skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was never convinced by that paper, to be honest. I almost always use MLE so that's not really an issue. It just struck me as a pedantic distinction without a difference.

But if you use GEE, it's probably great to know.
I would probably have said the opposite. Can you clarify why you think the scope of ML is greater than that of statistics?
> They were carefully designed and the latencies are accounted for.

"Free will" is a philosophical term. Brain waves and chemical latencies are not, they're in the realm of biological sciences. Explanations of how chemical and electrical reactions occur before a person is aware of their own conscious decision does not negate their consciousness or any aspect of their free will.

Similarly, if you put your hand over a flame and it takes a half second before you consciously feel pain, the pain is still just as real.

In a more extreme example, suppose we could perfectly model the human brain and could explain every sensation you've ever felt by mapping every chemical and electrical reaction in your brain, such an explanation would not make the sensation any less real.

In fact, our own consciousness is the only thing we can authoritatively know for sure is real. When you dig deep enough, "I am" is the only thing we know for certain.
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> It's much less anecdotal than (...) studies being done

You what? Come on man. There aren't degrees of "anecdotalness". That doesn't even make sense. Neither does calling a study anecdotal. I'm starting to think you don't know what the word means. I'll give you one hint: it does not have as much to do with the meaning of the word "anecdote" as you seem to think, but with the way factual evidence is collected and being compared.

You should have learned this in school.
I enjoyed the book, but have a background in this area.

I was amused by the suggestion that computer science undergrads could handle the book, as clearly the authors and I have met very different computer science undergrads.
Wow, the abstract on skeleton dimension looks quite amazing. I only happened to come across HD after working on a tangentially related algorithm, but I didn't keep up with the progress on that front... it didn't even hit me they might've already progressed beyond that to a stronger measure. That's pretty awesome, thanks for sharing!
Half these things should be on the website for the project, not embedded in the source code attached to a readme file (where I might expect a link to the website, not a replacement for the website).
Those studies are deeply flawed because they pressupose that the average black college graduate is as prepared as the average white college graduate, or that race does not predict performance controlling for educational attainment. When you look at the results of the National Adult Literacy Survey, it immediately becomes apparent that that is not the case.
If needed, run with qemu userspace emulation.
If I hear a drone flying by my window at 4 in the morning (I live on the 8th floor in a very congested city) I’m 99% sure I’ll just open the window and try to take it down with any means possible (potatoes, socks filled with soap, whatever else is available). Even now I have to restrain myself not to throw tomatoes or eggs on top of motorcycle riders who do their own very noisy stuff at 2AM.
>steer civilization away from the abyss

what is this abyss author is so afraid of?
HD is independent of r.
And it's not the minimal set of vertices that must be visited.. it is the smallest set of which at least one must be visited. Another good explanation of HD is in section 1.3 of the skeleton dimension paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.00512.pdf).
A crash won’t hurt anyone? Did you see the size of that drone in the article? Having that land on top of your car or MC could very well cause significant damage, I should think.
Yeah, there was a recent PowerPC request (following IBM open sourcing their chips and them getting into the enthusiast price range), but the forum moderators answered that a supported version didn't make economic sense, and an unsupported version would be a bad idea :

https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=76453

(The devs themselves didn't comment, but they probably think in a similar way...)
Oh wow, you're actually compiling a list! I'm not sure this is relevant (it's for a different stochastic routing problem), but here's something I have, if you feel it's relevant enough to be added: https://git.io/SOTA-Py
If "free will does not exist", are we free to choose whether to despair or not?
It's presumably a bit more accessible to use face unlock on a sleeping person since it involves no physical contact. Pressing someone's finger on the reader has a higher (probably still small) chance of waking that person up.
Haha, thx! :) I do send some usage analytics data back, like, when you edit your site, that you used a specific feature. Is that okay in your world? To make it better I need to know what features people use..
Oh, sorry, I was vague about the visiting—I meant the set must be visited, i.e. something in it must be visited. I'll take a look at that one too, thanks!
“If you’re bored then you’re boring”
Unfortunate that their crawler doesn't support IPv6. Trying to save IPv6-only websites results in "Couldn't resolve host". Hopefully that'll get fixed soon and not too much will be lost...
I did in fact search for "RSS memory" and found what I was looking for, but I personally thought it was unclear from context what it was as RSS itself has a very strong association with another acronym (full disclosure: at the beginning of the article I though "consuming 128 MB of RSS" meant that this was an RSS parser that leaked memory) and I was more familiar with the term as a process's "working set size" rather than "resident set size".
IMO this won't stop until someone with a good amount of cash sues one of these mainstream outlets for slander/libel/defamation and wins, taking down the outlet, Gawker-style. The larger the target, the better.

I'm all for freedom of the press, but in recent years there's complete lack of accountability, where people write complete bullshit, _knowing_ it's not true, to chase the clicks or score political points, and then retract it on the back page days later, or not at all. And of course, nobody reads the retractions. There needs to be a modicum of fact checking applied to all this, as it was, say, 20 years ago.
I'm Dutch and I'm not under the illusion that most of the US population gets the metric fuckton of benefits we do.

It's one thing to say that, as a society, it would be beneficial to make sure that all people have the opportunity to make these choices. Because currently a large amount of people in the US do not.

It's IMO not right to say that parents should just "arrange" having more time off. That's not how US job culture works.
I actually agree with much of this, "reason" as we know it, is not necessarily an intrinsically beneficial thing, it's just had a decently long track record of providing stability and improved standards of living.

For much of human history though, reason took a back seat to centralized power and shared belief systems (even if they were not based on reason). E.g.: Egyptian society could get a lot more done if everyone believed in the sun god, and that the pharaoh was god-like. Shared beliefs, even if false or unreasonable, increased stability and allowed society to better organize.

Roughly since the enlightenment, reason has had a similarly strong ability to organize society, and the civilizations that embraced it have tended to live longer than those that don't. In the context of history, it's arguably more of a social tool than a underlying value.
Here's one thing my pastor (who was somewhat high-profile and had his fair share of 'haters') said a few times: You simply have to outlast your critics. Maybe all you need to do is keep at it, and ship an awesome v1 when ready. Best of luck :)
> What law or part of the constitution says that I have a right to an unlocked phone?

Maybe you'll be happier if I call it an "ability", not a "right", since I am not interested in a debate on what rights are.

To answer your question - none. That's what makes it so easy to lose. But do you not see the problem? Suppose all computers, not just phones, become so locked down. Your computing would be completely under the control of a handful of giant corporations - all without any legal right getting infringed.

Of course I don't need hypotheticals. Lets look at another example: Before the Civil Rights act, no rights were being infringed on by segregated businesses either, and people were free to choose non-segregated businesses. The government wasn't stopping anyone - yet it was still a problem.

> The government is the only threat to my legal rights.

If 100% of the phones on the market automatically censored mentions of Tiananmen Square, are your legal rights still not under threat? It doesn't matter if you're able to exercise your rights, as long as you have them?

The Civil Rights act doesn't cover sexual orientation, so in many states, you can still be fired for being gay. Hypothetically, if 10% of businesses refused to hire gays, would your answer still be "The government is the only threat to their legal rights"? What if it was 50%? 90%? 100%? How high would you let that % go before acting?
Congratulations!

On reading the docs, I wonder if immutable variables and const globals can be merged as a concept?

I realize the consts can be fun complex 'structs', and have features that maybe immutable variables can't? -- No mutable globals is good. But still, is there a deeper reason to not merge const/immutable
That's an interesting way to look at it. Do you think the sentences->nodes generation approach would work for this? Or maybe should the tree management be more flexible?
I'm pretty excited about your idea and have many things to think of now ;) though I'm not sure that tree structure is the best for the task - maybe a graph would be better?
Note that this post is #317. The Factorio team has the best development blog on the planet in my opinion.

I'm just awestruck every time I stop and think about the fact they've written over three hundred of these in-depth articles, complete with annotated screenshots/video in most cases. The quality, depth and sheer consistency of the write-ups given their team size is simply incredible.

Can't really say I know of anything that comes close, but I'd love to hear about anything that does.
Yes, when you eat a food your control will jump to the snake of that colour.
A crash would definitely cause a lot of damage, these drones are huge and think about what's on the road.
Steam Store ranking is a bit iffy (and you included DLC and bundles), SteamDB ranks Factorio as n=°2 (behind Portal 2) :

https://steamdb.info/stats/gameratings/

Also, the OP was talking about Mindustry, which, at 89% is in good position too !

https://steamdb.info/app/1127400/graphs/
Are they louder than delivery vans? I never heard one from close distance so I really don't know.
O_DIRECT allows you to bypass OS-level caching entirely, it's not that hard. Whether or not it's a good idea is another question, of course
Or that "people can't learn from mistakes"
This seems to be all about community-based repair events. How about doing some lobby towards legislators and companies to do something about their devices that can't even be opened anymore by end users?
> What law or part of the constitution says that I have a right to an unlocked phone?

The constitution is an important part of the legal system, but it's not the only part. There are also laws that legislators pass in service of the desires of the people the government serves.

For one, anti-trust law can potentially provide an avenue for challenging locked down phones. Providing a platform and then inhibiting open competition on that platform to the detriment of consumers is often an antitrust violation (see, for example Microsoft antitrust battles in the 1990s).

But even if current laws do not provide for unlocked phones, society can make new laws that require them. That's the beauty of democracy, we can choose how we want to live.
I know of SOTA and SPOTAR.. thanks! :)
Sway can pretty much replace awesome nowadays, so I'd encourage giving it a shot. You can even script around the way it does multi-monitor workspaces to make them work similarly to awesome (just bind your switching shortcuts to a script that asks sway with swaymsg which monitor is focused). Finding a solution to this is actually what allowed me to abandon X11 and awesome for good.
Respect fire, or else :

>>Sometimes, that channel of upward-flowing air can collapse in one small spot. Then the hot air in the atmosphere plummets through the weak point. “You get a very fast wind moving down toward the ground, and when it hits the ground, it spreads like jelly slopping across the floor,” Williams said. “It can also send white-hot air out in front of the flame, incinerating the landscape before the actual flame has arrived. It can cause forests to spontaneously combust without coming into contact with a flame.”

When this upward-moving air pattern stays strong, it creates other kinds of problems. It can loft burning wood high into the atmosphere, carrying it many miles away from the center of the fire. When this debris finally lands, it can start new fires. In 2011, Williams lived dozens of miles from the edge of the blaze, yet he remembers semi-burned sticks falling like drizzle in his backyard. “These were twigs that you hold in your hand and say, ‘Wow, this actually weighs something. This made it 35 miles in the air,’” he said."
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/californ...
TIL there are volcanoes in Australia
I think it's down to a misunderstanding about UX design and usability. Basically, a lot of companies seem to get 'minimalistic, lacking in features' confused with 'easy to use', and assume the way to make their software more accessible to the general public is to remove all the more 'complex' features that were there before.

But this isn't the case; good design doesn't mean 'remove every feature except maybe three of them', nor does it mean 'hide features under layers of menus in case they scare newcomers'. It means to make the software easy to understand at a glance, and to make it so people with different use cases can get doing done.

We see the same trend in website design too. An assumption that good design means 'barely anything on screen at any one time'.

So yeah, it's due to a UX misunderstanding,
Cool! Yup :)
(I am no expert here, I live in userland. But:) Does OS cache persists between reboots? I think this allows the postgres cache to persist between those.
All plastic waste could be recycled into new plastic: researchers
"I made hot-or-not for my campus, then I made MySpace (but exclusive, .edu emails only), then MySpace sold out and everyone jumped to my site."

So much luck.
> you can still be fired for being gay. Hypothetically, if 10% of businesses refused to hire gays, would your answer still be "The government is the only threat to their legal rights"? What if it was 50%? 90%? 100%?

In the Federalist papers, James Madison famously said that it wasn't enough for a government to protect its people from the tyranny of a central authority (e.g., a king), a government must also protect various groups from tyrannizing each other.
Just like memory cells are made IRL electronics using latches, you can make memory cells in Factorio using combinators :

https://wiki.factorio.com/Tutorial:Combinator_tutorial#Memor...
> Edit: Even if you do have 100 feet to maintain, go on a two week vacation and see how many leaves gather.

You don't need a 100-foot break to protect your house from burning leaves. The 100-foot break is to protect your house from the incinerating radiation of torching trees.

You can technically even have trees within the 100-foot break. The goal is to prevent a situation where individually burning trees accelerate combustion in a feedback loop. If they're burning more slowly they're radiating less energy and thus you don't need as much space to the house.
Two machines. More accurately, I don't have a work laptop, so the computer I do my work on while at the office and the one I use at home are by necessity not the same device.

The software on each machine isn't connected account wise either, and anything work related that needs to be accessed when working remotely is merely done through a web browser anyway.
Ring means you use an Amazon owned account.
The inverted pyramid answer is a great one, I wish that was the default in interviews in general
I find Schmachtenburger hard to listen to. He rejects all media outright because it's all not true or propaganda. Might as well go live in a cave. If you listen to news, whether it's a podcast, a news channel, an article, or whatever, there's always a bias. But the solution isn't to reject all bias, it's to accept that bias is fundamental to human existence and to learn how to deal with bias while consuming that media. It's why I can listen to certain kinds of conservative media and not have my head explode - even if I disagree with many of their premises, I'm able to recognize what is fact, what is supposed fact, what is informed analysis and what is pure opinion, such that I can still extract value from it. More importantly, I can generally can recognize whether somebody is making a good faith argument or simply pushing a point to achieve certain goals or push an agenda.
Wow, that was a ride. I could think of worse things to do in a Friday night than read that for the past three hours. Thanks for linking. I'm now much more interested in reading the book and the rest of his blog.
Or, alternatively, everything is conscious.
F = M * A is never correct. Yet, it’s simple and useful enough in most situations to be ‘settled’ and people will probably still use it in 10,000 years. Thus, demonstrating these are different qualities when it comes to models.
Yes. They sound like weed whackers.
> We see the same trend in website design too. An assumption that good design means 'barely anything on screen at any one time'.

A fair criticism, but this attitude largely arose in response to kitchen sink approaches to adding features for every possible use case that was extremely common until relatively recently.

Yes, good features should be added if they help users get what they want done, but it's also fair to push back a bit, and determine whether the feature that a user asked for is really in their best interest. Thinking critically about feature creep is largely a good development.
Out of curiousity, what benefits does Tor bring here? Wouldn't a domain + VPN (or simply HTTPS + password protection) + a restrictive firewall work as well?
Echoes of Borges in a Novel of War-Torn Venezuela
Potato as effective as carbohydrate gels for boosting athletic performance
Medical claims, unproven treatments spread in closed Facebook groups
Some people are more prone to be dictated by feelings.
The other part are more prone to be dictated by logic.
These groups will never agree!

Studies show people with brain injury unable to feel, are unable to make sound decisions (pure rational thought).
We know what happens when only feelings decide, that would wreck society overnight.

Luckily, the way our brain works. Intuition/feelings come first, and then we can rationalize and filter, based on logic!
Fish as well, but the redirection of both stdout and stderr is different:

type -p brew >/dev/null ^&1; and brew

in Bash it would be:

type -p brew &>/dev/null && brew

Using test avoids caring about stdout/stderr.
Obamacare made it illegal for consumers to shop for health insurance across state lines. Medicare for all eliminates private health insurance, leaving only a single state run monopoly in place. The marketing campaign says obamacare and medicare for all give consumers more options and reduce prices, in reality they do the opposite.
Are all the interactive infographics custom made? Amazing.
Depends what you're waiting for. Personally I'd say about 15-20 minutes is the max for something you can easily get elswhere (like food or many consumer items), 30-40 minutes would be a good maximum for methods of transport wherever there are alternative routes available, and you should only wait indefinitely if you're 100% certain whatever you're waiting for is only available at that location on that day/at that time.
"Iris by Lowe’s is gone, but here’s the open source code to keep your smart devices alive
Lowe's closed Iris, now renamed Arcus, but released software to let these smart home products continue to work"

https://www.gearbrain.com/iris-lowes-arcus-smart-home-263347...
Show HN: Minimal TOTP generator in 20 lines of Python
Well, this sucks. If the idea itself wasn't dystopian enough, all of the claims are thinly-veiled bullshit.

> 90% Off Device Cost

Only if you're not counting the subscription fees. A thin client ($150 according to you, and that seems to be on the low side) and a year of the $60 plan would cost $870. You can get a lot of laptop for that money, and it would last longer than a year. And it wouldn't be tethered to the internet.

> Booste apps have no speed limit. The elastic cloud delivers the processing performance you need, when you need it.

It's still running on hardware eventually, there will inevitably be performance limits.

> 100x Faster Peer-to-Peer File Sharing

How does that help you, if it then has to get to your computer in the least efficient format possible?

> Code, run, test, and deploy projects without changing your desktop workflow.

Or.. I could just do that from my desktop, changing even less.

> [No] Expensive laptops

See above.

> [No] software installs

Read as: no flexibility.

> [No] updates

You might not be told that they're happening, but the continuous detereoration will still be there. But now you can't even do anything about it!

> [No] dependency conflicts

I'm almost surprised it doesn't claim to solve world peace.

> [No] virtual machines

Presumably it's running in one?

> [No] OS compatibility

Nonsense. You're only running Windows 10, and adding even more compatibility problems on top of that.
> This is such a good interview. Lots of engineer philosophy dropped here.

The interview is great, and it really highlights the difference in the way that founders and engineers think compared to those in the finance and commercial fields. If this was an investor interview, they'd be asking about deadlines and revenue projections. If it was a Joe Rogan interview, the questions would be vague questions about social, political, or philosophical repercussions. Those are all important questions, but they don't actually address what any business or organization is really trying to do. You can learn a lot more about a person or organization by speaking their language and letting them talk the way they are comfortable than by stuffing them into your own rubric of what they should be expected to say.
No. OS caches are not saved between reboots.
A Visual Analysis of SSH Access Attempts
Male brain of nematode worms.
>Although the neurons have only been found in the brains of nematode worms, scientists at University College London say that it is likely that similar mechanisms are at work in humans
Ways to Contribute to Open Source Without Being a Genius or a Rock Star
> The Civil Rights act doesn't cover sexual orientation

It doesn't by name, but the pre-Trump EEOC viewed sexual orientation discrimination as necessarily involving gender stereotypes and thus being sex discrimination, and established precedent in two federal appellate circuits along that line; at least one circuit disagreed, and case has been heard by the Supreme Court this month (but not yet decided) which will likely resolve the circuit split.
I would have guessed the problem is more about getting writing access right.
Well when they first came out I thought the product was super innovative. But the competition didn’t rest on their laurels either. I’ve looked at many smart thermostats over the last year. We settled on HomeKit because of the privacy and it not being IoT based. This knocked Nest out of the running.