jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> no AI that I know of has at its disposal a full blown model of the world it operates in

This is a field called Model-based Reinforcement learning, and it's quite advanced already -- there are indeed models that have an internal state reflecting the world state.

A good recent example:

https://papers.nips.cc/paper/7512-recurrent-world-models-fac...

> deep learning model, however much we'd like to think they do, aren't capable of doing proper causal inference in a general setting

This is also addressed by recent models, somewhat. Once you have an abstract world model, searching for a high reward can be just a matter of running markovian simulation on it using high reward heuristics (given by a network of course), like AG does. This line is also very active right now, one example is the recent MuZero.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08265

Inference at its core really isn't much more than an artful curve fitting (or an artful model search if you like), and it's one of the building blocks of intelligence.
That’s also common, in the self-checkout machines. Instead of scanning the barcode you just drop the item on the surface and select it on the screen.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21616179 was posted earlier and is currently on the front page.
As a US citizen I don't see much that can be done. Although I don't trust the third-party scripts, the bank obviously does, given they're all large analytics platforms.
With Docomo the amount of data you need to consume to hit that max is quite low, however. Less than 100MB. I assume it's the same for Softbank. The pricing is geared toward customers that use the network for email and browsing shitty iMode sites like Mixi on a tiny screen.

Docomo and Google have done very little to promote Android here, by the way. In one year I've seen one device other than my own, and it was the same model (the HTC Magic, one of the few models you can get).

Great network here for voice and especially data, but it mostly goes to waste.
So is "Cat".
It's the journalistic requirement to attribute quotes/opinions.
This is a blatant rip off of the "Will it Blend" videos.
What is it?

Why should I wait for some Flash thing to load?
I'd really appreciate it if AT&T would just come out and say this, but they're not. Unfortunately I fear they'll put this pricing into effect and still offer the same shitty service.
Very few bounty programs offer that much for a single vulnerability. I'm not saying it's worth $200k, but $200k is definitively a huge payout in the security industry.
> I'm so sick of this browser fingerprinting FUD.

I'm sick of fingerprinting itself actually. Coming the office and seeing the ads of stuff my family browsed at home is really getting old now.

> Removing features like WebUSB, WebBluetooth, etc, is not going to make users less fingerprintable.

No, but I think it'll reduce attack surface considerably for boty wired and wireless devices. Just being able to abuse webbt to listen my wireless keyboard or abuse my information stored on an external drive via webusb or just being able to poke around via an untrusted medium by design is perfectly safe as blindly poking a positive coefficient nuclear reactor (we know how well it went in Chernobyl).

> Are users any less fingerprintable because WebAudio now requires a user activation to run? No, users are still 100% fingerprintable.

Again, microphone access?

I think there's a lot of insanity going on the web right now. Exclusion of extremely cool technologies because of a real and big potential for abuse is probably the leading one.

Edit: I also use technologies for their intended purposes, but not everyone is doing that, AFAWCS
NN's have been able to represent fairly abstract art, e.g. http://i.imgur.com/HU66Vo7.png?1

They can also generate abstract images when the images are optimized to be recognized by the NN: http://i.imgur.com/Mixk96V.png?1

I think it's likely that cartoons contain a lot of meaning and symbols that is specific to human culture. Imagine a stick figure in the simplest case. It's not obvious that a circle and sticks should be a person. Same with a lot of other cartoon features that look nothing like reality.
You can add IPv6 to that list.
"(3) Encryption

A telecommunications carrier shall not be responsible for decrypting, or ensuring the government’s ability to decrypt, any communication encrypted by a subscriber or customer, unless the encryption was provided by the carrier and the carrier possesses the information necessary to decrypt the communication."

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/1002

"18 U.S. Code § 2703 - Required disclosure of customer communications or records

(a) Contents of Wire or Electronic Communications in Electronic Storage.— A governmental entity may require the disclosure by a provider of electronic communication service of the contents of a wire or electronic communication, that is in electronic storage in an electronic communications system for one hundred and eighty days or less, only pursuant to a warrant issued using the procedures described in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (or, in the case of a State court, issued using State warrant procedures) by a court of competent jurisdiction. A governmental entity may require the disclosure by a provider of electronic communications services of the contents of a wire or electronic communication that has been in electronic storage in an electronic communications system for more than one hundred and eighty days by the means available under subsection (b) of this section.

(b) Contents of Wire or Electronic Communications in a Remote Computing Service.—

...

(c) Records Concerning Electronic Communication Service or Remote Computing Service.

..."

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2703
From personal experience, it goes away or becomes a mask you can hide behind if the situation warrants it.
Sure. The shortish version is that I took an investment from someone who I have known for years and is quite a capable investor but even before I took it I was questioning whether or not I should. At the time I took the investment I was in need of funding to continue growing but also I had grown my head count too fast so I actually needed the funding or had to lay a few people off. He saw that as an opportunity to get more for his money, which he did because I was in a weak position (in hind sight I saw this as a warning sign because he was short sighted on the business).

In the end this particular investor questioned every decision we made, wanted to be involved with client meetings, tried to use us as his personal IT/development group without payment, tried to drive us into his personal projects, would show up at the office and start asking people what they were working on and if he disagreed he'd tell them. So overall he became a royal pain in the ass. In the end we wound up getting him out of the business through raising enough money on good terms to buy him out, but it is an experience I would never want to repeat.

What I took away was that if I have any bad feelings, odd feelings or feel something just isn't quite right, I pass now. Divorcing a spouse is hard, getting rid of an investor can be even harder. This is because you basically want to placate this person until you can get them out of your business so they do not go off and become a negative effect on fundraising for you or for the business as a whole. An ex spouse, even if they are screaming you are a douche will be viewed as just a bitter ex, an investor doing this will turn off other investors many times for valid reasons.

If you have specific questions happy to share my experience. I know we had a nightmare with this one, but have had amazing help from others. Just with this one person I could go on for a long time with the nightmares, but hopefully the "short" version covers the key issues.
Yes, it's indeed quite easy to compile your own kernel, and virtualbox is a good idea. (For compiling you won't actually need the virtualbox, but for booting from it without worries that you broke something, virtualbox sure comes in handy.)

I use "sudo make menuconfig", which gives you a text-based menu, there may also be a graphical version. I would not recommend "sudo make config", as that only gives you a long list of questions to answer.

Anyway, the trick is to read all the documention, and stick with safe choices, if you do not know what you are doing.
For this specific idea, the battery is irrelevant as you have ready access to a car charger.

CommuteTrack[1] is the app I found. It's listed for $5.00 but I haven't purchased it so I can't comment on the quality or functionality.

[1] http://frequal.com/CommuteTrack/index.html
Nexus one. Hands down the best phone given that carriers can't cripple it or clutter it up with crappy apps or extra branded ui. Use it on T-Mobile with their out-of-contract plans.
In isolation of its ubiquity, JS is not a good language.
Just for showing a static icon, it's very likely to be a bad trade-off not to just use an image file. It's a highly optimized path, both client- and server-side

It's when you need small variations, e.g. in color, size or shape, or some animation, that benefits kick in. Also, you can put all icons in the same easily cacheable JS-file.
I have the same kind of relationship you describe with the people working at local businesses, and I live in a country where tipping is very much not the norm. We know each other by name, they know what I want, and back when I went for lunch at the same place every day they would have my burger ready for me when I got there without me ever asking.

Humans are social creatures, and they will create social relationships. No money needs to change hands for this to happen.
I thought that as well, many types highly tied and interconnected in a well designed type coercion system, and i think red is awesome as long as it is limited to a prototype, but for serious development it will soon fall short. But I didn’t spend much time with it.
I don't think it has any benefit if you're installing software exclusively that you built yourself on your own targets, or from a distro package manager. But it's potentially a boon for a whole class of statically-linked rescue tools, installers, command-line utilities — basically anything where there's a website with a curl path/to/thing > local/bin/thing installation option.
What the hell is wrong with these people?

> "Compact" density is a feature of the "Customize toolbar" view which is currently fairly hard to discover, and we assume gets low engagement.

1. If the feature gets little "engagement" because it's hard to discover – not because it's useless – maybe consider making it easier to discover?

2. Firefox is full of telemetry so I can't believe you have to "assume" the feature is little-used. My theory: This is corporate-speak for "We don't care if people use compact mode, some UI designer wants to remove it because

- they don't find it aesthetically pleasing (bonus points if people seeing "ugly" Firefox is bad for the brand).

or

- they get paid to change things. This is changing things, so they do it.

or

- they are part of a simplicity (cargo) cult."

> We want to make sure that we design defaults that suit most users and we'll be retiring the compact mode for this reason.

This makes no sense. The default mode doesn't suit people better because you remove the alternative.

> For clarity we retain the "Touch" density for accessibility reasons on touch devices.

So removing compact mode doesn't even simplify anything!
Remember OTR messaging? The benefit of an open system like XMPP is that you can add end-to-end encryption if you want to do so.

Really though, why is end-to-end encryption the one thing that should disqualify a system? What about a10y, i18n, etc.? For a vision-impaired user a10y matters a whole lot more than encryption. That is the real point of openness and federation -- allowing users' needs to be met by any developers who have the time and inclination to do so, rather than leaving users at the mercy of a single team (or even a single person).
Hey, thanks for the link! This post will be followed up with a series of articles that will go into more detail about the various technologies. I'll be sure to include PIM in my research.
Yes, the number of proposed db switched I’ve seen is remarkably high. I once interviewed for a role as a database developer and was confused to find out they didn’t have the database that the role pertained to. One of the early questions in the interview was how quickly I could migrate production from ms sql to pg. Needless to say that was a gigantic red flag and I hope they found the right person for that job.

I’ve also seen a switch from rdbms to Hadoop because a company had “millions” of rows. Luckily on this one I only had to rewrite a handful of queries.
Could it disguise as a WinRT program?
Sorry to ruin the joke, but y is actually in Latin script.
Thanks :P And now an even faster version for your perusal:

https://github.com/logicchains/Levgen-Parallel-Benchmarks/pu...

> 120 ms improvement over the origin implementation
Honest question: how much innovation is there in this field?

I just heard Penn, from Penn and Teller, talking on The Bob and Tom radio show this morning. He said they worked for an entire year on a new trick where Teller would walk on a stream of water coming out of a fire hose with audience members standing around him like disciples. Apparently they solved the problem of creating the illusion, but were ultimately thwarted by the problem of what to do with the thousands of gallons of water. He said they spent a lot of time and money on experts trying to address this problem, but to no avail. So, despite failing, it sounds like there is innovation going on in this field.
The point of `IO` is that using it doesn't break referential transparency.
'People' can simply choose a different electricity retailer if they want a constant rate and to not worry about this. If they were adequately informed about risks, why shouldn't we be allowed to choose our path? Industrial customers usually buy on the wholesale market, it doesn't seem a stretch that consumers could benefit from that too.
I haven't heard of it before! Do you know what sets it apart from chrono? It doesn't mention anything in the readme as far as I can tell.
In the UK 'variable rate' tariffs are common, usually updated monthly.

Octopus' is daily, and also offers an hourly plan 'Agile' with an API.

There is a regulatory cap on the cost of energy, which is a bit convoluted, but Octopus passes it on as a 35p/kWh cap on variable rate plans.
We currently live in a old watermill in Portugal - and as it flooded badly (over the roof) a bit over a year ago, we decided we needed a Plan B.

This came in the form of a prefab log cabin - that is to say, the lumber is all cut to shape and size, and you're "just" banging it together. "You" in this case being my wife and I.

Total for the structure was just under €20k - includes windows, doors, insulated walls, floor, ceiling.

Total for water is less than €1000 - IBCs for storage, a km of water line, carbon and sediment filters, UV-C reaction chamber, reverse osmosis.

Total for waste is about €200. IBC. Worms. Cheap plumbing supplies.

Total for power is about €15,000 - most of that cost is in a huge bank of OPzS batteries, and then theres victron gear, a dozen solar panels, a dinky wind turbine, and an experimental (failed) waterwheel. This covers both the mill and the cabin, which are about 600m apart.

So, all in all, it's an off-grid house for under €40k. That of course doesn't include labour, which has been about 1000 hours of our time, from digging and pouring column foundations through to transporting everything to site by aerial cableway - so in many cases it'd be much less, as you wouldn't be building on a 45 degree slope with zero access for machinery.

The thing I keep seeing people getting wrong is energy. Literally yesterday I talked someone out of buying used lithium ion cells from EVs, as while they were indeed very cheap, they likely only had a few years of life in them, so the price/kwH stored amortised over the lifetime of the batteries was terrible. Can't go wrong with lead acid OPzS - 20 year lifetime, easy to maintain - two years in and they've lost basically nothing in terms of their potential. For some reason you don't often see them in domestic installs - but they're super common for battery backups at hospitals, battery storage for renewables providers, etc.
>less friendly to governments

Definitely not: https://matrix.org/blog/2018/04/26/matrix-and-riot-confirmed...

And having worked for the last 6 months in a French governmental agency, Tchap[1] is the only internal instant messaging solution I was made aware of. Most people still had an email+phone centred work-flow however.

[1] https://www.tchap.gouv.fr/
This. I live off-grid as well, you really need to be ready to DIY.
People looking for easy off-grid solutions are fooling themselves.stay in your flat
I was pretty appalled when I read about the history of eugenics in the US, it was a thing till the 70s iirc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States#...

Pressuring women to sterilize, giving them biased information, lack of actual informed consent.

It is a complex topic, I think women should have access to these procedures if they want them, but making it a government agenda can't end well IMO.
Apart from the interesting conversation here, just to make sure...

You are all aware of kubectl diff[1], right? I understand that sometimes you just want to diff two k8s objects, kubectl diff is not a tool for that.

[1]: https://www.mankier.com/1/kubectl-diff
I've had the same dream for many years. Please, whoever does it, don't mess it up.
There's a lot of "seems to beat" statements in this editorial. If he's beating them with any sort of statistical significance, it should be pretty easy to demonstrate.

edit: His Wikipedia page paints a different story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Corbyn

> Following criticism of Weather Action's forecasts in The Times and The Guardian, in particular from journalist Paul Simons, Piers Corbyn banned the use of any extracts of them in any articles unless they were approved by Corbyn. In addition the above newspapers and any publication which carried articles by Paul Simons were also explicitly forbidden from quoting them.
Sorry - by user-visible, I meant actually the stuff that "normal" users see, not the shell programming bits. Those are polished all the time of course. Magic symbols and internal functions change all the time with new exciting ways to do basic process calling (</sarcasm>). But on the outside, it's still same old bash you run 2 years ago - no major usability improvements.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/09/us/09manning.html?pagewant...

> friends said his social life was defined by the need to conceal his sexuality under “don’t ask, don’t tell”
I wonder how soon will such cards sport external radiators which drive the heat away outside the camera body.

(Also, cameras dissipating so much heat should have quite a battery pack.)
Freeciv (so Civ 2) onwards, I should have clarified :)
I think the main usage of ISO 8601 was to represent a point in time in UTC for exchange, not a local time plus timezone. When a date such as 2021-02-26 18:38:00+0900 is provided, it did not meant 2021-02-26 18:38:00 in Asia/Tokyo, but meant 2021-02-26 09:38:00 in UTC. e.g., 09:38:00Z and 18:38:00+0900 and 16:38:00+0700 were supposed to be equivalent.

In this case, timezone is external to this format and the timestamp can be calculate back to UTC without relying on zoneinfo (which is very useful for exchange). Any further conversation would be external to this format. e.g., in case of calendar, it's probably more useful to have datetime in local timezone rather than of the other party's timezone so the tuple would be (utc_time, local_tz) rather than (other_localtime, other_tz, local_tz).
It's others. The fog still kills in China.
Sounds alright to me, as long as you restrict to sane, reasonable languages. For example lua's "runtime" fits in a single .c file and is likely simpler than many xml or json parsers.
So what's wrong with that?
Sure it's a cringey joke, but I only encountered the narwhal bacon thing as an offhand sarcastic reference like 10 years ago and it definitely wasn't representative of what reddit was to me. Though I will give you that "advice animals" were cringey always.

As for the Ron Paul mania, there were definitely pro-Obama posts as well. And I definitely don't prefer the current censorship enforced hegemony.
It’s a representation of how us Americans talk - we rarely say 26th of February and instead say February 26 - and if necessary tack on the year. It feels exceptionally awkward to say 26 February, thought saying “twenty twenty one February 26” sounds very strange, too.

But people are very good at verbally saying different than is written.
About FoundationDB, they have this blog post about achieving almost 15 million writes per second

http://blog.foundationdb.com/databases-at-14.4mhz

It's a pretty impressive number, though as always with benchmarks, should be taken with care.
The app on your phone uses wifi. I'd expect the buttons use Bluetooth's low-energy variant.
It shouldn't sting! Doing a good job is the first step in building a relationship, so you should absolutely work hard and take pride in your work. I'm only able to leverage my relationships to make easy money because my clients trust the quality of my work (and I ensure the quality of the people who are hired through me). Doing good work builds trust, but unfortunately many people stop at that.

I'd recommend reading The Trusted Advisor [1]. It was originally written with management consultants in mind, but it is a good guideline in general for how to walk the line between personal and work relationships. Basically, you should look at your clients as you would a friend: be their friend, know their problems, and help them with those problems. Become invested in them and their success, and they will invest in you. Business is ultimately about people, but I feel many technical workers focus on the technology and get screwed over as a result.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Trusted-Advisor-David-Maister/dp/0...
Use Dash to order new batteries when they run out. Simple.
The button can automatically order batteries for you when it's running low.
You make an excellent point on al la carte benefits. Most companies really put so little tiem/thought into these.

For instance, most 401k plans only let you invest in terrible expensive investments (like index funds. Fine as an option but these are not actually good investments for people who can manage their own money.)
Wait, we're now purposely conflating murder with packet sniffing? Oh ok.
Also, before Wi-Fi became as ubiquitous as it is today, the only reliable way to get an Internet connection in a motel room was to dial into an AOL POP, so anybody who would expect to take a road trip would keep their AOL accounts active.

I think by 2006, almost every motel had free Wi-Fi though... and that wasn't the case in 2003 (at least, that's what I remember from road trips in those years).

Edit: Actually, I remember now that Earthlink POPs were as reliable as AOL POPs, but AOL had better name recognition.
Can't wait for my 2-yr-old to try and push all the buttons around the house...
> I don't understand why anyone would run a closed source database, especially with the open source options available.

I generally share this opinion. However, in this case no open source solution came close to the features offered by FoundationDB. There are a couple of attempts (like CockroachDB) which could achieve something similar in the future.

One more reason for me to hate Apple now.
Coded something a couple years ago with this algo in BlitzBasic.

It is indeed very fast.
No ancestor of your comment said anything about homeschooling.