skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think Apple is against buttons, just not on the screen. Gotta say I think it’s pretty weird they have a silent mode button, and a Do Not Disturb mode hidden in the controls? What is that duplication about?
There are two available courses of action. Option one: We embrace something like DoH in order to avoid any possibility of blocking and detection. But you then have no simple way to back out from centralization if/when centralization (almost certainly, IMHO) slowly becomes a problem. Monopolies and oligopolies are hard to break once formed, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Option two: We use DNS like always to avoid problems with centralization, and adopt a secure DNS protocol to avoid spoofing and unauthorized monitoring. If we do this latter thing, and detection and blocking does become a problem (and it might), we can always add some additional layer of security, like HTTPS tunneling, on top, which avoids it. We could even, if it became absolutely necessary, centralize after the fact; but this way, we can avoid it until it would become necessary.

I would prefer not to centralize things in advance, just in case a certain problem develops. I would instead prefer to keep it de-centralized as long as possible, and solve individual problems as they actually occur.

I would also prefer DNSSEC and DoT over DNSCurve, and I would suggest IPsec with opportunistic encryption to be a more pure goal than to tunnel everything over HTTPS, but my preferences in protocols are not important to any of these points, and we don’t need to argue about that.
UI/UX does matter, actually, especially on 4 hours of sleep. It is much easier to get confused with a complex interface on less sleep than more.
At least in physics it is known what we don't know. So the physics Professor will not go all out on a theory based on his pet peeve. Especially in the social sciences this margin of error is so large nobody actually knowns what they know.
Same problem. Hearing so good in quieter environments that it seems impossible to some people, and totally unable to make out a single word in a typical bar or club or party etc.

I’ve always thought it had something to do with undiagnosed ADD, or maybe more likely some autism spectrum disorder (though I never understood why medical professionals felt the need to label something that feels to me mostly like a few commonly coexisting personality traits and is not a source of any medical adversity for me a “treatable disorder”, so I’ve always rejected this).

I also have problems with alarms and sirens. I’ve walked down many miles of city blocks in my life, and I’m the only person I’ve ever seen who has to put down everything they’re holding and cover their ears with both hands any time an emergency vehicles drives by. That makes me enough of an outlier that I think there’s probably something medical to this, I don’t know what though.
Being able to discern large scale themes and patterns in data, then using those findings distill the original data input to minimally redundant messages, is similar to the goal of an AGI that can comprehend any input data.
Esperanto: It's Volapük to me (estas Volapukaĵo al mi).
We have some nice evidence for this from Obamacare---a number of people were freed to quit their jobs to do more valuable things. The one that will probably be most appealing to HN:

Eddie Gonzalez-Novoa, 44, now living in Houston, last year left a full-time job in New York making $88,000 a year plus benefits to help his nephew, a cancer survivor, start a social media and video-gaming site for other teens with the disease.

https://www.denverpost.com/2014/02/10/they-quit-their-jobs-t...
Isn't it just a rewording of the Calvinist/Protestant work ethic, though? Weird how the US is getting less religious on the surface, but holds on to the rituals - like some societal TSR.
This is a good point. In France, your mortgage monthly amount usually can't exceed 35%, and the bank takes into account any other loans you have (eg car payments). This is super annoying if you're the thrifty sort, but in the end, they're taking away a foot gun, by limiting your 'debt rate' (taux d'endettement)
There's a bunch of coverage of the C900 and the historical context of Commodore at the time in Commodore: The Amiga Years. Amazon has it in hardcopy, or you can get the ebook version at http://variantpress.com/the-amiga-years-kickstarter/. I literally finished reading it last night, and there's an amazing amount of detail I've never seen anywhere else.
tl;dr: "at the rate (of)".
Random walkers illuminate a math problem
I'm still waiting for the dockable phone that doubles as a PC to be viable. Motorola tried it with the Atrix but it was too ahead of it's time.

I feel that we are close though. With the iPhone Ax chip being comparable to low end laptops, this is going to be a game changer.
OOO that is fantastic, thanks for sharing!
If this were true, why do FAANGs all support raising the H1B cap?
Since the stated motivation is work toward AGI, I think that such an approach would be highly in the spirit of the contest.
A fully NN solution (as opposed to using a light sprinkling like all competitive solutions do) requires big binaries for the most part, while an arbitrary program can easily memorize exact sequences to find repetition while using a tiny NN for some finetuning of predictions. A pure NN solution like a Transformer-XL does turn in the record-setting performance on natural language datasets including WP... unfortunately, the required NN model sizes alone tend to be larger than the entire uncompressed WP corpus here, and so have zero chance of ever being the minimum of model+compression. (An observation which I think supports the idea that the Hutter Prize has long outlived its intended use for measuring progress towards AGI; it's now just sort of a 'demo scene' version of AI benchmarking, testing intelligence within extreme constraints of sample efficiency/compute, rather than a true useful benchmark.)

The fact that small compressors like gzip or zpaq do so well at small data/compute but then can't compete as you scale up to tens or hundreds of gigabytes of text (amortizing the cost of those fancy NN models) can be considered a version of the Bitter Lesson: http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
> Restrictions: Must run in ≲8 hours using a single CPU core and <1GB RAM and <10GB HDD on our test machine.

TBH I feel limiting RAM usage to 1GB is an unnecessary restriction in 2019.
No need to feed the troll. From user achingtooths comment history: “I'm 19 years old and I left the US because everything is so expensive. There's just no way to live on your own or even comfortably without a high paying degree. I now live in Eastern Europe on $400 a month”
BMW seems to have such an issue with its gas cars. Or at least evidence indicates this is a possibility:

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/bmw-mystery-fires-abc-news-i...
I'm impressed to see an "Americain Auto Centre" in Quebec.

Must be insulting to see your vehicle towed away by them.
Had fun hacking on one of these calculators back in secondary school.
A compressor needs to detect patterns in data. Best if it works with general data. General intelligence is excellent at these tasks.
>and their motivations would likely be incomprehensible.

Is this really true?? Modern human motives (sex, power, comfort) would be very familiar to even chimpanzees.
Paged Out – a new experimental magazine about programming
College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots
The moment Google adhered to the first Roskomnadzor (or whatthefuck is its name) request they become gatekeepers.

After a certain point, simply due to the number of people on your platform, you become someone to be influenced / controlled / watched out for / a target / a friend / an enemy.

And other control brokers, large and small, will try to influence you. (And - to a degree - you can't escape it, you will be influenced. Now you have to counter it, embrace it, ignore it, understand it, downplay it, dodge it, amplify it, etc.)

Size (of potential influence) makes organizations, platforms, people targets, not "gatekeeping".
It's the same with anything you can buy though, TV, cars, bikes, laptops, shoes, chairs, &c. The low end is, well, the low end, it barely functions but is sufficient for most people.

Do you call cheap android phones "phone shaped objects" too?

You get what you pay for, a <$200 dollar bike will last you years, it'll be heavy, noisy, won't withstand abuse, will rust, but it'll get you from A to B just fine.
It’s kind of a joke but the scene from HBO’s Silicon Valley with their investor telling them to remain “pre-revenue” for as long as possible to maintain the appearance of endless possibility always struck me as more accurate than the joke might imply.
Offer perks that they can't or won't: A four-day work week, no-questions-asked remote, the chance to do something other than soulless ad-tech.

Finance pays better than anyone else, and yet people apply for jobs with non-finance firms.
The surprise seems to be from it having effects far beyond where it's used.

So more like, "Wet driveway caused by water spray from several houses away".
Huh, the bit about emergency vehicle sirens is weird - because I'm exactly the same. If an emergency vehicle is driving past I have to cover my ears or otherwise it's just...painful? I've never seen anyone else do this.
I don't think you can call modal interfaces inherently bad. I suppose Gmail is a modal interface because if you pull it up and start typing you'll be issuing commands instead of composing an email, until you enter "composition" mode. But what is the alternative? Have every button on the keyboard do the exact same thing regardless of what application or part of an application is currently in use? It's fine if you don't like vim but you don't have to pitch it as an objective universal truth that emacs > vim.
Hmm, the prize is defined to be at maximum €50,000. The formula is 50,000€×(1-S/L), where S is the compressed size + code of your program and L is the size of the current best entry. So if you are able to produce 5% smaller compression than the next best guy, you get 2,500€. The whole 50,000€ is only possible with infinite compression ratio.
Happened with an ICE to a neighbor house this past week.
I'm going to repeat a comment I made a couple times before as I think it's relevant:

In one of the talks at Google I/O a few years ago a VP from Audi (or Volvo?) spoke in a thick and lofty German accent about how "ve haf completely oferhauled ze driver exzperienze". He played a sexy video clip showcasing their new Android infotainment system (something like https://youtu.be/h_7_fKJ0PNs), and the first thing I noticed is how they'd taken away my traditional temperature knobs and replaced them with digital touchscreen ones. They looked just like physical ones, and were in the exact same place you would expect (https://9to5google.com/2017/05/15/android-cars-audi/). So, I've gained absolutely nothing, and now I have to take my eyes off the road and look down at the stupid console just to change the temperature.

TLDR: Tacticle feedback is a Good Thing(tm) and designers should cultivate - not fight - muscle memory.
My brain because all news is propaganda
>>"It's quite hard to make it work"

Agreed, but that won't stop companies from trying anyway. From my experience, a lot of large companies can't really tell that their remote setups aren't really working.

[Edit] Added to word 'Agreed'.
That just seems awful. Popular people would get all bonuses. If something was done by someone popular, everyone will be quick to send love to that person. Not so much for shy, always behind his desk guy. Which in turn would make shy person more frustrated that no one is recognizing his work. Where frustration could in the end spiral out of control and make good person, but maybe not popular to be miserable.
Do you have any advice for a company that targets schools?
I plan to launch an educational website that will target college classrooms. It is an interactive platform where students can submit works, like Moodle, but for very specific areas of study. What is the best business model in this case? How do payments work? I guess it's not exactly like a B2B or B2C company. Any personal experience? Thank you
Questioning official narratives by broadcasting your own unsubstantiated theories, made up from your armchair, is indeed poisoning the system.

The most reliable way to find out how someone was killed is to examine the body, talk to all the people the victim had contact with, etc. There's a whole profession devoted to doing that, and they're about to go into action. When they announce their findings, there'll be some real information upon which to base theories.

But at this point, any theory is baseless. The NYT is careful not to float any theories, as we should all be.
Because they compete against all of us and each other. Google has tens of thousands of engineers and wants more.
Unfortunately the talks at TUG were not recorded this year, but you can read the preprint (http://tug.org/tug2019/preprints/rokicki-pdfbitmap.pdf) which will probably be published in the next issue of TUGboat.
It seems like you’re obliquely arguing for something, since you say “it’s hard to keep control of who buys/sells them” and offer this as justification, but justification for what, exactly?

I don’t think it’s reasonable to look at service pattern rifles in isolation to try to sort out whether they are a problem. They don’t seem to be a major contributor to gun deaths, overall — rifles of all descriptions contribute ~5% of gun deaths every year in the US. Their potential danger may seem great but the data does not bear that out.
Given that I find it natural to use second person (singular) pronoun for the "voice" in my head, I find it weird that only second and third person pronoun (sigular) were part of the research.
I'd rather receive profits from my investments in capital gains than in dividends. I pay more in taxes on dividends, and lose the opportunity to time my profits.

Since I'm buy-and-hold, the dividends get reinvested anyway, but can creating more paperwork as each reinvestment is another purchase.

As a non-American with US-stock holdings, the IRS withholds taxes on dividends (15% for me), while I owe no local taxes because the holdings are in a tax-free account.
I (don't) hear you.
That’s what we (and others) do. There is just not enough skilled people available.
Haha. I mean, you’re obviously not wrong. No less, having written a few articles for publication, it is extremely helpful to have this kind of verification and correction to even the smallest details, and I imagine that is true for article/review subjects too. I’ve read enough (published) restaurant and entertainment reviews with glaringly incorrect information to see the utility for this particular situation. But, generally, this kind of fact checking is extremely time-consuming, and it’s a lot faster to have people who do mostly this kind of thing. Plus, if you have a third party do it, it does at least seem like there would be ethical benefits and also stuff like reduced animosity for people like journalists between writers and subjects when there is an unintentional mismatch (or specifically journalists and sources). That said, I can imagine a wealth of situations in which mandatory fact-checkers seems like and inane and all-around frustrating exercise.
Programming language creator or serial killer?
I'm not sure why dials have stopped clicking. Maybe it had some direct mechanical function at one point, but even if that's no longer necessary, the haptic feedback of the click seems just as important.

In fact, even on touchscreens there will often be some sort of audiovisual "click" effect, whether that's an icon lighting up, expanding, or making an audible click noise.
I worked with a guy in 1999 who had severe RSI. He had spent a ton of time training whatever the highest pro version of Dragon Dictate was at the time, and then even more time setting up a bunch of macros to do complicated/repetitive tasks. It was impressive how fast he could 'type' (that is to say, it was really, really fast - faster than a keyboard) for the things he had trained it for. But, 20 years ago, none of the non-RSI people were tempted to follow his lead having seen how much work it took to get it set up.

But, fast forwarding 20 years, I can totally imagine that a product such as yours that is designed from the ground up for programmer types could be significantly faster for text input, but hopefully without all of that burdensome training and setup before you can be productive.
Do not disturb is not the same as silent. The former mutes all notifications so they don't wake up the phone nor produce sound or vibration, the latter disables UI sounds and uses vibrations instead of sounds for notifications. They are completely independent.
> In a series of laboratory experiments

Every single result in the social sciences ought to be considered false until independently reproduced. There have been far too many failed replications lately to take studies at face value, even when these studies are published in prestigious journals. You should apply this skepticism even more assiduously in cases where some study claims that one weird trick makes you a better person.

No. Stop it already. Stop believing p-hacked nonsense. If it hasn't been reproduced independently, it's a fairy tale.
Agreed. For a company of our size, we would not last long.
Seems like cmix compresses better than the winners, but uses far too much memory to be eligible for the prize.
> You simply cannot spend all of your income.

So people making $7.20/hour should be living on $5/hour? People are spending all their income, but inflation adjusted income has been stagnant for the middle class and below[0]. Combine this with the costs of living (like healthcare) increasing and you've created a situation where a lot of households are struggling to have money left over (or are commonly indebted).

[0] https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2018/10/1...
You are most likely unfamiliar with what a "local" bar feels like. A local bar feels like a restaurant, one where you can hear others at the table: you go to it to talk with others not to get boozed or as a venue.

When you enter a busy local, the predominant sound is the hubub of voices. If there is music, it's volume should be below that (no amplified speakers throughout).

The issue is that many modern sports or night bars in urban areas often have loud speakers and you have to shout.

The type of bar the article is talking about is uncommon in some countries or cities. When you find it, you might not be comfortable with the feel of it (e.g. older patrons that seem like a clique); you often need to understand locals before you could know you are very welcome.
Guns are supposed to be dangerous. That’s the whole point of their existence.

We already have background checks. Licensed dealers who fail to follow the law lose their license and are prosecuted. The atf has no difficulty in enforcing that.

And as already posted, there’s really no useful information in that “review”.
This is messed up man. I bet a lot of a good startups are killed for no good reason (and only for greed)
Yes, you'd be correct, there is one case of exactly that happening to an ICE car, with the overall insurance claim being so great ($100M+) that the US justice department has decided to take the case on themselves. It's absolutely crazy.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/jalopnik.com/how-one-suv-fire-d...
As it turns out, your post triggered this crappy AI's reply_with_obligatory_xkcd() subroutine.

https://xkcd.com/876/
Nothing as beautiful as cans with the lads and a couple of smokes too
I would agree with you. Well, except for the guns and religion bits of it.
>>US labor history has been erased from public dialogue in the US almost as thoroughly as Tienanmen Square has been erased from public dialogue in China.

These kinds of conspiracy theories about the alleged defeat of the unions at the hands of corporations are on par with anti-vaxxerism. They rely entirely on the instinctive belief that we live in a zero-sum world where the establishment encourages norms to exploit the masses, and that therefore contrarianism empowers the underdog.

The truth is the US Labor movement took complete control over major US industries, from Big Auto, to US Steel, to the passenger rail service, and drove them into bankruptcy or Outsourcing. With the laws that they put in place the U.S. is very inhospitable to manufacturing. Amazon and Tesla, two firms succeeding on a global stage with US-based production, are next on The Chopping Block, as activist types promote putting them under the monopolistic control of unions.

As for the history of the labor movement, people like you conveniently gloss over the extreme violence that was at the heart of it. The labor unions were closely linked with organized crime and on numerous occasions murdered replacement workers and used threats of violence to enforce picket lines. The propaganda that you're promoting now is just a continuation of the campaign of lies that empowered the labor unions in the first place.
>Almost nobody can compete with the comp provided by FAANG. Do you want 5 companies running everything in your life? Isn’t far enough already?

But your argument was that H-1B favors small companies and hurts large ones. So if Google agreed with your argument they would oppose H-1Bs.

edit: quoted doh's comment
I'd argue that this is a huge issue in the Western world that we could theoretically solve, though how it would happen practically I'm not sure.

Stable homes for all, reduce and/or eliminate the worst forms of advertising.

With some luck you then have a relatively happy populace, content to spend time with their family and on leisure etc without wanting to get big 4x4s or jet around the world or whatever. Kill off the rat race.

Quite incompatible with our current economy though...
...at the rate you're willing/able to pay.

There are plenty of skilled people out there -- they're just getting top dollar for their skills.
I can compress it to 0b! With a decompressor that will be around 100mb.
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I find this hilarious when watching DIY videos on YouTube.

All the makers are talking about "5/16 of an inch" and I'm trying to convert this to a metric value and it doesn't make any sense at all, because "complex" fractions like this are not used in every day life.
People making $7.20 an hour in most places I can think of in the Western world are in crisis, yes.

I don't know what they "should" do. It sounds like they're really in a pickle indeed and the solution (if one even exists) is going to be very dependent on individual circumstance.
What kind of people are that? Employers and funded media?
It's outdated, but it's still 10x the size of the uncompressed data, so it should be generally sufficient.
Another classic example of a modal interface is the Photoshop toolbox, dating back to MacPaint.

http://www.psd-dude.com/tutorials/resources-images/adobe-pho...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacPaint

It does not take much work for a Photoshop operator to orient themselves to the current mode, because it is communicated by a number of cues, including the shape of the mouse pointer.

One problem with vi’s interface is that, in contrast to Photoshop, it’s not easy for a vi operator to discover the available modes.

Are there any paint programs without a modal interface?
Most companies just think they need “good engineers”. Most software development jobs don’t involve doing anymore than yet another software as a service CRUD app or yet another bespoke internal app.

But yet and still, even if all they need is a bog standard React developer they still want someone who spent hours studying leetCode so they can reverse a binary tree on a whiteboard.
Now they are Bayer, and Monsanto doesn't exist anymore.

The same people are still poisoning us, though.