skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter suing somebody over the First Amendment rights. This is rich. I believe that Twitter is one of the most egregious violators of the First Amendment themselves.
> or any one-got encoding scheme

Typo: should be one-hot encoding scheme.

Sparsity of input isn't often relatively easy to achieve, as you suggest.

Sparsity of intermediate layers requires more work. (But is often a good regularization technique.)
I have a pixel 3 and it's fine. I don't use google apps and it serves me well. There are dozens of replacement services and apps out there and that's a good thing
I was unaware there is One True Way™ to do poetry.

It's like any other art: sometimes it's just a aesthetically pleasing series of words (or musical notes, or colours, or shapes) with no real deeper meaning, or just because it's funny. And other times it's something aesthetically pleasing intended to provoke thought about some aspect of life such as love, the nature of humanity, or something else – some of these might be deemed "political".

Different people like different sort of art, and that's okay. Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0la5DBtOVNI
You might like Scott Aaronson's 'Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity' https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf
There are almost seven times as many people alive today as there were in 1850 -- we may be in 1850, but the number of clever people driving advances is substantially larger.
Not only should the "END CALL" icon/button be more removed from the other more common actions like muting yourself, there should be a small "End call" label underneath or above the icon as well. Seeing what the buttons do without needing to guess or hover is important.

The only way to get good design is to hire good designers. Money doesn't buy good design. This UI was shipped by Google. They have money.
wow. I never realized how brutal they are to Augustus. I've read that book 3 or 4 times and I never thought of how terrible that would be for a chubby kid to read that.

fat shaming is everywhere, and bullies will always bring up that its unhealthy to be that fat. But they don't actually care about that persons health, they just want to bully that person. It's sad.

I know a lot of people who struggle with weight. some who seem to do it in a positive way and some in a not so positive way. but either way, they have to deal with people bullying them and I feel so bad for them being bullied.

I also know a lot of people who don't struggle with their weight. I don't know if most of them have ever had to struggle with their weight, or if they were ever bullied for their weight. But, I do know they don't bully other people for their weight, 'cause I don't hang out with those sorts of people.

good read, I hope a lot of people read it and get their kids to read these books. not just the chubby kids, but all the kids.
No, it depends where you are aligning things among other considerations. But if your form follows the typical "F" pattern, then putting the button where the user's eyes are is the logical step.
This is a wildly optimistic take on what AI can accomplish, and a misunderstanding of the difficulties in all those tasks. If AI can do the first set of jobs, it will be able to replace sales people, cops, and lawyers too. But there's nothing, yet, to indicate that there isn't a wide gulf between the current state of the art and the kind of generalized intelligence you're talking about.
Not necessarily. Having the submit button first means it's the first action the user sees since most people (at least Westerners) read left-to-right. However, your reasoning with having the order the opposite with the submit button last is spot-on.

No specific advantage has actually been attributed to either choice of order. What matters is (1) keeping the order consistent throughout an application, and (2) following the provided style guide for the platform you're developing on.

(Also, the order may need to be changed if the primary action is destructive, such as a "Reset" button.)

I did an extensive write-up about this topic if you're curious on more details:
https://dev.to/sergix/ux-illuminating-intention-198k
What makes people think that we cannot engineer marketable and great user interfaces? It's not like they're mutually exclusive. We can do better.
At least you have a purple one - they were a lot better than their green forebears :)
Chrome – Project Fugu API Tracker
Study finds 44 animal species susceptible to Covid-19
!! do you have the PDFs/etc that the Wayback didn't capture? If so, perhaps I can host them on the Internet Archive? Particularly interested in the Garage Gateway -- I've never seen the code and I have an otherwise working Ethernet Radio & pair of poletops I'd love to get properly running.

E-mail's in my profile -
> In other words, you believe that the false negative rate is not so high, because you believe that the the stress induced by an interview is similar enough to the stress induced in other stressful situations that are common in the work place.

No, not really.

I think people who have a weakness are most likely to attack, without evidence, things that expose that weakness as unfair. People in this thread are going so as to call the interview technique of whiteboarding a problem “practically inhumane”.

You are right that I think inability to talk thru ones train of thought on a new problem to them to be a signal of inability. I think whiteboarding exposes this kind of weakness. I also think it has many causes: extreme stress reaction, bad social skills, lack of domain knowledge, bad communication skills, and plain old stupidity.

So to read that “whiteboarding” should be disallowed from interviewing, because it is so much more high stress than every other part of the process, despite those parts also having equal importance in the overall stakes, really needs some elucidation. I accept anecdotes from workers who claim they are only low performers in the interview because of stress or anxiety, but I strongly doubt unmitigated social anxiety presents as a detriment to ones apparent job performance in interviews but not jobs at a high enough rate to give any credence to these claims without some sort of data driven backing.
Alloy is awesome to model with but the results can be kind of hard to interpret. Luckily it has a great user group which responds to emails quickly with advice. Cheers!
“The same racist and supremacist ideology” that is factually incorrect
The underlying problem here is that one of our numbers must be wrong. The options I could see are

1. The marginal cost of housing has little to do with what individuals pay in the short-term.

2. The median income earner requires or will require substantial subsidies or raises to keep pace with the increased costs of their home. Roughly 3-4% per year assuming that housing is the only item inflating.

3. Either the median income, median rental, or tv+internet prices we've quoted are wildly off the mark.

I'd bet that #2 is the correct interpretation of the statistics. While option 1 is possible, it hides low-quality substitutions and assumes that one can always make a substitution such as living with parents for longer.
Krylov subspace methods. Use a random seed to find an approximate diagonalization.
indirectly thru elected representatives, legislation, I think so but I'm no political historian. Problem we've got now that you touch on is the judiciary gave this to corps through a 50 year push. Can we get citizens united overturned...
I had a very similar idea to this a couple of years ago, although in my mind it was a lot more feature rich (which is a bad thing on my end) but I just didn't have the drive to even attempt to implement. Good job on actually taking the leap
> And damnit, in BA we had requirements documents that actually described what needed to be done.

That’s some damn fine nostalgia juice you’re drinking there. Can I have some of that?

Me, I had the time and expense of requirements documents combined with the pleasure of them not actually describing what needed to be done.
Other than myself and other folks who have been in that line of work none.
user interface design has been taken over by people who do the graphics design.
Exactly, there really isn't much to it, but not everyone is as technicaly inclined as the average HN reader.

You would think most restaurants would just do it themselves but my experience is that many of them don't want the hassle.

It does involve in person cold calling but the researching of potential customers is easy(new restaurants without websites) and as far as not paying, I did run into that but it happened after the 1st year and all work and expenses for the first year are covered by the initial sale.

I think it is more of a sales job and many people lack the confidence(or ego) for cold calling but I know it can create a significant passive income as lots of restaurants do keep paying year after year(especially if you are the domain name owner)
Perfectly healthy? Nobody is that.

Also, if you are perfectly healthy, you can fight it off no problem.

Seems like a hastily written article.
The Google Meet example is utterly crazy, but for Submit/Reset I think I see how it happens. You're thinking through the user's flow, and at the end of that flow you have Submit and Reset or Cancel. You think about them at the same point in the workflow, so you by default put them together. I see the same thing with Approve/Reject right next to each other in internal review tools.
The list of powerful APIs that the Chrome team wants to safely expose to web apps via Project Fugu is incredibly exciting.

From a security perspective, I'd much rather "install" a web app that runs within the browser sandbox and must explicitly ask to read/write files and use hardware features than an Electron app which has free reign over my system.

The status quo where everyone makes an Electron app just to get a dock icon and show notifications is unsustainable.

Note: this Project Fugu effort is very different from the FLoC [1] and Privacy Sandbox [2] efforts from Google, which seem to be more about preserving Google's ad business than about privacy. Project Fugu is about making the web competitive with native apps, which is an unequivocal win for users, web developers, and open systems.

[1]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-...

[2]: https://brave.com/ok-google/
I love art like this, but does it require any special skill?

Color data for each bubble can be generated using a python script. Palette can also be generated computationally.

I am not diminishing the artists work or effort, but in the future, will art be prized for skill and novelty? Or will it be dismissed as "anyone can do that" ?
While my wife was in her first trimester of pregnancy, I had some extra time in the evenings. I started streaming “improvised ambient soundscapes — music to lie down to” on Twitch. I’ve done a lot in a lot of genres, but this was a years old idea come to fruition.

It’s all improvised, and 95% guitar — tho you might not hear that at all!

I mixed the results from many live streams into an album and released it late last year. (And some new stuff next week!).

The project is called Cuatro Cuatro Cero.

Playlist on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l7xWiA56RNpFE7Uz8h...

It’s available on most streaming platforms, links to everything from here: https://www.tommygeorge.com/blog/cuatro-cuatro-cero-music/
Sigh. Isaac Asimov was willing to write about anything at all, whether he understood it or not.

As a teen I read Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare, Asimov's Guide to Humor, and a good fraction of the other 200 books he had published up to then. He more than doubled that number before he died. He was careful about his facts, though he had a policy not to look anything up anywhere but his own bookshelf. He also would not use vehicles: if he couldn't walk there, he wouldn't go. That was possible in New York.
But other standards organisations do just fine providing free standards, including fairly large and complex standards, so it doesn't seem particularly necessary at all. Hell, some ISO standards are freely available, presumably because standards that don't get implemented due to lack of access are kind of useless.
The cliffnotes version is "plato's forms/ideas" are a first attempt at articulating what abstractions are. Progression of Math is a chain of ideas leading back to these early thoughts.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mathematics#Plat...
Credit to the author for admitting he doesn't really know UX. And he does have a point about the importance of differentiating destructive actions from non-destructive ones.

Determining which those are can be really hard depending on how your users use your app. And won't always be universal. The example of the "commonly used" closed window versus quit app... the destructiveness of the former is equivalent.

When one is a common action and the other causes more pain when performed accidentally, it's been more helpful to add an option to ask if that was the intended action than to retrain now-generations of users on keyboard commands. Cmd+Q/Cmd+W have been used this way since I was in diapers.
Maybe not so easy. In my experience, in any even moderately heavy traffic, if you try to stay that far behind anyone, then other cars will constantly move into that empty space.
All that from today's AI? The best I've seen from today's AI is a few gpt-3 articles that are clearly in the uncanny valley and a car which may or may not mistake an exit ramp wall for a passing lane.
Would you consider putting these books on Medium for more revenue? I wrote the code to import all the Pragmatic Programmer books there and can help since I at least know the pitfalls. But I think your books would probably transfer over nicely.
Twitter does not—and cannot—violate first amendment rights, since it is not the US government.
I live in Hong Kong now and coming from the US the ubiquity of public toilets never ceases to amaze me. They're everywhere, free, and relatively clean. Hong Kong does seem to have an abundance of "make work" government jobs for people to go around cleaning things.

I'm not sure why this is so difficult to implement in the US. A US solution I've heard somewhere that I think would work is that they city government should simply pay businesses to make a toilet publicly available. Make it a tax deduction enough to hire one extra employee on the condition that they have a toilet that is for the public to use without needing a key or password or whatever song and dance they make you do to use the bathroom. The stores and restaurants all have toilets they're maintaining anyway.
Ax=b could certainly be solved with gradient descent methods popular in ML, but this is a lot more direct than that. It’s a little more like solving random pieces until it all comes together.
The main point of a battleship is that it can withstand the rounds fired from an opponent battleship when they are within range of each other. If a projectile has enough kinetic energy to travel 1000 miles, I doubt any armor would be able to survive the impact.

I'd opt for many small fast ships with a small crew, and one or two guns, and just enough armor to keep them from being sunk by pirates, etc. There should be enough storage on board for about 1000 rounds for each gun. I don't know how fast hydroplanes are, but that's the kind of speed I'd shoot for... 100 knots, so you could be anywhere in the world within a week.

Battleships are romantic, but they are obsolete. You can't make armor thick enough to stop today's missiles.
I think that everything a law sets forth should be publicly accessible. No law or reference in law should be paywalled. There might be a small fee involved, but it should only exist to cover administrative costs of distributing the information.
Would it be possible to add random low order bits to prevent that? E.g instead of doing 7 * 9 you do 7.00024378 * 9.00003891
My band Society Burning, to celebrate our 30th anniversary, just released our first full-length album in a decade. We even had some CDs made - probably will never make back what we put into it, but it has been a good long time in the making. Covid helped us finish it in a way - music helps us keep sane. (Instead of another EP) (Industrial Rock/electronic)

https://societyburning.bandcamp.com/album/ready-end-user

https://open.spotify.com/artist/4pl9n5I69NqaxBSy0YtESW?si=Gg...

https://music.apple.com/mx/album/ready-end-user/1549933160

I play guitar on one track, bass on two, and some synths and drum programming on most of them. I also mixed the album.
Timnit Gebru's ouster shows how Big Tech dominates AI ethics
"This relationship can be checked experimentally..." Einstein, 1905
The guy doing acoup.blog is doing essentially the same thing (free, well-researched historical analysis blogs), and last time I checked he was getting enough in Patreons per month to pay rent in major metropolitan areas in the US. It would be interesting to know where his supporters found him. I think his success is due to being excellent in his field, analyzing both pop-culture for historical accuracy as well as hitting the "maker" demographic with his series on how people made things, being good at showing not only why he thinks his conclusions are correct but always demonstrating how one goes about analyzing the topic, and being very consistent about publishing something every week.
It's curious that Patrick lists advances in medial technology as a higher need than Climate Change mitigation tech. Does he elaborate on this idea anywhere? It is because we don't actually need better tech to fight Climate Change and it's mostly a socio-political issue?
This is true.

It’s also true that the US system is relatively unique among western nations in being skewed in favor of rural rather than urban interests. The US has the most extensive and in many cases over-developed rural infrastructure in the world, and that creates an enormous maintenance and funding drain compared to many nations that invest principally in their major cities and not so much in their rural hinterlands. Perhaps the most extreme counter-example being Singapore which has no rural hinterlands.
Agreed, I care about privacy but this is fetishizing privacy, is pathological.
No thanks.

I drive an aged car and drove a friends recent Mercedes long distance. The thing has a feature where it breaks where it thinks it’s good to break, often just when I need to accelerate to get out of a tight spot. I need the vehicle to respond to my inputs directly, not mix my inputs with what it thinks must be done. It’s extremely unpredictable and it feels like I’m not in control of the car.
It sounds like you have no idea what the First Amendment is, then. Here it is, since you obviously haven't read it:

> "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

It protects most types of speech from being suppressed or compelled by the government.

It protects Twitter from being forced to publish things they don't want to publish.

It says absolutely nothing about Twitter being obligated to moderate content in a particular way.
In Google’s defense the size & spacing on those is way beyond the minimum recommended for touch targets and that placement keeps them in easy thumb reach. I would assume that’s why this shipped.
none of that meets the strong scientific definitiins. It's doubtful if Vinca symbols recorded language by the definition of linguistics or were just graphics of another kind. Corded wear would post-date PIE, which homeland ist still hypothetic, and even Bell Beakers, but they are connected to Indo-European expansions. I never heard about the Varna Gold burial so, who knows, might be the information is wrong, too.
I would say any feature worth building as an extension should be a browser feature (like Edge and Firefox have brought ad/tracker blocking). An extension or two for critical functionality is fine if you really, really trust the source, but the default should be hostile to extensions.
I interviewed at a company last month that reminded me of your experience. The interviewer was extremely rude and it was more of an interrogation than anything.

After berating one of my responses, I told him this wasn’t going to work out, that this was easily the most off putting interview I’d ever experienced, but thanks for the consideration.

The dude was stunned, apologized profusely, and we somehow salvaged the last 20 minutes which we spent nerding out on tech and hobbies.

I ended up taking my name out of consideration, but it was a cool experience realizing I can (respectfully but assertively) tell people to fuck off if I need to.
Another cool hack would be to generate a color palette paint generator. A smaller version of those used for house painting colors.
That's an affirmative defense in the US though. That means you can still be sued and have to defend yourself in court.
Thanks for this comment, I was thinking along the lines of the parent to your post. You put that in perspective.
The dude buries the lede in the last minute of the interview. Part two should be really interesting.
Times change and sometimes things that were once acceptable are no longer. Can you comment on this image from one of the books the publisher stopped printing: https://i.insider.com/4f6c8135eab8eae014000062?width=1100&fo...

Why should a company still feel like this is appropriate to publish?

Or this image: https://www.nepm.org/sites/wfcr/files/styles/medium/public/2...

Should we still be publishing this: https://imgur.com/ykQpXON
I have so far only seen the various car networks compromised through physical access to the vehicles diagnosis ports. It's safe to say all bets are off once you start plugging physical things into the car. Doesn't mean a head unit couldn't be compromised and start flooding the specific can bus its sitting on with packets, but usually head units are treated with a bit more care than the rest of the cars networks. Trying to jump can networks through one of the gateways, I don't think would be an easy task either.
FHE is semantically secure against chosen plaintext attacks. (The gentry latice scheme paper claims it is semantically secure against chosen plaintext attacks [1])

If i understand that correctly, it means that when you encrypt a value, you always get a different value, even if the plaintext is the same.

So how would the attacker observe that value 7 and 12 are the same without decrypting the value?

[1] https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...

P.s. are you maybe confusing FHE with deterministic encryption or order-preserving-encryption which is sometimes used in "encrypted" (scare quotes because they're pretty bad) db products that still want to allow queries on encrypted data. That's a totally different thing with much much weaker security garuntees.
Getting it right is hard. Takes talent, smarts, hard work.

But recognizing when it's wrong, not so much.
The Committee for a Sane U.S.-China Policy