skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have links to these videos? They sound hilarious.
Another is The Stellar Consensus Protocol by David Mazières .
I assume the non-swappable battery will give out long before the lightning port wears out.
My current car does Carplay wirelessly. You connect via WiFi.
the same thing is happening with actual videos to me. Youtube just keeps recommending me the same stuff, it totally overshoots. This has bothered me a long time but it feels like it has gotten worse
That's really not a good faith argument.

It's a dire situation with no good solution. Ascribing grand malice diminishes that. It's reductionist.
Sf has some great hole in the wall places that aren’t too expensive. E.g. Tonga room isn’t that badly priced

Dropping 50$/person on dinner & drinks in sf isn’t that much money when your rent is 50x+ that figure.
Unfortunately the iPhone 11 Pro has a softer screen, I had mine accumulating permanent scratches within just a few days which surprised me as every other phone I’ve owned had no issues without a screen protector.

So iPhone 11 Pro max become the first phone I had to buy a screen protector for, really disappointing in such an expensive phone.
Vietnamese adopted the Latin script in the late 19th century, and Chinese characters are effectively obsolete now.

They do still use a lot of Chinese-derived vocabulary, which you can occasionally spot if you squint hard enough. Xã hội chủ nghĩa = 社会主义 she hui zhu yi (socialism).
Amazon buildings tend to go up fairly quickly, many a couple of years of planning and construction, especially since Paul Allen's Vulcan real estate (who owns most of the land and construction) laid all the plans a long time ago.

> So long, in fact that some have come up with the (controversial, not saying it's correct) "Skyscraper Index" which argues that historically, peak skyscraper height correlated with the worst economic dips in the economic cycles.

Considering that none of these buildings are very tall, we are fairly safe then.

But I think this slow down will be useful in the long run: Downtown Seattle is currently turning into office space for Amazon without much for anyone else anymore. Especially compared to downtown Portland, which is a much better place to live (more retail and services, better access MAX). The boom was really going in the wrong direction, it would be nice if it could be corrected.
France begs to differ. You have spectacularly good restaurants in rural areas all over the county (Michelin star good).
As I'm ENFJ, this is absolutely wrong

Personality Probability
ISFJ 0.505107
ISFP 0.441592
INFJ 0.015237
INTJ 0.011497
INTP 0.009005
INFP 0.006540
ENTP 0.003931
ENFP 0.001573
ESTJ 0.001450
ISTP 0.001228
ENTJ 0.000833
ISTJ 0.000782
ENFJ 0.000712
ESTP 0.000294
ESFP 0.000131
ESFJ 0.000087
> Microsoft is moving to essentially the Github model of letting people live where they want

My understanding is that at Github working remotely is the norm, while I believe the changes Microsoft announced require manager approval if you want to work remote > 50% of the time.
Is it? the trend I’ve seen is wfh not work remote. Wfh still means going to the office 1-2 days a week.
Bluetooth? Heck, even without car play it works fairly well.
This is an amazing SNL skit. I covid-insanity-laughed maniacally when I imagined this being part of the slick apple demo video from today.
Visualizing goomba movement with every possible RNG value in Mario 64
It's not speculation, it's basically an open source intelligence tool. I can't recall the name of the company I somehow stumbled upon, but they exist. Palantir, as an example, might be someone who you'd expect to develop commercial tools for intelligence gathering. High frequency traders or other investors also.
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Maybe there's a teapot orbiting Mars?
Thanks for pointing out. Personally I prefer aluminum than stainless for lightweight.
Then by definition, they aren't bullshit... They have a specific purpose.
This guy is having the same issues I'm having with a 5600. Multi-monitor, entirely new computer built a couple months ago.

Randomly locks up, random black screen, random rainbow colors all over my monitors.

With my new Nvidia 2060 which I bought to replace it; nothing. No issues. Works just fine on Manjaro.

For whatever reason, the AMD cards just get clapped on Linux.
Oh yeah there are tons of sources, whole books on color physiology and perception. Wikipedia really isn’t a bad place to start - see the cone response curves at the top of this section https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_vision#Physiology_of_col...

A somewhat similar idea to the Fletcher-Munson noise curve is the “just noticeable difference” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-noticeable_difference which can be mapped across color differences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_difference to figure out how people perceive the brightness of a given color https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brightness
^ ever work with someone in a remote office. I’ve always seen their careers take a hit. Same for remote employees.

It’s great when you have a family with kids and you’re less career focused. But I noticed my comp increased almost 2x their’s over the same timeframe.
I’m glad not being a teenager these days where everything is constantly photographed and filmed then shared everywhere without consent.

At least with my old embarrassing forum posts and such it was me actively sharing it :)
Wireless CarPlay already exists
This seems like a HUGE insight! As I understand it, they show that RL can effectively be recast as two sub-problems:

1. learning a policy that imitates your own behavior on prior experience, which is a trivial supervised learning problem

2. learning how to weight the importance of prior experiences (learning a data distribution), for which the authors have derived a lower bound

Given a pool of experience, this seems like a fantastic off-policy method to optimize arbitrary reward functions. The main shortcomings I see with this method is that it still does not lead to any significant insights into how to collect new data online, which is a major open problem in RL.
Efficient for those doing the teaching, but not for the one being taught.
If you're interested in voting systems I suggest checking out my links in that thread about cardinal systems (much simpler and better in almost every way). You might also want to check out Clay's comments there and elsewhere, he's the co-inventor of STAR.

I think the results from the Fargo election are much more promising and interesting for those looking for representative voting systems.
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Wil Wheaton reported he really took the existence of alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die, and the associated trolling, to heart as a 15 year old nerd.

He was more mature and could cope far better later on sites such as slashdot where he engaged, but landing a dream job, and being rejected by fellow nerds as well as “william fucking shatner” really did a number on him.
The best roles for working when you want are the gig economy jobs like Uber and Lyft. You can always check out roberthalf.com and other head hunters for jobs
From the FAQ: 'Descriptivist linguists, whom we do not fault for their stand, are quite free to watch as we bring about an evolution in the vernacular understanding of "begging the question."'

I'm in the descriptive camp as a general rule, but I feel that the fight to "save" beg the question is a worthy one
Nice to see Gen X mentioned. In the several years, the media has mentioned only Boomers, Millennials, and Gen Z. It’s like Gen X is the lost generation.
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I know the article mentions The Kinks but I'll call out Harry Rag specifically since it's what I recognized the subject from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeOLVKeV-Ec
> Tangential thought: one of the reasons that vocabulary is annoying can be presented in CS terms. Imagine reading a sentence like 'Do you want to foo the bar?'. From the context you can probably understand what kind of words foo and bar are but you don't know what they mean. Yet they're the most important words in the sentence. This isn't a coincidence: the least common words in a sentence tend to be those with the highest entropy. If there was another word that carried the same meaning but was more common, the author would be more likely to use it. So it's not enought to learn 90% of the words, you need the niche words too.

If you don't understand what a word means, can't you ask the other person?
Hoarding wasn’t really the main source of the toilet paper shortages. Rather, it’s that many more people were using the bathroom at home instead of at work or other public places. The supply chain for public restrooms is different than the one for consumers. Perhaps a sufficiently clever centralized planning algorithm would have predicted this, but what could it actually do about the problem?
You may have luck with his BBS, it's linked at the bottom of the home page.
You could be right, but I've people-watched on Twitter long enough to know that "person who insults those he disagrees with while name-dropping @nntaleb" is an entire PERSONALITY, one that I take approximately 0% seriously.
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I don’t think this is correct. The two particle system is prepared in a perfectly known state (e.g. both spins up). There’s nothing random about it. Randomness only occurs at the measuring device, if it not aligned with the direction of the spin of the incoming particle.
Seems this was a qualified success:

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN26Y2K6

No divers were in the blast radius when it went off, but if I'm understanding their drift, this wasn't the plan.
The irony is that one major complaint about sites like google is that they don’t forget.

When it comes to usenet though...
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This for Vancouver.
Here I’m at 100k cad.
In Seattle I would be at 120k usd.
So 50k usd difference
That’s amazing, I’m not a native English speaker and that sounds exactly like when you are listening to a song in English but you are not understanding the lyric.
If you're a master of the grammar, I think it's possible to start figuring things out from context once you've learned a critical mass of words
Then you're looking for the equivalent of a solid takeaway place, not somewhere where you go for the "experience" and "gastronomy"
Before there was the internet, many UNIX computers communicated by calling each other on telephone modems a few times a day. Among the exchanged texts were email and the discussion blog called usenet.

In the early there were only a few dozen to few hundred computers, mainly in universities and computer companies. You list all the networked computers in a single file called /etc/hosts.

In the late 1980s universal protocols and funding from Senator Al Gores 1991 Information Superhighway legislation allowed the computers anywhere in the world to interconnect.

My usenet email address from 1976 still works.
Hugo is not complex from a search engine's point of view, it generates static files...
What is curious to me is that NYC rents haven't seen the same crater at all (link says 15% but anecdotally most of the desirable top of market neighborhoods aren't budging). I don't buy the "SF is not very fun during the pandemic" rationale as more special than any other notable city, and NYC tends to have less space than SF. To me, that says the SF case has more complexity. IMO, the key factor here is that there appears to be a much higher ratio of people that were primarily there because work was best there, where many other cities have populations that tend to choose the city in question specifically more than happen upon it.
The only advantage I see is that huge amount of capital you can borrow at a low rate, probably lower than the rate of a weakening dollar, and could potentially turn it into a rental to pull in inflation adjusting income, in addition to your fixed work income. That said, pulling your down payment out of rising stocks to do so may not be the most profitable, but it does serve as a good diversification of asset.

Im not a financial advisor, just a software engineer, but my father is and I've convinced him into buying a second home with me when the right one becomes available (waiting for the supply to open up a bit, we lost our first offer to a cash offer). Key points for purchasing were diversification of assets, pulling out some money from the high riding market before a blue sweep and subsequent taxes, and rates so low that combined with inflation(including assets) the gov is paying you to take out a loan.
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but SF is like an open air homeless shelter and getting worse. Crime is also getting worse. People put too much focus on cost of living. Many people have plenty of money to afford to live there, but it's increasingly difficult to justify that cost compared to the quality of life.
I was visiting a friend at college, staying in his room. I once told him that I would be literally sleeping with someone, and he at first didn't realize that this meant I wouldn't be sleeping in his room that night. So the corruption of "literally" has indeed interfered with my communication.
A travesty that the U.S. pays over a trillion dollars a year while hosting soldiers in 70 countries...

You would think with that much planning we would have paid attention to experts decades ago warning that we needed more charged fiber (N95) in storage in case of a pandemic at a cost of ~0.0001 trillion ...
Sure. Plagiarism is just an example to show how "common sense" can't be applied to licensing at the parent poster said.

> plagiarism is bad but believing that something is bad doesn't equate to believing that there should be a law to restrict it.

That is pretty much my point, yes.
That’s not the point.
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I will echo that I will absolutely never use my REAL identity publicly online for anything.

It only takes ONE lawsuit/stalker/arrest/accusation/divorce/etc... for people to learn this lesson.

Privacy is worth WAY more than comment/post/tweet visibility.
>what is even more remarkable is that they followed their own trackway home again a few hours later. [...] Between the outward and return journeys, a sloth and a mammoth crossed the outward trackway. The footprints of the return journey in turn cross those animal tracks.

a crowded place it was.
Predicted by experts:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/04/experts-w...
This Google employee happens to own every iPhone since exception, a Mac Pro (cheese grater), Mac Pro (trash can), an iMac, multiple AppleTVs, multiple Apple Watches.

It's possible to like Apple HW and still dislike the company's messaging and PR.
While I agree that it's a valid example of hyperbole, to me, using literally to mean figuratively is the sonic equivalent to writing many exclamation points!!!!!!! You can do it, but it's bad form, and doesn't make the point the speaker wants to make
Tailscale is a better VPN but it's still a VPN. Also, I have a feeling that organizations that can't migrate to BeyondCorp won't be able to "wireguard all the individual machines" either; they'd have to use Tailscale gateways which start to look like VPN servers.
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I guess “runaway” is kind of hard to define, huh? Obviously bestseller means “outsells all other sizes.”

The king of leaks* claims that Apple expects the regular size iPhone to make up 40% of sales, and the Mini, Pro and Pro Max splitting the remainder roughly evenly. IMO, if the Mini share is something like 35% and the regular size is 25%, that’s blasting past Apple’s (or at least the most prolific insider’s) expectations.

As for determining the winner... that’s a little tricky. I was thinking browser stats, but 12 and 11 Pro have same screen resolution... I’m willing to take word of “Omdia” or whatever barely credible research firm wants to speak up when Apple is reporting their winter quarter earnings.

I’m poor, so say $250 to the loser’s charity of choice?

* https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/10/11/mid-sized-iphone-...
We gotta realize the interest of managers is to get us to work more for less. That being said if you wanna talk about specific policies union workers have better pay and benefits, and have better work places, not to mention gives us a political voice.
>The company tolerating remote workers changes the supply to the company.

The crux is that the supply curve is not fully known. For argument's sake, you can imagine both that talent is distributed uniformly as well as imagine top talent was already pulled towards urban centers.

We don't know exactly what the answer is but one thing that does not make sense is that the supply is somehow linked to local cost of living.

You admit yourself that this current offer to relocate is artificial and not a product of the market reaching equilibrium, so why accept it?
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Because of the humans -- the content consumers, like me and you.

There were a number of websites which relied on humans (like old yahoo catalog and opendmoz). They still exist (I think), but humans did not choose them.

There is a whole bunch of other search engines other than Google, and I am sure some of them give way more control to creators. Humans did not choose them either -- likely because other humans filled them with spam and SEO.

It is all about humans -- they are the real decisive force because they get to choose if AI lives or dies.

(That said, as a part of this "decisive force", I feel modern Google products have way too many ads, and that current developments are against my interest. I guess this does show that as long as your software is great, you can charge great price, in $$$ or in attention to ads)
Citation needed. I've only ever seen maximum of 1080p60 (with relatively low bitrate).
“Card clash” As it’s known in London - when you have multiple rfid cards in your wallet And the reader picks up the wrong one.
Huh. 21.5% probability that I'm an INTJ.

Which is ... correct.

I'd like to know more about the algorithm behind this.
There's weird gaps where groups have some posts from a given date but not all of the posts (e.g. I know I posted to csm.hypercard on 24 April 1990 and can see it in Google's dejanews cache, but not in this cache which has other posts to the group on that date). Was it just luck of the draw from what was cut to tape?

How do you handle cross posting?
GoogleMind notices your entry to the Samsung shop and expands the pervasive storage field, incrementally improving its probability of extracting money from you in future. "AndroidHouse had toothbrush features years ago, moron" says the shop assistant in lieu of a greeting. Looking around hoping to see some example appliances and integrations you are puzzled that most of the store is given over to themes. In the distance two people are cheering because the washing machine has dark mode. Presumably the lights in their house don't work.

A customer wearing a V for Vendetta mask locks eyes with you, they start to say something about a YouTube video they're following to upload a custom firmware to their cooker which lets the gas burners override the legal safety limits and double as a room warmer, but at the mention of YouTube a solid sheet slams down from the roof in between you blocking the conversation. "Get the best YouTube experience" it ... instructs? Demands? The place where it should take a response from you is missing. You turn away.

The shop assistant invites you over to the VR counter where you can tour the AndroidHouses on offer, several tens of thousands of makes and models all alike, and hands you a pair of carefully cleaned and sanitized VR goggles, which you put on. "Please select all images of brutal murder scenes or books on leopards" the familiar captcha test prompts. You go through the motions, accepting that it's perfectly reasonable that you might be a spam customer. Nobody has been able to speak to a human about the captcha contents for at least a decade now.

The VR goggles go blank, then show you a scene from a Virtual Reality headset of the 1980s. "I thought Android VR was quite good?" you mutter. "Mandatory Samsung overlay" says the assistant, "runs all the same apps". Data gathered by the headset arrives at the nearest orbiting FaceBook point of presence, sneaking past the privacy filters. Which privacy legislation applies to the satellites is still being fought. You tour some houses, you watch some ads. It's terrible that Apple doesn't let you block ads properly. You watch some more ads. Disgusting Apple blocking third-party plugins. You ask if AndroidHouse allows third-party plugins, but it doesn't.

Leaving the shop, undecided, you glance in the door of the GNU/OpenLibreHouse Organization. "Our houses would have electricity now if it wasn't for Microsoft!" you overhear. A large and intimidating man walks up to you and grabs your arm. "If you want to see your daughter again, come with me and move into your new OracleHouse". He moves and you go with him like his grip was iron. It might well be. Your wallet is missing. He nods at a crowd of people standing nearby and your heart sinks. Consultants. "We can have your toothbrush setup within six months - a Gartner leading average time" one of them says. You never asked for this.
In Quantum Mechanics things travel as waves and interact as particles. Between interactions, everything is described by the Schrodinger Wave Function, which evolves to include every possible path. But at the point of an interaction the wave function must collapse to satisfy conservation rules.

Consider an electron fired at a dual slit with a phosphor screen. While traveling from the electron gun, thru the slits, to the screen, the electron is described by a Wave Function. It has no fixed position or momentum. The Schrodinger wave passes through both slits and interferes with itself on the other side. The wave function evolves into a series of lines.

But when the electron interacts with the screen it always appears as a single point. It must do so by the laws of conservation. At the interaction it must have a specific location and momentum in order for there to be conservation of charge, momentum, energy, etc.

This interaction is enough to 'collapse the wave function'. No 'observation' is required.

How does this happen? There is no localized mechanism that can possibly make this work. The conservation laws are not local restrictions. They are universal.

Please note that this is my own explanation of now QM works, and does not necessarily reflect the official position of any school of thought. It does, however, reflect the actual use of Quantum Mechanics, in that systems evolve via the Schrodinger Equation and interactions must obey conservation laws. And No, it cannot explain how entanglement works.
The confluence of Covid and conflagration is a dealbreaker for many. The former, alone, could have been balanced with outdoor dining. The latter, alone, would be softened by company. The two, together, make the state’s tax policy and city’s take on crime a cruel joke.

Contrast that with New York. It has—in my opinion—become a finer city since the pandemic for those with the fortune of continued employment.
Ha, as if auto manufacturers all have an org dedicated to monitoring and deterring sexual predators and Russian hackers. Can anyone from one of these companies comment on this? Can I get a discount if I opt out of that at the dealership? I'm a techie, really I'd prefer to install Windows Defender on the car myself, thank you!