skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hue contrast is not very salient to the human visual system. But while we’re at it there’s also not very much hue contrast in the middle of this color scheme. It goes from light bluish green to light yellowish green.

Yes that cherry-picked image. Their original data is some kind of (log-scaled?) distance map, where half (?) of the image is in the bottom 20% of the data range.

They put a bunch of apparently important data between values of like 0.00 and 0.05, but don’t have any substantial amount of important data between 0.45 and 0.55.

Their color scheme has very strong lightness contrast in the 0.0 to 0.05 range, and almost no lightness contrast in the 0.45 to 0.55 range.

If they had instead put a bunch of important low-contrast detail in the mid range, it would become nearly invisible compared to the old scheme.

If you really care about the data from 0.0 to 0.05, and don’t really care about the data from 0.45 to 0.55 you can apply some function (e.g. a power function, or inverse smoothstep or something) to your data beforehand.
That's not what we mean by "polarisation": those women (not "females") are usually completely apolitical because it would hurt their product marketing.

Doesn't seem to work the same way for male "influencers", who are more likely to have a connection to the right in some way.
I can be proven wrong, but I don't think it's poor farmers who are responsible for the deforestation of the Amazon. It's mostly big latifund owners with lots of lobbying power.
If you've ever thought about or done some lifting, you might be familiar with noob gains

If you imagine every skill is a dimension, you'll be able to traverse to "proficient/adept" quite easily with some dedicated practice

I find the more interesting reflection is how much people overestimate their abilities in the more day to day/mundane skills that everyone has some proficiency in - think "conversation" or separately "running". Both things most humans can do but also most people don't get too much further past novice in them despite being things that we have been doing all our lives.

Turns out that without dedicated practice and good feedback loops, it's possible to stay a novice at something your entire life. So for me at least, talent is about your ability to improve at something with little to no direction.

When I think of the greatest salespeople I know, they have been honing the skill all life, but they also never had anyone teach them what they needed to know or what was important to learn. And yet when I analyze their lives and realize that from young they were constructing feedback loops for things like "how to be funny" or "how to wow a crowd" or "how to negotiate" with virtually zero guidance, I can only infer that this is what genius looks like...
Paranoia - the app. You download this dodgy looking app and it it alerts you if another user of the app is within 25m of you. Thats literally all it does.
Brasil needs to be heavily sanctioned by the international community, I'm talking Cuba-level stuff if we want to even have a chance at stopping the rise above 2 degrees, we only have 12 years which means that it's already probably too late.

More worrying is the rise of populism in the world supported by fake news, ignorance and social media that led to this.

How did someone as ignorant as Bolsonaro ever managed to get elected as president of a democratic country, and get away with some of the things he says?
Thanks for your github Nikivi.

I remember asking this question some time ago and it got ignored by people here (of course): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12864591

If it doesn't include the words: dividend, stock, option, etc. it doesn't work here.
> why are you looking at a local machine at all when a cloud system may very well be less expensive to lease than to purchase and keep current, not to mention run, local hardware?

Because a cloud machine is rented and not owned. And because of the ping latency: there is a reason why there is for example still hardly any cloud gaming.
Has the fire spilled over other country?
I think someone already sold apple this idea for the more recent Macbook Pros, though they just fry the screen.
>Apple cares about privacy

Card is backed by Goldmansachs, they don't give two hoots about your privacy

>It has 1 percent cashback! Straight to money! I don't understand how credit cards work!

Yeah if you don't care about money enough to think this is good deal, you'll probably get the card asap and probably shouldn't
The "melting pot" idea of multiculturalism has been proven to be inaccurate, a better term for the way things actually work is a "salad bowl" - just search on "melting pot or salad bowl" to read more on this subject.

The example of Sweden is indicative of what I tried to convey as it has made the "salad bowl" concept part of its constitution which states that the country should "actively promote the distinctive collective identities of national minorities and immigrants" ([1] gives some insight in how things came to be like the way they are in Sweden). In the space of a few decades the country went from being one of the most homogeneous on earth to a boiling kettle of contrasting and often clashing cultures to which the term "mutt" - a mixed breed which has characteristics of all its predecessors - is not applicable as the constituent cultures mostly hold to their own. It is at the interfaces between those cultures tensions arise, sometimes between native Swedes and immigrants but more so between different groups of immigrants.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt20q22fw.13 ("The Political Dynamics of Multiculturalism in Sweden")
Jamendo is a good platform. It has copyright-free music from talented musicians, like good talented artists. This means you can download songs for free and even use them in your online videos only if you don't monetize them. You can buy licenses as well, if you need songs for your commercials or whatever. Also, they pay artists decently. My band has profited from Jamendo in the last 3 years and we were able to pay for our last 2 albums with the money coming from there.
I think your logics is flawed here :

> external intervention

We are all internal to the same world/nature.
Zhukov is actually very controversial nowadays. A lot of the early historians accepted his autobiography as a the main source pretty uncritically.

There is another historical view of Zhukov:

- He wasn't the military genius he portrayed himself to be and actually stole the credit for the achievements of other officers. For example he supposedly saved Stalingrad yet was nowhere near it, he came to Halkin Gol when the battle was beginning and didn't credit the staff chief for the excellent planning and so forth.

- He was a Stalin yes-man, and in stark contrast to his autobiography, there is no proof he ever challenged him on any decision. This is what Stalin liked, he needed talented commanders, but also people who will follow his orders to the letter.

- His handling of the Red Army in the summer of 1941 while he was Chief of Staff, was absolutely disastrous. He lost millions of men in ill planned counter attacks. Stalin kept him around because he followed orders (see above).

- Besides being a yes-man, by all unofficial accounts he was a brute and enjoyed humiliating his soldiers and officers. He was often in fights even with other marshals.

- He didn't care much about his soldiers lives, this is why Stalin sent him to capture Berlin as soon as possible.

- He wasn't demoted because of paranoia (he probably wouldn't be alive). He was actually demoted because he allowed his troops to pillage Eastern Germany for months, and took a huge share of the booty. Not that Stalin was particularly humanitarian, but this meant that discipline had become nonexistent.

- Far from being apolitical and not involved in intrigue, he actually participated in a coup against Malenkov and Beria. He almost became the leader of the Soviet Union, however was cleverly outmaneuvered by Khrushchev who put him in retirement.

- His mythos began during the time of Brezhnev, when he needed to rewrite the history of WWII to suit his ends. His autobiography was certainly not written by him, as are its subsequent 15 editions which hilariously contradict each other often. His daughter supposedly finds forgotten pages that just happen to complement the evolving views of Kremlin for over 40 years.
Funny how no one proposed to remove California from US sovereignty when the fires were raging awhile back.

Or the Gulf of Mexico coast with the Deep Horizon incident.

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Não vai encontrar razoabilidade aqui, amigo. Esta gente julga que manda no mundo inteiro.
Talent is the amount of work you don't have to do to better than the average person.

It also sets a ceiling. Beyond a certain level, no amount of work will make you any better, because you fundamentally don't have the cognitive skill or physical ability to improve further.

I've spent a fair amount of time with musicians, and talent can be very obvious.

You can have a room full of people who have spent years practicing and been through a degree program. They're all outstanding compared to most of the population.

But sometimes one person in that room will still stand out, because their playing will be insightful, compelling, and musical in a way the others can't match. It's an instant thing - it only takes a few bars to hear it.

They won't necessarily have done the most work, or put the most hours in. But they will, in some absolutely fundamental way, "get it" - usually from birth.

The hours and the work refine that ability and make it more obvious. But they can't create it.
I used it, and never characterised it that way - I simply saw it as an OS with DB2 installed!
Stackoverflow "charges" you one point to downvote. You recieve 10 points for an upvote, which are free.
Yeah, because 0.003% is indeed 0.00003, they just put a % sign and forgot to fix the actual number.
Titanium is not magic pixie dust, it's just another ordinary metal :-)
Because it's not a tech product, it's a credit card, and plenty of places, in the US at least, still require the use of a magnetic strip. As for how they deal with a changing card number, I have no idea.
Late reply, sorry.

My understanding is that the now suspended new law would make it legal for Beijing to have a person taken from Hong Kong with nothing more than the signoff of the CE, who is basically Beijing's appointee. It's my opinion that there is no due process in PRC, so it's effectively making Hong Kongers subject to renditioning.

I agree that civil forfeiture as practiced for the last 20 years in the United States is wrong and needs to stop. The US government does some horribly unjust things, sometimes for decades without being checked. Few commentors on this web site would deny that. It's very important that governments don't get away with criminalizing dissent otherwise it's even more difficult to stop other excesses and abuses.
whilst i fully support people experimenting with their own minds im not entirely sure some mass drug taking event will particularly help in any way (if that were the case the likes of Bangface and Burning Man would have fixed the world by now)

people should be free to experiment however im also a firm believer that psychoactives, psychedelics in particular are not for everyone, people should be informed about them but not encouraged to take them and especially not as some sort of protest, some people are easily influenced and could potentially be encouraged to take a chemical they arent actually comfortable with just to be part of the "movement"

this may be all well and good to do with some of the more (what i would describe as) simple and direct chemicals like say THC, cocaine or even opiates, these are pretty predictable, even if youre in the worst headspace in the world the end result will be pretty similar and unlikely to be unpleasant, quite a contrast to the likes of LSD, DMT or other various tryptamines and phenethylamines which have drastically different effects depending on your mood, the setting and many other factors.

that said the "Acid Tests" of the 60s didnt have any massive fallout that im aware of and at that time people were pretty uninformed about it, doses were also on the high side to say the least (these days an average LSD tab contains 100-150ug but during the acid tests the average dose was 250ug which is one hell of a dose for a first timer) so maybe my fears are less real than i imagine
While it's true the 10 year - 1 year spread is negative, usually when you're talking about yield curve inversions, the duration people focus on is the 10 year - 2 year. That's not currently inverted, but very shortly it was, which kind of triggered all the news stories.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10Y2Y

The 10 year - 3 month spread has been negative since May when the last big stock market selloff was.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10Y3M
This raises a simple issue: how would the non-experts in an area choose the most appropriate set of experts? In this case it would correspond to funding agencies or governments needing to decide on a "fair" way to establish the right experts to ask. It is very difficult to suggest a way to do this that would not correlate strongly with "highly successful under the current system". That group of experts would, of course, have a strong bias towards the current system.
the upside is we could uncover a lost civilization.

downside is ours might be the last.
There are many, many countries with GDPs per capita lower than China's which have democracy and freedom of speech. It's not an either/or proposition
If the government is not comitted to the preservation of the Amazon, then there's really nothing that can be done. One could consider imposing international sanctions, but the chance of that backfiring would be quite high IMHO.
Co2
The pollution and collateral global impact does.
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From the article:

"There is nothing abnormal about the climate this year or the rainfall in the Amazon region, which is just a little below average," Inpe researcher Alberto Setzer told Reuters.

"The dry season creates the favourable conditions for the use and spread of fire, but starting a fire is the work of humans, either deliberately or by accident."
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> The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers — if that technology could be developed in time.

From the 1950s to today, it means that in mere 60 years, the optimistic view on the future has done a full U turn, and now everyone is believing we are headed for the worst (maybe with good reasons). Still this is such a radical change, in such a short time frame.
Do you understand how nature works?

You know ANYTHING about air?
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I think about the terrible and miserable future awaiting for me if I don't do what I know I have to be doing.
> It's weird that we lag so far behind in some areas

Blame lobbying.
I think it's also a slightly more US-centric thing.
Why no love for Mac? Especially when Catalina drops 32bit support?
Thank you for mentioning that fascinating tidbit of history [1]. The linked article badly needs formatting, but the content is interesting nonetheless.

[1] http://www.ekathimerini.com/16146/article/ekathimerini/news/...
How much would one need to pay per square kilometer rainforrest for keeping it to be competitive against steak/soy-farming?
It's unfortunate how Apple and Google approach device ownership, and their attitude towards the concept of general computing is concerning.

We do not control our own devices, we cannot stop certain processes on them, and we do not know where our personal data is sent.

We either have to flash ROMs from questionable sources and apply temporary exploits to get some kind of resemblance of control of our own devices, or we have to spend years to learn the skills to unlock these systems ourselves.
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It seems unlikely that a group of Ottomans, and what might be their local guide, would end up being interred at such a place though. Why would they want to be interred at a Tibetan ritual site? Or why would anyone there want to inter them that way, but not anyone else in the last few hundred years? The pattern looks all wrong.
Yup, same in the Netherlands and Romania.

The adoption of contactless payments in Romania has been astonishing. When I first moved here four years ago you could only pay by card at restaurants and supermarkets and definitely not contactless. Now, four years later, you can pay contactless everywhere. Including all the little stores. Any place that supports card payments also supports contactless payments. Hell, you can hop in any bus now and buy a ticket on the spot with the contactless payment terminals in the bus. No human interaction required, you just hold up your card or phone and it prints a ticket.

Ever since Apple Pay became available, I can't remember the last time I pulled out my card.

There are only two things I still use cash for. Tipping and taxis. The latter can be worked around by using Uber or one of the local competitors.
>But in a hotel you're guaranteed a good experience?

Usually, yes, and, additionally, you are going in a place that is surely registered with the local authorities, has been licensed to host you, follows a number of Laws (regarding - among the others - size of the rooms, safety, hygiene, preparation of food, etc.) that is human-presided and that has a lot to loose if it gets a "bad name".

Obviously if you are in the same price range, you are going to (you choose) a "better" AirBnb or a "worse" hotel.

A hotel has - again obviously - much higher running costs than a rented room in a house or than an apartment, as hotels tend to have personnel and pay them.

Conversely - viceversa - an AirBnB run "as a hotel" - has even greater costs (no economy of scale)than a hotel, only very often the owners (at least here, Italy) are not very good at math and if they operate according to the Law, once they have paid costs, commissions and taxes they find out they gave essentially invested a lot of money with very little return.

One or two spare rooms (like the one the parent poster described) inside one own's apartement and run by the family is what an Airbnb should be (but often isn't).
A friend of mine is a professional violinist. People say she is really talented and skilled. The interesting thing is that she gets very upset when people say: you are so talented.

The reason she explained to me once is that people see her perform and play and think that's just how easy it is for her.

She said to me once: "Noone sees the thousands of hours I practiced by myself in a dark rehearsal room without even a window at school". That was quite enlightening to me.

So, if someone says it's just "talent", its quite offensive to her. It's hard and dedicated work.
> Most Samsung phones can emulate the mag stripe of a credit card if you hold them near the swipe area

Source for this claim?
Otzi's body wasn't moved by the ice. He was just frozen in place, then thawed.
https://www.france24.com/en/20190722-france-heatwave-tempera...

https://www.iamexpat.nl/expat-info/dutch-expat-news/temperat...

https://www.france24.com/en/20190810-france-luxembourg-torna...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48119498

Yes!
Weppy is considered a known older one. That's a sign that I'm getting old.
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If we step it back a bit to "committed to policies which cause avoidable death", or "protection of those who have caused death by negligence", or "mistreatment of others in a context which is known to trigger suicide", then ... yes, that's all mainstream policy.

One example of this was https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/katie-hopkins-when-is-e... ; now, is Katie Hopkins "an extreme whacko" for overtly demanding the murder of refugees, or is she "just saying what everyone is thinking" among Sun and LBC audiences?
> How did someone as ignorant as Bolsonaro ever managed to get elected as president of a democratic country, and get away with some of the things he says?

Just like Trump, probably.
This is just capitalism doing what capitalism does: going for short-term profit. The cutting down of the Amazon is not because of small-hold farmers, its large corporations doing so to make enormous profits.

Basically, the people responsible for this (so the ceo's and boards of the corporations doing it), including Bolsonaro, should be tried for crimes against humanity.
It seems clear from the article the developer isn't that clued up.
Would be all for the sanctions, but the EU just signed a free trade agreement with Brazil (Mercosur). That agreement put Brazil's farmers at an advantage, they can now sell to the EU, and produce cheaper than European farmers. If anything that accelerated the trend we see now in the Amazon.

Also, Trump's trade war with China led China to heavily invest in Brazil's soy. Another accelerator of Amazon burning.

So, after all it isn't just Bolsonaro, it is also our (the western world) fault. The officials we elected allow for this in the first place.
And what exactly do you call a machine that you are, by design, cryptographically locked out of, but a third party has access to?

Put another way, would you call a car that I kept duplicate keys and retained title for, but said you could use and maintain at your sole expense for a single upfront payment, rented or owned?

Latency is being solved, Google etc. are working that problem. I'm playing devils advocate here, but fundamentally if you don't care about actually controlling or being able to modify something, and pricing is cheaper to rent, why own?
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Believe it or not but the web is literally unusable if I use any other browser not based on chrome because:

- The search is degraded (it hides the advanced search menu in Google and most dropdowns in ff)

- Most of the sites use Recaptcha or cloudflare (also an extension of recaptcha) which gives you a low bot score if you're using anything other than chrome and then begins the never ending exercise of identifying cars and traffic lights

- I think web devs are also only testing for chrome nowadays and a lot of big and small sites just won't render properly with FF (the PH menu won't open on ff android for me unless I change the ua). It's not always chrome's fault though as many sites (like dictation.io) insist I use chrome because ff still won't support some web apis.
The Generation Effect
Ironically demo YT clip is "relative_loudness": "-17.739dB", aka cant hear it. Not great for someone doing sound stuff.
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Love that they named it Sputnik because it's a satellite virus.
So, I get that you like to hate on Malcom Gladwell, but I feel this particular instance it's a little overblown.

There is a huge difference between "Excellence requires 10,000 hours of deliberate practice" and "If you log 10,000 you will be excellent".

The article would disprove the second, but I always came away with the impression of the first (after reading the book).

So to me, in this instance, I'd say "Gee, a misinterpretation of what somebody else said is false? What a surprise".
No regression tests? ಠ_ಠ
Yes, to some extent people should be worried about apps potentially containing exploits, but then again they should be more worried about 0-days than a known vulnerability.
Does the daily cashback make a practical difference? It feels gimmicky to me.

For anyone considering this card I'd suggest that they compare it to a 2% card like the DoubleCash and the Uber card. Depending on your spending habits one may be significantly better than the others.