skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any plan to expose the Megolm session rotation parameters in the room configuration (I only just found out about them by reading the spec)? As an aside, I just tested setting the rotation parameters in an empty room, with key rotation set to every 5 messages, and the session_id was the same for all of my messages -- is Megolm rotation implemented in Riot?
so you accept that you are a simple man and don't wish to impress anyone?
The Times article on McKinsey that this post refers to is currently being discussed on the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19198776

It seems that this article should be part of that existing discussion, not a separate discussion, since they'd cover mostly the same topics.

(This article is also findable as a "Related Coverage" link from the main article.)
Reading the examples on that blog post, it almost seems like someone has trained an ML to turn out dreck and is hiring it out on fiverr as a ghost writer.
"surely you don't earnestly believe that affirmative action is intended to mitigate inherent racial inferiorities (or do you?)."

Of course, I don't. That's not what I've been saying at all!
No matter what it appears to your point of view.

The common good is optimized when the best people, regardless of their skin color, occupy the positions they deserve in all fields of professional activity.

The common good is also optimized by openly and fairly having these discussions, in a way that pushes people to see each other's point of view, hence pushing all sides towards the middle.

It is a way to prevent the election of extremists in high positions of power who then polarize us even further apart.
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Would you mind quickly explaining what you guys mean? Sorry, I'd love to improve it but I'm not sure I get it. If you had a bunch of bubbles for each square and piece etc. wouldn't you be taking up much more space than 5 boxes? And it's also a huge notation change for everyone
Video should be posted at http://www.cvent.com/events/nanog-75/custom-116-948222eca583... eventually.
Yes. This is the same argument that audio nuts make for analog recording. It's known to be bogus. (Yes, 16-bit CD audio has resolution problems for soft passages, and early filters for the sampling rate were not too good. We're past that.)

One of the few concrete examples of a complex analog computer system still used in recent decades was the F-16 flight control system. It's a four channel fly by wire stabilization and control system, all analog. It was, at the time, the most advanced flight control system, and it's still well thought of. That's from the 1970s, and modernized F-16s use a digital replacement.

For several decades, full authority digital flight control systems were disfavored in aerospace because there were no analysis techniques to be sure they were bug free. There are ways to analyze an analog computer system to be sure that the test case set is sufficient, and that behavior will be smooth continuous between the test case points. Eventually that problem was solved for digital flight control systems, and now everybody goes digital.
An aside to the extension itself, but this makes me nostalgic for the days when browser extensions like this were commonplace. Today I don't even watch Netflix through a browser (I have a Roku and Android TV at home, and will very rarely watch on my iOS phone), and this kind of project simply isn't possible there.

I do understand the reasons why this is the case and don't have any proposals for how it could be meaningfully fixed, but still, I miss that bygone era of customisation.
You can do anything until you get caught. However, I think there are many companies that exist in the realm of "data aggregation", likely walk a fine line though.
So your reasoning goes that if I leave the front door to my home open, it would still be more secure if it had steel bars on the windows?
I was able to briefly look at this and it feels very square and sharp. Maybe implementing UX/UI design patterns would make the landing page flow more and overall more appealing.
> it must complement it with an accurate general representation of the training set

This in particular smells off, it sounds magical. This could only work when the sort of general representations the network knows how to complement with already match the data.
> The problem people have with "self-made success" trope is that the self-made success story of someone with severe disadvantages is being equated, on an astoundingly regular basis, with the success of people with substantial advantages. That's how Bill Gates and Arnold Schwarzenegger are both dubbed "self-made" successes, despite their rather different histories.

They are both self-made success stories. Schwarzenegger even moreso than Gates.

> Even worse, it is being used to justify, defend and perpetuate inequality, by convincing everyone that the American Dream is that "anyone can make it". After all, if such-and-such person coming from dirt poor origins could become wildly successful, anyone can. Therefore, we must strive at all costs to avoid removing "incentives" that motivate people to reach for that elusive success.

Anyone can make it. Not everyone can be Bill Gates or Arnold Schwarzenegger, but it is abundantly clear that anyone willing to put in the time and effort can make it into a well compensated profession. Software engineering, medicine, law, these are all things that an average person willing to dedicate themselves can learn and excel at. If you come from nothing, i'd say getting into any of those professions more than qualifies for "making it".
I'm getting flashbacks of Baby Rudin's first chapter from this comment :)

For anyone who wants to learn more about this: what the parent comment is describing is the construction of natural numbers as cardinalities of sets. This is the (modified) Frege definition which avoids Russell's paradox - you can use that as a jumping off point for further dives into set theory and number systems.

To define Peano arithmetic you start with a successor function, then an addition function, then multiplication, etc.
> What even is a number?

It's a category. 1 is the category of singletons, 2 is the category of pairs, etc.

As to what numbers are, they're an ordered collection of categories.

Edit: To whoever downvoted this comment, kindly explain. Insofar as I'm aware this is textbook maths, psychology, and philosophy.
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.dev meh. I would dig an .api tld.
Many products have a key person. It's not really surprising.
At least this makes sense. Perhaps calling it a fractal is an unnecessary spin, but if it is linbaity enough to cover the spaceship theory I'm in.

More than a fractal, it is better to imagine it as a pile of recently fallen snow is a day with the correct climate (cold?), so the snow accumulates but it doesn't compact too much. So the density is much smaller than the density of ice that has been in a glaciar for years under a lot of pressure. Since the gravity is too low, it will no compact too much.

The main difference is that it's not a pile of real snowflakes, ut a pile of dust "snowflakes". Otherwise, the ice in the real snowflakes would have been partially evaporated by the sun and it will be classified as a comet.

Anyway, it would be interesting to read more technical details about the plausibility of this. Can the dust pile survive the micrometeorites? Does the color profile match a dust pile object. I really don't like the starship hypothesis paper, but at least it contains a good analysis of many of the (secondary) objections.
That's cool! I'd opt for Minetest (a good open source clone of Minecraft) instead of Legos.
This is a really neat project. I noted in the discussion that by rotating with end tip motive power you eliminate the need for stiffening the wing, however doesn't this increase the need for better tensile strength along the wing? (in order to prevent it from pulling itself apart, something "regular" wings don't get a lot of stress on).

Also, in typical rotor craft the lift is highest on the outer edge of the rotor and least in the center where the airfoil speed is slowest. Does that affect where you put the payload? Is it on the edges of the wing or still in the center? At the center, if the wing is supported by the centripetal force of the wingtip motor's angular momentum, there is a huge torque in the middle if you pull it down. (much like pulling down on a suspended cable). How much deflection before you have the same problem as the stiffened wings of current efforts?
Well, please, don't do that, or assume bad faith, it's counter-guidelines.

On the actual topic at hand, even assuming this technology finds its way into the hands of police forces (racism or not), what's the use case? People hiding in sewers and drainage pipes? Natural cave systems? Underground mall networks in urban environments? The item with the most potential for invasion of privacy in the article is the ground-penetrating radar (when pointed sideways at houses), but that has already been around for a few years, and there is both literature and case law on police using radar in that capacity.
Free in the sense that there is no initial up-front cost (compared to the pre-sale pricing). Everything else is an initial dollar amount ($11,500, $3,500, $1,150, etc.) in addition to the $12 maintenance cost. After February 28th, there is no up-front cost but there is still a maintenance cost.
> If you post a note regarding a health issue here, you will get advice, likely involving keto nowadays.

Does this mean this behavior should be considered acceptable, or that criticizing such behavior should be considered above criticism?

> is a lot of weight to expect a random techy internet forum thread to bear,

It is also weight to engage in it by providing unsolicited advice. By choosing to engage with the heavy subject, people can choose to engage with their engagement. This is normal human interaction regardless of its weight.

> it clearly risks frustration, right?

Is that for you to decide? I like to believe Shakna is intelligent enough to choose to engage in what they please, even if they are frustrated by it. It isn't my place to judge or advise them, and I'm frankly entirely uninterested in engaging with them about how frustrated they're allowed to get. I'm more interested in engaging with you about how much you should get to tell Shakna how they should react while reacting yourself.
Hopefully that would solve that issue, but there's also the matter of someone being senior enough to be able to understand the direction of a project, set it, etc. Basically, you need to be able to trust every single one of the maintainers to have commit access on your project, with everything that entails.

For completely abandoned projects, it may not matter as much, but for projects that just need more eyes/hands, it's a larger consideration.
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It is a necessary but not sufficient condition. In determining whether someone is self-made, you'd want to examine conditions like that. That being said, it is absolutely not the case that it "does nothing" to show it's not down to luck. Filtering by that criteria substantially increases the probability of someone being 'self-made'.
It doesn’t say to master all those things...in fact that’s the opposite of his point, which is to be reasonably competent at a lot of things rather than being helpless without a specialist around. Heinlein’s characters are (sometimes hilariously) self-sufficient, but respectful of true expertise.
LOC means ‘loss of consciousness’ in my industry, but I do t think that fits. What is it here?
I read this article, a very interesting topic. I want to add that the era of the essay came decades ago and the same will last. I have always appreciated this type of study, but it was difficult to write on my own. I used the service for writing https://gpalabs.com/coursework-writing.html. Over time, I got used to using the help of professionals and began to accumulate the skills and knowledge that I received during my work with them. Now it is much easier for me to write such essays, and I am eternally grateful for such a lesson that I will remember for many years
When I get to the page I quickly want to see 3 things:

1. What is it?

> A place to share thoughts, ideas, and opinions, using video!

What kind of place? Website? App? Why is video at the end if that's the (presumably) unique feature?

2. How will it make my life better?

No clue.

3. What do I do now?

Get notified on release isn't bad but what about "Get On The List" or something to make it seem more exclusive?
Apologies, I tend to use private equity for all private fund investments, which isn't technically accurate. Thanks for the clarification.
I am a beneficiary of this hedge fund so I may be biased, but I feel pretty confident that there is not much conflict of interest going on. As has been attested to by multiple people on this, and other, threads, there is very little proprietary information sharing between teams at McKinsey. In fact, once you work for certain clients, you are automatically barred from working for others. I was once privy to a situation where a consultant working with a different client, unknowingly, shared some proprietary information with the team I was working on. I saw the extent to which the partners freaked out and tried to correct the situation. Of course, there are examples of people violating this trust (people will be people) but there have not been any examples of structural violations (ie the firm designed processes that encouraged or tolerated unethical practices)

It does McKinsey, as a firm, very little good if their clients' business goes down in flames. They, obviously, cannot bet against their clients (it would be catastrophic to their core business if this was ever publicly disclosed) and so they can only bet with their clients, even if they (unethically and possibly illegally) used their clients proprietary information to trade.

It feels to me that there are some corporations that newspapers can just bash confident that most of their readers will nod along without applying much critical thinking. I understand the skepticism. I used to share it before I got to see the inner workings of organizations like this. There is much to criticize about organizations like McKinsey but violating clients' trust is not one of them.

One last argument against the insider trading inference, the results I have seen, while good, are not indicative of what is possible if smart people were truly trying to take advantage of their knowledge of the inner workings of the largest corporations in the world.
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A faceted classification system sounds pretty unnecessary in this context. I'd like it if I were looking for a new book to buy, but I really can't see ever using it on my existing library. At that point I already know the specific book I want to read and just want to find it.
Oprah Winfrey is the best example of self-made success.

Black woman born to an unwed single teenage mother, grew up in the projects to a billionaire.
There have been some outstanding wines produced in California. I know they exist but I haven't tasted them since they are way outside of my price range.

But for $15 / €12, you can buy excellent wines in France. In the US at that price range, it is extremely rare to find good wines. Just like strawberries, it's about the appearance (the bottle, the label, the name) and not the flavor.
That’s a poor excuse

EDIT I would add that at least with adb its not the only option. Android is a reasonably open and flexible and open experience and there are lots of different ways you can manage your device. The iPhone for better or worse is locked down, the least Apple could do is provide something better than the lousy piece of crap that is iTunes.
Buddy, it is state censorship if they are calling for regulatory oversight of Youtube, Facebook, Gab etc. Which is exactly what papers like the NYTimes and Guardian (and others) are promoting in the last few days.

BTW it ain't flat earthers and lizard people believers that frighten them, bruh, it's people who question fabricated Syrian gassing, (and the bbc fraud regarding the same), babies in incubators (and the MIC that fabricated that lie), Iraqi WMD (NYTimes Judith Miller - leading to millions of dead), and the global warming religion. THOSE are the REAL targets of this media campaign.
Gets me thinking. Back space, I can see arguments for it being +1, 0, -1 or -2?
The very first image is a very staged photo that seems like it is sort of supposed to seem like it is not staged.... and yet obviously is. The text really isn't about what the title implies. The whole thing feels fabricated to give a very specific vibe, and finishes up with "Come backstage, where we share an honest look into building Canny."

Nothing about it seems honest...
I'm surprised they only tested latency and not throughput. Path differences should affect available bandwidth.
I've had great success tracking my team, and my team's time, by the day. On the level of "I'm working on project A, project A is now done and I'm now working on project B." It's obviously imperfect but it's good enough to prevent the edge cases, e.g. somebody spending a month on something low priority.
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Are you reading the other comments in this thread? I see people making that argument in this very comment's section. I wish that they weren't. Certainly he had advantages that other kids didn't have, and both he and society should acknowledge that. But it doesn't take away a whole lot from what he's accomplished, IMO.
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it's being super super slow for me, otherwise, cool idea
I built up a similar extension to show MPAA rating on Douban and Zhihu. Though the extension is in Chinese, I setup a server to host all movies data to avoid the requests limit of omdbapi. Updating backend data frequently is definitely a hard job to do. I could guess why omdbapi is asking for support on patreon. Here's the extension link, if you don't mind I post it here :) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mpaa-%E7%94%B5%E5%...
What if 'enough' is not time-based? What if you just have to make sure that new versions are deployed and the service stays up and isn't being hacked? If you can do that with 2 days/week, more power to you. Or maybe you put 6 days/week in at the outset, as an investment so that in a few months you'll be able to work a lot less?
Perhaps I missed it, but the point of the article seems to be that eventually a complex "neuro" computer will be to complicated to understand and produce unaccountable results. The Author makes a few poor assumptions about analog vs digital computing and seems to ramble a lot, but ultimately, his main point doesn't have much to do with either.
You misunderstand the Monroe Doctrine. It was a policy of anti-colonialism in Latin America, supporting independent states free from European rule.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine
RT is owned by Warner and Universal. IMDB is owned by Amazon. I find it hard to believe user scores aren’t massaged when required when the parent companies are spending billions on creating movies/TV.

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Sorry, couldn't get past the arrogant know-it-all writing style. "With almost anything in life, there's a right way to do things and a wrong way." Is that so, Socrates? I'd say the opposite, with almost anything in life there are complex and subtle tradeoffs and many good alternatives. Absolute, black-and-white thinking (and writing) is comforting but narrowminded.
Makes me wonder who _actually_ is...
This post has a clickbait title that is changed from the original title of the page, against HN guidelines.
Nobody in the CSS-in-JS world is disputing that a global theme is useful, just that having no choice but to have all your selectors be global is not so great.
"Are you authorized to work in the United States?"

This is good enough. Citizenship is sufficient but not necessary. And of course, you can ask for citizenship if it is a bona fide job qualification (e.g. ITAR).
>>"I believe the cloud computing vision came from Andy Jassy...Equally impressive since Jassy isn't really a technologist either."

And it shows that he's not a technologist. No plan B for when it rains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC2AZAxBQAo

(to be fair 51% of US people https://www.businessinsider.com/people-think-stormy-weather-... believe that too)

;)
There's something about people's ability to attribute doing something to everything .... except what actually allowed for someone to do that thing ;)
I believe that in fact the numbers do exist as physical objects exist. Just in their own universe.

How is it any different than believing that unicorns exist as physical objects, just in their own universe?

What we call "physical existence" could...just be "math all the way down".

Or, math is also a number of simplified alternate views of reality of varying degrees of "applicability." (Where "applicability" has to do with predictive power over reality.)
I don't know that this theory is any "weirder" than an alien spacecraft, but it's certainly more plausible.
Underscore and Lodash are obvious examples. I don't know if the project maintainers' stated purpose is specifically that, but they are clearly creating big libraries of common utilities. And, surprise surprise, two extremely common problems with frontend NPM projects are: 1) unintentionally importing the entire library instead of the few functions you use, and 2) having many different versions of the libraries in your output bundle because of other dependencies.

Hence things like this exist:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/babel-plugin-lodash

https://www.npmjs.com/package/lodash-webpack-plugin
I wouldn’t boast about writing software that “falls apart” by merely not having you around. Not exactly a high quality bar.
Me too... Working with Azure daily, this is surprising. Although I suspect I am experiencing slowdowns on storage rather than network.
And really, how many people "need" "the best"?
> Assuming a size for 'Oumuamua of 50 – 130 meters, what they get is a very low density: About 0.00005 grams per cc.

Do we have example of naturally ocurring space object with such low density?

Half-close? Quarter-close?
The idea it is a fractal structure is not weirder than the idea it is possibly an alien probe sent over the course of hundreds of thousands of years to pass by our Goldilocks-zoned planet for observation.

Does anyone know more about the initiatives by Yuri Milner with respect to this? I heard something like he is helping fund satellites that could specifically be better at looking at 'Oumuamua than our current means?
Ah, fudge, yep.

I remember people complaining about the .dev tld for this reason. Many people have it routed locally.
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Thanks, I saw that after writing my comment.

It seems Vue is definitely the simpler choice to write reactive components in projects without a build chain.
> You are few, and, objectively the cost to the stakeholders (inhabitants of Earth) is disproportionate to the benefit to the shareholders

That's a different claim, and I agree with it. In fact, the entire point of my comments in this thread is that I want environmental regulations that internalize all the costs of energy usage.
There isn't a difference, except that Spotify can drop you as a customer. Which is what they're doing. Which is fine.

The debate in this thread is not "what can you technically do?", but rather "who has the moral high ground?"
One option which I have not seen mentioned here yet is to use a platform independent API with a platform optimized implementation. i.e. if your operations can be expressed in terms of BLAS primitives, then ATLAS can give you a good part of the benefit of hand optimized code, without much of the hassle: http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net