skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, empathy is about trying to understand the way other people think or feel so you can anticipate how they might respond to things. In forming mental models of other people and running through simulated scenarios with those mental models to explore possible outcomes, I think you're engaging in a form of empathy.

> I am a pretty empathetic person (maybe less so to strangers than friends),

I feel the same, strongly so in fact. I think the accuracy of the mental models used for empathizing depends on experience; experience with that specific person and one's own life experiences in general. The better I know a person, the more accurate my mental model of their behavior and feelings will be. General experience socializing with other people also enhances empathy since that experience enables somebody to create more accurate models of how people in general think or feel about things. Further, personal experiences allow somebody to better empathize with people who have similar experiences.
Those are completely different books than what the blog post focuses on. Yours are solely focused on learning tech/maths.
SPARK is a real-world system that allows some degree of formal proofs in the programming language and related tools:

https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-spark/index.html

https://docs.adacore.com/spark2014-docs/html/lrm/introductio...
I cannot speak to whether this is still true for modern farm equipment for two reasons. First, my family ran a small livestock operation and older machinery was more affordable to buy/run/repair and fulfilled our needs. Second, the farm has since been sold and now I'm a mere city boy.

Does IC mean integrated chips? I have certainly read that modern farm equipment is less repairable, and I would not be surprised if they played a role. But I don't claim any knowledge about that. I may also have the time scales wrong.

But damn, those machines were a marvel sometimes. Here is a particularly fun one, the square bale picker/stacker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUWrNZaLttQ&ab_channel=Thoma...
Seems to show on desktop only.
Oh, yeah it does still work. Not sure why it was acting up for me the other day.

N.B.: You refer to the keystrokes correctly, while I refer to them using their modified characters (on EN-US keyboards, anyway) despite the modifier not actually being used, which I assume is why these keys were chosen.
I work really closely on deep fake tech [1] and I'd say I'm relatively current with the state of the art in the literature. This was not deepfaked. The person recorded it themselves and is lying.

The video quality is too good. The lighting and movements lack mistakes. It can't be first order model, wav2lip, or any of the relatively new audio to video models.

The audio doesn't suffer from spectral noise, and it matches the lip movements close enough to not be TTS. Voice conversion (VC) introduces pitch issues that are readily apparent, and it's incredibly hard to train VC models without a ton of parallel audio data from source and target speakers.

This is absolutely a lie (not a deepfake) and I'd bet money on it.

[1] I created https://fakeyou.com cartoon and celebrity TTS, real time voice to voice mapping for VTubers, and am currently working on ML blendshapes.
If I use CCP instead of China it's not to signal morality/superiority myself, it's to fend off people that are going to get all fussy and misinterpret and declare themselves moral/superior.
The video was not a deep fake video. Your friend lied to you. The scammer will ask the victim to make the video ahead of time and send to them, and only after that they will take over the account. The account is not really hacked, your friend got social engineered to turn the account over, by switching their email on the account to the scammer's email, and then the scammer would do a password reset. Your friend probably ashamed to fall for that, and said the video is deep fake. It is a wide spread scam, and IG does not take any actions when you report the accounts. I am surprised there is not a class action lawsuit against IG already.
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Second this. I credit this book for making me the programmer I am today. Scheme is such a wonderful language having come from C/C++ before it. Of all the subjects that affected me by learning Scheme, using Scheme to implement OO as message passing opened my eyes compared to C++.

Link to a pdf of the book: https://web.mit.edu/alexmv/6.037/sicp.pdf
Is this "hard" permutation-invariant? For example, does shuffling the order of the inputs really have zero effect on the output? Or is it just "soft" permutation-invariant? Looking at their architecture diagram, the "attention" network receives input from the "sensory neurons" in a certain order, right? If so, I suspect order does matter, although they attempt to minimize the importance of the order.
My insta got hacked from not original Instagram password after I had linked my account to Facebook. They were able to login with my username and password, but I was able to get in via FB. They disabled my account because they were noticing my baccount doing botlike things.
It's bizarre to claim image viruses exist today when you link to a nearly 20 year old article about a buggy OS.
One of the biggest source of bad ideas in education is that people think it would be better if it catered to the kind of person they thought they were when they went to school.

"Imagine if, instead of wasting time on phonics, we inspired white upper middle class students like myself by giving them real literature!"

"Imagine if they inspired students with the kind of problems I think I would have found interesting!"

"Imagine if they taught to my learning style" (learning styles are mostly bunk, but everyone thinks they would have done better if only the teacher catered to them better).

"Imagine if a class of 20+ kids who are forced to be there was managed the way a team of 5 adult professionals was managed!"
Isn't this just a commercialized version of Library Genesis?
And more importantly, JSON.
That’s not entirely true. Most (all?) states have exemptions that let you drive a motor home with a class C license. But you still can’t drive a bus or tractor trailer, even non-commercially.
I have only seen it happen when it turns out the vendor is shadow owned by a senior executive. Usually ends bad for the executive
And good chess players don't need a board either.
That’s helpful to understand. I’ve done a few contract jobs and they all had the characteristic of the feeling outlined in my post.
Except now they're picking up pseudo scientific baggage. I'm not sure there's a net gain in that.
What was your account? Can you prove it?
> IS that in any way feasible or realistic?

That would depend on exactly how things were set up, but we do it with politicians who have all the same bad incentives to keep power.
I was like you until the age of 34 or so.

Now I can make full corporeal models that move in time and walk around them.

Learn.

And people don't visualize things the way I learned. They "see" the same spotty attention-point cloud they move around in in real life, one spot at a time. Plus many didn't learn to draw. Also learn.
The perfection in the audio is precisely what made me skeptical.
As a self taught dev, the books that helped me most are:

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

The Design of the UNIX Operating System

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

They taught me that there is no magic. Everything is logical and comprehensible.
Speak for yourself, my son has brought home some gnarly stuff over the past few years lol. About 3 years ago I was sick for like a month and felt not great for 2 months haha.
What is Jordan Peterson's cause? I thought he was mainly trying to publicize his latest book.
With Google search so broken sometimes the only way to discover things is through nerd baiting.
A few years back I couldn't visualize a point.

Recently I learned to read words backwards in my mind.

It's a skill.
SICP has already been mentioned a couple of times and I agree with that 100%. What I find helps me more than anything to be a better programmer is to find those gems that take you out of your day-to-day routine and help you see programming in a different way. So a couple of other books I’d throw in with SICP are “The art of Prolog” and “The Little Schemer.” I still today admire Prolog’s declarative style so much today. Even though I haven’t had the opportunity to use it professionally, I still come back to it now and then to refresh on it.
Evidence of corruption in ERCOT is not hard to find.

It would be much harder to find evidence of fair dealing from ERCOT.
Where did the money go? Who was on the other side of the transactions?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28668434
Of course I prefer 100% coverage with well written unit tests. But I’d also prefer to ship software and create value. There is a point of diminishing return in trying to exercise all code paths. Guessing at some hard rule (70%, no 80%!) seems futile as it varies depending on your own work. Experience tends to guide us to critical paths that should be tested at 100% and code generated RPC stubs that we may skip as an example. This is a trade off we make like so many in this field.

Edit: we may be speaking pass each other. I agree that your code should be testable, and if it isn’t, it’s a code smell worth investigating. This is separate from the point of should every error thrown be exercised and every getter verified, etc.. With unlimited time and for some parts of the code sure, 100% though leaves 0 wiggle room here.
My assumption was that the "new" thing were the sort of grass roots social communities and formalization of it all that the researchers stumbled upon. And maybe they're taking it too much as a new thing rather than just a social crystalization around a common thing that lots of people do (deep daydreaming)
Manual reporting tends to undershoot a lot. I find that worse than the risk of the status page going red when things are fine.

> you want static pages and images served up

Totally separate issue. You can update static pages with any method.
Everyone I know pronounces ξ as "double squiggly" and ς as "squiggly"
Did you actually try and do a progression, with a journal?

From point, to colored points, to simple shapes, to textured surfaces, to lit and moving mechanisms?

I learned. You can too.
There is a reason Ξ is not used, at least as a complex variable. Say you wanna take the complex conjugate of Ξ. What would that look like? Now say you wanted to divide that by, say, Ξ. What would that look like?

It looks like a mess of lines is what it looks like.
Would you please elaborate how specifically each of these helped you?
>To me, it's clearly the hard work of conservationists and activists

Not just to you, but everyone including Smithsonian, it's unlikely anyone believes in prophecies literally. However those prophecies are part of animistic traditional beliefs, and if you have a little bit of good faith you can see how respect for biodiversity, nature and animal life ties into the good fortune of traditional tribes who often have a closer and more direct relationship with wildlife and intact ecosystems.

You don't need to be superstitious to understand why animals and the natural world have a privileged place in the beliefs and history of native peoples.
Australians need an internet freedom party. While the "Keep Sydney Open Party" did not win any seats, it got so close that lockout laws (can't go into a bar or club after 1:30am, can't buy shots after midnight) finally got repealled.
Agree. I think if the solution is auditable you’re OK. Many companies take first party accountability for capturing recurring credit card consent from customers and store the “proof” as an auto able document.
In my experience, "a movie playing" wouldn't be the right description. I never have a super clear image of characters in my head. More like a vague cartoony idea that can morph drastically through-out the book or even when re-reading. Once I see a movie though, I'd have to force the imaginary version back. Without effort, it's probably the actor in my head, but still not super clear.

Environmental descriptions seem a littler clearer and consistent, both man-made stuff, like buildings and vehicles, and nature, but still nowhere near stable.
I use docusign as you described, as landlord for a few properties, and I don’t pay anything. Somehow it falls under the free tier/limit.

That said, I’ve seen my employers discuss the high cost of the service. Usually they go with it because it’s the dominant player/trust and by the time they’re worried about costs it’s highly integrated into many workflows in many departments and difficult to move away from.
Your dualistic manner of seeing this does not your intellect showcase.

It is neither good nor bad, it just is.
Thanks. Noted.

How would you take it?
They probably justify it by comparing it to the old cable channel browser which had ads.
The fact that you can't do that with the public courts but you can with private arbitration makes it an issue with private arbitration.

Parties with fewer resources are at a huge disadvantage in either system, but there are degrees of disadvantage. It is misleading to examine the outcome of arbitration once the rules are "agreed" to without taking into account that the process of setting the rules strongly influences said outcome.
A simple social recovery method of 3 contacts approving could lead to mass takeovers if the attacker gets a hold onto multiple accounts. Often, a group of say 3 attacker controlled accounts doesn't just have one friend in common but multiple. As long as the graph is 3 connected and the attacker starts out with a group of accounts that can take over one more account, the attacker can take over the entire graph.
Periods are often avoided, fwiw
This looks pretty sketchy. The FAQ, blog and DMCA links from the posted page all 404. Seems odd for a site that supposedly has been providing ebooks since 2009

I'm not even going to try clicking the book, article or sign in links
No, the windmills actually produced more power during that cold period than was projected that they would be capable of. They didn’t go offline. A standard Republican refrain is to blame alternative sources of power generation for the faults that actually exist primarily in the old systems that bought off said Republicans. It’s like the pot calling the kettle black, but the pot actually is black and the kettle isn’t.

No, it was the gas-fired power plants that didn’t have enough gas to burn, caused by the fact that many of the gas producers had not winterized their systems, and in fact some of the gas producers got their own power turned off in the rolling blackouts — they hadn’t been marked as mission critical.

Try reading the report.

Sadly, very little has changed since February. The producers and the gas power plants have paid a trivial fee that allows them to choose not to winterize (because that would be too expensive), and so far as I know they still haven’t even bothered to mark those systems as mission critical, so when the rolling blackouts happen again, they’ll get their power cut off again.
Correct - this is an attack on the other side of the airtight hatchway (i.e., you must persuade the user to run wget in a certain fashion and run the resulting exe, and if you don't need to persuade the user you could have done something simpler).

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170130-00/?p=95...
At my employer it was all the responsibility of a manager while still also expecting to serve as a technical lead. I was responsible for 1:1’s, reviews, career development etc while also responsible for technical deliverables of my team.
If no part of the world is away from government reach we still have a lot of work to do. "The Net Interprets Censorship As Damage and Routes Around It".
This is really cool and the interactive article they created does a great job at diving deeper: https://attentionneuron.github.io/

It seems like if done at scale could open up a whole new world of "dump data in get observations out"-type of networks.
Oh my god, please. My eyes are rolling deep into my head.
You get plenty of people in Austin and more southern parts of Texas that also have gas heat. The older homes, typically — like from the 80s. Most newer homes are all electric.

Of course, if the fans are electric, then the gas heat doesn’t help.

In that case, you better hope you have a gas fireplace.
I was so excited at the prospect of Z being on the front page, but sadly the wrong one for me

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_notation
I mean, you could put a ton of effort into improving quality, consistency, etc.

Or you could just Tweet that anyone critical of your car is a big oil funded Tesla-shorting planet hating shill.

One gets you most of the other, for an awful lot less actual effort.
Hm, on Safari mobile, hold down on image and “Add to Photos”, downloads fast and fine. How come?
One thing I just realized is that, when it comes to audio, I can both imagine and recall far more clearly than anything visual. And, now that I think about it, it feels 100 times more clear.

Can you "hear" in your head?
always use 12-18 digit random passwords and an authenticator app for 2fa.
>Perhaps if you ask them to describe their first bike in as much detail as they can?

That is not a task that requires the ability to visualize.
The wind turbines need to be winterized, too.

They didn’t do as well as they should have, but they did a lot better than expected.
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> and one could look at Github from the point of view of an average user.

My point was that Github has no "average user." Github is like Microsoft Word: each user only uses 10% of the features, but it's a different 10% for every user. Yes, there are some features that are in the critical path for all users (loading the toplevel repo view in the website might be one); but for any given particular user, there will be plenty of other features that are also in their critical path.

An MMO, meanwhile, does have an "average user"; in fact, MMOs have ideal users. An MMO's goal is to induce every user (player) to play the game a certain way, so that the company can concentrate their resources on making that particular play experience as polished as possible. There is, per se, an idiomatic "rut" in the road that players can "click into", ending up doing exactly the same short-term game loops that every other player before and after them has also done when playing the game.

MMOs can be reduced to a single SLO: can the ideal player have fun playing the game at the moment?

GitHub cannot be reduced to a single SLO, because there is no ideal user of GitHub. There are probably two or three thousand separate "ideal users" (= critical, non-universal user stories) for GitHub.

> Wouldn't you say that in an MMO of sufficient scale there's likely no point where every single component and feature and endpoint of the system is all working and robust and fast, all at once?

No, not really; MMOs have a complexity ceiling by operational necessity. They aren't composed of a ridiculous sprawling array of components. They might use Service-Oriented Architecture, but in the end, you don't scale an MMO vertically by making more and more complex clustered systems with master-to-master replication and so forth. You scale MMOs by either pure-vertical hardware scaling, or by horizontal shared-nothing sharding.

(The key thing to realize about MMO servers is that they're OLTP servers — they need to track a whole bunch of users doing a whole bunch of simple actions at once; and therefore they can't really be doing overly-much computation on those actions, lest they lose shared-realtime verisimilitude.)
Why do you think the cows existed? Chicago is where the wild west cows wound up. Cowboys existed because barons of beef on the hoof wanted cheap Mexican (Spanish speaking) vaccero labour to move cattle, trampling down sheep and other farming fences, to exploit prairie grasses without paying land damage costs, to ship meat to Chicago to feed the exploding eastern state population.

Cowboy culture and wild West was exploitative bullshit, both literally and figuratively. What was happening was a fight between expansion for cows, other farming, and the sweep westward. It lasted 30 years before it was legalised into normality. Dodge city cowboys are a myth based on thin facts and nothing about the wild west is good regarding internet governance
this might have been a popular idea among some libertarian hackers in the 90s but I'm not sure how many people you're going to get on board with the notion that the internet should be ungovernable and out of the reach of law enforcement.

I'm in favor of having robust freedoms both online and offline don't get me wrong but I don't see the internet as some sort of mystical realm and I don't want anarchy on the internet for the same reason I don't want it in the neighborhood I live. The 'online world' is not some space any more that is solely a refuge for people who felt maligned in the 'normal' world, it's part of the fabric of everyday life and that means it can't be a playground without rules.
We're in a 2021 mid-COVID civilization. A digital currency based on a dog meme has a market cap of $billions. A hint of bad news will empty store shelves of toilet paper. A chip shortage is in some loose way related to a turkey shortage.

We might have been on track anyway, but shit got crazy when 2020 took us down a sharp turn and dark alley towards a mashup of all of the dystopian fiction ever written.

Kids thinking they're astral projecting to Hogwarts is downright rational. That world had only a vague internal consistency and it still makes more sense than actual reality right now.

It's the equivalent of meteorologists finding themselves in the middle of a Sharknado and deciding that, hey, maybe getting weather from a groundhog wasn't so crazy because a few more/less weeks of winter was an understandable possibility, and Punxsutawney Phil never predicted weather of biblical proportions.

It's not parody, it's a coping mechanism because reality right now looks itself like a bad parody written by an SF hack in 2017.
Honestly my problem with books like the ones in this list is that they aren't very technical. It's similar to business books and self help books for me, I feel like there isn't any concrete information, just anecdotal stories that I only find semi-interesting. I find myself zoning out while reading them. And I'm not saying the advice isn't good! I just struggle to stay engaged with it.
Haven't used it, but I've heard great things about the sausage stuffer https://www.kitchenaid.com/countertop-appliances/stand-mixer...
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How does this enhance the argument regarding Australian anti trolling laws? Read one way it says "they'll fail" so why care...
I always wondered what prophecies were in pending status

I think I saw a list that somewhat showed that, some time ago

But I would love to be aware of more

Who knows, maybe one could get me to convert to an obscure sect!
I love love love posts talking about using our skills to make our entertainment ours. Kudos for sharing and much love for sharing how you are making EVE just a little more fun.
I love love LOVE Petzold's Code.

Designing Data-Intensive Applications was really good too, the best new technical book I've read in the last five years or so, though I have had trouble applying its techniques thus far.
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