skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't the boring answer be they made something that can disrupt radar systems into creating fantom objects. Creating fake objects that are remarkable would be useful for when distractions are needed. The final QA would be a real in the field test where the observers are not aware of the experiment.
These are the kinds of problems I’d love to be able to figure out how to solve with technology.
For what it’s worth, I explained the situation to a friend, and they read the essay and said it was their favorite. They said most of pg’s essays feel exhausting, and they don’t generally like reading them. So I guess I was mistaken, since the audience is the ultimate test of an essay.

It just felt painful to see so much left unsaid. But my friend said that it was immediately injected into the reader’s mind, and didn’t need to be said.
Emails and phones have been gone a while. Essentially all you get is a generic amazon hosted forwarding email address if you want to talk to your customers.
The sad part is, it doesn't have to be that way.

The problem is, the gesture metaphor is deeply rooted in manipulation of window pane of desktop based OS, which normally has menu bar and controls.

What does iOS lack? Both. Most gesture-based controls are torturous workaround the absence.

I have new ipad and it pains me to look at this cheat sheet.

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/16-gestures-that-will-make-you-l...
There's a whole pile of different gotchas.

* identifying characters that won't actually print [white text; zero-size font; beneath another layer; not in printable space]. Once this lead to every letter aappppeeaarriinngg ttwwiiccee..

* text in fonts where a != aa [leaving the text as a complicated substitution cypher; caused by font embedding for only the characters in the document]

* text in images

* no spaces: have to infer from gaps in letters

And these are generated by a whole host of different software with different assumptions, and you never know if there's something else you're missing.
'Animal Farm' phenomenon?
I feel like, with the man, it really depends. There’s some cases where the elderly parents may have caused so much trauma to a now grown child that they don’t want to have to interact with them again, which is unfortunately common with my friend group. Sometimes it’s just .. better that way.
IIRC, implementing the PDF standard requires a JavaScript implementation. To many readers, that's not worth it.
You're talking about Ivy League institutions which sample from the tail end of the performance distribution. What works for the cream of the crop, whatever disadvantaged background it may come from, does not necessarily work for the rest. I the concept of distribution statistics is sorely lacking in much of the theory that underpins modern Western social policy, and the negative results are gradually accumulating.
It seriously depends on the technology being used. There isn't any evidence from human psychology that dark-skinned people have harder-to-recognize faces, so we're probably just using the wrong approach in the technology currently available.
Yeah, pretty much exactly what you said. Since PDF is focused on presentation rather than content it can write text content in any order, and the rules for converting the byte values to unicode values are extremely complex, supporting many different font formats. Some fonts (type 3) don't even include mappings to unicode in some scenarios, instead just encoding the appearance of glyphs and not their meaning.

Assuming you have a reasonable PDF file you have to parse the entire page content stream which includes things like colors, lines, Bezier curves, etc, extract the text showing operations and then stitch the letters back in to words and then words back into reading order, as best you can.

Many sensible PDF producers encode letters and whitespaces reasonably thereby preserving reading order, but this is far from universal.

For an idea of what content stream parsing involves, this is how I currently do it: https://github.com/UglyToad/PdfPig/blob/master/src/UglyToad....
Here's my theory about the recent influx of UFO footages coming from high places. US military was working on advanced drones. Nothing fancy, think current best tech, add 15 years and billion in r&d, that kind of stuff. Then when it was ready for test they flew it secretly before their own pilots and waited for reports. And waited. And waited some more. Silence. They disabled stealth, added flashlights, nothing. Military pilots didn't reported it. Maybe Venus. Or moonlight bouncing off swamp gas, but not UFO. Why?

In past decades whenever military pilot reported UFO they were laughed at, sent to psychologist, evaluated, sent behind the desk. Other pilots knew and when they saw something really weird they have kept it for themselves.

Then the higher ups panicked. If they don't report our drones, they will not report Chinese or Russian drones either. We have hundreds and thousands of eyes in the sky but they will not report because they are afraid to speak.

So they came up with a campaign. They started to publish official UFO footage and started more openly talk about it to show pilots that it is now ok to talk about UFO. Don't be afraid pilots, if you see something strange jus tell us, we take it seriously now.

There are no aliens. Videos you saw are created or modified to look legit, and officially supported or confirmed.
"The fonts are pleasant to the eye, but difficult to read". Felt joy seeing someone who actually worked for Apple says this.
(There is a fad that people attempt to do X) + (the observable result is orthogonal to whether they successfully did X) => not very strong evidence that doing X is achievable
When I was reading the essay I was immediately reminded of the concept of paradigm shift (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm_shift). The gist is that during periods of "normal science" most scientists are working within the framework of the dominant paradigm which, among other things, determines what kind of problems are worth working on. But every once in a while the paradigm shifts (which happens comparatively rarely, on the time scale of decades), old problems are deemed irrelevant and everybody piles on to work on the new stuff. The original example is physics but other fields are pretty similar (in our field current AI craze comes to mind).
I somewhat suspect by the time something is "popular" it is, almost by definition, oversaturated. Its sort of like weird investment strategies (e.g. always buy stocks on mondays, or whatever I dont actually know anything about stocks). Sure some of them may work originally, but unless i am extremely well connected, by the time i hear about it, everyone else knows too and the market has corrected for it.

Perhaps another metaphor is a gold rush. Even if there really is gold in those hills, if everyone knows there is, its probably already too late to go out and buy a shovel.

That said, i agree that there is plenty of survivorship and hindsight bias when it comes to any advice on how to be succesful.
> I think if we ever see an alien, he will either fly to us in a completely enormous nuclear rocket which we will spot years before his arrival and deceleration.

I think that they will teleport here and be minuscule and invisible (at first).
Enough computation can find the signal in any amount of noise!
It feels like you're just defining the market as narrowly as needed to target Amazon. I mean you could add more arbitrary restricts to make it so Amazon appears to have a 100% market share. What's interesting is how much market power they have, not their share of randomly defined slices of the logistics and online retail market.
Another good resource that you guys might enjoy is "Tony Santoro's Guide to Illegal Tree-Planting"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvtqKMxZ95s
They do reveal a pattern that is equivalent to ignoring the canaries in a coalmine. The Amazon's fires are crucial this year not because there was not burning previously, but because once the ecosystems collapse, there is no regaining the rainforest. And of course it will happen, anyone who thinks otherwise is either ignorant, stupid, or plainly paid to ignore it. Wind? There is a difference between it being not good enough to be a primary source vs "providing zero energy", and the list goes on.

The hunting of endangered species is a gross practice that is a natural extension of the colonialist history of the West. When rich whites go to shoot animals who are not capable of defending themselves, no one should kid itself that yeah, there are alternatives to that horrid practice - and meanwhile, illegal hunting continues to eat up entire species, so the whole talk about hunting conserving the population is simply not true when taken in its actual context.

And we completely ignored the times when the ruling class goes to countries, shoots animals unlawfully, and gets away with it. Examples:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/11/donald-trump...
https://dailynewshungary.com/deputy-pm-semjens-swedish-hunt-...

And we could continue with more historic examples, like this piece of art right here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian%E2%80%93Roosevelt_...

Makes my skin crawl.
I don't forget that. How could I? That topic was omnipresent when I was a research assistant myself. But once the /universities/ don't want to pay that premium any longer, the game is over.
CSV still seems to be the standard in finance.
In my mind I always regard P/NP in the same category as the Riemann Hypothesis^. That has been open since 1859 (160 years) and shows no signs of cracking. So in other words we may be in for a long wait.

^Perhaps because one of the hypothesized examples of a hard problem is the factoring of multiples of large primes (though not proved NP Complete). Or perhaps because they are both extremely famous open problems.
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Because the people at the top don't just want a profitable business, they want ALL the possible profit and push the notion of legality to its limits. It's up to the legislator to crack down on that, but since the fines are ridiculously small and it costs more to fine these people than doing nothing, they do nothing.

It's funny how sometimes I wish legal institutions worked more like businesses, with processing fees on fines /s

But most generally a lot legal systems didn't catch up with globalization and tech gigantism and are still stuck in the 20th century, which leaves a lot of room for "legal arbitrage", the whole "disruption" business is built on that premise. There is the law, and actual law enforcement...
"Productivity is up and wages might stagnate - but here's why its actually a good thing"
15+ years later, we will try to standardize something that's barely used anymore

> This is a similar "Linkback" mechanism to the ones of Refback, Trackback, and Pingback. It uses a different protocol, though, and thus should be discoverable through its own link relation type.
I dont think Google dominates South Korea yet but that might be because users habits are hard to change.
Mary Lou Jepson's 'OpenWater' work is a similar project where light + computation is rapidly advancing the options for deep, real-time medical imaging:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k879MFfB_3Q
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Probably investing in something new?
Yeah, it's the physical addresses that were removed recently.

Phones were removed about two years ago if I recall correctly.
The only intuitive user interface is a nipple. Everything else has to be learned.
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Thanks for the detail. It's just mind-boggling to me that you could have a peak of (for example) 1K requests per second, then a bot rises that to 10M requests per second.

If nothing else, it seems incredible that bot authors would be so willfully harmful - they must know that kind of behaviour is going to prompt a reaction
Great post. Here are a few things pointers if you want more information about your points:

B) The situation is actually worse than exhausted. We know (have proven) that the regular methods simply won't work (check up "the reletaivzation barrier" and "natural proofs" and "algebrization")

C) We actually can construct problems which take at least a certain amount of time to solve (though admittedly many of them are kind of unnatural). Search up "time hierarchy theorem". This is probably one of the theorems you mention. However, you're right, as far as natural problems go, it appears to be extreme difficult to prove most natural problems takes at least linear time (https://mathoverflow.net/questions/4953/super-linear-time-co...). Note the log*... factor grows extremely slowly.

In fact, it is not known whether SAT requires more than linear time. Since SAT is NP-complete, we expect it to have no polynomial time algorithm... and yet here we are wondering whether it requires even more than linear time. If you are interested in this sort of thing, maybe look up fine-grained complexity. Also note that to solve P != NP, we will have to atleast shown P != PSPACE, since PSPACE contains NP. However, even this seemingly easier problem has had no progress and seems like it would require a huge breakthrough.
The modern view is the traditional view in the back to normal sense.

In the US Robert Bork's book "The Antitrust Paradox" started a period of time where the antitrust law was only about benefits to consumers and overall efficiency. The traditional and the modern viewpoint is that the role of antitrust laws plays role in controlling economic power in the public interests. Vertical agreements and price discrimination can be prohibited.
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FYI ^

Maybe it's good that someone in marketing world point out JQ one more time. My aliases are littered with magical jq stuff.

alias whatscomplaining='sudo journalctl -fxe -o json | jq "{ timestamp: .__REALTIME_TIMESTAMP, commandline: ._CMDLINE, message: .MESSAGE }"'

The author has a more jq relevant repo here:

https://github.com/djosephsen/jq-irl
I think there's a substantial number of people who don't comparison shop because nobody else has a real prime competitor.

When Amazon has a hundred million subscribers to a service to ship in two days, it's reasonable to ask whether that's a monopoly.
Thanks - just using Amazon SES to send the emails.
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> We've resorted to teaching largely Java devs Scala on the job with mixed results.

If I had to hire and teach people for Scala, I would probably go with those familiar with TypeScript or C#.

https://twitter.com/alexelcu/status/1175293360963227648
Sounds good in theory, but we don't have the expertise to do that. If we did, trips to Mars wouldn't be classified as 'one-way suicide' certainties. The only way people can survive in space or on Mars is if there is the whole of Earth's backing behind them. No Earth, No Survival.
Are you saying that the people on Glassdoor, and even here on hacker news, are lying about the way the CEO acts?
I have used undraw.co and the illustrations are plenty, neat, and customizable to a degree. For something that's royalty-free, it is an incredible body of work.

Here are some more related resources I've seen recommended by others:

Photoshop but for Illustrations (paid): https://www.drawkit.io/peach

https://icons8.com/ouch

https://www.humaaans.com/

https://www.manypixels.co/gallery/
An easy solution for developers would be to decrease the animation duration the more often a feature is used. But I have yet to see this approach in the wild.
It was actually in Germany, not in Poland, although it was also quite heavily discussed in Poland.

Here is the ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4COtJ_5-dPM

Edit: When I think about it, the most well known ad for Christmas in Poland is the one below - it's related to the fact that there are a huge number of young Poles that emigrated to the UK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU5Rnd-HM6A
When a state systematically murders more than 6 million people due to racial superiority complexes, it makes sense to enforce these laws.

The fact that holocaust denialism is a growing trend just shows that these laws are a good idea.

And as a Jew living in Germany, I would say these laws are pretty god damned rosy.
This is fucking horrible. Worth an episode in Silicon Valley horrible. What I hate most about the new Apple devices is that I always do something that produces a gesture or a hidden function. Grab iPhone quickly by the sides - get a screenshot. Swipe with four fingers looking North shaking - get something else. Who the hell needs all this crap?
LXD looks really neat. The reason I didn't mention it is because I didn't know about it! What's the consensus on how mature/stable it is for real-world use?
Still streaming, sorry, it's a crazy and crazily cool moment for me right now. I promise I'll be back with answers soon! :D
Unless they wanted to be seen as to observe our reaction.
> For the senior citizens viewing this they might relate the term "AngelDust" with the dissociative PCP, let me assure them though, it hasn't been called AngelDust since the 70s.

I don't see that connection as an issue with the game or your post. It certainly isn't doing anyone any harm, despite what others suggested in earlier comments.

That said... I'm 21 years old, and I still associate "angel dust" with PCP. The name is still used by popular rappers including Mac Miller [0] and Run the Jewels [1]. It is still defined as PCP in 6 of the top 7 results, vs 5 of the top 7 for "sherm" and 0.3/7 for "wet" on Urban Dictionary [2,8,9]. Angel dust is the most common synonym for PCP on Urban Dictionary [10]. The name "angel dust" was used to refer to PCP in a 2011 episode of Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia [3]. The name is still in common parlance on Reddit [4,5,6]. However, the drug seems to have experienced a decline in popularity, accounting for less than 0.1% of all documented hallucinogenic drug use in the United States in 2017 [7] - suggesting that the term "angel dust" is not well known simply because the drug isn't commonly used, and not because the term has been abandoned.

I just don't want anyone to get into trouble thinking that they can use the phrase "Angel Dust" without it being seen as a reference to hard drugs by the general public.

I am also surprised that this association is being rejected, considering that the creator of the game is going by "Frank Lucas" [11], which is the name of a famous drug trafficker [12].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIQqzTNRmoc

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_esHn4X03U

[2]: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Angel%20Dust

[3]: https://itsalwayssunny.fandom.com/wiki/The_Gang_Goes_to_the_...

[4]: https://www.reddit.com/r/PCP/comments/ba1754/two_dimes_of_pc...

[5]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Drugs/comments/5tru38/what_is_angel...

[6]: https://www.reddit.com/r/serialpodcast/comments/2qove1/how_l...

[7]: https://www.drugabuse.gov/drugs-abuse/hallucinogens

[8]: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sherm

[9]: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Wet

[10]: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=PCP

[11]: https://angeldu.st/en/game#play-now-button-3

[12]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lucas
Hey, you, the person reading this comment thread who just skimmed over the above comment without giving the video link a second thought.

I'm telling you, go back and watch the video, or any other video on Tony Santoro's channel. The man is a legend who deserves more press. He absolutely embodies the hacker ethos, if in his own unique way. Autodidactic, anti-authoritarian, fiercely intelligent, sharply witty and indefatigably individualistic.
> I think there's a substantial number of people who don't comparison shop because nobody else has a real prime competitor.

That's true of Costco as well. No one's trying to break them up.
Having used the ICO to try and stop a company illegally collecting biometric information for access to a gym I am not confident it is very effective. Not only did the gym not stop but the ICO all but rubber-stamped what they were doing. Just like the data protection act before it on a daily basis on the web you see companies openly breaking the law with the wrong defaults and reports just disappear into a pit with the ICO.

The law exists but it isn't enforced by the regulator and the way the GDPR law is set up there is no way to bring private prosecutions to enforce fines and get the law applied. So since the regulator isn't doing it the law is effectively useless. Some companies are complying but the bad ones are seeing no consequences and the compliant ones are bound to notice soon that they can safely ignore it completely soon enough. It has no enforcement currently, there is no rush to ensure your company complies.
I wonder what protections modern military radar systems use against such attacks. I find it plausible that they were played to see how well their detection works.
Oh, come on now, this is just stupid. Do you think their website code writes itself? 6 month is very much a reasonable deadline. In fact, it's the tightest I can realistically imagine for a platform with a considerable history and god knows how many lines of code to change its core functionality all their marketing strategy revolves around.
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> these definitions are not the same as the one you stated previously.

"Government by the people" vs "The common people, considered as the primary source of political power" vs. "government must serve the governed people". Oh, I see, I have used different words!

> All these 3 definitions of democracy may apply to a democracy that uses allotment instead of elections.

Where did I say it doesn't apply?

> You are correct that modern usage of democracy is restricted to "election based majority government".

Wait, what? I didn't say that, and it is not correct.
Charlie, Al, and I were just trying to maintain a sense of humor in fairly tough times, knowing that the first who would see the key would be the folks we were working with at the ministry.
Dissolved bubbles in blood has everything to do with the bends.
>> Quite frankly we did not think Cerberus would last that long!

Oh, I get it. When they said "lifetime license" they meant Cerberus' lifetime, not the user's lifetime. They just somehow survived longer than they thought they would.

/s
The part written in 2013, not less urgent today:

"For example, did you really intend to yield your 4th amendment rights when you granted a 3rd party access to your files as a part of Mac Software Update, Windows Update, Virus Scanners, etc., or when you started using a service-tethered smartphone?

Anyway, unlike 'web tracking' issues which seem to be broadly ignored because of our love for ad-supported services, I hope we all (especially the young readers of reddit, hackernews, etc) wake up to the fact that these privacy and transparency issues are REAL, and that they truly will impact you and the country you live in, and that even if you don't consider yourself an activist you really should get informed and form an opinion. Again, this is a non-partisan issue, and let's all work to ensure that it stays this way.

Two great organizations where you can learn are EPIC and EFF. (Disclosure: I am on the board of EPIC.) Take it in, and think. Your contributions are needed and would of course be quite welcome.

http://epic.org

http://eff.org
"

Ray Ozzie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Ozzie
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