skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am surprised that 3.5 hours a day is the threshold where decreased performance begins, as in my little life bubble that seems like an abnormally large amount of TV watching. However Wikipedia[1] tells me the average USA "consumer" is watching 4 hours a day! Yikes.

To a layman like me this seems like great research. A lot of effort was put in to draw a rigorous conclusion about the effects of TV watching on some aspect of mental performance. I just read Amusing Ourselves to Death though, and I find myself compelled to be a lot more dramatic about the negatives of TV watching, on the late author's behalf.

Yes it's pretty bad that (excessive) TV watching literally damages your cognitive ability to some degree, but I would say (and please point me to research) that before that damage starts to show it's already near devastated your personal 'knowledge-base'. To try and paraphrase Postman, the content on TV is either trivial or non-trivial but delivered in such a way as to keep you from holding onto any significance, meaning, or theory. TV as a medium is terribly fractured (commercial breaks, 'Now..This' segues) and fundamentally visual (rather than typographic). Human minds thrive in connectivity, interrelation, and continuity. Our minds thrive in the typographic world. At his most polemic, Postman argues that TV at is worst is totally incoherent, conferring basically no knowledge whatsoever. A person's mind might still performance just fine in tests, but having been starved of knowledge it is practically unintelligent.

Think also of the opportunity cost. At an average of 4 hours a day, as USA 'consumer' watches 1460 hours of TV a year. An average person reads 200-250 words per minute. Taking the upper bound, and the average non-fiction book as 50,000 words. They could finish that average non-fiction book in 4.16 hours. So, they could be reading almost 1 book a day for a whole year instead. Now, that napkin-math result seems implausible to me, but imagine if I was off by an order of magnitude. Say this person could read 35 non-fiction books in a year if that wholesale swapped TV for reading non-fiction. 35 non-fiction books at ~42 hours per book. They would be enormously enriched by this alternative behaviour.

As an extreme (but unfortunately not uncommon) example, instead of getting all red in the face hearing about Socialism coming to the USA from Fox news, our dear average USA 'consumer' could have read Das Kapital, and The Soul of Man Under Socialism, and The Road to Wigan Pier, and Capitalism and Freedom, and On Liberty, and... etc etc. You get the point.

So yeah, I'm really onboard with the thesis of Amusing Ourselves To Death.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_consumption
I'm happy to agree to disagree. Please forgive me if I am (hopefully!) just misreading the tone of these comments, but this exchange has seemed tiringly mean-spirited and argumentative to me. I'm not trying to convince you of some objective fault in HN's design, just sharing my experience to see if anyone else's is similar. My experiences will still be my reality even if the answer to that question is "no" :)
GPT-2 handles natural language which is specifically a time-series set, a sequence of natural word tokens. It is especially relevant because success in NLP tasks requires tracking and learning long-term relationships - not just between words in a phrase or two, but between words and phrases in different paragraphs, in different parts of the text, so that a general coherence of the whole document is kept. This exactly what is done with long-term relationships.
Love Set, the best thing about set is that you can even play alone just to get faster, but now even when I'm alone I can play with others online to keep that competitive rush going. Dope stuff
>As you may guess from the title, it's in French.

Unfortunately that would leave me with the issue of now learning 2 languages.

Interestingly enough the best (and only) resource I've been able to find for content like GP is https://www.japanesewithanime.com/ which – far from what I originally imagined given the domain name – actually has in-depth explanations of both grammar and etymology (see: [1], [2]) replete with references to research articles in JP linguistics.

[1] https://www.japanesewithanime.com/2019/12/rentaikei.html

[2] https://www.japanesewithanime.com/2019/12/kanou-doushi.html#...
Moral of the story... don’t ship games on Linux?
I don't see why it would be, as long as you're just sending one real job application. If you tried to DOS a company by sending in a ton of garbage applications that'd probably be illegal.

That said I wouldn't be surprised if you get declined if the company realizes you did so.
correct me if i'm wrong but i find a lot of buddhism makes at least some sense in fields of highly advanced technology (like quantum physics).
of course there's the obvious counterargument that any prediction or claim that's vague to an extent makes sense in a wide range of settings.
Many _many_ years ago we used to have to do that on occasion in our office to find where the break in the coax network was. That brought some amusing memories back for me, thanks :)
If you're talking about Listicles (ie 'Top 10 X') then yeah they're probably just as bad, but the other reply you got makes the good point that reading is fundamentally an active cognitive activity in the way TV is not.
Pascal has never been popular. Certain offshoots of Pascal got popular, none so much as Delphi. Which some people still use.
That’s my point; it’s clearly not an easy problem to solve, but it has inherent value over other diagramming tools if you can solve it.
Futex wait, or any other blocking syscall.
A database with verified phone numbers is worth a lot more than without them.
In the Netherlands, burgers are definitely a thing, but the ones that get people excited so far appear to have been chicken, meatballs and smoked sausage (which are traditionally important here). The introduction of the Beyond Burger made some noise, but mostly because of it being hyped in the US. It does not appear to be a regular buy, though that might be because it's also really expensive, comparatively.

All anecdotal, though.
Note that the article uses "verbal memory and semantic fluency" as a proxy for general cognition, so readers will almost automatically score better than viewers. They also seem to have modeled all factors as linear, and "cannot rule out (...) the possibility of reverse causality".

So to answer your question: it depends on whether you consider all assumptions of the article relevant. One thing the article certainly doesn't contradict is the old adage "use it or lose it".
Ask HN: What's the state of P2P database sync?
CloudKit, Realm, and CouchDb/PouchDb offer offline syncing with some kind of cache on the client. This is great, but I'm curious if there are any successful technologies (other than git) that are actually cloudless and P2P.

I recall reading about Noms a while ago when it was acquired by Salesforce and that supposedly had promise as a P2P database but I haven't heard anything since.

I've read some about distributed hash tables used by torrents, but they are inherently public which isn't exactly suitable for most applications.

Have you heard of any new or interesting offline distributed databased?
It's syntax highlighting for shell (as you type on the command line).
I remember someone at google proposed new syscall to voluntarily give up time slice from one process to another which they intended to use for co-routines in c/c++ (which they used internationally and boy was it awesome) but it was not accepted. Sure would be nice for this case as well.
Likewise, I love Apple products, and wish for them to generate more revenue (ostensibly, more resources for them to improve said products and create new ones). I neither work for Apple nor have any vested financial interest in saying so (no stock in the company, no relatives that work for them, and zero way that their increased revenues in any way impacts my bank account or the bank account of anyone I know). Is my promotion of them, which in some ways feeds my ego (for making such wise purchasing decisions) and makes my life easier via a larger user base to compare notes with, find support, etc, considered free speech, or advertising?

Also, related to ultrarunner's point, is it not possible to freely promote something that is both in my interest financially and in the best interest of my audience?
Isn't that in fact the ideal scenario, mutually beneficial arrangements where everyone benefits via aligned incentives?
Late to the discussion.

Many Pivotal teams hewed closely to the default practices, but not all. The most dogmatic is Pivotal Labs, because its job is to teach the basics. Having a rigid, predictable structure works better to start folks off.

I've seen every sacred cow at Pivotal slaughtered by Pivots and guests, when it was felt that this was the right and effective thing to do.
Add comments to a static blog with Isso
article mentions another game, WWE2K20
That is the fascinating thing about consciousness.

How do we "know" we see red and not green or vice versa? How do we "know" we are feeling heat or coldness? We just do. We feel different things in different, yet recognizable ways.

And these "feelings" are multi-dimensional, feeling heat and feeling color are not on the same axis. Red and Green seems to be on different points of the same axis and hot and cold are points on some different axis, other dimension.

How many different dimensions of "feelings" are there? Note they are not the same as different senses. There can be many different feelings associated with things we see and recognize that way: colors, and shapes and lightness vs. darkness etc.
Death Note Anonymity by gwern:

https://www.gwern.net/Death-Note-Anonymity

Tenure by matt:

http://matt.might.net/articles/tenure/

Mitchell's suicide notes:

https://web.archive.org/web/2015/geenstijl.nl/archives/image...
Perhaps your not aware of C++ random_access iterators? You can indeed do random access with iterators and this functionality is integral to many standard library algorithms.

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/iterator/RandomAccessIter...
I have been using KeePassXC and am quite satisfied with it. Hope they add the option of being able to specify multiple URLs e.g. for some apps, the URL scheme is androidapp://... which doesn't work with fetching favicons.
But the value of copyright isn't nil. I think there is enough evidence to support it isn't.
"anti-fraud security setting" might be expired cert
http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Hello_world/Text
I got snarky because you said "I'm glad it's not a problem for you" when I never said the current design wasn't a problem. I read that as unwarrantedly dismissive!

I'm not disagreeing with your experience, I'm just disagreeing with part of the way you want to fix it.
Guessing that 0.8x size increase for 1300% speedup was worth the tradeoff but maybe ≥1.5 size increase or more was not (especially considering a 1300%->2000% increase is not going to be user visible for 99% of the packages).
I hope that's right. I also hope Trump isn't up to something worse than occupation.

This is just a preview

https://www.rt.com/news/477489-trump-iran-strike-targets/?ut...
Food Delivery App, Baedal Minjeok by Woowa Brothers Acquired by a German Giant
Re: The AI Community Needs fo Take Responsibility for Its Technology and Its Actions

"Fo take" is probably a typo but "to fake" doesn't really fit either ;-)
The notion of remote services accessed via local filesystem dynamics is pretty well established. Among implementations:

- NFS, particularly with the Solaris-originated concept of automounts over a /net mountpoint.

- Various virtual filesystems. Midnight Commander ("mc") offers several of these, including archive formats (tar, cpio, afio, rpm, deb) and remote (FTP, SSH).

- SMB/CFS/Samba

- Various FUSE filesystems, including again ssh, ftp, and others. These generally require specifying in advance specific mountpoints.

The notion of on-demand access to remote resources over protocols (e.g., http/https, or others), under filesystem dynamics, is interesting -- you can use any general tool, utility, or application for access, mediated through the filesystem by way of drivers, rather than a specific application (e.g., Web browser, FTP client, etc.)

There are numerous issues. In particular, applications tend not to respond well to remote resources disappearing, changing, or failing to return from change requests -- NFS's behaviour with nonresponsive remote hosts is ... notorious.

Consistency, availability, and partition resistance (CAP) are long-standing concerns, and there's no way to solve for all three. I'd add latency as another major consideration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem

The general notion of managing and tracking changes locally, and pushing them to remote, has merits. I'm not aware of a "gitfs" ... though of course, one does exist, TIL: https://www.presslabs.com/code/gitfs/ The notion of using git (or other versioning system) as a mediator for remote/local revisioned access seems to have merits. Obviously not viable for very-high-variability systems, but adequate for many occasionally-modified resources.

I'm not sure if you're looking at using your WebFS itself as a publishing mechanism, though in general I think I'd recommend against doing this. For small-n peer-to-peer distribution that's probably workable, but for large-scale provisioning-and-request systems, relying on HTTP or other established transports is likely more sensible.

One area I've recognised as being particularly fraught is the whole notion of security and privacy. Providing unfiltered local access to remote resources which may change arbitrarily is a great way for allowing malware onto local systems -- your transport layer should probably implement some level of security and mounts deny direct execution of content. The fact that remote content could be copied to an executable mountpoint remains, and would make numerous attacks possible.

Similarly: access, update, write, and/or publishing actions all leak considerable information which could be of concern to specific users or organisations. Hash-based indexing (already addressed in this thread) being only one of several such vectors.
AKA the Linux scheduler isn't intended for desktop environments and applications.

Certainly that same observation drove the development of BFS / MuQSS, which unsurprisingly behaves better on his artificial benchmark than the mainline scheduler.
> I don't like this article because it doesn't sound like science

The article is specifically about the fact that the scientific community has little knowledge or consensus about this topic, but that hypotheses are being formulated and research undertaken.

This is the epitome of how science progresses in as-yet unexplored fields.

> there are quite a few people promoting pseudo-scientific ideas that can influence patients to put off effective treatments

Perhaps you should provide evidence that measures up to your own standards: what data is there to demonstrate that significant numbers of people have died of cardiovascular illness because they tried to treat serious limb swelling with just massage?

On the flipside, here's some relevant data:

– "Drug overdose deaths involving prescription opioids rose from 3,442 in 1999 to 17,029 in 2017" [1]

– "Orthopedic pain (34.8%) was the primary reason for an opioid prescription, followed by [...], back pain (14.0%), and headache (12.9%)" [2]

If it turns out that fascia-related issues are frequently a factor in these kinds of chronic pain conditions, which currently seems at least somewhat plausible, it may well turn out to be a scandal that this topic has not yet been more heavily researched, given that many people outside the pharmaceutical sector of the health industry have been talking about it for years or even decades.

[1] https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/o...

[2] https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(19)30216-8/pdf
I have been learning how to code on windows, python can be downloaded easily from their website and is a lot easier than Java
Copyright on unpublished works is typically more extensive than on published ones, because it overlaps with a sort of privacy right. In the U.S., many unpublished works are copyrighted up to 120 years after creation. The E.U. doesn't have that, but they have something called editio princeps rights, where a first publication of an unpublished work gets 20 years or so of copyright protection. Not out of line with what's happening here, so I'm not sure that there's much to complain about.
They would be enormously enriched by this alternative behaviour.

Why are you assuming that watching television isn't enriching? What makes books better?
Most everything Eamonn Keogh publishes: https://www.cs.ucr.edu/%7Eeamonn/selected_publications.htm
you may want to read Linus's answer about it
https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=189711&curpost...
Tetmon | Senior Typescript Developer | Singapore | ONSITE (VISA), REMOTE | Fulltime | tetmon.com

Tiny consulting outfit, projects are both greenfield (e.g. real estate valuation off satellite radar and hyperspectral data) and legacy (e.g. consumer banking services).

Experience is important as the work usually involves grokking either a new codebase or a new field quickly and in depth. We have a lot of Typescript work right now which we don’t have bandwidth to execute.

Some clients prefer talking to you in person, we can be there for you if you are remote, but it would be easier to be onsite.

Apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fMTwxWF3JqbIX40aQKClWMelTkr...
We need to blow a Raspberry at big tech
Update Yang Akan Dihadirkan PUBG Mobile Di 2020
Curve9767: Efficient Elliptic Curves on Microcontrollers [pdf]
I have implied no false dichotomy. I haven't said one must accept either or. I've said simply one can account for the costs implied by the OP without rejecting the sunk cost falacy.

If it helps you to think in sunk costs that's probably fine. I don't care. My point was purely that one can incorporate the kinds of concerns the OP was proposing without rejecting the "sunk cost falacy".
Can it be done in node.js under a VM so to isolate the traffic and force it to use vpn etc.
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Tiny consulting outfit, projects are both greenfield (e.g. real estate valuation off satellite radar and hyperspectral data) and legacy (e.g. consumer banking services).

Experience is important as the work usually involves grokking either a new codebase or a new field quickly and in depth. We have a lot of Typescript work right now which we don’t have bandwidth to execute.

Some clients prefer talking to you in person, we can be there for you if you are remote, but it would be easier to be onsite.

Apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fMTwxWF3JqbIX40aQKClWMelTkr...
You think the OP doesn't know this? Common. Linus was making straw men arguments as he seems to commonly do.

The measurements still show Windows trouncing Linux in reponsiveness
How Big Tech Is Turning New York into a Silicon Valley Rival
Great visualization in this post.

Could neural networks in general be compared to the way information is stored in DNA?

The encoder/decoder is in the process and the data loop would be the same as life in this metaphor. The training conditions of the NN are constrained such that it is able to store small variational changes, success accumulates by survival over many trial and error experiments. Like animals in nature DeepMind and OpenAI have shown that NN's can evolve into sophisticated local optimum solutions for specific game environments.
Same same. But just in Javascript more.
This week in KDE: late holiday presents
No. It's realizing your peers can induce a cost to you in the future whether they are acting from a rational PoV or not and incorporating that cost to your calculation.
Android Native also has hot reload, what on earth are you on about?

You get both with Android Native, layout preview and hot reloading.
I'm feeling like this is entire missing the whole world of Matrix Profiles and Time Series Chains...
I don't think the question was: "is it legal to scrape", rather: "do they like to be scraped". If they wanted to, I'm sure they could make scraping harder (more annoying). Which, I suppose, thus comes down to: is being aggregated a net plus or minus for their business. Probably "it depends" on what the aggregator does with the data. So, just to get this pun in: it then comes down to: is being aggregated a net plus or minus, IN AGGREGATE.
China’s Weakness in Foundational Technologies
> These are all technically "sunken costs"

No, they're not, they're additional factors to be considered in determining the value of the tickets to you, as compared to the value of the $500 you could get for them. The article ignores such factors, presumably for simplicity of exposition, but that doesn't mean they're not relevant. The correct rule is still to ignore sunk costs, because those are in the past; but the correct rule by no means says you should ignore relevant future impacts of your choice (like your spouse being upset because you sold the concert tickets) just because they aren't monetary.
I just wish I could convince them that specifying a monospace font is not the same as specifying an unambiguous font, and it matters because not everything is cut & pastable.

In the password fields, I don't know how anyone either writing or using a password manager doesn't consider unambiguous glyphs to be critical. It's a password manager not a greeting card designer.

They think they have solved this by specifying the font to be monospace in the password fields (maybe notes too I don't remember).

I submitted an issue complete with pictures of passowords written in monospace fonts in KeePassXC where the characters are ambiguous.

It shouldn't even require pictures to convey the problem. Once someone says "the property "monospace" and the property "unambiguous" are two dufferent properties. It's an unsafe and in fact broken assumption.", you'd think that would shed all the light necessary.

But what more do you do when tbey don't see it even WITH pictures? Fork it yet again? Just to add a config option to let the user or desktop integrator select an arbitrary font for some display fields?

What really bugs me is, they didn't say "yeah that would be better but it's hard and we don't know when anyone might get to it" No, they think it's already done.

Failing to get that idea across really made me wonder about the parts of their work that aren't so visible.
Have you considered tag based grouping? Just grouping manually is not different to the native Chrome bookmark manager...
Back in the 2010s, yes, not anymore though afaik, I assume that CDNs/traffic got cheap enough to not go that far. Microsoft actually introduced P2P update sharing with Windows Update for Windows 10, I think it's enabled by default.
I implemented tve same for ruby. With monkey patching you write normal code for writing files, but use the WebDAV protcol to write files if files had names starting with http.
X22 Report
The way to think of notarization is that it's basically the same thing as Windows Defender's Automatic Sample Submission, which sends unknown executables to Microsoft for analysis. Only instead of having the end-user's machine upload the executable the first time it's run, the developer has to upload it to Apple. (This is better from a privacy/marketing standpoint.)

In this case, the user application also had to explicitly request permission to run unsigned just-in-time-compiled code. This makes sense because macOS apps are typically written in compiled languages like Objective-C or Swift, so executing unsigned code usually means someone's doing something bad like a buffer overflow attack. Also, Apple probably wants to collect metrics on how many apps use JIT (and how) so they can restrict it more in future OS releases.

I agree that a well-implemented sandbox seems like a much better solution here.
It won’t though, will it.
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