skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The term quale/qualia is useful in this discussion. It seems his wife is experiencing color-qualia in her dream that doesn't correspond to any qualia that is produced in response to light hitting her eyes, whatever the wavelength. To me it only highlights our gaping lack of scientific understanding as to what qualia is and how it is produced.
A mentor of mine once said that information acquisition is intentional, like eating, but learning is subconscious, like digestion. He liked to say “you can’t help but learn!”
I am not sure the story suggests a first person escaped. More like there were always some people who never got captured and added to the matrix who freed others.
yeah, I'm muscle-memoried into cmd-' and cmd-; for tabbing right and left, I like using those keys, and this is across pretty much everything I use (I suppose chrome and terminals, mostly..). It's firefox, there's probably an extension for it, but that takes work to find and feels kludgy.

good to know about the density, thanks.
That’s not how brains or vision work. The brain is not “hard-coded” for trichromatism. Were that the case we would not be trichromats in the first place.
> However, other users said online that they did not, and had used passwords unique for their Disney+ accounts.

Uh-huh.
Nope, doesn't have to be nearly that dense. Just get rid of SFH-only zoning and the required density will be reached over time.
And this is the reason why Debian (and its derivs) ship a cron and systemd timer for you with certbot. You shouldn't have to think about or worry about this stuff. Certbot handles it for you.
Are you speaking about DRY on a syntactic basis, or the version from The Pragmatic Programmer ("Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system")?
Spleeter, a Python+tensorflow voice-from-everything-else separation algorithm
My bike commute was anything but routine. Cars making unsafe right turns one day, pedestrians in the bike lane the next, black ice the third day...
We run hundreds of GUI-less Windows Servers at our company. Works really well. On Azure.
> Any trichromat could see those colors as well, they would just need to be much closer to the object in order to distinguish them.

That’s patent nonsense.
Yes, only a “small” significant increase to those nearby. And we’re not talking only about fallout but manipulation in the lab.

It’s specifically your brand of risk downplaying that led to all these early deaths. Things are much safer today because educated folks understand the risks and prepare for them.
Yes, this is one of the main solutions proposed by the linked article.
SpaceX plans to build a capacity of 10 million tons of payload to orbit per year with their Starship fleet. Also this won't cost too much, just $130-$200B.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1192547668817375232
The default configuration for certbot in most distros is to attempt renewal twice a day
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I stopped using Let's Encrypt when they broke Apache servers not using virtual hosting.
I call it backprocess, it's fun how when you let go sometimes it comes with new conclusions and more clarity. It's also super comforting to have this inner "friend" do some of the thinking for yo.

The other thing I've noticed is how it's sometimes hard to concentrate on something else when you're going through a significant cognitive process (changing jobs, arguments, work hassles...), even if you are not actively thinking about it. As if your brain's cycles were taken by something else.

I've started to notice the pattern (hard to focus, distracted), attribute it to backprocess, realize that whatever triggered it must be significant, and expect to yield results at some point.
It’s not even dependable for us on local setups; a “docker-compose up” that has to pull images will almost always throw an HTTP timeout exception from inside The Python client.
Clutter and tidying is simply a time debit/credit ledger.

If you had unlimited time, you would tidy and organize everything in real time. However, we don't have unlimited time and so we borrow time from the future by leaving things slightly messy.

The behavior to avoid, as in money ledgers, is not using the ledger but never paying it back.
This doesn't seem to be the world we're headed towards though. People like owning their own personal vehicles and aren't likely to give that up.
Why wouldn’t there be different classes of cars? If I’m going to work every day in an autonomous car and the price is not that expensive, there’s a chance I’ll decide to pay 25% or 40% more of what you say will be a dirt cheap price, to be in a nicer car with better seating and amenities. Especially if it becomes standard to pop open an iPad or laptop during your commute.

Others have already covered how any potentially profitable niche will be covered.
You do have a point, but if a tool is able to parse Java them I believe it is trivial to extend it to support Lombok, which by now is a quasi standard and fundamental component of a lot of java projects.

Edit: why anyone in their right mind would downvote this comment?
Yes, MIT is a level above. I have an M.S. from a good state school and took a graduate course where the text was SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programming). At MIT that's the freshman course text book!
I really like this article. Certainly makes me think about my own biases towards "straight lines" as the most "efficient" way of doing a job.
So you’re avoiding “proprietary features” of the cloud. Congratulations! Now you have the worse of all worlds. You’re spending more on resources than you would at a colo, spending just as much on babysitting infrastructure and you’re not saving any money or time by outsourcing “the undifferentiated heavy lifting”.

You can’t imagine how many times I have seen “software architects” use the “repository pattern”, interfaces, and be sure not to use any “proprietary features” just in case one day their CTO decides to move away from their six figure a year Oracle installation to Mysql.

If being cross platform or cloud is a requirement in the beginning, you have to constantly test on all of your supported platforms. If not, it’s a waste of time to design for some unknown eventuality most of the time.

In reality, at a certain size, you’re always tied into your infrastructure and few companies move from one cloud provider to another. The expense, the chance of regressions are too high and the rewards are too low.

But to the Consul+Fabio use explicitly. I’ve duplicated the functionality:

The KV Store: A DynamoDB table behind an API. The API can be used from anywhere.

Health Checks/restarts/service discovery: Fargate (Serverless docker) with a load balancer/target groups that do health checks and automatically launch new Docker instances or just regular EC2 instances behind an autoscaling group.

Nomad: we used Nomad because I didn’t want to introduce Docker and it can orchestrate anything. These days I would just use Docker or of it was simple enough lambda triggered by either scheduled events or other AWS events like queues or SNS messages.
This is just unnecessarily many moving parts. All it takes to have extra geniuses is for grad students to marry each other and have a bunch of kids, instead of dating in the general pool. Also, the thinking of regular people is different in myriad ways, if you pay attention.
there are a huge number of land areas in Canada that are PEI sized that contain literally zero permanent population.
>That implies that not only they are not that happy but they are systemically lying for some reason. I find this scenario hard to believe.

I don't think this is outlandish. In Japanese there are words for true feelings vs reported, societally expected ones:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honne_and_tatemae
I was taught this language in 1st year of Oxford CS course. While I thought it's a dead language at the time, I'm glad to hear I was wrong ;)
That has nothing to do with my argument. Why would tetrachromats be inclined to dream of colors they do not see in the real world any more than trichromats?
I was curious so I just tried setting it up. Unfortunately, failed at the first hurdle.

Immediately after opening the app, it gave me the security prompt to access all my files. Obviously I denied it, and got the following Chinese error message: https://i.imgur.com/W6jJoDL.png

Unsurprisingly, it was because I denied access to my files, but wasn't exactly the most user friendly introduction.

After granting access, it didn't understand my mobile phone number format so I had to type it in an atypical way to get the sign up code. Once after getting through, the search function/bar (I assume?) is still in Chinese along with various other parts of the app.

These are not unsurmountable issues - but it's still not there yet.
Not sure how to interpret the "no audio input" part; for years, I've been able to get into this kind of flow simply by starting a minimalist, repetitive tune on a keyboard and let that run for an hour or longer. My most effective place for this is early morning events where the secret sauce is to avoid opening your eyes until the idea that is emerging is fully baked in your memory.
Don't about the russian software, but for any high-speed PCB design the trace layout matters and 90-degrees bends are to be avoided. On motherboards you'll often see lines that have an extra squiggle or two to equalise the length (and thus delay) because they happened to have a shorter distance to cover.
I don't disagree with you, but two things worth considering:

1. Perhaps it's blog posts like these and innovation in RH tools that spurred docker into action making things better?

2. You've got to remember the target market where RH operates: huge scale, and often extremely high security. To you a daemon may not be a big deal, but to a bank that's an attack surface that is scary. You might not find the "docker has an unnecessary daemon" argument compelling, but many in the high security field definitely do.

Disclaimer: I work for Red Hat
None of eastern bloc leaders was "asked to by Moscow" to step down - or do you have any sources for that claim?

Gorbachev merely assured everyone that USSR won't intervene like it did in 1956 or 1968, that everyone is on their own. He also encouraged (not enforced) reforms "perestroika" and transparency "glasnost".
That is definitely the hardest part! I can confirm :). Do you have any other challenges, closer to the tech side?
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The avatar list I guess is a way to thank the contributors, and it's at the bottom of the readme so shouldn't be a big annoyance for most readers. There's a screenshot of the desktop app at the top of the readme.
How is that a logical contradiction? All intelligence has goals and constraints. A (publicly held) company's goals and constraints are partially informed by their shareholders. That doesn't change the fact that they're emergent artificial intelligences.
Very cool and in a way sensible - old Windows isn't a moving target anymore, so WINE is in a perfect position to be the solution there.
I feel like the comparisons this article uses between current AI systems and humans on the front of learning to induce skepticism on the overall ability of AI is a bit misleading. Current systems may suck at learning like humans (on most fronts), but unlike the human mind there is reason to believe we can and will improve AI to overcome this shortcoming.
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Do you think it's all about "eliminating Docker as a competitive threat" or is it possible they believe the arguments they put forward?

I'm a skeptical person in general, but I try to give the benefit of the doubt and not always assume the worst.
If it were I'd expect cheaters to have already done so, since texture hacking is a well known, old cheat
Sharp had a four primary display on the market (added yellow), not sure if it's still around. They hired George Takei to do some of the marketing at the time.
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>> Actually I know a guy who had in a bar fight after a scenario you just described. He's still fine at his job.

It is not like you are going to be fired if you are a software engineer talking a bit about your life. However, "bringing you shit" and discussing it at work is not always welcomed especially in most competitive environments. I guess that people who worked in such environments know what I am talking about.

As an example, have a look at what two other users reply above.
That’s why I said naturally occurring. If naturally occurring colors corresponds approximately 1-to-1 with trichromatic vision, that could explaining why a tetrachromat dreams of unreal colors and trichromats don’t.
We did the same thing for generating text for e-commerce items. The output was shallow, devoid of meaning and majority of it is plain nonsense. There are glimpses of sanity that people post to show how good ai is with text but we are far from knowledgeable ai text from what we have experimented.
Quattron TVs tried this with a dedicated yellow pixel and weren't that good... I highly doubt we'll see something beyond RGB (unless it's a first class citizen from camera to TV)
It's been implied that the machines might have built Zion on purpose. Including freeing first people to live in it in every iteration.
Are you mixing copyrights with patents?
Isn't it WAI that the Service Disruption API is unavailable?
Some other recent discussions (not comprehensive):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12931885

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12986759

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15182304
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I think you're right, but isn't that crazy?

The introduction of more wealth slows the birth rate. You'd think that more wealth would enable larger families. But that's not how it works.
Active Oberon is a small but powerful language with a lot of good ideas within the language.

One of the interesting additions over plain Oberon is the concept and support for active cells. Active Cells provide an abstract mechanism to define systems composed of computing elements that exchange information over message channels. Not new to anyone familiar with Go Channels etc buts its one of the nice things in Active oberon and provides support for both Actor models, concurrency and parallel programming.

How this applies to scalable systems and custom FPGA hardware is described in an older paper - see https://inf.ethz.ch/personal/felixf/pdfs/2012_ActiveCells.pd...

In addition to cells there is math support for tensors (via Math Array) and matlab like array processing as well.

From a language implementation perspective it provides quite a lot in a relatively small, clean and easy to follow code base.
That “freedom” has led to 3 decades of viruses, malware and ransomware on computers.

It's also lead to great productivity and creativity, with people being able to extend the system as much as they want.

This reminds me of the "imagine a world without crime" people... that's a dystopia where everyone is already under strict control. Insecurity is freedom.
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"Epicurus was notorious for his nonmarital relationships that combined sex and philosophy."

The major problem of studying Epicurean philosophy is that few original sources have survived and almost all of the writing about it is from its opponents.

As far as I have ever seen, the only source for sexual promiscuity is that women were allowed in to his school.
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I work for a large size corporation but one which is a quarter the size of many fortune 100s. I guarantee you almost no one knows how things work or are done beyond their immediate scope. Much of my life is spent just trying to glean an understanding of some adjacent function or trying to convince people above me that things they believe about how things work are not actually reflective of how they actually work.

A Rube Goldberg machine usually accomplishes one task. Corporations at scale don’t resemble them mostly because, as there are a multitude of concurrent tasks in flight, the Rube Goldberg machines are neither complex nor absurd enough.
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While there are movements in the US that want to take significant liberties away from individuals (e.g., restricting the rights of non-whites), generally the vast majority of people are in favor of individual liberty.

The disagreement is rooted in the question of whether economic power is relevant for an individual's liberty or not. There are those who are fine with curtailing the liberty of those who don't have economic power (or the flip side: who claim that extreme wealth does not increase a person's freedom)[0], and there are those who see inequal access to economic power as a problem that needs to be fixed in order to improve overall individual liberty.

[0] If you hold that view but have ever considered the term "fuck you money" to be a valid meme, then I've got bad news about the logical consistency of your worldview.
Congrats on the launch. As a fellow Ruby/Rails developer I love seeing great open-source Ruby/Rails apps in a world where everyone seems to be trending to what's "sexy" now instead of what's tired and true.
Note that names containing double underscores are reserved in C++ for the C++ implementation, which your library is not part of. Using such names can lead to all sorts of difficult to diagnose problems.
The video covers this. For every vehicle it launches into orbit, it will also be used to decelerate returning ships back into the atmosphere - conserving its momentum.

So it works in theory. I have a hard time imagining it work in practice.
I mean that image of the 'before/after 'topological optimization' seems like a poor analogy.

>confirming that our intuitive preference for “straight line” designs has nothing to do with performance

As the first is made to be made because of its 'straight lines'. You can see the welds and logic in it, as something easily made.

While the second is something only achievable via 3D-Metal printing or possibly very complex 5 axis CNC.
Nice project! Curious: has any organization started using Chatwoot to provide customer support?
It's things like these that sometimes make me think of all those businesses that rely on some ancient Windows XP machine because it's the only thing that supports the proprietary drivers for the engineering machine they bought nearly 2 decades ago for hundreds of thousands of pounds. If instead the drivers were open source (and the relevant controller software for that machine), they could more easily move over to a more recent operating system that doesn't run the risk of being infected with some virus (think Wannacry)

I imagine also how more difficult it would be for someone to reverse engineer the drivers for something a lot more complex than a VGA-to-webcam box.
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Definitions vary, but the first for "color" is "A property depending on the relations of light to the eye".

http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=col...

Freedict gives:

That aspect of things that is caused by differing qualities of the light reflected or emitted by them, definable in terms of the observer or of the light

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/color

That is, colour is a perception, dependent on the observer. Agreed-on colours being those on which typical observers share common experience, is correct.

Wavelengths, pigmentation, and diffraction effects (which give rise to colour in observers) are phenomena.

The terms quale and qualia suggested by @codebolt are indeed quite useful.

(Language itself is shared agreement among symbolic references, given context.)
You realize it was a Potemkin village, right? The screens were viewgraphs assembled by people, and the fancy looking knobs were basically a DC circuit that did neilsen reports style voting.
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It looks like every time he had a nice place to work on integrated circuits the company was bought up by a bigger company and then he left, only to be bought yet again. Almost as if there was no escape.
If standardized means APIs, yes. If standardized means anything to you about implementation, even at the level of “don’t reimplement what another team - or even another part of your own team - already implemented” then no.
Relevant - Effects of title length on upvotes gained by a [Reddit] post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/durndj/eff...
Seems to be working, congrats! :)
The easiest way is to just email and ask if a story is a good fit.

I don’t think that will scale, but if a story is legitimately interesting and your email is short, you might find it’s given preference.

The full-time goal of HN is to stay interesting at every timestep. A lot of the reason people’s interesting stories don’t get upvoted is that there are so many interesting stories to talk about each day, and there are 30 slots on the front page. Interesting discussions also take time to foster, so you have to give content a little bit of time to accumulate well-written comments, which necessarily appear 30 minutes to several hours after hitting the front page.

Ultimately it’s an interesting intellectual exercise to analyze HN like this, but probably not too useful. The data hides the underlying fact that HN is fine-tuned to be interesting. Just be interesting, and eventually you’ll get a slot. It’s as easy and as hard as that.
They haven't existed in China back to the days of the emperors. The control system used to be village-oriented and paper-based, but that didn't scale. Urbanization reduced control. That problem has been fixed.

The US is getting there. Starting October 1, 2020, "RealID", or a higher level ID like a passport or Global Entry card, will be required for US domestic air travel. And entry to Federal buildings, military bases, etc. As yet, it's not required for employment.
When things are too complicated, break them down.

In this case, even if your partner is saying that having kids is not optional to stay with them, consider both situation separate: 1) do I want to stay with this person for a long time? 2) do I want to have kids? and 3) do I want to have kids with this person?

Only you can answer it and I'm afraid it won't be as objective as you think it could be. Life happens, everything changes, and your decision could mean nothing in the long-term.

Re: having a kid. Do you spend time around kids? If not, try to. See if you feel any joy in being around them (and remember when you're spending time with other people's kids, that 5% of the job, the other 95% happens when nobody is seeing). Try to get more information there.

In the end, you have to learn to live with uncertainty. I think we'll struggle with that.

EDIT: Re-reading your post, I think it's clear what choice you have already made. Don't be afraid to face the consequences, they might not be as hard as you think.
My point is they would see those colors in the real world, but only in combination with other colors, so it wouldn't be that noticable. They wouldn't see pure versions of them much, if at all. The intensity in a dream might be much stronger, enough that it would seem like a qualitatively new color rather than "hmm, that blue has something different going on compared to other blues" they you might get in real life.

You could put them in front of light source that generated pure wavelengths designed to selectively activate their extra cone and ask what they see when you start mixing pure blue or green into it. Maybe they'd recognize those colors from their dreams, maybe not. I don't know. But it's a mechanism that would explain how tetrachromats might dream colors that trichromats don't.
People feel like algorithms are neutral and people are biased. Having people actively intervene on something that only algorithms would have touched otherwise feels bad if you already suspected that your results aren't what they should be