skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose the one sort of exception to this would be barn cats who sort of self domesticated themselves and became valued members of households by keeping rodents at bay.

Cats also seem pretty intelligent to me.
I see its value when mostly in agreement. Keeps the flow going.

But how does one do "yes, and ...", when the previous statement is clearly wrong? You either sound sarcastic or like a patronising twat.

"It is snowing." "Yes, and I'll leave my sweater at home since it's rather warm outside."
> some pressure for life to develop different types of intelligence based on their biology and environment.

I always wonder what was the pressure for humans to develop recursive language, and the cultural explosion about 70,000 years ago.

And in the millions of years before that, the pressure to rapidly dwvelop larger brains. Other animals didn't seem to do that (though, we probanly haven't tracked the development of other animals brain-sizes over such time spans as assiduously as our own).
I use the official HA docker version (not Hassio). It exactly replicates a manual installation of HA.

Works great, I use it in network host mode because I did it by mistake initially and suddenly discovered a few devices which joined via broadcast (my Logitech Hub especially).
While your statement is technically correct, it does not address the issue.
Nobody's saying you have to benefit other people's children. You can work for your own benefit. As soon as you start providing for your children, you start breaking the fundamental premise of a pre-scarcity society; they now get to live off of something they didn't work for. (This isn't merely a capitalist principle - everyone from St. Paul to the Jamestown colonists to Vladimir Lenin said, "He who does not work, neither shall he eat.")

That said, if you just care about wealth inequality, it's totally fine to buy your child a modest house, or even buy them an expensive house at a large marginal tax rate. As the paper points out, you don't need to stop all intergenerational wealth transfers, you only need to stop a portion of the wealth transfers of the richest people at the far end of the RNG.

The trick about "a house," in particular, is it means two things - a place to live and an investment vehicle. I agree that many people will be sympathetic to the argument that you should be able to provide your kids with a place to live. (I am myself somewhat sympathetic to it.) But as long as there are people on the streets with not even a bed, it's immoral to twist this sympathy into a right to transfer millions of dollars in wealth to your kids in the form of an expensive house on expensive land. So, put a cap on the inheritable amount that makes it quite sufficient for reasonable living quarters, and heavily tax transfers beyond that.
Anyone know what is the likely outcome if I pay in advance for several years to keep my .org domains?
Anything that works at the scale of up a few hundred people, or low thousands at most.
Chinese here. A good place to start would be 知乎，zhihu.com, or chinese quora. I'm by no means skilled in mathematics(still an undergraduate after all), so there could be some more specialized websites/forums I'm missing here.
I think some is hype, but also there are so many .com domains being squatted on. I'm only willing to pay so much to host my personal site.
> When I was at Apple, I watched many innovative products fail. Badly done? No, simply ahead of their time. For example, from 1992 to 1994 Apple developed one of the first commercial digital cameras, the Apple QuickTake 100, one of the very first smart pen-based computers (the Newton), and innovative software applications (e.g., CyberDog, Activity Based Computing, OpenDoc). In my consulting practice I helped develop the first digital picture frame and an extremely high quality distance education system for MBA courses. All failed. Were they bad ideas? No. Were they badly implemented? No. All were excellent concepts: they were ahead of their time. The first company to make automobiles in the United States failed. The first commercially sold computer that used a graphical user interface and that helped develop many of the ideas now central to today's world of computing, the Xerox Star, failed. The second commercial attempt to use a similar philosophy, the Apple Lisa, failed. The third attempt, the Apple Macintosh, almost failed, saved only by the fortuitous arrival of Adobe's development of Postscript and Canon's introduction of low-cost laser printing.

This can't be understated. The Mac Was 10 years too early. As was the NeXT cube. The CPUs and RAM quotas were too anemic. Too expensive and slow. Windows 95 was right on time. Likewise, the idea of the smartphone was firmly in place by the early 90s. There were thinkpieces in the New Yorker talking about the essential idea. The technology had not caught up. General Magic, Newton, too early.

The whole piece is a good read and often mirrors personal thoughts I've been having recently.
> This is sad for WWW. We need more independently run websites, not less. The web of early 2000 is rapidly disappearing.

Its still there, but there is a lot less of it.
Recently I've decided to go back to ownership of my music and rebuild my old (~20 000 track) collection. Some of the stuff is rather obscure so I end up on niche blogs with pixelated-animated favicons, no weird whitespace and sometimes almost bare HTML. Definitely makes for nostalgic feelings..
Undervalue self in salary discussions and negotiations.
E-mail doesn't have end-to-end encryption either. PGP doesn't count.
US Arrests Ethereum Developer for Training North Koreans to Evade Sanctions
> Judges interpret the law.

That is possible only if you actually know the law. If you do not know it, you cant interpret it.

So yes, people are needed to interpret the law, but not really anyone. Kinda like we need programmers, but not really anyone.
The value of land, and the things that are on it, are tied together tightly. For much of California the price homes has much of the value in the home.

Even worse the assessed value of property, for tax reasons and insurance reasons can be abnormally low in CA (vs value). Many people in the fires have learned too late that they were underinsured and are no where close to being able to rebuild the same house on their property with their insurance payouts.
Create a rough dependency graph and perform a topological sort, potentially skipping, down weighting, or skimming nodes that are onerous to consume but of dubious value (e.g. a link that’s a review about a long textbook that isn’t fundamental to a space).
The unlucky is the absence of reasons to be lucky or even reasons to be unlucky. There is no science there, but I like to think about luck as money: we make an investment by doing something for others and later get back more of the same.
I was somewhat disappointed this went from promising an evaluation of Netflix originals to detailing his 4K streaming setup.

I care much more about the content than how it looks. I've watched films off bootleg DVDs and been happier than watching comic book movies on IMAX screens.

> According to Wikipedia, there were about 70? 80s? of these movies in 2018, so presumably there’ll be a similar amount this year.

I'm curious if anything Netflix is pumping out is worth the time investment.
Well... at my old high school the coaches would slip opioids into players bags before games so they could play through pain.

BBC did a documentary on my home town, nearly 8% of my graduating class have died from over doses https://youtu.be/j7ynJ5S9c58
Do you get upset when a pack of wolves murders an elk? The elk seems to be suffering quite a bit of torment, and the killing process sometimes takes quite a while.
Research also shows that, compared with other college students, future elementary teachers are especially prone to math anxiety —apprehension about doing math that’s so severe it interferes with actually doing it. That anxiety remains once they are in classrooms, and studies show that students learn less math from a math-anxious teacher.

Reading this paragraph gives me a strong hunch that it could be gender related. I'm wondering what the gender skew is like in elementary school teaching, similar to nursing ?

While research hasn't shown any difference in STEM ability between genders, it most definitely has when it comes to intrinsic interest (and I know this is controversial, but contrary to what is commonly said it's not because of some evil patriarchal plan to keep girls out : gender-related "things vs people" affinity has been found in baby monkeys too, and seems correlated to pre-natal testosterone exposure !)

One can easily imagine a bunch of people-orientated young female students going into this field for the kids and people interaction not being too thrilled with the topic.
>Friendly if you're the right political party and orientation, I hear.

Yes, it's conservatives who have done and continue to do the following:

- Attacked people in the streets over a hat they've chosen to wear. A hat merely supporting the nation's elected President.

- Deplatformed, or had banned from even attending non-political events, for wearing the same hat at an entirely irrelevant place and time.

- Cornered or essentially kidnapped college professors, and then continuing on to destroy their careers, for expressing views not even contrary to their own but merely in light conflict with it.

- Started trending topics on social media lamenting a desire to kill an entire demographic of people based on their race and gender, or denouncing a race or gender as "trash".

- Held marches in prominent cities calling for cops to be shot.

- Attacked journalists from the "opposite" side for merely being at events to report on them.

etc. etc.

Long story short, I would wager that your typical radfem socialist type, adhering to the stereotypical dress attire and appearance choices, would be a magnitude of order more safe and welcomed walking down a street, or attending a university, in a major Texan city than a conservative with a MAGA hat, or similar stereotypical signal, in a liberal city.
Got me curious. What laptop model?

I'm in the market for a new laptop.
umbrella?
I'm a bit surprised to find no discussion of reference counting versus tracing GC, only a couple of passing mentions. On the one hand, I suppose this has already been discussed to death. And if the author felt it would be more fun to write and read about actually implementing mark-and-sweep GC, fair enough. On the other hand, reference counting definitely has its place, and I'd be curious to know more about the author's opinion on it, given his background in game scripting languages. Some scripting languages that have been put to good use in games, such as AngelScript [1] and Squirrel [2], use reference counting.

Edit: My mistake; he discussed it back in chapter 3.

[1]: https://www.angelcode.com/angelscript/

[2]:: http://squirrel-lang.org/
How does one make their project attractive to cloud providers? For the sake of discussion; an infrastructure project like a job scheduler or some such?
While reading I was expecting to hit moving/copying/compacting GC discussion at some point. But not.

IMO, one of GC's benefits is that it maintains data locality. Otherwise given GC is not that different from reference counting MM (loops in ownership graphs aside).
Same problems with memory fragmentation inherited from malloc/free.
that's was the first thing that I thought.. Together with Sex.
Correct on premature launch! Handling all the excitement was fun though while preparing food. There is a lot more work and research needed before rolling this out further.
The Two Clashing Meanings of 'Free Speech' (2017)
Exploration vs exploitation at work. Teenage men are way more biased towards exploration, whether it's good or bad. Sometimes some of them figure out something great that improves civilization. Without that risk taking we all would be dead or in zombie mode.
Who's to say software won't turn out like oil/energy. Before tech companies took the mantle of "highest market cap", Exxon & friends ruled the roost. [Google, Apple, Microsoft] look a lot like Exxon today, with their biggest defensive moat being scale.

Upstarts prove a new market (Pebble, Roku, etc.) only to have entrenched players take over and dominate. Or, you have to relegate yourself to very small SMBs differentiating yourself with support-costs:revenue ratios that bigger players simply aren't interested in
My grandmother (she died 5 years ago and I still miss her, she died at the venerable age 99) used to train calves to peform and win medals in festivals when she was a young girl. According to her they are one of the most intelligent mammals. Yet when they aged and fatten she participated in the butchery and preparation of the meat and everyone in tbe family still eat beef. I forgot was was my point, I apologize and miss my grandmom.
First I was like: what a stupid idea, silly blockchain guys. But than I thought: a decentral ledger is not much different from the original DNS idea.
I'm a pure math student and when I first found the problem I sent it to my friend who is a stats student. She solved it very quickly, but admitted to using a calculator. None of my exams permit calculators, so I've gotten used to never using them.

Perhaps the elementary school math contest permits the use of a calculator? That would make it very quick for sixth graders to solve it using your method.
Costco's Thanksgiving Day Website Crash Cost It Nearly $11M
ES6 Destructuring
In a group without exogamy, selection for the group is selection for those genes responsible for the complex phenotype that is the group, in a similar but less strict way. This is true even with sufficiently minor exogamy.
What feels authentic to you about making accounts called cuntAIDS, analHooker, and analCunt to post this comment three times? Serious question.
at 5:30 Wildberger goes through the definition of Limits https://youtu.be/K4eAyn-oK4M?t=331

If you really want to understand these things, start here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5A714C94D40392AB and watch them as you work through Analysis I by Terence Tao, skipping to chapter 2 where he begins from scratch introducing the naturals, integers, etc. Wildberger even shows you how to do algebraic calculus which will help to learn the Tao book when he goes about rigorously introducing calculus defined using limits. For me that helped anyway, seeing Naturals, Ints, Rationals, and Reals constructed from scratch with all their laws/operations defined and proved by Tao then him using analysis to introduce how these tiny changes in calculus work.
I'm a fan of the matrix protocol. But even if matrix doesn't take off, I'm sure - in fact very hopeful - that there will be something federated that replaces sms and instant messaging platforms.
And to bear specifically on the sub-point that blights the Bay Area -- by removing increasing property taxes, you are removing market pressure for highest and best use.

Another way to think about property taxes is that they're annual nudges to encourage best use of the property.

Without that pressure, as TulliusCicero notes, why would I ever sell before retirement? And furthermore, why would I even try to make money off the property (say, by renting)?

That's probably not in the city's (as in, all the people living there) best interest to have a substantial portion of homeowners so disengaged from the actual market.

PS: Which isn't to say there aren't gentrification and affordable housing debates to be had. Simply that Prop 13 doesn't really help with that -- it just removed risk from those who are already homeowners.
Capitalist interests prefer less competition, the end goal is monopoly. People are trying to raise the prices of .org domains too, so I feel like a hammer is about to fall as far as the practical level of involvement and presence on the internet goes for individuals the world over. Keep an eye on the canary in the coal mine, or even deploy several of them.
It is possible for competent programmers to interpret a vaguely written specification in mutually incompatible ways.
Or as I've put it, everything you say will be given the least charitable interpretation possible by the least reasonable person in the world -- a person with your boss's phone number.
There may be one bit of validity in the comparison, although I have to wonder where the N-word is only "slightly" derogatory as GP said. Quite the opposite, as Wikipedia notes:

Because the term is considered extremely offensive, it is often referred to by the euphemism "the N-word". But it remains in use...by African Americans among themselves.

Indirect link to avoid using the actual word here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-word

Obviously the degree of offensiveness is vastly different, but there have often been words that would be offensive when used by an outsider but accepted within a group.

If a straight called me a hippie or a freak, it might be an insult. But if another freak - or even even one of my straight friends who was cool - called me a freak, I would take it as a compliment.

(See my other comment for an explanation of the terminology.)

Another example from my childhood: I grew up in an Italian family, and back then you would never want to call an Italian a "wop" or "dago" to their face. In fact you would still be wise to avoid those words.

But my cousins from the Italian side of the family? They called each other "wop" and "dago" all the time! Just normal sibling kidding around.
Bryan Cantrill interviews Arthur Whitney (2009)
On the contrary, I wish more people would. But sometimes people take authentic self to mean something like purely individual expression, without regard for the commons or the needs of others. I don't think that can be right.

Most times when commenters here break the site guidelines, it doesn't feel like they're expressing their authentic self at all, but rather that they're avoiding doing that by attacking someone or something. If they would simply share their actual experience, it would be fine. But that's not so easy for most of us.

Most oppositional behaviors are just inversions of conformist behaviors—the same thing, with one bit flipped. Whatever authentic means, that can't be it.
So the reason this person had to go through all of this trouble--the reason why it didn't "just work" to plug his laptop into his TV and watch movies in 4K, something that clearly should "just work"--is because if Netflix allowed arbitrary devices, like general purpose computers that work for the user (as opposed to being effectively owned by content studios and licensed to you), to have access to 4K video, then people could pirate movies and watch them in high quality, something we all know is currently impossible, which is why the hardware for pulling off this impossible feat wasn't something that he was able to just buy off of Amazon for $65 or anything... oh. (The logic of DRM pisses me off :/.)
They had namecoin for ages now.. but you need a browser extension to visit .bit domains in the browser
You have to remember that companies compete with others for human labor. If your company moves to a city nobody wants to move to, you'll lose labor resources to another company (in the case of SF companies, highly skilled labor that's not easily replaceable and has high training costs).

While I also think companies should spread out more, the very fact that so many companies are paying the significantly inflated property and labor prices in the SF area shows the tremendous economic value in having access to that labor market.
“Hiring and Culture” (Collisons, Silbermann) 2014
Why does it even matter?

Sub-Satoshis are used only as transaction fees in lightning network, and even there 1 milli Satoshi is the smallest amount that's allowed for now AFAIK.
I think this doesn’t apply to Global Secondary Indexes, but I might be wrong.
A lot of aspiring rappers don’t realize they are just singing with shorter vowels. If you don’t understand this you will rap in the key of 448 Hz over a beat in the key of 440 Hz and it will sound like dogshit.
More or less in a lot of countries with fishy legal system you have zero protections with their .cctlds. Even then the courts might rule that the name is not property or whatever.

In a lot of countries you will lose the name if the well connected person there wants. They'll find a justification that doesn't pass any smell test but you're out of luck. Nothing, absolutely nothing can be done. So use them, but be prepared to lose your names. Everything is fine, until it isn't.
He is on the board of directors: https://news.microsoft.com/leadership/
I recently read this piece, which I think has been posted here before, which walks through the process in an isolated fashion:

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-ga...

I've implemented a couple of scripting languages, but thus far I've ignored GC. It is something I'd like to experiment with in the future though.
> You have much more protections on gTLDs than on ccTLDs (where you have none).

Hum... No. On ccTLDs you have the protections the issuing country gives you. On gTLDs, you have the protections the US gives you.

Some countries won't protect your domains at all, others will protect it even more than the US.
It amazes me that anyone with any awareness of how much Bitcoin has been lost or stolen (to name just one issue) can demonstrate this kind of magical thinking.
It's not a funded campaign against California or anything (although I suppose our current president's campaign rhetoric comes close to meeting that definition), but I agree that the constant California bashing is annoying. My guess is that it's simply a result of the fact that more people here have experiences with California than anywhere else, and people like to complain about where they live. So you see a lot of negative California rhetoric, because lots of people here can relate to it. Whereas if I complain about the intolerance, ugliness, weather, etc. of College Station, Texas (all reasons why I moved away and have no interest in moving back to that state) few know what I'm talking about.

I'm no California booster or anything, mind you. Some people like it here (I'm one of them), and some don't. That's fine. We certainly have our problems that we need to work on, and we have also done a lot of things right. (For example, SF tore down the Embarcadero Freeway permanently when it was damaged in the earthquake. Brilliant move. Wouldn't fly politically for a second in Dallas.)
Yeah, I bet you think that the economy problem in Argentina will get better cutting costs. The real problem, however, is the job culture here, if not the overall culture.
Genius?
I actually think the most troubling aspect of elected judges is the amount of money they have to raise every few years just to keep their job. I suppose this isn't all that different from technical fields (PI's have to write grant proposals, entrepreneurs have to give pitches) so maybe its not that big of a deal.
There are hundreds of gTLDs available now, all operating under the same contract with ICANN (i.e. you as the registrant get there same protections).
Yes, although the judges in the OP do not sound analogous to competent programmers in this example. One would expect someone trained in software to interpret software, in the same way one would expect someone trained in law to interpret law.
Minimum Lovable Product
The property tax rate is capped at 1% (plus some small extra.)
The property value is reassessed with change of ownership. Yearly increases in assessed value are limited to no more than 2%.
What ccTLD would you describe as more protected than .com?
> Apparently, there’s no way to make the Netflix app say what resolution it’s streaming in, or what the bitrate is.

There is, search for "test patterns" on Netflix: https://i.imgur.com/nOb7BX4.png