skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. I’m over 40 and late diagnosed. You can only get so far with your smarts if ADHD is continuously stirring your brain.
What is the ownership link for this site? It reads like stary eyed propoganda.
I barely skimmed this https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
for the "most frustrating paper" but how did he determine that they were leaking "future data"?
Exactly, I also find it extremely dubious a "Tier 1 professional quant trader" implemented 130+ papers in 7 months.

This means obtaining the same data, reproducing feature engineering and hyperparameters. Implementing learning algos.
Maybe the guy is genius and god-like in NLP, finance, data science and machine learning but even then 7 months is too little time.

I was amazed at how few people call out this obvious lie here.
Hey I'd be interested doing the same thing, similar problem here. Where should I start? If I started tutorials in one language now, what should it be?
Tolerance leads to intolerance, and we don't want that so we better not tolerate some stuff.

Karl Popper sounds like a real winner.
6207 Exammaterial
Democracy needs provable facts to work

I’m OK with this if Google takes full responsibility for the veracity of its search results and liability for any consequences of someone being misled.

They won’t do that of course, they want the power without the responsibility.
The shortcomings of IMAP and POP are reflected in all mail clients and is a large part in what has made webmail so popular.

Another reason is that webmail vendors of today typically deliver a subpar IMAP/POP experience. So combining a native client and webmail when on the go is rarely ideal.

JMAP is the first chance in a long time to get a decent experience that doesn't involve an expert and (even if you are willing to put in the time) tons of compromises.

And aside from all that we have an opportunity and reason to revive native clients that has gone stagnant (which is pretty much all of them).
That only works if you set up a separate child account for a separate device and then manage it using Family Link.

If I want to hand my own phone over to a child for a while, there's no way (that I've found anyway) to prevent a child from installing all sorts of crapware on it.
Yeah. His was a real dumb comment.
HN is (like Reddit) US-dominated, and with it comes that most of the users follow an absolutist version of "free speech" that is totally ridiculous for people coming from Europe who have learned from the Nazi regime where absolute limitless free speech can and inevitably will end.
Anyone can learn to communicate in a simpler way, otherwise nobody would be able to train a dog. However doing so in most communications is not only tiring, but also has some pernicious psychological effects.
If submit an app to Apple with IDLE support I would bet will be rejected. JMAP has PushSubscription which will play nice with Apple / Google push services.
There's no democratic principle that forces you to listen to all opinions#. They just ensure you're free to have a voice (within the limits of the law) but they won't force anyone to listen to that voice or to amplify it.

YouTube is an amplifier and while they give anyone a voice they're not forced by any law lo amplify its reach. Just like you won't go share my opinion with all your discussion partners.

#is it anti-democratic if someone flags or downvotes a comment on HN? Are you or HN acting in an anti-democratic fashion by hiding and censoring that opinion? (obvious answer: no) Freedom and democracy are seriously misinterpreted these days.
Here's a list of proper services:

https://www.privacytools.io/providers/dns/

I'm using Gandi (a french company) right now without an issue, too.
But maybe the definition of success to such a person is being in a position to be required to do nothing.
From the perspective of a consultant that did an IT project for his countries military, I can’t tell you how absurd this statement reads...
I know there may be concerns about privacy, given the headline. But this is a very cool concept. Nothing new, I know, but still very cool nonetheless :)
He's saying globaltimes.cn is like RT - a state news agency pushing state propaganda.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Times

>The Global Times is a daily Chinese tabloid newspaper under the auspices of the People's Daily newspaper, focusing on international issues from the Chinese government's perspective
The drop in productive capacity is the motive, but not the means; the printing of the money is an action to prop up state finances with the direct effect of causing hyperinflation.

i.e. the Zimbabwe narrative should be: the government tried to dig itself out of a hole by printing money.

Similarly, the German government printed money in the 1920s to try to keep up with reparations payments which were larger than the economy could bear through taxation. (Though of course printing money is effectively a tax on savings, with the added effects of disruption to contracts.) And since the reparations were denominated in hard currency there were diminishing returns, as the government was printing ever-devaluing Papiermarks with which to buy Pounds Sterling and Francs.
I can only speak to the Marine Corps, but there is a pretty structured/meritocratic method for being promoted.

At least for the enlisted ranks, your promotion potential is dependent on a couple of factors: how many people of a particular rank for any given job field are needed, your personal fitness scores, rifle range proficiency, professional military education completion, etc.

There is a certain degree of subjectivity, as you are given what are called "proficiency and conduct" ratings in the earlier ranks. In the mid-later ranks, you are given performance evaluations. Those evaluations are at least partly based off the factors I described above, though.

Interestingly, when you put in for promotion at the mid-later ranks, the people who make the selection are not in your chain of command. You put together a package and the decision is made by a board consisting of third parties.

In the earlier ranks, your performance/ratings is compiled into a score, then each month the Marine Corps issues a total scoring that must be met in order to be promoted.

It is by no means a perfect system, but it seemed mostly fair. It is also incredibly complicated, so I apologize if I did not do the explanation justice.
You'd probably pick it up pretty quickly.

I learned Phoenix + Elixir not too long ago and I felt quite productive with it after a few weeks with no formal functional programming experience. I started building a non-trivial app right from the start.

Here's how I tackled learning it in my spare time: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/learning-a-new-web-framework-...
> Also nice that they shared their experience with the rest of us.

Except they didn't share the results with the rest of us. I know you said "experience" not "results", but when disproving papers, the least you can do is write down three sentences about each paper as you go along reproducing them, noting what you are seeing, perhaps with a snapshot (just a zip file or so) of the code. This is calling a whole field nonsense (that everyone expects to be full of nonsense) without giving enough evidence for anyone else to dispute your claims.
Anyone knows how much power that amp can source? Impossible to find any numbers.
It's a tabloid that tells things "from the perspective of the Chinese government."

Supposedly the Chinese-language version is worse than the English-language version, but I can't verify that.
You can point to extreme examples to supply support for your Draconian position, however the road to hell is paves with good intentions.

For example I 100% oppose the Death Penalty, not because I want to protect the life of a serial killer, no it is because I want to protect the life (and rights) of the innocent guy that was not able to prove innocence to a biased jury...

Similarly I do not support Free Speech because I want to defend conspiracy theorist that talk about crisis actors, no I do so because I want to defend the guys that talking about Government spying on everyone years before Snowden released the documents, I want defend the scientists that has the balls to say the Earth is not flat when everyone else says it is.

Giving a corporation or government the power to silence anyone that they say is "wrong" is far far far too dangerous
Friday’s blackouts: A Domino energy effect in action
Or put it this way - smart people will only solve the problems smart people see as problems.

Agreed, but we all know smart people who are unhappy and can’t quite figure out why.

I should have included “fulfil their personal goals” along with make an impact.
The big lesson in this for AmigaOS is to thread everything and make message passing a cheap and easy mechanism, but also to make developers develop but at least test on very low end hardware.

Even a simple button involves half a dozen threads in AmigaOS between the drivers, the handlers "baking" raw events from the drivers into something higher level, the Intuition thread processing the button presses into events related to a specific button etc.. It affects total throughout but increases responsiveness.

I think that if the OS provides responsiveness, and some key apps do, people will demand it. That is what happened with AmigaOS. You didn't get away with making a system sluggish because you'd get compared to apps that were extremely responsive.
This resonates with me a lot. All over my life, even when I was still just a student, I've had people telling me that I could do much better and that I could aspire to much more. I invariably looked at their proposal, saw a huge amount of work that I was definitely not willing to put, and I continued my path of having the minimization of stress as one of my main priorities.

I've mentioned this a couple of times here in HN: the real trick is to keep learning outside of your job. Don't count on your job as a source of intellectual satisfaction; if you learn something while on the clock, that's great, but that will come and go. Having a steady source of brain food outside your job gives you much more control and ends up being much more satisfying.

Also, never ever trade sleep hours for work hours. Sleep as much as your body wants, work as much as you are stipulated (i.e. 40h a week and no more), and squeeze as many satisfying activities (learning, in my case) out of the rest of the time. And yes, diversify if you want: this is why I dropped out of a PhD and started new degrees instead.

I guess that this applies to me because I have zero ambitions outside the purely intellectual ones. YMMV. I strongly feel like I would be much more miserable if I were more ambitious, especially taking into account that I've been, for a long time, acutely aware that time is much much more valuable than money.
The product specs I write are for clients and thus commercial in confidence. But the following observations might help:

Basically write two versions, one from a user perspective, i.e. what problem does it address and how does it solve it; the other from an implementation perspective, i.e. diagramming the major blocks and how they communicate with one another. Ideally, all of these being referenced back to the user perspective.

Finally, I find it useful to write a marketing plan, one that identifies the target demographic, their attributes and a SWOT / competitive products / markets analysis.

Sometimes I feel that I am a hybrid of a technical writer and devil's advocate to my clients.
Or he's just floating distractions to flip the news cycle.
Yea America should really learn from the EU and start putting people in prison for Twitter Jokes... /s
I thought his first sentence made his point. I didn't know what an N2 was either, but from the context I thought it could be some kind of test he barely passed.

Maybe whether one can make a reasonable guess depends on more than the context - perhaps background, experience, and point of view. I know I've missed points that are obvious to others because of our differing perspectives.
Warren Buffett has mentioned the irony of the fact that the internet took us from a world with thousands of successful money-making newspapers to a world with just two that are likely to be around for long (WSJ, NYT).

And Youtube appears to be taking over in the broadcast TV world.

Youtube has to have content controls. But it's unconscionable that these controls are not open source, not created through a public process, not auditable, nor appeallable.

It would be so easy to do this in an open and positive way, and Google has decided to do it on the cheap in an ugly, biased, and destructive way, one that is harming their brand and creating regulatory scrutiny.
The dominant site that does it is the NY Times, and generally their presentations are absolutely fantastic. Sometimes a bit of interactive media is more compelling than a wall of text.
Google is not a public service. They are a for profit company. They are not our friends, their youtube ranking algo is not designed to be fair and improve the life of human kind. It's designed to make money.

I don't get the outrage: we warned people for 15 years this would happen. Now people put all their eggs in the same basket and cry when things go wrong.

Well, good. It's a learning opportunity.
Assuming that at some point people pass out (equivalent IQ=0), there will always be a moment when the effective IQ of any two people will match, no matter the initial IQ.
The CVE mentioned at the beginning of the page you linked is one of the reasons why TLS is still nice to have, security-wise. Saying that TLS is the only option may be an overstatement, but saying that it definitely provides some benefits is not.
This "blacklist" comes from James O'Keefe's Project Veritas. They have a long history of staged "expose"s around the current Republican "bad guy of the day"; ACORN, voter fraud, etc. Regardless of whether this is legit, I'm surprised it showed up on HN.
But discriminating certain videos negatively by removing them from certain features (such as search results) is still amplification, just with a factor < 1.
Little good nice story of how to introduce a new tool for work without getting into a crusade. I guess however the manager/architect didn't care much of the additional dependency added to the project thought.
> there's at least some chance that the details of plasma physics make it function. My current sense is still that one way or another it doesn't work out

You really should learn to read papers before trying to debunk them. Zubrin's paper has Debye length all over it; it's a crucial consideration.

All right, weekend fun: let's look up the closed form expression for the electric field of a capacitor immersed in a plasma. This is old stuff, it was worked out many decades ago, and can be found e.g. in

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1064226910050116

The internal field is given by Eq. 12 and depicted in Fig. 2 (looks roughly like a catenary, sagging between the plates), the external field is given by Eqs. 6 and 8, Fig. 1.

We only need to concern ourselves with the simple case of zero frequency, in which case the external electric field E at distance r from a plate with surface field E_0 is

E = E_0 * exp( -r / l_D )

with l_D denoting Debye length. The internal field at distance z from the left plate (at the origin) for plate spacing d is

E = E_0 * ( sinh( (d - z) / l_D ) + sinh( z / l_D ) ) / sinh( d / l_D )

It sags more in the middle for larger d, but it has the nice property that it never reverses sign (as can happen for non-zero frequencies) so there's no risk of the ion getting trapped uselessly inside the capacitor.

To get the energy lost by a positive unit charge entering through the anode and then exiting through the cathode, integrate the external field from r = 0 to infinity and multiply by two. Total loss: 2 * E_0 * l_D

To get the energy gained by the same unit charge between the plates, integrate the internal field from z = 0 to d. Total gain: 2 * E_0 * l_D * ( exp( d / l_D ) - 1 ) / ( exp( d / l_D ) + 1 )

Subtract loss from gain and you have the net kinetic energy gain,

2 * E_0 * l_D * ( exp( d / l_D ) - 2 ) / ( exp( d / l_D ) + 1 )

which is positive for d > l_D * ln(2) ~ 0.693 * l_D and grows asymptotically toward 2 * E_0 * l_D as d -> infinity (in practice, there is little difference beyond d = 5 * l_D).

So, it works, and you can space the two "plates" (actually meshes of conducting wires, each 0.1 mm wide, in Zubrin's paper) as far apart as you want, but there is little to be gained (other than the flexibility of working across a larger altitude range) from spacing them more than 5 Debye lengths apart.
On non-ancient Android versions you can have multiple user accounts. Create a new one and log it into your kid's family linked account. You can switch the user before giving it to them and they'll get the expected restrictions.
> And IMHO the added code complexity is not worth the trouble.

The thing is, this is just that - your opinion, generalized as The Truth. But engineering is about making the right trade-offs. Often threading will be fine, you'll win simplicity, and all is good. But sometimes you really need the performance, or your field is crowded and its a competitive advantage. Think large-scale infrastructure at AWS, central load-balancers, or high-freq-trading.
I'm not sure if you remember, but soon after that site hit the HN frontpage several CVEs where discovered in the way APT uses http that would have been mitigated if they used HTTPS.
Wait until the Nazis end up in power anyway and have the powers of censorship you gave them. It'll be game over then, I'm glad to be in America and know I have the right to speak out against a fascist president.
... for now.
No. Instead, rather erratically, sometimes a month or so apart (when lots is happening) to a couple of times a year, typically at milestone events like birthdays, New Year, after big family/social events.

I just use a handwritten journal. Helps that I can easily flick back to past entries and feel the dismay at how naive and optimistic I have been in the past. In hindsight things always take far longer than planned and yield lesser results. But then, every now and then I am surprised by how well something has worked out. Still trying to discern the difference between the two. There are far too few examples of the latter to draw any solid conclusions.
You're not treating them like they are truth. You're a video hosting site and it's a video. Just let the videos rank how they will. Stupid videos being promoted and trending will let more people know they are stupid. When more people learn about who Alex Jones is, and he becomes a household name for being an idiot, when a gullible lad stumbles across him they are likely to be like "oh this dude is the idiot I heard about", rather than thinking they found some secret censored truth.
> Regardless of whether this is legit

So even if it's actually true YouTube has this mechanism, it's not worth discussing because of who brought it up first?
What I find the most interesting about this saga is not the leak itself but swat team and bomb squad that showed up at the leakers house during a psychological wellness call made in connection with the leaking.
If it weren’t for those meddling cryptographers
Organizing HTTP requests using the API module pattern
> If someone has violated the law, they have inherently accepted the risks of their decision, and thus the car should protect the occupants.

Well, then you are going to need a different ML ruleset here in The Netherlands because bicyclists are protected by law. In the case of an accident with a car, the car driver is (almost always) at fault. That being said, since july 2019 it is illegal to operate a smartphone from your bicycle which, at times, was at odds with the earlier mentioned law.

I assume other countries in the world are going to have different (perhaps in eyes of some peculiar) exceptions to what is deemed normal.

The whole problem with your argument is this it is all "nice, in theory".

> should default to doing the least amount of damage.

"Should", indeed. The question is whether all of these ethical related aspects have been thought out. As the above suggests not only from the US (or whatever state you are in) PoV but with taking into account the entire world and the entire world's ethics and law. Heck, you might have to switch rulesets when crossing a border. Either way that is a very, very complex ruleset you're going to have to work with. And I doubt it is being done...
Did you enjoy using libtcod?
The page is down, and I don’t know if this is related but there was a great clip of Steve Jobs describing computing as being a bicycle for the mind, in terms of how it comparably amplifies our capabilites. One of my all time favourite quote from the guy and an ever enduring thought for me whenever I need to be reminded about why I do the stuff I do.
“Don’t worry if food gets too expensive, you could stand to lose some weight anyway.”

I don’t think I can give a response to this that’s acceptable on HN, but wow.
Imagine if humans weren't born with biological mouths, instead synthetic mouths were invented and sold by a company, allowing people to speak. We wouldn't accept the company installing a blacklist of words or phrases to stop people from saying them.

The internet is making online discourse more and more important, perhaps online discourse is already more important than oral discourse.

My metaphor obviously differs in some regards to the article, but I think it elucidates my main point, that Google has become sufficiently large and important that we can't really excuse this type of censorship on the basis that they are a private company.

For example the list clearly shows that Google is pro-choice, with phrases such as "abortion is wrong" appearing on the blacklist. This is not up to Google to decide for others. If Google, or its employees, want to voice their perspective, that is fine. It is not fine to try to manipulate people through their software while pretending to be a neutral party.
Yes but if one of those files was
ADSENSE-one-wierd-trick.jpg

Nobody would actually bother to download it would they!