skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was going to say there are a lot more religious groups than c or j, your joke goes back to the interesting thesis here. I call it keeping up with the "Joneses".

It's definitely something I see in the world, in my own behavior at times. But it's not my only motivation in life. I have things I like to do that no one else around me does, internal motivation. I'm hopefully not doing them in some subconscious comparison to others that exist a 1,000 miles away. My interest in certain unproved math. problems, or space research, or porn, or skiing or cats or whatever - I can have my own desires. I don't buy it that intrinsically I am unlikely to have no uniqueness.
That is the right format but 'normal people' assume context first so the 12th of January without further context indicates the present year and the 12th of January 2019 or just '19 is enough to disambiguate. The ISO date code was created with computers in mind (sort order) but real people are not computers and besides that there are quite a few other date systems in the world so it is biased to Gregorian anyway.
The year is completely ambiguous, could easily be changed from 20 to 2019, 2018, 20anything! ️
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Seems like a joke, to think that people still use cheques somewhere... like what the fuck
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Most documentation is so bad and so often out-of-date that I can answer my question faster by reading the source (or tests).

Everything is so extremely verbose. I don't want to read a 7 paragraph essay about how this or that feature was developed and evolved over time; I just need a one line hint and maybe an example. Believe it or not, your software is not special. We've seen something like it before and get the gist already. I like the style of man pages, where everything is on one page and organized by the flag, i.e. actual usage (puts a hard limit on meandering bullshittery).
Yeah, the thing about this stuff is the "law is so vague as to be meaningless" and "encryption/AI/whatever is just executing operations on a computer, what do you mean really?" are much harder defenses than one would think.
I don't deal with PCI personally, so $0.02, but we're talking retail or unattended devices here.

I.e. low wage, minimal training, not technically proficient users with unsupervised physical access to the machine

A machine through which a large amount of cash (virtual or otherwise) flows.

The criteria of (a) being updatable by a semi-technical customer & (b) being secure against technically malicious or socially engineered ignorance attacks seem challenging to simultaneously satisfy.
Ask HN: There is too much content. How can we synthesize it?
Would it be possible to:

- extract semantics

- use canonical entities

- break down complex arguments

- merge duplicates

- quantify agreement, engagement, support, views, likes, shares

- ignore spam

- ignore false information

- ignore outdated information

I waste too much time reading the same information twice, mentally keeping count of recommendations/opinions, reading outdated/debunked information, filtering out irrelevant content, consuming more new content/conversation than old (but still relevant) ones, etc. I waste even more time repeating things others or myself have already expressed before.

Finding the right content today is a lottery. I would like to talk about how we can change that.
Weekly/Monthly billing means you can never take a vacation. And if you're going to suggest pro-rated weekly billing well that's just daily or hourly billing isn't it?
Relevant discussion starts at 14:00 (15:47 to skip the intro).
Interesting approach, is this documented in a blog post or tutorial somewhere where something similar is done?
> The last few books I read were mostly filled with fluff, anecdotes, stories, jokes, and trivialities. Even if I wanted to read books, I just don't know which ones I should start with, out of the 1000 "must-read" books in my reading list.

Lindy effect should help. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_Effect)

Start with classics. Or at least with books that have been out for a few years and are still talked about.

That's how I pick what to read.
You're discounting energy use. This is a bad strategy on a battery powered device.
I personally prefer to spell out the first three letters of the name of the month to reduce ambiguity, this works well across all regions in the world I do business with.
Nope sorry, still using Apache 2. :-|
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Even Einstein was wrong about some things, that is no argument.

But yes, fiducial marks probably don't work well here due to too many variables.
I wouldn't call closed control loop "AI", but you need some control to deal with unpredictable ground heave/subsidence.
Is that implementation open source? Don’t remember which dyld contains it.
Isn't that the point, that you might think 11/Dec/20 is unambiguous, but it is easily converted to 11/Dec/2011
Why not? Just build rules about who gets to vote. It may include certain minimum level of education and/or income and/or property. So that people who are able to decide for themselves, and have a stake in the game, get to vote.
I would like to add something: Some books are written to get sold too. Some books in self-help and business fall into this category, most of them lose money, but a few make it out. Sometimes publishers publish trash when they know it, just because it's a book doesn't mean it's a good one.
The urban/rural innovation divide is not as deep as you think
Don't miss the author's second installment to this series. Navigate to the index of the blog to see part 2 at the top.
> So you admit that increasing the block size by 10x would solve the current congestion/fees problem without needing the complexity and changed incentive structure of the Lightning network,

I don't think so. That also requires a faster cycling of transactions than the current 10 minute round. But yes, obv a larger number of transactions can fit into the block so throughput will increase.

> 30 TB blockchain (which would fit on two hard drives, which many consumers have)

1) I don't know if you understand who "consumers" are. 30 TB is far, faaaaaar away from what a normal consumer has. Most of us have a laptop at most and that limits us to 1 TB storage. I personally have a lot of cloud storage, but I'm not the average consumer. I'm highly tech savvy compared to the normal person. So go out and talk to people not in tech and see what their tech specs look like. If they can't match up to you, they still need to be able to process transactions.

2) I didn't say it doesn't need a 30TB blockchain. You're completely misunderstanding my point. I'm saying your glib observation of "oh it's 300GB now, it can scale up to 3TB if it's bigger" is highly ill informed. If you push it only 1 order of magnitude, you're going from 3TB to 30TB and it becomes untenable. Now instead if it was 10KB and scaled to 10MB, it obv makes no difference even with 3 orders of magnitude.

3) You're also not understanding the larger picture. If all transactions in history have to be stored in the blockchain, it requires scaling to become less than linear (or at max, linear) to keep up with consumer storage expectations. It doesn't matter what the size of the blockchain is now (as long as it's within say 1TB that the average consumer can access). It matters how big it gets when there are billions of transactions flowing through it every day. So by that account, even 250GB is a very big number because once we hit billions of transactions, unless the relationship is inverse exponential, we'll breach limits long before touching that point.

> You're trying to prevent a problem that won't exist

The problem that won't exist of billions of transactions passing through the blockchain? Possibly if we had off chain solutions, yes. Which we do in very early stages. If not, the problem is very very real.
Yes, it could be. That's why all proper legal documents will have the date spelled out in its entirety, the numbers are just a shorthand, ditto with monetary amounts.
allowing easy update over usb is its own thread model, lessened with only allowing signed updates. Like almost everything, it's likely these parking meters have terrible security design. the parking meter I use commonly is incredibly slow, every button push takes 1/2 a second to update the small lcd ui, I really wonder what it can be doing to be so slow. It's probably using multiple levels of interpolation to run a js program or something.
Is there a good, up to date source on the relevant UI/UX research? I went looking for some the other day and found a combination of opinion, dogma and unreplicated research.
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Like every piece of anecdata, it varies. I have a unicomp with PS/2 adapter from ... at least a decade ago; before they even made one with "Windows" keys. Maybe longer. It works as good today as it did then.
Little endian is obviously heretic, in left-to-right languages.
It's 62,000 free only if the emails are being sent from an EC2 instance, else it is $0.10 for every 1,000 emails you send.
I would note that the first letter of "ASCII" stands for "American".
TFA? Tried to google but unsuccessful
That doesn’t make it ok. It’s just the Overton Window[0]. Say something ridiculous so what you really want is deemed “not as bad.”

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
(1) stop using checks already

I always find it interesting how people of a certain age, and especially in technology bubbles, enjoy restricting their options so much, as if there is some kind of nobility in giving themselves fewer choices and less freedom in life.

Best tool for the job is on Windows? No way, I only use bespoke FrotzOS distributions on a laptop I built myself from parts I reflowed in my co-living oven.

One of the best movies of all time is on TV tonight? No way, I only watch video if it comes in an internet stream, and only from services I have to tunnel through three VPNs to reach.

Write a check? No way, I only use the Spltzit app for finances, even though it's not accepted everywhere.

Checks are a thing, and will remain a thing for many more decades, or even longer. Get used to it.
How can you confuse 31-12-2019 ?
It's interesting to consider that humans are computers made from DNA too.
> I call it Paleo design

Go for it. Come up with some rules + create some examples + market the hell out of it + charge for training classes = profit!
It depends.

From my perspective, reading a book has a different quality. In general, you spend more time on a subject and the content is often a bit deeper than online articles.

On the other hand, if you want to learn some skill, you need to practice it and for programming, it is a lot easier to practice it while you sit in front of a computer ;-)

So asking if books are worth it, is like asking if the internet is worth it. There are good pages and bad ones and similarly, there are incredible books and boring ones.
That is why the real date will be spelled out, typically like this: January the twentieth of the year two thousand and twenty or something to that effect. We're talking legal documents here, they don't take chances with those. The date shorthand is just that: a shorthand.

Any serious contract / deed / legal doc I have signed so far has followed that convention, the century being the optional one. The fact that there are always multiple signed copies of such documents, other supporting documents (communications, email) and that fraud in writing is punished quite severely seems to have kept me safe so far.
The people in the self-help section need something else. Those things (philosophy, literature, history and science) are the luxury of folks who aren't struggling with e.g. depression, abuse, drugs & alcohol, co-dependency, etc.

It's a little like, "Have you tried not having a broken leg?"

Honestly, you're lucky if the only personal problems you have can be solved by philosophy, literature, history and science.

(I had crippling depression for many years and was cured in a single session of hypnotherapy by a guy who publishes "self-help" books, so, while YMMV, I'm a lil defensive. I'm sure he meant well.)
Go hang out at your local library for a day.
Mandatory link and strong recommendation: https://xkcd.com/1179/
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The (forementioned) article, I would imagine.
If to the layman, "brace for cyberattacks" means essentially nothing, why issue that as a general warning?

My suspicion is that warnings about cyberattacks are going to be the new "credible threat of terrorism", i.e. a way to fearmonger at the uppermost levels of government in order to raise support for "kinetic warfare", but I hope not.
Checks are only a thing in the US because there is no proper banking infrastructure. Here in the EU we can transfer money person-to-person, person-to-business and business-to-business instantly between a very large variety of banking institutions spanning 10's of countries. No need for routing instructions, correspondent banks, transfer accounts or any of that bs, and it's cheap to boot.

There is absolutely no reason why the United States could not do the same, in fact it would be easier there. Payment systems in the United States are archaic and error prone. They also tend to offload the risk of fraud onto the consumers/merchants and I suspect that plus the fees are the bigger reasons why the banks are reluctant to get their act together.
I'm currently working on a solution for Instagram influencers and I'm reaching out to digital marketing companies to partner with on this. We would split the revenue so this would be beneficial for both parties.

It would be great if you could put me in touch with your wife. Here's my contact link:
https://contact.do/toni

Thanks!
> so called 'normal people' ... context first ... indicates the present year

If I refer to 12th of January during Christmas, do I refer to the one that is just a few weeks away or the one that is in the present year?
Where are you getting this from? The only psychedelic I've ever seen people take before clubbing is 2CB.

Festivals are different because there is lots of space. Clubs are too compact and contained for LSD, can make people claustrophobic.
I'd love for this meme not to take hold on HN. Thank you.
Definitely. I'm currently reading The Reading Life, a collection of C.S. Lewis' musings on reading, and I couldn't recommend a better set of arguments for the value of books in general (though it does have a humanities flavor).

As others have noted, the stuff you find online usually isn't nearly as deep or interesting as what you'll get out of sticking with a good book, nor is the reading experience the same. For historical reasons, the way we consume text on a computer is rather sporadic. The internet, generally speaking, is a giant distraction machine; it's not meant for deep reading. Maybe one day it can be, but not today. Of course, your mileage may vary.
Many countries have phased out checks. Others only have them as a legacy option. The change happened really fast.
This isn’t reddit. Replies don’t “bump” posts.
In my experience fraternities and Chinese students would hoard previous semester exams and resources within their in-group. This heavily skewed the curve and solidified a sense of me versus them
Yeah, I've been thinking of saying that for a couple days :)
10-11-2019 and 11-10-2019
Could you give us a summary, or a reason to bother listening to it?
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The aForementioned Article

the F is usually something else though ...
Why not ban heuristics altogether?
Are you seriously trying to distinguish different flavors of shit? Seriously claiming that Denuvo is not harmful hostile software?
As grim as this may sound: it is in fact the original meaning of the word.

The words we are more likely to associate with the setup would be "oligarchy" or "plutocracy".
Was and is. It's even in a song lyric.

Been around the world and found /
That only stupid people are breeding /
The cretins cloning and feeding /
And I don't even own a TV

https://genius.com/Harvey-danger-flagpole-sitta-lyrics
This example was totally made-up.

In my experience related to the type of arrangement you're describing - in reality (at least anecdotally speaking) the helmets are often not worn, or the colors are not enforced, or the colors don't get picked up due to poor quality video.

I deal mostly with third-world countries so safety standards are not always the best.
> shader-based flow simulation for path finding

Are you aware of any real world examples that implement this? I've seen a few research papers over the years, but nothing beyond a rough proof of concept. As a fellow TA fan disappointed by SupCom and every other RTS since, this sounds tempting.
Tried to watch the demo video, it asked for my email first. That tells so much about the business and the fact it's better to stay far away from it.
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When I was a kid I was an obsessive reader, and a teacher basically forbid me from reading anything not from the Classic section of the high school library. Before elementary ended, I'd finished reading all the books they had in their Classics. (Understanding them at that age is a whole separate issue, BTW.) But my point being, the Classics are considered "a classic" for very serious reasons, and unless you really cannot get into a writer's voice after effort, each and every "Classic" is worth reading in a major way. I suggest starting with the Nobel Literature winners.
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It's not black or white like the author is suggesting, you need to give context in most cases which means a good introduction before jumping into the meat of the matter.
Again, that is a context thing. If you are talking about your sons upcoming birthday that would be the nearest one. I rarely see people referring to events by the exact date if it isn't some momentous occasion (9/11 ... but what year?), or to plan something.

If you typically refer to all days of the year past when the upcoming one is very close then you'd probably make that plain with some note on context. If not you might find yourself with an unscheduled party on your hands :)
Not sure, but they definitely did it in 2012, back when it was considered cool and forward-looking, to the point of bragging about it in interviews[0].

I don’t blame them for doing it at all, but i definitely feel uneasy about a lot of democrats blaming 2016 elections on cambridge analytica and acting like their party didn’t do it themselves, while also bragging about it publicly.

Note: I neither support nor am affiliated with the republican party whatsoever. I also don’t think that cambridge analytica scandal affected the 2016 election outcome in any significant way.

0. https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/facebook-data-...
"There’s evidence of really quite disturbing experiments on American voters, manipulating them with fear-based messaging, targeting the most vulnerable, that seems to be continuing. This is an entire global industry that’s out of control"

Lets be clear this is the explicit purpose of the advertising and public relations industry.

1. Create Art (writing, multimedia etc...) intended to influence viewer

2. Distribute Art via Large Scale Channels

3. Hope that people exposed to it take the action you want them to

For Coca-cola they want you to "Buy Coke"

For AirBnB they want you to book a stay

For Politicians they want you to vote for them

Politicians have always used the media channels of the day to advertise themselves. So it's extremely unclear what is news here aside from the fact that Politicians are following Corporate levels of sophistication for advertising.

I think what it really shows is that Advertising in total is a toxic and corrupting business and should be banned outright for all things.
Why? And dont you sort of know the population skews a certain way given the platform you choose (guessing quora differs from bing which differs from coupons in the mail)?

Restated, and this might be so off base and tangential that maybe it's not worth answering, but if you were say....something reasonable like a dentist. And you were fairly far along in your practice and had tenure. Let's say in that case your "list" represents a fairly not insignificant amount of the people around you. Say 5%? 10%? Whatever is reasonable.

Even in that case the algorithm is better?
While I agree with your point, I don't agree with the idea, that the engineers there are some Dickensian exploited workers struggling to feed their starving family. Those are white collar middle class employees mostly.
Seth's blog is arguably one of the most popular blogs of all time, so it's not a "random blog".

The fact that you haven't heard of it says more about you than the blog.
Unless you plan to use one format until 12th of each Month and a different format between 13th and 31st, your objection doesn't seem relevant.
> People are going to misuse any design guideline -- that doesn't say anything about the guidelines themselves.

I think it says a lot. Just like with diet plans, compliance rates are important in design guidelines. It’s not good enough to say “my guidelines are great if followed strictly” when no one seems to follow them strictly.
The (Fuc|Frea)king Article. In a similar spirit to RTFM.
I wish I could live a simple life like you.

Want to buy some land? Get ready to write a check to some person or government agency along the way.

Want to transfer money from your account in bank to another with zero fees? Write a check.

Want to start a business? Expect to write a check along the way.

Want to stay in a hotel in some of the world's most interesting places? Cash or travelers checks. Credit card, if you're lucky, but then with a big fee, and they might not have internet.

The real world isn't all online. It isn't all electronic. It isn't Star Trek.
Reading ability don't stop at the level where everybody agrees that you can read. You can develop it much more. If you read very little and read short pieces in the internet, you may never develop it full.

First you should practice it with something relatively easy before you dwell into classics and must read. Read a lot whatever you want, quality does not matter.
I was surprised at how true some of them are, at least in very general terms - they got a lot of the broad trends correct, while the actual implementation was unimaginable.
If you watch the interview, the founder of the company never uses the word AI. He uses the words "software" and "computer controlled". However, he does say "yes" when the interviewer asks "So you use AI?".
TFA is Slashdot jargon for "The F'ing Article".
Good points, thanks.

Followup question: how does a node coming online know not to trust China's (longer, censoring) chain? It wasn't online to have the transaction in its mempool, so it doesn't know to check for it in the longest chain.

I think it would need to check all candidate blocks with lower heights to see if their chains contain any transactions that aren't in a longer chain.

What happens if I mine off of a very old block and include my own transaction in it, and present it to you... how do you distinguish between what I just did vs the longer chain having censored the transaction this whole time?
Do you accuse people of the obvious a lot? Because manipulative ads seem to be the lingua franca of us politics.
If I don't call for someone to be ousted from their field/career then it means I accept all of their behaviors? You do realize by that logic, you have condoned a neverending list of bad behavior by anyone who has done something wrong (which, newsflash, is pretty much every human being) where you haven't called for their ouster? You may want to rethink this.
Is there any language/locale/whatever that both (1) uses Arabic numerals and (2) does not sort the numerals in the same way ASCII does?