of this. I love how the text ("docs/comments") seems interspersed with the code. Kinda makes it feel like a paper about an algorithm, with diagrams that are live — but it actually is an implementation of the algorithm at the same time. Reminds me of Jupyter Notebooks in this regard. I hope embedded math is/will be possible, and also "inline comments" (though maybe making smaller functions when a detailed comment is needed might be just enough).

I love how the author explicitly mentions a lot of related work (esp. the new one like Luna, Apparatus, but also the classics, LabVIEW etc.), and tries to explain important differences.

One thing I feel I miss is that the same input nodes are not merged (with forking lines), but they're duplicated instead. Seems to make it harder to understand/notice where the data is coming from, that some of it has common origin. In other words: "merging" seems to be visible, but "forking" seems not so. As an idea: maybe a set of vertical lines representing "connection/input planes" (like "ground plane" in a breadboard) could be shown on the left (for passive but somewhat messy viewing), and then clicking on a node could make one vertical line thicker, highlighting all the flows that start from this input (for cleaner but active viewing)?

I haven't tried the demo, so I'm curious about a few more things at the moment:

- how well does it handle slow functions? (e.g. does it hang, or does it allow working during computation and slowly propagates the results through the graph) how well does it handle bigger data sets? (lists with hundreds, thousands, millions of elements...) complex composite data structures? (trees, graphs, ...)

- does it allow "export/compile to JS" for easy running of the code built with it in "production"? also does it maybe allow "import/decompile from JS"?
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I think the problem with this is, if I'm going to say "completely rewrite this [function/class/module] into another language", then there's a good chance you want that language to be about as fast as possible. I guess because a lot of problems fall straight from "speed absolutely doesn't matter" to "this is the bottleneck of the whole thing".

I think that is a reason why there's a lot of python/c++ in hedge fund land. I've written some clojure but don't know the c interop story for it.
Maybe Arduino?
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It is similar to the old days of piracy and photoshop. Every kid had photoshop. Which killed the market for the software that was actually aimed at regular people. Autodesk had excellent timing in capturing the market before it had time to mature.

OpenSCAD is great, but a bit limited. Also latest release is almost 4 years old, could do with some further development.

FreeCAD is very capable, but it is a bit buggy and not very user friendly.

Solvespace looks really neat, but also a bit limited and from the looks of it isn't actively being developed. Those two points make me hesitate to invest too much time in it but someday I think I will play around with it some more.

Blender isn't CAD software, but it is the gold standard in my opinion. Sacrificing nothing and a really good UI. But it is more free-form than architecture and technical modelling. So wouldn't recommend it if that doesn't align with your purpose (look up blenderguru donut tutorial for an excellent start).

All the mentioned applications are pretty odd in how they behave though. It requires that you commit to learning it.

Personally I've used OpenSCAD quite a bit and I've now committed to learn FreeCAD. I had trouble creating maintainable code for OpenSCAD for anything but small projects, and also it takes some effort to create visually pleasing parts with it.

It is hard to find good material on all the software above (except for blender), I really liked this (hard to find) 3-part tutorial for FreeCAD. I have had huge help from it and it is what helped me to grok enough of FreeCAD to start actually attempting to do anything on my own. If you are curious about FreeCAD maybe it will give you a better idea of it than only playing around with it yourself.

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dJEPg06G-o

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PESZxM_eSqY

Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkNkpPxb8W0
Yeah I saw that too...

Anyone have any idea how that works?
It's interesting to talk! I believe I have rather the inverse of aphantasia — I "see" music as shapes and colors in my mind's eye. Also I think in pictures and relationships which I have to translate into words after the fact.

Whether it is a delusion or not is interesting. It might be moot. Maybe the judgement of realness or delusion is whether it is a competitive advantage or not. I have read that people with more synesthesia than me who can e.g. see numbers in colors, these people can pick out numbers faster off a page as they just go by the color. The color is processed in at a lower level, so it does come out as a competitive advantage.

For me, the visualization of everything is useful in interface design. Conversely I find it hard to talk to people sometimes due to the translation lag.

Re. the last paragraph, the delusion of a sensation vs. the sensation itself: Very interesting. The vision of the visual field in front of you, the vision of the surfaces and things and light in front of you, that vision does not exist there — it only exists inside your mind, physically inside your head. It is the delusion. Furthermore, the colors you might see do not exist at all.
I thought the world had gotten beyond "Steve would be rolling in his grave". Apart from anything, Windows Phone and its flat design came out in 2010, three years prior to iOS 7. Windows 8 came out in 2012, one year before. Please don't pin an entire phenomenon on one man, especially the wrong one.
What would you prefer? That I ignore the overwhelming burden of research on cognitive development? That I pretend that everyone has equal potential for cognitive development, regardless of genetics and environment? That I pretend that we know how to compensate fully for those early disadvantages?

No reasonable person would tell a stunted, sickly and uncoordinated teenager that they could make the NFL combine if only they tried hard enough. It would be an act of cruelty to persuade them of that rather than guiding them towards a more realistic ambition.

We have to accept the very simple reality that while everyone is born with equal rights and equal value as a human being, not everyone is born with equal potential and there is only so much that we as a society can do to ameliorate those differences. We must encourage everyone to achieve their full potential, but we must also recognise that not everyone has the same potential. We must build a society that is fair, decent and humane in spite of that fact.

A great number of non-clinically-referable people have to work extremely hard just to achieve elementary-level literacy and numeracy. Some simply don't have the concentration, memory and cognitive ability required to successfully complete a secondary or post-secondary education. The answer is not to bury our heads in the sand, but to create meaningful opportunities and social support for the millions of people who, through no fault of their own, are currently being shafted by the pointy end of meritocracy.

"You can achieve anything you set your mind to" is a hair's breadth away from "if you fail, it's because you didn't try hard enough". That's an unconscionably callous ideology to base an education system or a society upon.
You might be surprised.

> Eisenman took his duty to create “disharmony” seriously: one Eisenman-designed house so departed from the normal concept of a house that its owners actually wrote an entire book about the difficulties they experienced trying to live in it. For example, Eisenman split the master bedroom in two so the couple could not sleep together, installed a precarious staircase without a handrail, and initially refused to include bathrooms. In his violent opposition to the very idea that a real human being might actually attempt to live (and crap, and have sex) in one of his houses, Eisenman recalls the self-important German architect from Evelyn Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall, who becomes exasperated the need to include a staircase between floors: “Why can’t the creatures stay in one place? The problem of architecture is the problem of all art: the elimination of the human element from the consideration of form. The only perfect building must be the factory, because that is built to house machines, not men.”

From: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/why-you-hate-contempo...
Arguably you could mix and match any of the jvm languages to your liking. Jython, JRuby, Kotlin, Scala are all reasonable alternatives to Java while being easier to hire for than Clojure.
And big targets are easier to click on with a mouse, too. And the space problem resulting from bigger targets also makes you think harder about what targets to present, and which ones to move to subscreens.
It solves different problems. flair doesn't include parsing, Spacy doesn't support embeddings, gensim doesn't do tagging or parsing at all but contains the most practical word2vec implementation. NLTK is nice for learning, but don't use it in production unless you're ready to reimplement things in a more efficient way when parts start falling off.

The message is - again - learn about the mental framework, not individual tools, to understand where each strengths are and what the gaps are in between them. Or choose a problem, find the best tool for that problem and get progressively better at the tool(s) that helps you with most of your problems.
How Facebook made a universal open source language for the web
I take the BART in the SF Bay Area daily, and if you take it before 10 PM it feels safe, though can be annoying because it's not always the cleanest. Then again, I feel safer than on the road (where there's at least a handful of massive accidents each way, everyday) and I've definitely been in friends' cars that are not to the same cleanliness standard I hold my own things to.
This reminds me of my preferred typeface from when I had a Selectric, Prestige Elite. You don't see it much these days, as Courier is bundled with PostScript printers and Windows, whereas Prestige Elite isn't free.

Courier has a pitch of ten characters per inch, while PE runs twelve per inch. Ideal for business correspondence, but probably a bit too dense for scripts (and college papers!).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestige_Elite
Yes, OnShape did exactly the crazy thing that no one wants to think of. And in response people flock to fusion 360? OnShape should have been a deterrent.
I recently bought a 3D printer and have enjoyed programing objects in cljoure with scad-clj.

https://github.com/farrellm/scad-clj

This is biggest project I know of that uses it:

https://github.com/adereth/dactyl-keyboard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk3A41U0iO4
our world isn't under heaven though, increasingly a lot of bureaucracy can be automated away - it just ISN'T because a fair deal of automation means taking away control from politicians. add to that the technical illiteracy in general in the political sphere and there is no push for automation apart from authoritarian governments like china

all we need is an event that demonstrates the need for a world government - for eg a massive asteroid headed at earth or a planetary scale food drought to see these systems implemented.

the world is stagnating
The Chinese takeover of Indian app ecosystem
If hollywood producers are so famously picky, I wonder if they will reject a script with this font because it simply looks different.

I don't think you'll be able to explain to them that it is metrically identical, just like you can't explain to your garbage man that you are using a decomposable plastic bag, but they have the strict order to not accept plastic in your organic trash (if you live in the kind of place that separates trash like this).

It could be great after you get your screenplay accepted, if you want to have a nicer copy that matches line-by-line the courier version.
I understand your sentiment and feel it every time I choose to start Fusion, the lock-in is just plastered all over the place. I have used OpenSCAD for a while and coming from a DevOps world I greatly value the Everything-as-code mantra that OpenSCAD enables. But as a hobbyist 3D printer looking for the tool to just get my idea out in an evenings work Fusion is just the best/cheapest out there for me at the moment.

I have now adapted a mentality to not create anything I'm not willing to loose. And if Autodesk ever decides to change their license, which they inevitably will, I'm willing to just take that loss and find something else at that time. Maybe by that time some open source developer has implemented Fusions idea's in sketching/modelling (and hopefully improved on some parts).

For me the choice is just accepting Fusion for what it is now or get sidetracked in all kinds of stuff and never finishing a hobby 3D model anymore. OpenSCAD is nice, but for me it is to easy to lost in perfecting the coding when trying to get the model the way I want. And other 3D modeling tools (eg: Blender) are just not fit for engineering work like Fusion is.
Subways have multiple cars per train, anywhere from 1 to 10, most places falling into 4-6. A bus has one; even articulated buses usual have a smaller capacity than a single subway car.
As I said in my reply to a sibling comment, heuristics, by definition, have exceptions. I also adhere to the heuristic you describe, but Taleb's the lead exception.
thank god for a-bombs
No, I'm not talking about manually uploading a cert; I'm talking about AutoSSL, their feature that automatically requests and installs an LE cert: https://blog.cpanel.com/announcing-cpanel-whms-official-lets...