skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The submitted article was http://nowiknow.com/the-one-thing-you-cant-do-in-ikea/ which was cribbed from a bunch of old news articles. We've replaced the URL above with one of those. The others, in case anybody cares:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-16/ikea-stam...

https://www.fastcompany.com/90399077/ikea-politely-asks-that...

https://nypost.com/2019/09/11/cops-shut-down-massive-3000-pe...
I think the biggest win here could be transactions. One commit can be worked upon by more than one person at once.
I worked with a customer who was a little too dim to appreciate how manipulative he was being. Remember, it’s the boss who puts you into that position. Only they have to understand what you’re doing, and not even that well.

Realizing that about him made it feel worse somehow.
I got very motivated to use Roam, but then settled for Dynalist. It's more polished, cheaper, and they recently added backlinks as well.
No, society does not necessarily make large technical progress during overturnings or revolution. Rome is a case in point. Western society slid into nearly 1000 years of stagnation.

At any rate, culture is far more foundational than you suppose and it's very difficult to get right. And when a culture has become corrupt or toxic it is very difficult to get anything of value done at all.
Poker pro Mike Caro on keeping the short term in perspective
Suggestion: Push once after every complete phone, but replace after an intermediate state. That way the back button goes through a list of complete combinations you tried, without forcing you to walk back individual steps.
I believe the word you're searching for here is "clickbait."

Controlling LED strips is not a boring project and it's a wonderful entry into the hobby since it often works with very safe voltages and is happy with cheap components.

But this article is clickbait, and it's probably the most detail-free article imaginable on the subject.
https://youtu.be/icQv33kWKm8
Or create a Google account just for this purpose (YouTube).
Ai4 2020 – online AI conference
"These types of books should all be under 'identify problems, offer unrealistic solutions' category."

I tend to agree. Marx was right in many aspects of his analysis but his solution wasn't correct.

However, we shouldn't dismiss people who identify problems correctly but offer unrealistic solutions. We should accept that these problems exist and look for solutions even if the author themselves doesn't get it right. The current ruling class likes to shout down everything that doesn't benefit them.
Caro’s comments are about poker, but they clearly have broader applicability.

The reason that you suck at poker is because you’re an emotional human being. You perceive short-term events in the course of your life history as more important than they actually are. We all do that; it’s human nature.

The lesson has two parts, the first being the drive up a mountain road.

Time is what destroys you and makes your poker game suck. If the descents happened quickly and you could always see the next hill in the distance, you would continue to be motivated. But it’s the time that passes not knowing when or if the next hill will come that confuses us. The waiting makes us impatient and causes us to lose confidence and make desperate moves.

The other part is detachment using the device of a movie.

Here’s what I want you to do. And it’s something I have often done myself for decades. It will seem bizarre, but do it, anyway. Conduct your life and your poker career as if it’s interesting, not as if it’s happy or tragic — just interesting.
Not only this: online, the cost of “growing” your network by adding more recipients is (nearly) free which is very much at odds with offline growth. So my guess is the quality of weaker connections actually diminished even if the number of connections increased.
What percentage of those products are made in the EU? Asking as all I've brought has been made elsewhere and imported and wehoused in some EU country as import/duty wise it is one border so once in the EU, it's free to move.

Also many things I buy seem to buy from Amazon ship direct from China!

But fun times ahead, just remember to laugh ;).
Quite interesting work. My main questions are:
What is the West? Which countries? and What do decline and death mean, and what don't they mean?

These, I think, should be established as early as possible, and the ideas of Spengler and Toynbee presented afterwards, with points of similarity and difference with your own definitions highlighted.

Some minor points:

- Section 1.2 begins by discussing a crisis in creativity and the changing relationship between the elites and the masses. But then it switches to a list of "challenges" including aging and growing sovereign debt. This is rather jarring and needs to be reorganized.

- It's very surprising to read that Greek philosophers switched focus from political philosophy to individual virtue once the Macedonians and Romans invaded. All of Plato's dialogues that I've read are about individual virtue. Even the Republic is only fifty percent politics and the rest is about the soul. Aristotle too is very concerned with what the personal virtues are and how they can be cultivated.
Thanks ! I’ll look into it.

Now if only the surface writing experience were comparable - I like one note 2016 more than the one on the iPad.

God cmon MSFT, make this stuff just work.

During one of the surface launch events, a presenter said her entire life was on one note.

I can see that happen. But I can only see it, I can’t believe it will happen until the input modalities feel much better.
Lol, if your best rebuttal is “no it isn’t, you idiot”, you risk making my point for me. The fact remains that UK tabloids are pretty shocking for anyone who was not grown inside the bubble. When even forums like Reddit consider links to Uk tabloids as “very low quality sources”, the situation is clearly dire. Deny it as much as you want, it’s still there for everyone else to see. But I understand that this sort of thing is difficult to accept, if it’s been normalized since birth, in the same way NorthKorean citizens find it normal to have a communist king or most Americans were really convinced Saddam had WMDs. Propaganda is really difficult to shake off, when it reaches a certain volume.

As for the landscape of classism in the UK, tbh, it is not that hard to elaborate. Of course we are not talking in Victorian terms, modern classism has its own conventions. The facts are, still, that most top jobs go to graduates from top universities, whose alumni are drafted overwhelmingly from certain (expensive) schools, whose pupils are put “on rails” at the tender age of 4 by parents with deep pockets. See for example this source, but the situation is very well-known: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/oxford-unive... Note that i’m not talking in absolutes, this is actually something that affects me: I know my kids will struggle to ever reach any pinnacle, if they stay here, simply because I cannot afford to put them through the “right” schools.

This system has its upsides (the upper classes are really well-educated, as our classicist PM demonstrates) but it is undeniably a drag on social mobility: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48103017i
Company was fully remote with 1,300 employees long before coronavirus
Disgusting live map of pedophile activity
The Eurozone’s grappling with crisis, class war and the North-South divide
You can get rooting hormone in liquid form. The protocol is to dilute then soak the ends for x number of seconds depending on what kind of material you’re working with (green, woody, semiwoody). Apparently you can do it too long, which I did not know previously.
Please don't post nationalistic flamebait to HN.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23887370.
You may be right. For what it's worth, we are continuously looking for members of the community who have the skills and desire to contribute positively, and empower them to do so as much as we can. There is certainly no lacking in things to improve even outside of the game itself, such as infrastructure, network services, and third-party software such as tools or game extensions.

The situation about cheats is not that simple. Armageddon's way of modelling the game state is already immune to certain kinds of cheats. The current state essentially is a function of the previous state plus player's inputs; therefore, it is impossible to give yourself infinite ammo or noclip through walls. We've tightened that further by e.g. introducing "Schrödinger's crates", which makes the contents of crates determined when they are opened instead of on creation (thus making their contents impossible to predict). The remaining avenues for cheating can mostly be categorized in "perfect knowledge" cheats (i.e. knowing what weapons are in other players' inventories) and input cheats (creating macros or bots that produce frame-perfect input); these are not solvable generally, and can only be protected against either through "security by obscurity", or very intrusive anti-cheat software which analyse which software runs on users' PCs. We would very much like to avoid having to do the latter, as such software can only be effective if it is more invasive than the cheat software itself, not to mention requiring a lot of effort and resources to implement and maintain.

And, yes, unfortunately these concerns are not purely theoretical. Nearly every competitive season we have issues with some players thinking they can get away with using some generic cheat software, or occasionally some curious hackers making some cheats for fun for their friends which then find their way out to general availability.
I read it, and am still puzzled what precisely you mean by 'the West'. Spengler meant western Europe; is this also your definition? Or do you mean same vague idea, including countries like North America (with or without Mexico?), New Zeeland, Australia? What about South America?
I have to agree...

I'm very conscious of this now when I'm talking on the phone. Not that I really have anything to hide, but I'm always wondering how something would be perceived by someone who is listening in.

It's not a nice feeling at all. This is one of the reasons I hate mass-surveillance so much. Just that feeling that everything I do or say is on the record.
I only know one person who is in Mensa but he fits that description perfectly lol. He probably grew out of it now but for a while his thing was he got into Mensa.
Dynalist has an offline app (which syncs with the server when online). See https://dynalist.io/download . It's the same interface as on the web (so not 'native'), though.
I'm kind of impressed that the person who asked that question got over it and is still contributing!

He(?) even joked about it a few laters when it was brought up,calling it is twice-a-year moment of shame or something.
Yes, same here. I found out, that oftentimes I just need to vent something in a slightly structured way without any distraction. Apple Notes opens in an instant in an expected way, syncs and works across devices.

It is not so much a great workflow I need, it is simply frictionless noting down immediately.

After that I can go to further elaborate on the idea with a mightier tool. In my case it is GoodNotes.

After lots of attempts and frustration (Which features should I use now to get this idea out?) I now use only Apple Notes and GoodNotes.
A Conversation with William Paley
In addition to basic secret sharing, Sharesecret has a slack extension that detects different types of potentially sensitive data and alerts the sender to redact and encrypt to get it out of Slack. We also have an auto-destructing private chat feature.
>> If reasoning is the process of inference of the most likely from the most similar known, then how does the multi-head attention transformer not fit that description?

I don't know, because I did not propose that definition of reasoning.

"Reasoning" does not have a formal definition in AI, or Computer Science (neither does "intelligence" or "understanding") but, in general, when we speak of reasoning in those fields we mean a procedure that can derive the logical consequences of some premises, often in conjunction with some background theory. I'm happy to use this as an informal definition of reasoning, if you want.
Go uses this technique internally for generating random numbers in a range. I don't remember if it's used in the map implementation or not, just that I found this code and the link to Daniel Lemire's blog post.
What's funny about it?
It doesn't. You generally install real D3DX runtimes to run games on wine, where it then would do the same thing on AMD CPUs.
AFAIK, the research done by tax payers is the underlying biology. In other words, researching that protein X is responsible for biological processes A, B, and C and changing X to Y increases A and B but decreases C.

Then, it's still the responsibility of pharma companies to figure out how to create a compound that can then safely trigger the change of protein X -> Y
Please don't take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar. Denunciatory rhetoric is particularly unwelcome here, since it's the opposite extreme of curious conversation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
there's really no way to make Apple Notes notes portable (across platforms)

Apple Notes works fine on any platform that supports a modern web browser at icloud.com.
If you came here hoping for good resources on how to set up and control LED strips, angry that the article linked was bad and devoid of any good details, here are some useful resources.

#1: AdaFruit loves you and has a guide: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-neopixel-uberguide

#2: Andreas Speiss has a phenomenal youtube channel that offers a lot of solid tips and tricks for new makers looking to avoid common pitfalls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIl5nDjfkjY

#3: GreatScott! (another great youtuber) has a really fun article on what I'd label a very "intermediate" LED project to get a sense of how to put everything together to make a unique object that is not simply a matrix and a lot of software: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXfMg8y1Fs4

Good luck, and one last tip: remember to be careful that your microcontroller may be fried by the voltage your LED strips needs. It may seem that there is an obvious solution to that which is, "Just use 2 power supplies" but with 3-wire LED strips group loops can exist and ruin your ability to control the strip. Don't despair, search for "buck converter board" and then look up how to tune it. You'll get a system efficient enough that you can drop 12v to 3.3v and it won't drain your battery or overhead your enclosure. Linear regulators are not your friend, they're usually cheaper specialist tools for folks who care about radios.
In chess there's even a difference between the "live elo rating" which is calculated every match, and the official FIDE rating updated every month.
> loads instantly

This is a key feature for note-taking apps — quick to load wherever you are — and is one reason why I also gravitate toward Apple Notes for jotting down ideas. I can then reorganize into documents or spreadsheets as needed when I’m back at a desk.
I have concepts ! It’s pretty nice. But procreate has pretty much demolished every other app.

I’ve been doodling on the iPad since the day they came out, and procreate simply nailed the gestures.

Apple has a moat around them, so I don’t see why they don’t take the gestures either.
"Ugh lost me right there ... I can do without thanks" is not calm reasoning, its closer to "unasked for anger"
About fifty years ago. The Soviets did it to the US:

https://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/selectric/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21947924
Hopefully the smaller it gets the less power it needs, the easier it is to power using environmental factors like wind, earths magnetic fields and the movement of the insect in such a scenario.
I often wonder if I am hurting my career by not responding to IMs/Emails after 6pm or on the weekends (unless there is a production emergency).
To add mine into the mix, I went through all the apps imaginable before settling on Inkdrop. The electron-ness of it all annoys me a bit, but aside from that it does everything I’ve ever wanted (aside from inking) very very well.
There is also the Poynting Vector [1] named after John H. Poynting [2] that "points" in the direction that electromagnetic energy is flowing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poynting_vector

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Poynting
I think that was intentional? Or at least, `mod.rs` is explicitly added later on in the article.
I actually have an antique, but working, egg grading scale.
After it happened twice, I just gave in to the inevitable and decided to value jobs based on other factors.
In a more normal market with fixed supply, such as rent control, that's true. Much less so in a monopoly market with largely intellectual property.
The representation GPT-3 learns are flexible. It can learn very complex tasks, including logic and simple arithmetic. The issue is GPT-3 learning algorithm and it's learning capability.

Typically the ability to learn << ability to represent in most cases. Universal approximation theorem type results don't say anything about learnability. GPT-3's abilities quickly fade once it gets outside the distribution it was trained with.
As long as you give an escape hatch to access the Erlang VM, the rest is somewhat superficial. I am way more productive in Elixir than I am in Erlang, but that's probably because of the way my brain is wired.

> very carefully constructed set of trade offs

But also the VM has changed since 1980 (for example there are maps now) and the programming ecosystem has changed (we know what drives productivity in terms of how to effectively test, document, deploy, good documentation > separate header files), we also know more about things like how lexical metaprogramming is maybe not the best idea for IDEs or language servers, it's really tough to say that Erlang got everything right for time immemorial. And on some things Erlang hasn't moved yet (thankfully it seems like there's movement in documentation).
I think that in the case of epipen, the patent is on the drug delivery mechanism - the pen, rather than the epi. There are other competitive products out there but they cannot deliver the drug as efficiently or accurately as the epipen.
Well there is much known fact about how tabacco absords radiating material. But until now I have not found anything about how that changed during the ages. But simple logic tells me there must have been an affect on how dangerous smoking is.
Cool. In some ways, that sounds like the software industry in a nutshell, to be honest :)

Can you share a sense for what any of the core unsolved problems are? (I'd be happy to read a mailing list / previous discussions if there's too much background to be worth communicating in a comment here)

I've noticed that Arguman seemed to run into community management and spam issues. More broadly speaking there seems to be a societal challenge in getting people to trust and feel invested in honest debating and to accept best-known truths.
I tried an open source clone of Worms called hedgewars with my friend and it was pretty good
This book is in my to read list for some time. I believe it touches the kernel of the problem about economy as a field. The definition of Value. A good book and easy to read book that touches in this subject is Yanis Varoufakis's excellent "Talking to My Daughter about the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism"
Yes. I just don't see why this is such a big hassle. Particularly because -I'm guessing- whatever the Rust compiler does to decide type equality can't be less hassle-y than that.

But, I might misunderstand the problem since, again, I don't know Rust.
How many lives are we willing to sacrifice to prop up a system built around companies making profits?
It's amazing that people can witness POTUS 44→45 and still make "well I have nothing to hide" arguments :/

Unless you have a really short memory, I think you mean POTUS 39→45.

And while by a lot of measures POTUS 45 has been a disaster, POTUS 44 did far more damage to privacy than 45 has (yet).
Chess takes a lot of motivation because you need to practice for hours a day for years, even when you’re young.
Yeah. do they like make up tailored wavelet transforms just to get it nice and sparse?

Or does it have to be sparse? I thought it just has to have a low L1 norm
I did. Asked to be moved to a different client. Still there.
Should we be worried? From the very first paragraph:

> the Medieval Era was the spring of the West, the Renaissance its summer, and the Baroque era its autumn. He predicted that the West would enter its Winter around the year 2000, which would be characterised by a decline of democracy due to excessive influence from moneyed interests, and a resultant rise of authoritarianism.

I can't help notice how decline of democracy is painted as the 'end of the West', meanwhile Medieval Era was the 'spring of the West'. There is no democracy in Medieval West, there were kings, theocracies, crusades, burning of heretics and women. I immediately starts smelling hypocrisy, the only thing about Medieval West is that it is almost entirely white.

So here comes the real question: What is the west? Culturally, the west now is way more different then the west in 1500 as versus the East today. Why is it that people start feeling that the west will pass - and that it somehow coincide with demographic changes. Is it a coincidence or subconscious bias?

US have been through much worse, from the America First nazi sympathizer of the 30s to McCarthyism of the 50s, that's not even mentioning the civil war of the century before that. We as humans tend to characterize what we're currently moving through as more significant than they are - put it into historical perspective and it could just be a 'nah'.
I don't think ericsson really uses erlang that much internally.
You did more than any other account to turn this thread into a flamewar. I've had to rate limit your account again because of this.

Looking at the posting history, it seems you've been commenting like this in other threads too. Please don't. Denunciatory rhetoric destroys what this site is for, and does not good. It doesn't do anything to reduce militarism in the world to fulminate about it on an internet forum, and you're damaging this place when you do it. Most other users in this thread posted thoughtful comments, including ones representing anti-militaristic views. That's what we're looking for here: exchange of information, not internet war.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23887446.
The rise of China is /not/ the rise of the West. It's something we haven't exactly seen before, it's the rise of a new type of Totalitarian Fascism which is supplanting Totalitarian Communism to intentionally enrich a blessed few through state-run corporations. There is nothing even resembling a "free market" in China, and most of the official economic reporting in China is falsehoods and outright lies. As Benito Mussolini said "“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power” and what would be a more accurate description of how China creates and structures SRCs?

What created prosperity in China was not adoption of Western corporate mechanisms and a market economy, it was the realization of party leadership that if they created an appropriate facade it would allow Western Neoliberals to create the necessary messages to shift economic policy and allow foreign money to flood into China, enriching party officials and their cronies by using the massive population of destitute people ripe for exploitation as unskilled labor.

Both before and after, China remains a totalitarian country run by despots, but now they are able to put a veil of acceptability over their actions which has greatly helped their propaganda machine in the West as people eat it up.
Probably, but that doesn't mean you should start.