skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why did everyone assume it would be the same on average? This seems weird to me.

(see edit below; but i leave this up; it might be interesting, also)
you mean that even for smaller sequences, the UID holds, right? the assumption was that even for a single sentence, there are a lot of ways to reduce or increase information density so that you get a smoother signal. e.g.: "It is clear that we have to help them to move on.", you could contract it to "it's clear we gotta help them move on" and contract it even further in the actual speech signal ('help'em'). or you could stretch it: "it is clear to us that we definitely have to help them in some way to move on", or alike. the assumption was that such increases / decreases would even be done to 'iron out' the very local peaks and troughs, particularly in speech.

bits: yeah, that took me a while to get used to, as well. the authors used (conditional) entropy as a way to measure information density (which is a good measure in this instance imv). and bits is just per definition the unit that comes out of information theoretical entropy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory) . btw: while technically possible, i don't think that the comparison in the summary article between 39 bits in language and a xy bit modem is a helpful comparison. bits in the context of entropy are all about occurence and expectation in a given context. bits of a modem/in CS, they represent a low level information content for which we do not check context and expectation.

edit: ah, i realise you are asking why most in our community assumed that this universal rate applied across languages, right?

i guess the intuition was that all of us humans, no matter what language we speak, use the speech signal to transmit and receive information and that all of us have the same cognitive abilities. so the rate at which we convey information should be about the same. sure, there are probably differences according to some factors (spoken vs written language, differences in knowledge between speakers, etc.). but when the only factor that differs is English vs Hausa, esp. in spontaneous spoken language, then the information rate should be about the same.
At some point we'll either have to be okay with breaking sites that break our privacy or we won't.
Do votes on HN affect Googlers' incomes?
>One issue I have with Clojure is when I have to work with nested datatypes to perform transformations. It's just too hard to keep the shape of that data in your head. Types help with that.

And in Ruby or Java, I have the same problem with objects.

No matter what your method of interaction, keeping up with levels of abstraction is hard.
I would love a button or menu action to RESET my window to the standard size in regular Firefox but so far I can’t find any easy way to do it. You’d think an extension would do it but when I checked, all the extensions related to window size did different things.
There are some interesting developments in the food robotics space but they are almost entirely contained to the manufacturing and sometimes restaurant industries-- the issue is that few users can justify large capital expenditures for marginal "nifty" benefits like "it looks cool and saved me a few minutes"
Bioinspired remora adhesive disc offers insight into evolution
This shifting blame to the cloud is a bad trend. It's the driver's fault.
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It was back when it was banned, partially due to intentional propaganda (which is why Americans use the Spanish word for it, rather than cannabis). A quick read through the wiki page of Harry Anslinger, first commissioner of the Federal Narcotics Bureau and one of the main architects of reefer madness, will give you a good overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_J._Anslinger
But correcting the original "masticate" to "chew" is an adjustment you make based on the mentality I described. As multiple comments have pointed out, "masticate" is not generally more difficult for a second-language speaker to understand than "chew" is, and in some common cases (Spanish, French...) it's considerably easier. The correction was targeted at native speakers, on the theory that they had limited vocabulary, but justified as if it was targeted at foreigners. If the intention was really to benefit foreigners, that impulse was misplaced, for exactly the reasons I detailed.

> For example, "hi, how are you?" Is something you could say to an adult or a child. It's not "speaking to someone like they are a child" though.

The example we have here is more along these lines:

A: Salutations!

A: Oh, I'm sorry -- I meant, "how are you?"

This is an example of speaking to someone like they are a child. You come out with a natural (for you)[1] word choice, and then pre-emptively decide your interlocutor can't handle it, so you adjust to something you believe is simpler. You are speaking differently than you would normally.

[1] http://www.basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2009/1/2...
> But, the index funds are free riding on the decisions taken by active investors.

I'm sure there is a pretty clear criteria for making it to the S&P 500 or the Nasdaq 100. Which means it can be coded up. Index funds don't track the investments of other active investors. They track the performance of companies (typically market leaders) based on some transparent and objective criteria. These performances could be tied to a multitude of factors - Founder managed, innovative, market focus, sales & marketing, slave labor, good copycats who knows (or cares?). The point is they've made it to the top of some list and are generating revenue within a system of "acceptable" checks and balances. If the company doesn't meet that criteria, it will be booted off of that list. The bet is always focused on objective criteria. None of that is free riding on active traders.
I wonder if the tech is mature enough to make an indoor flying-pest control robot. There is the salt pellet shooter to annihilate some indoor pests. There were attempts to make laser armed pest killers.

Obviously even the salt pellet solution would be problematic if automated (say pest lands or is near your face or eyes).

However, a robot which could attack a pest niche where pests are endemic could have a chance at success.

Summer mosquitoes, Florida roaches, ants, stink bugs, etc.
We are now entering the trough of disillusionment. In a few years some real novel and amazing companies will emerge and drones will find their useful place in society.
>because they have federal gambling licenses, they don't want federally illegal substances.

I wonder if that is true for Native American casinos
"If the Court follows the 10th Circuit, then the public has a chance to determine whether it wants to accept that result." The public already has that chance. This isn't helping. It's based on a flawed theory of change that court decisions provoke successful political backlashes that overturn the decisions. Being able to express yourself in a patrician cadence and couch your arguments in terms Courts understand does not make you a net-sum-positive political actor at the highest level of democratic power. This isn't the right time to bring this.
Statistics makes for a tough sell to the survivors.

“Yes, this autonomous vehicle killed your son who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, but someone else’s son would have died in an unrelated accident somewhere else were it not for autonomy.”
"Lego has become the world’s largest toymaker by sales..."

Had no idea they'd grown that much. Mattel used to be on top. Apparently Lego passed them around 2014.

The movie tie-ins seem to have done it. Even though Barbie had her screen moments in one of the Toy Story movies.
> If you knew in November 2016 what you know now, would you still have voted for him? Do you plan to vote for him in 2020?

I'll throw my hat in the ring and say yes to both questions, under the circumstances.

> ignorantly bumbling his way through economic, trade, and foreign policy

I disagree with this characterization, but can certainly understand how someone could come to this conclusion.

> Put another way: it just seems unlikely to me that all the "burn it to the ground" supporters expected or are happy with the fact that burning it all down also causes them more suffering, too; more suffering than the establishment has been hit with. And yet, here we are.

I suspect the way they evaluate the situation is dramatically different than yours. There are a handful of people who are actually looking into what's behind the seemingly paradoxical (and coordinated) behavior of a large number of people around the world rather than just wagging their finger, but unfortunately hardly anyone seems interested in what they've found.

One such person is Jonathan Haidt:

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

http://people.stern.nyu.edu/jhaidt/home.html

https://www.edge.org/conversation/jonathan_haidt-what-makes-...

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jonathan+haidt

Two others I'd recommend looking into are:

Mark Blyth

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

http://markblyth.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0 Global Trumpism and the Future of the Global Economy

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Mark+Blyth

Thomas Frank

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

https://www.tcfrank.com/essays.php

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Thomas+Frank+po...
This is a good point. While there’s no real logical reason to buy non-LED bulbs anymore (thankfully we have mostly transitioned so this silly change by the Trump administration won’t gave any effect), the fact that LED bulbs came in so many temperatures has resulted in a proliferation of blue light everywhere.

Hopefully as the effects of it in our sleep patterns etc become more apparent, more people will buy lights with 2700k or lower.
The compiler is aware that a function taking an unsigned size_t is being given a signed value though - it could mandatorily throw up a warning (and apparently there is a switch for this) which, if it were on, actually protects against the issue raised in this specific security vulnerability.
> Chickling peas taste fine, but gradually and permanently paralyze your legs.

According to Wikipedia, this is only if you eat them for a long period. Otherwise the first sentence in its article makes no sense:

> Lathyrus sativus, also known as grass pea, blue sweet pea, chickling pea, chickling vetch, Indian pea, white pea and white vetch, is a legume (family Fabaceae) commonly grown for human consumption and livestock feed in Asia and East Africa.
I have a theory that at this point there exists a subset of decision makers who _want_ massive climate change to happen and are actively pushing for it. I assume they want to be ready to take advantage of the new world we’ll all be living in. To be king of the ashes, as it were.
> The matter of "retractions" is, for example, not a fair criticism. LIGO generates automatic low-latency notifications of potential detections in order to allow optical telescopes and other detectors to aim at the location of the potential event. Upon further analysis -- which takes time and can't be done at low latency -- many of these event notifications are downgraded. These retractions should not diminish your confidence in LIGO.

The post itself explained this...

>> "The alerts must go out quickly in order for telescopes to be swung around and point at the right location in the sky."

The rest of your criticism doesn't really match up with the post for me either. (See "I do not have the same concerns as were raised by the LIGO critics", etc.)
Information depends on probability. If something is very probable then it doesn’t have much information (because you already saw it coming). If something is improbable then it has a lot of information.

In the paper they want to know how much information is in a syllable in context. To do that they need to know the probability of each syllable given the previous syllable. To estimate that probability distribution, you need to look at a lot of text, much more than just the passages that the authors used to measure speech rate.
Yeah this is legitimate

I think it’s maybe the difference between emotional truth and literal truth. The emotional truth is the valuable one so rebasing (which doesn’t mean squashing to one commit!) can mean you can clean out the noise and get something valuable.
Three Tribes of Programming (2017)
> The vehicle’s design “permitted the driver to disengage from the driving task”

Which vehicle's design does not permit a driver to disengage from the driving task?
ROM Hacking
Is it that, or could it be reasonable anxiety about powerful substances becoming an avenue for corporate profit? Opioids are a useful class of drugs, but they've been managed by the profit motive and that's caused havoc that's killed thousands and may leave people who should be on them in terrible pain because of an over correction.
Data-Driven Approach to Encoding and Decoding 3-D Crystal Structures
I also wonder whether “dumber” systems are easier to predict. I’d feel much more comfortable knowing what the car won’t do (change lanes on me, e.g.).

(Update: to be clear, I’m not inherently opposed to a car changing lanes if I need it to, but it seems easier to deal with a potential emergency, and easier to persuade myself to pay more attention, if I know definitively it won’t do something that sophisticated.)
The researchers obviously have to keep the scope narrow in order to get numbers at all.

That said, we should be aware that a tech nerd audience will find simple answers to complex non-tech questions appealing, and we should not over-estimate our understanding here just because we have a number.

There is a large amount of data transmitted through sub-communication and context, particularly during an in-person interaction, which is what people are wired for.
Overall tone, body language, eye contact, and various social cues make up the bulk of data being transferred in many interactions. There's a reason why talking to some people feels exhausting and others invigorating, and it's not just the transcript.
The null experiment is the human driver of that particular Tesla, not an average of all drivers
That quote seems to imply that they have not measured the maximum speed to receive information but the speed at which we are comfortable outputing it.

There is no shortage of people training to receive a lot of information at once, and 39 bits per second seems to me on the lower end of what some video games require but in terms of constructed, linguistic output? They may be on to something there.

Fast chatters are not faster thinkers. I have yet to see people exchanging thought at a higher rate then usual.
I thought about this a lot. It's my belief that it's similar to porn decreasing sex. You can get fulfillment from media that's like actual sex, it'll make an impact.

For social networks we have this thing called a parasocial relationship. We can what we feel like is a worthwhile relationship online (but it's not). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction#Parasoc...

In the end it screws up our incentive systems by fulfilling our natural urges. We dull our loneliness with the internet in the short term, ending up with greater loneliness in the long term. There's been a lot of reports of loneliness rising rising pretty dramatically. Debt on the other hand is falling as a percentage of gdp: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HDTGPDUSQ163N

IMO internet consumption is in the same category of addictive vice as drugs, gaming/gambling, drinking (which is just drugs tbh), etc. It's a short term simulation of successfully achieving our body's goals. It's fake and interferes with our actual success.
Thinking aloud about bank margins
Well if it's bought it would be my fault because I would have sold it.
Tucson actually has a small monsoon season, which I am desperately waiting for to cool us off. It's an interesting weather pattern.

https://azclimate.asu.edu/monsoon/

Tucson gets a lot more rain than say, Death Valley.
I thought the exact same thing after reading the first few paragraphs but didn't even notice that the author IS Johnny Ryan, the person mentioned in the story, until you pointed it out.

I didn't make it to the end, closed the tab and went over to HN comments for a summary.
Exactly.

It was, let's say 1000 years ago and most people affected descended from both perpetrators and victims. You could go as far as saying this kind of violence was important and necessary for the development of civilization; if every human respected property rights for the last 10,000 years we would live in a very different world.

So a 1,000 year old crime is wiped out in the present. When does that stop? How soon to now should the statute of limitations be?

300 year old Native American issues? 150 year old American slavery issues? 100 year old Israel/Palestine issues? 50 year old American discrimination issues?

If I go out and steal something today, obviously there is a legal remedy. How far back does it go? Does it flow through generations?

It seems impossible but there has to be a line or some distinction between historic issues which are necessarily "done" and present issues which deserve justice.

People are deciding these issues but I haven't heard or seen a justification for one way vs the other.
Tis editable, albeit difficult to find, in case you weren't aware (click timestamp of the comment you'd like to edit).
It also depends on how you use Facebook.

I've noticed that people who use it to share political posts, rants, etc. tend to be some of the most emotionally negative people I've met. (reposting stuff entails low thinking effort)

Whereas people who write little David-Sedaris-like stories about their lives, sometimes with pictures, tend to receive positive emotional benefits. It's like the practice of writing Christmas letters but instead of doing it once a year, you get to do continuously. Sure there is the occasional flexing and humblebragging, but even the most humble among us can't help but share our little life victories on occasion (e.g. Ph.D. graduation, vacations taken, etc.). In my circles, people tend to share stories about their foibles and flaws too, often in a funny way, so it kind of balances things out.

Facebook is an especially great place for introverts to be vulnerable through the medium of the written word. In real life social settings, introverts tend to be crowded out by others and can sometimes struggle to tell their story. When we're in a face-to-face situation, there isn't always the occasion to truly share in detail because the politer ones among us want to avoid hogging all the attention. And even when the spotlight is on us, we don't always remember all the interesting stories to tell.

That's why the written form is so powerful as a tool for self-revelation and vulnerability. It helps deepens relationships. I've had friends who've read my posts come up to me in person to tell me, "I never knew that about you", which actually made it possible to have deeper in-person connection.

I do have a few rules about posting: if I didn't write/create it, I won't post it; and before I post, I ask: "is it kind? is it true?" These rules seem to keep me out of trouble.
Government bailouts are not private actions, it's literally a public intervention, contrary to my suggestion of the government not managing people's money.
I build complicated GUI apps for a living. I still prefer the simplicity of a TUI.
As well as Kenken, I also like Killer Sudoku as a more interesting option than vanilla Sudoku. It's basically 9x9 Kenken with addition as the only operator, it uses a bunch of the same thought processes as Kakuro which I like too.
Or if you work there.
I am actually a bit surprised this isn't illegal - it seems like the CEO purchasing the "We" trademark would likely violate an NDA or possibly be pursuable under corporate espionage laws - he essentially sniped the domain once the company restructuring was on the road map...

Alternatively the shareholders might be able to go after him for some conflicts of interest - he manipulated the company restructuring to pick a particular name after personally securing the rights to it to force the company to buy it off of him...

Both these scenarios seem like things that should be illegal.
Seems unlikely. The reason that lead acid batteries are so recyclable is that they contain big slabs of pretty much entirely lead, which makes recovering it fairly cost effective. Lithium ion batteries contain relatively small amounts of the valuable metals that went into making them, and those are mixed with a whole bunch of lovely flammable and pyrophoric chemicals.
> What does society look like when science starts investigating consciousness with a more eastern philosophy lens?

I doubt that will happen to any effective or substantial degree, "science" is concerned with the quantitative and objective reproducibility. It is impossible for a scientist to fully assimilate the state of someone who is experiencing a "satori", without them either being that person or also experiencing a satori themselves. And if they achieve that, which is unlikely, they are back at square one: how are they going to relay the satori to other scientists for documentation and further research: what is there to research with regards to inner experience when the only known modes of knowledge in science are all outward?

Rather, scientists look for effects with whatever physical tools are available to them, such as changes in brain center blood flow; and then they tend to conflate the effects as the causes. IE. it's the changes in the brain causing the satori, not the satori causing the changes in the brain!

A thunderclap under the clear blue sky

All beings on earth open their eyes;

Everything under heaven bows together;

Mount Sumeru leaps up and dances.

Wumen Huikai
I think that is their only way to save face is for her to give up. That way they can have someone to blame it on. She's not so stupid as to give in without China's acquiescence. She knows that it means getting disappeared or at best life in prison if she doesn't do what they OK.
online harrassment is more than just distasteful speech.
for lack of a well thought out description-
it's a malignant process with intent to harm;
and it goes beyond a locker room style joke.
There are people that go to great effort to harrass someone in a way that is weapon like, as the psychic wounds can be lasting profound and even fatal for some.

The first amendment protected speech that some are worried may be moderated away is very different from such things as stalking or doxxing.

I believe the Z is smart enough to know the difference, and really needs some time out.
I wouldn't want to do that, no. But I might wait to see if there are more credible rumors / wait until next year to see what they actually announce, if anything
He's already offloaded a bunch of stock - he might just be trying to milk it for all it's worth before the price tanks post-IPO.

The beautiful thing is that CEO culture and reputation is such that having successfully lead a company to an IPO might be enough on it's own to land him a number of cushy board seats and future CEOing opportunities assuming he doesn't just grab the cash and run to Peru.
> I wonder if being on Facebook reduces your motivation to build new friendships

It didn't for me. I still made friends in real life, and FB helped me deepen some of those friendships by helping me reveal more about myself (I'm an introvert who's much better at writing than talking).
This is how you handle a security notification. Well done CircleCI, looking forward to the full postmortem.