skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fully agree with the premise that humanities aren't a science. In fact I am fairly certain that the current paradigm of science can not work for at least history, though I strongly suspect most of the humanities.

One of the problems is computability, when I try to build statistics on a space of human intentions, then I strongly suspect that this is at least as complicated as trying to build a measurable space atop the set of all Turing machines, and there I get immediately the issue of computability. (For example, calculating the average run time of halting Turing machines.) So, then assuming that one can meaningful build a statistic (just the claim that this is possible) will doom any too formal reasoning, by principle of explosion.
I’m familiar with ghost writing, but its mere existence does not support the claim that 90% of C-suite blog posts are ghost written.
Why can't they show multiple options similar to the clear type calibration tool in windows? Approximate 6 different colors, user selects the one that matches their eyes best.

You could even offer a pro account and send out a camera to monitor to eye calibration postcard that starts with a known input.

For sure not impossible given that was 2 minutes of thought, someone closer to the product already has better ideas I'm sure.
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You are right, Zoom was a right place right time thing. Doesn’t bother me other people saying it, but I’ve never used Zoom once, nor do I have any plans to, so I don’t see it making it into my vocabulary.

I don’t get it either, but Animal crossing was already one of the most beloved and best selling franchises in Nintendo history, so the pandemic didn’t really do much there, except give people more time at home to play and crack the code faster!
Now if only we could add the shitty office snacks and bitter as hell coffee, it would be just like normal
Was it beyond Oppenheimer's intellect and imagination to comprehend what he was doing? Sort of like nazi Germany having no idea what was happening to the jews?
I don't think the author is arguing for a banishment of certain authors "to qualitative methods." The problem described in the article is one I frequently see in Silicon Valley - ok, a couple of engineers build a thing. Note how they didn't start from asking "what is a real problem?" No, they built some tool/app. Now they spend several investment cycles trying to find "product market fit" by attempting to find some place in the market where that thing solves a real problem. This very rarely works as a business strategy - you first need to find a real problem and then build a tool that solves that problem.

Problem -> so what? (we build a solution) -> real business.

Now, replace "app" with "mathematical modeling," and you'll start to feel the author's gripe.

I do think the author is right to ask - what is the point? So what? What are you trying to do with those mathematical models? What problem are you solving? For instance, we have the hypothesis that the researchers of the British paper posited:

> the relative likelihood that certain stories are originally based in real-world events

Based on:

>looking at the (very complicated) mathematics of social networks

So, we have a tool - that tool is looking at the mathematics of social networks. Does high fidelity between models of social networks predict "realness?" Does a certain model of a social network described in the relationships of protagonists in a book suggest that book's events are accurate historical ones?

No, right? Then why is that step glossed over when the researchers go ahead and start modeling anyway?
Thank you (author).
This was a written version of a live tutorial I have my peers.

It's always challenging to translate shell focused teaching in prose but I'm glad it struck a chord.
Makes me think of the joke on "Big Bang Theory" (which am almost ashamed to admit enjoying):

Caricatured dumb humanities major: "That's what I love about math, there's no one right answer!"
Given that you were a child in the United States at the time the UK rail system was privatized, what are you basing this opinion on?
I always try to lead through example.
The first paper she studies sounds interesting. Regression analysis on vocabulary has been used to identify authors of work whose authorship had been lost or to find context of where and in what circumstances certain authors grew up.

Mathematical analysis of linguistics has pointed to. Irrational patterns later confirmed by genetic analysis.

I don’t mind pointing out the vacuity of what often passes for scholarship. But she didn’t start with a good example.
It doesn't look like HElib implements TFHE, though. Are BGV and CKKS equally fast?
Could you elaborate on how it's been an improvement? I always thought it'd be overkill for regular business calls.
Nintendo does stuff like this because you can't say No to your boss in a Japanese company.

If you look at the last few decades you can see horrible ideas executed at a professional level.

Whenever I see a Nintendo Ad, I'm thinking to myself, those poor regional Marketing department have to sell this. Then again, Nintendo knows to advertise primarily to children, so maybe it's not that hard.
Backwards compatibility against a previous set of features isn't easy but it's certainly not impossible and graceful degradation is a thing.
It's hard to track them down if they don't have the ID number, so the penalty must be very high. Get fired from the force; loss of pension, large fine, etc.
I did this pretty regularly and when a routine blood test showed my serum vitamin D at the top of the range, I was told to lay off the daily 5000 IU vitamin D, there is indeed such a thing as too much.
There is already a recommendation in place, it’s 15 micrograms per milliliter. This regulatory proceeding was about establishing a NPDWR, which triggers a whole host of new requirements. Once a NPDWR is created for a chemical, it flips the burden of proof. The EPA must set the MCLG at a “at which no known or anticipated adverse effect on the health of persons would occur.” Note that the EPA has to prove a negative—and has to do so under a regulatory process where any decision will be subject to years of litigation. The EPA must then set an MCL that gets as close to the MCLG using “the best available control technology.” Even if this process doesn’t result in an MCL that’s unrealistically low, it triggers a whole nationwide testing regime.
I agree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_(fictional)
Wow, shit.

So much wrong in this world that we can't predict and handle ahead of time.
Hey, I agree with everything that is being said here but I think it might be unnecessary here to be making personal attacks such as calling somebody racist or implying white resentment because somebody is mis-informed. Especially because -- growing up in a racist society -- we all have internalized racism in some way, which we're just slowly trying to unlearn.

Just based on current events, even many dense non-Whites (myself included) have just started to realize how deep the problem goes when it goes to both conscious and unconscious bias.

We can definitely do better, and I hope the trends do indeed show that we're heading that way.
Automatic saving to a specified location and OCR. Windows UWP programs can actually utilize OCR last time I googled the relevant phrases for OCR and Windows. Relevant link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/Windows.Media.Ocr?v....
lol he even friday news dumped it!
Google is a search engine company that gives better results because it has more opportunities to improve the product with each request it sees.

Advertising is the same way: The more opportunities you have to try matching a person with a thing they might like, the more you'll learn.

Google is on a scale that are likely two orders of magnitude more than their closest competitor.

Hilariously, Google is by far the best at mapping local people with local businesses, as they've mapped most commercial centers, and run heavy machine learning across them to extract information their competitors can't even hope to try for another decade.
I thought it was "labeling it jam" and using more than 5 fruits?
You can analyze a book by saying it has certain number of pages, each one with certain amount of paper and ink, and you can use that to determine the chemical composition of the paper and the ink.

That will not tell you what the book is about, though.
Eugenics was an idea pondered by the ancient Greeks. I’m not defending it, but it’s not the brainchild of a certain genocidal political party that many people seem to think it is.
A bunch of the papers I found from a quick Google search use secure MPC rather than FHE for interbank fraud. Which one is more practical these days wrt latency?
In a word: bokeh. I'm running a 50mm f/1.8 lens on a full-frame sensor. My job requires me to interact with external customers, sometimes in a pre-sales role. Appearances shouldn't matter, but they do. Anything I can use to present a more professional and "expert" image is a win for me.
This is a terrible article.

First of all, the introduction which bashes the paper which applying social network techniques to fiction? If the author had bothered to look it up, they would have realized the authors are an applied mathematician and theoretical physicist. Not humanities.

Then they goes on to criticize political science and psychology as their poster children for the humanities, except these are social sciences, and only "humanities" in a very broad umbrella term. "Humanities" is more often used to refer to disciplines such as history, art, literature. So a complete mix-up of fields.

Third, the assumption that social sciences has a "reliance, insistence, even, on increasingly fancy statistics and data sets to prove any given point" is simply flat-out wrong. For example, of course political science relies on "big-N" studies which try to find or refute correlations between democracy and various other country indicators. But political science also relies heavily on "comparative politics" which is much closer to literature or history in a classic "compare and contrast" aspects of two countries. Similarly psychology has many different approaches taken in published papers and books, some quantitative and others more qualitative.

I could go on and on. But this article is completely ridiculous, arguing against a straw man that simply doesn't exist. It's like the author isn't even familiar with academia. Bizarre.
I was interested to discover fairly recently that human jaws don't develop fully if you don't work them by chewing tough stuff growing up. Hence not enough space for wisdom teeth requiring surgical removal and other issues.
There is an option in settings to enable camera and microphone, no? Have you tried that?
Are the arts so insecure that they need to be apart of stem to have any self worth?

You can perform perfectly good science outside of the stem factory. They dont have a monopoly.

But given the scientific rigor ive seen in the arts I would appreciate if they maintain a clear and separate distinction from stem.
Thanks, excited for you to try it! Long term, there will be an additional paid tier once we have the feature set to necessitate it.

However, even at the current $8/month price it's still highly profitable as far as the infrastructure goes. The voice/video servers run on Digital Ocean, so the servers themselves are pretty affordable and the bandwidth is dirt cheap. Additionally, most of our users have kept it audio only (the default setting) so far which obviously requires less resources to process.
Except JavaScript is a wild success and basically all of its initial defects were eventually addressed in a backwards compatible way?
Do people really condemn companies for not using FHE? Anyone who knows anything even remotely about FHE knows that its not practical in real applications yet, and won't be for a while.
So, the real problem here is the "calibrate to your eyes" part. It's true that with a good camera and a professionally calibrated display, you could "copy" anything in the rec2020 color space accurately enough (but not everything!)

But our eyes, on the other hand, are really bad at "seeing" color. The same color will look wildly different depending on the colors around it. This isn't something you can calibrate per-person, it'll differ every time. You'd need to read your brainwaves to figure out what you're mind's eye is seeing.
Love this show. Originally thought the title was a little misleading since it seemed to suggest "Black holes are like a hologram" was news. In fact, according to PBS Spacetime, the observation that black holes acted like holograms (in a very particular sense) was the impetus for the holographic principle in the first place:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab8JIzckx_M&t=10m20s
First sentence: "Invariably my work requires to create and consume various presentations of differing nature."

Does anyone else find this style of writing unbearably pompous?
Apple, other tech firms back Harvard in legal battle over race in admissions
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The most funny part is that this is effectively true.
It would have been pretty unusual to get a 386 with only 640k in 1992 - from memory. And it wouldn't make sense given the cost of a still reasonably expensive CPU despite the albeit expensive cost of memory then. Typical RAM (home/business PC) would have been ~2-4MB, with 8MB+ considered quite high.

A low end box then would still have been a 286, or a 386SX at a low clock speed, if going with Intel, but at that point AMD were releasing 386DX-40 which from a price/performance perspective made it a big winner in the mid-level processor market vs the still quite new (and more handicapped versions, like SX at 20/25MHz) 486, plus motherboards were a thing, far less commodity-like than today. In those days even having a CD drive was a big deal, and higher clocked 486DXs were pretty pricey.
googles already like that... they just get away with it because of the money printing machine they have with ads
Lots of companies branch out into strange areas, Japanese or not. I don't think it's anything cultural.
Yes, that's why the US has the most absurd cell phone network even while I sit in Silicon Valley, but I don't have reception in a half dozen places during my commute, or in my home.

Why I pay absurd amounts more for my healthcare, even when I can choose between several different insurance companies.

That's why my power in a massive center in California is completely unreliable here, I've experienced more power failures in the past year in a major city than I did in 30 years in the middle of fucking nowhere Canada.

Because competition makes it work.
I’m not even sure the paper he starts off criticizing is that problematic - it sounds like it’s basically a quantitative study of various tropes in fiction and comparing it to real data.
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I like this. Thanks for sharing. Are those decimals or seconds?
Facebook is a dying platform, and due to its enormous size and momentum it may be a decade before its downward trajectory is fully appreciated. Facebook will also fight like all hell to remain relevant, and the cheapest way is making empty pronouncement like they can help "heal the divisions in our society". Helps that they can never be made accountable for it.

Why do I think its dying? Generative youth culture has long left it for other social media platforms. In the US even the middle aged suburban demographic is getting tired of the Karens and Boomers spewing their hatred or turning what could be valuable online community spaces into their culture war battle ground. Facebook is very good at driving engagement in people that are susceptible to conspiracy theories, extremist views on any spectrum and generally excels at turning people into assholes that would not be tolerated in civil society. Just because its statistically easier to get high engagement metrics from people that are susceptible to fear tactics and have low critical thinking ability, their algorithm hyper focused on feeding them exploitative content. To be honest Fox News perfected this on an older medium. Facebook claims ignorance and plausible deniability: all they are doing is maximizing the daily-average-user analytics.

Its no wonder that it was the birth platform for Zenga and genre of games that exploits dopamine reward system. The games industry was too obvious about it and now cultural opinion turned them. They'll never go away, much like slots and casinos. Facebook is going with the same playbook but substituting shiny coin rewards with confirmation bias newsfeeds and viral factoids.

Only sadder is that most of the executive team has no idea what their critics are talking about because they have largely no social acumen, empathy or wisdom. Really good at convention keynotes:"But look, we're also doing VR and AI! We can't wait to see what you do with it, our free developers!"... They can point to numbers going up in fancy real time dashboard, they get praise for shareholders and bosses. They don't understand the what kind of people they snare up to make their number work. People quitting their platform is a lagging indicator, at least by years, that they built nothing of lasting human value, but exploited flaws in human psychology. I could be wrong of course, cigarette companies are still going strong.
A lot of people have been and continue to make this criticism that’s in the article, across a variety of the softer disciplines. (It’s like you’re not even familiar with this line of critique.)

See, eg. a criticism of political science in the same vein from a political scientist https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Political-Science-Beca...
Unthinking respect for the humanities is embarrassing. Exactly why do they deserve respect? (hint: they don't)
Oh, didn't know that. That gives me a better sense of "how stable" each is. Thanks!
The link provides a clear example of where this policy fails: false statements about the Tutsi & other ethnic groups lead to a genocide. None of this was illegal within the definition of free speech in Rwanda - as far as I am aware - thus providing an example where only moderating content on its basis of legality fails.

As a cherry on top, the link also mentions that the radio station was actually endorsed by the government and provided equipment to them. Should the law be the best basis for moderation when the morality of those writing the laws cannot be spoken for?
Some options:

- Join a company that does something that challenges you

- Join a company with technology that doesn't challenge you, and increase its value by solving harder, and more valuable, problems, than they're doing. You can't do that if you quit after 3 months.

- Create your own company and work on hard problems

- Go into academia and work on hard paper problems

Not all hard things are useful, important, or valuable, and I wish you to find a place that does all. There's a difference between science and engineering.
Thanks! I ran multiple maze at the same time and time it and it seems like the maze ran just as fast as running only one maze at a time. If the interpreter can pick other maze, should it take longer? Did I miss anything here?
I’ve found myself thinking similar thoughts (as OP) at a startup I joined. It seemed like no one valued code quality, yada yada.

If the things you value are valuable in your new environment, you’ll find the tact, time, and patience to improve the codebase.

One thing that helped me was helping others. Writing documentation, documenting processes, playing dumb sometimes...

Your standards are _not_ unreasonable, but they are _your standards_. If you want others to adopt them, you must lower the cost for them to do so—and must do so in a genuine way.

Lately, I’ve found the quickest way to be “right” is to allow others to be “wrong.”
Working in consulting, I have a similar list of lessons learned from where I could feel I had lost control of the meeting, or the clients attention, or both.

The biggest one I have fits around 9 and 10. No numbers until the end. As in don't show data, tables, (a group of) numbers, graphs etc. until you are ready to cede the floor.

As soon as numbers appear, people's brains start analyzing and trying to make sense of what they are seeing, naturally this can/will lead to an inordinate amount of time discussing provenance, methodology and other associated aspects, or silent thinking i.e. not listening to your analysis.

Of course this doesn't apply to every type of meeting, but I always ensure I get everything else in up front first. Leave the detail in the back, don't bury the lead.
If you are interested in mazes and maze solving in general, check out https://www.pathery.com/
In that period of time I went from having a 286 with a monochrome display and a dot matrix printer to a "multimedia" computer with Pentium CPU, a 36.6 Kbps modem, color monitor, scanner, inkjet printer, microphone, speakers...

And setup my own interactive voicemail with options using Cheyenne Bitware, which I also used for fax.

Who would have suspected that in only 13 years from then you would have a better version of all that, plus GPS, bluetooth, etc. in your pocket.
Why is `RTCPeerConnection.setLocalDescription()` an independent method? I've always wondered what use case might exist that would not set the local description right after calling `pc.createOffer()` or `pc.createAnswer()`. Similarly with `pc.setRemoteDescription()`.

Wouldn't have been clearer to have createOffer + processAnswer (for a negotiation started locally), and processOffer + createAnswer (to respond to remote offers), and set the local/remote descriptions implicitly as part of these methods?
France: bon apetit (dig in?)

Japan: yoroshiku onegaishimasu, tadaima, itadakimasu, genki, otsukaresama deshita, ganbatte ne, ...

Laughable subtitles for all these, every time.
I would add "do not use fancy ligatures or loud typography". I just read the web page and you know what stuck in my mind the most? The fancy R's and K's. Also I kept waiting for a Q.
Yep. It's a lot of work creating a non-stuttering, fast-seeking player using ffmpeg/libav. For high resolution / high bitrate streams ffmpeg doesn't issue frames smoothely in itself (I-frames takes longer) so I had to create a whole caching structure and issue the frames from a different thread to get it to play smoothely in my application...

On the other hand there are so many edge cases around codecs and assumptions around what is and is not coming so I think that if a different API was created there would likely be a lot of cases where it would break? Something like the NDI API would be great, it is really quick to integrate.
Why is almost every answer on this thread is related to Machine Learning. The question was about programming. There is 3 part series from University of Washington on programming languages covering Standard ML, Racket and Ruby. It compares and contrasts functional programming and Object oriented programming in detail by teaching 3 different languages. I believe this is a great resource to start with. Here is the link. --> https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages
Good to know. I felt that way about Ubuntu / Lubuntu for that time too, until now. This gives me some confidence about Debian to put some time into trying it out. Thanks!
The more macro the more inaccurate.
Now that's a comment in line with Hacker News's policies :)
The last forty years has been shaped by neoliberalism, which is exactly based on the idea of free markets as self-correcting. You’re so blinded by it that you’re just assuming that the theory is correct, so therefore the theory can’t have an effect!

A) empirically, that was wrong and disastrously so (not as bad as communism but very bad) B) assuming reflexivity can’t exist is silly even within the neoliberal framework. It’s like assuming that the dollar bill you see on the sidewalk must be fake because it’s there.
Wait, you guys had office snacks? We barely had the bitter coffee!