skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went from absolutely no ability, to limited ability thanks to this book. It must be knocking on 25 years since I read it though and I've never forgotten the things it taught me. I don't think I can say that about many books.
The hunter gatherers would be on the end of that list by most metrics. But that's of course not anything like the system I'm discussing. I'm discussing the perspective of how I, a US citizen, perceives the momentum of the US. The baby boom of the 50s has been studied and contrasts drastically with today.

The other comments here are all making absolutist claims - "I can name a circumstance in all human history that was worse therefore your claim is wrong." But that's of course not how humans make decisions - they make decisions based off of what they know and have experienced. The situation in the US today does not lead people to have children in the same rates as the baby boom generation - and that's the difference between positive and negative growth.

Yes, the cold war never ended. Yes, people have largely forgotten about it. Yes, any minute misunderstanding could really blossom into WWIII or worse, still. The fall of the USSR helped US society forget the anxieties of cold war. The cold war also existed in a universe of possibilities allowing for growth the US is unlikely to see again. There were big governmental projects in the recent past (to the cold war) that made whole industries and even cities (see: Las Vegas) possible and flourish where they weren't before those big governmental projects.

The voracity with which they attacked my idea and the exact nature of their attacks shows the cynicism I mentioned in my original comment above. Granted, HN is only a website. But I certainly don't expect every post to be just some bot looking to spread cynicism. People have actually internalized and decided to spread and act upon cynicism.
That's fine, but that means you don't have a perfectly capable 24/7 tech team.
I click accept all of them cause I use Firefox + Privacy Badger :D Badger icon shows in orange the number blocked resources and cookies and in some sites is an amazingly high number.
They will run coolant through the reactor walls, and send that coolant to a steam generator.
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But there are several right-wing cranks in that webring.

e.g. https://cursed.llolo.lol/thelightofgodministry.org/

https://cursed.llolo.lol/anti666.com

I don't think that can be the demographic group the absence of which they're complaining about.
If you cannot afford to double something mission critical up then you at least should have a backup plan what to do in case something critical happens while that one person is unavailable. If you cannot come up with a plan, consider if you should be running this.
Some related discussion by fusor practitioners about the concept. It's a tantalizingly complex field where many have attempted and failed to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow:
https://fusor.net/board/viewtopic.php?p=78286#p78286
As I said, in general the most valuable versions of items will be from original authors and not from your sister.
People underestimate the value of free.

There are millions of kids and people of all ages going to extremes to access the internet to learn new stuff.

I met a kid in a remote village who would cycle for miles every weekend they were not working to seat in a public library to learn on the internet, for that kid a course costing 1 penny would be too expensive and no one in the family had a credit card to begin with.

Sal Khan deserves all the praise and more, Khan Academy is now in multiple languages, his videos are literally changing people’s lives.

MIT’s edX used to be free, they are now monetising the courses and will withdraw access after their self imposed artificial course time has run out if you don’t pay them, this also creates a second class of students, the ones with money get special privileges and get graded and the poor ones don’t and offering ‘financial aid’ doesn’t work if you really want to reach far and wide, how many will close the site when they see it costs thousands of dollars for a course? In a sense edX is way more disappointing than Coursera.

But just like I stopped recommending Coursera when they started restricting access to their courses I look forward to shorting their stock when they go public and donating the profits to educational nonprofits.
Input in NES is not lag's source. Input is only read once per frame. Today it is very simple and cheap to improve over old controllers.

Lag comes from video. If you do not use FPGA emulators like Mister the video delay is enormous.

I don't understand what you are calling 10ms lag. Have you measured the delay between your computer and your screen? It is way bigger than that, in any computer or NES console(console-TV).

Are you maybe referring to 10ms NETWORK packet delay? All TVs or projectors use buffers, and it takes time for information to travel around serial cables.

Network delay is inconsistent, but electronic delay is not.
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For better comprehensibility, some Geekbench 5 avgs & another layout:

10700K 11700K
single 1,321 1,767 +33%
multi 8,821 10,474 +18%
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I'll be taking the other side of your trade and shorting the stock, every time I win I'll donate the cash to educational nonprofits.
Tech posers of the Bauhaus
In real life, however, this kind of thing happens all the time. Someone forgot to write down the login when they left and no-one caught it in the offboarding. Or someone set up 2FA on a system but didn't put that info into 1Password / the wiki, etc.
> They tend to react with "either you can show us that this is a real danger or we'll ignore it".

This is a bit of a Catch-22 situation, as I get the feeling that proving the danger would often involve doing things that bounty programs specifically forbid, such as "Moving beyond “proof of concept” repro steps"[0]. That may be part of the reason why Microsoft got away with such a stingy response to the RCE vulnerability found in Teams by Oskars Vegeris.[1]

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/bounty-online-services?...

[1] https://github.com/oskarsve/ms-teams-rce/blob/main/README.md
Tesla is a great company and a great car but from a valuation stand point, it seems quite overpriced. This just seems like a correction. I mean in one year, it started off at like 230ish last jan, went to 800-900ish, then the stock got split 5 way, and it still went to 800-900 again! Just seems like speculation to me.
> for ARM to come out with a system on a chip that's documented enough for Windows and Linux to make a port.

glances at the pile of ARM boards on his desk

don't care about windows but... linux ? ... you know that 99% of android devices are linux and run arm, right ? and that debian has been available for arm, for, what, 2.5 decades ? what do you think raspberry pi's run ?
https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/193480622533120001?...
The moat is that Coursera can bundle all of these into a single package and sell it in bulk to these companies. No one wants to deal with this themselves. At the FAANGs that I have worked at there were teams devoted to this task, but it is the sort of thing which is easy to outsource and when it comes to certain compliance courses you sometimes need a legal imprimatur for the course that is a pain for each company to certify but easy for someone like Coursera to do.

(I am not downvoting you, just commenting on why some people might be doing so...)
I hope you’re right and Khan Academy won’t ever be the same as Coursera, I hope they will remain free and can grow into becoming better than Coursera, perhaps educators on Coursera will start sharing their courses for free on Khan Academy.
I'm totally in favour of for-profit education. Obviously teachers need to earn money/eat. Unregulated education tends to have a wide variety to choose from, from free to very expensive, and that's a good thing.
I believe the two are correct syntax and there's no specific reason to use one over the other.
What about LC3? It was announced a year ago?
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Another example, a simple calendar:
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/02/this-svg-always-shows-today...
due to a contextualized cognitive hiccup, i noticed another illusion in the article. my brain told me the meteorologist’s name was ‘david blaine’, the catatonic magician.
Albert Einstein, Eroeffnungsfeier der 7 Dt. Ton und Phonoaustellung (1930)
I don't see any "belittling" comments here, except perhaps yours.

People enjoy talking about the stuff they read. Discussion is part of how one learns.

If you don't find value in reading non-expert commentary, then don't read it.
The Kalman Filter is a beautiful algorithm, probably among the top math algorithms of the 20th century. It gives a very fast solution to a specific optimization problem (optimal estimation of hidden/indirectly observed states in a linear dynamic system). But for practitioners, the computations and derivations are far less relevant than recognising the circumstances where state space / Kalman model are relevant/appropriate, and how to set up such a model (defining the transition and observation matrices of the model).

In this sense, the Kalman Filter in time-dynamic prediction/forecasting problems is like gradient descent in ML prediction problems, or the solution to the Normal equations in linear regression or FFT for discrete Fourier transforms. The algorithms are mathematical pieces of art, but the useful practical skills are how to set up your problems so that they're amendable to the solutions.

In case of Kalman / state space models, the main things that are estimated are positions of things that move in time, but not (directly) observed. These "things" can be concrete (drones, rockets in space, robots on Mars) or abstract (an idealized compuer cursor/pointer, the water level in a river, inflation or unemployment in macro-economics). When concrete "things" are estimated by traditional engineers and the dynamics are governed by physics, the tool of choice is usually (employer-paid) Matlab. For fuzzier economics and forecasting problems, nowadays there's a very good state space / Kalman Filter implementation in Python statsmodels by Chad Fulton[1], which closely follows the academic works from Harvey, Durbin and Koopman. The challenge in these problems is usually setting up a plausible underlying dynamics model, more so than the estimation/prediction part. Just like in linear regression, finding appropriate features and functional forms are the main practical challenge, not calculating the parameters and actual predictions.

[1] http://www.chadfulton.com/fulton_statsmodels_2017/sections/1...
Since when are licenses mission critical? ( OP said the update is only available via the licensing portal)
I’m an immigrant to the US - in my view, America is best thought of as a machine for turning other flavors of humans into Americans - the place really is inclusive in a way that I’ve never seen or heard of in any other country in the world. So calling it “American success” is not unreasonable, the secret is that you’re “an american” as soon as you get here and think of yourself as american. Compare that to England where I was born and grew up but people would laugh at you if you claimed to be “English” because you were brown.

I know “immigrant thinks america is great and welcoming” doesn’t fit the “make you angry so you click and share” narrative currently present online with regards to immigration, but it certainly fits the lived experience of myself and many immigrants I know, both legal and illegal.

[edit: forgot to write, I agree with you about the difficulty of starting a business in Europe vs the US, as well as maybe the cultural pressure in favor of running businesses in the US vs general attitude of discouragement in the UK. ]
Been working on a service to let you listen to the web -- similar in function to the audio part of the Pocket app.

Mostly using AWS Lambda and SNS.

Some occasional weirdness in stringing functions together -- might do more with Step Functions.

But weird part is some calls just seem to hang and never return -- unless they get a clean/new function of their own.

Using Pythom 3.8 with Boto3 library.

But generally amazed with what Lambda seems like it might be able to do if I can get it humming.

http://readonthegoapp.com/
Like WebAuthn?
Hey there's some healthy skepticism about YAML on zola's side. In particular, the maintainer believes encouraging people to use a broken/dangerous (in terms of remote-code execution in some implementations) serialization format is not a good idea, even though Rust YAML parser is safe from that.

There's also a concern for maintenance: maintaining the zola codebase to support more serialization formats is more work. If more contributors get involved regularly, it will be less of a problem.

In fact, zola started supporting YAML frontmatter for compatibility reasons lately, but it's explicitly stated in the docs this is not the recommended/supported way to do things.
Yeah I mean If you have money nowadays the world is your oyster, if you're poor... you're **ed
Yes, hiding away the complexity from the end-user was implicitly part of my checklist ;)
I have had some luck just using reader mode. It is not important when I am on my ipad, because I use Safari in private mode and it doesn’t share cookies with other tabs, but this is even easier.
Ask HN: What tangible benefits did you get from spending time on HN?
For a few weeks, I am doubting if HN is another "user engagement" place like you know Reddit, FB etc.
It seems a waste of times (to me) as I don't see any tangible benefits I am getting out of it.

So I would like to know if any of you have such experiences. I am specifically looking for stories like:
1) I posted this project and I started some company. Sold it or earning a lot of money or living my dream
2) I was hired because of my post on HN.
3) Girls chasing you because of your reputation as HN or met your wife because of your cool project ( Please don't hate me for this)

Basically money, power etc..

Forgive me for being blunt but I am not looking for "10-sec fame". I mean one day you got traffic 100K on the website. Good. But just
for one day. Also, I am not sure blogging count as a tangible benefit unless it is paid service. I hope you understand my point.

Also intellectual debate, I get more information, I feel smart as benefits etc. don't count in this context.
Yes, but in actual fact the chances are much bigger that that person turns out to be ethical and will report the attempted breach.

In the digital world there is no such sentry.
zola should be really fit for that, let us know if you encounter any issues
To his credit, I believe he has considerably mended his ways in recent years. When I came across the first hostile comment (and no, this was not "straight shooting, get to the point", this was going out of his way to make an ad hominem attack), I was wondering whether he'd regressed, until I saw the date.
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Imo the phrase "encodes everything there is to know about a physical system" already belies a certain amount of interpretation.
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Thats not true if your formulate you dl system in the same "two steps" ways of the kalman filter. Stuff like DynaNet or "backprop kalman" are really good deep learning extensions of the kalman filter for non linear / perceptual inputs.
> why don't you just use WordPress?

Making a Wordpress theme is more complex, and is full of footguns for security concerns. The fact that using a specific theme can open security issues server-side is worrying to me.

I want my server to serve files without having to worry about security vulnerabilities. That's why i use a SSG (zola).
I'm surprised they didn't classify and weight for facial features such as general symmetry or eye distance.
I made a tiny paper for a masters thesis on KF for recurrent neural network training in 2002. 15 or 20 Neurons (a recurrent layer of a handful of neurons) was massive in terms of the compute time needed to train it. To even get it off the ground we had to rewrite all the matlab into C++. Recurrent networks for modeling dynamic systems where all the rage they but I haven’t really kept track of where the field went. Did the deep learning revolution completely drop recurrent connections?
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> I have students/interns who have picked up markdown faster than any other markup or CMS.

That's also my experience with non-technical users.

> a way to build from an API endpoint instead of markdown

Well zola is not extensible in this regard. But it should be trivial to build a shell/python/rust script that exports your content to the format zola expects. Don't hesitate to post in the community forums if you need help with that.
I did read the post. I guess I should have been more explicit. These types of incremental improvements seem to have limited utility and researchers who want to improve the models substantially may find more payoff in pursuing the integration of other types of data.
It looks like this is just a JavaScript issue; i.e. "true = 'some-value';". I'd be surprised if this was an SQL injection issue, or even XSS since only the user themselves can set their name.
> Between Wix and Zola is an opportunity, in my opinion.

I strongly agree. There's plenty of niche proprietary tools like that, however i don't know of a collaborative, free-software solution like that.
And other well-accepted sci-fi terms are of Slavic origin as well. Robot, for one, and that term actually transferred to colloquial language.
Half an elephant is undefined. Which half are you counting? Each half doesn't necessarily have the same weight.
They became a major phenomenon in NLP (ie., sequences of text strings) -- but have since been less prominent.

RNNs are still a significant part of the toolbox, and would be found in several chapters in any applied NN book.
That could never happen baring an unlikely critical even such as a nuclear world war. Any of them being fully down is nearly impossible - remember, we're talking about autonomous regions across hundreds of DCs across the globe.
I clearly know nothing about fusion reactors, but couldn't be have a reactor with upgradeable magnets as they continue improving?
Hello HN! I built this engine to satisfy my needs when researching and tracking certain scam sites hosted on Tor.

I'm sorry for the simple design, I'm not a web designer :)
This cannot work without having an unique ID identifying you.
Netflix cannot sign the content you watched.
if any remains left after such a big fire it'd be expected to be taken care in some way before rebuilding.
It’s for these situations that I tend to use pass phrases rather than long random strings of different special characters. Much easier to type 4 or 5 words
A truck driver uncovers secrets about the first nuclear bombs
Huh, you mean literally all email will be exfiltrated to some chinese actor? I’m fairly confident most will find that unacceptable.
This is so wildly untrue that it is a dangerous idea to spread. Your understanding and personal vigilance will not protect you. You are not as smart as you think you are. Chains of trust and certification are part of the long-term solution and effective delegation of trust and security is what enables everyone else to actually get things done.

I would rather people like you never use a computer again than the vast masses be prevented from doing so because we have set the bar required for privacy and security so high that only an expert can attempt it.
This far along into the crisis, it feels to me like it's clear that any technical issues are incidental. It seems like there are such dire internal cultural/management issues that will make it impossible to fix the technical ones in any acceptable timeframe.
These big companies are not compliant. For example Instagram if you make a GDPR complaint they will reply with a couple of canned responses and when you keep pointing out they have no read your complaint they will simply stop responding. What could you do next without having your account deleted in retaliation?
React course offered by Stephen Grider and data science course offered by Jose Portilla on Udemy are good.

Generally, looking at the number of students enrolled and the rating of a course gives a good idea on quality.
Energy positive fusion? I’m not so sure that we do...
Second paragraph is false, first one is partially true.

There are many legitimate reasons for storing and processing data, and you should not ask for consent needlessly - among other reasons, because consent can be withdrawn, at any time, and you are obliged comply stop processing and remove data - unless you have other legitimate reasons, in which case the whole exercise seems pointless.

Whether the data can be used to harm real people has significant correlation with whether it is covered by GDPR, but does not relate to consent. It can also be of relevance on what security precautions are required and when weighing right to privacy vs. needs to process specific data.

As a typical example, you do not need (and shouldn't ask for) consent for data and purposes that are reasonably necessary for the services customers ask for. You are not allowed to share / use for unrelated purposes other than allowed by other stipulations. Also, information on data collection / processing should be reasonably, easily accessible.
This is completely wrong. I don't want to pick your comment apart, but I suggest actually reading the GDPR. It is available in every European language.
AI inspired by Batman and Harry Potter gives robots 'human' voices
I've only skimmed the top of this so far but the bit about AC vs DC rings true for me. I'm just getting into electronics and I just couldn't understand what capacitors did. I watched all the water membrane videos and it all made sense, but what could it do? It clicked when I realised I had until this point separated all electricity into AC and DC and in my mind my electronics project was DC! I was confused because a capacitor seems like an open circuit, which it is (at DC). I didn't even allow the possibility of considering that there is AC on my circuit. But that's the entire point of electronics. Transistors and other components allow you to switch current on and off, hence AC.

Now it has clicked I intuitively understand how things like bypass capacitors work. But I don't think I could explain it well enough to teach it. It seems like it it doesn't click for you you'll never be able to do electronics.

I noticed in The Art of Electronics they don't capitalise ac and dc. I wonder if that is to escape the popular ideas of the capitalised AC and DC? I looked but couldn't find an explanation in the book.
I find it interesting how hard it is to think of a question that truly cannot be answered by just reading lots of text. Stuff like "how can you carry water without a vessel?" (you freeze it!), which might stump a lot of AI models. But then you think... there should be texts that explain that ice is water and that ice can be carried. Similarly, the problem with numbers (lenghth, height, etc) isn't a lack of data, it's messy notation which is still easily parsed by human readers and probably could be solved.

If anything, I've become more convinced that text alone has enough information to solve some eerily specific problems. It's quite a powerful tool.
>My government could authenticate that I am indeed from country A, and my pod's data would be signed by them

This is gonna happen sooner or later, but I really don't like it. Once most users have a cryptographically signed national ID on their PC, a lot more websites will require you to provide it. Sites like Netflix that region lock media will force you to show your ID just to sign up

Won't be long before companies get away with the invasive crap they tried and failed to do in the past: "Users Revolt Over Blizzard's Requirement Of 'Real Names' In Forum Comments": https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100708/03054610123.shtml