skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually I am quite happy for paedophilia to be punished (or rather child abuse / rape in case there is some distinction between fantasy and acting upon it)

but the main point I am making is that these platforms all have significant pressure to "tackle paedophilia" - and while they do offer a novel approach (there was a reference recently in wired showing tracking the time spent watching family videos by people wildly outside of the family network (ie usually a video of a kid dancing in a tutu is seen by 30/50 people. When views hit 10,000 there is something to investigate)

But in the end "tackling paedophilia" is not something we can offload to the AI in youtube - it's a massive social cost and so a massive social investment.
Something some prominent Linux programmers -- not naming names but one of them rhymes with Cuisinart Buttering -- would do well to keep in mind.
Sounds like Reagan's "Star Wars"/SDI program all over again - I thought that got left behind from my grade school days. Sigh.
I'm curious as to how much golang is even used inside Google itself, since they actually have to write maintainable code that does nontrivial stuff, and not follow the latest fads
You're right. The owner/driver has to approve the update, if I recall. But putting responsibility to review and understand release notes on the car's owner seems kind of absurd. And that's assuming that you have accurate and descriptive release notes, which was most certainly not the case for the described instance. In any case, clicking "update" is such a rote behavior for users on computers, phones, and now their Teslas, I'd argue that it's effectively no different than an update happening without notice or user intervention.

There's only so much you can learn from even the best release notes, period. The ever-so-common "bug fixes," for example, is so broad that it effectively means nothing at all. At best, it's telling the end user "this little update just changes some stuff hidden under the hood. You won't notice anything, so don't give it any thought."
Similarly, there's probably a ~€2.5 bn line item in the EU budget that reads "misc. Google fines". ;)
Apart from how great this tool looks, I love that the example song is about Drizzt and Cattie-brie. Those two deserve some ballads! :)
That’s boring. Any algorithm can be constant time if you’re allowed to fail after a constant amount of work.
I lookup up "vendee rebellion" in Google (which it suggested after I got to the 2nd "e" in "vendee"): About 136,000 results (0.57 seconds)

This is hardly white-washed from history. Quillette's ignorance is showing. Yes, the Vendee rebellion and subsequent massacre(s) probably didn't appear in the writer's High School history text book, but a lot of stuff didn't. Armenian Genocide of 1915, anyone? Anything other than "manifest destiny" about Native American's fate?
I think you're using a strange definition of p<x here. p<0.01 does not mean that the phenomena is perfectly understood, merely the likelihood that some independent variable affects some dependent variable in some direction.

For example, global weather is a hugely complex system which is far from fully understood. Let's take an incredibly simple predictive model of temperature: Still, even with the most simplistic model, say, predict the current temperature by just predicting the average temperature for the current season. That's not going to be very accurate, but if you run it for a year it will almost certainly be p<.01.
I’m really excited to look into some of the publishing and community-based features that might be possible. I’m not sure I would want to tackle tab hosting on the scale that UG does, but it’s definitely not out of the question.

Thanks for the feedback!
Matches user reports like https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42888024/git-bash-mintty...
Wars are fought and won with psychology every day. Only fairly trivial “big army” wars are possible today.
'Flat Earthers' Planning Bizarre Antarctica Trip to Prove Planet's Shape
I despise the attitude of this reporter. Showing up unannounced in this place without doing research, and not having enough supplies to survive. It seems arrogant that the community you impose yourself upon will take you in and support your gallivanting around their homes.
I have a cheap bidet similar to this https://www.amazon.com/Luxe-Bidet-Neo-180-Non-Electric/dp/B0... and I LOVE IT! It takes about 10 seconds to clean, and only takes 1 wipe to dry.

There are fancier models that have a built-in blow dryer so you wouldn't even need to dry at all, but they require an outlet near the toilet.
> Even OO languages can be message passing.

IIRC, Kay said message passing was the essential feature of his conception of OOP in the first place, which was subsequently ignored by most—so 'even OO languages' may be slightly misleading ;)

(Someone please correct me if I'm mistaken about this.)
Ah, apparently you have met my son and all his friends. Getting any of them to be passionate about anything but YouTube and PlayStations seems all but impossible.
Hahah I was wondering if anyone would enjoy the reference. Thanks for checking it out =}
Most “improperly” prepared sushi is not intentionally aiming for something new, but is just mediocre (or bad, depending on your standards), I would guess typically because the chef doesn’t know what they are doing, or maybe because the restaurant is cutting corners to save time/money. Poorly prepared rice is usually the most obvious problem.

Imagine you order a medium rare steak and it’s overcooked and much too salty. If you criticized it you wouldn’t expect someone to say “well maybe it’s not traditional, but don’t be a snob”.
Gall's Law applies to the security part of a project too. A complex security subsystem needs to evolve from a simpler security subsystem. Waiting until the project as a whole is super complex and needs a complex security subsystem built from scratch is asking for failure.
Traditional banks aren't in the business of taking risks. That's not their function. They exist to finance things and that is why their upside is mostly limited.

I've personally experienced this recently trying to borrow money to acquire an asset: banks will throw money at you hand over fist, at amazingly cheap rates, if you structure things so that it's very very unlikely they will lose their money.

If you set up a company tomorrow with no assets, no cashflow, no nothing. Just an idea. And you go ask for a $100,000 loan. Why should a bank give you a loan, given most businesses fail?

It's 10 to 100x more risky to give a loan to a startup like that, than it is to give a loan to a profitable business that has existing cashflow and profits. Even if the interest rate is 20% for the startup and 3% for the established company.
> Am I doing this right?

Sampling error is independent of population size, so, no.
Keep in mind that was at a time when Adele was working to commercialize Smalltalk in the real world[1] eventually as a business venture selling to businesses (i.e. ParcPlace Systems) so there was more than a little bit of spin involved. (especially given the writing, photo and video evidence to the contrary from the 70's with Adele in-frame :-) Also, look back at the Early History link from your first post and you'll find 'children' mentioned 35 times including this quote: 'and a language I now called "Smalltalk"—as in "programming should be a matter of ..." and "children should program in ..."'

[1] If I'm not mistaken the only reason Squeak and its derivatives even exist today was that during this time, as Xerox was trying to figure out what to do with what PARC produced, Apple received one of the handful of the Smalltalk-80 Version 1 licenses. IIRC, the Version 2 license was more restrictive and wouldn't have let Apple do what it did in terms of open sourcing Smalltalk. Notice that there was never a Smalltalk-82 etc... virtually all future work came from the commercial side until Squeak came along.
How is this different from /r/gaming thinking that the only challenge in building anything is turning a dial, and if it's not perfect, then it's because you're incompetent for not simply turning the dial more.
I personally use wsltty (based on mintty).

It's noticeably worse than ubuntu.exe in terms of input latency but has better features for screencasts (ie. hotkeys to adjust font sizes).

Last week they released a version that supposedly removes 30ms of latency which sounds very promising, but the author didn't create a Windows installer for it yet.
Exactly my thoughts! I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad direction to go, I just want to make sure I do it the right way.
It's not accurate for you to then say "atheism is inconsistent with the scientific method."

Atheism is the belief that there is no God. It's a belief, and can't be proven or disproven by known methods of experimentation or observation. Ergo, atheism is inconsistent with the scientific method in the same way that theism is inconsistent with the scientific method.

This is not to say that agnosticism is consistent with the scientific method, since agnostics merely posit that they don't know whether or not God exists. Some couch it in language like "there's no evidence" but not all agnostics base their skepticism on a reason consistent with the scientific method.

TLDR: Theists believe "God." Atheists believe "no God." Agnostics don't have a belief either way. This is not pedantry, it's a fundamental difference in belief systems.
> Reification and distribution are natural for messages. For function calls...not so much.

If you have a way to call functions/methods dynamically by name, and a way to store and pass tuples of arguments when doing so, reifying function/method calls is natural, too.
That gradient descent works so well for the non-convex loss landscapes involved is quite surprising and intriguing. There are a few OK handwavy explanations; supposedly most local minima of high-dimensional losses are saddle points, perhaps 'good models' have high entropy.

But good theories are still far and few between
Yeah, part of the unexplored optimization potential that Rust has is that LLVM was originally written with C in mind, and Rust achieves great results with it, but sometimes it can't use the additional info that the better typesystem provides because nobody wrote the code in LLVM, or because LLVM has bugs so the Rust devs have to turn off that additional info.
Long before 80’s cartoons, back into the dawn of television it was usually a given brand overtly sponsoring a show. You’d get things like “The Brand D variety hour.”

Before that it was the same way in radio. I still have old recordings of The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and it would open with a guy from Petri Wine or Blue Coal “meeting” Dr. Watson. I can still remember their latter, “Petri took time to bring you good wine.” “Blue Coal, the finest anthracite money can buy.” They’d have an ad break midway and Watson would chat with the company man about the merits of the brand, and maybe exhort people to buy War or Victory Bonds.

This isn’t new, advertising has had its hand up our collective bungs for longer than any of us have been alive. We should fight it all the harder now that for the first time we can block their poison without blocking content.
Any idea if you can enter your own homebrew system? I mean, the hardware listed isn't really all that special. You could probably take this:

https://blog.davidsingleton.org/nnrccar/

Slap it on new-ish Samsung or Apple phone, coupled to a cheap-ish RC car...

That'd probably get you 80% of the way; also, check out NVidia's "End-to-End" self-driving vehicle paper:

https://images.nvidia.com/content/tegra/automotive/images/20...

I built a tensorflow model from that trained on a 750 TI for the Udacity Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree (it was part of the course to build such a thing that ran on a virtual track), and after training it did quite well - at least on a virtual track.

A few tweaks to the model, maybe using the TensorFlowLite package or something on the phone - probably work fine for 99.9% of the runs...
I'm a relatively new VR user, so I'm a little less burned out from the apparent stagnation than someone who's been doing this since the Oculus Rift dev kits, but I think maybe you're being a little pessimistic?

> The VR industry seems to think PC gaming is dead

Sad, if true. This is definitely how Oculus seems to feel about it, but maybe they're just ceding that segment to HTC.

> HTC hasn't released a marginally better headset in three years

Their upcoming roadmap seems promising even if it's only evolutionary changes. It also seems like they're not abandoning the high end.

> Future headsets are adopting inside out tracking despite it having worse performance than lighthouse

It's strictly worse in terms of sheer "performance", but it can be potentially so much better in other terms that it might be a better idea to dump engineering effort into improving the performance until it's good enough.

If I set up my tracking sensors perfectly and go through the calibration ceremony, my VR environment would be capable of higher-precision tracking than is possible with inside-out technology. At least, it is until a cat knocks into my sensor, or the USB connection flakes out, and I have to recalibrate the damn thing all over again.

This has happened before. You can (or at least could) get better photographs from film than from digital. CRT displays are (or at least were) capable of better image quality than LCD. Gas tanks can store more energy than the batteries in a Tesla and can be refueled faster than the battery can be recharged. The .30-06 cartridge is more lethal than the 5.56 NATO. Analog telephony has higher sound quality than digital.

However--digital cameras are far easier to use and make the photos themselves easier to share and store, so they got the image quality good enough. LCD displays are less bulky and more energy-efficient, so they got the image quality good enough. Electric cars are more eco-friendly and can deliver higher performance due to the mechanical simplicity, so they got the batteries and Superchargers good enough. 5.56 has less recoil, particularly in full-auto or burst fire, and you can carry more rounds because each round weighs less, and the rifle itself can be lighter. Digital telephony scales better and suffers less quality drop for mobile phones, and VOIP dispenses with dedicated telephony infrastructure entirely.
I mean 1/4 isn't hideable with "proper instruction scheduling" if you are doing a multiplication-heavy benchmark. No amount of scheduling gymnastics is going to get you more than 1 MULH per 4 cycles.

Since the wyhash function needs 2 64x64->128 multiplication, you'll need two high and two low muls on ARM, so this is pretty much a dense multiplication benchmark. No amount of scheduling can save you.

Still by my calculation that should only put the ARM chip at a 5x disadvantage in multiplication throughput, but it was nearly 18x slower. Frequency difference probably explains some of that, but not all.
The word "simple" depends on the context. What's simple for a human may be very complex for a machine and vice-versa. What's simple may be very different for different people and machines.

Most of the time, the word "simple" when applied to technology means "well-understood by the people who will use and maintain it". A simple thing can seem very complex for outsiders. For example, I used to think the C programming language was horribly complex, but now that I've spent serious time with it, I think it's actually rather simple.

Therefore, I think it's fair to replace most uses of the word "simple" in technology with "well-understood", like this:

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a well-understood system that worked. A poorly understood system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working, well-understood system.

I agree that permissions-based systems have necessary upfront complexity, but I also think they can be well-documented and well-understood.
Isn't that a bit of survivor bias? You only see the times in history where it wasn't effective because those are the instances that somehow survived to become notable. No ship ever sinks if you only ever look at the floating ones.
Okay, I see what you're saying. Yeah, your updated response is more clear. I was confused before, but you are actually addressing August-Garcia. For sure seems like they are trying to capitalize on popular posts, and driving traffic to 256k website is clearly the goal. I'm definitely not a fan of this behavior & have ranted about similar activities in the past... lol

Also, props to the 'past' feature. Great idea! I'm a big fan. Thanks for all the hard work!
I think the point is that you don't have to worry about what Youtube might suggest.
I made a small website because I was so annoyed at UG and co... I’ve kind of stopped working on it though (a bit worried about monetising it as it seemed to be a bit complicated industry in terms of intellectual property).

https://www.lyrink.com/
That's exactly what I am trying to say. Yet Tesla implies their tech is statistically superior to human drivers, yet can disengage at any time.
I was responding to the parent.

>If you have to push a baby carriage 2 kilometers just to go to the store, then that is, by definition, not a very walkable neighborhood.
>Neighborhoods with the highest walkability scores have good stores within a couple blocks radius. Or, in other words, about the same distance that it takes to traverse a Wal-Mart parking lot.
Sure, sometimes Daniel's posts are a bit light on the details - but he provides his source every time which allows you to reproduce (or fail to reproduce as the case may be) the results on your own hardware, as well as self-answer any questions about the benchmark methodology.

In my experience he's quite willing to answer any questions you leave as a comment, also.

I think the author writes most of his posts as food for thought and a starting point for further discussion rather than the final word on anything.
I'm not going to pretend like I'm sat here on my couch and know more than those scientists, so can someone help me understand how they generated a free will hypothesis about this? Seems to me I could explain this with something like "short term memory assignment is delayed," i.e. the decision was made by the conscious brain, but the memory of making the decision had a long write time and therefore a later "timestamp."
what's even more interesting is when a market of people choose to act out of the ordinary to cope with a product that has an issue, but in the situation where the product is self-learning to a degree.

Tesla hits a wall, Folks drive abnormally due to qualms with incident, Tesla receives data and throws it in the ML mix, Car learns from people driving purposely strange.

Of course, it doesn't work out like that; not enough people will do it to influence anything very much, but it's a funny thing to consider.
To be honest I'm a bit sick of truffle fries (often with parmesan on top). It's become a cliche.
...but does statistical significance really allow you to distinguish real results from random noise? I think it's pretty clear that it isn't a good tool for achieving this goal, due to the "p hacking" phenomenon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging
Agreed.

If you're buying the property for any purpose other than flipping then ROI from the sale of the property itself shouldn't be a serious consideration. Either you're living there and sale doesn't really matter so long as you don't get shafted too badly whenever you do sell or you're renting or using it commercially in which case the cost to acquire is sunk and the returns from that should more than make up for change in value and whatever you get from a sale at the end is just a bonus.
Older fluorescent lights (those run off a magnetic current limiter, or "ballast") flickered at 120Hz if they were connected to a 60Hz power source. Every time the voltage declined below a level needed to maintain a discharge, the lamp went out. That happened twice in every full sine wave of primary power.

Whether you could see the flicker depended on the phosphor luminous decay time. If the phosphors on the inside of the bulb (which glow when excited by the UV-rich plasma discharge) had a rapid luminous decay curve, you could perceive the 120Hz flicker if you scanned your eyes across a lit bulb. The afterimage on your retina was a dashed line, the dark parts being the "too little voltage" portions of the sine wave.

You can use the afterimage trick to check out duty cycle dimming of car tail and brake lights. If they're chopped slower than ~1KHz, the smeared retinal afterimage will be chopped. Don't do this if you're moving in traffic.
with a `replace` entry. e.g.

replace (
github.com/repo/module/path vX.X.X => /path/to/github.com/repo/module/path
)
London's $22B Crossrail Is Worth the Wait
kapp: The Kubernetes Application Management Tool
Moving furniture around because you don't have a 3m x 3m space free all the time is tiring and a major pain point for me (I own a vive, I don't re-setup everytime though I do change the boundaries & optimal furniture placement sometimes)
I also think "virtual desktop" is a short-sighted notion of how VR user interfaces would end up in reality--although you can do a hell of a lot by just rendering 2D planes in your VR environment.
I gave a relevant talk a few years ago: How to Kill Your Grandmother with Statistics[1].

The authors are spot on that the problem is not p-values per se but dichotomous thinking. People want a magic truth box that doesn’t exist. Unfortunately there are a ton of people in the world who continue to make money off of pretending that it does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRpAHS5_hDk
I see, that’s interesting. Although I also wonder if players cheat in other, more subtle, ways such as to just prevent blunders; not necessarily to choose the best moves.
> They find that when you perform an action, there is a EEG spike [2] in the motor cortex well before you actually consciously decide to perform the action.

No, that's not what they find. What they find is that the time of the change in EEG (it's not really a "spike", it's more like the leading edge of an increased action potential that lasts for a significant time) is a few tenths of a second before the time that the subject reports as the time they "made the decision". But you can't assume that the time the subject reports is "the time they made the decision", because the process of generating the conclusion "this is when I decided to act" also takes time--and that time was not measured. All you can really conclude from this experiment is that people are not consciously aware of all of the neural processes that actually go into their making a conscious decision.
I think that by the time that it gets processed and put in a can, you can't really tell the difference between the taste of the different meats. It just tastes like generic processed meat and sodium.
There is a relationship between great success and hard childhood, I think PG for ex wrote a tweet about this around last weekend.

Also: it's terrible to tell a young kid "you are very talented" and similar; positive encouragement is good but it's better to praise effort.
Right, but the probability of you dying because you do have a pacemaker is (in the situations for which a pacemaker is prescribed) far less than the probability of you dying because you don't have a pacemaker.

The same cannot yet be said about "self-driving" cars.