skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My take on the article and in particular the quote that I referenced in my original post is that the author does not think memory is stored in the way that you and I think it is. The way I think of the brain working with regard to memory is analogous to how computers store information. I’m unable to model it in any other way. But then there’s the quote in the article that even if I had a snapshot of the brain at time t I would not be able to reconstruct something meaningful without knowing the history of that brain’s owner.

I don’t know enough to understand how that is possible or why someone knowledgeable about this stuff thinks this. I have basically the same conception of the brain and how it works as you do. But I’m confronted with the fact that a person far more knowledgeable than me thinks otherwise. It is that fact that causes me to persist in my view with caution. The author may be a crank. I don’t know.
If there's anything I'd take from this article, it's techniques to avoid meeting cultures; there's far too many people that want to book an hour long block for a meeting about a thing that can be decided on in five. I think meeting culture is a form of decision anxiety - have we considered all the facts? What if I'm wrong? Is everyone aware that this is happening?

It was really quite bad at my previous assignment. I'm in a much smaller setting now and I'm really trying to avoid it from becoming a thing. If someone asks you for a meeting, always consider if you can discuss it right there and then.

For a lot of people, discussing it right there and then is already an issue because they're spending what little time they have in between meetings to coordinate other meetings. That is, they don't have five minutes to talk about a five minute thing because they have a meeting in five minutes.
To give you something to bikeshed
Japan has fantastic zoning laws. Here's[0] a great blog post about it.

[0]http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html
Algorithms using AES intrinsics are generally fastest at all key sizes now. For small keys, the AquaHash[0] algorithm is extremely fast, and several algorithms (e.g. MeowHash[1] and the aforementioned AquaHash) are essentially at the hardware limits for large keys. Algorithms like wyhash are useful for things like embedded CPUs without AES support, but if you are targeting x86/ARM then AES is often a better choice.

[0] https://github.com/jandrewrogers/AquaHash
[1] https://github.com/cmuratori/meow_hash
Depends on where you live. If tap water is of poor quality, bottled water is most likely better, and there are still many countries in the world where tap water is not really suitable for drinking.

But in countries that prioritise clean tap water, it's considered a fundamental right and a public health issue, and tap water is often held to a higher standard than bottled water, which is more of a luxury product than an essential.
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If it pass I will have to close my small podcast hosting services just to avoid any legal issues.
Unless it changed in the three years since I left the field: no it's not. We tended to write stuff like 'genetically modified'. If one of my students would've written 'hacked' in a paper, I would've told them to change it.
I don't know what Estonia does, but there are ways to publish the votes in a secure way
that prevents anyone from decrypting a single vote, but lets anyone verify their vote was correctly counted using their own secret key.

httpp://news.mit.edu/2009/rivest-voting

Of course you need monitors
from all interested parties to prevent ballot stuffing, but that's true in every election. It's up to monitors to read the voter list and verify that (probabilistically) there are no/few fake voters on it.
> misinformed rant

Only siphash fans would say that, and they are very misinformed about the false recommendations from their paper. Prove me wrong.
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That seems like a weird definition of wealth. Is Bill Gates relatively poor by the same argument because his enormous investment in assets he ultimately controls dwarfs his personal consumption? If you have $100 million sitting in a bank account you never touch you still own at least $100 million.
what else you need to establish the fact that 737 Max worth to be grounded for a full investigation?

With all my respect, this is an opinion, not a fact. A fact has to be proven beyond any reasonable doubt. Here it's just "likely to be true" at best.
I know a few people who are eating bananas like crazy since they found out about it.
Why Integrations Are Crucial for Enterprise Software
Nicotine has many beneficial properties: increasing cognition and IQ, as a mood stabilizer, as a stimulant, while also helping prevent dementia and Parkinson's disease.
But not having to think about typing reduces your cognitive load. Touch typing as a coder isn't about speed, it's about freeing your mind from having to think about your fingers.
Thanks! I knew ripgrep was praised in particular for its performance but I didn't know the difference was that large. The repo I usually work in has 8.7M lines of code and I had been finding `git grep` performance very adequate (I use it in combination with the Emacs helm library where it forms part of an incremental search UI, and hence gets called multiple times in quick succession in response to changing search input.) It looks like it will be fun to try swapping in ripgrep as the helm search backend; I'll try it.
Giphy open-sources their custom celeb detection deep-learning model
The article claims in so many words that a software developer is not just a full time programmer on a scrum team, but also coding Data Scientists, SysAdmins, and business analysts using Python et al. That is not objectionable to me.

However, there is a reference to someone creating a Gmail filter being a software developer; in that case, I would disagree as A) that is more akin to configuring features of the software rather than creating new functionality.
Wow now that's a convincing argument.
Debit card with built-in fingerprint reader begins trial in the UK
Antibiotics I believe would best be valued as "magic/miracle" in the distant past.
Still not applicable to Trump because the U.S. Congress has power of the purse, not the President.
It seems to be whitened, so as long as there is some random information, it will produce good random numbers (but maybe slowly).

The idea is cool: like how to get a random flips out of a biased coin, as long as each flip is independent. You flip the coin twice, repeatedly for as long as you obtain two equal results. Upon your first encounter of two different results, you map (tails,head) to tails and (head,tails) to head. That way you obtain an unbiased toss.
Careful with unintended consequences. More people will go for the much more impactful cheeseburger or cookie bag if fruit becomes less convenient.
> Different releases tend to vary greatly in terms of stability.

Second that. Had great and worse times with Kdenlive.

My general feeling: KDE software tends to be more unstable (i.e. crash or freeze more frequently) then GNOME software. But they have in general more features. Just compare the KDE office suite, Calligra, against OpenOffice (which is however not related to GNOME). It is amazing at what speed KDE software moves, in general.
I'd be really interested to know more about your setup and processes if you're running Swarm in production? For example, how do you handle rolling updates?
I can second the use of audacity for sound editing in Kdenlive. I found it pretty stable though (2018).
Some people see only the cuteness, but other see key species.

Top predators are a very important part of the modulation of the ecosystem and recover much more slowly than fishes or algae. Is an indicator that something is going wrong. We are also very close to then in the trofic chain so, when there is something in the fish that is killing big mammals, we have a problem also.
Welcome to the Entropics: Boot-Time Entropy in Embedded Devices [pdf]
There's evidence that nicotine is more addictive in the presence of MAOIs, which are absent in e-cigs.
How do you reconcile your opinions state here with @clouddrover's comment, posted earlier than yours, stating the Toyota and Panasonic are entering a joint venture also?
Thanks for your honest response. I appreciate!
There's a big selection effect, I would imagine - if you are "old money" and start doing the kind of flouting your wealth that "new money" folks would do, pretty soon you won't be "old money" anymore.
Most people that use either Emacs or Vim for serious programming use extensions that implement code completion.
Electronic votes can be secured cryptographically. Votes can be counted per precinct instead of centrally, and then summed. The security factors of paper voting can be replicated electronically.

"The authority might just lie about the count or throw away or counterfeit votes, or coerce voters other vote a certain way" is not solved by paper voting either, as seen in Russia and many other places.
This critique is one of rhetoric - which is not what McLuhan meant in the concept contained in that quote at all.

Your complaint seems to be that the use of a sexual metaphor affects the ethos of the speaker in the eyes of some.

That metaphor is part of the message, regardless of whether or not you like it.
I have a quite good book on the shelves on the very same subject, but I am unable to locate it at present.

For a slightly wider take, Arthur C. Clarke's "How the world was one" is a most readable account of how telecommunications has made the world smaller, starting with the first submarine cables, proceeding with satellites (of course he would!) before devoting a section to fibre optics at the end. Brilliant account.
Consider:

- 8 hours of work (a generous estimate).

- 4 to 6 hours of parenting (between children's wake time in the morning and the evening).

- Commute time? Is she driving? Public transit? Other? We'll neglect this.

- 3 hours on study (an hour per day per semester hour).

With a two hour commute, that's a 19 hour day. Without, 17 hours.

That leaves no room for other daily necessities, though those could be built into the 4 to 6 hours of parenting time? I don't know. Alls I have to parent is a dog, and she's pretty low maintenance.

Now, suppose she front-loads her decision making onto those lists a la the Getting Things Done method. Then, she doesn't have to put much thought in to what next for this or that thing?. She can just look at her list for whatever thing, see what's next, and do it.

[edit] I think what she claims she is doing is possible, I just don't "have what it takes". I'm not even sure "what it takes". [/edit]

Personally, I struggle with focus, energy, and decision making. I've tried lists, and other things. Sometimes I think it is a discipline issue, other times I think its diet, lack of exercise, or maybe even my semi-regular sleep schedule. I'm not really sure, and I'm too tired to figure it out.

I see or hear of other people who perform at this "three full time commitments" thing and I wonder at what I'm doing with my life that leaves me so far behind.
How to optimize your product using free tools in 2019
Vote results are always really close to pre-election poll results. You can't really manipulate the results too much unless you somehow prohibit polling.
Yes man, was fun to build it. But I pussied out with the layout etching and ordered them custom etched from ebay as a service. During high school I would have done it myself.

BTW, Do you have an up to date software. I remember I run into trouble the last time I tried to use it.

Great project. Thanks a lot.
This is ggplot. It's not a good example of what it's like to use R in general. I sorely wish there was a well-maintained ggplot for Python because the library is excellent but the language is terrible.
Are you blocked by the rules of your upbringing in your WebRTC application?
Thanks. Today I learned people could play 3D games (Quake2) at 25 fps at 1152x864 resolution (Nvidia TNT GPU, K6-2 300 Mhz CPU).

It would be interesting to know how other computing technologies looked like 20 years ago. Is there any good place to find that online?
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Fully agree. Also the rest of the article has questionable advice. I doubt the helpfulness of later lists and anti todo lists. Not answering the phone or pretending to be incompetent sounds like an idiotic idea too.
I strongly suspect most residents of Northern Ireland would take umbrage at the word "occupied"
True, but for a finite-tape machine, the possible outcomes include 'ran out of tape'. Also, for any finite-tape machine, there is a finite-tape machine that computes whether the first halts, runs out of tape, or runs forever.
There used to be less sensitivity to the receive-side time by exchanges, but in many cases there had been an emphasis on fairness and high res timestamps (they sell colocation services). Now, many times the first through the post wins. This creates a constant arms race and narrows the field to a handful of competitors. Many companies that survived in the fat tail can no longer do so.
Heya, I really like it :) Like the top comment currently though I have a hard time with the font. Everything else seems great!
Mobile Radiation Standards to Be Relaxed Ahead of 5G Roll-Out
That'd be a lot of money for an aquihire. Are you aware of any other aquihire's in the billion dollar range?
No problem, I'm sorry for the confusion. I think your use case might be solved by this approach:

https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-faq.html#how-do-i-implement-g...
This is a great demonstration and shows the bit that finally clicked with me. When you learn to wield these tools you'll be considered a wizard by many when you're able to make beautiful plots in seconds.
You're jumping around this thread spamming rabid defenses of Tesla, apparently too quickly to realize that the parent commenter actually agreed with you.
The parent sounds correct. One can have an extensive test suite and still turn out a product that is useless to the customer. These are 2 entirely separate concerns: testing is sanity checking that the code does what it is written to do, user validation is sanity checking that the code is actually useful to a customer (which most certainly cannot be automated or programmed).
> I'm actually not aware of another one that uses proxy files on Linux..

FYI, Blender can user proxy files, although I don't think there is an option to automatically create the proxies when you add a video clip.
Would be nice to find the microbe that converts plastic to plants.
No way. Xilinx is way too expensive already.
Political Dynamics of 2019 Lok Sabha Election, More Than What Meets the Eye
This is an important point so I will repeat it. Maybe somebody in the area has info about what is happening with sea birds?
The issue (can Polynesian navigators navigate by stars and swells) was actually settled and documented in 1967. See http://naturedocumentaries.org/14031/master-navigators-pacif...

Curiously, all it took was going to Polynesia, and asking them. Something 18th and 19th-century 'scientists' could not imagine doing I guess.
No. Parent talking about how they didn't have plagues. Just a note that we're moving back in that direction.
Screencaps are trivial to counterfeit. Every computer has a screen cap editor.

Someone with a paper ballot can photograph their ballot with a phone of spycam, to prove their vote to a buyer.
> it's a whole bunch of angry people arguing about Electron sucking, about why the app is 100mb, about how C++ and Qt would be better

FWIW, KDE Plasma already has something similar to Lofi that I use daily https://i.imgur.com/uVAnf7p.png . Works out of the box :)

Under the hood it uses MPRIS to talk to the Spotify Linux app. So it works with all native music players, and even YouTube running in your browser! https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/05/kde-plasma-5-13-features...
“Our First Video Game. Development with Unity. Part 1”
It certainly might have been possible for them to reach Brazil, if they had set off in the right direction and could weather any storms.

I wonder, though, if Mali would have found the place as hostile as Vikings found North America.
"Normal" people don't know that kinda stuff.. Let's be honest, they make many of their assumptions from TV and Movies - and often those disaster movies focus on the world grinding to a halt because "the satellite network is down" (I do the same with other industries!)
What people are forgetting here is that the 737 Max is an airplane that is designed to make flying more miserable even if you survive the flight. The common seat layout of the Max 8 squeezes in more rows for a worse experience.

Compare the 737 to the Embrarer 175 - the Embrarer is a much smaller plane but it has an elliptical fuselage so that you can stand up comfortably in it and also not get a crick
in your neck from being inside a too-small circle.

Many words have been written on the flying experience getting worse, but not enough have been written on the 737. Not too long ago you could find a decent plane like a 757 on a major route in the U.S. (say JFK to LAX) but now you have to squeeze yourself into a 737 sardine can, breathe toxic fumes, etc. It's just awful. But you only hear about it when they are hell-bent on re-engining a plane which isn't tall enough to fit a high-bypass engine and then they have to do all kinds of crazy things to make it fit.

Boeing had a chance to do a clean-sheet design of the 737 but they didn't and now Embrarer is going to eat their lunch.
You're mental.

LOL HN
Unfortunately for screencast videos where you record your desktop and maybe overlay a webcam kdenlive is really really bad compared to alternatives available on Windows and Mac such as Camtasia / Screenflow.

It's one of the reasons why I continue to stick with Windows. Kdenlive feels like it's 10 years behind Camtasia in terms of UI polish and being able to accomplish simple tasks like put a little tooltip overlay on the screen and make it look reasonable.

I think a lot of people who say kdenlive is good haven't tried Camtasia, or have created enough videos to really figure out kdenlive's shortcomings. I'm coming at this from the POV of creating 400 videos and have spent over 1,000 hours hardcore editing these videos.

I don't want to tear it down too much because it's one of the better screencast video editing tools on Linux but if your profession involves creating screencast videos, you're going to be majorly disappointed compared to Camtasia (or Screenflow). Enough to where you'll probably abort the idea of using Linux even if you're primarily a developer.

I wish I could throw money at the kdenlive devs and wake up tomorrow with a video editor that was as good as Camtasia.
I may be misinterpreting your question, but it seems as though you're equating the average worker's retirement fund investments to what the GP was most likely referring to: large investors who compose what we commonly refer to as the "ownership class" and who are most certainly engaged in a perverse form of wealth hording at the cost of any apparent negative externalities. The two classes of investor are not remotely similar and cannot be judged by the same standards. It would be best if all investors (present company included) insisted on environmentally and socially ethical standards as a precondition for investment, but what does that have to do with the observation that such focus seems particularly critical for the largest players to adopt ASAP?
A new tactic? People have been smoking cigarettes in movies forever, for a couple reasons.

1) Stylistically, it looks cool and makes great shots. The light going through the smoke, the burning sound of the inhale.

2) It tells us something about the character and their value systems and their psychological state. Maybe they have a devil-may-care attitude, maybe they are under distress.

3) It gives an excuse for characters to stand and talk. It also is an excuse for a character to be alone is silent contemplation while also doing something the audience can see (smoking). Without cigarettes, both of this situations feel more contrived and less natural.
Content is never deleted from the AUR, so any PKGBUILD can be retrieved.
That means my real vote might not get counted, thanks to the random deadline.
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> Israel doesn't occupy the Gaza Strip

Well, except for the airspace and territorial waters, and enforcing it's security zone on the Gaza side of the Oslo Accord demarcation line.
This is interesting.

Mellanox has apparently been under activist investor pressure to reduce their R&D expenses and pay more dividends. And then there was the rumors that Intel were interested, but apparently Nvidia in the end offered more.

From a HPC perspective I think it's good Nvidia got the deal, Intel is already a quite dominating force in that market, and if they'd have gotten the deal it wouldn't have surprised me if they would just have sunsetted it in favor of their own Omni-Path (which they could then develop at a leisurely pace due to lack of competition).

Though as I have mentioned before, I do wonder about the long-term prospects for Infiniband as a technology. Modern high-end ethernet does many of the same things with RDMA (RoCE), though I believe IB still has a latency advantage. And multipathing with ethernet is weird, seems both Trill and SPB are kind of dead, and most players seem to do multipathing at the L3 level (which might not be good for latency?). And in contrast to ethernet, IB is pretty much a single-player technology nowadays, so is the market big enough to bear the R&D costs to keep developing it?