skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The brain is very complex, but it's not well understood how well that complexity contributes to its computation. Observable phenomena may contribute to the computational capacity of the brain, or may just introduce noise which impairs it.

Do you know of any tasks where the brain has demonstrated better performance than a computer, where the hardware is known to be limiting? I.e. where there can not be an unknown better program the computer could run.
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I pretty much agree with you.

I hate error handling in JS. It's messy, it's really REALLY hard to get right, every single project has to layer on their own ways of handling it since the only thing the language gives us is the ability to `throw` and `catch` (even the "standard error" object doesn't have anything other than a place to put a string).

It's a giant mess, and I'd love to find a way out, but I think it has to come from the language itself. Trying to shoehorn JS into a fully functional language leads to a lot of scaffolding and "custom" piping to get it to work, and in 100% of the situations I've seen it done it's been harder to maintain the scaffolding (and wrap 3rd party code to work in the way you need it to) than it ever would be to manage exceptions.

I'll admit to be fairly ignorant of the different ways of handling exceptions in other languages. For the most part I've really only experienced try/catch, multiple-returns (golang style), and whatever bastardization JS is at now (try/catch + .then/.catch + custom error objects) in production codebases. But that solution needs to be part of the language not bolted on in userland. Mainly so that you don't need to write all this piping to get the rest of the ecosystem to behave in the way you want/need.

FWIW Rust's Result type is beautiful and seems to solve a lot of issues (from the very small amount of experience I have with it), but trying to use that in JS is only going to lead to trouble without some help from the language itself.
You don't need a majority of miners to create a hard fork, you just need any amount. What you need a majority for is to get the chain to adopt your version of history without hard-forking.
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I kinda wonder, if you believe what's missing in your platform is a single feature that can be implemented in 2 days, do you really think YC wouldnt realize that too?

So this is likely not the reason for the rejection.

I would have even more worries about these founders after this stunt because it shows a lack of self awareness and strategic insight.

I'm in no way affiliated but Id guess YC is looking for foundational advantages and paradigm changing ideas in their companies. You can't pivot to those in 2 days.
Just because you may have a functional compiler running on a another architecture, doesn't mean the compiler actually outputs code FOR that architecture. The compiler would still only support the architectures it did when you bootstrapped it, which in that case would not include that specific architecture.
I don’t think Twitter ever really exposed this feature. I never even saw where you type in the latitude and longitude. There’s a button to use the supposed location of the device but it’s not immediately clear to me how that would work or why someone would want to do that. Assuming it’s a phone, people reading the tweet will see exactly where in the world the person was standing when they tweeted? Or a desktop computer with no GPS hardware and VPNed through Belarus is going to geolocate itself somehow?
Harvard’s False Path to Wisdom
In other news: Water is still wet

> "There are lots of things you think about with your kids on social media, but advertising isn't really one of them," said Ms Winter

Under which moon did this lady live for the last decade?
Instagram is probably the single piece of technology I would wish away the instant I got a magic wand.
Yes, Promises are similar to monads but they don't obey all the monadic laws; as a result they don't compose as well.

This means that you're always "stuck in the weeds" of promises and can't write code that abstracts it away. Or that treats promises, observables, arrays, etc, exactly the same since they all have different "interfaces".

In that sense JS is more complicated because other languages don't make you learn different syntax and APIs for each one.
I've hated touch screens in cars... I generally rely on bluetooth, only because the controls are so bad, at least with BT I can pick up my phone and bring it into view if needed, but the steering controls handle next navigation, which along with volume are about 95% of interactivity. The other 5% being maps.

If the Mazda navigation/interaction/entertainment experience is better, I'm definitely in favor. I miss the in-between period, where I could just insert a USB drive with sorted directories of mp3s and use that easily.
Videos of organs being harvested from living children are big on Facebook now
I think they do continue to accept companies without MRR. I suspect they simply value it more in cases where they are unsure if the product is something that can eventually be monetized (i.e. they don't know if people are willing to pay for it).
>We evolved in an environment where violence was part . . .

We also evolved in an environment without screens, that is, a world without any selection pressure to distinguish between actually dangerous experiences and experiences generated by screens.
Besides the point that the article doesn't indicate they don't, that amount of hustle might not be maintainable in the long run.
You don't need to avoid the GC. Why not SML or the like? Why Rust?
I visited Varanasi in 2010, it’s truly a special city. Wandering the endless twisting alleyways, occasionally having to retrace your steps because a cow is blocking the way, getting thoroughly disoriented by the constant bends and turns, and discovering the myriad of ghats along the riverside is a unique experience.

If you go there it’s also worth paying a boatman to row you to the opposite bank, which is a very different place to the center of Varanasi.

If you want to see a similar but also very different settlement on the Ganges, Rishikesh is also amazing, I liked it more than Varanasi. There’s more access to nature and it has a comparable spiritual heartbeat. The Beatles wrote the White Album in an ashram (now deserted and half reclaimed by jungle) just on the outskirts. Shiva watches the mighty, unpredictable river that becomes calm and docile by the time it reaches Varanasi.
Google’s $1B Housing Pledge Is All About the Land
Watching the Watchdogs "scandal" unfold was enough to turn me off Ubisoft for years. It's not that it was unique to Ubisoft, it was just the most grotesque case of under delivery I'd ever sunk money into. Especially when I had just come off GTA V, which was 90% of the same gameplay, but the engine and art were significantly better in every measurable way I could think of.

For a small time game dev like Hello Games failing to meet expectations with No Man's Sky, I was generally willing to accept their failure and apologies, and continued to go back and try games.

For a major publisher like Ubi, I ended up boycotting them for years.
Not so. All we know from finding micro organisms (or any other form) is that the filter is after that stage. It may well be between micro organisms and us but that seems unlikely.
Rust-Reduce
I've been doing this for years with some of my own personal projects like https://github.com/CamHenlin/imessageclient, https://github.com/CamHenlin/iMessageWebClient, and https://github.com/CamHenlin/imessagebot and some others - one thing that I'll note is that in my experience, Apple is pretty aggressive and somewhat arbitrary at banning accounts from accessing iMessages if they get on to the service from a VM - even if your usage is normal, personal iMessaging. I was trying out using VMWare and virtualbox specifically. In fact, I've been accidentally successful at getting my computer and home network banned from Apple services by accessing iMessages via VM. I strongly recommend running these types of services on bare metal Macs although ymmv.
Neither of those require years of education and training.
a lot of "AI" is just poor people.

in general response to this article there was a thread on twitter with some good links https://twitter.com/max_read/status/1141336189800239107
Your goal shouldn't be to get into YC in a year. Your goal should be to not need YC in a year.
Being that it sounds like a worthwhile project I can see about getting involved in some manner. I have to take a look at the models in greater detail and think about it a bit.

My general thinking at the moment is that the design might have to undergo substantial changes in order to optimize for manufacturing cost. This is also one of the reasons for which you don't jump into making production tooling right away, you have to go through a few iterations before you actually know what you want to build in quantity, even if that is a few dozen units. A smart approach would create "production safe" tooling, meaning, tooling that can adapt to a reasonable degree to design changes without requiring completely new tooling design. This process requires close communication between design and manufacturing.

I'll visit their forum as soon as I have some time to dig in.

Regarding machines like Shapeoko. These are very nice and make a lot of sense for the right type of work. We have Haas CNC equipment. Once you start to worry about tolerances, finish, speed, repeatability and other factors there is no substitute for 7,000 lbs of industry-standard machinery.
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> Building new homes increases revenue

In year 1, yes. Then that revenue is never increased, while inflation goes up.

The alternate use of the land for retail (sales taxes!) and office buildings is far more favorable, especially long term.
Boffins NN can work out from your speech whether youll develop psychosis
So, that's the dichotomy of YC.

YC is an accelerator, and as such, needs to accelerate /something/. If you join too early, then it's almost a distraction to getting the product out and talking to users. However, hit the sweet spot and YC is an invaluable resource to help you grow.

On the other hand, YC opens the door to so many opportunities and great people, that even if you're too early, the net result is still a pure positive for your career and startup.
Very interesting. Can you tell more about that idea? Could we formalize that even ?
Don't fret, FB mods. You'll soon be replaced by algorithms so you won't have to do this much longer. You know, by those people making a min of 4x what you do and look down upon you. They'll tell ya to learn to code as they chuckle under their breath.
Actually they avoid humans as much as possible. Wolves have been reintroduced where I live about a decade ago. Zero problems with humans.
Id like to preface, I'm not trying to reduce what these people are going through.

But it's relative.

I grew up on farms, I've slaughtered animals and I've seen seemingly stable 30 year olds completely break down when they see a video of an animal being humanely slaughtered.

I've also heard stories from mates of mine in the military that I'd prefer not to see on video.

People are desensitised from things they are raised with. Some shit (kiddie porn and extremely graphic BDSM and rape), isn't something you really want people to be able to accept.

Knowing that it's something that really happened vs a movie is a big difference.
If state is immutable, then it's constant data, not state.
Even though all music I have on my drives is in FLAC, I can't differ it almost always from Opus 160 kbps, which is what they're using now (but most of the stuff is reencoded from previous codecs).
> it’s putting nature back to the way it was before humans altered its course.

This sentiment is appealing, but there's little backing it. Humans have always shaped nature, and regardless of people, ecosystems are dynamic (1). We should be asking ourselves what sort of world we want to live in, and what we want our impact to look like. We should not harken back to a pre-human influenced time that never really existed. (Most restoration plans don't plan on restoring ecosystems to a fully pre-human state, but rather to some time where humans were present, but not as numerous).

We should instead say things like "this ecosystem was better 300 years ago, and we should try and return to something closer to that". That's wholly different from the narrative of natural being everything but human. It does, however, force us to qualitatively analyze what we're doing. Instead of saying "we changed it, now we have to restore it", it forces us to think about what the costs and benefits of restoration are.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_ecology#Human-media...
I used lions as an example because the article uses the same example.

I've never heard of myrtle beach prior to your comment so that nuance passed me by.

Still if myrtle beach is that bad why go there? And piano lessons are firmly in the realms of the middle class, not 1 pay cheque from disaster poor.

Which circles back to my prior comment, so no I'm not trolling.
It's well known that viewing graphic material can trigger PTSD, e.g. in the police force. These moderators will be exposed to similar.
I've never tried it now that I think about it, but how standardized is the USB-C cable drain? I would assume that, with perhaps some minimal difference for length, all normal in-spec cables would be pretty similar, but I don't actually know that and would be curious if anyone has checked a few.

If there is a standard baseline though then the OP's advice doesn't meaningfully change, it just becomes "If the cable draws current over the baseline with nothing attached, dissect it" rather then "if it draws any at all". Any spy chip would still have to be on top of whatever else is needed to make the cable work at all, so it's not really a different problem unless standard cables have enough delta between them to hide a spy chip drain in. And even if that's true between manufacturers, if within a single manufacturer cables were pretty steady that might merely become a reason to source exclusively from one/a few reliable ones that stable baseline draws can be established for?
I don't know but a 50% reduction in performance seems more than a late-change.
Half of what you want is easy: https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/index.html

The excessive compression YT applies, only they can fix. It especially annoys me they take a SD definition source to mean "well surely the uploader doesn't care about the quality of this video, so lets apply the lowest quality setting to it". If you have a high quality but low resolution video you have to upsample it before uploading to get around this. But of course most SD videos on there didn't do this.
ConferenceBadge landing page is one of the best I've seen. Nice work!
> I feel fear like that it's because the thing I'm about to try might actually work.

Exactly, this is incredible, because deep down you know this, and yet the fear is real.
I agree with your point about the site being a bad idea, so maybe your first point was tongue-in-cheek. But displaying reported child pornography to people outside of your controlled environment? Not a great idea...
That literally describes the problem though. There are too many people that can do that job, so there's a surplus supply for it to be valuable to the market. It isn't the responsibilities of the Scrooges and the Facebooks to account for the fact that there isn't enough demand for that position for it to pay well. If people are unable to find work, or are otherwise unable to have enough stability so as to avoid exploitative work, that becomes a societal responsibility. Don't tell Facebook what that job should be worth, or what it should entail, that doesn't make any sense. Just like minimum wage laws, they don't make any sense.

If we're legitimately talking about situations where the balance of power is so unfavorable to the unemployed individual, the solution is to start talking about UBI, not micromanaging very specific roles at very specific companies.
This doesn't make any sense - real estate speculation would increase the purchase price of real estate but cannot directly impact rental rates. Speculation means people are bidding up prices for real estate beyond what's supportable by current demand, based on expected future demand. This generally doesn't make sense in the rental market - as a tenant, you're not entitled to benefit from any future increase in demand and it doesn't make sense to pay more that what the rental is worth to you now. This means rents, in aggregate, are a relatively accurate measure of the current supply and demand, free of speculative intents.

Ironically, certain types of rent control laws could lead to the rental market being influenced by speculation. Rent control laws effectively turn tenants into partial owners - this means, depending on the law, it may make sense to rent at an above-market rate, if that allows you to keep renting the same unit at what would later be a below-market rate. Likewise, from the landlord's perspective, it may not make sense to rent even at a market rate, because to do so may lock you out of getting what would be a higher market rate in the future.
Provide colour-inversion buttons to help reduce visual impact

I was thinking also about blurring the picture/video.
> 1. You aren't forced to write it. It's simply possible to forget that a function might fail (e.g. when that failure is defined as a side-effect).

When the compiler does require you to explicitly acknowledge exceptions (Java), people hate it.
Yes, on Windows.
>how many 30s videos will randomly share 80% of their frames with a 90s video of an animal being abused?

If a powerful actor wants the 30s video removed, and knows it would be removed if it shared 80% of its frames with a 90s video of an animal being abused, then it would not be technically difficult to engineer such a 90s video.
I wonder if the company is in a state where they would expect revenue from that company, and maybe not others depending on their state?
Do you know you can download from YouTube already?
I LOVE mine... with the guide lines for reversing, I always center into the space as desired... it's easier than pulling in forward even. For times when the neighboring spaces are wonky, it's easier to short shrift the passenger side, aligned with the other car's passenger side, so worst case you have to pull out to let a passenger in.

Also, if every other car parked forward/reverse then the more cramped spaces wouldn't be as difficult. Note, I live in AZ, USA where more than half the cars are full sized or larger vehicles. So parking lots designed for cities with smaller vehicles are particularly difficult.
IPNS is currently pretty slow when it comes to retrieving content. Updating DNS records ensures a faster user experience for those retrieving the content from gateways. That being said, Protocol labs is currently working on speeding up IPNS so hopefully IPNS can be relied on more in the future.
Snow Leopard has the perfect metaphors for everything. This extends to many different areas, so I'll focus on apps as an example:

A Mac OS X app is just a particular type of file. You don't "install" apps any more than you'd install a photo or a PDF. Sure, standard practice is to copy apps to your /Applications folder, but in Snow Leopard, this directory didn't have any unique behavior. A Stack for the /Applications folder was placed on your Dock by default, but users were expected to modify the Dock's contents. I was free to organize my apps as I would would any type of file, and the OS felt built to encourage this. If I dragged an app from /Applications to my Desktop, the app got moved. If I dragged iTunes to the trash, iTunes got deleted.

You can certainly do this in later releases, but the OS will fight you! Dragging apps out of /Applications creates an alias, unless you remember to hold down the ⌘ key. Whereas I used to "install" most apps by dragging them to the same Stack I used to launch apps, doing the same with Launchpad just creates a shortcut, which will break if the original is removed.

Lion is when Apple began trying to make macOS more consistent with iOS, regardless of whether the changes were also consistent with the Mac's original UI paradigm. I realize I'm nitpicking, and to be clear, I'm mostly okay with everything through Mavericks, before they switched to an ugly and low-contrast visual style.

Snow Leopard was also my first experience with Mac OS X, so I don't know how much that affects my opinion. But my god, the first day I booted up Snow Leopard and settled into using it over the next few hours... as dumb as it sounds, I just recall a feeling of pure ecstasy.
How do you writer outlines. Is there a process. Or are you just jumping from idea to idea? Is there any good guide on how to come up with them?
Apropos of nothing, this little marketing page is pretty great -- https://www.conferencebadge.com/why-use-conference-badge
Libra currently looks more like a fiat currency than a cryptocurrency
Interesting use case. I honestly only saw either up until now as a more advanced maybe
To be more specific, paying them a better wage resulted in less turnover which meant less time searching for employees, less time training, and more experienced workers - resulting in an overall more efficient production line.
Java will be exposing parallelization constructs by means of project Panama: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vlivanov/panama/vectors/vectors....
Similar thoughts, and I found this post very valuable for that reason. Programmers belong to different cultures, and this gives a clear idea of how (some) people from a certain culture think / what their values are. Really helps with empathy if when arguing with someone you can form a genuine mental model of another person rather than deciding they're stupid or misguided or whatever.
One interesting thing in Varanasi-also known as Benaras- is that it houses many Aghoris-a small group of shiva sadhus- who are known to eat burning corpses. They also cover themselves with the ashes of the burnt corpses.
Xbox has been trying its best to move to the "PC model" where they don't break past games if they can avoid it in a generation change. The Xbox One at this point has a giant library of Backwards Compatible downloads for Xbox (OG) and Xbox 360 games, and the promise for the next generation (Project Scarlett) is that 100% of the games that run on the Xbox One will run on it.

Admittedly, the Xbox One still has a number of games that instead of showing up in the Backwards Compatibility library, encouraged repurchases for "Remastered" versions. Microsoft left that as a per-game decision to support BC or not, and whether or not to release a "Remastered" version. In some cases, Microsoft worked with the Publishers to help upgrade would-be BC owners to "Remastered" versions for cheap or for free (though often only through time limited deals and sales, so obviously not all owners benefitted in every case). Arguably one of the benefits in the case of some of the "Remastered" versions has been that publishers were given the chance to "upgrade" from custom ARM builds for the 360 to nearly the exact same x64 builds they run on Windows, further moving more of the library directly (and literally) to the "PC model".

Microsoft has a lot of good reasons to want the Xbox and PC to be friends and to increasingly apply the PC model to the Xbox. (Xbox Play Anywhere where you can buy a game once and play it both on PC and Xbox, often with cross-play between the platforms, is magical.)

The Xbox Store / Microsoft Store usually has good deals on par with Steam rotating every week, with the usual big sales around the holidays. They also generally have bonus discounts for gamers with Xbox Live Gold and/or Xbox Game Pass subscriptions.
Unless things have changed dramatically since I left Mozilla, forks that are willing to be active in the Mozilla security community are able to get access to security bugs.
I think a wolf would do more than think twice faced 1:1.