skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A silly floppy trick that can sometimes confuse people:

1. Hold a floppy disk up by the edges.

2. Stick your finger through the center hole, so that the side of your finger is resting on the edge of the hole.

3. Start moving your finger clockwise around the edge of the hole, which should cause the disk to rotate within the sleeve.

4. Watch the index hole in the sleeve. As your finger motion causes the disk to rotate in the sleeve, you should eventually see the index hole in the disk pass by the index hole in the sleeve.

5. From the motion of the index hole, you will see that the disk is rotating counterclockwise! But you are moving your finger clockwise--so what is going on?
Ask HN: What Was Geocities.com?
Came across this website name when i was reading about sites that was acquired by Yahoo.com
Reasoning through Monty Hall was my freshmen year introduction to the power of computing simulation.

I couldn't get my mind to accept the explanation. So I coded it and ran the simulation 100,000 times.

I got about 50,000 instances where switching won the prize. Biases confirmed.

... until I found the bug in my code where Monty was allowed to open the door containing the car as the one showed to the player.

Fixed the bug, and switching won the prize in about 66,666 instances.
I didn't even make a throwaway account to call you a shill, it's that obvious.
I misunderstood a detail here: this section admits that the Catholic Church sponsored an English translation (the Douay-Rheims Bible) but complains that this translation was itself made in response to pressure from Protestants, and that Catholics were expected to seek permission from church authorities in order to read it. So I probably shouldn't have said "disapproving of" but rather something like "grudgingly permitting" or "restricting access to".
I feel so old!
If you haven’t noticed (because you don’t use it or whatever), they are burning money aggressively advertising on Snapchat. Add to that the fact that it filled the void left by Vine.
It was "on the roadmap" as of 4 years ago…

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/905

…but there's been no apparent progress.

On some core usability & functionality matters, Signal appears to be a really, really, lethargic development team, both before and after the arrival in early 2018 of $50 million in funding.
> Can I possibly even start the discussion at why the hell these things are being named in this way?

This reminds me a lot of Perl with its creative naming for things, e.g. promises giving you a `Vow` object that you can `keep()` or `break()`. Or how you `bless` an associative array into becoming an object of a certain class.

On the one hand, it is good to have precise and specific terms without reaching for a thesaurus or overloading the same term (e.g. the many meanings of `static` in C).

On the other hand, if every framework and language invents its own terms for everything under the sun, that will not help polyglots or newcomers.

(On the third hand, we have foreigners trying to spot a difference between a "promise" and a "vow".)

Promises are my favourite example of this, because just between C++, C#, JavaScript, and Perl, I can find three-and-a-half different taxonomies for the same functionality.
I wonder how quickly it charges. Vehicles in mine sites are often in use around the clock, which is fine if you can quickly top them up with fuel, but if it takes a few hours to recharge them, you're going to need more vehicles.
Robinhood finally added stop limit orders for options trading
That's rather my point though.
Sorbet-Rails: Tools to Make the Sorbet Typechecker Work with Ruby on Rails
If this were the case in practice, most software would have no bugs.
I wrote about the Monte Hall problem back in 2005, and I made a simple simulator to demonstrate the success rate of door-switchers versus non-switchers: https://www.damninteresting.com/appendices/monte-hall-simula...
No ecological solutions under capitalism.
The search feature is a good improvement. You see it used to various degrees in other complicated programs with lots of features (eg emacs, blender, even jira). It’s good because it can make things better for people looking for a function they don’t know and for advanced users looking for something they do know. And it provides a good intermediate level of speed between digging through menus and knowing the keyboard shortcut.

On the other hand, the built in help system before 2007 or so worked out pretty well (maybe it was slightly dying by 2003. I remember the vba help worked well and maybe the rest didn’t work so well), whereas the help system in 2007 was completely awful and I think it was getting worse. I haven’t used office recently enough to know if they ever fixed it or if it was just replaced by incomplete documentation, google searches, and obscure forums.
> I think there's a big social component, too.

Agree with this. At my company, top brass is basically a cabal of baby boomer LGBT+ scientists who moved here in the 1990s/early 2000s to escape living in the closet in small minded bible belt towns. I'm not LGBT but it's pretty inspiring every day to work alongside them.

When I first started I happened to sit near our top QA exec and over the years as I got to know him he was telling me how in the 1980s his team at MD Anderson used to smuggle blood across the border from Mexico in briefcases before the FDA finally bowed to building pressure and got around to mandating screening for antibodies and accepting INDs.
Some MUDs even have sound!
Free website hosting popular in the nineties.
Didn't get exact answer to my question. As my English is not good, the articles in English didn't help me with my question.
It's extremely difficult to write a mathematics textbook in the intuitive style. There are some reasons for this.

Firstly, much of mathematics is symbolic and any description of equations in an intuitive style is unnecessarily verbose if it abandons the symbolic approach, essentially taking one back to descriptions like those used in ancient Greece before the invention of algebra, e.g. "and the third part of the first is to the second part of the first as the fourth part of the area is to the square on the gnomon".

The second reason is that an intuitive style supposes that one can answer natural questions that might arise, in an order that they are likely to arise in the mind of the student. Often the natural questions are much more difficult to answer mathematically, or the answers are not known.

The third reason is that concepts have arisen historically for non-obvious reasons, or reasons only known to experts with far more knowledge than the reader is expected to have, or the originator of the ideas did their best to obscure their motivation. This makes it extremely hard to motivate certain concepts naturally (intuitively) since such motivations are simply not known. For example, it is not hard to motivate solvable groups through a study of solubility of polynomial equations. But it is much harder to motivate the related concept of nilpotent groups, where the true motivations lie far deeper in the theory than the concepts themselves.

The fourth reason is that it is a massive effort to come up with good examples. Even the best textbook authors often struggle to come up with accessible examples for the concept they are trying to explain. Often, good examples require a really broad knowledge of mathematics that goes way beyond the narrow field being taught. Examples end up being very artificial, and neither intuitive nor typical, as a result.

Don't get me wrong. If someone told me something like the Feynman lectures existed for mathematics, I would salivate and spend a lot of money to acquire them. But having experimented with many styles of writing notes for myself on mathematics over the years, I well appreciate how hard, or perhaps impossible the task would really be. Of course there are some oases in mathematics where such an intuitive approach is possible.
Just like wix? But why it was popular?
Google’s Pixel 4 launches next week, here’s what we expect
I agree with the other responses to your post. As a younger millenial that is on other social media apps, I saw tiktok as soon as it launched and have seen the aggressive marketing. Contrary to your point, I'm a little surprised it took so long for the MSM and old people to figure out what was going on. There's real money in being young and in-touch.
I got caught up in this train. After watching the TED talk I saw an opportunity to leverage my product design/engineering consultancy to sell Food Computer kits and pre-assembled circuit boards. I built a website (www.openagriculturesupply.com) and embarked on building a supply chain, having PCBs and fully assembled PCBAs made and stocking kits.

After lots of investment in both time and capital I was never able to get one to work. The software stack was unsupported and after talking with everyone I could I was unable to find anyone who was able to get the software working outside of the walls of MiT.

I then worked on a related product, growcomputer (www.growcomputer.com) but ultimately there just isn't enough value in these kinds of products. As others have posted here and in previous HN posts on this topic, the A&E schools and plant scientists have long ago figured all this out, one can already purchase plant growth chambers, all manner of hydroponic and aeroponic systems, nutrients, controllers, climate controlled greenhouses, etc.

Ultimately it comes down to the economy of powering plant growth with electric lights. It just does't add up except in specific applications like mushroom farming, and very high end "foodie" niche markets. The value proposition just isn't there.

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The bigger the battery, the faster it can charge to 80% or so. The last 20% is the slow charge, but if the vehicle is always plugged in when not moving, it’s not a concern.
OT re China:
- How is it that taobao doesn't have basic machine translations? What is the RMB price for e.g. 2m OM4 patch?

- Is there a VPN that allows you to experience the GFW from inside China?

- Is there a Chinese equivalent to Wikipedia yet, i.e. non-profit & editable, or is it just the commercial and govt versions?
Broscience that happens to produce results is still broscience.
Makes more sense to a Greek than an Israelite maybe. But it loses its deeper meaning where He once again calls Himself the Word just like how the Gospel of John starts.

Edit: When you see how often the Aleph Tav is in the Old Testament. It is insane. It is all over. And it has deep meaning when studied further. It is even in the first verse of Genesis.

The Aleph Tav gets even deeper when you study the Paleo / Pictographic Hebrew:

https://www.cepher.net/what-is-the-aleph-tav.aspx
Sure, if you fix the motivations it's easy, but that's missing the point of the problem -- the only reason it generates so much disagreement between smart people is that people make different implicit assumptions about the motivations. And that's the key to many other probability paradoxes as well.
Does it have some sort of version control? Or maybe the internal representation can be cleanly stored in Git?
"At the end of the day, the price that you and I pay, whether it is for the print copy or digital, it is only a very small part of the revenue. The price paid for the printed copy was by no means sustaining the newspaper business. It was advertisers all along. And they paid the price for the privilege of having as many eyeballs the newspaper could expose their ads to."

Is it possible to keep a newspaper in business by purchasing subscriptions. Think about that the next time someone suggests subscribing to some popular newspaper to counter the effects of declining journalism.
The step you left out is "pretend the existing industry doesn't exist and ignore hard-earned folk knowledge". A lot of these supposedly revolutionary ideas are wasting money learning things that e.g. agriculture or finance or whatever industry figured out ages ago.
I was on their pre-ipo team back then I was nearly fired for bringing a linux laptop to work in 1998 linux was as bad to bring to work as say a bag of weed they assumed I was trying to hack my own employer pretty funny considering how dominant linux is today but back then everyone swore by Sun Solaris.
Alternatives to Keras for Deep Learning Enthusiasts
Here's Goose driving a traditional ute:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_pc0BJ33cQ
It's not that surprising to me. China was a perfect launch market - huge internet population, nationalistic preference for Chinese products (including software), Great Firewall on YouTube and Facebook, etc.

Meanwhile, for their international launch they've been able to burn a stupid amount of investor cash where most US VCs wouldn't touch streaming video in a big way with a ten foot pole because the economics have been so bad historically.
Yeah, of course they have to drop some real articles to look legit.

The propaganda is what's in between

Eg. Today's home page, first headline "Russia's 'secret weapon' for winning influence in Africa – and it's not what you might think".

Then have a look at the op-ed pieces that are basically hit-pieces disguised as journalism.

Also, there are things that they do not report (or omit) which is what you should be most concerned about.
Start small- work on being more friendly with everyone - your yoga instructors, people in classes with you, your grocery guy, wherever you interact with people in the world. Fead How to Win Friends and Influence people and follow the instructions. It's dated and cheesy but really works. Work outward from your coworkers and say yes when people invite you to hang out outside of work. Reciprocate and invite them to do stuff as well. If you're dating anyone, make friends with their friends and their friend's partners. It can be a slow burn but slowly builds and suddenly the whole world is your friend- people you don't know yet are just friends who don't know they are your friend yet.
source: I don't really "network" or go to meetups but never had to job hunt, ever- just keep getting referred and pulled upward by people who are better than me and bring me along to work under them

Oh- one other great tip- pick a hobby you like and join some clubs. SF running, Dolphin Swim club, crossfit and triathlon clubs are networking (and, to be frank, dating) hotspots. GL!
Used it for that too! https://i.imgur.com/omNpSPr.jpg
You'll often see solar panels in mines too

I know that you're talking about surface mining, but this phrase made me giggle because I thought about the other kind first.
Where and how do western media obtain their international news?
Thank you. I'm part-time studying applied maths to be able to work on something like that one day.
If you have completely terrible credit and have a minor emergency, a payday loan may be your only option. If you take one, you’re supposed to pay it off with your next paycheck or 2, so the interest isn’t that outrageous. It certainly beats losing your job because you can’t drive to work.
Rove and Duke are horrible people, so if they were to support her I'm sure it would be for suspect reasons. (If Duke weren't consulted every time we have an election, would anyone remember he still exists? Does he still exist?) For whatever other faults he may have, Carlson actually seems like a pacifist to me. Perhaps he hasn't always been, but I haven't always been either. (Perhaps, like me, and unlike anyone else on TV news, he has paid attention for the last two decades?) He has already interceded directly to cool down the conflict with Iran. [0] Incidentally, opposition to foreign wars is one of the oldest authentically conservative political values in USA. The military-industrial complex has no values, conservative or otherwise. Fools who styled themselves conservative have long been useful to MIC. Fools who style themselves liberal have been so recently. From my increasingly pacifist point of view, it's hard to differentiate the two packs of fools.

I suspect that Carlson isn't actually a Gabbard partisan. He is, however, one of the few people on TV who have interviewed her with an open mind. This tells us more about TV media than about Gabbard.

Even if I believed every single thing I've heard about what Russia supposedly did about our last election (and I don't) I wouldn't care. They haven't been accused of changing votes or stuffing ballot boxes. They have been accused of excessive communication. 1A, dude. If our democracy can't handle speech, it ain't really a democracy. KGB didn't put Trump on all four channels of TV news for 25 hours a day starting in mid-2015. KGB didn't decide we'd waste trillions of dollars and uncounted lives on decades of pointless war. Etc.

Also, living where I live, I've heard a lot of awful shit said about BLM. I don't think any of it was as obnoxious as the idea that they were about the KGB rather than, you know, what their fucking name says.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/us/politics/trump-iran-st...
I completely stopped installing apps when I realized how screwed up the whole app market is.

Nice apps I liked were bought and monetized in EXTREMELY UNETHICAL ways.

For one example, I had an app called gas cubby, which let me locally - on the phone - keep track of all my vehicles. I could enter detailed information about each car such as year, make, model, vin, insurance policy, gas purchases, oil changes and the like. It would tell you gas mileage and remind you of upcoming maintenance.

One day, the app was updated and all my local data was uploaded to the cloud.

Another app, camscanner plus purchased by tencent basically did the same thing.

Apple gives you no control over what the apps do. You can argue the finer points, but:

- you cannot determine what apps are doing.
are they intercepting URLs browsed in safari, mail or imessage? (deep linking)

- you cannot determine when they are active.
are they waking up using some "backdoor" method such as notifications

- you can not prevent them from accessing the network.
this is the big one. You can't find out who they are talking to or prevent it.

Really it's a shame because one rule of economics is: with trust trade becomes unrestricted.
By "they" do you mean the weapons and armor or the person? The person would be just as likely to be killed or detained indefinitely quite quickly than not IMHO. The armor and sword would be considered an oddity and perhaps go into legend as something more.
A bit like wix a bit like dreamweaver/frontpage and a bit like myspace rolled into one, free hosting and an applet based WYSIWIG editor. Also a bunch of components like chat, guestbooks, webrings, etc. The also had a virtual community concept, with street addresses so you had neighbors and things like that. In retrospect that was a terrible idea, but maybe the analogy helped some less technical people.
Nope:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.ted.com%2Fpages%2...

I wouldn't be surprised if there are more, just with a different phrase.
"And many of the graphic algorithms derived by hackers in the demo scene gave rise to the algorithms used in today's 3D videocards."

Is there anything to support this?
These articles about generalists are a trend. You'll see it morph into a focus on quantity in a few years. Both single focus quality and broad generalist work.
So it provided some way to insert components like we see today or you can write html code as it is and the page gets created?
> To be totally blunt, I also suspect a large part of it is that the founders would like to be in the bay area.

At my firm, the founders wish they could go back to NYC or east coast in a heartbeat, but tied to Bay Area due to funding connections and employee pool. I work a lot with Europe so I'd love to be on the east coast as well.
I’m personally a fan of the New World Translation [1]. It was first released in English, but has since been released in about 160 other languages as well.

[1]: https://www.jw.org/en/library/bible/study-bible/books/
How Autocracy Comes to America: Big Tech and National Security
My school computer room had a single old machine which took 8" floppies, entirely unused and gathering dust in a corner, when I started computer studies in the late 80s, and a room full of 5.25"-equipped BBC micros... By the time I left, the BBCs had largely been replaced by semi-IBM-compatible RM Nimbus PCs with 3.25" drives.

At home, on the other hand, I spent a while with an Amstrad PCW - running CP/M from 3" floppies!
I have been reading your website since the heyday of Digg. Thanks for the link - I thought you must have stopped writing around 2010.
What’s your native language?
The ‘80s
Seems pretty actionable to me. For one, informing people of it alone can give them insight into their overconfidence if they are able to be mindful of it.
> Perhaps you got confused and thought that the internet only connected you to Amazon? :)

Please save your patronizing for someone else.

> You're not the only person I've encountered that seemed to think cameras had to upload 'to the cloud' to be useful.

I've explained exactly what I think the issue is, and a number of people have given useful responses. You haven't.
Are you familiar enough with the high-end growth chamber market to make informed statements about "food computer" features not being available?

Or are you just saying that low-end growth chambers also exist that don't include "food computer" features?
It sounds like you work for a rather large company if it would take $100m to be as competitive as this company, yet at that valuation, it doesn't make sense that they're trying not to grow bigger then what they are, because they'd be easily wiped out if any of their large customers went to a competitor. Also, where do you exactly fit in this picture? Since you believe they can gather more business by focusing on Sales, is that where you are positioned in the company / part of your job responsibilities or is it just your gut feeling that they can be so much more? Either way, best of luck in your conversations with your boss.
Hah, the ferals got shafted. Serves them well.
I feel old for having the answer...
It doesn't change the state of the group of the two remaining doors, correct (ie. the probability remains at 2/3). But you can't choose two doors, you can only choose one. The host is effectively telling you which door to switch to--the one he didn't pick.

The only scenario in which the host doesn't give you any useful information by opening a door is when the host chooses the door at random. Assuming the host didn't choose the door with the prize, your odds are 50:50.

Of course all of this hinges on you being aware of the host's decision making paradigm, and that you want a car more than you want a goat.
And because that's what people are willing to pay for it.
I am not a shill. Why I even need to say that, I don’t know... I will admit I have not yet read the webpage, but the use of scare quotes is wrong. Regardless of your views, HN says not to editorialize headlines. Putting quotes around “rethinking” is showing a bias against the webpage. That’s editorializing.
This is not to beat commodity processor/controller silicon. If you are going to build a SoC for whatever reason (peripherals, integration, etc) -- you might as well make the integrated processing exactly what you want.
Freshly extracted it's delicious. You can sometimes buy preserved kind at asian markets but it's far less flavorful.
The AIs in the benchmark are all trained exclusively on text, correct?

My assumption has always been that to get human-level understanding, the AI systems need to be trained on things like visual data in addition to text. This is because there is a fair amount of information that is not encoded at all in text, or at least is not described in enough detail.

I mean, humans can't learn to understand language properly without using their other senses. You need something visual or auditory or to associate with the words which are really supposed to represent full systems that are complex and detailed.

I think it would be much more obvious if there were questions that involved things like spatial reasoning, or combining image recognition with that and comprehension.