skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Supposedly, yes-- during his final stay in the hospital, his brother read to him from a book they'd enjoyed during their childhood, Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
When his brother had to turn the page, John would continue the narration from memory while his brother found his place on the subsequent page.

Given that he could be occasionally absent minded, I suspect that it had to be something that piqued his interest, but his sense of what was interesting was extremely broad.

He did in fact speculate on the workings of the brain in The Computer and the Brain, which is based on a lecture series he had planned out but did not deliver.
It was more in the context of automata theory, but as someone with an interest in AI, automata, and neuroscience, it was frankly rather dank[0].
A lot of the pioneering work was, and is enjoyable in part because it's original and speculative, so you don't have to master the literature to make sense of it, you can just pick a paper and go. I'd recommend reading Pitts and McCullogh, plus also Lettvin, but others might have some equally lit[1] recommendations.

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0. In the contemporary sense, c.f. "cool", "dope", or "excellent"; not dank like a root cellar.

1. vide supra
>not that I agree or disagree with his opinion

You just outed yourself. I wish I was joking, but anything other than instant condemnation of what he wrote gets you labelled.
You’re right. Now go enjoy your day!
I'm paraphrasing Machiavelli here but he nailed it in regards to wicked men.

"As long as there will be men there will be those that are wicked. As long as the good man restrains his behavior he will always lose to the wicked man. "... this is not an exact quote. Just paraphrasing.

This is why all these strategies will fail in regards to Facebook.

They just flat out play dirty... VERY dirty.

The reason why bought Whatsapp is that they were paying users directly to spy on their phones and found that Whatsapp had a massive user adoption.

Unless you're prepared to go evil there's no way to win against this.
I would say you also need Groups. But I love the idea.
You inferred that’s what I was implying.

I wasn’t implying that at all. I said “OS vendors” and used my anecdote as one example of what I mean.
> free as in puppy

Which one is actually free? You're paying by sharing your life with them to sell for other purposes. Your purchases, search history, private conversations, even bedroom talk are all ongoing amortized payments for that puppy.
No, it thinks it can get away with turning a blind eye to these problems.
Last Minute Travel Advantage and Absolute Best Deals
The one that contacts you and wants to “help you sell more”.

The point is that each of these types of teams has no insight into the underlying structure of how Amazon actually works. As a business you are forced to buy into the racket in the hopes that you are not accused of being an IP infringer...try hiring a decent law firm to help you get out of this debacle....oh wait they all can’t help because they work for Amazon already.
When I hear an agile practitioner banging on about waterfall, it's a big fat red flag to me.

I believe Conway had it right, back in about oh, '67?

"organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."

— M. Conway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
Hey what about selling a product, initially sending good quality trash but later sending pieces of shit.
Yep, I was the same way. The school and my parents wouldn't let me, even though I easily could have skipped a few grades. Likewise, I had a chance to go to an academy in my state that basically lets you start college early. You go live on campus, take college classes with other juniors and seniors, etc. I have to say it was just as well that I didn't do that either. I certainly experienced an outgrowth of social experience those last two years, and became, in my own words, a lot more "normal." And it really took some good friends it had taken me a few years to make and a teacher to push me, something I would've never developed if I had skipped through grades.
Because discussing garden-variety, oppositional politics at work is how you can change "political and power dynamics" most effectively, of course. Not, e.g. by focusing on the actual policy issues you care most about, applying systems thinking and seeking plausible points of leverage (which often boils down to rejecting the oppositional game entirely and "pushing the rope sideways" in wholly unexpected ways). Seriously?
The sovereign wealth fund, which is the real champion of Norway's current situation, is the result of nationalizing their natural oil reserves. Effectively, making the natural resources of Norway the property of all the Norwegian people.
> Uber is a national company whose business model was predicated on breaking local laws.

Nope

> The Koch Brothers run multiple national companies and had one of their companies recently raided for employing illegal immigrants.

Are you implying they did this because the previous administration 'did not care' ? That's a large assumption.
The Python expression closely represents how it is done in maths.

{x∣x∈N,x<10}
LASIK in the 90s versus LASIK in 2019 is almost an entirely different procedure. Modern LASIK procedures involve mapping the eye on a microscopic level, evaluating vision acuity at hundreds of points on the eye surface, and then allowing an automated laser to perform the procedure. This is known as a wavefront-guided LASIK procedure and produces outstanding results.

LASIK in the 90s involved physically cutting the surface of the eye with a keratome (blade) and relied on the precision of the surgeon's hand.
Here be dragons. An ignorant electorate will devolve into a society run by subjective mob rule. All those "useless" skills developed in school actually have indirect benefit to society.
This echos what the Islamic state does with it's youth also. These are systems of control built to perpetuate collective egos.
> You say that like it's a given truth - do you have anything to back up that assertion?

Sure, and this is just one of many examples:

https://diversity.google/

They have been very proactive in this space for a long time.
We have a Docker[1] library which allows you to build and push Docker a container—you can plug that directly into the `image` field and it should work.

I'm _guessing_ that eventually `watch` will eventually make this more automated, but we don't have any specific plans for that, yet.

[1]: https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-docker
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Well, HN is a social network with broadcasting features, and it's what allowed halbritt to reply to you.

(This isn't intended to be a "gotcha", just to stimulate reflection on why it's different)
Introduction to Recommender Systems in 2019
Some conspiracy theories are just that. Quack theories with no basis.

But others turn out to be true. How do you deal with that?
Paged Out! Issue #2
Those things are not commodities. Commodities can not crapify (loved that word), by definition.

Capitalism has invented brands to fight this, and it worked for a long time. It's not really capitalism that is at fault, but the thing that changed in the 80's that turned the entire system upside down. It's hard to point at something specific, but markets used to be less transactional and less winner-takes-all.
Newspaper prices are offset by advertising costs. It costs a bomb to advertise in newspapers and those are the primary revenue drivers for the newspaper publisher.
In the case of Amazon, they are interested in you. You are the primary customer providing them will data points to feed their advertising business. Again, subsidize the cost of Prime membership but get folks to give up data in return. Prime no longer is about hassle free shipping. Prime serves as a vehicle to gobble up all kinds of data to serve their ad business. This is how i look at Amazon and Prime.

Netflix is in the content delivery business, for now. Hence they have to charge full price. If, and when their business model changes to become advertisement driven, you will see changes in the prices charged to end users.
Paychecks & benefits is the usual way. Only gets you so far, of course.
> Nobody actively courted activists.

Yes, actually they did actively court them. Here's one of many examples:

https://diversity.google/

Younger generations are not politically homogeneous, Google picked a political position and pushed it hard.
keybase?
I worked there as a contractor in 2014, well before the Damore flap, and while it wasn't as overt as it is now, I could certainly taste it in the air.
>Previously someone mentioned the idea of a $1/mo. social network.

Didn't WhatsApp used to be $1 a year before Facebook bought them and it was a very successful pricing model?

$1 a year for a website is very feasible for both parties assuming it's some Western society.
We have a 1hr weekly with just the SWE's that is definitely therapeutic. We basically just poke fun at whatever stupid things happened during the week, while still keeping our teammates abreast of our progress on tasks. It's 1 hr once per week and I definitely want to take it to my next workplace
Knowing about history makes for a more informed voter. In the very short term for the individual it may not seem very valuable but in the long term it is very valuable for the country to have a populace educated in history and the liberal arts. By knowing our past we can hopefully not make the same mistakes in the future.
Senator Klobuchar encourages voting machine vendors to expand CVD programs
seems like just about any other way would have been much easier, including just doing the 'computer' emulation on paper.
Yeah I feel like it's a very similar idea, however WhatsApp did get it's start for $1 a year after the first year iirc?
"experiments" is just new features that are rolled out gradually". This "experiment" was enabled on the beta branch for 5 months and no on ran into it. It was also enabled at 1% on stable and no one caught it.

If these "experiments" didn't exist, the alternative would be that the new stable version would come out and it would break everyone, so we're back to square 1.
What's the point of any regulatory agency at all then? Just to correctly elucidate those odds?
You phrased this funny, and I think that's why you're getting downvotes since the sarcasm wasn't obvious.

You're right though, what we just saw with the linux foundations tone policing and the Lindsay Shepherd situation absolutely confirm this. There is a very effective group of activists that can make life hell for you if you don't hate the same things as them with the same fervor.
Privacy Implications of Transparent Pixels
I think it's more that they actively courted assertive people with opinions and then created a culture where you can bring your whole self to work. They did this so that they could get the benefits of creativity, which inherently requires emotional engagement, which requires that you not repress your emotions. (It turns out that it's not possible to selectively repress emotions: "I've got to watch what I say about politics" subconsciously spills over into "I've got to watch what I say" which spills over into "I've got to watch what I say about anything new and controversial", and you lose the latter well before the former.)

The part that's biting them is that now that they're 100,000 people, creativity is wasted anyway, because any brilliant new product idea will get killed long before launch and if it doesn't it'll probably catastrophically damage Google's brand. So the upside of this cultural decision is worthless to them, and the downside is incredibly chaotic and difficult to manage.

I think we'll see a shift away from this at Google, but I think other startups will still consciously embrace it. When you're 10 people and are about to go out of business if you don't come up with a brilliant idea, your incentives are dramatically different from when you're 100,000 and make tens of billions from your existing business lines every quarter.
I was at Yahoo under Marissa Mayer, who instated a weekly Friday all-hands, FYI, obviously modeled on whatever Google had. Those who worked at Yahoo before her said that it was a huge change, because previous upper management was pretty much invisible, no-one knew who they were, what they did, what they were thinking, which direction the company was going in.

So even if you're 100% cynical about it and thinking the all-hands are just internal PR, it was still a positive change, because you got to see upper management, see them talk about where the company was going and why, and they had to "defend" their direction.

Of course, the flipside to this is that if it seems like upper management doesn't have their shit together, meetings like these make that obvious, which can torpedo morale.
That was my first question when getting booked.

"Wait, it's $80 *cash*? What if I don't have cash on hand, can I pay by card?"
"Nope - cash only."
"...Do you have an ATM?"
"Nope."

It's like a system designed to allow rich people to escape jail. My mind was blown. (Luckily, I was that rich asshole, as the day before I'd visited an ATM and pulled out more than I needed)
Don't get me wrong, I like your cites - but at the end of the day, math is math. Either it works or it doesn't. If it works, apply it where you can! I've got a sneaking suspicion a PCA based analyzer for lidar generated point clouds is going to be a lot faster.......
The 16 your old in your example could have dropped out if he wanted to. Why didn't he?
I occasionally have mild dry eyes after my PRK a couple years ago (very infrequent discomfort in the morning when I wake up), but over all, I’m happy with the results.

The staff and doctor all tried mightily to get me to do LASIK, and after I refused multiple times, every staff member confessed that they either did or would have made the same choice.
I wish there was a text only social network - I think it would reduce the influence of memes. HN is kind of like that, though I guess you really just need a tightly curated community with a good culture that wants to be good (since reddit comments still are pretty low quality in most cases).

Text only twitter would be interesting since you can curate your own slice of the community pretty easily, as a bonus it'd be fast.
Ford’s Mustang Mach-E all-electric SUV revealed in leaked photos
It wasn’t Newton’s theory that taught us that things fall down. It’s pretty a gutter material to compare observation/reality with a theory that spans eons, a duration no one has lived entirely. That said, if the theory of evolution gives meaning to your life, makes you a good person, and opens your eyes to appreciate everything and everyone around you, in other words, if it’s your sustenance then definitely hold on to it. Because, imo, that’s what life is about. But let others find theirs and enjoy their short time here.
Yes -- in fact, the original Spark implementation ran on Mesos only, as per the original RDD paper by Zaharia et al.: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi12/nsdi12...
Many Brother printers are poorly-supported or simply not supported on Linux.

For example, I have an MFC-L2710DW (not what you would get for rare printing I suppose), and the official driver is always acting up: Delays of minutes (!) before starting to print, or simply not printing at all for some odd reason, but then obliging me if I power-cycle the printer. Maybe.

So, these printers may be fine, but check driver availability and user feedback about it first, if you're not on Windows.
An Open Letter to Clojure, Part 1
19% ? I'd be really interested how you came at that .. :o
What is it about the upstream that causes more congestion? And as you say "especially in DOCSIS"?

I'm not aware of anything with DOCSIS that requires the up-speed to be so low. It's just a matter of the cable ISPs not using as many channels for up-speed because on average a residential connection doesn't NEED a ton of up-speed.

Now if they're just not building out their networks to have a lot of up-speed bandwidth at the node level then that's another discussion.

It really seems to me that much of this content is likely consumed by many households within a node. It does seem kinda foolish that it's streamed multiple times to multiple residences within a neighborhood when the content could easily live somewhere on that node. I guess it just comes down to what is cheaper? Bandwidth or storage? Seems they're deciding it's bandwidth which makes one question why we need data caps on residential broadband.
> I loath America's rip-off economy. $25 for a t-shirt that cost $2 to make overseas,

Buying a t-shirt in Europe isn't any cheaper.
The idea that the value is only defined by usefulness to capital is the most pernicious idea in all of American society.
And after replacing the jammed elevator, they continued the flight!

I wonder if they'd do that now.
You can "disable" the ME but you can't disable it. People are being loose with terminology.
I feel the same way about the socialized version, honestly. I work in big healthcare. There's no way the government is going to pull this off. No way. We might better let it collapse than to suffer a doubling of our Federal income tax, because that is what is on the table there. And that money won't go into providing better healthcare, it will instead go to bailing out the $200 Trillion in unfunded liabilities. It won't work out the way you think, they are already several steps ahead of the people on the way they intend to spend the added largesse and it's not on us.
Why do you think that creativity requires emotional engagement? I haven't found that to be the case.
I got LASIK at Standard Medical, one of the best things I ever did for myself...

Didn't read the article...
I once talked to a manager about how meeting seemed like a waste of time, he said he loved meetings because it meant people were working together and getting things done.

That made me think, that meetings were about making people feel that their work was meaningful when it wasn't. Basically, if you do meaningful work, you don't need meetings, but if its the other way around, meetings make total sense.
These people had a voice, the problem was solved and reverted in 1.5 day. If they had paid, they would've had direct line and it potentially would've been fixed within hours instead.
Yes Model 3's are everywhere here it Raleigh NC now.
Real-Life 'Invisibility Cloak' Explained
The main thing that's changed is only having 1 vault, but there are probably some other features that my mom wouldn't care for anyway. But yes, in 1Password 7 (or whenever they went with the subscription model) you can now use it for free if you still go with Dropbox sync.
The New MacBook Pro Keyboard is a Throwback in the Best Way
For AWS users AWS CDK is a far better take on infrastructure as code - strongly typed TypeScript resources and higher level constructs that hide the underlying details of load balancers, IAM, etc. Pulumi was not as useful the last time I tried it - most resources were string key-value pairs with no typing or code completion. You're still referencing documentation to do anything and defining tons of low level resources to accomplish basic tasks. Might as well be writing raw Terraform or CloudFormation configs at that point, as they have more documentation available.
Beefy firewall is the first that comes to mind.
> this might save megawatts of power world wide

That'd sure be neat! I really have no idea, though.

> A small nitpick: not sure whether those macros bought anything, I guess the optimizer could inline function calls to intrinsic wrappers just fine as well?

Yeah, that's a bit weird. It's my hacky generics-in-C method, that allows both AVX2 and SSE4 implementations to be compiled in one codebase, while keeping the base algorithm clean. The idea is that you can compile both versions by including multiple times, like so:

#define AVX2
#include "z_validate.c"
#undef AVX2
#define SSE4
#include "z_validate.c"
#undef SSE4

...which would allow a later runtime dispatch based on CPUID, etc.
Low effort ascii art was a mainstay on digg back in the day, I think moderation is more key.
I'm sorry, but that's just not true, at least not in general. For many models, the Linux support is mediocre-to-none.
The challenge is getting a critical mass of users to encourage people beyond just early adopters. Perhaps the new service could seed new users' accounts by offering to import their content/contacts/etc from their other social media accounts.
Groups, images / albums, tagging, friends.
Just say that up front. Before i put in an email address.

Current wait list: 60,000 people (estimated hold time 30 days) but you can jump the queue for $12.99/mo or $100/yr.

Done. Honest. Transparent.

The site's current account flow is infected with dark patterns and turns off those familiar with them, like me.
No it absolutely isn't. Adding an arbitrary and incendiary meaning to what others say is a major problem. You can create as many enemies as you want that way and it just fuels more division.
Absolutely, and it'd be possible to create the social network equivalent of a country club. The questions I'd ask are (a) is that the kind of network that Jimmy Wales wants to create here, and (b) what's the value proposition? Obviously part of the value is saying "I am a member of this exclusive club," but that relies on the exclusive club actually impressing whoever you consider "the right people." :)
By your logic the government should be banning sugar, forcing people to exercise, and on and on. Using the welfare state as an excuse for the government to control the private lives of citizens is pernicious to individual liberty at best, and totalitarian at worst. A safety nets don't exist to allow for the state to be an ever watchful and scolding parent, but rather to provide a floor so that people don't fall in to miserable situations.

Furthermore, the idea that one's actions in private, concerning only their own body, should make them a social outcast is laughably puritanical. Inclusion in society is about how one engages in the public sphere.
Medium really botched the paywall approach and I couldn't possibly agree with you more. It is so inconsistently applied and quite honestly I can't justify spending 5 dollars a month on a "publisher" whose content is so variable. Some Medium articles are really good, others are baseless clickbait, it's hard to tell until you read the article and already sunk the time and the money.
This is, of course, absolute nonsense. If I’m running a mini golf enthusiasts group, keeping discussion on topic and not going off on the latest Trump fail or the most recent celebrity to reveal themselves as a serial sexual assaulter is neither an endorsement of Trump nor of sexual assault. It’s recognizing that not everyone wants to spend every minute of every day in every place discussing your particular bugaboo. There are literally thousands of places to have these discussions, they don’t need to happen everywhere and you don’t need to be constantly getting confirmation from everyone around you that they agree with your political views.
not impressed with what wikipedia became
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7x47bb/wikipedia-editors-...
I don't feel Wales is trustworthy
If Chrome is critical to your company, shouldn't you be testing on Beta before it goes stable? In this case, the feature was enabled on Beta for 5 months, yet not a single impacted company caught it. Even with 1% enabled, no one caught and reported it.
Build your own firewall.
Internet search isn't Google News, there are countless news outlets. Google News is still not radically political leaning and just an aggregator. None that implement any sane blacklisting could be completely bias free anyhow... It is logical and not censorship
Watch for Sparks as Jet Engines Hit Their Limits
Someones job function at work is to perform their job duties. Unless someone works directly in politics, then politics do not belong in the workplace.

There are plenty of other impolite subjects that are inappropriate to discuss at work too.