skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This sounds kinda clever to a semi-layperson. Has this been attempted before?

Yes, by Trilogy Systems, and it went bust spectacularly. It raised +200m plus of capital (back in seventies!) and turned out to be the biggest financial failure in Silicon Valley's history.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilogy_Systems
That ... feels like a major loophole, still. It requires Twitter to be able to gauge which state funded media are "really" independent.

I can't really make a convincing case right now, I'll admit, but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth because it feels like a special exemption for (at least) one state-funded entity, for hand-wavy reasons. That seems like in practice it will translate into a policy of banning any PRC equivalent of the BBC, should it ever exist. (Is there currently something close?)

Edit: mjw1007 gives a sense in which the BBC may be more like Chinese state media in this context [1], while derefr gives a more concrete test for deciding which bucket to put the BBC in [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20740903

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20740759
PaPaZ was the one that almost got me into Audible. The lady that was reading it did it in an "aristocratic" delivery that just added to the humor.
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> Are the images shared from this article suggesting that protesters are destroying property and engaging in other such behavior fake or somehow being taken out of context?

Yes. Some protesters destroyed property. But the Hong Kong protests have been overwhelmingly peaceful.

Almost shockingly peaceful. Millions of people are mobilizing in cramped quarters. Very few cultures have the restraint to coördinate so massively with barely any mistakes.

Contrast this with the counter-protesters, in Hong Kong [1] and overseas [2]. Pro-Xi protesters are violent at about the same frequency as (if not higher than) Hong Kong's protesters. This despite there being far fewer pro-Xi protesters on the ground.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-49066982

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/world/australia/hong-kong...
Our tribe isn't exactly immune to this. From Steve Jobs' 90 hour work week pride, to gleefully giving our employers free advertising on our swag t-shirts.

It's always fun to remember that although it's easy to watch the old Steve Ballmer dancemonkeyboy.wmv video and laugh at the ridiculousness of it, at least half of the Microsoft faithful in attendance that day loved it and ate it up.
I'm glad you have a good handle on the data about the predictive power Google interviews have about the individuals.

Can you share the data?
I love the idea of using Pico-8 as a platform for prototyping simple games. It forces you to simplify your code and focus on perfecting the limited functionality you can support.

Celeste is a great game. If I remember correctly you can actually play the pico-8 version within the newer version.
I have written a book about the true computational power of pyramidal neurons. Spoiler: they are A LOT more powerful than transistors. The book is free @ http://www.corticalcircuitry.com/
That's the point, though. Having it curated and written by experts puts them in control of what direction you go. Realistically, I could click through the radiation article on wikipedia, and may be exposed to what I need to know, but I also could just wander down a rabbit hole of useless information.

That's the entire point. I'm not the expert. Nor am I able to even understand the basics of which direction to read/learn - that's what the expert curators are for.
It seems you're right... not sure what I was thinking. Still, it feels like we're on the precipice of something happening. I think 30 days from now the damage from the propaganda will have been done.
I wish you could configure your constraints. I understand why you can't. But I just want unlimited tiles and map sizes. :)
Didn't we already give the ISPs money to upgrade their infrastructure? Something like $400 billion.
Does anyone actually trust twitter? There platform, their rules. I will not be involved. I do not trust them, nor should anyone else.
Something about this pisses me off. Maybe it's because I don't really like my boss right now and think he's pretty bad at being a boss. Or maybe it's because I think it's the bosses job to make my life easier as a worker bee who does the real shit in the company? The whole blurb on this site that says "Your job is to make your boss happy" really just grates on my nerves and makes me want to stab the author of this site with a dull pencil in the eye.
Conditionals allow a program to react to the data it is presented with. This can be data from the outside world, or data from some other module internal to a program composed out of modules (i.e. subroutines, for example). Without conditionals - or their moral equivalent - programs would not be able to react to their inputs or to changes in their internal state.

--

There are Turing-complete languages without conditionals, though - even without data, as such! An example is the lambda calculus. If you want to learn more about this, read up on "Church encoding" and "Scott encoding".

The basic idea is to use functions and the visitor pattern to encode a kind of conditional behaviour that varies with the input supplied to it.

True = (lambda (t f) (t))
False = (lambda (t f) (f))
If = (lambda (b tr fa) (b tr fa))

(lambda (x)
(If x
(lambda () (display "It was true!"))
(lambda () (display "It was false!"))))

Desk check the reductions of applying that function to True and to False. The "t" and "f" arguments to the boolean values act as a kind of "menu" (the visitor pattern), from which the datum selects in order to communicate what variant of data it is. The pattern extends readily to natural numbers, lists, and so on, giving a straightforward encoding of not only conditionals, but also (one-layer-deep) pattern matching.
Here [1] is Chan's filmography. He's very active in the American industry still. Using the fact he also acts in Chinese films against him is not very reasonable. And Liu Yifei is American Chinese and literally just got her big break playing the lead in Mulan.

It seems increasingly disturbing to me that people seem to want to assume that anybody who holds a different view from them must be a "troll" or some sort of secret government conspirator or whatever else. Social media echo chambers are making people increasingly incapable of understanding that people can see the same information, without omission or ignorance, and come to different conclusions.
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Systemd AND .NET? Yikes.
Well it is certainly a willful misrepresention of the protest movement as a whole, to share the window smashing and say "radical people of hong kong" "complete violent behavior" - the context is peaceful revolution, the context is riot cops showing up and applying violent repression of crowds.

You're asking questions of concern without taking a side by the way, suggesting that maybe the mainlanders are right to see the protesters as violent and deserving of violent repression by a dictatorship. I would urge you to be a little less willing to take the dictator's side on this.
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Chrome in incognito mode seems to work as well.
My productivity tip is to get old. If you are too young for that, watch an old person complete an overwhelming task. Model after their resilience and patience.
Definitely a concern. I wonder how big players are handling that. In the UK for example there are now many App only banks (Monzo, Starling...)
It seems like you're approaching this as if businesses are maximizing a function, and that doesn't seem to be how managers make decisions in most places? Competition is important but there are a wide variety of strategies and they are already weighing intangible tradeoffs without necessarily quantifying everything.
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Whether it feels weird or not, the hostname label is "www".

The hostname-as-tld example is sort of against the rules:

https://serverfault.com/questions/907226/is-it-possible-to-c...

Either way, "." by itself can only meaningfully refer to the root, not some arbitrary enclosing domain name. There is no way you will convince me that using "." as a shorthand for "parent domain" is a good idea, for that and all the other reasons.
Yup, that happened to my family. Probably for the better... Except one of them flew off the window when cleaning the cage. Then the other inexplicably flew off a couple days later. I imagine I should thank my parents for sparing us understanding depression at such a young age.
it’s in TFA

“This policy will apply to news media entities that are either financially or editorially controlled by the state. It has been informed by established academic and civil society leaders in this space. Sources include Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index, Freedom House, the Economist Intelligence Unit Democracy Index, the European Journalism Centre’s Media Landscapes Report, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and UNESCO's framework to assess media development and independence.”

Fox News is not controlled by the state (if anything it’s the other way round)

Neither is the telegraph

Neither is the BBC
When the fake news is generated and controlled by a government entity, I think the better term is "propaganda".
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To answer my own question, I’m not sure I find a great deal of meaning in most of my work, but I like doing the work and I like the people I work with, and I don’t resent the people I work for, because it’s ultimately the British public.
The raw throughputs are definitely better but there is concern regarding latency even at the lowest levels, since today's CPUs have complex cache, power state and frequency throttling mechanisms. You cannot guarantee that something will perform with identical runtime in all expected use-cases unless you take care to use hardware that is optimized in that direction. And because the software environments are more complex a lot of capability is just dropped on the floor because the intermediate layers get in the way.

W/R to buffers in front of things, a decent number of the micro systems of the 70's were so memory starved that they would make these tradeoffs to retain video sync - that describes the Atari 2600("racing the beam" is the name of a book about the console), and Cinematronics vector games(if it did not complete drawing at 60hz, it reset). Most early arcade games did work with DACs(or rather ADCs) but ran their own calibration and button debounce code - and even with layers of abstraction that's still basically true today.

With graphics, the move towards desktop environments doing GPU compositing impacts graphics coders, since they now often have window manager buffers in front of them instead of direct access to a rectangle of pixels.

Web browsers are a more extreme example of this. Because the graphics model revolves around document presentation, things that aren't really documents, or are extremely customized documents, often get burdened by latency that they wouldn't have if it weren't for the browser.
Regarding determinism, async is way more deterministic than multiple threads, because you don’t have arbitrary point where execution contexts can change.
Ask HN: Buying mid-2015 MBP 15” in 2019, a good idea?
Hi,

I bought a Retina MBA in December 2018, it’s actually back at Apples because of his fucking keyboard. Problems started to appear 6 months after the purchase and I’m fed up bringing it back to the store for repairs.
I’m thinking about reselling it and buying a second hand mid-2015 Retina 15” MacBook Pro (high-end config) for a moderate price. I already found one, the seller is nice and competent, the laptop clean.

Do you think it’s a good idea?
Yeah...I think Americans have a hard time thinking of their government spreading propaganda because America equals freedom/propaganda is only done in bad countries/etc etc. So people get some mild cognitive dissonance when they become fans of Captain America.
Yeah, I pretty much disagree with the author when it comes to something like inputing your birthday. For something like hotel stays or airplane tickets, it does make sense to show a full calendar to give a sense of the range between two dates, but for inputing a birthday I'll take the "9 taps" required to fill out the three fields on mobile. I think it's going to end up faster than alternating between tapping to select a field and typing to enter the value.
Yeah it is THE software for multi-media showcase. Back in 90s I had a copy of shareware/demo version and it already blowed my mind off. The whole collection was like a dozen CD I think? I never got the chance to see it though. Nowadays we still don't have something that match up the experience.
We're describing the same outcome. The author is describing a very different cause of that outcome.
> Using the fact he also acts in Chinese films against him is not very reasonable

Sure it is. He's economically and likely personally exposed to Beijing. China has no rule of law. Offending Xi's government carries drastically harsher consequences than doing something similar in a country with the rule of law.
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I attended a university in Florida and I've had many acquaintances and friends intern at Disney. Most love it because they're blinded by Disney and are Disney "Stans". Most definitely is a waste of time with no meaningful skills, loss of a semester, etc.
You reposted this half an hour later. Please wait more, something like a day or more. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20740789 (already with 4 comments)
Normal static typing won't help you there. You would need some sort of dependent typing. For example, look at Idris.
It's not quite 100, but I get 75 Mbps on VDSL in Dallas.
Well, the US has assassinated its own citizens who have been accused of terrorism (but not tried, just executed), and I think this is a bad thing, so let’s go back to the issue at hand: using subjective biases to strip people of their human rights is bad, regardless of what those biases suggest to you or anyone else about their alleged crimes.
Over the weekend I had to call Time Warner Cable for support. Their support representative was willing to send an e-mail verification to any address I provided - in fact she refused to send an e-mail to the address on file because she couldn’t be sure the address was valid or who she was sending too. All this when I accessed a live chat feature from within a logged in context where I had already authenticated myself.
What would make you believe that?

And do you still believe it after the other user linked an article about allergies in other races?
Ah. What kind of asynchronous task executes so fast that a heap allocation is measurable?
How about you just don't pay attention to your phone while operating a two ton death machine?
China and Vietnam have always been historic enemies. Sure they might not have great relations, at least they didn’t invade and destroy the place!

I think you’re overlooking the entire history of western colonization and US empire there.

Belt and Road initiative? China is helping many African countries develop infrastructure, and doing so
in a mutually beneficial manner.
I like the majority of GCP products I work with, but judging by the amount of issues in the past year, GCP feels amateurish compared to AWS, which we continue to user in order to host most mission critical operations.

I cant access any of my Airflow clusters atm. :/
This looks great! Have you considered adding an RSS feed for it?
If you took a look at the study and the margin of error for their results, you'd notice that the margin of error has an overwhelming overlap.
Or, I'm classed as "Senior Programmer III" and get scale for that bucket and that's it.

No thanks!
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They might not be able to pay for ads, but they could still use their Twitter accounts:

>Any affected accounts will be free to continue to use Twitter to engage in public conversation, just not our advertising products.
True. I think reciprocity is the key here. China needs to open up its market to the world for the benefits of every party in the world trade. It has enjoyed a long enough special treatment to use a lot of domestic excuses to perform various protectionist acts, which needs to stop now.

But Google's case is a different one. They soured their relationship with China by themselves. I don't see how it is beneficial to be openly rebellious to local government in the market you wish to operates.
This is neat and cool that it works with front-end frameworks instead of canvas. I had a bad experience with the demo site where if I interact with the box on the top of the page it collapses to a single line with two points, then the browser tab crashes after that. I'm using Chrome 76.0.3809.100 on Windows 10.
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That doesn't really mean anything. It (and any other chip) had better be able to run at least batch size 1, and lots of people claim to have great utilization... It doesn't tell me if the limited memory is part of a deliberate tradeoff akin to a throughput/latency tradeoff, or some intrinsic problem with the speedups coming from other design decisions like the sparsity multipliers, or what.
No legal changes are needed. Companies are controlled by the shareholders.

Shareholders can, at any time, decide to replace the CEO with someone who will "do good" or whatever.

So if people want to change a company, what they have to do is simple. Buy out the shares, and get majority control, and then make whatever changes that they want.
Am i the only one for whom the demo on the associated web site [1] seems to be broken?

- disappearing elements on drag

- weird coordinates ...e+253

[1] https://daybrush.com/moveable/
People are arguing against you because what you claim is not as obvious as you claim.
Is it that much harder to push a PWA to the App store's without Ionic?
Do you support MATLAB or GNU Octave? I'm looking for the level of abstraction below TensorFlow because I find pure matrix math to be more approachable. Admittedly, I'm not super experienced with TF, so maybe it can encapsulate them.

Also, do you have a runtime to run the chip as a single 400,000 core CPU with some kind of memory mapped I/O so that a single 32 or 64 bit address space writes through to the RAM router through virtual memory? I'm hoping to build a powerful Erlang/Elixer or Go machine so I can experiment with other learning algorithms in realtime, outside the constraints of SIMD-optimized approaches like neural nets. Another option would be 400,000 virtual machines in a cluster, each running a lightweight unix/linux (maybe Debian or something like that). Here is some background on what I'm hoping for:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20601699

See my other comments for more. I've been looking for a parallel machine like this since I learned about FGPAs in the late 90s, but so far have not had much success finding any.
Just because we don't know a program that creates a decent artificial brain doesn't mean that such a program doesn't exist for the hardware we have.

We're almost certainly going to be able to make speed/size trade-offs in AGI, because we're used to making them in all other computing.

Even biological systems make these types of trade-offs. We're beings optimized for the environment we evolved in, not optimized for "smarts". There's many "choices" in energy balance, reaction time, etc, that have been made.

Transistors are really powerful and fast computing devices; really our use of them in digital logic in some ways greatly under-utilizes them for ease in design and predictability. Saying that it takes 4 transistors to make a really simple neuron analog in a circuit undersells that those 4 transistors can operate many, many orders of magnitude faster.
I'm not sure where you're getting a connection to high interest rates. I would expect just the opposite; if people have their desires satisfied and are looking to invest what's left over then their time preference will be lower (more willing to wait) and money should be easier to get (lower interest rates on loans).
While Twitter takes money from those spreading the disinformation. How the f is that not biased, or illegal?
From the research article:

> A 1-mg/L increase in MUFSG was associated with a 4.49-point lower IQ score (95% CI, −8.38 to −0.60) in boys,

> but there was no statistically significant association with IQ scores in girls (B = 2.40; 95% CI, −2.53 to 7.33).

> A 1-mg higher daily intake of fluoride among pregnant women was associated with a 3.66 lower IQ score (95% CI, −7.16 to −0.14) in boys and girls.

I'm not sure about the notation, but even the first result looks pretty close to include the null hypothesis, where the change is 0.
I was recently helping a friend modernize his family business, which is now his sole income and thus his full time job.

Because of the nature of older, archaic/legacy systems in place, there was so much room for growth and increasing revenue and profits.

My friend has worked in sales at a large tech company (hint, recent IPO), so he was acquainted with the tech industry. But when I showed him basic workflows such as how to automate Google Sheets and referencing cells and using formulas (aka Excel skills), it was like teaching calculus to a middle schooler.

I then showed him how he could connect siloed data between business tools using Zapier, which requires no code at all. I found myself again discovering that even setting up a simple Zap was way too much for him to handle.

These simple no-code workflows were to create a loyalty program, automated email/drip marketing, and more basic marketing implementations.

Moral of the story is that you can assume the normal person, even if they have worked in tech, will still have trouble setting up and using No Code to its powerful potential, let alone basic utility. I can definitely see a marketplace work for people like this.
HN isn’t even blocked in China
it's way too late.

the time for this was back in 2011, when the populist politics were first rearing their head on a national scale. now, it reads like a belated non-apology for past maliciousness. and it won't save them from the rising tide.
Demo'ing the "scalable" in latest firefox dies hard and causes the tab to lock.
We had childcraft, as I recall, but definitely never could have afforded the $1000-$1500 for Britannica.

One word for Encarta and the like: Edutainment.
Maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but I've found personalized start pages (eg https://start.me/ https://www.protopage.com/ ) with RSS and other feeds from a wide variety of news sources to be the best fit for my purpose. This includes a feed for HN and other aggregators.
Yep. I can easily reproduce the disappearing element by rotating slightly and then attempting to resize on the Y axis of the element.
Ah, I should have guessed it would be a destructive process. Still something I'll keep in mind but I have a particular weakness about destroying old books, even if intellectually I understand 1) it's not a valuable book and 2) there are other copies out there and 3) it's worth more to me in PDF form.