skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry I don't recall at the moment (4am break from work :) what Minsky said about that.

His last book was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emotion_Machine

(Incidentally, it's a huge loss that Minsky is no longer with us, but I'm glad I got a chance to at least take his class before he passed. Each session, he'd just talk about what he had been working on earlier that day, for The Emotion Machine. One of his PhD students, Push Singh (a great person, who tragically passed way too soon, after an injury), once told me a significant part of his studies was simply talking with Minsky, and Push thought that was pretty great. He also once mentioned that Minsky wanted 10-year grad students, when the norm in the lab was maybe 4-5. I suppose we can still be inspired by some of Minsky's scholarly practices and endless curiosity, as we can find and make the time.)

Also, I'm sure others on HN know much more of the science and philosophy of natural beauty than the tidbits I do, and this seems like it could be a good "Ask HN".

Maybe not just look at natural beauty, but also human beauty, and music? (An evolutionary basis for a sense of beauty of the human face and form seems too obvious. But maybe there are related simple evolutionary explanations for some of natural beauty, like attraction to advantageous settings and resources? Or maybe it's less obvious, like music?)
Patents by the "western world" is a solution to secrecy.

It's not perfect, but i don't think there's a better way. Corporate silos is exactly what it's trying to fix.
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Hello from my fourteenth month of working from home for a semiconductor company.

(I'm not quite sure how the people who really do need lab space have been coping, but the thing is that so much of the company is software (firmware and tooling) or simulation/verification that we were able to carry on mostly business as usual. Much to the surprise of the management who were previously skeptical of WFH)
I think this is an aspect of a general network security problem. Another example is how the internet or phone system turns people in developing countries into targets for scammers worldwide. We just assume it's a inherently good thing that everyone can be connected to anyone else. But these are the downsides it creates.
What constitutes "possession" of a key? How do we treat multi-signature arrangements?

What differentiates a cryptocurrency key from a non-cryptocurrency key? Would this criminalize the holding of any private key at all, even if intended for non-cryptocurrency applications?

What happens if I generate a key for non-cryptocurrency use and then someone later sends cryptocurrency to it? Am I going to jail? Do I need to rekey immediately? Is it my duty to monitor for this situation? If I'm evil, can I cause trouble by "spoiling" an enemy's known public keys in this way?

Here's an exhaustive list of all bitcoin keys; you're now in possession of all bitcoin in circulation: https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/dio/
It is easier to get a distributed computing runtime on existing ecosystems than rewriting the world.

I have learned Erlang, and like its Prolog inspired syntax, but that is all about it, there is hardly a place for it on the Java/.NET/C++ shops I work on.

Akka, Orleans, HPX, OpenMP have much more uptake.
I'm looking forward to what to come as an Ubuntu user who is dying by a thousand cuts of small (and not so small) annoyances. Would love to try WSL2 out but kind of scared of Windows which I haven't used over a decade now. Hope this new thing is attractive enough to switch over.
I believe you have a good point. I highly recommend listening to the above interview. He elaborates how they had a system in place where he would get any two boys who have a problem together in the evening to talk it through, hug, and then pray together. It's clear that at least from their own perspective faith did play a significant role in their group cohesion and survival.
This is all old news, anyhow, is it not? I recall hearing about the Amazon mandatory firing process years ago.
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In case anyone else wants to know how the Gaussian process is animated, here are the two links provided in the code:

https://math.stackexchange.com/a/1930880/901583

http://mlss.tuebingen.mpg.de/2013/Hennig_2013_Animating_Samp...
Certainly. As is Mint, IIRC.

But those may solve grandparents' issue with "ignoring their feedback" or "poor quality and usability.".
I feel threatened => I immediately (without any analyzis) "threaten back" by showing my teeth (beware, I will bite you!). Then I understand there is no threat, and I disguise this first (inadequate) instinctive reaction by transmuting it into something which progressively became recognized as a smile/laugh.

There is another similar theory about a dog barking and running at his master because he didn't reckon him as such (many dogs are short sighted), then understanding his mistake and also transmuting this aggressive instinctive response into a "dance" (barking at and standing up towards his master).
Well as someone who does that on occasion, not very often, far more on this site than real life, the answer is fear. If I was to do argue for free speech, I'd think twice because from experience I know that I will get called names and have terrible arguments against me that sound good but don't apply to what I said. In the IRL space (the actual like 2 times I've done this rather than the who knows how many times I have remained silent) it has been people who are absolutely fine with whatever horrible things happening to other people as long as those people are the ones the media has told them to hate. The funny thing about these people is that you know they will scream if this was applied to groups that they support or are part of, the hypocrisy is lost on them. In the online space, I think it is a mix of the former people I have mentioned and actual malicious people working for powerful groups destroying peoples ability to talk about important things.

So in the end do I want to get into arguments with either malicious people or people who already have their mind set, get called names, have people deliberately portray what I am saying as something else and call it stupid when that was not what I said at all. Most of the time I really don't want to deal with that BS. Most of the people want to post about this are reluctant to do so and in many times don't, this is not just extrapolating from my experience, but what I have observed from other sources as well (such as asking whether they agreed with something shown, seeing no hands go up, then asking whether the didn't put there hands up because they were afraid and seeing almost all the hands go up).
Europe does not have these changes because of the GDPR.
Young people want to work in cities for the same reason kids want to return to school after summer.

For so many, work is connect to lifestyle and meeting people.
Ah no I meant technical/developer Q&A of course
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I used Dave Thomas's Programming Elixir > 1.6 and can recommend it highly for learning the language.

As others have mentioned on some other threads, learning about OTP, Genserver is really worthwhile. Apart from language, the book teaches a bit about that too. But maybe just enough.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DP8Y2GJ
Depends where you live and if you have to heat or cool your house to work from home. Homes are much more inefficient to moderate temperature than offices. That may or may not offset the benefit from commuting, and even less so if done on public transport with lower emissions.
No page lag on my kids' iPhone 4s.
Something to look at if you want to encourage simple game development is supporting PICO-8 [0], or the compiled Nim version Nico [1].

[0]: https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php?page=faq

[1]: https://github.com/ftsf/nico
For me personally a buffet style place causes me to paradoxically eat less, as I was brought up with a lot of food anxiety so not having to ever worry about “enough” food I end up eating a lot more sparingly.
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In Sonic 2 and later for Sega Genesis/Megadrive player 2 can control a second character and also help in limited ways.
I'd say that if you're an ops/devops/architect, you need to work between 20% and 60% of your time with someone else. If you're a dev, i think roughly 20% is quite enough (unless you only do peer programming).
On the more extreme end there is Voice Driven Development - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKuRkGkf5HU
UDF? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format
Slightly earlier submission of the same article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27377685
I bought the author's last book, "Zero to Sold", which gave a good overview of how he bootstrapped a company only with his wife and co-founder to $55k MRR then sold it.

He just wrote this new book "The Embedded Entrepreneur", and I think the book writing process and the way he has built his own audience is pretty interesting.
> Comparing any western democracy to a dictatorship is the worst form of whataboutism.

Perhaps.

Or perhaps not acknowledging that under the umbrella of democracy the same things happen, is whataboutism.

See

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in...

In my country United States specifically did this

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

Another example:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golpe_Borghese

The English version says that it "allegedly" happened while in all the other languages it says it did happen, because it's true.

In short, the CIA helped a group of fascists to organise a (failed) coup d'etat in Italy in 1973 fearing that socialist and communists could win the elections and later on were involved in what we call here "black terrorism" far-right terrorism that killed over 200 innocent people putting bombs in railroad stations or in crowded town squares.

In Italy, an allied sovereign country. Imagine what they did to their enemies.

Funny hu?
The biggest injustice in life is that when you are young, food is just fuel to get through the day. You can eat all of it and you don't care if it's good.

When you get older, you start to understand food, and you are willing to pay more for it, but now you have to count calories.

Can I survive on $10 a day? I did it on $3 a DAY when my parents were on food stamps, but I am not that crazy about going back to the "franks, rice, and ketchup" menu.
And it saves a ton of battery life!
You have no idea what you are talking about. No idea.

I have lived in China. Freedom of press and Rule of Law(they don't exist in China) are amazing inventions.

You just don't have an idea how lucky and spoiled you are. I recommend you volunteer helping refugees just to get a glimpse of how the world works outside the West bubble.
ooh it looks like you can download the sdk from here:
https://developer.harmonyos.com/en/develop/deveco-studio

Might give it a spin this weekend.

Edit: Locally you can only run project templates that have [Lite] in their name, maybe in the future they will make other simulators available. Signing up for remote emulation is too much of a effort for me.
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And you live in a country with a really nicely developed public transport infrastructure, so you don't go through the nightmarish car commutes that most USians probably have in mind. When I lived in CH, I did not mind the days I had to commute – it was mostly a relaxed trainride where I could get work done 75% of the time.

I really think a lot of this debate is colored by Americans thinking of the American commute.
My neighbor has MS and can't physically move ( his head and he can still talk, but not the rest of his body)

Is there anything that i can buy to improve his quality of life with? Even something small could be useful.
> Yeah of course the same way Western world feels "dirty" because they copied Yoga or patented indigenous herbals or any number of other things?

I don't think the comparison holds at all: Yoga is something people do in many different ways, not a specific product, nor is 'the western world' a single entity. When I do Yoga I am not selling my attempt at whatever 'real' yoga is for profit.

This comparison might have made sense, mind you, not much, if I had said that other companies should feel dirty for making tablets after the first one was made.

> Perhaps it's time we recognised ideas and concepts are meant to be taken up and extended by other people?

I agree with this and is a bit stating the obvious. This is, as you say, basically how mankind works.

To be clear I don't think Huawei should be prevented from doing this, I just think it is unauthentic which I don't like. It is purely an expression of my dislike of what they've created not a call to action for some team of lawyers.
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that will be nice! :)
Why? We read it when I was in the Danish ground school (ages 6-16, as in not from 6-16 but 9-10 years during those years) and we never got the idea it was anything other than fiction.

I’m a tad surprised that humans defaulting to corporation is supposed to be news. It’s always been taught to us as rather common knowledge because it’s basically the only way a functional and stable society can evolve. But maybe it explains why so much American post-apocalyptic fiction is so silly.
What is wrong with event sourcing? We also built our app without any microservices but event based processing is actually quite good pattern. Basically the state of the application can be replayed with the events.
Actually that is cheap.

I am used to pay at least 10 euros, for food + drink, unless I go to one of those special lunch time deals or street food places.

And since I am Portuguese, evenings is also a proper meal, so make it twice for the days I happen to dine outside as well.
Just curious about Orleans. I remember reading about it as Erlang inspired MS language. Do you happen to know about adoption in the industry?
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A joke as old as that really shows up the problems with time travel -

"He was so set up that he concluded to make a speech —of course a humorous speech. I think I never heard so many old played-out jokes strung together in my life. He was worse than the minstrels, worse than the clown in the circus. It seemed peculiarly sad to sit here, thirteen hundred years before I was born, and listen again to poor, flat, worm-eaten jokes that had given me the dry gripes when I was a boy thirteen hundred years afterwards. It about convinced me that there isn’t any such thing as a new joke possible."

Mark Twain - A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court

https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/174/a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-...
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The useless managers have migrated to Jira with their unproductive busy work. I made the mistake recently of doing some project management work for a toxic organisation and the standup meetings are just a long sequence of the main manager bullying overworked guys with surprise tickets.

Organisations can be just as awful with WFH as the office, but at least I can say obscenities about people out loud on Teams with my microphone muted.

The back to the office lobby simply havent worked out how to abuse Jira and Teams properly yet.
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Platinum Games and some other studios are now in the habit of putting "easy automatic" (not always using that term) modes in, where you can set the game to automate some or all of its inputs. If you turn all the assists on in Toylogic's "Nier Replicant" for example, the game basically plays itself during combat but you still have full control so you are effectively orchestrating the action on screen instead of mashing the buttons. It's nice for people revisiting the game (it's a remaster with updated content) who don't want to do all the combat again. For some titles, this is a great accessibility feature since you can turn it on only for particular mechanics that are hard for you to keep up with (dodging, aiming, etc) and still play "the rest" of the game.

I think their first game with this feature was Bayonetta (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6nkc6GQ-B8) but at this point a bunch of other games have it. I think every action game should have this where possible, and you can find testimonials out there from people who love these features despite not having major accessibility concerns, like https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgx8nz/auto-battle-is-the-be...

Increasingly I think we're discovering that there's a class of temporary accessibility issues that can get in the way of using a website or video game - you have trouble focusing because your kids are distracting you, you can't remember what your current objective is because the last time you played was a week ago, etc. It's great for games to provide assistance in those cases too.
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Thanks for sharing the article. He has a nice way of framing things:

> My conclusion: Management is the most noble of professions if it’s practiced well. No other occupation offers as many ways to help others learn and grow, take responsibility and be recognized for achievement, and contribute to the success of a team.

I'd be very interested in actual data that compares virtuous and unvirtuous cultures, out of curiosity of course!
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That only applies if the home is empty when people are at the office. If my family stays at home while I commute, then there are emissions from commuting, heating the home and heating the office.
I am a huge proponent of Blue Apron (or a similar service). Have been a customer for 7 years now. It cuts down on grocery waste (do I NEED 1 liter of sherry vinegar to cook one thing?), and you pick up a ton of techniques that may not be chef-advanced but very useful in every-day cooking.
Sure, but work is still a significant portion of ones waking hours. Personally, I wouldn't want to work in a place where I can't or don't enjoy socializing with co-workers. I hope, what comes out of this pandemic is, that there is going to be higher diversity in work modalities one can make part of a job seeking decision.
Although I share the sentiments the author has against Python and Cloud, calling it JS a "backend" of the data science stack is a non-trivial stretch. It's obviously a front-end. Having a fast GPU computation is great for frontend as well as backend, so don't worry it to be wasted.

I'd rather expect cloud vendors adopt JS/wasm as a UDF / extension for their compute offering. BigQuery does this already [1]. S3 Object lambda [2] is close. Please leave web browser as a frontend.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sq...
[2] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-s3-objec...
If you haven't had this discussion with him already (and you think you can comfortably have this chat), he may already have some ideas that he hasn't thought to mention.

Otherwise, one suggestion would be controllers for quadriplegics. There are a few options out there, afaik most are controlled with your mouth but there are also gaze-tracking options. I believe the XBox accessibility controller is compatible with some of them.
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Feel your pain. Got a Huawei phone mid 2018, without knowing that a few months before they removed the option of unlocking the bootloader (I was under the impression before, that all Android phones could be unlocked).

Granted, this was just a quick replacement phone when my previous phone just decided randomly to die one day.

At least at the moment it seems that Huawei is an outlier, no such issue with Xiaomi phones.
jq's stream and fromstream functions can be used to flatten and unflatten JSON. I use it all the time at work for POs who want to see data in Excel

https://jqplay.org/s/ub-WvXCcPn

... from there it's just a row->column rotation to CSV.
I think it depends on what is your work.

As a developer, eventually, the raw task of "writing code" is really not where I feel losing time. Tbh, most of my time developing software is reading code and thinking about what needs to be written and "doing nothing" waiting for build/test to complete.

Fast switching between tools using touchpad gestures is more important to me than being able to type faster (but I acknowledge you can do both). As a sidenote, I absolutely love macOS fullscreen mode combined with 4 fingers swap. It's such a productivity marvel that I don't understand why Windows never copied it.
How does erlang eliminate if blocks.
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Sounds like when I was a conscript.
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I think it's a bit more complex than that. This is the accuracy of a point detection. For a SAM system, you need to shoot the missile roughly where the plane is going - it's moving pretty fast. So your estimate of velocity will be vastly lower quality than the point estimate of position.

You also need to update the missile's course using updates on the plane's velocity changes - so again, you need even greater accuracy on the radar.

Finally, because it's all a lot more nebulous, it is easier for the plane to take evasive action. It's generally a lot easier to detect a radar / missile launch than it is to detect the airplane. With radar countermeasures in place, the SAM radar really has an uphill struggle to overcome.

I'm not saying it's not doable (though not too long ago I remember reading that these radars are just not accurate enough to guide a missile), merely that these dry numbers don't necessarily convey the full picture.
There's a phrase coined for this: Goodhart's law.

C.f. http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/240-goodharts-law-and-w...
that’s not really low stakes for a dog, or anyone hungry for that matter.
If a F-35 costs more than several 10 millions, throwing several 10+ million radar equipped drones to a F-35 fleet is now a viable and cost effective strategy.