skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Constitution was written by people that were willing to do exactly what you discuss.
What other damp-preventing features went into your house?
Not unusual at all. Interviews are team specific and people cheat them all the time if they know people on the team. Bar raiser system doesn't work.
>One could equally argue that the fact we don't have a million mile battery already suggests that there may be intractible problems to solve.

That would be a good argument if batteries had been stuck for decades at a much lower limit. But the fact is their lifetime has been steadily increasing, and will reach a million miles within a few years at most.
How to talk to conspiracy theorists – and still be kind
Obviously government employees shouldn't be using Twitter DMs for unofficial business, but they're more or less required to use Twitter for communications with the public and fundraising. If they don't, they hand way too much of an edge to their competitors. The issue is that we don't want Donald Trump to mysteriously tweet "We're nuking Toronto this afternoon! #MAGA" and have a national security episode trying to figure out if it's a hacker or if he just saw something on Fox News that irked him.
Why turn down all that free Twitter storage?
The article's author mentions Alexanders 'Timeless Way of Building', the first book in the series of which 'A Pattern Language' is a part. I agree, it's a wonderful book.
I just noticed this capability in the release notes for 2020.24.6.9. Personally, I’m not too comfortable with this. I might, however, be willing to exchange free Internet or Supercharging in exchange for turning the camera on. I genuinely wonder how many people will enable this voluntarily.

Release notes:

https://teslascope.com/teslapedia/software/2020.24.6.9
Getting Out of Our Heads
Yep I moved into a house that was over double the size of my last house and somehow I'm out of room again.
> One way is heard immunity

Without a vaccine - wouldn't herd immunity just be letting the virus spread and then let Darwin take over, more or less?
The music service is different from ad-free youtube. As for YT music it's the same as all the other music service, they all have the same catalog.
You misunderstand. Do not conflate protestors with violent rioters, who are taking advantage of the protests (as many protestors on the ground can attest). The state government has refused to do anything about violent rioters, even releasing those arrested for felony crimes. Federal agents are picking up where the state government has refused to take action.
Indeed. Cases where the golgi reflex[1] is suppressed are some of the most vivid examples.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golgi_tendon_reflex
I'm eager to try this out as I am having headache managing all my notes, which intersects/joins with many others.
Uh, sports too. Maybe sports especially.

Stanford just cancelled 11 different sports due to funding issues. Yes, Stanford. [0]

If NCAA football is cancelled, the number of schools closing for good will get much bigger.

[0] - https://news.stanford.edu/2020/07/08/athletics-faq/
We don't need to worry about completely unintelligible (to us) Lovecraftian aliens. If they exist and are even interested in looking for alien life themselves they'll have equally unintelligible (to us) methods and motives.

Life on Earth is varied but has a couple common characteristics. It's not coincidence Earth life is carbon based. Carbon is pretty common, a lot of organic chemistry involves similarly common elements but also offers the complexity to build some really specialized molecules. It's more probable than not that carbon based life is one of if not the most common chemistries.

Water is also pretty important for life on Earth. This is also not a coincidence as water is a very interesting molecule. It's a mild solvent so it enables a lot of chemistry to occur. It's composed of plentiful elements and is found throughout the universe. Other molecules have similar properties but most are more complex and aren't quite as versatile as water.

We are concerned with alien life that is at least somewhat like our own. We're interested in species (should they exist) that recognize the utility of radio any optical astronomy. Cthulhu may not give a shit about radio astronomy but that doesn't matter.

The universe is filled with radio emissions, any intelligent species that discovers electrical theory will end up being able to detect it. Natural radio emitting phenomena tend to be temporally cyclic. So even if a particular species doesn't think "linearly", lots of phenomena are linear in the time domain. Their radio astronomers might find it weird but they'll know linear events exist and have a way to express them.

So radio is a pretty good medium to send messages. Messages encoded in the level of math needed to understand electrical theory well enough to build radio telescopes will likely be intelligible by those telescope builders. The same "linear" understanding species would need to understand pulsars or radioactive decay will let them understand linear intelligent signals.

Interstellar communication is likely to only be one-way but there's some common denominators that logically fall out of the effort. They won't work for every kind of species that could exist but you don't need to target every possibility, just a reasonable subset.
The weighting with probability turns it in to an expected value.

Remember that if x is a random variable, then its expected value is

E[x] = Sum_{All x} x p(x)

The interpretation is that E[x] is the average value of x. In particular, if we observe a bunch of x's one after the other, call them x_i, then the sample mean

S_n = (1/n) Sum_i x_i

which for a given "n" is random, converges to the deterministic constant E[x] as "n" gets large.

In this sense, the above formula for E[x] is "inevitable".

In the above case, the thing being averaged is "x", but the same holds true for x^2 ("what is the average value of x^2 ?"), or, in general, f(x) for any function f(.).

In this case, we're using the rather unusual function

f(x) = log_2(1/p(x)),

but the same intuition holds. It's the average number of bits needed to encode x, for instance.
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I guess serverless is a pretty ambiguous term these days, but if this is spawning executors on k8s, how is it serverless? If you're calling it so because you are not managing the k8s cluster, that would be true of running spark on any managed k8s platform like AWS' EKS as well. I was expecting maybe something like this[1], though this is not production-grade.

1. https://github.com/qubole/spark-on-lambda
Following the the BLM protests on the police scanner recently, I spent a day studying maps of Manhattan. What comes to mind here, is how some old roads remain like Broadway -> old postal road, that were laid in past times when the patterns of settlement were different from now. And also how parts of the grid have be repurposed into pedestrian only areas, as urban theory / demands has moved on from when the grid was made. It would be neat if something like this could generate patterns on top of patterns, to get these kind of historical layers.
Perhaps it's only a matter of time before volunteers or well meaning organization [1] add captcha solving to bemyeyes-style solutions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightHouse_for_the_Blind_and_V...
They actually already found the panorama world seed [1]! Currently they are working on figuring out what the tallest naturally generated cactus in Minecraft is and so far they found a world seed with a cactus that is 22 blocks tall [2]. This project however is just a filler until they get some more work done trying to figure out how to best brute force the world seed of the iconic pack.png image [3].

[1] - https://minecraftathome.com/minecrafthome/forum_thread.php?i...

[2] - https://minecraftathome.com/minecrafthome/forum_thread.php?i...

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC7f9tMslVE (Interesting bit is around 7:50)
If you’re arrested the Miranda rights do not need to be read to you. Only when you’re being questioned, if they’re not going to question you it doesn’t happen. Do you have images of the lack of badges? All the images/video I’ve seen show the patches on the arms and police insignia on the chest: https://youtu.be/Isuc5DHgE1M
Yes, I’ve been anchored by dozens of sellers selling reasonably priced track pants for at/under $50. There’s no way that anchoring will work for 10x the reasonable/typical price.

If I go into a Toyota dealer, they can’t actually anchor my reference price of a Toyota sedan to $250K by putting a window sticker saying that on a Camry.
The midwest home I grew up in, constructed in the 70s, had multiple drains in the basement floor which was also where the laundry hookups, wash basin, water softener, HVAC w/humidifier and air cleaner etc. were located.

It was nothing special for the area.

Homes out on the west coast are constructed much less robustly from what I've seen. I presume the mild climate has a lot to do with it.
Monitoring and Managing your Network with SNMP
You have to make the distinction between violent rioters (namely antifa) and genuine protestors. this is the 2nd high-profile time this attempted hijacking has happened. there is even a meme: look up "bike lock guy" (Internet Historian's video on YouTube is pretty funny). anyways the federal agents are not pulling out random genuine protestors (how would that make sense?). they are pulling out the violent ones.
Export your Facebook status posts to a searchable personal journal
For me Product is a conversation between a constructed thing and its environment.

The environment includes its users, its creators, the market, the people who believe in it, the people paying for it...

This conversation happens over time, and the thing evolves (both growing and shrinking) in response to its environment - but it also has an effect on its environment. A more successful product will have a larger effect - and indeed harsher environments may produce more focused products. The most successful products will create their own futures, that is when Product becomes really fun.
It's straight out of Terminator 2.
Ah, I think I got it. The point of the exercise is not to formulate the concept of "amount of suprise (∝ amount of information gained) IN CASE the event happens" but the "EXPECTED amount of entropy gain", for us to know before it happens.

That's why we need to take a middle ground between very common events that aren't surprising, and gain us hardly anything, and rare events that gain us a lot of information, but happen so rarely that they don't matter a whole lot.

The formula derived here manages to find the balance between these two extremes.
It is of unclear legality whether a federal agent can arrest a someone for violating state law in Oregon. It is more likely that after the mayor and governor have said they don't want this to continue it is not legal.

What is the requirement in your mind and legally to identify as LEO? The feds in Portland allegedly have the word POLICE on their shirts and that's it. Is that sufficient? Would you follow orders from someone in tacticool gear with the word POLICE on it?
What's wrong with 9gag? It's a YC company to begin with, and works just like Imgur.
> Real estate agents and HGTV shows have distorted people's view on the importance of small details on resale value.

Yup. I have heard way too many times on those shows, "You spent $50K on renovations so that increased your value $100K", without any form of critical thought. Yes, improvements can have an intrinsic value, but these shows make it seem automatic and huge, without fail.
After Google Notes was retired, I was determined to find a replacement.
Evernote is okay but will the company still be around for years? Not sure.
Since I already have a hosting account, I recently installed DocuWiki. So far, I really like it!
Things are quite different these days. Code makers seem to have run far in advance of code breakers.

Since there are no major wars running, if someone did break something significant they would save it for later.
Upcoming Smartphones in India: लॉन्च की तारीख, कीमत
It seems to me that most schools with substantial D1 football revenues are also R1 universities. Thinking of the "P5" football conferences(SEC, Big 10, 12, PAC 12, ACC) I am not coming up with many low research activity schools.

I think the schools that are likely to shutter are small non prestigious private teaching oriented universities/colleges, very few of which I think are substantially football revenue driven.
It is inaccurate to describe New Zealand as "shut off from the rest of the world".

Trade and communications are running normally. Outgoing international travel is allowed, but of course hardly anyone wants to until the overseas COVID situation settles down. Inbound international travel is bottlenecked on the quarantine system while NZers overseas keep returning here, but that won't last forever because there is a finite number of them, so at some point non-citizens/residents will be able to travel here with a 14-day quarantine requirement and an associated cost (about $4K each). That will work for students, immigrants and long-term visitors. Short-term international tourists are really the only group that will be effectively blocked long term if we don't get a vaccine.
Wireless Tiny Cameras Can Be Mounted on Insects
I'll try that the next time I need it.
No scientific evidence, but I suspect that timing relative to sleep is more important than timing relative to sunrise.

Many people report that they’re simply not hungry until 2-3 hours after they wake up (once they’ve broken the habit of eating breakfast every day). I’m the same - even if go to bed hungry, I don’t really want to eat around 11am at the earliest (waking up around 7:30am).

Given how closely tied hormone release is to sleep, this wouldn’t be surprising. If anyone has any further reading, I’d appreciate links.
It feels like GPT-3 is bored with our human questions and making fun of us. It would be interesting if it studied human speech and could talk to us with subtle tones that would signal if it’s serious or not.
State controlled media? VOA aside, which network(s) are you referring to here?
I think the eating late thing is due to social circumstances. Now that I no longer eat outside my home I should try eating breakfast instead of dinner and measure the results.
Lots of natural phenomena are "serial" just due to entropy. Radioactive decay, friction, even pulsars are going to tell intelligent species that things happen sequentially in the time domain.
This is why AWS is puts effort into blast radius reduction.

The Physalia paper is a wonderful read that explains both the justification and high-level approach to implementing said isolation [1].

Another great example is shuffle sharding [2], notably used in Route53.

The end goal of this is that aws outages would be isolated to subsets of aws customers where possible. So instead of half the internet failing it's only 10% (obviously the exact numbers depend heavily on implementation).

[1] https://assets.amazon.science/c4/11/de2606884b63bf4d95190a3c...
[2] https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/workload-isolation-u...
Why not just say how old each image is, like with a color overlay? “Zoom past this level and you will be looking at 400 days ago” etc
Is it so strange to think that not everyone buys into the anti-China propaganda that's relatively recently popped up in US media? It's only in the last few years that you see every other person on the internet go on a frenzy about China and it's not too crazy to think that there will be people skeptical of this frenzy.
Living in the Chicago area suburbs (think John Hughes), I developed a fondness for the Frank Lloyd Wright prairie style homes. Is it possible to get blueprints for actual FLW homes that you could give to a builder... even perhaps yourself?
As someone whose parents were actual child psychologists, and a wife who's professionally certified in child care, I don't think the manual helps. We've seen all the manuals and even written a few, and they tend to be pseudoscience, even the ones written by academics. There's lots of data on what children do, what ages they do it, why they do it. But most of it is not helpful; they are simply manuals. A lot of it is not field-tested, just logs.

Things you should be aware of like Terrible Twos, which is the age where they want agency over the world and try all kinds of behavior to see what they can impact.

In the early stages, you should also be aware that sleeping is a skill. Many babies don't learn it properly. Many kids fall asleep because of coddling and such, and can't figure out how sleep without that routine. There's a lot of advice, about how to put your baby to sleep based on this principle. Ignore half of it and figure out what works for you.

There will be lots of crying and sleepless nights. Babies who sleep late are tired. They don't get enough sleep. Then they can't sleep because they're too tired to sleep. And it's a nasty cycle. Try not to bring your baby out at nights unless absolutely possible.

In general, what works for us is treating them as newbie humans. Instead of spanking or forcing them, try to convince them. Sometimes this means letting them get hurt. But do it in a harmless way, like letting them bite a raw onion when you told them not to, or touch a hot-but-not-scalding bowl of soup.

They will imitate what others do, especially their ages and their parents. Put them in good company. Every child is a different human; a big part of it is nature. So never compare your child with another. You'll see some babies with egos, some are kind-hearted, some are stubborn, some are selfish, some are violent.

The good manuals are probably those with instructions, and not so much those with psychology. It's a bit like diets in that sense (both the good and bad). Good luck and congratulations!
Wrong. There is some vandalism and graffiti, but certainly not violent anarchy. Portland is just a far left target.
Mastodon is like that but with far less noise per signal. You have insightful toots and most of the time, great tips and URLs. Also, it moves a far slower pace, you can just check once or twice a day and be done.
Here's a thought experiment.

Could you have a very high-tech civilization based on biological manipulation?

Biological structures are extremely efficient and strong and hearty at the molecular level.

It might not be "industrial" in the mining/cement/roads sort of sense.
Thanks. I was stuck with the idea that the whole argument was trying to formulate just the "amount of information gained | event happens", when it actually formulated the expected entropy gain.
I’ll throw in Sarah Susanka’s “Not So Big House” as a homage to old wisdoms in more contemporary form:

https://susanka.com/not-so-big-house/

An architect who focuses on more traditional sizes in new form:
https://rosschapin.com/plans/
I want to love that book -- it's everything I'm interested in -- but oh my god that book is so verbose. For example, he spends 1.5 pages describing what the clouds in the sky look like and it has nothing to do with the plot. I tried twice to read it but gave up at halfway. It's 918 pages, but I think it could lose at least 300 pages and still keep all the brilliant ideas. If someone created a condensed version of it, I think the book could reach a whole new audience.
Characterization of Forward-edge Control-flow Integrity Targets in LLVM-compile [pdf]
Computer Program Alarmingly Predicts in 1973 That Civilization Will End by 2040
Don't even start me on the new construction (thankfully rental) that my last home was. The stairwell landing was so badly off that there was skirting running up the side, and on the landing, they actually had _two_ layers of skirting (one atop the other). It looked ... ridiculous.

And within months, every door had squeaks and sticks, because the frame would be off by as much as 1/4 inch.
Yes, I disapprove of them too. I prefer the anti-whatever campaigns. The "got milk?" one worked pretty well!

It's so easy for rich people to look down their noses at the vices of poor people and tax the hell out of them. I find that whole worldview disgusting.
vs Geometric Algebra's Rotors:
https://youtu.be/Idlv83CxP-8
> I believe that that power should always be as decentralized as possible.

Sadly, cancel culture has so far had zero effect on media and internet platform ownership concentration. We're no closer to breaking up Google or Facebook or Disney or Comcast.
This isn't legal advice, but when you do something illegal, it's best not to do it in a semi-public forum that is tracked by your employer and would be an obvious place for law enforcement to look. Everyone who uses a Bloomberg terminal knows that their employer's legal department can and will look at logs of their conversations. Does insider trading happen there? Probably... people do stupid stuff all the time when it comes to insider trading, such as using their work emails. But it's definitely not the core value of a terminal for anyone.
It seems to me there are at least some assumptions we can safely make about communication if there's any possibility of communication at all: the bit as the basic unit of information, sequential ordering, counting, etc. If aliens don't have this in common with us then there's probably no hope at all that we could recognize each other, let alone communicate.
This is true. Abhorrent at first, then becomes second nature.
Of course it's a weighted coin! Mainstream ideas are usually (not always, but usually) more correct than a randomly chosen alternative.

Mainstream ideas are often weighted by such things as "scientific consensus", "observation", and "evidence". That doesn't make someone who holds many of them suspicious.

Again, not always, but usually, the mainstream ideas got to be mainstream by being better than all the ideas that came before. It's certainly somewhat conservative to hold only mainstream ideas, but on the whole I'd expect someone who only held mainstream ideas to be more correct than someone who only held non-mainstream ideas.

Like, are you going to sit here and tell me that most of your views aren't mainstream?
I think Facebook (and maybe MZ in particular) was hubristic from the start. They have a deep trust deficit and they just don't (or don't want to) realise it.

If Libra was from anyone other than Facebook, or if it was from a proper AND neutral (ie. not dominated by Facebook) consortium of tech companies and organisations, it might have had a better chance.
Bloomberg moats: chat, media (breaking news, economic announcements with low latency), Excel and API integrations, UI buy-in (whereby a terrible interface with a moderately steep learning curve becomes the reason people enjoy it)
Granted, but saying worse players prefer closed positions is just false. Take the French defense, for example. Advance variation of the French is much harder for beginners compared to the exchange variation. And you can say the same for many other positions.