skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was my first though as well. Idea of aliens, which can just "skip" the sight of humans is pretty cool. The same goes with concept of consciousness as a parasitic/optional part of inteligent species.

Blindsight is one of the best, 10/10 on Mohs Scale of sci-fi hardness. I love the description of scientific concepts behind sci-fi story at the end. Such a shame, there is so little books with that kind of deep research.

One of the best written, first contact novels out there. I have the luck of hearing Watts lecture on one of the Cons. He is even better in person.

If you are from Canada, it is good idea to check, where he is speaking.

Authors blog, filled with pop-scientific concepts and ideas [1], is well worth it.

[1] https://www.rifters.com/crawl/
I always feel like I'm a worse driver after playing games a lot, usually it encourages speeding and "fun" behaviours rather than good, sensible, law-abiding driving.

What games have you played to improve driving abilities.
sum types are still super useful imo without generics.
Hahaha, this is brilliant. You made my day, @OP :-)

Yes, on several occasions when I was very young (therefore stupid) and angry, I put something like "suck by balls" with white font on my resume, when I was targeting companies I didn't respect. I don't know why / I don't remember. I guess I wanted to feel superior with my 1999 MS Word skills? Lol.

No, because that isn't going to work the way you think. Keywords search is usually performed internally on corporate HR systems, but not on the docs you attach to the process - ONLY on what you put in the forms on their website during apllication. They also calculate some BS numbers from that data, like: how many years of experience total, how many years of education, how old is the candidate, bla bla bla.
These days I tend to compile my own perl using perlbrew, then run

$ perlbrew install-cpanm
$ cpanm install What::Ever

This works nearly always, except when header files or C libraries are missing on the system (like you need libpq-dev on Debian/Ubuntu to install DGD::Pg, the postgresql database connector).

With the system perl, local::lib also works, but it's a bit fiddly to set up initially.
No,they are not the future. The fact that we now need 'interactive' lessons with tablets,apps,smart boards and all other gimmicks,while at the same time motivation keeps declining, attention span is at all time low and etc. On top of it,the curriculum of most educational programmes getting more and more watered down. Video games aren't the solution.
Because atheism is not a religion. It is literally just the lack of belief in any religion. It is not an ethical system or philosophy or ideology or explanation of anything beyond that.

Atheism just means you have too seek meaning somewhere else than in religion. It does not in itself provide that meaning.
This is simply a problem that cannot be addressed by law because law can be broken.

Strong encryption can be broken but it is much harder to break than law or policy.

Want privacy? Assume everything you post online is public unless it is encrypted. If you don’t want that information public don’t post it or use said service.
Given the downvotes I’m getting I think this industry is a lot more racist than I thought.
I used to have a 0.2 ghz computer with 0.1 gb of ram that ran linux 2.2 very well, graphical desktop with full app complement and all the process isolation and multitasking of a modern OS. Modern software is incredibly bloated. It’s not really the kernel though, it’s everything else.
Not a dumb question, it does prevent it. However the majority of people enable remote images so distinguishing between images and trackers is useful.
It should, but they are an underhanded technique that deserves being made known and judged.
Exactly. Don't get me wrong, I love open source hardware as much as the next guy but fixing something that isn't broken is a plain old waste of time.
And Monkey Island II as well as Day of the Tentacle. Both also remastered:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/388210/Day_of_the_Tentacl...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/32460/Monkey_Island_2_Spe...
That usage of the term gimp is American slang.

The terms master and slave are dictionary terms, and their usage is generally a similar meaning to the historical acts at the root of the issue.
I made 2 things:

I made a website for friends and family to play poker online. https://playcards.live. No cards or chips required. Works on any devices.

I parsed en.wikipedia using AI and extracted events, time and location: https://whataday.info. Given an event, it shows you what was happening closeby, in spacetime.
I built a tool to check if an email exists without sending any email. I also created a SaaS out of it: [link redacted].

The tool connects to the target email's SMTP server, and parses the response of the "RCPT TO" command. To avoid IP blacklisting, I use Tor.

The code is in Rust, 100% open-source. The core library is here: [link redacted]
If the inputs are equal, low/low or high/high, the transistors are closed and the resistor will pull the output high.

If one input is low and the other high one of the transistors will open and pull the output low.
Not a dumb question, but not a good answer because it's too abstract (a general concept, but not tied to a particular piece of software/client -- is this a browser, or an email client?)...

The short answer is: Stopping tracking objects requires the request to be stopped before any DNS or HTTP request takes place against that object... and must not be circumvented by other software/addons that then allow it...

For instance, if you block images, but you have another addon/software (e.g. those "website accelerators" that do virtually nothing) that preloads images.. well.. how do the two addons interact? If anything sends that request, you've notified the tracking website.

Why DNS too? If I were an evil company, I'd have both DNS and HTTP checks. If you block images but still for some reason checked the DNS address, I might be able to extract some useful info because you hit uniqueTrackingUUID.example.com, despite not sending the HTTP request.

So, in short, blocking remote images _should_ help, but there's a lot more evil ways to track you... it could even be a url-loaded font (that actually doesn't exist, because it's your UUID for tracking)... or a script... In theory, if you block remote images, your software _hopefully_ blocks other stuff, but that depends on the implementation...
P.S., you can annotate procedure to help ensure you can’t raise certain conditions in code. Imho it’s nice for writing sections of “safe” code.
I'm going to remember this one. What an excellent observation.
To add to your request: i would love to get some sites that deliver to Europe.
Same thing happened to me. An alarmingly massive ball of lint came out of my phone.
I have a hard time believing that. We have 10k lines of typescript and that take forever to compile compared to 5x more of the ReasonML code we have that compiles instantly
If that were true, we'd have at least a few really great educational games by now. Any examples?
It s not more important! And most of these theorems can be extended to non square matrix anyway. Projections are examples of Rn to Rm applications that are very importants. Coordinates or probability measures too. And it make little sense to try to reduce them to endomorphism.
Matrix can represent applications but they are objects worth studying for what they are.
I made Autotable, a tabletop simulator for Riichi Mahjong: https://pwmarcz.pl/autotable/about.html

I wanted to play with my friends the way we used to in real life. It ended up being a very interesting and rewarding project.

Here is a blog post about developing the game: https://pwmarcz.pl/blog/autotable/
I somewhat disagree with both these assertions for different reasons.

A. Games mostly fail because of non-transferrable skills is not an interesting point. Most books, most paintings, most music follows a uniform distribution of mediocrity. This is the role of curation and recommendation networks. Skills of discernment, reactivity, and higher cognition can be gleaned from games at a very young age.

B. Designing educational games can be a layer cake of complexity with the veneer of entertainment. I may be an outlier, but calculating expense sheets in Total War and following traffic laws in GTA were very formative experiences for me. They aren't the primary goals, but effective systems around the primary goals.

There is a glut of puzzle and puzzling games for people of all ages to enjoy, now more than ever. I don't buy the argument that developers aren't trying. I think people are walking in with biases and summarizing games as a whole.
The spaghetti code stuff may point to the right direction though, depending on one's current opinion/understanding. As I always remark, writing a comment or blog post can only point in a direction, as in "please shift your opinion following this arrow", but not a destination as in "please arrive at this target".

If one watches a lot of brain documentaries on pop sci TV channels, the thing they present looks like this magnificent beautiful 3D model with bluish and pinkish stuff and light pulses go around as in a hyperfuturistic awesome thing while the camera is circling around with beautiful intriguing music in the background. The reality is a squishy gobblegook of kludges that gets its job done remarkably well but through some remarkably strange ways. It is a lot of spaghetti, no clear modularity, lots of stuff performing multiple functions and doing things in a roundabout way.

I first read about this contrast in David Linden's really enjoyable "The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God".

But if you already think that everything is rotten and humans are crap and biased beyond imagination, nothing has any value etc. etc. then perhaps you'd benefit from the opposite direction idea, about how really well it works and how much extra stuff the mind does that is not strictly mundane and everyday tasks.
Total nit pick, but I think Piranha is a totally wrong name here. Piranhas mostly feed on fresh meat, its known they are excited and eager to attack when victim moves in water, reassuring predator that its a healthy meat. Much better name would be Scavenger, or Vulture - a bird of prey that eats on dead meat.

I assume you would rather cleanup your program from dead code, rather than strip it down to the bone from live functions :)
What about the "mastering" (audio), master degree programs, martial arts masters, JEDI masters. Jedi Main Yoda?
Often, companies holding a trademark will want to create an account on a popular service to prevent others from hijacking it.

Here, that wouldn’t work. Could companies holding a trademark force a company to never create an account with that name?
China's Hacking Spree Will Have a Decades-Long Fallout
I love this project! Have you tried actually completing any of the generated workouts?

How do you calculate overfitting for something like this? I know how you would do so with a more traditional supervised learning model with numerical inputs/outputs but NLP still seems a little like black magic to me since I haven't dived into a project using it myself. Is it just a comparison of similarity between generated posts and all posts in the training set? How do you calculate how "close" an output is to an input?
wow that’s cool to hear! I read about coffee 2 awhile ago and then heard nothing of it. I used to love coffeescript, arguably more than vanilla js, but forces that be led me to move on.

are you working with a team? if so was it easy to get buy-in?
> Forgive me, but when I program I know what the variables I am working with are doing, and what kind of data they are storing.

Can you say the same about all your dependencies?
This would assume that all types of activity are evenly distributed across all users. In practice, I've seen many things where a small, small subset of users are responsible for a disproportionate amount of volume, and the odds of all of them being in the 5% allocation of "old" code is higher than you'd think.
Ultra Wideband precise distancing used for securely unlocking cars
A collaborative games of science-based games: https://github.com/stared/science-based-games-list

And a question for you: while I do share that games are the way to learn things (our instinct for playing, shared with other animals, is precisely so we can learn), do you know any good investors in that sector?
My experience is that three words to turn-off an investor is "a game", "educational" and "for the public good". :)

The question is very practical: I develop Quantum Game with Photons (https://quantumgame.io/) and looking for investors to make it a fully viable game and educational platform.
I worked hard and managed to ship my first ever alpha product, https://NoteBrook.com . I am iterating on it nights and weekends to build out the core feature set and get it on every platform as published apps. It’s been a really interesting journey but I’m glad I have been working on it and moving it forward. It’s really great to see all the users signing up, and the beta version is going to really move it close to feature completeness as a first release.
The Emperor of Stones
It might be worth pointing out that this study is about coronaviruses in general, not the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2).
I imagine it works similarly to Lobsters[0] which is basically a HN clone...

[0] https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
> I never have the class of bugs in my projects that people seem to laud about typing to solve. It’s kind of ridiculous

You do have that class of bug. That's like a cpp programmer saying they don't need smart-pointers because they never introduce memory leak bugs. You're a human.
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If you are not familiar with EBay, auctions work with a max bid per bidder, but the displayed price is the lowest bid that beat the lowest bid by some minimum or matched the initial price. The way it usually works for a popular item is savvy bidders will wait til the last second to bid what they think will win or what they think the item is worth, no matter what the current price is, and the actual price is set by the lowest maximum bid, so if someone bid $10 on a $5 item, the price is $5, then I bid $8, the price goes up to $8 and the initial bidder is still winning. I only bid using an online service that enters a bid 3 seconds before the end of the auction. Some people do this manually. Sellers can set a reserve minimum price but otherwise the bids set the final price. Also shipping
Implemented the Redis API on DynamoDB. Very interesting experience because I learnt a lot about Dynamo, and now have a 0-infinity autoscaling system ready for for my other side projects and consulting apps. The Dynamo API is pretty low level and arcane, but Redis is a nice sweet spot that makes sense to me for modeling.

https://dbproject.red/redimo
This is a very valid point.Not so long time ago, teachers used to be extremely highly valued in any society because they were the ones teaching and shaping the future generations.Now teaching is mainly left to those who weren't able to do anything better.
Not fibre?
> capital invested _as private property_

I'm not sure why that would be the key qualification to make. A corporation that invests capital to improve productivity is investing capital as private property. I don't see why you wouldn't simply focus on whether or not the capital is invested to improve productivity.

> Speculation, as in buying some capital just to exclude it from others to profit from the resulting opportunity cost

"Speculation" is not normally defined as buying capital, but as buying goods that are expected to become scarce in the future. That is not rent seeking, it's a natural part of a free market, and serves a valid function. In a free market, by buying goods that the speculator expects to be scarce in the future, the speculator drives up their price now (by increasing demand), giving others an incentive to economize (thus conserving the good against future scarcity), and drives down their price in the future when the speculator sells them (by increasing supply), thus increasing the good's availability when needed. The profit the speculator makes is a perfectly normal profit based on the value provided.

I'm not sure why buying capital to exclude it from others would be termed "speculation", since buying capital at all, by its very nature, gives ownership of it to the buyer and excludes others. The buyer can rent it out, or can use it himself, but either way any ownership of capital, if used for productivity, earns a profit for the owner. That's why people do it. To term that "speculation" and "rent seeking" would make all productive enterprise rent-seeking, which is wrong.

> Markets mainly optimizes for lowering costs, not producing value.

Nonsense. Markets optimize for providing the things people want, as shown by their actual choices in that market. If people want more value and are willing to pay more for it, that's what the market will provide. The market for computer hardware is an excellent example: hardware with a wide range of capabilities and prices is available, because there are customers whose value to cost ratio is optimal at every price point over that entire range.

In cases where markets end up providing the lowest cost product and that's it, either the additional value in more expensive products isn't worth it to people, so they choose not to pay for it, or information about the additional value in more expensive products is not getting to the potential customers who might be willing to pay for it. The latter case can be viewed as suboptimal, certainly (transactions that would be positive sum if they happened are not happening), but it's not due to any simple flaw in markets; it's due to unavoidable facts about the real world that can't be handwaved away, and certainly can't be "fixed" by government intervention.
Don't suffer from the blub paradox.

Can you expand on what you mean by this?
I would guess you could put in a special order and then you'd just have to wait for the next time they get a shipment.
I'm having a hard time not crying over how beautiful this is. There's something so ludicrously satisfying about bringing our professional computer science hammers to bear on silly hobby projects. I love it. It's like being a kid again, where everything is just imagination and fun, but we get to finally play with the big boy's toys (like Dijkstra's algorithm).
I hate clickbait, so I'll reveal that it's Vietnam.
Notice that this is for common coronaviruses, and doesn't mention SARS or MERS much: IIRC, the former elicited an IgG response years after exposure in an experiment. As far as I can tell, this preprint does not cite that work.
Nothing very fancy:

1) A home server for hosting a couple small websites for free, instead of wasting cash on $5/mo VPS.
2) A cluster of PIs for training with distributed computing (Docker, K8s).
3) An EMP proof remote backup case with a Pi and a large, encrypted HDD -- mounted in a metal military case intended for storing ammunition. I keep it in my pal's place.
Also worth noting that strain is not controlled for in this study. The study acknowledges at the end that reinfection may be by different strains. Under the same parameters as this study it could be said that flu infection doesn't confer immunity. But, it does, just there are a lot of distinct strains of flu.
From the FAQ "Other factors affecting rank include user flags, anti-abuse software, software which demotes overheated discussions, and moderator intervention."

Users with karma over 200 (I think) have a 'flag' link. If multiple users click it then a submittion or comment goes [dead]. In your user profile you can opt-in to see those, the default is to hide them. I flag a couple per day, usually SEO spam ("lock smith in city X"), gambling sides and other promotions and the occassional story that doesn't belong, let's say "Famous footballer has an affair".

The moderators, that's two people afaik, have their own self-build tools and more visibility. Well, they have access to the servers and databases. They can ban users permanently, change algorithms, merge stories, change titles and such. Nobody else is moderator.
Relevant Pre-AGI Possibilities
I'm stoked on this change, frankly the TS layer being included in Deno felt like a mistake from the get-go and I'm glad they've come around on it. I've seen many transpile-to-JS languages come and go. Javascript is eternal.

(Though I also think TS is a verbose mess made so that enterprise programmers/managers can feel safe, but even if it was great I still think this would have been a good choice)
> 1. The things you learn by yourself stick; the things that are “taught” to you do not stick.

This is called Active Learning and there are decades of work that have gone into demonstrating it's effectiveness. Also see: Constructivism. Although the majority of k-12 education still emphasizes passive learning, constructivist approaches to learning are being taught around the world and in the U.S. (Papert's work is a good resource for those who are curious)

> 3. Schooling mostly fails at giving you this deep understanding.

I think calling 'schools' (so many, not sure what type this person attended) a failure is a bit harsh. The type of freedom in learning that the author is arguing for is HARD at scale. It requires smaller classes, more engagement from teachers, and an entire re-evaluation of how academic achievement is measured. We humans are still evolving...we'll get there. A good start would be to pay teachers more. A better start would be to prepare parents to support active learning in the home.

> 4. Video games will become a core component of education.

They already are: https://clalliance.org/

The general sentiment of this article is fair, but if you are going to make a statement about education you should reference educators rather than bloggers and biographers.

Edit: One more thought about the PG tweet...

"you'll surprisingly often have to teach yourself. I had to teach myself Lisp, how to write essays, and how to start a startup. I had examples to work from, but no teachers or classes."

First, I would argue that school provides us with the ability to teach ourselves. Paul taught himself Lisp, but did he learn how to program at all in school? Probably. He had to teach himself how to write essays, but surely school taught him how to write? Also, there are plenty of schools that offer writing classes...usually electives. Startups, well...that's silly...that's why we have MBA programs. Actually, I am not sure what PG's point is with this tweet. Is it a critique of the educational system in the U.S. or a reflection on missed opportunities from his youth?
Double dragon II on the NES taught me a lot about the world.

I discovered where “New York” is, what “Nuclear War” is and what a “Crime Syndicate” is, all from the story cutscenes.

I also later learnt that, in real life, big bosses don’t just disentegrate after being defeated.