skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think a piece on information theory should necessarily be "accessible to many people". It's a topic which is normally taught in grad school.

Something like X ~ p(x) would be seen all over the place in probability, stats, ML, and related courses such as info theory, detection and estimation, etc. Likely by the time someone is interested in info theory this notation would be permanently etched into their minds. So for this article it is very "audience appropriate".

> not a criticism and I don't have a good solution

Having a mental map of how different subjects fit together (without actually having to studying them in-depth) is a good start.

I've seen so many people crash and burn with machine learning because they were unaware that it depends on linear algebra, calculus, and probability.

With a mental map there is less "surprise" and it's more a matter of simply understanding that they didn't have the right dependencies.
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marmalade game studio website needs to be re-fix
What is the downside of synesthesia? It is often presented like a superpower with no downside.

As if people with synesthesia have some kind of built-in color coding that allow them to see patterns more easily than anyone else.

But considering that matching patterns is what brains are for, there should be some big evolutionary pressure toward such an ability. If synesthesia for instance is able to help make a difference between an edible and a poisonous plant, make up camouflaged animals or anything like that, it is a direct advantage when it comes to survival.

For that trait not be selected for and be considered a condition, there must be some kind of drawback, but what is that drawback?
Thinking cargo pants are "lesser" for being associated with manual labor is just disgustingly classist.
As a person of color and someone who is interested in moving to SLC for more affordable cost of living I am interested. Can you elaborate more? What is it that you found negative? I worked at firms with lack of racial diversity where I was literally the only non white person but didn’t have much problem other than of course not being able to relate in some off the work conversations and socializing aspects of it.
I thought SLC is now a lot more diverse than it was 10yrs ago partly cause the housing pressure in other big cities.
Too late to the thread but I will give it a shot.

First of all, the Blue Brain Project (equivalent of the US Human Brain Project) has been widely criticised within the neuroscience community for its failures to invest the funding appropriately [0,1] as well as failing to produce their exaggerated claims of "brain on a computer", even 3 years after this article was published.

Secondly, it is insanely hard to even map in all the connections between neurons with their thousands of synapses. Imagine one neuron connects to another 1000 neurons and a cubic millimeter of mouse cortex contains about 9×10^4 neurons. Even 1mm3 of cortex hasn't been mapped yet for a rodent (mouse/rat) brain. Mapping the whole rodent brain will easily take another decade [2].

Thirdly, even when you have mapped the complete brain, inferring states of consiousness from it is a far fetched hypothesis and most neuroscients don't even dare to go there because it is so absurd to talk about it from incomplete simulation models.

Given the complexity of wiring of neurons and the sheer amount of specific nature of this wiring, building simulation models assumes that the connections between neurons are totally random which is an age old view which computational neuroscientists are now starting to accept (except the BBP, for now). Contrary to the BBP simulation models, this [3] model actually pays attention to the observed wiring from past experiments and is the closest to anything "realistic" but of course with several caveats.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-the-human-bra...

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/ten-year...

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31055238/

[3] https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo...
> This is great, a repo of companies that are hiring folks that don't give a shit about what's going on around them!

Or perhaps they do care, but don't think that social or political issues intersect with workplace issues.
TIOBE tracks the trends (or at least hopes to) of people looking to learn/re-learn/familiarize/re-familiarize themselves about whatever programming languages for whatever reasons. That's certainly the most one can really glean by the stats on searches of +"<language> programming". People who are "googling" so are not necessarily just starting out in the field, or learning in school, or researching to decide what language to use in some greenfield project. What's also likely is they are seeking employment someplace or recently got work on somebody's (perhaps legacy) software; i.e. they're searching for immediate professional interest.

StackOverflow attracts a population of programmers interested in regularly helping out other fellow programmers navigate through whatever arcana of tools and libraries and frameworks and languages etc. It will mostly be this set that takes the survey. It also seems that it is the web/mobile technologists that predominate, which is understandable considering how big a deal web/mobile is. There seem to be so many new&shiny things in that web/mobile sphere, year after year ("Web 2.0" is so early 2000's), and that's certain to keep the arcana wheel going.

Fun factoid: Stack Overflow was founded by Microsoft alumnus Joel Spolsky and developer/blogger Jeff Atwood. Spolsky, while Program Manager on the Excel team, designed Excel Basic and drove Microsoft's Visual Basic for Applications strategy. Atwood says: "I was weaned as a software developer on ... Microsoft BASIC in the 80's... I continued on the PC with Visual Basic 3.0 and Windows 3.1 in the early 90's... I am now quite comfortable in VB.NET or C#, despite the evils of case sensitivity." (https://blog.codinghorror.com/about-me/). Spolsky still seems proud of Visual Basic: "I am always saying 'I could do that in a weekend in Visual Basic' when developers tell me some feature is going to take a year." (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2018/04/06/the-stack-overflow...). Visual Basic has long been the "most dreaded" language on Stack Overflow surveys, and in 2019 explicitly got dropped from that year's survey. The very fact that VB.NET manages to be in the top 10 of TIOBE, and VB clinging to the top 20 of TIOBE, has often been given as immediate evidence of why TIOBE should not be taken seriously.
In the AMA’s case, physician pay was explicitly their objective. They said so.
Credentials to VPN can be obtained as well. I assume that's what happened in the twitter hack? Surely they must not have not allowed that tool to be used without being connected to their VPN.

Hardware keys probably would work. But can a key be used on different computers? If yes, then the method I have highlighted would be more secure (and cheaper). If not, then both would have the same level of security.
Additional data point: Of the earliest identified cases, less than half had any connection to the wet market.

Also there's one misconception here:

> A wet market is simply a place where fresh produce/meat is sold (think farmer's market).

Farmer's markets, if they even have live animals, are kept distanced from food being sold. Wet markets, live animals are often being sold for food and/or butchered in front of you upon sale.
I suppose really I was asking about the mechanism by which one turns such things as a record of a purchase of bubble tea into money.
Thanks!

1. I have a Makefile that links it for me so I don't have to do anything special. I intend the Rust program to work like a second stage bootloader. I'm going to experiment with it and try to get a file system working to load an actual kernel from a file.
2. I'll look into that.
3. That's what the bootloader does. Sorry if I wasn't clear.
4. If I understand correctly if I compile my Rust project to a binary (which is a default output and I don't really understand why I would use objcopy for that) I won't be able to link with with the bootloader. I link them to allow the bootloader to jump to the _start function at the correct address.
5. My Rust program already works in 64-bit so I don't see a reason to change it. In this project I want to explore low level programming and understand things like paging.

I appreciate your feedback.
Wikipedia says Jenner first demonstrated the smallpox vaccine in 1796. The revolutionary war ended in 1783.
You can do absolutely everything from powershell on the command line, on your local machine or any machine in your network, from Windows 10.
Thanks! It actually ended up being pretty interesting.
> Antifa was declared a terrorist organization.

Is this true? Was the identity right declared a terrorist organization as well?

Did "antifa" killed someone in the US? (Genuinely asking, i stopped following the new around may).

Because I will tell you that Antifa in europe is the leftist equivalent of the identity right (neonazis groups and white supremacists). So if antifa as a whole is deemed a terrorist organisation despite not having killed anyone while you have members of the identity right driving into a crowd or mass shooting people at a synagogue and the identity right as a whole is not at least declared a terrorist organization, this is a weird asymmetry.
I should have read the article, it actually explains how pockets used to be separate garments, worn over or under clothing. It looks like this approach has come back in fashion. Programmers can appreciate the modularity!
>There's evidence from cultural artifacts that even 100,000 years ago humans were less intelligent then us.

Do you have more info on this idea? What approach did researchers use to try to measure intelligence based on cultural artifacts used in a context we can't see for purposes we can only guess at?
What was the process you followed to get into medicine?
When the biosphere dies, will it be worth even being born?
This is in part cultural. In UK, much of Asia, and continental Europe, students specialize earlier. On average, most degree programs (and especially professional degrees like MD) take longer in the US system. Not saying this is necessarily how it should be, but it is how things are.

There are a few combined UG-med programs in the US, but not as many as one might think. So perhaps there just isn't demand for them. Or they're too selective.
In his latest book he suggests that even if humans left, the fever might not ever break.
This is denigrating cargo pants because they're associated with manual labor. It's classist, and, to some extent, racist.
They often used things like cliffs to help hunt mammoths though, right? Seems a trickier thing to accomplish with hippos, although I suppose you could lure them away from the water. Planning and teamwork must have been key.
Exactly - and they are not the only ones.
At the 1963 March on Washington, John Lewis was asked to tone his speech down
Is the biggest known unknown
The dismissiveness comes from dismissing cargo pants for being associated with manual labor.
I'm guessing this might also be of interest:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/efi-stub....

Seems to be a little bit out of date, though:

> The code that modifies the bzImage header, along with the EFI-specific entry point that the firmware loader jumps to are collectively known as the “EFI boot stub”, and live in arch/x86/boot/header.S and arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c

I found:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux...

But no eboot.c - there's this however:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux...
Again we move the goal posts, from "not compensated at all, they're slaves" to "not compensated enough, pay them the salary of 5 people"?

I don't have the effort to deal with these fallacies. I've made my points, feel free to forget them and take none of it to heart for the rest of your days.

Plus my husband is working today so I'm taking care of the kids and my 2 year old just spilled spaghetti everywhere :)
I wonder if the $5 DO plan, or $10 Linode plan, or the free AWS tier did anything to popularity, and for the general awareness of their offerings.

Either that, or you need a sales Dept to talk to corporations directly.
Amen.

The worst are crackpot systems like ant. Whoever thought a half-baked DSL with a XML concrete syntax was a good idea?
You really can't judge Windows performance by how it runs on a Macbook Pro. Try it on a Surface or a Lenovo Thinkpad or Yoga and it will be a much better experience. They just don't have access to the Mac's proprietary hardware fan and power management controllers.
Nah, it's because "pants pockets problems" is such a commonly-heard womens' issue, and they hate women :p
Would it be ok to use elements of this to improve the one we ship with Werc?

http://code.9front.org/hg/werc/file/2ace198c631b/bin/contrib...
Give us more info: current domain, old domain
Brotherhood of the Wolf is my very favorite period martial arts action romance horror comedy thriller.
Define "chaos". Ecosystems do tend towards equilibrium, unless something happens to end up having a _really great_ advantage selected for (e.g. our interpersonal politics selecting for intelligence) or the environment changes significantly (e.g. climate change, great big asteroid boi, ice age).
I installed Debian (supposedly a distribution that is stability-oriented) just today. After initial restart, it greeted me with... a blinking cursor (not even a prompt) in the upper-right corner of the screen. Knowing Linux, I knew that I need to Alt+F1 into a terminal, log in and then troubleshoot what went wrong. Turns out you need to manually download and install some ATI firmware or the X won't work. I wasn't informed of that anywhere in the installation process. As long as shit like that is commonplace, Linux adoption will be limited to fans and IT specialists.

BTW once I fixed that, it turns out that Xorg, even with the recommended drivers, is just too crappy to maintain Vsync and everything (even just moving of a window on the desktop) is slightly, but noticeably tearing. As a remedy, I switched to Wayland, which is designed to not have this issue, and everything is butter-smooth. Why is Debian shipping with an option to install the crappy, tearing windowing system in 2020? Many users will, not knowing about the Wayland fix, want to go back to Windows after just couple hours of use.
Riots or mass hysteria I can imagine coming from a hack like this.
Last Debian 9 update: Debian 9.13 released
Lol fair, the green fabric is much better than muslin at least =D
fzf as command history search, coupled with an unlimited history file. It is by far my “unfair advantage”, I do things so much faster than my coworkers...
I don't mean to imply it was intentional but rather a good sign, Bear is awesome. Nice to have a similar app for other platforms.
Cool that someone else has it! It’s much less common than just sound to color. We should compare notes.

A couple questions to see if our experiences match:

How would you describe the texture of drums?

What brightness is bass?

Are instruments usually separate or merged?
Most of the listed assumptions are bad, but some of them, to me, seem essential. In particular, dealing with cyclic build graphs sounds like an absolute nightmare, and I doubt that any build system that allows for such a thing can be easy-to-use.
Kind of sounds like an oxymoron. Just call it what it is: a small business. Startups are traditionally defined by growth trajectory / potential.
This doesn't help you now, but why didn't you keep the old site and just 301'd to the new page for a year or so?
Multiparty web-meetings using mediasoup and WebRTC
Would this work as a general suppressor against noisy neighbors across the street listening to bass? Can't hear the music, only feel the bass.
Is the Keto Diet Right for You?
Show HN: Open-Sourcing Deep Dream in PyTorch (MIT License)
According to a tiny bit of research, it was a crude form of smallpox vaccination, yet still a vaccination.
Maybe they should hire a better writer because "and are not" is much clearer writing.
As a German living in Switzerland, I was quite surprised by this when I came here. Just as an example, officially mandated paternal leave is 1 day. In Germany it is something like 6 months I think.
Quoting Ernest Becker from his The Denial of Death:

"In man a working level of narcissism is inseparable from self-esteem, from a basic sense of self-worth. His sense of self-worth is constituted symbolically, his cherished narcissism feeds on symbols, on an abstract idea of his own worth, an idea composed of words, sounds and images, in the air, in the mind, on paper."

"It is natural for a man to strive to be a hero, it goes deeply in his evolutionary and organismic constitution, and yet the society gets chills when someone admits the honesty of it."

In academia if you have not convinced yourself that the problem you are working on is "the most" important problem to be worked on, how else would you go on working on it each single day and night with low salary while your counterparts live luxuriously in industry? I think its just a (un)conscious strategy but I can only speak for myself.
Ketogenic diet in the treatment of cancer – Where do we stand?
Personally I have been a fan of Joplin https://joplinapp.org for note taking.
It is also markdown-based with all kinds of features and is MIT licensed.
Perhaps Mexico is in need of some good ole UN liberation forces.
John Lewis (1940-2020)
Why? The "Black Sun" burning so bright...

Perfect "ruin value"!
You're assuming that all Twitter employees are paid well.
I've been really impressed with SLC when I visit, and my brother recently moved there from LA. It's got a lot going for it and is quite appealing for tech, giving housing prices, a culture of reasonable working hours, and access to nature. SLC is also becoming more cosmopolitan, and the region seems like it is generally run quite well.

Unfortunately, there's also bad pollution. The valley makes SLC prone to pollution and especially inversion layers in the winter and ozone in summer. You'd expect mountain air and you get that sometimes, but other times it's as bad as or worse than major cities elsewhere.

One of the downsides of being a red state is less will to address environmental concerns like this. It's been slowly getting better due to car emissions standards (which Utah has no active involvement in), but there's still a lot of pollution sources that need addressing. There's an active refinery in town, at least one big mine across the valley, tons of trucks and trains passing through the region, and the airport is being expanded.

Given the air is also extremely dry in the winter, I can't see myself moving there, despite it hitting a lot of my criteria for places to live. Were they to get their environmental house in order I'd say it's one of the best places to live. I hope someday SLC realizes its just not geographically destined to be an industrial hub, and makes responsible choices to shift away from that.

http://www.stateoftheair.org/city-rankings/states/utah/salt-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_quality_in_Utah

https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2020/01/28/salt-lake...
Teams have something in the pipe for this, that will cancel out noise. I think it was a youtube video linked here a while back.

Here's another https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCrCkgjZEXQ
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

It's particularly important not to do that when a thread is fresh. Threads are sensitive to initial conditions, so a new thread is like a fragile ecosystem, and a comment like this is something of an oil spill.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It is a federal law and occasionally they prosecute the most egregious examples, but I've heard from many gun dealers that when they suspect a straw purchase and report it, the ATF follows up maybe 1% of the time.
MTG: Adam of http://www.mtgeloproject.net was very helpful for my nonprofit's last-minute effort to preserve the Planeswalker Points system. He has lots of interesting historical analysis. Competitive MTG can get very mathematical. https://www.reddit.com/r/spikes/ is a huge rabbithole.
It may also be partly about proactively anticipating civil lawsuits for false imprisonment and other violations of civil rights. If there is no record of these arrests it will frustrate future civil claims, where the Feds will just deny ever arresting claimants and for the most part unless on video there will be no evidence of the claim.
Well said. The attempt to divide this into a binary issue is (sadly) predictable. Nobody here should support the use of these gestapo-style tactics from the federal government, ever. For anything. Full stop.
Do you still control the old domain?

Don't rely on the "site move" tool to talk to the crawler.

You need to 301 redirect your pages from the old domain to the new domain.

I see this all the time with clients who skip some basics when changing domains.

I'm happy to talk you through this via HN comments
That's a pretty horrid way. It used to be a time where you could just run a recovery partition to reinstall your operating system outside of re partitioning your hard drive.
I thought this was already cleared by History. They ran some program like over a decade ago where they concluded The Beast was a hyena, which was domesticated and used by the killer. This was a team, serial killer + beast.
I acknowledge my mistake, likewise your graciousness in dealing with me.

Being that the parent comment is dead I'd assume that this comment won't be publicly visible but I'd like to give a deeper commentary that could be misconstrued by some here, as well take some thought to put together so I'll send that to your HN email.

Regardless of the above, I'm chagrinned and remorseful to generate non-positive dialog here.
Many people in the African American community spread the (completely false) story that the word "picnic" has racist origins. For example:

https://datruthishere.com/the-real-meaning-of-picnic/

And see these comments on Politifact:

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/feb/21/robert-mck...
Not everyone can wear jeans + tshirt to the office. Borrowing athletic- and work-wear inspired designs for office/formal cloths has huge potential.
Notice you did not explain why there needs to be subjective experience. Why do I see the color red? Why am I not some elaborate clockwork that I supposedly am, without inner sensation. I could have none and just describe one to you, but I assure you I actually have one. (Or you are a sollipsist, which is fine)

I find that people either understand this immediately or they don't.