skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everybody who writes about Semir Zeki (PI on that paper) and his work is polite about him. I can only assume that this is because he is a) a likeable guy and b) the professional aestheticians and artists who could make negative comments think it wiser not to get involved in any way lest they be accused of punching down.

Euler's identity is pretty obviously something elegant, and it's widely recognized. But Zeki seems to overlook the importance of acculturation in the appreciation of these things. The idea that a mind-blowing Ramanujan formula is ugly seems particularly problematic. Sure, it is surprising, complex, and apparently arbitrary, and most test subjects won't have any insight into how it works. But why should those people (let's say they are "ignorant" when it comes to Ramanujan's results) be expected to have any opinion on the formula? Any judgement they come up with will be superficial.

This problem runs through most of Zeki's work. His experiments take test subjects who are, as it were, preloaded with certain aesthetic experiences and norms, and attempt to derive universal cognitive principles of beauty from the result. What he doesn't do is try to discover just what those aesthetic prejudices are. He doesn't try to extract from the test subjects the key features of their aesthetic indoctrination. In the math situation, it's totally conceivable that a group of test subjects who were educated to find every Ramanujan formula transcendently fascinating would rate those formulas as beautiful.

The problem is more conspicuous when his research looks at art. Since he hasn't studied art himself, he really doesn't seem to appreciate the basic reality: that some people have learned to 'get' certain styles or genres of art, while others haven't had the good fortune to learn to appreciate those same styles. People walk around with extremely complex acquired aesthetic processing capabilities in their heads. Everyone's is different, and while Zeki may be able to find some universal regularities, (like Chomsky's hypothesized universal innate grammar) that wouldn't be a neural explanation of aesthetics any more than the success of Chomsky's programme would tell us about the nature of literature.

It's a frivolous exercise from the point of view of anyone seriously interested in art (or math).
Ah, what a coincidence I just bought KSP about a month ago. Very good game but lacks a lot of automation. kOS and MechJeb solves some of these issues, but if you want to play "non-cheaty" it's still a very manual game; there is no way to make use of computers whereas in real space programs everything is computed and organized so precisely.
Censorship evasion is doable within minutes for most, which is well known for those interested in it.

However, many do not feel compelled to evade it, and have no idea of what happens "on the outside".
Using fine sand I make that out to be about 6 buckets, give or take, besides, this isn't about whether it is 6, 10 or even 100 (or 1000) buckets, it is about how the number itself does not make a huge difference. Before if you wanted 1.2T transistors you needed 50 or so regular large dies, and presumably there have already been dies with more than the 21 billion that I'm referring to here (the NVidia 5K cores chip).

If that was all it took then we'd have had 'human brains' in a box long ago, after all, 50 GPUs is something that isn't all that rare in plenty of institutions.
Could you link to such a story?

I usually read that a few seconds were claimed here or there. ContentID probably identified the part correctly, but people want to argue fair use.

And then there are the stories where it turns out the sample used was not cleared, etc.
Maybe a silly question, but what is an APT?
I agree that they should be open, but there are some advantages to the current model besides vendor lock-in.

Requiring a device certificate to communicate puts a pretty high bar on the integrity of the system. Being closed also allows unrestricted innovation at a faster pace.

It’s very difficult to add features once an open standard is out. Just look at the evolution of the major web browsers for example.
What issues does that come with, in your opinion?
Looks like no :(

https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/187315...
I'm glad I omitted the ER nurse targeted snark in that case... ;)
That's a lie. Or, at least, there's another existing normal motor that can achieve at least nearly the same results. Existing motors are already 90+% efficient; it's not possible to make a 50% increase in range.
Thanks for the feedback. There will be a "font-switch" option and I may need to do some user testing for the best default font.

The speed issue is really a Wikipedia (and Archive.org) API fetching issue plus some parsing time. I am planning to make the data fetching parallel, but need to do some data-source-code refactoring first. A better loading indication UI will also help.
Your news media might be more honest than ours.
Send a SMS text message with a simple HTTP request
It's the (generally) that's the issue here, now isn't it?
It's a pretty good game with a very realistic physics simulator. They simulate everything from orbital mechanics to aerodynamics. There is a planet in the "solar" system with an atmosphere close to Earth's (Kerbin) so you can go there with a gigantic rocket, bring your airplane and fly in a different planets atmosphere. Pretty amazing.
To whoever downvoted me. Censoring the fact customers have issues, doesn't make the product better.
Agreed. I understand giving most organizations a 30 day grace period, but it would be great if they made an exception and cut off such a clear-cut offender immediately.
Software piracy wasn't on anyone's radar at the time.
I'm not using Tor or a VPN and I'm logged in to Google; I shant ever log into Chrome, though.
My family was never one to spend a dollar if we could spend a nickel, so our encyclopedia was significantly out of date, as was our globe. But if you knew that the USSR didn’t really exist anymore, everything else was pretty much the same. Most knowledge doesn't become wrong; it just becomes history.
I think it’s mostly a case of the drunk looking for his keys under the lamp post because that’s where the light is.

We have no idea how much there is to know about reality. We do know how to describe some parts with mathematics, but who knows how much there is out there which is not possible to describe with mathematics.

We may just be discovering infinitesimally small part ls of reality which math happens to describe well.
> I fully expect retirement age to increase.

Glad we're agreed there. Of course, the next big challenge will be keeping people not just alive but in good health past age sixty. Many times people will live their last twenty years with, say, a bad back which could prevent work. Stem cells seem promising (especially as the price drops), as do three-dimensionally-printed parts.

>> The best schools are private.

> That may be part of the problem in some countries, yes. They aren't here.

Where is "here"? For reference, in America, the best private schools can cost almost as much as the salary of a minimum-wage worker. That's part of how they maintain such high staff-to-student ratio and such individualized curricula. I could see working toward better public schools, absolutely, but I don't see putting that kind of money toward every student. How would public school compete in such a scenario?

>> It's an investment by someone

So is primary school. Most countries sya some level of basic education should be guaranteed by public funding. Including higher education isn't that much of a stretch. It's very hard to achieve high social mobility without free higher education.

It is that much of a stretch. Free college is eight t-t-t-trillion dollars over the first ten years [0]. That doesn't even factor in that quality will likely go down. The government isn't going to hand you an expense account for today's college choices, it's going to create new, lower-quality colleges. A liberal-arts education is expensive because it entails years of studying things that aren't professionally relevant - an IoT dev doesn't need to read Plutarch. That kind of thing isn't justifiable from a "societal investment" point-of-view. P.S. there's also Sanders' plan to cancel the existing one point four trillion dollars outstanding.

> It's very hard to achieve high social mobility without free higher education.

You're looking at people who attend college and enter the upper half of society, and attempting to say, "If everyone goes to college, everyone can enter the upper half of society!" Unfortunately, it's just that - a half. There are only so many jobs of that sort; college makes people more competitive applicants. You won't necessarily create more by creating more people who go to college.

> I don't think a society with a good pension system, publicly funded higher education and healthcare is a society "without hardship", but it's one where illness doesn't mean risking financial ruin.

You said "publicly funded", not "run by the government". Again, that plays into the mistaken impression that every one gets what the middle class and up get now, just paid by the government. That's never how it works. And you are somewhat looking to establish "freedom from want" to an extent; you basically want to cover the first two levels of Maslow. Everything on top of that is personal and petty.

[0]: https://www.dailywire.com/news/34176/someone-calculated-how-....

(I know this source has a definitive right bias, but it references a left-wing external source and, for whatever reason, had better SEO than said source).
I could never get into Factorio. I despise games where the main gameplay loop is inventory management.
the guy with the idea is an artist so I doubt he was thinking in API terms but more abstractly when probably drunk in a bar late :)
Yes, noted, thanks. Some wikipedia templates are difficult to get right. Will see how to fix this and make the presentation clearer.
> The fact that various platforms are controlled by private parties is a little nerve-racking.

I mean, would you rather them be solely controlled by the government?
The Computer Scientist Nightmare: My Favourite Bug (2016)
The noise doesn't match the reality IME. Tech interviewing trends are less than ideal sometimes, but finding jobs as an experienced and articulate professional developer is not hard in my own experience and that of everyone I've worked with.
Leadership skills would be up there ... Grab any book from John Maxwell

Communication skills... "Everyone communicates, not everyone connects", "How to win friends and influence people"
I wish the real world generally valued employees as people instead of numbers on a spreadsheet. These individuals can get jobs with dementia but I can't seem to get a job with ADHD. I guess "our employees can't regulate their attention, just go with it" isn't a compelling hook for the vast majority of businesses.
I'd love to give it a spin; do you have a repo link? Also out of curiosity, how does it compare in terms of crypto?
Interesting point of view, but expressed in a rather arrogant and one-sided manner. In the interests of full disclosure, what are your qualifications and background? Have you ever been employed by Boeing or the FAA?
You do realize that AWS SLA is about as much BS as the "unlimited" cell data plans we're discussing here, right?

All it says is that if they fail to deliver service, with a bunch of exclusions that make it very unlikely they will ever do so, then you get to not pay for that service that you didn't get.

http://aws.amazon.com/compute/sla/
It says in the article that they're relying on other organizations like Reporters without Borders to determine editorial independence.
Very cool! Have a page or repo up to follow your work?
You're essentially implementing statically scheduled cooperative userspace threads on top of a single thread with async/await.

So, for computation, this is a bad solution.
Little context for the trailer: it seems to be a homage to this fan video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkDOOsGg-9I, which is one of the most well-known videos in the KSP community, and something people show to people to get them into playing this game. I must say the new, "official", video does capture the atmosphere very well.

If the game will look a third as well as on the trailer visualization, I'll buy it without thinking (who am I lying to, I'll buy it anyway). One thing though: I hope the modding capability and freedom won't be diminished.

If KSP is a great game by itself, mods make it a literal order of magnitude better - a huge amount of solid fan work was done to expand every imaginable aspect of KSP. And I mean it: among many things, mods give you many more realistic and unrealistic building blocks, life support management, communication networks including speed of light delay, trajectory planning, UI/UX improvements, graphics improvements, orbital assembly, working space telescopes, realistic aerodynamics model (including supersonic physics), n-body simulation and non-symmetric gravity fields,... I don't think there's another game where so much of such highly skilled effort was spent for free to make it deeper.

I really hope they won't do anything that would make this depth of modding impossible.
Netflix bought bandwidth from more than one company. That's why if you used a VPN or a different type of device for streaming, it would work. Comcast wasn't throttling Netflix in general, they had an oversubscribed link with Cogent.
These guys have definitely spent some money on PR since closing their investment round in April. They have placed 4+ articles with many of the same talking points, pictures and video over the last 2 weeks:

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/linear-labs-electric-turb...

https://jalopnik.com/a-texas-startup-claims-to-have-made-the...

https://newatlas.com/linear-labs-hunstable-electric-motor/60...

https://insideevs.com/news/364852/linear-labs-hunstable-elec...

Funny to see the VC money being spent so tangibly and the timeline for creatives, relationships and placements.
This assumes that the compiler can actually infer that a const-by-reference isn't modified.

The second we have indirection (function pointers), or a different source file without whole-program-optimization, or a library, these assumptions break down.

Further, the author assumes that the compiler can't benefit from the knowledge that something is const because the const can be cached away. This isn't true, e.g. per ISO9899 6.7.3.5:

If an attempt is made to modify an object defined with a const-qualified type through use
of an lvalue with non-const-qualified type, the behavior is undefined. If an attempt is
made to refer to an object defined with a volatile-qualified type through use of an lvalue
with non-volatile-qualified type, the behavior is undefined.
Devil's advocate: what if the "troll army" is actually a whole army of people from that country who are brainwashed to believe the party line? Is that not "authentic" if they really believe it?
Descriptions and reviews are great but nothing beats experience. Job descriptions and job roles are many times different as well.

But it looks like you're not trying to replace glassdoor. A "day in the life" type descriptions would certainly have their place.
I am so excited about this. Curious how the gameplay/graphics will be on Xbox.
It might be in West Coast dev shops. I'm not sure, I've never interviewed at one. I have worked in the central US and east coast, and I've always been able to find a new job within a month or so of deciding that I want one. Perhaps hiring in tech could be better, but calling it broken is a wild exaggeration IMO.
I've played plenty of games both ways, and as a developer I have to agree with something I've heard before - The reason that so many Unity games have "cartoony graphics" or performance issues is because Unity is one of the easiest game engines to learn (also cartoony graphics are one of the easiest styles to achieve because of it's inherit lack of details).

So you end up with more asset flips, unexperienced devs, etc. on the Unity engine than say the Unreal engine.
This article devotes an unusual amount of time discussing Rogan's ad roll.
yep - all of the upside none of the downside.
I wouldn’t call it very realistic. The aero modeling is quite hacks/primitive and even the gravity is rather simplify... afaict they only calculate to the dominant object in the sphere of influence so you don’t get Lagrange points, for instance.

I mean, it’s playable, certainly but it’s realistic in the at something like Forza is Realistic. So, sorta, but no.
Which part are you having trouble with? Seems very simple and straight forward to me. Your "ordinary people" comment doesn't mean much TBH. It is no different than buying a tire, you have your speed rating, section width, load index, maximum inflation pressure, wheel diameter, etc, etc. Wow.. so many crazy numbers !! How do "ordinary people" ever buy a tire.. :)
I would post this headline as "Twitter and Facebook coordinated today to post blog posts about removing coordinated inauthentic behavior from their platforms". There is no more confirmation from Twitter and Facebook that their actions are coordinated than confirmation from the Chinese government that it ran psyop, botnets, and the like, but the inference thereof is justified. Likewise, the leading inference that Facebook and Twitter are inauthentic in their efforts is just as justified.
Traumas change perception in the long term
We don’t know what numbers are the numbers that we need to care about. How much do chemical gradients matter? Inhibitors? Hormones? What other factors are at play?

I read so many people that have both simplified views of DNNs as well as real neurons that they get overly excited about the possibility of somehow getting to AGI by just having enough transistors. There was similar thinking in the 1950s when proto-AIs could play chess.

Cognition is extraordinary. The theory of mind encompasses many important features that we have no use how to approach.

To say all that’s left is research doesn’t really say much at all. It’s like saying for teleportation all that’s left is research as we have lots of bandwidth, or that for month-long battery life all that’s left is research as we have the phones ready to take them.

The gap between our knowledge Of the brain and what’s being applied to machine learning is a big leap.
There are 100 trillion synapses in the brain.

I'm not claiming Cerebras is human scale; I think it's a factor of 100-1000 off personally. I'm just saying I don't think the comparison is meaningless.
Optimist
It definitely is a meme. Cuphead, Hearthstone, Ori, Cities Skylines, Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak, Subnautica, Hollow Knight... There's a bunch of great games made with the engine that I've never seen issues with, many of these games are performance sensitive as well.

Edit: Maybe you could provide a few examples of games with those issues?
Transableism
Given that "87.623% of all outages are caused by changes" is generally accepted wisdom of running large scale services, I would tend to disagree with those people. Incompetence: no. Opportunity for improvement: yes.

Edit: made-up number has large margin of error
But Google doesn't want to allow wi-fi ad-hoc networking: https://web.archive.org/web/20160315070543/https://code.goog...
An Economic Warning Sign: RV Shipments Are Slipping
Oh come on, that doesn't sound illegal. What do you mean by "criminally?"
Trump made it worse because whatever evidence against CCP he is presenting is often being dismissed by foreign leaders who don't trust him because of his unnecessarily hostile attitude towards US allies. If Obama or somebody alike was presenting Huawei case (which has been in the works long before Trump) more countries would be willing to coordinate a response necessary to maintain China's authoritarian / colonial ambitions. But now alienated Germany and other allies are increasingly skeptical, which helps China & Russia.
Imagine the workflow for the average PR department. Discover mentions of key terms and phrases, and when they occur, create an account and engage when future mentions are made.

Bureaucracies have no rational sense.
The lead image features two laptops and a desktop. And three hardcopies of code. All with a light-on-dark color scheme. I'd wager they had a bit of fun taking this programmery photo.
A Dark Room – minimalist text-based game (2013)
Seems to me that if you file a Schedule C in your federal tax return, your own name should be sufficient.
Yep, I think it was pretty clear you were being sarcastic.
I hear this argument about Apple products constantly, and have a knee-jerk reaction to debunk it as the actual reason, when it’s more likely motivated by preference.

I just can’t imagine anyone even thinking that holding expensive chocolate is going to signal their status, and can’t imagine that anyone is so insecure that they would even feel a need to. A lot of people buy overpriced items because they actually believe they are higher quality (whether true or not, like with wine).

Yet, jewelry and expensive watches exist seemingly only for that purpose, so I have to call my own assumptions about others behavior into question on this.
> imprints that image into the customer's mind

It's actually deeper than that. It imprints the image into our collective minds. Even if YOU don't think iPhones are better, it may still be rational for you to buy one if you know that people will think more highly of you when they see you holding one.
Yes it's a bad thing not because of the action, but because of the representation.

It is an attempt at communicating state and action at the some time, but I think disconnecting look and behavior is a mistake. Don't use a skeuomorphic slider to represent a push button switch, especially if selling the realism of a touch interface is the goal.
Faster than what? There are a hundred trillion atoms in a neuron operating in a coordinated fashion to create its global behavior in the context of the brain. How many interactions between those components occur in a billionth of a second? Many.
A neo-Nazi group attempting to gain a foothold in Winnipeg and across Canada
Hey! You seem knowledgeable, mind emailing me at tapabrata_ghosh [at] vathys (dot) ai ?
Neat. Obviously swappable cores in cartridges were a big part of the longevity of the NES and SNES consoles, and it will be interesting to see what sorts of trade-offs you decide to make for the various cores (and their interactions).
I'm building a MUD in Go from scratch. It's similar to the Merc/Diku muds from way back when, and I'm supporting area files from those distributions so I can just load in existing areas. This is really just for fun. I'll probably never actually put it out there.

I'm also building a Tradewars 2002 clone, trying to get everything as close as I possibly can to the original. Again, probably won't get it to deployment, but it's a fun thing to work on when I'm on a plane or don't have much else to do.
Bill Gates wrote the "open letter to hobbyists" in 1976, when software "piracy" wasn't even clearly illegal, because it wasn't clear that software was copyrightable. We're talking about 1998, 22 years later. It had been on Microsoft's radar since 1976. 1998 was in the heyday of the SPA and "Don't copy that floppy!", as if sharing information were a morally suspect thing to do.

The USTR Special 301 Report already existed in 1998 and already singled out countries for possible trade sanctions for doing the kinds of things that permitted the US to develop economically in the 19th and early 20th centuries. I don't know if Argentina was already specifically targeted, though it was in later years, especially due to La Salada (Q.E.P.D.).
And if you're a night owl, you inevitably learn how to sleep right through your alarms.
Nope, I meant modern C++. Granted, it has multiple mechanisms to prevent memory corruption but they are not watertight.