skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is stats 101, or maybe 201: simply the first 2 principal components in a PCA.

That is acceptable as they accounted for 70% of the explained variance, as explained in the wikipedia entry.

If you want, you can also use the first 3 PC and do a 3d plot on (x,y,z) - it is rarely used as most people have problem visualizing groups with more than 2 dimensions. It could separate countries like Japan, which end up in an interesting position.

To address your second question, if there was any "cultural relativism", it would have been in the question asked.

But when you take the answers to whatever questions, do a PCA and find the PC that explain a large part of the variance, you abstract away any cultural relativism.

You could critique the name used for the axis (it depends on the correlation structure), but not the axis themselves (they comes from mathematical results)
The major Linux desktops have had this sort of thing for like 15 years. It’s usually only discovered by people who obsessively tweak their settings, though.
WSL 2 does not support GPU pass through currently. I'm not sure if Hyper V does either, but this seems like it will change soon due to Windows 10 X. There has been development where for emulated Win32 apps they do use GPU / hardware acceleration. Sadly, with the the Neo being delayed past 2020, we might not see it until next year.
Education is good for society, not just the educated.
I got that one from Drew Neil's book: Practical Vim
Zizek has a joke that since so many people own sex toys nowadays he wonders why they don't just bring them to each others' homes on dates and let the toys do their thing while the humans discuss philosophy and sip tea, and so on.
This is a pretty rich request from this particular gang of signatories. I'm sure if Trump was a D they'd be nowhere near a request like this. But to their credit, it would be good to know these figures and the timing of applications and dispersals.
I'm confused why you think a VC who generally won't see returns on a good investment for a decade or so thinks that "value lies in quarterly profits."
Despite what anyone says, the answer is none. Taxes are paying for those electronic transactions to be possible.
I think romantically of MACRO-32 and the VAX silicon it ran on. (I have a CVAX2 chip pressed into a luggage tag somewhere around here...)
IQ doesn't matter. Every child deserves opportunities to learn and grow, opportunities that match their aptitude. There's no need for an IQ test when providing that. IQ testing is just used for gatekeeping.
I agree, but also can recommend a few good shortcuts...

<c-a> = go to beginning of line

<c-e> = go to end of line

!! = repeat last command

<esc> b = move "back" one word (also <c-b> and <c-left>)

<esc> f = move "forward" one word (also <c-f> and <c-right>)

Many others exist. See `man bash` under READLINE.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, but I think this is a classic example of why self-driving is so hard. They're not bending the rules, just copying what humans do. We also predict how long a light will be yellow for, but do it naturally (if you just saw it turn from green, or it was yellow as soon as it was in your line of sight).
You can do that, but you will lose the "speed" part, obviously.
You should check this out https://github.com/ashlinchak/mdanki
How to successfully 10x influencer marketing initiatives in the age of Corona
Sweet find.

If you want to change a single line without doing a visual selection, '==' does the trick.
Give me a break! "The problem is desire." You gotta be kidding me. Perhaps the real problem is a simplistic view of the world that fails to account for the dysfunctional forces at work in our society.

Did you even notice the Republican party in Wisconsin so desperate to stay in power they demanded that voters risk infection in order to vote? Have you not noticed the divisiveness that is overwhelming our social and political institutions? Did you notice that we have a generation of young people saddled with debt, while large corporations now line up for the dole? "The problem is desire"?

Sorry, but the condescension is unconscionable.
The biggest argument for tax paid, public sector health care and education, is that it should be much cheaper for the customer when the institutions are made efficiently and not for-profit.

A quality education does not have to cost more than $10-20k to produce (per student). So why are current prices in the $100-200k range?
Interesting that Andreesen mentions Milton 'Shock Doctrine' Friedman. I recently read 'don't be evil' by Rana Foroohar about big tech and 'Goliath' by Matt Stoller, the 100 year battle between monopoly power and democracy in the USA.
I believe we are a dangerous point in history - look at how the Amazon/Bezos monopoly has become even more dominant in the last few weeks of soft martial law, with online orders permissible while countless small businesses are shuttered.
Just in time supply chains and quarterly profits worship have hollowed out holding inventory, which is why there are no medical gowns. Meanwhile China is effectively what the USA used to be economically.
Valley VCs invest heavily in businesses they believe will dominate a vertical and crush competition for maximum profit. This is monopoly power personified.
2nd Century BC Chinese Linear Algebra
> I have a habit of changing my blog URL and software a lot and I’ve lost a great many posts over the years.
DBeaver is my go to free option as well, but I am a big Table Plus fan as well.

The thing I think it gives you is a smooth, frictionless workflow. The UI is simple & uncluttered. Everything you need for the most common tasks is easy to find.
NYC and SF have roughly similar sized city budgets when measured on a per capita basis and they had _wildly_ different responses to Coronavirus. Whatever it was that causes such different responses, I don't think it was "political movements who want to drown government in a bathtub."
Lift it with starship
That doesn't sound right? In 2018 there were, according to Geoff Huston, days with 700,000 updates per day. That sounds high for handshakes/second.
This was fascinating. I'd condense the overall sentiment to, "Pleasure is desireable and pain is inevitable. When and where do you get pleasure and avoid pain?" Also, these definitions are different than the common definitions. Here's a rough digest:

Psychopaths: I don't care about rules, types, or beauty, just get it done (JS)

Obsessives: a little monotony now avoids a lot of pain later (go, java)

Masochists: Look at how disciplined I am! (C)

Sadists: Look at how impotent everyone else is! (perl, regex)

Hysterics: Look at how beautiful this code is! (python)

Fetishists: Have you tried more X? (objects, abstractions, types) (smalltalk, erlang)

Melancholy: Oh, I miss the days when I could write an entire application in 200 lines of Lisp...
I got a Zoom haircut – Looking at things closer, fidelity when working from home
Being able to separate the object and signature saves tons of trouble https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/24/how-not-to.html
Not sure what your line of business is or what your employees do, but when working with teams of devs, the day is made up out of focused work, small tech meetings and maybe a bigger meeting. Remote or local makes little difference with us here. Outside those, which need to be more or less synchronised, the rest are deliverables. Some days I am done in 2 hours or I just am unproductive (slept badly, cannot be arsed, nothing works anymore after a minor react native update, whatever the reason); some days code is flowing and I stand behind my desk 17 hours (like today). My colleagues are like that as well, at least by far most of them. With your regime, I would be frustrated on both occasions.

I do not understand (and that does not mean you are wrong; maybe there is no wrong or I am) how anyone conflates hours with productivity; you want me to do tasks a1-a10 this week; why is it relevant if I do those Thursday night in 16 hours or 40 hours spread over the week? As long as they get done and done well right? I cannot think which type of work would not work like that but cannot think of any so how is it related to ‘hours behind the screen’? I have tried these things in the past as well with my colleagues over the years and the ‘bums on seats’ only invites people to work slower (to fill the time and not have to do more work) which in turn indeed invites the use of spyware to see if they are working.

Now we have tasks; if some superhuman does them in 5 minutes instead of 40 hours; glory to her. Obviously that does not happen, but 30 vs 40 does sometimes and that is fine with me; stuff gets delivered, people are happy. I also have a few guys who get nothing done one week and over-perform the next; as long as I know that, it is fine. Weekly sprints are overrated anyway imho.
I used to think the same thing until all of these people downvoted us. Maybe we are wrong?
> We don't have it because building these things requires long term investments and folks like Marc and his investors are not interested in long term investments.

I don't know where you get this from but as far as VC goes a16z are especially willing to take long-term bets. Case in point, when we pitched them, we explicitly said it's going to take us a decade to achieve our goals and they were okay with that.
That is the one I was alluding to as well in point #3. It is pretty hard to prove that there was collusion in this case without throwing Voldemort (one-who-must-not-be-named) under the bus. But I'm fairly certain now that I don't want to continue with either of these companies. Shame though. I really liked the job and the teams.
If a computer is going to disobey my instructions it should be extremely sure it's doing the right thing. 100ms is too long a threshold to make that assumption. 100ms repetition interval is only 10Hz, which is easily accomplished in short bursts by anybody with moderate skill in button mashing. I'd set it no higher than 50ms (20Hz), which is very difficult even in short bursts.
You can also use evdev or Barrier.
Voice fake can copy timbre but not intonation or many other stylistic features.
Made in the UK (Yes It can be done outside china) Open Source, cheap-as, solid documentation and friendly community. Whats not to like
You have the details right. I think it's fair to say that the protocol is very leaky with its metadata right now. In a local network, it would be wise to only exchange announcements with trusted devices. In the global network, it would be wise to introduce some kind of proxy (distributed or not).
I’m thinking some people pulled strings to get discharged early. South Korea is sequestering people in hospitals if they’re positive, and that’s not exactly a fun experience.
Again, I assume you've never experienced this. Storms can come up fast in the mountains and be very localized. As I, and the previous poster mentioned, it can be more dangerous to stop sometimes.
Maybe the concept would be more accepted if the nation didn't have a legacy of intentionally depriving tens of millions of citizens of education based on the color of their skin, and if elites didn't grow up to hoard the nation's wealth for themselves and disregard the needs of the majority. Trustworthiness matters.
Formula 1 faces difficult decision to restart racing
Thank you, because you wrote this, I too now understand what they meant. My train of thought was apparently on the same track as yours!
> There is the widely reported disengagement per mile, but most robotics people know it is just smoke and mirrors meant to make the regulators go away

Are you saying that the numbers are inaccurately reported, or accurately reported but just don't tell the whole story?
lvh at Latacora wrote a blog post about this problem.

https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/24/how-not-to.html
Your r has a different type.
Hmmm, that depends on the virtualisation solution being used.

If someone's using (say) VMware Workstation or Fusion, if they've loaded the VMware tools into the VM it can share the clipboard and be configured with access to the hosts filesystem (at defined points).
I expect a decently big infrastructure spending bill in the near future. It was even one of Trump's campaign promises and interest rates are near zero. I'm fiscally conservative, but I've seen the evidence from Southern Europe that Austerity is not the way forward. Many Southern European countries still have not fully recovered their GDP from 2008. I see many people weary about the future and I think it would do us wonders to see people excited to create a future with Sci-Fi level transportation, advanced manufacturing and cheap, abundant and renewable energy.
Overly long debounces are frustrating and 100ms is kinda questionable in that regard. And honestly if I wanted debouncing I'd get a mouse that did that.
Hmm. What do you see as being incorrect here, and what's your justification?

My 1982 paper dictionary agrees with Wiki sources that you can use the word "cobble" either as a short form of cobblestone, or as a verb for paving streets with such stones.

You can also use a different word, written the same, "cobble" for a now largely obsolete trade and some related things but this document clearly has nothing to do with those so that can't be what you mean.

In Minecraft "cobble" is certainly understood to be short for cobblestone. A "cobblegen" is either an arrangement of materials (lava, water, something heat resistant) so as to cause the game to make and replace cobblestone blocks when you mine them out, so as to obtain unlimited amounts of this building material, or in modded Minecraft it's a more compact machine which makes this material, perhaps in very large quantities indeed, and maybe related materials like sand.
Weird, they told me "it would take too long for that to work."
> I wonder how much of the responsiveness of iOS is due to the hardware.

It's all software.
And Timothy Leary benefited from a practical application of his own psychological test, the "Leary Interpersonal Behavior Inventory": he used it to break out of jail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary#Legal_troubles

>On January 21, 1970, Leary received a 10-year sentence for his 1968 offense, with a further 10 added later while in custody for a prior arrest in 1965, for a total of 20 years to be served consecutively. On his arrival in prison, he was given psychological tests used to assign inmates to appropriate work details. Having designed some of these tests himself (including the "Leary Interpersonal Behavior Inventory"), Leary answered them in such a way that he seemed to be a very conforming, conventional person with a great interest in forestry and gardening. As a result, he was assigned to work as a gardener in a lower-security prison from which he escaped in September 1970, saying that his non-violent escape was a humorous prank and leaving a challenging note for the authorities to find after he was gone.
Had an Ubuntu touch phone. It was ok as a GuI for an OS but the lamest thing was they locked down the package manager so u could only install stuff from their App Store with like nothing in or you escalated privileges and any customization u made (apt-get packages, system changes) got wiped with each update.
They seriously failed to support a real Linux OS for mobile.
The reason why turnout is so poor in American elections is that the candidates suck. We refuse to play in a charade of false consensus by holding our noses and voting for the candidate who sucks marginally less.
UPS, was not aware. Thanks both!
US spending on public education at the K-12 level is close to 15k per year. Your assertion that removing the profit from the system will lead to significantly lower costs is not supported by the data.

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=66
He is referring to the fact that Kiwi is based on a mix of different Chromium versions of 2019.
Chromium does new release almost every month. It's difficult to keep track of Chromium modifications with such large forks (and Chromium had lot of performance issue at the end of 2019 too with stuttering and lags).

UCBrowser for example is an engine of 2017, Samsung Internet from 2019, etc
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This is my only real complaint with DBeaver.

You have to invalidate / refresh the DB connection so often and this is really an issue when you use Docker in development.

If you do a docker-compose stop and then docker-compose up, your PostgreSQL connection will drop which means you need to reset it in DBeaver manually.
Also, here's an essay I really like written more from a tech/software engineer perspective about how to align your career towards building (with an emphasis on building our way out of the climate crisis):
http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange

I've pivoted my career to working on the Julia programming language, because of its focus on science and engineering (_building things!_) rather than what I used to be doing in the software world (e.g. my past job at google), squeezing out more dollars from advertising.
https://julialang.org/
This is a fantastic idea, and great execution. Congratulations on a winner, Andrew!
I think it's the airline food problem. If you poll people on what the airline should serve in flight, everyone says healthy. When you serve healthy, everyone complains, demanding a cheeseburger or pizza.
I use Emacs in no small part because of elisp... Oh dear.
What Lessons Will Our Children Learn from COVID19. and Will They Be Useful Ones?
Have you tried zsh with histdb? It's been an absolute gamechanger. Having a complete, precise, and effectively infinite history is like a second brain.

I know not everyone is on the zsh train, but it might be able to be ported to bash (it's just pre-hooks and some sqlite)

https://github.com/larkery/zsh-histdb
> He was an expert as much as anyone.

Did he ever make that claim for himself? I certainly remember him saying the opposite.
All the recent outbreaks of viruses like this have originated from East Asia.

I really wouldnt give much praise to the great governing elite that failed to prevent this in the first place, despite scientists telling them about it a long time ago.
Are you familiar with the methodology used?

> The fact that Europe and it’s colonies (with around a tenth of the worlds population) fill up half of the map hints at some Eurocentrism

It reads to me like "results of a 2d plot using matrix multiplication do not match my biases, it hints at some Eurocentrism"

But to answe the question, No, it just means there is more variance there in whatever cultural values where measured, then analysed by PCA.

I will try to give you similar counter intuitive examples.

Likewise, Africa has more genetic variance than the rest of the world, even when adjusted by population. It does not mean anything, except that there are more separate groups who did not intermingle much there.

If I remember correctly, Papua New Guinea has the most genetic distance to the rest of the world. It does not mean anything either, except that it's far away to the rest of the world, so had fewer contacts.

> Shoving all of Asia and all of Africa into tiny equally sized corners is quite strange.

No, it means that both 1st and 2nd PC had close values. Maybe if you look at the answers to the questions themselves, there would be little variance.

What is interesting is that we can make cultural clusters while we wouldn't have expected any to remain after PCA.

It shows geography impacts the diffusion of cultural values, which is fascinating - and more so for the exceptions, like Uruguay.
Hoon is a sadistic language implemented by a hysterical personality.
This should be printed and sent to his office once a day. This is exactly my frustration as well. It is rather hard for people like Marc to look in the mirror because it is in their personal interest not to do so. It is clear that his class has failed us more than politicians or any other faction of society.

Unfortunately though, he will never accept this and see the failure as, at least, partly his own. He will not change his ways and nor will the rest of his peers. Because, once again, it is in their short term personal interest not to do so.

For a "tech visionary and investor", that short term thinking is one hell of a pathetic attribute to have.
I can think of 1

It used to be very expensive to travel between US cities because a govt agency (forget the name, maybe the board of air travel?) set the who what how could fly planes from a to b, and at what price. Think mad men times, panAm, etc.

That agency was eliminated circa 1980 by some stroke of luck and perfect alingment of planets. Ticket prices plummeted and this opened flying to the poor.

That was also the last time a US regulatory agency was disbanded.
But you're right in that 99% of VCs and investors in general think short term. Very high time preference.
I'm confused. Are you asserting that driving in actual traffic in the rain is easier than navigating a parking lot in the rain? Yes, several of us generalized the issue. I don't see why that is troubling.
Having been through the VC wringer I don't think you can be unprofitable for a decade.
>The problem is desire. We need to want these things.

Good luck generating the want. You don't have insurance nerds like computer nerds. You can't open your insurance plan, hack it to bits, and then put it back together in an interesting fashion and start your own business with it. You can't iterate and break stuff in insurance like you can with software. Even if you removed all of the regulatory capture, companies in those kinds of industries only come down to profit.

Insurance is boring. What are you going to do, make a $10/month health insurance plan that covers everything? You'll be popular, then broke. But that's what America really deserves: essentially free healthcare. The problem beyond regulatory capture is capitalism at its core because capitalism doesn't like anything given away for free.
> Institutions, companies and governments can't bother to edit from a VPN, or from a tethered cell phone?

IP addresses are masked if using a registered account. It would be interesting to cross-reference those except Wikipedia don't gave this out.

I do know I opted-out of Wikipedia after being censured for posting the birth date of a deceased individual. In violating of privacy policy or some such WP:bla bla bla. The terms of which are impossible for the average individual to decode. A fortnite later the information was inserted by some senior administrator. I guess all Wikipedians are equal, except some are more equal than others.
That reason being capturing the market by means of regulation.
> Weren't IQ tests basically determined to be modern-day phrenology long ago?

Nope. (Well, there are people who believe that, but there are also people who believe that vaccines cause autism.) As a scientific consensus, the concept IQ is well supported by psychometric research.

The individual IQ tests, of course, may contain mistakes. And any online test is most likely completely made up.

> Has there been any progress on measuring intelligence in a less biased fashion?

Of course there was progress in reducing bias in tests. For example, older IQ tests often contained questions about history, which is more an evidence of cultural background than of raw intelligence. Or verbal tasks, which disadvantage people who don't take the test in their first language. Modern tests are more about patterns, see e.g. Raven's Progressive Matrices. Yes, even this can be discriminatory against e.g. blind people. It's not perfect, but there is definitely a progress.
My Logs, for the last 30 days, domains validated with DNSSEC was 5.34%.
In general, it feels that ISPs like to be slow adopting standards, e.g. IPv6 it is still rolling.
csagan5: I give all the code of a large project, for anyone to use, with detailed and functional build instructions.

I don't ask for anything in return, and you can do basically what you want with it.

Ok, you repeat on this thread that your own browser (Bromite) is better and so on essentially spreading FUD, but for what result ?

We both have something else to do than spending time on that.