skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Immanuel Kant would call the former "rendering a synthetic judgement" and David Hume termed the latter revealing the a priori knowledge. Plato would call both simply giving substance to the forms.

It seems none of this is something new. It's just that you no longer need a good education to learn about old ideas; you can come up with them on your own.
>Netflix has a very complex recommendation algorithm based on deep learning/statistics

And yet, it's harder to find anything to watch than it was when they'd just let you browse by genre.
Yeah, no thanks. If your product is using Facebook for customer support (with no e-mail fallback) there's no way I'm using it.
As if insurance companies aren't criminal themselves?
“We spent two months designing the compiler”

“Then we coded for a month”

Can you imagine doing this today at your job?
It's quite amusing that there is nothing official about this from Apple, but so many blogs & vlogs talking like it's inevitable.

Maybe they just transition to AMD CPUs and nearly nothing changes at all :)
Where’s the source to that?
High-speed trading in action (2013)
Memory is important. While things are in still in recent living memory they often become lost. Later even the most seemingly banal tidbit can help us reconstruct our path to now.
There's lots of kids as young as like 12 out there on the internet programming complex projects all on their own.

Granted, it is amateurish code for amateurish projects, but the users don't care and gladly eat it up.
My brother loved this text and offered it to me in the form of a book.

Reading it, I was disapointed. It paints the support from Rike, an experienced and depressed poet, to a young and depressed one.

While I can perceive the moral aid it can bring, I didn't benefit from it. It's full of never desmontrated general advices with no given first step to be applied, and often, not even practical applications.

He is a poet after all, and those lines are not meant to be a self help book.

So sure, they are well written, the author can relate to the human condition, and the particular suffering of the receiver. But no matter how you present it, hearing "follow your passion", "don't listen to critics" and "that's life" once more is not adding anything to my current state of understanding of the world.

One could argue that it's more of an aesthetic exercice, and if you look at it that way, it's a success. The prose is touching and clear.

You could also say that the content will speak more to people struggling with the process of art, or just being true to yourself. However, the author offers descriptions, weak analysis, and no solutions. He admits himself that he is still stuck at the same level.

If one craves empathy, or to ear that somebody shared the same hardship, I imagine it can be therapeuthic.

But I learned little from those letters, didn't enjoy it, and didn't benefit their from support.

Maybe you will. It's a short book, so it's not a big time sink.

If you read the first paragraphs and don't feel like carring on, you don't need to go further. It doesn't transform into something different on the way.
> Is it not legitimate to want accurate sources of data?

Of course. I don't believe you honestly think that I am advocating for inaccurate sources of data.

However, finding and discussing sources of different quality among hundreds is one thing.

Saying that you only looked at two of them, expressing skepticism towards those two, and then stating that the whole thing is "filled" with "random junk to inflate the numbers" is another. That doesn't seem like the interpretation of someone who's honest about their intentions.

If I read two sentences from your thesis, find issue with them, and then claim that you have clearly filled it with random junk to inflate the word count... yould you characterize my position as believing that some parts of your thesis are "slightly inaccurate and this to some degree impugns its legitimacy"?
Digital books sure don't smell as good as a brand new physical book. Don't underestimate the animal part of your brain. For anything.
It's a matter of incentives, having made such a video you no doubt have a good understanding of the time required to produce this kind of content. Even publishing clean, reproducible code, which should be the absolute minimum, takes a lot of time and is absolutely not rewarded. So when researchers have a choice between publishing two papers with no supplementary material or publishing a single one that is well documented, cleanly coded, with a blog post, a video explanation, etc... it's no question. With the current incentive structures the choice is made for you.
But was it the “capability” that qualified as AI in the 50s? Or was the capability just one example of what the AI could do?

Suppose we said we’ve invented Jesus because we’ve invented ways to walk on water and turn it into wine.
This is mostly related to video games by the way, so mods, cheats, helper programs, bots you name it and the person creating them is often a kid.
Narrative vs. Database
There is also Blockhound for reactive streams
https://github.com/reactor/BlockHound
Also at:

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/metro-bank-in-exclusive-talk...
I somewhat agree (though I do think local TV news often makes Anchorman look more like a documentary than a farce), but some of the local papers really are more of a community institution. In my experience, most of their problems involve inability to have reliable operations, e.g. setting up billing accurately or delivering the paper accurately and on time, which angers subscribers.
My understanding is that insurance companies operate on pricing the contracts to cover their potential losses while making profit on investing the insurance premiums.
How many views would Chomsky get on Joe Rogan?
A department is a group, one that they voluntarily joined.
This is just one side of the debate between Ioannidis & Taleb, which has already been submitted (at the top level):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23521850
I’ve experienced a DDoS attack on my web service for the first time
Qt(Widgets) certainly is good if you know how to use it, you just need someone to tell you what parts to ignore when starting out. Here I put on the "teen who interacts first time with the concept of programming" glasses because of the thread, and consistency and constraints benefit that situation. Unguided first contact with programming through the mess that Qt is today is somewhat counterproductive in this respect. Look at the documentation page for Qt, that's certainly no place where an unguided newcomer could find their way around easily.
Anecdotal: My explore feed has been 100% populated by semi-naked women for a long time. I realized that it could lead to some embarrassing moments when my friends would see it and I decided to change the feed. However, I was clicking on them so it as at least somewhat organic. The issue was, that since it was the ONLY thing on my feed, after some time I also had no option.

At some point a couple of months ago I decided that I wanted to change it. So I started to consciously like and follow hashtags and people around memes, standup, art and sports.

Now, I like primarily meme pictures and funny pieces and never on any semi-naked model. However, my feed has changed to a 80-20 (models-memes). I still think that there is some Instagram push there, since obviously, my preferences on content have changed, but the algorithm barely gave a damn.
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I’ve lost a lot of faith in
MuseScore over the last couple of years. Their UX still has some major warts over Finale that haven’t improved, and they completely screwed over their users by encouraging them to upload their compositions to MuseScore’s cloud library and then cutting off free access to the cloud library. They ginned up as much content as they could from users and then announced this huge change in access a few months later.

I’ve lost a lot of faith in this business model because early users get screwed the hardest and as time goes by, it’s harder and harder to justify using this app. Why is it that these projects so often promise the world early on only to continuously chip away at their own promises and undermine the faith of the community that gave them business to begin with?
They are violating the law. There is no implied consent, except in the mind of people whose income depends on there being such a thing.
A DAW that focuses on notation rather than piano-roll doesn’t really exist in the market however. The UX of the apps that support a stave is stuck in the 90s.
Any hints as to what to expect? Signed up, but the tease is always fun :)
> paying a hobo to sign some papers compared to using a fake ID

Both are equally illegal in most parts of the world. Intentionally muddying your identity to defeat mechanisms put in place to avoid abuse is fraud.

Contrary to what some people on HN seem to believe, most legal systems in the world don't look too kindly on people intentionally abusing contracts. If it can be shown you signed a contract knowing that your understanding of it differed from that of the other party with the goal of exploiting this difference of understanding, which is to say in bad faith, you are very likely to lose in court.
Yes, make your own blog and learn how to make it "visible" to a large audience. Also how to serve it in a seamless way for years.

I didn't like Twitter from the very start. There's no chance to have a meaningful discussion in a small window limited to a couple dozen characters regarding what you want to publish. That's just retarded. All important epiphany moments I've had in my life were coming from studying extensively written material, mostly books. Regarding short forms like articles, maybe even multimedia, something similar happened to me maybe 5 times. The only other role these short forms perform is to confirm my believes I've already had. That's pointless for someone who's looking for truth and/or has a need to solve a specific, important problem.

"There might be brilliant people in the world whose brilliant ideas never even crossed our ears" World if fulfilled with brilliant ideas yet majority of population has two left hands and can execute even two projects concurrently, whereas what we deal with nowadays demands a sharp focus on dozens of projects, goals, tasks, etc. Before one is going to move toward using other people's brilliant ideas one must do the job of becoming someone who's capable of doing any advanced stuff at all. That takes years if not decades and has everything to do with a lot of reading and thinking, and nothing with consuming 140-characters long BS created by bozos between eating a morning sandwich and scrolling thru Facebook. Don't be a sheeple, think for yourself. Except of rare cases there's no place for small windows with limited characters input in a life of thoughtful person.

How do you see my post fitting into what the Twitter crowd demands? And I've just touched a tip of an iceberg. Howk!

I don't know even one reasonable person using Twitter for things other than marketing or just messing with sheeple. Really.

PS: Twitter's whole model only contributes to the "loud ideas overcome great ideas" problem.
Writing your own type-checker doesn't have to be hard
The cddb model! Truly enraging.
Planet wide dairy companies. Not just UK based. Are cows not carbon neutral? Grass grows sucking in carbon, cows eat grass?
I agree. I have recently started taking composition lessons for large bands (e.g. 18 pieces), and I've been using MuseScore as my main tool.

Seeing it go the way of a DAW is disappointing, because there's a fundamental difference between composition and producing - that is, the difference between an abstraction of ideas (a lead sheet) and a final product (a render).

Getting either of these to a competitive level is extraordinarily difficult, and getting more than one is almost impossible ; I'm willing to be proven wrong, but I think this change of focus may end up hurting the project.
The article implied that this was not a DCMA takedown so it's different from the usual "one result it missing...".
You can use sites that are supported by ads just fine with adblock. Why couldn't you?
Yeah, but they're big and important, so the system protects them. Not not the case for the woman.
https://zenrobotics.com
At the time of the announcements, there were G5s in the towers and G4s in the laptops. One of the big problem was, how to put G5 into laptop, as it was too power hungry and produced too much heat, and Motorola with IBM were not going to do anything about it. Moto went out of the PPC business and IBM was focusing on the servers.

Ergo, it was dead end for Apple products.
So it's like Gilfoyle's anton but it only deletes stale code
> Someone did a better job of estimating odds than an insurance company did. They then defrauded the insurance company

how come it's not fraud when insurance companies calculate the odds better than you, and yet it is fraud when you do it to the insurance companies?
>except that the "game" is not necessarily biased in either direction

Such a bold statement
Lol, we know.
One might think that predictive keyboards would make the epistolary genre more accessible, but I'm still seeing a general decline in paragraph count between olduse.net and online conversations pretty much everywhere outside of /r/AskHistorians.

(Theodore Roosevelt's 1903 State of the Union speech had a Flesch-Kinkaid score of 15,1. But then again, apparently even Queen Elizabeth's christmas messages have become measurably less posh over her lifetime)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/feb/12/st...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1080228.stm
I think "just don't pay them for the time" is not reasonable or realistic, and thinking you can get consensus on what caused a riot is naive under the best of circumstances.

On the flip side I'd like to point out that this increased OT often has downstream effects as well, most notably in pensions which are typically based on your last n months of pay. Some contracts include OT in this and some do not. So soon-to-be-retired officers could literally be increasing their pay for the rest of their lives based on increased pay due to working a riot.
It's one thing to criticise flatpaks on the grounds of not getting the job done because nobody uses it properly and another to say there's no sandbox.
Umm, no.
That brown coal is used for gaining electricity.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagebau_Inden
These would be among the last to switch.

Heck, these models went for years without any updates.
Well I agree but I see it like a pyramid.
You don't have to worry about people at the bottom of the knowledge pyramid getting access to the last breakthrough in some field if they don't already know the basics about that field.
They will naturally access it when they "climb" this pyramid of knowledge through more specialized sources or studies.

More over : the population of people who are good at doing something isn't necessarily the same as the one good at explaining it.

It's like saying Newton would have to spend 20% of his time explaining to 14yrs old kids what he's doing when someone less capable than him would do it as good but would leave Newton free for what he does best.
Well there's examples like this: https://www.sportsbet.com.au/betting/novelty-bets/-realdonal...
There are many different ways to contribute to the betterment of humanity. Whether it's work (work on good software projects that solve real problems, as opposed to shoving ads in people's faces), blogging (write about whatever hobby you have, whether it's woodworking or how to deploy a K8S cluster on a Raspberry Pi), or just operating a real-life business (open a bar and provide a valuable service - drinks and entertainment - to your local community).

I doubt participating in a toxic echo chamber actually helps humanity at all. It's actually the opposite - by using that terrible platform you allow it to make money and continue existing. If everyone left it tomorrow it would be gone in a matter of weeks, reducing the amount of outrage and its side-effects (violence, bad mental health, etc).
Most cookie popups are using javascript so when one is popping up i use the chrome extension "Quick Javascript Switcher" to toggle the Javascript off. This does not always work but it works in most cases.

I tried external list for Ublock as well. They say they will remove those things but they sometimes break things. Video's or slideshows for example did not seam to work when Ublock removed the cookie pup-ups.
One of America’s most controversial billionaires cracked the NHS
I bet there are some people that see this as a feature.
>The EU cookie laws were well-meaning, but have had the unintended consequence

This is all government.

I'm not sure why we keep expecting anything other than regulatory capture with government intervention.
With the App Store, would fat binaries even be needed for the most part? Just upload all the compiled versions to the store and it'll distribute the right one to the right devices.

For non-store software, I don't see a big deal in distributing x86 vs ARM builds separately, but that might be the developer in me speaking.
Voice and video with non-technical friends and family
I'd like to get friends and family off Facebook, but one of the things they use it for is calling people, both voice and video.

So I'm looking for a replacement. Ideally whatever we use would run on both phones and laptops/desktops, preferably with a light-weight client. We would need audio, video, and screen-sharing would be useful. Ideally it would be P2P, and not controlled by a single entity.

Privacy is a concern as a general principle, and I'd like to be able to avoid joining another "community".

My betting is that such a thing doesn't exist, but I'd be interested to know what trade-offs people think are available and accessible for non-technical people. Matrix was one option, but I've heard that some people find it difficult to impossible to get audio and video working. Another option might be Tox, so I'd be interested in hearing of people's experience with that.

But all comments, suggestions, and thoughts welcome. Thanks.
Cinquefrondi: The 'Covid-free' Italian town selling $1 houses
When shopping though those newsletter sign ups often give you 10% off.
Very nice work! I turned to Unity to visualise sorting algorithms (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq1hNXuwdfQ), but having it on a webpage is much better.
> in sports from what I understand the odds are determined by the amount gambled on either side

This is incorrect. This is what applies in a totalizator market like some racing betting agencies. They take the pool of money (eg for a win) and deduct a fixed fee before paying out to the winning bet. The "odds" there are determined by which competitor the market thinks is most likely to win.

But bookmakers actually provide odds based on their own assessments. They are taking the "other side" of the bet and can suffer losses.

And yes, there are bookmakers that will take bets on almost anything. They do it the same as any risk takers, by researching the probabilities.

People bet on political outcomes, sports outcomes, all sorts of different real world events.
I don't know that the US would need to have a violent society to be a military super power. China is on its way, and so far at least they seem to have managed to avoid that, so maybe those things are not related.
You also have Jami (jami.net)

I, personally, would consider only Jami, qTox (tox), Signal or Riot (matrix), if you're seeking privacy.

however all have their problems.

Signal - (uses signal proctocol - opensource)is great on mobile, and it's growing in users very fast. However the desktop client is a bit awkward (IMHO) as it's not a native software (i think it used to use electron...). It's regarded (and awarded) as the best alternative for privacy to whatsup-like apps. It's centralized, but very few metadata is recorded (i think only the day of the first connection is recorded...)

qTox - (uses tox proctocol - opensource)is very nice as well, but not much used and the development seems stagnated and not much is heard about it either. Mobile version is also not very active. The tech behind it is great, however. It's a Distribuited System - so it does not need servers to work

Jami - (unsure what its protocol is called - opensource)is a great software no one knows about and few use it (yes, the good old chicken and egg problem). That apart, it is a distributed system (like tox, but i have the feeling jami is superior in it's implementation - but i could be very wrong about this feeling!!!!) so it also does not need servers.

Riot - (uses Matrix proctocol - opensource) very promissing as they are running toward making it use P2P communications - and so, making matrix a distributed service (no need for servers) like jami and qtox - but... it's only on beta stage and... well it may take a while... ( https://matrix.org/blog/2020/06/02/introducing-p-2-p-matrix )
but, on the bright side, unlike jami and qtox, matrix is much used by many projects (KDE guys, for example, decided to adopt it across their entire project).

So, for something that works cross-platform, i would bet on matrix on the long term, if you need a service that many people use, or Jami, if you don't need it to be used by outsiders.

qTox seems too much stagnated for me. Signal - while it's a great service it's centralized AND i - PERSONALLY - don't like their desktop approach (i maybe outdated and not knowing if they already have a decent, native, software for Linux/windows/macos desktops)....... IT'S THE BEST ON MOBILE, HOWEVER - VERY VERY GOOD!!!
I’ve reached the point where the problem is more than just the equipment, it’s the culture.

There are way too many cases where a cop provokes a confrontation, often by stopping to allow someone else nearby to run into them, and every other cop in the group responds by beating anyone nearby and shoving back anyone with a camera.

You don’t get coordinated responses like that without planning and practice.
The biggest questions many of us have around this transition include:

a) Will this change be smooth and offer native enough app support (or emulation) at launch?

b) Will the performance and price be acceptable?

c) What will the ripple effect be throughout the existing Apple dev community?

d) Is this move going to do well for Apple, or the opposite.

I'm finding it tough to speculate on this one, but I've seen a lot of Apple misfires since 2013 when it comes to price, functionality and quality (should I dare say, "the butterfly effect"?).

In short, Apple's direction hasn't been great recently. Given this, I think it more likely that the negatives will outweigh the positives.
You don't support the website by seeing ads. The only reason why anyone is paying for ads in the first place is because it affects the bottom line. So if you just see ads and don't buy the things they are pushing, the price that advertisers are willing to pay will decrease over time.

Only when you make a purchase based on an ad are you supporting anyone. At that point you should just buy the better product and support the website by sending them money instead of buying a shitty product that has advertising priced in.
The tractable replacement for a timeout is some kind of steps number. I thinks I've seen lots of long-running static-analysis tools use this for reproducible builds and results.