skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real world is expensive. Everyone has a smartphone in their pockets (and most a moderately powerful PC of some kind depending on region), where hundreds of hours of challenge and entertainment can be had for free (or a few dollars). A piece of hardware for entertainment costing hundreds of dollars would need to be absolutely unforgetable (or provide a very lengthy/rich progression) to compete realistically.

I think either it needs to be an amazing teaching tool and/or have other useful capabilities (like merging a roomba/educational robot, or merging educational/house monitoring); or the cost needs to come way down for mass adoption. I believe both have future (my dream is widespread robotics within <$10).
Yup! _+1
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Extensive training, restriction of hours worked, health restrictions (pretty sure my ADHD would prevent me from being a commercial pilot)...

Also, my understanding is that aircraft autopilot systems are designed to allow for pilot response to take up to three seconds. Three seconds on the highway is a lifetime.
This varies by person. Not everyone learns by writing. Some only learn b hearing or seeing. Some can only learn by doing. Most of us are a mix. I learn just abou every way except for writing or typing. Online lectures i do best by playing at 1.2x at most and pausing regularly to let me think of implications and to crosslink to things i have already learned.
The End of Moore’s Law and Faster General Purpose Computing, and a Road Forward [pdf]
If only there were other models for ad sales, say ones that were successfully used for decades prior to the advent of the internet and ubiquitous surveillance, that could be used instead of said ubiquitous surveillance...

But no. The internet enabled vast, invasive user tracking, therefore vast, invasive user tracking is the only conceivable way to sell advertising.
On the subject of glitches: There is an entire branch of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration dedicated to "Detector Characterization". The article implicitly, and incorrectly in my opinion, casts doubt upon the excellent work of a great many smart and dedicated people.

At sufficient precision, every experiment will face unknown non-gaussian stochastic fluctuations. It is the single most-important job of an experimentalist to discern how to accurately assess the uncertainty in a measurement. LIGO's false-alarm-rate approach to significance estimation is data-driven and, to me, compelling.

The false-alarm-rate approach uses a simple fact: any detector signals at different observatories separated by more than an Earth-light-crossing-time cannot be a gravitational wave. By placing time-shifted signals from the two (or three) detectors into the gravitational-wave analysis pipeline, one can determine the accidental-detection rate, no matter what kinds of glitches might occur. Detections and candidates are reported with such a data-driven false-alarm rate.

Gravitational-wave searches, in the context of the post, are searches for transient disturbances in the detectors. Glitches are initially-unexplained transients. It is, in general, folly to believe that any instrument capable of sensing, in one second, an object's displacement by 1/20,000th of a proton diameter won't see the occasional unexplained transient. It is, as mentioned above, essential that a scientist using such an instrument credibly assesses measurement uncertainties.

If you are a gravitational-wave skeptic, keep your ears open for binary-neutron-star mergers. A simultaneous bang-and-a-flash are nigh-impossible to fake. I'm a skeptical experimentalist (experimentalists are skeptical, as a species), and I've found GW170817 sufficiently-compelling so as to remove any remaining doubt that LIGO/LVC has seen gravitational waves (They almost certainly discovered the site of the R-process at the same time! What more do you want?). As neutron star observations accumulate, the case will only get more compelling. All of us are waiting for the next bang-and-a-flash, as the potential for discovery and wonder is enormous.
First sentence: "The Velvet Revolution or Gentle Revolution was a non-violent transition of power in what was then Czechoslovakia, occurring from 17 November to 29 December 1989.

When I say that "Revolutions don't produce democracies", I'm talking about violent revolutions. A "non violent revolution" is a contradiction on terms to me.
The problem with non-techsavvy people is that they don't have an understanding of how seemingly innocuous data can be misused. My favorite counter to the "I have nothing to hide" argument is what happened during WW2 when the nazis used the consensus data of countries they invaded to hunt down their victims. People gave out this information because they had nothing to hide.

Another counter is what happened with the "anonymized" NYC data set. People discovered that combining two separate data sets can be used to reconstruct the information that was censored.

I have nothing to hide is a false statement that never made sense.
I've noticed the same thing driving my Chrysler Pacifica, which has lane keeping and adaptive cruise (with FCW). But it's not called "autopilot", and it deactivates if it detects that my hands are off the wheel.
Several recent books on the topic present psychedelics as a tool for Science. Most link to the famous quote from Stan Grof on psychedelics as the "microscope" for the mind (or telescope). It really does not look like getting through the Eastern philosophy lens... And the new center's backers seem motivated by the tooling potential too...

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The books I refer to include Pollan's recent book (cited several times in this thread), some of Grof publications, "A Really Good Day" by Ayelet Waldman, a plethora of "reports" from people's experience on Medium, and preview on Consciousness Medicine from Françoise Bourzat.
Another! https://github.com/RantyDave/sudoku
Weirdly, when I pop the data into a linear regression program, it pretty clearly shows an upward trend. Additionally, the article preferred (strongly) to point to non-peer reviewed articles and not actual data.
The Future of Remote Work // Hiten Shah on the Creator Lab Podcast
Beautiful, and similar to my own experiences. Thanks for sharing.
People obviously disagree with the above. I must say I am utterly baffled as to why. Snake oil hype is poison for your startup unless you're in snake oil yourself.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." --Richard Feynman

You've probably seen that before too, or at least should have. Still worth repeating, often, in hype bubles of which there is clearly one surrounding drone delivery. At least I'm not trying to do something genuine, honest and real in that space. Must make things borderline impossible if you are.
Much of the drone industry circa 2009 - 2013 suffered from the exact same symptoms...develop awesome tech and then find a use case. I know of 3 that ran out of money before finding a way to even make money. sad but great lessons for anyone involved.
Some level of judgment call is always going to be necessary, hence why there is a concept of authority in the first place. The problem is not that this happened, but rather that there is no accountability.

We've come to have absolutely zero faith that when fully resolved, the sheriff or judge will have been brought to justice, nor that the victim will be properly compensated for the time falsely imprisoned (by the government, which can then subrogate). This rot goes so deep that cops shamelessly boast of the corruption as in "you can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride".

If we want to regain faith in our public institutions, they need to be held accountable.
Six Sigma reminds me of the insanity that was ISO9000.

Software is not manufacturing. It took us a few years to figure that out.
that's no more true with the web than it is with mesh systems. The HK protesters are using a source of authority for this. This can be extended in a mesh system with a web of trust, not that that's w/o it's issues.
You’d think automated robots to clean carpets and hard floors, and mow lawns would be easy sales and easy technologically.

But they can’t clean toilets.
Data of the Humpback Whale
Has anyone seen an "overview of the design/possibility space" for group writing?

For illustration, single authors have interacted with support communities in a variety of ways, from blogging almost complete chapters, to discussion forums brainstorming plots and characters. What are some others? And how does single and group authorship blend, given
early readers, and writing groups, and collaborative research, and so on?

I don't have a feel for the design space. This post prompted the thought that it's richer than I'd been considering.

I've failed at creating social infrastructure for a hobby project around transformative improvement of science education content. It seems clear I'd need a diverse hybrid of multiple support processes, but the path to minimum viable process has been a challenge. So I'm hoping for "oh... that's an interesting possibility I'd not considered" fodder, as I found this post to be.
They're also generally faster to launch and surf (unless you're doing a lot of updates, which requires double buffering and is still very dependent on your terminal's performance).

You also have to be more clever to pack information in a smaller section (typically < 100x100 character space), and you avoid unnecessary graphics that are distracting.
You are answering the opposite of the question.

all cars allow you to stop paying attention.

I think the idea behind autopilot is that it reduces your workload (like cruise control, or automatic wipers, or automatic headlights or any other labor-saving device)
If your feed is like mine, 90% of those shared posts, political memes, and other garbage are coming from 10% of your friends. I mostly ignore or just snooze those people and end up with a feed of pretty positive life stories.
I've had my phone number since 2002. It doesn't matter how "old" their dataset is when some of the data predates the entire company.
Thanks dosh1965, we love the things people have done with Cloudinary and 8base. Glad to see were are supporting in Barecelona!
Favorite Sally Floyd paper:

https://www.icir.org/floyd/papers/sync_94.pdf

A fun read. Sally Floyd, Craig Leres, Steve McCanne, Vern Paxson and of course Van Jacobsen, the LBNL Network Research Group, were heroes of mine earlier in my career. A terrible loss. Condolences to anyone here who know Floyd personally.
Fun fact about the example fingerprint in the article:

On almost any other distro you're just going to see "Linux" for the platform. The reason "Fedora" is in this particular one is that there are packages that are installed by default on both Firefox and Chrome that add it to the useragent string for no reason.

I know this because, for a few glorious days, there was a bug in the Chrome plugin that meant that there was another "Fedora; " added for every redirect in a redirect chain (i.e. "Fedora; " to "Fedora; Fedora; " etc.), which broke a whole bunch of whitelists and fingerprinting bot detection scripts.

There's absolutely no reason for it, there's no benefit to having there, but everytime someone files a bug about it the maintainers don't see what the problem is and WontFix the bug. [1]

[1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1266569
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Incandescents should never have been banned. Electricity is already a commodity with a price tag. Halogens get labeled as energy efficient even though they use a lot of lower and produce a lot of heat. LEDs are great, but the light isn't the same.
Phillips unsurprisingly lobbied to get bulbs banned. Making certain light bulbs illegal solves nothing. People can make their own decisions.
Found the slow walker!

But let me give you an annecdote:

Ive buiilt a lot of buildings BIG buildings (ten hospitals, data centers and HQ offices for facebook google brocade lucas salesforce etc...)

I am a fucking FAST walker. Because i need to get shit done bitch!

You have a million square feet on 49 stories? Get the fuck up! When you have 400,000 square feet and you need to show thos LV or AV contractors where to be and youre working on a schedule - speed the fuck up!!

Yeah i dont do well with slow walkers.
Once upon a time, I was at an academic conference browsing the new books and the person next to me in line pointed at the newest edition of Silberschatz's OS text and said, "oh, yeah, he's got another kid going to college."

No bribes, but a tolerable amount of goofiness in the authoring.
Typing at 60 words/minute, 5 characters/word and 8 bits/character gives a gross bit rate of 40 bits/second.

Of course, the information rate is a lot less, since there are fewer than 8 bits of information per character in English. The paper says "from 4.8 bits per syllable for Basque to 8.0 bits per syllable for Vietnamese" and there are multiple characters per syllable. So the typing information bit rate is probably somewhere around 10 to 15 bits/second.
I'm fully sighted but I use espeak tts at around 1000wpd for fluff text like ecnomist articles and 300wpm for heavy going text like the text sections of math books.

I also watch most video at 2/3 times the speed since the skills seem transferable.
The Story of Virtuality
> index funds have to sell 1% of their holdings in the exact ratios defined by the index

SP500 is a market cap weighted index. That would alleviate some of this hypothetical problem, no?
It's been done, but it's expensive. Not many people can drop $30,000 on a drone: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1416171-REG/walkera_q...
But in the case of Apple in particular, Apple doesn't go after every infringement. The internets are full of instructions on how to set up a Hackintosh, including how to circumvent the copy protection measure (there's a 64-byte string that's a three-line poem widely available on the internets), but that did not stop them from going after Psystar.
Lego has an extremely low manufacturing tolerance which makes it very expensive to produce, but also is responsible for the quality you see. Most people wouldn’t assume such precision manufacturing goes into something that’s sold as a toy.
It may not be fixed. My 2019 Subaru, also a camera based system, does exactly the same thing (accelerate towards stationary traffic when the car in front changes lanes). And car and driver found at least with the 2018 Model S that it performed somewhat worse than Subaru on avoiding stationary objects.
What was amazing to me was how much time I got back in my life.

Without social media filling up all the spare minutes, then overflowing into things I actually need to do, I have so much more time to do things I want to do.
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> the relative timing rules out terrestrial origin: no signal of terrestrial origin will travel at anywhere close to the speed of light through the Earth

Well, there is still the chance that similar terrestrial events might happen at the same time near each detector. Especially while we only have 2 or 3 active LIGO detectors.

I don't know how closely "fingerprinted" each event is to rule out such coincidences. It might be purely theoretical.

Then again there is still the theoretical chance that an event will occur at an equidistant point from the LIGO stations and produce a signal of the same signature at all places at the same time.

Probably absurdly unlikely, even as a conscious prankster attack.

(Sorry for being so difficult...)
Here in NZ we are about to get our very first Lego shop

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2019/07/lego-store-comi...

which luckily for me, is a 5 minute walk away from my work! Earlier this year my son (8) and I really enjoyed watching the Australian Lego Masters TV competition. https://www.thebrickman.com/lego-masters-australia/
Absolutely. We have a bunch of Megabloks mixed in with our Legos and I can separate them even without looking. The difference in tolerances is pretty interesting.
Yeah, it's on my list. Though I'm more interested in getting a powered electric glider w/FPV instead. It won't annoy the neighbors as much.
Also they should read Karl Marx, it's a good overview of real world economics.
Now that I've had a look, it seems like ODES doesn't contain the particular change that floragunn had put into Search Guard that is mentioned in the filing, so at least in that particular instance that's not directly linked.

I still think however that Amazon will feel very involved.
I was very excited about drones until https://www.boringcompany.com/ came out. Moving things underground makes 1000x more sense.
The actual outcomes are irrelevant to my point, which is that you need to consider the effect on people's behavior when evaluating a policy (prospectively or retrospectively). You made it sound as if this was not done.
> Professors also want the best for their students, and so the latest edition is prescribed.

No, that's not it at all. Calculus 17th edition is not in any way better than Calculus 16th edition. If anything, the newer one has more typos, weighs more, and is more expensive. A 600-page single-variable calculus text does not help students learn the material, since the small number of wonderful ideas that make up calculus are diluted in a fetid sea of repetitive examples, mindless busywork, pointless "real-world applications" that have no relevance to the real world, and a general tendency to give recipes that guarantee you will get the right answer even if you have no idea what you are doing. That's not math. That's the opposite of math.
Python was first created in 1991 where a top of a line computer ran at 50mhz and had 50 MIPS. A current generation MCU - ATSAMG51 easily runs at 120mhz, and devices are quickly moving up to the 500mhz range (https://groboards.com/giant-board/). There clearly is enough processor power to Python. StaticTypescript isn't even running scripted, it is compiled to native and has performance close to C/C++ developed code.
I think that dog in Denver is perma-stoned from years of sniffing the green. I know many, many people that fly out of Denver with pot. Like an obscene number of people.
In the US, HIPAA would apply to individually identifiable health information. HIPAA Providers share information with other HIPAA-covered entities all the time under contracts where the associate entities (non-providers) agree to comply with HIPAA privacy rules.
Because giving negative feedback is hard and uncomfortable and a skill that many people never master. It doesn't help that corporate training on the subject amounts to extremely generic and basic advice one could think up on the spot. Nothing really insightful.
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I estimate that one third of "no return offer" decisions I've seen have been attributable to the intern. The other two thirds are attributable to the team or company. Poor task selection, poor support, unreasonable expectations, and unrelated politics are all things I've seen result in no return offer. On the other hand, I've also seen plenty of interns receive return offers for reasons entirely unrelated to their performance.

The frequent lack of empathy for the young people whose careers are being shaped is also pretty sickening. The email which opens this post is a good example. I recently witnessed a manager weasling out of delivering the bad news to their intern in person, instead opting for an email the following week. I once saw an intern miss out on an offer because their manager didn't get a bureaucratic task done on time. That person was set to graduate the following year.

All anecdata, of course, and tech interns have it much better than interns in most other industries (who are frequently unpaid gophers). Still, it's disappointing to read stories like this one.
History of the World
I agree. This is the reason the Google C++ style guide bans use of "unsigned" wherever it can be avoided.

The extra bit of headroom is not worth it, and it's clearer to explicitly check for arguments that are out of range.
I don't have any special knowledge of how this works in Chinese culture or others, but I'm inclined to think, like the quote alludes to, that it's not just a Chinese thing - that just shapes the conventions for how it's done, and maybe in this particular case clashed with American conventions such that it became a problem for JP Morgan.
Maybe not much. And there the old accusation "the author is just rearranging chapters to make more money" has some merit. But in a lot of sciences things actually do change. My immunology textbooks of twenty years ago would be absurd to teach from today.
Everyone in the US is on the internet, for all intensive purposes.
No suspicion of data tampering and that’s great, but the attacker got email addresses and possibly identities of CircleCI users. If you own an anti-gov repo and have been active in the past 2 months, maybe you’ve been ID’d.
Not a pleasant thought.

Do we really have to use throwaway email accounts for everything? That is depressing.
College students think they learn less with an effective teaching method
Yes, but the motor (turbine) to run kero is more expensive than the motor (piston) to run petrol.
I'm the blind dev who refactored a huge chunk of the Rust compiler [0]. I'm at roughly 800 words a minute with a synth, with the proven ability to top out at 1219. 800 or so is the norm among programmers. In order to get it we normally end up using older synths which sound way less natural because modern synthesis techniques can't go that fast. There's a trade-off between natural sounding and 500+ words a minute, and the market now strongly prefers the former because hardware can now support i.e. concatenative synthesis.

1219 is a record as far as I know. We measured it explicitly by getting the screen reader to read a passage and dividing. I spent months working up from 800 to do it and lost the skill once I stopped (there was a marked level of decreased comprehension post 1000, but I was able to program there; still, in the end, not worth it). When I try to described the required mental state it comes out very much like I'm on drugs. Most of us who reach 800 or so stay there, though not always that fast for i.e. pleasure reading (I do novels at about 400). it's built up slowly over time, either more or less explicitly. I did it because I was in high school doing muds and got tired of not being able to keep up; it took about 6-8 months of committing to turn the synth faster once a week no matter what, keeping it there and dealing with a day or two of mild headaches. Note that for most blind people these days, total synthesis time per day is around 10+ hours; this stuff replaces the pencil, the novel, etc. Others just seem to naturally do it. You have little choice, it's effectively a 1 dimensional interface, so from time to time you find a reason to bump the knob. And that's enough.

Whether and how much the skill transfers to normal human speech, or even between synths, is person-specific. I can't do Youtube at much beyond 2x. Others can. It's definitely a learned skill.

0: https://ahicks.io/posts/April%202017/rust-struct-field-reord...
Would you open to applicants who are Canadian citizens?
IIRC 1.3 bits per character is the value used as a rule-of-thumb for english text entropy, which would yield 6.5bps at 60WPM and an average stenographer can go at 4x that rate for approximately 26bps.
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