skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's a fair view.

The only thing that gives me pause is that we transitioned to a system where individual music tracks are nearly free-on-demand* a decade ago and the sky never fell.

There were transition costs, and artists get way more from live performances now, but there's still an industry.

More than anything I'd just like to experiment with shorter copyright terms. I don't think the founders were crazy when they set them at around a generation. I agree that it might be risky to blow everything up, but I think there's a lot of bargaining we could do over term lengths that would be pretty harmless.

* To a first order approximation. Sure, many artists technically can get something when I pull up a track on YouTube. But if I'm not playing a whole playlist, I might not even see any ads.
Normal distribution can be parameterized with almost any measures of location and dispersion. The reason why standard deviation (which is just variance in hiding) is used is because it makes the equations (that non-statisticians practically never need to look at) a bit nicer given the other (mostly arbitrary) conventions used in the maths.

Put simply, standard deviation is arbitrary for most people.
Statistical techniques are a model of reality: Reality is not rigorous, but when our models are rigorous, imprecision enters the computation at one place only. If our models aren't rigorous, imprecision occurs at more places, blurring the answer even more.

"All models are wrong, but some models are useful." Just remember that there's some imprecision in the answer a model gives you, and keep that fact in mind when applying that answer to make real-world decisions.
It is. Often via simple configuration.
1984 has the same concept called Newspeak. If you control the language you control the thoughts...
Also consider FAANG pay 2-3 times more than other software development jobs. When the next bust comes some of these problems will be alleviated.
You mean "How did I like it when my email provider increased their rates?" I switched email providers and updated my email address with my relevant contacts.

It was annoying, but nobody claims seriously that email providers are a monopoly.
But they also awarded it to two researchers proposing opposite interpretations, so they obviously did not endorse his interpretation of a continuous nervous system.
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in one of Trumps first speeches, he mentioned 'illegal immigrants' and all liberal media said he was talking about immigrants (which implies legal immigrants, but this isn't what he meant or said). I heard the speech myself and couldn't believe outright lying by the media.

What's worse, is that everyone that hates Trump believed it and can't be convinced otherwise.

The best lies have some truth to them..and are more believable by the public.

I already see political ads talking about Trump being impeached, which is factually wrong. I would hope these sorts of ads would be banned and the 'facts' won't be based on an interpretation of the truth.
Have you tried spacemacs?

https://www.spacemacs.org/

If you don't want evil-mode you can disable it on first start.
In the US at least.. Most EU countries will have more protections in place and confiscation is much more difficult to begin with.
I can't edit now, but I was referring to the federal agent in Vegas who did exactly what the GP said.

Otherwise, yes, of course. Thanks for the reminder.
>In the US, we call these bureaucrats "judges", and the falsehoods they might combat "libel" and "defamation". No it's not the same, but this doesn't exactly sound like 1984 either.

Libel laws in the US are incredibly weak. It's very difficult for a public figure to win a case of defamation against them. But even if that weren't so, the justice system is pretty broken. If you can't afford a lawyer then your outlook isn't good. If that same system starts deciding what is and isn't true then you essentially have a system where poor people are liars.

>and it's IMNSHO obvious that nowadays noise is far more harmful to rational discourse than explicit censorship

How can you tell? Things that are actually explicitly censored are things you might not even find out about. The US has secret courts and puts gag orders on those that are in there. Yet people aren't outraged about it. I think the disdain for censorship isn't strong enough.
Furthermore, work doesn’t speak so you’ll have to speak for it. And defend it. And sell it.
How is it a different story if it was Oracle that shat its pants instead of OSS?
Yes I love the Facebook memes by parents talking about how math is so complicated now. Most American adults struggle to solve a basic algebraic equation, because it’s not used in day to day life. If a new teaching style gives us a better way to teach concepts, seems worth a try..
some open core software already functions like demoware
a fine example of making lemonade

imagine if they said "lets pay double as much to try to target US users"
OK millennial
No. They overshoot because there’s a small-letter asterisk within the budged definition that allows then to overshoot at twice the amount.
Um, isn't it primarily about tilt? Australia and the UK are both at aphelion (furthest distance from the sun, averaged over the day [if you want to be pedantic, and why not!]) at the same time but aren't both in Winter at the same time.
Hardly. Top acts make 10s of millions per month today. If people didn't have to spend money on the music itself they would probably spend even more for tickets and merchandise.
ps- this is a media word, not a cultural word, and always has been.. those who ascribe to common cultural practices do not refer to themselves this way, at least in the Western USA.. it might be slightly derogatory, like the n-word, also like the n-word, is used daily still.
> For their first experiment, Tang and McBeath paired up the volunteers and had them sit across from each other at a table, with a barrier between them so one could not see the other. Every time a light flashed at random intervals, the subjects would touch a sensor on the back of the other person's left hand as quickly as they could. Then each one would push a button indicating if they thought they had touched the other person's hand first.

When a ball is sent out of bounds, it can glance off of you, and them may or may not touch the opponent before ending up out of bounds. You can feel it hitting you, but don't feel the opposite. Which is unlike the experiment where your hand is touched and you touch the opponent's hand. How in the world are those comparable?

> Granted, this was a small, highly selective sample size: sixteen undergraduate students (11 females and five males), asked to repeat the task 50 times ... "Even with our relatively small sample size, we still find this a very high effect size. There's a very low probability that this would happen by chance."

A great example of what can be an interesting topic to discuss, but in no way means anything.

> We have identified what may be a principal cause of arguments in ball games.

Additionally, and more importantly, we don't know whether or not the players arguing for possession actually believe it went off of the opponent, and why they believe it went out off the opponent. So many times the arguments in the NBA are to get an edge in the future, in the way of a makeup call, or a general sense of getting the refs to feel they owe their team a call.

Side note, I love watching the NBA, and unlike most people, the refs are incredibly good with all the continuous action.
There is no reason to that aside from Google making more money. They are not your friend.
> Why are we doing things in decimal?

I think this is maybe the crucial part that you might be missing. All this long division (and long multiplication) stuff works on base-n represenations of numbers. I.e. if you have an number like 3376, it is actually a short hand for

3*10^3 + 3*10^2 + 7*10^1 + 6*10^0.

And if want to divide it 4 and, suppose, you cannot do it in your head, you do it step by step, by clever regrouping with the distribute law:

(3*10^3 + 3*10^2 + 7*10^1 + 6*10^0) / 4 ==

3*10^3/4 + 3*10^2/4 + 7*10^1/4 + 6*10^0 / 4 ==

(3/4 does not work, so let merge the first two again)

(3*10^3 + 3*10^2)/4 + 7*10^1/4 + 6*10^0 / 4 ==

(33)/4*10^2 + 7*10^1 /4 + 6*10^0 / 4 ==

(now we have progress)

(33)/4*10^2 + 7*10^1 /4 + 6*10^0 / 4 ==

(32+1)/4*10^2 + 7*10^1 /4 + 6*10^0 / 4 ==

(32)/4*10^2 + (1)/4*10^2 + 7*10^1 /4 + 6*10^0 / 4 ==

8*10^2 + (1)/4*10^2 + 7*10^1 /4 + 6*10^0 / 4 ==

(now merge the 1 and the 7 group)

8*10^2 + (17)/4*10^1 + 6*10^0 / 4 ==

8*10^2 + (16+1)/4*10^1 + 6*10^0 / 4 ==

8*10^2 + 4*10^1 + (1)/4*10^1 + 6*10^0 / 4 ==

8*10^2 + 4*10^1 + (16)/4*10^0 / 4 ==

844

The same works for other bases. If you were to implement some bignum library, you would also choose some base n representation for you numbers. Base 10 is not so optimal for computers, so maybe you chose base 2^32. If you then were to implement a division function, you would use similar algorithms.
My step-mother recently had one of her posts marked as false by Facebook. I don't doubt Facebook's accuracy here. For decades she has been into National Inquierer level conspiracy theories but it still felt like overreach by Facebook to single out a particular post. It also implies a degree of accuracy in her other posts, much of which are also nutty half (and often less than half) truths. Facebook has already shown itself to not operate in good faith. It's highly likely that they will make use of their power as arbiter of truth to push their own agendas.
Implement automatic spellchecking on your static blog
Somehow, this impacts Doc Rivers and the Clips more than 5x anyone else in the league.
Why haven’t you scaled out the dropshipping concept further? It sounds pretty solid.
I believe it's just saying that Google was disappointed that their MapReduce research didn't give them any market presence or power. Hadoop took the concepts and ran with it, with no direct benefit to Google. Pivotal benefited a lot with their commerical distro of Hadoop.

Google didn't make the same mistake with K8S and it killed Pivotal's PCF.
When I worked in Central Illinois recently, the home my wife and I rented bordered a field where young cows were raised. The small cows seemed to play some sort of game, running around each other like run after the leader. We thought they were playing. Later my wife found stuff on the web about cows being given beach balls to play with and with each other. Uncomfortable truth for people who selfishly help environmentally destroy our planet with their meat addictions? I would say yes.

My small Meyers Parrot similarly plays games, remembers things for months but does eventually seem to forget things he has learned. His neocortex is probably only one square inch.

My personal belief is that in life in the universe (with about 400 billion galaxies times about 100 billion stars per galaxy) is wide spread, if rare. I think there is also some pressure for life to develop different types of intelligence based on their biology and environment.

Anyway, I am in strong agreement with the people here saying that it is difficult to recognize non-human intelligence as intelligence.
This is the only answer I've found in this thread that actually demonstrates the point everyone is making, it's buttery smooth on my iPhone SE (!) up to 300k elements.
According to the UK government [1] there's been a gap back to at least the 1850s, which was growing worse until 1970, and has since been getting better, but remains considerably higher than in 1850.

1: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...
An interview with D'Arcy Carden (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3639013/) about her stand out performance on The Good Place (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4955642/) was the first I'd heard about "Yes, And...". Got me curious about improv. Previously, I equated it to standup comedy.

D'Arcy Carden: The goal is to make the other person(s) look awesome.

I wish I could tell younger me to study improv, to hear this nugget of wisdom, before joining the work force. Might have saved myself and everyone else a lot of heart ache.
US Military Warning to Communication Satellite Pirates on 260.625 MHz (2012)
New York hospitals illegally billed rape survivors for their rape kits
Declining Life Expectancy in America 'May Be the New Norm'
Ah I did not know that; I inherited an account from a client. Thanks for that list.
Porsche’s first electric car has exhilarating speed
Blockchain interoperability: what is it for?
> Authenticity is defined by psychologists as the act of expressing one’s true self,

Can HN give me some concrete or specific examples of expressing one's true self? I must admit the first line from the article has already stumped me.
There were some allegations that Cutler did a bit of a Levandowski on DEC. Or maybe it should be that Levandowski did a bit of a Cutler on Google.

Anyway, they settled out of court as long as MS promised to port Windows to DEC's Alpha.
Seth Lloyd – Life: What a Concept
So whats the lesson here? If you don't want your company to become a gazelle, you would have to become a gnu!
Slightly related - when I run a cheap command in xterm (bitmap fonts) on X11 with a plain and fast window manager (no compositing) I often have this weird sensation that the output appears before I've actually hit the return key.

It might be just due to the surprise given how much software has bad latencies, but it might also be that the processing of the sensoral inputs from my fingers hitting the key takes longer than the visual response from something appearing on the screen.
On targeted advertising the barrier is that you must already have a significant fraction of the personal data Google has before you can start to compete.
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Dont worry Microsoft Loves Linux and Microsoft Loves Open Source. I am sure they will be the protectors we need
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So I agree with svennek that VC and consulting businesses are not generally compatible but I disagree with the logic used. Marketplaces being the exception, but in those cases those businesses aren't even categorized as a consulting business, just a broker. e.g. what most of SV calls a marketplace has for generations been brokered business, just a new/different term.

I built two different consulting groups and both were successful and made good money. One even took a modest outside investment at a point to grow faster, just not VC dollars. You can absolutely scale a consulting business into the billions of dollars of revenue, hello KPMG, IBM Global Services, etc etc.

What makes consulting businesses non-compatible with venture capital is that VC's are looking for leverage on their investment, they don't care about "scaling". Founders get hung up on "scaling" cause it is the term we use when growing the business as a catch all, scale people, sales etc. But financially speaking VC's generally look at leverage on their dollar not scaling, in fact, they want you to stay as small and lean as possible but leveraging their money to make more money while spending the smallest amount reasonable.

I am not trying to be argumentative, and I get the difference is subtle but it is a critical difference. You can research this and you will find they are different. For example, you could scale out your sales and team yet remain unprofitable, which means you didn't leverage the investment very well.

I point this out because if you can show an investor how you can leverage their dollars into more dollars, generally that's how you can get an investment. VC's don't play the game in this way for valid (and sometimes invalid) reasons but high net worth individuals do, and frankly for a consulting business a few HNI's are always a better source of funding.
Yes! And about as annoying as a manager whose job is to talk about work without actually doing any.
Make Love not war
It will probably hold it much longer. However it's not guaranteed to do any better than that.
> But it turns out there is a sweeping scientific case for kindness.

Really? You need a scientific justification for being kind?
Hmmm, authenticity...

You mean sort of like the uh, direct opposite of what Hacker News promotes in its comments sections?
Thanks for a great article. I want to share this with some stressed colleagues, but I doubt they'd appreciate it.
Many people in America take the theatre seriously, and thinking of it as such would be detrimental to their self-image.
I prefer to squash away commits that leave the code in a non-working state. Because it makes using git bisect easier later if you need to find a commit that broke something.
Autoweapons too: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/~shivers/autoweapons.html.

"He just couldn't get it through his head that I didn't
want to hear about Interlisp, and I damn sure didn't want to hear about
9-fucking-millimeter automatics; we were a Zetalisp/.223 project. I finally
gave up on him; that was the first time I'd ever personally encountered the
east coast/west coast split in Lisp style and weapons choice."
Cards Against Humanity writers beat the computer to keep their jobs
I think I've only briefly seen short division once. It was long division until fractions here.
Can you say anything about how they supposedly achieve security and safety with C, as advertised on the website?
I see your point, I was thinking of daylight in general. But even the blue sky is not quite as spiky:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffuse_sky_radiation#/media/F...

If you look at 460-470 nm where the spike is in the LED spectrum, it's much lower in the blue sky spectrum.

I think the concern is something about the relative amounts of blue light. Not sure what exactly but something like, the human perception of brightness and therefore the self protection of the eye is calibrated for natural light, so the pupil contraction, looking away, etc, is not done correctly in with that unnatural distribution. Anyway I don't know if that's a real effect, but that's what people (should) mean when they're talking about "too much blue".
How do you compute square roots by hand? Isn't it just a rudimentary root finding algorithm?
For the people like myself who do not know what Fidonet is, and just want to read the comments.

FidoNet is a worldwide computer network that is used for communication between bulletin board systems (BBSes). It uses a store-and-forward system to exchange private (email) and public (forum) messages between the BBSes in the network, as well as other files and protocols in some cases.

- Wikipedia
Yeah, reading back it is not a reason at all; just a solution I would agree with (as human and copyright holder).
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There are some interesting challenges to your premise, even though some of it very clearly plays a role in the gap.

There is a six year gap (81 vs 87 as of 2018-2019) between men and women in Japan. Arguably none of that gap is properly explained by the issues you've raised. The Japanese are the healthiest, longest living people of any large cohort on the planet and yet the gap persists.

Further, roughly twice as many girls (50.5%) born in 2019 in Japan will live to 90 as boys (26.5%).

None of that is explained by things like rates of cancer (low in Japan), school drop-out rates, domestic violence, murder rates, prison, crime, work equality, army / Daesh matters, or suicide rates. Japan's male suicide rate for example is below that of the US, Finland and only a few points above France.

Yet the life expectancy gap between men and women is smaller in the US than in Japan, which makes little sense if your raised issues were the leading cause agents.
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My observation is from southern part of India (more specifically of Karnataka) which also ranks higher in the same cousin marriage (as per wikipedia).
Insofar as the committee endorses specific discoveries (Nobel's criterion was for conferring the greatest benefit on mankind), it notably did not endorse relativity in awarding the 1921 prize to Einstein, either. It has been argued that this was due to the indirect influence of Henri Bergson's philosophical- and intuition-based objections.

http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/this-philosopher-helped...

The committe went so far as delaying the award until 1922, saying, in 1921, that none of the candidates that year had met their standards.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1921/summary/
Any farm kid can tell you that animals are smart, especially if they've gotten into a battle of wits with a goat.

As Mark Twain said (and I am paraphrasing), "the only distinction between man and the lesser animals is that the lesser animals don't sit around and talk about what makes them different from us."
Good lord, what a schlocky piece of propaganda this is.
True. And the corrupt morals beneath that facade of optimism are depressing. What a world are we creating!
I view any branch that only I work on as my sandbox as well. You should only ever rebase non-public branches in any case. So I don't see the problem.
Yes, spacemacs with evil-mode and the hinting extension is one of the approaches I was referring to when I mentioned them breaking and requiring maintenance.
where are the philosophers with applied consciousness to imagination?
They haven’t solved it! A group has wrangled the power and Wikipedia represents their vision of the truth. This is fine where talking about objective things like Trump was at the White House for Thanksgiving in 2019. This is not fine for subjective things which is WAY more of the world then people want to admit.

We eat food for breakfast.

Is this statement true or false? You could mark it either way and both could be supported by rational thought! If you don’t come up with a framework for answering first and then evaluate that question within the context of the agreed upon framework the truthiness of the statement will remain subjective.
The problems are good but the article is not that great.

Some of these "proofs" are quite sloppy and the complete ones often entirely fail to highlight where their key ideas come from.

For example, let's look at their proof for the IMO 1964 Problem 1. Their introduction is plainly stating : when 2^N is divided by 7, there can be only 3 different remainders. Well, properly proving that is 90% of the whole problem. You can't just skip over it and call what you wrote a proof.

Note that doing it is far from hard. You have to split 2^n into 2^3n, 2^(3n+1) and 2^(3n+2) and do a simple proof by recursion of the stability of their congruence modulo 7.

The problem is indeed relatively easy because you can find the trick of splitting 2^n this way by systematically looking at 2^n mod 7 for small n.

On the other hand, their proof of the IMO 1984 Problem 1 is complete but they entirely fail to convey from where the factorisation at the heart of it comes.
> Those special powers come with a catch: they can only be used on behalf of the project as a whole, supported by a vote of fellow contributors.

Who can vote? Anyone that has a commit? LOC?

What happens in case of a fork? Which subproject gets the additional rights?
Access market news and live prices without the need to leave the app
Product tips in a comic book format
> It'd be wishful thinking if there was no evidence to back up that claim.

Sorry but no, this is a hint at best. This not evidence. Everything comes to an end, eventually.

Regarding the GDP/NRJ ratio: the coupling is somewhat less strong, however we're far from the strong negative coupling that would be necessary for our coming energy landscape. As Jancovici said (in this article or another), we always went from an energy source to a better one ( hunting to agriculture; muscles to wind to coal to oil); we never experienced going back to less concentrated ones.
Yes the seasons are due to earths tilt, but the tilt still doesn't change between seasons as his wife thought, only earths position compared to the sun does.
They're still reptiles though. They can't show signs of empathy or affection like many mammals.

Most reptile training is pretty basic, and this experiment fits into those expectations:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NnwIlM6SmiQ