skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The biggest downside to jk/kj mapping is that words that end with k are somewhat common. So a few times a week I will type something like "splunk" and want to exit insert mode immediately so I mash jk/kj after the k. 50% of the time the j is first so I end up with "splun" (kj is <esc>) (k moves up since we're in normal mode now).

This is why I use `jj` instead of `jk`/`kj` -- as a native English speaker in a job where everyone primarily speaks English, there are few cases where I'd be writing code with a `jj` naturally in a string.
...and the ESC key!
Showing two programs are equal by transforming them to latent space
That's interesting but to put it in perspective I need to know how it relates to a human hair or how many times it can circle the earth.
> If you ignore all the Barbary pirates, across half the North African coast, who went right back to the 12th century.

Your sentence is missing a clause. Please explain.
Leaked emails reveal Trump aide Stephen Miller's white nationalist views
Of an individual silicon atom, apparently. I'd think the "grid size" of silicon crystals might be more relevant, and that's not necessarily the same number... Hmm.

0.235nm between atoms, 1/30th of 7nm. (Though, precisely what does the 7nm number measure?)
At first you need to get far enough that you have an sshd running. Down the line you might need to make BIOS changes, fiddle with the storage controller card, or unbork GRUB.

99% of the time remote is fine though, which again is why it's stashed away in a nook at the other end of the house.
I wish I'd never been born: the rise of the anti-natalists
p-values are commonly misinterpreted as the probability of a type-I error, i.e. that the null hypothesis is true but is being rejected. However, the p-value is actually a random variable. A nice paper covering this can be found in [1].

p-hacking also seems to be an abundant problem, i.e. the replication crisis in psychology [2], and it's not necessarily done on purpose [3].

Regarding the threshold for statistical significance, there are arguments for abandoning the concept altogether [4].

[1] https://amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1198/000313008X332...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

[3] http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/p_...

[4] http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/ab...
John Carmack Steps Down at Oculus
You really should add that /s.
All depends how you're raised. My sisters and I devoured vegetables. My mother would have a plate of cut-up turnips waiting for us when we got home from middle school. Yum. I still eat raw cabbage and turnips as snacks into my 30s because of that while everyone around me asks me how I could eat that.

You're thinking of a kid who has been raised on ketchup and chicken fingers suddenly encountering a plate of spinach leaves for dinner. Sure, I'd expect problems in the short term. But let's take a little bit of responsibility as parents.

I had a neighbor who was fed so much candy at her house that when she slept over at my house (slumber party) she would throw tantrums because my parents didn't pair candy with dinner. I'm sure her parents thought the same as you: heh, good luck getting children to eat chicken fingers without their side of candy, it's the only thing that works for us!
Where plastic outnumbers fish by seven to one
Hah, interesting - this is a reference I hadn't seen and I like the sound of it. There was me thinking I'd had an idea of my own one time!

The reference machine thing would be the next problem to argue if using 2^-K as the weight; whilst you can make the K-complexity of any particular string low by putting an instruction in your machine that is 'output the string', this is clearly cheating! So there ought to be a connection between the reference machine and some real physics, since we are perhaps not interested in building optimisers that perform well in universes whose physics is very different to ours.

Sadly even if this were cracked I think the fact that K is uncomputable would make the result likely to be useless in practise.

Thanks for your interesting reply, I enjoyed it.
We’re Stuck with the Tech Giants. But They’re Stuck with Each Other
Why don't you just try it instead of asking someone to convince you that you should?
I don't see any reason to be so dismissive.

Scientific pursuits have an extremely steep risk profile and are systematically underfunded because nobody knows how to capture the value that comes out of them. If someone wants to chase one on their own dime, we should celebrate that contribution to society rather than dwell on the fact that the median (even 99th percentile) outcome is that the project goes nowhere and the person continues on to retirement proper. The mean outcome could be very different and the benefit of the doubt costs us nothing, so why not give it?
Yes, it can be done.

https://openreview.net/pdf?id=S1eZYeHFDS

Natural language is harder.
As a long-time user of 1Password, this is worrying. I hope this turns out well, but I’m not optimistic.
Ok you can all stop downvoting me now.
I'd love to see a source demonstrating that vegan diets are more destructive to children than candy and pop.

As to your assertions around protein and iron, this is a commonly-held belief that is partially correct, but based on a fundamental misconception about how diet works.

Your body doesn't make protein directly using dietary protein. It digests protein in the diet into amino acids, which are transported through the bloodstream and used those amino acids to make protein. As long as you have a balance of all the essential amino acids in your diet it doesn't matter where they come from.

Animal protein sources are "complete proteins" (ie they contain all essential amino acids). Although there are complete protein sources that are vegan (eg soy), most vegan protein sources are incomplete (they contain some essential amino acids but not others), so vegans need to be more careful than non-vegans. However as long as they have some grains and some legumes they are getting all the amino acids and will be fine from a developmental standpoint. For example, see https://www.verywellfit.com/vegan-protein-combinations-25063...

Likewise, there's also no reason for a vegan diet to be deficient in iron or anything else, but again, it's necessary for vegans to be a little more thoughtful than meat-eaters to ensure this. See for example https://www.everydayhealth.com/anemia/anemia-risk-for-vegans...
Even a decade ago, I'd be all onboard seeing computer science as "advancing humanity." Lately not so much so. Maybe the comparison to phsyics is appropriate. We have reached the "nuclear weapons" age of computer science where we need programmers to make ethical stands, lest we severely damage the human condition.
I agree about the silicone keyboard.

I can understand many mechanical keys types will not be feasible in a small form factor. But there are good mechanical key designs that are small to choose from. For example, the ones on HP calculators (ie HP48GX...) The DM42 (a modern HP42S clone) has nice mechanical keys.

https://www.swissmicros.com/dm42.php
I really appreciate this article. It hasn't sold me on mist showers, but the panorama of alternative showering techniques was eye opening. Maybe the Dutch rain shower is for me.
Even 10 Downing Street was essentially flattened in the 1960s and rebuilt as a new building behind the facade of the original.
I like to study this force as well and I agree with your claim. A degree of centralization appears to be quite useful in the real world.

Recently I've been thinking about modelling an economic system after biological ones. It seems they face a very similar problem of resource allocation.
Extreme centralization (think big tech) could be thought of as a form of cancer in this frame.
Biology solves this through a limited lifespan of cells. So an economy modelled after it might include something like a lifespan for companies.

I'm interested in what you think on this or if anyone knows exsisting resources on this relationship.
That, and I don't see Apple with any services similar to Classroom [1]

[1]: https://edu.google.com/products/classroom

Also, students aren't always delicate with the equipment, so having a cheap device that can be easily replaced with the least amount of friction possible (most user settings will follow across devices, and if the device is already enrolled then policies are applied automatically)
> with IPv6 everyone can take back control

Any service provider can just decide not to route consumer-facing IPv6 addresses. It's not like we all had tons of our own free routable static IPv4 addresses two decades ago, you still had to get them allocated from a service provider and have them route to you, and be allowed to host services. They're "giving away" IPv6 routing and allocation right now, but there is absolutely nothing stopping them from ending that practice.

You only have the control they allow you to have.
I've had a recurring idea to build a water recycling shower. The idea being the water is initially stored in a tank below the shower, pumped up through the shower head and returned to the tank via the drain. A (hopefully) small amount of hot water is added to the tank to maintain the temperature of the water and to introduce more clean water. Some degree of filtering would obviously be required on the return path, at the very least to remove hair which would damage the pump but hopefully also removing soap suds etc.

I'm not sure if it would really work but it seems like it would be ideal for some situations, for example in motorhomes, small yachts etc.
so USB4/neo-Thunderbolt is going to be the true universal connector? Does it still have a "mess" of different levels or protocols?

I'm hoping the thunderbolt 3 devices I have will "just work" with usb4 ports.
Define better... Of course we know more now and knowing enough about the future, even if worthless, would potentially be frustrating to no end. Also the cultural clash.

Are we happier now? And would even a 2x salary not offset the worries one might have?

The world has matured a lot but if you have good income in a rich country you are in a pretty good place.

If your entire career or hobby doesn't exist yet I don't think that will make for a happy ending. Not that you can't pivot of course but that might be a gamble.
If you have all of the "invest at your own risk" language in the fine print, you provide complete information about the investment, and then the user does not read the prospectus because it's too long / esoteric I'm not sure it gets to that level.

The fact that these ratings have been assumed to be a reliable proxy for risk in the market (to the point that people automate based on it) is likely the bigger issue here and the larger cause of the systemic risk of incorrect ratings.
Because nobody would follow them anyway.

Apple wants white cables, some people want red, blue or yellow cables, so on. And the connectors are so small there is no place to put anything on them.
The media companies don’t “own” the infrastructure. Anyone who can get the money can buy the equipment, hire the people and make a movie. Tyler Perry Studios and Blumhouse or proof. You don’t even need to put your movie in theaters.

There are plenty of streaming services looking for exclusive content. Barring that, you can sell your movie yourself over the internet or through any of the video on demand services.

You can even probably get Redbox to stock it.

Speaking of Tyler Perry, he started “distributing his content” decades ago by doing stage plays.

People complaining about big media keeping smaller players out is about like people complaining about not being profitable because of a dependence on Amazon Retail or Google ads. If your entire business model is based on being a sharecropper for big media/tech, you’re statistically going to be disappointed.

There are also small religious studios who are able to find an audience.
That's awesome, think I might get that and stash it in my car.

Now all I'd need is to figure out how I wanted access to my env. Eg, being able to ssh into a home machine and then work in emergencies seems valuable. But, that would involve exposing my machine. Hmm
It might not work for everyone, but you can answer your own question on stackoverflow. If you want to write a blog post about how to setup e.g.: a Webserver on a raspberry pi, you could formulate it as a question on stackoverflow, and answer your own question. I personally really like this approach.
After 30 Years, the Last State Finally Automated Its Child Support System
Nobody knows anymore, it’s kind of feature size, but everyone defines feature differently!
It sure is, but 7nm in cpu lithography doesn't mean anything, it's pure marketing.

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/7_nm_lithography_process

> The term "7 nm" is simply a commercial name for a generation of a certain size and its technology and does not represent any geometry of a transistor.
Yes - I think you're right that the actual interesting result from NFLT is not that 'optimisation is impossible', but that 'uniform priors are stupid'.
I must be missing something out, but what's wrong with left and right arrow keys? I have 2018 15'' mbp and they are just fine. Or you mean up and down arrows?
This tutorial was inspired by John Burn-Murdoch’s popular bar chart race from earlier this year. There have been a couple thousand transitive forks of John’s notebook!

Our hope with Observable is that reactive notebooks, as a form of literate programming designed for tinkering, make code easier to understand and reuse. Sharing code is already popular today, obviously, but we think helping people better understand that code will foster creativity and innovation.
About the length your hair grows in one second
Python is probably faster than Elisp (or at least at the same order of performance), and Emacs is fine performance wise. And when Emacs is slow, generally the problem in those cases are architectural/algorithm decisions of Emacs, not because of Elisp itself. And like Elisp, if Python is really slow for some specific part of the code (for example, a function that is used everywhere in the code and it is expensive to run), you can write it in native code (i.e.: C) and call it from Python.

So I can totally see a text editor written in Python being fast enough, probably faster than an editor written in Electron since the runtime is much smaller (Node is faster than Python, however Electron runtime includes a whole browser with it).
Test Desiderata 1/12: tests should be sensitive to behavior [video]
If you can change your mind, you can change your life
good thing that john ivey has left apple.. this is a good direction change.
Betterridge's law of headlines strikes again: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headline...
I was wrong. Take a look at "Control Malfunctions & Flight Instrument Anomalies": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfNBmZy1Yuc&feature=youtu.be...

[edited]
Makes me think of the book "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer"
while glass is technically "infinitely recyclable", it almost never is recycled into glass. it requires far too much sorting and the cost the raw materials that go into glass (sand) is dirt cheap, so it is far less energy intensive to use fresh ingredients. Most glass gets crushed and turned into "cullet" and it is used as a gravel replacement for road beds.
This underlines the positive side of Tall Poppy Syndrome. Envy has a number of serious down sides, including making the sufferer miserable for, usually, very little return. But when people stop using an Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc., because they are successful, it creates a counter-force to centralization. Like hate, when well directed, envy can be good. Like hate, it can easily get out of control and cause great damage, up to and including genocides.
If you go to Settings > Passwords and Accounts, are you signed into a Google account there?
Ok, one more anecdote for you: I've been vegan for about five years, for ethical reasons. (Which is to say, I basically have eaten a similar diet to what I did before, only vegan -- so vegan ice cream in lieu of dairy ice cream, sofritas Chipotle burritos rather than steak Chipotle burritos, Beyond burgers rather than cow burgers.) I've taken the occasional multivitamin but nothing special -- I get B12 and all that from fortified soy milk and other foods. I'm physically larger -- at six foot, my weight has ranged from 202 to 185 lbs as a vegan rather than 185 to 170 lbs as it did when I was omnivorous -- and run (my main form of exercise) faster, farther, and more frequently than when I ate omnivorously (I.e. it's not that I've gotten fat). Blood work has always been perfect, recovery times much lower, energy levels fine, etc. Zero health issues.

Your friends were doing it wrong. Probably, they were eating nothing but salads, or stacking dietary restrictions (e.g. gluten-free or raw).
Hmmm

Point about "Official tool" is valid

Others seems strange to me

I'd add to my comment something like "Try it. If you like it - use it"

Thank you for link
You're the only person who mentioned metaphors here. My intuition tells me metaphors will be key to developing AGI. Metaphors literally generalize; they predict; they organize and catalogue. Formation, testing, and introspection of metaphors seems to be a way forward.
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> You generally have to go pretty far up the income/class scale to find black lesbian who's better off than a given poor white man.

In certain countries, I'm sure this is the case. In western countries I don't think so.
Doesn't this lead to a dent in the middle of the display?
DevOps, Kubernetes and Helm and Prometheus and Grafana in Ubuntu 19
Woah I had no idea people actually do this. I have all the questions. Do you use vim? How big is your iphone?
I still love my Thinkoutside keyboard https://www.cnet.com/reviews/think-outside-stowaway-universa... had it since my Nokia E61 and use it weekly. Only issue I've had so far has been that the photo support finally broke, other than that it works like new. Really great size to type on, decent travel and folds down to a great size.

Real shame they stopped making them ages ago.
I ship 90% of my purchases to the office where I spend most of the day. There's no one at home from 9 to 5 so shipping it there would be foolish, as you put it.

Most of the people I work with does the same thing so I think you're very much wrong in your thinking. If it works for you, then fine, but it's not foolish at all and it's the best option for a lot of people.
> philosophical hangups

This is a strong statement, when there is more than enough evidence to support that everything is available in a plant based diet.

Modern scientific thinking will tell you that eating a plant based diet is

1. The best way to fight climate change and ecological destruction and species extinction.

2. The health benefits to athletes of a meat free diet are now known and logged.

The only slightly philisophical hangup would be against animal cruelty and global agribusiness.

The rest is science and in the public domain.
Perhaps the thought of future addiction fails to activate your opioid receptors in the moment of your decision.
The power adapter that comes with the Switch supports only parts of the usb-pd standard. That’s why it didn’t work with your other phone.

You’re absolutely right about the protocol being unreasonable with two batteries connected together. FireWire has the same problem. You could charge a FireWire iPod from its wall adapter, and you could charge one from an iBook. If you accidentally plugged the AC adapter into the FireWire port of the iBook it would destroy the port.

Buses where every participant is an equal peer are expensive and complicated.
I'd guess a lot who have gotten used to it (as in - not used it to try out).

Can you even fast-switch between applications on a buttoned iPhone? It's probably my number one used interaction on the phone.
Stack Overflow: Upvotes on questions will now be worth more
How the Fed Boosts the 1%: Even the Upper Middle Loses Household Wealth to 1%
A child doesn't need a coat if they live in the tropics. That doesn't mean there's anything wrong with raising kids in Vancouver.
It's written in Python and the developer is Brazilian.
It's pretty trolly to draw someone into a conversation, continue to ask for responses, and then accuse them of going off on a rant?
One "truly retro" experience I had recently at the Computer History Museum was messing around with QBasic. The instant feedback of the documentation, in particular, was really powerful.
It's at 33m30s here: https://invidio.us/watch?v=WfNBmZy1Yuc

Preceded by an unsuccessfully handled case.
I don't think it has a link to the repo, I guess they just liked the cool picture with a snake, and a Python is a type of snake.

I just wanted to draw attention to the fact that an aggressive snake smoking a pipe has a particular symbolism.
>The other issue is that your kid is going to be "the vegan kid". In general, one should not try to paint a target on one's children if one can avoid it.

There were plenty of vegetarian kids in my school with me (vegans were a rarity then), and they didn't get any particular stick for it. Besides, even if they aren't vegan they'll still get short/tall/pimply/ginger/nerd/.* of the same intensity, so I think this is a pretty weak argument.
I don't know if I'd call it modelling the physics of a ball in flight exactly. It kind of seems like the brain has evolved a pathway to be able to predict how ballistic projectiles - affected only by gravity and momentum - move, that it automatically applies to things.

What make me think of it like that is hearing about how the brain was actually really bad at predicting the path of things that don't act like that. This was in context of aiming unguided rocket launchers (I end up reading a lot of odd things). It seems the brain is really bad at predicting how a continuously accelerating projectile will travel, and you have to train yourself to ignore your intuitions and use the sighting system that compensates for how it actually travels in order to hit a target with the thing.
Yes, that's why I said it would be useful.
Mark Zuckerberg Is Out of His Depth
When GPUs became vastly more powerful over the last ~10 years, it made big neural nets practical. I wonder what an equivalent jump in CPU power will unlock.
The key problem is this:

>≥ without having to have them present at every registration

For example, I have given a token to a family member in another country, for proper utility I need that token back each time I register on another site..
Ask HN: Is anyone aware of mobile app Proxy SDKs?
So I was looking for a proxy service for a web-scraping project and stumbled upon illuminate.io . They claim to have 35 million residential IP Adresses.

The [1] explanation of how they get those IP's kind of shocked me a bit....

How does Luminati acquire its Mobile IPs?... Luminati pays a monthly fee to the application vendor, who passes that value on to the user by not displaying ads.

So essentially it sounds like an app developer installs the SDK into the app and gets paid to provide proxy traffic through the users device... As an alternative to in-app advertising.

This seems highly unethical to route random traffic through people's devices right? Especially people using proxy's to hide their behavior... Sounds like a TOR network to me...

[1] https://luminati.io/proxy-networks/mobile-ips