skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is fine, you paid for the TV and you pay for cable, and there will be no consequences to many people muting the TV during commercials.

The nature of advertising has turned the entire TV device into an advertising machine that phones home whether I mute and look away or watch "ad-supported" content, or paid-for content, or my own content. I cannot buy a TV that does not funnel my private life into someone's advertising budget thanks to Smart TVs and the normalization of surveillance capitalism.

If a podcast can not survive off its syndication, its advertising, its royalties, nor off its direct subscriptions, then the market has clearly spoken: that podcast is not providing value to listeners, and if it weren't subsidized as a channel by which advertising campaigns reach a desired market segment, it wouldn't exist at all. Clearly if this scenario causes you to shed tears, perhaps consider donating or subscribing, otherwise that podcast isn't a valuable product, it was a line item on an advertising campaign meant to reach you.
Discover Python and Patterns (5): Integers – Design Patterns and Video Games
Haven't used tmux much, and last time I used screen was over 10 years go. Rubymine gives me my iterative test results, multiple independent launch commands, the ability to run a single rspec test, refactoring support, autocompletion, a coherent gem environment, debugging etc all in one place. Yes, I could do all this on the cli, but I'm lazy, and Rubymine means I don't need to.
It would be reasonable for Steam to allow refunds for games that break like this, and bill the publisher for it.
Long overdue, and now waiting for the PostgreSQL's RDS Proxy as it's the main database we use along with Lambdas... and gosh it's tedious!
Formula SAE electric car racing event begins this week in Victoria
Anything Jetbrains seems to have pretty great SQL support in any case (e.g. PyCharm, Goland etc.)
> The p-value is 1/32, so the null hypothesis is rejected.

No, the p-value is defined as the likelihood of a result at least as extreme as the one we obtained, under the null hypothesis. It's not simply the likelihood of the particular result you obtained, as that would always be zero for continuous quantities! (Remember that the p-value's distribution is uniform over the 0-1 interval under the null, so any criticism that says the p-value is almost always small just by chance must be wrong somewhere).

So first you need to establish a way to say what result is how extreme. This is very often trivial and quite objective (the more people cured/made sick, the more extreme the effect of the drug). For the coin flip case, one way would be to call results with more imbalanced ratio more extreme. Then in your 3 heads out of 5 case, the (one sided) p-value would be the likelihood of getting 3, 4 or 5 heads out of 5. You can also come up with a different way to define what "more extreme" means (and put it forward in a convincing way), otherwise you can just not talk about p-values. You can keep talking about likelihoods, but not p-values.
> Software repositories without a human review process are a bloody stupid idea.

What review process? Do people actually review/audit the code? Usually they don't. All it tells you that at least one person though it looked "okay enough" to package it, based on unclear criteria. It's most certainly not a "review process".
"Engineers at the Masshuttets Institute of Technology developed a circuit design"

I think this might be a scam - I can't find a "Masshuttets Institute of Technology" anywhere.
French Engineer Assassination in Bogota
Injuries. Not necessary maimed. Could be a repeat it I’ve stress injury.
Apple can still unlock these phones. If people are really concerned about the waste generated by unlockable stolen phones, they should try turning it in at an Apple store.
> “The research was based on the medical records of more than 46,000 women aged 35 to 74 from the Sister Study, meaning all women involved had a close relative who had died of breast cancer.”

Can someone explain to me how this isn’t a huge problem for this study?
Wonderful ReplyAll about Zardulu:

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2ho6j
If you're out for the whole day, put a few 18650 spares in your pocket.
I have a Ring doorbell which works great, but I put in a fake street address when registering it for this reason. So far as I've seen, it loses none of its utility from that. The only user-visible feature based on the address is the "neighborhood crime alerts" feature which I don't want since I live in a dense enough city that petty crime "near" me isn't really a concern.
Blazor might pull me back into software development. About five years ago after close to three decades of doing software development, I got tired of seeing so much software being bent and shoved into JavaScript. I absolutely loathe JavaScript so it seemed like a good time to move on to something else, which in my case was IT security. Occasionally I write a tool or two for use by my team but most developer jobs these days require coding in JavaScript so I hadn't given much thought to going back to full time development work. Blazor however has been a joy to work with. My understanding is JavaScript will still be required for a while on most webassembly apps but for my uses I've been able to avoid doing any directly. Maybe in another couple of years the market will change and those who don't want to use JavaScript everywhere and are horrified that even embedded systems are flirting with js, will again have a place in the world.
No one will pay you to slow down, but they won't tell you to speed up if they think you're going as fast as you can ;).

It's not unethical, because you are working faster. The time you're saving is the kind of hazy future multiplicative time improvements that are supposedly related to the 10x programmer.

You're not going slow, you're 10x-ing.
Design to Annoy (2010)
While technically a podcast, it is not a technical podcast. https://accidentallyfasting.com/
Eizo Nanao Trinitron monitors where the absolute best. example: EIZO FlexScan T965 with FD Trinitron https://www.cnet.com/products/eizo-flexscan-t965-crt-monitor...

Eizo monitors are still very good and I use them. They are very ergonomic and their settings, especially preset values just work.
I think that's exactly what some of these companies think they are building - Netflix for podcasts. Unfortunately for them, there isn't a lot of value in podcasts for most people and I can't see that changing.
I feel like vodka only comes in two classes: "noticeably bad" and "not noticeable".
Which is a big part of the reason that they're not billionaires.
Um, last I checked, AI models of humans looked super, super creepy. Not the sort of content you would want on a marketing campaign, that's for sure.
VC twitter is excruciatingly cringe. I cannot imagine giving equity to these virtue signaling parrots.* The worst offenders are the people who

- have never personally taken a company from zero to one (even worse: when they have internally taken a company from 1 to N, and think that qualifies them).

- have a huge portfolio full of incremental companies

- constantly talk about trends on Twitter

- constantly talk about politics on Twitter

- are not currently operating their own moonshot/Unicorn

- are a bit too ridiculous when trying to hide their own greed

- talk constantly about the importance of "mentoring" you, when really just wanting access to your company

- have never actually taken a hard stand/risk on anything in their entire lives

Imagine instead getting a small check from Elon Musk when he was operating at Tesla/SpaceX, or even from then-no-name Sam Altman when he was running Loopt (as Stripe did from both). These investors are great because you know they're going to soon step the fuck out of your way and focus on their own projects. They might also be able to actually help you when you need it (both parties respecting each other's scarce time).

* Exceptions: PG, Naval, and part-time VC partners that actively operate their own companies.
Upstream eratta and binary patches to address these issues is available: https://www.openbsd.org/errata66.html
We need library level isolation, not just app level isolation (which desktop OSes don't even bother with).

Fortunately there's some amazing work on supporting library isolation in WASM. There was a really good blog post about it recently.
> yet must represent numbers from 10^38

No, they don't must represent all number in the range. I don't know where you get from that they must. An integer also can't represent all real numbers in its range.
All this needs is $1 billion ready to invest and seriously it's exactly the same as any other VC.
Is there a source for this that isn't Newsweek? Newsweek isn't really a trustworthy source; they are, as I understand it, a publication several tiers below Buzzfeed (which does good work sometimes) that has acquired and turned Newsweek into a Newsweek Suit, Buffalo-Bill-style, and wears it around the Internet.
This site can’t be reached

koemcrae.com’s server IP address could not be found.

DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN
Someone paid £1400 for a 32" widescreen sony crt with digital tuner in 2006. By 2009 they ebay'd it to me for £32. A pound an inch. Shows how fast the market collapsed when flatscreens became common. (Good tv, only stopped using it last year when the lack of hdmi got too much).

Incidentally why did europe get a last generation of widescreen CRT's but the USA basically went from humoungous 4:3 CRT's straight to wide flatscreens?
Can you explain? If they all came from that set, and the ones who used straighteners/dyes developed cancer more often than the ones who didn't... what exactly am I missing here?
> we need to understand the mechanisms of neural networks at least an order of magnitude better than we currently do

The problem seems more fundamental than this. We may understand intelligence, but we do not understand human-like intelligence. Human-like intelligence originates from more than a neural network; there are hormones and other things involved. Possibly even quantum mechanics, in some of the more esoteric explanations.

> The other is we need to understand the problem we are solving.

Indeed, we are asserting that we will soon have a solution (AGI) without first knowing what the problem is (human-like intelligence).

> it's going to be a really random occurrence finding it.

I'm placing my bets on this. Human-like intelligence (and by unavoidable association, experience) is, by definition, subjective. The tool that we use to observe and explain the universe around us is science. We have no such tool for the universe within us.
And Sony Walkman/Discman! To me Sony in the 80s/90s was like today's Apple. In 2000s I bought a small Sony box that could stream Comcast cable TV from my house to my PSP when I was out and about so that I could watch my own TV while playing poker at my friend's house.
Helping machines perceive some laws of physics
Linked in the first sentence of the article https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ijc.32738
Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS
Climate change is causing birds to shrink
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-12-permanent-hair-dye-st...
Oh boy we’re exploiting people by not listening to parts of the mp3s they gave us now? This gets more exciting by the minute, do continue.
It means they researchers hypothesized that the cost of generalizing to the population was less than the benefit from increased statistical power.
Right now, they're a long way from doing sophisiticated tracking. My podcast app just downloads an mp3 file from a feed; it's not executing any JavaScript, or otherwise doing anything they can use to do the kind of tracking that happens on the Web.

That regime has been stable for decades, and I can't imagine it will change unless something changes to make it stop working for podcasters. Because moving their distribution channel from RSS to some sort of closed app risks alienating their audience.
Controlling attention with brain waves
If buying things didn't provide value to people, they wouldn't have bought it.

Just because I cannot extract monetary value by buying another MIDI controller for my hobby doesn't mean it isn't a worthwhile purchase. If you derived enjoyment from a purchase, it increased your [non-material] wealth and added value.

The same way, Gmail and FB make money by selling ads, but if they didn't exist without ads, it is easily arguable that people would have missed out on a lot of wealth and benefits that comes with those things. I use Gmail, because I extract value from using it. And I pay for it by letting Google personalize my ads and sell them. For me, that exchange is absolutely worth it. If it wasn't, I wouldn't have been using it.
"“There are a lot of things I say and not all of them have the same quality of thought,” Musk said, in what was likely the understatement of the decade."
My argument is many of these represent small incremental costs and even if all of them were eliminated then affordability wouldn’t change in any appreciable degree.

On the other hand increasing supply (even if somewhat more expensive in a per unit basis due to regulations that neither of us can really say are good, bad or cost effective) will.

It’s the easy win.
Tech people are bad at working with the defense industry because tech skills are so in demand that professionalism is usually an afterthought. Hire children and you get childlike behavior.
This only touches on the CRT portion of the TV. I had a 19" Sony from '82. While other manufacturers were trying to save costs with fewer and less heavy duty parts, because the quality of the picture was better, Sony could charge a premium and did not skimp on the rest. It's evident when you look at the tuner/RF, power, and chassis what a quality product it was. Coming from Soviet TVs that would start on fire when they worked, it was no comparison.
While people can avoid a lot of problems with a little common sense, infections don't just come from click happy users. Malware in ads can infect users just for browsing to a site and popular sites like CNN and yahoo have infected users in the past that way. I've managed to convince most of my family and friends to install ad-blockers but some of them still don't. I've tried to encourage the more tech savvy among them to disable javascript by default as well, but most have not.
This is a very restricted subset of utf-8. I agree that the ASCII subset would not be tremendously difficult to decipher; the most interesting parts are laid out systematically and in order and case is even just a bit flip.

It's even fairly plausible that the utf-8 numerical encoding can be reverse-engineered from a few samples; enough languages' text generally only use characters from few enough blocks to identify. If you're really motivated, you can probably work your way through most of the languages with phonetic writing systems.

But then there's CJK Unified Ideographs, where the characters that get used are scattered essentially randomly because the ordering is only relevant if you already know how many and which characters were encoded at what point in the history of Unicode.

There are large swaths of Unicode which, if somehow totally lost, would essentially require finding font data or character reference tables to recover.
I do wonder if the rights management issue is impacted by the decision referenced in this article regarding training machine learning models on copyrighted material:

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-most-important-supreme-co...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....
Two-Photon Interference
Also, latency claims are often misleading. For example, the 2ms response time is limited to grey-to-grey transitions.

A 20ms response time still means the signal is dropping every fifth frame in a 60 fps game.
I'd hazard a guess that 0.1% of Java developers are aware that on some operating systems Object.wait() can awaken spuriously. Heck, it wasn't even in the Javadoc until 1.5. And don't even get me started on how you should handle an InterruptedException.

Most Java developers I know consider rolling your own multi-threading scheme about as wise as rolling your own cryptography, and just pretend notify/notifyAll/wait don't even exist.
> Publishers shouldn't care whether browsers hit their servers or some third-party cache, as long as they can have proper analytics.

Perhaps not, but as a regular web user, I care a lot about this.
I bring out a coin; I tell you nothing, and ask you to guess what the probability of heads is. What do you guess?

Unless you have reason to believe I am trying to deceive you, it will be able 50% because you have a lot of knowledge from other contexts that tells you this is true.

The arrow is probably the other way round than you state -the brain probably isn't Bayesian; being Bayesian is modelled on how humans process and contextualise decisions.

I'm not even sure how a frequentist would construct a model to estimate an outcome with no observations.
Monopoly? Everything you can buy at Amazon you could buy before Amazon ever existed. And guess what? You still can.

Not even remotely a monopoly.
What were the original terms? If they didn't allow for this, sue in small claims court. Disney would really hate to have to show up and lose.
I use restic with Backblaze/B2. There's also hashbackup.

SpiderOak is another venture in the commercial space.
Would de-indexing the clone pages from the start help, so only the improved pages are indexed?
Fantastic! Using it in TypeScript currently and it's a lot cleaner than a && a.b && a.b.c!
>no productive purpose

If these people attempting to enter were simply turned around and immediately deported, the same people claiming that these are “actual in real life holocaust-2.0-about-to-happen concentration camps” would be upset about the “barbarism” of this stance instead of holding them while they wait for hearings.
Oh, wow, this is brutal. They're shelling out to a command line program to do authentication, and not catching the "-" metacharacter in the username they shell out with, so you can pass options to that program.
My aunt was sure she had chronic lyme. She used a couple of years of her life fighting her physician over it. Trying to get him to accept it.

Turned out it was lung cancer. When it was diagnosed correctly, it had turn metastatic and spread to most of her organs including the brain. It went really fast from there. I don't know how it could have turned out. But I'm certain that she would have had more of a chance, if she hadn't interpreted her symptoms through the distorted information she got online.
Bing also caches AMP content: https://blogs.bing.com/Webmaster-Blog/September-2018/Introdu...

I agree that there is a UX problem to solve (the address bar should show the original URL, copying it should preserve the original URL, etc) but whether the webpage got loaded from the original site or from some AMP cache is irrelevant.
For sure. I'm a big advocate for removing the benefits of holding land in this way. Especially in cities, where the land could productively house people rather than be empty or have a surface lot on it.

> Solving inequality by making everyone poor is not going to get you very far.

For sure. I'd like to see more wealth equality, and I'd like to see it done by raising the amount of wealth of the working class.
I am proof a pool exists.
> These people are desperate for relief, so they’re often cycling through 10s of supplements or quack treatments at a time. If they spontaneously go into remission, they’ll swear it was due to the supplements.

Can you blame them for trying to help themselves? I don't think any of them claim to be conducting scientific studies.

If I ever have a condition that medical science can't explain or treat, I might find myself clutching similar quack remedies myself, despite all my vaunted rationality.
We're not okay with Google usurping web sites but we don't sympathize with publishers either.

The right thing is to build good web sites. Publishers obviously don't care about doing it right and we ended up with system requirements for web sites as a result. Google is now making it expensive for them to not care. Publishers are not a blameless victim of Google's monopolistic power, they actively contributed to the current state of the web.

People should not need a $1000 phone to read a news article. The only situation where it's acceptable for web sites to not work on "shit hardware" is when it's a WebGL application. In those cases, people know that powerful hardware is required before they even load the page.
I remember an article years ago that Apple is losing top talents in the Machine learning area due to its closed culture. The reason seems that it's hard to know what's going on inside Apple and new grads don't want to risk their initial career for uncertainty. Has this culture changed? Their presence still seems insignificant in top conferences compared to other tech companies.
If somebody stalked me 24x7 with a notebook recording everywhere I went and everything I did, said, and looked at, couldn't I build a case for harassment? (I'm not a public figure).

Is the only difference that these big tech companies do it where we can't see them and [sometimes] get our permission [to some extent] via an onerous and non-negotiable ToS?
Climate models have accurately predicted global heating, study finds
>The results aren't pretty, for MUNI. But that's all but a given under the environment they're operating in.

Not necessarily. They could exclusively run fast 4 car trains along the length of the subway, with transfers to street lines. That would prevent a single street-level train from backing up the whole system. http://newmunimetro.com/m-market/
I was a developer at Guidance from 2003-2010. I left because the future was easy enough to foresee. There might be one or two developers left at OpenText whom I know, but most have left. It’s all about milking that Enterprise SMS revenue.

X-Ways and Magnet are rightfully decimating EnCase’s traditional use in forensics.
AWS Step Functions Express Workflows – High Performance and Low Cost
No that’s not what I’m requesting. I’m requesting that there are switches for ALL the things that use my location for some purpose or send my location some place. Currently there isn’t one for the operating system doing that.

Obviously the OS will know my location if Location services are on, it’s a case of what it does or does not do with that data.
If you want to be careful, you can say the study found that among cohort with increased cancer risk due to genetics, using those hair products increased cancer risk even further.
Ask, approve and act on AWS infrastructure within Slack
Those are games within with the current system as well. The difference is that once you begin to approach the top your incentive becomes altruistic, because you are thinking about increasing the wealth of other people more than yourself.

That's the key. Capitalism only rewards greed. There is no altruistic component. What I suggest rewards altruism after the game is won. There is currently no end to the increasing gap, except violent revolt, which has always been the solution.

Violent revolt is not a good solution to the wealth gap.
For the patent section, I don't understand how any of the 3 are worthy of a patent or were able to be patented. I'm not sure of timelines, but for the 3rd[1], isn't that what Instagram integrated ages ago with circles linked directly to a checkout - prior art?

[1] system to automatically match an item in an image, against its equivalent in a database with ecommerce links to purchase that same product.
You're absolutely correct. Please accept my apologies for being uncolear. I was speaking specificially and narrowly of strong incentives to build weg pages differently being shaped slightly differently under a hypothetical regime.

Again, please accept my apologies for my failure to communicate my point clearly.