skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After 250 years, Esselen Tribe regains a piece of homeland
Birtherism was inherently racist in and of itself, though. If Obama was white it simply wouldn’t have been a factor. It relied on suspicion of an “other” as a key component.
> Since he couldn't process numbers in any useful manner

I don't think this is true, because the article says:

> Yet he could still do mental arithmetic and perform other mathematical operations.
> He eventually mastered an entirely new digit system (where ⌊ stood for 2, ⌈ for 8, etc.); determined to keep working, he had his computer rigged to present the new numerals onscreen.

That suggests to me that he could indeed process numbers, but just couldn't see them
"fairness" as in nobody can claim somebody else has tempered with the will.

Note: thanks for spotting the typo. I corrected it.
I can’t tell what’s sloppier, the theories promulgated by supposed Q followers, or the debunkers.

Why is it so hard to find a thoughtful, technical, ripping to shreds of Q’s posts?
See also Dark Crystal[https://darkcrystal.pw], which uses Shamir's Secret Sharing to break your secret into "shards", allowing you to also set a number of friends that are needed to recreate the secret (less than the total number of shards). Sharing is done over your social network (currently Briar and Secure Scuttlebutt).
Video here: https://youtu.be/yTR10gPbT4Y (from DeepGamingAI)
I'm reading lots of comments reacting against the premise of the article in name of some kind of efficiency or inherent value of a universal standar.

I wonder if commenters have considered that Research is useful to understand the present and more importantly prepare for the future. While English being useful língua Franca today seems to back decision to just focus on English research the point is: will this English uptake continue at same rate in future? Isn't there some kind of bubble effect where here in hn many think that (as non English native speakers) we can all engage so we think English is the only useful thing for us to understand?

What about all possible unknown Mandarin NLP research (which I think many agree) may be useful for non-mandarin speakers?

Also, isn't one of the points of Information Technology to enable/create value in a long tail of experiences? Focusing on a single attribute of a substantial part of the world seems counter productive and shortsighted...
I find Qanon fascinating in the abstract. It combines elements of conspiracy culture, the new age, and New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) Christianity.

These are three things that historically didn't go together, with the new age in particular being not entirely incorrectly associated with the occult. Of course new age is itself an odd hodge podge of occultism, spiritualism, new thought / "the secret" / prosperity gospel, appropriated native beliefs, and hippie counterculture stuff.

I also find Qanon deeply disturbing for its totalitarian tendencies, such as cheerleading for mass arrests and martial law. The combination of fringe Christianity with the new age has a not so great history with groups like Heaven's Gate and The Solar Temple. It's a combination that seems to self destruct as the new age and occult/magic(k)al influence brings out a strong tendency to try to immanentize the eschaton.
The appeal of horoscopes?
"Super concerned?" The guy wanted to celebrate the coup that started the last dictatorship. Stop splitting hairs.

http://www.iconnectblog.com/2019/04/bolsonaros-unconstitutio...

Note: Trump's call for postponing the election is exactly the same thing. Evidence they have no interest in constitutional democracy and will, at the earliest possible moment, impose total control on the country.
There is a pie-slice of Antarctica that is unclaimed under the Antarctic Treaty System. Some guy in LA has claimed it as Westarctica[1], which is a pretty good name. You could probably go down there with a pistol and claim it yourself. Dress warmly. Would rank in the top 20 countries in square km (1.6M square km)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westarctica
What Is the Venturi Effect?
Cool project!
Using Monaco for the editor makes it much more pleasant for writing code than Jupyter notebooks
How the Magic Trick Is Done (2018)
Ask HN: At what time do you go to bed / get up?
The Problem with Over-Positive Affirmations
I wrote a technical comparison between various public domain eBook projects:

https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/11/project-gutenberg-p...
Thanks. Tesla really should have picked a different brand for the "3" (like Lexus / Avalon). Otherwise they'll dilute their luxury line.
Why isn't it safe? Or where can I read more on that?
* Wake up somewhere around 7am. Coffee.

* Meditate (10-30 minutes depending on how I feel)

* Light yoga/stretching + daily journal

* Whatever workout is on the ultra marathon training plan

* shower then get to work

* 1pm lunch

* back to work

* if afternoon drowsiness sets in then its nap time, if not, keep working

* cook & eat while watching some tv

* depending on how I'm feeling either get some more work done or just relax

* get ready for bed + read + sleep usually around 10:30. I like to sleep.

Sundays are for debriefing last week and planning the next. On bad days, replace the work with playing animal crossing, cleaning, mindlessly browsing the internet, and switching between online courses & YouTube
11:30 - 7:45
Freedom of speech is quite complex and every single country in the world has limits on speech. Japan and the US seem to have the broadest interpretation of freedom of speech, yet both countries have reasonable limits when it comes to obscenity, direct threats of violence, and others.

Many countries under the Crown do not have freedom of speech. In New Zealand, the live stream video from the Christchurch shooting was illegal to possess or distribute, without seeking specific permission (e.g for academic purposes). Most Kiwi's I've talked to considered this reasonable, and even the Americans who immigrated understood and accepted this limit when they choose to apply for residence or citizenship.

Australia doesn't have freedom of speech or a bill or rights, but the state of Victoria (Melbourne) has a charter of human rights.

China has freedom of speech in their constitution.

The freedom isn't the most important part, but the due process of law that comes around fighting for, maintaining and putting reasonable limits on those freedoms.
With new direction of research, like pre-taining and subword vocab, the models now are mostly language agnostic. English or not, it is just sequence of tokens.

Difference mainly lies in data abundance, where the distribution is severly skewed.
0530 Wake up

0600 Jog

0645 Coffee and breakfast w/ family

0800 Cold shower and get ready for work

0900 Start work

1100-1115 Coffee and snack break

1300-1330 Lunch

1730 End work

1800 onwards: read, watch TV, dinner, family time, relax etc.

This is my schedule for the last 4 months since I started work from home.
It's better as in the US government isn't a model citizen but it's also not disappearing citizens, enslaving ethnic groups, selling organs from political prisoners, or trying to take over the South China Sea.
Detecting WebGL will not tell you what is needed.

I just tried a WebGL demo, and got wildly different results depending on the browser, and which GPU is active at the time the demo started. Results varied between:

- Smooth and good looking

- Good looking but <1fps. Turning off GPU features would have been the better thing to do.

- Noisy, corrupt-looking pixels over half the image because calculations were producing incorrect numerical results; it looked like overflow or something.

At least it's possible to detect a low frame rate and, eventually, compensate by reducing features and/or resolution. But that's still annoyingly slow (it will take a few seconds to detect).

Bad calculations are a bigger problem, as it's hard to anticipate what kind of bad to look for and how to detect it.
Email Productivity: Organize Your Gmail Labels as Tabs
A) are you willing to spend the money on servers and staff to maintain it?

B) would it have the same reliability characteristics?

C) do you have a DR strategy?

D) after you spend all that money, did it help you either save money or make money? Did it give you a competitive advantage? Did it help you go to market faster?
It worked. That is kind of important.

You wasted valuable resourcss rewriting a working product? Good job.. I guess.
FDA urges consumers not use certain hand sanitizer products
Because you can only use it during prime driving conditions and yet people compare it to overall incidents when driving.
imo there are political, technical, and economic reasons.

The Chinese Communist Party won't let an American social/content app run unfettered behind the Great Firewall.

The American tech industry is printing money with B2B SaaS products, while consumer products are much riskier. Add in that video at scale is incredibly expensive, and you have all the economic/technical barriers against you to getting enough money to build the infrastructure to scale up to the billions of users on TikTok.
I learned 50 keyboard shortcuts in 42 minutes
I think you've diagnosed it.
If the author is reading comments, sometimes it's as simple as adding this to the HEAD element:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

YMMV
So the end result was that it wasn’t effective. Imagine that, ineffective government regulations with regards to tech. Who would have thought?
US companies similarly have to comply with secret orders[1] from the US government, so I agree with the parent that it looks pretty much the same from the perspective of us foreigners.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter
Thanks for passing on that reference @onepointsixC. Yourself and the parent poster might be interested in a webinar we posted on YouTube which talks about those slides from one of the paper authors (Flavio) and yours truly. That slide is about halfway through the video, but the whole thing is worth a watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9G1s1t_d80&list=PL0VD16H1q5...

We put up a cryptography playlist during the last week on youtube since it felt like people didn't have enough resources to refer to easily. We hope it helps! It includes the video walkthrough of how to get the toolkit running and run some demos.
For those confused what it is the YouTube video in the page breaks down what it is, what they hope to do with it, and how they are testing with it at a more general level than the text. It also breaks down some of the terms like massive MIMO.
spent a few months in Athens. Dog shit was everywhere. Greeks don't seem to be the type to pick up after their pets and it was incredibly gross.

I'm in kyiv now and despite seeing more dogs, I have yet to see any such droppings. I guess people are more fastidious about cleaning up after their animals in public places.
FWIW, Word's comments and changes tracking are pretty slick compared to, say, Sublime Text ;)
I may be confused as I do not know much javascript, but the installation page mentions a dependency on Mesa, is it relying on it to perform the actual work?
If so, I do not quite understand the debates here around avoiding OpenGL design and fallback to software emulation.
Project has uncertain future.

https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/1320

Consider alternative alternatives also.
I'm not sure if this is what the parent comment meant, but it seems reasonable that it's not a lucrative path to focus on anyone who doesn't already have a functional business without you. Partnering with that existing coffeeshop can pay off a lot more easily than the dozens of weekend game devs that will probably never make a cent themselves.
The Issue with Your Ambition
And Teslas are new cars with modern safety features yet they compare them with all cars, many of them are old cars and lack many of those safety features.
Some day, this may be the ONLY accepted payment method in a future society.
Electricity 'beamed' to homes could do away with wire transmission cables
- Wake up at 8:50 am

- Work from 9 - 11 am

- Go for a walk

- Work from 11:30-12-30

- Lunch .. go to store and buy it

- 1 - 5 work with going out for fresh air every hour

- 6-7 Try to jog

- 8-11 drink beer/other leisure

- 11 - 1 am bed time routine
What is "The average company of any size"?

It depends on what you want but managing complex software may be expensive and has some serious economies of scale, which makes a pressure to outsource, even expensively. You can't just brush it off with 'that's easy', it's not.
Interesting question. The dynamics surrounding which questions get proper answers in shareholder meetings is always interesting to me. There is no right way and bullshitting certain questions is an art. On grounds of material impact this question is hard to skip an answer to. Perhaps the payoff wasn't that material in the end, but the hack was. So even a small fry shareholder could ask this in the shareholder meeting and expect an answer. Skipping to answer good questions often leads to more in the future, so that's the balance the CEO and investor relations face. One could always reach out to analysts to try and get some critical mass going.
Not sure that this is an apples to apples comparison. The US average includes many driving scenarios that Tesla’s autopilot cannot navigate.

~52% of accidents happen within 5 miles of home. At least where I live, Tesla’s autopilot couldn’t navigate the 5 miles around my house on city streets.

A better comparison may be to compare accident rates for same/similar driving scenarios as the Tesla autopilot. While we all know that humans are bad drivers, perhaps it would would be better to compare accident rates for freeway driving.
The CPU isn't always too slow. For example rendering a spreadsheet, text editor, web browser or CAD screen might prefer GPU to make it visibly smoother and more satisfying (especially scrolling, compositing and high density text updates), but will still be useful on CPU.

And current CPUs are faster than old GPUs for some things, especially if vector instructions are used.

And GPUs are sometimes slow due to technical issues such as bus traffic, even if the GPU itself is fast.

So it's not as simple as "never use the CPU".
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Even worse, what if one or more children lose their bits and can’t provide their piece?
Furthermore, how many times Autopilot fucked up so much that the accident could not be avoided when the driver took control, but since the driver had disengaged Autopilot at the last second, it is technically no longer an "Autopilot Accident"?
Proximity Principle in Visual Design
Q is an ocean of possible interpretations. Which seems like a drug for humans. Watching this closely for ~3 years has been a fascinating study of people and the internet.
Why did you decide to fork youtubedown?
What’s your ultra training plan? Routine sounds great!
Chinese always has the freedom to criticize and mock US government - as long as you are not targeting Chinese government you are fine ;-)
ISPs comply on a national level.

Facebook was demanded to comply on a worldwide level based on a national law.

That's the whole point.
The CCP loves this rule. When’s the last time you saw HN step in to moderate what have been clear astroturfing attempts of the front page?
Also interesting how every person questioning this account has been Silenced by flagging?
USDA official identifies some seeds sent around US from China
Ah I am way too confused these days, thanks for the correction :)
Then what happens if one child who knows they won’t get anything, refuses to provide their piece?

Don’t give that child a piece in the first place!
This is very interesting, but I find it a bit strange when articles like this imply these types of routines are related to success. I’m sure being willing to work hard and have such a routine is part of why he’s CEO rather than some department manager, but more likely his connections and work ethic are the reasons for his success.

I would rather see what connections he had that gave him the opportunities needed to reach his level. I feel like it’s not expressed enough how much relationships and connections matter.
Still very much in use: the E6B! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E6B
This is a bit of a partial myth. This idea was probably used when negotiating for funding in some quarters, but it was never a particularly plausible use of it, for at least two reasons. First, of course, the shuttle can only access extremely restricted orbits which most targets of interest would not be in. And second, countermeasures would be trivial if the Soviets believed such a threat to actually exist; just incorporate a few kilos of explosives into each device.

I'm reasonably sure this story was always more of a case of "how do we sell this thing" than "this is something that we can actually realistically do".
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season 9 episode 15 — the wizard

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0697813/

=] very first opening line
Show HN: Discover and learn more about music you listen to
A simple interface to watch music videos, read lyrics, discover new music and learn more about the music you listen to. It's a prototype, but wanted to share!
Amen to that. Integrated formal systems giving the spec working with the programming language on the implementation side is the holy grail.
Then why has every person questioning this account has been Silenced by flagging?
Rhode Island issued refund checks signed by Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse
You are too young to have been on Slashdot, aren't you?
Saying the least important part of building a successful product is building the product is nonsensical. The response to the tendency on tech isn’t to generate anti-tech dogma, it’s to recognize its role as one of several key things to focus on.
Americans are generally sentenced to prison for committing specific crimes. Sure there may be some things you think the law should decriminalize (do vote), and also, sometimes innocents are imprisoned, which absolutely should not happen. But our prison system as a whole is not comparable to the indefinite detainment and reeducation of people purely due to their ethnicity or religion, which is happening with Uighurs.

A better comparison would be Japanese internment camps - I don't think anyone is defending those anymore.
Op - thanks. A great read. Helpful and informative.
Oh come now.

> The mind is not a physical object. It cannot be observed or experimented with in a systematic way.

So clearly false if you read the article, or have ever looked at an optical illusion.

> ... because buildings and minds are not physical, natural things. They're unnatural things, conjured up by human invention and imagination

Then likewise Ecology, Geology, Biology and all other sciences that cover systems aren’t science? What is left? Surely not physics because that could be quantum OR relativity. Surely not QM because that could be particles OR waves.

> Another example, computer science isn't science. It's math. Computers are deterministic, there's no point in running experiments

Ok now I know you are trolling.
You absolutely could not conceal a polar shuttle launch. No such thing ever happened.
If you find those, please do tell!

Also, any sites discussing real code for trading bots :)
The thing is... the alluring thing about side projects _is_ not having that clear objective. Most of our jobs are directed by clear objectives, side projects are great for experimentation without clear potential for personal gain (fun, fame or fortune), often you will at least gain a unique experience and learn, which is a good trade for a little time.

Perhaps what happened here is a side project grew into something larger, it's now just a project, and he fell into putting more time and effort into it without making a conscious decision due to popularity - perhaps that's when it can bite you, when you realise you don't enjoy it anymore and it's become one sided.

I think side projects should stay as small as possible unless there looks to be a real potential for both yourself personally and the rest of the world - even then failing fast feels like the best idea.
I mean HN probably skews towards people who could easily afford the subscription, but it could be a legitimate benefit to the UFC brand to maintain the engagement of fans who can't afford to pay. Those people may lose interest if they can't watch at all, but they might be able to afford the subscription in a few years. High school/college students are one demographic that comes to mind, but this could easily apply to adults trying to escape poverty as well.

I don't know which way the balance swings in terms of people who can afford to pay and choose not to vs. people who can't afford to pay, but I think with something like the UFC that relies to some degree on fan culture for its appeal there's a clear benefit from having more people watch it even if those additional viewers don't pay.
> cheerleading for mass arrests and martial law

One of the darkly hilarious parts of the latest "Q" drops was that the entire cast of Friends had been arrested and executed. (Why? One can only imagine it had something to do with laugh tracks.)

It feels like "Q" predicts "marshall" law (his acolytes can never get the spelling right), executions of public figures, or impending power grabs/coups every month or so. None of them pan out, but his followers will usually call those predictions "intentional disinfo."

I imagine the only way this kind of hysteria ends is with a new conspiracy theory. And that gets uprooted by yet another conspiracy theory. And so on until the heat death of the universe.
> America is under no obligation to help its rivals develop.

Right. As long as we acknowledge that this is what's going on, so the rest of the world can feel free to just laugh at the US the next time they claim some grandiose moral high ground in their petty squabble to keep their rival down.
I don’t know why you’re being downvoted. It’s absolutely a parallel to TikTok. I don’t know why TikTok is getting so much sympathy.
> Even the OAB (brazilian akin to advocates' guild) recognized this wasn't the case for at leas two weeks. And when the accused were given access to formal accusation, they only had access to a small chapter of it.

Do you have any source? I tried to google 'Roberto Jefferson OAB', but I found nothing.
Ok. That's great to hear. But isn't that ambiguity used by whoever has the legal authority to enforce what they want, rather than what's "right?"
I know its not the exact same kind of concern as presented here, but I have recently found that one technique for achieving extremely precise timing of execution is to just sacrifice an entire high priority thread to a busy wait loop that checks timing conditions as fast as the CPU will cycle instructions. This has the most obvious advantage of being trivial to implement, even in high level languages that only expose the most basic of threading primitives.

Thinking strategically about this approach, modern server CPUs expose upwards of 64/128 threads, so if 1 of these had to be sacrificed completely to the gods of time, you are only looking at 1-2% of your overall resources spent for this objective. Then, you could reuse this timing service for sequencing work against the other 98-99% of resources. Going back just a few years, throwing away 12/25/50% of your compute resources for the sake of precise timing would have been a non-starter.

For reference, I find that this achieves timing errors measured in the 100-1000 nanoseconds range in my .NET Core projects when checking a trivial # of events. I have not bothered to optimize for large # of events yet, but I believe this will just be a pre-processing concern with an ordered queue of future events. I have found that this is precise enough timing to avoid the sort of logic you would otherwise need to use to calculate for time error and compensate on future iterations (e.g. in non-deterministic physics simulations or frame timing loops).